001[Music] First is a moment of silence and pledge of allegiance. Everyone please rise. During the moment of silence, if everybody could also please keep Mr. uh Roy Wilson's family in your thoughts and prayers. Mr. Wilson worked for War County School Corporation, I believe, 30 years at Boomville High School in industrial arts and he was a very successful coach as well. Uh so please keep Dena Green his daughter and Tim Wilson and Greg Wilson. Dena and Greg also work for us. uh keep them, their families, their children and friends and family in your thoughts and prayers, please. >> I aliance 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. Agenda item number three is patron concerns and
002we have no one signed up this morning this evening. So agenda item number four is presentation of war k school corporation data. Mr. Fiser. >> Thank you Mr. Baker. Good evening to the board. Tonight I'm going to be speaking to the board about our most recent uh testing data from the 2025 year. The I read testing data just became final on Wednesday, August 13, 2025. So we wanted to really get this information out to you. For tonight's purposes, we will be discussing IED 3, which we administer to students in grades two and grades three primarily. We'll be discussing the iLearn assessment which we administer in grades three through eight. In grades three through eight we administer English language arts and math in each grade. Uh in grade four and grade six we administer the science
003assessment and only in grade five do we administer social studies. And then we will be discussing the SAT school day assessment which we administer only to our juniors our current juniors in high school. So we will begin with our I read three data and for I read three last year was the first year uh that the state of Indiana mandated that all students in grade two were uh to take the i3 assessment. Now Warick County for several years had been administering uh the i3 to all of our grade two students. we had been opting in, but last year was the official the first year that it was officially mandated throughout the state of Indiana. For last year, we had 696 students in our grade three cohort, which took the I read assessment, and we had
004a pass rate or a pass passing 518 students for an official percentage of 74.4% of our students were at proficiency. To give you some context, the prior year we were at 60%. But to be fair, in the prior year we were only allowed one attempt. Last year in grade two, we took the assessment in the spring window, which is usually in the first two weeks of March, and then we had another testing window at the end of May, where we could administer it to grade two students. So many of our grade 2 students took advantage of that second opportunity uh before uh we administered the second opportunity. We were around 58 59% and to conclude we were at 74.4%. One thing I do want to be sure that the board understands is when we see
005these I read three final rates or these are advertised in the paper or we see the releases in the press, it does not count in grade two. So when I give you our final rate for this year, those grade two students will not be factored or calculated into that. Your proficiency rate is only on grade three students. Now, if they passed in grade two, obviously we receive that credit in their third grade year. For grade three, this is something that we are very excited about. If you've been reading, Dr. Jenner and the IDOE has issued a goal for the state of Indiana by 2027. They want 95% of all students in the state of Indiana to pass the IED 3 assessment. And for 2025 in War County, 96% of our students pass the I read
006three assessment. So that is something we are extremely proud of. Our educators both in grade two and grade three, our title one educators, special education teachers, admin, and the work and efforts of Miss Kayla Russell who was our curriculum specialist last year at the elementary level. With that collaborative effort, we feel very proud of this 96% pass rate. To give you some context, about three to four years ago, War County created a cohort of school corporations throughout the state of Indiana that we are comparing ourselves to. And these are some of the highest performing districts within the state of Indiana. These districts are comparable to us in size, economically disadvantaged students, and within this cohort, you can see that we were tied for second place there. Valerezo had a 97.5% pass rate, but we were
007within our cohort, we were second uh when comparing ourselves to similar districts in size, economically disadvantaged students. So, we're really proud of those efforts and feel really good about the progress made last year. If it had not been for Val Perezo. >> Yeah. >> He was so proud we'd be Brownsburg. >> Yes, I was. And um oddly enough, when I was checking these rates, Valareerezo was the final school I checked. >> I thought we were home. But anyway, very proud of that. Um, so for iLearn grades 3 through 8, when looking at our testing data for English language arts, 58% of students were proficient. Um, that S there stands for the state average. 40.6% of students throughout the state of Indiana were proficient in English language arts. And when I say that 58% that is
