001There must be a primary teacher here who came [Music] before my horses like that. There you go. All right, we'll go ahead and get started. Uh, welcome to the meeting. and we'll get started with the bond hearing for the 2026 bond project. >> All right. So, Mark or sorry, Mark, let me get started. You setting down any notes? >> All right. So, the 2026 bond project is first on the agenda. >> Yes. So, um this is our um second hearing uh for our bond projects and we have our uh distinguished uh members in the crowd here to help us through the bond uh with uh Mike Thurber and um Jim McIntyre and Jeff Quacmbbush. And so, um uh Mr. Quacush, I think I'm going to have you come to the podium and get us started.
002>> Thank you very much. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board. All right. >> Good evening. So, I'm Jeff Quac and Bush with Barnes & Thornberg. As as Mark said, this is the second of the preliminary determination public hearings that we will be holding on these two projects. We held the first ones a month ago. All the information you're going to hear this evening regarding the uh financial information and the various projects are identical to what were presented back at that original public hearing a month ago. At the conclusion of each of these public hearings, however, we will and after you have the public comment, we will then ask you to consider voting on a 1028 preliminary determination resolution that will establish the maximum financial parameters that Mr. Thurber will go over here in
003a minute regarding each of those projects and financing. Once you adopt those resolutions, if you do, then we will publish notices in the newspaper regarding each of those actions that you've taken. And then we will wait 30 days as required by law. And then at the end of that 30-day period, we will then proceed with the financings if there's been no additional community approval process that's been requested as a result of either of those. Just a few highlights that we'll I'll state just briefly. The first project is the 2026 project and that is in connection with primarily doing work over at the intermediate school and then doing additional uh campus work outside the uh the the area here primarily focused on co-curricular extracurricular uh facilities that are in need of update as well. That will
004be done in 2026 and 2027. Then the 2028 project could happen as early as the beginning of 27, but we'll probably move into 28 and go on beyond that. That will be more of what you've done in the past, which will be just general facility improvements and dealing with things like long-term maintenance, roofing projects, HVAC projects. Um, and that will can be done over a multiple series of bond issues, not just one bond issue, even though we will authorize all of it yet this evening. So, with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the process or the timeline that I've laid out. And if you don't have any questions, then I'll turn it over to Mr. Thurbert to go through the financing parameters on the 26 project. >> Thank you,
005Jeff. Um, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the board, Mr. Gaskins, Mr. Dubo. Uh, always good to be with you. Thank you for having us in. So, as as Jeff has told you, this is the second round of the preliminary determination hearings on both projects, and I will get right into the uh financial parameters of the 2026 project without any further ado. Um, is it on the board, Kyle? Uh, >> me to operate the slides. >> The slides are not on. >> They are not. Okay. So given that, I'll just briefly run through the the max financial parameters um of the 2026 project. And the information that I will be relaying to you tonight is like Jeff also stated identical to the information that you heard last month on the 2026 projects. Um, so
006the maximum amount of the 2026 project is going to be $8 million and that is an amount uh that is based on uh what we feel the corporation's project needs will be when we get around to selling bonds. Um, we have set a maximum term of repayment for the 2026 bonds at 20 years and we have set a maximum interest rate on that bond issue of 7%. And if you'll recall from last time, um, I told you that if you were to sell those bonds today, you'd sell at an interest rate of roughly 4 and a half to four and 3/4%. And you're uh most likely all aware that the interest rate just went down last week. So that's good news. And we hope that the rates stay down so we can be in that
0074 and a.5% range uh next fall when we sell the 2026 bonds. Um so a few items of note, the 2025 debt service levy is $4.8 million. The 2025 debt service tax rate is 59.55.55 cents. Uh we do expect the debt service tax rate to actually decrease a little bit next year in 2026 because your net assessed valuation uh increased from 2024 25 into the next year. And although your levy uh will be roughly the same, your tax rate will dip about 3 cents because of that increase in assessed valuation. Um so and a couple other items of note, the percentage of your maximum annual debt service to your net assessed valuation is 74%. And the percentage of outstanding and overlapping debt that you have is 7.01%. And these items again they are items that
008are uh required or information that is required to be on hand for these hearings. Um you all have the information. I also have the information. So if it is requested um you know it is at your uh disposal and I also have the information too if it is requested. So that's about all I have and if there are any questions please uh please ask and I will be happy to answer those or clear up anything that um needs a little clarification. questions. >> No, I just wanted a comment maybe more or less to Kyle. So, the majority of the money in the first bond would be for solar to reduce our energy cost. Is that accurate? >> That is not correct. The solar is being funded by the current bond that we are spending from
0092024 as well as cash balances. Cash balances are funding across the street will fund this side of the street. >> Okay. This is for renovation turf and >> high school. >> But the turf is not the majority of the cost either. Right. >> Right. That's a real point I wanted to make. Any other questions? >> Is there any public comment on the 2026 bot? >> None. So, the resolution that's in your board packet is very similar to the 2024 uh resolution that you all adopted back uh for the current solar and other uh facility improvement project. It's just for the financial parameters that uh Mr. Thurber has put into into the presentation for you. So, just to remind you, it's for a bond issue not to exceed $8 million, for not to exceed 20 years
010repayment. And most importantly, it's estimated that the debt service fund tax rate even after you issue this bond because if you're going to value is actually going to be lower than it is in 2025 by about there, some parameters that you can't exceed, but those are the the ones that I really want to highlight to you. So, if you adopt this resolution this evening, this does not in any way obligate you to actually issue the bonds. This is merely a preliminary determination. We will be back at least two more times in 2026 for your consideration and approval. And then obviously, you'll be uh considering various different components of the project when you approve the bidding project process for all the intermediate improvements, the uh campus improvements, etc. for that project. So this is in no
011way the only time you'll be considering this and it's in no way obligating you to actually issue the bonds. So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions you have regarding the resolution that's in your board packet. >> Motion. >> We need a motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve the resolution. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? Oh, Lyn second. Sorry. All in favor? >> All right. So, now we're up to 2020. >> Well, we need to actually close >> close up. Sorry. I need a motion to close this meeting. Sorry. >> I'll make a motion to close the meeting. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Now for 2830 bond project. >> All right. So, we have Mr. Quacamin Bush back here to discuss the 2830 bond with us. >> Yes.
