001[Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Hey, [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Laughter] [Music] Heat. Heat. N. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Hey everybody. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Laughter] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Laughter] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Wonder. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Laughter] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Laughter] [Music]
002Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. [Music] N. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Oh, hey. [Music] Evening everybody. Welcome to April's uh School Town of Monster Board of School Trustees meeting. Let the record show that four of the five school board members are here. Mr. Castro will be joining us late. Um, let's stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. United States of America. Item 1.4, public comment information. We currently offer two ways in which the community can participate in regular schoolboard meetings. The first public comment section on the agenda is for addressing current action items that are on tonight's agenda. These comments must be submitted by noon on the day
003of the meeting. The procedures for submission are posted on our website under board of school trustees. The second public comment section is for general comments and does not have to be specific to an agenda topic. If you wish to address the board during the general public comments section of the meeting, please put your name and topic on a card and give to Deb Hayes at the start of the meeting. Miss Hayes raises is raising her hand. All public comments are limited to three minutes per individual with a total of 30 minutes allotted for each public comment section on the agenda. Uh item two, public comments. We have some uh Miss St. Pierre. I'm here to formally address and contest my recent termination by Nicole Gernzie and Sarah Reese and was carried out by Steve Trienfeld.
004My dismissal followed my efforts to speak up about serious concerns regarding the mistreatment of students and myself by Elliot structured teacher Eric Ivazian. Rather than address these concerns in a fair and transparent manner, the administration responded with retaliatory action using said false accusations to justify firing me. When I defended myself, I was met with statements made by administration stating, "Then now the investigation will look like a lie, so we can't move forward." And I could be fired at any time and they didn't have to provide reason. These statements reflect not only disregard to due process, but a monstrous misuse and abuse of their authority to silence my legitimate concerns. I hereby request Oh, I'm sorry. My uh record and character on this job does not reflect someone who could be terminated so quickly and harshly,
005especially considering that the scale of misconduct of other employees at Elliot that I was tasked to monitor and report on was being ignored. one could reasonably conclude that this was due to my speaking up so loudly and threatening to escalate the complaints that I made that were not being addressed properly. Terminating an employee based on false claims, especially when documentation and evidence exist to prove that those claims are unfounded, is a dangerous precedent to set within our educational community. I hereby request a formal review of my dismissal, including an investigation into the actions and motivations of all individuals involved. I am prepared to provide documentation and evidence to support my claims and would welcome the opportunity to present myself um formally to the board. It is my hope that the board will take the necessary
006steps to ensure accountability and that the appropriate corrective actions will be taken. Thank you. Thank you, Miss St. Peter. Item three, principal's report. Mrs. is Linda Beville. Good evening. I want to begin by letting you know some things that have been happening recently in April and I'll conclude with some upcoming events for May. I learn testing began today for grades three through eight and we look forward to seeing the progress of our students throughout the year. Our students work very hard hard and their work shines through when we get their test results. So, we're anxious for that to conclude. Math Bowl is tomorrow. All three elementary schools will be participating and we wish them the best at that competition and typically we score in the top 10 in the state. So, we're looking forward to
007those results as well. Coming up next month is the plethora of events that end the school year. I'm just going to highlight a few things that are important, but there are many things happening in the month of May. All three schools will be holding a kindergarten meet and greet for the class of 2038. Can you believe that? 2038. We look forward to welcoming these new families to the district and meeting our future Mustangs. We want to thank our PTOs because they put a lot of work in to help the administration plan this event. Our fifth grade students will be finishing up the we the people with their mock trials and we want to thank the Indiana Bar Association. They help support the uh program and provide materials for our students. DARE graduations are set and
008we're looking forward to Dr. Heler and some of our board members that will be speaking at our DARE graduations, our final celebration of our fifth graders. And then the end of May brings a lot of fun celebrations. We have field day, fun day, preschool, and kindergarten celebrations. And each school has different activities planned throughout the month of May to support our students and have fun as the year concludes. And finally, the week of May 5th, all five schools will celebrate the hard work and dedication of our faculty during teacher and staff appreciation week. Special activities and delicious foods are served up compliments of our PTO and we're lucky to have our PTO's to help spoil our teachers and our staff and we look forward to that and thank all of our teachers in advance of
009teacher appreciation week. Thank you Mrs. Beville. Item four, consent agenda. Mr. Trippenfeld, Mr. Dempsey, the consent agenda contains items 4.1 through 4.5, which I will go through. 4.1 is approval of the minutes from the uh March 10th, 2005 schoolboard meeting. It also contains the approval of the accounts payable voucher register as presented. The approval of the payroll voucher register as presented. The approval of the personnel report as presented with the following recommendations for employment as displayed on the screen. The following resignations as displayed on the screen. terminations as displayed on the screen and professional learning requests. It also contains item 4.5 which is approval of overnight field trips with the field trip of the month robotics team to the Indiana State Finals. With that, the administration recommends that the board approve consent agenda items 4.1
010through and including 4.5 as presented. Would any board members like any items broken down individually? Is there a motion to approve consent agenda consent agenda items 4.1 through and including 4.5? Schwarzwolf. So moved. Is there a second? Miss. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor of the motion, please say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries 40. Item number five, action item, donations. We approved that. Excuse me. Uh, we didn't do fundraisers. No, we're still on 51. Go ahead. So, the administration recommends that the board approve uh the donations as presented. Is there a motion to approve donations as presented? Bender. Approve. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? I will show the first donations are for Wilbur Wright Middle School which you'll see the donations both for cheerleading from Brian and Carolina Burns and
011Devon and Carolina Schmidt and then donations for the high school little longer list you can see several from the booster club uh speech and debate boys basketball softball chess club uh choir from P Health and uh Nicholas and Diane Bazookas for boys basketball and then the Ryan Andrew Yates Memorial Scholarship Fund for baseball and then Valparez university. Is there a motion to approve the donations as presented? All those in favor of the motion, please say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 40. Item four 5.2 fundraisers. Uh the administration recommends the board approve the fundraisers as presented. Is there a motion to approve the fundraisers as presented? Schwarz Wolf. So moved. Is there a second? Smith second. Any discussion? And you'll see on the screen displayed uh several um that you'll see um for the
012projected date. So it goes from Best Buddies, girls basketball, boys volleyball, fifer choir, CEC, uh tennis, dance, best buddies again, and the amounts with the type of fundraiser and the projected profit. Any questions? All those in favor of the fundraisers as presented, please say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries 40. Item 5.3, schoolboard meeting schedule for 2025206. Dr. Heler, thank you. The administration recommends that the board approve the schoolboard meeting schedule for 2526 as presented. Is there a motion to approve the schoolboard meeting schedule for 2025 2026 as presented? Sender. So move. Is there a second? Smith. Second. Any discussion? As you can see on the screen, we have our board meeting starting in July on July 14th all the way through June 8th of 2026. Uh I will point out uh that October
