001this meeting to order. Starting off with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Adoption of agenda recommended that the agenda of the May 15, 2025 regular meeting of the board of school trustees be approved as presented. Motion second. All in favor? Approval of minutes. It is recommended that the minutes of the April 10th, 2025 regular meeting of the board of skilled trustees be approved as presented. Motion. Second. All in favor statements, questions from public. Administrative recommendation claims. It is recommended that the prepaid and April claims numbered 103008 through 103185 be approved as presented. Motion. Second. All in favor. Personnel. It is recommended that Shelby Marshall be approved
002for hire as an educator at Southeast Fountain Elementary Schools for the 2025 2026 school year. Shelby was an SC grad. Um actually had her in class. I said that before we were trying to get around for the maternity leave that she took over from Maryland Bailey. She did a great job and we're really excited to have her as part of our second grade team next year. Tyler got it. All in favor. It is recommended that Maline Jackson be hired as part-time custodian for the 2025 2026 school year. That position has been open for a little while, but that particular position is only a school year long position because it kind of cleans up in the area of the at lunches and where our life skill students eat, things like that. Motion second. All in favor?
003It is recommended that Kevin Whitaker be hired as bus mechanic for Southeast Fountain School Corporation beginning June 2nd, 2025. U Mr. Whitaker is has been a mechanic for several years. He's currently the bus mechanic at another district in the region, but he is a Petersburg resident and very excited about the possibility of coming to work here at Southeast Mountain. Motion second. All in favor. It is recommended that the resignation from Beth Chisum effective as of May 9th to be approved as presented. Motion. Second. All in favor? is recommended the resignation from Alicia Plunkett effective as of May 1st be approved as presented. Motion second. All in favor. It's recommended that the resination from Betsy Kur effective at the conclusion of the 2024 2025 school year be approved as presented. Motion second. Who we got first?
004I I'll say Josh second. Okay. All in favor. It's re recommended that the resignation from Jason Thompson be approved as presented. Motion. Second. All in favor? It is recommended that the resignation from Tiffany Bowlan be approved as presented. Motion second. All in favor. It is re recommended that the resignation for Megan Bowling be approved as presented. Motion. Second. All in favor? Is it recommended that the resignation from Elizabeth Walters be approved as presented? Motion. Second. All in favor. It is recommended that the resignation from Brook Patton be approved as presented. Motion second. All in favor. It is recommended that the temporary leave request from Crystal Freed be approved as presented. Motion. Second. All in [Music] favor. He's recommending that the resignation from Henry Schmidt, which was approved last month, be rescended. Mr. Schmidt's been with
005us. Um he had um provided a letter of recommendation or excuse me, a letter of resignation last um last month and we approved that. Um he's had a change of heart and we'd love to have him back to to fill our um chemistry position in the high school. Motion second. All in favor? It's recommended that the resignation from Greg Dean as varsity boys basketball head coach be approved as presented. Motion second. All in favor. It's recommended that Halen McBride be hired as a student worker in the life skills program for the 2025 2026 school year. Motion did you want to say something about her? Go ahead. Um Hale's spent a long time in our life skills department this year. Um she's a part of Mrs. Fruits's education profession program. Uh she comes very very highly
006recommended from Mrs. Fruits herself. So, we'd be really excited to have her. I got a motion from Jill. Second. All in favor? Moving on to quotes. It is recommended that the quote from Hardcore Floor Court Floor Hardcore Flooring. Wow. To resurface areas at the Fountain Southeast Fountain Elementary School be approved as presented. So yeah, last month you guys approved all of the flooring um in both buildings. We did all of the epoxy at the high school, the carpet here, but we left off the epoxy in the certain areas of this building, the foyer and the main hall and stuff. So that's why motion second. All in favor? It's recommended that the quote from Sharp School Services be approved as presented. Um this is for um tables and things that Mrs. Morgan needs for her building
007that each year at this time we look at what furniture needs replaced. Motion. Second. All in favor? It's recommended the quote from HRI Incorporated for a new dishwasher be approved as presented. The dishwasher at the elementary does need to be replaced and we get the money that we have in our fund. it builds up because we get reimbursement from the federal food dollars and if we don't spend and keep that at a certain level then Cindy and I hear from the state you need to be spending and Aramark did tell us we need a new dishwasher. This is a company we've worked with before and um we'd like to work with them again to get this replaced. Motion second. All in favor? It is recommended that the quote from HRI Incorporated for new kitchen supplies
