001[Music] I love the school. Um the students are like really nice. Um the teachers they really positive and yeah like the teachers at my old school I never asked questions with my teachers and now at this school since my mom went here. So I basically know all the teachers that's here. So now I can express to what I'm feeling and what I need to ask, [Music] my friends, you know. Yeah. Cuz you know the education is pretty good. The the teachers are great, you know, but my friends is the best part. I like most about H Central is definitely the students, the people, you know, all the people I met uh since I've been here cuz I moved here uh middle school. So like the people have been great. I made a lot of memories
002since freshman year, uh sophomore year, all the years. You know, some days you going to have days where like you going to come, but like like the days I come like it get funner and funner as like I get in the older grade, but it's not it's not easy, but like when you do what you got to do, it become easy. So, it's really just chill for me. It's good. There's never any like problems or nothing. There's always like good vibes. Everybody's like chill. [Music] I like the people. I like the community. I would definitely say it's fun. It's definitely creative. Like, you definitely don't know what you're going to get coming through the door every day. In a in a good way, though. Um um I would say it's safe. It's loving. Um it's
003definitely welcoming. The teachers the most about the school. Yeah. My experience is pretty good. I don't have any complaints. Okay. atmosphere is good here and there's there's good people here because um when she teaches it like actually makes me want to actually try the things she teaches cuz the way she she does it is uh so like inspiring to me nation let's Hey, [Music] hey. [Music] I love the school. Um the students are like really nice. Um the teachers they really positive and yeah like the teachers at my old school I never ask questions with my teachers. And now at this school since my mama went here, so I basically know all the teachers that's here. So now I can express to what I'm feeling and what I need to ask, [Music] my friends, you
004know. Yeah, cuz you know the education is pretty good. the the teachers are great, you know, but my friends is the best part. I like most about him Central is definitely the students, the people, you know, all the people I met uh since I've been here cuz I moved here on uh middle school. So like the people have been great. I made a lot of memories since freshman year, uh sophomore year, all the years, you know. Some days you going to have days where like you don't want to come but like like the days I come like it get funner and funner as like I get in the older grade but it's not it's not easy but like when you do what you got to do it become easy. So it's really just chill for
005me. It's good. There's never any like problems or nothing and it's always like good vibes. Everybody's like chill. [Music] I like the people. I like the community. I would definitely say it's fun. It's definitely creative. Like, you definitely don't know what you're going to get coming through the door every day. In a in a good way, though. Um um I would say it's safe. It's loving. Um it's definitely welcoming. The teachers the most about the school. Yeah. Say my experience in pretty good. I don't have any complaints. Okay. The atmosphere is good here and there's there's good people here because um when she teaches it like actually makes me want to actually try the things she teaches cuz the way she she does it is uh so like inspiring to me. Go Nation, let's rock.
006Hey, [Music] I love the school. Um the students are like really nice. Um the teachers they really positive and yeah like the teachers at my old school I never ask questions with my teachers. And now at this school since my mom went here so I basically know all the teachers that's here. So now I can express to what I'm feeling and what I need to ask, [Music] my friends, you know. Yeah, cuz you know the education is pretty good. The the teachers are great, you know, but my friends is the best part. I like most about H Central is definitely the students, the people, you know, all the people I met uh since I've been here cuz I moved here uh middle school. So like the people have been great. I made a lot of
007memories since freshman year, uh sophomore year, all the years. You know, some days you going to have days where like you going to come, but like like the days I come like it get funner and funner as like I get in the older grade, but it's not it's not easy, but like when you do what you got to do, it become easy. So, it's really just chill for me. Good. There's never any like problems or nothing and it's always like good vibes. Everybody's like chill. [Music] I like the people. I like the community. I would definitely say it's fun. It's definitely creative. Like, you definitely don't know what you're going to get coming through the door every day. In a in a good way, though. Um um I would say it's safe. It's loving. Um
008it's definitely welcoming. The teachers the most about the school. Yeah. I think my experience is pretty good. I don't have any complaints. Okay. atmosphere is good here and there's there's good people here because um when she teaches it like actually makes me want to actually try the things she teaches cuz the way she she does it is uh so like inspiring to me. Go Nation, let's rock. Good afternoon everyone. Today is Wednesday, June 28th, 2025. It's our regular school board meeting, School City of Hammond. Welcome. And we welcome our virtual community as well. Uh let's stand for our pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Thank you. Okay.