0136th, the October meetings a little earlier than we typically meet due to uh the overlap of fall break. Um but these are the meetings currently outlined that we believe um will work best for the board going into July. Any questions? All those in favor of the motion, please say I. I I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. Item 5.4 project 2025 0320. Mr. Begley. Thank you, Mr. Dempsey. Before I go through uh requesting your approval for these projects and retaining the DA as our architectural firm, I'd like to just kind of review the process that we went over which has been uh over a year uh where we've went through an RFP process uh going back to April of last year uh with the goal of improving and expanding our central office, building a new tennis
014facility, a new multi-purpose building, improving our soccer and baseball facility, and and then uh improving the traffic flow around the high school and uh middle school campuses. So the RFP uh we this was a committee that was made up of two of our board members, Mrs. Smith and Mr. Dempsey. Thank you for serving and our superintendent, Dr. Heler, uh Mer High School principal, Mr. Nolan, Mr. Jay from the middle school served. Our athletic director, Mr. Melby was on the uh committee, our supervisor of building and grounds, Mr. Wallace and myself all received uh requests for proposals from several different architectural firms with us interviewing three of them DA Shive Hatterie and Fanning Howie. uh through the RFP process, DA proved to be the most qualified and was greatest highest by the selection committee. And I'd
015like to say we've already done one board approved project with them, the baseball and soccer field improvements, and it has been a great pleasure working with the DLA team, and they've done a great job in helping to design um the baseball field. And then finally, by packaging all these projects and with Dr. Heler, Mr. and they'll be uh negotiating uh with them. We have a very competitive deal uh for their services. So with that, I'd like to recommend the first of the uh projects. Project 2025320 would be the uh parking lot and traffic flow improvements. Is there a motion to approve project 2025320, specifically the parking lot and traffic flow improvement study as presented? Castro. So moved. Is there a second? George will second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor of the motion,
016please say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. Item 5.5, project 20250, specifically the athletic parking and storage improvements. This this project is a carryover. We weren't able to get all the baseball field done. So, this will be uh the parking lot improvements and storage improvements over off of the 35th uh street to help improve storing our athletic uh equipment and also um being able to park approximately 100 cars in that area for special events that require additional parking. Is there a motion to approve project 20253319 the MHS athletic parking and storage improvements as presented? Tinder I so move. Is there a second? All right. Smith second. All any discussion? Excuse me. All those in favor of the motion please say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries 5-0 item 5.6 project 20240415 the school
017of monster tennis facility. This uh project is a result of we've uh have a lease that we've negotiated for the land west of the high school by moving the tennis courts over to that area. We will create a brand new uh tennis facility and that will set the conditions for our multi-purpose building which we intend to put between the high school and the middle school with the vacated land with the move tennis court. Is there a motion to approve item 5.6 project 20240415 as presented? Wolf so moved. Is there a second? Castro second. Any discussion? I guess I just want to clarify to maybe the public and the students that all of this money is coming from a $62 million bond that we did December we approved in December of 2023. However, we had spent
01818 months prior to that. I think it was December 2020. Yeah. Um, so this is it seems like we're um approving these things fairly quickly, but we've had two and a half years really of people coming in and talking to us about this, knowing what our facilities, we had architects come in and look at our facilities and help us grade them. We're not experts in architect or engineering and so we have done our due diligence. So it seems like we're just voting through this, but we have spent hours and hours and hours as board members looking at this materials as well. So Just to clarify, um I actually want to make a comment as well kind of on the heels of that and I was going to wait till all these were um voted upon
019um and if they all passed uh kind of mentioned something similar to what Dr. Schwarz wolf mentioned, but um also the fact that uh to reiterate this this has been this this has already been a paid for or not paid for, but these monies are available. I know people are hearing a lot of bad news and seeing and worried about, you know, you're spending money on things and we're not sure we're going to be this money is already available to us. I just want to reiterate that. I'm sure we'll cover that later on, but just Yeah. And I just would add that what we're asking for approvement approval tonight is essentially the fees for the group that's doing this work for us. So, they have done all of this work to do the planning, the
020design. They're doing all this work for us. There's a fee that comes with their services. Um, though we've already done one project, as Mr. Begley talked about, and they've already started the initial work on some initial design on all these projects, we needed to finalize the agreement with them on what their fees would be for all of their services. So, that's what tonight is. Tons of due diligence has been put in on the planning and the decision- making on the timelines and all that. It's now it's just finalizing their their contract so that they can actually continue and move forward with these projects going forward. I'll say also this is this is public record. This has been all these meetings that we've discussed all there's record of this if anybody's curious or wants to look
021back in the past. So Mr. Begley, when do you anticipate the tennis facility project starting? Uh well the design will not take too long for this with so we'd like to get this going in the fall. Okay. And to say another thing, DA has in the background been working on on these things. And another thing with DA, they have done many of these projects before. So they're very well verssed in putting together tennis court facilities and also uh field houses, multi-purpose buildings. So just to reiterate, we'll start the the tennis courts and we won't touch the existing ones until those are ready. Correct. And and and that's in phasing in setting conditions for one project to happen um before another one happens. So, example, at the baseball field and soccer field, we had to wait
022for soccer to be over and we had a pretty tight timeline. So, that's why we bumped that one in. And to get that one in in the nick of time, uh we were putting on the fence topper the morning of the game. So, we we got that one in uh with some challenges with weather. So, the as well as the due diligence to put the bond together, to find an architect, we've also worked on timelines on when these things can happen. So it happens in a sequence that minimize disruption to students and uh gets gets our uh these projects done with the the best competitive price. I mean and for and we're going to get to the uh the central office multi-purpose the purpose of that one kind of jumping ahead is um if we
023package that one together we believe we'll get a better a better deal. I just want to add one other element to the the tennis facility which is we have heard some comment from one of our students Kevin McNelte regarding environmental concerns, water retention. Um all of his ideas, concerns have all been shared with our architect. They are trying to take any of those things into concern. As we get further down the design road, we will probably set up a meeting with the environmental club so they actually get to be a part of that conversation. Um because they had some really good solid concerns from a group of and and they're doing it the right way. They're coming to board meetings making public comment pre presenting us with um not just concerns but solutions. So we
024want to continue to engage with them. Is there a motion to approve project 20240415 school town of monster tennis facility as presented? I think we did that. I think I did. Oh, we did. Excuse me. That was discussion. Sorry. All those in favor of the motion 20240415, please say I. I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. All those or excuse me, motion carries. 50- 0. Item 5.7, project 2025 0226, central office. Uh well, we kind of talked about this one a little bit already, but again, this is for the architectural services for DA to design um for a central office remodel uh and expansion and then to build a multi-purpose building that would be located between the high school and the uh middle school. Is there a motion to approve project 2025226 central office as presented?
