001All right. So, we have the agenda that was provided tonight with no addition. Want to make a recommendation? Second. A first and a second. All in favor? I heard nobody say it. I have two eyes. Anybody else wants to say I might ask a favor for ladies down here. When somebody makes a motion, say it loud enough so they can hear who it is. Okay, so we had John with the first or sorry, Jerry with the first and John with the second. Okay, so agenda approved. We're going to kick off tonight with the school spotlight. It's our favorite part of our meeting. It's the last one for this year and it's the Thank you for having us. No, I'm just gonna introduce Miss Joe and our ad kiddos. They've got some fun stuff to show
002you that they've been doing in Agg. This was our first year to have a classes and it's been a great success. So, we're really excited for them to share some of what they've been working on. So, you guys can go ahead and come. Like I said, thank you for having us. I'm Jana Joe. Um, this is the first year for the A class. Um, and felt like it has gone pretty well. Uh, we've had a lot of fun in class. Um with me I have brought three well two and a half of my students. Um Leah St. Quinnetti is going to talk to you a little bit about our rat breeding program and I'm going to call you Scoots. Regan Coop Rider. I always call her Scoots. Regan Coop Rider is going to talk to
003you a little bit about um we were doing kind of an FFA-ish club um and she did an SAE. she was going to do it on quail. We had a little bump in the road, so we had to kind of alter that a little bit. And then Morgan Merritt was never actually one of my students. However, she was interested in the act and she kind she started coming in. We started talking about plants and she has become my right-hand uh when it comes to the plants. Uh we had a plant sale a couple weeks ago was very successful. Um but she's going to tell you a little bit about that. So, I'm gonna let Leah start off with our friend Aspen so she can tell you about her. [Music] Yes. Yes. A few steps that
004way. It's all right. If you do that [Music] right, so we actually started the rivalry with our two oldest girls right now, Charlotte and Baruka. And they basically started the rivalry. was created with our oldest male that we recently stopped out his monopoly and they had Dolly which ended up being a Dolly was a silver man silver man and she breeded it with Monopoly as well and which gave us Aspen our newest litter and she is going to be the heart our litter right now. We just had 10 babies and they each they all sold a little animal sale like to students to students students at school here. Yeah, we bought them out last year. We did it to Mr. Idol and I actually bought some of them. We have three of them. This is
005our second round of They're very new for a pet rep. One thing that we ought to mention is we do selective breeding. And so um Aspen is a silver mane. She's a mink silver mane. Uh we breed for temperament and we breed specifically for silver mane um which is a specific kind of hair coat which will say stay soft through their entire life. Most of the time as rats get older their hair gets more coarse. But silver manes have hollow hair. Um, so it kind of gives it a sh silver cast and it keeps it very soft. Um, I use this in my ACT class when we talk about breeding hogs and cattle and sheep and why we breed purebreds and why we breed for specific characteristics. So, as Leah said, she is um the
006third in a long line of silver manes, which is a trait we have been trying to get in our litter with aspen. We had silver manes and what was the other one we had? We had Velvetines. So, we don't breed them just willy-nilly. Um, and like Aspen, all the rats we've bred. Um, they came from my original line started with a breeder, a rectable breeder. I looked into the health of her animals and stuff like that. We'll get to Nugget in a minute. Um, so Aspen is kind of the apex. She is so far removed from a wild rat. So we understand when people say they're afraid of rats, but she is as different from wild rats as a cat would be from, you know, a bobcat. I mean, they're they're the same species, but
007evolution, they have these are truly domesticated animals. So, they expect interaction with humans. They welcome it. Um, they don't bite unless somebody tries to grab their tail and swing them around. They don't bite. Um, all of my students handle the rats. So, that's a little bit about our rat program. And Leah has been with me from the start. She started last year and so she has been with me the whole time, too. Oh my gosh, they are. Um, and part of our part of our plant program when Morgan comes in, we raise a lot of lettuce and so we harvest lettuce, we give it to the rats. So, okay, next up I've got Reggie Coop Rider and she's got Nugget. So, I'll let her tell you about [Music] Nugget. Nugget's not as well trained as
008and Sarah, but or this is our second round of chicken. Um, we were going to incubate quail eggs, but they froze over and it red and so we're going to incubate those. So, we bought chickens and we have two older chickens that are almost fully grown. And then we have these newer chickens. Um, so what kind of chicken is that? She's the Easter egg. Easter eggars. Do you remember what Easter eggars are? Okay. They lay multicolored eggs. They lay a lot too. Yeah. And originally Reggie was going to be incubating these quail eggs and they got they got stuck at one of the shipping places. They went to like three different places and one place they got stuck for nine days and it was in January when we had that cold snap and we tried