008be approved as presented. Again, um this is more from that same fund and things such as a convection steamer and brazing pan and things like that that um will really help with the things that air do in our kitchen. So, we want to use some of those funds for this as well. Motion second. All in favor? [Music] Moving to other business. It is recommended that the school profile amendment be submitted to the IDOE requesting the Southeast Fountain Virtual Academy be expanded to include grade six for the upcoming 2025 2026 school year. When the virtual academy opened a few years back, at that time our online school provider, the Apex system, only had grades 7 through 12 in there. Additionally, our sixth grade was at the elementary. Both of those things have changed. As you know,
009our sixth grade moved over to the junior high a few years ago. And also, um, Apex has now, um, they were brought out by a group called Edmondum. that's also an online provider and they do have a curriculum for sixth grade. Um, like the other virtual academy students, the enrollment is capped at a lower percentage because we get lower funding for that. Um, and there's an application process if students are not successful at the virtual academy, which that's part of um, Mr. Davenport's role. He monitors all that. And if they're not being successful at semester, then they have to come back to in-person learning. It's also used if students should happen to get in trouble and be out of school. It's a way to keep them on track so they don't fall behind in their
010grade level or path to graduation. It has to be first approved by you. And if you approve it, then I can request that change with Department of Ed. And this is the time that that window is open with department of ed. Motion. Second. All in favor? It is recommended that Airmark Food Service Institute a 3.6% price increase in fees for the 2025 2026 school year. Um, with our contract, we do have a three-year contract, but it does say that the fees for them can be renegotiated each year. And with this 3.6% increase, that includes then their increased costs on not only employees and staffing, but also on, if you've gone to the grocery store, 3.6 is a pretty good deal um for the percent increase that they're requesting. Motion second. All in favor. It's recommended
011that the overnight field trip request for the German exchange program be approved as presented. They will be with your approval traveling to Germany for the program July 1st through the 13th. Motion. Second. All in favor? It is recommended that the additional appropriation request be approved as presented. The at the beginning of the year when the state um stopped h allowing us to charge book fees to families. They sent the money through one fund and then midway through they changed it and now the fund comes through our education dollar appropriation but we can't spend that money because it was not in the budget last summer because it wasn't a thing then. So now we need your your permission. It's the money's there. We just can't spend it until you say that we can. Motion second. All
012in favor? It is recommended that the board of trustees grant permission for the corporation to pay the insurance deductible on the claim filed from damages caused by storm earlier this spring. Um in March we had a bad storm that um caused a unit on the roof of Fountain Central to blow and a lot of other things. There was a little bit of damage to the gym floor as well. And after all of the insurance investigation was done and we got the quote, um, our deductible is $10,000 and then the insurance pays the net claim, but I need your permission so they can spend the deductible. Motion. Second. All in favor? It is recommended that the donation from Newor Steel in the amount of $2,000 be accepted. Well, we always appreciate our donors. Did I get
013a motion on that? Motion second. All in favor? Uh on to the Southeast School Corporation projects update. Yeah. So you guys know there were a lot of updates today that I provided you um before this session began. Um too much for my short window of time. So I'll be super brief in the ones that I want to talk about tonight. So, the pool demo as I filled as I filled you guys in on that will begin next Monday and there is still a finish date of October 1st on that. So, I know that's pushed back from the initial date of August one. Um, but we're still hoping that we can get kids in the pool midway through the semester. The with your um approval tonight, we're going to move forward with the epoxy in the
014elementary carpet. Um, and at the high school would be all epoxy. Actually, Mr. Shavey and Mr. Wolf today um finalized the look of that. So that will all be installed over the summer and should be finished by the time kids are back in session. Um and then again as we've talked all year um a majority of the work will be completed during the summer months and so there'll be a lot more updates to pass along in June and July. Thanks Josh. Thank you guys. Elementary report. Uh let's start by thanking uh PTO for all our gifts for teacher appreciation week. Um they have been very very busy um with that and planning our field day events tomorrow. Be a wild and crazy day. 12:30 to 1:30 I think I'm signed up for the don tank.