025Schwarz Wolf. So moved. Is there a second? Castro second. Any discussion? And again to clarify this is just for the architectural services. We do not have final drawings. We don't have final. So that's all going to come and will be presented at a board meeting. Um this is just to get the design plans going. Dr. The only thing I I would just add is, you know, this this is a of all of them, it's one of the bigger projects. Um, from the central office standpoint, the expansion, one of our goals with expansion is to move uh the exceptional achievers program into the same central office as the rest of our district administration, which is an area we think is is really important. Um, so expanding to allow for those additional office spaces to come into
026this building. Um yeah, the multi-purpose building we think is going to be a really important piece for our students who are in any of our athletic programs to have the ability to practice immediately after school. Currently, we have students who cannot practice right after school because of shortage of gym space. Um this will allow all kids to be able to practice right after school as opposed to having to go home and then come back later in the evening and potentially um create those disruptions. So that and the ability for um all of our programs, not just athletics, to have another space to do um activities is much needed in terms of the high school middle school programs is uh excuse me. All those in favor of the motion for project 2025 0226 central office and
027the multi-purpose building, please say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries 50-0. Item number 5.8, project 2024 1203, caf MHS cafeteria serving line replacement. Uh, this is a project to replace one of the serving lines down at the high school. I put this out to public bid uh through the um newspaper process where it was posted for four weeks and the best bid we got was from CNT Design for $160,000 to replace uh the serving line at the high school. And there no architect on this one. This one I'll just run myself. Is there a motion to approve project 2024 1203 MHS cafeteria serving line replacement as presented? Castro. So moved. Is there a second? Smith second. Any discussion? All those in favor of the motion, please say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0.
028Item 5.9, the new course for Monster High School, American Sign Language 3. Mr. Nolan. I'll be uh real brief, but uh I think Bob talked about this at our last uh board meeting. We were able to secure working with uh PNW uh to add American Sign Language 3 is a dual credit option at Monster High School. Uh we've worked pretty hard on getting this course um approved. So, this will be an additional course sequence for Monster High School students to get them some additional college credit. Um, I will denote as of right now, this course will not be part of the Indiana C college core certificate. That's a separate series of courses, but this would allow a student to pick up some dual credit in a in a foreign language, American Sign Language specifically, and
029they could use that to transfer on to u to the college level, but it would not count towards their ICC diploma under the new Indiana diploma rules and such. Mr. Mr. Nolan, just out of curiosity, do you know any other schools that offer this? So, right now, I think we will be the only high school in-house managing this in the state of Indiana. Um, we we're lucky enough to have the American Sign Language teacher for PNW, also be an employee here at School Town of Monster. So, she's able to bring this course on board for us. We've had to work out some strange logistics with PNW with that, but uh we've got those all kind of all the kinks worked out. There is an online program um through Vincen's University in the state that we
030explored. Uh but this will be in house and we'll have it all here for monster high school students. So thank you Mr. N. I will just say that a couple I've already heard from a couple of high school students are very excited that we have the ability for them to pursue dual credit in American Sign Language. Is there a motion to approve this new course American Sign Language 3 and its inclusion in the 202526 course guide as presented? Ender so move second. Any further discussion? All those in favor of the motion, please say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries 5-0. Item number six, any items that may properly come before the board. Okay. Item seven, general information and discussion items. Item number eight, director of financial operations report. Mr. Melby. Yes. Uh Dr. Schwarzwolf and
031Mr. Castro said very well. Uh but I'll take it a little bit further. Uh when we went for the referendum approximately 10 years ago, the board I remember sitting in the audience when the board said they were going to do their best to keep the tax rate a dollar by a$141. All of these funds to do these projects were raised and allocated. Not only did we do that, but we brought the tax rate down from $141 all the way down to A1.27. So, we took 10% off what was promised by the board. And we've done that actually for the last four years. Last four years, it's been approximately between a$131 and a$127. So, yes, all of this has been in plans. And yes, it's uh we do have the funds to get this done while
032still lowering the tax rate. Uh I'm going to spend the rest of my financial time talking about the quarterly report, which I do believe I put in front of all of you. Uh the first thing this is from January 1 through the end of March. Okay? I know it says April 14th. That's today's date, but the data is from the end of March. First, as always, I show you from 2013 until present our investments per year. On the last line, you'll see 2025 uh just through March, and you'll see that number. We are trending a little bit lower than we were at this time last year, but I am very confident we're going to end the year about the same place as we did last year. Uh then you see the rule that you let
033me invest that money and how. The next page you'll see all of the banks that uh won the RFPs when we put them out for proposal, the amount that we invested, the source, so where it came from, whether it be the education fund, the operations fund or mortgage bonds, the rate we received, the rate we purchased or the date we purchased, excuse me, and the date it matures. As you see, uh, by your policy, I can only go out two years. So we did we do have investments through 2027 but the beginning of 2027 sorry spend a little bit more time. Thank you in on the last page the education fund. This page is comparing our actual uh expenditures to our budget. So if you look at our total budget in the education fund in
034the first three months we've spent over $7 million with transfers. So again, remember we do transfer money from the education fund to the operations fund, which is no more than 15%. They have looked at one time they were thinking about changing that number. They look like they're not changing that number. Who knows what the next two weeks will bring, but that is with all transfers in there. With the transfers, we're at 25%, which would be a little concerning because we know we spend a little bit more in the second half of the year than the first half of the year, which is normal in most businesses, I would believe. But the line underneath is how much we have spent without the transfers and we are coming in at under 22% for the entire budget. So