012Thank you, Mr. Deo. So tonight as well, you're considering an additional project uh not to exceed $14,220,000. Uh this is for general improvements across the district facilities um exterior and interior. This one is much more of uh PL uh ticking off a lot of items that were in that facility assessment study that you did I believe back in 2022 2023 if I remember correctly. Um so it's addressing quite a bit of those needs. Uh it's in no way unfortunately able to address all the needs uh because as facilities age they continue to have more needs associated with them. But this will be doing things like repairing and restoring your roof uh roofs that you haven't addressed so far in some of your more recent projects. It'll be doing additional HVAC work. It'll be doing um
013interior finishes, lighting upgrades, those sorts of things. All things that hopefully will also make you more operationally uh efficient as well as then allowing you to more ma better manage your operations fund as those dollars continue to be more scrutinized by the state general assembly and limited in the way those can be collected. So with that I'd be happy to answer any questions you have regarding this process. It's very similar to the one that we've talked about before. If you adopt this resolution this evening there will be a notice published in the paper. We'll wait 30 days and then at the end of that time, we will actually most likely not come forward with the uh bond on approval process steps for that until we get into 2027. Uh we may come into late 2026
014on this just depending on how the projects roll out and as your needs address. Uh still may be a little bit of time before we come back and revisit this project again after you give those approvals. But uh that will be more dependent just on the needs and the timeline for those. But we will be back once again multiple times for the consideration of this project. This is by no means the last and and be all end all of approval. So I'll turn it over to to Mr. Thurber to talk about the 28 to 2030 project. >> Thank you Jeff. So for the 20 2030 projects >> the maximum amount of project that is being 14,220,000 >> that is not an arbitrary >> number that is the maximum project amount that legally can be agreed
015at this amount% of your gross assessed valuation. Uh your gross AV is roughly $1.4 billion and 1% of that figure is the 14,220,000 amount which again is the maximum that can be approved here tonight. So, uh, again like with the 2026 project parameters, the maximum repayment term has been set at 20 years. Maximum interest rate has been set at 7%. We do that just to be conservative in case the bond market should experience uh some difficulty or in case interest rates should rise unexpectedly. But again today the interest rate would be roughly 4.5 to 4.75% on those bonds. Um, as with the parameters in the 2026 bond resolution, the plan moving forward, um, in 2028 and thereafter is for your debt service fund tax rate to remain consistent at the 56.95 level. That's what it
016is anticipated to be next year. And we we the goal is for that tax rate not to increase. Um we don't have any control over the net assessed valuation that is going to come in for the school corporation. But if it is consistent, um the five 56.95.95% debt service rate is the goal moving forward even when the 2028 bonds are sold and any bonds issued under these approvals are sold thereafter. We're actually making a shift there and that's something we talked to the board about because of SEA1 the tax rate we lose control of a little bit because of the implementation of that. So under the new strategy that we've discussed with you and you guys have approved uh we'll look to maintain the debt service levy and then watch over that tax rate trying
017to ensure and how we're using our bond payments that we keep that above under the 70 threshold. And that is a a new shift that we and a lot of schools are are making as a result of the legislative changes that have occurred over the last year. We used to be able to manage to a rate um Senate Bill one made that a lot more challenging because of um potential declines or changes in assessed valuation. So, as Kyle very accurately said, we're now managing to a levy um and hopefully that rate can say can stay consistent with with the plan moving forward. So, >> and we do have some >> we do have some projections of where we think both the the levying and the rate will go over the six years of the implementation
018of SEA1 that will go over in the January 6 reorg meeting. I might just take a brief moment to talk about what you see on the screen now. Um that is just that is a bar graph of the current currently scheduled debt payments the corporation has. This illustration does not include uh any 2026 or 2028 bond. This is what is currently on your books. And as you can see in 2025, the levy amount uh or excuse me, the the debt service amount is um roughly $5.2 million. And then uh in 2026 and thereafter um it decreases a little bit. And what that does is it it allows us room um to finance these projects that we're hearing about tonight and add that additional debt. um while keeping the the levy consistent and hopefully the tax
019rate consistent, too. >> If you'd like me to go through all those, I'm happy to. But that's that's what is currently illustrated. >> I I think I think what we did that last last month, so I think unless the board has questions, I think we can move forward if there's any other questions before we take public comment. First any comments or questions from the public resolution then resolution. >> So the last thing on this part of the agenda is the 1028 determination resolution for the 2028 to 2030 project and financing. Uh this is identical to the 2026 resolution that you just considered and adopted except the financial parameters are different in that it's for 14,220,000 and related information on that highlighting however that the debt service levy and rate are anticipated to be less than
020what they currently are uh going forward after 2026. One thing I also point out is that even after we issue these bonds in the next four to five years, that levy is going to drop even further and allow you to do additional projects at the same levy if you want. So this is not going to lock you out of being able to do additional facility improvements should the need arise in the next several years after you get through say 2031 2032 which is intentional because as all school corporations have their facilities being used as we see tonight quite a bit and as it should be uh they get a lot of use and wear and tear on them and so they constantly have to go through a lot of updates to just stay able to
021to maintain what they currently have. So, with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions you have regarding this resolution. If not, back over to you to for consideration. >> Yeah, I'll make a motion to approve the 2028 resolution resolution. >> Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? Now, we need to close this meeting. Another motion. >> I'll make a motion to close the meeting. >> Second. >> All right. You got a vote. Got a vote on that. >> Oh, sorry. Sorry. >> All right. Now, we open the regular meeting. >> Thank Thank you uh to Mr. Quacam Bush and Thurber and um Mr. McIntyre uh for being here this evening. >> Merry Christmas. So now we'll start the prayer from Harry and >> I got to jump start on the pledge. >> I'm hard
022it's hard to hear me. So if you would join me in prayer. >> Lord, we just thank you for watching over us during this spell of uh tough weather. Thank you for blessing us with a just a great community, great student body, staff and and facilities here and guide us in making good decisions tonight. And I just pray you'll bless everyone here. uh through their time off uh during the Christmas season in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amen. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Any changes to the agenda? Yes, I have one change to the agenda this evening on uh number 25 personnel. I'd like to remove the athletic
023coaches at WMS from the consent agenda. >> I'll make a motion to approve the changes in the agenda. >> Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? Approval of minutes. I'll make a motion. Oh, >> go for >> I'm sorry. Was somebody. Sorry. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes from the September, no, November meeting. >> I'll second. >> Any questions? All in favor? Up to mission moments. >> All right. So, we have the high school here with mission moments. So, Mr. Edwards, if you'd like to introduce your group. Great. >> Uh, good evening everyone. Thank you for allowing us to be here tonight. Uh, I am Ashton Castillo. >> I'm Ashlin Pell. I'm Olivia Septton. >> And I'm Cal Barryman. >> And we are senior members of SLA or student leadership academy. Uh student
