LCSC Board Meeting 04-21-2026

001[music] >> At 7:00 p.m. Call to order and then pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The third item is the approval of minutes from the March Oh, sorry. I might start with saying we had executive meeting. No official business was taken. Um and we signed diplomas. Uh the third item is um approval of minutes from the March 17th 2026 board meeting. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion we approve the minutes from the March 17th board meeting. I'll second. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. The fourth item is approval of claims and payroll for

002the month of April. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion that we approve the the claims and payroll for the month of April. I'll second. I'll second it. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. The fifth item is principal's report. Um Last Friday, we had over 100 visitors to our second grade wax museum. If you did not attend, you missed it. It was a wonderful opportunity for our students. They worked really hard to research and to prepare presentations and they came in costumes and the entire community came out to support them. It was a wonderful event and we just want to thank Mrs. Tarman, to Prince Guest and Guest Wine for hosting that special event for our students and families.

003It was a great turnout. >> What was it again? What was Our wax museum. So, they have a little button and so like they might dress up as Martin Luther King and they have a button and when you hit the button, then their character comes on and they read a little speech about their history and their contributions and all things and so it was just wonderful. So, yeah. Um and we also are excited to announce that Mrs. Drexler's class won the um Gina's House also duck derby and so they sold little ducks that won um on the creek. That class gets to earn a pizza party. This creek? Gordon. [laughter] Um but anyway, it's just a fundraiser for them. Um so, we're excited that so, one of our Lanesville classes. And our big that placed

004again um in the state of Indiana for 95% students passing IREAD and um this is joint effort. This is a joint effort all of our staff, um our parents and our students just working really hard to come together to do all things to support phonics and phonemic awareness um and to build comprehension and to just Lanesville reader. And so, just a great shout out to our entire community. It definitely takes a village to uh raise a child and it takes a community to make a reader and I think all of us kind of come together year after year to support all of our students. We only have one month of school left. It's hard to believe that um but we are wrapped up in all things into the year. Field trips, testing, um field days,

005year end celebrations and so, please just stay current with our newsletter. It's posted through our newsletter. It's also through the Parent Square so that you have all things into the year so you can celebrate all of our hard work together as a community at the end of the year. Thanks. Thank you. >> Thank you. Well, you set a big red bull's-eye on that last day of school. Not that it matters to me. I mean, you wink yeah. When you get down to fingers and toes worth of days left, it's hard not to count them. So. bull's-eye on that day. Um Good evening, everyone. We are moving right along in the middle of third quarter fourth quarter, sorry. Um we're still in the middle of testing. I say that I think I've been saying that at

006every board meeting since about February, but it is a lot of testing. So, we have checkpoints. We have our summative that we're in the middle of right now. I wanted to give a shout-out to Candace Caylor who is doing a lot of work and putting in a lot of effort making sure accommodations are met, checking teachers' rooms, making sure packets are put together. That is a lot of effort on top of her other duties, and so she does it pretty flawlessly now. She's getting it down pat. So, um >> [clears throat] >> Your testing is eighth eighth all the way up to Candace does the fifth through eighth. >> Fifth through eighth. Yeah, for ILEARN. We also have SAT, ninth grade biology does one as well, which is later on, but it's just a lot.

007So, it's in the middle of testing and trying to schedule, and then we also are wrapping things up for the year, and so we've got a lot of of things planned for our kids as well. Um I'm also going to give a shout-out to Robin Morgan who will be speaking here later on, but she is in the middle of trying to get kids to graduate, checking credits, running test scores, all of these things. We missed when we had our snow day last month a job fair in Corinth, and that is a box that every student has to check to graduate. And so in the last 2 weeks, she threw together 30 businesses that are going to be coming here April 30th. It's for students only, but it is a really going to be a good

008opportunity for our kids to get out in front of some of these local businesses, and if they don't end up with a job, I mean, some of them are ready to hire right now, but if they don't end up with a job, it's at least a really good networking opportunity for our students, maybe even a couple from other schools who who had students that were absent that day. So, it's good to get those connections built and kept those current in case we ever need something, they may be there for us, too. Um so, thank you, Robin. Academic Awards Banquet will be this Saturday starting at 6:00. We got guests We have guest speaker Evan Peel who's coming, and so that's we're excited about that. Um that's a really big night for students. We've actually raised

009the criteria to get into that, but we still have an enormous number of students that are able to attend, and so we're looking forward to that. I want to say thank you to the Heritage Committee for helping us get table bowls for that banquet, and um >> [clears throat] >> for the career fair, they also helped give us chairs. We have the FFA banquet was this past weekend, and our new teacher Georgia Brumley did a really good job organizing that. I think I talked with Audrey. I wasn't able to attend, but I talked with Audrey, and she said there wasn't a doubt in her mind things were running smooth. She had it on in control, and even was an auctioneer there for a little bit. So, that was pretty cool. We are getting to the

010finish line. Graduation is coming up. Before that, we've got so many things. Seniors have got a lot of stuff planned. We've got Polly's Day, King's Island, um senior sunsets, they're painting over their parking spots, and just tons of activities that are coming up in about 5 weeks, and so things start really moving quick. Um I'll give the rest of the time to one of our teachers, Dylan Hampton, who runs a genetic disease project. Um it's a really cool experience for kids to come up. They dress to the nines, and they put on They do a lot of research with Daniel Cox, our science teacher, and he's going to talk a lot more about that. So, thank you all. Hello. That's working. Uh yeah, I'm Dylan Hampton, Mr. Hampton, Mr. H, Ham Dizzle. Whatever you want

011to call me. Um and so the genetic disease project has kind of been left up to me and Daniel uh this last year uh and I guess the previous year. Um and it usually takes the entire third quarter. Um and we kind of changed it up this year. So, usually what they do is the first week, they spend a little bit of time learning how to research, and then they spend a few weeks learning how to write a paper, and then they spend the last few weeks learning how to create a presentation and present it themselves, and then they present it in front of the whole school. Um and it's broadcasted to the whole school. Um This year, I decided to change it up a little bit. Um and with my kind of passion for

012media literacy, I spent a lot more time on the the research aspect of it. Um we spent time talking about, you know, fake news, talking about AI, stuff like that to help prepare students for uh the ever-changing media landscape and their exposure to social media, stuff like that. Um and then we moved into the actual research for their genetic disease paper uh until finally they they had a week to prepare their presentation. Um and this year, I I thought it went super super well. I'm always probably just as nervous if not more nervous than the students every every time we do this. Um I know there there's like kind of this weight of expectations because it's been going on for so long, far longer than I've been here. Um and all of the students showed

013up like prepared. I I had students before who I thought weren't even going to show up because they were so nervous, and then that and then they showed up and gave maybe the best presentations of the entire day. Um I we tried a different way of broadcasting it to the school, which was a little shaky at first, but then once we got it figured out, it it was great. Leaving and talking to all the other students that watched it, they they thought they did really well. Um a big part of it is I we invite guest judges every year. I know Sharon was there. Um but we this year, I had I have a friend that works for the governor's office, so he came down. He was the former uh last If you would have

014asked him a year ago, he would have been the executive director of the Indiana Republican Party. So, that's like the head of the Republican Party other than the governor. Um as as well as somebody from the our local representative's office to come watch. So, some some big names. Um and overall, you know, I think the students really really enjoyed the process even if they hated it for most of the time. Um and I I think it overall just just went really really well. So, thank you. Was your friend Matt Huckabee? Who was that? Was your friend Matt Huckabee? No, it's Joshua Mandel. Okay. Matt Huckabee went to Lanesville when he was a vice president or vice chair of the Indiana Republican Party. I taught him, too. You taught him, too? I taught Matt Huckabee. I

015did. The next item is number six, Superintendent's Report. Yeah, thank you. Um I'd like to start off. Ms. Morgan's going to present to you guys new high school diploma regulations. Um years ago for so many of us, we had to get 40 credits or 42 credits, and that was it. You had to pass them. Then starting with my group in 2000, you had to pass a an exam. Then we've done a thousand different things and pathways, and now what the state has thrown at us is incredibly complex. And I sit in a lot of meetings with superintendents and building principals, and and it's it's difficult for us to comprehend how all this is going to work. Um we have a wonderful resource of Ms. Morgan. She understands it about as well as anybody I've heard

016uh in our area or throughout the state on what is going to be required, and especially for small schools. And so, once we get technology worked out a little bit, um Ms. Morgan is going to kind of walk through with you the the best that she can what these diploma regulations are going to look like. And then they are difficult to follow um because it is a complex system. Ms. Morgan. As everybody knows how long this is, um you will see depending upon the age of your children that some of you guys probably are aware of the older diplomas for 40, academic honors, tech honors. Those are still around cuz I have this year's seniors and two more grades after that. So, we're trying to juggle the new with the old. So, there are different

017So, this this this year's freshman then Yes, and Uh so, you have the base diploma, which now is the Core 40. Okay? The new is the Indiana diploma. With the Indiana diploma, that is your basic diploma. Okay? So, that will get them the minimum that they need um to graduate. You have the enrollment. So, you have the honors and the honors plus. Those are for students who are considering college. Okay, they will be on those. Um you have the employment. Um you have the honors seal, honors plus, which I'll go through both of those. Um what that means, the difference between those. Um employment, those are the going to go directly into the workforce. Just because they are employment, doesn't mean they cannot go to college. Because some of the students, just like now, they'll

