001foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] good evening I'd like to call the Warrick County School Corporation Board of school trustees meeting to order it's July 10 2023 would you please stand and join me in a moment of silence followed by the pledge I pledge allegiance 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 right item three on the agenda is patrons concerned and seeing none we will move on to item four which is consideration of routine business Mr Armstrong the items under routine business are the minutes of the school board meeting held on June 26 2023 and approving the claims and signing
002the docket for July 10 2023 I recommend the board approved the routine items as presented motion carries I am five consideration of items for board action Mr Armstrong the first item is to consider adopting the 2024-2025 school calendar and in your board packet you're going to find a copy of the proposed school calendar for the 2024-2025 Academic Year the calendar has been created and reviewed by the administration the wcta and principals the first day of school for the students is August 7th 2024 and the last day is May 22nd 2025. I recommend the board approved the 2024-2025 school calendar as presented discussion all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposing a motion carries 5B second reading of proposed policy 5701 therapy dogs Mr Armstrong in your board packet you will find a copy
003of policy 5701 therapy dogs submitted by Dr Walter Lambert this policy shall apply to therapy dogs on school corporation property the superintendent or designee shall have the discretion to establish administrative regulations consistent with this policy tonight is the second reading of this policy for the Board of Trustees and I have a summary here the board of school trustees recognizes that there are certain occasions when therapy dogs may be present on Ward County School Corporation property a therapy dog is a dog that has been individually trained and certified to work with its Handler to provide emotional support well-being comfort and or companionship to school corporation students and employees a Handler is the person who trained with the therapy dog and is solely responsible for this supervision proposed policy 5701 further outlines the approval process the training
004requirements student allergy considerations and steps for removal if necessary I recommend the board approve the policy as presented all those in favor signify by saying aye aye motion carries item 5c considered temporary and Perpetual water line easement Mr Armstrong the waterline easement that is in the packet is a revised waterline easement this easement was signed last year uh there was an issue with the city being able to make payment for the easement and it needed to be broken down into two different numbers during that revision there was also some discussion about uh some language that was in the original easement pertaining to the waving of the water tap fees at wpcc that particular item is still under discussion so it's been removed from this easement the to determine whether or not those tap fees are
005going to be waived or not is going to happen at a later date so it's been removed from this particular easement so we're recommending this season replace the one that was signed previously so that payment can be made so I recommend the board approve the request as presented some so moved by Mr Baker second second by Miss dragner is there any discussion all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed nay motion carries 5D consider accepting a donation to Chandler Elementary School Mr Armstrong in your board packet you will find a donation request from Chandler Elementary School principal Mrs Stephanie Henrich uh Regal Incorporated is donating a basketball court for the outside area this includes all materials and labor with an estimated value of five thousand dollars I recommend the board approve this request
006as presented to approve my motion by Mr Mosby do we have a second no second second by Mrs Metzger is there any discussion boy I'm glad to see him he's donating their time and efforts to do that that's going to be a great Improvement for Chandler Elementary all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed nay motion carries item six consider a Personnel recommendations Dr Gresham thank you Mrs Williams human resource office has the following business to bring before the board tonight consideration of employment certified staff positions Allison Washburn a halftime special education teacher and half-time first grade teacher at Tennyson Elementary School Corey knable business computer science and information technology teacher at Tecumseh High School Alyssa Miller biology teacher at Castle High School Stephen Bush business teacher at Booneville high school and the
007following support staff positions Brittany Dennis program assistant at Logan Elementary Jenny tubes bus driver for Route 85 Brett Staub bus driver for Route 91 Delaney Davis bus driver for Route 206 Tina Finn bus driver for Route 207 Calvin Brent Stevens bus driver for Route 217 Holly Stevens bus driver for Route 237 Queenie young cotton program assistant at Castle High School Dennis Sutton program assistant to Castle High School Christina Gresham bus driver for Route 238 and Megan Barnhill program assistant at Oakdale Elementary the second second by Mrs Metzger is there any discussion all those in favor signify by saying aye opposed nay motion carries consider naming varsity baseball coach at Tecumseh High School I know Dr Browder an athletic director Brown are excited to bring the name Eric Barnes for that position discussion all this in
008favor signify by saying aye um motion carries agenda item C leave request Sheila goodrid a PTA assistive technology coordinator and Robert Dave hearing Class B maintenance him all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed name motion carries agenda item D cafeteria transfers Kim Edson 4.5 hours at Castle High to 6.5 hours at Castle High Haley Dowling 3.25 hours at John H Castle to 6.5 hours the John H Castle agenda item e bus driver transfers Tammy Ireland from Route 99 to Route 7 Rhonda sander from Route 89 to Route 38 Angel Smith from Route 222 to Route 239 and agenda item F resignations Carl Amos bus driver for Route 232 resignation effective June 27 2023 Kathy Johnson 6.5 hour cafeteria at John H Castle resignation effective June 26 2023 Tamara Thurman program assistant Castle
009South resignation effective June 30 2023 Tamara Murphy program assistant Sharon Elementary resignation effective June 30 2023 Chris delutes ABS program assistant Chandler Elementary resignation effective July 5th 2023 Mike powless program assistant at Castle North resignation effective July 6 2023 and Joshua bolds social studies teacher and girls varsity basketball coach at Tecumseh High School resignation effective July 10 2023. thank you Dr Chris item seven reports Mr Armstrong I believe Dr Lambert has a report to start the night yes I have a report from the policy and curriculum committee first of all thank you for the second reading on the therapy dogs I know we have a lot of people that will be happy to see that that is in place for the new year uh upcoming you'll the next board meeting you'll get a first reading
