001Welcome everyone. We'll call our meeting to order. Mr. Dennis. Hey guys, I'm excited. Did you know we've been doing the J Booker homes now for 38 years? Some of you up here probably come up here. Yeah. Because of the mic. We have a worldwide audience this evening, right? That's worldwide. Yeah, we do. Hey, but we are in our 38th year of James Booker Rally poems. It's an honor tradition. I've been a part of 20 of them now, so I always find it fascinating. I probably know the um poems by heart most times too. Um with the exception maybe a little orphaning. I always mess that one up. But I'm excited. We had all of our students worked so hard. Um not only in years past, but this year was no exception. We had many people
002that work with these kids, not only the the staff members, but we had other kids that worked with them. We had obviously parents that worked with them. And I know they put a lot of time and effort just to memorize and then put motions and expression um to each poem. And while all the kids did outstanding, we had our finalists and these are our four winners. So, uh when I call your name, why don't you stand up for a round of applause? So, our winner for Little Orphan Annie was Miss Ryland Mash. Come on. The old Hey, Mount Mr. Denver Mackey. Come on [Applause] up. Granny, Miss Lesie Simons. And last but not least, the ragging man, Mr. Gideon Crazy. Now, They are would love to recite their poem one more time. Is that okay
003with you guys? All right. First up then we have Miss Ryan Mash. Ryan Mash, come on up here, young lady. Now, she's not going to stand behind the pony because that's perfect. You're perfect. I'm making this red and I'll be reciting little Annie by James Little to wash the cup and saus and chew the chickens off the floor and dust the heart and sweep and make the fire and make the bread and all other children when the things is done. We set around kitchen fire and we had the [Music] God if you don't wash out once a little boy who wouldn't say his prayers and when he went to bed at night away [Music] upstairs but when they turned the cameras He wasn't there at all. And they cy and press. They staked him up
004the chimney and everywhere. Yes. But all they ever found was just pants and the goblins will get you. Watch out. And once a little girl always laugh and make fun of everyone in all her blood. But wasn't the one that was coming for me? She mocked him and she said she didn't care. As she picked her heels and turn to run and hide, there was two great big black things by her side. And they snatched her through the ceiling for she know what she's about. God's will if you don't watch. And little orphan Annie says, "When the blaze is blue and the lamps and the wind When you hear and light your bugs in you is all squenched away. You better mind your parent and your teacher find dear and that loves you. Try the
005orphans tear and help the poor and needy ones at all. The goblins get you don't [Applause] That was good. Very good. All right, you're up, buddy. [Applause] [Music] They all play around so sweet. I almost forget to get to the short cake and baseball. [Music] But after a while, [Applause] Hi, my name is Lexi Simon. I'll be reciting Granny by James. Granny's come to our house. All the [Music] children are all [Music] passales ever [Music] Golden clap handles another one like we run to our house That's for all. [Applause] Hi, my name is Ker and I will be reciting by James man. He He works. He's the greatest man ever. You saw. He comes to our house every day. He opens up. We go outside. He drives out a little milk. Good man. Rag man.
006And he is so good. He split skin and chops wood. And any space to cover just those things that boys can't do. He clan up a big tree and shook an apple down for me. Other two and [Music] other one. It's okay. You've only said that a thousand times. One time he was making a little bow for me. He says, "When you're big, are you going to be a like this and be a rich man where clothes here be and then he walked in and I says to be ragman I'm going to be Spider-Man. [Music] [Applause] Thank you guys for letting me come here tonight. Thank you for coming. Uh parents and students, if you want to stay, you're more than welcome. But I also know a lot of times people get up and leave
007at this part, but you want to stay, you're fine to stay. Good job. Good job. Great job. All right. Next is the public comment portion of our meeting. I did not receive any requests for public comment uh this evening. So um if you want to speak uh to the board or address the board, we do ask that you fill out a form that we have in the back. If anybody uh was unaware of that and wants to do that, please raise your hand and I'll stall for a few minutes so you have time to fill out a form and get it up to us. So seeing no one, we'll move on in the public comment section. First item on the agenda is approval of minutes consideration claims and payroll March 4th uh 2025 regular session
008board receives claim docket payroll claims and minutes in advance of the meeting fund and bank reports are also supplied board review uh and asked to contact me if you had any questions. I move we approve the minutes claims and payrolls as presented. Second property moved and seconded to approve the minutes claims and payrolls as presented. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose, same sign. That motion carries. Consideration of personnel items. Uh, first one is resignations. Evan North submitted his resignation as a teacher effectively the end of the 2025 that's that's wrong. 202425 school year. this year. Uh Gabriel Hamilton has submitted her resignation as a joint services administrative assistant effective May 22nd of 25. Wes Nagel submitted his resignation as a varsity track and field assistant
009coach uh effective also this season. Um personnel appointments, Mr. Hammond's recommending Sam Blackburn as a substitute teacher for the district. Mr. Mr. Dennis is recommending Ma Megan Arone as a substitute teacher. Mr. Fagens has requested a teacher to be hired for up to six hours per week on extended school year for the fifth grade student pursuant case conference committee determination. Other appointments include uh from Mr. Burkel girls tennis, Judy Hamco as a head coach, Brad Muller as a voluntary assistant, Nate Burkel as a voluntary assistant coach, track and field, Thomas uh Tim Wire as a voluntary middle high school coach. That's your policy or personnel items for this evening. I move we approve the personal items as presented. Second properly move the second to approve the personnel items as presented. Is there any discussion? Hearing
