001read in close session. >> I'll move. >> Motion made by Jeff Stall. I'll second. Call roll, please. >> Hilbert, >> yes. >> Leaper, yes. Stall, >> yes. >> Wood, >> yes. >> Brownie, yes. >> Campbell, >> yes. >> Guerrero, >> yes. Uh, motion to employ Rachel Allen as high school color guard coach effective immediately. >> Motion made by Jessica Browning, seconded by Matt Wood. Call roll, please. Stall? >> Yes. >> Wood? >> Yes. >> Brownie? >> Yes. >> Campbell? Yes. >> Guerrero. >> Yes. >> Hilbert. >> Yes. >> Leaper. >> Yes. >> Motion to employ Bobby Gilbert as an atwill SVI pair professional effective immediately. >> So move. >> Motion made by Jeff Stall. Is there a second? >> Uh second. This question though. Does any language in there that upon completion? >> Well my
002my biggest thing is >> I'm just asking. >> Okay. >> It's at will. I think >> yeah, it's at will and then we need to make sure that impending I'm sure everybody has to have their background checks and all those things. So, >> thank you. >> Okay, so call roll, please. >> Wood, >> yes. >> Brownie, >> yes. >> Campbell, >> yes. >> Guero, >> yes. >> Gilbert, >> yes. >> Leaper, yes. Stall, >> yes. >> Uh, motion to employ Joe Beth Page as a volunteer assistant, high school and middle school cross country coach, effective immediately. Motion made by Lorie Campbell. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Martha Leaper. Call roll, please. >> Brownie, >> yes. >> Campbell, >> yes. >> Guerrero, >> yes. >> Silver, >> yes. >> Leaper, yes. Stall, >> yes.
003>> ISB report. >> Uh, I have my consent agenda first. Is that not >> I'm sorry. Yeah. >> Okay. So, I Everyone received the consent agenda. I think some parts trickled in. Did everybody have a chance to look at it this afternoon? >> All right, we're good to go. So, anyone have any questions? All right, so I need a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. [Music] >> Motion made by Matt Wood. Is there a second? I'll second. Call roll, please. >> Campbell, >> yes. >> Guerrero, >> yes. >> Gilbert, >> yes. >> Leaper, yes. Stall, >> yes. >> Wood, >> yes. >> Brownie, >> yes. >> All right. The IASB update um is fairly brief. There is an Abe Lincoln um the first division meeting on October 2nd if anybody's interested. It's up
004at West Lincoln Broadwell this time. Um there's also information that there's a new board member web page. We don't have any new board members. and um there's an IASB community that you're able to log into on their page um and they sort of chat back and forth if there's questions. Yeah. >> So that's that's sort of new. I actually hadn't seen it until today. So um sort of discussing things that we all may have questions on. So might have some pertinent information. All right. Now, where are we? Building reports. >> Yep. So, uh, you've received your building reports from the principles. Does anybody have any questions? >> I don't think so. I enjoy Did we figure out a way to post them? I enjoy them. >> Um, is there a way to get them posted
005>> monthly or post them? >> Mr. Greie posts them. >> Does he? They are up there. And do they go per building or are they going on district page? >> They're I believe they're on I believe they're in each building. >> Per building. Okay. Yeah. I think they're very informational and I think it's good for us to do you guys have anything beyond your report that you feel you need to point out. >> It's been a good first week. I mean we kids so at least my building I know we've been all busy but >> it's been really nice. I mean the atmosphere and everything has been really good. Excited to be back. So >> good question. I did not go back and look at all the handbooks, but um Kylie, in your report, you
006had the attendance protocol. >> Yeah. >> Which I like that. So, is that attendance protocol across the district or is that just for your building? >> That was one we worked on together as an admin team. >> Okay. >> Um that we, you know, made sure was aligned good a lot better than what we had to go in line with what we changed last year semester. So, >> Yeah. I like that. I mean, it's very clear and has good boundaries and should be easy to know when you >> need to take a step with somebody. >> Yeah, I think it's a little bit more clear to talk to like children and stuff just more clear with parents and everybody where all those different levels of interventions and everything come into play. So, I like that.
007Do we have any enrollments that didn't take part either in the online enrollment or the day of did we have anybody like filter in here the first day of school or was everybody like two days ago >> from the teacher? >> So we were getting that all taken care of. We just got residents and everything. I think they just didn't realize like we had the in person thing going on so it might be a ride of school so we were flexible and getting that work start I think Friday decided so um yeah so we just had to wait for transcripts coming back for some of the kids to make sure they're placed correctly but um just got a couple um I saw my two other international kids coming two more from Poland and Germany so
008um but I think that's >> well I would say definitely like since I've been here I feel like the Roman's gotten better like everybody's communicating better. Um, I feel like we have more bullet points to look at of who could be accepted and someone doesn't have the right stuff. It's nice that all the secretaries and principles are talking about it, >> making sure that we all are aware cuz a lot of times you got kids in every building. >> Yeah. >> So, it's nice that like even with the situation that the kids are coming and we've all been going back and forth because we found out that they were absent from their last school for the last quarter. So, we've been kind of looking at their grades and digging deeper to see if their placements.