009Roll call. Trusty Guierra, present. Trusty Stanford, present. Trustee Spencer, present. Trusty Candila, present. Trusty Blake King, present. Five are present. We have our quorum. We're ready to take care of business. Okay. Mr. Selenas. Good evening, Trusty King and board members. I would like to first recognize uh the fact that in our audience we have Mr. Sean Kinsey, the athletic director at Morton High School, who has a group of young men that he would like to present to our community and our school board. Welcome, Mr. Kinsey. [Applause] All right, everybody. Um, so for the second year in a row, our track team, at least portion of it, made it to the state finals. Um, [Applause] so it was a very quick turnaround. I do want to thank uh Mr. Selenus as well as the rest of
010administrative staff, Miss Pritchette. Um, we we won on Thursday, knew that they punched their tickets, so we had to get hotel rooms for next for the next Friday. Um, so thank you for the support. Um, these young men went down to Indianapolis and North Central High School and uh and we said we were going to come away with something. So does it able to play? All right. Okay. So they ran the 4x1 100 meter relay team as a group. Um they uh broke the record this year about six times that they set last year. Um this record um stood for years um what was it back to the 70s or 80s I believe um when they first broke it. So we have senior Dante Moore. Uh we have freshman Michael Walker, freshman. Senior Monty Hill
011is not here today. He's out of town. Go ahead. And then we have Jiren Jones. He So, so Jiren at the regionals, he uh he he broke the school record in the 200 meter. Um as well in the regional pre preliminaries. Kind of ran out of gas a little bit. We got to work on that cuz he should have been in state for the 200 as well. Um but then this year he also qualified in the 100 meters. So he raced in the preliminaries of the 100 meters at state as well. Um he he he raced well. He placed I think 11th out of about a field of about close to 30 kids. Um but Jiren was invited. Jiren's only a junior. Um this past Saturday he went down to the Indiana All-Star track meet
012where he placed second in the 100 and second in the 4x1. But in that 100 meter race he rebroke his school record that he already set uh and ran a 10 uh.57 in the 100 meter sprint. Um and so he was an Indiana allstar this year. And by making a podium, all four of these young men are all state track and field athletes this year. So you see they on the big stage with the other schools. I want to thank coach Gardner for all the hard work that he has put into this program. Uh we we have overall this program has broken about six records that has stood since the the the 90s and the 80s and the 70s um in just two three years. Coach Woods as well, Arian Woods, one of our assistant
013coaches. And uh once again, congratulations to our young men. Great job. Coach Gardner has uh their all state certificate. So he's going to have Mr. Kenji. Mr. Kenzie. Mr. Kenzie. Mr. Kenzie. Line them up here so we can all take a photo. Come on, guys. Just pull it in. Oh, no. It'll be easier cuz my leg to have them come up here. They can come up here. We always used to do this. They come up here. Y'all used to do this. Y'all can sprint up here. Okay. I know, right? They're taller than us. No. Get closer. Little peek around. But step down one more. Step down one more. Mr. Ky and the coaches. Come on. And where's Miss Wheeler? She always talking about the mansion. The mansion. Here we go. Wow. They're still too tall.
014[Laughter] There you go. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. And Mr. Kenzie, we were at WJO this morning with our regular show and we mentioned it to Jed. He said, "I didn't know that." So, I'm sure Jed's going to be calling you to be on his show and uh if not, you will be on the show in July with us celebrating as well. Thank you so much. Another big round of applause, please. Amazing. Wow, Mr. Selenus. All right. Next, we have uh Daniel Dalton, financial consultant, who will be uh presenting to the community and the board. Thank you, superintendent, and good evening board members. If you recall last month, I provided a update through April on our Mar monthly financial presentation. Tonight, I'll give you an update through May 31st and then a
015uh brief overview of cash flow projection from 2025 through 2028. So, as you look at this report on the screen, it is quite small. Would you mind bumping that up a little bit? Could you blow it up just a little bit? Oh, it goes another way. Okay, no problem. Thank you. Thank you. So, in the education fund, we ended May 31st, we ended the month with 18,510,000. In the debt service fund, we ended the month with just about 20 2,50,000 negative. We ended the refere the month in the referendum debt service fund with $2,21,812. The operations fund 17,279,313. Rainy day fund 6,297155 and self insurance 3,69,590. And then on the right side, as always, we compare this to where we sat last year. Mhm. um at this during the same month. Just below that, probably
016a more important box is the education operations fund percent of budget that has been spent year to date. In the education fund, we've spent 35.7% of our budget through May 31st. So, that's good news. Um we're spending below budget. Operations fund is the same case. Did you say below? Below budget. Say that again. A little louder. Thank you. Operations fund is in the same scenario. 36.3% of the budget has been spent for the first five months of the year. On the right side there, the cash balance reserve. So we set a target cash balance reserve of 30% for both the education and operations fund. Right now we're looking at target cash in the education at aboutg5.5 million. Hopefully that number gets closer to zero moving forward. Operations fund is sitting uh at about 8 8.27
0178.28 million positive positive on that target. Mhm. And then rainy rainy day. Yes. Are there other questions? Okay. No, we're good. Okay. Rainy day fund. We have $6.3 million in the in that fund right now. and self- insurance. We are about $930,000 short of our target cash. That does not mean we are negative $930,000 in cash. We're just short of our target. That fund is in the positive. Um and then just below there, total of all funds, you'll see that we ended the month with 50,682,000. And that includes every single fund of the school district which 60 or 70 funds. Um the ones I mentioned above are the major funds that include property tax revenue and basic grant revenue. Um so total of all funds would include title and and and whatever other funds may