035we're trending very well. We should come in under the 100%. We will come in under the 100% for the year in the operations fund. This one looks different and I'll explain why. You see our total budget and how much we've spent for uh the year. The very interesting thing and you guys bring this up every uh year. It doesn't match exactly what's in the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet, it looks like we spent more money. But remember, things that were encumbered in 2024, those count against the 2024 budget. So even though we spent it maybe well, I can tell you one, we purchased a bus in February, but we encumbered it in 2024. So actually, as of right now, we have 1 point a little bit over $1.7 million encumbered in the operations fund. 700,000 of that
036approximately is still from 2024 and that still didn't come close to pushing us over the budget for the year. So that number is very low. The reason why it's very low is because the incumbrances that were carried forward. It's going to catch up through the year, but we will definitely trend under the 100%. In the referendum fund, this one is the one that I I know you're probably looking at a little differently. You see the total budget. You see how much we've spent and to this date we spend approximately 27%. Which would be concerning because you know we spend a little bit more in the second half in most of our funds. But there's a good reason for it. And that reason is insurance. You're exactly right. It's insurance. We pay insurance. Our third highest
037cost. We have people is is our highest cost. Second highest cost is um utilities. Our third highest cost is our property, bus, and liability insurance. We pay that one time in January. So, that's skewing the numbers. It's going to start trending lower and lower as the year goes on. We will definitely be under the 100%. As you know, we'll do this uh every three months. And that is my financial report for this month. Unless you have any questions. I just had one quick question slash comment, and I probably bring this up every time you do this report. Um, you kind of touched on investments and and the rule set here. Just want to make sure that everybody knows that you're not swinging for the fences. You're not throwing caution to the wind, throwing, you know,
038investing in Bitcoin and crazy uh meme coins or anything like that or following any crazy stock market trends. Um, the way the rule is written were very limited and uh you have to be extremely conservative and these are primarily CDs of different uh durations. if I'm not mistaken. Yes, you said it better than I could. Uh they're all guaranteed return investments. Every one of these are CDs right now. So yeah, I'm not purchasing Google or Target and hoping it works. These are set in stone. We know what the returns are going going to be. And yes, sir, it's very it's all set in stone in the policy that we have. As I was told, hope is not a strategy when you're doing that. So correct. Any other questions for Mr. Melby? Item number nine, administrative
039reports, the assistant superintendent reports. Miss Burger, uh, thank you. Um, not much to report at this time. Um, it's scary to think the year is actually winding down and everything is coming um to the end of the 2425 school year. But just like to wish all of our students taking their I am and I learn assessments over the next couple weeks the best of luck. And that's about it for today. Thank you. Thank you, Colleen. Mr. Trippen Velvos, uh, just one thing. Obviously, you guys are aware that in my role, I also serve as a school safety specialist, and I was able to attend a a workshop and conference with uh, Yaric Podsel and Kevin Watka, who are um, two of our individuals in the tech department. Obviously, Yaric we know is our director of
040technology. Kevin is actually titled as our cyber security administrator. uh and we are so blessed to have both of those uh men in that role. Uh I was probably more nervous at the conference when you hear about the North Koreans, you hear about Russia, you hear about Iran and all the things they're doing. Uh and some of the the fishing and all those other things that they do. Uh Kevin is in the forefront of a lot of those things up front doing that because he has some devoted time to that. Uh it was just a first of all it's it's rather scary when you listen to the experts but I felt very good sitting next to the two individual I was asking them questions of what our system does and what we do and I
041never thought I'd hear or use the word polymorphic fishing schemes and actually understand it uh after the case. But they were did a great job explaining that. I just want to give kudos to both of those individuals, our entire tech team. But most people don't know what Kevin does behind the scenes. And just sitting there at a workshop watching him uh what they call RIP a pretty well uh written AI written fishing scam that's trying to access information from our individuals while he's attending a conference and doing that and pulling it from hundreds of email addresses uh using different things was just rather impressive. So he's a wonderful individual. Just wanted to give kudos to those guys because they they deserve that and they usually go behind the scenes and no one sees it. Uh
042other than that, obviously, as you guys know, we're getting towards the end of this school year. So, we're working on next school year, we're going to be having meetings with the building level administration talking about staffing needs for the 202526 school year. So, we are as we're finishing up this year, still starting to think about next year and what our needs are going to be. So, it's going to kind of where a lot of our time is going to be devoted in the next few months. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, Mr. Chip and item 9.2 director of operations report Mr. Begley. Thank you again. I'll give you a brief update on our current construction. Uh as I said earlier, the baseball um soccer field conversion is mostly complete inside the uh
043the field portion and we've played our first two games there uh on the field. Um, so we still need to put in a burm that will go on center center right center right field between center field and right field. Uh, and then complete the landscaping in the fine arts. Uh, the steel reinforcing has been put in place and they removed some columns to open up the uh, band area. Uh, we're running wire back from the stage to the sound booth. Um, and we're getting ready to we're prepping the floors to put in the tile uh, in the gym uh, fieldhouse. the uh bleacher, scoreboard, and sound system. Both sides of the bleachers have been erected, and they'll start putting in the seating. The electrical uh fiber and Cat 6 has been put in place uh
044for the incoming scoreboard and sound system. Uh on 421 to 423, the steel will be erected to support the scoreboard. And then uh the 28th of April to May 2nd, the scoreboard will be assembled and in placed, and the sound system will immediately follow. and our goal is to have that ready for graduation. Uh transportation, uh we have three buses that we ordered several months back. They are currently at the AC plant being having the AC installed and we should receive them prior to school being over. And then we've ordered two 84 passenger buses uh and we're hoping to get those in fall of 2025. And then finally, uh the bus driver appreciation day is the 22nd of April and our PTO and van boosters have graciously uh are going to host a lunchon. So
