001[Music] good evening everyone welcome to the Board of Trustees meeting today March 17th happy St Patrick's Day thank you if you are able please rise take a moment of silence follow with the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge 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 thank you Dr Redmond yes thank you Mrs Glover first we would like to recognize our winter sports State finalist we have a few people here with us tonight we have some who couldn't be here but I will go through their names as well so first I would like to introduce uh wrestling coach at Boonville High School Mr Jared Bey and his athlete Mr Sam Howard okay um thank you
002Dr Redman in in the board for having us out tonight to recognize our wrestler this is Sam Howard sophomore class of 2027 I want to start off by saying he carries a 3.95 GPA so we always preach that it's the student part that comes first um he's a two-time pack conference Champion uh two-time sectional Champion a two-time regional champion and this year qualified for state so he is a perfect example of the student athlete that we want representing Boonville High School our community and our Corporation so we thank you for having us out see next we would like to introduce Miss Marisha Marissa schaer I'm just gonna have her stand here her coach could not be here tonight but I do have a little blur um so I can tell you a little bit about
003her performance at the state finals this year which was in diving Junior Melissa sha Marissa I'm struggling I'm so sorry Marissa schaer represent to come to high school at this year's ihsaa diving State Championship where she finished 12th Place overall in addition this year Marissa was a sectional champion and pack champion in diving Marissa is very dedicated and worked extremely hard this season spending many mornings before school in the pool we are excited to have Marissa back again next season as she has already begun putting in the work for next school year to advance even further up that Podium during her senior year congratulations Marissa [Applause] Y and our Castle High School swimmers were unable to be here tonight but I do want to recognize them just at least by sharing their names so at
004Castle High School we had Macy Meer competed in swimming she's a 12th grader and then we did have some Swimmers at Castle who also placed at State Addison Carlile who's a junior she finished 12th in the 200 freestyle and 16th in the butterfly and then she along with Karina igus Stella zerling and sheay Hony also Place 14th in the 200 freestyle relay so congratulations to our Castle High School swimmers as well yes okay at this time we will take Patron concerns and I have Mr Robert Howard thank you Mr Glover um I just wanted to give you an update U last time I spoke we were talking about our Grassroots effort and things that you know we're trying to do I wanted to give you an update on things that are happening um I've called
005in a couple of times and brought up concerns with some of the funding and things going on concerns I had and they completely like we don't know what you're talking about and I gave them the bill numbers and things that specifics and like we don't know anything about that like well now you didn't um I don't know if you heard what happened last week at our own library with Mark Mesmer uh we had a group of 13 individuals and had had some students with them with disabilities and were told that they were meeting supposed to going to meet just oneon-one and they just asked you know being that we're here as a group could we meet with Mr Mesmer as a group and no discussion the individual the folks with Mesmer turned to the director
006and said call the Cs director said I ain't calling nobody so kudos to to that individual they are having a town hall this Saturday and Evo mesmer's supposed to be there I don't know if he will or not but these are the kind of things we're running into from our standpoint which is why I know anything that would come from this group as a group would hold more water than what we're trying to do because this is what we're running in and kind of kind of last thing I would ask I have a question don't have to I don't expect you answer it I want to think about it what's this Corporation doing right now to plan when the federal government state of Indiana comes to you and says we're no longer going to fund
007programs such as title one free and reduced lunch Especial needs programs because I can tell you as from a parent standpoint we better have a plan and be ready because if we're not I won't be the only parent that will be here and be upset because our kids you don't play politics with kids don't play politics with the future of these people regardless of what they can and cannot do I know you do the right thing you always do you're great people and I applaud everything you do it's not an easy job and I'll be here back you up as much as I can but let's be proactive not reactive because I can tell you if we become reactive with this situation it going to be ugly in a lot of ways so anything I
008can do I will be here but let's get after it and let's be ready for anything because it's coming thank you next on the agenda School Spotlight Dr Redmond thank you Mrs Clover uh tonight we're excited to introduce m Drew girth he is the principal at our Ward Pathways and career center and he will be talking about uh he's the the school Spotlight tonight so he's going to introduce his people and they're going to tell us a little bit about the good things going on out at wpcc Mr thank you Dr Redman and members of the board uh before we get started I want to recognize I have a few of my staff members here tonight uh in support of our students that you'll get to meet some of them later in the presentation um