018come into play. Transfers from education to operations. We've maintained just shy of 15% of our basic grant tuition transfer from the education fund to the operations fund every month. So that's good. We're we're just about at the at the um cap the 15% cap. And there are no temporary transfers as you can see. Would you mind scrolling over a little bit and then down one click? There are no temporary transfers in the school district currently. So now I'll move on to the second page. [Applause] SR3 listed at the top there. You'll see that we have listed what the appropriations were through the history of SR3, what the expenses were, what was encumbered. I'll tell you this right now. will be providing you with a um more summarized update on on specific expenditures and those categories
019next month when when I come talk to you again for ESSER for ESSER. Mhm. Thank you. Yes. And just below that title funds, you'll see the breakdown of each of those funds, what the current balances are through May 31st. And as I've mentioned previously, these are reimbursement funds. So that ne those negative cash balances you see under 531 with all the red boxes. Yes, they are negative, but we will be reimbursed for the dollars that have been spent. Gotcha. Mhm. So that concludes my monthly finance report. If there are no questions on this section, I I will move on to the cash flow and projection document if unless there's anything you would like to ask me. Any questions? Okay. All right. So, as presented last month, this is a breakdown of the education fund and
020the operations fund and some um uh projections moving out three years in advance. So, 2025 through 2028. And so as you can see with the education fund which is mainly ut utilized for the the the funding for classroom expenditures um you can see that the net cash flow in this fund is anticipated to reduce over time. I will tell you this this is a extremely dynamic document and nothing stated in this projection is set in stone. It's it's mainly used as a tool for the board to make decisions of um um what what to do in the future. And so based on recent legislation, Senate Bill one for example, will have massive implications on circuit breakers and property tax levies, you and and basic grant tuition. You will see that we're anticipating a drastic reduction
021in net cash flow year-over-year. That doesn't mean that number stands. Exactly. Yes. So the education fund you'll see uh 2025 we anticipate to end the year with $18 million.2 26 we anticipate to end the year with $15,300,000. 27 $9 million $250,000. um just about $650,000 and that's due to inflationary increases in all goods and services, supplies, etc. Um we we we build in a 3% assumption into this model which says every single expense of the district will increase by 3%. That may not be the case and once we make determinations on any sort of expenditure then we will update this model. the the operations fund on the second page is built out very similarly where we have assumed a 3% increase in all expenditures across the board. Um we have assumed that 15% of the
022basic grant tuition will be transferred from education to operations every single month and that in 2026 we've assumed a 4% levy growth per state statute that that um Senate Bill one Senate enrolled act number one now states that we have to uh abide by. So if there if there are any questions on this, I' I'd be happy to dive into the details. Uh but with that, that can that concludes my financial update for anything. Board members, I I just appreciate you as you described this as a tool that the board can use. The administration can certainly use. This is serious business. This is our finances. We have to take it seriously as we move forward and spending. So this is our tool. This is our Bible. So let's be forewarned when you see certain cuts
023you understand. Thank you. You can go out. Thank you. That that that is all I have. Oh well great. Well also in a discussion we had hopefully this report will be made more friendly user. Yes. You want to talk about that? Sure. So I I will summarize the first document that I went through for our meeting next month so that it's easier to read. it's easier to present publicly because that first document it doesn't it's a it's an eyesore right thank you so I I will make that easier to read and um we'll we'll go forward from there and are we going to try to do graphs instead something that's easier to follow are we going to try to do something with graphics instead of numbers making pie charts I will incorporate some charts and
024graphs in we just want everybody to understand how we're moving financially forward. Certainly, I did notice um we didn't really review and I'm glad we didn't that page that has the teeny tiny numbers all the way across. Um, I don't know if I don't remember if that sheet is a month-to-month type of a report, but if it is, you a bar graph or something would be much appreciated. Yes. Yeah, it it is broken down month by month and that pulls into the summary sheet on that front that front page. So, um, bar graph charts, we'll make it easy. We'll make it simple. Thank you. We're looking forward to Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Selenus. Thank you, Mr. Dalton. Next, we have our first period of public expression, Trustee Stanford. All right, our
025first speaker is Cindy Murphy. Cindy Murphy. I was not going to talk about the gentleman that came up here who went to to state, but as I talk about chess, and it should have been said about them, he wasn't 11th out of 30. He was 11th in the whole state. That is something I know we celebrated him but we need to get into that mindset is that he wasn't 11th out of that short group but the whole state out of tens of thousands of students that went and competed in this whole season. Um tonight I'll be talking about the personnel report and the financial report. So on the personnel report, 85 people are listed as either quit, retired, or terminated. Large number. Also on the personnel report, we've got a bunch of new hires into