018double up and do tech and the academic honors. So, some of the kids, even though they may be focusing on the employment going to Prosser, um they may be staying here working on a pathway, um they can still go to college. Then you have the enlistment, which are going to focus more on those students that want to go to the military. So, they changed it trying to meet the needs of more students. Um some of the things that we do have conversations with is myself, it's teachers, it's staff, it's administration. Some of the things conversations that we've started having with students is what are your career goals? What are your interests? Okay, what are your goals college? Are you talking about going to college? Are you not going to college? Going into the workforce? Are

019you thinking about both? What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? Because in the seventh grade, that is when they begin declaring the diploma. Okay, the state of Indiana now is going to be part of the future accountability, um is that they have to have a graduation plan initial in seventh grade. Um and so, I had met with all the seventh graders, eighth graders, ninth graders, as well as had a community meeting to kind of go over this. So, they are having to declare. Does that mean they're locked in? Absolutely not. Okay, there is some flexibility to these. But again, these are conversations we have to continue to have with these kids because it is a little more difficult to switch between them the farther that they get. Giving the students the ability. All right,

020so the basic diploma. So, it doesn't matter what diploma type that you're going for, you have to have the base to that. And then you build upon this base depending upon if you're going to add an honors seal to them. So, your base, you have eight credits, four years of English. Um they have added a communications credit to that. And then the additional English. Then you have math, the seven credits. This is where it's a little bit different now, um versus the core 40. Core 40 was algebra one, algebra two, geometry that the kids were having to take. For the base diploma, they have to have algebra one no matter what, a personal finance, and then additional math courses. Okay, so it could be geometry and a business math. But if a student is planning

021on college, but maybe they can't quite get the honors, then we have to encourage them you're going to do algebra one, algebra two, geometry, cuz that's the baseline for, say, IUS. So again, that's what I said that's why for we really have to work with them um determining what they want to do. Science, they have to have seven credits. There are some differences in them now. Um biology, doesn't matter. All of them have to take biology. Doesn't matter what diploma type they're on. Um they've added a computer science credit to that. Here's where it starts to get different. If they're a sophomore and they're doing enrollment, they used to be able to do for academic, they could do integrated chem physics, or they could do chemistry. They are required to do chemistry. So, that is

022something that's different with this diploma type. Um social studies, the five credits. You have your world perspectives, which would be like world geography and history, and world history. Um US history, two credits, and then US government. Okay, they have not added the economics piece unless they are doing enrollment. Um PE, our state says in the eighth grade, so they have their high school credit. It's one instead of two now. Um health and wellness, again, that's eighth grade. That has not changed. Um preparing for college and careers, um that's one credit. Um also that they're um having will be doing that, focusing that more on the freshman year after this year. Um it was like when we started this diploma, we were trying to add what we knew the state was going to require. Again, this

023is like a seems like an ever-changing thing, unfortunately. Um so, we're lots of times we're having to kind of change on the fly with what the state says. Um but hopefully that freshman year, after this year they'll be freshman, which would be that freshman, sophomore. We've had some teachers had to shift stuff, and we really appreciate what they've had to do to make this possible because, like I said, we're juggling two different diplomas right now. Um to be able to gauge them a little bit. Run a lot of interest inventories, getting people in. I think that's like with the college and career fair, I'm excited about that. Our freshman are going to be going to that, our sophomores. Maybe they can, you know, meet with them, talk with them a little bit. And then they

024have to have 12 credits, what they call personal electives. This is where we want them to focus on things that may be of their interest. If they are talking business, getting them in business courses. If they're talking agriculture, agriculture science, whatever. Okay, and then 22. If they do the base Indiana, they still have to do something. This is very similar to what we are doing right now. All of our students that are academic, tech, and core 40, so our sophomores, juniors, seniors, they have to have not only their diploma credits, but they have to have a little bit more. They have to show they have a diploma, they have to have um either work-based learning, service. In other words, what are they doing besides just getting credits at school? Okay, that's that second box. The

025third box is that post-secondary readiness competencies. They can achieve this with SAT, ASVAB if they're going military, um the CTE concentrators, as well as AP and dual credit. So, even though they're base, they still have to do a little bit more. Okay, our students are pretty familiar with that already. All right, the enrollment honors seal. So again, base diploma, adding to it. So, world language. It used to be they had to have six credits for a language. Now it's four credits. We still encourage them to take that third year because that's when they're getting college credit. Okay, the Spanish three, the Spanish four. I mean, you're talking 14 credits from college for that, which also counts toward the Indiana college core. Um specific credits, six social studies credit, one additional, that's where the econ can

026come in. Um eight credits, you'll see this, algebra one, geometry, algebra two, and then an advanced math. Um seven science credits, so the biology. There's where the difference is, they have to take chemistry now. There's no way around it. And then three additional, being advanced lab. We've had to get a little creative with some of this, hoping moving in the future to be able to add more electives, um because that is one of the things with having to do so much of all of this, there's so much that are required, it kind of starts to cut into electives. So, that's kind of our thing, we're really trying to be creative and go, "How can we do electives?" Um They have to have a C- minus or higher. And then they have to complete one of

027the following. Okay, AP credits, college credits, combination of it, or score of 1250 on SAT. And that's a certain combination of the reading, writing, as well as the math. Okay, if they do a plus, here's something that's very different. So, they can do the honors, but then they can add it on it. We have a lot of students that I am seeing more and more that are getting the Indiana college core, which is wonderful. That is their first year of college secondary. Okay, we offer everything here at Lanesville except for science, and that is the one we're working on. Um seeing what we can do to get a dual credit science in here. So, this is something that's not different for them. Here's where it's different. Okay, it's the work-based learning. This is a piece

028that we've had to learn right along with students. Okay, they do this, they have to get all those credits, plus one of these, plus they have to complete at least 75 hours of work-based learning. Okay, there's different ways that they can achieve that, um but one of the things that I had to stress to the kids now is that we have to know way ahead of time. They can't just go, "Oh, I worked over the summer. Here's what I have." There's a training agreement that has to go into place between us, the student, the parent, and the site. So, there's going to be a lot of monitoring that we're going to have to do with this. And then they have a verification now that they best when they can communicate, collaborate, and have work ethic

029skills. That can be completed by by myself. It could be by administration, could be by a teacher, someone that knows the student intimately on all times. Um employment honors, that is they can either earn a market-driven credential, uh CNA, welding, those are just some examples. Um three courses in a career and technical education CTE pathway. Here we have our agriculture pathway, we have our business pathway. Hopefully someday we can add some more pathways to our students here. Um and then Prosser. We normally have a high percentage that attend Prosser. So, they can fall into this. Here's the difference, it's 70-75 for the honors. Employment, they have to have 150 work-based hours. Okay? And it says top three experiences, they look at the top three that they have done as far as hours. They can't use

030four, they can't use five, it's three. So, we have to be very careful in that they're not doing one that's 10, one that's 100, and another one that's 20. That's only 130, they don't get it. Okay? They can't add another 10 here. Okay? It's within those three. Again, here's another one demonstrate that verification form. The attendance goal. They cannot They may complete all of this, but in the four years that they're here, if they have no years where they have three unexcused absences or less, they do not earn that. Okay, so attendance is a huge piece, and that's just part of the whole work ethic. Okay? Showing up. And then you have the employment honors plus, where you're adding on top of that, and that one is 650 hours. So, here's where they're also going

031to have to earn one of these. A lot of them if they're Prosser, they'll get the technical certificate. Some of our Prosser students also get Indiana college core. Instead of 150, now it's 650 work-based hours. Um So, again, they're going to start with way early. We're looking at kids probably sophomore year starting in on these. Okay? Um enlistment, they have to complete one of the following. So, these are our students that are thinking about military. Okay? What can they do to prepare them for that the best that they can? Um there's an introduction to public service course, again, opposite. We've tried to do what we can. We've put together an online course for this um for our students that say ROTC did not work out in their schedule or it's like, I'm really not for

032sure, I want to learn a little bit about it. Okay? They can do the introduction first. Then you have ROTC, where they leave here two periods a day, go to Floyd. Um they have to achieve a score of 31 on the ASVAB, and also complete one of the following. Okay? Career exploration program, there is one through ASVAB that we can use with the kids in Indiana. Career explorer. Again, here's the other piece. Okay? They do have to meet the attendance goal, again. No more than three unexcused absences and at least one of the four years. Hopefully we don't see that. Period. Um enlistment honors plus, it's adding a higher math. So, instead of the 31, they have to have a 50. Um enrolling in ROTC at the collegiate level, they can get it that way.