008accumulation of all students grades three through eight. That's not one specific grade level. Looking at our math it is 65.4% with the state average being 42.1. So we're about 23% above the state average there. And the both that is the percentage of students who not that passed both ELA and passed math. So in that percentage there we were 50.8 with the state average right around 31.2. Once again that is accumulation of all grades three through eight. And that is only for ELA and math when we're looking at that both. I just mentioned that recent cohort. We have some statistical trends here. You can see in 2024 our passing rate in ELA was 58.9. That decreased to 58%. Uh we did make some gains in other parts of English language arts but that is something the
009department of learning is focusing on. That is one of our goals for this year. As you can see we're staying pretty flat there. In 23 we're 58.2. Last year we had a slight increase to 58.9 and then last year we're back at 58%. When you measure us against this cohort for 2025 we have nine school corporations there. As you can see here is their enrollment all very similar to us and they're economically disadvantaged fairly similar to us. We were seventh out of those nine schools. As we transitioned to math, we did experience almost a 3% increase in proficiency in math. In 2024, we were 62.7%. Last year, we were 65.4%. In 2023, we were 64. So, we're very pleased with this number. And in this cohort here, when comparing once again to these similar districts,
010we were fifth out of nine. But one thing I do want to point out to you, as Dr. Redmond mentioned with the exception of Brownsburg down here at 74.3 the difference between us and second place is less than 1%. So we were right there in math very proud of those efforts and with those passing both math and ELA we were sixth out of ninth in that respective uh cohort comparison. One thing that I did not include in here is our science. In grades four and six, we were roughly 17% above the state average. 61% of our students in grades four and six passed that assessment. State average right around 43%. Grade five social studies, 70% of our students passed that assessment. And about 46% of the state passed that. So we're about 24% above them
011in social studies, but that assessment is only administered in grade 5. When you're looking at our iLearn results, one thing I want to uh be sure that I'm clear with the board is those ELA, that math, and that both that is relative to all the corporations in the state of Indiana. And that includes all the private, all the virtual, and all the charter schools. So of the 392 corporations, our performance in ELA was 21st out of those 392. That's not 21st percentile. We're in the top 94 percentile. So we're in the 94th percentile in ELA. In math, we finished 18th out of 392, which would put us in the 95th percentile. And for those students who passed both ELA and math, we were 19th out of 392 school corporations. So that's every school corporation within
012the state of Indiana, regardless if they're private, regardless if they're virtual or a charter school. Any questions from the board? because I want to segment this here or chunk it to where I can answer any of your questions as it relates to i3 or the iLearn assessment from 2025. >> Did you also This is great. I'm I'm really proud of everything that's happening here. Did you also break this down and do a deep dive into the grade levels and the schools and see if the third grade students were progressing the fourth graders this year compared to their third grade scores last year? Do you have that information? >> I don't have that for every single grade, but it would be very easy to compile that. >> Okay. >> Uh that's something I always like to
013look at because we're graded on progress >> and what I'm looking for is as these kids progress. I used to make like a chart to see, you know, their third grade, how do they perform in fourth and then fifth and then sixth and to see if we can like map their growth. >> Yes. One thing I can tell you, Mrs. Wilmus, and that's an excellent question. Last year in ELA, oddly enough, where our growth was a bit stagnant or even regressed a little, we were concerned with third grade in 24 and 25 as they progressed to fourth grade. That was one of our title goals that we had. We saw a 10% increase in ELA proficiency from third to fourth with that particular cohort. >> That's powerful. >> That was not consistent in every grade
014level though. Um in all of our grade levels in math, we were 20% above or more than the state average. Um but I cannot give you a grade by grade on how much we increased across the board in each and every subject. But that is something we could certainly look at in student learning and growth committee meetings. But in fourth grade uh that was something that we really focused on the 2025 fourth grade because in third grade we were a bit concerned with their proficiency rates and they grew by 10% with that particular cohort. >> Mr. Fiser. Uh, in a similar manner to, uh, what Miss Wilhelms wanted, is it easy or could you get instead like your little, uh, table here for cohort comparison, could you get that per school for us? >> I
015I most certainly could. Uh, all of that information for War County is on the IDOE data center and reports. It's public information. >> It's been released by grade level for each and every school. >> Okay. It would be nice to have a chart though. I'm like you. It would be nice to be able to just look at other stuff because once you go to the IDE and you sort through all of that stuff, sometimes it gets, you know, they're >> Yeah. >> And just for your knowledge, I asked Mr. Fischer just to do district overview of where we were as a district because typically the buildings >> um >> just so that's why it's not included. I just wanted you to be aware so he can easily get that information. We have those charts. We