026positions that were cut under corrective action because we needed to make budget. So is it those people we just lost going to go pay for those? Curious minds want to know. The other thing is some of those people that we lost. One of I mentioned during chess and he's like one of my best chess coaches, bilingual, great with kids and he went somewhere else. It's we've got to stop the loss of teachers. It's really rough when we see some of the best and brightest lose our district. Financial report. I have to commend you guys on putting out the red. I mean, I know it's tough, but it's something that needed to be done, showing the slow decline of the cash balances month after month. It would be nice to hear how you're going to reverse
027those so we don't keep going in that direction. I also since I don't get to ask questions of the financial consultant, I give this question to you. So on the one for the cash flow for the education fund, if you go and look at um under receipts, state federal, it's pretty much around 90 million. And so I question that because assumptions, key assumptions is something that, you know, it could go either way. Does that mean we don't lose one student over four years? How is that possible? So I would be asking, where does that number come from? Is it accurate or does it need to be updated? Thank you. Thank you. Next, Dr. Michaela Spangenberg. Good evening. Um I really love that tr the transparency of the financial report is so fantastic and I love
028the cash flow. I love everything. I do think like an interpretive guide is needed for that. Um because but I I'd really encourage it to be like in addition to as opposed to a replacement just for the sake not only of transparency and accountability but also so that community members can gain those skills in terms of learning how to be able to read those kinds of documents because they're important skills to learn frankly. Um, speaking of math, um, I could have sworn somebody just said that we lost 80 people. And maybe my math is horrible, too. But it seemed like it was closer to 60 something. So, I'm really again confused. But who knows? That's that's why we need to maintain our financial documents and accessibility to them so we can all do math really
029well. Um and count and those important things. Um I also want to applaud a focus on you know looking at what needs to be cut where. And also I mean honestly when we see people who literally resigned we have no idea why they resigned you know are they moving are they leaving the profession etc. Unfortunately we have a ton of people um in teaching on average who leave the profession all the time. I wish that wasn't the case. Um and so I you know and I saw people being recommended for employment too. So sometimes it's confusing when you only hear one side of the story for no apparent reason. Um I also just really want to in general applaud the board and the school city for providing so much detail on agendas, so much detail
030when it comes to, you know, like literally attaching the documents to the board doc so that people and the public can read them. I think that's fantastic. Um, I did notice our public notices seem to be more brief than before. Like they just list meetings, which I think used to be our problem with executive notices, but now we have better executive notices, but not like the same type of general notices as before. I do know, you know, there's always in all of our communities like a real challenge to trying to get the word out. Um, I do know like today there were a bunch of people who are like, "Oh, is the meeting still happening because of the weather?" And then they're looking on the Facebook and they're looking at the board part of the
031website, but like there's not always like a clear update thing. So maybe we can do that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, Wanda Pucket. Good evening. I'm Wanda Pucket. I was paying attention to what Dr. Michaela was saying. First of all, we as parents need to come out and support the staff. Parents have to get involved. The community got to get involved so we can keep the teachers here. If we don't come together and get involved and support our kids and the teachers, what you expect? Schools go to closing. What y'all going to say? Should have, could have, would have. Should have. You should have been at the school board meeting. Could have. You should have went to the school to see what they doing. Would stay on your kids. I'm a parent
032and a grandparent aunties to I'm always on my family member about their education. find out what they need help in. Teachers need our help. Our kids is taking over the school. Our kids is scared. The teachers are scared. We don't know what to do. Like I said, bully comes from home and school and everything else. It's that peer pressure that do something about it. We need to start standing up for our kids. Find out what's wrong with them cuz we all know our kids cuz I know mine. I know when they was having problems and stuff. Come on, sit down and talk to mama. We going to settle this together. We going to go to the school. We're going to talk to your teachers, administrator, somebody. We're going to do all this together. If we
033don't, we ain't going to have a school left open in Hammond. If the state come in and take over these school, where your kids going to be? Cuz what I'm looking at, that's what's getting ready to happen. Do y'all want that to happen? We got a bunch of great teachers. Let's do Let's work together on this. And I'm willing to get the community involved. Community, let's step up. This is our future, our kids. Let's get together. Thank you. Thank you. That ends first session of public expression. Mr. Selenos, the next agenda item is unfinished business. Trusty King, there is no unfinished business at this time. Okay. Moving forward, we are going to ask for approval of the minutes. Trustees, may I have a motion to approve um executive session minutes for May 13th, schoolboard minute,