015So we'll see how that goes. Hopefully the water's warm. Um, most of all, we'd like to thank um all of our staff, cafeteria workers, custodians, maintenance, bus drivers uh for making this a great place um for our students. It was a great school year. Um let's see. We've wrapped up end of the year testing with iLearn and I read celebrated the fourth quarter student appreciation day of park. That was exhausting, but it was great and the kids loved it. Um, we'll be hosting over 20 students for our summer school program. Um, we celebrate our M&M's end of the year celebration uh with our it's for our elementary mentoring program uh yesterday after school. Um, we wrap up the year of fifth grade promotion next week. We invite all of you to attend. You might see
016me get choked up. There's a couple BES kids in there. Um, and then most of all, congratulations to our seniors this year who are graduating. We wish you the best. Wish you the best in our in your future endeavors. Um, and thank you to all of you for all of your support this year. Thank you, Mr. B. On to the high school report. So, tomorrow, um, Mr. Wolf and I will be taking our sophomore class to on our second annual class cup field trip to Indiana Beach. Mr. Davenport is going to help hold down the fort in our absence. I'm sure Officer Showers will be at the ready as well. Should be smooth sailing. Um, keep me out of the dunk tank as well, which I did do in August at the at the meet
017the Mustangs event and I had a hearing for three or four days afterwards. So, good luck. Um, but but we're excited about the field trip. Mr. Danport and I got the opportunity to take our students to that last year and I mean like we we had so much fun and our faces hurt from laughing and it's going to be a good trip with a great class who worked hard to earn that this year. Um, we're obviously excited. Um, and want to congratulate our seniors as well. They'll be graduating a week from tomorrow will be our Is that right? something like that. I go when they tell me to go. Take it one day at a time. We've all seniors. Um so when we're excited about that, obviously we'll all be there to celebrate with them.
018Um it'll be a busy week to get prepared for that, but we've got a good team that is experienced in setting that up and it'll be an awesome event. Um speaking of awesome events, last night we had our senior awards. Um certainly have got to give um our thanks to Cheryl Joerger and Sheena Blankenship. Um Mrs. Foxworthy, our guidance director, is hemmed up for for two weeks in May um administering AP tests um to our advanced placement students. So Mrs. Blankenship, Mrs. Joerger take on the brunt of the work um in organizing for our senior awards and they do a fantastic job. Um especially Cheryl, she's been doing this for a long time and really every detail is accounted for. Um when you show up there to present or to to hand out awards, everything
019is so organized and it's really seamless and it doesn't look like it would take a lot, but the coordination from all the different scholarship committees, getting the committees together, getting I mean they were the the awards were pouring in at the very last minute. So she does a a fantastic job with that. I want to thank her. do a final total tally um for you. Last night, our senior class was awarded with $368,263. That's 368263. Another great year for our senior class. Um it's humbling to me when I got here seven years ago and attended that event for the first time to see the amount of support that that comes. A lot of some of this is from from their schools that they're going to go to, but a vast majority of that is locally
020generated scholarship funds. A lot of families and um community members that have established funds for loved ones that that we've lost. Um just a great event to be a part of that and see our our seniors off and give them that support. It's it's awesome. And then in conclusion, like Mr. Baines was reflected in my office this afternoon. I just thought about all the people that help make our school go and the people that are involved in our building. I want to thank our instructional aids, our maintenance workers, custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, guidance, our school nurse, substitute teachers, our administrative assistants, Mr. Good, Mr. Wolf, and especially our teachers. um that group of people that care about our kids and they they they fill their roles, but it it takes all of them to
021make it go and I just feel super fortunate to have a great staff. Um it makes my job as easy as as it can be. Um so thank you to all the central staff. Thank you, Mr. Shy. On to our student representative report, Mr. Bryson Davis. Uh the main thing tonight, last last one, last one. Last one. The main thing tonight is thank you guys for the opportunity. Uh it's really been an honor the past two years uh to have each and every one of you laugh at each and every one of my jokes. I also want to thank Mr. Shaby, Mr. Davenport for informing and I guess inviting me uh to do this. And to end it, I had to give you the best joke that I know. So be prepared. I was talking