009to incubate the eggs that we think that they all froze. So, we lost those. But this was part of Regan's um supervised agricultural experience. And so, rather than just end it with that, I got chicks at we got four chicks from Tractor Supply and she has been raising them. She's been in charge of taking care of the chickens. So, in return, her payment for that is she has two of the older chickens that she's already taken home. So, okay. And then I started with the show at the beginning of the year. I got into plans um and uh my friend actually got me into it and I kind of reconnect and it just filed into a whole bunch of things and I started asking like you know what was like this plant, what did this
010do like you know all this stuff and it ended up going into um you know getting reaction of things too where um I learned a lot of like where my food come from because I love salad. Um, and like I wanted to learn, you know, like where does all of this come from and my grandpa was a farmer and, you know, I wanted to, you know, kind of learn all the things that he did. So, I learned a lot of like where like how to grow lettuce about that. I explored hydroponics, which is where you grow plants in water. That was really cool. And I ended up creating the library um QR code um and flyers. I could do that um to hang around this whole building and it's I made it to where students
011could scan them. It would bring them to a page full of uh different seeds and they could order them on the Google doc. Um, and I would fill I would have all these different seeds and I would fill them out and deliver them during study and that's you know now I am you know her hand and she started the seed library all on her own. Um, and that's something she's going to continue next year. We plan on offering the SE library again. And then Morgan's brought some stuff for you guys, too. We got some non breathing type. Well, I guess they sort of breathe. So, you can just see packets, too. Oh, you got those. [Music] I have my YouTube. Oh my gosh. [Music] That was a butterfly. [Music] and finishing that stuff out. Um,
012I wanted to thank you for letting us come and talk to you a little bit. Thank Mrs. Crabtree here because she's very generous. I know she cringes every time I come in, especially when I say I have an idea. And she has been very talented at that. Um, and I wanted to end with our um our hopes for the future. Um this is the outside area in between the old well it's the sixth and seventh grade hallway and the eighth grade hallway right now. So we've gotten permission to um have an outdoor garden. And so we plan this area where we have several raised beds like are up along the top um and then a greenhouse outside. And we would like them to work toward an outdoor area where we can have an outdoor classroom,
013maybe some benches, um a place where we can have large animal um demonstrations and stuff like that. And ultimately in the spring when we have our plant sale, we'd like to have the plant sale along with like a petting the zoo and just kind of a PR kind of thing so we can show people what we're doing. and um possibly we've been looking into the um farm to school and supplying the cafeteria or being able to offer up some of our produce. Um so this we're going to get started next fall with the building aspect. Um, I do have a young man for his Eagle Scout badge is working on Grace Gardens and so we're working out. Um, he's building those this summer and then we're going to plan out um the foundation for this.
014We talked a little bit about mulch or rock or something like that. So, he'll be hearing from us a little bit more. But, thank you again for having us. Um, I did want to ask, how do you guys address any health issues or health care of your animals? As far as health issues, um, like I said with the rats, when I originally started with them, um, I looked into the breeder that I was getting it from and looked at her health certifications. As far as the chickens go, um I've researched that myself, but also my sister is a vette and so she's also looked over the animals. But essentially for the chicks, a lot of um their health, you know, things to observe. It's all observation. It's just how they're acting. Are they eating? Are
015they eliminating okay? Are they drinking water? And so we have followed the guidelines as far as every day Reagan comes in first thing. She does watering and feeding. Um, she often comes in sixth period during my prep. Um, she and another student and I always check at night too to make sure they still have water and stuff like that. I come in during the weekends. And basically we try to follow a pretty good protocol for keeping things clean. Um, sometimes it does smell a little bit like a farm down there. Uh, but um, on the overall we have been lucky. who had very healthy animals. Um the one rat that we did have um that had a little bit of an eye problem. Again, I talked to my sister, did some investigating on my own.