024leadership academy is a group of high schoolers uh grades 9 through 12 that come together every Thursday to participate in leadership activities. Um every Thursday we have different uh different leadership activities that will help us not just in school but outside of school. Uh 80 people applied but only 37 people got in and I I'll take you through that application process. So at the beginning of the school year, he announced that SLA would become a thing. And so he gave us papers and on the papers, there were two question, two or three questions we had to answer about what it was like for us to be a leader and what how we were leaders in our school. And then we had to get two letters of written recommendation from teachers or uh coaches. And so
025that's how we kind of got in and of course that Mr. Harman and Mr. Lewis and Mr. Edwards and Mr. chose us and we part of 37 to be an SLA. I'll hand it off to Ashley now. >> Yeah. So, like Ashton mentioned, we meet every Thursday. So, I was going to tell you guys just a little bit about what those Thursday meetings look like. We meet during SRT for 30 minutes and just do different activities together just to kind of get comfortable with each other, but then also um promote our leadership skills. So, actually the first week we got together, we split up into two separate teams, boys and girls, and we just kind of talked about some positive leadership qualities and some also some negative ones. And I think this really just set
026our club up um for good success and to be able to see what kind of leaders we do want to be and what kind of leaders we don't want to be. Um, another thing that we did was something that we like to call speed dating. So, it sounds kind of silly, but we you sit across from your peer or even adult and you talk to them for about a minute or two, just a really quick conversation. And sometimes we have question prompts, but sometimes it's also just, you know, talk to that person, get to know them across from you. And I think when we started doing this, it was really good just to get to know um that person that's sitting across from you because we do have freshman through seniors in this group. So,
027you may not know everyone, but then as we've continued to do it in different um meetings, it's also been nice just to be able to um advance our communication skills and really be able to talk to people one-on-one. Another thing that we did one week was a parent panel. So, I know like my mom came in, Ashton's dad came in, and they just kind of gave us advice on either college or what um like marriage looks like and just advice on what our future life was going to look like. And that was really nice hearing from them because they've obviously been through a lot of life, a lot more than us. So, then it was just really good to hear their input. Um, another thing that we did just right before Thanksgiving break, it was
028showand tell. So we brought in um something that like represented leadership in our um life personally and we were in the auditorium and then the rest of the leadership group was there and we just presented this item to all of our peers and they evaluated us. So this really just helped us with our public speaking because obviously you had to do public speaking like this for this group and also in many leadership things. So that really just helped people I think grow confidence in their public speaking and be able to speak what was on their mind. And then something last that we've been doing is a fishbowl. So, it's kind of like charades and you either act out something or you describe it and it's really just gotten us comfortable with each other and kind
029of brought some fun into the group and not so pressure. So, that's kind of what some of our um weekly meetings have looked like. >> Thank you, Ashlin. Um, one of the best things about SLA is it's so much more than those 30 minute meetings. And one of the way our sponsors do this is by giving us homework assignments each week, which sounds kind of silly for a club, but they give us these assignments that really help expand those leadership qualities into our individual and personal lives. So the very first week, they gave us the assignment to encourage someone outside of your immediate friend group. So someone you normally wouldn't talk to, you'd go up and you compliment them or just help them in some kind of way. And I love this because it started
030to make the habit out of encouraging people in my everyday life, which I felt improved my leadership skills. And then another activity we did was the truth teller. So on your own, you had to ask a family member or a friend what one of your leadership weaknesses were and then spend the rest of the week trying to improve that. And then next week when we got back, we shared how we improved those weaknesses. And I like this because I still look for those weaknesses every day and try to improve on them right away. And I feel like I've made a habit of becoming a better leader just by eliminating those weaknesses. And then lastly, they gave us the mental toughness challenge, which was probably the hardest because they gave us a worksheet and there were
031a whole bunch of different challenges on it. So, one of them was to take a cold shower every day or to memorize a quote, to delete a social media app, which we agreed was the hardest one. And then um or to reach out to a leader in your life that you haven't talked to in a while. So all of these homework assignments build those leadership skills outside of those 30-inute sessions we do every day, which was so awesome because now we have those leadership habits and I mean we're all seniors. So as we go into college, we'll carry those with us. >> All righty. So many of you guys may be wondering, you know, what are the goals of SLA? Like what are you guys trying to accomplish? So the SLA authors, they're trying to
032put us in tough situations where we're going to have to make tough decisions. And I mean, you guys can relate to this. you guys are like like have a lot of leadership in the school. So there's always tough decisions and you know with tough decisions not everybody can be happy with all the decisions you make and that's really something we're trying to emphasize. Mr. Lewis always tells us you know if you want to make everybody happy go sell ice cream because that's the only thing that's going to make everybody happy. So you know that's we're just really trying to emphasize on making sure we're okay in pressured situations. And then for us as students, we're also trying to we have a great group of students at SLA, a great group of kids, but it's not
033all about us. You know, we we're going to try to expand and we're going to try to like make other people feel involved. You know, just because we're an SLA doesn't mean we're just like the leaders and we're above everybody else. We're trying to like make sure everybody else, you know, takes leadership qualities from us and we want people to look at us and be like they have leadership qualities and then they hopefully they can build off what they see in us. And because if everybody if everybody has leadership skills then if whether it be school, a community, work or whatever, everybody has leadership skills and you're going to be successful. So, you know, that's really what we're trying to emphasize. We have a great group of kids at SLA, but it's more than that.
034We're trying to reach other people around. But, um that's all we have today. Um do you guys have any questions for us? Um I want to say that um the November Perk meeting um I was there and uh very impressive young group of people and when they mentioned we were going to do speed dating I thought well that's weird and but honestly it was so nice um to get to know the kids. We we had them I think was it two minutes and then you moved on two or three minutes and then moved on and you had another student in front of you to talk to and get to know each other. This is a very impressive program more than anything to such an impressive group of young people. So and it's nice that you
035they are stretching you beyond your comfort zone. >> So I I thank you and I thank your leaders. >> So I was able to be there also. So I'd like to put a plug in from that. It's the second Tuesdays uh Thursdays at 8:00 a.m. and Mark brings donuts and it's just an informal discussion. So, um I encourage you to come. >> I I had the opportunity to watch the show and tells and they they all did they all did a wonderful job. It's not easy to stand up in front of your peers and share something kind of just off the cuff. And uh they did a great job. And so there's a lot of potential uh in this group and there's a lot of potential even in our hallways with great leaders uh not
036only for our community and beyond but just in our own classrooms and and here are four students that exhibit that very well. So thank you for coming tonight and sharing with us. >> Thank you for having us. >> Thank you. [Applause] >> All right. So, now we're going to move on to Panther Pride. And so, it looks like our first is our cafeteria staff from the middle school. So, I Mr. Bass, do you know who's presenting tonight? >> Okay. >> All right. >> Great. You get to go up to the podium. >> Yeah. And if we could have any of our uh middle school cafeteria staff come on up to the podium as well. It's with um great admiration and gratitude that I nominate the Western Middle School lunch ladies for employees of the month.
