WLCSC - Regular Board Meeting April 13, 2026

001All right. Good evening. Let's go ahead and call to order the um April 13, 2026 meeting of the West Lafayette School Board of Trustees. Um the first item on our agenda is an update from Mr. Rogers. So, come on down. How are you? >> Hey, I'm good. >> Good. Here we go. Our demographics first semester really haven't changed much. I think we went down or up on special ed. I did put on there we went plus 17 in enrollment. So that's frame that we always pay attention to. Yay. We just do get a lot of change in between the seme. So this one I wanted to spend a few seconds minutes if I can. Good. So accountability is new this year and I've been a middle school junior high principal and I've been a high

002school principal under a letter grade system and this is wildly different and it's way more similar in in junior high and middle school vastly different in uh the high school. So basically what there's kind of two parts to it. So I try to like this we get every kid gets a score. So think of it like every out of 100 and you just put all your kids together and that should okay we want those kids 90 year or above right so the first thing that we do in seventh eighth grade is the good old I learn did you pass or not and if you pass go up to the top so on and so then when we get to the ninth the ninth through 12th grade this is where it really starts to become different

003for the ninth and 10th it's like are you on track meaning are you on track with your credits and it's 222 so you got to get two math two English, two science, social social studies combined, and then the rest would be electives. Okay? So, they're basically saying, are you on track to graduate? So, that's the are you doing it right? Big grade part of the student's grade. Then, when you get to 11 and 12, now we get into diploma types and those are ranked as well in scoring. So, honors honors like honors enrollment, honors enrollment plus, you know, employment uh employment plus so on so forth. There are six seals that are there and the pluses are the highest ranking. So, that is a different way of measuring kids for sure. And then over on

004the right, it says additional skills and successive indicators. And I'm not going to get in the weeds of the scoring, but even if you just do those things, the kid isn't scoring an 80 or a 90. It's great that you're doing that. Even if you pass, I learn, but you got to do more. So that's what this next slide gets into. So the next slide says, okay, here are the additional skills and success indicators. And I didn't list them all, but I just wanted to kind of highlight. So, if you see seventh and eighth grade, you can see, okay, if you get high school credit, that's kind of like a bonus point. Good. Um, academic progress. If you're one year ahead, good. And you see attendance, and I'll hit that in a minute. For ninth

005and tth grade, you're on track. What else can you do to get these points? Past biology, ECA, that's never meant anything to us ever, and we've been doing it for eons now. Now, it helps get that again bonus point, that success indicator. um PSAT, hit those benchmarks, get college and career uh credits. So that's for that 10th grade band. And then when you get to the 11th and 12th grade, I put some basics in there. SAT, college and career courses, workbased learning, it's in there. Now, I say all that, this has changed. I mean, literally, it's they put it out around in November, December, and then um they were going to pass it then. They didn't really pass it until March and they've changed a couple of things. So, all I want to tell you

006is this. We've been working on it in our school in February. Even though they didn't pass the finalized process, our PD in February, we spent time and actually calculated what our 10th graders would score for us. Uh, and I will tell you for a school that and I believe in this too that we believe in what we do and it doesn't always jive with what the state wants to grade us on. They were really receptive. At the end of the day, our teachers are just like our kids and our families in the community. We want to be the best and so we want to rank the best and so there's some things that we'll need to dive into uh to see if we can pro improve. But that bold attendance that's in every grade level

007and the state expectation is this. You need to attend 94% of the school year. That doesn't that's you got to be there. Doesn't matter if it's a doctor's note. Doesn't matter if matter if it's a parent calling in. Just doesn't matter. So we deal with most schools deal with okay you can get like 10 absences parent call in type thing and unlimited doctors right not the state. So you won't get a bonus point a success indicator if your child is below 94%. In other words that hurts us. Okay that hurts the school. So our current one right now um really if you look at over time it's around 70 to 60% of our kids meet that 94% threshold. So what that means is only 60 or 70% of those kids will get that point. Just

008that's how this works. So enough of the negative. Let's get some positive pictures. One of our goals was to deal with supporting mental health and I think I saw a couple board members at this basketball game. Um it was a mental health awareness night and both us and Central Catholic we wore green in support of that. The cheerleaders had green ribbons. Um we had boos out front and this was um Mary Russell and Elise Russ are two of our counselors along with our mental health counselor. Um oh I just forgot her name. Thank you Allison. Um they did a fabulous job with this organization and collaborating with Lafayette Central Catholic. So this was just a picture there. I also wanted to put up there and highlight just our counselors in general. I even looked to

009see if there was one more visit, but 999 students were seen by our four counselors. Um, and that it's about 5.6 a day, 5.55. Another thing is is we try to have fun. And this really works well with me. Um, so you've seen Halloween pictures when we do Halloween. But another thing that that we have is an underground theme for the teachers and then the the kids can guess that and earn prizes. And so these are various pictures. Uh, monochromatic day is in the bottom. Bring anything but a mug day. Um, Mrs. Hilton cracked me up. It was pick your favorite um holiday and hers was Mother's Day. Um, so those are some of the pictures we have and then highlights. Oh my gosh, what a huge celebration we've had. And I got several several

010uh slides just with pictures. So, our performing arts um all did very well. Again, orchestra, choir, band. So, I'm trying to get some pictures from ISMA and their contests. If you didn't have a chance to see the M musical, you missed out. Uh Cinderella was really amazing. And I heard that um it's actually uh Mrs. Lecher's favorite musical, which is what they chose to do kind of on her her way out. So, um they just did an amazing job. And um then we get to some more highlights. So, we had um three of our gymnasts get out of sectionals and one almost qualify for state. She will get that next year. Uh our robotics continu continues to thrive and flourish. Um qualifying, I believe, for nationals, right? Did I get that right? Anybody remember? I'm

011looking at somebody here. I felt like they did. They maybe did not. Okay, then maybe it's I'm sorry. I wish I had that off top of my head. Thank you. Okay, just the one, not the whole. Okay, thank you. And then um again, more pictures. You can see um Mrs. Lecher there in the pit. Um Jazzfest up at the top. And I just thought that was a really good picture from the musical, so I put that in on a different slide. Um, so our next steps, um, tackling the new accountability. I don't know if I mentioned it, but I'm sure you're aware. We get graded this year. Um, so even though we didn't understand what the rule is going to be, they just kind of passed it and voted on it um, about less than

012a month ago, we still get a grade. So, uh, and then this last one, I think, is really important for all of us. It's balancing that that data piece with what we do well, right? So, um, as a teacher, I I also could rebuff against you're just giving me too much data and I want to do what's in my room and I do it really well and our teachers do. Um, and we so we don't want to throw the baby out with a bath water on that, but we do need to look at it. There are things that we can use that data to to just see maybe how it why is this trending this way. Um, I' I'd say a great example for us is we do really well in AP. we do really

013well in SAT and that's what this this community wants. The state has kind of deemphasized that a little little bit on their accountability grade. We're not going to change that. We're going to do what we do because it's what's best for our kids. So, there would be an example where we're not just going to go blindly into just following and chasing a grade. Um, but I was really really pleased on our PD day how again well the teachers received the data that was in front of them and and didn't like some of the things the scores showed. Okay. So, it's kind of all right, what are the rules of the game once the state settled on that and then how can we help play those rules without losing the essence of what Westside is. And

014I think maybe maybe that's it. Okay, thank you. That's it. So, >> thank you. >> Go ahead. >> I do have a question for you. Um, all the uh buildingwide grade um processes, how much of that are private schools subject to? >> I don't know. I just try to know what I'm doing. >> It's a good question. It's a good question. >> Um, anybody else before I ask you, go ahead. >> I just have a general question about the graduation requirement and I wonder whether because some parents um wondering about it whether we have some official document about >> we we do Mrs. Sheffield sends out like a bi-weekly email and in that there will be links and I will say this, the best thing to do would be get with their counselor and the

015fact that they have questions would be probably normal because right now we have about depending on what grade they're in, we have like three different ways to graduate because the state changes. So, I would say and she'll have like a folder for like the 12th graders or 11th graders or whatever, but I would say get with their school counselor and ask them. They're the ones that are working with their four-year plan. And again, based off of whether you're a nth grader or a tenth grader, you may have different requirements. So, um it's confusing to all of us to be honest. I yeah I remember at one of the parent council meeting you mentioned that you will creatively um embed some of the requirement in some of the courses we already offer right so so maybe

016that yeah that's also a question for counselors like >> so what you're talking about I think is yeah we're trying to be creative and and it's called a non non-standard course waiver uh so where we might blend two classes I I think I brought one last board meeting, right? So, we haven't jumped into the deep end on a lot of those. We're trying to figure out what what uh is required of us, how our staffing works with that. We may get more creative, but right now, I think we've just presented one and it was the PE and the yoga if I remember right or yeah, I think it was or it was it was yoga through PE along with then nutrition from our uh fax teacher. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Anybody else? >>

017Go ahead, Lawrence. >> Yeah, I have a quick question regarding uh you mentioned uh there's a so-called new accountabilities and I understand that's um 95% attendance uh rate and then you say um if we cannot meet that there will be some uh our school get hurt. So I'm trying to understand what are uh new accountabilities and also when you say our school will be kind of hurt what that means I mean we lost fund or whatever. Yeah. Thank you. So no boost funding. So I could do an hour presentation on accountability. Um so I'm not trying to be flippant. It is very very complicated and there's a lot there. But we used to have school grades I want to say about six, seven years ago. And for a high school basically what it mostly was

018was um how how what our graduation rate was. That was essentially it. And in middle school, it was essentially how did you do an iLearn? How many passed? And then what was the growth of your students? It's now gotten more complex. And then for high school, we're going to get a a bandwidth. That's why I tried to make that a a band for ninth and tth graders. And this is how they get graded. And then we're going to get a bandwidth for our 11th and 12th graders. And that's how they get graded. Okay? And every student like all 1129 kids in my building get a grade. They get a 90, they get an 85, they get a 100, 100, 100. And then all of those scores get added up, divide by my total number of

019kids. That's how we get the grade. The grade itself, we don't lose funding or anything like that. It's really more of a a ranking system, I think, for for people that are looking for schools with choice. And then I think it is also a way for us to try to find areas that we can improve and grow. You take it for what it's worth. That help? >> Yeah, that does help. Thank you. Appreciate it. >> Great. >> Good. It blows my mind that from like, you know, 2020 to now, we've gone from, you know, stay home if you're sick to you better freaking be there. >> No, I know it's not you. Um, and as a family that's dealt with chronic illness and injuries or mental health issues, I had mono in high school and