010none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. That motion carries. Policy items. Consideration of the policy update of the manual. Uh we continually review the manual serves as the governing body. U the board of education that serves as a governing body for the district. Primary responsibility of the board is create policies that provide guidance for the district administrative staff and the operation of the district. uh to maintain relevance and current policies and to regularly review those policies and provide updates. We actively engage with comprehensive policy program uh in collaboration with the Indiana School Boards Association. Policies up for first read include section 2330 position possession of firearms on school property. That's been revised. Uh 4420 is police off police relations. That's a brand new policy recommended by Indiana School Board
011Association. 5105 virtual education policy has been revised and a new policy. Whoops. Whoa. Hold on. Got to go back. New policy civility and decorum policy especially as it relates to special ed. uh for a second read uh 3210 use of equipment that was a new policy and 4401 was a uh re reviewed policy on student searches. Uh those are the policies for this evening. I move we accept the policies items as presented. Second. Properly moved and seconded to accept the policy items as presented. Is there any discussion hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. That motion carries. Uh, an financial items, audit results. Uh, the school district ended the audit conducted at the uh, direction of the state board of accounts performed by Crow. I got to stop
012touching my keyboard. Crow LLC. Audit period was from July 20, 2022 to June 2024. The final audit reports are presented to the board as anformational item. Those audit reports have been posted to the state and the district's website. So if you want to see the results, they're posted on our website. Also financial items consideration of the on Indiana online academy. The Rosville Elementary, Middle, and Senior High School plan to continue the partnership with the Indiana online academy for the 2526 school year. Currently, Indiana online academy supports our Rosville virtual academy students offering a wellestablished online learning platform. Through this partnership, our students have access to licensed teachers who specialize in online education. Recommending continuing that partnership. Another financial item is consideration of joint services agreement. uh recommending clarifying wording in article 7 of joint services
013agreement from the Clinton County joint services contract runs uh from July 1, 2024 through June 30th of 2029. E and this is the language or uh excerpt of it. Each participating corporation will assume the financial responsibility for legal fees associated with retention of legal counsel or legal guidance and or representation of matters uh and or all due process proceeding related to the participating corporation students including but not limited to insurance and deductibles, all hearing costs, hearing officer expenses, cost of defending the uh cooperative program, parent attorney fees if award, and other related costs. The cooperative will assume financial responsibility for the legal costs associated with personnel matters involving joint services employees uh and will accept the legal cost of the corporation employees and executing their duties for the for the cooperative. So the psychologist, the
014director, those folks would be part of the cooperative. So we are covering as a cooperative their legal fees. If we have a due process for example for a student uh special education issue then we cover the cost. So that's the difference between the two. Another financial item if you've been on the track in the past uh last fall Mr. Burke advised myself of the deteriorating conditions of our outdoor track. Industry standards recommend the track be resurfaced approximately every 8 to 15 years depending on uh several factors and one of the most significant being weather. Prolong exposure and strong UV rays can accelerate the surface uh decay and and compromise the usability of the track. At the December 3rd meeting uh the board of education meetingformational items were presented to advise the board of the need
015of track reservicing. Uh I reached out to Mike Roberts after Mr. uh Merkel had done some extensive work from Tecton to help develop conser plan of action uh through their thorough investigation and issues and proposed a solution that involved milling the current surface. So taking that current surface off which is really bad adding an inch and a half layer of asphalt and resurfacing with a rubberized top layer. plan also includes critical improvement to the long jump and high school air uh long jump and high jump area and which are currently in very poor condition and also adding a pole vault area as part of the proposal. The pole vault area stays where it currently is. We they moved shot foot last year to the south uh and then the high jump and long jump would
016get redone as well. Continuing on with the track reservicing, the total cost proposal renovation is $228,658.50. That includes $25,000 in contingency. Uh does not have we do not have significant funds and operations funds to cover those expenses. While you could use a general obligation fund uh for the project, it's best course of action at this time uh as it anticipated more critical capital needs will be in the future and we're limited on the amount of uh of general obligations bonds we can have is to utilize a rainy day fund. uh ready funds f projects um due to the scope and the urgency of the project as well as long-term benefits to our students and athletic program and I believe this is probably the most fiscally prudent and responsible action. So asphalt quotes are there. Um
