001order the uh um May 13th uh Typton Community School Corporation uh board meeting. Uh before we get started, on behalf of the Typton Community School Board of Trustees, we want to express our deep uh condolence to the family, friends, and classmates of Dark and Jesy, one of our cherished freshman uh student athletes whose life was tragically cut short. This is an unimaginable loss for his family, for our wrestling community, and our entire school community. Our hearts are heavy with grief. Darkin was a part of our school family and his absence will be felt uh deeply felt by all who knew him and in this time of loss and grief. We stand united as a community. We are committed to surrounding our students, staff, and families with the care they need during this incredibly difficult time.
002The full breadth and depth of TCSC's resources are at the community's disposal. grief counselors and me mental health professionals are available and we encourage anyone who is struggling to reach out not just today but in the weeks or months to come. Please join us in keeping Darkens family in your thoughts and prayers. So with that um stand for 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. Now our vision statement. Growing empowered future ready students who are prepared for a lifetime of opportunity and success. All right. Next on our agenda is the tell me something good uh section. This is where we uh as a board take time to
003reflect on something uh that we're seeing in the community or in the school uh that's positive nature. And so I'd open the floor up to anybody that would like to share. I attended the second grade musical program last week and it was just really really good. Mrs. Straer did an excellent job. It was creative. Um, it was fun. Um, just so different from when I was in school and we kind of just stood there and sang our songs. This was just so creative and everyone had fun. I mean, kids were doing the worm. Um, my my son has been practicing that for months and is excited about this music program. So, I think that says a lot about how much fun she made the kids have. That's great. I just would like to speak into
004just uh our incredible teachers for the month of May. I think it's a challenging time at home to keep kids engaged, let alone in a school. And I just happen to be walking through the school um even in the last week and see teachers who have their kids taking tests outside or doing different things within the building just to keep our students engaged and I just I know that takes extra time and effort to go to those lengths and so but but I think it makes going to school fun in the month of May. I attended the top 10 banquet um just last week and it was um it was it was just a great time to see the kids in the top 10 um with their speeches. It was just awesome to see teachers
005being um honored and also the parents and I just thought that all the kids in the top 10 did a great job. Anyone else? All right. Next on our agenda is the Blue Future Awards. Hand it over to you. All right, Mr. Johnson. Also, we also have some teachers here tonight. Tonight, uh, we are recognizing Hazel Park. She's the second shortest one up here. She, uh, we take Ireie every spring and now we not only take it in third grade, but we take it in second grade. And Hazel uh, scored a perfect score, a 650 on three um this spring. So, I wanted to congratulate her. We also have with us her family, Kayla, Nick, her parents, her brother. What's your name, buddy? Jaden. Jaden. And then we also have with us uh Mrs. Ten
006Both who was Cable's kindergarten teacher, Miss Cloud, her first grade teacher, and Mrs. Denus, her second grade teacher. because we know that it takes everybody, family, um teachers, um everybody to come together to uh support our students. And Hazel, congratulations on showing excellent student achievement in getting this blue future. smile. One, two, three. Amazing. Okay, Mr. Leech. you're going. As per usual, I brought a small horde of people with me guys from the high school. Um, I I'll start off first kind of talking about what these these young people are going to come up and what they're a part of. Um, if you remember a couple months ago, I uh present the blue future award to Mrs. Pern for all of the things she does around the building, but one of those was the mayor's
007youth council. So, um, this is year three. This is year two. It seems like three. We took one year off. Okay. So, this is year two of the the marriage youth council and Mrs. Fung generally will go out and kind of drum up some business and get kids that are looking for a leadership opportunity and a chance kind of to give back to the to the u uh community through efforts that they identify. So, Mrs. Fernung along with Schaefer Leadership um Academy and Ted Ward um put together um uh meetings every Tuesday evening where these these kids all come together. they go through the process of identifying a need in the community and then they have to go through and plan a solution for that uh or you know to to fill that need. So
008these kids have have done an excellent job. I know that I've interacted with with most of them just being the principal of the building. They have to come and you know say how do I get on this committee or how do I do this thing? Um and it's always great to see kids kind of step out and do those things. And you know, I'm very confident that this group of kids will be the next round of leaders that tip the needs to, you know, plan and do things in this community. So, we want to recognize the entire group. So, what I'd like to do is I'm going to call them all off so I can give you your certificate and then I'd also like to go through and just quickly talk about the projects um