020I missed like three months. I still got straight A's, but I missed like three months because I couldn't stay awake for them. And um I'm wondering if you if it would be helpful to you if we as board members pushed back against our state reps, our state senators, and said, you know, a grading us on something we were unaware was going to be graded is mean, and b also like why are you grading us on something over which we have very little control if not none? Um, I like your headset and I will work with them and maybe that is something they would like you to express. I can tell you that we we felt as administrators as we were watching this school out, we felt the same way. >> Um, let me make sure

021I'm clear that, you know, the child and the family have no negative repercussions, >> right? >> None. >> We still follow our normal attendance policy. Like I said, um if you get past our building, you get past 10 called in days, no no doctor's note, you got to start having conversations or having doctors. But if you call in with a doctor, you've got mono, then then okay, it's not a big deal. Make up work. >> The state just very black and white. Here, you're not here. That's it. >> And if you're not here, it counts. It's a day. Okay. So, you only get you have to be there 94% of the time. And they say, and I'm not going to argue with it, they done the research. They say that once you go below that,

022your um learning will be impacted, negatively impacted. That's that's why they come up with that number. >> Your community is also negatively impacted if everyone gets mono. Like, it's just >> Yeah, I know. I know you do. >> Yes. >> Go ahead, Rachel. My understanding because of this has been a topic of conversation at ISBA and my understanding of it really is that schools that there's definitely a parallel between schools that are low performing and have very low attendance. And so it's more it's not the outlier. It's not the two kids who have really kind of serious health issues or whatever it is. It's a pattern of absenteeism that impacts the school culture overall. >> It's focused on the research as you suggest. Yeah. >> Yeah. And so that's I don't in reading this I

023understand that it is really I don't know that I approve entirely of the math on it but um it's um the concept to me is quite sound in terms of what they're trying to push a little bit which is hey show up at school and you're going to do better >> go to the slide the next one I mean to me maybe to look at it in a different light so let's Say I'm a student and I don't do real well on testing or scores. I don't pass the PSAT. I can attend school every day and we have those kids and I can earn that success indicated point. >> So it is rewarding those that are there. It it just is again when we look at it in its totality um I just go by

024the percentage. It's I know our percentage of PSAT pass. I know our percentage of SAT pass. So that means that percentage won't get that point. Same thing with attendance. I know our percentage there that makes it and I know how well we do academically and I think our school will be an outlier as well. >> Yeah, >> there are pros and cons with it. But that is I think for us we should educate our families on what this means and and the one thing I said to our teachers who have no control over this either is are there ways we can incentivize attendance and not go punitive. We're not going to do punitive other than what we already had, but can we incentivize it? Don't know what the answer is there. Yeah. >> Well, I

025was going to add it in that some of the ways that you incentivize it, you already do. Some of that comes down to the school calendar that allows for effective breaks so kids can get those breaks and have those mental health rests that they need and staff as well for that matter. So showing up every day also is about for me managing the calendar well. >> And I would I would just say that's a a piece of it that you're already doing really beautifully. Thank you. >> Well, coitate on in it if you want us to talk to the lawmakers about how this is impacting it'd be nice to have like a unified message that we could all get behind. >> Good idea. >> Okay. >> Go ahead. >> Ask a clarification question. So in

026their counts do they differentiate whether student miss one period or miss the whole day? >> That's a great question. So the way we do it the way we will do it and we found this is great for learning this because we found an error in the way Skyward communicates with the state. So this gets into like state reporting. You got an expert back there in the back that's helping us. So the way we operate is um we have an internal attendance because We need to track like your first period, second period. We need to do that. But for us, if you are here at all, you're here. And then if you miss all day, you're gone. Because if you look at it that way, I I had braces and I'm gone 20 times the orthodontist,

027but I only missed like these three periods. I should be counted 100% tendons, right? Well, we had it backwards. So, we We had it the opposite. So you missed one day at all. You missed. So we caught that in our report in our state reporting and we've gotten it fixed. Um but our state reporting only gets updated once a year. So we'll have to wait until June until it gets fixed. But because of these new guidelines, we were trying to do it correctly and we found an error. This helped us find that error ahead of time. Good question. Yeah, I think that's kind of important for parents to know because um as a parent myself sometimes when I use a sky word and especially when I do it on the phone I just didn't choose

028the time just by default it says all day. >> Okay. So is so if you have a system to catch the arrows like that or also inform parents make it precess if we only miss one period just say so >> that's what does every day along with Mrs. Johnson. So they go in and look at when they're marked here, not here, here, not here. And so we fix that every day. Like I said, that's our internal one, which is solid. And it's just when our internal one communicates with the state, that's a whole different thing. But our parents are doing a great job. Even if they mess it up, we work with them. The new attendance system within Skyward between parent and us. Fabulous. Good question. >> Yeah. Thank you very much. I like the

029new Skyward, too. It's good stuff. >> All right, great. Well, thank you so much. Appreciate you. Um, next up, we have Mrs. Qualio with a special ed update of a similar vein. Okay, thank you for having me back this month to give a little bit of an update on special education. So, um, not much has changed on this first slide. Um, again, we to have three resource room teachers at the elementary school, one RBT and 10 pair professionals. At the intermediate school, we have two resource room teachers, one essential skills teacher, which is a K to6 program, one RBT, seven and a half pair professionals, and two additional essential skills pair professionals. At the junior senior high, we have four resource room teachers, an essential skills teacher, 11 pair of professionals and four essential skills

030pair professionals. Um we do um continue to have one full-time secretary that is shared between um my my office area and central office. We have a part-time secretary and one contracted BCBA. Uh so I wanted to give a little bit of an overview. I believe it was Dr. Bura that asked me this last time, but um wanted to share some updated numbers with you all. Currently, we have 249 students in our corporation who have an IEP. We have 189 students who have a 504 plan and we have 230 students who currently have an MTSS plan. Maybe you might know it as an RTI plan, but those students are receiving some sort of intervention service. It could be reading, it could be math, it could be behavioral um but we have 233. So when we are

031talking about um our students that we serve, we do kind of hit a many different plans along the way and kind of wanted to give you the full update that Dr. Pura asked for in the last board meeting. As far as some updates that we have, um, as you all are aware, glass is dissolving at the end of this school year. So, we have been working to formulate a wonderful department within West Lafayette School Corporation. So, at this time, we will continue with our two speech language pathologists. I don't know if you remember from earlier, but um, I helped to hire the two that we currently have in our corporation. Uh, One is Casey Birkshshire and she's at the elementary school. Um the other one is Elizabeth Arandre and she is contracted through Purdue. Um

032she brings over clinicians to work with our students. Um so we are just working on getting a finalized contract with Purdue. Um needed to be updated so it didn't say glass anymore. And um it has been a wonderful part partnership and we're going to continue that for next year. We did our one school psychologist, Chris Ham. Um, he's currently our school psychologist that we have overseeing our buildings, but he also was assigned to do other buildings with Glass. So, this will allow him some opportunity to do some additional things within our corporation that I'm pretty excited about. Uh, we have a student and family services specialist, which will be Courtney Myrtle. Um, she is currently our school counselor at the intermediate school, but she's going to new role um facilitating um case conferences, working with

033our special education teachers as well as our special education families. Um but she is going to be an outreach and we'll bring kind of a plethora of resources to our families. Um we do continue to have our one full-time secretary, Holly Rankens, that uh is not going to change for next year. So, she works in our department, but she also does some um data specialist work as well. And one part-time secretary that is uh Karen Divine, and she does a lot of back-end work for our teachers. Um she if you have a student um a child who is um in the special education world, you know that she might contact you to set up case conferences, um reach out to you about different events that have gone on. Um but she also helps with getting

034different um paperwork to general ed teachers to make sure they're all aware of the special ed students in their classrooms at all times. Uh continued partnerships. Um I have continued to work pretty solidly with uh Lisa Hannon, sorry, the uh glass director um who's also the LSC director. And um we have formulated quite a great relationship um working together to solve many different um problems as they arise. Um and so we're going to continue to work with her on a couple of areas for next school year. One will be our preschool. It will continue to be at Lynwood, which is our special education preschool, just to clarify that. Um it will still be at Lynwood. Um and so that will continue um on its next year. The other thing is our alternative education programs. Um

035so uh we'll continue to work with them for students who might need um a different program to help support their needs. Some other things um as we have talked about, we have really tried to make sure that we're getting those inperson um related service professionals to our students. Um it's very important and there are a couple of different areas where um unfortunately based on our numbers, it would not lead to a full-time job. So for those of you that know like our occupational therapists for example, they can make quite a bit of money in the medical field. Um and so for them to come and work in our building on kind of a part-time basis is really hard for them. They'd be giving up benefits, different things. So, um I have um been working with

036Lisa on developing a contract so we can get these positions so they'll be in fulltime and we will contract with Lafayette School Corporation to make them more um enticing to people. So, I'll continue to have um a voice in those um who they are and who will be in our schools. Um continue to ensure that we have consistent people. Um, one of the things that Lisa and I worked hard on this year was, um, having those consistencies between the three buildings of the same personnel, so we don't have people in and out. So, you'll notice there are a few different positions there that we'll be working with them on. Um, last is the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Um, they'll be our teacher records for our blind and low vision students. The

037reason for that is they have an amazing amount of resources that I did not let go of. And so, um, I was given an opportunity to partnership with actually Typic New School Corporation, um, on blind low vision and hiring a teacher record, but I personally felt like the resources that I get from the Indiana School of the Blind, um, would be too much to pass. So, we will continue to um, work with them as well for those students. Uh, As far as some highlights, um we have um almost survived a whole year with special programs and I'm going to say survive. Um so it has been quite the new IEP system. Um so the teacher of records uh have done an amazing job of being very very flexible. They've spent a lot of time learning

038the new program. Um it's really great. every once in a while, probably about monthly, they do an update and then we have to figure out why there's errors and and relearn some things. So, um I've been sending those emails out to teachers to make sure that they are updated. Um but they really have been troopers this year. The amount of time that they have spent in this new program uh has been countless if I can be honest. Um, the other thing that I'll say is our parents have been extremely graceful and understanding of the new program. We've had to unfalize and refinalize things. We've had to send things back for signature just because the system was doing some different things and wonky things and our parents have been so incredibly graceful um and understanding of

039that. So, um, I can't thank everyone enough for their patience during this transition time. Um, the collaboration, again, I'm going to go back to that collaboration with Purdue and our SLPs has been phenomenal. Uh, they have ran some wonderful programs within our schools. Um, and I am looking forward to that continuing into next year. Um, we also this year launched our structured learning program at the elementary school. So, um, with the leadership of Sarah Delaney and, uh, Ronda Laney and, um, Diana Van Djk is our special education teacher who oversee it, we have, um, formulated this new program and it has been pretty phenomenal. They've had family nights and shared community resources. Um, but I can honestly say it would not have been this successful without them. So, it has been a wonderful addition to

040the elementary school to have there and um continuing it on into next year. One of the things that I want to give a big kudos to is these students started out very self-contained in one classroom. Um a lot of them are on the spectrum that are in the classroom. They needed to kind of learn the routines. At this point, last time I checked, we had all but two students who were going out into the general education for at least half of their day. Um, and that has been a pretty um to see phenomenal growth to see where we started. Um, and to see the growth that they've made has been uh pretty pretty amazing. And so, um, shout out to to them for that, um, program and all that they've done to make it successful.