045I just like to thank them for doing that and uh it will be a nice little event for our drivers. Pending any questions? That's all I have. Any questions for Mr. Beglin? Item 9.3, director of exceptional achievers report, Dr. Jucalis. So, our exceptional achievers team, the teachers have been working very, very hard. We're trying to finish up some last minute activities and so I'm kind of want to update everybody. The STEP program recently had a joint collaboration brunch with Griffith's STEP program. Um, that is our 18 to 22 year old functional skills students. They made handmade invitations. They researched menus. They purchased food. They decorated. They got everything ready. And then when the Griffith students came over and joined them, they all cooked together and they made a big brunch meal and administration was invited
046as well as their direct supervisors from uh Wilbur Wright Middle School and Monster High School and it was very successful and everybody enjoyed themselves. I know that a couple of the administrators showed up and it was it was wonderful um program for the kids. Uh we had our first studentled IEP case conference at the Monster High School which was fabulous and we would love to expand on that program and basically it is a student who is able to lead their own case conference talk about what works for them what they want to do what goals they want to set and so it's uh kind of involving them more so in this process and allowing them to have a lot more input into this and so this is something that is being uh encouraged and we
047ours was very very successful. So we really would like to expand on that um at the high school and then moving down to the middle school. March was Down syndrome awareness month which I announced last month uh last month we were here and it was a great kickoff. We had staff that were wearing blue and yellow in honor of Down syndrome. This month is autism awareness month and so we have had staff that has taken the lead and gone into gened classrooms and actually read stories to those classrooms pertaining to children with autism. And um we've also had uh some of the classrooms or some of the buildings I should say they include in their morning announcements about autism awareness and all this information that they want to share with all the students. And then
048we even had at Eids where they passed out bracelets to every single student received an autism awareness bracelet in the building. And so that was a wonderful opportunity for all the kids to learn more about children with autism. Uh Monster High School, they have their unified track practices that are going underway and they are working very hard and very diligently. Um we have increased our numbers of participation in that unified track. So, the first meet is April 23rd. Mark it on your calendars because we are really excited about cheering our students on for that track meet. We also have unified games coming up May 2nd. Mark your calendars. We will be at Wilbur Wright Middle School this year. The parade kicks off at 9:45 and competition starts at 10:00. So, please feel free to join
049us for a great day of competition there as well. And then we also have Monster High School and the STEP program are planning a peer tutor sendoff. So the students are preparing a picnic meal to thank all of the peer tutors that have worked with them, but especially they would like to spend that day to honor the peer tutors that are graduating. And so that is also in the works. So that's what we have. Any questions? Thank you, Dr. Jalis. Item 10.1, individual public comments. We have four of them. Uh we're going to start with Miss Whitaker. Yes. Hi, my name is Barbara Whitaker. I'm a citizen in Monster, retired teacher, and I just wanted to share something that I experienced today with you because it's kind of relative. I it I attended this uh
050event today at Southshore Arts that at one time you were considering purchasing and there was a big uh concern over that and I'm one of those that wouldn't like to see that happen. It's called Art and Focus. It's a senior uh program uh for uh art apprec this morning as there are here. It's no little thing. It's beautiful. But more than that, today they have on display in their gallery, which is where our meeting was. And that gallery is probably larger than this built, this room, and it was floor to ceiling student art from all around the area. It's totally awesome. Stop in and look at it. It nowhere else in the area is there anything like this. and it's going to be there until May 4th when they will have a reception and awards
051and you might maybe there are students that would like to go to that as well. You don't have to participate but it's totally awesome and free and easy. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Whitaker. Miss Allen. Um, I'm here about the exceptional achievers program. I'm here that se so that everyone knows how important this is. I know things are still under investigation. I'm here because while decisions are not finalized, the students lost a whole year due to incompetent leadership and oop, sorry, I'm losing my spot. And failure to disclose events in the classroom and the lack of proper special needs curriculum. When police and lawyer consultations are part of actions needed by students families because staffing, someone needs to be held accountable. I know it is hard to start from scratch, but if your principal, exceptional
052achievers administrator, and the program leader thought it was wise to dismiss five aids loved by students and have a bond with them and have a teacher leave under duress and leave the one threat in the classroom makes me feel they are the bigger problem. They are supposed to be the protection of our children who cannot speak for themselves because of their disabilities. If major changes cannot be made, we need to know by the end of the month. Find an alternative educational program that actually has an educational program. Um, frankly, your program is neither exceptional nor is it helping them achieve. I would like to add one of the teachers that didn't work out had an ALS display as part of her wall education. And if you're going to introduce it into the high school, maybe
053a basic curriculum for the non-verbal children and the children with disabilities would be very helpful. Just common signs like hello, thank you, wait, they learn these things and they help them when they can't verbalize. Um, you know, it'll it'll Sorry, I added that part because I just thought of it. But it would build bridges and fill gaps. If your program is failing, not why not ask the families and the parents that know the child and can tell you how to work with them. We work as a team. We can heal. We can truly help the kids who need it the most. I know every side, every story has a side, but for these kids, human interaction is crucial. The AIDS and departed teacher were a vital part of stability for those kids. I hope the