037These extraordinary individuals embody the very best of school spirit. They spend each day giving out kindness, generosity, and a steadfast dedication to both our students and the community. Their quiet acts of service, often carried out behind the scenes, leave an indelible mark on everyone fortunate enough to cross their path. One recent example of their heartfelt commitment was on display at Marklin Mall where the lunchl ladies submitted a tree um to week entitled when all hearts come home. Oh, there's a picture of it. >> Yeah. >> Um this wasn't just a beautiful display. It was a symbol of their thoughtfulness and community-mindedness. The tree helped raise an impressive $2,100 for care. Um, also I understand that uh two of our middle school custodians, Kathy Pritchard and Dylan Dukes, helped make this contribution possible. And I have
038to say I was at the mall and looking at the trees and when I saw this I was like, "Oh, that is so nice." And honestly, don't tell my daughter this, but I like it. I was more impressed with it than her business. Don't tell them. Oh, she's not watching. Okay. Service is at the heart of what these ladies do every day. And their compassion extends beyond serving breakfast and lunch to students and staff. On November 11, they dated devoted their time and energy to serve 85 veterans and their families at the middle school. In a world where small gestures matter, these acts speak volumes about their character and sense of responsibility to others. Throughout the school year, their creativity transforms the cafeteria into a place of celebration and joy. Whether it's stringing festive decorations
039for the holidays, adding different touches to the serving line, they go out of their way to make special occasions memorable for the students. Western Middle Schoolers don't just get a nourishing meal, but they also experience the warmth and cheer these wonderful ladies provide. Jack Lazar, their supervisor, praises their unwavering positivity and dedication, calling them the finest team one could hope for. He says they go above and beyond, are always friendly, positive, and pleasant. Mr. Flicken, Mr. Flickinger and Mrs. to point out their willingness to help any task, always without complaint, always with a smile. Mr. Flickinger also added, "All that and they put up with Jack, too." [Laughter] >> Their reputation precedes them. mentioned the lunch lady to anyone and everyone is quick to say how wonderful they are and how fortunate the middle school
040is to have them. To serve middle schoolers every day is in itself a unique challenge, a test of patience, empathy and resilience. And yet these dedicated ladies meet it with open arms hearts and give the students the love, compassion and example to be their bestelves. for all they do for our students and staff, our school. The lunch ladies truly exemplify what it means to lead with love. It is with deepest thanks and respect that I recommend Melissa Steel, Alicia Williams, Candace Parks, Mariah Johnson, Brenda McCoy, Sarah McCay, Terresa Garber, and Sue Mildren for employees of the month. [Applause] Thank you. Thank you. >> Great job. >> Thank you. >> Excellent. Excellent stuff. Right. >> A great heritage. Thank you so much. You're awesome. >> Exactly. All right, congratulations to our middle school cafeteria staff. Um,
041the next employee of the month is Nate Schmidt. So, come on up, Nate. And I think Mr. Bates is going to read this off here. >> Uh, thank you very much. It's my pleasure to uh recognize Mr. Schmidt. Um he was nominated by Jamie Sharp who is unable to be here today. Uh the intermediate has a program going on. Um so I it is my honor to uh talk about Nate here. Uh Mrs. Sharp writes, "I would like to nominate Nate Schmidt for Western's employee of the month. I've known Nate for many years as he was once my daughter's middle school pe. He is a great person and I am happy I've been able to learn from his technology expertise which many of us are very appreciative of. Um he did an outstanding job presenting
042during the new employee training week before school began. Uh I also attended his professional development magic school AI training he coordinated during our e-learning day. Mr. Schmidt is enthusiastic, friendly, professional, and always to help and a great representation of Western. Uh Mr. Schmidt, congratulations for all you do here at Western for our students. >> Good job. >> Great job. Thank you. Also, Nate's doing a 12 days of Techmas um with our staff. And so, what are we on day 10 now? >> Yeah. So, two more days of the 12 days of Techmas. And that's been pretty fun to go through with that. So, now we are ready for the primary school. All right. Good evening. I'm Jessica and I have the amazing honor of having this wonderful lady in my class this year. Um, so
043I'm gonna just talk because I teach first grade. So I can be loud enough that way I can stand with her. So I nominated Everly for student of the month to recognize her outanding attitude, effort and positive example she sets for others. I want everyone to know as her teachers um all her teachers special um past teachers, classmates notice the hard work that she puts into her learning and the kindness that she shows every day. Um always comes to class prepared and tries her best. She approaches challenges with a growth mindset and respectful demeanor. Everly helps classmates thoughtfully during group work and encourages others. Without a doubt, you can always count on to complete assignments on time and follow classroom expectations. But what shines through the most about Everly is her empathy, kindness, and respect
044towards others. I am so proud of you, Everly, and lucky to be your teacher. [Applause] It's all right. Yeah. Great job. Great job. >> Yeah. >> Wow. You're scary work. >> That's a superintendent. I'm not going to. >> All right. So, if we could have the intermediate school come on up. >> Hi guys, I am Alison Parker. I'm a third grade teacher of the intermediate and I am so honored to be here with Miss Liv. All right. Um, I am honored to nominate Zoya McGee for student of the month. If you have not had the chance to meet this sweet girl, you definitely need to. She is a dream. She exudes a light that shines so incredibly bright in her classroom and in her school. She is the student who greets others first thing in
045the morning with a smile on her face. She's always looking for ways to help me and other students. And the best part about Zoya is that she takes initiative and finds opportunities to help others without getting noticed. She doesn't do it to prove that she's better than others. She doesn't do it so that I can see her. She does it because she knows it's the right thing. There have been countless times where I've been working with a student or in small groups and I see her out in the wilderness in my classroom helping other students in the background. She notices when her peers are down and she tries to jump in and help cheer them up. I know I can always count on Zoya to be a good friend and a positive role model for
046her. And for these reasons, I nominate for student of the month. Good boy. >> Great job. and and we have um our middle school student could not be here tonight, so we're going to move them to next uh month, but we have the high school Miranda Smith. Hi, I'm Mrs. Gwyn. Um, I am the middle school health and PE teacher and Mrs. Critzman and I um have nominated Miranda Smith um for student of the month. Um I sent an email to Mrs. Critzman um earlier um after I had Miranda and said, "I just want to let you know what a fantastic the dozen in my class. We are currently in PE and she engages and interacts with the students, has learned games, plays games with them, encourages and praises them, and has led stretches, taken
047attendance, divided teams, officiated, you name it. If I ask her to do it, she doesn't hesitate for a second. I have complete confidence in her. She also asks really good questions when she doesn't understand why I do something a specific way. Very impressed. Miranda is in um the first year of the IUK Tomorrow's Teachers program and is doing an outstanding job. She has high expectations of herself and her academics. Seeing her responses in her coursework clearly shows her love for education and students along with pushing herself to see past what she knows and look to um sorry and look to how she can grow. Miranda is on a great path in her postsecary education and one day I hope will return to Western School Corporation as an elementary educator. She'll be [Applause] >> great job.