041Um, lastly, Milo the robot. Well, he's still around. Uh, the kids still love him. We still have to lock him up occasionally in his case because the students enjoy him a little bit too much. Um, but, um, he's currently at the elementary school and the intermediate school. Again, it it does the social skills, but this year we also also added phonics portion to that. Um, and it's been pretty great. We've not only had it in um, one classroom at the elementary school, but we've had the phonics portion um, out into our just our regular special ed classrooms as well as some of our kindergarten classrooms. And it has been pretty neat to see it be get up and going. And so we're um, hoping we'll get um to continue this program. Um, I'm going to

042apply for the grant again to continue. and here's hoping that um we can continue that because the kids definitely are enjoying it. Uh little bit of a goal update um on I did share actually most of it with you as far as the special education department. We um we hired and started actually training um the student and family services specialist. Um, I continue to have monthly collaborative meetings with special education teachers and administrators to discuss their needs um or concerns. Um, we're already looking for ways to incorporate our school psychologists into our MTSS um more um he will have more time this next school year and so we're excited to find a way to get him more involved in that. Um we continue to finalize kind of our own processes and procedures just to make

043sure that we are abiding by article 7 and meeting all those deadlines. We um anyone who knows article 7 love the deadlines. So want to make sure that we have all of those in place. And um last but not least um hiring two special education teachers at the elementary school and intermediate school. I will say that um I've been a part of that process um and they've had some really good candidates. So, I'm looking forward to you all hearing about them in the future. Um, goal two, um, kind of look at improving that communication with our special education parents. Um, I've been, um, emailing information, um, to parents just about community events, uh, available summer programs, um, transition night flyers, those of you that may or may not know, I think I saw a couple

044names on there, but I did a lunch and learn um, just to share information about glass um and just who we've hired and what that will look like. Um for those that couldn't attend, I sent that out to all of our special education families, the presentation and the video. Um and we had well over 40 families that attended, so it was a pretty good turnout for a little lunch and learn. So I was I was quite pleased with that. Um next on the list is working on getting our um website updated. So, we currently have one and, you know, introduces me, but I'd like to have the other people that we're hiring for next year all be on there so parents know exactly who their contact is, who our school psychologist is, and um our

045speech language pathologist, our occupational therapist to get all that information on there, maybe even some pictures so they know what they look like before they walk into a meeting with them. So, um but and then also um continue to put on there some programs resources available to families. As far as some spotlight information, um I worked with uh Glass and the Indiana School for the Blind as well as the Indiana Blind Children's Foundation to host a community event. Um it was a local event. So we had families from Typic School Corporation, Lafayette School Corporation, and West Lafayette. And the presenter was John Bramblelet. He was a um is I don't want to say was sorry is um an artist um who is blind. He um started out his life with a vision um and lost

046it when he was in college. I I really can't imagine that. But he wanted to be an architect. Um but then um with kind of how things all with his illness and then losing sight, he went into painting. And I can honestly say uh his paintings blew me away. First of all, I have no ability to draw or paint or any of that, but to see what he could do was just phenomenal. And so he did different activities with our families and the kids that were there. Um he was guessing what they were drawing. I mean, it just was unbelievable. Um and I felt like it was a really good night um to have everybody out there. Uh we will continue collaborate um with class as we work towards the dissolution. So um we are

047still working on a few things um and we'll talk a little bit about those. Um we have some upcoming transition nights. So this year I worked with uh Sarah Delaney to get a preschooler transition night to get those little special education preschoolers into our building um more we can get them comfortable. So they there was a flyer sent out to those families. Um, we have a uh third grade to to Willis um that I work with Margaret Pasaros on uh to get those kiddos and their families uh used to intermediate school. And then we have sixth graders to the junior senior high that I work with Chad Rogers and Shelby Johnson to do right before school starts. Um reason for that is they'll have their schedule done so they can learn their schedule and learn

048a little bit about the building. So, as far as our next steps, um, of course, finalize all the hiring for the special education positions. Um, we do still have a lot of, uh, glass equipment and assets that need to be divided. So, we have met three times already and, um, have at least two more dates on on the calendar to work through that. Um, and then again, the continued communication with special education families, updating them along the as things kind of hopefully get all ironed out and then we'll be ready for August. >> Go ahead, Rachel. >> Thanks for being here. I have a couple questions. I noticed on the IEP slide that the elementary school is quite high by comparison to the intermediate. >> Um, is that a true increase or that are kids

049kind of graduating off their IEP by by the time they get to fourth, fifth grade? Uh so what you will see is uh well not many people are are graduating in in in some sense but graduating in others. So at the elementary level there are a lot of speech and language kids >> speech um especially with co with a lot of delays in language and um so that is honestly truly like that is a big bulk of numbers um reason um that is uh this year I believe um it was a little over 70 and it keeps growing um of kids that are in our speech language program. >> That makes a lot of sense. >> Yeah. Well done then getting the partnership with Purdue to make that possible. Um so um is the enrollment

050in the essential essential skills classroom staying pretty steady or are you seeing any change there? It's pretty much >> it's staying pretty steady. Um this there the junior senior high um is is grown a little bit I would say compared when I look back at like the data from when Shelby was in my role. Um so you know we did have discussions about for those of that those kids can go to school until they're 22. And so sometimes on the junior senior high, it could be a long time there. And so, um, we have had discussions about, um, should kids really transition to the junior senior high or could they benefit from, um, another year at the intermediate school just to kind of balance things out. Um, I'm be honest, one kid who said they

051need to go, another student said they probably stay another year at the interview. So, we are looking at those things just to help. Um, but you know, our numbers I feel like are continuing >> to rise, right? Yeah, that was kind of my question. I know at some point we had talked about off in the future when when you moved the program from the elementary building up that there might come a day where we needed three, you needed one in each building. And so, I was just curious if you're approaching that yet or if you still feel pretty the bulk up is up here at the higher grades. >> Okay. Um, one last question. I'm curious how many um, special ed students you send to the separate preschool. What's your enrollment look like there? >>

052I want to say the last number right in front of me. We were looking at about 24. Well, >> I don't actually have the number. So, it was when you're servicing 24, but we have some students that are in our that are preschool age that do walk in services with our So it would be it would be under 20. >> Well, so my question is if at some point it makes sense to consider uh that classroom st I mean that number's fairly high and I'm going to guess a lot of those kids are speech and language at that point. Does it make sense to have a a preschool back in the day? It's been a few years but um you know there used to be the combined preschool so that those students with speech and

053language delay had mentor students. And so I'm just wondering with our prek as it is, is there any benefit potentially to bringing that in house financially and academically? >> Well, I haven't looked at it from a financial perspective. If I'm being honest with you, um the mentorship is is huge um for those for those students. I have started some conversations with Dr. Tricker because it's all just about the preschool and um you know looking what we could possibly do for the future if I'm being honest. Um, but uh for right now it made the most financial logical sense to kind of keep things how they were. Um, but it is something that we continue to have dialogue about. >> Yeah. I just I wonder about it as well in terms of that transportation for parents.

054Um, and you know, just all of that if they're able to stay in house and if we're able to there those kids are more familiar with their schools, it's more comfortable. There's just a lot of different pros there. I would be interested in hearing the financial impact of that as well um when we get to that point perhaps. >> I um do want you to know that our preschool students are transported to >> we take them from here. Oh, I didn't realize that >> we take them from >> Okay. >> provide transportation to school. >> Thank you. I didn't know that. >> Pick kids up from not their home. And so we have picked kids up from um like Purdue um the steam academy. >> Okay. >> They're one of our students. So we transport

055our preschool students to >> Thank you. >> Go ahead, >> George. >> I am unfamiliar with this uh preschool program that you've got you were just talking about with Rachel. Um at that age, how are you identifying the kids that need services? >> So they go through an evaluation. >> They do that here. >> Um no, we do it at >> Okay. >> Yes. So there's there's a whole system that they have to get the families in. Some of them are referred to us from first steps. Um some of them parents reach out to us about um um meaning they call FL, some of them contact me. Um, so hopefully we can get them all to contact me in the future since there won't be so many hands in the pot, I guess you could

056say. Um, but they go through the evaluation process and then we determine if they are eligible or not eligible. Um, if they are a speech and language student only, then we also do some evaluating at the elementary school. Um, but if we're looking at things outside of that, then we typically do it after. >> Pretty good. Oh, David, go ahead. >> Thank you for sharing all this. I think it's really helpful for us to know that it's not just 11ish% of kids who are being serviced through through your department, but it's really about 30%. Um, which is a tremendous number of students. Um, do you feel like with all the hires that you're making and the transition that you'll be adequately staffed to really meet our needs or are there other resources that you think

057would be beneficial to really be able to meet the needs of our students? >> Um, I am still working with Dr. Brier and M about positions and um, you know, kind of exploring different options. I will say that our partnership together has been wonderful. Um, you know, I think everything. You know, you have show the data and make decisions based on the needs of our students. Um, I feel like we're continuing to work through those, but I I will just go to them because of our continuing numbers at the elementary school in the speech department. And so, we are looking at um, you know, adding an FPA um, just because the paperwork and service kids. So, those conversations are still happening. based on just the different needs and as as it comes about >> and

