WEBVTT 00:00:00.290 --> 00:00:08.849 - order please stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states 00:00:08.849 --> 00:00:17.409 - of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and 00:00:17.409 --> 00:00:26.053 - justice strong thank you we are very patriotic so we uh... appreciate you all being here this evening 00:00:26.053 --> 00:00:27.070 - this is the 00:00:27.170 --> 00:00:36.280 - October 2025 regular school board meeting we will have a couple public hearings along the way As we 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:45.390 - go for the roll call, please. Let the reef record reflect that mr. Moss. Mr. Kerr. Mr. Journal, mr. 00:00:45.390 --> 00:00:51.038 - Jacobs are all present and Are there any visitor comments? No 00:00:51.746 --> 00:00:59.254 - Then we have the Mustang moment, which is Edgewood High School. And so Mr. Ackerman, would you like 00:00:59.254 --> 00:01:07.062 - to introduce them? Good evening. I am excited to introduce one of our two primary leadership teams that 00:01:07.062 --> 00:01:14.794 - we have at Edgewood High School. One is that you're going to learn about is this is just students from 00:01:14.794 --> 00:01:20.350 - sports. And then we have Leadership Academy, which we've had a long time. 00:01:20.738 --> 00:01:26.889 - I just decided to make this the Mustang moment just because we do have incredible leaders in the school 00:01:26.889 --> 00:01:33.217 - and how much we depend on those leaders. We think that Edgewood High School is one of the greatest schools 00:01:33.217 --> 00:01:39.486 - around. We have a good staff, but what we mostly have are just good students and we need that leadership. 00:01:39.618 --> 00:01:45.330 - from students just like the ones that are going to come up today. So I'd like to introduce their leader, 00:01:45.330 --> 00:01:51.422 - Mr. Sam Jones, and he will talk a little bit about it, and then I think he's making them talk a little bit too. 00:02:00.418 --> 00:02:04.895 - It's always dangerous giving me a microphone and everything. I want to make sure I start with saying 00:02:04.895 --> 00:02:09.372 - that when Mr. Ackerman was my assistant principal and Mr. Tucker, who unfortunately couldn't be here 00:02:09.372 --> 00:02:13.894 - tonight, when he was my principal, they had to tell me what the word outspoken meant and when was the 00:02:13.894 --> 00:02:18.415 - right time to be outspoken and when was the wrong time to be outspoken. And at that time, I know that 00:02:18.415 --> 00:02:22.981 - whenever I was a student, I'm sure they would have been incredibly nervous to put any student in front 00:02:22.981 --> 00:02:27.458 - of the school board and have them speak. So it's really exciting to see how much we've grown just in 00:02:27.458 --> 00:02:30.384 - that I have a whole panel of students here speaking this evening. 00:02:30.384 --> 00:02:37.332 - Before I get the opportunity to hand it off to them, I want to thank Dr. Sanders, Mrs. Barrett and the 00:02:37.332 --> 00:02:40.638 - board for continuing to expand opportunities and 00:02:40.738 --> 00:02:46.153 - all the building projects and things that we have for our students and our staff and our community. 00:02:46.153 --> 00:02:51.838 - That excitement is felt in the community. It's felt every day in our kids and our staff as we go through 00:02:51.838 --> 00:02:57.252 - to have a community that embraces growth and embraces the opportunities that we can give to kids so 00:02:57.252 --> 00:03:02.667 - that they can go out and be productive members of society is just, it's incredible. And it's really 00:03:02.667 --> 00:03:06.782 - exciting to work in that corporation that puts so much trust into our kids. 00:03:07.426 --> 00:03:12.339 - Through SAAC, when we see everything that we get the chance to do, tonight's kind of one of those where 00:03:12.339 --> 00:03:17.064 - we look at all these different things and they kind of feel like little puzzle pieces. So you see a 00:03:17.064 --> 00:03:21.977 - little piece here, you see the little piece there. Well, tonight is one of those opportunities in which 00:03:21.977 --> 00:03:26.796 - we kind of get to pull those puzzle pieces together and look at just the beautiful picture that we're 00:03:26.796 --> 00:03:31.521 - continuing to grow here and build here. And I'm going to start by talking about what the foundation 00:03:31.521 --> 00:03:33.694 - of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee is. 00:03:34.306 --> 00:03:40.269 - Student Athlete Advisory Committee is an initiative that was started by the Indiana High School Athletic 00:03:40.269 --> 00:03:46.174 - Association and it was doing that because the HSA is big on education based athletics. They are pushing 00:03:46.174 --> 00:03:51.967 - the concept of we want our kids to realize the platform they have to have fundamental change in their 00:03:51.967 --> 00:03:54.238 - community but also in doing so they are 00:03:54.786 --> 00:04:00.615 - I use the term planting the seed for the shade tree that they won't get the chance to sit under they're 00:04:00.615 --> 00:04:06.219 - giving back to the community in hopes that as these things continue to grow. They can look back and 00:04:06.219 --> 00:04:10.142 - appreciate all of these small seeds they they have planted over time. 00:04:10.914 --> 00:04:16.606 - When I initially started as assistant athletic director just about four years ago, one of the big things 00:04:16.606 --> 00:04:22.189 - that Mr. Ackerman talked about right after I started was getting the idea of leadership pushed because 00:04:22.189 --> 00:04:27.663 - Leadership Academy is an incredible opportunity for about 90 kids every year to really represent the 00:04:27.663 --> 00:04:33.572 - diverse amount of things we have in our school and let them all make fundamental change. But also, athletics 00:04:33.572 --> 00:04:39.155 - is an incredibly important part too. So just giving our athletes a chance to change the culture within 00:04:39.155 --> 00:04:40.510 - their teams and as those 00:04:40.674 --> 00:04:47.458 - cultures within the teams are changing and growing, so is the athletic department as a whole. So, IJSA, 00:04:47.458 --> 00:04:54.112 - we won our first grant from the IJSA in 2002, and that allowed for us to start this beautiful journey 00:04:54.112 --> 00:04:55.678 - that we have right now. 00:04:55.810 --> 00:05:01.003 - To get onto SAAC, you have coach nominations. Every year they go through and they send us names for 00:05:01.003 --> 00:05:06.197 - kids that they see as leadership with the leadership skills that will represent us, not only in our 00:05:06.197 --> 00:05:11.702 - hallways, but also on the athletic fields and in the community in a positive way. And then we turn around 00:05:11.702 --> 00:05:16.999 - and we go and take that group and we have an annual summer retreat. That summer retreat, we're asking 00:05:16.999 --> 00:05:22.400 - our kids to give up time during their summer to come back in and talk about not only reflecting on what 00:05:22.400 --> 00:05:25.776 - we just did and the things we accomplished in the previous year, 00:05:25.776 --> 00:05:30.872 - kind of laying the roadmap for where we want to go after that. As we go through that retreat we then 00:05:30.872 --> 00:05:36.018 - say hey let's reflect a little bit more who can we also be bringing into this group that maybe hasn't 00:05:36.018 --> 00:05:41.165 - made a list yet and it's incredible to see some of the the game changers that have come some of which 00:05:41.165 --> 00:05:46.210 - are speaking here today that maybe they're a quiet leader maybe they're not someone that's going to 00:05:46.210 --> 00:05:50.398 - get their name in the paper all the time maybe they're not someone that's going to 00:05:50.498 --> 00:05:56.431 - be the one that rallies the team together with their voice, but they show up every day, they work hard, 00:05:56.431 --> 00:06:02.250 - and they believe in growing something and being a part of something that's going to continue to leave 00:06:02.250 --> 00:06:08.183 - an impact on them long after their four years here at Edgewood High School. So because of that, we have 00:06:08.183 --> 00:06:14.345 - these bi-monthly meetings, and we've pushed on to these kids that they do become the voice for our athletic 00:06:14.345 --> 00:06:18.110 - department. While Mr. Bland and I can step up and talk to anyone, 00:06:18.274 --> 00:06:23.068 - sportsmanship reports that we get from officials, it's rarely about coaches, it's rarely about 00:06:23.068 --> 00:06:28.215 - the administration, it's about the kids. And so when they realize that they're the ones getting those 00:06:28.215 --> 00:06:33.514 - recognitions, and they can push these goals that they've come out with, some of which they'll talk about 00:06:33.514 --> 00:06:37.854 - today, it really I think is empowering for them to feel like, no, just because you're 00:06:38.082 --> 00:06:43.577 - 15 to 18 years old doesn't mean you can't make a significant difference in your four years. And because 00:06:43.577 --> 00:06:48.967 - of that, you're handing the baton off, there's an athletic pun I can throw in, but you're handing the 00:06:48.967 --> 00:06:54.621 - baton off to the next group of kids that are coming through and growing with it and making it even better. 00:06:54.621 --> 00:07:00.222 - One of the things that has been really cool in the years that they have had this IHSA grant, it's $1,500, 00:07:00.222 --> 00:07:03.710 - doesn't seem like a lot, but it's recognition from the state that 00:07:04.002 --> 00:07:09.650 - for things the kids are already doing. And so for me, it's been really exciting because we are, to my 00:07:09.650 --> 00:07:15.297 - knowledge, the first two-time recipient of this IHSA grant, and they only give about five to six each 00:07:15.297 --> 00:07:21.000 - year for 300-plus schools in the state. So at this time, I'm going to get the chance to take a breath, 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:26.593 - take a sip of my Diet Coke, and I'm going to turn around and pass it on to letting our kids show you 00:07:26.593 --> 00:07:31.742 - the vision of how this started and the domino effect of how all their work has come to work. 00:07:35.010 --> 00:07:40.819 - I'm gonna start off by talking about the growth in our mindset. We are promoting multi-sport athletes 00:07:40.819 --> 00:07:46.685 - and encouraging those who only do one sport to try another sport, and our student section numbers have 00:07:46.685 --> 00:07:52.437 - risen and are continuing to grow as well. The attendance and participation throughout the whole have 00:07:52.437 --> 00:07:58.303 - gotten so much better, and the environment and the school spirit at games have increased as well. With 00:07:58.303 --> 00:08:03.998 - that being said, we have created excitement for all sports, not just sports that bring the revenue. 00:08:04.226 --> 00:08:11.210 - Four years ago, we decided to rebrand our name from the Red Nation to the Stampede, which has just made 00:08:11.210 --> 00:08:17.993 - a more unique and personal connection to our community. We've had students that are in charge of our 00:08:17.993 --> 00:08:25.380 - social media and our branding, which just have done a great job with increasing the excitement and engagement 00:08:25.380 --> 00:08:32.498 - with our sports and our athletics and our athletes. And in SAC, we also have been in charge of organizing 00:08:32.498 --> 00:08:34.110 - our theme nights, which 00:08:34.242 --> 00:08:40.084 - just show an increase in our engagement and excitement in the student section, which has grown a lot 00:08:40.084 --> 00:08:45.984 - in the past years, and just more engagement and excitement for our athletes. All of these things have 00:08:45.984 --> 00:08:51.768 - helped us create community excitement, not only for our athletes, but for our school corporation in 00:08:51.768 --> 00:08:57.668 - a whole. And some things that have helped us do this is our involvement in the youth program. We have 00:08:57.668 --> 00:09:04.030 - started to reach them at an earlier age, so then when they get to high school, they know what it's all about. 