022with a guy who said his wife threatened to leave him if he didn't stop his nasty and disgusting habits. He told me he was so shocked he almost choked on his toenails. That's on miss. Yeah. Have you passed this on to whoever is going to be coming for next year as a junior that somebody's got to keep this tradition up now? Lydia's jokes are horrible. You're going to have to work your brother. Be a junior. He'll be a junior. Keep the Davis tradition going. Oh, I'm sorry. I'll consider it. Thank you for being here. Thank you guys. Hey, uh, in in true spirit for thanking you, and I know Lydia's not here, but I think you can get this to her, right? You know, I have context. Yeah, that's what I thought. Thank you for
023doing what you guys do for us and coming in and helping us out with this and being a part of this meeting. We really, really appreciate it. It doesn't go without saying. This young man is just an outstanding representation of our school um, in every way, shape, or form. how he conducts himself, his character, um how he treats others and his academics because he is our valadictorian. Congratulations. They're giving me a mic. Thanks. Giving him a mic. Oh, wow. I've got a kill switch already. Thank you, Bryson, very much. Thank you. Uh, no spotlight for this meeting. So, we'll move into discussion items. Um, the first thing I want to share with you is something I received from Rachel Ward, our art teacher at Fountain Central, and she's asking she asked permission to move forward
024with a project idea that she's really excited about for next year. It's inspired by the Fluxus Movement, a 20th century art movement that focused on creativity, humor, and connection, especially through something called male art. As part of our art history curriculum, her students would create their own male art pieces to be sent to the school board members. The goal is to use art as a way to foster student voice and connection with leadership in a creative, joyful, and respectful way. These pieces might include small symbolic artworks, notes, or playful conceptual elements in decorated envelopes. Um she would like if you would agree um to ask you to consider opening these pieces at the board meetings next year as a kind of live gallery opening and then we would return the works to Mrs. Ward so
025that she could display publicly with their original envelopes and if any board members would be willing with written responses about the artwork as well. So, I'm always excited when teachers come up with new and exciting ways to get our students like just immersed in in their subject area. And I think that Rachel Ward does a great job of that. And I'm excited to say that the school board next year gets to be a part of that lesson for our students in the art program. Look forward to that. Um, next I want to tell you about um we are going to start having Narcan available on our campus. Um, sadly at a school down in the Indianapolis area, a student had overdosed and they fortunately they were able to save the student. But with that, we
026are going to have um Narcan available on campus. It will be in specific areas beginning in the start of the school year when every year teachers have some trainings that we have to do through our vector platform. We have a training that will tell them what to look for and also staff will know where this is located. Um, it will primarily be in offices where our nurses are or where our AEDs are. So that in the event it's one of those things like any treatment, you you're prepared and you hope that you don't have to use it. But we want to be prepared because anything that um if something traumatic happened, we want to be able to save our students or visitors to our campus. And um also I want to share with you a
027little bit about a summer meal program. Um we're excited to announce that this summer we will be offering the Sun SUN meal to go for the month of June. Through the Sun Meals program, we're able to provide meals to our students while school is out. This year we're operating as a closed campus site which means we will serve only Southeast Fountain students ages 3 to 18. So students from our district. Um, we are going to operate out of the high school and distribution will take place at the bus drop off Circle Drive, Dorsy, every Thursday from 4 to 6:00 p.m. Each week, families can pick up a meal kit that will include five breakfasts and five lunches for each of the students. The Fountain Central Food Service website, well, our whole district website and the