016need another presentation, you can just send that to us. That'd be great. Okay. >> Yeah, that >> I imagine the increase in reading proficiency is going to start showing its way into these older grade levels I learned results as well. As they're becoming more proficient reading, these scores, I would imagine, would increase with it. You would hope so, but there's not always a direct correlation there because just because of the different type of assessment ilearn is a much more rigorous assessment. In theory, you're absolutely right. A stronger reader should be able to have a skill set that would equate to, you know, giving them an up for the actual iLearn assessment. So, I'm hopeful and and I'm with you in theory, but the assessment types are so different that there are sometimes things that get
017in the way with the design of the assessment um that might cause more difficulty for some students that isn't related to their ability to read. So, I just wanted to point that out. But I love the optimism and I hope they're right. >> So, do I. as we as we practice our preaching of you know we >> K3 we learn we learn to read and beyond that we read to learn and so hopefully that shows itself. >> Yes, I hope so too. >> Any other questions from the board as it relates to I read three or I learn? All right, we will now transition to school day SAT and we administer the school day SAT usually um in the first week or two in March and just for the board. The school day SAT is
018mandated by the state of Indiana. That's administered to every junior or 11th grader and that is as far as accountability as it relates to the high schools. It's just for that one year as far as the accountability metric. As we look at the results here, when you're looking at benchmark, I want to explain what benchmark is. You'll see that EBRW there and that stands for evidence-based reading and writing. To put that in very simple terms, it's very similar to English language arts. And of our juniors who tested last year, 68.6% of them were at benchmark, which means 68.6% scored a 480 or higher. Now what does that word benchmark mean? College Board who administers the SAT has done several studies over 10 years and based on their studies they are indicating that for a student
019to enter an entrylevel English class in college they would have a 75% chance of earning a C or higher if they have a score of 480 or above. So when you're looking at that, 68.6% of our students are at the benchmark. As you can see, the state of Indiana, and I have that over there in the corner, they were at 54.5%. So roughly 14% above the state of Indiana. When we're looking at year-to-year, now we had a great question a while ago, Mrs. Wilhelmus. Last year, our evidence-based reading and writing was 60%. But it's a different cohort of students. It wasn't the same group of students. So, it was really hard to determine how much they grew unless we're looking at their PSAT in MSQT that they took in grade 10. And that's not all
020perfectly aligned, but 68.6% of our students. And the thing you notice at the high school level is the inverse of what we're seeing in grades three through eight. Our math was higher in grades three through eight. And here our English language arts is higher than our math. Now there are a couple reasons for that. You can see our corporation percentage of a benchmark is 36%. The state is 25. You may be thinking, why in the how in the world can only one in four students achieve proficiency throughout the state? You'll see that the math benchmark is 50 points higher than the evidence-based reading and writing. College Board has determined that in order to have an entry level math course and have that 75% chance or greater of obtaining a C or greater that you would
021need to earn a 530. And part of the reason here is about 50% of this SAT school day assessment is with skills associated with algebra 2. So we're really looking as a department of learning in the elementary levels in grades 3 through eight on what we can do to increase our ELA proficiency. And the same would be true in math. Now last year in math um we were um about 35% so we grew that a percent it wasn't much different cohort of students and the evidence-based reading and writing grew 8.6% so we're very proud of those gains. One other thing for the board we're still adjusting to the SAT school day being administered all digitally and we're really wanting to see the long-term effects of this. College Board has claimed that they've done numerous studies,
022analyzed this with a lot of standard deviations to make the determination that the digital assessment is not much different than the old paper and pencil one. But I can tell you on the evidence-based reading and writing, the passages that students are required to read is much shorter and they're not as they're not answering as many questions in succession. uh 3 to four years ago a passage would be a couple pages and there'd be eight to nine questions associated with it where now it's a couple paragraphs and there's one to two questions. So um they are saying that um it's not impacting scores but I'm I'm curious on that. As far as our students that passed both um it was 35.1% the state was 24.1 so we're over 10% above the state average. >> Excuse me.
