001Good evening. It is 6 o'clock. This is a Wash City School Board of Trustees meeting for Monday, July 2nd, 2025. Roll call. Everyone is present. Having a quorum, we'll call the meeting to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. Wber City Schools provides a relevant and rigorous education founded upon relationships to ensure each student is college and career ready for success in a global community. Welcome. We have no recognitions tonight. We do have a revision. We're going to approve revision 4.G through K. So moved. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed? Motion passes. Is there anyone in the audience that
002wishes to comment on an agenda item? Consent agenda. We have minutes from May 19th, 2025. Some claims um donations. We have $1,000 from an anonymous donor for the auditorium sound system. Excellent. And there are no financials tonight. I'll accept a motion. So moved. Second. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda say I. I. Those opposed? Motion passes. Thank you for the anonym to the anonymous donor. Absolutely. The next regular schedule board meeting will be Monday, June 19th, June 16th, sorry, 2025 at Waw Bash City Hall at 6:00 p.m. There's some items of communication. There's no old business, new business. A board to approve the following summer custodians from June 3rd through August 8, 2025 at 32 hours per week. Ivy Beamer, Jay Spolins, Anna Dotri, and Janica Stumbo. So moved. Second. Discussion. Uh
003will we again be hiring summer student summer custodians? These four students will work 32 hours a week and just assist with custodial um duties. As they are temporary custodians for us, they are paid from the temporary custodian. They are paid at the temporary custodian rate of $13.60 per hour. Um, and before we decided on the number and how long, we did look at what we had appropriated and figured that we can fit this into our operations budget and and we're not going to hire a mowing person until the kids are done. So, either our own custodians or the kids will be out mowing and weed whacking so that we don't have to hire a person until Sure. Is this more than we normally hire during the summer? Is that about it? No, we thought so.
004We were going to only hire three, but then when we had the mowing thing open, we went back to All right. Good. So, recent graduates, too. They're all Yeah. All just graduates. Yeah. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed? Motion passes. B, board to accept the following changes for classified staff. One, resignation of Madison French as a special needs bus aid effective May 22nd, 2025. and two, termination of Khloe Fogle as preschool par profofessional effective May 23rd, 2025. So moved. Second. Discussion. Uh we'd just like to thank these ladies for their time and service to Wabash City Schools. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Motion passes. Item C. board to approve an overnight trip for boys cross country to Sleeping Bear Dunes from July 21st through 26, 2025. So moved.
005Second. Discussion. Uh this is a trip the boys have taken now probably five or six years in a row. So this is something they've done the last few years. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed? Motion passes. Item D. board to approve an overnight trip for girls cross country to Hawking Hills, Ohio from August 1 through 3, 2025. So moved. Second discussion. Uh this is new. Uh and you can see Caitlyn doesn't want to spend quite as many days as Ryan does. Uh but this will be the first time that the girls are taking an overnight trip. That's cool. Yeah. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed? Motion passes. E. or to approve out ofstate travel for Mrs. Jennifer Waro. Mrs. Waro will attend the handle with care trainer
006refresher in Columbus, Ohio on August 7th, 2025. Mrs. Waro provides yearly verbal and physical deescalating training to our staff. This training is paid for from our education fund. So moved. Second discussion. Uh Mrs. Warner Waro is our district trainer for handle with care and this is the class that um teaches our staff verbal and deescalation techniques. She is required to attend a yearly refresher and so this training will allow her to train our staff for the coming year. The training itself is $400 and then we also pay for a hotel the night before the training. Okay, any questions from the board? All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed? Motion passes. F. Board to approve Christina Sellers as an additional driver for summer transportation. So moved. Second discussion. Um I think I mentioned last
007board meeting that we thought that we were going to have to add a second driver for summer transportation. Um this is to help with the YMCA Spark program that is being offered at OJ. And we are reimbursed for Mrs. sellers pay and the mileage from the YMCA through their learning lab grant. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Motion passes. G. Board to accept the resignation of Kelly Clement from sponsor of the WHS SAD club facil faculty advisor effective June 2025. So moved. Second. Discussion. Uh, we'd like to thank Mrs. Clement for serving as our sad advisor. She did a great job, by the way. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed? Motion passes. H. Board to accept the resignation of Justin Denny from the WMSWHS leader team position effective
008June 2025. So moved. Second. Discussion. Uh, we'd like to thank Mr. Denny for serving as a member of the middle school high school lead learner team. I know he did a lot of work with that over the past couple years. Yeah. Do we have anyone that might be able to quickly fill fill into that position? Did we have anyone like on tap? Uh I can't really speak to that. M Mike really leads up that leader. Sure. So I know he's working through some some qualified in a nutshell. What is that? Um so lead learner team um really does professional development on instructional strategies, assessment strategies, anything teaching in the classroom. So um think of it as mentors mentor. Yeah. But but it's for the entire faculty rather than just new teachers. That's fair. Does that