016Um and we were able to get the correct medicine and so the girls helped with giving some medicine to all the rats as a curveative and then also clear up his eye problem. So, um we keep a very close watch on them every day. Like I said, these girls, um, Morgan comes in during her study hall, during my lunch, during Connect. Um, Regan and Leah have been in my Connect. Well, Leah's been in my study hall as well. And Re comes down, too. So, um, all three of these girls, and there's what about five more of you guys? About five more that are there every day. So, um, we keep a very close watch on them. And um everybody knows to wash their hands after they hold the animals and stuff like that. So I
017try to keep a pretty pretty strict look on that. Um and that's how we handled that. Like I said, I do have my sister always as a resource. But as far as the chicks um go, we just observe them and and make sure that everybody's looking healthy and doing what they're supposed to be doing. That's great. coming from the livestock world, it's not always um I don't know the right word. They're not always good outcomes. So, that's great that you're keeping an eye on doing that. And we have now Leah has borne the brunt of this. She's been with me the longest animals. And so, um last year we wound up with we wound up with two rats that were were donated to us. They were not supposed to be pregnant, but they were. Um,
018and so she kind of learned the hard way that we can't keep all these. We don't have any use for them. We didn't plan for these. Um, I do stress responsible pet ownership. Um, but we talked about the rats and I and I told her coming in this year that the rats were livestock and so we did get everybody adopted out. That's her big concern cuz I've told her that if we don't get them all adopted out, then we sell them as feeders because we have a market for them as feeder animals and she never wanted to do that. So, she's she did a great job of marketing them and we did get everybody adopted out. So, she does a great job with that. So, I I do stress it's not Last year was kind
019of fun. You're good at this. Um, last year it was fun and I I used the rats as sort of a responsibility kind of thing, but it works really well as a kind of a a thumb print of livestock because obviously I can't have or maybe maybe I could have goats or something. But no, um, in miniature, like I said, when we didn't talk about selective breeding and crossbreeding and trying to get specific traits, um, that's that's what I like to use them for because since their gestation period is short, we can go through and we can talk about what we want and we knew that we wanted we bred specifically for silver manes and velvetines and that's what we got. And so, um, that's kind of how we I where I think about her.
020I talk about it from a farming aspect and from a livestock aspect because most of the kids just don't have that experience. And Leah never did, but she has. She's done the pedigrees on the rats and she's done family trees and stuff. So, she's very good at it and very knowledgeable about it. Well, thank you so much, ladies, for coming. I love the program. I'm excited to see how it grows. remember. Okay. So, we're going to move on to first section of citizens comments. If anyone in the audience wants to address the board, this is your time. Seeing and hearing none, close citizen comment section. Have minutes from the last meeting. Anyone want to make a recommendation to approve the minutes from the last public hearing and board meeting from April 21st? John has them
021first. I have a second. Brandy. All in favor of approving the minutes from the previous meeting, please say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion passes. Finances. Mr. Williams. Uh, members of the board, please consider approving vouchers 1723 through 111897. I would be happy to answer any questions that you might have. Recommendation. I move we approve of claims 117 to 722 111 to 9897. Have a first with Mr. Hawkins. You have a second. Mr. Stler. All in favor please say I. I. All oppose same site. Motion passes to approve vouchers uh school facilities and budgetary update. Yeah. Members of the board following presentation was met with a special question last Wednesday. Um maybe a little bit more lengthy than normal. I apologize. I'll try to move as quickly as I can. If you guys have
022a question, please feel free to stop me at any time. Um, I was asked by the board to do an update on the uh impact that Senate Bill One had on the school corporation and the finances that was uh approved during this last legislative uh session. And it will take effect July 1st. So, um, like I said, I'm going to try to move as quick as possible. I do plan on sending this out to the entire corporation safely tomorrow. Um, so if they have any questions, they can feel free to ask as well. The first link on here, uh, takes you to everything, the summary of the bill and all of the tracking information, the amendments that were made and everything, uh, all the all the good information there. So, looking at Senate Bill one,
023it all revolves around tax caps uh, and tax rates and levies. Uh, this bill places restrictions on the issuance of general obligation bonds, uh, which we use for school facilities and equipment. The changes to the assessed values and taxes will be phased in uh in 26, 27, and 28. Let me get back into the slideshow here. So, South Vermillion directly um what they are predicting us uh to lose uh for 26 is about $172,000 or 3%. uh 27 $143,000 or two uh close to two and a half% and then in 28 uh right over $41,000 and that would go to the operations fund. The operations fund like I just said uh would be projected to lose just over $355,000 over the next three years. Uh this number could fluctuate based on uh the assess values
024of the county and we'll get into those in just a second. Um but last year, last couple years, we had well I guess um in 22 to 23 a large increase. And then looking at the assessed value, so this would be what your taxes look like when you get your uh property taxes. And it says the assessed value of your home. The total for Vermillion County was 612,326302 this year, which was an increase of $91 million or about 17.5%. So, a very large increase uh not what we're used to seeing here. You can see it has steadily increased uh with 23 24 being the outlier there. So, uh as you got your tax bills and opened those up, you were probably thinking the schools raised our taxes again and now my my tax bill went
