001[Music] like to call this meeting of the board trustees to order. If you're able, please rise as we have a moment of silence and followed by the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. We had uh no one signed up for comments. So, we will move on to item agenda item four, recognition of our state sports state finalist, Dr. Redmond. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. We had all three of our high schools sent either individuals or teams uh who made it through the competition season all the way to the state level. We invited everyone tonight, but we had some conflicts and some of the coaches are on vacation.
002Um I will eventually state all of the names of the people who made it to the state finals, but we do have Boville High School with us here tonight. So, I want to give them an opportunity to uh come up and speak a little bit about their track and field athletes who uh participated at state and earned their way to state. So, I'd like to introduce Coach Selby and Coach Maize. And gentlemen, you can decide who speaks first. Hello. Uh I'm Coach Maize, uh coach at Boomville High School. We have Ava Kelly, uh, a junior, gonna be a senior, and then we have Jordan Paul. Both are, uh, qualified as in the state finals as sophomores last year, and then again as juniors this year. I'm going to talk a little bit about Ava, and
003then coach Selby will talk about Jordan. Uh, so Ava had a pretty good year this year. Um, Telly Invite, she was named the MVP. Also set the record the in the 100 meter for that. I think it was 125, 124. Um then conference uh this year she was the 100 meter conference champ and the 200 meter conference champ. She won the or set the new record in the conference with the 12.28 and the 100. So um she I think that was from 2014 that record sectional champ. She was a four event sectional champ and from what we can gather that might be a school record for us having her win. She won the 100, the 200, the long jump and then a member of our 4x 100 team. Um, that team also at the regional
004set the new school record with a time of 50 50.28. So that same group that set it last year, but they reset it this year and I believe it was like a 25 year record. So that group did a good job. Um, Ava went on to finish second at uh, regional in the 100 and second in the 200 as well. Um, which qualified her for the state finals. Uh, at state in the 100 she finished 15th overall and in the 200 she finished n 19th. She was a top four junior athlete uh this year which qualified her to be on the Indiana All-Star team. So last weekend we went up to the Midwest meet of champions and Ava competed against some of the girls that placed in the state. Um she was able to finish
005fourth overall um beat some of the girls that had placed at state and she also set our new school record with a time of 12.07. So she had a a really good year this year. We kind of joked around that she could have ran that time the week before. It would have put her I think six. It would have put her sixth, but that time was the 11th fastest time ran in the state this year by a girl. Um so, um Ava had a a fabulous year. So, you know, overall she had the the uh record, new conference record, the T city invite record, our new school record, and then she's a member of that 4x1 team that set a school record. So, she had a pretty amazing year this year, and we're very proud
006of her. We know she's got one more year left, and we're looking forward to to, you know, where she can go with that. And she's been a leader for our other girls on the on the squad. You know, we had a freshman win high jump. We had a Yeah. Miss left it. She won high jump. That was big. Um our our 100 hurdle Whitney uh Whitney Shout, she won the 110 hurdles and then we got sec first and second in the long jump. So, uh and then won the 4x1 of course. So, we we had a good year um overall. So, very proud of that. So, this is Miss Ava. [Applause] All right. And I'll talk a little bit about Jordan's season. Um, and then track and field, you you run into these situations where
007certain events are extremely cyclical and that would be the story of the season for Jordan. Uh Jordan was a regional champ last year as a sophomore. Uh, and kind of had a bullseye on his back in the area this season. Um, and he was running consistently quick to where you wouldn't think there'd be a lot of people from last year's performances that be able to run with him, but people from all over the place decided to run extraordinarily fast in his event this season. Um, so he ran much faster than last year, ran a time that would have uh that was the state standard early in the season. State standard means it's the average ninth place medalist finish at the state meet in the past three years. So, you run that early in the season
008and you feel pretty good about shot of scoring at the state meet. Um, and he ran it um multiple times throughout the uh throughout the season. Like I said, some events are extraordinarily cyclical and this year everyone that was a good athlete, I suppose decided to run the 110 hurdles. So, um, as I said, he was a regional champ as a sophomore. We go through the the we get into the tournament. Um, he runs just off the standard of sectionals. He gets in the regionals and, uh, runs a good good prelim gets into the finals. Um, we get into the finals and the qualifying procedure is top three from the regional, move on to the state meet. So, he uh he runs he runs his race in the finals and he ends up finishing fifth
009and he's discouraged. We're all kind of kind of down about it. But I look at the time. I'm at Central Stadium. I'm on the other side of the the field from the finish line, but I'm hand timing it. I'm looking at the time and I'm like coach I think there's a shot that he ran the state standard and will autoqu qualify onto the state meet and um because this the race was so fast that he was in and it ended up being that case that he ran 1465 which is a tenth of a second under the state standard. So still even finishing fifth, you feel pretty good about your chances of scoring the state meet when you run that time uh the week before at the region meet and then we get to the state