009does that person go for training and then share with others or how does that work? Yeah, we typically try to take them to um they're like the first candidates we go to like a PLC training or project based learning training all of that. Justin was particularly valuable based on his project based learning and class. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's disappointing to see now. He's doing a lot of work with our PECAP program that starts in the fall. That's part of the reason for that. Okay. All those in favor of accepting the resignation say I. I. Those opposed. Motion passes. I board to approve Alan Tribet and Angel Clement as additional drivers for summer transportation. Their wages of $96 today per day will be reimbursed by the Wash County YMCA. So move. Second. Discussion. So we
010just approved Mrs. Sellers, but she is unable to drive on Friday. Uh and so Mr. Tribet and Mrs. Clement said they would cover the four Fridays for us. I believe Allan is going to do three of them and Angel is doing one. Um, and again, this is for the YMCA Spark program and we'll be reimbursed for their pay and mileage as well. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed? Motion passes. J board to approve 10 additional days on Sarah Delgado's 2425 contract. This will be an additional salary of $3,600. So moved. Second. Discussion. Um we are requesting 10 additional days for Mrs. Delgado. Um we did this last year as well with the number of DI DLI positions that have turned over as well as um working on last minute details for
011our students that are going to Japan this summer. um she is in need of these extra days and this will be paid from our F1 student fund. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed? Motion passes. Item K. Board to approve awarding the high school roofing contract to Van Dorne Roofing Inc. Accept a motion. So moved. Second. Discussion. So we this is the second bid opening we had to do. The first one we did not have a bid that was acceptable. So we did our bid opening last Friday. We did have three companies that submitted. Um the bid prices are included for the board to improve to to review. Um, you can see that Van Dorne Roofing came in at the lowest and that includes their base bid as well and as an
012alternate bid which includes repairing the back wall of the high school which I believe is causing quite a few issues with leaks. Um, so it we were hoping that it would come in at $450,000 or less. Um, their bid came in just under 433,000. We will have some freight charges that aren't included in these figures, but those are estimated probably tops at $4,000. So, we'll still be under that 450,000. Um, I did some calculating. That's going to leave us with about $850,000 after our boiler replacement and this roofing that needed to be done to do any of the other little minor projects that we were, you know, we had on our list. Uh and if we are able to get the contract executed quickly, they have a crew that can begin mid June. Um which
013makes us hopeful that maybe it will be done before the start of the school year. So do we have any warranty on this work on the work? Yes. Okay. That was part of the bid that they had. Where do they come out of? Do you know? Um I'm I don't know if that makes a big deal or anything. just they're going to be able to be available and well they like I said he has a crew that he said mid June we can get them going. Um I know that all three of the companies that bid um Austin from uh Garland said they were all you know very reputable companies so he was happy to see that. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Motion passes. Items from superintendent. Um, all I
014had we have we had a great graduation ceremony on Friday. Um, congratulations and good luck to all our graduates and I hope that all our returning students, teachers, and staff enjoy a relaxing summer. Items from Chief Operations Officer. I just want to wish luck to our uh five boys that'll participate Friday in the state track meet at North Central High School and also to our golf team who that will be our last official athletic event next Monday when they participate in the sectional at Rock Hollow. So, we're just about there. Uh items from administrator. Super proud of class of 2025 from the early college standpoint. We went from two associates degrees two years ago to three last year to 12 this year. Really quite an accomplishment. Then another 16 got the Indiana College CPS and
015then 29 are considered early college high school grads in addition to those um because they've earned 15 or more college credits. So it's it's a really big deal. Our kids um really stepped up to the plate and took advantage of all the opportunities that we provide at school. So that's good to see and I kind of see it snowballing from here. Our expectations go up more and more. Um and it really I think it's hopefully helps to change our community and educate our community and bring some leaves back. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Other items from visitors? [Laughter] Items from board members? Connie? Um, I want to, um, extend a big thank you to the football team. They, uh, my daughter Abby asked them to come and help move furniture and 16 boys showed up and
016worked like no other and got it done, which goes along with my philosophy. If you want something done, ask kids, you know, they step up. So, they got some weightlifting in, I suppose. But they, she said they work like crazy for two hours. And I already told Ryan Carmichael, "Thank you, too. That was that was really great." And they did it for the pay of pizza. Food does motivate. Yeah. So, um, Abby wanted me to share that. Nice. Okay, Jason. I don't have anything specific tonight other than graduates. That was an awesome ceremony. It was fun to participate. Yeah. I have nothing to add. Nothing to add? I don't either. Just uh congratulations to the graduates and have a great summer. With that, we'll adjourn. Thank you. Thank you. Left one.