001We're thankful for all the blessings that we have in this life. Thankful for this school and and what it does from and gives to our kids and and the lights here. Lord, we just thankful for that m. Thank you. We thank you for uh everything that you do for us. We ask that you be with those that are sick and hurting. Lord, be with them and and give them healing and just let them know that you're in control of all things. It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen. All right. Got approval of the minutes from the August 14th board meeting. Need a motion to approve that. >> I'll make a motion. >> A second. >> You got the second. >> Second. >> Annette. All in favor? I. >> The next thing on on the list
002is our bond appropriation hearing. go through that. Um, school corporation is funding this project through the issuance of a general obligation bonds. The proceeds from this bond issue must be appropriated prior to the money being spent on the project. Notice of this hearing was advertised in the paper. See, there will be an opportunity for the public to make comments about additional appropriation of the bond proceeds. So the the hearing is now open and we ask that you state your name if you'd like to address this uh proposed additional appropriation of bond proceeds and we ask keep your comments three minutes if possible. Is anyone interested in speaking about the bond? Okay. And then I'll have Dr. Lam describe the additional appropriation resolution. After the additional appropriation hearing, the school board must approve the appropriation of
003the bond proceeds to spent to be spent on project costs before any bond money can be expended. Unlike appropriations of tax dollars, this additional appropriation of bond proceeds is not required to be approved by the Department of Local Government Finance. I need a motion to and a second to adopt the additional appropriation resolution. I have a motion. >> A motion. >> Ethan, I have a second. >> I'll second. >> Horna. Any discussion on this? All in favor? >> I. >> Anyone opposed? Okay, motion's carried. Now need description of the final bond resolution. >> The final bond resolution establishes the amount to be borrowed, maximum term of repayment and maximum interest rate. It also contains the details about the bond such as the form of the bond. This resolution also approves the forms of the master
004continuing disclosure undertaking and the registar and paying a agent agreement. The Securities and Exchange Commission requires that a school corporation enter into a master continuing disclosure undertaking before it issues the bonds. The school corporation has entered into this type of agreement previously. It basically requires that the school corporation agrees to annually provide certain types of financial information to the SEC's EMMA database and provide notice of certain material events on a timely manner. >> Okay. So, I need a motion and a second to adopt the final bond resolution. >> I'll make a motion. >> Oh, second. Mona and Eva. Everyone that's in favor. >> I. >> Anyone opposed? >> Okay. Next, need a description on the resolution approving the amended and restated post issuance compliance procedures. >> The school corporation shall consider and approve the amended
005and restated postisssuance compliance procedures. >> I need a motion and a second to adopt that resolution. Approving the amended and restated post issuance compliance procedures. I have a motion. >> Motion. >> Eva. Second. >> I'll second. >> Ethan. Everybody in favor? >> I. >> Anyone opposed? Motion's carried. Okay. The board just approved a bond issue in a maximum amount of $1,720,000. The final bond resolution sets forth maximum that that cannot be exceeded prior to the sale of the bonds. We as a board need to determine exactly what amount of of bonds we are going are going to be issued. I would like for us to make that determination this evening. My recommendations that the maximum amount of the bond issue be $1 million. And I need a a motion and a second. The voice for
006setting that maximum amount and that second >> a second. >> Laura, any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Anyone opposed? >> Motion's carried. And that closes the bond hearing and puts us back to our Oh, this goes budget hearing time. >> Yes, budget hearing time. So, this is our first budget hearing. Um, so it's um thank you for joining us tonight. If you have questions about the budget, there's a sign-in sheet in the back as well. >> Okay. So, thank you for joining us today for the hearing on the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year. This budget represents our commitment to providing a highquality education for every student in our district while being responsible stewards of our community's resources. The proposed budget aligns with state guidelines and has been reviewed thoroughly to meet