00:09:04.130 --> 00:09:11.982 - Yeah, within this idea, we have been able to branch out and create something like an NIL deal that has 00:09:11.982 --> 00:09:19.605 - given the proceeds to RBBU sports. And I'm going to give it over to Hank to talk more about Project 00:09:19.605 --> 00:09:27.838 - Plate Forward. Thank you. So yeah, about a year ago today, I was in class talking. You're good. Keep going. 00:09:28.674 --> 00:09:34.796 - I was in class and I heard one of my teachers talking to a student in my class about NIL and I kind 00:09:34.796 --> 00:09:41.347 - of thought about that and we were in the midst of trying to promote our coffee shop in a way. So I thought 00:09:41.347 --> 00:09:47.714 - about it for a couple days and I thought why not use one of our student athletes to promote this almost 00:09:47.714 --> 00:09:53.958 - like an NIL deal. So I told Owen McGovern, he was the first person we did it to, I told him about it, 00:09:53.958 --> 00:09:56.958 - of course he loved it and so the next day I told 00:09:57.250 --> 00:10:03.503 - Ms. Tucker and Ms. Myers about it, and they were on it quick. And they looked into it. He couldn't take 00:10:03.503 --> 00:10:09.516 - proceedings because it would be, he'd lose eligibility. So we thought, why not try and give it back 00:10:09.516 --> 00:10:15.168 - to the youth in our community? And that's what we kind of thought of the name of the project, 00:10:15.168 --> 00:10:21.181 - Play It Forward. And that's kind of what it is. And we've created drinks for the spring. And we now 00:10:21.181 --> 00:10:23.646 - have one out for the athletes this year. 00:10:24.258 --> 00:10:29.285 - One of the ways we're promoting that is social media. It's all student ran. The accounts are student 00:10:29.285 --> 00:10:34.412 - ran. The graphics are made in school by the students, and it's a great way of promoting it and getting 00:10:34.412 --> 00:10:39.589 - out to our community. And I'll let Carter talk some more on that. So along with working on these things 00:10:39.589 --> 00:10:44.667 - as students, we have interns in every single day, usually during sixth and seventh period, working on 00:10:44.667 --> 00:10:48.350 - these graphics that we can put out to our community. The biggest thing is 00:10:48.514 --> 00:10:54.103 - victory posts with athlete photos, so these are specified just to our school, just to our teams and 00:10:54.103 --> 00:10:59.748 - our athletes specifically. And we have social media accounts that are averaging over 100,000 views a 00:10:59.748 --> 00:11:05.616 - month, and this is important because this isn't just reaching our community, we're reaching other people 00:11:05.616 --> 00:11:11.316 - around, and we're branching out almost into other states when you look at those analytics. Along with 00:11:11.316 --> 00:11:14.558 - that, we've got a brand new scoreboard system in our gym. 00:11:14.690 --> 00:11:20.890 - Students have looked through that and begin to figure out all of the tanks in that, and we've worked 00:11:20.890 --> 00:11:27.089 - through that and put up graphics that are also student-made. That along with the new sign on Highway 00:11:27.089 --> 00:11:33.350 - 46, we're just continuing to be able to reach our community like that. More importantly though, these 00:11:33.350 --> 00:11:39.550 - interns are getting career-ready experiences, some that students won't learn until later in college. 00:11:39.778 --> 00:11:45.749 - All of these graphics are created by students, along with hype videos, theme night promotions, and then 00:11:45.749 --> 00:11:51.950 - media days for every single sport. This isn't something that happens at every single school. So by reaching 00:11:51.950 --> 00:11:58.036 - this community, we are able to reach these younger children earlier. And I'm gonna pass it over to Aubrey 00:11:58.036 --> 00:12:03.778 - here to talk about our youth involvement. I'm gonna be talking a little bit about how we're getting 00:12:03.778 --> 00:12:04.926 - our youth involved. 00:12:05.026 --> 00:12:11.843 - in with our high school athletes through SACS. So it's like a full circle. We start by going over as 00:12:11.843 --> 00:12:18.592 - student athletes in the mornings, and we'll do greetings. We all have assigned teachers, and we get 00:12:18.592 --> 00:12:25.408 - to go in there and just interact with them and get to know them on a different level. And that leads 00:12:25.408 --> 00:12:32.292 - us into being able to do a field day for our third graders, which they always love and get a taste of 00:12:32.292 --> 00:12:34.992 - what all is offered at the high school. 00:12:34.992 --> 00:12:41.655 - in a different way and our teams are also attending athletic events for the junior high which after 00:12:41.655 --> 00:12:48.585 - that we get to do youth camps and we have 10 different sports that are offered for our youth to be able 00:12:48.585 --> 00:12:55.581 - to attend that they learn from our high school athletes and get to see what the high school is all about 00:12:55.581 --> 00:12:59.646 - when they reach up there and grow their interest and skills. 00:13:00.162 --> 00:13:06.774 - And our youth nights are offered after that for those who attend the camps to connect with our current 00:13:06.774 --> 00:13:13.386 - athletes and see them playing in action and get a recognition to see the culture and all of our skills 00:13:13.386 --> 00:13:19.934 - in action, which just leads to like a domino effect from everything that like the NIL deal and stuff. 00:13:25.826 --> 00:13:33.663 - Okay, me and Cora are gonna be talking about the domino effect through SAC. And over the past three 00:13:33.663 --> 00:13:41.500 - years, the Student Athletic Advisory Committee has significantly impacted Edgewood sports, not only 00:13:41.500 --> 00:13:49.651 - through promotions involvement, but also through the overall growth of Edgewood sports that goes beyond 00:13:49.651 --> 00:13:53.726 - the court. And 2022 SAAC had a total of 21 members, 00:13:53.954 --> 00:14:02.924 - Total has skyrocketed to 50 plus members and not only has SAC and grow individually, but it has assisted 00:14:02.924 --> 00:14:10.014 - in the growth of sports in general. Our total number of athletes in the school has 00:14:10.178 --> 00:14:16.198 - continue to increase significantly, and that just helps students get involved in sports and really know 00:14:16.198 --> 00:14:21.986 - what it's like to be on a team and what it takes to be a teammate. And then not only do you have to 00:14:21.986 --> 00:14:28.063 - be involved in sports to do that, but also our student section, like they previously said, has continued 00:14:28.063 --> 00:14:34.083 - to grow alongside these sports, allowing students to be involved with sports, cheer on sports, and grow 00:14:34.083 --> 00:14:38.366 - even if they're playing under the lights or being in the student section. 00:14:39.394 --> 00:14:45.516 - growing in the influence in student athletic advisory committee. We are being given leadership training 00:14:45.516 --> 00:14:51.403 - and these skills are being pushed into all of our sports teams through captains who are all members 00:14:51.403 --> 00:14:53.758 - of student athletic advisory committee. 00:14:53.890 --> 00:15:00.764 - In addition to that, all of our athletes have access to sports psychology interns from Indiana University. 00:15:00.764 --> 00:15:07.317 - And with their help, we are able to find ways to manage stress, anxiety, or any other factor that may 00:15:07.317 --> 00:15:09.822 - impact an athlete on or off the court. 00:15:10.626 --> 00:15:17.606 - Circling back to growing in influence, we work in subcommittees within Student Athletic Advisory Committee, 00:15:17.606 --> 00:15:23.939 - which allows us to see effective results and widen our scope in what we are trying to accomplish. 00:15:23.939 --> 00:15:30.531 - For example, those working in social media are able to create content and feed it out in an efficient 00:15:30.531 --> 00:15:36.993 - manner, similar to those in the student elementary involvement group who are able to brainstorm new 00:15:36.993 --> 00:15:39.966 - ways to keep our elementary schools involved. 00:15:41.218 --> 00:15:48.467 - And then growing in character, this really ties in with the domino effect. In the school year 2021 to 00:15:48.467 --> 00:15:55.574 - 2022, our school was nearly on probation by the Indiana High School Athletic Association due to our 00:15:55.574 --> 00:16:02.680 - lack of sportsmanship points. And since then, SAC has really brought up our school from rock bottom 00:16:02.680 --> 00:16:09.787 - to an outstanding high. And I have fortunately been able to not only see that myself, but also be a 00:16:09.787 --> 00:16:10.782 - part of that. 00:16:11.170 --> 00:16:17.771 - I am a three-year captain on the girls soccer team. And my first year as captain was when we were nearly 00:16:17.771 --> 00:16:24.372 - on probation. And our team's culture was really negative. We had zero sportsmanship, interaction between 00:16:24.372 --> 00:16:30.784 - upper and lower classmen. And we just didn't have any encouragement for our team. And it wasn't until 00:16:30.784 --> 00:16:37.260 - after one of our games, one of my friends from SAC came up to me and said, hey, I know this is how the 00:16:37.260 --> 00:16:38.014 - culture is. 00:16:38.114 --> 00:16:45.462 - you can be more than just a leader. You can lead with a legacy and involve sportsmanship. And they kind 00:16:45.462 --> 00:16:52.597 - of just told me what SAC is and what they do. And it really gave me a realization and stuck with me. 00:16:52.597 --> 00:16:59.662 - So the next year, I met with my captains, and we transferred that onto our team. And it was a total 00:16:59.662 --> 00:17:07.646 - culture shift. And we went from a super negative and losing culture to a positive, encouraging, winning culture. 00:17:07.778 --> 00:17:16.073 - it wouldn't have been possible without one person like continuing the domino effect and this has only 00:17:16.073 --> 00:17:24.449 - happened in soccer but also across all sports and even outside of sports and student sections and even 00:17:24.449 --> 00:17:26.238 - within the classroom. 00:17:26.658 --> 00:17:32.753 - We've had two students here at Edgewood High School be recognized for their actions through sportsmanship. 00:17:32.753 --> 00:17:38.507 - First, Andrew Paul. If you know Andrew, he's a really great tennis player. And during his season, he 00:17:38.507 --> 00:17:44.602 - beat one of his opponents in a very quick match. And with so much time left over, he took that opportunity 00:17:44.602 --> 00:17:50.014 - to answer questions and actually teach his opponent some of his own skills that he often uses. 00:17:50.306 --> 00:17:55.879 - He acted out of kindness and it was a true reflection of his character and representation of the culture 00:17:55.879 --> 00:18:01.027 - that we're trying to build here at Edgewood. Second is a former student of Edgewood High School, 00:18:01.027 --> 00:18:04.318 - Reese Helms. He was recognized for his actions off the court. 