001Heat. Heat. [Music] N. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] N. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] It's very muggy. I think he's wait. Okay. I I will call the May 20th, 2025 Lanesville Community School Board of Trustees meeting to session. The first item is the pledge of allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Music] Board members, you have received the agenda in advance of tonight's meeting. You have had time to review, research, and consider the matters to be voted on tonight. Board members, do you have any questions or concerns to be addressed before we proceed?
002Not at this time. Nope. Nope. The next item is the approval of minutes from the April 15, 2025 board meeting. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve the minutes from the April 15, 2025 board meeting. I'll second it. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. The next item is number four, the approval of claims for the month of May. Could I get a motion and a second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve the claims for the month of May. I'll second. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. The next item is the principal's report. Hello everyone. It's hard to believe that is the last week. Um and
003um just to throw some excitement in the last week I was also selected for jury duty. So I have been on a trial the last two days. And if you've never experienced that can't talk about it till tomorrow or till the trial ends. But and my daughter's getting married this weekend. And so just like in the honor. So anyway, so whenever you think you're stressed, just look my way. Help me take a deep breath. But um anyway, it's just been very eventful. So thank you and thank you for everyone that has helped to just make it through the last two days. So but last week I attended PTSO meeting, the last meeting of the year, and they had a procedure that I thought was pretty cool. At the end of the year, they take time
004to look at each event that they've done all year. And when they do that, they take a look and they talk about the profit, they talk about the attendance, they talk about the challenges, and then they talk about the celebrations. And I just thought, what a really cool way to take a look at my first year as a principal here at Lansville. And so I know that it has been a learning curve and there's been a lot of new and with that comes a lot of patience and a lot of questions and a lot of learning. Um, and I think a lot of that has happened this year. But when I came, I really had two goals that I really wanted to achieve this year. And that was to provide a consistent school schedule um
005to offer more supports for our teachers and students. And then also to provide guidance lessons and counseling services to our kids because we just hadn't been doing that consistently in the last couple of years. And so when I look back, we just really have so much to celebrate. It has been such a great opportunity to see our schedule and how that's provided um opportunities for more common planning time for a lot of grade levels. Still work to do um and also just consistency for special ed services, high ability services um for our students. So I just think that it's just a lot to celebrate. We've started a win block, a what I need block. We've had data meetings and PLC meetings um which have really tried to foster that collaboration and teachers talking about our
006work, talking about student data and what we want to do next. And so I'm super excited to have that opportunity. Um we also successfully every single week have had guidance lessons. So every single elementary kiddo has had guidance lessons every other week. That always comes with a cost. There's only so many minutes many minutes in our day. But it has just been an honor to work with Samantha Steel and Candace Kalin to make sure that we're helping our kids not just academically, but to just be good humans and to be able to learn, to work together, to persevere, to have grit. When things don't go your way or there's something new put in front of you, how do you embrace that challenge and how do you grow? Um, so it's been just a great opportunity.
007Um, I also really have, it's been a learning curve and just to meet so many people. I'm still working on it. I love the um events that we have so that we can get to know families. The field trips this month have brought so many different people in. Um and it's just been great to kind of see that end of the year wrap up. Um we've got several events coming up. Um we've got um field day and awards day and I just think we have a lot to celebrate as we go out to the end of the year. Um today our sixth grade students had a chance to um meet the seventh grade team and to take a tour. Um, so they're super excited to, you know, pass to the big kids side. Um, and
008in addition, we have kindergarten students that are coming in and we have parents that are new to Lane and for the first time they're calling and I can remember that as a mom, you know, even though my oldest is getting married this weekend. Oh, it's just so bittersweet. I can remember those moments of the first time she went to school and the uncertainty and the questions and and the excitement. And so, we've been building a lot of those phone calls lately as well. There's so many great things that our school has to offer in our community and I'm excited to kind of bring all of that together um for year two and I just want to thank everybody. I know it has not been a perfect year, but it has been a great year in
009so many ways and I hope that we continue to work together to build relationships to celebrate these kids that do great things to celebrate our teachers. Um and I just want to thank everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Last full week of school. I'm excited. Everybody's excited. The kids are excited. Um, as much as they enjoy being at school, I remember Dr. Apple saying at the beginning of when I first got hired on. I started in July. He said, you know, he's like the the best time here is when the kids are in the building because the kids truly are excited to be here. And I was like, yeah, right. And then I was like, "Oh my gosh, they actually do." The kids love being at school. Um, we had uh staff
010appreciation week a couple weeks ago. The PTSO did an amazing job. I mean, there was like food every day. There was gifts. There was all kinds of stuff. I mean, it was unbelievable. Every day there was something like big big ticket item stuff. Last week we had prom also very amazing at the Cay Club. Thanks to the teachers who helped chaperon, Jason Hudson, Megan Hodgej, Audrey Brown, Kyle Brown, Tom Synynics. Um, the after prom was also incredible. We had tons of food, pizza, sandwiches, ice cream, uh, cotton candy maker, um, games, just non-stop stuff. And I think that that is awesome to have um the community step up to give our kids a safe place to go on prom night where they can play games and have fun and win money and prizes. Um that
011was awesome. Should I speak up? No. No. I'm sorry. Oh, it's okay. Um graduation practices are happening this week, which means we're getting close to the end. These kids are doing awesome. It's exciting to see the seniors finishing up. Um, I know that they're graduating from Lanesville and so I know most of these seniors well. I've built relationships over this past year and they are all ready to go out into the world and and be a part of this society. So, I'm I'm thankful for that. Graduation also means that my first year as a principal is wrapping up. I've had a great first year getting to know everyone and I'm excited to get started this summer um with a little bit of quiet in the office so that I can just like settle in and
012get some work done. And then lastly, um, we had a Washington DC band trip. I kind of mentioned this at the last board meeting, but we were just getting back from it. And, um, I just wanted to say again, our kids everywhere we went, people would come up to us, all the chaperones, they would come up and they would say how awesome our kids were, how well behaved our kids were. And, um, just to speak a little bit about that, Heather Perkins um, kind of initiated the trip. Uh the kids all had a great time, but we um I brought in two students, Isaac Crawford and Bobby Clark, to kind of speak on their experience, just a little bit about that trip. Um to let everybody know kind of things that they had learned and