058I'll compliment Mrs. Qualio. She works really hard to provide data informed information or data driven decisions or suggestions to us. She works closely with the principles and then she meets with Mrs. Roth and me and we look at the data. We understand the needs and we make decisions that we feel very comfortable with because of her data informed approach. I know you as a board would appreciate that. Rachel, go ahead. >> I had one followup. I know that paras are really essential in those classrooms um to student success. Do you feel that our paras are competitive? Their wages are competitive in this area. >> I mean, I would say yes that they are, especially since we offer currently offer them insurance. I know that that has been a number I've heard a number of parents

059are very excited because most corporations do not know TS analysis that's the one that I've heard so that most >> that's really helpful to know as we come into insurance renewal All right, super. I think that's everybody. Thank you so much for all of your Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't see you at all. >> Yeah, I still have some question. So, back to the pair professionals. I I noticed if I remember that correctly, last a couple years we have 40 something pair professionals. Right now, we have something like 35 totally. So, uh you think they can handle the workload uh with this kind of number? uh uh I mean the pair of professionals. >> Yes. >> Another question I have is regarding you know when I look at these tables um to my understanding

060when you say special education I'm thinking about IEPs and also 504s but now we have MTSS. So basically this will be another uh kind of u area or effort we are going to uh parallel uh things we are going to work on that or this just kind of um I mean early interactively we identify people students and maybe later refer them uh to special education. What is the I mean my question what is the purpose of this ST MTSS support suppose this system and I I noticed there I mean elementary school is pretty high number and then on the intermediate and the high school they is that they grow graduate when they grow they from tier two to tier one and they eventually they go out or refer to I mean how that works if

061you can give me more information >> MTSS system that we have in place for our students who are struggling. Um so at the uh elementary school we have several four interventionists um that work with students um and providing them reading math or well if you count our behavioral it's more than that um that work with their students and the the plans are in place to watch them grow whether that's they're working on reading or on math they're tracking it they um academically or behaviorally that they are working towards um and we are tracking that information. So they are kids that we are worried about academic lab behaviorally whether they are not meeting maybe the the dibbles assessment they're showing below or M class for math um or we have you know just several different specimens

062that they use because you know they might have an offic but we're using several different data points to determine those kids who are going to struggle or might struggle in the path providing them that early intervention because you will see if you look up research that the earlier the better that you can write the intervention for them. So yes, there are going to be more at the elementary school. Um then you add in the I read and anyone who doesn't pass I read um they have to also receive reading services they also have to have um and that continues on if they don't pass and they go to the intermediate school or we have someone move in who um because we have those but they also receive could receive reading around but again it's all

063data driven um and it is based on the fact that they have data that supports that they are struggling academically or behaviorally I would like to give a shout out that I have never worked with such amazing interventionists um whether it is at any of the buildings they do a phenomenal job um they they hone in on skill deficits and um work really hard to get them back up into um you know into the regular >> right back. Okay. >> I will say there are some instances where we you know it's they're not making progress and they need more and then that and when we get a special education team involved with the evaluations to see is there something that we're missing do they need a different instruction. So, um it it is interesting, but

064at the at the elementary school, you're you're always going to have a big number just because they are so so little and they're they're coming to us and some of them haven't had much experience in school. >> Okay. Thank you. Another question I have, I understand really for last year, you transitions from glass to our I mean kind of inhouse special education. And I really appreciate uh uh your leadership and also your whole team work work a lot of things. So I'm just wondering during this uh period last year did you see anything or any student any service kind of at risk or any student at risk basically when during the transition we cannot provide or in near future or something you think maybe we need a kind of resource to um uh to provide

065the the the service and also support student that kind of thing. Do you see any >> I do not at this time everything that we are currently doing we're going to be able to do that a lot of it will look a little different um but I don't foresee any issues with that at this time >> okay that's great and the last question hopefully I mean this is the last question uh I see you have we have new hirings and also new department and uh I think probably my understanding you guys still working on the financial uh things. So that's my uh I really want to know um um in the futures uh at least we got some kind of roughly how much uh budget for this kind of whole department basically special education how

066much we will want to pay that the partnership that's great but we also have some u specialist and there will be contractors be cost new persons so I really uh also the case load for student yeah that I see uh uh the Roger M. structure regarding the the counselors 5.55 per day something like that I want to see uh the case load so how many yeah because um I want to make sure we can handle that uh and also yeah the article seven compliance that kind of thing I understand you guys working on that but just that's kind of >> right yes teachers all have between 25 students in their case with the exception of our essential skills um because those that program specializ for those classrooms. Um and then the other one was when

067we developed a structured learning program um the elementary school that case load has been between 10 and 12 um because there's a high there um so those that have the high need students case loads might be a little lower because they're putting in a lot more for the IEPS um and their work probably is going to look a little different than a resource teacher so >> so from your point of view you think we can I mean the teacher from teacher also teacher can handle So that's kind of workload comfortably is is okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. I think that's all my question. Really appreciate that you uh stay here and also share this information with us and also the last year. Uh I really appreciate that. Thank you >> Rachel. I'm so sorry as

068this conversation has gone on. I just have more questions. Are you sending do we are you sending medically complex students out? Do we have any? Are you keeping them in the essential skills classrooms? Yes. >> Okay. Thanks. Okay. I think we're good. >> Run. Yeah. >> These are Thank you. >> These are really valuable to us. Since we're not in the building, we don't know what's going on. So, we really appreciate all the information and answering the questions. Thank you. Um, okay. The next item on the agenda is communication from the audience. We had one gentleman sign up, Mr. Anderson. Welcome. Thank you for your patience. >> Yeah, good evening. It's good to hear. So, I'm Jason Anderson. I'm here as a private citizen and not as representative of organization I may be involved with

069or off. But we need to find another way. The citizens and the property owners of West Lafayette School Corporation are tired of referendums and continued increases to our property taxes. The school board needs to work with economic development office, city council, and the mayor's office to abolish tax maintenance and to ensure the multi-million multi-billion dollar companies coming to the area get their fair share. So you don't believe happened. Let's take a look. Leaport, Indiana, March 3rd, 2026. In partnership with Leaport Community School Corporation, the city of Leaport today shared that they approved an updated tax agreement for Microsoft data center project. According to Mayor Tom Dy, this contact for Microsoft President Vice Chair Brad Smith announced in January that the global tech company will no longer seek local property tax payments or breaks from its

070new data center projects. Despite the completion and approval of the previous agreement, Microsoft has worked with city officials in recent weeks to create a solution that ensures Microsoft pays its fair and full share of local property taxes, adding revenue to the city, and setting aside funding to the school. The previous agreement exempted Microsoft on personal property taxes included a property and move taxes pilot of up to 100 million to the redevelopment commission of the poor community school corporation for a 40-year term. Under the new agreement, Microsoft will pay the property tax in full with the city of Leaport redevelopment commission now allowing 15% of this revenue to the Leaport Community School Corporation for a period of 20 years. In an unprecedented move, Nor partnership presents a historic revenue stream that will benefit local students for

071generations. The board community school corporation of superintendent Dr. Fander Wood said this caliber of support will be transformational for the district. This is the defining moment for our school district. Wood said what the city of Leaport and Microsoft had made possible will give students of Leaport an unmatched advantage. An opportunity of this magnitude doesn't just open doors for this generation. It builds them for every generation that follows. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, we don't normally respond, but I I'd like to let you know that I have seen that information as well, and we've had some conversations with the folks you mentioned, so that is also on our radar, and I appreciate you bringing it to our attention. Um, okay. The next item on our agenda is the consent agenda. Um, is there a motion?

072>> Motion. >> Okay. Seconded by Rachel. Oh, I didn't start the buttons, you guys. There we go. That passes 70. There is no unfinished business. So, the next item would be the Morris Leatherman Company survey agreement. And that's to you, Dr. Garner. >> Thank you, Mrs. Austin. This evening, I'm bringing forward the proposed agreement with the Morris Leatherman Company to conduct a community survey of approximately 400 West Lafayette residents. As shared in the agenda materials, this is the same firm we utilized during our previous referendum process and comes highly recommended based on their reliability and quality of their work. While the board approval is not required, this item has been placed on the agenda for transparency and to ensure full board awareness following discussion at our last board meeting. This time, I'm recommending the board

073vote to approve the agreement so that we can move forward with gathering valuable community feedback to support future planning. Thank you. >> Thank you. I need a motion, please. David, >> motion to approve. >> Thank you, Lawrence. Any discussion? >> Yeah, I appreciate uh uh Dr. Coiner put it on the agenda for vote and then also answering the questions I had earlier. Thanks. >> My pleasure, Dr. Yen. >> Okay. Uh David, >> my rate of the agreement is that this is to get a representative sample of the community, not a not sampling of registered or likely voters. It's intended to actually represent the broader community regardless of whether or not they're registered or would vote. Is that correct? >> You are correct. >> Okay. Anyone else? Okay. Super. I'll go ahead and start the vote.

074There we go. That passes seven to zero. The next item on the agenda is number eight, the uh summer roofing project and Mrs. Roth. >> Yes. As shared in the memo, uh the board is asked to reject all bids due to irregularities identified in the process by Fanning Howy. The bidding process will reoccur in April with a recommendation to be brought to the board in May so that work may start in the summer as originally planned. Uh you were asked to please approve the recommendation to reject the bids and to rebid the project. >> Okay. >> Make a motion that we reject all bids on the summer roofing project. >> Excellent. Seconded by George. Thank you very much. Any discussion on that? >> Go ahead, Lawrence. as quick clarification uh question. So we basically we

075are going to redo these things uh in terms of time uh timelines you think how many months will be delayed to start this project. Thank you. >> We are currently to project projected to stay on time with the new timeline to rebid in April. We will be bringing a final bid recommendation to the May meeting so that we can stay on on the projected timeline. >> Okay. Thanks. Appreciate it. >> You're welcome. Okay. Anyone else? >> Yeah. Do you expect a lot of the same or all the same companies to rebid >> and we really have no way of knowing and the architect did not speculate one way or the other. >> Okay, great. I'll hit the start button. Motion to reject all the bids and that passes 70. So, we'll have a doover. All

076right. Next item on the agenda is policies. And so, I'm going to turn it over to you, Rachel. Okay. Um, so we had the last batch of policies that came to policy committee. It was pretty exciting. We met on April the 6th. I know that board members are interested in our community are interested in um, conversation about policy connected to part-time enrollment. Um, Dr. Grryer is going to we have no recommendation on that tonight. Um, Dr. Grryer is going to report on that um, when he gives his report to the board tonight. So, we can kind of take that to the next step. Um, up next is policy B 100. It is about the board uh authority um and philosophy. So this policy was approved by the board in our September 2025 meeting. Um legal

077just returned that to us with edits refer and all that they did was add two references to board policy D150 in paragraph 6 and 7. When that went out, uh we had a board member respond with some blue language. Um that has been sent to legal for review. All of that's in your packet. uh the the um policy committee did not among the three of us agree on the necessity of adding this language um and so we have recommended that that come back to the board for some conversation um before we have a vote. So, uh, if you take a look at what that recommended language is, um, really it's they're philosophical. Uh, one of them is to add a statement about the board exercises its authority only when acting as a legally convened body.