009We found out one of them needs to be back in the grade that they should have passed. >> So, that's kind of nice to know that it's not just one eyes or things are just being filtered through just because the parents said so. >> More cohesive. >> Yeah. I think everything went registration like we maybe had two or three per building and that was just like older like they just had trouble with the computer. They don't have a computer at home. Besides that, I think everything went fine. So the inerson registration was really nice for the new families because the secretary was able to do the paperwork and all that and I was able to like do the tours and walking through the buildings and get to know the kids and kind of show around.
010Um and then with the online it was very easy to pull the pull reports and pull reports on the families that hadn't registered yet. We were able to like just touch base via phone. Um it found out that a couple had moved um a couple were struggling with the computer and she was able to walk through that just print off the list and who are best. >> Good. All right. So, we're in the right direction. We're getting there on our online. All right. I like it. >> Yeah. Thank you, Mrs. Burge, for really taking the uh taking the bull by the horns with the online registration and getting that worked out. That's been very beneficial for us. >> Okay. Moving on to superintendence report. >> Um little budget update. our EVF numbers came out uh
011and I was going to let you know we saw uh the estimates from that showing a a moderate increase for us as well as our uh estimates for our corporate personal property replacement tax looking about a 2% increase in the estimate. Um if we get all that that will be great. Um I am not sure on the transportation claim. There's a lot of unknown with that right now. Um Mrs. Meadows has has worked through um some of that and we've worked through some some things that we saw um to maybe help us increase that claim uh quite a bit. But the claims were due on the 15th and they were prrated previously at 80%. Um, and from what I've heard from from the CFO at ISBY and then also another one of the uh CPAs
012that works through there that I've been discussing with, they are projecting that once these numbers all come in and the dust settles that that the vocational and regular transportation is going to be prrated at a rate of about 71%. And special ed is going to be prorated about 61%. Um, now who knows? I don't know if they're trying to underell and overperform or if that's exactly what but there's just a lot of unknown there with that. So, like I said, the numbers that we got to spit out that aren't even using the EAV from last year and stuff yet um have us coming in at an increase over what we were supposed to get last year. But also, those numbers aren't set in stone and we don't even know what the final proration will be
013until they collect everybody's stuff, do their calculations, and give that back. But I'm hoping we get our first payment last year about September 24th, but there's a correction window that's open till October or November even. So, we'll start getting payments, but then those could change. Last year, our fourth payment was a little bit more than our first three. Um, but I'm not going to hold my breath on that. I'm going to estimate very conservatively uh within the budget before I bring that that final tenative budget to you in September. So, that's the biggest groundbreaking thing there. Um, I will, speaking of transportation, I was going to go ahead and talk to you guys tonight a little bit about um, we had done an adjustment um, on what we pay for the activity shuttle that goes
014between us and Tri City or us and Meridian. Um, and I was trying to do some some kind of cost-saving measures there, but I really don't think it's going to be worth it for us to do that. Um, in terms of just some some folks that aren't, you know, interested or willing to do that. Um, so I am going to ask in September, unless anybody has any objections to it tonight, um, that maybe we have a motion to bring that back to the initial $45 that we were paying, but without a, you know, without any action to raise that again for quite some time. Um, but I just want to make sure that we are getting kids transported safely and where they need to go in a timely manner. Um, but more on that in
015September. But if you guys are good with that, nobody has any problems, I can start making that adjustment and then we can take official action in September. Um, facilities update, the bus barn is is uh starting to kind of come together a little bit more. I've been working with um with a group called FedServe through uh Tech to America, which is through our purchasing cooperative. Um, and he is working on a draft contract for me right now. I did provide you with preliminary numbers um which ultimately added up to um about upwards about 523 million um >> so I'm sorry, thousand. >> I was looking at the word million whenever I was saying that. So >> no no building a bus barn has been difficult enough and the school and so here we go. So
016yeah, we don't have those kind of funds. Um but yeah, the 523,000 which was was close to the estimate I was projecting, you know, we need to look at moving about 525,000 >> um from working cash into uh fund 20 or 60 um to maybe to do that once the time comes. Now that'll be in lie of the actual tear down cost. That's not included within this. Um the one quote that I have gotten on that one was for about 15,000 to take that down. um but maintain the electric, the sewer, the things that we are going to need there to tie into. Um so just keeping that in mind. Uh and he will still he's he's provided us with the with the estimates and stuff. He's been working with Bluer um who had kind
017of provided us with some plans before. Um and then if we enter into an agreement with them um we can start getting uh moving on some stuff. and he thinks we could at least get a bus shelter put up before winter, which would be my target right now. >> Are these similar to what we're already in? I know you talked about that. >> The shelters will not be. No, these will be closer to what we had out there before. It'll be longer. Um, but it'll be uh a long structure. It'll come out far enough to get over the windows of the bus, have a space to plug in. >> See that one? >> Lights. >> I was just trying to >> visualize. I wasn't sure on the depth of what we were looking at. I
018was >> It looks very narrow here, but I'm sure >> it'll be about it's about 12 ft. >> Okay. >> Um in terms of the depth 14 and Sunday. So I was trying to visualize what we were getting. >> Yeah. >> Theirs are full t full size structures um to park completely inside of and we're just going to try to get the front, you know, in and be a place to plug up more than anything. Um, and then the uh the garage itself, we should be able to fit about two buses in if we need to, which I said with the activity bus and the vans and stuff, we can kind of get those guys in there. Um, so if we get going with that, I was going to ask tonight during new business if