025up, you know, 10%, 20%, whatever. the school uh tax rate actually fell by 12 cents um in 25 and you can see last year it was 75 cents or about 75 cents um on the operating side this year it's about 66 cents and then debt services has fallen by about 3.5 cents as well so overall about 11 to 12 cent uh decrease that's just basically what I talked about there what does this look like on your homes so basically you're like my tax bill went up um but you're saying you dropped the rates Well, on a $400,000 home in 2024, uh it was $111. So, you paid 44 uh $4,440. In 2025, on the average, uh it went up 17.5% in Vermillion County. So, that would have increased your assessment value to $470,000 and dropped
026the tax rate to just under a dollar there. But, you can see that amount over here is about $200 more than this amount over here. So when uh you know I even had a couple employees come to me and say, "Hey, we're raising tax rates around here. My my taxes are higher." Well, that was based on the assess value increase as the uh cents per dollar decreased for the school corporation. I outlined what it would look like on all those level houses there. $350,000 house, 300, 250, 200, and so forth. So this leads us into our talk of staffing and what we need and where we're standing uh currently and where we have been and so forth. So as of May 13th uh last week um last Tuesday we had a total of 103 kindergarteners
027uh 110 first graders, 120 second and third each uh in the second and third grade and in the fourth grade 114 for a total of 567 elementary students. Uh you can see the class sizes to the right. Um overall average would be 20.25 per class. Um and this does not include our special services as we have seven special education teachers at the elementary level. Um and those are not factored in. So the class levels uh or sizes are actually a little bit smaller than the 20.25. Middle school is sitting at 47 uh9 total enrollment 475 in the building because we implemented the uh online school as a pilot this semester. They have four students in the online school that we were able to save uh to South Vermillion students. Um you can see the cohort
028sizes there. The fifth and sixth grade are the larger ones uh with the seventh and eighth grade being 105 and 113. The high school currently has 384 students in person. Uh all cohorts uh are under 100 students except for the 9th grade cohort. And you can see that we saved 18 students by going online um this semester. This is what our ADM look like. And ADM is your daily membership. Uh in February of 24, we do this twice a year. We had 1567 students. We currently sit at 1,430 in person. So we've had a quite a drop um in students. And you can see um where the uh total income uh or tuition would be 13,250 uh at the 1567 mark. and that's what we were getting divided by 12 months. So about $1.1 million
029a month is what we were receiving. Uh we are now down under um about the 1050 range. And in this last part of school we about 975,000 a month. So there's been a pretty uh drastic increase. We have lost 137 students this year. This is the sheet I get on a monthly basis. And I want you to see that it's broken down by how much each student uh we get for each student on the basic, the honors uh grant that we get here, academic performance, the special education money, the CTE money, the non-English-speaking uh student money. You can see that where we were predicted uh back in July of 24 was about 1,117,000 per month. And this month I got it and we were at 1,ion34,000 um for the total overall. We fell be uh
030below the 900,000 mark in just the basic grant. Uh so there's a you know a loss of 300 to 400,000 in just this half of the year. Transfers in. Uh board members, I provided you with a document that shows every student and where they went and where they've come from. This year we've had 112 students transfers in uh transferred into the corporation. You can see that the high school, middle school, and central are all in about the same boat as far as transfers. Then of course Van Dy only has about 240 students compared to the others. So percentage wise it's all pretty comparative transfers out 249. And that gives you like I said on the last side there's 112 in, 249 out. So there's your net loss of 137 students uh this year and those
031are the grade levels we're losing them in. And then the percent of the population that we've lost is 15 and a half% at the high school, 8% at the middle school, 6.1% at central uh and 1.7% at Van Dy. So where are they going? We know we're competing with online uh for the most part or home school. Uh we do have students that leave to go to other schools, but I will tell you that the most part if you look through uh the sheet that was provided um you'll see a lot of online schools uh either Indiana Digital Gateway, uh the Crawford'sville Academy, um and then we've partnered with the Central Education Service Center uh this semester to try to recruit some of uh those students and get our ADM back. We do get 85%
032uh per online student and not 100% for their tuition. looking at student enrollment trends. I just kind of want to put numbers with, you know, students and staff um as far as regular certified employees versus special ed employees and so forth. I'm not going to go through every single one of these. I'm going to show you where we were uh to where we are. Uh so in the fall, October of 2017, we had 177 students. We had 134 certified employees, 36 special education employees, uh 305 special education students, and 169 SLP students. Like I said, I will send this out uh post-it. I'm not going to go through every single one of these line items, but if you just kind of take a mental shot of 201718, you can see when we go to 2425,
033we currently in the spring we're at 1469, but like I said, that's even dropped to 1430 since February. We still have uh one more employee certified than we did in 201718. Um we have three more special education employees than we did in 201718. We currently have 10 more special education students and we have about 23 more SLP students. Staff member for general education per student ratio and staff member. Uh you can see we're about 12.7 in 2017. We're at about 10.8 8 as of today. In special education, we were about 8.4 in 2017. We're about 8.07 as of today. Overall average of 7.9 for uh about that 8year span there. Speech and language services. You can see uh where we are on the case by case basis there. Um and this is why uh Mrs.