034school board minutes for May 13th, executive session minutes for May 20th, and executive and school board minutes for May 20th. Can I get a motion? Madame President, Trusty Candelier, I move for the approval of items A and B, the approval of the executive session minutes May 13, 2025, May 20th, 2025 as presented. Do I have a second? Second. It's been moved and properly second that we approve the uh the minutes from A, B, C, and D. Just A and B. Just AB. Uh all in favor say I. I. I. All in say okay any uh nosy eyes have it. Okay. Do I hear a motion to approve C and D? Madame President Trusty Canaler. I move for the approval of items C and D. Approval of school board meeting minutes dated May 13, 2025 and
035May 20th, 2025 as presented. Second. It's been moved and properly second that we approve uh minutes on the agenda C and D. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Eyes have it. Motion carry. Thank you. Uh Mr. Selenas. Trusty King. The next agenda item is the consent agenda. Madame President, Trusty um Spencer, I move that we table item E, the personnel report. You've heard the motion. Do I have a second? Second. It's been moved and properly second that we table um item F, the personnel report on our agenda. Item E. Is that Oh, my eyes. I'm sorry. Item E. Okay. Do we want a roll call vote or do we want it just a regular vote? Let's let's everything else just we will. So, we're gonna table that first and then we'll do approval of
036all the other ones. Do we want a roll call or do we want to just I don't think we need a roll call. Okay, we don't need a roll call. All in favor say I. Attorney, just real quick, just for item E from the consent agenda and table it. Okay. So, I amend my motion. Uh, I would like to remove item E, the personnel report, and table it. Second. It's been moved properly. Second that we remove item E from the agenda and table it. All in favor say I. I. Opposed? Eyes have it. Motion carried. Do we have a motion to uh approve the remaining consent agenda? Madame President. Trusty Candelera. I move for the approval of the consent agenda items A, B, C, D, and F as presented. Any questions? Second. Okay. Do I
037hear a second? I'm sorry. We got a second. Do any questions? Oh, that would be me, Trusty Stafford. All right. The accounts payable docket register dated June 18th, 2025, consisting of 274 pages. Total claims 2,992,971.34. Total payroll 4,915. Oops. $915,000. Wait, let me start again. 4,915,157. Thank you. Thank you. It's been moved and properly second. We've addressed the question. Are we ready to vote? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Eyes have it. Motion carried. Mr. Selenas. The next item, Trusty King, is new business. Okay. The Okay. The approval of the Let me find it. The approval of HF uh ACORN grant for team Hammond 71 Robotics. Do I hear a motion? Madam President, Trusty Canada, I move for the approval of the HF Acorn Grant for Team Hammond 71 Robotics as presented. Do we
038have a second? Second. Any questions? Um, it's been moved and properly second that we approve for the approval of the HF Acorn grant for team Hammond 71 Robotics. I just might add there is a note attached to this uh regarding this grant, but it will be fulfilled. It's in the board docs. All in favor say I. I oppose. I have it. Motion carried. Item D, extracurricular account dormant fund transfer request Scott Middle School. Mr. Pleasure of the board. Madam President, Madame Spencer, I move for the approval of the extracurricular account dormant fund transfer request for Scott Middle School. Do we have a second? Second. It's been moved and properly second that we for the approval of the extracurricular account dormant fund transfer request. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Eyes have it. Motion carried.
039Item C, approval of bid award for pots phone telephoning connectivity. Do we hear a motion? Someone else got Madame President. Who? Oh, uh, Trusty Garrett, I make a motion for the bid award of POTS phone telephony connectivity. I think second. It's been moved improperly. Second that we approve item C. Don't make me read this again. Uh but I will approval of the bid award for pot phone telephoning connectivity. Uh it's been moved to properly second. All in favor say I. Opposed. Eyes have it. Item D, approval for bid award for SIP telephoneony connectivity. Do we hear a motion? Madam President, who is that? Oh, Trusty Ger. Okay. I make a motion for the bid award of for SIP telephoneony connectivity. Second. Been moved and properly second for the approval of the bid award for SIP
040telephoneony connectivity. All in favor say I. I. I. Um oppose. Eyes have it. I should have asked for the question. I apologize. Item E, approval of contract between the ERA career center and Marvin White. Uh before we go to that, Mr. uh Selenus, you want to expound on that a little bit? Yes. This contract is between the uh Mr. White and the uh area career center services to include but not limited to foundational barbering techniques with instruction on clipper cutting, fades, tapers, edge ups, sheer work, beard grooming, hairline shaping, sanitation practices, and professional conduct in barbership setting uh in the classroom. So this will help our students at the area career center and this will be paid through the 2425 Perkins summerbridge grant. Thank you Mr. Selenas. Do I hear a motion for approval? Madam
041President, Trusty Spencer, I move for the approval of contract between the area Career Center and Marvin White. Second. It's been moved and properly second for the approval of the contract between the area career center and Marvin White. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Eyes have it. Motion carried. Item F, approval of contract between the ERA career center and Kyla Fleming. You want to expound upon that? I'm sorry, Mr. Selena. Oh, you got it. Okay. Um, this one we're going to need a little help with. Mr. Hicks, Kylo Fleming. Thank you, Mr. Hicks. So this would be part of our uh expansion of our cosmetology program. Uh so we are a institution that has cosmetology and barbering uh for our students but we really have focused on previous years of cosmetology. We have heard