048>> Thank you for being here. Hey, just so a couple other things on Panther Pride. Um we did have uh academic spellbull um champions and so Mrs. Lazar had a team there and that's their picture uh receiving their award. I believe that was last month but it was before we could get it on the last school board meeting. And then uh we also had some um uh thespian regional competition award winners uh with our drama club. So just wanted to recognize them as well. So that is all for Panther Pride. All right. We had six people sign up for public comment. I think they all left. I don't think they're here. Oh, you go. Sorry. >> I think it's just me. >> Just you. I'm sorry. Just got it. See, I'm sorry. Y I'm sorry.
049So, yeah. So, if you could state your name, your address, and connection with question, I guess. >> Yep. Okay. Um I'm sorry I'm short, so give me a second. Okay. Um so, my name is Jessica Copel. I um actually live in Cooko, but I am part of the Western school family. Um most of the time you see me up here talking because I am a teacher at Western High School. I teach Japanese and personal finance. Um, most recently I was up here talking to you about our intervention SRTs and um, most of the time I'm here as a teacher. Uh, but today I wanted to come up here as a parent um, and part of the overall bigger Western community um, to kind of show you a glimpse of some of the uh, amazing day-to-day
050differences that some of the people in our community are um, making that I personally had some experiences with uh, in the past year. I'm going to prepare you just a little bit. Um, I'm a crier, a happy crier, sad crier, frustrated, happy, grateful. Um, I tend to get a little emotional, so I'm gonna try not to do that today. But, um, it's been a busy year. Um, so, uh, besides myself at the high school, um, my husband Joe also works at the middle school, my mother works at the intermediate school, um, where my oldest daughter attends, and my youngest is at the primary. Uh we've laughed as a family about trying to find a spot in the admin building for my dad to like hide um while he's retired just so that we can you
051know invade all the buildings. Um and this story is uh coming surrounding my oldest daughter Evelyn um who is a current fifth grader over at the intermediate school um and the massive outpouring of support that we see we received last year um continuing to now from people at every school. Um, so some of you are aware uh from following our story on social media. Uh, but to give a quick recap for those that might not know, uh, my daughter Evelyn uh started encountering a lot of health problems last school year. Um, she started as a very healthy pre-teen at the start of the school year to losing almost 50 pounds um, needing a wheelchair uh, culminating in an emergency admission to Riley uh, Children's Hospital where she uh, flatlined and was forced into a medical
052coma. um and uh diagnosed with a very rare autoimmune disease uh called polymyasitis. Um she was admitted on May 6th at the end of last school year. She did not leave the hospital until uh July 4th. Um leading up to that admission uh was definitely a time filled with lots of fear, um distress, lots of unknowns. Um, however, through all those times, um, there were moments with the Western community members that were kind and made the day-to-day, um, waiting for answers, uh, much more bearable. Uh, first, I'd like to thank and recognize Evelyn's fourth grade teachers, Mrs. Douglas and Miss Herrera, and her specialist teachers like Mrs. Trent. Um, after Christmas break, Evelyn became weaker and weaker, unable to even hold her head up during class or hold a pencil to write for extended periods
053of time. Uh, they met with me personally to help brainstorm ways for Evelyn to show her knowledge um of material without further exhausting her. Uh, they let her stay with them during recess instead of going outside because she felt excluded, because she couldn't go down uh to the playground with her classmates anymore. Um it was hard for her to even walk out from the front of the building to the back of the building. Uh by the end of the day, she frequently needed lifted into the car. Um and we were not uh able to even do things like going up and down stairs. She was not able to get on the floor or anything like that. Um she uh I'll always appreciate how um her teachers always listened to her feelings and kept her self
054esteem intact by asking her, not just me as the parent, uh what they could do to help her. Uh they were very very focused on making sure that she knew she was an individ individual person herself and how important she was to them. Um when Evelyn was ultimately admitted to the hospital, they promptly reached out um trying to include her in class activities like a video call for their class red carpet party. Uh this was a culmination of a book that they had written. Um and at the time they tried to video call her in and unfortunately she was in the middle of surgery and they recorded it with loving messages uh from all of her classmates to her. Um afterwards they organized notes and gifts from her classmates and brought them to her. Um
055even accepting her late homework passes that she had saved from the year to excuse herself from the rest of the school work. Um along with their help, I'd obviously like to highlight Miss Harish, Miss Whitaker, our nurses, Miss Tro and Miss Morris. Uh last year they were instrumental in helping get accommodations started for her and have continued to help her this year with classes and her constantly changing physical and learning needs. Um, I could continue to thank people, but I think overall it's not just the main players who have a part in touching our family, but the little things that other people have done. It's our admin that have worked with my husband and I uh at the high school and the middle school when we needed to call off to take care of her
056and ultimately be with her. Um, Sarah Critzman and Olivia Bright who emailed me to offer to print and grade my final exam so that I personally didn't have to worry about it. um the staff and families at every school, not just Evelyn's classmates, uh but my st my husband's students and my students who went sent wellw wishes and cards. Um the months leading up to and during Evelyn's hospitalization made it really obvious that we weren't alone. Um and it truly showcased to me what it means to be a Panther. Um being a Western Panther means being part of something that's bigger where multiple people uh come together to help with the big things and the small things like offering food. uh money and support. Evelyn's story by itself is a miracle. Um but something that
057makes it even more amazing is it just wasn't one one group of people, but a web of connections where people made a difference just by doing something little. Um other individuals who were going through their own problems and challenges made an effort to be part of them to give part of themselves to our family. And sometimes we look at that big picture, we miss all the little things. Um, but I think we have a lot of great people who attend, work out, and support Western that deserve to be recognized for what they're doing and the impact they're making just by being here on a day-to-day basis. Um, I'm extremely proud to be a Panther and I hope you guys are, too. >> Thank you, Jesse. public child. >> Yeah, I think I think and there
058was a couple students. >> Yeah, there's four students signed in. They all left chickened out. All right. So, I think we're up to director of finance. Uh and working our way through the report, we'll start with the in a month balance being 20,499,98.90. Uh investments that we still have in CDs, we have one CD uh left out that will come back in March. Within that CD, the total is $680,845. The interest paid this period being November, $62,18.99. The fund totals without the CDs, we've already mentioned uh with the CDs, the total is 21,180,753.90. Payroll claims that are being submitted for the board's approval total 1,426,1866. >> Vendor claims that are being submitted for the board's approval total 2,734,62.72. Other notes that I will mention, our bond payments totaling $2,623,66 are scheduled to be paid out