013and hopes for the future of those programs. Um I will yield the rest of my report time over to them. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Isaac Crawford. Uh, I am a sophomore at Lanesville Junior High School and I play the saxophone for the Lanesville High School band. And this past semester, we had an amazing opportunity to be able to go to Washington DC and play for the music festival. and we had the experience to witness in person our great American history. And as we walked through Washington DC, we grew closer together and we've built bonds together that are unbreakable. And a couple of those activities that we got to witness was the Ford's Theater where Abraham Lincoln died and got assassinated. We went to Arlington and um witnessed
014the changing of the guard and we saw the Union Station and all the monuments there. and we took a tour of the Capitol building and the Library of Congress. The main focus though of this trip um yes was the music festival, but like I mentioned earlier was bonding and being with each other throughout the trip. And while during the music festival that we took part in, we had a judge come up to us and he helped us. He helped us with things we had to work on. Um, we also brought back two beautiful trophies. One was for our ability to play. We got third place. But the most important trophy that we got here is the the spirit award. And the reason why that one is the most important is because Lanesville when we got
015there brought the most spirit. And we brought the most charismatic people on earth in one big stage. And it went well. Our band has said to have treated everyone with respect and we all treated everyone with respect. Um, but this next school year, Paige's music, which was originally Conrad's music, has shut down. Uh, not shut down, excuse me. Uh it has been reported that recruitment for schools in the area have been gone down 45%. And there are many factors to this uh but as Lansville we are as excuse me we are a focal point and we want to keep our spirits up. And one way we want to keep uh the man going and not let that 45% affect us is every two years have a trip to learn about America's history and um attend
016more music festivals. Um although we are not able to give the board an exact date um that is announced for 2027 uh future band members and current band members this will affect us positively and this can bring us together and this this has been a wonderful opportunity. It's all you Bobby. How many people were How many people were at the compet or how many bands were at the competition? Uh about Yeah, cuz I don't know that one. Um there was 12 different groups that were performing and there was three bands that were there, but there was a bunch of different groups. Um but they the groups that were there have been going there for about 12 years. They've been used to it. So, we did very well and our scores were very high. We really
017were neck and neck with those. My name is Bobby Clark. I am a senior at this school. I will be graduating this Friday and I've been going here ever since I've been in kindergarten. Um, I can say that ever since sixth grade band, it's it's been different in a better way because when I joined band in sixth grade, that's when I truly felt that I was part of the community. I used to be one of the kids that would walk in, attend class, and leave school thinking not much of it. But I didn't necessarily understand the community and the support through Lanesville until I really joined the band. Few years later, CO happened and it was a terrible thing. And oddly enough, band class was the only class that felt somewhat normal. We would perform
018in the gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays and we would all be six feet apart and not wearing our masks. However, it was that first period of the day that almost made us feel like we were kind of normal. Obviously, things wouldn't change until a few more years later when Miss Perkins first joined the school. Now, trying to readjust back to normal life after COVID was difficult enough and then having such a huge change within the school was the last thing that students really wanted. However, I can say this. The one thing that we did not really expect, but we are more than grateful of happening is towards the end of the year of Miss Perkins's first year here, we saw huge major improvement, not only within ourselves, but within the band. We went from being
019a high school band to being the Lanesville High School band. We've gone up, traveled with the girls team, brought uh didn't bring home two trophies, but they did, but we went up there in support of them. We went to Washington DC and brought home two trophies. And over these past three years with Miss Perkins, I can definitely tell from being in sixth grade all the way up until senior year, the band has only just been growing. And with each trip, it's new memories that are waiting to just be made. And it's it's a beautiful thing. I'm unfortunately at the end of it, but there are kids that are obviously younger than me and that are able to go on more trips than me. And that would be the most great thing because when we went
020to DC, I thought of it just as a Washington DC trip. I hear about different schools doing it all the time. I didn't really realize it was a competition until we got there. But I kind of should have realized knowing it was just the entire band. But with the entire band, we have a relationship that I would say rivals the connection that a sports team would have. We over the past few years have definitely grown closer. I now have friends that I will never lose connections with that I didn't think I'd ever make. I have new memories that I didn't think I'd ever have. Uh the Lanesville band has given me many opportunities for myself as well. I will be attending UL music and I've been accepted into some of the biggest music universities in
021the United States and I can confidently say it is through the support and help of Miss Perkins. She is definitely a role model that the bandmates all look up to. She is someone that you can rely on and she is someone that cares. And I honestly think that someone who just cares, it might be the bare minimum, but I think just caring in itself is already enough. And props to Mr. Miller as well, Principal Miller. He joined us on the band trip. And obviously throughout the year, the entire school has learned about Principal Miller and just a nice downear guy he is. But I think the band really saw more of that. they saw someone that they can also look up to, someone that they can relate to possibly because he was also a band
022kid in high school. He was one of us. But I can say with the continuation of future band trips, I won't be able to attend them. But I really hope that future students and my f my friends will be able to attend them because they definitely are moments that have ch helped us change our lives for the better and grow for the better. Thank you for your time. You know, you guys remember Bobby was the Jimmyi Hendris experience uh at at the ball games. And now Bobby, you're going to go into music education. Yes. Be a teacher, right? Yep. Bless your heart. Good for you. Um that's admirable right there. And I think you'll be fine. I really do. So good for you. And Isaac, thank you too as well. You guys did a great
023job. and he made a promise that he was going to come back and uh play the national anthem some next year. All right. Okay. All right. Next up is superintendent report. Uh yeah, and I'm going to uh continue the theme uh of the night a little bit here of celebrating our kids and our students and everything that that they do. We spend a lot of time in these meetings talking about adults and adult issues and adult problems and it's nice and refreshing to hear from some kids. And I don't know if you can hear behind me or not, but there are a lot of robotics kids. They do a fantastic job. Hopefully in a minute everybody will go out and kind of see what they're doing as well. Uh but it is refreshing to spend
024a little more time on some kids and uh celebrating what the kids do and a little bit less time on the adults. Um first thing I'd like to to mention is this Friday is graduation at 6 o'clock here in the gym. Um just to highlight some things from seven 7 o'lock in the gym. Seven. Seven. Everybody will be on top of um I'm going to share some statistics with our graduating class. Um the first one might sound a little underwhelming, but when we get to the end of it, it'll it'll all make a little more sense. Uh we got 66 kids in this graduating class. Um 11 of those seniors received an academic honors diploma to go with their core 40. three seniors receive technical honors and for academic honors that's 16.6% of our kids.