00:18:04.450 --> 00:18:10.140 - As a student section leader, Reese recognized an underclassman behaving inappropriately during a basketball 00:18:10.140 --> 00:18:15.514 - game. The student was throwing stuff and disturbing those around him. So Reese went and picked up the 00:18:15.514 --> 00:18:21.151 - trash that was being thrown and addressed the student, informing him how we act as students in the student 00:18:21.151 --> 00:18:26.473 - section. And by doing that, he really set the standard for all students, showing that you can have a 00:18:26.473 --> 00:18:29.950 - good time and support your team while also doing the right thing. 00:18:32.994 --> 00:18:38.940 - look a little bit brighter, but I'm beaming with pride right now just with listening to these incredible 00:18:38.940 --> 00:18:44.715 - young adults and talking about all the experiences that we've had. We're really lucky with having the 00:18:44.715 --> 00:18:50.774 - administrative team back here, how supportive all of our building level administrators are to give freedom 00:18:50.774 --> 00:18:52.926 - to our students to go and try to make 00:18:53.154 --> 00:18:59.045 - an impact on people outside of their building. It's very easy to just try to want to focus on what's 00:18:59.045 --> 00:19:05.053 - going on in your hallways, at your building. But the forward thinking and the sense of trying to build 00:19:05.053 --> 00:19:10.419 - community and taking care of the future has been incredibly, it's just been really special. 00:19:10.419 --> 00:19:16.427 - In doing that, I got to make sure that I give some credit to Katie Brookman and Brittany Tucker. Those 00:19:16.427 --> 00:19:21.502 - are two of our other sponsors that aren't able to join us tonight. The ability to have 00:19:21.986 --> 00:19:27.091 - coaches that are willing to pour in so much time in an unpaid position to just pour into these kids 00:19:27.091 --> 00:19:32.246 - and to work with them and you hear these kids talk about their dreams and the things they want to do 00:19:32.246 --> 00:19:37.351 - and it's like it's not necessarily a dream it could be a reality and in just a short amount of time 00:19:37.351 --> 00:19:42.558 - we've been able to check mark a lot of those boxes and again we continue to push the kids it is not a 00:19:42.658 --> 00:19:48.870 - We want to win. Like, listen, there's nobody that's more competitive than me. But how we win is incredibly 00:19:48.870 --> 00:19:54.676 - important. And so to see this domino effect, you can see the photo here. I'd like for, we wanted to 00:19:54.676 --> 00:20:00.539 - make sure that you guys actually got to see that it wasn't like AI cropped in or anything. So if you 00:20:00.539 --> 00:20:06.577 - want to go ahead and flip that over. But this sportsmanship banner that they're unraveling, it is given 00:20:06.577 --> 00:20:07.390 - to the top 20 00:20:07.554 --> 00:20:13.766 - schools across the state every year for their sportsmanship points. And you earn sportsmanship points 00:20:13.766 --> 00:20:19.918 - through officials, through other schools, and through community members that are recognizing actions 00:20:19.918 --> 00:20:26.252 - that are done by coaches and athletes alike during competition. And I can tell you that when we started 00:20:26.252 --> 00:20:32.404 - talking about this and when we were on probation, you start with 100 points. And for every ejection, 00:20:32.404 --> 00:20:37.520 - you lose five points. Every ejection from a coach or an administrator, you lose 10. 00:20:37.520 --> 00:20:43.698 - 70-some points in 2022. And once you drop below 70, you go on probation through the IHSA. You have to 00:20:43.698 --> 00:20:50.118 - talk about an action plan on how you're going to fix those things. Luckily, we didn't go into that point. 00:20:50.118 --> 00:20:56.175 - And every year, we have gotten just a little bit closer. Last year, we finished with 123 points. We 00:20:56.175 --> 00:21:02.231 - were gaining points in every season, not just one. And we were in the top, I believe it was the top 00:21:02.231 --> 00:21:07.198 - seven. We were the seventh out of the state for their total sportsmanship points. 00:21:07.394 --> 00:21:13.709 - Pretty significant growth. This is that domino effect because not only are we winning, we are winning 00:21:13.709 --> 00:21:20.085 - conference championships in multiple sports. We are competing at a state level in multiple sports, but 00:21:20.085 --> 00:21:23.614 - now we have this. It says we're doing it with character. 00:21:23.714 --> 00:21:28.164 - And really, it kind of goes back to, again, the last thing that I'll finish with is, of all people, 00:21:28.164 --> 00:21:32.659 - people probably think it's weird that I quote Mother Teresa, but she says, none of us, including me, 00:21:32.659 --> 00:21:37.332 - ever do great things, but we can all do small things with great love and together we can build something 00:21:37.332 --> 00:21:37.822 - wonderful. 00:21:38.018 --> 00:21:43.210 - This is a product of a lot of small things with great love, building something wonderful. And I can't 00:21:43.210 --> 00:21:48.300 - express my pride that I have in this group and all of those that aren't able to be here tonight for 00:21:48.300 --> 00:21:53.848 - the work they've done because this is not just a reflection of these kids and our coaches, it's a reflection 00:21:53.848 --> 00:21:58.174 - of the community and those that you guys get to serve as well. So thank you so much. 00:22:08.546 --> 00:22:15.977 - Absolutely, yes. So Zinnia Vanegas, Cora Emmons, Ava LaRoche, Ella LaRoche, Hank Ripley, Carter Hayden, 00:22:15.977 --> 00:22:23.194 - Aubrey Lee, juniors and seniors. And an incredible mix of kids. We have multiple, I think we have at 00:22:23.194 --> 00:22:30.696 - least 10 or 11 different sports that are represented through here. And so quite a diverse bunch. They've 00:22:30.696 --> 00:22:38.270 - been having a lot of fun putting this presentation together. So perfect, awesome. Thank you guys so much. 00:22:39.106 --> 00:22:49.418 - add something to what they were saying, especially some of those last few comments, because culture 00:22:49.418 --> 00:23:00.659 - is so important to a school and a school corporation. And nobody impacts the culture more than our students. 00:23:00.659 --> 00:23:03.134 - And I love going to see 00:23:03.234 --> 00:23:12.986 - Favorite part of my job is going to our athletic events. And of course, I like to see us win, but really 00:23:12.986 --> 00:23:22.831 - what does my heart the greatest good is when I see good sportsmanship from our athletes out on the field. 00:23:22.831 --> 00:23:29.982 - And we received, when we played at football, West Vigo, we were beating them 00:23:30.274 --> 00:23:43.163 - pretty good and we got an email from one of the parents of West Vigo athlete who complimented our football 00:23:43.163 --> 00:23:55.208 - team on how much they respected the West Vigo players and I was there so I watched our players help 00:23:55.208 --> 00:23:58.942 - other players up and you know, 00:23:59.074 --> 00:24:10.419 - It's just the heart of a successful school corporation when you have a great culture. And like I said, 00:24:10.419 --> 00:24:22.095 - nobody impacts that more than students like what we have here tonight. So thank you. Good job. Appreciate 00:24:22.095 --> 00:24:26.942 - it. It's always hard to return to business. 00:24:30.338 --> 00:24:47.819 - I Don't know what this Jerry maybe you need more graphics Okay So moving on we have our consent agenda 00:24:47.819 --> 00:24:55.966 - and in that we have the approval of minutes and 00:24:56.162 --> 00:25:04.264 - the September 16th, 2025 public hearing and the September 16th, 2025 regular board meeting. And then 00:25:04.264 --> 00:25:12.366 - we have our treasurer's report for September of 2025. And Mr. General, our claims please. Thank you, 00:25:12.366 --> 00:25:18.142 - Mr. President. We have gross wages on September 12th, 2025 of $837,000. 00:25:18.242 --> 00:25:31.870 - $256.41 for gross wages on mini pay on 9-13 of 2025 for $630. Gross wages on September the 26th of 2025 00:25:31.870 --> 00:25:37.374 - of $842,158.73 for a total of $1,680,000. 00:25:37.570 --> 00:25:52.515 - $45.14 for claims prepaid from 9-1 of 25 to 9-30 of 25 is $1,002,110.12 for claims on regular voucher 00:25:52.515 --> 00:26:07.166 - for October 21, 2025 is $444,163.43 for a total of $1,447,73.55 for a grand total of $3,127,118.69. 00:26:07.426 --> 00:26:17.933 - Thank you, sir. Thank you. Also, we have personnel, resignations, retirement, non-renewals, leaves and 00:26:17.933 --> 00:26:28.439 - terminations, C1 through 15, and the personnel appointments and transfers, which is D1 through 34. And 00:26:28.439 --> 00:26:36.702 - finally, there is one out of state trip. And so, Mr. Ackerman, would you like to 00:26:37.474 --> 00:26:45.355 - speak about that before we move. First I want to say, Mrs. Ferguson just does an outstanding job with 00:26:45.355 --> 00:26:53.391 - our ag program with FFA. She just really gets down and dirty with the kids. I think she enjoys it maybe 00:26:53.391 --> 00:27:01.427 - more than the kids sometimes, but she every year likes to provide this opportunity for some of her best 00:27:01.427 --> 00:27:07.454 - leaders to get the opportunity to go to Indianapolis to that state conference 00:27:08.066 --> 00:27:14.444 - This year she struggled a little bit. She was a little bit late, didn't get the hotel room right there 00:27:14.444 --> 00:27:20.884 - in the hotel, the conferences, but she adjusted to it. Was able to find a hotel for them, but they will 00:27:20.884 --> 00:27:27.199 - have an outstanding conference for them to attend. And again, for them to grow as leaders in Edgewood 00:27:27.199 --> 00:27:32.958 - High School as well. So I really highly recommend that you approve the overnight field trip. 00:27:36.386 --> 00:27:47.468 - I move approval of consent agenda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Next is consideration 00:27:47.468 --> 00:27:58.654 - of a resolution approving the issuance of bonds and financing documents and we'll turn to Jacob McClellan. 00:28:00.194 --> 00:28:06.831 - Thank you, Mr. President. So the resolution before you, I know you guys have been through this before. 00:28:06.831 --> 00:28:13.533 - This is kind of the final step for the issuance of bonds through the building corporation. The building 00:28:13.533 --> 00:28:20.106 - corporation met just before this meeting and approved a similar resolution. Just as a refresher, this 00:28:20.106 --> 00:28:26.937 - authorizes bonds not to exceed $40 million. The bonds would be issued pursuant to the parameters provided 00:28:26.937 --> 00:28:27.710 - by Stiefel. 00:28:27.874 --> 00:28:34.610 - The resolution authorizes the form of bond documents, the form of offering document, the bond purchase 00:28:34.610 --> 00:28:41.280 - agreement, and you guys have the opportunity to issue the bonds or the flexibility to issue the bonds 00:28:41.280 --> 00:28:48.081 - in multiple series should that arise. As far as timing, Stiefel's Council has put together the offering 00:28:48.081 --> 00:28:54.751 - document for you all already. You guys have received your rating. I think we anticipate pricing early 00:28:54.751 --> 00:28:57.694 - November with closing kind of late November. 00:28:57.794 --> 00:29:03.997 - That said, I know that Stiefel will work with Dr. Sanders to kind of determine best timing, because 00:29:03.997 --> 00:29:10.324 - I know you guys aren't up against any kind of deadlines there. As in the past, once bonds are priced, 00:29:10.324 --> 00:29:16.899 - we'll put together the closing documents and either get them through Dr. Sanders or get them to Christine 00:29:16.899 --> 00:29:22.916 - for you all to sign, and they'll be, you know, three weeks probably between pricing and closing. 