009that they've been working on so that you all kind of know um what's going on there. So, first, Mrs. You just haven't put in puts in a lot a lot of no a lot of time here. No, Berkeley Young. And these kids are also doing multiple things. Very busy young people. Evan [Music] Hill, Liy McCord, Miley Barnes, Noah Walker. One of the fastest kids in school. Okay. So, this is the group that that Mrs. Prime was able to to recruit for extra time and you know sometimes it's hard to get kids to get involved with anything let alone like weekly meetings and like having to go out and do stuff and step out of your comfort zone. So major props to you guys for doing that. It's going to pay off uh those experiences that
010you've had. So I wanted to go through and just talk about some of the the projects that they had going on. Uh if you'll just you know wave at the audience so they know who worked on these that would be kind of a nice touch. uh Evan Go, Lily McCord, and Miley Barnes. They even stood. Um they uh this group focused on supporting children in the foster care system by collecting and donating essential comfort and care items. Their main goal was to create bags that children could take with them, offering a sense of comfort during a stressful and uncertain time. The bags included items such as blankets, personal personal hygiene products, and diapers. Their efforts culminate in a successful delivery to the Department of Child Services in Tiffen where supplies directly support local um children
011in transition into the foster care system. So that's that's group one. Give them a round of applause. McKina Ella Crawford is not here. Isa Walter and Noah Walker. Those were good waves. Um they uh their project title was th inclusivity and elelll support. So this team worked to make Tiffen High School more inclusive and welcoming for English language learners. They successfully arranged for daily announcements to be translated into Spanish and advocated for the include inclusion of a roon poo also as ACP on the high school lunch menu which by all um numbers was was a huge success. uh to make it a permitted offering the cafeteria to sell 75 servings and it surpassed expectations by selling over 125. In addition, they took initiative to have the school's emergency procedure science translated into Spanish ensuring that
012all students have access to critical safety information. We can give that great Olivia Henderson Genesis and Addie Buffing. This group was focused on school safety in enhancement. So, this group focused on strengthening safety protocols at Tiffen High School. They prioritized the reinstatement of the relocation drill, which is literally like taking every student and moving them to our off-site in the event of of an emergency. Um, they also supported the purchase of interior safety uh door locks for all high school classrooms. Uh, in collaboration with school leaders, they recommended having a a student representative on the district safety committee uh which I heard works pretty well. Okay, good. Um, I lost my spot here. Uh, and this group, uh, shared their findings and plans at the most recent district saving meeting, contributing to a focus on
013proactive and safety, school safety measures. So, we can give that group a round of applause. And then, Berkeley Young, Hannah Olton, and Ally Hoover are not here, but they are waving from home or work or practice or whatever. Uh but this group focused on improving student wellness by ensuring access to essential hygiene products. They stocked all women's restrooms and locker rooms at the high school with free feminine hygiene items and began offering monthly care packages to students upon request. Through successful outreach and resource coordination, they now secure over 200 free period supply packages each month. And outstanding. I mean, it's it's a ton of stuff that these guys have done. So, if we can give them a round of applause. So I think again to kind of sum up what this group has done, you
014can see that their projects were not just like projects just to do and to complete. These were things that these students went out and found uh information and found a hole that needed to be filled and then they actually spent the time collaborating, working together and getting it done. So a lot of great experience and kudos to all of you. So congratulations I will say that Mr. Jorski and I had the pleasure of Thanks. I will say that Mr. Jorski and I had the the great uh privilege of listening to these presentations. Uh again, all exceptional and so proud of these kids for thinking outside the box and trying to address needs. It's an awesome awesome uh opportunity. Thank you guys. Our final Blue Future Awards. Uh, and I I nominated these people because they're
015completely awesome. Um, and, uh, two of them are not here, but one of them is. Uh, so wanted to recognize Holly Holly Brandon and Brooke Cleaver. Um Holly is our receptionist in our office and uh we had a a huge um teacher appreciation week and everybody just kind of chipped in and and uh took care of things and made it look really easy and uh and I appreciate that. Plus Holly has been shredding a lot of paper for me. So uh I am forever grateful for that because I I don't like to shred paper and that's kind of a not a fun thing to do. Uh Brooke Clever is our treasurer and uh currently she's been taking on two jobs. Uh she's been doing payroll and the treasurer position and uh she's been working a