078Individual board members have no authority to act on behalf of the board except as expressly authorized by board action. Um and then um below that um in collaboration with the superintendent in compliance with board policy D50 um the board shall and and we changed that language exercise governance overnight oversight of all corporation programs and operations and delegate administrative authority for day-to-day operations to the superintendent. Um and then there's a strikeout um on an Indiana code on the back page of that. So, um really from a conceptual we're talking about a philosophical statement that we're adding um to paragraph 4. Um and then um moving on with a recommendation um of a change in language in terms of delegation of authority to the superintendent. So, I would recommend we look first at paragraph 4 um and

079and hear from board members on that and vote on it and then go down to the the paragraph six and um >> Okay. >> do it separately. >> Oops. >> Is there a motion on paragraph 4? >> I will make a motion that the board uh move to approve the language on paragraph 4 without the blue recommended language. >> Okay. Is there a second? Okay. Um any discussion? >> What if I I think it should be kept be >> um go ahead and um share your thoughts on that I guess and we'll um >> yeah I I think it's a it's a good clarification. It it was not me who proposed this. I don't even know who proposed it but I think it's a good idea to have it. And uh excuse me. >> And

080so I I remember once and I received emails and as a parent and from one of the board members to the send an email to the whole system and I I got that email as a parent but I didn't got that email as a board member. So I was surprised and confused. So I feel things like that shouldn't happen and having this policy will stop things like that from happening. >> So do you have a motion? >> I I move to keep that blue wording there. >> Okay. Is there a second? >> Warren seconds it. Okay. Now we're talking about whether to keep the blue language. Does anyone else have anything to share about it? >> George. Um the language that's being suggested for paragraph 4, is this the roughly the same as was what

081was proposed the first time? >> Yes. >> Yeah, that's what I thought. >> And legal has rejected that language? >> No, we can add it. Okay. >> It's it's just it's a style choice. >> Okay. >> And but we did uh have this previously recommended by a board member. It was not passed by this board and now it has come with the when legal sent it back to us. >> I see. citing that policy that other policy then that language was suggested again. >> Okay. So if >> it didn't turn on >> Yeah. Yeah. I just I think this sentence will be help us clarify uh our school board's uh kind of how we run the uh business. I think it will be beneficial. But on the same time, I think that this idea, the

082philosophy things is covered by some other uh policies. So I think uh it's good. I prefer to have that. But if it's not in there, I mean it's I think it's okay. Yeah. Thank you. >> Anyone else have anything, Rachel? >> It is covered um in the board the first section of our policies, the board authority. So it's this would be a clarification. My concern is that there are certain situations where board officers do need to take some variety of action and this could create um some constraint on that. And so um an example uh the board chair signs all of the teacher contracts, the board chair signs graduation diplomas. we shouldn't need to bring it to a vote of the board to authorize the pre the president of the board to sign the diplomas.

083So there's that kind of stuff where it just creates a level of >> tedious action that is not necessary. >> Okay. You right. >> My understanding is the board voted on that contract before the president sign on it. So that's still what we did. I mean that what the blue word says. >> Yeah. >> Right. So, so >> the difference is that the board would then in addition to voting to approve the contract also need to vote to uh to direct the board chair to sign them. And that to me seems unnecessary. >> Or the diplomas. Another example. We don't vote on whether or not students should graduate. >> I think that I mean I think these are personal opinions. I think without legal counsel directing that that's going to be the change. I don't

084view this statement requiring those levels. So I think there is difference philosophies, but I think without having legal counsel direct what behaviors we would have to change, it's hard. I don't think that we should be saying that we're now going to have to change these behaviors unless legal counsel has told us we have to. >> Okay. Are we ready to go ahead and vote then? Okay, sounds good. Let me >> So we are voting to be clear on that. We are voting to keep the blue wording. So a vote to yes would be to keep the blue wording and a vote no would be to can the blue wording in paragraph 4. Okay. >> Correct. That's the submotion is to accept this. >> Right. >> Correct. So we've moved back to that after we've dealt

085with Dr. Yin's. Correct. Okay. So, a vote yes is to keep the blue wording and a vote no is to not keep the blue wording. Okay, that one does not pass. And so, we are not keeping the blue wording. Um, three to four. Okay. And so, now we'll move back as you said to the previous motion. So many >> Amy, we actually don't need the previous. >> We don't need to because we already did it. So, we're moving on >> cuz if we don't have to vote to accept nothing. >> We need to approve the whole thing, though. >> Um, no, there's still >> five, six, seven. >> No, I'm sorry. Go ahead. >> You're okay. There's two versions of that paragraph. So, if you look at the draft, it's >> uh in both of

086them start within collaboration. One of them is in red and the other one there was blue language recommended. Mhm. >> Um, so the first one is how it reads now with the legal change. The next one down, a board member recommended what is struck out and the policy committee did agree on this one. Okay. >> Um, on changing it to that bold line in blue underneath it. >> So, the policy committee is recommending version B of paragraph six. >> No, six. >> I think we that's board member writing. >> Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I'm I spoke incorrectly. It's good thing David comes to these meetings, too. >> It is. >> Okay. Team sport. >> Well, it is a team sport. Policy always is. Okay. So, let me rephrase that. The first paragraph um ends with

087the word premises. >> Yes. >> Okay. The board member recommended text is below that where they've struck out what the policy currently reads and added alternative language. go. Um, I am going to make a motion that we approve the sentence or the paragraph 6 that begins with in collaboration with the superintendent in compliance with board policy D150. Uh, the board shall monitor and regulate all programs and operations in the corporation and the employees, students, and other patrons on its premises. >> Okay. >> Period. That is what I'm motioning that we approve. >> Okay. And is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Thank you. Is there discussion or another motion? George? >> Yeah. Um, just a we're talking about differences in philosophy, uh, the addition of the exercise governance oversight of all corporation programs and

088operations and delegate administrative authority for day-to-day operations to the superintendent. Is that not already covered in other policy or just also just the way the state datab recognizes how boards function? >> It is my opinion that is not necessary text. That's my opinion. >> Yeah, I think that it's covered in this uh policy one. I mean kind of in 150. So I think there is I mean it's kind of >> microphone. Okay. >> Yeah. I I think after I look uh review uh details uh study of D150 I think the legal recommendation uh here refer D150 is have these things included in there already I think covered already. So thank you. >> Okay, sounds like we're ready to vote on version one of paragraph six. Okay, here we go. Great. Um, cool. Cool. Let me

089>> Buttons, buttons, buttons. There we go. Okay. Um, so then we need to pass it in its entirety. Could I have a motion for that, >> David? >> That's just a motion to pass in its entirety, including the red line on the code at the bottom. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Um Okay. Thank you. And is there any further discussion on that? you act >> um I just want to clarify that and so now we don't have the words for the paragraph 4 and then I wonder in the future if can we say if any board members including the officers want to send an email to the whole system or add a session on our school side that action need approval from the whole board member rather than just the individual or just the officer's

090decision. Can can we say that because I want to make sure. >> Are you making a motion? No, I'm asking for a clarification because you said that blue thing is covered elsewhere and I want to make sure that those abnormal things won't happen in the future because surely I I was confused when I see those emails sent from the board and and all see a section on our district website saying okay this is a board Q&A Even though I had no idea about that Q&A before, I just saw it. So >> Rachel, would you like to >> Yeah, I I want to point specifically to policy that we have in place um basic commitments. It's so it's section A um and it's A350 civility and decorum. um that is really the one that addresses um

091how a board will communicate um and how they'll collaborate. Um and it's a it is um I think it's pretty it's pretty comprehensive. Um so I don't know if it's worth maybe Dr. Yin going back and looking at that one and then bringing this back up again if you feel like there's some issue. Uh, I feel like the things that you're referring to are several years past and our our we like to believe our our board can grow um and develop and I don't know that that would be something we would need to put into policy but I understand that your historic concern um but I do think that the civilian and decorum policy that we have in place addresses this. >> Would you like to >> Sure. If with what we have now, things

092like what I mentioned won't happen again, I'm fine with it. I just want to make sure the what the blue words says and it's already color. And uh so >> I I think the recommendation is that you review policy A350 and if you don't feel like that policy currently covers that sort of action then that would be an issue to reerase under a different policy. But in this particular policy, I don't believe that the policy committee feels that that B 100 is the place for that statement because it's covered in a was it 350? >> Yeah. And I So A350 and I'd also refer you to B 100. I would look at those two. And then if you um uh and also I guess I would tell you to go to B250. So, if you

093looked at those kind of three policies together and you didn't feel it was covered, then I think the appropriate course of action would be to ask the board chair to refer uh your concern to the policy committee to see if any language needs to be beefed up anywhere. >> Is that acceptable? >> Uh yes. More importantly, I think so. Even if we don't put the blue words here, we as a board all believe this is what we should do. Right? So there's no issue about that means the the board the individual board members need to act on things that everybody agree on. >> Yeah. I so I'll just I think it's helpful perhaps to say in B250 the last of the three policies that I recommended to you the specific language in there is a

094board member should demonstrate respectful relationships with other members of the board and there are both there are a series of points but the first point is by recognizing that authority rests only with the board and official meetings an individual member has no legal status to bo bind the board outside of such meetings um there's a whole series of things that go on there in terms of dealing with communication. It does not specifically address um specifically address the sending of an email uh on behalf of the board. But uh I'm not I think I would just if you don't mind if you would look at those three I think and see if they fill your need. That would be what I would say. >> I think it's reasonable. Okay. So is there a motion or is

095there not a motion? >> I >> UA want to waste more time here. So I'm okay with it right now. But I just as I said earlier, I only want to get agreement from everybody that this what we will follow and so can I assume that's our agreement. So if let's say someone any anyone want to send an email to the whole district >> and that email need to be approved by all the board members rather >> are all emails that are being sent to the district being >> no no from the board so on behalf of the board send the email we are on the board around the exact same time you probably >> uhhuh >> you remember the same thing >> so you don't remember >> oh no I do >> oh okay