019we could go ahead and of course pending attorney uh review of the contracts and things like that. I've already had our attorney looking at the uh the Tech to America agreement which is about 71 pages long which is through our purchasing cooperative just to make sure all the all the uh things are met that we need to meet. Um and then the contract with this contractor would be much more basic and so he has started reviewing that over the last two days but if you permit me to I will go ahead and continue on with that. Um, playground phase one is complete with the exception of we do want to look at maybe placing a sidewalk around it to kind of hold everything together. We started to do the dirt work and things like that
020and think it it would just be better for erosion sake um in the port in place to go ahead and do a sidewalk around it. Bruce is pretty confident that he can take care of that. Uh, and also thinks that would be a better option. Um, we've started looking at phase two and I'll probably next month start bringing you some some drawings. Uh, Miss Wellbomb's been working with uh Pat who was from playing park structures on putting something together and and talking with Bruce over the summer and we were looking at the initial plan was to go back behind where the existing uh playground is at, but that's going to take a lot of sight work. There's electrical lines buried in there's all all kinds of things in terms of erosion and stuff that we're
021worried about. And Bruce said, 'You know, we've got all this space right across the parking lot here and it's very flat. It's very level. All the runoff is is away from that. He goes, "What if we look at maybe placing a playground in that area?" Um, and so that's what we've been looking at and I think would be a really good option um moving forward to look there because we're not going to have to do all the engineering and the tile work and things like that. Uh, and then we can go ahead and pull the the remaining uh, bad stuff out of the playground and put that out to seed and kind of have a soccer field and stuff like that, which I think then if we have grass and things out there will hold
022the water better um, to where we don't have a a huge ditch uh, going through all the time where the kids are playing at. Um, so when I get some more of those design stuff, I will share those with you. We haven't got any pricing or anything yet on what we've been looking at. I'm guessing they're going to come in around $200,000 with the amount of port in place. We are looking at cost-saving aspects though, like doing the rubber mulch under the swings with swing mats, um, and things like that. So, once we kind of get a better idea of what we're looking at with what we've drawn up so far, we can kind of go back to the drawing board and see where we're at and come back to you guys. >> You said
023in your recommendation northwest of the building, is that where the baseball field is? So it would be >> that a little bit south of the current playground. >> It would be kind of east of where the baseball field's at. So I guess that would be it's northwest of the school, but it's going to be southeast of the ball field there. >> Okay. >> Or directly east of the current playground. Um it's kind of where we have the sign for the Welby walk. >> Oh, the parking lot ends, but there's kind of >> to the concession stand field. I think there's some trees there that we may have to look at taking down um or at least one of them or something to get into that space there, but we haven't measured everything out exactly right
024there. >> There was only one tree there when we had Yes. And we literally during the ball thing this we were like all huddled. There was like 40 of us under one tree trying to get >> some kind of shade. It was 100°. All right. >> So they they put shades up with playgrounds now, so that shouldn't be a shouldn't be a big deal. So, yeah, we're looking at that and hopefully he'll get something back to us pretty soon and we can come back and and present that to you to look at. So, um good stuff. Uh SVMS updates, parking lot project is done. Um we got a lot of the drainage out of there, um with the help of the village and the township. There's still some there. I was happen to be there
025talking to Christina last week um when we had that good popup shower where we had a lot of rain in a very short amount of time and I got to go out and play in the water a little bit and look at it. Um, people probably thought I was crazy. I had to get some looks from people as I was driving around in my car around the parking lot and getting out and walking around periodically. Um, we don't have quite the lake that was out there. Um, there's still some drainage that's, you know, in effect out there, but overall the parking lot looks pretty good. Um, I'm pretty happy with it. The the handicap stalls look awesome that they did. Um, I think it was a very big improvement. The tuck pointing is is working.
026I think all the grinding is complete. We've got the ceiling and stuff that we need to finish up. He is projecting we'll be completely done by the 25th. So, we'll see. They've been limiting their work pretty much to evenings and weekends now uh since kids are back in school to kind of stay out of the mix there. Um but I am pretty confident we're going to get that fixed up. There's a few broken sidewalks from the heavy equipment. They're going to replace those uh before they get out of there. That'll be the last piece of the puzzle. Uh and we should be good to go there. Uh the classroom renovations have been done. Um I do want to look at some drainage uh situations that I showed the facilities committee as we were walking around
027that are out there from where the gutters are coming. Um I think that we can we can do some stuff there to kind of get that away from the building and and help that out a little bit. Uh Intech has been in helping out with the uh checking out some of the air conditioners throughout the district, but primarily in that west side of the building there um that we've had the most problems with. And we've been collecting data uh for about a week and a half now that we're hoping to kind of get some ideas on some control solutions maybe that we can do um to kind of get those things a little more lined out. At least they have them running uh when they should be running at this point. Um but we need
028to have a way to control them and make sure that we can turn them off when we need to turn them off and that they're not working on a weird schedule. Um, we have had some discussions with with NG or Opterant, whatever they're called now. Um, they were pretty fruitless other than them at least giving us the data that they said they had in terms of set points and stuff. Um, but, uh, they pretty much said, "Oh, it was working when we left." I don't know, you know, what happened, but I said, "I I don't know that they were ever working that well, but we're going to try to figure out what's going on and and try to get some of the things uh taken care of." We did have uh a case with all
029this humidity and we are in a terrible humid time that I can't really remember in recent uh times, but I know the locker room, the boys locker room at Ilopoulos, we found right before school, they found some some mold growing on the walls and it was a a pretty good size job. I think that we've got it figured out now. We had a couple dehumidifiers running in there. I did have Purus come uh and they cleaned the area up for us. I did the walkthrough with them. They did a great job. Um, identified some problem areas maybe that we need to to give some uh some attention to in terms of some cracks in the concrete and stuff like that that we should fill up because they think moisture could be entering in through there.