010meet. Like I said, everyone decided to gear up for this at a state meet that was that was historic in the sense that six state records were broken on one day. One event stood out above the rest and it was the 110 hurdle. So Jordan runs 1477 which is just off the state standard. You still feel real good about your shot of getting into the finals, running that time. This year, it it it was an astronomical time that you had to. It was like 1440 something to make the finals. I had the privilege, for some context, four seasons ago, coaching a state runner up in this exact event, who ran 15 flat in the prelims and was runner up in the finals. So, Jordan ran nearly a quarter of a second faster than that and
011was on the outside looking in. Um, just for some more context on how special this state meet was, the fifth place time would have won 39 of the 44 meets since they introduced automatic timing. So, a phenomenal season. Would have scored in many, many, many of the past meets. I think I like he would have made finals in five of the last six state championships. This season, it just was a really, really, really, really deep field. deepest field in 110 uh meter hurdles history in the state of Indiana's history. So uh he's got a lot to look forward to. Like I said, he's only a junior. He's been there two times. He's got a lot of experience under his belt. All the big time races that he's ran in. So um I mean the sky's
012is the limit for what we'll do next year. I'm really encouraged. I think he should be really encouraged. Yeah. No, I second fastest ever do in high school history behind only a guy state. That was a little bit about Jordan's uh trip through the state state championship. Great season. Jordan and Aiden, if you would come up and they'll shake hands better than my job. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Congratulations. Again, congratulations to both of you. Um, just very impressed. And I told my husband, I said, you know, I went up and watched the girls softball team play, but I really need to get to state track finals, so I need to set a goal to make sure I I get up there and watch that maybe next year. So, no pressure, but make sure you're
013there. because I really want to go. So, okay. Um, other schools who had athletes at the state finals, um, of course it comes to high school. We talked a little bit about that, I think last meeting. They were there for the fourth year straight and came home with the 2A. And I'm pointing that out because they moved up a class with success factor. had to move up a class this this year and came home with the victory at Purdue University softball field and it was just an impressive win. The girls did a fantastic job. They have been everywhere. They've been on the news. They've been interviewed. I've seen Gordon's face everywhere. Um and I think they just needed a night off tonight. So, but congratulations to them and super proud of all those uh just
014amazing athletes that amazing program of co and of course coach Wood. So, congratulations to Teamsa High School. And then Castle had two groups who made the state finals uh for boys golf. They finished eighth in state this year. The team was included Braden Lamborn, Brady Feaster, Lane Cunningham, and Carson Cook, and Dylan Welp. And Braden actually finished in the top 10 as an individual, which put him at for all state honors. So he was recognized all state and then Carson Cook and Dylan Welp both made academic honors for golf. So congratulations to all of those young athletes. And then Castle High School track and field there were several athletes uh participating and running in the 200 meter dash was Ben Quatch. The 800 meter, Dane Kramer. The 4x1 relay team. Javan Onspa, Ben Quatch, Anthony
015Zacharelli, Max Mcool in the 4x8 relay, Ethan Morris, Nathan Whitaker, Austin Carile, and Dane Kramer, Megan and Hillary Cleveland in the shot put, Elsie Croal in the pole vault, and Lily Baker, Caroline Thompson, Bel Cunningham, and Jada Jay Lynn Zachardelli in the 4x4 relay. So, congratulations to all of those. athletes as well at Castle and at Tacumpy High School. [Applause] Next agenda item five, we have consideration of routine business. Dr. Redmond. Thank you, Mrs. Weber. The routine business tonight includes approving the minutes of the school board meeting held on June 9th, 2025 and approving the claims and signing the docket. I recommend the board approve the routine items as presented. Motion to approve. We have a motion by Mr. Mosby, seconded by Mr. Baker. We have any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any
016opposed? Motion carried. Moving on to agenda item 7.1, consideration of or seven, consideration of items for board action. Dr. Redmond. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. In your packet, you will find a request from Director of Human Resources, Dr. Doug Gresham, to consider approving resolution 2025-3. This resolution will authorize the superintendent to recruit and hire personnel to ensure full staffing for the upcoming school year. As positions are filled, the superintendent will provide the board with the names of new hires for official approval at subsequent board meetings. This hiring authorization takes effect on July 1, 2025 for the first semester and December 1st, 2025 for the second semester, ensuring adequate staffing for each academic term. I recommend the board approve the resolution 2025-3 as presented. Motion to approve. I have a motion by Mr. Motion by Mr. seconded
017by Mr. Baker. Do we have any discussion? And I am I just want to make this clear. This is something these resolutions will be voted on every year. Correct. That is correct. Okay. Thank you. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item 7.2 approve change to the support staff handbook. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. Director of Human Resources, Dr. Doug Gresian, is requesting the board's approval to change the language of the retire versus resign and vacation days section in the support staff handbook attached as the current language and proposed language which you have in your board packet. I remind the board, excuse me, I recommend the board approve the request as presented. So, second motion by Mrs. Wilhelm, seconded by Mr. Mo. Do we have any discussion? All in favor say I.