017what's not included in these quotes? We'll have to do some fence work. Uh we'll have to put a gate in that's wide enough to get the equipment in. Uh that'll probably go on the south end. Uh and maybe some other uh small work. Um, we will lose a lane because of where the fence is. The option of that is move the whole track or move the bleachers back, which you're looking at a lot more to do that. Um, functionality, we currently do dual and and triple meets, right? Uh, we don't have a conference. We don't host that. So, uh, which is which is hard to do without lights because they go into the evening. If you wanted to look at that type of project, you're looking at probably a half million dollars. So um that
018is the track reservicing. Also under uh fiscal items consideration of preschool fees. These haven't changed in several years. Recommending uh continuing an preschool program for ages 3 to five. Following changes the cost uh from uh $400 this year for four and five year olds that are five days a week to 425 and the same increase of $25 for the 3 to four years old which are three days a week from 250 to 275. Um, in addition to increased cost of of the preschool program recommending following additional fees, the application fee, which was $50, stays the same. Payments due the first of the month following the for the following month. That has always been in place. If it's not received within five business days, then there's a $25 charge. If payment on the student account is
019not received within 10 business days, the student will be removed from the program. Uh, we had students that were $3,000 in the hole that have since withdrawn from the program. So, just to give you an idea of of that issue. Uh, and then also on financial items, consideration of donation, the FFA received a donation of $300 from Gary and Brenda Spray. We had an anonymous community member donate a saxophone and a clarinet for the band program. And Mr. Mrs. Jesse uh Conklin donated uh Riftton Pacer medium-sized gate trainer, which is a chair for special education, to the district for students who might benefit from its use. The estimated value of the chair is just under $1,000. Those are the financial items I have for you, too. I move we approve the financial items as presented.
020Second. So properly moved and seconded to approve the financial items as presented. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Same sign. That motion carries. Grandparents day. Uh Mr. Dennison's uh has advis parent advisory council grandparents day event which was originally scheduled for Saturday. Had been moved to May the 9th because of conflict and scheduling and other events here that fill up the parking lot. Due to the event being held on a school day, um we we've in the past made arrangements with the local church to park buses or park patrons there for the overflow and bust them in. So, we're recommending uh or he's requesting the um opportunity to use buses to transport overflow parking from both the Methodist church and the Presbyterian churches. And uh
021we'll use the buses to shuttle people back and forth. And then uh athletic camps. Mr. Burkel's recommending approving an athletic camp mini volleyball uh which was April 1st through the 3rd. So this is a retroactive um and the cost was prek through third and it was $40. Another miscellaneous item is online payment system. Athletic department's been using event link um to schedule since not 2013. Approximately 3 years ago, Event Link introduced an online payment system for athletic workers. State board accounts guidance stating that they will not take audit exception to schools using the online payment system to pay athletic uh officials if the board approves the use of online payment systems uh through a board resolution. The board resolution is in your packet. Um and that resolution is there for you to uh preview. And
022finally we have uh finally uh city of Frankfurt. Uh this is anformational item um miscellaneous item. City of Frankfurt traded us for a 2015 Ford Explorer uh for a 2010 GMC cutaway bus that uh they use for training drills. um they changed their mind or plan and in the fall city of Frankfurt returned the bus and the title of the district uh for disposal and uh uh those people that know me, I sold it to Taylor School Corporation for $1,000. So recommending retroactive on that. I think we've already approved the board's already approved the disposal of it. And then finally, we have other surplus equipment uh that's no longer in use by the the district um and is requesting opportunity to be disposed of properly. The tracker that we sold for the FFA, they're planning
023to pick that up this week. So, um that's kind of where that one's at. So, with that, that's a miscellaneous items. I move we approve the miscellaneous items as presented. Second. been properly moved and seconded to approve the miscellaneous items as presented. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Same sign. That motion carries. So, field trips FFA senior officers on the 18th of March went to the state house. Uh plant science classes on the 31st went to Creekide Growers, plant soils class on the 4th. Uh did a seating advancement at Creek Size Growers here in Rosville. First grade on the 29th of April are headed to Pharaoh's Farm and the middle school FFA is headed to Trafaler on the 10th of May. Conference request or conference
024report uh Kelsey Hall on the 14th of March. Intensity license test in Lafayette, Dustin Chadbull, Indiana School Safety Academy, he actually went on the 7th. uh Mike Hammond's uh expulsion examiner workshop is scheduled for the 24th of uh April and Kyle Etheton teaching American history presidents and political parties uh in Frankfurt on the 13th of May and Sierra Hall NI and multiple dates uh I believe that starts next year and that's all the reports I have. Okay, with that I'll ask for a motion to adjourn our meeting. I motion we adjourn the meeting. Second. We properly moved and seconded to adjourn our meeting. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. That motion carries. Our next board meeting will be Tuesday, May 6th at 700 p.m. Right here in the same
025spot. No, over there. We're going to move we're going to change rooms, but same building, same general area. So, but we'll be over here in this area uh next time. So, we hope to see you next month. And with that, we return. Thank you.