030Um, the locker room is not air conditioned. So, with the heat we've been having, the air conditioning in intermittent parts of the building, I think that may have contributed to some of it, but we've never had an issue in there before. I don't know why it happened this year, but came in and for $13,000, they took care of us on a on a good day's work. So, um, we've been keeping an eye on it and and monitoring it closely, and we're just trying to make sure that we don't, uh, repeat that elsewhere, but they, uh, they helped us out. So, um, we did have a hot water heater replacement here at the high school. King Lar came in and took care of that for us. um or not. They didn't replace the whole heater, but
031some some parts that had failed. So, we were able to get that going before the start of school. Um and then of course, like I said, Intech has been in and out of all the buildings. Uh we did finally get the compressor installed at the primary building. Um that took us forever to get from train. Uh we finally were lucky enough to get it about a week before school got going. So, it should be operating on a full load now. Uh enrollment enrollment numbers. I provided you with projected enrollment numbers. We are down from last year. Um these are not finalized yet. We will have our fall housing report um around our September board meeting. So I will get you those finalized numbers um that will be reported to the state at that time, but
032you have at least looked at it and got to see where we're at um across the district currently. So still a lot of time to go on that. um old business. Um we had discussed the discontinuation of 8th grade promotion last uh month. Um this really isn't it's something I know you guys wanted to discuss a little bit more and with Mr. Downing being here as well. Um it's not anything that we have to take board action on. Um but something that obviously is a a tradition that we want to have discussion and and transparency and in talking about that. Uh so I'll open the floor to that. Did do you have time to find out what other districts are doing? Remember at the end of the meeting I asked if you could and you
033thought you'd had a a spreadsheet on that before. >> I have a I surveyed um area superintendents and from the ones I got back it was kind of a 50/50 split >> on what people are doing. Um there was uh you know some that said you know I just I don't want to get rid of that and others said you know we got rid of it as the best thing we ever did. Um but there was no like overarching trend of this is what everybody's doing. It was all over the place. >> I guess for me it was if you get rid of it seemed to be that we had to come up with something else to do. And so I wondered what >> well there's your I think we all talked about like a
034form of recognition like they're still being >> but to me that you know when I read that that still looks like a graduation you're just calling it you're still having parents there. You'd have to have it in the evening to have parents there. You're still going to recognize achievements >> like an awards night. Do you guys do an awards night or what are you anticipating happening without? >> Yeah. Well, I mean, there's a difference between an awards night and a graduation. I mean, when you walk into I have planned a high school graduation, and I feel like that's what we're doing. Not to indepth some of the things that you do for high school graduation, but it is very much mimics a high school graduation. >> And, you know, I've done middle school stuff and
035awards night, it's just, you know, it's a works night. Parents come, it's very casual. Um, the kids all sit up there. There's no band. There's no like you know the whole walking down the aisle and pictures taken. I mean you can do a picture photo obviously but um you know where the parents come the kids get a certification um you know those kind of things. I think the biggest thing that my team has talked about and other people have brought is I don't want to break the big experience of what a high school graduation is. And to me that is a very meaningful thing and it's a very powerful statement to do that eighth grade I feel like when you're leaving eighth grade it's like you're leaving that whole like elementary that middle piece and
036it should be like a celebration for the kids. I feel like this is more for parents and family and we need to celebrate the kids like what is something they like to do and want to do. And so that's where we were wanting to do like do something for the parents like an awards night but then do an activity big field trip or a picnic with like fun games you know it's just we've just come up with a lot of great ideas. Of course, if you read the notes, we talked about we want to start a um just a discussion group, you know, that's got parents in it, you know, staff members, you know, just kind of like coming up with some ideas and coming up with a format, you know, that, you know, really
037celebrates the kids and what they like, saying goodbye to their friends and celebrating that time. Um because one of the things I noticed that we've done the last well since I've been there is we get the graduation time and the kids leave and they're not there because they're getting ready for the graduation. Well then the school's always done like this school picnic and so we're playing games, we're eating food, all this other stuff, but the eighth graders are not there. So they're missing that time. And so it's kind of like why are we not involving them? why aren't we having something where we're celebrating them together as you know students are leaving they're going on to high school and so um I think having a team coming up with something that is unique to us
038and caters to our kids would be great and I know why there was a graduation back in the day because that was you know a lot of our communities that was where kids graduated from was 8th grade and I think it's a great tradition I think it's nice but just like I mean how many people have a landline, how many people, >> you know, have a desktop at home. I mean, things change. So, what can we do to celebrate our kids? And this is what S Valley does, you know, and a lot of the middle schools do things differently everywhere, you know, and we could we can make a graph and stuff like Jonathan said, it's going to be 50/50. There's some people that do a graduation. We had seen pictures. My own niece had