016lot of hours and I just wanted to thank her for all the hours that she's put in and the fact that teachers get their paychecks always is a good thing. So uh it's never never a happy moment when paychecks don't go out. And last but not least, I would like to thank uh Don Benfell. Don is my administrative assistant. And uh just to just to kind of let you know just a little glimpse of Don. I I went in and said, "Hey, do we have water?" Because we had we were hosting our our special education co-op today and we didn't have water. And like five minutes later, Don pops in with water. So anyway, she just makes makes things happen. So, uh, I don't know what I'd do without her. And I I certainly appreciate
017everything that she does and everything, uh, with teacher appreciation week and all the the the, uh, the appreciation banquet, all of that, Don does. And, uh, so we appreciate what she what she does and the time it takes to get it done. And would like to thank Don and I get to take my picture with her. Right, that incl uh concludes our blue future awards and um if you are part of that. Uh this is your cue to leave before you get sucked into the vortex of uh consent agendas and budgets and things of that nature. Uh but thank you and congratulation again on your blue future awards. Absolutely. All right, that cleared the room. So, yeah. All right, next on our agenda is comments from the community. Jen, did we have Yeah, we have
018one. All right, Tom. Oh, she's not in her normal seat. She snuck up on us. You know, I was going to address the policies. Um, and I thank you very much for putting those on the website. I know I've been asking for it for a few months and I really, really appreciate that. But I think as a mom and echoing your words that you said about the student that we so tragically lost in my mom's heart, that's just kind of consumed my thoughts this evening. And I didn't want to go without at least acknowledging the staff and the high school um because it was a tough day whether you're knew the individual intimately or as a best friend or if you had known them from two years or randomly saw them, it really affected the
019students. And someone who lost six classmates when they were in school, I just know how important it is for that kind of support. So, I just kind of wanted to acknowledge the teachers and everybody because, you know, the students really felt and I just ask for continued prayers for that family because I can only imagine what they're going through. So, thanks. Thanks, Laura. Thank you. All right. Uh, next item is our consent agenda. Um and so uh with with that uh we have the approval of our minutes from the work session and regular session and executive session from uh April 8th and our special session from April 28th. We have the approval of claims, uh the approval of the personnel report, which I will read at the conclusion of this, uh approval of the field
020trips for the volleyball summer camp, and another long list of um uh donations that we need to accept um uh just again the benevolence of the community back to the school corporation is just absolutely amazing. So that is part of the consent agenda. I will read the personnel report and then I would ask for a motion in a second to approve the personnel report. Um Jessica Nichols is requesting a maternity leave of absence. Uh we have the um uh in certified staff we have the resignations of Amy Marshall and Nick Comr effective at the end of the 2425 school year. On certified recommendations, we have Jeff Walker for fourth grade teacher, Ashley Knightenhelzer for a first grade teacher, uh Tommy Newton for our strength and conditioning teacher, uh Braden Lake for social studies teacher in
021the high school, and Colin Quinn uh for the athletic director for Typton High School. I believe I saw Jeff and Colin. Did I see Ashley? Okay, Colin's here. Oh, there she is. Okay, Brian's in the way. So, uh, so, um, just wanted to recognize those that are in attendance tonight and, um, you get a chance to, uh, say hi to them. They're now part of the or will be shortly part of the family here. So, it'd be nice to, uh, uh, formally welcome them. For our classified staff resignations, we have Emma Crawford as the corporation deputy treasurer and Braden Lake as the permanent substitute teacher. recommendations for Whitney Wilson, second shift custodian at the elementary school, and Ken Day as a substitute bus driver for Route 34. Um the uh we have a pay adjustment
022for Holly Brandon uh due to increased duties and responsibilities with uh data reporting and on ECA staff, we have a resignation of Emily Campbell, uh sixth grade head cheer coach. That is our personnel report and uh I I would entertain a motion and a second uh to approve resignations and hires. I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. I have a motion and a second to approve uh any questions or comments from the board. All right. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda and the personnel report, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Welcome to Tipton. Welcome, Brian. Brian, if you want to say anything, you're welcome to tell Brian was just one. I just wanted to introduce Ashley to everybody. We're excited to have her first grade teacher next