007both educational goals and legal requirements. We welcome your questions and feedback as we continue to work together to serve the students of this community. The proposed budget outlines our proposal for the 2026 budget. Each year we conduct highlevel advertising to maxim maximize our levy, which refers to the amount of cash we receive. As we share our bus replacement plan plus items and potential products in our capital projects list, please remember that this is kind of like a wish list of items or equipment that has been evaluated and may need to be replaced in the near future. The purchases of buses from our bus replacement plan and the project materials for our capital projects are paid from dollars that are in our operations fund. And I have um all members have copies of these in your
008um documents. But um like the current financial year worksheet, it's a key tool in our budget process. And this worksheet is used to project our district's financial activity for the remainder of the year, which is from July 1 to December 31st. And it captures a midyear expenditures, remaining appropriations, and estimated year-end balances for each fund. And then we have a form one and it provides a detailed line item breakdown of anticipated expenses for the upcoming year. It includes projections from categories such as salaries, benefits, supplies, and services. It's organized by funds or departments. Um it serves as a starting point for our buildings and school budgets and helps determine funding needs before finalizing appropriations and tax rates. Um this kind of includes like our general education fund. We have uh which covers salaries and benefits,
009wages, operating supplies and professional services. And then we have a debt service uh line item and it uh is bond payments and other debt interest. And then we have operations fund which we talked about a little earlier with the capital projects um transportation and bus replacements. And then we have what's called as a rainy day fund. The documents in the form one cover budgeting needs and appropriations for 2026. These are merely allocate um allocations and do not mean that we will receive these amounts or spend these amounts. We always budget high and this form allows us to see where our cuts need to be made if necessary or where we can have a little extra money for different projects. Form two is our estimated miscellaneous revenues and it lists all of our expected non-propy tax
010revenue for each fund. It includes income from sources like uh state distributions, grants, fees, and interest. And it's divided into two periods, the last half of 2025 and the up 20 upcoming 2026 budget year. This form helps to determine the amount of funding available beyond property taxes and directly informs the overall budget and tax rate calculations. And then form three is the one that's on the DLGF website. It informs the community of our proposed budget tax levies um and public hearing details. This document was submitted through Indiana Gateway Systems and posted on August the 28th along with our budget replacement plan and our capital projects plan. And just full transparency, the conversation with um our director of maintenance and um Ben Kent talking about the um needs and um places where we might need to
011spend money from our operations budget on capital projects. Form 4B, it's the financial statement that summarizes our finance position and calculates the property tax levy and rate. It's estimated to be um 0.9227. It combines data from other budget forms such as estimated revenue, expenses, and funds balances to provide a complete financial picture of each fund. We will come back in October on October the 9th at the next budget or the next board meeting to finalize our budget. Our numbers do not come in for our enrollment until um October 1 is our first count day. So, a lot of the funds from the education fund come from the number of students enrolled, not including preschool. Does anyone have questions? All right. I do want to back up on the on the bond just for just for
012just general information. I do want to say that this geo bond that that we're uh we're getting will set us up for future for future financial stuff that we want to do. Got ideas on. So that'll that'll help get us set up for those in the future. All right. Comments from patrons comments. Okay. Reports from building principles. Fight over it. >> So many great things. Thank you. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yes, I am. Okay. Our elementary uh teachers and >> I don't think it's one of those. >> I'll just >> technical difficulties testing >> here. You can use this one. >> Yeah. All right, teachers and students uh are uh settling into our new school year and adjusting to our new reading curriculum, Amplify. Uh this program emphasizes the science of reading and the development
013of critical ELA skills for our young learners. So all beginning of the year testing has been completed for the elementary and um in the coming weeks and teachers have already started this but they will be um starting a kind of a deep data dive to analyze those results and be able to identify how we can best support and challenge um our learners. Um children and our RTI uh team we've been starting this week Um, three times a week we have built into our afternoon schedule with our RTI team teachers with student academic concerns. They complete a form and then they meet as a team and they go through a process on um a plan on how best to support that student. um they loop in the parent and kind of develop a plan of action