042the community there has been a strong desire to add barbering. Uh so this will help uh move forward uh barbering and also cosmetology. So Kyla Fleming is a former student. Uh she's also going for her um additional certifications and instructional licenses. So it's a partnership uh with both uh school city of Hammond Hammond Area Career Center um with Miss Fleming assisting us in the summer. Uh summer bridge is intended to work out the kinks and expand the the continued studies for our students that still need hours. Uh so Miss Fleming is assisting with the overall uh building of ours, expansion of program, uh troubleshooting, piloting some some things in the summer. Uh so um also as I mentioned she's a former student so it's a good situation. A good situation. Yes. Thank you. Excellent. Do
043we hear a motion? Madam President. Trusty Spencer. I move for the approval of the contract between the area career center and Kyla Fleming. Second. It's been moved and properly second for the approval of the contract between the area career center and Kyla Fleming. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Eyes have it. Motion carried. Item G, approval ofou and Starbase Indiana, Inc. Mr. Selen, Mr. Selenas, please. Absolutely. Sending our students to Starbase aligns with our commitment to student success by providing hands-on inquiry based STEM experiences that build critical thinking and problem solving skills. This exposure not only deepens their academic understanding, but also inspires future college and career pathways in a high demand field. And the schools that will be partaking in this are currently Franklin, Harding, Irving, and Edison Elementary. However,
044uh I want the public to know and the board that eventually all nine schools will take place in the starbased activities. Thank you. All right. Do I hear a motion for item G? Madame President, Trusty Spencer, I move for the approval ofou with Starbase Indiana Incorporated. Second. It's been moved and properly second that we approval of theou with Starbase Indiana Inc. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Eyes have it. Motion carry. Thank you. Item H, approval of contract with MZQ consulting LLC. This is a consulting that will provide services that allows school city of Hammond to remain in compliance with insurance regulations. This includes but is not limited to section 125 plan and PCR filing and I'm for an executive contact. Our insurance broker Hub International will pay all fees associated
045with Compass Plus services. There will be no charge to school city of H. Right. This is submitted to the department of the human resources. Thank you so much. You're welcome. You've heard the uh explanation. Are we ready to vote? We hear a motion. Madame President, Trustee Canalera, I move for the approval of the contract with MZQ Consulting LLC as presented. Is there a second? Second. It's been moved and properly second. Uh is there any questions? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Eyes have it. Motion carry. Thank you. Item I, approval of contract with Katherine Denko. Mr. Selenus. Yes, ma'am. Trusty King, we are asking for the approval of the uh agreement between school city of Hammond and contract services with Katherine Denko. As many of you know, we will eventually be ending our contract
046with Mazi Consultants. Kathern Denko is our former federal programs director for the school city of Hammond and she will uh assure that we have a smooth transition in our current state to we move to independence and take over all of our federal grants with the school city of Hammond and it's coming out of title two. It is coming out of title two. Thank you. All right, we've heard the explanation. Are we ready to vote? May I hear a motion, please? Madam President, Trusty Spencer, I move for the approval of the contract with Katherine Deno. Do I have a second? Second. It's been Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Eyes have it. Motion carried. Thank you. Item J, approval of agreement with L I NQ. I think we got that one. We can
047go with that. It's we're not in our lunch program. Correct. It's it's from our food service department. Correct. They're 100% can we can always rely on our school lunch program. All right. Do we hear a motion? Madam President. Trusty Spencer. I move for the approval of agreement with link. Second. It's been moved and properly second that we for the approval of the agreement with link. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Eyes have it. Motion carried. Approval of contract extension with smart systems. Trusty King. This is also from our food service department. All right. Do I hear a motion for the approval? Madam President, Trusty Candella, I move for the approval of the contract extension with smart systems as presented. You hear a second? Second. It's been moved and properly second that for
048the approval of the contract extension with Smart Systems. Uh all in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Eyes have it. Motion carried. Uh item item L, approval of contract extension with stance S st. Trusty King, this is also a contract uh that has been submitted by our full service director, Lind Duro. Thank you. Do I hear a motion? Madame President, Trusty Catala, I move for the approval of the contract extension with stands as presented. There a second. Second. Any questions? It's been moved and probably second that we approve the for the approval of contract extension with stance. All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carry. Thank you. Uh item M approval of contract with smart sense by DG. Digi. Okay. Once again this has also been approved and I'm sorry submitted by the director
049of food services and this is a service that provides uh the temperature monitoring system for our kitchens. Very good. Do I hear a motion? Madam President, Trustee Spencer, I move for the approval of the contract with Smart Sense by Digi. Second. It's been moved and properly second for the approval of the contract with Smart Sense by DG. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Eyes have it. Motion carry. Thank you. And last but not least, item N, approval of agreement with Fair Banks Educational Services LLC. Trustees, this is an agreement with Fairbanks Educational Services. They are new statewide vendor that help us uh remain in compliance with our Medicaid administrative claiming and billing. This allows us to continue to participate in the Medicaid administrative reimbursement program submitted through the special education program.