023Yes, >> Mr. Fisher. But, uh, one of the points he made was that all juniors take this. When I was in high school, not everybody took it. And that that was for many years. So, if you're looking at those percentages and thinking, "Wow, those don't look, you know, anywhere near what we would expect." It's because now everybody is taking that SAT test, not just the kids who were on the college prep in the college prep. >> That's a good point. >> So, he made that point earlier and I just want to make sure everyone realized that. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. That was going to be my question was what percentage of our students go to college and are going to be taking these types of classes? As far as percentage of students from War
024County, Mr. Skinner, I I really do not have that information available as far as the percentage of students from War County that will be attending a traditional four-year school because those benchmarks there, that's what those are set for, traditional four-year school. So, I I would not feel comfortable telling the board this percentage or that percentage that will be attending a traditional four-year school. I know the college attendance rate in the state of Indiana was around 52% last year. As far as attending a traditional four-year school, and there's a little concern that that number has been continuing to drop throughout the state, but as far as it relates specifically to War County, I'm sorry, I really don't have that information. >> I I wouldn't be surprised if it was in the 60 70% range. And so
025I mean really you start looking at students are going to go to college and use this or preparing them for college certainly in reading and writing. I don't think we're that far off >> and math. A lot of them don't know when they go to college they just take a basic math class unless they're planning on going into a science math career anyway. >> Thank you. Any questions as it relates to school day SAT or any other data? >> I think all these numbers look really good. >> Thank you. >> I do. I think it's, you know, testament to all the all you great educators doing your job, you know. I mean, hitting those numbers being higher than what the state wants us to be at for I read, you know, I mean, that's that's
026pretty amazing. >> Thank you all so much. >> Thank you, Mr. Fisher. >> The one other thing I think is outstanding about War County is not only do we have pathways for kids to college, but we have pathways for kids to careers. >> And I think as our program expands for that, it's going to create many more opportunities. >> Lots of good things going on. Yes, absolutely. Lots of good things. >> Agenda item number five, consider routine business. Dr. Redmond. >> Thank you, Mr. Baker. The routine items tonight include approving the minutes of the school board meeting held on August 11th, 2025 and approving the claims and signing the docket. I recommend the board approve the routine items as presented. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion by Mr. Mosby, second by Mr. France.
027Is there any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I post sign. Motion carries. Agenda item 7.1 is approve updated policy 4040 student attendance. Dr. Red. >> Thank you, Mr. Baker. Dr. Walter Lambert has brought to the board updated policy 4040 student attendance. The minor changes in your board packet are highlighted in yellow. The first reading of the updated policy was on August 11th, 2025. Tonight is the second and final reading at which time the board may choose to take action. And in case you weren't here last time, just a quick overview. Um, attendance means to be physically present during the school hours in a school or at another location where the school's education program is being administered on a day the educational program in which the student is enrolled is being offered. And then
028the changes that were mentioned that are highlighted in yellow under the exceptions to mandatory attendance requirement, they added participating in scheduled competition, exhibition or event offered by the national FFA organization or 4H club now falls under that category. And just so you know, in Warick County, we would have excused that absence anyway. But this is just something that we had to add to align with the new rules. And the other piece that was added. Um, it extends last year it was it was through the younger grades, but starting now through kindergarten through 12th grade. If you have five unexcused absences in a 10-w week period, um, we have to send written notice to the parents and the written notice shall include the student is absent based on having missed the five unexcused days within that
029time frame. the parents is responsible for helping us monitor and it just outlines some of the things that the school would want to discuss with the parents to ensure that we're supporting and partnering with families um to make sure we can get our students at school. With all of that said, I recommend the board approve this updated policy as presented. >> I make a motion to approve the student attendance policy as presented. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. I have a motion by Miss Was a second by Mr. Skinner. Do I have any discussion? >> Just again, we highlighted last time nothing has changed about calling in if your kid is sick, calling in if you're, you know, kidneys and miss for some reason. It's still an excused absence. That isn't changing. just