010on the teacher appreciation Grant policy if you recall on that the tag monies we get that money every year from the state and then we have to give it to teachers who are highly effective or effective on their evaluation and this is for the previous school year and they have to be employed on December 1 of 2023. so we'll get that we got to do this every year so we'll get that policy at your next board meeting nothing's changed other than some dates in that item so it's pretty pretty short sweet and simple but it is something we have to redo every year um the other the committee discussed tonight as well the school lunch policy the lunch charging policy that we discussed at the work session as well so the committee is going to
011look into what needs to be done in that area in the interim you know the suggestion is that if we follow the policy as is until we make any changes and then to get some more data and information from the Food Services Department in order to make some decisions on what we need to do moving forward when it comes to the charging for a lunch and lastly we the committee did spend some time discussing policy 1100 which is academic freedom and then also the new Indiana laws that were going into effect after this last legislative session when it comes to the book challenges or the book reviews so we're going to work on that policy to get that together and then have that as a separate policy itself and then move that forward again through
012the the process as well unfortunately the doe doesn't have much guidance out on that right now but we're going to work with our attorney to make certain we get that I'll let him determine what the the law is really saying so then that's all we have thank you for enlightening us uh the second report is going to come from me and I just want to give a brief synopsis of what's going on with wpcc um as you guys know we've got a lot of construction projects going on right now but that one in particular is uh at the Forefront of my thoughts because it's going to be opening in less than 20 work days and we've probably got 50 days of work but with that being said there's no real hold UPS in place other
013than things that are beyond our control shipping dates things like that that are that putting some hindrance and causing us to recalculate when things have to be done and timing Etc the one issue that is of great concern is the permanent power the permanent power requires Center Point to be on site and we had a little bit of a snafu with the notarizing of our easement and so that delayed it a few days and they're in the process of getting it recorded getting it placed into the center point queue we're hoping to have some guys out there my hope is the end of this week as soon as possible once that's done a lot of other things that are out there can take place we've got HVAC units we have three of them installed we
014have two of them coming next Monday and then the two largest units don't have a a drop date set yet for sure but in the meantime we've been meeting with the contractor and coming up with some plan B's and C's but while we're also doing that we're making our own plans Brian the manager of Maintenance today found numerous temporary air conditioning units that are in stock that we could acquire if we needed to if other things got in the way we could cool the building and make sure that it would be open for school the other things that are out there I mean we had a half a million dollars for the equipment delivered today of course without the roads being paved forklifts don't drive up the sidewalk very well so fortunately our contractor shared
015some of their equipment and unloaded the equipment for us um uh really neat stuff all the guys in the maintenance department that were helping her saying they want to come back and learn so that's a good sign real good sign I say this with somewhat confidence we will be open on the first day we will have a clean safe building we probably won't have everything finished with that being said but we'll be able to be inside the building yeah so just so you do think occupied but we're kind of doing touch-up items and yes uh small things we're going to designate the architect to punch it out on August 5th even though the building will be completely finished for example there's things that happen uh Saturday they painted all the duct work in the clean
016lab so that we could store the equipment in the clean lab and the paint didn't adhere to the ductwork and so they're having to scrape it paint it again there was oil residue on the duct board things like that that you know again but it's not going to prevent us from having classrooms ready and students being able to be in the building I mean we've got all the community Furniture being delivered Thursday we've already got all the teachers desks student desks student chairs all the classroom supplies and everything all happening right now so we may be on August 7th cleaning the building at 10 o'clock at night but we've been there before so I've got a question I'm related and I just I forget to ask it in our construction committee but I know we've
017got the Moonville High School cafeteria project going there's a an abundance of concrete in that parking lot is there are they just waiting to haul that off or is there a reason I'm just curious well it came out of the floor yeah they uh they're not waiting at one time they thought maybe they were going to need to use it as fill okay inside of the steam of the area where the old steam Pipe Lane used to be I remember that I felt like it was kind of hanging around for a while so I didn't know if there was something coming up or use of that or something I had the architect Mr Link draw them a better solution uh last Friday okay so I don't think that'll be there too much longer okay I
018was just curious no problem wanted all right well July 17th we have a work session scheduled at 5 30 here for a legislative the main topic is the legislative update but that will be posted with more information so that is next Monday night here at 5 30 and then August 14th we'll have another Personnel meeting at 6 30 in this building August well excuse me let me back up tomorrow morning we have the construction wpcc meeting at 7 30 and then we'll have another one I'm assuming August 15th at 7 30 at the administrative office that's all I have policy and curriculum committee will next meet on August 14 5 30. here at Central Services any other questions or items for discussion well thank you very much for attending meeting a jury [Music] foreign [Music]