023year. Obviously, she said that said Robin, I think you said, and um she's currently doing her teaching at Northwestern. the fifth grade teacher actually not doing student teaching anymore. She's doing a permanent sub position for the uh cooperating teacher that put on so she's finishing up the year there. She's getting a good experience here in May. Um so we're excited to have her. So I want to mention too Jeff Walker. He wasn't able to make it here today. Um he's coaches track at Northview in Brazil, Indiana right now. Um so they had conference tonight. Got so excited in Brazil at Very good. Thanks Brian. Welcome. And then uh I'd like to everybody to Colin Quinn. So he's the next athletic director at Typton High School. He's coming to us from Peru, but he's worked with
024Brian Strong and then at Boston Central. So he brings some great experience. I think the enthusiasm and already kind of how he athletic program is going to go really well. Andy's going to fit the the office scene we have with a nice beard. He has a nice beard, man. But but we might. We're really excited to have Colin finish up all his athletic director duties up at Peru, but then we're excited to have him here at High School. Welcome, Colin. Right. Uh, next on our agenda is the superintendent report. Yeah. Uh, briefly just wanted to talk about a few, uh, pretty cool honors. Um yesterday uh we had the opportunity to go to our our regional 5 um Indiana School Board Association meeting. Uh and uh so at that meeting uh we had some individuals
025that were honored uh from the Indiana School Board Association. Uh Andrea Campbell, uh Jennifer Hmerals, and Rob Cochran. uh these are uh really this shows their commitment to uh working with um within the the schoolboard association. So each time that you attend the state conference, you attend a meeting uh you get points and so this is how uh this recognition is is created. So it takes it from the time they started uh until they decide not to be part of the school board anymore. So again, I'm looking forward to seeing where they end up because I think this is a great honor and honestly uh just thrilled to have um to have our our board members um honored and again it just shows their commitment to to education and their commitment to public schools. Uh
026and then I would like to congratulate the entire board uh for receiving the 2024 exemplary governance governance award. So, that is a congratulations to all of you. And that is a super nice honor. And for that honor, you get this lovely plaque, which I think is pretty darn cool. And uh so we'll be putting that up in central office. And and so again, congratulations to our board uh for that work. And uh we appreciate the time and the commitment uh it takes to be a great board member. So, thank you guys for doing that. Last but not least, just kind of some upcoming agenda of um items. So, in our June 10th meeting, we will have our bids prepared for the high school re-roofing project. Uh they should be all ready to roll. Arl Turner
027will be here to discuss the bids and to uh to talk about the costs and all those different types of important uh important pieces of information. Uh we'll also have our wellness report from our wellness committee. And then we will be having our uh handbook changes and updates. And essentially that's going to be the student handbook, the athletic handbook, and the faculty handbook. So as we uh are updating our policies, we will be updating some of the items within those handbooks. So that's why that's just a little bit delayed. Typically, we would do that in May. So, and that's it. All right. Next on ours is spotlight on schools. Mr. Jorski. Yeah. Uh just real quickly uh uh update. So we we did get approved for that uh 103 waiver which allows us to convert
028uh three instructional days into uh three professional development days. Uh we've got the date set Thursday, August 7th, which is the day before school starts. Um Friday, November 7th and Monday, February 9th. It's a little different than last uh couple years where we had the second P day in September. We consulted with the TEA uh teachers association. We um kind of it was maybe better to have a little bit of gap between that first and second week. So, we pumped that to to November. That will be updated on the calendar website uh tomorrow. Um and again, a positive thing for the board. Um that waiver is good for three years, so we don't need to go through that uh jumping through the hoops to get that approved every week. It means we don't have to
029pass it twice. Right. Very good. Thanks, Scott. Appreciate it. Uh next are the department reports. Uh we had one from uh Mr. Jorski, also one from Adam and Food Services which did highlight the ACP being added to the menu. And uh it's good to know that that uh there's some competition now for both of the Mexican restaurants in town for uh ACP. And then uh Steven's uh technology um uh report as well. I don't know if anybody had any questions or comments on uh the department reports. Everybody good with that? All right. Uh, inside of that packet for the public's notice was uh, Mr. Jorski's grades for the first two classes that he took. And we were awfully glad to see 100% in one class and extremely disappointed to see 98.7 in the second class.