096so that's what I mean anyone sent an email saying this is on behalf of the whole board. I want to make sure that all the board members see that email before the email was sent. >> I understand and the language you proposed has been voted on and I think we need to move on to voting on the whole policy now. And if you want to raise the issue in the future, if you'd email me and ask for it to be put on the agenda, we'll we'll discuss that at that time. Is that suitable? >> Yeah. But >> okay, great. I'm gonna go ahead and start the vote. Um to this is to approve the B100 as presented and voted upon in its entirety. >> Great. Cool. All right, let's move on to F125. Um >>

097well, so F125, um we're actually um I want to back up just slightly. Um, nope. I'm sorry. I'm ahead of myself. Um, F125, um, purchasing procedures and capital assets. The, um, board recommends this policy be adopted as proposed. And the the version of it was um there's a a note from legal at the beginning, but I would like to make a motion that we approve F125 as presented. >> Second. Great. Let me write that down. Um and Lawrence. Okay. Um is there any discussion on that? No. Great. Cool. I will buttons. Okay, that one passes 70. Moving right along. >> Okay, up next is G350. Um we had a couple of options on this particular policy. We sent this one to legal. Both versions of it are compliant per legal review. Uh the policy committee

098recommends adding um the ICE the Indiana code citation at the end. Um and I don't I'm going to guess there's no dispute with that. And the other section meeting with parents and guardians. All three options presented are appropriate. Um but we understand the conversation is really about having the parent and familyfriendly language. Uh the policy committee is fine with the blue or green text. Um however, if we go ahead with um the blue text, it is our recommendation that the 24hour or day prior request needs to be added. And so that's really I think the the difference between what a board member has recommended and what the policy committee has recommended is that when a parent wants to record, we would put in our policy that we request, not require, but we request day prior

099or 24-hour advanced notice so that we can be prepared to do that. >> When you say day prior, do you mean calendar day prior or school day prior? probably school day prior would be ideal since we don't want our administrators working on the weekends though I'm sure they do. >> Yeah. But >> Okay. Yeah. >> All right. So the recommendation then is the uh G350 as presented with the green language right now. Is that correct? But except for the >> part of the green >> with the green language except for the addendum underneath the blue. >> That's correct. >> Okay. No, I'm getting eyebrows. No, sorry. Okay. >> Okay. David's got eyebrows going. All right. >> Got so many eyebrows. Okay. So, the um motion is as presented with the blue text except for the

100or or I'm sorry, with green text except for the green um under the blue. Oh my goodness. Okay. Is there a second? Thank you, Lawrence. Okay. Is there any discussion on that one? UA go ahead. >> Um, so I think I probably mentioned this before and Indiana has a one party consent law, right? So that means if somebody wants to record it, they can do it regardless. So I'm not So I wonder what if people record it without even asking for permission. >> Okay, Rachel, >> they can do that. they can come in and record it and do that. It's not um setting a really great relationship base with this school staff, but a parent could come in and record a meeting. And that's why the language is specifically that it is a request because

101it's just a way to kind of tell a parent as they're reading this, hey, it would be awfully nice if we communicated in advance so that school's prepared and we're prepared. So, it's just it's it's a family-friendly language and it's to help families know, hey, we're really open to this if you want to do it. So, they don't feel they need to bring a phone in and sneak a recording because they're recording it isn't acceptable. Sneakiness is not need to be in policy, but >> yeah, I'm collaboration should be >> Yeah, I understand. I'm just trying to see whether there's a loophole there. So and then another thing is then will because I'm not sure whether everybody will read the policy and uh so will we when when um teacher and administrator set up the

102appointment will they explicitly tell people this policy the 24hour request policy or or we will just wait and see if they they know it and they ask for it. If they don't know it, maybe they come to the meeting and say, "Oh, may I record the meeting because the the father cannot make the meeting today or something at that time and will we say, "Oh, sorry, you didn't make this request 24 hours earlier. You cannot do it." Oh, we have to reschedule the meeting or something. And I I just trying to imagine how that will be implemented. >> Well, so the policy, we set the policy. The corporation requests a 24-hour notice prior to the meeting. So both both parties can be prepared to record. Um so it's just a request is all that it

103is. Um it would be that would be um so an example is that the superintendent or the administrator could go above and beyond that policy and say, "Hey, we're encouraging you to record, right? They could they could make that decision that they're encouraging parents to record, but the policy is at a minimum that we just request advanced notice. There's no requirement. If a parent walks in the door and yep, dad's not here today and we want to record it. There's nothing in our policy that would prohibit them from doing that or would allow the administrator to prohibit them from doing that. So, it's really informative text. >> Yeah. I wonder how frequently people record those meetings like is it rare or is quite a frequent? Do we happen to know anyone? >> I don't know

104that we have anyone knowing that. I don't know how frequently, but Dr. Yan, it's possible that we would pause to get additional, you know, our side of recording and or it's possible that we would say, can we reschedule the meeting? Um, so I do agree that it's it's just a it's it's it's to ensure a smooth positive um meeting all the way around and where everyone's prepared. So if you were coming to a meeting and you said I'm going to record by the way because you noticed the policy said that everyone would be on the same page and and feel ready to start the meeting. But I agree with you that and I think Mrs. Wit shared the same thing that obviously you can record. It's that we're just all being courtesy courteous to one

105another and expressing upfront that uh there's going to be a recording. >> George >> u Dr. Grer Mrs. Rob, have in your time here, has anyone ever requested that we record and then provide a copy of the recording to them? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> We have a principal saying yes. >> And in in that case, it's actually a good idea to include that language about time to prepare because that language as you've written it also implies that you need to bring your own recording device. >> Okay. Are we ready to go ahead? >> Yeah, I I think it's a good idea and to also record the school also record if the parents do because now with AI, you know, the voice everything can be manipulated and just for accountability or liability and I think

106it's a good idea. Thanks. >> Okay. And so then the language as you're aware would ensure that everybody's ready um and we hit the ground rolling with the meeting and no postponements or anything like that. And I agree with you that's the whole point that we all agree that we should record particularly if the other part is recording and then we each got the recording and there's no questions >> and we can argue about who's is AI and who's is real. Florence. >> Yeah, just a quick uh clarification. So 24-hour we talk about that maybe we change that to school day or something because I mean if you are meeting say Monday morning 24 hours Sunday morning. So >> yeah, you we could change that language if you'd like to make a motion that the

107motion that you would make would be to change the language to replace 24hour request 24-hour notice with request school day prior uh notice >> school days. And I for me I those things are fairly interchangeable but that would be clearer in terms of the timing. >> So maybe I just have a mo motion uh sub motion to modify the main motion replace this 24hour to uh what you school >> school day prior >> school day school day. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second that. >> Okay. >> And is there any discussion on changing that language? >> No. Okay. Let's go ahead and vote on changing that language uh to replace the 24-hour notice with the school day prior notice. That one passes. Cool. That's how we do that. And then are we ready

108to go ahead and vote on the whole thing with that uh edit? Okay. I will hit lots of buttons. There we go. >> Which one? >> So, we're we're voting to approve 350 as edited. Um, we're replacing 24-hour notice with school day prior notice, >> which we're using the green >> Oh, I'm sorry. Good point. We are using the green language. The the current motion is the green language as presented by the policy committee with the edit just made by Lawrence's motion >> and the Indiana the the the changes recommended by legal counsel. >> Correct. Yeah. Everybody cool? Okay. Let me restart that. the vote. >> There we go. Okay, that one passes seven. Okay, cool. Cool. What have we got next? H 100 school visitors and parent family engagement. So, this policy is a

109federal and state requirement. The new language must be added. Policy committee recommendation is to not screw it up. Pass it as presented by legal without modification. >> Okay. Is there a second? >> Thank you. Um LW as presented. Any discussion on that one? >> UA just a clarification question. I I wonder then does that include a board members if board members want to with the school as a parent? Uh board members allowed to I'm sorry. Of course, we're allowed to visit the schools as parents. >> Yeah. Just to clarify. >> Yeah. >> Because sometimes, you know, their board members cannot do some of the things. For example, be a substitute teacher or something. And >> Oh, that's because you're getting paid to be a substitute. >> I I Yeah, I I know. Just But in

110general for for this school board members can ask to classroom with it school >> as a volunteer. Correct. No. Any other questions, George? >> Yeah. Um, as board members, we're we're still parents and we're free to do all the things that parents do. What we're not free to do is be employees in any other capacity. >> Okay. Anything else, Disha? >> I don't remember who sent it. I thought someone wanted to change the very last page use of Alexa to AI, but I don't even remember who sent that request. >> Me. >> Okay. Do you still want >> I thought that was as presented. That wasn't in there. >> Right now it says use of AI. It's the very last bullet point on the very last page. >> Oh, okay. >> So, I just wasn't

111>> Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, it was your Alexa comment, wasn't it? >> Okay. So, let's add that real quick. Dea, are you making that motion? >> George can go ahead. >> Okay, that's fine. George Mo uh to change Alexa to point. How did we say that? Um >> it was a >> software was it? >> Yeah, software and artificial intelligence tools just to make it more general. >> Okay. And Lawrence, you seconded that. Okay. Thank you. >> All right. And so this is to vote on the Alexa part. Um to change it to more general like you can also not use Google Gemini um or Claude. I can't think of the any other names. Who's missing? >> Me. I was typing. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, there you go. Okay, that one passes 70. And

112now we'll come back to the whole thing is amended. Correct. >> And if we're good, I'll just go ahead and start vote. There we go. All righty. Okay. Up next is H1 125, uh, corporation support organizations. Um so it's a recommendation of the policy committee in paragraph one to omit the specifics in the second sentence. Um and that is and their families through the creation of parental and charitable organizations. Um striking out such as parent teacher organization through the end of this sentence. So in that paragraph one um it would end with or the the policy as we're recommending it because this is a little bit fuzzy. The school board values organizations striving to support the educational experiences of corporation students. The board endorses the active involvement of students and their families through the creation

113of parent parental and charitable organizations. Period. It would strike out all of the words after that um as not necessary to this. So really that just it is an intent to be more broad and encompass all possible organizations that would work with the school corporation. So this policy would apply to all of them. Okay. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thanks, Lawrence. Any discussion on this one? Okay. We're going to go ahead and start the vote on H125 as presented, including the strikeout. Um there we go. Great. Okay, next H150. This is about public records. Um, this is a lot of Indiana code driven policy. We had a conversation about the charging of a fee for time and copies. Um, so this is similar to the costs in our current policy. Um and in

