001[Music] I'm calling this meeting of the board of school trustees to order. If you would please stand for a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance. Mrs. During the moment of silence tonight, if we could keep a few families um and friends and colleagues in our prayers, we lost several former employees to War County School Corporation. Uh Kathy Wilt who was a health aid at Lynville and Teamsa High School. Jack Shernikov who was a music band uh person in the Castle High School, Castle Nor, and Lionus Caressal who was in our maintenance department. So, please keep all of their families, friends, and colleagues in your prayers. Thank you. 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,
002with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. We have no No one signed up for patrons concern. We'll move on to item four, consideration of routine business. Dr. Redmond. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. The routine items this evening include approving the minutes of the school board meeting held on May 27th and approving the claims and signing the docket. We do need to in terms of the minutes, uh, Mrs. Glover found an issue with the numbering of the pages and then I found a typo in the section u in one of the reports. It should be tot rather than to so we'll need to approve with those corrections. Please motion to approve those corrections made. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Mosby seconded by Mr. French. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion
003carried. Uh, next item will be agenda item six, consideration of items for board action. Dr. Redmond. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. In your packet, you will find a request from Dr. Abby Redmond to consider approving an agreement for professional services between Warick County School Corporation and Youth First. The agreement will continue to provide prevention programs and services provided by youth first to children and families in the school corporation in the term set forth. And one slide change here as well. So if you remember, we had asked them to make some changes for us, which they did. We had one area where they had listed Vanderberg County as the venue and we had requested to add Warick and Vanderberg. We had not heard back from them and were prepared to go ahead and bring thisou tonight which
004we are still doing but they have provided us with our uh with a response adding Roy County to the venue list. So now it states under 10.6 the agreement shall be brought in the superior or circuit court of Vanderberg County Indiana or War County Indiana. So I would recommend the board approve the agreement with that addition as presented. So move. Second. We have a motion by Mrs. Wilhelm, seconded by Mr. Baker. Any discussion? All in favor say I. All opposed? Motion carried. Next item 6.2, approve a grant agreement. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. In your packet, you will find a request from Dr. Abby Redmond to consider approving a grant agreement between the War County Redevelopment Commission, RDC, and the War County School Corporation. This agreement outlines RDC's desire to support War County School Corporation Programs
005at War Pathways and Career Center to purchase a carry deck crane and a bulldozer. I recommend the board approve the agreement as submitted. So move a motion by Mr. Baker, seconded by Mr. Friends. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item 6.3. Authorized superintendent signature. Thank you, Mrs. Lover. There are times when a student identified with a disability is demonstrating needs of such intensity that it is precluding achievement in the local public school setting despite significant intensive supports and interventions. In these rare situations, the school corporation may apply to the Indiana Department of Education to supplement the costs of the services required to meet the students needs, which may include an alternative setting or a residential placement. Director of Special Education, Mrs. Leticia Wagner, is requesting the board to approve
006Dr. Abby Redmond as the school corporation designate to sign agreements for alternative services and private residential school placements. This will allow for expediting the processing of special education excess cost applications, which require a quick turnaround in our under stringent timelines. I recommend the board approve the request as presented. Have a motion by Mr. France, seconded by Mr. Mosby. We have any discussion? I have one question. How we handled this in the past? What has changed here or is this new? Um, this is not new. I think I think it has all to do with the timing of the application. So, for example, if the application comes to be and we get the granted the funding and there's a bed at a residential placement and we have to wait two weeks until a board meeting, then