00:29:22.916 --> 00:29:26.142 - So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions. 00:29:27.586 --> 00:29:34.224 - let everybody know by issuing these in a series, we can take advantage of not collecting the money before 00:29:34.224 --> 00:29:40.799 - we need it and being able to keep our interest costs down, correct? Yes, if you guys determined to issue 00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:47.186 - them in multiple series, you just have the flexibility to do it. Jerry, I don't know what the plan is 00:29:47.186 --> 00:29:53.886 - right now. Is it to issue the whole 40 million? We're looking to do all 40 million. Yeah, but if something 00:29:53.886 --> 00:29:55.326 - arises between now and 00:29:55.458 --> 00:30:04.039 - Kind of when you guys issue, you could always opt to do multiple series. And the projects are spread 00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:12.704 - out where they can. Yeah. To me, we'll be spending all that at once. We have some definite priorities 00:30:12.704 --> 00:30:21.625 - in terms of roofing projects, HVAC projects that we would like to get started on. And so as we bid those 00:30:21.625 --> 00:30:22.814 - projects out, 00:30:22.914 --> 00:30:33.354 - and then the estimates turn into firm numbers, and then that kind of, as you go from project to project, 00:30:33.354 --> 00:30:43.694 - and that determines what other projects you could do down the road. Any further questions? It's a bonds 00:30:43.694 --> 00:30:50.654 - and financing documents. I'll second. Second. Any further discussion? 00:30:51.682 --> 00:30:59.192 - All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. Yeah and I want to thank 00:30:59.192 --> 00:31:06.413 - Jacob for all he does to make sure we're doing the right thing and obviously I appreciate Christine 00:31:06.413 --> 00:31:14.139 - for that always but you know I running a school corporation takes a lot of time and when you have somebody 00:31:14.139 --> 00:31:20.638 - who's making sure you're crossing the T's and dotting the I's that's greatly appreciated. 00:31:23.682 --> 00:31:38.385 - We appreciate the partnership Okay Now we will have our first public hearing and so this is the public 00:31:38.385 --> 00:31:53.374 - hearing for additional appropriations and I will call this hearing to order and Offender will provide us 00:31:54.050 --> 00:32:02.272 - with my glasses will provide us with the proposal. I just want to take a minute to kind of explain what 00:32:02.272 --> 00:32:10.415 - this is all about. This doesn't happen every year, but it can happen and it's happened here. Typically 00:32:10.415 --> 00:32:18.716 - you do your budgets and you're doing your budget tonight, an adoption meeting, but last year you adopted 00:32:18.716 --> 00:32:21.246 - a budget of about 20.5 million. 00:32:22.050 --> 00:32:29.009 - Your revenue last year was over 22 million. Usually your budgets match up a little closer than that. 00:32:29.009 --> 00:32:36.175 - So your budget was low to start out with. Being conservative and all that, you kind of understand that. 00:32:36.175 --> 00:32:43.410 - The other fly in the ointment here a little bit is that you don't really know what your revenue is until 00:32:43.410 --> 00:32:50.782 - your count day in October. But your budget is well along the path. And you get to October, it's locked in. 00:32:50.978 --> 00:32:58.661 - You're not going to change it at that point. And so if your revenue jumps because of that enrollment, 00:32:58.661 --> 00:33:06.268 - you've got what you've got this year is a revenue up here, budget down here. If you look at the cash 00:33:06.268 --> 00:33:12.670 - flow that I left on your desk earlier, you'll see in the education funds especially, 00:33:14.210 --> 00:33:21.408 - that down at the bottom right-hand corner, it shows the remaining appropriation of 491 million in the 00:33:21.408 --> 00:33:28.606 - red. That means you're short that much in appropriation this year. That's what we're projecting right 00:33:28.606 --> 00:33:35.804 - now. Might be a little more, might be a little less. We've asked for an additional appropriation from 00:33:35.804 --> 00:33:39.262 - the public. We've advertised about two weeks ago 00:33:39.394 --> 00:33:47.438 - this hearing, and we're asking for 600,000 more in appropriation. So that will more than cover that. 00:33:47.438 --> 00:33:55.642 - But just one, before you go into the public hearing, I want people to understand we're not necessarily 00:33:55.642 --> 00:34:03.686 - spending it all, but we are covering what we can spend. It's permission to spend it, and that's what 00:34:03.686 --> 00:34:09.182 - it was. Again, hindsight's better. If we would have known a year ago 00:34:09.314 --> 00:34:18.396 - we would have gone for a budget maybe of 21 million instead of 20.5 or something like that to cover 00:34:18.396 --> 00:34:27.660 - this. But the good thing is you got the cash, now we're bringing it more to match up. Thank you. This 00:34:27.660 --> 00:34:36.923 - hearing being properly noticed and now explained, are there any people from the public who would like 00:34:36.923 --> 00:34:38.558 - to make comments? 00:34:41.538 --> 00:34:53.226 - Okay, hearing none, I will close the hearing on additional appropriations. We will return to this towards 00:34:53.226 --> 00:35:04.584 - the end of the meeting for a resolution. And now we will start with our budget adoption. And so again, 00:35:04.584 --> 00:35:06.238 - Mr. Frederick. 00:35:12.354 --> 00:35:22.788 - I thought you were going to do this. There are several processes to the 2026 budget, and they go through 00:35:22.788 --> 00:35:33.123 - a series of resolutions. So when you look at this, our budget this year, we've advertised a little over 00:35:33.123 --> 00:35:37.694 - 22 million. That's a million and a half jump. 00:35:38.082 --> 00:35:45.827 - but it gets closer to that revenue match that I was talking about. And when I ran the projection for 00:35:45.827 --> 00:35:53.956 - 2026 in cash flows the other day, it looks good. It comes out pretty good at the end of the year. Doesn't 00:35:53.956 --> 00:36:02.238 - show you being negative and things like that. So I think we're more in line with that budget. So there's... 00:36:02.978 --> 00:36:10.579 - I don't know if you want to do these one at a time, but the first resolution would be to adopt the 2026 00:36:10.579 --> 00:36:17.889 - budget levy and tax rate, which is form four that's in gateway. That's the one you have to sign. So 00:36:17.889 --> 00:36:25.271 - you'd need an action on that resolution. We need a separate action on that one, would you say? Well, 00:36:25.271 --> 00:36:27.902 - you can probably do them all. Okay. 00:36:28.354 --> 00:36:38.043 - We have properly noticed this. We've discussed this. We've had a public hearing on this. So we've been 00:36:38.043 --> 00:36:48.108 - through this. Is there anyone who would object to taking on as a whole? Okay, so we'll entertain a motion. 00:36:48.108 --> 00:36:56.574 - I'll move the motion to approve the 2026 budget adoption. And for the record, this is the 00:36:56.706 --> 00:37:04.872 - 2026 budget levy and tax rate form for the adoption of the school bus replacement plan resolution, the 00:37:04.872 --> 00:37:13.434 - adoption of the capital projects plan resolution, the resolution to approve the last six months of transfer 00:37:13.434 --> 00:37:20.966 - from education to operations fund, the 2026 budget resolution, and the resolution to authorize 00:37:20.966 --> 00:37:25.406 - tax anticipation warrants for 2026. That's all included 00:37:25.570 --> 00:37:34.380 - in the 2026 budget adoption. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? 00:37:34.380 --> 00:37:43.839 - Motion carries. Thank you very much. It's a long process. We appreciate all your hard work in guiding 00:37:43.839 --> 00:37:53.576 - us through this. Next up, we have consideration of new bleachers for the Edgewood High School gymnasium. 00:37:53.576 --> 00:37:54.782 - Dr. Sanders. 00:37:54.882 --> 00:38:05.173 - Last month we asked permission from the board to purchase new bleachers at the junior high and we explained 00:38:05.173 --> 00:38:14.988 - the condition that these bleachers were in and in needing replaced and at the time we just didn't have 00:38:14.988 --> 00:38:16.894 - the quote ready for 00:38:16.994 --> 00:38:27.440 - the bleachers at the high school. They are also showing their age. They don't meet the ADA standards. 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:37.681 - And just like at the junior high or high school administrators met with Lee Company representative, 00:38:37.681 --> 00:38:39.934 - Daris Swanson, and we 00:38:40.066 --> 00:38:49.697 - pretty much went with the same type of bleachers that we had, that we purchased at the junior high. 00:38:49.697 --> 00:38:59.328 - Now in the case of the high school, the scope was a little bit larger than the junior high project. 00:38:59.328 --> 00:39:08.766 - The lower bleachers, all the mechanics, the bleachers themselves will be replaced. And the upper, 00:39:08.898 --> 00:39:19.302 - level of the bleachers, the second level. The bleachers that move in and out, the mechanics of those 00:39:19.302 --> 00:39:29.706 - bleachers are still good. So we're just actually replacing the bleacher part in the upper section of 00:39:29.706 --> 00:39:30.942 - the mobile. 00:39:31.202 --> 00:39:40.590 - bleachers. As you know on the opposite side is the permanent bleachers and they have, those bleachers 00:39:40.590 --> 00:39:49.886 - have a wooden plank with a plastic cap and they no longer make those plastic caps. And so what we're 00:39:49.886 --> 00:39:59.550 - going to be doing is we're going to take the plastic, the old plastic caps off. We're going to paint the 00:39:59.650 --> 00:40:08.759 - wooden planks the same color of the bleacher seats. And we'll install bleacher seats on those planks. 00:40:08.759 --> 00:40:18.403 - And also, we've added some other projects to that. While we're painting the wooden planks and the permanent 00:40:18.403 --> 00:40:27.423 - side of the bleachers, we're going to paint the fluorine up there with epoxy paint to match the gray 00:40:27.423 --> 00:40:29.566 - in the rest of the gym. 00:40:29.730 --> 00:40:43.321 - The across the bleachers will have EHS and in your packet of information I provided what those letters 00:40:43.321 --> 00:40:56.779 - will look like. So the price of the quote for the bleachers itself is $542,538.08. We also need to do 00:40:56.779 --> 00:40:59.550 - some other projects. 