039a little graduation, but it was different than what we do, you know, and stuff like that. And I think it's just one of those things. I think we can make it unique how we want to make it. >> Sure. >> Um, >> and I'm okay with that. So, if you create a focus group though and you get all this input, then who's going to make the final decision? >> If it's not a focus group, I think it's just like a leadership team. You come up with pretty positive ideas. Let's say you come up with 10 ideas. you narrow it down to three really good ideas and then you bring it to the staff, you know, and say, "Okay, this is what we come up with. What do you guys think?" And then we all vote,
040take that and then present it to um our families. And I think the best group to do it with would be the sixth grade group that came in. It was a small enough group. Um they're great kids. They're well behaved. you know, they could activate with the parents are very involved, you know, with those different things. In fact, we have, I think, two or three staff members that have their kids in that that group. So, you know, they spoke up about wanting to do something different. So, >> so you'd started with that group when they got to 8th grade. Is that what you're saying? >> Cuz we thought it would be something that would give us at least 2 years to kind of like implement and talk about. So, it's not something we're just going
041to like run out doing this year, everybody. But >> it might be simpler. So I I originally brought this up, right? My thing is we do a production machine or it doesn't happen. If if there is something that comes later, >> great. Let's entertain it. Let's listen to it. I don't see the everything you just said is kind of my point, right? It's we're not graduating. Um it's a requirement of the state to get through 8th grade. So I I don't think we need the pump and circumstance of what we've been doing was my point. >> I was a little disappointed, too. I don't know how it went this year, but last year when I gave out diplomas or what I don't even know why we do that or certificates or whatever we do. Um,
042none of the kids made speeches and that used to be the big thing like they they would go up they would do if they were the D winner they were, you know, and if we're not requiring that like what are we even doing like the graduation for is was kind of my thought. like this isn't this isn't them going and and doing any kind of production other than walking up and um getting their certificate and walking back. So I I am on board with changing it. I do I would like to see some type of recognition and if you institute a eighth grade trip or or something like that, that would be great. But >> our our thing is never to take away recognition from the kids. It's just you look at a student's point
043of view like okay we're doing I mean we're literally walking down with the same song we have all the people stand the same way shaking you get this like little booklet like what eighth grader really is going to think anything about this booklet >> you know I think they'd rather have a pizza and ride a roller coaster I mean that's just a bag of chips but the thing is is like trying to figure out okay so then what happens when we get to high school, you know, cuz we all think about that when we went to high school, that was a big deal to walk up in front of people and get that diploma and just how great that was and think of all the years you passed through and to think that was your
044first experience as a high school student and like wanting to create >> and that is more of the sendoff period. You you likely may not see those people again, but you're going to see your eighth grade friends in 9th grade in 3 months. So, I mean, I I get that point, too. I think it's I think there's something that could definitely be done differently or not at all. So, >> yeah. I think and my daughter when she did 8th grade, she went to Decar Garfield was a monastery school and they did like it was a sendoff day and so we had a sendoff day and so what they did was I mean this is they just had a certification. So, all the kids sat up there. It's about the size of of our school. And
045the teachers were the ones that stood up there and each teacher like had so many kids and they would present them a certificate and said something funny and great about the kids. So each kid had at least two sentences said about them. And I just thought that was so intimate because you could tell the teachers really knew the kids and like the parents loved it and people were laughing and then they had like cupcakes and punch outside. And then the parents left and then there was a school dance. So they called it the send out dance and they dressed up and their little, you know, they looked all cute and everything and >> they had the dance and then the seventh and sixth graders joined in with the dance so they got to be there,
046you know, to say goodbye. So there, you know, there's all kinds of different things we could do, make it special. I agree with changing it up from high school, but I do think it's still a pretty major. It's kind of like a maturing thing. >> You know, when you go to high school, you're more on your own. You know, we'll become more independent and so kind of that transition. So, I I do think it's important that we have something >> different from high school I'm totally fine with, but just what you described sounds perfect. Yeah, I mean there's all kinds of time to change it up, but I I don't want to see us not have anything. Just send the eighth graders out on a trip with a flag for a day and that's that,
047you know. I I would still like to see something. >> Yeah, I like this reation of getting rid of graduation better than the last time we talked about it and it was just >> gone. >> Yeah, just wanted to get rid of it. And I understand what Josh what you're saying, but I think you'll create more dissension and enemies if you just say we're done. I I really do. I think that has to be the compromise, the balance. Yes, we're going to do away with graduation the way it's looked for years. >> Unless you can make it happen by this spring. I mean, I think if you do nothing at all this year, I think is is a problem. >> He's saying they'd keep you keep graduation. he'd start the >> procedure with the same