025The state average is 29 and a half% but you'll see where it makes up for it here in a minute. Technical honors we've got three seniors um which is 4 and a.5% of the graduating class. The state average is 3.3%. what we have a lot more than anybody else around us and and throughout the state are kids that are receiving both the academic and the technical honors. And so when you heard our academic honors, you heard 16.6%. The state average was 29.5%. Because we've got a lot of our kids that get both. We've got about 50% of each graduating class that goes through Proser. very high academic achieving um group of students. We've got 17 students that are receiving both the academic and the technical honors, which is over a quarter of the entire class,
02625.8%. The state average is 5.2%. So, where our academic honors seemed kind of low, that's only because our kids were getting both. And we we blew the state average out of the water. Um, of our 66 graduating seniors, 60 of them have at least three college credits moving forward. We'll have a number of kids, Bobby probably being one of them, that'll walk into college as a as a sophomore or beyond. Um, I'm always amazed every year a kid comes back after their first year and they say, "Well, I graduate next year. I've only got one more year to go." Like, son of a gun. I mean, it took some of us a long time to get through. Um, just a testament to what we do here at Lanesville. We get caught up in all kinds
027of adult things all the time. When you're here and you can walk the halls and you see the kids and there are two of them right there and there's some more sprinkled out here. I see little Miss Hess out there. They're everywhere. When you see that, you know why we're here. And if we can focus on those kids, it truly is amazing. And the things that they can do for a school our size is phenomenal. And again, we'll talk about robotics here in a minute. And Mr. Mr. Kramer will go through all that and they've got it set up for school our size. Phenomenal what we're doing. Um the next thing I'm going to talk about is a little video I'm going to show you as well. We're very very fortunate to work with our
028county government and our um our Harrison County Community Foundation. There is a program a safety program called um it is starting to populate across the country. uh me county is the first one in our area that utilized it. What it is is it gives every employee a badge and has a button and if you click this button three times it alerts every administrator in the corporation and it gives on their phone exactly where they need to go. If you click it eight times and really you're not going to count eight, you're just going to start clicking it. That's if you have a real real emergency that will immediately alert dispatch. It will send messages uh to these screens. It will they will install red flashing lights throughout the the campus uh and it will also
029tap into the PA system and you'll see here in a little bit on on what me county has done and you can visualize it here on our campus. What that does immediately is that puts the entire facility into lockdown. Um it's not just for violence as you'll see with me county and what we've had here a few times and what I've dealt with in my career. You also have sometimes medical emergencies. Uh if a kid has a seizure, if somebody has a heart attack, if you have a kid, and what you'll see in me county, a young man was outside um playing football and they went down. Any of those things and it reaches out to the soccer field, to the baseball field, any of those things will immediately alert dispatch. We don't have to
030worry about bad sales service. We don't have to worry about any of that stuff. Um we are very very fortunate here in Harrison County that all of us not just the three corporations but the two private schools as well St. Joe's and St. John's believe that this is a very very important issue. We're very fortunate to work with the Harrison County Community Foundation who through a grant is paying for the installation, not just the Lanesville, but every school in in the county, including the private schools and the first year of service. County government has also picked up our SRO. So, thank you, Mr. Hong. Uh, but what that allows us to do then is to free up school safety grants so we can continue to fund this at about $19,000 a year. Uh but for
031the immediate safety that it provides, well well worth it. Um and so right now I'm going to show that that video and so you guys can visualize what it looks like at me county. Um and we went over throughout the county administrators went and looked at what was there. They gave us a demonstration. Uh and they gave us some testimonials. Um if you remember about a year ago at this point in time down in Georgia, there was a school shooting. They had just installed this program uh about a week or two prior and they really credited that as well for the immediate response that they got. I can't see. are wary county schools. WTV's Katrina Nichols shows us how the push of a button can trigger a police response in the event of an active
032shooter or any emergency in just seconds. Teachers and staff walking the hallways of We County Schools will now all be wearing these badges. This way, when a situation occurs and help is needed, a teacher can click this button three times and help will be on the way within seconds. That's like placing a silent 911 call. When a situation with a student arose last week county school heard a teacher yell out when someone pushed their buttons, teacher Michelle Miller and other staff used their teach for help. We had very tech. It's like I I've been here 18 years and that just that's not h I mean that's the quickest response I've ever seen. That is an example of the staff alert for something like medical emergency or fight with just three clicks. This nondescript badge can
033tell administrators, school resource officers, nurses who press the button and exactly where they are down to the room number. We county schools is the first in Kentucky to use this kind of technology. empowered over 600 teammates respond to everyday situations and worst case scenarios. If a campuswide lockown is necessary in the event of an active shooter, staff will click eight times. Attention please. Initiating this PA announcement. We are in a lockown situation and in seconds administrators are notified by phone. Police are dispatched. Clear the halls. Teachers monitors will pop up this lockown warning. Get behind unlocked door. Await further instructions and red flashing lights installed all over buildings will go off. This is not a drill. Remain in a safe position until an all clear is given. Before installing the technology, taking those steps would