034Foster and I have decided to really look into the numbers that we serve um and teachers and services that we need and where can we uh kind of combine positions and uh because obviously when you're losing $840,000 and we don't want to rip anybody. Uh we're trying to be creative with our our staffing transportation wise in 2019. Um when I say 21 drivers, that's not total employees. That's just who has a route. uh we had 21 with 1640 students. Now I know that there's a lot that goes into this because not every kid rides a bus, not every kid rides a bus every day and so forth. But if you look at the total number of students uh divided by drivers, you see the ratios on the bottom there and how it's been through the
035years. And in 25 we currently sit with 21 drivers uh and 69.95. In 2019, we sit with 21 drivers at 78.096. Now, like I said, I know there are things that been have been moved around as fifth graders have gone to the middle school. So, it's harder for us to cut routes at the middle school and high school level. Um, but I'm working with Michelle uh in transportation to see what we can uh combine there as we had two uh bus drivers retire. Uh if you look at other school corporations surrounding us and their averages uh per student and the transportation routes, um you have North Vermillion um and uh North Central Park. We were at a meeting last week. North Vermillion cut one route this year. North Central Park is cutting two of their
03614. Um, and you can see the overall averages down there at the bottom. And we are under those averages as well. Anticipated savings 256. Now, when I have positions labeled on here, obviously um there's differences um in salaries of people who we've hired and who we have not hired, people that we uh might not replace. uh no one is losing a job if we uh replace through attrition or not replace through attrition. Um that's what we're looking to do. Um because uh if people want to be here, we want them here. If they choose to uh retire, resign, then we'll look at ways to save money uh through those areas. So those would be the 13 P positions that I'm uh looking at right now. That could change. We know that people come and go
037throughout the summer. Um, and but that gets us about $240,000 away from where we need to be on the $840,000 loss. Uh, benefits usually figure about 38% of the salary uh for the benefits. So, just a reminder, education fund is funded by student enrollment and that's the monthly tuition that I showed you. Who pays or who is paid out of that? teachers, substitute teachers, instructional aids, instructional coaches, principles, secretaries, SLPs, director of curriculum, director of uh technology, counselors, nurses, and coaches. Operations funded by taxes and we can transfer up to 15% of the education fund, which I've been trying. We sold Ernie Pile. Uh we sold iPads back, so I have not made as big of transfer. Um so that has helped our education uh balance, but that's onetime money that comes in. Um so
038we have to take that into consideration when when hiring and and thinking and programming salaries for b and benefits out of the operations fund our business and payroll uh the administrative assistant superintendent assistant superintendent HVAC and maintenance custodians the tech assistant and transportation. So these are our projections. Um and like I said I'm trying to go as quick as I can. I'm sorry. Uh we are sitting at uh projected at the end of the 26 fiscal year uh a 16.1 uh1% uh cash balance um with the operations fund. You can see it went down a little bit but that's to be expected because of the one-time uh payments that we received on Ernie Pile and the iPads. I figured in salaries uh supplies all the cost um and so forth there. In 2627 it'll be
039about 15.29%. Obviously, we'll go through negotiations with our SDA. Um raises uh estimated raises have been figured into these totals. Um they have been figured into these totals uh estimates and so um that's where we would sit at the end of the 27th fiscal year, but you can see the operations fund, which is about normal where we keep it 1.4 million or so. So, it's came back down, but if you continue to do that, um you're you're going to have to make some other moves there. So, facility needs, I have about four or five slides left here. Um, I'm not going to go through all these, but central uh obviously we're we're doing all the parking lots this summer. We're about on our two or three year rotation for uh crack and cracking seals. Uh
040in need of the HVAC system where that's going on about 30 years uh there boiler system, same uh cafeteria, we have a problem with the drain whenever it rains very hard there. Um and uh roof is needed, carpeting, flooring, and then just facility upgrades as it is an older building. Vanine, same thing as parking lot. Um and then the HVAC system. Um it's coming up on 25 26 years. Um so as well as the boiler, uh we have listened to uh a citizen at one of our meetings talk about fencing for the playground, which we understand. Um and that's a that's a large expense there, but probably needed. Um, and then a roof and then just flooring and and painting. The last two there are cosmetic, but the other ones above those are are needed.