059on December 23rd. As a reminder, we make a bond payments twice a year. Uh once at the end of June and then once at the end of December. Uh those totals, those bond payments are not included in the docket that you're approving today. uh they'll be on the docket in January, but I did because of the size and the importance of these payments wanted to give the board the opportunity to review them. Uh which you and the supporting documentation have the ability to review each of the bond payments individually. Obviously ask questions today uh if you have them. Uh the last thing I'll mention has to do with the 2025 end of the year stipens. As a reminder, at the November board meeting, we asked and received your approval uh to do a end of
060the year stipen of which we gave out on December 5th payroll. Uh the total of that individually was $500 for contracted teachers, $500 for 260day employees. So, classified staff uh classified staff that were between 210 and 259 days received 450. And then all other board approved employees received $400. The impact to our funds of this end of the year stipen in the education fund totaled $124,790.85. Uh to operations it was $35,761.95. To the part B Kasich funds $25,926.19. and then to food service accounts, $12,36040. Uh not cheap, but as we've spoken to the board, we think it's important that we are continually making efforts to attract, reward, and retain a high quality staff. Uh both on the instructional classroom side, but also on the classified staff. Uh I hope that this was one way that
061the the board and the administration could show our appreciation to the staff that we do have. Uh you received the rest of my supporting documentation. If you have any questions, more than happy to answer. Otherwise, I submit for your approval. >> I'll make to accept the treasures report. >> I'll second. >> Any questions? >> All in favor? >> I would say that I had a lot of people that said thank you. So, >> yeah. >> The opportunity to look at my report. more of the same uh case conferences. Um we did wrap up our December one count and we'll be having Mark sign off on that here in the next week. We had kind of a window here where we can make some changes to errors and we lost three students and some download and
062so we're just keeping keeping rolling forward with it, but I think we're at 414. Um that's what we've ended with for our December one count. Um uh we're also wrapping up the end of the year reports for high ability grant for title grant getting all those in. Um we also started um looking at second semester testing that will be coming quickly. Um and our first one is the weed testing with those English language learners and so we started pushing out the trainings for the teachers for that. Any questions about my report? >> Does the title grant is there any bearing on how many students we have in the program >> as far as title goes? I'd have to look into that to see what what that what the numbers are for the students. >> It
063does vary from year to year. >> Does but does it >> does it make a difference on how much we receive in in a grant? No. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Questions Craig. >> Just a few updates. Um real quick I wanted to mention uh I know we've been talking about the website for a little bit. We've had a little delay in that. Um, but I think um, which I think all of you I think Natalie sent or Mark sent the link and you've looked through it. Um, if there's any questions or anything, by all means, let let Mark know and we can um, take a look at those. Um, but we're looking at Monday um, this coming Monday for for a launch. Um, and we're going to do a bigger announcement for that launch
064coming up here um, probably right at the first of the year. So, um, we wanted to do it over the break so we have time to look through it, um, make sure all the links are good and everything like that. So, um, I wanted to give an update on that and apologize for the little bit delay in our, um, releasing that. Another, um, update I wanted to been working with the, uh, counselors on the high school and and Steve on, um, some of the tracking, uh, software that they purchased. I know in I think it was uh Panther Perk we we talked about a little bit of the the requirements where the counselors have to track a lot of the uh um the diploma types and everything like that. Um we do have an application
065I've been working with Sherry and the counselors. Um they've been they've been very helpful and been working through that here the last few weeks uh trying to get that up and running. Um that's one of the big bigger projects that we're working on. Um, and then day-to-day stuff, we have items during the the break that we're just going to be um a few odd in items that working off. So, any questions? >> Yeah. Will we be using our same usernames and passwords for the website or will we have to re-establish that or >> uh there shouldn't be any usernames and it's just the main corporation website and the building websites. Okay. You won't have to log into anything. Okay. >> Different than what you do already. >> Okay. like your your login access to like
066diligent things like that that won't change that that >> part will be embedded into the the website like for especially the public to log in >> and so on and so forth but that actual structure won't change it just be linked into the new website. Okay, >> great. >> How are we going to keep that updated new information? I know the old one it's hard you have a lot of things you want to capture but how's it in charge of keeping it fresh? >> And I don't know if if Mark you want to chime in a little bit. Um that's where we are utilizing Natalie. Um one of the things because she isn't on campus. Um Craig's developed like a a um photo bank and then you know we encourage those individuals that put the
067photos in there to just give a small caption and then like I say Natalie then does her magic. >> It's up to the extracurricular activity to to keep it. >> Yeah. and and she she's every once in a while. She'll be at a football game. She was at graduation when she is available. She since she's in the community, she does uh come to those and we'll snap some pictures here or there, but you know, anything. It's kind kind of like the uh the newspaper anymore. You know, we we send stuff in caption and you know, you get a little you know, seventh grade uh sports clip or whatever, you know. So that's kind of how we're we're doing that right now since we don't have somebody fully dedicated on campus to do that. >> And
068there'll be in the buildings we'll have be able to put events directly onto the to their calendars per building as their events in their building are going on. Um because I you know sometimes I don't know. >> Oh yeah. You want everything >> everything going on across the district buildings do a better job >> and even like the district calendar. We were working through some of those things because nobody needs to like know that hey the third grade's watching a movie at the auditorium but in but our district calendar like for us internally does. So, when we first put the website and looked at it like live, a few of us, we noticed that those things were on the website and it's like, yeah, we don't need to know that much information. So, we're working
069through some of those pieces. >> Real quick, I see um the link when it has like athletics in there. Is that being maintained or is that still being maintained ex like separately from them? >> So, the athletics the high school athletics website is maintained. Um Erin works with a company that that makes site and keeps that site updated. I am not familiar with um the company that is doing that. So he does facilitate that. >> No, good. >> Nope. >> Yeah. >> So I have a question on on photos. So every a lot of kids show up there. Do they have to have a form that says we allow photos or they have to have a form that says we don't? Which way do we do that? >> There is a in in online registration.