00:40:59.714 --> 00:41:10.563 - with that and I'm gonna pull that up here if I could find it real quick that while we're doing these 00:41:10.563 --> 00:41:21.411 - projects we also need to address these other issues and one of them is the painting that I mentioned 00:41:21.411 --> 00:41:26.782 - and I'm gonna pull up that quote for that here is 00:41:30.082 --> 00:41:40.081 - Okay. What do you have there? $84,500 from Riggs painting. Yeah. And then the city glass, the city glass, 00:41:40.081 --> 00:41:49.609 - uh, actually I'm going to hold off on the city glass, uh, because I want, uh, city glasses. They put 00:41:49.609 --> 00:41:53.854 - the railings in there that are in right now. 00:41:55.074 --> 00:42:02.869 - But I want to take our time on that and have our architects look at what City Glass is proposing to 00:42:02.869 --> 00:42:10.742 - make sure it's structurally sound. So since the time that we put the board packet together, I've had 00:42:10.742 --> 00:42:18.537 - a couple of conversations that just made me think, let's just wait and see about those railings. We 00:42:18.537 --> 00:42:22.590 - will have to replace the railings because the gates 00:42:22.818 --> 00:42:35.084 - won't match the new bleachers. But we wanna make sure what we put up there is structurally sound. So 00:42:35.084 --> 00:42:47.472 - I'm gonna pull the city glass one from that. This will come out of the 2022 geo bonds. Hey, I finally 00:42:47.472 --> 00:42:51.358 - found it. So the railings will, 00:42:52.098 --> 00:43:00.176 - that we had from City Glass was quoted a little over $40,000. We're going to take another look at that. 00:43:00.176 --> 00:43:08.332 - Then there's some other work while we have the bleachers out that we want to upgrade the electric behind 00:43:08.332 --> 00:43:16.332 - the bleachers and also the networking while they're out. And so that'll be a minimal cost that we will 00:43:16.332 --> 00:43:17.342 - add to that. 00:43:17.474 --> 00:43:27.585 - The it'll all be under what I budgeted for that 2022 Geo bond for the bleachers will be well under that 00:43:27.585 --> 00:43:37.695 - that amount. So I recommend your approval. New bleachers and DHS jump. So will these have the same wood 00:43:37.695 --> 00:43:45.278 - look to them or you said they'd be painted the planks and the permanent part. 00:43:45.666 --> 00:43:54.650 - There'll be a plastic seat that will go on top of the wooden planks. So the back part of the bleachers 00:43:54.650 --> 00:44:03.546 - will still be visible. So you'll have the plastic seat on top of the wood plank, but the plastic seat 00:44:03.546 --> 00:44:12.094 - doesn't cover the whole wooden plank. So we're gonna paint those the same color as the bleachers. 00:44:12.482 --> 00:44:19.778 - Okay, and that's in the permanent? That's in the permanent side. And so for the pull-outs? For the pull-outs? 00:44:19.778 --> 00:44:26.543 - Look, will they have, will they be all wood or? No, they'll be plastic. They'll all be plastic? Yeah. 00:44:26.543 --> 00:44:33.375 - All plastic. Black with the red EHS across. Okay. And they'll have, they'll, and Dirk, if you want to, 00:44:33.375 --> 00:44:38.814 - if you think of anything I haven't mentioned, but there'll be a way to be able to 00:44:39.106 --> 00:44:51.249 - to move on the side where the teams sit, you can actually move a couple rows back to move the teams 00:44:51.249 --> 00:45:03.757 - back, which would give them more space between the team and the court. And like I said, they'll be ADA 00:45:03.757 --> 00:45:05.214 - acceptable. 00:45:05.378 --> 00:45:11.539 - They just had to walk up those steps and even be able to do that. So to have that railing that goes 00:45:11.539 --> 00:45:17.762 - in between the steps is really important and it's really kind of a big part of that. We had a lot of 00:45:17.762 --> 00:45:23.984 - people request us to get that. Well, it's too narrow for us to just put in the railing that concedes 00:45:23.984 --> 00:45:30.269 - that every time. Yeah. Katz, were you able to pick that up, volume wise? No, I wasn't, but it's okay. 00:45:30.269 --> 00:45:33.534 - Well, I'm sorry. It's okay. That was very important. 00:45:33.634 --> 00:45:41.413 - that we're considering is a new scorers table. And I think Larry would probably say that probably needs 00:45:41.413 --> 00:45:48.893 - to happen. But we don't have numbers on that yet. Are the electrical stuff behind the scorers table 00:45:48.893 --> 00:45:56.747 - more important? That's right. What about the seating capacity? Is this going to impact seating capacity? 00:45:56.747 --> 00:46:01.758 - I think it's about the same, isn't it, Dirk? The seating capacity. 00:46:01.986 --> 00:46:20.170 - Okay, so we're not losing anybody we're not losing any Okay, okay What's the time frame that's a great 00:46:20.170 --> 00:46:26.526 - question so We are trying to hustle 00:46:26.690 --> 00:46:37.266 - And as soon as you give approval tomorrow, we'll be sending the signing the quote and getting them started 00:46:37.266 --> 00:46:47.744 - because we want them to be able to start in March. So they'll be done by commencement. Oh, OK. So between 00:46:47.744 --> 00:46:55.454 - basketball season. Right. Right. OK. Any further questions? First and second. 00:46:55.586 --> 00:47:06.420 - All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. And now we are going to look at 00:47:06.420 --> 00:47:17.898 - accepting a bid for the EECC playground expansion. Yes, so this is really part of the construction project 00:47:17.898 --> 00:47:19.614 - that we've been 00:47:19.746 --> 00:47:29.589 - working on throughout the campus. And we are utilizing those funds to build an expanded playground for 00:47:29.589 --> 00:47:39.241 - the Edgewood Early Childhood Center. And really, we have to, because there's certain requirements of 00:47:39.241 --> 00:47:48.510 - how many students, preschool students, you can have one playground at one time. And I think I've 00:47:48.642 --> 00:47:58.890 - provided everybody with a picture of the layout of what it will be. It'll be located behind the current 00:47:58.890 --> 00:48:08.843 - playground for EECC. It'll have a soft surface. It'll have a track around the edge. And when we went 00:48:08.843 --> 00:48:10.814 - to visit Westfield, 00:48:11.074 --> 00:48:22.066 - early childhood center. They had the most amazing playground and they had a track around theirs where 00:48:22.066 --> 00:48:32.843 - the kids rode their little three-wheelers and it was just really cool. And so to lower the price we 00:48:32.843 --> 00:48:36.830 - actually made the track a little bit 00:48:37.762 --> 00:48:48.156 - less wide and smaller. And so it'll have some playground equipment on there, soft surface. And so we 00:48:48.156 --> 00:48:58.652 - had a bid opening, and we had four quality bids that were presented. And with all of the bids came in 00:48:58.652 --> 00:49:02.974 - under the estimated cost for the project. 00:49:03.138 --> 00:49:13.394 - And so the winning bid that we're recommending is from Crider and Crider for $610,325. And this work 00:49:13.394 --> 00:49:24.056 - will be happening really next spring and summer. I move people to accept the bid for the EECC playground 00:49:24.056 --> 00:49:32.382 - expansion. I'll second. Moved and second. Any questions? I saw the, they got the, 00:49:32.738 --> 00:49:45.116 - playground in behind the daycare section yes it looks great and this will be I know I know the teachers 00:49:45.116 --> 00:49:57.018 - down there looking forward to this so is the current playground there to the south that area to the 00:49:57.018 --> 00:50:00.350 - south yes okay at what time 00:50:01.058 --> 00:50:09.360 - Several years back, there were discussions about shades. I'm not even sure if we purchased shades for 00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:17.661 - like EPS, EIS, or whatever. I was just curious if that was anything that had been discussed. There is 00:50:17.661 --> 00:50:26.044 - a shaded area at the end of the current playground behind the preschool, if that's what you're talking 00:50:26.044 --> 00:50:30.846 - about. Yeah, well, previously, there was talk about having 00:50:31.650 --> 00:50:43.041 - covers at EPS and EIS as well. Kind of like those kite-looking covers or triangles or whatever. I don't 00:50:43.041 --> 00:50:53.118 - know if that just never panned out. I don't think we were ever able to find what we wanted. 00:50:53.794 --> 00:51:02.663 - To answer your question, I think that is something we can still consider and be looking for. And I think 00:51:02.663 --> 00:51:11.617 - it's always good to provide shade for children. When they're out in the hot sun, they'd rather be inside. 00:51:11.617 --> 00:51:20.402 - So if we could find something that would be last and provide the quality shade that we want, we'll keep 00:51:20.402 --> 00:51:23.358 - looking. Yeah, I was just curious. 00:51:24.802 --> 00:51:34.074 - Okay, any further questions? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. 00:51:34.074 --> 00:51:43.529 - Exciting to see the bleachers go in, the playground go in. It's nice to vote on something that you can 00:51:43.529 --> 00:51:53.077 - see. Next is consideration to approve the United Way Agreement, Dr. Sanders. Oh, that's me too. So this 00:51:53.077 --> 00:51:54.270 - is an annual 00:51:54.402 --> 00:52:04.083 - agreement that obviously you know we talk all the time about the important partners that it takes for 00:52:04.083 --> 00:52:13.764 - a successful school corporation and United Way is certainly part of that. We're getting ready to wrap 00:52:13.764 --> 00:52:22.686 - up our current United Way campaign across the campus and Jill Cronin does an excellent job of 00:52:22.786 --> 00:52:31.071 - meeting our students' needs and having those funds available. And it would certainly make her job a 00:52:31.071 --> 00:52:39.770 - lot harder if she didn't have an organization like United Way to support her efforts. And so I recommend 00:52:39.770 --> 00:52:48.386 - approval. Do I have a motion? I move approval to United Way agreement. I'll second. Moved and seconded. 00:52:48.386 --> 00:52:52.446 - Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. 00:52:52.642 --> 00:53:00.297 - Opposed? Motion carries. And consideration to approve the Republic Services Agreement. Yes. 00:53:00.297 --> 00:53:08.867 - And once again, this is an annual agreement with Republic Services to be able to handle the waste that 00:53:08.867 --> 00:53:17.354 - comes from having a school corporation of almost 2,700 students. I'll second. Moved and seconded. Are 00:53:17.354 --> 00:53:22.430 - these prices pretty consistent with what they have? Yes. OK. 00:53:22.658 --> 00:53:32.585 - Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next consideration to approve 00:53:32.585 --> 00:53:39.358 - the Smart Start Child Care Substitute Service MOA and we'll turn to you. 00:53:43.394 --> 00:53:50.214 - This one should look pretty familiar to you. We're bringing it back one more time. We went to submit 00:53:50.214 --> 00:53:57.033 - this, and the attorneys with the community foundation wanted us to add in one more option. So I gave 00:53:57.033 --> 00:54:04.798 - you a copy of this just so you can see exactly what that is. If you turn to page four, I have H highlighted there. 00:54:04.930 --> 00:54:13.773 - H is what we have added in as an option. Christine has already looked through that and approved it and 00:54:13.773 --> 00:54:22.358 - thought we were good to go. So now we meet their criteria and our criteria, and hopefully with this 00:54:22.358 --> 00:54:31.373 - being approved, then we can start using them for our sub-services for EECC. I'll second. Any discussion? 00:54:31.373 --> 00:54:34.206 - All those in favor say aye. Aye. 00:54:35.202 --> 00:54:43.653 - Motion carries. And now we have consideration to approve the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually 00:54:43.653 --> 00:54:52.022 - Impaired Agreement, and we have Noah for that. Yeah, so this is an agreement basically searching for, 00:54:52.022 --> 00:55:00.390 - with the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, they do consultative services throughout 00:55:00.390 --> 00:55:03.262 - the entire state. They have their, 00:55:03.394 --> 00:55:11.569 - facility campus school in Indy and then they do outreach to other areas. And so with us having kind 00:55:11.569 --> 00:55:19.745 - of a increased population of students with blind or low vision impairments, we're basically looking 00:55:19.745 --> 00:55:28.411 - just to consult with them to be able to provide a little bit more expertise in consulting with our school 00:55:28.411 --> 00:55:30.046 - staff. We do have a 00:55:30.882 --> 00:55:37.399 - district teacher of students with visual impairments and Kristen Sample, who's fantastic in what she 00:55:37.399 --> 00:55:43.916 - does. She is also the junior high inclusion teacher. So just trying to open up the door a little bit 00:55:43.916 --> 00:55:50.497 - to be able to provide a little bit more services for these kids as we aim to meet the needs of all of 00:55:50.497 --> 00:55:54.046 - our students. So it's essentially looking to basically 00:55:54.178 --> 00:56:01.663 - consult with them, they can provide training, consultation with school staff, do some observations for 00:56:01.663 --> 00:56:09.584 - us to kind of give their expertise insight into it, and then also kind of help with educational evaluations, 00:56:09.584 --> 00:56:17.142 - just adapting for if braille is needing used or adapting those materials as they needed. So essentially 00:56:17.142 --> 00:56:21.502 - just looking for an agreement to be able to work with them. 00:56:21.858 --> 00:56:31.620 - to work with me and along with our Kristen sample. I'll second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? 