041South Middle School has had a lot of uh work over the past probably six or seven years. We did have the failure with the chiller, which you know about, which is 565,000, which has been now been pushed back to December 31st as uh anticipated arrival. Um, so we're probably going to have 60 to $80,000 I would say in rental services for a children this summer and into the fall. Um, but the lead time they told us 20 uh weeks and it's been pushed back to I believe 32 or 34. Sorry, Kristen. Uh, gym floor will be coming due. Um, which like I said, cosmetic and carpeting and flooring there. South High School parking lot this summer will be about the 90,000 mark. Um, and then there is a structure uh in the um upper gym
042there that Mr. ID line has brought to our uh attention uh with the wall kind of uh let's say caving but has some deteriorating uh characteristics there. Um track and tennis board resurfacings are about due. There's some plumbing needs that Mr. Marett has brought to my attention. Uh the bleachers on the baseball diamond could use uh an upgrade. Um and then like I said a lot of the roof is probably I don't know still 8 to 10 years out but those are just long-term plans. Um, so where do uh facilities renovations come from? Operations covers transportation, facilities, maintenance, and administrative costs. It's paid to the school corporation from the county government in June and December of every year. Um, and the source is property taxes. The debt services fund covers facilities, building projects, and equipment
043costs for the corporation uh like the operations funds uh June and December every year. Uh this is basically um like your home mortgage or your car car loan. These are our outstanding debts. And now any questions or comments from the board that you would like to address? Like I said, for time sake, if you want to do it now, that's fine. If you want to meet with me and email me any questions, that's fine as well. On these uh facility needs, is there a difference between what's considered maintenance and what's considered facilities or these all facilities? Uh I would say yeah, they all come. So, like the parking lot I'm going to take out of debt services. Um, but they're they're either going to come from debt services or operations, right? I just didn't know
044if we could determine based on this which fund uh basically how the previous go bond was written. It can be for uh any facility upgrades. So, it depends on how each mortgage or go bond was. Thanks. You know, every time I bring something up about how long I've been around this corporation, one thing that I've always been proud of, and it's going to be more difficult as time goes on maintaining this, is we've had we've done major projects, and I mean major projects. about every 20 25 years. And so it's part of the reason why we don't get caught too many places chiller and installation of chillers and having to back them up. That that's one thing I'm talking about. But I think what what everyone needs to think about is uh what do we
045want to be like here and how do we want to be and how kind of places do we want our children to come to school and parents send our children to school and with what kind of program possibilities and you know that's We went through this a few years ago with Ernie Pile, but that's not necessarily just his board's problem. And when we went through that, I was so proud of those years because we had a lot of publicity. And uh this is a major challenge because you don't have to think what's going to happen next year. financially. You know what's going to happen next year. We know what's going to happen the next year and pretty much the next year. So, I would just encourage you to uh when there are opportunities to get
046involved in discussions with the board uh at public meetings to kind of get at this thing, I would encourage you to participate and encourage others to participate. So I think we I think we can do well and I think we can come out of this well but not without a lot of input from people and understanding where the money comes from and where it goes. So I'm glad you're here listening to this. Any other comments from the board? Thank you, Mr. Williams. And that is a non-actual item. We're just collecting information today. So, we're um Thank you for that presentation. The next item on the agenda is personnel report. Members of the board, personnel report has been presented to you in the board packet for this evening. I would like to highlight the following personnel
047recommendations under resignations, retirements, leaves, and termination. classified. Steve Wright, bus driver, resignation effective the end of the 2425 school year. Mary Wright, bus driver, resignation effective the end of the 2425 school year. Cindy Boyd, South High School Cook, resignation effective the end of the 2425 school year. Jessica Wheeler, South High School secretary, resignation effected the end of the 2425 school year. Marissa Straer, South Lane High School secretary maternity leave to begin on or about July 28th through October 10th, 2025. The following staff members requested the use of unpaid leave days. Tracy Jones, Hope Kelshimer, Kai Walters, Lissa Judy, Alicia Bennett, Jennifer Lindseay, Ashley Porter, Amber Robertson, Haley Deans, and Amanda Sheep. Under certified recommendation for hire, the involuntary transfer of Trinity Hilton, functional teacher, Central Elementary to Van Dy Elementary, effective the 2526 school year.