009but uh Miss Ali Hoover is here uh Dr Jessica Baker Mr Rob deers and uh M Crystal sent so I want to appreciate the appreciate them coming out this evening to join us um so let's go ahead and look a little bit about some of the things we've done so far in the in the closing in on two years that the pathway Center's been open um before we get too far into this uh do know that the the watermark on the back of each screen and then the the four or five pictures in the squares are all our students um this watermark on this is the inaugural class so this was every student that was with us last year uh we took that picture um just as a side note of some things to look
010at when we're going through statistics aren't always that fun uh but number of applicants uh you can see we've grown from uh 205 to 325 I think our big jump this year is in thanks to our department of learning uh that helped us orchestrate bring every sophomore in the county through a tour to get the Ceda facility and the programs firsthand uh so we we appreciate that and think it it shows uh that our time was well spent with our number of applicants um enrollment uh from 134 our first year uh to next year project a number of 256 uh so we're continue to grow and and and build our programs as we move along here um the next slides we're going to kind of go through each of our programs and just some of
011the accomplishments that they've had um our biomedical Science Program uh has had 34 students um and they've completed 68 industry certifications to this point with an additional 15 uh coming by the Year's End um we've had 15 students do clinical internships uh they've amassed 252 college credit hours uh last year we had one senior in the program uh that that went to study biochemistry at the University of Northern Alabama uh and this year we have 10 students and they're all planning to uh further education at the college level uh from this program we're excited about that um civil construction which is a year one program uh this is our first year for that um we've got 21 students uh and they've earned 61 or 60 industry certificates this year uh an additional 21 hopeful for
012as we close out this last nine weeks uh these students have amass 300 college credit hours um in the class of 2025 we have five uh going into Union apprenticeship and two planning to go to work in their field up next is our uh CNA or a certified assistant program uh in the program we've had 80 students um they've earned 176 uh industry certificates with an additional 38 uh hopefully coming yet this year um 22 students have participated in clinical internships uh we currently have four that are working in in their field uh and as still part of their schooling with us um they've amassed 773 college credit hours uh class of 2024 we had eight students to go to college one uh that was going to take a gap still trying to figure out
013what they were doing and then this year we've got 14 students and they're all planning to go on to college to further their education uh in in health science Fields so up next is our EMT program uh and that program's had 10 students uh with 26 industry certificates hoping to get five more uh yet this year uh we've had five students in internships uh they've maed 175 college credit hours uh last year's class we had one go to college one into the military and three uh we're undecided and this year we've got three going to college and two planning to go straight to work so we're we're excited about their futures um exercise science uh we've had students uh they've earned 42 uh industry certificates uh we've had we have 12 this semester working in
014in clinical internships and two that are actually working uh in jobs um they've amassed 230 college credit hours uh the class of 2024 one went onto college and one went into the military uh and this year the class of 2025 we have 13 students going on to college and one going in the military uh up next is industrial maintenance uh in that program we've had 30 students uh and they've amass 55 certifications with an additional 32 hopefully before the year's out um we've had eight students do internships 630 college credits uh class of 24 we had one student go to college one working in the field and two undecided and 2025 plans we have one planning to go to college four to go work uh in their field one with Union apprenticeship two military and
015one in the ministry uh so a nice diverse group of student plans coming out of there and then uh Precision Machining uh we've had 28 students earn 18 certifications uh with 32 additional planed yet this year uh five internships 549 college credits uh class of 24 we have one go to college at majoring in digital engineering uh one into Union apprenticeship and two to work in the working in the field and uh this year we have one planning to go on to college to study prision Machining and three planning to go to work in the machine field so kind of a synopsis Student Success uh our students and staff have worked hard to get uh 445 total certificates uh and 2,99 college hours uh in our two years so we're we're extremely proud of all
016their hard work for that um I'm now honored to have a few of those students here with us tonight to tell us a little bit about their experiences at the pathway Center um up first uh from the Precision Machining program I have Bren Dill my name is Bren Dyan I'm a senior at Castle I play lacrosse and my original plan was I was going to go to college degree in like physical therapy or business or something and then I decided that wasn't for me and then I went to Mr deer's uh tech class not knowing what a mill or lath or anything was and then from like day one I sort fell in love with it started working on the machines uh got got better with them as each day went on just stuck with