030So, we'd like to get those grades up if we could, Mr. Thank you. So, uh, not to publicly shame you, but that's what we're doing. We Yeah, there's a standard here. So, but uh again, congratulations on those academic efforts as well and that the school corporation definitely benefits from that uh that work as well. Brooke is not here this evening, so I will do the financial report so you can pretend I know what I'm talking about. Uh but for April, we ended the month with balances as follows. In the education fund, $98,88689. In our operations fund, $248,918.39. In our debt service fund, $791,155. And our rainy day fund is at 2,3,83341. Our operations revenue, the interest came in at $15,756. We have requested an advance on the spring tax settlement which we should be receiving
031on May 27th with our full settlement due by like mid June. Um and then really good news for the night is our circuit breaker report reflecting actual property tax cap loss came in at $50,29 instead of the 600,000 we had budgeted uh that was estimated to us by the department of local government finance. So, uh, when building the budget, we we u went with a big number. It came in less than that. So, that's that's a good thing for us, right? So, uh, but that is the finance report. Any questions from the board on the packet or anything that we had claims in there? Okay. Very good. All right. Moving on to old business. Uh, we have the second reading and adoption of batch number four of the new uh, CCHA policies, administrative guidelines, and
032forms. Um, I need a motion and a second to approve batch four on second reading. I move to approve batch number four of the new CCH policies, administrative guidelines and forms. Second. I have a motion and a second um to approve on second reading batch 4. All those in favor of approval, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? All right, the motion carries. Batch four is approved and will be on the corporation website going forward. Um, new business, nothing to do with this tonight, but just for your edification and information, uh, we do have a first reading of batch five of our board policies from CCHA. Um, this this is going to be pertaining to employee ethics, drug-free workplace, uh, justifiable decreases, promotions, placements, things of that nature. So, first reading tonight, just making
033sure that uh the public is aware. Uh we'll be voting this um on in our June 10th meeting. Um and so any questions or comments on that um please get those back to CCHA or Dr. Glaze uh so we can get that answered before the June um June meeting. All right. Um we now move to the public hearing on the proposed superintendent's contract. We're going to recess our regular monthly meeting now to hold a public hearing on the proposed superintendent's contract. Uh, do I have a motion to recess our monthly meeting? I move to recess our monthly meeting. Second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor of recessing our monthly meeting, please signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? All right, we are recessed and uh we are now into
034our public hearing. And at this time, the school board will allow public comment uh for uh the proposed superintendent's contract. First of all, I can't say how excited I am um about the plan and about the transitional plan. I can't think of a better person than our current um associate du. I've worked with him se on several committees and I just find it outstanding. Um Dr. Glaze, I can't thank you enough for your open communication and always responding to my several questions and emails and it's very refreshing. It's very refreshing. Bet you never thought you would this age by anybody. Um so my my questions about the contract really are just like semantics I guess because my understanding in reading it is on July 1st of this year um Mr. Jorski will be known as
035the successor superintendent but then when you read through the contract it seems to like talk about superintendent like the benefits and things. So, it's really a semantic question for me is does it mean when in um next year when he's in the superintendent position that that's when the benefits and everything kick in or is it are we just kind of like using the terms like reversibly like in L of each other like this will be the standing contract as of July 1st of this year and I know you're not going to answer my questions but I I know email me if you know you feel you need to answer that. But it just it just gets confusing when you read through it because it just seems like in one sense we're referring it you know