033Or acceptance into a service academy, which we know that's the most difficult out of all of those. So, with those, they have to have letter of recommendation, all of that. Um demonstrate excellence in leadership through one of the following. Completion of at least 100 hours of public service. They can hold a leadership role in an extracurricular. So, maybe they hold an office in student council. They hold um an office in National Honor Society. It can be that they're captain of their uh basketball, baseball, tennis, whatever it is. Um completion or completion of two seasons of a team-based sport or activity. Okay? So, you know, anywhere from we have some students that will do competitive dance, competitive cheer. Maybe they're not here, so all of those ways are ways that they can achieve those. Okay? Any

034questions? I know it's a lot This one is kind of a condensed version. Can you print that off Can you print that off for me so we can make copies? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Just that way I can look at it. Okay. I'll see you. No, that's fine. Well, I want it right now. Come on, right now. Yeah, no. That's good. That's perfect. I I really have a copy, so And where we scratch our heads a lot, Miss Morgan and I have had this conversation a re dozen times. We've got so many kids that are involved in so many things, church and athletics and you name it. How in the world are they going to find time for some of these hours? Um it's going to be an incredibly difficult and to say that Miss Morgan

035has been losing a lot of sleep over this would be an understatement. First thing I do each morning is check my email, and probably at least once a week I've got an email from Miss Morgan that wasn't there when I went to bed at 10:00, and the time on it was 2:30 in the morning, 3:00, 4:00 in the morning. Um but she is getting a grasp of this about as well as anybody that I have heard. Um and so our kids are in really, really good hands, but it is a ton of work. Uh and and over the last few years the state has thrown more and more and more on our counselors, particularly high school counselors. And we thought pathways was bad were bad, but going through all of this, it's the tracking that's

036going to be a nightmare. Uh we're in some conversations now uh with some programs to help us track it potentially um to help maybe take some of that that burden off. We know that uh high school administrators are going to have to help as well. And we'll we'll see where it goes, but I can tell you Miss Morgan has put in countless hours to try to get a grasp of this and give our our Lanesville students the best opportunity to get whatever diploma that they want. And so, your hard work is greatly appreciated. I know it's just starting, but I I wanted you to come show the board and the community some of the things that you're having to dive into while trying to just still juggle the old diploma tracks. I have a question.

037Do Do athletics count as some of this? Does it keep accumulate on some of this stuff that you have to have? >> That is right. It can count towards some of them like on this one, holding a leadership role in an extracurricular. That's where it can count. Or the two seasons of team-based. They can count. The thing with that is it may not count towards work-based learning, which it will not. >> Okay. Um but it can, as I told the kids, you still want the involvement because the colleges are also looking at how involved were you here in school. And so, that's why, you know, keeping up, you know, Renaissance, student council, athletics, those things can count towards Well, some of those Yeah, some of those hours don't necessarily require after school stuff. It's during

038the school period, right? That's right. Like this year we've got three students doing co-op. Okay. So, they meet with me or they did. Um they had to meet for almost 60 hours. Um they met from 7:00 in the morning to 7:45 three days a week. >> Mhm. Um and then they left at half of the day to go do work-based. Yeah. I've I've got a question. It's probably going to be hard to answer. Um what's what's the chances of them keeping this the same for the next few years? So, so it gets to be normalized. Yeah. Yeah. Because that has been I think that has been the hardest thing, and it's not just for me, it's for the teachers also, because we have had to shift gears so quick because that we we're on two

039totally different diploma tracks, if you want to call it that. We still have an academic tech, and then now we're throwing this piece in. We're a small school, and so we had to be very creative with some of the things. We've had to be very shifting shifting on stuff. It's So, now in the next three years, we're on the old diploma and the next new diploma I just I'm not saying it's going to happen the same But some of the pieces they are changing it. I know I've at all. I mean, they have to tie that The whole accountability piece is what we're looking at. Accountability base. I mean, just like with us, there's going to be changes. Even though they have all of this, now we're adding like with the CTE concentrators, they're looking

040at those towards the end of the sophomore year of having to have those in place. Where now it's we're looking at by the time they're a senior creating that three course pathway. Some of them now, they have to have that pretty well the end of the sophomore year to that's where the flexibility is. I guess that's the bonus of it. I mean, just like this year, the fact that in the seventh grade having that initial graduation plan in the seventh grade signed off on, um that's part of the accountability, too. So, I don't think these are going anywhere. I just think they're going to add things. And one thing you you have to remember when you're looking at work-based learning, internships, those kinds of things, everybody now is having to do that. And so, our

041kids are going to be competing against other kids, but also college students. And so, you know, one thing we always have to keep our mind on is heaven forbid there's an economic downturn and and businesses go out of business. And when you're in we're fortunate here being next to the Wall to me, Jeffersonville, Louisville, we have more industry. If you're in a rural area, it's very, very difficult. And we're talking uh you know, people Crawford County and and Washington County and um throughout the state, they're they're having a really, really hard time trying to figure out how in the world they're going to get all of this done. Um and so, we're we're we're fortunate there, but again, probably we're we're most fortunate in Miss Morgan leading this charge for us. You got to track

042that. You got to track each one of these kids from Well, seventh grade on is once that starts, you're tracking freshman now. And making sure they're they're checking all the boxes. Is that self part of that self examination or do you have sit down with each kid [clears throat] and do that or you get Depending on their diploma type, yes. Okay. I mean, as far as like getting the work-based learning, all of that. Yeah, cuz you got to make sure they're hitting all the marks. But if they're not hitting the marks, How much what do we need to do? >> Yeah, because they Okay. >> And this kid then that's what I said, it is getting it's going to get more and more difficult to change those tracks. I don't care what the state says.

043When you get that sophomore year, junior year, if they decide, "Okay, I can't do enrollment. I can't I'm going to switch to the employment." Yeah. Well, now you're talking a sophomore, junior even. Now, if you may have to even you just Yeah. Well, that's I can get, you know, the two you can get the 2.5 with co-op. Yeah. But now you got to add all those other hours. What about transfers in from other states? They Yeah, they would still have to do Question back there. Doug. Get stuck at the end, yeah. Yeah, we are I know I have been working also but I'm working with the state and called Harmony as far as like the accountability being able to have something where they can kind of digitally track where they're at. It's just like their

044student login. And so, parents would be able to see that and be able to see, "Okay, they're green here. Here's the diploma type." Like I've already entered all the diploma types in Harmony. And so, our hope and we're trying it now is once that track is in there, can we open that up to where our students and parents can see it to be able to see, "Okay, this is on green. Oops, they're red here." That means they didn't meet this piece, so we're going to have to have that conversation. Yes. Yes. So, that is our That is one thing we are talking about. We actually did talk about it here this past year. I think that'd be great because it's so vital for our kids. Yeah. You lose inside where your kid is, who's doing

045what, where, and how they're not doing it. Yes. So, that's that is in the works. We're trying to get it figured out ourselves. Thank you, Miss Morgan. Appreciate it. Um next thing I want to talk and I I know I'm taking quite a bit of time here, uh but every 2 years state law requires that we uh have an audit of finances for the school corporation as well as ECA. Um those are two separate audits. Uh in May, we'll talk about our ECA results. I'm going to have Mr. Caulhorn come up uh and talk about our regular State Board of Account audit uh that is again required by law to do every 2 years. Uh it was really, really pretty good. Uh there's always a finding of something. Um but ours was, as they said,

046really quick and easy. Uh and so, it it it costs a lot of money every time, thousands and thousands of dollars. $17,000. $17,000 that we have to pay for them to come audit us uh every 2 years. Uh that's a a a hard pill to swallow, but I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Caulhorn. Uh he's going to uh run through the audit findings with you guys. Uh I'll be fairly quick this evening. Um this audit period, like Dr. Apple said, was a regular biannual audit. Um it was from the period of July 1st, 2023 to June 30th, 2025. Um just a little bit of background from our 21 2021 to 2023, um the State Board of Accounts found three findings that were um deemed worth reporting at the state level. In this audit

047cycle, we were also found at three um different things, so kind of a similar type of findings, error reports, however you want to look at it. Um the three main things um the state kind of listed things differently now, so if you go and pull at the State Board of Accounts, if you go look at the audit page, everybody has access to that. Indiana State Board of Accounts school audits, you can go look at all sorts of schools. Ours is rather boring. There are some schools that are rather fun. Um but ours is pretty boring. Um but they did list a little bit differently, so all three of our findings really look like it's under internal controls compliance, um which nobody wants to have any findings, right? But if there are findings that you want

048to have, that's the category you want it in. Um the other ones are like fraud. So, there's there's things that we don't want to see in there. Um so, these were considered internal control compliance. Um the first two are 100% on like what would be considered um my counterpart, um Carrie Semler, HR director, who does payroll and those kind of pieces. And then the finance side, which is my side. Um the first one was the annual financial report, which we were That one's the one that we do once a year. We have two reports that we fill out, the form nine, which we do twice a year, and the annual financial report, which we do once a year. Within that report, um there's a lease and debt schedule, which is basically all the bonds that

049the school holds against it. Um there's two types of ways that you have to calculate bond work. Um and without getting really boring in it, the GEO bonds really only use your principal, so you only ever count what's on the principal side of it. And your building corp side uh only does or actually does the entire uh payment. So, you actually have to take all the different pieces of your interest and whatever fees and all that kind of stuff that's in there, and you have to add those together when you're doing building corp. So, from '23 to '25, um we had only been doing it as if it was a GEO bond and not building corp. So, our 2010 ones were GEO bonds essentially and had a different set of calculations, which is how we