114the paragraph procedures for request of public records, we recommend the word administrator be replaced with superintendent administrative assistance. Otherwise, we are recommending the adoption of the policy as presented by legal counsel. >> Okay. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Um any discussion on this one? Neat. Oh, George needs a second. Um Okay, we're good. >> Okay, great. I would go ahead. >> So, so it means um if the work to search for the record take more than five hours then the person need to pay right and starting from basically $100. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Either no pay or pay 100 or more. And so yeah, just I just want to point out a small loophole here. What if people break down the bigger search into smaller ones? How to >> that's possible. >>

115We had that exact conversation, but there doesn't seem to be a good way around that. So we just have to appeal to people's good sense. >> This is really this is Indiana code and what we have to do and Indiana code specifically does allow for those fees in that way. And so we just >> Oh, is there any time frame for example per year or something? You cannot do that more than five hours. >> I wish there were. >> That be that'd be better. >> That would be better. Yeah. >> Um Okay. Are we ready to go ahead and vote on this as presented? >> Cool. Cool. Cool. >> Great. One more time. >> One you did not see in your packet is H1 175 regarding questioning of students. um that we did, you'll see

116in the policy committee notes, we did talk about that. Um but we had some concerns come up from administrators. Um and so we are holding on that one and that is one policy uh that will be coming up later and I'll talk about that a little bit more when we talk about policies to rescend. Um so we'll move on to H225, public comments and concerns. Um paragraph two, we recommend changing his or her to superintendent. uh in the possessive um the remaining language in blue is recommended by the policy committee except for the last sentence of paragraph three. We recommend ending the paragraph with declared emergency or local disaster and then the rest of that text would um be eliminated. And then in the second to last paragraph we would omit the strikeout language but

117add an and. It's just grammatical or add or before personal attack. So, it's just um uh it's a grammatical change on that one. So, I am making a motion that we approve this policy with the blue language. Um but within those edits that I noted. >> Okay. Warren seconds. >> Are those edits in the document? >> Yeah, they are. Yes. >> And they're in the shared doc if you want to reference them later. Any discussion on that one aside from clarifying? No. Okay, neat. I'll go ahead and start it again. This is to approve H225 as presented with the blue and the green. And there we go. Okay, nicely done. We've got one more for May and >> one policy and then we're done, right? >> Maybe I will bring a cake next month. Yeah,

118we're going to go through rescending policies now if that's >> Sure. Absolutely. Let's resend. >> We're about to make our website a lot smoother. Um so it is my before we get started on the rescending of policies um from a philosophical standpoint, there is one change when we uh rescend that we'll be making and I just want to make sure that the board is aware of that. Bless you. I want to make sure that the board is aware of that philosophical change and is in agreement with it. So before we we vote um so when we are going to resend policies what I do is go and look for the meat or the substance of that policy and look for it and find it in the new section so that I can understand and make

119sure that we're covered. One that I am a little bit uh I just want to call to people's attention is policies policy PO 8400 school safety and PO 8420 emergency preparedness plans and drills. Um the philosophical change that happens here between what we are putting in our our new polic or the policy that exists is that um and we did run this by legal. Dr. Griner hurried it to legal today. So thank you for that Dr. Grryer. Um the old policy recommends the approval or it says that the superintendent will recom or the board will recommend the approval and adoption of each school's plan. So the safety plan comes to the board annually right now to be approved. The new language still holds all of that in place among the policies. So safety plan is

120still developed. It follows the law. It still includes all the people. The only change philosophically between old and new is whether or not the safety plan comes to the board for approval on an annual basis. I'm actually fine with that and not doing that, but I want to call that out to you all so that if anybody here has an objection to that change, they can make a motion and it can come back to policy committee. >> George, >> I'll go ahead and make that motion to make that change. This is the kind of thing where even if we have experts detailing it, that's not the sort of thing that we want to publicly say. We're not looking at that anymore. >> Okay. So your motion is to take it send it back to >>

121send it back to the policy committee to add that specific language in there about approving the building emergency plans >> in which policy we'll just have to take it back and figure out where >> okay about >> it doesn't exist in the new so we'll have to figure it out where >> okay and is there a second to that >> okay um is there any further discussion about that particular motion. Okay, let's go ahead and vote on that then. Okay, that's >> so um the other exception, we don't need to take a vote on this, but I'm going to make a motion that we resend all policies, all of our old policies from section 5000. So that includes um everything in section uh in student section, everything in um 6,000s, everything in 7,000s, 8,000s, and

1229,000. So, all policies except for one um and that is we're going to hold off on policy 5540 because that is the policy that would be replaced by 175 um that we are on hold on until the next meeting. So, the actual motion is resend everything in old section except for PO5540. >> What about this? I can talk. We can talk. >> Okay. And David seconding that. Okay. Uh go ahead Lawrence. >> Yes. So for those this policies 8400 and 8420 so regarding the uh the safety committee see safety financings we won't keep that at this point in time. >> Well so we would we typically would get that review in the fall. And so I think that knowing that we're going to go take it back and figure out where to add it in

123May, I I mean technically we could put it, but I think it makes more sense to to just go ahead and get rid of it and be down to one. Yeah. >> Okay. Oh, no problem. We said >> Okay. Anything else? All right. So, the motion is to rescend all the old policies except for 5540 which is going to be replaced by 175 that we're holding. And I'll start the vote. Look at us go. All right, one policy left. >> One policy question. Now that we're at this stage in the policy committee, um ISBA had a training last fall that I attended all day in Indianapolis on AI policies. A lot of school districts have been creating policies, kind of trying to be proactive on um how to support them. So there were lots of

124superintendents who spoke, administrators, schoolboard members about a lot of them were forming community committees trying to decide how to word it, how to handle it. So I was wondering now that we're at the end of this, is this something that we send to administration? Do we send to the policy committee? How do we move forward in looking at the potential of having an AI policy? >> Okay, Rachel. So, I was going to wait until we got to the very last one, but this policy committee has always been the ad hoc policy committee. Um, and it is my recommendation that after the May meeting that the policy committee be deb disbanded. And so, uh, then it would be formed and now that we're through the overhaul, any new policy conversations, I think, would come to the

125full board because we're through the bulk of the work. So, >> I'm trying to fire myself. All right. Um, >> so something like this, how what are the next steps like? >> Well, I would suggest that we ask legal for a sample policy and bring that to us to review. Okay. >> Um, and then we can start from there going forward as you know how we're going to do policies from there. >> Okay. >> Yes, David, >> it might be worthwhile also pairing this with some discussion uh with Dr. Grryer and administrators about um uh how we as a school district are teaching students the appropriate use of AI. I'm thinking along not necessarily exactly what Purdue is trying to do with building AI competency, but I think that it would be worth some discussions

126and see their thoughts on on things. >> Okay, Rachel, >> I I would agree. I think this is an important part of how we prepare students to be successful in the world and it's a conversation that needs to be had. I also realize I I didn't clarify this and I should. There are actually uh three things still on policy committee. One of them is that potentially the conversation about homeschool. >> Yes. >> Uh students uh and then that uh safety plan question as well as the um student questioning policy. Those are our last three homework assignments. >> Amazing. Okay. So, uh Dr. Dr. Grer, would you please ask um Jesse? Thank you. So, we'll get that and hopefully it'll be in May. They may need a little longer to review, so it might come later.

127But George, >> on AI policy, we're also going to have to cover um AI usage by uh faculty and staff as well, not just the students. >> Yep. And uh that's a brave new world. Okay. Are we all through with all of that then? Great. That's um I I just want to thank you all again for your diligent and impressively organized work on this project. I am not sure we could have gotten through it without the three of you and I'm very grateful for all the time. >> We've kind of trauma bonded over it. It's been really nice exercise. >> I've noticed there's a lot of camaraderie in the middle there. >> Yeah, we're doing >> all right. Well, thank you. Um and that takes us to you, Dr. Grryer. >> Did we vote to

128rescend? >> Yes, we did. Yeah, we did. >> It all It all rescended. Just double check. >> You got it. Yep. It was 70. >> Yeah. >> Go ahead. >> All right. I want to thank the >> uh policy committee as well as well as the entire board because we have worked through this process really well if you think about it once we got in the groove. So, thank you to the policy committee and the entire board for direction and for your approach to uh getting through all these policies. So David had a a question here and I think it would this would be a great time if you don't mind Amy clarifying how somebody so like dish brought up AI David's got another one here your recommendation if I'm understanding it correctly is that

129the board member interested in the policy change would recommend that to the board chair and that that be placed on policy or on agenda or what are you thinking? Well, what I'm thinking is that we've gotten pretty good at emailing each other collectively. And so, for example, if I decided I needed to talk about a policy about brown chairs versus black, I might bring that to the attention of the whole board as an email and then um either we would say no, we don't need a chair color policy and here's why and that would be satisfactory or we would take it to legal, get their recommendation and then have it in the board packet for the following month meeting or possibly a little longer if it's something complex like AI. And that way um all

130all members have an equal opportunity to bring issues forward um and we can continue to deal with them the way we've been. Is that >> cool? Okay. >> Yeah. I I would just like to make a request that you release the wireless communication devices and school policy back to the school board or to the policy committee so that we can review based off of updated legal languages due to IC 2026540.7 that just came out >> that should come now that we're through this process. The way it worked with Miola anyway was that they would send us periodically a packet of policies and say, "Hey, look, we have we have things." And we would say, "Oh, no, so many things." And then we had a standing policy committee that would deal with those things. So, I

131anticipate since we're in legislative session and things are coming out and getting passed that we would need to have a standing policy committee once we disband your policy committee. And I would guess if anyone would like to be on the standing policy committee that would be a good thing to request and we can um make George do it. >> Um but yeah, that's that's how I envision that. >> Yes. >> So so uh the other thing I would say though is that as David just did, I mean no legal counsel is perfect. No legal counsel knows us exactly well. And so I would say if any member goes to different training or whatever and says, "Oh, wait. What are we doing about this one?" That it's completely encouraged from my perspective to ask that question.

132>> Yeah. And we could certainly ask um along with the other one if legal has any recommendations based on the new IC >> all that communication, wireless communication, >> that one. >> Um so yeah, we should probably include that in that email and get the most bang for our email buck. Sound good? >> Yes. I can assure you anything that's Indiana code, they are working on it right now. >> It just takes time because they have to do all their magic. Um, is there a uh accounts payable report today or >> Yeah. You want >> You're still doing your report? >> Yes. >> Let's go ahead. >> I don't have to though. I do have a lot to say. Okay. So, first of all, thank you Mrs. Austin for the opportunity to give my report.