00:56:31.620 --> 00:56:41.869 - I'm just happy to provide more services to these students. I should say too, it's paid through Medicaid, 00:56:41.869 --> 00:56:46.750 - so it comes in on our side. Thank you. Thank you. 00:56:46.946 --> 00:56:54.735 - All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And I think we ought to give Noah an applause 00:56:54.735 --> 00:57:02.224 - for his school board debut. Yeah. Awesome. Very good. Very good. Very good. We'll see you back next 00:57:02.224 --> 00:57:10.238 - time. All right. Next is consideration to approve the amendment to the EECC handbook and Jennifer Barrett. 00:57:13.410 --> 00:57:19.607 - were tables, just so if you needed to refer back to this. So it's in the same packet right next to the 00:57:19.607 --> 00:57:26.044 - highlighted section we looked at in the Smart Start agreement. There is a memo there, and I've highlighted 00:57:26.044 --> 00:57:32.542 - the very last piece. This is what we are asking you to approve as far as an amendment to the EECC handbook. 00:57:32.642 --> 00:57:39.064 - what we're finding with some of our little guys who are enrolled in full-day kindergarten, it might 00:57:39.064 --> 00:57:45.615 - just be a little bit too much for them. And we would like to have an opportunity to have something in 00:57:45.615 --> 00:57:52.165 - our handbook that parents read prior to enrolling them and also understanding that at any point if we 00:57:52.165 --> 00:57:58.652 - see they just simply don't have the stamina to get through a day where age-appropriate behaviors are 00:57:58.652 --> 00:57:59.358 - one thing, 00:57:59.522 --> 00:58:06.434 - But sometimes we see behaviors that aren't necessarily age appropriate. And that's where we would like 00:58:06.434 --> 00:58:13.278 - that flexibility to be able to stay to parents. We'd like to move to a half day and work on those and 00:58:13.278 --> 00:58:20.257 - work towards building up towards a full day. So that amendment in there is basically to help us in that 00:58:20.257 --> 00:58:27.102 - situation. We don't anticipate that happening often, but realize that it's probably something we need 00:58:27.102 --> 00:58:29.182 - to have in there just in case. 00:58:29.826 --> 00:58:38.671 - Any discussion These are little guys down at EECC so our threes and fours sometimes, you know, we they 00:58:38.671 --> 00:58:47.344 - enroll and full day and what we find is that Nap times aren't as long as they're used to and we have 00:58:47.344 --> 00:58:56.189 - some grumpy little ones by noon one o'clock in the afternoon So they just aren't quite ready for that. 00:58:56.189 --> 00:58:58.078 - Yeah. Thank you. Yeah 00:58:59.874 --> 00:59:08.348 - It could apply to school board members. It could apply to a lot of adults around here as well, yes. 00:59:08.348 --> 00:59:17.076 - That could be in our next teacher negotiations, Mrs. Abel. Moved and seconded. Any further discussion? 00:59:17.076 --> 00:59:26.058 - All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And now we're on to the county services report. 00:59:26.058 --> 00:59:29.278 - And then we have Susan Chalkman here. 00:59:29.698 --> 00:59:36.643 - All right, so I was thinking that the best way, what you have in front of you is just our current year, 00:59:36.643 --> 00:59:43.389 - but as I'm delving into this and getting more familiar with the Kelly services or Kelly education, I 00:59:43.389 --> 00:59:50.267 - thought the best way was to present just a concise review of the last year, and then it also has a few 00:59:50.267 --> 00:59:51.870 - other details in there. 00:59:52.162 --> 00:59:58.749 - So that just as a reminder at Kelly education provides our substitute teachers the one piece that I 00:59:58.749 --> 01:00:05.467 - wanted to highlight on that circle was that orientation and onboarding and as you well know after the 01:00:05.467 --> 01:00:07.838 - last couple of months of approvals. 01:00:08.002 --> 01:00:14.127 - on the personnel reports and the hirings and the resignations and all that. I'm not sure that we could 01:00:14.127 --> 01:00:20.073 - have onboarded anybody else this summer. I'm not sure there were enough hours in the day. And so to 01:00:20.073 --> 01:00:25.662 - have Kelly Services there doing the orientation and onboarding and training was very helpful. 01:00:25.922 --> 01:00:30.726 - They recruit for us. We have them up on our website. In addition, I wanted to highlight that they're 01:00:30.726 --> 01:00:35.626 - going to be coming. We're bringing out some reps to the RBB Showcase this year because who better than 01:00:35.626 --> 01:00:40.430 - to sub for our schools and the people that are interested in our district and our parents. And so if 01:00:40.430 --> 01:00:45.234 - we can recruit some of those parents, if we can recruit some of the people that have interest in our 01:00:45.234 --> 01:00:50.038 - school, those are the best people because they're going to be most committed to being here. So we're 01:00:50.038 --> 01:00:50.942 - bringing them out. 01:00:51.042 --> 01:00:57.505 - They get up at five 30 when the rest of us are crawling out of bed or whatever, exercising, maybe somebody's 01:00:57.505 --> 01:01:00.766 - exercising, but they get up at five 30 and they start. 01:01:00.962 --> 01:01:07.446 - having the phone calls. I was a secretary with Dirk for several years and I remember coming in and the 01:01:07.446 --> 01:01:13.742 - moment I got there pushing buttons or making phone calls trying to get subs to come and fill a spot 01:01:13.742 --> 01:01:20.037 - or can you just get here by 11? Can you just get here? And so it's great that we have people there. 01:01:20.037 --> 01:01:26.458 - They're also sending out those school cancellation notices so we're not getting there. In the morning 01:01:26.458 --> 01:01:30.928 - the secretaries can focus on other priorities other than coming in and 01:01:30.928 --> 01:01:36.977 - trying to call substitute teachers and getting classrooms filled. Again, one of the main things that 01:01:36.977 --> 01:01:43.087 - I wanted to point out on this page, these are all the things they do, the legal and compliance. I was 01:01:43.087 --> 01:01:49.076 - at the in-person seminar, the Indiana Public Retirement System, and they were talking about some of 01:01:49.076 --> 01:01:52.670 - the, when it comes to TERF and substitute teachers, if they 01:01:52.770 --> 01:01:59.472 - Sub for 60 days and 60 days here or 120 days and counting and all these things and when we're when we 01:01:59.472 --> 01:02:06.305 - need to Provide turf benefits for them with Kelly services. We don't have to do that counting they take 01:02:06.305 --> 01:02:13.269 - care of that and so That's one less detail along with all of the other details. They take care of Another 01:02:13.269 --> 01:02:19.774 - thing with benefits and administration on that bottom right corner there. That's that's one of the 01:02:20.066 --> 01:02:25.768 - key factors for their recruiting. We have people and substitute teachers that are coming in and they 01:02:25.768 --> 01:02:31.583 - need benefits, and Kelly Services provides an option for that. If they came through our school, we may 01:02:31.583 --> 01:02:37.341 - not have that option for them, but when they go through Kelly Services, they do have an option to get 01:02:37.341 --> 01:02:42.986 - some benefits that maybe they can't get from somewhere else. So there's that. Just an overall view, 01:02:42.986 --> 01:02:46.430 - we averaged about 19 daily requests in the past school year. 01:02:47.714 --> 01:02:57.948 - That was a total of 2,825 assignments that were filled at a fill rate of 83%, about 83%. Also note that 01:02:57.948 --> 01:03:01.982 - over the last year that increased 5.39%. 01:03:04.194 --> 01:03:10.547 - Over the last five years, they've maintained an average fill rate of about 72%, which if you look at 01:03:10.547 --> 01:03:17.088 - that very first year was 2020, 2021, and that was a tough year for anybody to fill substitute teachers. 01:03:17.088 --> 01:03:23.945 - So if you consider the fill rate even in that year, that's a pretty good average there of filling classrooms 01:03:23.945 --> 01:03:30.235 - so that we're not doubling up or sending kids to study hall or sending them to a conference room in 01:03:30.235 --> 01:03:33.694 - the office for a teacher to manage there or something. 01:03:35.010 --> 01:03:42.254 - The reports that you have in front of you, you have the monthly report for August, and you can see that 01:03:42.254 --> 01:03:49.776 - they had 82 in the current sub poll at that point, and they had some candidates that were in the onboarding 01:03:49.776 --> 01:03:56.741 - process, and there was 87% fill rate in August. September, that number dropped just a little bit to 01:03:56.741 --> 01:04:00.990 - 76%, but the number of subs is increasing. They then had 89. 01:04:03.106 --> 01:04:10.763 - went one too far. And then lastly I wanted to just to give you a reminder of the the rates and what 01:04:10.763 --> 01:04:18.574 - we pay for our substitute teachers and what was approved like last November 2024. So I know that that 01:04:18.574 --> 01:04:26.231 - long-term teacher rate I gave that to someone today as an incentive of hey this is how much they're 01:04:26.231 --> 01:04:28.222 - going to make they have a 01:04:28.354 --> 01:04:37.245 - They have a teaching license, and this is how much they're going to make if they can come and fill this 01:04:37.245 --> 01:04:46.563 - so that we can have a solid teacher in the classroom and the kids don't have a disruption in their learning. 01:04:46.563 --> 01:04:55.710 - Any questions? Thank you. No, glad to. He does an awesome job of managing, well, everything related to HR. 01:04:56.066 --> 01:05:04.689 - I like to compliment people, you know, as we've taken on different roles here in the office. I just 01:05:04.689 --> 01:05:14.088 - appreciate the conversations I have with Susan. She will come into my office with a question on an applicant 01:05:14.088 --> 01:05:17.278 - and she'll present me all the facts. 01:05:17.378 --> 01:05:27.983 - and we have a conversation about what decision we ought to make and 99% of the time we come to an agreement 01:05:27.983 --> 01:05:37.998 - on that. And I was just thinking about it today that when she comes into my office and it just really 01:05:37.998 --> 01:05:47.326 - helps me as superintendent to have somebody like that who can make sure that we're successful. 01:05:49.250 --> 01:06:00.232 - Thank you. Now we have the business manager's report. Paul, you're back up. And with this, we will consider 01:06:00.232 --> 01:06:10.400 - to approve the resolution for additional appropriations for which we had the public hearing earlier 01:06:10.400 --> 01:06:18.942 - in the meeting. My report is really about this additional appropriation resolution. 