014before any formal evaluation um is completed upon for that student. Elementary after school tutoring will begin next week and this will be for students K through five. Midterms will be sent home tomorrow. Faculty and staff participated in onampus professional development yesterday. So um I want to thank Dr. Lam and Dr. Dystra for leading these sessions. Um all teachers and aids participated in these uh sessions yesterday morning. And I would like to extend um a sincere thank you to Rebecca Rollins and Kennedy Bratton. They have assisted in help organizing a coin drive and a soup dinner that is going on uh currently. though you leave here. If you have not had dinner tonight, please stop by. There is a large variety of soup. Um and all proceeds will go to our fifth grade student uh Mirabel
015Kidwell who was recently diagnosed with um doing saroma and she just started her treatment today. So um please keep her and your f her family in your thoughts and prayers. Um also have some upcoming um dates for our elementary. We have our fall field day that our shop class puts on for us on October 3rd. We will have a two-hour delay on October 8th. Parent teacher conferences will be October 9th. Uh fall break will be October 13th through 17th. So those will be quickly approaching. And I have lots of pictures to share with you all. Uh yesterday we also had our PDIS day. So there's some pictures of some of our students. Molly Tharp, she planned um some fun events for the elementary along with middle school and high school. They they did some fun
016things too. Um but our teachers and stuff, they participated and jumped in and there's just some pictures of the classroom and just students and teachers working together in our elementary. And then the very last page, uh this will be for all staff, but our nurse Nikki Brett, she uh created this step into fall. And this is for all um staff. And I think she's actually going to share it out for um you know, if staff wants to bring a friend or whoever, but this would be something just kind of to get staff involved. It's going to be like a a fitness challenge or just kind of just to get everyone together. But we're going to be walking on different days around town and then sometimes we will just join here in school. Um but a
017few days I think one of the days we will uh meet at the town hall or ballpark and then we'll end at the grocery grab in Scholes so that we can support local efforts that um Todd and Clair Baker and the uh historic Scholes River District but they are trying to our community. That is all I have. Any questions? How is uh everything going up in the valley as far as Sandy getting started and all that? >> So I I have [Music] >> sure she gets the extra help. She's not need. Thank you. >> You're almost there. No pictures. Thanks. Maybe So, um I'm Carol Eubank, the middle school principal, and so we have a few things going on in the middle school. Um first, I'd like to um offer a shout out to Molly
018Tharp. Um she has become our administrative assistant. Um and she does a lot of wonderful things to keep me sane in the middle school office. Um, first of all, she's a tremendous resource to me because she um tries to help explain some of the traditions of the school that maybe have changed since I was here more than a decade ago. Um, she also lets me know what things have worked well in the past and what things need revision. Um, she's been a wonderful team player, helping uh the athletic department to organize all their physicals. She helps create rosters. She takes student pictures for athletics. Um, she's also been helping out in the central office when needed. Um, and she's agreed to, uh, go to a corporation skyward training where she was at today in Muny.
019So, she's been gone all day today and looking forward to having her back tomorrow. Um, but hopefully she can teach the rest of us um, about some of the more current features on the Skyward um, system, that student information system that we use. Um, we we have some significant updates we need to make. So, I would also like to give a shout out um for Kelly Wellman Kovi. Um she has been a tremendous resource to me. Um this year we rolled out the SEAL um schedule which is grade level appropriate material that specifically targets the social and emotional needs of the middle school. And as you might imagine, we have some social needs in the middle school that need some reckoning. So that's what we've been working on. Um, and she's been a great resource
020to not only talk to kids and help me have some difficult conversations with kids, but also finding materials, whether that's videos or worksheets or discussions. um she's just really been a great resource for me and always chipping in wherever I need her, whether that's lunch duty or on a recess duty. Um she's just really been helpful. Um I also received Heidi Hoffman's resignation for middle school student council sponsor on August 4th. That was emailed to me. Um and I would like to recommend Cassie Phillips for the board to consider as her replacement. Um, we also should be on the second read of our middle school handbook updates. Um, so I'm eager to see how that goes. Um, Mrs. Overton, we're going to talk about some programs. Miss Overton took her eighth grade um, A students