054children and their needs is the focus of the results that come from your investigation. I really appreciate you listening to us. I know this is dragged on a long time, but these kids are our life, you know, and their future depends on you as well as us. Thank you, Miss Allen. Miss Keith. So, last month I wrote a bunch of stuff down and then I couldn't even get it all out and I probably spent 15 seconds for the three minutes that I had. Uh, last month I came I talked about an incident related to my son. At that time, Miss St. Pierre and Miss um had just been let go. Since then, a lot has been uncovered. Um, I appreciate the time that Bergen and Miss Hughes have spent talking to the parents and doing
055the investigation. Again, I reiterate, I know it's a live investigation, but a couple of times tonight, I've already heard about the school year winding down. So I didn't want to wait till May to hear the results to also just say to the board that it is important for the administration to be held accountable. See and hear of the different things that were reported and that were not taken seriously and disregarded has lost a great teacher as my aunt said five aids. I walked in tonight with my son and some of those individuals are here and he lit up. Honestly, if you look, he's not even sitting with me. He doesn't leave my side. Like, that is like a huge testament. Like, he is my shadow everywhere I go because I'm his voice and I know
056that if he needs something, I can pretty much interpret it. So, for him to get up and actually like go and sit with them just tells me how important they were. and how important it is to get this right. I want to be collaborative. Um, when I think about the program, I think there's just this lack of education in the general education population at the school. I don't think that Miss Gernzie knows how to have the program in her school. I think that it is thought that inclusion is having the child in the classroom. It's not about just having them sitting in the classroom. It's about them being able to equally participate. When I think about autism awareness month, I have to say I was quite annoyed to just see that they were slapping some
057shirts on kids, you know, orange, yellow, blue, when I worked with our general gen ed teacher to go into the classroom with my niece who is an adult with autism and talk to the kids and really educate them on what it means to be autistic. um we played some activities and we did some things. Nobody ever asked us to be involved and that is just a huge misstep by the administration. So it's just things like that that give me no faith in Dr. Chulis or Ms. Merik and how to actually create the program and then I have also previously expressed the curriculum. Up until this week, I've never seen a grade for my child. He's going to get a diploma at the end of this. Isn't that scary? He hasn't gotten a grade. [Applause] Thank
058you, Miss Keith. Miss David. Uh, good evening. I'm here today to res uh represent my non-verbal daughter. Um she is turning nine in a couple of weeks. Um I want everybody to hear that she now flinches when we open our arms and when we in and she would in instinctively like cover her head when we try to lift our hands. What happened? Life is already hard for children with special needs. I can't imagine what they feel, what they think as they enter the school wondering if they are safe. Like all of us, they too want to be accepted and be themselves. Now my daughter who depends on routine and familiar loving faces has been left without the teacher and the aids who cared for her for years. Years. We need cameras to be placed in
059special ed classroom. We need to make this happen because our children have no voice. If I need to send my kid to school, the school by law should protect her her rights to a free, appropriate, and safe education. Thank you, Miss David. Item 11.1, individual board member reports. Dr. Schwarz Wolf. Uh, good evening. Um, on April 5th, I attended the P Health Perennial Ball that supports cancer research and the cancer resource center. And I didn't say do that as a board member, but while I was there speaking to many of the community leaders, um we got a lot of compliments about our our school district, particularly legislatively and how set up we are for some of these legislative bills that are about to get passed and our funding. So, um Mr. Melby, your name came
060up multiple times with people and how you have really kept us in a good financial state. Um, I'll talk about that in a second. April 8th, I joined an ISBA seminar for a legislative update. Um, I sent the board all the updates on the hour webinar, but the bottom line is um, budget cuts are coming for all public education. Um, so we again uh are in good financial situation compared to many many districts, but we will be taking a hit every single year and that's something we're going to have to figure out. Um, I also want to thank the board and the public, all the people that have been writing letters. Um, I've seen things on Facebook. I know, um, Mrs. Smith had reached out to say, "Okay, I wrote my letters. What else can
061I do?" Um, that's what it takes is having a voice with our legislators. And if there's something you don't like, um, reach out. And it doesn't have to be your legislators. It can be anywhere in the state. I've written I've actually become somewhat friendly with a couple of them now. I don't know how they're We'll see at the end here. We've got two more weeks. Um, I'm working on one that I hope I can get to to go our way. Um, financially, you know, public schools and town councils are going to take a hit. And so, as a community, I hope that there's grace for things that are going to be coming. Um, I and I don't know what those things are, but if we get less money, the town councils get less money, that's
062going to change. So, things there's going to be changes. Um, I'm looking forward to all the end of the year school events. I our calendars are crazy for the next three weeks, but uh it's always great to to have these traditional programs and events that occur as um kids move on to their next grades or their their future lives. Thank you, Miss Tinder. Hi. Um on April 7th, I attended both the town council and the redevelopment commission meetings. The redevelopment commission approved over $291,000 in voucher registers with no old or new business discussed. I also participated in the final session of the Monster Community Ambassador Program um just last week and there's a couple other uh ambassadors in the room. If you are not familiar with this, it's a really valuable experience. you meet um
063once a month and for several hours and get exposure to a lot of different areas of our school district. Um it was a great experience. I would encourage you to explore it by visiting the school town of Monsters website, selecting welcome to STM and then um ambassador program. You can also contact Kim Pyrick, our director of communications for more information. And lastly, I'd like to give a shout out to the high school's monster volunteer program or MVP uh led by Miss Wesland. MVP student members volunteered at Elliot's um fun fair and Eid school carnival amongst many other events. And they are currently supporting the monster parks department by helping coach soccer due to a shortage of parent volunteers. Thank you, Mr. Castro. Uh thank you very much sir. I want to start by thanking Mrs.