048Lacy Romig, a and science teacher, South Vermillion High School, effective 2526 school year. Under classified recommendation for hire, the voluntary change of assignment for Shauna Kendrick, South Vermillion High School instructional assistant to South Vermillion High School secretary effective 2425 school year. Also under classified recommendations are members of the transportation department for summer school staffing. Under ECA recommendations, please consider the following highlighted positions. Cody Wright, Southland High School head boys basketball coach, effective May 20th, 2025. Donna Lawson, Southland High School assistant cheer coach, effective 2526 school year. Under classified recommendations, uh, please consider the following highlighted positions. Ryan Scott, Southland High School head boys tennis coach, effective 2526 school year. Bryce McLaren, Southland High School head boys soccer coach, effective 2526 school year. And Skyler Wright, South High School head cheer coach, effective 2526 school year.
049I ask for your approval of the personnel report as presented this evening. Thank you. Any discussion? A motion. I I move approval of this. Mr. Hawkins, do I have a second? I'll second. John, all in favor of the personnel report as presented, please say I. I. All opposed? I have one eye. Do you have eyes? All opposed? No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All opposed. I only have two eyes. Okay. Motion pass. Congratulations. Discussion reports. We have the curriculum IT and student services. Uh curriculum IT and student services information is in the newsletter. Uh that was part of the board packet for this evening. Uh the only report that we will have this evening is from Mr. Chapman Chapman and any board policy updates. Members of the board, one of the great joys I have as
050superintendent is occasionally providing you with board policy updates. Um, this being my final run at it, I've uh solicited the assistance of soon to be assistant superintendent Rhonda Foster uh in working with this and getting her the uh the fun task of putting these together. Um, this is for your first reading this evening. There will be no action taken. We'll bring it back to you in June with the uh updates that include revisions to 42 policies, uh two new proposed policies and five technical corrections and the recision of four policies and two replacement policies. So, it's been a one of the more lengthy uh board policy updates uh for you. This does not include all new laws that are going to go into effect effective July 1. We'll get the remaining policy updates in the
051the next update in the fall. But these all uh are the result of ongoing review of statutory language, state federal levels and court decisions, office of civil rights and all that fun stuff. The revisions recommended in this update are deemed necessary to comply with the changes in laws. And typically when we go through these policies, we hit a few of the uh the target areas, whether they're bylaws. They deal with administration, programs, professional staff, support staff, students, uh finances, property, operations, and pro the last one and relations. This is one of those interesting ones where we've covered all 10 areas. Um, typically we don't. Uh, again, like I said, there's 42 policies that are under revision. Um, and we will bring these back to you in June. You have a synopsis of all those policies
052in your packet. We'll bring this back to you in June for your approval. If you have any questions at this point in time, I'll be happy to answer them. Maybe I'll just pass on. I don't Any questions or discussion? All right. Thank you, Mr. Chapman. Um, SV gives back. Members of the board, this month, the SV gives back program is giving back to the Clinton girls softball in the amount of $634. The SV students and staff have given back $11,832.79 since the beginning of this program uh at the beginning of last year. The middle school has taken over the lead this month. Mr. Jenkins uh as they are about $111 in front of Central. Van Dy, who is our smallest school, has given back the most money per student in the corporation. So, thank you
053for everybody getting involved. Um I ask for your approval at this time and believe Mr. Stevens is here this evening to accept the check presentation. So, move Bruce is first. Brandy has a second. Second. Okay. Motion passed. To get the real check, you got to get your picture with us check. There we go. Thank you. Thank you. Our fuel bid is the next item up for the 25 25.6 school year. Yeah, Keystone Cooperative was the only bid submitted for fuel for the 25.6 school year. The bid for diesel fuel is $3.7 a gallon and the bid for gasoline is 267 a gallon. These are both decreases from last year. As for approval at this time, Bruce is the first, John is the second. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion passes. Amended classified handbook. Mr.