021um, on an FFA a field trip to the antique show. They learned a lot about some A careers. uh learned a lot about um agriculture uh tools and the way things have upgraded and updated and just in general excitement for the field. Um our sixth grade will be attending a STEM openhouse at Crane next Thursday the 18th and then our eighth grade will be attending the Martin County Alliance Manufacturing Day on Friday the 19th. So, we do have some things going on in the community with our kiddos. Um, yesterday we hosted um our first big PBIS day. Um, so, as you know, it was a two-hour delayed day. Uh, the middle school opted to do something a little different. Uh, we took care of our morning bullying uh presentation. So, our students watched the bullying
022video. They had a class discussion and next they're working on what's called a genius hour. And so over the course of the next month, our students have been asked to identify bullying as they see it at Scholes Middle School um and how they can help solve the problem. And so um on our next two-hour delay, those home room kids are going to share what they've come up with. I'm hoping that some of you will come in and serve as judges because we would like to share their presentations with the rest of the staff um during Red Ribbon Week, which is the last week of October. So, we're just really having some really important conversations about how to treat people with respect >> um and how to keep our hands to ourselves and our feet to
023ourselves and all kinds of things like that. So, uh so anyway, if you would like to come in and be a judge for us, we would certainly appreciate it. We're going to do that at our next two-hour uh delay day. Uh in the afternoon, uh we hosted our PBIS celebration for the middle school students. So, uh I think I shared at the last board meeting, the way we're doing the points this year is a little different. Um the students are are required to be accountable for themselves. That means that each week they record their own grades and they give points based on their grades. The students are required to look at their own attendance and record their points for their attendance. And then they are also required to look at their discipline notices. Um, and
024they get points for the lack of discipline notices. Um, so they record their points and they they find out who earns the right to go and celebrate. Um we did unfortunately have uh 19 kids who were ineligible because of absences, because of grades, uh because of discipline issues. Um and they had an opportunity to work on those things and improve those things. Students also have the opportunity to gain points um if they're caught doing things that are good and they get those um those points back that way. So there is a way to always earn things back especially if they have an absence because of sickness or you know it's not really fair to them. So um we had a great time. We did all kinds of fun things. We did a hula hoop challenge.
025Uh we did a human rock paper scissors challenge where they had to do different body parts to represent rock paper versus scissors. And it was a big competition. Uh we played tic-tac-toe with cornhole bean bag. We just did all kinds of fun stuff and the kids had a great afternoon and celebrated. So, it's a great day. >> Thank you. >> Come on. [Music] I'm going to start at the bottom um just because it discusses this new face here with us. Um this is Mr. Birkhart and I'm going to start down here because he's been busy running around um being at the game tonight and I'm sure he wants to get back out there. But um Mr. Burkhart is hopefully going to be our new athletic director here soon when he's officially approved by the board,
026but he has just hit the ground running. Um, I'm going to let him say a little bit about himself here in just a few minutes, but I he has jumped right in and helped wherever needed and he's probably tired of me and Allison being a mother hen to him, but we've kind of taken him under our wing. Um, and I have just had so many compliments in the last few weeks from parents on how positive he is, how helpful he is to our students, and I really appreciate that. Um, so Eli, would you like to say a little blurb about yourself, where you came from, your degree? >> Hi. Um, for those of you that don't know me, my name is Eli Burkhart. I am from Evansville, Indiana. I just recently graduated from the University
027of Indianapolis, where I studied sports management. Um, and I just want to honestly open up by saying thank you guys for this opportunity. Um, my entire life has been kind of pushing towards helping people, especially at the high school level. My father has been a high school basketball coach for Evansville Bossy for the last 18 years where he's created a culture and really just created something that nobody really expected from him at that position. And I just want to say thank you guys for giving me the opportunity to do the same thing here. Um, I know that there are some things that need to be changed. There are some things that need to be worked on and I'm going to hit the ground running just like Kendra ended up saying earlier. Um, I'm just I