050were calculating that towards unknowingly. We were supposed to be counting it separately, so that left a fairly large error. It was $21,000 of difference once you look at the difference in those recordings. So, I know I know um those of you who don't know, I started in March of 2024, so kind of mid-cycle in here. Um so, I'll work with State Board of Accounts when we go to do our next annual financial report to get it all cleaned up and get it back to the number that it's supposed to be essentially. Um the next one was a error on claims. This came within our payroll processing. When we were doing payroll, we switched to a new platform. We went from Computrol, um same company, but it's now called Boyce Cloud. So, now we're all web-based

051and we can do it over the cloud. When we did that, um there was a button that we were supposed to click that generated a report um that would now that would also include a payroll sign-off with our claims sign-off. Um your claims are actually your payrolls within your claims each month, so when we approve those, those all come within those, but there is a form that we were supposed to have the board sign. Um and to our error, um Carrie and I just missed it. We were both fairly new, and you know, sometimes you just got to own a mistake and move on. And it was a button that didn't get clicked, and I didn't know any better to say, "Hey, maybe we should generate this report." And uh it ended up it ended

052up being a really important one. So, uh learning curve for myself. Um like I said, nobody likes any mistakes, but every now and then you're going to make one, and that was just one that came up from that standpoint. The last one was over our ADM. Um and this one's one that we're uh working with both admin on. Um it's considered a lack of records, um and it falls under three different things. We had some some different tests that were performed on residency and age verification. Um and they can be fairly strenuous. Of the 60 that we were tested for residency, we had nine that didn't have the proper year tested. Um so, maybe we got it in kindergarten, but we hadn't refreshed it in a while, but we're supposed to do that. Um and

053so, those were those, and we had one age verification that got missed with no birth certificate for a kindergartner or that. So, that got cited. The last thing, um and the most important part was the ADM process. When we do account right now, well not right now, but prior to Dr. Apple would sign off, Mr. Hancock and myself would have would sign off, but we didn't have any extra layers in there that that the state wanted. In the past that wasn't needed. Now it is needed. So starting with this February count we had the teachers in the room would would know that we had them initials their room count for the day and then it went to the admins they signed off and then Dr. Apple and I did our sign off. So there's kind

054of three layers that the state wants to see that they weren't asking for before. We've done the same process for ages of times. It wasn't on the last audit. It's on this audit. So again, live and learn on that one. But overall a really good audit cycle. Um you know, speaking for myself I would love to thank Carrie Simler first and foremost, sorry to our director. We both started around the same time. I don't know how I do this job without her. She is just amazing at what she does and she keeps us in check on so much stuff. Dr. Apple has been awesome from letting Carrie and I go to IASBO conferences, learn all that we can and support from the board like you guys have been great and ask the right questions but

055also don't overwhelm as I was getting started. And then I'd also love in closing to to shout out Becky over here. While I'm not up here presenting the ECA portion of it, I could just wrap up in about 15 seconds because we had absolutely no findings from the ECA. So thank you Becky for all you do and making sure that we have great controls on the ECA side of things. So Next to this Yep. We like boring. We like that. We like it to be boring. Yeah, overall very very good audit. Um really happy and and like the auditor said from State Board of Accounts both of them it was pretty clean, simple and easy. So they work really really hard back there. Dustin and Carrie do. much better job explaining than I did in

056the interview. Yes. Yes. Um next thing I kind of want to bring to you guys and we'll have a few policies in May. Still waiting on Department of Ed for some guidance on a few things. Then we'll run them through. But but one thing I need to to bring you guys up to speed on. Now there will be starting July 1 and we have kind of two options um for wireless device policies. Students will not be allowed from the time they come in and you have two options to have their cell phone, their smart watch, anybody has the meta glasses, your Fitbit if it tells you that you have a call or a text message or any of those things. Students are not allowed to have them on them during school hours. They have to

057be secured and away from the students. There are really two options. We got some guidance from the school board association over the last couple of weeks. Two different sets, two different directions way to go. Um I don't know if anybody that that's going this route but somebody may where you strictly prohibit those things from being on school property. Most are going towards the you can bring it that's fine but when you get here it's got to be turned off, stored away, those kinds of things. Um we're we're seeking some guidance still on what stored away and out of reach means. Does that mean that that in a locker is fine or is that not prohibitive enough? And then what the the the punishments are going to be. So if you wear your Apple Watch three

058times in the year, is it a lunch detention or you getting expelled? And so sorting through some of those things. Um leaning towards bringing a policy to you guys that is not strictly prohibitive because we know that we've got kids who play sports, who do different things after school. We've got about a third of our kids that are out of district that can't ride a bus home. If there's a change, you know, after that we also know that our offices are going to be very very busy. So it'll be back in in the the days when we went to school where people were in long lines to call the office on the office phone. Luckily we still have those phones in the offices. We still have landlines and then one designated for that. But giving

059you guys that that heads up. Number 78 is the one that he's Mhm. referring to. Um next thing I want to kind of run through with you guys and I've had some questions. Just people with curiosity and that's why I want to run it through. When we have conversations about Senate rolled act one and we know that property taxes and it's going to hit our operations budget. Um we've been through a few things but I've had some people ask me, you know, what that looks like on our utility bills because we know when school's out solar panels are going to go up over the summer and then also things that have operations that we've done through here on improvements whether through transportation or facilities. So I kind of want to run through some numbers with

060you guys. Um in 2021 our our total maintenance and walk-in and we had a walk-in cooler some locker rooms some bus repairs um train contract for HVAC, some equipment repairs, snow removal. We had $188,000 that we paid for improvements to the either facilities or transportation and that was in 2021. And our utilities that year, water, electric, we don't have natural gas running through here. $143,000. In 2022 we paid $248,621 on maintenance of the facility and transportation. You know, some of the things UVC air handlers that are up in the elementary with $21,000. Um chairs and and parking blocks $31,000, bus repair $8,897,000. Some radios operation of plant management $17,000. That was the train contract. Equipment repair $57,000. And then utilities that year we saw an increase $175,620. 2023 and I took over July of 2023.

061Mr. Morris was here the the first part. That total maintenance went up to $342,000. So $100,000 increase. Um in that 2023 year we're looking at some of our our big ticket things. We really started focusing putting a lot of money on HVAC repair and you'll see that over the next few years. $92,000 for for that water treatment. Additional HVAC work another $93,000. Ag HVAC replacement, bleacher repairs, chiller replacements, parts of it. $78,000. So you see that number going up and up and up as we over the last few years really address some things that we've got here that we need to. Utilities costs that year $156,812. Looking at 2024 um you see some of those numbers really go up again. We're looking at almost a half a million dollars spent on the facility and and

062some transportation that year. Um a lot of it on HVAC again. Almost $100,000 twice. Um so a lot there. And then $132,859 on utilities. 2025 again almost a half a million dollars. $452,516 on maintenance. A lot of that again working on HVAC, got some roof repairs, parking lots, awnings $36,000. We replaced an oven that was incredibly needed in the cafeteria. They couldn't hardly operate without it. That was $20,000 for that combi oven. HVAC repair $12,000, bus repairs $13,000, radios $9,000, HVAC repair $109,000. Um just some of those things. Snow removal always gets us because they get right on it. Mr. Beckman does a wonderful job but that was $32,000 that year. So total of $452,516. And utilities $188,000. Um It's hard to tell but I know we started running our HVAC system a little bit

063earlier in the mornings. Um and heat a little bit earlier in the mornings. Just listening to our teachers and some of their concerns. When they walked in the buildings in the winter time they thought maybe it was a little too cold. So we started running a little bit earlier. Same thing with the air conditioning in the in the summer time both at the start and the end of school. Um there are other things that probably contributed to that. But we know that's one thing that that we have done. And so far in 2026 first quarter. And so we're a quarter of the way through $97,221 in maintenance around here and $68,000 in utilities so far. So hopefully those utility numbers we can get those down in the next years to come. And free up some

064more money for for maintenance and a few other things. Um looking at calendar coming up want to remind everybody and then send out through Parent Square. We will utilize an asynchronous day on Election Day. That's Tuesday is May the 5th. Is that correct? Um, we got a waiver day. We've used three, but we got a waiver day from the state on the last one. So, we're able to then utilize another one on that day and so kids won't need to be here. They won't need the live instruction from home. They will just have it sent out to them. And just an update to the board and the and the community. We had our with the the I say new, but not really new. Ones that that set on our shelves for far too long. Stop

065arm camera violations. We we had one the other day. We've added one. So, there were three the prosecutor's office four years ago sent us. We added another one for because we've got an additional bus that runs on a state highway. The ones that were corporation buses had had them on them. What we have from the prosecutor's office and what we got are are honestly a lot better. You can see more clearly. We've had a few stop arm violations and for various reasons they weren't able to prosecute or cite for. But, we did have one the other day that a citation was was written for. And so, just wanted to make you guys aware of that. Dr. Apple. Yes. >> On the the solar project with the panels going up this summer, has the contractor been

066able to give you like a revised estimate? I know when the project first started there was projected savings based on assumptions. And as they got into the project to to everyone's surprise the roof needed a little more attention than than we thought. And I'm assuming that affected the number of panels. Did they give you any kind of revised estimate? We we did at that time we got it. I can pull it off my emails from you or for you. Was it significant or just just It was a little bit, but but nothing not to to jump at. Now, I haven't seen anything, you know, since that time over the however many months and as utility costs have fluctuated or done whatever I haven't seen anything recently, but but I can get that for you. Yes.