007we've lost that. Okay. Is that accurate, Mrs. Lagger? Anything else to add? Okay. Sure. I just didn't understand that this allows this to happen immediately rather than waiting. Okay, thank you. That's all I Thank you. This is after a lot of people have worked with the family and the student and gone through the processes and we just need somebody to sign the paper. Correct. Correct. This is monthsl long processes. Yes. and trying to really attempt to keep the child here under our care in our school system. Ready for a vote. All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Next agenda item 6.4, approve donations. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. Uh, tonight we have a couple of donations. for Newberg Elementary School, $600 from Marilyn and Tom Southwood to be used for student assistant needs, and
008at Tecumpsa High School, a $670 donation from Sierra Cormier through the Center Point Energy Benevity program to the boys basketball team. I recommend the board approve the donations as presented. Second. Motion by Mrs. Wilhelm. Second. Seconded by Mr. Scanner. Thank you. Any question or any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item seven, consideration of personnel recommendations. Dr. Gresian. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. The human resource office has the following business to bring before the board tonight. Agenda item 7.1, consideration of employment. Certified staff. Michael Chapman, athletic director at Bumbo High School. Emily Mundy, special education teacher at Castle South Middle School. Amanda Tab, math teacher at Castle South Middle School. Tara Hour, counselor at Tcum Middle School. Madison Mitchell, kindergarten teacher at Newberg Elementary. Courtney Flug, fourth grade teacher at
009Newberg Elementary. Megan Riley, second grade teacher at Newberg Elementary. Kelly Petty, special education teacher at Sharon Elementary. Austin Woodward, science teacher at Castle High. And the following non-certified staff, Deborah Hancock, certified educational interpreter. Bianca Mamemoth, or assistant at Castle High. Kimberly Underh Hill, program assistant at Castle High. Samantha Musgrove, inschool suspension supervisor at Booneville High. Jacqueline Daniel, program assistant at Booneville High. Sierra Wolsey, program assistant at Booneville Middle. Cara Payne and Jamie Jones, program assistants at Castle North, along with Jenny Camp, program assistant at Castle North. Emily Brown, program assistant at Castle South. Camila Webb, program assistant doing ABS and Braille at Castle South. Caron, job share program assistant at Castle South. Gina Him, program assistant at John Hitch Castle Elementary. Rebecca Galloway, Julia Juliza Delehe and Christina Dilman, ABS, program assistants at John Hcastle
010Elementary. Melissa Henning, program assistant at Log Elementary. Carrie Pittz, ABS, program assistant at Yankee Town Elementary. Jessica White, program assistant at Yankeetown Elementary. Destiny Mays, program assistant, Yankeetown Elementary. Hannah Murphy, program assistant at WC Preschool. and Aaron Bolton, program assistant at West Preschool. And the following varsity coaches, Rhonda Blanchard, varsity boys and girls swimming coach at Castle High, Brandon Conir, varsity boys and girls swimming coach at Tacumi High, and Joseph Pollen, varsity girls basketball coach at Tacumi High. Motion to approve certified non-certified staff as presented. Second. Have a motion by Mr. Idier, seconded by Mr. Miy. Any discussion? I would like to make a motion that we pull the uh non teacher program assistance and vote on those individually. You're asking Mr. Igner to amend his motion. Yes. Or I can just vote no for
011all. Okay, that's fine. Just for clarity, I know which which I would like to pull the AD at Boonville High School as a separate vote. As a separate vote. Okay. I'll make a motion to approve certified staff, non-certified staff as presented with the exception of the athletic director of Bumbo High School uh to be voted on in a separate motion. Do we need a second? I second that. Motion by Mr. Igner, seconded by Mr. Baker. I have a question. During Mr. Igner's amended motion, he did not mention varsity coaches. I didn't No, just just the one. He just took out just the first one on your list. Just want to clarify. That's all I'm amending, fellas. That's it. You want another one, but that's it. You get one amendment. We'll vote for that separate that
012one separately. Just the first one on your list. Okay. Okay. So, do we go ahead and vote on all of the other ones and then we'll come back to the other. Okay. All right. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried as amended. I'll make a motion to approve certified staff Michael Chapman for the athletic director position of Bimbo High School. Second. Okay. Motion by Mr. Seconded by Mr. Mosby. Is there any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? We have six pos six positive one negative. Motion carried. Thank you. Agenda item 7.2 reported transfers. Danielle Kelly, fourth grade teacher at Yankee Town Elementary School to fourth grade teacher at Newberg Elementary School. And 7.3 resignations. Sheena Bombgard, counselor at Tcuma Middle School, resignation effective June 3rd, 2025. Joshua Taylor, Spanish teacher