017it and then this year I started an internship with uh Emi plating and after I graduated this year I plan to continue fulltime with them excellent ex up next from the nursing program I have Grace Kowski Kinsey Hollander Skyler Hollander and REE vulgan uh come on up ladies uh and Sutton was supposed to join us but she had to have a makeup uh lacrosse game tonight so the the other ladies here are filling in for so hi I'm re we are all seniors at Castle High School we all got our ccma certification last May with the tech school one of our absolute favorite parts of the tech school is the Hands-On activities that we get to do in our lab we have gotten to learn how to do head to toe assessments we have mannequins
018and dummy arms that have veins where we have learned how to give injections and like practice veny punctures we have a med cart that different nursing homes have donated to us that we have prac how to do med passes along with a bunch of other skills that have helped us with the certification hi my name is Grace and another part of tech school that I love is our clinical work that we've done so last year in the beginning we did not have our certification so we had two rounds of clinical setup our first one was clerical work where we went with the people who worked in the front desk we learn about insurance co- payments workman's C kind of the backside of the healthare IND really think so our second round was with the doctors
019and nurses and how they interacted with patients and what they did on a day-to-day basis this year we all had we all earned our ccma certifications so we all have jobs either in a hospital or a clinic and with all that Hands-On and shadowing experience I feel more prepared to work within this industry and throughout this two years it's helped me decide that Healthcare is where I want to work for the rest of my life and don't want to that's fine because there's a role in the workplace for everybody but regardless of our patient care hours that we've earned we've also took many classes that are beneficial for anybody to take hello my name is Kinsey um and through the texo we've had the opportunity to take ivytech classes this has definitely benefited me a
020lot because I'm going to ivytech um it's had a huge Advantage for me in my future these dual credit courses that I've taken through this school given me a head start in college education for sure um the these classes have allowed me to earn um college credits that will transfer directly to ivtech whenever I go there um not only has it saved me time and money but it has also given me um a valuable experience and what a college class would be like I feel more confident and prepared for the next step of my education and I'm very grateful for all of the things that work path has done hi I'm Skyler um I believe that work Pathways has helped us the nursing program in many ways um one of them being that we get
021to use kabas on the anatomage table to help us understand Anatomy better um I also think that war Pathways has helped us become better college students like we're learning to be college students and as they're teaching us as college level kids um we also get to be treated as adults and it's it's I love it yeah um we appreciate everything that you guys have done with word Pathways thank you ladies and up next I have Gail dris from our exercise science program Mr gir I'm sorry I was just gonna point out and I think the instructor Mrs Senate is so proud of these girls she literally was wiping tears away a minut ago so yeah sorry to interrupt I just worries worries point that out how the crowd instructor is sitting out in the audience
022thank you guys for having here tonight I'm Gail Driscoll I'm a seconde student in Dr Jessica Baker's exercise science Physical Therapy pathway I also attend castle in the day time tonight I'd like to share with you the experience I have had at the tech school so whenever you begin you take these hard intensive classes that we're also learning college credit with these classes are hard but they give us so much vast knowledge that I've had my clinical instructors tell me I'm at the level of Education of graduate students on top of that we're getting this college credit at a discounted rate through uee and once we graduate the program uee offers us a 20 to $225,000 scholarship even if you're not going there it's still nice to know know that you have that through the
023tech school I've also gotten to work with our community um our first year we did this program where we we had people come in and we worked as their personal trainers and that was great we also did physicals at Booneville high school and this year we did evals with our fellow teachers at the school kind of acting as a mock physical therapist I've also begun clinicals and I'm on my third rotation I have gotten to experience so many different aspects of the physical therapy occupational therapy exercise science world that I truly wouldn't have known otherwise this program also gives you the leniency to be kind of undecided in what you want to do and learn what you want to do without ending up with college debt or regrets and on top of that I've also
024gained lasting friendships that I never would have had otherwise and I think our tech school as a whole is beneficial and we've done great things like um raise supplies after the hurricane raise kids raise toys for the kids um at Christmas time we've done field days as a school to kind of combine all of our programs and get us rally together as one along with grill out days and it has truly been a great experience and I hope for students to follow my path and flourish like I have done and I couldn't have done it without um Mr Drew girf and Dr Jessica Baker thank you excellent once again thank you to our students uh and and their able ability to share their uh perspective on their time with us um and and thank you