133Uh I'd like to provide an update regarding the request to consider homeschool students as part-time students in the district. As Mrs. Whit said, we talked about that during policy committee and we are planning to begin a district review uh next school year at the beginning of the school year uh focused on the topic of part-time student enrollment. The intent is to engage staff and possibly students uh early in first semester to gather meaningful input and to examine potential structures, expectations, and the possible impact our on our schools and programs. This review will need to consider several key factors including student accountability measures such as graduation rate and high stakes assessments like I learn as well as what school funding looks like for a part-time student. We will also need to evaluate how participation in extracurricular

134and co-curricular activities would be handled for part-time students. And then additionally, I think Mrs. Whit hit on this as well, the board will need to uh determine whether any resulting expectations are established through board policy or simply included in student handbooks. Uh I researched per the request of the committee that both approaches are permissible under legal counsel guidance and uh districts such as TSC and LSC currently utilize handbookbased approaches only rather than policy. From an administrative standpoint, if we move forward with accepting part-time students, we would recommend addressing expectations through student handbooks. We anticipate bringing a recommendation one way or the other to the board by December 2026, allowing sufficient time for implementation planning ahead of the 2728 school year. We will keep the board informed as we review this process. I also secondly would

135like to give a shout out to our food service director, Mrs. Courtney Fitz Simmons. She's been named the Indiana School Nutrition Association's director of the year for 2025 2026. This recognition reflects her outstanding leadership, her dedication, and her commitment to serving our students well as well as the community. Her work exemplifies the very best of school nutrition uh and the positive impact it has on student success. She will be formally recognized at the Indiana School Nutrition Association annual conference this November. She's pretty excited. Congratulations, Mrs. Fitz Simmons. We're proud of you and it is certainly a welldeserved honor. Anyone that's worked with her on her lunch committee knows uh how serious she takes uh her work. Finally, our team would like to recognize and thank several individuals uh announcing retirements. Some of those you approved

136tonight. Um custodians uh Mr. Dave Bothl. He was last time, but he asked that we put a pause on any type of discussion. So, I'm bringing it up today. Mr. Dave Both and on this agenda, Mr. Paul Gray have announced that they will retire at the end of the school year, as well as teacher, Mrs. Julie Bowerand. Dave Bothl is a custodian at the elementary school. Paul Gray is lead custodian at the junior senior high school. and Julie Bowerband serves as a teacher at both Willis and the junior senior high school. We're grateful for their years of service in our district and their support to our students and learning in a safe environment. To conclude the superintendent report, Mrs. Roth, would you please report out on accounts payable and funds? >> Certainly. Claims for the

137period of March 5th through April 8th, 2026 total 4,813,730.71 cents. This amount includes both corporation and Wbash Valley Education Center expenses. Salaries and benefits for that same period totaled 3,588,44340. Both those claims and salary amounts were a little bit higher this period because a third payroll was included in that period. A final fund report is included in the board packets for the month of February 2026. Total funds on hand amounted to 27,239,2506 with an education fund specific balance of $8,31,6921. Included in your board packet is the preliminary fund report for March, but please note the month has not yet been completed nor reconciled. >> Okay, super. Um, DeA, we can go ahead and start with you for board reports if you'd like. >> Okay, you no update. Okay, David, >> uh, not a lot uh,

138update. Things are going swimmingly with parks and wreck, but I will use my time to on the record wish Amy a happy birthday. >> Oh, thank you. >> Thank you, Rachel. >> Um, we had the ISBA regional meeting and I'd like to point out that um the our school board was given the commendable uh level which is great. Um, and what that means is the majority of members of the board have exceeded 75 points. So that speaks to our new members. Also, Mrs. Austin and I both um were elevated to the exemplary level, which is really not surprising given the number of years I've been on the board, but is really a sustained effort by um Mrs. Austin to get that done so quickly. And a big part of that was her pursuing the president's

139uh gold program, which she completed. I believe you did. Yep. And that is a boatload of work. So um well done. And then I love the scarlet and gray auction, but I am going to defer to Mr. Wong to report on the foundation because he went to the meeting. >> Yeah, there's a regular when you send us a long report, but I I just can't get that. Are you done? >> Yeah, you're good. >> Oh, you need your microphone? >> Yeah. Okay. So basically um I joined uh our school's education foundation two meetings uh March and uh April's and basically I introduce myself and see pretty much all the board uh members and I also um chair what's going on with our school board how Sean is there also yeah our board our policies um

140uh overhaul and potential uh referendums s and uh also answer some questions. Some people uh wondering how we make policies. I have briefly explained them what procedures we adopt to adopt the policies that kind of thing. So we have I have a pretty good conversation with other board members and I joined their pretty good time for two bar board member meetings. That's very good. And uh regarding the SC Yeah. Thank you. uh regarding the scarlet and uh gray uh dinners and auctions. So I hop in that uh event and totally uh we reach uh 400 u no 44.5 uh,000 uh night uh night uh uh after the cost and totally 109 persons joined the event >> and uh they also think about next event will be August 2027. So they want to extend a little

141bit longer time for the fundraising things and also the wall of pride event I joined their uh receptions um that's last week I think and um they also have ceremonies so total we have six honores for this year and they also share their uh with our student they have ceremony they have shared their remarks and uh for the education foundation. They also have new board members. Uh Sini Elias, forgive me if I didn't pronounce that correctly. She's uh associate professor at uh Purdue uh I think department of human development and family science at Purdue. So that's a new board member for the education. And also there's upcoming event for May 18th there will be scholarship receptions and u uh for June 5th that will be nonprofit of the game at the Lafayette aviators and September

14218th 2026 that's alumni homecoming tailgates and next year uh 2027 7 August 14th that's next Scarlet and Gray uh dinner and auctions. So if you want to have interest in those event please mark on your calendar. So one years more than one years later more than a year notice. Yeah. So just mark on your calendar so you you'll miss that. >> Would you please email those to everybody so we can >> Yeah, I will do that. I will do that. Wonderful. That would be great. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. >> Thank you. >> So I just Yeah, I will do that. No problem. >> Thank you. That'd be really helpful. So I didn't get >> and another another education foundation is I also joined the public school foundation for TPON counties and that's

143my first reading um my first meeting to that uh committee and I introduced myself also uh talk about our board works and uh the board member introduced their themsel to uh to me so I know pretty much everybody some of them already know but also know new peoples and Uh there are some next event will be spring grand receptions that will be Wednesday May 6. Uh so I will send that out too. >> Great. >> And also the paper invitation card I put on each bald. Uh yes that's the that's the invitation invitation for that. Yeah. Thank you. >> And also they are working on a mini so-called mini grant for student club. So it's it's not finalized. So they hopefully they can finish that uh by the beginning of next fall semester. So basically

144this specifically for student clubs if you have a club and then you can apply for their grant. I think right now they budgeted $300 for the clubs for each application. So that's uh that's that. So that's all for me. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you George. You're a busy guy with the legislative stuff. >> I always get the fun things. >> Yeah. >> So as we all know the state house passed a quote bell-to-bell mobile device ban. That ban does include smart watches. So, anybody that wears a Pebble watch or an Apple Watch or an Android watch will have to put those away and secure those somehow. Uh they these devices have to be inaccessible during school hours, but it is left to the schools to determine how. Um, I I get the feeling there

145going to be some intended thresholds in place, but they are leaving it up to us exactly how it's done. Whether it's lockable pouches or having people put them in their lockers or having an honor system with people storing it in their backpacks or depositing it in a box at the front of the class. The the possibilities are boundless, but they did leave the possibilities to us. Uh on a related note, uh schools that don't already provide technology devices will start to have to in 2028. Um BYOD policies are going to be prohibited. That's not something we worry about because we do issue devices, but uh other schools are going to have to um you know, engage in some creative budgeting to get that done, especially considering the uh funding deficits that we're all facing. Uh

146schools also now have to offer a method for parents to control the internet filters on those schoolisssued devices. There's a grace period for this until 2027 because not every school internet filter provider has this functionality. I believe ours does. We just haven't turned it on yet. Uh I know TSC's already does and that's actually where the idea came from. So the the the idea is that uh if a kid brings their tablet or their Chromebook home, the parent can log into a separate web page and set what websites the kid can see while they're um away from the school building. Another um big one that sounds ownorous but actually makes a lot of sense, uh public schools can no longer sign contracts that contain indemnity clauses or choice of law clauses. Those are otherwise called

147venue clauses. Um the the logic behind that is as public schools we're essentially arms of the state and anyone doing business with the state um with state agencies for example they don't sign those kinds of contracts either. Uh so this is u as ownorous as it sound it's it's much more of an alignment to something that um should have already been done in practice. >> Great. Thank you. Um the RDC meeting was way back months ago. Um or feels like it anyway. And at that time they were installing steel and pouring concrete for the public safety uh building. And that should have probably wrapped up by now, but I'll find out on Wednesday when I go. And they're exploring plans for the fire station 3 um expansion and um determining if the child care site

148will still work. So I'll find out a lot more and I will have forgotten it all by the time we get back here in May. Um but that's okay because progress is progressing. Um is there anything else for the good of the order? >> Okay. >> Just May I ask a quick question? So >> you don't have your It's not on. >> Oh, it is. >> Yeah. >> Lawrence said he would email those dates. There you go. Now you're working. Okay. >> Okay. Okay. Yeah. So, Lawrence shared a bunch of dates from both foundations. I wonder whether instead of sending ours the email, whether you can just put those dates when you put them on your calendar, include our emails. So, it will be show up on our calendar as well. >> Yeah. I I

149would just send our email calendar. I mean that's your own calendar. I I don't want >> I don't want to change our calendar. >> I don't want to change other people's calendar. >> Okay. >> And also I think you have also have to regarding the glass meeting. You won't be able uh to >> Yes. I >> you can go. >> No, no, no, no. They can. >> Did you get anybody? >> That's Yeah. No one is available. >> I can if nobody if nobody can go I can stop collecting and send I can report back. Thank you. Yeah, Dr. Grinder said he could handle it up, but if you're available, that'd be great. >> Okay, that's sweet. >> And I heard a motion to adjurnn from Rachel and the second from David. And uh let's

150do quick buttons. Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick. There we go. >> And we're journed. Thank you all.