048tradition. You've got to >> I don't want anybody to think we're just like >> nobody wants to have bacon. >> You know what I'm saying? So, it's like I'm not just going to present something in my staff because I feel like if you're going to do something meaningful, you've got to take time and get people's voices and try to see what everybody and I think it's important the kids also get their input into those things. Um, >> have you talked Have you talked to the kids much? >> Um, I mean it really hasn't been something we brought to the kids yet. This is something that just, you know, Jonathan brought it up to me. I I mean, I brought it up to Bob when I first came in to kind of, you know, cuz this
049was the first time I've ever experienced anything like this, like an actual graduation. I was kind of like, what what is this going on, you know, like why what? >> And it has changed drastically over the years. I mean, from >> Yeah. girls long formal dresses to more like home cut dresses to now they just wear >> sundresses or whatever. Yeah. So, it has it has kind of changed on its own. So, >> I'm on board with doing away with formal graduation, but my eighth grader told me to come here tonight and fight for her graduation. >> So, I don't even think she knows what it is. Well, she's not mad, so she's played for graduation, but I I they do know, and I don't know that they're happy about it. >> The only way
050that anybody any kid would know about that was if maybe a parent was talking about it and they overheard it cuz I mean, it was talked maybe a couple of times and that was about it. >> Yeah. So, I mean, I think it's just like any gossip or anything's being told. Let me have Danielle from RO in the cafeteria with us and kids are all oh she schools leave me work in the office and I'm like why do you work in the office? So but >> well I think the consensus is I I think we can do without it. I think we can um you can obviously come up with something to recognize them in some way before they're cuz aren't they still out a week before the kids or several days before? >> Um
051usually it's like I think two days. Last year I think it was like a day. >> Oh my calendar fell. >> Um but yeah, but I I have no question in mind that we won't have something cool and awesome the kids won't. Mhm. >> I mean, one thing I do love about our school is we celebrate a lot of stuff and do a great job at celebrating students at a middle school level and a lot of schools don't do that. You know, we do that on a quarterly basis and a lot of times kids don't even go on field trips in middle school and we provide that for our students. Um, we still are going to keep our eighth grade trip in the sense we have a historical eighth grade trip that we do. And
052I think that's very important that we keep that because everything they've learned in history, social studies kind of come to an end with that trip. And so I told the staff that that wasn't even an option to take away because I feel like it's like a very visual thing that our kids actually get to see and understand, go to the courthouse. And I've never been to a courthouse before, but it's cool that our students get to see that and do those kind of things. And a lot of times with bigger schools, you can't do. And so I don't want to get rid of that. And I think this celebration will be something different, you know, cuz I think it's important. >> Mhm. >> Okay. Well, I don't think there's anything for us to do, right?
053No. >> You're going to stick it. You're going to stick with two more years of it, though. >> Yep. Okay. >> And if it's not something that we want to do with this sixth grade class, if it's something that we discuss in our group, um, whoever I'll offer that out to people who want to join, um, that they say, "Well, why don't we just keep these three years cuz they're already in middle school." And then you're talking to the fifth grade class and those parents know that when they're coming in, the kids already know that we are not going to have a big formal graduation. I just I mean on that note I'm kind of back with where Josh is I think it I mean you just if you're going to cut it cut it
054and make something different for this year. I mean if you can get it done in that time frame I just don't I I just think saying well you're going to get it but you're not you know I mean I think just nobody from now on's going to get it may be the simpler version. Um but obviously you guys are dealing with all that. So um that's that's on you I guess. But >> I guess I'm slightly confused though. It says no board action, but don't reset the date and approve the the time to do it. >> We do do that. Yeah. >> So I I guess that's where I was trying to get ahead of that. >> Sure. >> Is once we get to that, it's like, hey, let's set this date and there's this
055discussion. >> That was the point. >> And that's usually Yeah. Like Februaryish kind of range. But >> you wait two more years. I think my kids >> see we could do this forever. I mean, you can just keep saying, "Well, let's wait till these kids go. Let's wait till the" And then you're just I mean, >> it's a lot to throw out and have for this year, >> you know? I mean, that's I know it seems like it's a long time away, but it's >> it happens quick. School calendar happens quick. The only the only reason I just in planning situations is funding. Um if we were to vote for a trip and do different things, we've got to have a budget. Um I know situation I've been if there was a budget you know
056that class the parents were responsible for raising money for certain things so if we were to do a trip you know how much would a charge of us be to take you know to something like that and then what about we're doing a certification thing you know what is that going to look like and you know those are things I think about and I think if you're going to do a discussion with people and trying to get everybody's boys and it's it's going to take a few months to kind of gather that data and gather those thoughts and to just knock it out this year. I just don't feel like it would be as wise. I mean, that's just my point. I don't feel rushed in planning something that's supposed to be meaningful for kids.