067>> Okay, thanks. Cataracts. I guess somebody is wondering what you're doing with that fashion statement up there. >> [clears throat] >> Okay, that was number six. Number seven, the PTSO report. Okay, so we were supposed to have a meeting tonight to go over possible new board members, but we needed to postpone that for next month. So, our next board meeting will be May 19th at 6:00 in the library. We are getting ready for teacher appreciation week coming up. So, we're going to have a lot of volunteer opportunities throughout the week. And then on the high school side we're going to have the last Eagle days of the year on May 15th. And then the last thing is we'll be doing drop off greeting on the last day of school. So, another volunteer opportunity. Okay, for

068number eight there is no sign off. The next item is approve St. Mary's Church to use two of our mid buses on June 13th for their annual picnic. Do I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion we approve St. Mary's to use two of the mid buses for their picnic. Was that an earlier time for the picnic? Okay. Yeah, it's June 12th and 13th. They're changing it around. Just making sure. Got to make sure we understand. It's a two-day event. I think it starts Friday night. Back up. Say it again. June 12th and 13th. So, you have two days of driving the buses then. Okay, with the dinner. 12th and 13th. Yeah, got it. So, you you just says the 13th here for the buses. So, we're Okay, I'll second the

069motion whatever. Any discussion? If not I'll we just did. >> [laughter] >> Any more discussion? If not, all those in favor say aye. Opposed same sign. Motion passes. The next item is approve teacher appreciation grant funds to be paid to the teachers selected. Yeah, and this year that that process is very very different than it's been in the past. It's it's inception. Any teacher that was either highly qualified or not highly effective or effective got a piece of the the money. They had to be different. You couldn't pay the same for somebody that was effective as highly effective. But, everybody that met that criteria got a piece of the money. What the state has done now is they've increased the the amount of money to an individual and there were three different layers and we

070went the the smallest of the three to try to get more money in more hands of teachers. But, what it did is it narrowed you down to 20% or no more than 20% of your staff and it kicked some people out. You know, Miss Morgan was here and you know the hard work that she does and counselors are not allowed to enter that pool. Even though they're still part of that collective bargaining unit and a few others and it's really sad what what what happened there. Um We had those that wanted to potentially get this submit forms to administrators in each building and then a team of people went through and looked at the applications and if they met the criteria for the lowest level then we we we went from there. What we decided

071to do is if we had more than and for us that would have been I believe seven people. If if we had more than that, then we were going to do a blind draw. And that's what we ended up having to do. And most people qualified for it and so we came in here one day. Mr. Hancock had all the names in a wheel and we watched that board and those that were gathered you waited to see if if your name was drawn or not. And so, those funds are now in and we submit all that to the state. They send us the funds. Those funds are in. We need board approval now to pay those that had their name drawn. How many was that? I believe seven. >> Seven? Seven teachers was that? Oh,

072that's that's good. Huh? Was it bad? Yeah, I know I hate that part. I hate that part. And then I'm glad they got the money. I'm just saying that's the problem. Yeah, that's true. And it's it's hard to compare the things that they do. If you want to compare a first grade teacher to a PE teacher to somebody that's teaching [clears throat] physics to a special education teacher, it's very very difficult to compare and it's really a very flawed system. Um, but they they want that competitive model. They want I'm going to go over that. You had seven. How many were Did you say qualified for that? We had and and there were things that kept you out anyway. So, if you didn't teach here last year, you were out and a few other qualifying

073things. Of our 40 I don't know if there were 39 eligible maybe. Something along those lines probably. And I'm just throwing a rough number out. 35 or so. We had We had a couple people just didn't fill out the application and some because they weren't here last year or or something along those lines. Not enough days. Um, but a a vast majority of our teachers were eligible, but you you couldn't you couldn't spread it out anymore. Well, that does sound bad. Then I'm I'm with you then. I get I get what you're saying now that I know the how it works. Like, yeah, really? Okay, but anyway, okay. Yeah. Right. That's all you can do. Okay, I get it. Fought the battle before with different things, not just that particular one. What what are you

074doing? I'm going to ask for a motion to approve. I'm not going to repeat what Dr. Apple just said. [laughter] I'll make a motion that we approve the the teacher appreciation grant funds to be paid to the teachers that were selected. And I will second that motion. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say aye. Opposed same sign. Motion passes. Okay, approve the purchase of a 14 passenger bus in the amount of $120,000 or 120,055 and 20 cents. Yeah, and and we're really having to pivot on a bus purchase. We we had plans of we still need probably a couple more large buses. Um we run into a situation where we are now transporting a variety of students who through individualized education plans need to be educated in one of our neighboring school corporations

075and that has worked out through the co-op special education co-op. Uh right now we are using two mid buses. Uh just activity buses to to run that. The way that laws are is they have to pull into driveways. You can't pick a kid up um on the road because those don't have flashing lights. They're not yellow. They don't have the stop arm. Um also there's no chair lift. As we currently sit we don't need one. But at some point we we very well may. Um and so what this gives us the opportunity to do and the ability to do and it's really the right way to do it is um pick kids up, not worrying about, you know, pulling in the driveway, tearing up yards, doing different things like that, causing accidents as you try

076to get one of those mid buses now then backed out of a driveway which is very very difficult and we're running on Lazy Creek and a few other things where turns are everywhere and so um we got several quotes for those. Um Kerlin came in at 120,000. We've got another another quote on on International and the rest of them came through we got some through the Wilson Center and then reached out to Midwest as well. They've been good partners of ours in the past. Um the price difference was significant and we we can't go down that road right now. Um you know, another one 130,000, really 131,000 so $11,000 difference. They worked really hard to bring that down from 137 but the the gap was still 11,000. Um then we've got got two more here

077through the Wilson Center um for two different buses 147,000 and 149,000. Uh and so that 120 is by far probably our best bet and fiscally the smartest thing that we can do but get a bus that we really really need. So I'm asking for your all approve your approval so we can do that. What we got told from Kerlin is that we let them know and then one is sitting there. Hopefully get it in quicker. Heads up we've been told that from them in the past and we waited eight months, nine months. So passing that information on but know that we've been burnt on that in the past as well. Uh but what a four key passenger yellow bus does is you have to have a the drive you have to have the bus certification,

078go through the safety training but you don't have to have a CDL. And so that may help drive that. Currently we have one of our mid buses is driven by two of our route drivers get off their route get on this one they drive it. Our other mid bus is driven by some wonderful individuals who stepped up because we have been searching and searching and searching uh these wonderful people Frank Price is Frank Price. Uh and so Mr. Shawn Blane uh they don't have that certification. And so if they continue we will work with them uh to help them get that make sure that they get it if they want to drive that bus next year. Um and I'm going to shake out um got to give you that. You said this also has the

079five-point harness Yes. It has five-point harness for students um who are preschool students of the state of Indiana and they state requirement that they be in a five-point harness. Once they get kindergarten I don't know what that difference is that last day preschool and that first day kindergarten not much but once they do that they no longer have that requirement but for preschool students they do. And this is a yellow bus with flashing lights and stop arms. >> Yes. >> So just this this is just a smaller version of a big bus. Yes, correct. That's all it is, isn't it? Yes. Yeah. And it's hard to find drivers and being that you don't have to have a CDL to drive it which makes it good, better. Uh that's a good thing, okay? So >> [laughter]

080>> I thought that's what I thought I heard him say that. I don't know if that was Was that you about I didn't know. Okay, I'm I'll make a motion that we approve the purchase of this bus. Do I have a second? I'll second. Any discussion? If not Did Did this cause a modification to the bus replacement plan or were Was Were you planning on this or because of the change in requirements with the five-point harness and all that we need this so our plan's going to be bumped back a year or so? Yeah. Yeah. So this took the place of a larger bus is what you're Immediately, yes. Yes, for now. Yes. But we still have one more year and we know we have at least one What it really is going to do

081hold off on bus can that we were planning on replacing. We'll probably hold on to that for another year. Right. Keep that can. Okay. Any more discussion? If not all those in favor say I. I. Opposed same sign. Motion passes. Okay, number four number 12 approve the creation of Harris County Community Foundation Elementary Fund. Um yeah and um this is something that Dr. Holder and Dustin Crawlhorn have worked really really hard on. Um we have some money through and it's sitting right now called the We Play Project Fund uh sitting at $16,841. Nothing in that fund is taxpayer money. That is all money through donations uh through Was it jump Not jump rope-a-thon, walk-a-thon uh is where that came in at. Um looking at how to best utilize that money instead of just throwing it