018I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item 7.3, approved transfer of bus contract. Dr. Redwin. Thank you, Mr. Glover. In your packet is a request from David Hendrickson to transfer his contracted bus route number 69 to Mark A. Nance. All of the required steps have been completed to transfer the bus contract. I recommend the board approve the transfer as requested. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Baker, seconded by Mr. France. We have any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item 7.4, approve change order. Dr. Redmond. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. In your packet, you will find a change order request for work on the Castle High School renovation project. This change order consists of four different scopes of work, electrical, domestic water, sanitary, and construction installation with final pricing after
019rigorous negotiations with contractor and architect. The original change order requests for this work total $22,514. Working together, we were able to arrive at a price of $163,322.50, of which an additional $1,05 will be recaptured through the architect architect contract. I recommend the board approve the change order submitted by Dyke Brothers as presented. We have a motion by Mrs. Wilhelm, seconded by Mr. France. We have any discussion? I've got a few points. uh just being on the I know we talked about this a little bit uh in our work session but being on the construction committee a lot of times even for the public who might be listening you and it says that we rigorous discussion right on that committee I know we were even our last meeting uh there was discussions going on in the
020next room about this the numbers started a lot higher yes and they got a lot lower to this to something manageable I know that's a big number but just as other board members on the committee. It was vetted out a lot uh by the team and I'm glad we did that. Nothing against the contractors either. They had to kind of work together as a team to figure out well maybe we can do this or that. So sometimes just approving a number without that thought process you know seems like well they you know just move on. It is a big number but it was about a lot bigger. Yes. So, I appreciate that. And also, it's a renovation of a 50-y old building, right? So, this these things happen, you know. And Todd and team worked
021really hard to get that number down. So, thank you for pointing that out and I appreciate his hard work on that. Thank you. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item 7.5, approved donation. Dr. Redmond, this is kind of a retro approval. Um, Castle North Middle School, $500 donation from the Evansville Otter. The funds were used for transportation to the game on May 5th, 2025 for the Castle North Middle School sixth grade students. So, I suspect this just got lost in the end of the year shuffle, but they wanted to go ahead and bring it to the board for approval so that all of our paperwork is always in order. So, I recommend the board approve the request as submitted. Motion to approve. Second. Have a motion by Mr.
022Mosby, seconded by Mrs. Long. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item eight, consideration of personnel recommendations. Dr. Gresham. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. Human Resources Office has the following business to bring before the board tonight. Agenda item 8.1, consideration of employment, certified staff, Samuel Haynes, science teacher at Castle High School, and Connor Oxley, title one teacher at Oakdale Elementary School, and the following non-certified staff. Maline Riley, program assistant at Logan Elementary. Autumn Simpson, program assistant at Logan Elementary. Victoria Arlington, program assistant at John H. Castle Elementary. Wayne Cosy, ABS, program assistant at John H. Castle Elementary. Kelly Brink, program assistant at Johnny H. Castle Elementary. And Kelly Childers, social worker at Tacumsy High and Tumsy Middle Certified, non-ertified. Second. Have a motion by Mr. Fran, seconded by Mr. Igner. We
023have any discussion? Motion carried. Agenda item A2, cancellation of teacher contract. Thank you. This time I don't think we voted. Okay. We didn't have discussion, but yeah. All right. Keeping me on track. Uh, all in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Now we can move on to agenda item 8.2 cancellation of teacher contract. Request is to cancel the teacher contract of Mitch Wagner assigned teacher at Castle High School. Motion to approve second. Motion by Mr. Moby seconded by Mr. Bacon. We have any discussion now. All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item 83, please. Mara Austin, a kindergarten teacher at Johnny Castle Elementary, and Deanu, math teacher at Lumbbo High School. We have a motion by Mrs. Wilhelm, seconded by Mr. France. We have any discussion? All in favor say I. Any
024opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. Agenda item 8.4, reported transfers, Ashley Benner, 4.25. 25 hour cafeteria employee at Castle High School to 4.5 hour cafeteria employee at Castle High School and Jennifer Sweat 3.5 hour cafeter employee at Newberg Elementary School to 6.0 zero hour cafeter elementary school and agenda item 8.5 resignations Rebecca Galloway as program assistant Johnny Castle Elementary resignation effected June 13 2025 Susan Kates program assistant Newberg Elementary resignation effective June 20th 2025 Courtney Kirby program assistant wick resignation effective June 19 2025 Shane Browder principal at Tacumi High School resignation effective June 20th 2025 and Laura Syler secretary of move middle school resignation effective June 23rd Thank you, Dr. Next item is reports. Dr. Redmond. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. We have two committee reports tonight uh from one from Mr. Armstrong. We'll start
025with him. It's a report on construction. Excuse me. Construction. Good. Okay. Sorry about that. Um, so we have a joke from earlier. Yes. Yes. For everyone listening, that was a joke. The uh construction committee, we have a lot of work going on this summer. And I'm just going to give you a brief overview of some of the things that are happening. Um, Castle High School choir, John H. Castle classrooms, the wet renovation, the Sharon ramps, and the Castle North Middle School rooftop units all go going right now according to schedule. uh most of them have had their equipment supplies arrive on site or in warehouses. So barring anything catastrophic, those projects should finish up right around August 1st. So at least it's substantial completion by then. Um we just finished the Tacumpy High School HVAC
026project and the uh punch out is going to be next week. So that project is just finishing up at Castle High School. We have a project going on where we're moving the transformer from inside the building to the outside pad. Uh we've had some power down a couple of days and we're going to have another power outage the week of June 30th through July 3rd uh during moratorum week. Uh we're going to shut down the power Castle High School and fi make the final connections on the transformer outside. Um, we're also going to be running a couple of generators in the high school in the IDF and uh the mechanical rooms so that we can keep the technology in the building running because there's fiber running from Castle High School to Castle South and Castle
027South has summer school. So, we got to keep the internet working. So, we've got that in place so that the project can move forward. Um, the Castle High School soccer press box is going up rather quickly. The uh maintenance garage uh office space is out to bid right now. The bids will be opened on July 9th. Elberfeld uh Alliant has started installing. There's eight HVAC units being installed in the gymnasium up there. They've just started that work. We're working to get a contractor to begin the installation of Boomville Middle School uh HVAC project. Um we are moving building uh quickly. All of the carpeting, paving, painting uh that we have uh seven buildings for paving, five buildings for carpeting, and seven buildings for uh painting. All those projects, all that work's being done weekly. We're
028finishing up different projects. So, all going according to plan at this time. So, come back to construction's going good right now. Questions? Questions? Thank you, Mr. Armstrong. Our second report tonight is from Dr. Gresham. At our last personnel committee meeting, we discussed the two items that you voted on earlier tonight with the superintendent's authorization to hire and support staff handbook changes. The other big event that we have going on in human resources right now is preparing for our new teacher orientation. And hopefully you all received the email from Brenda Brown earlier inviting you to lunch. So we appreciate your attendance. If you're able to be there, please RSVP so we have the right amount. But that's going to be a big event. It's always a big event. It's a middle school and it's a great
029time to welcome all of our new teachers and make sure they hit the ground running with the way we like to do things in War County. Thank you. Thank you. Linda, I just had one announcement to make. Um, in a couple of weeks, it's coming up pretty quickly. July 10th through the 13th, we have the Ward County Summer Musical. We do that with the public theory public education foundation. Um again that will run July 10th through the 13th. It's Cinderella and it's actually being held at Google High School this year because of the construction going on at Castle High School. And anybody who would like tickets just needs to go to warmusical.org warricmusical.org. They're very excited. Google's excited to be hosting and um you know it's a show that everybody can enjoy. So uh hope
030to see a lot of people there. That's all I have. I have any other business from the board. The next policy meeting will be July 14th at 6, excuse me, 5:45 in this building. A personnel committee will have a meeting on Monday, July 14th, 6:30 right here at central services. Then the following morning on July 15th at 7:30 in the morning, administration building will be the construction committee and also the student learning committee uh that was scheduled for tomorrow has been cancelled. That next meeting will be July 29th at 11 a.m. at the administrative office. Thank you. Anything else for the good of the board? In that case, our next board meeting is July 14th, 700 p.m. here at Central Services. And with that, everybody stay safe. Hope you have a great summer. We'll see
031you later. [Music]