034have taken seconds, possibly minutes. Now, me county schools can notify an entire campus with just eight clicks. Seconds matter in life-threatening situation. This would cut minutes off of the ability for our campus to go into lockdown. The technology relies on its own network, meaning if the district's Wi-Fi is down or cell service is out, it will still work. Two private companies and an alum are covering the district's contract, therefore not costing the school district a penny. It is peace of mind. It truly is in me county with photojournalist Josh Horton. Katrina Nickel, WDRB News. And so as you guys can see that is uh just another added layer of security for our staff and our students. Uh and we are very very fortunate to uh have the cost of that picked up by the community
035foundation for the installation and the entire first year. Uh that work will start this summer. Um we are being told that countywide and every school and school corporation that work will be finished by the end of the first quarter. Uh so we are very very much looking forward to that. uh here later on I will ask you guys uh to sign into a memorandum of understanding that every other corporation and school uh are signing into as well and then that will get passed on to uh Mike Kers who is the uh EMA director and then on to the foundation. Um, second thing I just want to draw your attention to, you'll see later on on the agenda. Um, there is, uh, I'm asking for the creation of a second RTI coordinator position. Uh, that falls
036in line with what Miss Bethany Miller does now. Uh, what we have seen through the years, um, is an increase in AP testing. Uh, we've joined up with AP TIP. We recognize that we've got, uh, about a quarter of our kids are high ability. Um, we've seen an increase in some uh special populations. We've seen all of our title programs uh become more difficult and complex. Um, we've got uh a new assistant principal coming on board with us and Miss Smith that's currently here working very diligently on PBIS to get that going. Uh, they'll work with them. And so what we recognize is we've got Miss Miller who has been working her tail end off, burning the candle at both ends. uh really doing the job of two by herself. We know that some grant
037writing can be lumped in with that as well. And so this truly would be an addition uh of a of a teacher to cover either the the title programming and some of those things where the high ability uh and AP plus all the other hodgepodge things that go in uh testing coordinator for the corporation that's becoming more and more intense. Um and so we really need that second position so we can do it correctly. And again, we know we've got a large and I've heard from parents um both in a parent group that I currently meet with and we've heard from the past and even here in in schoolboard meetings uh we've got about a quarter of our kids that are identified as high ability in either one or both categories uh that we need
038to provide more services for as well. So these things will help us in that. This is a position that will directly impact students um and the uh academic needs of students uh on on some of our special populations. And so just know that that is the background of that when that comes to you. What that looks like a little bit later on. Uh the next thing I want to draw your attention to is agenda item uh number 16. What that is is we are accepting a donation from an endowment that was created initially back in 2000. Then it lapsed, then it was recreated. Never really utilized uh at least in recent times. It fell into um not trust Indiana. Um Dustin, what's it called? Indiana unclaimed. So we had to petition to the state to
039get the money out of that back into the endowment. it has just been sitting there for years and years and years u untouched. The amount of that is $41,000 and change. What that money then will be earmarked to um it is being donated from the endowment to the corporation. What it will be earmarked for are really two different things. Uh again PBIS initiatives for our students and that's positive behavior intervention strategies. Uh, a lot of the things for our kids that do exceptionally well, which here at Lanesville, that's most of our kids, are kids that make good grades, our kids that show up on time, our kids that are here every day, they do the right thing, they help people, those little things that you want to recognize them with, whether it be a trip,
040a movie, whatever that incentive might be. Big chunk of that money will go to that on both the elementary and the high school side. Uh and then the rest of it will go for teacher supplies to help make sure that they've got what they need in their classrooms or for their programs. Uh and so we know that that that money again that was with Indiana Unlaimed uh it's coming back to endowment and being donated to the school corporation and it will directly impact students in those areas uh and teachers in those areas. And so just kind of background on what that is and where that is coming from. Um, and then the last thing I want to bring to everybody's attention, um, the date is not hammered down yet. As soon as it is, we'll
041put it on the website and email it out to, uh, all the families. Um, either on the 2nd or 3rd of June or the 9th of June, uh, once they get the finalization from Duke Energy hammered out, um, a representative from PSG, I will host them. They will come for a public meeting. Uh that way the public if they've got any additional questions on the solar project we're doing. Uh we know that that taxes are being cut, property taxes, uh significantly. We know that we're losing uh our local income tax in 2028. Uh the economic forecast uh for not just school corporations. We made out better than most. Uh we are the only entity that that really stayed whole. Everything else pretty much got cut. Uh but we know that we're losing on on the
042ADM side. We know we're losing money on property tax side. This will directly impact that. It will allow us to keep more money in education, transfer less over into operations, uh cut our electricity bills, but there are a lot of questions about that. Uh and so on one of those three dates, they've got to hammer that out. As soon as they get it from Duke, they'll let me know. We will push that out. There will be a public meeting hosted by me. It is not a schoolboard meeting. It's a superintendent meeting where they come. Um, but it will give the public a chance to ask any of those questions uh that I am not smart enough to answer. Uh, but you can get it from them directly. But as soon as that is hammered out,
043I talked with them again today. Uh, that will be pushed out through our website and, uh, pushed out through Parent Square to all parents. Um, and so just be on the lookout for that. Any questions? Okay, the next is a PTSO report. Jessica's walking up. [Music] Um, my report is super simple. this month. Uh we wrapped up a wonderful school year with the teacher and staff appreciation week earlier this month. Um I think that they did all feel appreciated. They all enjoyed the week. Um as Mr. Miller said, they got lots of fabulous lunches, lots of fabulous desserts from the high school student council and um some some fun and interesting gifts. We hope. Um this is my last report to you as PTSO president. I would now introduce the new PTOSO president, Lauren Teter.