01:06:19.266 --> 01:06:26.484 - It's interesting when you have the hearing the same night as you have the resolution. But when I looked 01:06:26.484 --> 01:06:33.424 - at the website, their example is the same day. And when you think about it, it does make some sense 01:06:33.424 --> 01:06:40.433 - because you've had the hearing. You had it earlier. No one spoke to it, but even if they did, it was 01:06:40.433 --> 01:06:47.998 - their opportunity to do that. Now you come back to the resolution and pass it. The real advantage to that is 01:06:48.258 --> 01:06:55.106 - We don't have to wait till the November meeting to pass it and then try to get it into the state and 01:06:55.106 --> 01:07:01.953 - okay cleared before the end of the year. That's the key. So the DLGF appreciates the fact that we're 01:07:01.953 --> 01:07:08.868 - doing this as quick as we can. So this additional appropriation resolution is typical of resolutions. 01:07:08.868 --> 01:07:15.038 - The whereas and the whereas and the whereas. I won't read it all, but that's what it says. 01:07:15.490 --> 01:07:23.185 - The funds that we are doing an additional appropriation in. One, the education fund, and we've asked 01:07:23.185 --> 01:07:30.803 - for $600,000. And the rainy day fund, we've asked for $600,000 because we really don't have a rainy 01:07:30.803 --> 01:07:38.498 - day budget. That was not included in the 2025 budgets. It just didn't do it, which is fine. So we're 01:07:38.498 --> 01:07:45.278 - going to request an amount there in case we want to spend that in certain areas in that. 01:07:45.378 --> 01:07:54.191 - But that was what was advertised. That's what the hearing was about earlier. And so I'd ask you now 01:07:54.191 --> 01:08:03.004 - to pass this additional resolution and we can get this thing on down the road to the DLGF tomorrow. 01:08:03.004 --> 01:08:12.170 - I'll second. Okay, moved and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion 01:08:12.170 --> 01:08:14.814 - carried. Thank you very much. 01:08:16.802 --> 01:08:26.502 - And now we have the assistant superintendent's report I believe last time we celebrated EJHS turned 01:08:26.502 --> 01:08:36.687 - everything in for their HRS level one certification EIS joins them in the last week two weeks mr. Scholl 01:08:36.687 --> 01:08:41.246 - finished up EIS and we're waiting to hear back 01:08:42.242 --> 01:08:49.921 - He made his goal of before fall break. Yes, EHS, I believe we have submitted as well. So we are just 01:08:49.921 --> 01:08:57.753 - waiting to hear back from our evaluators at Marzano. And the final check off there will be Dr. Marzano 01:08:57.753 --> 01:09:05.356 - himself, who will read all of our submitted documents and let us know if we are hitting the mark in 01:09:05.356 --> 01:09:08.702 - terms of meeting those level one criterion. 01:09:08.802 --> 01:09:15.697 - You'll also see on here just some fun updates. Susan Harrington, she's our college career coach at EHS. 01:09:15.697 --> 01:09:22.393 - She received some funds through ROI and has been taking our EHS students on several college industry 01:09:22.393 --> 01:09:29.089 - tours. The list just continues to grow every time she sends it out to teachers. And they're taking a 01:09:29.089 --> 01:09:35.851 - trip to IU Health this Friday. So where we were so impressed by seeing their sim lab, I can't wait to 01:09:35.851 --> 01:09:38.768 - see some of these kids' faces when they see 01:09:38.768 --> 01:09:46.464 - a sim lab and opportunities for them there. They have visited IU DePaul. We had to sneak in a visit 01:09:46.464 --> 01:09:54.392 - to ISU for all of us Sycamore people in the room. They've also gone to the Skilled Trade Showcase down 01:09:54.392 --> 01:10:02.165 - in Bedford. And in addition to that, they have a trip coming up next Friday to Boston Scientific. So 01:10:02.165 --> 01:10:06.398 - all of this has been paid through ROI, transportation. 01:10:06.562 --> 01:10:12.177 - It's not something that we're going to get too used to because we know that we're kind of getting spoiled 01:10:12.177 --> 01:10:17.579 - with that money right now. But man, it has been a great opportunity for our students to be able to go 01:10:17.579 --> 01:10:21.022 - and see some of these campuses and also these industry partners. 01:10:21.250 --> 01:10:27.669 - We're writing another mental health grant with Indiana University. The focus for this grant is being 01:10:27.669 --> 01:10:34.279 - proactive in terms of EECC all the way up through second grade. The focus here is school psychologists. 01:10:34.279 --> 01:10:41.016 - One of the things I do want to mention and make sure that I highlight is that there are no sustainability 01:10:41.016 --> 01:10:44.702 - requirements in this grant. So basically what it means is 01:10:44.898 --> 01:10:51.217 - At the end of this grant, we are not required. We are not bound to anything to hire these employees. 01:10:51.217 --> 01:10:57.723 - Would we like to? When we see positive results, always. But we also understand that sometimes that just 01:10:57.723 --> 01:11:04.104 - isn't in the budget to be able to do those things. So we don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth 01:11:04.104 --> 01:11:10.610 - in case we are lucky enough to attain this grant. It's roughly $3 to $4 million over the course of four 01:11:10.610 --> 01:11:14.864 - years. And when we're looking at really servicing our youngest kids 01:11:14.864 --> 01:11:21.386 - in the district, we do think that that would make a significant impact there. So these school psychologists 01:11:21.386 --> 01:11:27.425 - would be focusing on interventions. We're not looking at evaluation, which is what people typically 01:11:27.425 --> 01:11:33.705 - think of for a school psychologist. And in addition to that, our schools, just like they typically are, 01:11:33.705 --> 01:11:39.985 - would become training sites for practicum students, intern students from IU to come over. We found that 01:11:39.985 --> 01:11:44.816 - those students have been highly trained and highly effective with our students. 01:11:44.816 --> 01:11:51.016 - So we'll see what happens. It's due next week, and we usually hear on these grants sometime around January, 01:11:51.016 --> 01:11:56.815 - February. So really just kind of keeping you in the loop with this one and what that's going to look 01:11:56.815 --> 01:11:58.078 - like. Upcoming items. 01:11:58.178 --> 01:12:03.635 - We are finishing up the iLearn checkpoints. This is the very first one that we give. We give this in 01:12:03.635 --> 01:12:09.145 - grades three through eight in reading and math. The way to think about this is these are kind of like 01:12:09.145 --> 01:12:14.656 - the regular season games. There are three of them throughout the year before we take the championship 01:12:14.656 --> 01:12:19.518 - tournament on. That's your iLearn summative assessment that comes up in April every year. 01:12:19.618 --> 01:12:25.807 - I really like the way that the state is redesigning this assessment as kind of a through assessment, 01:12:25.807 --> 01:12:31.935 - through the year assessment, because it gives us a measure of how kids are doing before we get to a 01:12:31.935 --> 01:12:38.186 - point kind of like the autopsy at the end of the year. So we're still working with our teachers. It's 01:12:38.186 --> 01:12:44.498 - a training moment. It's a lot to take on. They can't actually give the checkpoint until they've taught 01:12:44.498 --> 01:12:49.584 - the material. So before where we would shut down the building and we would give an 01:12:49.584 --> 01:12:54.860 - I learned practice test or we would give an I ready exam. It looks very different now because what we 01:12:54.860 --> 01:13:00.034 - do is maybe eighth grade math is ready to give their checkpoints over their first checkpoint over a 01:13:00.034 --> 01:13:05.310 - couple of days. But eighth grade ELA might be for a couple more might not be for a couple more weeks. 01:13:05.442 --> 01:13:10.778 - We're trying to make sure that we're waiting until we've taught all of that material so that the reports 01:13:10.778 --> 01:13:15.961 - that we're getting back are accurate and they give us good data on what do the students know, what do 01:13:15.961 --> 01:13:21.094 - they not know, so that we can use that to turn around and reteach those students and we have time to 01:13:21.094 --> 01:13:23.838 - do that before we get to the end of that school year. 01:13:24.322 --> 01:13:30.154 - So like I said, we are still trying to understand everything that comes along with this. We have a training 01:13:30.154 --> 01:13:35.717 - coming up here in the next week or two with third grade through eighth grade representatives from each 01:13:35.717 --> 01:13:41.171 - of those buildings and administrator from each of those buildings. It's not going to be an overnight 01:13:41.171 --> 01:13:46.680 - piece that we're going to understand this and know how to work this from day one. It's probably going 01:13:46.680 --> 01:13:51.486 - to take a year or two for us to really understand and use this type of test really well. 01:13:52.578 --> 01:13:58.789 - In addition to that, the next checkpoint will be late first semester, early second semester. It's hard 01:13:58.789 --> 01:14:04.999 - to give a good window there because, again, it really depends on when the teachers finish teaching the 01:14:04.999 --> 01:14:10.366 - content so that we can determine the level of mastery that the students have after that. 01:14:11.170 --> 01:14:18.434 - PSAT day is coming up October 29th at the high school. So that's a big day that we prep for there. What 01:14:18.434 --> 01:14:25.420 - I love about what Edgewood High School does with PSAT day is their seniors actually use that day to 01:14:25.420 --> 01:14:32.405 - go and visit a college, go and visit a community partner, see what they're doing in their jobs. And 01:14:32.405 --> 01:14:39.669 - this staff there does a really good job of partnering students up if they don't have an idea about what 01:14:39.669 --> 01:14:41.136 - they may want to do. 01:14:41.136 --> 01:14:46.509 - But they have a plan for every single one of those students because they don't come to school on PSAT 01:14:46.509 --> 01:14:51.934 - day And it's not just a free-for-all. It's not just to stay at home There's a plan of action for every 01:14:51.934 --> 01:14:57.518 - single one of those students So I love the approach that they take to that and I think our seniors really 01:14:57.518 --> 01:14:58.782 - appreciate that as well 01:15:00.002 --> 01:15:07.010 - We have a group of 17 participants heading out to Denver. This is an HRS mental health conference, which 01:15:07.010 --> 01:15:13.684 - might sound really odd. We've talked about HRS a lot. And it's usually associated with instruction. 