057Um because I feel like if we just do it one, we're like, "Oh, let's not do it. Let's do this." Then I feel like, "Oh, we could have done this. We could have done this." And then it looks different, different, better. And it's better to come up with a grand plan, you know, having kids discuss it, talk about it, you know, kind of get those people. >> Okay. And we're sure we don't have to do any board action. >> Yeah, that is according to to Barney. We I don't think we even have to really do board action to set graduation and and promotion either. It's just something we've always done. >> So, >> okay. in the olden days. >> So, >> all right, >> speaking of the olden days and the 1961 International Tractors, >>
058we've got zero bids. >> Um, and so I am going to uh go back to the drawing board and and lower the minimum uh bid that we had in the in the paper there and put it out there again. I got it to uh Brett Hitchings over at Heartland Tech about a week or so ago and he knew some tractor guys. I don't know. I guess it's the wrong color or something. Maybe because it's yellow and it's not red. Nobody's interested in it. But I'm going to throw it out there again and and maybe we can move it at some point. But it's a cool it's a cool old tractor. And >> 1961. >> No, but I was thinking maybe the antsar core. They give away a tractor a year. >> What is it? >>
059That'd be kind of cool. It's a >> 1961. >> 61. It's an international tractor. Um, >> what about planter out front? >> It was Well, I think Bruce said it's got a carburetor and some tires and stuff for it. And Bruce said he got it to fire a little bit, but just we don't have time to sit there and rebuild a tractor. >> They don't want it. >> They don't either. >> They don't want to do anything with it. So, >> I put $1,000 on it as based on the other tractors that I saw. Um, I thought that would be fair. I think most of them that I saw in that condition were in the were in the $2500 to $3,000 range. Um, just based on some different websites and stuff that I went to
060and that when Bob and I talked about it. Um, so thought that was pretty fair way to start, but we can uh we can drop it down a little bit and see if that gets us some more bites or whatever. But we're not we're not putting it out there nationally either, you know, so we're we're fishing a smaller pond for that. But if you run it, >> can we post it? Yeah. Martin auction is what I was thinking in Clinton. >> Oh yeah. I don't know. >> I don't know the morality of whatever it is, but >> I don't know much about them. But uh >> we take random things up there. >> Yeah. >> So that may be uh something to look at. But yeah, I don't know. Um but I just want to
061get it out of the bus barn before we tear it down. >> For sale, take it out to Farm Progress. Farm Progress buy >> or just put it at the end of my lot on mound as they're all going to the farm progress so they can >> they can see it for sale. Well, that's maybe a good idea. We may just do that. When is the Farm Progress show? Next week. >> Next week. Okay. >> Make sure you put inquire inside. General offense. >> No, that was not the Just put a phone number. >> I'll sell it for you. go take some money over there. >> There you go. >> I'm gonna tell her let's let's get it going. So So we'll see what we got next month. I'll I'll >> So we're in this
062motion. >> That'll be tabled then. >> Okay. >> Take the best you can get. It's yours. >> Next up, we've got FFA to offend n or attend, not offend, attend national convention. >> All right. All right. So, a motion to allow the SVHs FFA to attend the 2025 FFA National Convention in Indianapolis. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Did they just go one day or did they spend the night? >> It was three days. Yeah. >> Are they go She just I didn't know if they were going all three days or what? >> Yes, I believe so. >> Okay. All right. Sorry. >> Motion made by Josh Helper. >> I'll second it and then you can have discussions or the kids or who's paying >> they pay. We just have to do because they cross straight lines
063and transportation I assume. >> Transport >> I or they I don't know about transportation. They may do I think they do a charter on that but we do have to move on that because of the distance and because of state lines. >> We're just we're not no offense involved. >> Right. >> So first by Hbert, second by Leaper. >> Yes. >> Call roll please. >> Guerrero. >> Yes. >> Hilbert. Yes. >> Leaper. Yes. Stall. >> Yes. >> Wood. >> Yes. >> Brownie. >> Yes. Camp. Yes. >> Um, you've received the student handbooks from the principles. Um, and if anybody has any questions, discussion, anything they want to ask about, add >> I got a couple. >> Yep. I've emailed a few of them. Um, I know this is primary. I asked Bethany about it. Um,
064we had five mental health days as excused absences. I didn't see that in the other ones. Is that schoolwide or >> It's state law. So, uh, but the, uh, the five mental health days, I forget when they did that as a couple years ago. So, those are counted like you can take a mental health day just like a sick day, but they do they fall within those eight absences that we have out there. So, you can be excused. I mean, until you hit the eight days and then >> there's no Shouldn't it be mentioned like that though? Like, if they're not, >> it shouldn't be across the board like the same verbiage or >> I mean, >> does it? >> Our verbiage is you get 8 days. >> Mhm. >> Excuse. And after that you
065got to have a doctor's name. So um if it's a it's really pretty irrelevant to have >> inside those five. >> Correct. >> Yeah. They are just like any other absence. They're just basically what that law said was you can use a mental health day. >> Just like a you know doctor I'm calling you in because you're sick or whatever but after your 8 days you better have a a note if it's going to be excused. And then I know junior high and high school we're trying to get together to get a more district-wide book put together, but did you get your athletic stuff from Fleming, Mr. Downey? >> Did I >> Your athletic stuff on in your handbook? >> Uhhuh. >> Did you get that from Fleming or >> Yeah, I mean most of