044Um, she is going to do she's going to be a great leader and I can't wait to see the plans for the PTSO in the upcoming years. Thanks. Thank you, Jessica. [Applause] Okay, next on the agenda is public comments related to agenda items only. public participation policy will be in place. The first up is Susan White. Okay. Okay. Um, let me mark that. Wait, Doug Furbank. Huh? Same. Okay. Stephanie Jacobe. Okay. So, you don't want to speak it now or Okay. Sorry, I didn't see you there. Thought you might be out in the hallway. All right. The next is Jennifer Quick or Jennifer Quick Cook. Okay. And then Brian Cook. Okay. Any other comments related to agenda items? Okay. The next up is uh the robotics club recognition. Sorry, I'm I'm not sure a lot
045of you can hear them out there, but um they're obviously very spirited group. Um when you think of Indiana, you think of basketball, corn, and soybeans. But what if I told you that on March 22nd, there were 1900 students from 320 plus teams gathered at the Indiana State Fairgrounds for the 2025 Indiana Robotics State Championship. um that is presented by Techpoint Foundation for Youth, which is important to us right now because the things they're using out there um were part of a grant that we received when I came last year and then the board that they're using out there was thanks to the PTSO last year. Um so that's a big part of that. Um that event draws nearly 10,000 spectators for an action-packed day of competition, creativity, and teamwork and resulted in 55 teams
046heading to Dallas, Texas for the World Championships. as the nation's largest robotics state championship. It highlights the incredible talent and problem solving skills of Indiana's young innovators. Um so I want to take an opportunity real quick to thank some people and then I'll bring them in for just a minute and recognize the children, the students that you hear out there. Um Mrs. Mlan was huge for me this year. She stepped up and joined me um in particular with the fourth graders and that's the group that you hear out there. Um, so her commitment to that group was huge for me. Um, Mr. Bridges, who I wrangled one day, walk in the hallway and said, "Come in and check them out." So, thank you for being willing to come and hear them and see them. Um,
047Mr. Dustin, I don't get your last name wrong. Crawhorn. Um, for all his help. He's he's answered all my emails about grants and helping get a fund set up for me and said, "What's your goal?" And he accepts my pie in the sky dreams of what my goal is. U, Mr. Schickle and Dr. RA for getting working with Dustin to get us a fund up and going and Mrs. Bethany Miller for her her dedication and all her hard work because she's also helping me a lot with some grants. And then finally, Mrs. Smith for stopping in and being supportive. Dr. Holder for always listening again to my grand ideas and and helping me figure out ways to fundra and Mr. Miller because he listens to Mrs. Mlan's crazy plans and gets me in there with
048them. Um this year we had 15 fourth graders, 12th 12 fifth and sixth graders. Um five of those fifth and sixth graders were new to us this year. The other seven were with me last year. Um we had a total of 26 students participate. Um we had one seventh grader who came back this year because he had so much fun last year and helped me out. His sister was in there with us, but Dean Engelman came back and helped me out. Um we met for about nine weeks. Obviously, with January being what January was, we missed some meetings and our club culminated with a competition where our students were able to showcase what they learned in front of their parents, peers, and their teachers. Um the theme this year was ocean science exploration. It consisted
049of five labs. They did sensor delivery, data discovery, volcano deposit, mission relocation, and ocean science exploration competition. It's a the program's VEX GO. And it allows students to engage in authentic collaborative problem solving. They use these skills and they're implemented in a series of stages in which new and progressively more difficult challenges are introduced, giving students time to build their skills as they move through the stages of competition. Throughout the program, students work cooperatively to build the competition robot, create shared strategy for the competition, and practice their teamwork skills. They practice communication skills, learn to deal with adversity, which you will see a lot because three of the four are popping apart, and they're used to that, and they they deal with it. Um, and they understand that things didn't always go as planned, but
050you talk about a positive group that just didn't let anything get them down. Um, they were amazing. They're given a base robot design and then instructs and then they modify those as they experience struggles and obstacles. Um, so kind of where we want to go, we've applied for two separate grants in hopes of expanding our robotics club in the future. Um, we applied for a SAM Tech Cares grant to hope to get some things into the classroom that Mrs. MLAN can use in the junior high and high school with her computer science courses. And we've also applied through the Indiana Robotics Competition Grant for a competition program that would get us allow us to meet our goal of three competitive teams next year. Two of which would be an elementary team and one would be
051a middle school team. And that team hopefully would be able to travel around and compete against other schools with a more sophisticated robot than what you'll see out here. And all of that to say our goal is to be in Indianapolis next year competing with the other teams across the state. So, um, but I had Violet Bear, uh, my fourth graders were Violet Bear, Jude Carroll, Eastston Cardi, Ryland Dodson, Will Garlock, Harper Hess, Hannah Hodgej, Matilda Hayne, Russell Lynn, Billy Paisley, Viguel Mayo, I never get his name right, Isaac Paskki, Jim Schneider, Effie Stumbler, and James Wills. And then my fifth and sixth graders were Eden Baird, Colton Blevens, Ashton Cox, Melvin Angie Engelman, Harrison Graph, Quinn Holddridge, Sean Hero Ramirez, Lily Jacobe, Sophia Price, Abby Sherman, and Matthew Sim Simco. And then of course,
052um, Dean was with us as well. So, um, if the board will allow, they're set up and would love to show you. And you all are welcome to step out there for a minute, I hope so, and see what they've done. And I'll I promised them they wouldn't have to talk in here, but they may talk to you out there and let you know what they did. He's been [Music] Yes. [Music] I'm getting [Music] Yes. Wednesday Thursday. Yes. stunning. liability enrichment contracts along with some thunder. Thunder. Can I could I get a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve the high ability enrichment contracts. And I'll second it. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. The next item is number 11, the
053approve this new summer school contracts. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion we approve new summer school contracts. I'll second. Any discussion? Yeah. How many we How many are we putting out new contracts for summer? Uh I mean I can count them approximately. Uh looks like six. It's like six. Six. Okay. Thank you. Did I get a second on that? Sorry. Yeah, you did. Okay. Um any any other discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Number 12 is comp complete the conflict of interest form for Lynn Powers regarding James Powers. Could I have a motion and second to approve? And before before you do that, just for knowledge, um and this is something I do as well and a lot of
054people throughout the state do. Um both Miss Powers and Miss Smith uh have spouses that coach in the corporation uh or substitute teach from time to time. And so anytime that you have anything like that, um no matter what the position is, whether it's a bus driver, substitute teacher, a coach, uh you fill one of these out. Um they their spouses were coaching a corporation before they were board members. Uh but you still still need to do it. I just put them together. I make a motion that we complete the conflict of interest form for Lynn Powers regarding James Powers. Long as Lynn fills it out. Okay. A second. I'll second it. Okay. All uh any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Number 13. Complete the
055conflict of in interest form for Terara Smith regarding Robert Smith and Donna Velker. Could I have a motion and a second to approve? I'll make the motion to approve that. I'll second. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Okay. Number 14 is next. approve the purchase of curricular materials for grades K through 8 LEA in the amount of 134,558.33. Could I have a motion second to approve? I'll make the motion we approve the purchase of curricular materials for English language arts and grades K through eight. And I'll second. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Number 15, approve the purchase of a Comi electric oven for $26,15. And what this before before you guys
056move further, what this is is this is the oven back in the cafeteria. Uh this thing feeds 750 kids a day, every day for years and years and years. Um, Miss Sandy and her crew worked their tail end off and they are trying to limp through the year um with a piece of equipment that is really really struggling. There's really no fixing. We tried to put band-aids on it for a while. Uh, it just completely needs replaced and so that's what that is. I talked to her today. She said that thing shot. So, and she's like she's like Dr. Apple said, she's piecing it together to get through. So, okay. I have a motion and a second to approve. I'll make a motion we approve the com the combi electric oven for $26,15. I'll second.
057Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Number 16, approval of the donation of $41,372.71 from the Lanesville Community School Corporation Endowment. Going to have a motion and second to approve. I'll make the motion to approve that donation of 41,000 from the endowment fund. I'll second. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Approve the disposal of the following items. Four nursing clinic beds in the high school. Five sets of crutches. One wooden desk. Eight broken lockers in the elementary, fifth, and sixth grade classrooms. Two metal carts. Three metal cabinets. One fing cabinet. One broken teacher chair. Falcon steamer from cafeteria. 10 student chairs. Six students chairs. Four floor jacks, one cherry picker, and one metal dolly. Could I
058have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve the disposal. I'll second it. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Okay. The next item is approve approve the disposal of the following items from the technology department. They are listed. Thank you. I'm not going to read each of them. There's about 12. Um, everybody can see them. Did I have a motion and a second to approve? I'll make a motion we approve the disposal of those items listed here from the tech department. I'll second. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Now we will have the second reading of the following policies proposed LCSC policies which is the 7000s, the 8000s, and
059the 9000s. The 7,000s are property. The 8,000s are operations. The 9,000s are relations. Are we going to do all those at one time? Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's that that was just a reading. Uh item 20 is approve the above listed proposed LCSC policies which are the 7000s, the 8,000s, and 9,000s. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second it. Any [Music] discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Approve the resignation of Donna Butler as study hall monitor effective 531 2025. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second it. Any discussion? Donna has done a great job over the years. Just wanted to say that to her. She's been uh
060she's done a great job in that position and uh I know she's going to be a sub which is good too. So that'll be good too. So as soon as we approve it. Okay. Okay. Uh any other discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. approve the hiring of Donna Butler as substitute teacher starting for the 2025 2026 school year. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make the motion to hire Donna Butler as a substitute teacher for the next school year 2526. I'll second that. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. approve the resignation of Bethan Pippen at the end of the school year. And uh that is a science position. She teaches science
061at the junior senior high school. Any dis can I get a motion and a second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve the resignation of Beth and Pippen. I'll second it. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Approve to hire Lauren Bashman and Elizabeth Morrison as full-time custodians. Good. I have a motion and second to approve. I'll make a motion we hire those two people as new full-time custodians. I'll second. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. of TR I'm sorry number 25 approve the transition of K through 12 assistant principal position to the K6 K through six app assistant principal could I have a motion and second to approve I'll
062make a motion to approve the transition of the K through 12 assistant principal position to a K through six assistant principal I'll second and Miss Smith will be staying in that position Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Approve Audrey Brown as the 7th through 12 assistant principal. I'll make a motion. We we approve Audrey Brown as 712 assistant principal. Can I get a second? I'll second that. Okay. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. [Applause] Um, Miss Brown, the podium is yours. Oh, no. She's going to say something. Oh, you got And uh she's going to say despite despite the board, right? While she's on her way up there, I just
063do want to say that for me, this is bittersweet. I have seen the leadership qualities that she has possesses over my five years here. But at the same time, you hear me every usually August, sometimes July, tout our junior high math scores compared to everybody else. Every time Miss Brown is the reason for that along with our students. Uh and so whoever steps in there is going to have giant shoes to fill. So for me it's very bittersweet because I know we are we are losing excellent classroom teacher. Absolutely excellent. But she's stepping in at a position where she can help every student and every teacher in that 7 through 12 building. Uh and so her leadership and her wisdom will then be able to be disseminated uh in a in a greater capacity. So
064Miss Brown, thank you. That was nice. Thank you. Um, thank you Dr. Apple, Principal Miller, and members of the school board for giving me the opportunity um for this position. Um, after spending the last decade within these walls, um, I can truly say that I understand what makes Lanesville Lanesville. Um, I hope to work hard every day to keep that spirit just like the band kids were talking about. Um, my family bleeds purple and loves the community. We're we're privileged to have made this our home. I look forward to working with the elementary admin um as well as our awesome high school principal to make the school the absolute best. So, go Eagles. Thank you guys. [Applause] Uh M Principal Miller, did you write that last part in? I thought maybe you might have put
065that in there. [Laughter] Okay. Welcome aboard. Number 27, approve Elena Davidson as new elementary teacher. Good. I have a motion and second to approve. I'll make the motion to approve Elena Davidson as the new elementary teacher. I'll second. But I do have a question. Let's go discussion. Yeah. question. What uh what grade? She comes to us with some experience and she also has a middle school so in math and so this primarily will be the math and science position for all of our sixth graders. Okay, good. So she's going to take that. Okay, you guys switch, you know. Yeah, I got it. Got you. Good. Good for you. All right, good. Any other discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Approve the hiring of Rebecca Parr as
066new elementary special ed teacher. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion we approve Rebecca Par as a new elementary special ed teacher. I'll second. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Approve number 29. approve Heather Baker as the new junior senior high school study hall monitor. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion that we approve Heather Baker as the new junior senior high school study hall monitor. Can I get a second? I'll second it. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Number 30, permission to hire a second response to intervention coordinator. Could I Dr. Apple already spoke on this? Um, do you want to speak
