001Just going to stay seated. >> [laughter] >> Before we begin, if we would take a moment of silence and observation in memory of Risky who has recently passed and spent uh 24 remarkable years with our school system. So, if you would join me in a moment of silence. Thank you. We will carry Pam's memory with us as we continue on with the meeting to save. I hope you will join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the republic for which it stands, for all. Okay. I'd like to welcome everyone in attendance tonight joining us for this April 6th as it seems possible meeting of the board of school trustees. We will give recognition to uh delegations who may wish to speak. Speak. Persons wishing
002to be recognized to speak on any agenda item or to be heard as part of the section of the agenda dealing with delegations or citizens comments or to identify themselves by name and the point on the agenda where they wish to be recognized. Right on cue. >> [laughter] >> That was That was uh I don't think we could rehearse that any better. >> [laughter] >> Okay. All right. We will now move into recommended action. Yes, we will. Yes, we will. Yes. We will take uh both A and B together. 6 and March 26th, 20 Is there a motion to authorize payment of payroll checks 4008195 through 408570, voucher checks 147529 through 147626, and electronic transfers ET003404 through ET003415 as recommended. Voided payroll and voucher checks not listed in the voucher listings in the above sequence
003are not approved for payment by this action. So moved. Second. It's made by Mr. Williams, seconded by Mr. Butler. Comments, questions, or concerns? Seeing none, we'll move to the vote. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed same sign. Motion and the motion carries. Next business uh up is uh under unfinished business uh is school calendars. Is there a motion to adopt the 2026-27 school year calendar tentatively adopted and tentatively adopt the 2027-28 school year calendar and tentatively adopt the proposed 2028-29 school year calendar as recommended. So moved. Second. It's made by Mr. Sessi, seconded by Mr. Isaac. Comments, questions, or concerns? Seeing none, we'll move to the vote. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed same sign and the motion carries. Now, we'll move into new business with personnel issues.
004Is there a motion to accept the resignations effective immediately unless otherwise indicated on the list above as read by Dr. Second. It's made by Mr. Isaac, seconded by Miss Butler. Any comments, questions, or concerns? Seeing none, we'll move to the vote. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed same sign and the motion carries. Now, we have some employment recommendations. Is there a motion to confirm the employment from those listed above as by Dr. Moved. Second. It's made by Mr. Williams, seconded by Mr. Sessi. Any comments, questions, or concerns? Seeing none, we'll move to the vote. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed same sign. Motion carries. And we have a retirement. Is there a motion to accept the tentative the intent to retire of Scott Lamar. So moved. Second. It's
005made by Mr. Isaac, seconded by Miss Butler. Comments, questions, or concerns? Seeing none, we'll move to the vote. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed same sign and the motion carries. We have a request uh two requests for unpaid leave of absence. All right, is there a motion uh to approve the unpaid leave of absence request from those listed above as read by Dr. Ster. So moved. Second. It's made by Mr. Sessi, seconded by Mr. Williams. Any comments, questions, or concerns? Seeing none, we'll move to the vote. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed same sign and the motion carries. And we have some meetings and workshops. Is there a motion to adopt the resolution permitting personnel listed to attend educational meetings? So moved. Butler, seconded by Mr. Isaac. Any comments,
006questions, or concerns? Seeing none, we'll move to the vote. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed same sign. Motion carries. We need to approve Sunday use of activities. Is there a motion to grant permission to to the FFA to have their annual banquet on Sunday, May 17th, 2026 and for wrestling to travel and train in Colorado Springs, Colorado on June 20th through the 28th 2026 as requested. Did we leave one of those out? Nope. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's the motion. We have a motion. So moved. Second. It's made by Mr. Williams, seconded by Miss Sessi. Any comments, questions, or concerns? Seeing none, we'll move to the vote. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed same sign and the motion carries. And we have some cafeteria supply bids. It's that time
007of year where uh requesting permission to advertise for the cafeteria supply bids for the 2026 school year and hopefully political climate and supply chains are all good and ready by by that time. All right. Anything else? A motion to grant permission to advertise for cafeteria supply bids for the 2026-2027 school year on April 15th and April 22nd, 2026 as recommended. I move. I got Mr. Isaac seconded by Mr. Buckner. Comments, questions, or concerns? Thank Those all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Those same sign. And the motion carries. We looking at child care program for 2026. Yep. So, uh this is last time we took this was 3 years ago. We take this as a a 1-year uh contract, but basically uh to extend up to 3 years when whenever we uh put it