025all for the opportunity to have this school uh and the opportunity to work with all these great kids um couple of things for coming attractions here uh the civil construction sandbox the crane in the background there is them unloading the metal on our site uh so it's here we're waiting for the construction company to get there and build it uh but you know so we're we're getting close on that uh and then we've got uh our new welding program that will start in the fall of 20125 uh and we have it uh staffed uh we started this week with sending uh requisitions in for the additional equipment that we're going to need uh so we're looking forward to getting that started here uh with with a full class load of students uh this fall uh
026and then finally we'll close with is you can consider this uh your official invite to wpcc First signing day it will be May the 2nd at two o'clock um at w pathway Center um and we will on this day we're going to recognize our students going to college uh by having them all wear their college gear to uh the pathway Center uh and then we've got our employers that are uh will be coming in and actually doing assignment for students that are going straight to work with them uh after that day so so we're excited about that so thank you all for the time and and for the opportunity thank you Mr if I can say one thing and I think that Dr Gres will agree with me I got to be in the exercise
027science program last year and talk about being adults I have paid people to do that and the kid the young people who have who assisted me were as professional as anybody I've ever used so I'm so proud of our school Mr Baker I'm signed up for this I didn't do this last year so I'm a little nervous about what this means for me on Wednesday morning after I'm going in the morning and after last year I couldn't shave myself for four days was rough that's not helping me feel better I just wanted to say that this has been a dream and a vision for for years and it is so wonderful to see it coming to fruition and to hear from the people it's everything you said tonight is exactly what we had envisioned we
028wanted to save on college debt we wanted and some young lady mentioned it we wanted people to our students to experience before they get into a career that they really didn't think they wanted in the first place or they found out taking few courses this is not for me so thank you for sharing all of your Insight that makes it fullfilling for us as a board and we are so proud that you have the opportunities and we can't wait to see you out in the field you know shaping the world for us one more thing Abby Dr ban Dr Lambert Mr fiser this program is because and Mr G this program is because of their Vision the work that they did beyond anything that I could have ever imagined and it it's just so exciting
029to watch it and to see I know it's going to get so much better because the leadership we have is visioning Way Beyond anything that I ever believe could happen I'm a dreamer so it was really Todd thans help us pay for it Todd the money he I was waiting I was waiting but he just paid for it but no no what's he know right I would like sorry comment you mentioned the teacher there tearing up all of us well Andrew and Eric weren't here but we've all been here six to eight years and what eight years ago is when we sort of started the committee and got on the superintendent back that hey we want to get this going it was the board not bragging for the board but it has been so fulfilling
030to us to see what has happened in just two years time I can't wait to see what it's going to be like five years yeah I mean my God and I've got one granddaughter involved she loves it and I think I'll have more involved maybe but uh it's it makes us feel good glad we can we can watch this through your eyes thank you for sharing your insight into what's happening through because that's that's exactly what we were hoping would happen thank you for next on the agenda we have consideration of routine business Dr Redmond thank you the routine business this evening includes approving the minutes of the school board meeting held on February 24th 20125 and approving the claims and signing the docket for March 17th 2025 I re recommend the board approve the
031routine items as presented I make a motion to approve the minutes I have a motion by Mrs wilh hel is seconded by Mr France any discussion yeah you're welcome to leave actually you're not stuck here you're welcome I promise I did tell them that before oh you didn't you didn't tell them tonight I did before yes okay I'm sorry we have a motion in a second no discuss no discussion we have a vote all in favor say I I any opposed motion Carri next item agenda consideration for of items for board action Dr thank you Mrs Clover B County School Corporation Treasurer Mrs Amy Smith is requesting board approval to void check number 66 359 dated 82222 in the amount of $600 this check is still outstanding and is now more than two years old
032the voided check amount will be deposited into the education fund I recommend the board approve this request as presented motion to approve second we have a motion by Mr Mosby second it by Mr scanner to approve the void voided check we have any discussion all those in favor say I I any opposed motion carried next item approve a non-exclusive clinical affiliation agreement thank you Mrs Glover wpcc principal Mr Drew girth is requesting approval to enter into a nonexclusive clinical affiliation agreement between War County School Corporation and Progressive Health re Rehabilitation Inc this agreement provides that Progressive Health Rehabilitation will provide qualified professionals and make its facilities available to war County School corporation's faculty members and students for practical learning and clinical experiences I recommend the board approve this agreement as presented so Mo second we