013at Bloom High School, resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Billy Patterson, ABS, program assistant, Chandler Elementary School, resignation effective June 6th, 2025. Haley Mand, program assistant at Castle North Middle School, resignation effective June 2nd, 2025. and Mark Leunk, program assistant at Castle North Middle School, resignation effective June 5th, 2025. Thank you, Dr. Uh, agenda item eight, reports. Dr. Red, thank you, Mrs. Glover. We have two reports tonight. Our first report will be from the Student Learning and Growth Committee, Mr. Jason Fischer. Thank you, Dr. Redmond. I wanted to give the board an update on our most recent student learning and growth committee meeting. To begin the meeting, we began talking and discussing about how we are trying to position oursel to add additional ENL educators throughout our corporation. And when I say ENL, I'm referring to
014English as a new language. We are adding an ENL educator at Newberg Elementary. Uh we also have some current staff who went back and received their certification. We have a teacher at Boonville High School who completed the ITEL program which allows an educator with a current teaching license to receive ENL certification so they now can be a teacher of record and we're also going to be adding an additional ENL teacher of record at Castle High School. So we believe these three uh additions to our ENL staff position us better to support the everinccreasing learners that we see with our English as a new language population. Uh we also wanted to give the board an update. Uh we have began high school summer school this year. We have high school summer school at Booneville High School
015and we are also hosting it at Castle South Middle School. The reason we are hosting at Castle South Middle School in the Dragon's Den is we usually have these offerings at War Ed Center, but War Ed Center currently has some renovations taking place. So we're using the Dragon's Den at Castle South Middle School. This year uh our corporation is offering drivers education which is currently taking place the classroom portion at Greenville High School. We are also offering health, US history, economics, government and for the first time I believe in the history of War County, we are offering personal finance and we believe the demand of personal defa finance which is something we will talk about tomorrow night with the new diploma at our board retreat. Uh personal finance is now a required course for students
016that were a freshman this year. So, moving forward, any students that enter high school, they have to have completed one semester of personal finance. I also wanted to give the board an update on our IE3 summer school. Last Friday, we completed I read three summer school. This year, we had it at two locations. We had it at Oakdale for second grade and we held it at Chandler Elementary for third grade. At this time, I just want to thank the numerous individuals that made this possible all the way from food services. Their team did an outstanding job offering breakfast and lunch every day to all of our iid summer school students. The War County Department of Transportation this year was lights out as they always are, but with the addition of grade two and this year
017with grade three, they added an additional testing window. So up until 3 days before the end of school, we had 48 grade three students who were going to attend and then that number was modified to 18, which is a good thing. We had several students pass the assessment, but trying to change transportation routes in that short frame of time, having available bus drivers was a very arduous task. So I want to thank them. Also want to thank those employees, health aids, nurses, and student services that help um support our students at Oakdale and Chandler in the case of any medical needs. and obviously the administrators and the numerous educators that provided the educational services and on last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday uh came to Chandler and Oakdale to offer testing to proctor the exam to
018students. At one point in time last week, we had 31 individual rooms going for testing. So it that could not have happened without the amazing generosity of our educators and the hard work of them to be willing to come in sacrifice their summer in order to proctor the exam. We still have some summer program going on at the elementary level until June 20th, Friday, June 20th for two more weeks. We have K camp taking place at Chandler and Oakdale. And we also have level up uh summer school for grades one, two, and three at Chandler. I look forward to tomorrow evening going through some additional testing data with the board at our board retreat. You won't have any questions for me. ENL positions are those positions to be posted or these one teacher already employed
019and got her certification. How's how's when do they start? Two of the educators are currently working for us already and what they're going to do is in addition to their current teaching mode, they're going to serve as a teacher of record for ENL. Uh we did have a new position uh at Newberg. an existing employee was transferred into that role that has their ENL lensure and then we posted their position and they will begin providing educational services at the beginning of this year. Thank you all. Thank you. I can't recall the date. Mrs. Wills, I cannot either, but I know it's it is the Tuesday after our next board meeting. It is the Tuesday after our next board meeting. It is a public meeting. Thank you, Dr. Redmond. Watch the website. June 24th. Thank you.