028am very very excited to be here and to be able to work with you guys as closely as I will. So, thank you. Speaking of our athletics, um I just want to give a shout out to our volleyball team. They're having an amazing season. They're 14 and two, right? And uh they've won both tourneys that they've been in. They've been the champions of both tourneys. So, shout out to them and their coach. And then our high school students, they're doing well in cross country, too. And there is a picture on the second page of down at the bottom. That is Mr. Eli Whitmer. Eli is a junior and he has never participated in a sport at all and he thought he would try cross country this year and I could not be more proud of
029this kiddo. um he was in a match last night or a meet last night at Lagod and he placed 13th and that's a picture of him with his ribbon and I am so proud of him and out of I don't know if you've ever been to a cross country meet um but sometimes there's over 100 runners in a meet so I'm very proud of Eli wanted to give a shout out to him so going back to the top now in my report um it's been an awesome awesome time in the high school building I love being back here with my people, my students, my staff. Um, last Friday we had food truck Friday, it was called, in our culinary class. And for the last several years, our students have got to go to Bloomington and
030attend what's called a food truck Friday event. They see a presentation um that's put on by um various business owners of actual food truck owners. So, they get to see this presentation. They get to ask questions. How do you start up your own business? How do you run a food truck? So, Miss Sarah Saxon, who is amazing by the way in the culinary department, she put together an activity in preparation of this um called food truck Friday. And it was a little competition. Uh students, they had to design a food truck and there's pictures on the second page of a couple of those. They developed a recipe. They made samples of their product and then they advertised and gave out samples of their product to students and staff. And then we got to vote on
031our favorite food truck. And I believe the winners were um Larsson Bear Sterling and Athena Smith on that. And there's a couple pictures on the back of those food truck designs and the food there. Um our schools, all schools actually are gearing up for college go week, which is the week of September 22nd. There's a flyer that's attached in this packet of all the activities that are going on in the high school building during that week. um Megan, the SLT team, and the early college students, we have been working hard to prepare these activities for each day. And then we are working on a schoolwide event on that Friday to celebrate. And just to touch base on our early college program on the very last page, um that is how much our students here at
032Scholes saved last school year because we have an early college here at Scholes High School. There was over a $143,000 saved by our families because of what we offer through that early college program here. So, I just wanted to bring attention to that and how great it is for our students. Um, shout out to Molly Tharp. She is our new PBIS coordinator. She did organize a fun-filled day yesterday. The students and staff took part in some fun competitions outside as the other two principles talked about. And something that I am excited about this year is in the past students had to wait all the way until the end of the year to celebrate. they earned points and they had to wait until the end of the year event. Well, now we're doing something every month
033to keep that excitement going about PBIS. And um I want to give a shout out to Molly because I believe that was her idea. So, it was a great idea. We have started an attendance challenge in the high school. Um the state looks really hard on looks really hard at your attendance and you do get dinged for it if you have low attendance. The high school has been dinged in the past for low attendance. So, we are doing an attendance challenge and whatever class has the best attendance each week, they get to go to lunch 5 minutes early. They are loving that and they are really getting into the competition. And I ran an attendance report today for overall grades 9 through 12 and from the first day of school to now we're sitting at
03495% and that's really good for our high school because what we've been dinged on it it was pretty low. So, I hope that keeps I hope it keeps up. Um today the Scholes shop students and instructors they presented at the Davis County Farm Fair. They presented to all the fourth graders in Davis County which are about 400 students. They've been asked to bring Jug Rock Farms there. Um and teach these fourth graders in Davis County what we do here on Jug Rockck Farm. Um so they take them through our A program. They and then I think they also do like um an apple cider project with them. But I think about 12 students went there today with two of our instructors. And I think that's all I have on my report. I have a couple