064Cinder for attending that uh redevelopment commission meeting. I was unable to attend. Um and she was going to be at the town council meeting and graciously stepped in to uh sit at that redevelopment commission uh meeting. It is quick but still it's something we uh we we have to attend. I uh was able to attend the one held um March I believe it was 17th um and same nothing no old business no new business usually that's the case with those but every once in a while there there's something uh that they'll discuss that uh we need to bring to the board so thank you again Mrs. Senator for doing that um Dr. Schwarz Wolf brought up the legislation that is currently under consideration and I couldn't have said it any better. There are going to
065be changes. You know, I I guess it's kind of we're every school in the state is going to suffer. Every town council in this in the state is going to suffer. Um, I suppose there will be some some small benefit for uh property owners, but for us, we're going to have to make changes. We're going to have to, but I guess I just want to mention that we we plan consistently and we talk about conservative financial approach and that will continue. Um, this isn't something that we're going to be caught blindsided by. We've already kind of had some discussions as to whatifs, worst case scenarios, maybe not so bad scenarios. Um so we're going to do our best as a board um as an administration to mitigate where we can um and continue to deliver
066where we're able. So thank you everyone for doing that work and uh we'll see what we'll see what comes. Thank you Mr. Castro, Miss Smith. Um Due to my position on the school board, I also sit on the park board and we had a number of updates from the parks department this month. Specifically, we are holding um general comment sessions about the area around the View restaurant that will be demolished at some point in time in the near future and what that will look like going forward and how the park in that area will be utilized by our community. So, if you are interested in learning more about that, um there are dates that are posted on the parks department website for those sessions. They're once a month for the next few months that we
067will be looking at um plans, opportunities, design, strategy, and what the future will hold for that park. We were al also doing ongoing updates to our park system. For those of you that are unaware, we are going to have a permanent bathroom at Westlakes. I know that may not be exciting for some, but if you have small children playing soccer out at Westlakes, it is awesome and no longer any um portaotties. Um in addition, if you are um interested in parking or going to Centennial Park, please just as a friendly reminder, you must register your car. So, if you're planning on taking pictures there for prom, I highly recommend you register your cars because you will be ticketed automatically and it is a $50 ticket. Um, in addition to that, the park board approved registering
068multiple cars. So, those of you that have more than two cars in your household, like myself, you can now register additional cars. That was approved by the park board. Um, in addition, there are multiple open work positions through the parks department this summer that are still available for students, young adults, college age kids. Um, there are posted on the parks department website. opportunities for employment. So, if you are interested in that, that is still available. And um I also want to comment separate now from the park board. Um I know a lot of people have been moved around for plays, events, etc. due to construction at the high school and in other areas around our school. And I just want to thank everybody for being very cooperative. I had the opportunity to go to the
069um play for Wilbur Wright which was held at the um Monster Performing Arts and first and foremost I just want to comment um there were so many staff members at that play. It was extremely awesome to see that I there were at least 15 people I saw from the staff attending that play and supporting those young actors and they did an outstanding job in addition to Dr. Heler I saw there his daughter was in the play and um it it was very it was just awesome to see that many staff there first and foremost and secondly just the accommodations that were made by Monster Performing Arts as well as I know the orchestra played out at Lake Central this past weekend. So I know everybody's had a part in making those things happen. I want
070to extend my gratitude for that because to make those things happen is not easy with athletics taking up a lot of the gym space, moving kids around, track, and everything else. It's a large undertaking. Um, I also just want to mention I somehow stumbled upon this uh Instagram page of the 2025 class and where they're all going to school. And wow, is that incredible. um beyond kids Purdue, IU, uh Northwestern, um UCLA, I mean just outstanding and I know there's so much hard work that goes into all of that effort. Um so kudos to all of those teachers, staff, everybody involved along the way from our elementary school to our high school. Um and last but not least, I just want to thank the parents that came here this evening to speak to us. Um,
071I know we cannot speak to that obviously because obviously was said it was an ongoing investigation, but we do take it very seriously and even though we've all given reports that aren't directing towards that this topic, we all take it very seriously and um, but we still are addressing other areas that we participate in and are involved in as a school board. So, I just wanted to make note of that is we appreciate you coming to the board meeting. We appreciate you giving your comments and Thank you, Miss Smith. Uh, I am the li the board liazison for the PTO presidents and the Monster Education Foundation. I just want to quickly mention the Monster Education Foundation has a brand new website. Uh, if if you have if you're not very familiar with with what this
072organization does or what the its purpose or function is uh for our school district and the community, I encourage you to look at it. um they did a great job and it and it simplifies their mission, their purpose um and the and the difference that the Monster Education Foundation makes. Um along those same lines, the School Town of Monster in collaboration with the Monster Education Foundation is hosting the Teacher of Year Awards next Wednesday, April 23rd, um at the Center for Visual and Performing Arts. This is where we celebrate five of our buildings teachers uh that all have earned teacher of the year awards and ultimately we celebrate a district uh teacher of the year. This is our second year doing this. Um Dr. Heler and I attended the the opening ceremony last Friday for
073the baseball field with respect to the the turfing. Um and it looks fantastic. We threw out um first pitches along with Mrs. Shinkin and Mr. Begley, great job on getting that done in in the nick of time. Um Booster Club, Booster Club is hosting its reverse raffle dinner uh next Friday, April 25th. That is also at the Center for Visual and Performing Arts. Uh and last, I just I want to make mention of something that Dr. Schwarz Wolf and I think maybe all four of the board members had had mentioned um with respect to the the the changes that that are coming down state, this is when you you you feel somewhat I don't know if relieved is the right word, but you you you feel um you just feel happy that you are in
074a school district like the town of Monster that its community comes together and writes legislators and just make sure that our voices are heard. Uh to say nothing of the fact that when we get a financial report from Mr. Melby, we we get it days in advance and and usually we're not surprised, but every time we see the investment income, there there aren't many school districts in the state of Indiana that uh take the time to in to invest the money that we do and that Dr. or excuse me, that Mr. Melbby and his team do. And the fact that just in 2024, he was able to generate $3 million that will help offset the costs that we that we are going to um be the baron of in the next few years is invaluable.
075So, thank you, Mr. Mel. Um and that's all I have. Item 12.1, superintendent report. Dr. Hower. All right. I've got a quite a few things I want to address. I'm going to start uh by addressing some of the issues surrounding the public comments that were made this evening. Uh obviously there's a lot that I can't say yet. We're in and and maybe the board meeting is not the appropriate place even to say those things, but as was said, we are in the middle of conducting a what has become a very thorough investigation into the program issues, everything that's been raised. I will say Mrs. Burger and Mrs. OS have done exactly what I've asked them to do, which is uh dig in as deeply and thoroughly as necessary to identify any issues and to come
076back to me with findings and recommendations. And they have worked very hard over the last many weeks to do just that. Uh they will be setting up individual meetings with the parents of each child in the program to review these findings as they relate to their children and to review any overall program findings and changes that need to be made moving forward. Uh, as a district, I can say based on the conversations I've had with everyone um on my team, we are committed to making sure that we make the changes that we need to make, no matter how small or large they need to be. Um, and as was said, and I agree 100%, we do have an obligation to the students and the parents to make sure that all of our programs and all
077of our classrooms live up to the highest of standards. So the investigation is the first step and then there's many things that will come after the investigation is finalized hopefully in the next few days. I'm going to move into talking a little bit about the legislative update now as has been talked about in some general terms. Uh I'll just give some more specifics for those who are listening. Um we're about we're down to the last two weeks. General Assembly is about to leave town and go back to their homes uh here in about about two weeks. Um, so there's a few bills that we're still monitoring. Most of them are budgetary in nature because the budget ultimately drives what we are able to do uh in our buildings and in our classrooms for our kids.