070There's a there's a piece in there all registration where they um accept either to have their photos published or not published and the offices keep those more often than not they are that most of them do allow the publishing. One thing we do not do is we don't put at least in our in my practice we do not put names to pictures >> so you can identify them. But publication things also would include like if your name was published for the honor role. If you don't want things published, it wouldn't even be listed in the paper for honor honor role and different awards like that as well. >> So that seems that's a bit of a task to make sure you don't have kids on there. >> Do they have to opt out or you
071give them the option? Do they have to commit for that situation? Do they have to >> It's an op it's an opt out. >> Opt out. >> It's an opt out. >> You don't ask everybody but they want >> They do get asked. Yeah, they get asked, but they would have to say we choose not to be published. >> Yes, they all have to be asked. Y >> Okay, >> any other questions? >> Just a last comment. I like the look of the website. It's really clean and crisp. >> Natalie's done >> great work. She's way >> especially Especially if you do a side by side >> with the old one and the new one. >> Well, I think the app's going to help too. Yes, the app that the app will be the parent
072square app will probably be >> because the site itself will run as a as an app, but it's not a true app. Y, >> but Parent Square, we're going to Parent Square in 26. I don't have an exact time the actual Parent Square app yet. I know it shows up on there, but we don't we aren't truly going to Parent Square app yet. >> We will be in 26. Anything else? Barrett, how we get tonight? >> Yes. Uh, good evening. Thank you, Mr. Gaskins. Um, couple things going on in our office here as we wrap up for the, uh, the holidays. Um, we've, uh, completed, uh, school safety, um, disciplinary wise, I will have a report for you guys in January for the first semester, which will cover, um, August through what we're in now,
073December. Um, also I plan on attending the um, Department of Education Safety Summit um, coming up on January 6th and 7th. Uh, when it comes to transportation, um, just hats off to all of our drivers and our, uh, folks in the bus barn. Um, with the weather, it's it's always, uh, quite interesting, but they've done a great job with the kids, so we do appreciate that. Um, picture of us there. They have a parade in Cooko every year, and some of our drivers and some students were involved in that. So, it's always good to uh to showcase that and represent Western. So, greatly appreciate that uh that there. Um also, our our drivers are uh completing their annual safety meeting courses, which they have to complete before December 31st, so they can't drive. So, um
074we've definitely been on them to complete that. So, it's usually not a problem for them to get that done. Uh then finally on curriculum uh I know right now the uh students they're working on finals in the high school and a little bit in the middle school um finishing up iLearn checkpoints and the uh NWA winter testing window so I'll have those results for you guys as well in January. Um so I won't try to take up too much time this evening. Um also hats off to uh Jordan Pridemore who uh came in. I mentioned her name last board meeting. She's been coming in to help work with right now the the elementary side on uh curriculum, curriculum mapping, vertical alignment, um standards. She met with the intermediate last week and then tomorrow she'll be
075here uh to work with the primary. So, she's been doing a great job and our teachers have been appreciating that. Um she's not adding more work. she's simply coming beside them to help them with what they've done already um to help alleviate some of that stress with a lot of the things that the state is changing. Um so that is uh my report for you for December pending your questions. >> Questions for Barrett. >> Thank you sir. >> Thank you >> Mark. Superintendent report. >> Yeah just a couple items. You've had a opportunity to see my report but um a couple highlights. Uh we did meet as the career center and we discussed uh some of the insurance concerns and issues that we have with some of the workbased um opportunities and pathways for some
076of our students especially uh the medical um uh the medical careers uh path. uh the hospitals will not let the students involved in those um areas unless they have uh liability insurance. And so they're asking the schools to take that on. Um and so we're having some challenges with uh the providers to have something that's reasonable. Um right now, um the original quote was $5,000 for uh it'd be two students for us, but then we would have to continue that policy as um that would end or the our liability insurance for those students would end if we would end that policy. So even 2 years, 3 years down the road if there was u malpractice or whatever in that medical situation, uh we would have to continue that insurance. And so we're not really excited
077about that. We think there should be a better way, but um we think that this is going to be a continued issue and challenge that we're faced with as more students are being put out into workplaces and uh being able to provide that insurance for them, especially if um the uh business isn't willing to take on that insurance themselves. So, that's kind of a hot topic right now over at the career center. Um we did meet with our um workman's comp um insurance um provider, Eastern Alliance, uh the other day. Um something that is encouraging, a couple years ago, we had about $200,000 in workman's comp claims. This year, I believe it was around 3,000. So, we've improved our practices uh quite a bit and just awareness and and training with individuals. But one of
078the things that we even talked about yesterday was the fact that um even a practice that a lot of people don't realize uh we are we are brining now on campus. So we're actually spraying the the brine that you see people spray on the road. So we're doing that on our sidewalks. We're doing that in our parking lots. And I know um we had a lot of snow, but our our guys have done a really good job of getting a lot of the ice off the sidewalks where you see slips and falls are usually your your number one um issues with workman's comp. And so, uh just doing those things and we actually with the um the truck that we have outfitted with the brine system, it has GPS, so it will show the individual
079where they have sprayed, when they have sprayed. So all of those treatments are there. So we're trying to just create better practices to make it a safer place, especially in the winter time when we have uh snow and ice and uh taking care of those things because we have thousands of feet walking on those sidewalks every day. Um, also we've been collaborating a lot with area school districts and superintendent on just navigating the TAG grant. Um, that's going to be coming up here in mid January uh where we have to submit uh individuals into the uh to the state who will be awarded that. One of the greatest challenges, I think I've mentioned this before, is uh it's been underfunded to even provide for 20% of our teaching population. It's about 15% of our teaching
080population. Um, and so we're just navigating that to kind of see how other schools are are navigating that as well, whether you give a reduced amount or you give the amount that the state statute says. Uh, we're seeing that most schools are are leaning towards the part of following state statute, which I agree with. Um, so we wouldn't we won't be able to give 20% of the award. we'll have to give about 15% of our population that award to follow the state statute there. And then also um just uh you probably have seen we've had some deliveries of um our solar uh spaces. So we had a bunch of racking uh over by the bus barn is starting to fill up uh because they will start work in January on some of the solar. So,
081just to know that semis are dropping stuff off and things are moving and shaking even at uh sub-zero temperatures. So, anyways, that's all I have. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer anything for you. >> Yeah, >> I you know that $5,000 for students like what about candy stripers? I don't know if they even still have those, but I mean, >> yeah, the So, these individuals in the the medical um and Steve, do you remember what that's called? It's a medical There's a word I'm missing. >> Uh medical practitioner or something. I can't remember what the exact pathway is called, but they're actually they'll be giving shots and blood draws and Yeah. So, they're not >> Yeah. It's It's not It's not We're Yeah. this is like legit >> legit stuff. It's