082at something uh we have several different funds you know, that we utilize elementary student fund and those kinds of things. Um but instead of just throwing the money at something we know that we want to use it for PE and fine arts. And so the thought is take part of that money $12,500. Um work with the community foundation, set up a fund there and it would be matched one for one, correct? And so that 1250 12,500 now you're looking at 25,000. Uh each year up to 5% could be pulled out. Um not needed it will grow and grow but even with that it will still continue to grow and grow and grow. Uh we utilize those through the corporation in a wide variety of things uh some meds um athletic uniforms, all kinds of things

083have been set up differently. Uh a lot of times through community members uh but I'm I'm really proud of of those two uh and others trying to figure out how to best utilize this money uh not waste it just because it's there and not just spend it but to ensure that it will continue to provide for Lanesville students throughout the years. And so through this process you won't be able to pull as much but not pulling all of it anyway. Um but for years and years and years and years to come it will benefit the students of Lanesville and not just one sitting there right now. And so greatly applaud them for thinking outside of the box on that. This fund's open it's eligible for public or private donations as well, right? Yes. >> And

084they'll be one to one unless the foundation has a special program where sometimes they do three to one. Right. Do I have a motion and second to approve to approve the establishment of the the Carson Lanesville Elementary Fund with the Harris County Community Foundation. I'll second it. Any discussion? If not all those in favor say I. I. Opposed same sign. Motion passes. Number 13 approve Sandy as full-time cafeteria worker for the 26-27 school year. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve Sandy Denny as a full-time cafeteria worker for next school year. I'll second. Any discussion? If not all those in favor say I. I. Opposed same sign. Motion passes. Number 14 approve the hiring of April Smith as junior senior high instructional assistant. Could I have a

085motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve the hiring of April Smith as junior senior high instructional assistant. I'll second that motion. Any discussion? If not all those in favor say I. I. Opposed same sign. Motion passes. Um right before the meeting I was given the names for number 15 approve the hiring of Mary Matthews for third grade teacher and Ashley Sullivan for sixth grade teacher for the elementary school. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve the hiring of those two people for the elementary school. Third and sixth grade. Is this for this I'll second. >> or next year, right? Yes. A- any discussion? If um if not, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Number 16, approve Rebecca

086Perkins as assistant music director for 2025-2026. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'm not clear on that. What is I thought she was already our music director. Talking about Yeah, it's it's her mother. Oh. Heather Perkins. Oh my gosh, I feel so For for a number of years. You did. Yeah. Okay. >> I got it. It's Yep. I got you. All right. Oh, okay. I'll make a motion we approve Rebecca Perkins. I'll second. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. >> Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Approve FMLA leave for Elena Thompson beginning 10/19/2026. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion we approve FMLA leave for Elena Thompson beginning 10/19. She is the elementary secretary. I'll second. Any discussion? If not, all those

087in favor say I. I. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Approve addendum to route eight, Mike Embry, for additional mile bringing his total route to 43 miles. Yeah, and uh Just quickly, this just some additional houses. Okay. Where where? Where is that? Uh do you have new subdivision, I think? Okay. That's what he's picking up. All right. Um but additional houses, and then the contract was based off of the old mileage, so we just need to adjust that for him. >> This is at the new subdivision across from church. Okay. Got it. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion that we approve the addendum for Mike Embry. I'll second that. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. I'm going to uh

088go off script a little bit here. Um I thought this is a good time. Um we lost a former bus driver, and Chris Blank, a few weeks ago. Um he did a lot for the school, and just want to have that family in in uh thoughts and prayers. Yeah. Um number 19, the dis- discussion on allowing students to take outside courses that are not offered at Lanesville. Yeah, and uh this is something that we currently already do uh in different capacities. Uh we uh have allowed for years before I got here students to go to Floyd Central for ROTC. Um you know, of course you have Prosser. Um but what we're starting to see are some partnerships, and again, this is just the start of a discussion as we look forward. Um but but you

089guys need to really weigh in on this. Um as we're trying to keep students at Lanesville and still offer some challenging courses or some different courses or courses that may move into a pathway. Um school corporations have started looking at each other. I know a good example, and I've got a meeting at IUS. Uh talked to Chancellor a little bit today, but we will meet again uh next week. Uh Borden and and East Washington are looking at partnerships. Uh some kids going here and there. Um South Harrison does it within their own corporation. They've they've asked us before uh potentially about some pathways, but they're things already offered at Prosser. Uh so we didn't need it. But there may be some of those things now uh whether it is it's an advanced math class or

090an advanced science class or or whatever that might be uh that that maybe we can look with New Albany Floyd or South Harrison or North Harrison or whatever it might be, or somebody's offering it online that we're not with an instructor. Um it's a discussion we need to have, and probably um as they come up one by one, and we've had an inquiry here recently at the high school level. But uh we need to do for the future of education, and you saw a little bit of glimpse today on how complex it's getting ready to be. I really think we need to open ourselves up. Now, what it may cost is a little bit of ADM money. Um like we do for years, we didn't pay anything to go to ROTC. New Albany Floyd County

091in the last couple of years have started letting outside, besides us, we're the only ones. They've opened up to others uh for ROTC at the two campuses. So now we have to pay some ADM money, and that may be something. Is that tuition money as well? >> Maybe that. No, that would be on their own for the most part. All right. Um but it's worth exploring and having future discussions and keeping it on our radar, and potentially looking at a policy maybe over the summer on what that might look like. Um but to keep kids here at Lanesville, we need to start being flexible more and more. Uh and if there's something that we don't offer, encourage kids, yeah. We want you to be a Lanesville kid. We want you to graduate from everyone, to

092be part of our National Honor Society, or whatever program it is, or a sport. Uh we we recognize that this is a passion that you have, and maybe we don't. Um you know, we might be able to work something out. I know a big one for us is always performing arts, uh theater programs. Is it something that we can allow a kid work with North Harrison, South Harrison, New Albany Floyd, a kid go take theater and come back. We we need to really start having those discussions and be more flexible, and even if it costs us some ADM money, still keep that kid a Lanesville kid that was a Lanesville kid coming all the way through. Maybe they don't have to make that choice going into ninth grade. I want to be in theater, I'm

093going to Floyd Central, or whatever that might be. Uh and so over the next few months, I I want to bring you more information. Um but hopefully maybe a policy this summer, but then allow us and administrators and counselors to start working with students, start working with other corporations as long as it fits in those parameters to allow some of those things to happen. You see this evolving to a reciprocal type policy? Where we're bringing kids in? >> Um if if we've got something that others don't. And so it could potentially be we have an extremely strong agriculture department. New Albany Floyd does not. Floyd Central does not. New Albany High School does not. If you've got a student that is looking in that direction, and I know when I was in New Albany High

094School, we had several kids that wished that there was an FFA. A lot of the river bottom kids down towards the boat wasn't an option for them. Potentially it could be. Uh if there's something you heard Ms. Morgan talk about earlier, we're always looking at different things. But we have to be careful cuz we send half our kids to Prosser, so we can't overextend ourselves like some do. But yes, it could be. This might not be a right time to ask, but do you see another Prosser popping up somewhere, or something similar? Uh we have had conversations with Prosser about satellite programs uh through Lifelong Learning, which I'm on the board of. Uh Scott County had those same conversations. Those kind of died because uh and I was at Prosser today, Prosser's getting ready to

095go through two phases of expansion again uh to free up more classroom space. And so right now they're kind of holding off on that. They're scrapping a program or two, going to add a couple more, uh but they are freeing up more space to try to help out with that. So that's kind of stalled right now, but in the future, potentially yes. >> [clears throat] >> Okay, and we don't need vote on this, do we? No, no, no. I just wanted to bring it to your attention um to kind of get it in your minds, so that over the next few months, we can start bringing more have more robust conversations. Okay, the next item is number 20, approve the sixth grade students field trip to Holiday World on May 21st. Could I have a

096motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve the sixth grade field trip to Holiday World. I'll second. Any discussion? If not, all those in Who's going with them? Are you going, Ms. Yeah, you going? Are you guys going to Holiday World with the sixth grade? Do you get [laughter] like paid more to go on the sixth grade trip to Holiday World? >> And parents. A lot of parents go. Yeah, I think you're being volunteered. Oh, am I? I thought Doug might be the one to be like, "Oh, no." And then No, no, I can't. I don't have my license anymore. Sorry. Okay. I'm sorry. Any more discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Uh number 21, approve the high ability field trip to Newport

097Aquarium on May 5th for the fifth grade and sixth grade high ability students. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve that. I'll second. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Number 22, approve the high ability field trip to Indianapolis Children's Museum on May 8th for the fourth grade high ability students. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion we approve the high ability field trip to Indianapolis Children's Museum on May the 8th for the fourth grade you, I'll second. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Number 23, approve the boys seventh and eighth grade basketball teams to attend Hanover's basketball camp on June 17th

098and 18th. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make Go ahead. I'll make a motion. I'll second it. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Uh number 24, discussion of tennis facility renovations. Yeah, this is something that um is probably way overdue. Yeah. Um our our tennis courts and our tennis courts are not just utilized by our tennis team. They are used by our entire community and surrounding area. Um we've got five courts over there now. It's hard to drive by unless it's raining or snowing. And if it's a light drizzle, they may still be be out there if they want a broken leg. But to see not to see somebody on it. Sunshine and somebody's playing. We've got some pretty significant cracks.