078House Bill 101 is the state budget bill as has been talked about. The Senate was still debating this bill as I walked into this meeting today at six o'clock. They were still debating it um going through each area of that bill. As of Thursday last week, uh the state budget for the school town of Monster in terms of our funding from the state is showing a modest increase in funding. So in terms of what I would we would consider true new money, we would be looking to see about a 2.4% increase in 2026 and depending on how you uh look at it, a 1.9% increase in 2027. Our biggest concern there is that doesn't even really meet the inflationary demands in terms of staffing uh raises, the things that are going to cost us more
079money. They did put some more money as we requested to special education. It is still continues to be a underfunded mandate, not just for us, but for every district in the in the in the state and probably in the country, but they did put some more money there, which is good. and they did remove some of the funding that was going to increase voucher expansion for private schools. So, we were happy to see some of those changes. We still are not um we don't love our increases that we're receiving in terms of being able to meet all the needs that we need to meet next year, but um they're increases rather than decreases. So, we will I guess we'll take it. Uh Senate Bill One, which is the property tax bill, again continues to be
080debated, has taken so many forms over the last few weeks, it's hard to honestly keep track. Uh it can also it's somewhat complicated at times to explain to people in terms of the loss of revenue. So I'm going to try to for for lack of a better word it is a it is a decrease in the potential increase in revenue. U is how I would how I would explain it. So for example, legislative services would say that for 2026 we will receive $1.3 million less in property tax revenue than we would have had this legislative changes not been made. For 27, that decrease goes to $2 million. For 2028, that decrease moves up to $3.8 million in property tax revenue for the school town of Monster. These are directly to our operations budget. So, these
081are things that pay for buses, custodians, maintenance, technology, safety, capital improvements, the things that allow our buildings to stay safe and to function appropriately to get our kids to and from school efficiently and safely. our municipalities, the town of Monster, will also be losing um property tax significant property tax revenue with this bill. So that that affects roads and fire and and police and all of the infrastructure of a town. All told, they're estimating that the average property taxpayer will save less than $200 on their property tax bill in order to do all of these things. Um we don't believe that that savings is representative of the amount of um damage that it's going to cause for school districts. partisan schoolboard election uh is now in a conference committee. Uh that school board bill uh
082would require future school board candidates to file as either a Republican, a Democrat, an independent, or a nonpartisan school board member. Uh it also makes a change to how schoolboard members are replaced if they leave their position in the middle of their term. Currently, uh the elected school board would appoint that new schoolboard member to finish out the term. The new bill would take that authority away and give it to either the local Democratic or Republican party if the resigning board member was elected under one of those party designations. We don't know exactly where this one's going to land as it's down to a conference committee of four legislators to negotiate the final form of the bill. It could just about any just about anything can happen once it gets to conference committee. Uh the
083last one uh not talked about very much honestly when you hear about people talking about legislation. And there's a bill around math education. Uh this bill is expected to pass. It requires that students be automatically enrolled in advanced math in middle school if they are above proficient on the end of year and if they have a C or higher in their math course. So any student who passes the ILR with an above proficient score and a C or higher automatically gets moved into an advanced math course. We have some concerns there. To give you an example, a fifth grade student who is above proficient at the end of fifth grade on their island and has a C in math would move into advanced math on this. We don't ask their parents first. We actually move
084them directly in. Their parents can then opt to take them out if we choose if they choose to. That student would move in for us to a class that is seventh grade math. They would miss their entire sixth grade math content. Their learn score, their I learn test at the end of sixth grade is still going to be the sixth grade math standards. We as a district will have to find a way to still make sure those students learn those sixth grade math standards. There will be a cost whether that is these students have two math classes their sixth grade year or two periods of math and they lose that on elective in order to do it or we have to offer a summer program to jumpst start them ready for that seventh grade content.
085This is a there's some concerns here um in terms of is this what all parents want um for their students. Um I I don't know where this one's going to go. My understanding from talking to legislators is it's going to pass. If it passes, then we will immediately move to working with the Department of Education on the implementation process to make this as painless for our parents as possible and make sure that we can do this as well as we possibly can. I'm almost done. I promise, guys. Uh construction. I just want to say a couple things because a lot of focus and attention lately publicly has been on athletic facilities, improvements to athletic facilities. But I do want to really make sure I I highlight how much improvements we have done to instructional spaces
086across this district over the last few years. Specifically, if we just look at Monster High School, every single classroom at Monster High School has been remodeled or is currently being remodeled. So that every classroom has been touched from a not just we're talking the flooring, the wall coverings, the heating and cooling, the technology in the classroom, the infrastructure behind the walls to make them the best learning spaces possible for students. We're finalizing that with a complete remodel of our fine arts, our band, choir, orchestra, and auditorium spaces at the high school, which is long overdue to be redone. by the end of this year, by the time we come to the school next year, every learning space at that high school will have been touched and remodeled and turned over. And that's just at the
087high school. So though a lot of focus often gets to the shiny thing on athletic fields because people see those when they drive by, the the instructional spaces where it really matters, um have all been touched significantly over the last few years in Monster. And that's uh I just want to make sure we continue to point out the work that Mr. Begley, the height, the principles at our buildings, everybody has done the board to continue to approve projects all while lowering our tax rate uh to make sure we can keep our facilities strong. Really, I'm really This is my last one. Uh recently at the state basketball finals for IHSAA for the basketball finals, um there were a couple of awards to two members of our community that got um that were announced and I
088wanted to make sure to highlight those. John Doherty, former board member, received the Jim Morris Humanitarian Award for more than 30 years of service to the Monster community and for his contributions to the world of sports medicine in Indiana and beyond. And then Jamie Marsh received the Distinguished Service Award for volunteering for more than 45 years in Monsters athletic department. I also want to personally thank and show my appreciation to Monster High School's athletic director, Mike Schultz, for making sure these recognitions happen because he is the one that made sure that they IHSA remembered that these two people have done all they have done and ensured that these recognitions were welld deserved and that they happened. So, thank you to Mr. Schultz and congratulations to Mr. Doherty and Jamie for all they've done. That's it
089for me. Thank you, Dr. Holler. Uh, announcements. We have an executive session April 22nd next week. followed by another executive session on April 25th. Uh the Indiana School Board Association spring regional meeting is May 6th at 5:30 and our May our regular board meeting uh for May is May 12th at 6 o'clock. Uh with that adjournment, I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. Schwarz so moved. Second. All those in favor of the motion, please say I. I. I. Meeting adjourned.