028Remind app will both feature a weekly sign up form so that they know how many to prepare. And um if anyone knows families in our district, in our community that um that would benefit from this, encourage them to to watch for that and sign up for those as we go because this is a great opportunity to help our families just meet some of those needs, food insecurity needs throughout the summer. So I'm excited I'm excited that we're able to do that this year. And moving on um for the statements from the superintendent. First of all, um I want to thank all of our staff for a great school year. Echo what our administrator said. Um our building staff, transportation, maintenance, administration. Um, it has just been a great school year and I'm very appreciative that
029of all of the Zooms, all of the hats that they wear, not just necessarily the one hat that is on their job description. So, thank you for that. I want to wish best wishes to all of our seniors as they go on to college, trade schools, military, or to the workforce. Um, I want to give well wishes to those staff members. We had a lot on our personnel. Um, we have people who are moving on to other things. Some that were on tonight, some that we have already approved their resignations. Um, we didn't have any retirements this year. It's it's different people that are um going to other opportunities that have presented themselves and they will be missed, but um we certainly hope that they are happy in their new endeavors. Um, I want to
030tell you just if you're going to start seeing some um, additional positions on coming open because as you know, our life skills program is part of the cooperative program. It's not just a Southeast Mountain program. Um, we do anticipate a very high number of students next year. um and only less than 10% of those are actually students that are from our district. So with that, I reached out to the others on the the board because those districts are who they're going to pay, but they have agreed to increase to a third classroom. So we will have um they've approved staffing for three life skills teachers and three aids per class. So we will next year have nine instructional aids and life skills and three teachers. Um and that has been approved by the WRSC executive
031board. So um even though the board approves those because we are the LEA, the funding comes from those other school districts for us to pass along. So I wanted to let you know that in advance that you will be seeing that coming. Um, I want to share a colleague acknowledgement because whenever I get those from someone, I love to share when colleagues acknowledge each other. And this is an email that I received from our nurse Megan Fischer. Um, and she wanted to share our nurse sub substitutes are outstanding. It's hard enough to find nurses, but finding nurse subs is could be nearly impossible, but we have outstanding nurse subs. I personally don't know what I would have done without Taylor York or Melissa Ays this year. School nursing has many challenges. However, I feel one
032of the biggest challenges is when we need to take off and then we need to find coverage. Um she said yesterday her son woke up with his ear hurt. Um he had an ear infection. She had no one to watch him. And on very short notice, Melissa stepped in to sew. Uh she also wanted to acknowledge kudos to Chelsea Campbell and Casey Hogland for always helping out too when she's out. Um they truly are thanked for all of the roles that they take on in that office. So again, I love when I can share kudos from from colleagues. I think that speaks highly to the the atmosphere that we are trying to cultivate here where we support one another. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Grant. Statements or concerns from the board. Um I want to
033tag on to what Mr. Shavey said. the awards not the awards uh every year just seems to amaze me the amount of funds that come out of this community to our kids. I don't know what other schools get. I have no idea. But man, it just seems like ours gets longer every year and we give out more money every year and and it's it's awesome to live in a community like that. Um as Dr. Graeme says, we had a lot of resignations. We want to thank all those folks for uh the amount of time they spent here at Fountain Central. Um, and especially Mrs. Cheesum. She's been in the janitorial role and moved over into the IT and helped out and she's always just been that person that's been here. So, we wish her the
034best of luck. Um, also, Mr. Dean, you know, he's been our head basketball coach for a few years. We've had some very successful programs and and I know, you know, the reasons he's doing what he's doing is good reasons and we wish him all the luck in the world to do what he's uh moving to do. Um, I think it's been a really great year. All of our kids that I've talked to has been happy this year. I've not ran into very many, you know, kids that didn't look forward to going to school. And that's a that's that's a big thank you to you guys for making it making it happen like that. Congratulations to all the seniors and it's going to be another bittersweet year to watch some of those kids walk out the
035door for the last time. So, thank you guys for what you do. Anybody else? All right, we've already done the document signing. So, motion for adjournment. motion.