030updated into the number of unexcused absences within a certain time frame. All in favor of the motion say I >> oppose. >> Motion carries. Agenda item 7.2 approve proposed policy 4300. Dr. Redmond. >> Thank you, Mr. Baker. Dr. Walter Lambert has brought to the board newly proposed policy 43000, inspection of student lockers, desks, and student vehicles parked on school property. The first reading of this proposed policy was on August 11, 2025. Tonight is the second and final reading at which time the board may choose to take action. In summary, uh the board of school trustees of the W County School Corporation provides lockers, desks, and other storage areas on school property for student use and storing supplies and personal items necessary for use at school. The temporary assignment of storage areas to students does not
031diminish the War County School Corporation's ownership or control of such property. It shall be the policy of the school board that any locker, desk or any other storage area assigned to the student for school purposes or vehicles parked on school property shall not be used to store any item in which falls into the following categories. A any forbidden item by state law, policy or administrative regulation, including any item that is forbidden by state law when possessed by a student, for example, alcohol. any item deemed to be a health hazard to others and any item which will cause or can reasonably be foreseen to cause an interference with school purposes or an educational function. I recommend the board approve the proposed policy as presented. >> Motion to approve. >> I have a motion by Mr. Mosby,
032a second by Mr. France. Any discussion? >> I had voiced a concern with not the lockers, the desks, the bars that vehicles that all consistent and make sense. My only concern was with the section two, the students person and possessions that allows the school personnel to search the student, not their desk or their locker, but the actual person, the student pockets um of the student. Um and only requires that the parents be notified or attempted to be notified within 24 hours. My concern was that that ought to be done much sooner than that. And I have no doubt and that our administrators are doing it much sooner than that. That's the our policy allowing it to be over 24 up to 24 hours later is a little too broad in my opinion allows more than
033what I think any reasonable parent would expect in terms of the communication from the school and that perhaps the policy if it was designed to really discuss to to search for weapons or drugs or those sorts of things um where you're you're searching a student because you think there might be some hazard to to other students. students that this policy actually goes a little bit beyond that and any school rule violation would allow you to search a student and uh and and let the parent know within 24 hours and that uh I don't think is consistent with our practice um and probably go a little beyond what I think um I would expect as a parent um and even if our practice isn't that this policy I don't think is aligning with perhaps what we
034would want and expect our our building principles to do. >> Let I would like to read just part of this section because first of all, I want to make sure the public is clear and the board is clear. We're not just pulling kids out of a hallway or out of a classroom just to to search them. So, let me read the language to make sure everyone's clear on when something of this nature would occur. Um, if the student does not Okay, sorry. Uh section two, students person and possessions. Prior to a search of the student's person and personal items in the student's immediate possession, consent of the student shall be sought by one or more school authorized personnel. So we always attempt immediately to just say, you know, we have reason to believe you have
035this and we offer the student the opportunity to just be forthcoming and produce whatever it is that, you know, we're concerned about. If the student does not consent, such a search shall be permitted based only upon the school authorized personnel's individual reasonable susp individualized reasonable suspicion to believe that the search will produce evidence of a violation of a law, school rule, or condition that endangers the safety or health of the students or others. So, I just wanted to be clear, it's not just occurring randomly like it has to be under those conditions. You want to just go ahead and read the rest of that? I think that's all applicable here. Sure. And we discussed this in our >> policy meeting just prior to this. And >> Sure. Let me I'll finish reading that whole section.
036Mrs. Wilhelms. >> Uh to continue. Searches of the person of a student shall be conducted and witnessed by a person of the same gender as the student and shall be conducted in a private place. A search students parent or guardian shall be notified when possible of the search within 24 hours if possible. When a when a when a school authorized personnel has reasonable grounds to suspect that a student's vehicle parked on school property is being used for purposes in violation of this policy and the student refuses to consent to a reasonable inspection of the vehicle. The school authorized personnel shall have the authority and the responsibility to revoke the students parking privilege or have the vehicle removed from school corporation property if the student has not been granted parking privileges. the superintendent shall issue the
037necessary regulations and guidelines to give school authorized personnel direction in implementing the policy. So really it just goes back to the the beginning. We don't want drugs, alcohol, safety concerns. We don't want those types of things on our school property and on our campuses. That's really the essence of of the policy. And >> as a general rule, when there is a suspicion that someone is violating the law, I believe that usually we have an SRO present. >> It depends on the circumstance because sometimes that would not even be necessary. >> That's the question I have. >> An SRO is only present when that a law has been broken like you know uh drugs, alcohol, weapons, those kinds of things. But even those times it's not always necessary. >> Okay. >> So yeah, and And I
