001[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] to call this meeting to order. If you're able, please rise as we have a moment of silence and we'll say the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Uh, no one signed up for patrons concern. So, we'll move on to agenda 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 12th, 2025 and approving the claims and signing the docket. I recommend the board approve the routine items as presented. Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Mosby, seconded by Mrs.
002Wilhelm. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item five, consideration of items for board action. Dr. Redmond, Mrs. Bever will move to 6.1. Gotcha. Yes. Thank you. Same same title approving the change order. Thank you. Agenda item 6.1. Included in your packet is a change order request number one from Dyke Brothers for the removal and abatement of asbestous flooring at the CHS choir room. The subcontractor Elite Environmental will remove 7,381 square feet and 350 linear feet of asbestous containing floor tile. All mastic associated with flooring and carpeting in room 108. The change order proposal is for $35,23. However, we built asbestous contingency dollars into the project bid. After deductions, the change order request is now $17,179. I recommend the board approve the change order as presented. Second. Have a
003motion by Mr. Skinner, seconded by Mr. Baker. Do we have any discussion? In my in my opinion, that's a pretty good deal. I think it's in line. Yep. For industry standards and elite is very good at what they do. Excellent. for a vote. All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item 62, approve the 2026 2027 school calendar. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. Dr. Doug Gresham is requesting the board's approval for the proposed 2026 2027 school calendar. And just a note on a few things, Dr. ression pulled together a committee that included both teachers and administrators and we also talked about priorities with our parent group some of which included the number one priority is two weeks at Christmas and finishing by memorial day that those both fell in as number ones a strong
004number two was a full week at spring break and Dr. Gresian team were able to excuse me fall break clarity we already get spring break fall break a full week of fall break um and the committee was able to come up with a calendar that met all of those things including a few other miscellaneous items. So um you have the calendar in your packet and I recommend the board approve the request as submitted to approve. We have a motion by Mr. Iger seconded by Mr. Friends. Do we have any discussion? Thanks for your work in pulling that committee together. Appreciate it. Call for a vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item 6.3, approve pay increase. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. During the past several years, Mr. Grimes's role as a
005technology operator for schoolboard meetings has grown in scope in both time and responsibility. Therefore, we believe he should be compensated accordingly. We recommend that Mr. Grimes receive a pay increase on an annual basis of $2,400 effective in the 2025 calendar year. I recommend the board approve the pay increase as submitted. Have a motion by Mrs. Wilhelm, seconded by Mr. France. We have any Discussion. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed. Motion carried. Agenda item 6.4 approved donations. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. We have three donations tonight. At Boomville High School, $500 from the Westside Nut Club for the Boomville Swimming and Lifeguarding class to purchase a new backboard. at Boomville Middle School, $1,000 from JBI Construction to assist in the purchasing of tumbling mats and new cheer uniforms. And also at Boomville Middle School, $500
006from DD's Catering by Debbie to assist in the purchasing of tumbling mats and new cheer uniforms. I recommend the board approve the donations as submitted. I make a motion to approve submitted that is double. Yes. Thank you. After I read that, thank you. Have a motion by Mrs. Will Helmet seconded by Mr. Mosby heard it called discussion. Okay, two point of clarification. It really just is called DDS. Okay. I I thought that the new catering is called a new entity. So that is why I read it that way, but I thought maybe I was misunderstood. She had changed. So I just just to clarify it is DD's catering. We did not know that. Yeah, we use her a lot and we're using her event and she pointed that out to me the other day and
007I was like, "Oh, okay." So, well, we all learned something new tonight. And I'm thrilled as a former Westeron by the Westside Nut. I'm just tickled. Do we have any other any other discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item Okay. Consideration of personnel recommendations. Dr. Gresham. 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. Brandon Conir, business teacher at Tecumpsy High School and Taccy Middle School. Gabriel Miller, fourth grade teacher at Oakill Elementary School. non-certified staff of Carrie Knight, job share program assistant at Sharon Elementary School. Kimberly Boyd, job share program assistant, Sharon Elementary School, Amanda Sarovic, program assistant at Sharon Elementary School. Shelby Rice, program assistant at Sharon Elementary School. Britney Merl,