066the athletic stuff is just stuff that has been in there through >> cuz your yours was talking about like varsity letters and all that stuff in the >> Try to keep it the same. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And then the extracurricular handbook is a districtwide thing. So it it puts everything in there for all grades. >> And then the other question I had, they all had some about homeschooling about how they have to place in or whatever we feel. Is there anything? Do we have any students that are in and out each year like coming from first semester, not second semester, and then back the next year >> like home school? >> Yeah. >> No, not really. I mean, we've had people come in um I guess mid year or leaving, you know, to go,
067but there's not like a a bounce back and forth a whole lot. But >> more of that, like around COVID time, we had some people that got out, you know, obviously, but then they came back. Um but that was kind of one of those things. It's it's an anomaly more than it is, you know, something where they do it a lot. >> And most of those, I think you'll see a registration like we had 30 high school this year said they want homeschooling. So, you know, I you know, we followed up with them, but we had one come back who left freshman year to go school was not back because they want to come back to high school. They'll be more conducive. So, >> what would they be now? Like if they left freshman year,
068>> they completed their online schooling um and they got their the rest of their freshman credit. So, they still stayed on track to be sophomore. >> Oh, so they would come back as a sophomore. Okay. >> They stay on track. So, they just notify you if they're going to be homeschooled, like they're on your role, but they're homeschooled, but you don't do anything for them. No, >> no, no. They have to, you know, if they want to come back, they have to find one that's accredited. So, they come back and try and give us those credits and it's not an accredited program, can't take it and have to repeat it. Um, so that's pretty much the only thing that they like if they're if they're dropping out of school partway through the year, we have
069a form they have to fill out and sign if they're going homechooling, but they notify us at registration they're homeschooling. They don't have to do anything that say they're not going. >> Do we states follow up on that? >> I was going to say, do we report it to ISBY then that they're homeschoolers and or have left to homeschool or whatever? >> Whenever you drop a kid with is you have to present the report where they what happened to them. So, >> okay. And then we all changed our mission statement. >> No. >> Okay. Anybody else questions on the handbook? I know I questioned the time, but that's because you guys have breakfast and the other building does not blah blah blah. They eat in classroom. So, um, >> sentence virgin. The cell phone one
070in the high school is not correct. I don't know. I My version has never been I can see what you're talking about, but it starts off with students will be allowed to have cell phones classroom devices. >> Oh, yeah. I sent it back. Do you get my email from this morning? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Yeah, I amended that. It's supposed to have that cross line out as like the edit. So, that gets taken out and then I dropped in I just edited what was in there to be conducive to what our expectations are. I didn't take like what I sent out in that policy like the Q&A essentially. I didn't put that Q&A in the handbook. I just tweaked what was in there to be conducive to what we're now expecting. So, if that wording
071needs to change, I can do that. So, >> and we're across the board, >> all schools now, no cell phones except in passing periods or >> expectations. Okay. >> But no cies, >> correct? C? >> No. What? >> No khakis. >> Cell phone caddies. >> You said khakis. I thought we can't wear khakis. >> I'm wearing them tonight. >> I'm in trouble. >> They're my favorite summer. >> That's put in all the rooms. So, I've been working to get like charging stations for them. So, that's what the kids have been putting them in. So, they're leaving them in their lockers and putting in the caddy. So, it's not their person. >> Got it. I like it. Okay. and Josh, I'll make sure to go back in that double check and send it back out to
072questions. >> So then we need a motion to approve the FY226 student handbooks as presented. >> So move. >> Motion made by Jeff Stall is our second. >> Second. >> Browning. Call roll please. >> Hilbert. >> Yes. >> Leaper. Yes. Stall. >> Yes. >> Wood. >> Yes. >> Brownie. >> Yes. >> Campbell. >> Yes. >> Guerrero. >> Yes. And these are no longer available in print only online. Correct. >> Print length six or seven for the high school office that correct. >> All right. Press plus policy update 119. >> Uh press policy 119. I sent that to you. Um >> did you? >> Yes. >> I don't remember that. >> Well, I'll I'll save you some time on it. It is basically all procedural updates and things that they did a 5-year review on. So,
073it's not really that anything has changed. It's all >> footnotes and things like that. So, um not one that would constitute us having dinner beforehand for this one, unfortunately. >> Okay. >> Um so, but I would recommend that you >> and no questions to be answered or anything. >> No. >> Correct. Okay. So motion to adopt press pol press press policy update 119 is presented. I don't have that in my >> either. Josh Hilbert. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Wood. Call roll please. >> Cleer. Yes. Stall. >> Yes. >> Wood. >> Yes. >> Brownie. >> Yes. >> Campbell. >> Yes. >> Guerrero. >> Yes. >> Pilbert. >> Yes. >> All right. Move on to the Sanville Youth League basketball facility use request for Nina Carristown and Ilopoulos campuses. She said she would provide
074the insurance and I assume Mr. Fleming has everything else. So, is there a motion? >> Motion made by Jessica Browning. Is there a second? >> Second, >> Mr. Hbert. I don't think we need roll for this. All in favor? I >> I opposed. >> Motion passes 70. And same thing, Midwest Rampage facility use request at the NIA campus. Do we know has he entered any of that yet or that's still all pending? >> It's all pending. Yeah. >> Okay. >> So, a little discussion on that. Like we've taken down my poles fencing. like is it in safe condition to allow people to get out there and start running equipment? It's been left for so long. >> Wasn't there something with the the it had a pitching mound or it did not have a pitching mound
075or there was something with the mound that I remember? >> They took the mound out >> the mound out >> cuz there was just basically a big the big rubber piece. The mound was kind of gone so they they pulled it out. But I mean it's just flat