038understand the 24hour thing that is a max. It has never happened. I'm talking to the principles about that. It's not been at but there always going to leave ourselves some wiggle room for worst case scenario where we just can't get our people to move. Everybody I talked to when I pulled everybody, they are calling when they do it. And if they can't call when they do it, they're calling within an hour or so before the end of the day. And so it has never ever gone that far. But with anything else, we got to give some wiggle room just in case. And it is not something to hide anything. It is about the ability for the administrators to get the job done to maybe interview people, to talk to people. There might be more, you
039know, I can, you know, all kinds of worst case scenarios with that, but that's just a a generalization. Our expectation, and I know Dr. Redmond is where I'm at too is call as soon as possible for the parent if you're going to do any kind of searching. And the majority, all of them, all the principles said I try to call right then and there when I'm doing it with the kid in the room so the kid can talk to the parent. And again, this is safety. This is about safety. It's about keeping drugs, alcohol, weapons, um those kinds of things out of our schools. And that's the only reason we have that that policy. This is not just random searching and it is. >> And another point of clarity that I think is important because
040I think you know search has maybe a negative connotation or or maybe it feels like um something more than what we actually define as search. Um so when our if our building principles are searching a student, it is typically more asking them remove your jacket, open up your pockets. We're not putting hands on a student for a search. I just wanted to clarify that. Pat downs are not something that we we want or need. Now, if it's a safety issue that we feel there's a weapon, that's different. >> That's a whole different story. >> That's different. >> Yeah. But we also have wands available, but that is not a standard practice whatsoever. Um, but again, it would have to be a very very egregious safety issue where we would want to do that. Again, we
041probably not be doing that. It probably be the SRO at that point. So >> when it comes to the safety of all the students, you know, we have to take those measures. No problem with that at all. And if our principles are calling immediately or the day of I guess I just don't think we ought to have a policy that would permit over, you know, up to 24 hours. uh if your expectation you're giving to the building level administrators is call the same day and you can't very well get on someone if they forget or don't if the policy allows them and so just wanting to make sure you go ahead. >> I just want to make sure our policy is giving an expect clear expectation as to what we want and then also allows
042us to enforce that if they're not meeting it. Um and and that that that's all I have a problem with here and um is really I just don't think it matches what our policy and our actual expectation is. >> Question Dr. and I know we're still in discussion here but Dr. Lambert, the 24-hour thing sounds like you feel that's the flexibility you need. Does some of that go into extracurricular type scenarios where you're at at nighttime and over overnight we're on a bus, we're going to Washington and something happens and then >> the procedure has to happen the next day and >> administrator didn't get the notice until 8:30 in the morning and they have a meeting and is that kind of >> that that could be that it could be an event you know
043we've I go back to many many years ago when I was at the junior high I had about 40 different kids have a knife on them. They passed around from somebody who threatened it. So, we got to go through and talk to 40 kids. >> That's a lot of phone calls. A lot. Now, we got it done. >> Yeah. >> You know, but it's still just there's those worst case scenarios. We want to be available to have the flexibility. And again, >> our expectation is in our regulations that we put into play with our principles that we're going to do it. So again, if it's happens one time. That's the conversation we have. We don't want that. We don't we want we want to talk to parents right away. But again, I want to also
044have the flexibility in case we have a a nighttime thing in case we have a lot of kids with something that we got to go through. Um that we have that ability that if we had to, you know what, it might not be by the end of the day, but it's first thing in the morning. Again, that's just a a fail safe. So, even a scenario where maybe the attempt has been made, >> right, >> but for whatever reason couldn't get through to a parent. >> Yep. >> Yes. >> Well, knowing our building level principles, I do I can't picture any of them >> shoving it off and doing it tomorrow. >> No, >> they're going to call the parents right away. I mean, I understand your concern, Andrew, but I I think you have
045to I understand Dr. Lambert's been at this and he needs that. Makes sense. And like Jordan said, bus trip at night. >> That's when most of that silly stuff happens if you ask me. >> Yeah. You know, >> crazy crazy boys doing crazy things. >> I'm glad you brought up the bus cuz I hadn't considered extracurricular after school and you're you're going to have to wait and hear about it until the next day. >> Well, I remember like in band, I was in marching band. I mean, we're you know, you're who knows where. Walt Disney World and you got a chaperon or a parent chap, you know, whatever. It's like that that 24 hours probably in that scenario gives you the flexibility you need. >> And we looked at that exact situation is if if