035pictures on the second page of the farm fair today. And like I said, the next page is just college go week activities and then how much money we saved. But that's all I have. I did want to give a shout out to our volleyball team for organizing a soup dinner um and all the support that we've shown to Meera and her family. We have a wonderful community and um we always always come together for those in need and I just want to say lots of prayers and well wishes are going up for Meera and Sandy and the rest of the family. >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. All right, new business. Athletics. We have some coaches to approve here. Um, we'll separate the first one out. I'm going to abstain from from that one
036since that's Kyle. So, we'll do this this first set right here into Um, we have Kyle Turpin as girls varsity basketball coach. A motion to approve. >> That a second. >> I'll second. >> Ethan. All in favor? >> I 401. From that one. Uh, the next one is Sam Perry as girls varsity basketball assistant. Motion to approve. >> Make a motion. >> Or second. I'll second >> Ethan. All in favor? >> I basketball continues. Bunch of them. Mike Fischer is girls basketball volunteer. Heidi Hoffman, girls basketball volunteer. Travis Pratt, girls basketball volunteer. Ava Perry, girls basketball volunteer. Andy Purdue, girls basketball coach, possibly middle school and elementary, dependent upon numbers. Logan Waggler, boys varsity basketball assistant coach. Sam Perry, boys JB basketball coach. Braden Perry, C team, this is volunteer. Oh, okay. Gotcha. The C
037team basketball coach and high school assistant coach. And Ryland Perry, boys eighth grade basketball coach. Bryson Schultz as boys seventh grade basketball coach. Cody Douglas, boys sixth grade basketball coach. Chad Kundiff, boys basketball volunteer. Soccer, we have Malachi McNav, volunteer boys soccer coach. Gna Floyd as girls volunteer coach and Cyrus Ellis as boys volunteer soccer coach. Rachel Weininger as high school cheer and high school dance coach. Cross country we have Allison Taylor and Amy Money as volunteer coaches. Isabella Nuland JB cross country coach. Motion to approve those folks. >> Motion a second. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> I recommendation for new hires. Eli Birkhart as athletic director and boys varsity baseball coach. Riley Bower is CTE intern in business. Cassie Brazine is elementary special aid. >> Okay. >> Courtney. Okay. We'll do
038the other two with this group and we'll do her last. Um the following recommendations pending finalization of paperwork would be Jennifer Bridges as substitute teacher and Sun Blossom Summerton as substitute teacher. Motion on those. >> I'll second and Eva. All in favor? >> I now we'll go back and get Courtney as elementary special ed aid and that is pending also finalization of paperwork. Motion to approve Courtney. >> All motion. >> Ethan. Second. >> Laura. All in favor? >> I. >> 401 on that one. Annette abstaining. Resignations. We have Darcy Soak as preschool teaching assistant and Deanna Hurt from cafeteria. Motion to approve those resignations. net second. >> I'll second. >> Ethan, all in favor? >> I >> Cassie Phillips as middle school uh student sponsor, student council sponsor, I should say. Motion to approve her.
039>> I'll make a motion. >> All right. A second. All in favor? Hi, >> fundraiser. We have senior beta to sell discount cards for 2026 November November 1st through March 31st to 26. Motion to approve that fundraiser. >> Motion second. >> I'll second. >> Ethan, all in favor? >> I We got several trips here. freshman with Theresa Hol to the Martin County Health Office on August 27th. Mrs. Goodman's class to the Cornerstone Community Church on September 12th to help with the food pantry. Jug Rocks Robotics to Hendawson Falls Shelter House September 17th accept the Martin County Community Foundation grant check. Juniors and seniors to Lawrence County Fairgrounds for the Stonegate Skilled Trade Showcase September 18th. Business culinary students to Bloomington September 19th for food truck Friday. Jug Rock Robotics to Vincens's University on September 27th
040for the first for the first forums. Third grade to Lark Ranch and Lagod Park on October 2nd for a fall field trip. Junior Beta to Evansville November 13th for the Indiana Junior Beta Convention. Grades 7 through 12, drama club to the Bloomington AMC theater on November 22nd to see Wicked, part two. Grades 9 through 12 for SHS college visit day and senior state house trip March 26th of 26 and high school engineering students crane westgate on April 2nd of 26 for design challenge. Motion to approve those trips. >> Motion second. I'll second it. >> All in favor? >> I have some policies. Approval of changes to the middle school student handbook, employee corrective action document policy, overtime pay for non-certified employees when approved by the direct supervisor and the superintendent. Motion to approve those policies.