020Thank you, Mr. Fisher. And of course, all of the things that Mr. Fischer just his leadership and his team of people in the department of learning. So, I want to make sure he gets a praise for all of his hard work as well. Hooray. Our second report tonight is from the policy committee, Dr. Lambert. All right. Thank you. Policy. We've had a few uh items to go through. We will have several more due to the changes in the state legislature. So in front of you will be um coming will be the internal controls policy. I still need Mr. Armstrong to uh take a look and make some changes some things uh to make certain we line up with what we do currently anyway. Um you also see the middle school high school uh handbook come
021to you. It is a digital only handbook. It is not printed. Um we've streamlined it a lot more so where links are going directly to board polic and things like that. So, we don't have to just keep updating that policy word by word within the handbook. So, we're just directing them back to um the actual website. So, those will be coming to you for a full vote. Um like I mentioned about the Indiana General Assembly uh making some changes. Uh one of the policies that we will have to change is the teacher appreciation grant. We don't have a lot of information as to what that could entail. It is going to be a big change from what it has been in the past unfortunately. Um but we will work through that and do what we
022need to do necessary for our board policy coming up. Um the other two policies which are a little easier to address will be the student attendance one that is just a a carryover of what was done last year for the elementary K6 where we have to a meeting with um any student and family if they've had five days within a 10- week period of unexcused absences, we'll move that also into the high schools and middle school um in grade seven and eight. So, it's just an extension of that policy. So, that'll be easy to get and get your all's approval with that. And then the bullying one. Um the biggest thing in there that has come about will be the notification um to parents directly of the child that has been bullied. It is already
023a practice we already do um with our administrators that they should be calling the parents of a kid that was being bullied um to make certain they know what was going on and how that was handled and rectified and what they need to do going forward. So, it's nothing really new that won't we're already doing those things. So, and that's all I have right now. Any questions for me? Oh, I'd like to thank Dr. Lambert on his work. I mean, he the policy committee, we got a lot done tonight. He had it all prepared and we were ready to go. Lots happening. So, thank you. Thank you. A lot of changes with legislation. So, thank you, Dr. Lambert. Um, we don't have any other reports tonight, but I would like to announce I know you'll
024be so surprised that our powerhouse to come high school softball team is headed for the fourth year in a row to the state finals uh this Saturday. It's being held at Purdue University's campus and it will start at 3:30 Central time. Uh we also had athletes compete this past week in track and field. We had athletes from Castle and Boomville competing. Um, we will attempt to get all of these people to a board member or board meeting hopefully the next one just to do some recognitions and even if they can't attend, I'll have all of their places and make sure that we get all of that announced. And I do believe we had boys sectionals for golf today and I don't know if it's final yet. I I wasn't able to check before I came
025in, but it was looking like maybe Castle's team was advancing along with an individual and I believe we had Bloomville high school individuals um who will be moving on to regionals as well. Um that's the information I have at the moment and I will bring all of those names to the next board meeting for recognition. Couple weeks into construction projects. Any surprises? Everything on schedule for those projects going on? Always surprises. That's the nature of construction. Everything's on schedule. there are uh almost every day something that's less than desirable in the the activities that are going on, but we're addressing them every day when they come come to our attention. So, but things are moving very well. Have you heard anything from Centerport? Kevin was in discussion with Centerpoint uh Friday um concerning a couple
026different topics. One of them is the uh the sirens that are going to go one or two locations. Uh he was also in discussion with them of Castle High School power shutdown. So what about WPCC? That one is probably mid to late July we'll get they've got to do drawings and things on that. That one's a little ways out. Were you asking about center point atcc? Yeah, he he answered that. He said, yeah, I want to make sure we were saying the same. Yes. Okay. There's three different topics there that were involved with centerpoint. that one uh just is going to require them to what we're trying to do is get the additional excuse me power lines moved all the way down the south side of the property all the way to the west corner
027um so that we can tie into the power that's going to run to the new construction pavilion that's out there. But that one again because they they've got to do the drawings themselves. We're kind of at their mercy at time like that. Any other reports? Uh person or construction committee meets tomorrow morning 7:30 at the administration building. Personnel committee will meet July 14th in this building at 6:30 that evening. policy will meet July 14th at 5:45 in this building and student growth and learning will be June 24th at 11:30 at the admin office. 11 a.m. Is it 11 11? Oh, sorry. Had it at 11:30. I always seem to get something wrong with that one. I don't know. So, June 24th at 11 a.m. at the admin building. Thank you. Wondered about graduation rates. Will
028that be presented tomorrow or at some date? We can do that at a future date. Um, we have there there are students who can still finish out, okay, and capture some credits. So, that report doesn't come everything's delayed like that. So, it's very similar to our state assessments where nothing's final until we get into August, September. Um, but when we have those final numbers, we certainly can share those in a full board meeting. Okay. Yes. Great. Happy to do that. And then uh I think June 23rd, the schoolboard association is going to have hold a virtual chat meeting with the chief one of the chief guys at the state board of education to go through this new A throughF accountability rating and it's allowing time for the any board members or administration or administrators who
029have questions what they have comments and I'm going to be attending that and of course everybody else I'm sure you've got an invite as well but if you have any comments or questions if you'd let me know and I can send that on to Mr. Spraglin to put in the discussion group I've registered for that also and I don't have any comments or questions yet because I haven't seen the presentation right but I'm looking forward to that very good If there's nothing else, our next board meeting is June 23rd, 700 pm here, central services. And of course, we have our board retreat tomorrow at 1:30. Is it Belro Newberg Library? Very good. There's nothing else. June 23rd. Yes. Yes. Thank you, [Music]