099Uh I know in my time here we patched them. We've done all kinds of things. Those things wear off. As winters come, there's a little spring down there. Um we we we can't probably take that approach any longer. It's a discussion item because it is a significant ticket price. Um I've got got pulled up here. We ran through the Wilson Center on bids. And actually we had one company, uh AstroTurf, which you don't think of tennis, but one company they they declined to put a bid in um because of the scope of the work. Uh we initially thought maybe they had something that would allow us to get another 10 years out of it. Um and they came back and said no, that's that's probably not going to be an option. Uh and so really

100what we're looking at with the bids that we've got um again, significant. Uh concrete tennis court, one of them through Tennis Technology for concrete, $664,000. Um asphalt significantly brings that down, $340,000. Um but that's still a significant chunk of change. Uh but we put that into bleachers. Uh now we utilized bond money for that, not operational funds uh for that. One thing, and again I'm very very happy uh with the the people that we've got. And we've got another one uh through H E Hellas, H E L L A S. Uh that one's about $700,000. Um because of >> to do Are they going to dig down cuz there's a water problem >> Are they going to fix the spring? That's the part that's causing >> Well, yeah, we did that back in the day.

101>> Tap tap tap >> We dug a drain around the whole tennis court and Yep, we fixed the problem, yeah, and then there won't be another problem when we redo it. So that's what you want to do with the bids. >> Yeah. And >> Yeah, that would be You have an outdoor swimming pool. That That would work. I don't I don't think Mr. Sizemore back there heard the same thing. >> [laughter] >> Uh but and they were they rolled those out and I'm not asking right now uh for for you to It needs to be to approve anything, but you know removing the fence um vinyl coat perimeter going through all of those things. So you're talking $700,000, $700,000 to renovate what we have. Or $340,000 if we go asphalt instead of concrete. And we're

102talking completely ripping up and putting down Not not just ceilings. Uh I'm I'm sure that would that would have to be part of it. Yep. Uh it just comes back. But it is significant enough in in my thought uh and we've talked about, you know this floor down here is about gym floor is about had its life cycle. But there I think this is a much greater need. Um and again, I just wanted to start the discussion tonight. I wanted to get this in your heads knowing that this is a large chunk of change. But this isn't just something that that we utilize and only us. P E classes uh the community but where where we may be fortunate because it is such a hub for the community there may be opportunities through the community

103foundation that we want to explore further, and that's why I want to start the discussion but not bring to you for approval because there are other areas that we we would like to explore. I know Mr. Sizemore is looking through USTA uh to help fund part of it. Um so we want to put a package together that is very comprehensive that will get us the best quality that we can but partner with community foundation, potentially other outside organizations, the school corporation because it is a community um community center. Uh but I want to bring just bring that to your attention um and Mr. Sizemore, I'm going to call on you for a minute. Is there anything as tennis coach um I know you want like 10 more >> the boys and girls that that you

104would like to add? Um I mean, we've got Jack here as well. Jack Harper, he's our junior high coach. He has 30 kids. We have 16 in the girls right now. Boys season, we're looking at 25 to 30. We have some of the biggest numbers out of with five courts. During the boys season, it's a lot harder for us because there's no daylight for half of the season. Um we're dealing with sun going down at 6:30, 7:00. Um so lights would have to be part of this. DuBois will give us their lights from their courts at DuBois High School. They have the superintendent says they're yours. You want them. They're getting ready to get a whole new facility put in. Uh supposed to be this summer. And they will give us all of their lights.

105We would just have to pay for the hookup and installation. But that could save hundreds of thousands of dollars right there. Uh the USTA will give $150,000. Um would have been $200,000 last year. Uh but they dropped it down to 150 this year. They will or well, they've already done uh DuBois County, Jeffersonville Jeffersonville uh oh, and Ferdinand uh Forest Park. Their courts, given them $150,000. All we have to do is apply and show that we are willing to put funds toward the facilities. And they will write a check. They also have other um opportunities for us to raise funds where they will pay for us to run community programs throughout the night uh oh, the nights during the summer. They want more people playing pickleball and tennis. So we've already signed up for all

106of this. Uh they will come in and donate free tennis rackets, equipment, everything to the P E teachers. And they will pay the P E teachers to go through like a 4-hour class with them. All of Jeffersonville has done this uh and they were featured at the US Open because of So there are really good opportunities out there for us to continue growing this, continue growing it in our schools. Uh they would you know, I would want pickleball lines put on those courts as well uh because we have tons of people using it for pickleball uh on the weekends. If we uh just off camera, if we upped that to 10 courts the possibility of new grants would that would the USTA Probably. I I'd be all for that. If we had If we had

107the five courts down here as they were for practice, it's the practice times what we run into. On Fridays uh we practice with 75 kids on one on the five courts at the same time. Okay. Uh you know, the when he has a match tomorrow, we get 45 minutes of practice time before his match. So that's what it really comes down to is more of a practice time. How much If we had worked tremendously uh we took a whole day just this year uh pressure washed all of the courts, multiple days to do that. They're still in horrible condition. Um we filled some of the cracks ourselves. I did some research, found some crack filler thing. We had parts of the court that's flopping up that we glued down. That will only last temporarily. Um

108what else? We put the windscreens up. We've done It'll get it through the season. If I was another coach and I mean yeah and saw those courts and we're going to play on those courts for sectional I would be like now is is there a better opportunity? Maybe some place else is like What's asphalt or concrete? I think I think they're asphalt on top of concrete. The way they are now. Is there a benefit to one or the other and what are the What are the benefits I think you know you could just do one or the other. I thought it was I thought you had to do both. I don't I don't know. But there are courts as well like South Central has and Keaton Easter. It's one big roll. They roll it down

109on it. Uh and and who else? New Washington has those as well. The Washington athletic court. The difference between the both the concrete is post tension concrete so it's a newer technology that is supposed to allow the concrete to and they put a under mesh that that in there that allows that water to get to happen. Will allow the concrete to slowly move. I'm not a technical expert but that is why the cost goes significantly up. Like if you go through the quote in full, you'll see a mesh layer is provided and that concrete allows as you know you have water intrusion which is why most of these companies have passed on our bids. Um but you also realistically don't know what you're talking about. So it is both of these technologies the post tension

110furnish and install uh drainage pipe and those kinds of things. How big an item was that? Uh 400 ft of drainage. Yeah, drainage pipe. Probably all throughout the court. So if we if it was built at a different place, we might not have to have the special concrete. You may. Yeah, I I don't It comes down right through there. I don't I don't know if we're qualified to make that That that would have to be a an engineer or somebody to give that information. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh of course it would be. Yeah, absolutely. But you want to double the size of your courts, too. You'd want to go 10. I mean if you're going to build them If we were going to build them I would want to do 10. Of course you would.

111Yeah. So we can hold a tournament and actually you know help help raise funds that way. Raise funds that way. Yeah. I I get it but you know but before you do anything like that you got you got to put the infrastructure in there. You got to put electric, you got to put water, you got to put sewage, you got to put all that in there first. Build your bus barn. There's other things we want to we'd like to put over there, too and and that would be one of those things that we certainly look at. Certainly. You know softball people are going to be talking to us, too. >> [laughter] >> You know. But it's tennis tonight, okay? You're on you're on tonight, Sue. But Okay. You got you got sectional coming up, too,

112right? Sectional flow? Okay. All right. And and it is an immediate fairly immediate need. I get it. You know it but it but it needs to be more discussion because we need to figure out exactly what the funding might look like and some other avenues but I wanted to make sure we started here and continue it as we go over the next couple of months. Okay, thank you. Uh number 25 approve the resignation of Robert Smith as sixth grade girls basketball coach. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion we approve the resignation of Robert Smith sixth grade girls basketball coach. I'll second it. Any discussion? I didn't want to thank Robert for doing that for several years. How many years did Robert do that, Tara? Three years. How many?