033have a motion by Mr Baker seconded by Mrs will helmus to approve this nonexclusive clinical a with Progressive Health Rehab any discussion all those in favor say I I any opposed motion carried approve science adoption thank you Mrs Clover director of learning Mr Jason Fischer is requesting board approval of the elementary science adoption building blocks of science 3D by Carolina biological the new materials and textbook will be utilized beginning August 2025 and just for clarity for the group you guys see all the everything in the background um but this is actually a monthlong process that includes looking at the approved Department of Ed list that they are now putting out um also it involves Pilots it involves parent review teacher review and our curriculum coordinators at the elementary level who are considered the expert group
034during the adoption so went through that monthlong process before bringing this to the board tonight so I with that I recommend the board approve the request as presented have a motion motion to approve second have motion by Mr Mosby seconded by Mr France to approve the building blocks of science 3D by Carolina biological any discussion I do have question do we have these materials I know we're doing several adoptions do we have those materials at the school or where are they available for you that's a great question we have some at the schools I have some at the corporation office currently and then we have some at the warehouse experience the science instead of just reading about it the student materials have both on level and below grade level reading levels that to match the
035students individualized plan of what still getting the content but making it a little easier for them to read and understand it's it is a it is a really nice set a lot of materials that come with the teachers for science experience we do we also have a replenishing plan for the materials that are used up during the year it's more of a Hands-On program yes ma'am it is more of a Hands-On program and each teacher that teaches science you get three kits and then there is the ability to replenish those after each year because some of those uh kits some of those materials would be used like for example Mr Skinner today saw a squid and students dissect squid so each year we will be replacing those he reviewed a goat brain and a cow
036eye so once those are used and students are active within reusing those next year yeah so um just for the good of the group when we need a squid we let them know and in two days it was here by Amazon so oh my yes what did we do yeah thank you Mr thanks for your hard work I'm now calling a vote all in favor say I I any opposed motion carried uh next AG agenda item approve music program adoption thank you director of learning Mr Jason fer also is requesting board approval the Elementary music adoption Quaver's K5 music digital curriculum Resources by Quaver Ed and music K8 by Plank Road publishing the new materials and textbooks will be used beginning August 2025 I recommend the board approve the request as presented motion adoption second
037have a motion by Mrs will hel is seconded by Mr Baker any discussion I was in reading the the parents or the committee's comments the Review Committee and just how they wish they had that program when they were in school and how it should engage these students and like to be music is fun anyway but even kick it up at more a notch is even more exciting I want I want to take it okay I think it's it's important for us to be providing these opportunities to our kids we spend rightfully so we spend a lot of time energy and focused on the stem programs and reading and it's important but not everyone's got the math brain right and the music is such an important tool for students to develop their their intelligence in a
038different way Express their intelligence in a different way than than students who might be more academic based um and show their talents and develop talents they didn't know they had simply because they try to record around third grade or whatever and and it's it's a great way to build our program all the way up to the high school program where we have kids playing and National recognized music pieces and so it's it's it's a great program I think we need to make sure fun the music program Arts programs absolutely any further comments all in favor say I any opposed motion carried next agenda item approve distribution of supplemental payment Dr Edmond thank you Mrs CL director of learning Mr Jason fiser is requesting board approval to distribute supplemental payment related to the early literacy achievement
039Grant guidance provided by the idoe stipulates that the supplemental payment styen shall be awarded to Educators and school Personnel through grade three who who were responsible for literacy and reading instruction during the 2023 24 Academic Year and remain employed with the corporation on the date of distribution of funds these funds will be distributed to eligible Educators by March 28 2025 I recommend the board approve the request as presented so good second Mr Baker made a motion seconded by Mr igner to approve distri of the supplemental payment any discussion all in favor please say I oppos motion carried next item approved bus Aid Dr Redmond thank you Mrs Clover assistant superintendent Mr Todd Armstrong is requesting the board approve the rate of pay assignment to specific employees as bus AIDS in the amount of $17 per
040hour I recommend the board approve the request as presented a motion to Mr Mosby has made a motion seconded by Mr France to approve the bus AIDS we have any discussion what what's the time period for this pay rate is that for next year is that what we're passing or no they're currently being paid at this rate so this came to be because initially bus AIDS were being hired in a in more of a temporary situation but now because of just a lot of the high needs that we have of our students we've been continuing to hire bus AIDS but they become more permanent in their position so we wanted to bring all of them that we have currently employed to the board for official board approval and then as we hire additional bus AIDS