008out for advertisement. So, uh we're requesting uh permission to advertise on April 15th and 22nd, 2026 for our after-school child care program. All right. Is there a motion to grant permission to advertise on April 15th and April 22nd, a proposal for a child care program for the 2026-2027 school year. I moved. Seconded. Go ahead. Thank you. Go ahead and take it. Okay. I think we both did at the same time. Mr. Isaac. Seconded by Mr. Isaac with a flair. And uh All right. Here we have a motion and a second. And we'll move to the vote. All in favor signify by saying aye. Those same sign. And the motion carries. And now we're at that point where uh we're information and proposals and from anyone in the crowd? We'll start with the the news. I
009don't think it's different. It's pretty similar that we've had in the past. Um I was wanting to know the first day and the last day. We had to make some adjustments, I think, to the 2028-2029 calendar because we started so early. So, we went back a we went we pushed it back a just a couple of days to get us into that next week. And then we made some compensations around Christmas break for that. So, yeah, the third one. Yeah. Is that the first teacher day? Yeah. Yep. Nope. Probably the sole recognition of an Independence Day. Yeah, for our for our staff in the that work through the summer. Her and son is graduating and he will be swimming at Wabash. Um I cannot say that that is the reason, but it would make sense
010to me that she would want to be able to attend his events. So, um that's kind of where we're at. I think we're at that time where we're going to probably bring in new people to work with swimming. We I do think we'll have a returning uh not all of not all of the coaches have resigned. We still have one on staff. Mhm. We still have one hanging on. Mhm. So, it's not. Mhm. No. She is. She teach as as of right now, she is. She hasn't said she isn't. But we're banking on her. That's correct. Yes. No, we'll post it tomorrow. No. Yes. And the junior high assistant principal is now open. Yes. Well, she'll be at Hedges. Jackie's office is at Hedges. Uh the IASB one would be the operations fund. And then
011uh I don't know if this is to pay for the college. Yeah. I'm not sure the other one has to be attending the cap workshop. That's so that we continue to offer dual credit programs. He teaches history. And we we did on one of the um IASB ones, we did to get a scholarship we did get a scholarship from the organization to pay for one of those registrations as well. I hear it. There may be. >> [laughter] >> I think there's another from what I've heard, I can't I haven't talked to the coaches directly, but from just what I've heard is that um there's another school in Indiana that that has done this as well. And so, our coaches uh they've got the idea and opportunity from them to kind of have have a chance
012to go as well. But yeah, the the booster club will will help uh pay for the expenses, but there probably will be some for the the student the parents as well. Uh the last couple times we have only had one one response, but we always send them out and uh you know, to multiple different people, but yeah, we've we've not gotten a a ton of response the last last couple of times we sent it out. You're stealing my thunder. Um We're going I'm We're going uh Bo and I will be at a conference on the the day that we normally have our meeting and there's also a I ISBA meeting for school board to attend what do we call that? A regional meeting or Regional meeting, yeah. I don't know. They They didn't They didn't
013tell us that. I know they're selling tickets the 7th through the 17th, so Do you know the theme, Cathy? >> [laughter] >> We'll make sure he knows about it cuz he missed the winter formal. I'm pretty sure we had our schedule first. >> [laughter] >> Make sure it's to include that. >> [laughter] >> It's at USI. Mhm. Yeah, Getty Town. Mhm. It's kind of in a waiting period right now and once we have an update, we'll we'll bring it. You might want to know when I get to this next part that Mars is being recognized by the state for their IREAD performance. So, they will they have been invited Katie and I think she can take a couple teachers with her to Indianapolis to be recognized for their performance on IREAD. >> [clears throat] >>
014That's exciting. That's the second year in a row they've been recognized. Yep. Thank you. Mhm. Anyone else? All right. Non-staff communications and reports. So, we've included our menus for April and then like I just mentioned, we're super happy for Mars school. I think we'll also have very exciting news report for the other schools. But, until we have those percentages officially released, we won't say what that is, but we still have an opportunity for students to test at the end of this school year. And then again in June. And I think we're going to be pleasantly surprised and going to be excited. We may not be so surprised because we can kind of see what's coming, but our teachers and students did really well this year on IREAD. So, they're doing the right things. Great. Yep.
015>> [clears throat] >> Superintendent staff. So, that's really all I have to report for that right now, I think. Is there anything else you want to do include? Just the menus. Are included. >> Just the menus, yeah. Any concerns that the board has shared? Mhm. Nothing? All Okay, what? Let's take us on out from future business. So, we have as we were just discussing our upcoming meeting dates. The next meeting is on a Thursday. April 23rd. Um at 5:30. Then we have the following meeting on May 4th. Um at 5:30 and then May 18th. Very close to graduation, we'll have that second May meeting. Um we also will have our National Honor Society induction in the pack on April 23rd at 11:00 a.m. And then as uh Lois mentioned, our prom is on April 25th.
016Um from 8:00 to 11:00. And that's all we really have for this meeting. Okay. We have an executive session. Okay. Anything else from the board? Nothing? No. Adjourn 8:00 anymore. All right. Yeah.