054Rolls. Members of the board, as you heard earlier, the number of unpaid leave requests we have received are extremely high this year. Uh about 118.5 to be exact. As you have heard um at the last few board meetings, um this continues to be u an issue during the school uh day. And as far as help goes, I submitted the new policy for unpaid lead time in the documents for this meeting. Uh classified staff, I will communicate the new policy via email uh once approved. This policy would take effect July 1st, 2025. Uh the classified policies of the Clay Community School Corporation and the Long School Corporation were used to create the addition to our handbook. Um please let me know if you have any questions at this time. I would ask for your Thank you.
055Any discussion? Second. I'll make that motion. [Laughter] John is the first, Jerry's the second. Got that. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Motion passes. School sponsored field trips. Uh members of the board, please approve the lane school sponsored field trips this evening. South High School girls soccer team to Carmel, Indiana from June 16th through 18th, 2025. And the South High School football team to Springville, Indiana from July 14th through 17, 2025. Any discussion? I have a first from Mrs. Stler. Do I have a second? Second. Oh boy, guys. All right. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Same time. Motion pass. Crowd crowdfunding. Members of the board, please consider the uh crowdfunding request that was in your packet for Mrs. Sers and the computer science and STEM programming at the
056middle school. Any discussion? I have a motion. So move. Proceed with the first. Do I have a second? Second. Mrs. Stler with a second. All in favor, please say I. I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. We're almost done. Donations. Uh members of the board, we have donations this evening totaling $4,620, $1,520 for South High School, 2,800 for South Rain Middle School, and 300 for Van Dyke. I ask for your approval at this time. Thank you. Any discussion? I'll make a motion. A motion for Mrs. Stler. Do you have a second? Second. John, Mr. Fley. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion pass. Surplus. Members of the board, we have a recommendation to declare outdated instructional materials as surplus this evening. I ask for your approval at this time.
057I'll make that motion. Mr. Mr. Beards Lee with the first. Do I have a second? Second. Stler. All in favor of approving the surplus items, please say I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. And with this brings us to our final citizens comment section. Like address the board. Now's your chance. Anybody? All right. All right, we'll close citizens comments and we will move on to board member comment. We'll talk start with you, Mr. West. Woohoo. What are we down to? Two days. Three days. Three days. Wow. It's been a good year. If I don't see you folks, uh, have a nice summer and we'll see you in the fall. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Mrs. Taylor. just like we're the end of the school year. So, thank you guys for everything that you do do. Um,
058and have a great summer. Mr. Hawkins, thank you for all your work all year. And I know you got kind of a tough week coming up and boy, if I could come out and help you, I sure would. But, thank you so much. I would echo that. Thanks a lot. I know I have someone at home who can barely make it. He's done it. He's done it though. So, um it's gone quickly and I hope you guys have a great summer. Looking forward to graduation and all that. Um welcome Skyler and welcome back. This is Lawson. Couldn't stay away from you. And also thank you for your report, Mr. L. We got I wish you had better news than that, but had a lot of work and that was good. Thank you. Um I just
059wanted to throw out there congratulations to Mrs. Sers and the Nerd Herd, I'm sure everybody's seen that they went to Texas for the third year in a row and um out of 5600 teams in the world, they was 400 that went to nationals. They placed ninth out of 82 in their division. They placed 63rd overall out of 5600 in their teamwork skills and 51st out of 5600 in their overall skills. So placing them in the top 2% in the world. So congratulations to them and all um if you had a chance to go to the Tarzan play, it was really good as always as all their plays. So congrats to all those kids that put in so much hard work and lots of laughs, lots of it. It was a good time. Um, good luck
060with finals and with keeping the kids contained these last few days. I'm sure it's going to be one for the books. And good luck to all the senior parents as you go through these next few days. So, um, and we look forward to graduation on Saturday. Mr. Williams, Mr. Chapman, do you have any further comments? Uh, I'd like to congratulate the boys and girls track teams on their conference championships. also like to recognize the whole theater staff for their performance of Tarzan. Um, a lot of great talent on display for sure. Uh, as we wind down the school year, we'd like to wish all our teams luck as they go to the state tournament uh in spring sports. Uh, we hope to see you at graduation on Saturday and also thank you to Miss Joe,
061Reagan, Leah, and Morgan for their presentation this evening. Uh, which was very enlightening. Everyone gets to bring home a wrap. That would be a fun surprise. This semester's been a lot of firsts for me. This is the first time I get to say ditto ditto ditto ditto. Thank you. Uh looking forward to uh a wonderful graduation. Um time flies when you're having fun. Hope everyone has a great summer and we'll see you at the June meeting. Thank you. Next meeting, June 12th. Will we be in here? Yes. 6:30 in this room. All right. Any further comments? Have a motion to adjurnn. First and second. All in favor? I