050Thank you, Mr. Selenas. Do I hear a motion? Madame President, Trusty Candela, I move for the approval of the agreement with Fairbrinks Educational Services LLC as presented. Do I have a second? Second. It's been moved and properly second uh for the approval of the agreement with Fairbanks Educational Systems LLC. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carry. Thank you. All right, Mr. Celitz. Our next item is the calendar. Oh, that's me. Well, in July, we have July 1st is we'll have our regular schoolboard meeting and our executive session here at the administration building. And uh Tuesday again, July 15th, uh both our executive session and our school board meeting and uh meetings during the summer are subject to change for obvious reasons. Thank you very much. So, so next we have
051general man of public. Our next item is public expression second period. Trusty Stanford. All right. First speaker, Cindy Murphy. Cindy Murphy. after what happened last year, I'm really surprised somebody per pulled the personnel report. Um, in case you don't remember, that affects new hires and it affected it so badly that the person who did it had to do a motion to reconsider and someone else had to second it because let's go to page three. A new hire May 23rd. So, the superintendent, as you should all should know, has the authority to hire people, fill positions until the board gets to it. Well, the board was supposed to get to the personnel report tonight and finalize those decisions by the superintendent. So, is this person going to get terminated now? And then let's keep going down
052through the list. uh return from leave of absence. Are they not going to get paid starting June 2nd? We have a transfer from a custodian from number three to number two. That's a change in pay. So I hope before you end this meeting. Oh, and here's two more. returned from leave June 6th and May the 28th that you ask your attorney and say, "Should we be doing a motion to reconsider on these?" Because what happened last time, you guys can roll the tape, is that we did the motion to reconsider and the person who wanted specific items pulled for the personnel report, they actually said what they wanted pulled instead of messing up all these other people that they didn't care about. because I'm sure this new elementary teacher for Burns Hicks, they want her
053to keep teaching. So, ask your attorney before the meeting's over. The last things I want to talk about are insurance. So, now that we're almost in July, by now you should have met with Hub and everybody else, and you should know that what the increases are. I'm betting it's between 9 and 11%. And know what those are and how is that to be budgeted. I want to follow up on what I was talking about last time and that was about the extracurriculars. Some schools want to do them in the morning and we should be talking to parents and telling them, you know what, it's okay. One of my best chess coaches was at the former Maywood and he taught chess four days a week before school because he was working after school and he couldn't
054do it then. So, we need to go with our parents because we're not changing the bell schedule this year, and that's okay. It happens. But we need to make sure extracurricular activities are available for all students, and we need to get it out to parents that maybe we need to be doing that before school so that your children don't miss out. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, Dr. Michaela. Good evening again. Um, it seems like there's a lot of really specific guidance you guys are getting that seems to be about certain employees. Like that's a little weird because as as far as I understand from like a Robert's rules perspective, I mean at any given point if a member of any governing body or any board that uses Robert's rules, which you guys do per
055your policy, um had an issue of any item, like that whole process could be done. I mean, like I'm a little strange, but um one thing I wanted to touch on in terms of uh you know, just I know summers are are sometimes kind of slower times because like lots of people might be out of town or things like that, but I also think summers present a really great opportunity to developing like structures to work on all the things that during the school year we often don't get a chance to work on. Whether that's like creating some kind of more streamlined structure for like policy updates because I know that there had been policies that hadn't been updated in like decades or something um that were just kind of left to linger. um uh some
056kind of structure or you know just kind of a a plan to demonstrate kind of the the movement toward meeting new graduation requirements which I think you guys are probably ahead of the curve on just because you do have a lot more utilization of like your career center and things like that than some other districts. But I just think there's a lot of students, there's a lot of parents, there's a lot of community members that just get nervous about, okay, like we know that this big change happened. Like what does that what do all those pathways that are really overly complicated look like specifically for kids here? Um since, you know, the implementation is all being rolled out and it's feels like it's just around the corner. Um, I do know too we we have
057a lot of folks in our our community, you know, who maybe struggle to deal with technology and a lot of the state level technology like GPS is terrible. Um, so I know there's often like this like concern about like okay like where's a graduation rate currently like things like that. A specific concern for me is always like FAFSA completion now that that's required by law too. I think in terms of your 21st century scholars like you did pretty good there compared to a lot of other schools and like right around the state average overall. I think it it gets complicated and of course what the state website will will never disclose is that you know like there is like a waiver process and it's very unclear from the state whether or not waivers were completed.
058Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Next, Wanda Pucket. Get ready to turn that mic on and let me know what I do wrong. Ah, I'm being honest. First of all, we is not talking about last year who all sitting on the board superintendent. We moving forward. We are not going backwards. Those bylaws and rules that y'all put in every year is supposed to change when we get a new superintendent board princip. We is not talking about last year. Y'all brought up them rude. That's when the boy was messed up last year. It's a lot better this year. Ain't no organ, no intimidation. They even smiling up there. Every last one up. Hello. Y'all better get me to sit down cuz I've already snap. Don't do it. And crackle and p. I don't know why y'all keep
059bringing up what went on last year. The board is not together like it was last year. We got brand new members up here. And if I got anything to say, they going to stay there. We ain't let the old members come back on that board cuz it ain't going to be chaos. Chaos going to wrap again. We don't need that. We have parents and kids sitting at home watching this bullies. We got bullies in here. Don't tell me to look at y'all cuz I know what I'm doing. I'm not stepping on nobody toes yet, but I can. And your turn Harris, let me know when I go to stepping on somebody toes and what I'm doing wrong. Stop before I get there. We are here for these kids. We is not here for the grown-ups.
060In my book, the kids come first. And I will fight for these kids with the last breath I have. It ain't about you and it ain't about me. It's about making sure our babies get the best education they have. Some of y'all sit up in here and think about it's the kids. It's the kids. You ain't been more thinking about them kids than the man on the moon. Quit going around here spreading out what's going on in the community. Community wouldn't know what was going on if you weren't telling it. I keep telling y'all we got leaks and these old buildings. Y'all ain't paying me no attention. I'm sitting at home and hear what's going on. The leaks need to be shut off fast, quick, and hurry. And I mean a lot of leaks is
061leaking out. Let's work on getting it plugged up. Wow. Thank you. Thank you. That's the last speaker for the second session of public expression. Thank you. reports from our superintendent. Thank you very much, Trusty King. Once again, uh, congratulations to our Mortyn High School relay team. We're all very proud of your efforts and bringing back that hardware back to the school city of Hammond. We also would like to recognize the fact that our Skills USA national championship will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, and our very own team Hammond will be participating in this event from June 23rd to June 28th. So, we wish them a safe trip down to Atlanta and thank you for our t-shirts, Mr. Hicks. We also want to thank our sponsors and our chaperrons who will be traveling with our team
062to Atlanta. We wish our students the best of luck and we know you you will represent the school city of Hammond well on this national stage. School City of Hammond will be closed tomorrow in observance of Junth. This means that there will be no summer school uh for our students and summer school will resume on Monday, June 23rd. So again, no classes tomorrow. All district offices will also be closed in observance of Junth. We are having our back to school event on Thursday, July 31st from 10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Hammond Central. We invite all of our families to come out to this fantastic event. And again, uh, a few weeks ago, trustees and I were at both graduations shaking a lot of hands, standing up. Trustees, I don't know if you know it
063or not, but we shook over 800 hands uh, at both graduations. Very proud of all of our students that walked across the stage. And as we get ready for the beginning of the new school year, believe it or not, we're getting ready. We have our back- tos school nights at all of our elementary schools on Tuesday, August 12th from 4 pm to 6 pm. Come see your classrooms. And then all of our secondary schools on Wednesday, August 13th from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Again, these are not uh our open houses. These are back to school night so parents can get familiar with the layout of the buildings and kind of see where it is that our students are going to be housed in their classrooms. We also want to remind the community that we do
064have summer feeding sites. Our times are 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Lunch is from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. And our summer feeding sites take place at the Edison Elementary, Turner Park, and all of our summer school sites, Morton High, Hammond Central, Edgars, Scott, and Burns Hicks. Our Head Start program is celebrating its 60th birthday. Our Head Start program has been part of the school city of Hammond since the inception of Head Start in 1965. So congratulations to our Head Start program. They are celebrating 60 years of educating our youngest learners. And finally, I wanted uh to share with everyone that we have been accepted into cohort 4 literacy cadre. What this means is that we are going to get to continue the great work at our elementary schools with our literacy coaches to help
065transform and enhance literacy instruction for all of our elementary students. The Indiana Department of Education asked Hammond to be part of this initiative so that we can continue to raise those I read3 scores for the school city of Hammond. Those are all of my announcements. Thank you everyone. Thank you. Do we have an announcement? What? Forgot the release. Miss Bucket is correct. Our first day of school is going to be an early release day. So she is very correct about that. She's she's aware about that first date. It's early release. Maybe that's our first volunteer we've been looking for. Any uh announcements from the board? Anything? Uh I think uh Mr. Selenus has covered just about everything. The city of Hammond is celebrating Junth at the Martin Luther King Park tomorrow. Mr. Selenus will be
066there representing school city of Hammond. It's from 10:00 a.m. to about 400 pm at the park. So, it's going to be a lovely this the mayor of city of Hammond, they always give a tremendous Junth celebration. Uh, so I'll see you out there because it's right across the street from my house. So, I can't miss it. So, that's all I have. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? So, move second. All right. Motion to adjurnn.