113Three. Three years. Thank you, Robert Smith for doing that. That's a tough job coaching at any level. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed same sign. Motion passes. Approve the resignation of Jason Simler as seventh grade boys basketball coach. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make the motion. I'll second it. Any discussion? I'd like to thank Jason, too. Jason does a good job. And I hate seeing him go. I know he's moving on with his son, probably moving up a little bit. I know Carson's going to be a freshman and want to watch his daughter play and but I just want to thank personally Jason. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed same sign. Motion passes. Number 27 approve Cassandra Cruz as high school cheer coach for the 2026-2027

114school year. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion we approve Cassandra Cruz as high school cheer coach for next school year. I'll make I'll second it. Any discussion? If not all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed same sign. Motion passes. Number 28 approve Shawn Crothers and Chris Van Hoose as boys basketball freshman C team for the 2025-2026 year year, sorry. We'll split uh stipend. That was this past season. Correct. Okay. Yeah. I'll approve I'll I'll make the motion we approve that. And do I have a second? >> I'll second it. Any discussion? If not all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed same sign. Motion passes. Approve the following fundraisers. Class of 2028 fundraiser pickleball tournament at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 9th, 2026. FFA auction baskets and

115FFA officers at FFA annual banquet uh FFA annual greenhouse sell May 4th through the 17th. Could I have a motion and second to approve those three fundraisers? I'll make a motion to approve all three of those fundraisers. Any discussion? I'll second. Okay. Oh, sorry. Second. Any discussion? If not all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed same sign. Motion passes. >> [sighs] >> Okay, number 30 approve the disposal of elementary principal's desk. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion. to dispose of the old elementary principal's desk. She has a new one. What are you going to do? You going to sell it for what? What's going to happen to you? All right, put it in there. Yeah. So you got What you got this desk in the back of

116your car or where is it? No, it's still Back at Smith's car? What is it? What's the problem? What I don't understand. What are we doing? I'll second it. Was that your old desk? It probably was. I'm sure I had it. I'm sure. It's a pressed wood job. It's not very It's okay. All right, yeah. 65? Oh, come on. Which way you >> [laughter] >> Yeah, do we have a motion and second? We do. Okay. Uh all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed same sign. Motion passes. Okay, number 31 additional public comments. I've got first is Leslie Holdridge. Okay. Good evening, members of the board and Lanesville community. I stand before you today on behalf of our teachers union, not in opposition but in partnership. Because at the heart of everything we do is

117the same shared goal. A strong, thriving school community where students succeed and educators are supported in doing their best work. That kind of community is built on three essential pillars. Trust and transparency, hard work and accountability, and a commitment to reflection. First, trust and transparency. Trust is not something that can be assumed. It is built through consistent, honest communication. Our educators show up every day committed to their students and they deserve to be included in the decisions that shape their classrooms and their profession. Transparency from leadership about expectations, challenges, and changes creates an environment where collaboration can take root. When teachers feel informed and respected, trust follows. And when trust exists, progress becomes possible. Second, hard work and accountability. There's no question that our teachers work hard, often beyond contracted hours, beyond expectations, and sometimes

118beyond what is sustainable. Even now many of our teachers could not be here because they're coaching youth leagues or cheering on their own children or even yours as our students. But accountability must be shared. Educators hold themselves accountable for student growth, for professional development, and for continuous improvement. In return, we ask that the systems, leadership, and policies are also held accountable, ensuring that expectations are realistic and resources are adequate, and that decisions are made with the classrooms in mind. Accountability should never be one-sided. It must be mutual to be meaningful. Finally, reflection. Education is not static. It evolves, and so must we. Reflection allows us to learn from what's working and what isn't. Our union believes in continuous improvement, not just for teachers, but for the entire system. That means being willing to listen, to

119adjust, and to sometimes change course. Reflection is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of commitment to getting it right. As a union, we are not here simply to advocate. We are here to collaborate. We want to be part of the solutions, part of the progress, and part of a culture where every single voice matters. But that requires a foundation of trust, a shared sense of accountability, and an openness to reflect and grow together. Our educators are ready to do that work. We ask that you stand with us in building the kind of environment where that work can truly succeed. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good job, ladies. Thank you. Next up is Michael Sizemore. You again? >> [laughter] [sighs] >> Okay. Uh Thank you all for your time. Um I'm speaking

120up today because, really, I'm kind of embarrassed about what has been going on here. I come to you as a person to express my concerns for the state of the school and the community that it surrounds. A lot of statements are being made, but we have no knowledge of what is going on. The information we get is on Facebook. There are outsiders making comments on Facebook. There are insiders making comments on Facebook. As a media person who makes his living using social media and their company using social media to spread good stories and positive stories, it really kind of ticks me off seeing how negative this community has become, how it has separated all of us, and a lot of it has to do with what is going on in the schools. Our community has

121always been about support. It has been very supportive. Outsiders come in. They move in. We support them. We welcome them. Kids coming from other schools, they come here for a reason. It's because of the community. Well, I found out this week two of my tennis players are not coming back. One of them is going to home school. The other one who already had in the starting lineup for next year, he's going to Christian Academy. And when I asked the parents why, for both of them, they said it's because of the animosity that they are seeing in the school. They are seeing a lot of bickering. They're being asked to be brought in to choose one side or the other, and they're scared that, no matter what size side they choose, their kid is not going

122to be treated the way they should be treated because of how they decide. So, that has scared them, and they're pulling them out. I've heard this from other parents that have not made that decision yet, but are discussing it, and these are very well-known community members that are their entire families have been here at Lanesville, and they're talking about pulling their kids out right now. My loyalty is not to one side or the other. Okay? Yes, the company I work for does marketing for the school, but I fought to do that marketing for the school because my loyalty is to the school and to the kids that are in the school. That's the only reason why I coach. Okay, this guy right here is one reason why I moved back after being gone for 17

123years. Because I feel like he's a mentor to me. And for the respect that he gave me all the way through fifth grade on up to graduation to now, I respect that, and I want that for every student that comes through Lanesville. This community has changed a lot in the past, I'd say 2 months, 3 months, and goes back a little bit further, but it's really changed recently. I see people fighting on social media. I see, and I should never see this, teachers, staff, members of the school making comments on social media. That should never happen. It should not even be allowed. Really, there should be a social media policy that is drawn up that says that that should not be allowed. Because all that does, that attributes to others to respond. Their families are

124going to respond. And next thing you know, we're breaking up the community. Then it leads to other organizations within our school that feel the need to make additional accusations. So, now you have organizations that are supposed to be supporting the school that really aren't supporting them. I see the color purple being displayed on some people's social media pages as like a purple out. Listen, that's purple pride, okay? That is to be used for Lanesville, not a against Lanesville. Okay? From organizations that feel that they can use the color purple as a weapon. There's a banner hanging right outside those doors that discusses pride. And that's what purple pride is about. And unless you've got a tattoo, okay? That shirt can be removed at any moment. That purple can be pulled right off of your social

125media. It should not be used as a weapon by any means. When we're in sports, okay? We're using it to represent our school. Represent, not fight against our school. We use it to fight against other schools as we go to battle every time we step out there on the court, in the fields, whatever it is. Be respectful of the colors that we wear. Last month, Dr. Abel, Dr. Apple, gave a fantastic report, a great presentation that we should have been celebrating when we came out of. And by the way, I didn't write that report. Okay? That's the rumor, by the way. Did you know that that I wrote that or somebody from Pro Media Group wrote that for you? No, I don't do any social media. Yes. So, if we would have wrote it, it

126would have been written in a manner that thanks the teachers and the staff. That was the only thing that was missing from that. The statistics were amazing. I didn't know how high we ranked for all of those years. And all of that goes to the teachers, the staff, the school board, everyone here. But we couldn't celebrate it at all. It was delivered as a defense. No one up here should have to be defending anything. It should be reporting to the community on the positives that are going on inside the school. Otherwise, we can't sell this school to anyone. So, I was really embarrassed. I lost a lot of sleep when I came out of that meeting last month. I tried making a lot of phone calls afterwards because I'm a fixer. I want to fix

127problems. I want to get people together and try to work it out and see how we can really attribute this negative and this negative, bring them together and make a positive out of it. So, I asked school board members. I asked staff. I asked teachers. I I mean, I tried to reach out to anyone. All I was told was come to this meeting tonight. And I would get more information. I still have no clue what is going on. I just know statements have been made. I've seen things on social media. I've blocked people on social media now. There's been no solutions. So, I'm trying to do research. That's what I do. I don't If you look at my social media, it's all rainbows and sunshines and grandkids and, you know, just having a great time.

128That's the way it should be played out. We don't use social media as a weapon. Don't do it in your businesses. Don't do it as an organization. Don't do it as a person. I care about this school. I care about what goes on to this school. It takes one negative to outweigh 10 positives that go on in this school. So, really, I challenge all of you all to come together, stop the rumors, work together, fix the problems behind the scenes. Do not bring the students in on this because they've come to me at practice and said, "Hey, do you know what's going on at the school board meeting tonight because I've been asked to come and represent and That should never happen. The students should never be brought into this. They have enough that's going

129on in their lives to use the students as a weapon as well. So again, let's please stop the animosity. Let's try to work together. Let's do our research. Find out solutions before we start posting things out on social media or commenting on something. And let's be supportive of each other as this community has always been. Otherwise, we won't have to worry about new school or new tennis courts or anything because we're going to lose all of our kids. They're going to be going to other schools as they already are right now. And that's just not something I'm willing to let happen. I will fight for this school. I will fight for all of you all. And it sounds like I'm running for as a politician up here or something, but that's not it. I'm serious.

130If you need help with anything, if you want a mediator or a moderator, I'll be that person. I'd be happy to to try help try to find solutions. If you need me to do research, make phone calls. If you need a plumber, I've got a guy, okay? Don't be scared to ask. Thank you, Mr. Sizemore. Okay, there's no other additional comments. So, as number 32 is adjourned, could >> Ryan. Oh. All the home games are on the high school field. Do they not have any scheduled on a high school field? Can you do me a favor? Can you send me their schedule? All right, thank you. Okay, number 32, um adjournment. Can I have a motion and second? I'll make a motion to adjourn. I'll second that. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor

131say aye. Aye.