036as successor superintendent we still have a superintendent and then we're referring to the benefits as superintendent. So it just gets confusing which superintendent are we talking about? That that was it. Okay. And I will respond to it just uh just because it's you Laura. Um anybody else has anything to say? We're not respond. But because of Laura, we will say so. It the plan has always been for um uh next year for Scott to start assuming those responsibilities. Dr. Glaze will still be our superintendent. Yeah. Right. And that following year, um um then Scott becomes our superintendent. Dr. Glaze becomes Scott. And you can wrap your head around that. But it's more on a contracted basis. So if Scott needs a lot of help one month, Dr. Glaze will be here. If not so much
037the second. But we wanted that year of mentorship under his belt. Um and so that's why the language is a little squishy maybe as you look at it. But at the end of the day, um, we will I will send you a more detailed explanation than that, but wanted to call, uh, your attention and the public's attention to that is that it is a player coach relationship and then it flips and then it's a support staff. Thank you. You bet. Thank you. And you per my usual I'm going to go with you again just to maybe put a notice out on our web page about what's going to be happening because I can't imagine anybody not supportive of it. just to keep our goal of communication. You bet. Thank you very much. All right. Not
038talking to anybody else, so there's nobody else coming forward. Is that the idea? Okay. Um but uh so um at this time, I'd take a motion to close the uh public hearing and um and move back to our regular board meeting. I move to close the public hearing and return to our regular school board meeting. Second. Have a motion and a second to close the public hearing and return to our regular meeting. Uh all those in favor uh please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? All right, public hearing is closed and we're back to our regular agenda. Um now last the next thing on the uh agenda is the approval of the proposed superintendent contract. Last month, the school board met in a special meeting where a succession plan was presented to the community.
039On Wednesday, April 30th, the proposed superintendent's contract along with a notice of the public hearing was published in the Cookamo and Tipton Tribunes. And earlier this evening, you were all a part of the public hearing allowing for public comment on the proposed contract. Since all statutory requirements have been met regarding the proposed contract, I will accept a motion to approve the superintendent's contract. I move to approve the superintendent's contract. Second. All right. I have a motion and a second to approve the superintendent's contract. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Congratulations, Mr. Joriski. Call him Scottmore. Mr. Dorski now from from but uh so we move on in our agenda to other matters to come before the board. Uh our advisory committees uh the communications committee is meeting Monday
040June 2nd. That time is to be announced and we'll communicate with those committees. And then here is a robust schedule of events that take us to the finish line of of graduation. So uh May 15th and I will I will plug this event. May 15th is the middle school world of creativity. Used to be held in this room, but it's being held in the middle school now. But it's all the artwork that the middle school kids do and it will absolutely amaze you the talent that some of these kids have, whether it's um like pencil or art or paint or whatever. It's amazing. I I go every year and I love it. Uh May 17th, you can see my daughter at the stage and swing concert at 700 p.m. Um and May 20th, they have
041the middle school band concert. Uh May 23rd is the middle school awards program. That's at 12:30 uh in the afternoon. Uh the 26 is Memorial Day and the 29th of May is the elementary school uh awards. And May 29th, folks, believe it or not, is the last day for our students for this year. And June 2nd begins uh summer school here. And June 5th, uh we have our awards ceremony. Uh that'll take place in the auditorium at six o'clock, which is also another great evening to spend with our seniors and see them recognized for uh academic and sports success and things of that nature. June 7th, we have our graduation at 11:00 a.m. in the Inferno. And on June 10th, we'll be back in this room at 6:30 uh for our next uh board meeting.
042So that is what takes us to the finish line of another academic school year. So with that being said, I would take a motion and a second to adjurnn. I move to adjourn the main meeting. Second. Have a motion and a second to adjurnn. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? We are adjourned. Thank you. Need to take a picture.