041we will bring those Dr bran will bring those during his HR report so basically they started temporary and now as the list is growing it's become more permanent and we just want to now to make it official it's not really aight in no no no it's just docent correct setting a pay rate for the now more permanent position correct yes thank you thank you you're welcome all those in favor please say I I oppos motion carry next agenda item approve providers for lit fiber con connectivity thank you Mr assistant superintendent Mr Todd Armstrong is requesting the board to approve service agreements with AT&T switched ethernet lit fiber and a stound Broadband powered by RCN for upgraded Andor replacement lit fiber connectivity at nine of our locations I recommend the board approve the request as presented
042I'll make a motion second we have a motion by Mr anner seconded by Mrs WI Pro to approve these providers for lit fiber con connectivity all in favor please say I oh moment for discussion yes please thank I don't know if uh Mr Armstrong would want to come up here but just for the record we don't talk about this much or too often and E rate and how much that's covered or anything on that can you just give a quick overview of maybe how that funding is is layered on this currently um if things all passed through the legislation like they're supposed to we'll be at 70% e rate okay so we'll get 70% paid for so the the cost will be at 30% of the dollar amounts okay based on the the nine locations
043that we have in the list okay I just make sure yeah good enough for me oh okay okay now we can call a vote all in favor say I any opposed motion Carri next item agenda item approved donations Dr red thank you Mrs glubber we have several for Tuma high school we have a $500 donation from war County Farm Bureau to the tumy FFA fund to be used as needed we have a $1,000 donation from tumy P which is their parent group that stands for parents and teachers helping students to the tumy Student Activities fund to be used for AP testing fees we have a $644 71 donation from Superior a to tumy FFA to be used as needed and we have a $1,500 donation from Friends of Elberfeld to the dumy class of 20206
044and that is the correct date is for next year's group to be used for prom and then also at tumy $500 donation from rear Township Trustee to the Christmas fund to be used for the angel tree additionally at Sharon Elementary we have a $3,864 donation from Newberg youth basketball to purchase a scoreboard for the Sharon gym at War Pathways and career center we have a $5,000 donation from our good partners at Kaiser Aluminum to be used for certification costs and supplies in the advanced manufacturing programs and at Castle South Middle School we have a $500 donation from war public Education Foundation to be used for props supplies costumes and such for the show Frozen Jr at Castle South Middle School I recommend the board approve the donations as presented motion by Mr Mo second by
045Mr France to approve the donations we have any discussion all I can say is to come y to feel a lot Rich yeah great Community with lots of great partners and Community Support have vote all in fav say I I any opposed motion carried next agenda item consideration of personnel recommendations Dr Gres thank you Mrs glver the human resource office has the following business to bring before the board tonight agenda items 9.1 and 9.2 before I get to these I'd like to say that these non-renewals have nothing to do with job performance these are temporary positions everybody coming in that they were only for the rest of this school year um as far as I know all these people are doing a fantastic job and we have an opportunity in the future they would certainly
046be eligible so 9.1 is considered non-renewal on contracts for teachers serving in temporary capacity for 2425 school year and 9.2 consider nonrenewal and temporary assignments for support staff serving in a temporary capacity for the 2425 school year make a motion to approve both n rules second we have a motion by Mr ERS second by Mrs willhelm is on non-renewal do we have any discussion all in favor say I we opposed motion Carri thank you agenda item 9.3 consideration of employment certified staff Nathan keester technology teacher at Boonville middle school for 2526 school year all of these certified staff for for the 25 26 school year Derek Powell art teacher at Boonville Middle School Shelby Davis English teacher at Castle High School Zin social studies teacher at Castle North Middle School Noah Stabler social studies teacher
047at Castle North Middle School Allison Oliver visual arts teacher at tumy high school and Caitlyn gdus math teacher at Castle High School for the non-certified staff we have Natalie Wells program assistant at Castle South Middle School Tanya wilky as cafeteria manager at Boonville Middle School for the 25 26 school year Steven Arnold ABS program assistant at Castle South Middle School Katie oath program assistant at Castle South Middle School kayin knite 4.75 hour cafeteria position at Castle North Middle School m cook class D maintenance at Castle High School and before I get to the principal I would like to give a brief synopsis of our hiring process for principal of course we post the position on three different websites then Dr Redmond and I met with the faculty staff and parents at log Elementary on two