082it's beyond CNA um practices. And so that's that's the that's the gray area that great ideas, but you know, insurance does control a lot of things when it comes to what we can and can't do. And so just trying to find the right the right place whether it's you know each individual school taking on this responsibility is the career center that takes on the responsibility you know how how long do these insurance policies last and there's there's it's messy and so we're trying to figure that out right now and nobody has a good answer. >> I didn't realize it would be that intense and I imagine there'd be too many patients that would want students working I don't want anybody taking my blood draw anyways. So, >> so to piggyback on that, so like they,
083you know, like Purdue for example, they have externships for, you know, just my field for pharmacy, but the school um is part of their fees they have to pay towards that liability insurance that's covered for every kid. Now, would that be a potential option looping like I don't know what the amount would be of course for the coverage, but in terms of fees at the beginning of the year that are automatically looped in for like say high school students that could be part of their >> I think also though it's it's a pretty substantial ask. I mean because I think the policy will cover up to 10 students. So one to 10 students is $5,000. Well, if you only have one student, >> then that's a big bill to cover. And then also, how long
084do you carry that how long do you have that coverage >> beyond if you're a senior in high school? >> You know, are you carrying that that coverage for the next three years, four years? I don't know the the limit of how how long somebody has to make a claim on something medically. So, those are some of the areas that are just uncharted waters for us that we're trying to navigate. >> I've got an idea. We'll discuss >> it. There's like I've got liability insurance just as a pharmacist, but it's through HPSO, but it's not that much. >> Yeah. >> So, but it's like a couple hundred bucks. So, >> okay. Yeah, we're we're open to ideas because we don't have a good answer right now. >> I mean, there's some other things kids can
085do. I We used to have we can have volunteers at the hospital. They are going to learn a lot. They're sure not giving shots. One of the problems they're are already on limited visitation because every winter we go through the flu season and they don't allow visitors under 18. So that's another complication. >> Yeah, there's um there's just a lot of a lot of unknowns with some of the new um graduation um pathways and requirements kids have that we're going to continue to grow through. um you know, especially as we see the um upcoming um recommendation for the school letter grades and those requirements. And so that's just going to kind of be a shift in mindset and shift in um some of the things that we may have done in the past that we
086may have to look at changing in the future as well. So, >> so is there any chance that you could also go to the ISBA and have Terry go to legislation on the legislators on what they can do to help with this situation because it's such an impact? you know, I I think that's that's going to be something that we'll be discussing with with legislators because, you know, there's a lot of things that um you know, decisions and and and I think a lot of times the decisions are well intended, but sometimes we don't know the the back results of some of those things. And this is just one of those good intentions, but there's some other barriers or hurdles that we have to jump through. Sure. Thank you, Mark. To the pay claims to
087the end of the year. This is a resolution that we pass uh each each December that allows us to pay claims that come in between this board meeting and the end of the year. Uh this makes sure that we get people vendors paid on time. It also allows us to use leftover 2025 appropriations towards those payments. Make a motion we approve the appropriations through the end of the year. >> I'll second. >> Any questions? >> All in favor? >> Review for inter intermediate school novels. >> Yes. So, the intermediate school uh would like to do a 30-day review on three novels that uh they would like to be able to utilize in the classroom. and one is Hatchet, the other one is Out of My Mind, and the third one is Number the Stars. And
088so asking for 30-day review, and then that'll come back probably in depending on how the calendar falls, it'll probably be two board meetings before we do the approval on that. But we'll have these over here in the boardroom for review. need on that one. Overnight field trips for the all state choir and honors choir from middle school. >> So, we've we've done this in years past where we have the all state um honor and honors choir uh just asking for your permission to have an overnight stay. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? >> Yes. >> Neiola board policies >> and asking for your approval of the Neola policies that are presented. >> Make a motion that we approve the Niola policies. >> I'll second. >> Any questions? >> Just on.
089So on the first one, everything's crossed out. Does that mean that policy is deleted? >> Those are the ones that were under technical I believe technical correction. And the ones that are crossed out for you is that is that what we did on those, Laura? >> Which one are you? >> Well, so just >> Oh, those are the rescended ones. >> Yeah. So, those are Yeah. completely out. I'm sorry. Technical corrections were last month. >> Any other questions on the policies? All in favor of their approval? >> Donations. >> Yes. asking your approval for the generous donations um from you know Panther Pack to the Masonic Lodge and we had some various uh donations from our Christmas concerts um that were given to the choir. So very generous gifts. >> I'll make a motion to
090accept the generous donations from these patrons. >> Second. Any questions? All in favor? >> Personnel. >> All right. Asking for your approval of the um personnel that's presented. >> Make a motion we approve the personnel. >> I'll second favor professional development >> and asking for your approval of the professional development requested. So moved. >> Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? All right. Ready for board member round table. Start with uh last for sure. >> Thank you for being here and merry Christmas. Enjoy the break. >> Merry Christmas and happy holidays. I appreciate um again all of the mission moments and the celebrations at the beginning. Thank you to all the educators who post things on Facebook. That's a great way to catch up on what's soon and thanks to to Spencer for all of
091the good press we get in the Cooko Tribune. >> Well, I'd like to um congratulate all the people who um did such great things with the middle school academic spell bowl and the drama club and also our patrons who are so generous donating to our school. and I wish you all merry Christmas and boy, I'm sure you need a break and glad you're getting whatnot. >> Well, first and foremost, uh so I want to say thank you to Rachel Schmidt, first year teacher that we had out of the intermediate. So that's why I was gone for part of the meeting was uh for the third grade uh Christmas program. Did a phenomenal job. Uh couldn't be prouder. So, uh, give a shout out to to her, to Jamie and, uh, Kristen, uh, for helping with
092that as well. Uh, just reiterate, merry Christmas to everyone. Hope everyone enjoys the holiday break. Very welld deserved. It's a happening place this week here at, uh, our school corporation. Just tonight, we got like three basketball games going on. >> Uh, and then we got the the program over there at the auditorium. We got the Nutcracker this Friday again >> and with more games. So, it's uh it's it's great to see uh all the great things going on. >> Gary, >> well, just that you know, the story that Jessica Kobal told I think is a reflection on you guys and and your buildings and how you love your staffs. It was touching. I have to agree with Harry. Jesse's story about Elizabeth and all they've been through and what they've been doing and and the
093way the community, the school, the students have rallied around and the teachers is tremendous and just an example of how blessed we are. >> Everyone a merry Christmas, happy new year, and we'll see you in 2026. >> Great. We have any documents signed? >> Make a motion to adjurnn. Yeah. All in favor? We are journed.