067anything else? No, sir. Excellent. Uh, could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion uh to create a position for a second response RTI coordinator. Can I get a second? I'll second it. Any discussion? I I'm hopeful that this creates an opportunity for some of the um high ability kids uh more of an opportunity here at Lanesville for those uh kids to get a little extra attention. I think that's one area that we could work to grow here at Lanesville. So, I'm excited about that. And I think uh working with Bethany Miller is going to be a big asset right there. I mean, they're going to learn a lot from her. She is one of our best teachers in this building. So, I'm looking forward to to her and that person
068and and I know we talked about that a little bit. Uh, yes. Good. That's all I got. Any other discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Approve the memorandum of understanding of strategic safety system. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve. I second it. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Mr. Lind, I have that right here. And uh board members, you're right. Mr. Lind, you're the only one that needs to sign it. Okay. Okay. Number We're on the last page. Number 32. approve of changing Ethan Shikl from the junior high girls tennis coach to girls tennis volunteer coach and Felicia Shepard from a girls tennis volunteer coach to the
069junior high girls girls tennis coach could I have a motion and second to approve I'll make a motion to approve I'll second it any discussion not all those in favor say I I oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Approve high school boys super hoops team camp at Indiana Wesley University June 27th through the 29th. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion we approve the high school boys super hoop team camp for the 27th 29th at Indian Westland. That's a good camp. Been there, done that. Well, we went to Green Castle when I was around. several thousand years ago. But uh was that when it was first settled? This was first settled. Everybody's a comedian. You know there's Okay, never mind. I could go there. I'll second the motion. How's that?
070Sorry. Any other discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Same sign. Motion passes. Approve the seventh and eighth boys basketball team to attend camp at handover on June 18th through the 19th. Did I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve. Is that faith for boys to attend camp at handover? I'll second that. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Number 35, approve the following fundraisers. One, two, three, four, five, six of them. They're listed here. Could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion to approve the fundraisers listed as item 35 on the agenda. I'll second. Any discussion? [Music] There's no reason to have a dirty car this summer. No, I'd say
071not. Plenty of Yeah, plenty of opportunities there, right? Yep. Car wash. Yeah. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Okay. Number 36, additional public comments. The first is Susan White. My name is Susan White. I have always lived in Lansville. Um, the four of you that know me know that there is no way I would be up here speaking except my heart tells me I have to say it to you. I am a teacher. I taught for 38 years. I've been retired for 11 years. 37 of my teaching years were in Lanesville kindergarten. It was my home away from home. Lanesville Elementary was my school family. The tone of a school year is set by the principal. This year, the tone in the elementary was negativity, disrespectful attitude
072and comments, put downs, bullying tactics, and lots and lots of stress. Some teachers, assistants, and staff have already left. Others are considering leaving at the end of the school year. Parents are also looking at other schools for their children. A change is needed in the elementary. Your decisions for the next school year will affect so many people. Please do what is best for our elementary. Lanesville Elementary should be a place people want to come to, not get away from. Thank you. The next person to speak is Doug Burbank. Burbrink. [Music] At the last meeting, uh, Susan White made a comment about hiring more teachers because the classroom crowding and maybe that would u lighten the load on some disciplinary action and so on so forth. with the school building now going to not have a
073referendum till 26, meaning that the building project, it's likely be 2829 before a finished facility. As Dr. Apple has alluded to, we're getting more and more construction, more and more homes. You know, what's the population going to do? What's the squeeze going to be on the school? Uh why not look into leasing the St. Mary school and lighten the load here which would give more smaller classrooms and we could hire more teachers and do a better job of facilitating that need that's prevalent. Um because I know the board was pushing pretty hard for a new building and I'm for building just don't know what building we're going to build yet and so on so forth. So I just want to take that as a suggestion. Uh in regards to policy that you just passed 7410
074uh which is maintenance. The school board recognizes that the fixed assets of this corporation represents a significant investment of this community and their maintenance of prime concern to the board. Board directs and conduct of continuous program inspection, maintenance, rehabilitation for the preservation of all school buildings and equipment wherever possible and feasible maintenance shall be preventative. Superintendent shall develop for implementation a custodial and staff maintenance staff and maintenance program which should include a regular summer program of facilities repairing and conditioning, the maintenance of critical spare parts inventory, an inventory replacement program, long range program of building modernization, repair and replacement equipment facilities for energy conservation and so on so forth. My question is is is that plan already in place because I can't find there's just very few it hasn't been updated for a long long
075time and it seems like this building is getting more and more in disarray and we got to take care of this before we think about building something new and uh Ber so you know we have started that process um of that we've got a company that is starting to work I'll be through this summer doing the feasibility study on this facility and doing program maintenance for us and with us so we know what needs replaced what the expected bike span is on various things. So that is exactly what we are starting down that path. Well, I hope so because at uh 7455 also at the bottom of the page uh the superential develop administrative guidelines to ensure proper purchase, transfer and disposable capital assets. And then there's a listing of what should be listed of
076every piece of equipment in this building, the life expectancy, when we going to replace it, what are we going to replace it with, and so on so forth. And I know this is a big building to inventory. This is a big building inventory, but as a taxpayer, I'm very very concerned about hearing that classrooms leak. You know, the HVAC system, the boiler system, everything in this building is getting quite old and and dis uh disrepair. Um, in fact, if you look at 8405, uh draw your attention to indoor air quality. And I understand there's some mold in some classrooms that needs to be um taken care of and so on so forth. I mean, we're sending our kids here hopefully years ago when Mr. Morris was here, they did in selected rooms that were targeted