041I'll >> motion. Ethan. >> Second. I'll second it. >> Laura, all in favor? >> I >> facility usage approval to supply the facility for a girl softball tourney event on October 4th and 5th in honor of an elementary student who was recently diagnosed with rare form of bone cancer. Motion to approve that usage. >> Motion. >> Eva and Annette. All in favor? I >> I >> andou approval of an affiliation agreement with WGU so student can complete a field experience course under the supervision of Meresa Hulk. Can you elaborate on that just a little bit or >> um it is in here? >> Is that something is that something new that that we're doing with Tesa? I see. >> I see. >> Okay. Okay, that makes sense. >> Okay, thank you for that. Okay, we
042need a motion to approve thatou. >> Ned second. >> Second. >> Ethan, all in favor? >> I >> Okay. Agreement to mutually release of claims. This is proposed resolution agreement with site logic. Motion to approve that agreement. >> All motion. >> Ethan second. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> I facility usage athletic fall festival and both fall festival in both gyms October 25th set up on the 24th. Motion to approve that. >> Motion Eva and second that. All in favor? Hi [Music] >> Chanel Josh Harmon a substitute SRO and I don't want to butcher this name Kanetta and Soden is that even close in the cafeteria pending finalization of paperwork the positive outcome Ferman a substitute custodian for cleaning the gyms after the ball James uh staff to tutor students after school for
043iid and Daniel Kurpin as interim head soccer coach. >> Motion to approve. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> A second. All in favor? Hi. >> Hi. >> And more field trips. Grade 9 through 11 to the AHC Health Expo day at Mitchell High School October 30th. Top students to Lincoln Tech for a college visit December 9th. High school students to IU for a campus tour October 24th. Athletic department to IHSAA fall district and student leadership meetings. September 23rd, seniors to Vincent University, September 19th for campus tour. Motion to approve those trips. >> A motion. >> I'll second. >> Ethan and Eva. All in favor? >> I >> fundraiser that's going on tonight, is it? Donation soup supper September 11th during the high school volleyball game for proceeds to our fifth grade students
044family. Motion to approve that fundraiser. >> Eva second and that. All in favor? >> I brings us to superintendent report. >> I have a a report from um Danielle Hornet as our um curriculum specialist. she couldn't be here tonight, but uh she wanted me to share that all sophomores and juniors will be participating in the PSAT student readiness check September 25th and the actual PSAT is October 2nd. All students are rostered and all accommodations are in place. Shout out to St. Vincent Depal for the monetary donation for snacks and for students taking PSAT. I just want to kind of put out there that Danielle is our testing coordinator for our district and she has to input all students for all testing throughout the entire school year as well as accommodations and um ensuring that everything
045is all all the tees are crossed. It's that's quite an undertaking. So I appreciate her for that. Students in K to8 have completed the beginning of year testing on I Ready. On Wednesday during PD, Mrs. Cornet went through the middle school staff a brief overview of how to examine that data and next month she's going to come and share that data at the meeting. I learned checkpoints one window starts September 15th and goes through November 14th. Teachers will be administering after completion of standards for the checkpoint in ELA and math grades 3 through 8. New this year, families will be able to have family access to family portal after completing um the island checkpoints so that parents could go online and check be and they don't have to wait for us to get it and
046then print it out. Um I sprout and K testing which is for their littles that is still going on at this time and should be finished by October 3rd. She gave us a breakdown of the enrollment numbers right now. Our enrollment um numbers total prek through grade 12 is 598. That is for update. So I wanted to start by um giving a huge thank you to the board for all that you've done to support me thus far in my first five weeks of being a superintendent. And um it's been a wonderful experience. I also have to give a uh shout out to my sincere uh sincere appreciation to Darla, Kendra, and Kendra for um making the budget season go smoothly. Um they've put up with my craziness, calmed me down during those stressful moments and
047encouraged me along the way and I look forward to continuing this collaborative camaraderie with the administration team over there and our office staff. Um, it's been amazing and I just can't wait to watch our team continue to grow and also to continue to watch our kids grow. It's great uh being in the hallways and peeking in windows and watching kids at in the cafeteria. It's it's been a great experience. I've been glad to have kids back in the building this amount of time. Um, I have had the opportunity to witness great work from our administrators, teachers, and staff members during this month. Um, one of my favorite parts of the day is I am out at the buses when I can be and I love to greet the kids when they come off the bus