008program assistant at Newberg Elementary School. Amanda Studville, full-time custodian at Boomville Middle School. Kendall Minky, program assistant at Castle High School. Caitlyn Rice, full-time custodian at Oakdale Elementary School. and Bo Weber, full-time custodian at Sharon Elementary School. And the following assistant principal, Marty Watson, assistant principal at Castle High School. Motion to approve. Certified, non-certified, and assistant principal. Second. Motion by Mr. France, seconded by Mrs. Wilhelms. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. Next consideration of employment is the manager Kevin Davis, manager of construction and sports facilities. Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Mr. Igner, seconded by Mr. Baker. Do we have any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item 7.2 leaves Melissa McCann, program assistant, Bloomville Middle School. Steven Michaels, custodian at
009Oakdale Elementary School. Stormy Polling 3.5 hour cafeteria position at Bloomville Middle School. Paige Winters, second grade teacher at Oakdale Elementary School. Motion to believe request. Second. Have a motion by Mr. Mosby, seconded by Mrs. Wilhelms. We have any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item 7.3, report of transfers, Valerie Schmidt, 5 75 hour cafeteria position at Castle North to 3.0 hour cafeteria position at Castle North. Kristen Young, 4.75 hour cafeteria position at Castle North to 5.75 hour cafeteria position at Castle North. Jamie Hager, 3.75 hour cafeteria position at Castle North. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to 4.75 hour cafeteria position at Castle North. Natalie Ellison, 3.75 hour cafeteria position at Castle North. Wednesday, Friday to 4.75 hour cafeteria position at Castle North. Mackenzie Vad, science teacher at Castle High to science teacher
010at Boonville High. Amber Carwell, 6.5 hour cafeteria position at Castle North to 6.0 hour cafeteria position at Yankeetown Elementary School. Agenda item 7.4, report of early return. Jessica Baker, exercise science and PT teacher at work pathways and career center, has filed appropriate paperwork to return early from her previously approved leave of absence. 7.5 resignations. Jasmine Mackey, 6.0 hour cafeteria position at Newberg Elementary, resignation effective May 9th, 2025. Jennifer Tennyson, 6.0 hour cafeteria position at Yankeetown Elementary, resignation effective May 15, 2025. Gabrielle Mustin, program assistant, Yankeetown Elementary, resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Melinda Hmel, music therapist, resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Angela Summers, program assistant at Log Elementary, resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Natasha Spar, special education teacher at Sharon Elementary, resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Andrew Fouts, program assistant at Castle North Middle School, resignation
011effective June 1st, 2025. Heather Payne, program assistant at Castle North Middle, resignation effective May 20th, 2025. Denzel Thomas, PE teacher at Castle South Middle School. Excuse me, that should say health teacher. Health teacher at Castle South Middle School. Resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Katherine Bulmer, title one teacher at Oakdale Elementary School, resignation effective June 1st, 2025. And agenda item 7.6, retirements, Julie Skaggs, fourth grade teacher at Newberg Elementary School, retirement effective June 1st, 2025. Thank you, Dr. Agenda item number eight, reports. Dr. Redmond, we have two reports tonight. Uh, Dr. Gresian, would you like a break or would you like to go ahead? Thank you, Dr. Redmond. Uh, the personnel committee met two weeks ago last night and we had one agenda item. I'm going to be requesting a update to the support staff handbook,
012a small change. Usually we do big changes every other year and this year is the year for the teacher handbook. But something came up that needed to be addressed in the sport staff handbook and it had to do with the way that we award employees that retire credit for their vacation days and kind of like a severance package and the language in the handbook was not as clear and concise as it needed to be. So, we talked about that at our last meeting, came up with what we were going to do and was going to bring it to the board tonight for approval, but then in discussion with the business office and the assistant superintendent decided there were a few more changes, I think, that still um meet the what the committee wanted to do
013and what we were proposing to the committee. But there was enough changes that I didn't feel comfortable bringing it straight to the board without going back to the committee. So, we're going to take it back to committee when we meet again in two weeks and then hopefully bring it to the board in a month and approve our proposal and that was what we did. Any questions? You have that meeting. Will that be right before the board meeting that we are to accept that? That is not my goal. My goal is to take it to the committee meeting and then two weeks later bring it to the board. Okay, perfect. I want to be able to review it before going right in trying to vote for it. as well. Thank you. Will Mr. Whitehead have an