048different meetings to collect their input on what they think they need in the next principal we then compiled all that information used it to filter down the many many applicants that we had to seven that we invited for interview uh round one interviews took place with Dr Redmond myself and three current principles then we whittel down to four that made the finals we had a round two and a round three with those four and then after that lengthy process it is my pleasure to recommend the name on behalf of Dr Redmond to recommend the name TSA Keith to be the next principal at log Elementary School for the 25 26 school year tsha has been a administrator in W County for eight years now already she gets her chance to be a principal L Elementary
049certified noncertified and the new second have a motion by Mr France seconded by Mrs will helas to approve consideration of certified non-certified staff plus a new principal we have any discussion thank you for all of your work trying to find not all these positions but especially a new principle it's a big deal it's a big deal for loog it's a lot of work applicants a lot of people rightfully want to work here and the reason why is because we have great administrators we have students and a great community so thank you for it was a lot of work but it's also a lot of fun H yeah it really is it's a lot of fun and uh Mrs Pierce has done an outstanding job at log and big shoes to fill but we're so excited
050for Mrs Keith U to take the Reigns and um continue with log element or L wild cats and all the great things they already do but she also has some fabulous ideas about you know just continuing the growth there so we're very excited calling for a vote all those in favor say I I any opposed motion Carri thank you agenda 9.4 leaves Samantha Tuli special education coordinator Jessica Hurley math teacher at Moonville middle Valerie Schmitz 4.75 hour cafeteria position at Castle North Steven Michaels custodian at Oakdale Elementary Katie Hernandez Martinez special education teacher Sharon Elementary Daniel and Krum Mardi math teacher at boomo high Angela hillborne 3.25 hour cafeteria position at log Elementary Melissa McAn program assistant at Boonville middle Kaylin Higgins program assistant at Yankee toown Elementary Jeff Roose Transportation Logistics specialist and Macy
051STM second grade teacher at log Elementary motion to approve leaves motion by Mr agner seconded by Mr Mosby to approve these leaves do we have any discussion all in favor say I I any opposed transferred to special education teacher at Johnny's Castle Elementary School for 25 26 school year Joanne Monroy 4.75 hour cafeteria position at Castle North to 4.75 hour cafeteria position at Sharon Elementary Stacy McDonald 6.5 hour cafeteria position at Castle High to 4.5 hour cafeteria position at Castle High shaa cop shev 3.75 hour cafeteria position at Boonville middle to 6.5 hour cafeteria position at Boonville middle 9.6 resignations Stephanie Stoner ABS program assistant Castle South resignation effective March 14 2025 Kumo Nano 4.5h hour cafeteria position at Castle High resignation effective March 14 2025 Darren Ward varsity football coach at bville high school
052resignation effective March 10th 2025 pole Woods program assistant Castle High resignation effective March 7th 2025 Gary Watson 4.75 hour cafeteria position at Castle North resignation effective March 10th 2025 Franchesca Ortiz ABS program assistant at Sharon Elementary resignation effective March 13 2025 Kinsey Myers 3.5 hour to 5.75 hour cafeteria position at boo middle resignation effective March 13 2025 and Caleb buers program assistant John H Council Elementary School resignation effed March 21st 2025 and finally agenda item 9.7 retirements Kelly Chapman social St teacher at cast North Middle School retirement effective June 1st 2025 Bridget Fester social stci teacher Castle North Middle School retirement effective June 1st 2025 and Eric redond math teacher cast High School retirement effective June 1st 2025 and if I may make a point of personal privilege I um recognize that teachers that reach
053retirement age in war County have the privilege to announce their retirement when and how they choose I hope I'm afforded the same privilege if I'm lucky enough to reach that in my career but at the same time I would like to thank the 19 teachers who have already put in their retirement so that we can get out early on hiring um teaching is a very compe comptitive market right now for hiring and the earlier we can get out the better so I really appreciate all the teachers that have already put in their retirement so we can get out early thank you thank you Dr thank you you have a lot of shoes to fill there next item reports Dr red we have two reports tonight um Dr gesan would you like to go first or
054Dr Lamberts I thought you would just stay at the Podium but I'm like did I miss something thank you very much yes Dr gr the Personnel committee met earlier this evening and we had a couple of agenda items that we went through first as you just realized from your agenda we had some voluntary transfer so I explained the voluntary transfer process both in cases where we're removing programs like we're doing from sharing to Johnny's castle and where we have an excess teacher as we did at Chandler so we have a process for for dealing with those voluntary transfers and it worked process worked well this time and we had some discussion surrounding that and then we also had some discussion surrounding a practice that has become more prevalent in our area with there is a
055law in Indiana that says within 30 days prior to the start of school and then during the school year if a teacher leaves a corporation to go to another Corporation the sending Corporation can hold that teacher for up to 30 days so it was never a problem before because 10 years ago if a teacher resigned two weeks before school started two days later you could fill that position there were plenty of teachers out there that's not the case anymore as I mentioned just a few minutes ago it's become more competitive and so what happens is if we have to fill a teaching position two days before school starts we hire a teacher they may be held for 28 days into the school year so the students don't get to start with the teacher that they're