048and while they're eating breakfast. It's a great reminder that we're all here to serve a wonderful group of kiddos. Yesterday, we held our first two-hour delay PD session and we had professional development for support staff in the early college room and uh the team worked with Dr. Distra, our director of special education, and she really worked with this group to develop strategies and support structures to use when engaging with all students. Um, our faculty members started their day with a building level principal um meeting for their faculties and then they moved to the cafeteria where I um along with a fantastic teacher uh professional, his name is Paul Andry. He and I presented on trauma-informed care. Uh Paul Andrea is a retired state trooper excess of 30 years of being a um undercover police officer
049as well as narcotics and um the value that he brought to the conversation was tremendous. He is currently um after he retired from the state police, he is currently uh teaching the law enforcement pathway at Poli and Springs Valley and he is also um worked quite a bit with uh he's has fostered children and he has adopted children. So the value that he brought to the conversation I I kind of say it this way. He has a very high school mindset and I have more of a middle elementary middle school mindset. So together yesterday, our conversation, I had created this presentation and I don't know that we really followed it that close, but I I feel like the staff left with some great information and really to continue to learn and grow um in that
050area of making sure we are meeting the needs of all of our kids. It it was really great. And JD um middle school, yeah, JD Emmer won. We started with a rock paper scissor challenge and they um had to if you and I are doing rock paper scissors and you win then we all follow you and you do the next challenge. So JD Emmer from the middle school earned um he won phase for lunch tomorrow. So he was very it was a great challenge and it was really fun but it was a demonstration of in in the terms of social emotional learning and uh trauma-informed care is it I refer to it as the red zone meaning it's a little over stimulating for some people and it gets a little loud so it kind of
051escal you know causes you to be a little elevated but we had a great time with it and and I have to give a special thank you to Paul for his collaboration on the workshop but I also have to say thank you we had a group of professionals who spent the first two hours of their day with all of our staff members kiddos as a as um while we were a so we were able to provide professional development and for support staff as well and I'm fairly certain that they had a great time with the littles I think I can't remember how many they said in there do you remember how many they said I thought it was like 15 or 20 kiddos and they just had a great time I think the adults had
052more fun so I thank you to them for that every other week, Mr. Kent, Miss Hovus, and I meet with the FEMA architect and construction team. It's very a technical conversation, but I know enough to get myself in trouble. The most current update is that we are still on track to finish the project by January. Um, I can't really speak construction jargon, but I can tell you that the team has been working collaboratively to ensure that everything is running smoothly. We've all been waiting to see the walls go up. So, um, the process I understand the process of that. So, my neighbor works for the concrete company that created and designed and put together built the block. So, I guess 14inch block aren't common anymore. So, we've been waiting for that block to cure before
053they can lay it. And so, Monday is the day that they're supposed to start laying that um 14-inch block. So, they said that we should see some progress and it'll go quickly. So, we'll have walls hopefully by the end of next week. Um, I want to point out and say thank you to all of our sports coaches, fall sports coaches. It's been a little warm. They've been outside. They've been working with athletes for a minimum of five weeks. And we want them to know that their hard work has not gone unnoticed. Uh, the late nights of practice, washing uniforms, making peanut butter sandwiches, filling coolers, drink uh with drinks for kiddos and making sure they have plenty of fluids and coaching on the sidelines every single day. And we look forward to continuing to cheer
054them on as the season progresses. We're not far from sectional. >> Can't believe it. It's coming up. >> Thank you for that. on the on the PD day. Um, how did the two-hour delay versus being off all day last year, how did that go in comparison? Can you speak to that, Kendra? But You have very [Music] I love It's a great [Music] I was kind of curious how that would go and you had enough time to get everything all the instruction in that you needed to get in. [Music] Okay, thanks for that. Okay, uh we need a motion to approve a leave of accounting. Oh, is there anything on the financials that we need need to be made aware of at this point? >> Nope, just the uh the budget hearing and the FEMA project
055and >> the bond. >> All right. Motion to approve the leave of accounting report. A motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> And we need a motion to approval of payments. >> Motion. >> Warner has got it. Second. All in favor? >> I. >> All right. I think we are journalism. I