014opportunity to review that? Is it something that he should look at, put his hand on? Typically, he doesn't other than it's in the board packet. It will be in the board packet unless he wants to. Thank you. Our second report tonight is from Mr. Armstrong. My updates uh for the committees are construction, maintenance, technology and transportation. It's one committee but it encompasses all those topics. Um update on technology. Uh we have updated fiber and server equipment at several locations. We are in the process of preparing 4,300 Chromebooks. Mr. B part of that right now uh for distribution in the new school year which is a big task. Um transportation we've recently are in the process of acquiring two low mileage white buses uh from Kurland bus sales. We found some buses. We we're in need
015of some additional white buses. Uh they're very expensive new. We found a school corporation that had uh turned them in with 25,000 miles on them and they're selling it to them about half price. So, we're in the process of acquiring those. Uh maintenance and construction. Summer's here. So, the work is going starting in just about every building in the school corporation. Um we've got renovations at Castle, Oakdale, Boonville High, and Wet. We've got replacements at Sharon. We've got paving and resurfacing at seven different locations. Uh we've got new construction at the maintenance John H Castle and WPCC going. We've got roof repairs at Castle North, Boom Middle, and Tumpsy High. Excuse me. We've got HVAC work at four or five different locations. Some of them are projects we've been talking about for months. They're finishing
016up. Uh we've got plumbing work at Tecumpscy. We have furniture being moved and classrooms and buildings in many locations along with all of the painting, fence repairs, etc. that are going on. Summer is is a big big time for lots of updates, maintenance on the facilities that we're trying to keep in good working order for the next school year. So, that's what we've been talking about and that's what we're doing. So, will the pavilion be ready by school next year? The pavilion will be constructed. We're working with Centerpoint. Um, and they've got the prints. We've gotten the prints over to them just recently. They know what kind of power we need at the location. They've got to put the poles in. I'll know if it's going to have the building be constructed. I just don't
017know if it'll have power when school starts, which is okay. Um, there'll be an easement that comes back to you guys. We'll see the progress. He thought I talked to Mr. Van Bber and he thought by mid July that they'd be ready to move forward, but he couldn't guarantee any of that. So, the building will be constructed and we will have it stubbed for electricity. Recently, I saw a headline about the EA. Is it being continued? Have you heard any anything else from Well, right now the funding for - still available. Um it was one of the things on the chopping block, if you will. Um but we're planning on -ate. I mean, we get discounts for -ate that are outside of the the normal funding mechanism because there's there's funding for -ate to buy
018equipment and install, but there's also a - discount that gives us our reduction uh for our costs of our fiber. you know, going from building to building, have the internet connection, etc. So, that's still in place. Thank you. Question high schools parking lot and entryway by the pool, the north end. What's the timeline on that? We don't have a timeline yet, but uh we just went and looked at it last week. Um it's been brought to my attention twice. Yeah, but it's been brought to my attention twice here in the last 10 days. We looked at it last week. Uh it will take us some time, but it'll be taken care of before the summer's over. I just don't know. We've got Oh, yes. Thank you. Those white buses that we purchased, those are a
019lot more flexible for us to utilize for things. Yes. That's a good thing we picked those up. Our coaches, our principles, our athletic directors, anybody easy training can, you know, you don't have to have the big training, right? So, that's a good thing. Are you looking for maybe more of those in the future? Well, these we actually had one in the plan, but because of the price, we're able to get two. Yeah. We always try to get one built into the plan if we can. Right. Um we're going to retire one of them. Okay. So, it's allowing us to retire one that's 11 years old and has a whole lot of miles and kind of rattles. Yeah. But we will continue to get more of them as we can. Right. But we've got we're also
020going to be getting four new yellow buses, right? Normal bus replacement. Okay. And we've got two of those coming a little bit earlier than suspected, but we're hoping to have them by summer's end as well. Exciting. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, other board business. June 9th, personnel committee meets at 6:30 right here in this building. And the following morning on June 10th, construction committee meets at 7:30. Student learning and growth is tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. at the admin office. And then policy, Dr. Lamb, for helping out. Is that June 9th at June 9th at 7:30? I'm sorry, 5:45. 5:45. I knew it was an odd number. Our next board meeting will be June 9th at 7:30 here at Central Services. Got 7:30 on Friday. I am in the old days. She's just trying to get
021out of here by 7:30. We do that every time. 7 o' June 9th 7 o' and then we have our board retreat on June 10th starting 1:30 and Dr. Redmond has sent details out on that and more more details coming that time and we'll get that nailed down here in the next probably week or so. Very good. All right. Anything else? Meeting journal. [Music]