046it happened at 5 or 6 o'lock and you put a 12-h hour notice on it, you're looking at 5 or 6 a.m. the next morning, that principal is having to stay late to do this. And so we did go through all of these. You know, from a legal perspective, we don't have to notify the parents. So, we're actually taking on additional liability for the school corp to put that sentence in there. The attorney would say, "Don't put any more liability in the school court than you have to." So, the attorney would say, "Don't even put that in there." But out of respect for parents and the students, parents and and guardians, we wanted to put some kind of line in there, but with all those factors, 24 um it was absolutely my recommendation, but we
047don't go any shorter than that. Call the question. >> All in favor? >> I. >> All oppose. >> I'll vote I with that explanation and George's example. That makes sense. Adding the having a night time. So, >> thank you. Good discussion. Thank you for discussing that. >> Motion carries. Agenda item 7.3 approved donations. Dr. Redmond. >> Thank you, Mr. Baker. Tonight, we have several donations at Tecumpsa High School. a $5,000 donation from the LA Grid Iron Club to the ths football team to be used to purchase an endzone camera and also a $1,188.84 84 cent donation from the LA Grid Iron Club to purchase football pants for the middle school. A $500 donation from the CAC Development Company to the ths girls golf team to be used to purchase uh money toward uniforms, equipment, and
048food. At Warick Education Center, a $1,000 donation from Share the Good Foundation to be used for students and staff. And this was as a result of the Wet Fire. and at Oakdale Elementary School, a $2,000 donation from Ascension St. Vincent to support their weekend backpack program. I recommend the board approve the donations as presented. >> Have a motion. >> So move. >> Second. >> Motion by Mrs. Was, a second by Mr. Igner. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. Motion carries. Agenda item number eight, consideration of personnel recommendation, Dr. Thank you, Mr. Baker. The human resource office has the following business to bring before the board tonight. Agenda item 8.1, consideration of employment. Certified staff, Penny Howard, a temporary kindergarten teacher at Chandler Elementary School, and the following non-certified staff. Chanel Fischer, temporary
049program assistant at Castle South Middle School. Rachel Miller and Helen Anderson, program assistants at Castle High School. Devin Lloyd, a temporary program assistant at Elbertfeld Elementary School. Majesta Knox, 3.5 hour cafeteria position at Castle South. Michelle Jones, 4.25 hour cafeteria position at Castle High. Trisha Han, a cafeteria float. Elizabeth Wallace, 3.25 hour cafeteria position at John H. Castle. Valeria Williams, ABS, program assistant Yankeetown Elementary. Michelle Gerston, 6.5 hour cafeteria position at Castle High. Rebecca Williamson, program assistant at Chandler Elementary. And Melinda Herbert, 3.25 hour cafeteria position at John H. Castle Elementary. >> Motion to approve certified non-certified s. >> I have a second. >> Second. >> Motion by Mr. France, a second by Mr. Skinner. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I oppose. Motion carries. >> Thank you. Agenda item 8.2 leaves. Cindy Tulie, an
050English teacher at Tacumy Middle. Angela Hillbornne, 3.25 hour cafeteria position at Log Elementary. Kristen Young, a 5.75 hour cafeteria position at Castle North. Jamie Roers, a secretary treasurer at Oakdale Elementary. Jaye Hadley, clerical aid at Oakdale Elementary. Kesha Cronin, program assistant at Chandler Elementary. Janet Harbert, program assistant at Chandler Elementary. Danielle and Cruadi, math teacher at Boombo High. Leah Cook, custodian at Boombo High. Vicky Dalton, English teacher at Wick. Courtney Stark, third grade teacher at Newberger Elementary. And Penny Howard, program assistant at Chandler Elementary. Do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve leaves. >> Second. >> Motion by Mr. Rner, second by Miss Will Elvis. Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. >> Agenda item 8.3, report of transfers. Nicole Fessner, 3.0 hour cafeteria position at Chandler Elementary to 4.75
051hour cafeteria position at Castle North. Yuko Barnes, 6.5 hour cafeteria position at Castle High to 3.0h 0 hour cafeteria position at Castle High. Sandra Walker, 3.5 hour cafeteria position at Oakdale Elementary to 6.0 hour cafeteria position at Oakdale Elementary. Barbara Gerrard, 6.0 hour cafeteria position Oakdale Elementary to 3.5 hour cafeteria position at Oakdale Elementary. Sher West, 3.0hour cafeteria position at Castle North to cafeteria float position. Agenda item 8.4 resignations. Erica South, 6.0 hour cafeteria position at Newberg Elementary. Resignation effective August 27th, 2025. Dale Hutcherson, 3.0 hour cafeteria position at Chandler Elementary, resignation effective August 11th, 2025. Angel Smith, bus driver, resignation effective August 13, 2025. Yuko Baba, 6.5 hour cafeteria position at Castle High, resignation effective August 22nd, 2025. Julie Patel, 6.0 hour cafeteria position at Castle South, resignation effective May 22nd, 2025. Karina Mills,
052ABS program assistant, John H. Castle, resignation effective August 18th, 2025. Misty Licky, kindergarten teacher at Chandler Elementary, resignation effective August 22nd, 2025. And agenda item 8.5, retirements, Virginia D. Roset, custodian at work pathway and career center, retirement effective December 19, 2025. And Dan Bender, classy maintenance, retirement effective August 21st, 2025. >> Thank you, Dr. >> Agenda item number nine is reports. Dr. Redmond. >> Thank you, Mr. Baker. We have one report tonight and that is from Mr. Armstrong. who I believe will be updating us on all things construction. >> Maybe not all things. Um so we've ended the summer and uh most of our projects were complete. A lot of our HVAC work was finished. Um not all the equipment worked, although it was brand new. This reprieve that we've had in temperature is allowing