077from feedback from teachers. They did air quality testing. Everything passed at that time. We're in the process of doing it again. Yeah. We talked about the boilers. One got completely redone and the other one still process and processing. We put thousands of dollars in the chiller. So those are the things in accordance with these that that we are doing. I guess my concern is we spend 1.5 million on solar panels. We're bit get new bleachers. $400,000. You know, we're spending a couple hundred dollar a couple million dollars. And I think the needs to be on HVAC, air quality for our students, you know, nice facility, you know, that that they it's a learning environment, you know, that we don't have these things that um come about. So those are my comments. Okay. Next is Jennifer
078Quick Cook. [Music] Good evening, members of the board. First, I want to thank you for your service and time and dedication to our schools. I know your roles are demanding and that you care deeply about our students and our community. I'm here tonight as a parent who's been in this community over 30 years, have one kid graduate, next one's a senior next year, super proud of her. um who shares the commitment wants to see our schools continue to thrive. I believe communication is key to building trust and creating a positive school environment. That's why I reached out to each and every member of you guys on the board and I heard from one board member and I I wanted to start this by saying that unfortunately I've received only one response from a board member
079and this is not meant as a criticism but as a reflection of how important it is that communication starts at the top. When a parent and community members take the time to reach out, we hope for more than just an email reply or a request for more details. I'm really was hoping for a real conversation. Relying on email, especially when we're talking about sensitive or complex concerns. It's really not a best practice and it doesn't help us build the trust that we need. The issues I've raised, whether about scheduling, recordkeeping, staff moves, how concerns are handled, are not about drama or rumors. They are real topics that affect morale, trust, and ultimately the success of our students and staff. When concerns are met, when I felt like I was met with some defensiveness or dismissal
080that it was hearsay, it discourages honest dialogue and makes it harder for people like me to speak up in the future. and it doesn't really demonstrate what our students need. I am not here to assign blame, but I ask for a renewed commitment to open, respectful, and transparent communication. I hope the board and the administration will consider offering opportunities for in-person meetings or conversation when concerns are arised rather than relying solely on an email. I know I've worked with lots of parents, not everybody has access to email. You know how difficult it is just to find a number and email to reach you guys. That's important to just not me, but parents that don't have that access. As leaders, you set the tone for how our school community communicates and works together. I just want
081to end with let's work together to ensure everyone, students, staff, and families feels heard, respected, and valued. Thanks again for your service, and I appreciate your time. Thank you, Jennifer. I agree with you on just personal communication. I do. I'm not a great on email and texting and all that stuff either. I'm I'm a I'm a talk to you, you know. So, whenever we have that opportunity, definitely I'm I'm for that. I'm not disagreeing with you. I would appreciate that because 90% of my concerns is communication. I I No, I get it. I understand. Totally. Y Thank you. Next is Brian Cook. He just accidentally signed up. Okay. Any other uh what public comments I guess not relating to school board? Yeah, additional public comments. It actually attains to an agenda item. On uh is
082there just from my recognition, but I know Donna Butler retired, but then we reapproved her as a substitute teacher. She didn't retire. She just didn't want to be study hall monitor. Well, okay. My question full time. She what? She didn't want to be full-time. Okay. So, we had to approve hiring her as a substitute teacher. It's something that we're going to start doing. as we were looking at our processes in the past, um, anybody that subs for us really needs to be approved by the board besides just the background check. So, we have the record of it. Okay. That was my question because I mean there's Yeah. 20 substitute teachers going through here. None of them none of them's ever been approved as a substitute. I know. And so, as we were looking at that
083and Miss Simma raised that question, she was 100% correct. These are people that were paying. They need to be approved by the board. And it's something that So, are they going to be approved by the board? We're going to take before they work. We're going to take the the list and prove them all. Okay. All right. That's it. We say pass the background. Yeah. No, I just I was just proven in one there's 20 or 30. Well, she asked that question. It was son of a gun. It's something we should have been doing for decades probably. Thank you. All right. Additional public comments. Chip. Be nice to know. I didn't hear anything being announced about baseball sectional. We're hosting the baseball sectional this year 28th, 29th, 31st, and the second. So that meeting with the
084uh forward solar panel people, you might want to be in the championship game. Hope we are. Yeah. The second thing I've got, have we hired uh high school basketball coach girls? Not yet. Not yet. Well, school's about out and then they got these Yeah. You know somebody we I know some people we we've been through that, huh? They've been they've been interviewing people. It's just not very good right there. It's getting late. We don't want to go backwards. We're up here at the top. We want to stay up there. And Doug, just to reiterate, we are looking we looked at St. We're looking at St. Mary's. Definitely. It's it's set up. We got to work. We haven't talked about anything about working on any kind of lease agreement like that, but that is something definitely
085it's right there. I mean, oh, I I we're 100% with you on that. I mean, that that's that's a no-brainer. The biggest thing is probably an elevator, so we don't I mean, well, we don't but but that that school has a has basically a ramp to go get to the bottom and and the back. So, you know, we'd have to toy with that idea, but that's a space and it's got a full cafeteria. Full cafeteria. No, I'm not. I'm right there with you. Well, that was what that's something we talked about some time ago. So, no, that's that's a great space. And I think Susan's worked that space. She's been in that building. You Susan. Okay. You've been in that elementary building. I'm sorry. We're gonna I'm sorry. I'll get with you a second. No
086other public comments. We'll have interment. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion passes.