056going to have um so the committee and I brainstormed some ideas for working on that and I'll be discussing with Dr Redmond and the rest of the administration team um the ideas that came out of that group tonight to help us with that problem and we'll hopefully bring some good ideas back to the board real soon thank you Dr Dr Lambert good evening uh we met last Thursday for the policy committee um we had a a good conversation that night about the elementary agenda book that will be coming to you all in the April meeting the reason we got to get it done and ahead is because they do print that ahead of time and so they get that printing done and taken care of before uh school gets in that's why we do one
057a little earlier you will see the middle school high school one at a later point we did a big overhaul on the elementary agenda book um it will be a little shorter um our attorney had really stressed to us about keeping uh policy out of it so we don't have it in two places we just point to the policy and say hey that's where you can find what it is so that that one location is keeping it up to date so um we spent uh the bulk of our time that evening on that issue and we will have that at the next meeting for you to approve and then we can go out and get it PR questions not yet not yet that's coming up I'm going to get that out this week yep thank
058you thank you Dr anything else Dr redond that's Dr Lambert when is our next meeting do you remember the DAT April 14th April 14th so policy meeting April 14 at 53 here in this building yes student and growth will commit student growth and learning will meet tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at the admin building we have a construction committee meeting tomorrow morning at 7:30 in administration building and our Personnel committee meets again April 18th at 7:30 in the morning morning at the administration building I just had a question for maybe those on uh on the uh policy committee maybe or maybe whatever uh Dr Gres was talking about commit person personel thank you I'm sorry Personnel so I heard what he was saying about um the holding and retention has come up with some ideas
059on that but you know to hear him say that we have a competitive market you know sometimes it kind of es and flows a little bit so can we just make sure that we're bring all the ideas right to the board of any other things maybe not just that one thing but like how do we stay at the top right I just want to be at the top so so do I Jord what can we do to be at the top where like we're the place to work so agree whatever yes you know what yes agree one thing I think we are doing in our school corporation is working really hard to turn our students School teachers yes and so I think that's a program that has been very successful organic gr there well it's
060a best way that's right we have a an example of that tonight this W's replacement Ali Oliver this baker has 12 students going no this my Miss Baker not my daughter you have 12 students that are going to a teacher correct yes so we're already working on some what we call grow your own programming so we already have some of that going on and I well we added some other day I think we added some days uh for like compensation we were thinking about yes you know things like that we've done lots of those kinds of things I think U what Dr is leaning toward us trying to make sure that when we know we have an opening that we go grab that spot and fill it as quickly as possible before we lose out
061to another District so those are the kinds of things that he wants to bring what do you bring what do he bring back to you're GNA love all right we playing offense or defense off oh good okay maybe both thank you domino effect we get fromwhere else they have to I'd like give a quick legislative update uh interestingly uh State Senate Bill 146 is a proposed increase to teacher salary to begin at 45,000 effective June 30th this year challenge will be with the state's budget will it provide uh at at this moment as the language is now it's proposed to only increase 1% in funding for public education which will not keep up with inflation so it's now being held in committee for further review and of course we we gladly bump it up if
062we have the funds teacher retention and hiring is utmost import for our students and of course the second big item is the property tax relief currently as it stands will reduce funding for schools at approx which will exceed approximately $1 billion dollar over the next six years and I think there they've even one of the representatives has uh po new language for a new bill kind of even out Les shock what's it called sticker shock and of course you can always look at the school board association website for updates by Mr Spradlin got six weeks left in this session has to wrap up April 29th so you don't have to listen to me much longer our next regular scheduled board meeting will be April 14th 2025 7 o'clock this building anything else uh Mr Armstrong
063aren't we already at the 45,000 for the beginning teacher so about that already yeah we we planned ahead and that's already taken care of so that's one off our if we get any increase it just helps move up the skill more right excellent so my daughter sorry sorry my daughters are both in the castle sh did find out yesterday that both teams qualified for state finals which Saturday at hike high school so looking forward to seeing home last year both plac third in the state last year if I remember right so forward to seeing them perform it's a little Bittersweet seeing I've Senor perform for the last time but uh that'll be been a fun experience last four years well when that's over you can go to see Frozen Jr right anything else okay thank
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