053a lot of troubleshooting to take place. So that's good. the Castle High School show choir area. Uh they just took possession of their space last week. Um if you haven't had a chance to go in Castle High School, it's a really neat space. It's up and running and Mr. Adcock has expressed much gratitude. He's very pleased with the space. John H. castle. The uh expectation is is that they'll take possession of the classrooms at the end of next week. The Turzo is they've built a wall so that the noise from putting in the Turzo won't escape the area they're working in. And once that's down, the rooms will be ready. Um Sharon, the ramps, they're pouring the concrete this week. The only thing delaying there is the handrails. Uh again, expectation is the end of
054next week. So once the handrails get here, they haven't shipped yet. They'll install those and one of the ramps is operable. It's the one where we reconstructed, so it should be up and ready in another week or so. Um more than construction, I guess, uh we've also got transportation. Um, I noticed one of the resignations was a bus driver, but it's always good to know that uh right now at this time of the school year, we have uh, and I'm speaking only of the routes that are operational by the school corporation, not the contracted routes. Um, but all of our routes we have drivers running all of them with one exception. We have a we have one of our personnel at the maintenance garage transportation department running one route in the afternoons. Uh otherwise we
055have drivers running all the rest of the routes which is uh some of the best condition driver-wise we've been in in years. So that's good. Um we've also got some technology things happening. Uh and I say technology kind of overlaps with safety. Uh we started installing uh contact sensors on the doors in the various buildings. We started the high schools. Uh we've been finished. We just finished Castle South Middle School. We're also working at Tecumpsy High School and Middle School with the contact sensors. Um I learned something today. Uh somebody asked what the blue button was and I'm like what blue button? Apparently, as when they get the contact sensors installed, there's also a blue button that allows them to, if need be, they can override the timing of like all of our doors that
056are electronic are set on timers. They open at a certain time, they lock at a certain time. Well, this blue button allows them to override the timers, lock all the doors, but at the same time keep the doors available for anybody that actually has a swipe. So, it blocks out intruders, but it doesn't block out employees or persons that are supposed to get into the building. Um, so that's happened at six of the buildings so far. Uh, we've got the equipment for the 10 elementaryaries. So, um, it's just very expensive and very time consuming to install the contact sensors because they're running wiring all over the building. So, we're just going to keep progressing uh through those over the next year or so. Um my last comment about technology, it continues to be a bottomless
057chasm. So just just a side note, uh Mr. Davis over the next couple of months are uh will be meeting with all those parties that's necessary to plan for the 2026 construction projects. um meeting with the principles, meeting with other managers, meeting at times with teachers to gather information. Uh once we get all that, we'll start meeting with architects. Uh start planning the projects. I mean, the budget will be approved here in a couple of weeks. So, we're working towards getting that finished, getting that organized as well for from the construction side. >> Okay. >> Will they be doing the other ramp, Sharon? We haven't decided when we're going to do that other ramp, but someday. Yes. According to the contractors that took down the ramp that we replaced, they said it would take a
058a very serious act of God to have taken that ramp down. They they were very very surprised at how well constructed the ramp was that the damage in their opinion was primarily uh cosmetic. choke wire area does look amazing. It does. Get in there. >> Take a look at it. It's really, really good. >> Yeah. Yeah, it's nice. >> Thank you. >> Agenda item 10. Other board business. The next regular meeting is September 8th at 7 pm. >> And we have a personnel committee meeting at 6:15 on September the 8th and a construction committee meeting the following morning, September 9th at 7:30. >> Our next policy meeting will be September 8th at 5:45 here in this building. Uh tomorrow we have student learning and growth at 11 o'clock at uh the central office. And also
059I would like to I mentioned something last week or last board meeting about the handrails at Boomville High School at the pit field and I was pleasantly surprised. They started at the middle of the press box and they went all the way over to the right to the end of the concrete uh area where people are seated and they look fantastic and SNS made those handrails and I'm I guess our construction guys. I'm not sure who put them in but they are fantastic. So I just wanted to come back with a report on that. >> Yes. Yes. I was at the game Friday night also at Boomville's game and they do look very nice. They did a great job and they are they do run all the way up the >> and they were >>
060all the way. >> Yes, we were >> I used them half >> I think we had thought initially Mrs. Kemp I think believe had thought that maybe they were going to do halfway up and then come back and do the other half but they did the all the way up and it looks very nice. So so appreciative. >> Any other board business? >> That case we'll turn the meeting. [Music]