01:15:13.684 --> 01:15:20.624 - It's associated with culture and environment. Really what we're talking about here and why we're taking 01:15:20.624 --> 01:15:27.632 - our SEL team out there is because we're going to not only introduce them to HRS so they fully understand 01:15:27.632 --> 01:15:29.968 - what we're doing in the buildings, 01:15:29.968 --> 01:15:36.803 - What does it mean to create a system and monitor a system? But day two is how do we make sure that our 01:15:36.803 --> 01:15:43.639 - SEL team understands their part in that important piece of how our schools operate? Some of it they're 01:15:43.639 --> 01:15:50.474 - probably going to be pretty familiar with. Our team is well-trained, so when it comes to brain science 01:15:50.474 --> 01:15:51.934 - and things like that, 01:15:52.034 --> 01:15:59.427 - This is going to be old hat to them. But I love that we are actually taking a team out there. And we 01:15:59.427 --> 01:16:06.893 - are designing the conference specifically for our team. We are the only school that's going to be out 01:16:06.893 --> 01:16:14.505 - there. And they are working with us to make sure that the content matches what we want our team to walk 01:16:14.505 --> 01:16:18.238 - away with from this. So this is not something that 01:16:18.338 --> 01:16:25.395 - Marzano does on a regular basis. We approached them with this idea and it was going to be cheaper for 01:16:25.395 --> 01:16:32.382 - our district to do this and they were gung-ho about it. So we're excited about it as well. This team 01:16:32.382 --> 01:16:34.942 - is actually going to go to Marzano's 01:16:36.514 --> 01:16:42.755 - Oh, help me here, Dr. Sanders, the Marzano Institute for Research in Colorado. So they're going to be 01:16:42.755 --> 01:16:49.118 - on site, get a tour of that site as well. So it's going to be a big one that we're excited to take that 01:16:49.118 --> 01:16:55.236 - team to November 12th and 13th. And that is all being paid through those rollover funds through the 01:16:55.236 --> 01:17:01.355 - SMART grant. We're trying to find good use of those. And we felt like this team, this is a good way 01:17:01.355 --> 01:17:06.494 - to bring them into the other initiatives that we have going on across the district. 01:17:13.698 --> 01:17:22.982 - we have the superintendent's report. Dr. Sanders. Sure. I'm going to give you a quick overview of our 01:17:22.982 --> 01:17:32.721 - construction projects and this whole slideshow I'm going to send an email to you because there are details 01:17:32.721 --> 01:17:34.814 - that I'm just going to 01:17:35.074 --> 01:17:43.732 - go through a little quicker. But the early childhood center is complete and occupied as you know. And 01:17:43.732 --> 01:17:52.559 - there's a couple of great pictures. I love this picture right here of the EECC. Everything's going very 01:17:52.559 --> 01:18:01.132 - well there. And the students and parents love the school. And I'm gonna be referring to the showcase 01:18:01.132 --> 01:18:03.678 - a number of times during this 01:18:03.842 --> 01:18:13.920 - part of the report because we're trying to really highlight the new facility for our preschool and daycare 01:18:13.920 --> 01:18:23.433 - students for our showcase. And that'll be one of the stops available Thursday night. And this is the 01:18:23.433 --> 01:18:32.286 - view if you're inside the preschool, that's the view across the street, which is pretty cool. 01:18:33.122 --> 01:18:41.329 - The other projects, the field house is coming right along. You could see now that we have signage on 01:18:41.329 --> 01:18:49.779 - the outside of the field house and up in the upper left-hand corner, you'll see that if you go through, 01:18:49.779 --> 01:18:58.067 - if you leave tonight and go around the field house, you'll see that sign all lit up and it looks just 01:18:58.067 --> 01:19:00.830 - really, really amazing. And next, 01:19:01.122 --> 01:19:09.956 - when you're at a football game, you're gonna be able to have a great view of the field house from our 01:19:09.956 --> 01:19:18.789 - home side of the bleachers. Here's another view of that. Here are a couple of the slides I'm gonna go 01:19:18.789 --> 01:19:28.056 - through. This is just some of the work over the last 60 days that if Martin was here, he would go probably 01:19:28.056 --> 01:19:30.654 - in a little more detail with. 01:19:30.818 --> 01:19:40.298 - about a lot of those things, I have no idea what you're talking about. So I'm just gonna go past some 01:19:40.298 --> 01:19:49.779 - of those technical construction progress points. So this picture on the right side is not necessarily 01:19:49.779 --> 01:19:57.214 - a picture of what you would see if you walked through there today, which I did. 01:19:57.314 --> 01:20:07.962 - And right there in that picture, the red section there, they had to redo. But if you walk through there 01:20:07.962 --> 01:20:18.201 - today, you'll see all that nice and clean, and there's flooring down that hallway. As you walk into 01:20:18.201 --> 01:20:25.470 - the area, the field house and the natatorium area, you walk into that, 01:20:25.602 --> 01:20:35.091 - there's some red, I don't know, clouds or whatever they call it from up in the ceiling that just really 01:20:35.091 --> 01:20:44.306 - adds a nice touch to that. So at the showcase then, we're going to have this part of the field house 01:20:44.306 --> 01:20:51.422 - open and also the inside. So on the left-hand side of the picture, you'll see 01:20:51.874 --> 01:21:00.881 - The gray area, that is now, that's the track area, and it's now painted red. It's gonna get another 01:21:00.881 --> 01:21:09.887 - coat Friday. So when you walk through there Thursday night, you might look down and say, well, this 01:21:09.887 --> 01:21:13.310 - needs another coat, and it does. But, 01:21:14.114 --> 01:21:20.235 - So we're going to have people come into that one entrance that I mentioned and walk down this side of 01:21:20.235 --> 01:21:26.236 - the track. They're not going to walk on the actual basketball court. We're going to have some cones 01:21:26.236 --> 01:21:32.477 - out there, but they'll be able to walk through one door and go clear to the other end and out the other 01:21:32.477 --> 01:21:38.477 - door. And then they'll be able to walk down the hallway where the new kitchen is. You won't be able 01:21:38.477 --> 01:21:42.078 - to go into the kitchen, but they'll be able to look and see 01:21:42.178 --> 01:21:52.016 - what that's looking like and see how there are doors from the cafeteria that's going to go over to the 01:21:52.016 --> 01:22:01.568 - kitchen and the serving lines and get a good picture of how it's going to look like. So the picture 01:22:01.568 --> 01:22:08.254 - on the left, you see something missing? One of the Mustangs is there. 01:22:08.738 --> 01:22:17.364 - But unfortunately they used the color that pretty much matched the wall. So they're going to come back 01:22:17.364 --> 01:22:25.823 - and put a deeper color on that and make it stand out. But you'll swear there isn't a Mustang. But if 01:22:25.823 --> 01:22:28.670 - you walk up real close, there is. 01:22:37.186 --> 01:22:45.980 - So right now today, and I think we're gonna finish up tomorrow, the bleachers are being put together 01:22:45.980 --> 01:22:54.688 - that will be on the opposite side of this picture here. Let's see here. It'll be over to your left. 01:22:54.688 --> 01:23:03.134 - There'll be bleachers that will be movable in and out. And then they're finishing that up today. 01:23:03.266 --> 01:23:11.327 - They're working on finishing up the flooring, painting that. And it's really coming along and I walked 01:23:11.327 --> 01:23:19.309 - through there with Dale Flick this morning and he's gonna have it looking really nice for us Thursday 01:23:19.309 --> 01:23:27.214 - night. And we're anxious to use it. We've already got dates booked in there. So we're really pushing 01:23:27.214 --> 01:23:31.518 - them to finish up and they're working hard to do that. 01:23:38.594 --> 01:23:49.592 - So as you know, we have some renovations done, some offices that we've been building next to the fax 01:23:49.592 --> 01:24:00.700 - room. And so that will not be open to the public tomorrow night, but if you would like to take a look 01:24:00.700 --> 01:24:03.422 - at it, just let me know. 01:24:04.930 --> 01:24:13.741 - kitchen, they're finishing up installing the equipment for that. And so here's some pictures of the, 01:24:13.741 --> 01:24:22.639 - the picture on the left is a conference room. That's going to be a nice size conference room for high 01:24:22.639 --> 01:24:32.060 - school staff to use for like special education conferences, meeting with parents, a small group of teachers 01:24:32.060 --> 01:24:34.590 - being able to use that room. 01:24:35.074 --> 01:24:43.065 - The picture on the right is the entrance into that area where the new bookstore will be. That window 01:24:43.065 --> 01:24:51.056 - there will be the window into the bookstore. This is the kitchen. And like I said, these are kind of 01:24:51.056 --> 01:24:59.047 - little updated pictures because it looks a lot better in there today. The equipment is more in place 01:24:59.047 --> 01:25:04.190 - and you'll be able to get a good picture of that Thursday night. 01:25:05.602 --> 01:25:14.007 - Um, so we're, we're on the home stretch, uh, uh, of these, uh, projects, uh, at the field house and 01:25:14.007 --> 01:25:23.168 - the, uh, at the high school, the kitchen area. And, uh, as you know, the primary school and the intermediate 01:25:23.168 --> 01:25:31.741 - school, those projects are, uh, complete, maybe a couple outline, uh, work that we're trying to catch 01:25:31.741 --> 01:25:33.086 - up on. But, um, 01:25:33.346 --> 01:25:43.202 - So I will send you this and you can see study those slides a little bit more on your own. So yeah, big 01:25:43.202 --> 01:25:52.868 - news is a showcase is Thursday night and we have had a lot of people working really hard to be ready 01:25:52.868 --> 01:25:54.590 - for that. I think 01:25:54.722 --> 01:26:03.577 - I don't want to jinx this, but I think we're going to have good weather Thursday night. There's going 01:26:03.577 --> 01:26:12.520 - to be so much to do, people won't be able to do it all. There's going to be a lot of activities in the 01:26:12.520 --> 01:26:21.722 - high school gym. Of course, our show choirs will be performing. Our theater group will be doing a snippet 01:26:21.722 --> 01:26:23.806 - of their upcoming play. 01:26:24.610 --> 01:26:33.456 - And we'll have the health fair at the junior high PTOs will be all over the place will be activities 01:26:33.456 --> 01:26:40.638 - at every school to do Thursday night and we're trying to get the word out to get. 01:26:40.770 --> 01:26:48.702 - Definitely want to get our parents from the elementary and preschool ages to come up and see what they 01:26:48.702 --> 01:26:56.402 - could do at the junior high and high school. But I'm also I was on the radio not too long ago and I 01:26:56.402 --> 01:27:04.334 - really invited the whole community so people in the community could see that our tax dollars are being 01:27:04.334 --> 01:27:10.494 - well spent for the benefit of our students. And so it'll be a really fun night. 01:27:10.882 --> 01:27:19.081 - Also chamber commerce educator of the year I don't I don't really don't know if I'm jumping the gun 01:27:19.081 --> 01:27:27.527 - here, but I'm just gonna do it Danielle Butler kindergarten teacher at EPS is Going to be the educator 01:27:27.527 --> 01:27:35.808 - of the year and that will be November 28th at 6 o'clock I have that date right Jennifer don't I Know 01:27:35.808 --> 01:27:39.006 - it's next week. It's next week. It's a 01:27:40.450 --> 01:27:50.574 - It's October. Oh, did I get that? Did I hear you wrong? We were just talking about it. It's October 01:27:50.574 --> 01:28:01.205 - 28th. October 28th. Yes, October 28th. This is what happens when we yell back and forth as we're sitting 01:28:01.205 --> 01:28:02.622 - at our desks. 01:28:03.586 --> 01:28:11.518 - weird it happens at home too. I'll blame it on my hearing aids. I heard 28th but I thought you meant 01:28:11.518 --> 01:28:19.450 - November. Okay so that makes sense. The Edgewood business leaders advisory team luncheon and meeting 01:28:19.450 --> 01:28:27.618 - is November 19th at 1130 and so that's always a great opportunity to connect our local business leaders 01:28:27.618 --> 01:28:32.094 - with our students and looking forward to that and then I 01:28:32.322 --> 01:28:46.117 - I hear our enrollment numbers for the fall of 2025. And as you can see, we're 2,690 students. And so 01:28:46.117 --> 01:29:01.278 - that's 15 more than last fall. And I'd just love to see that positive trend from fall of 2018 to fall of 2025. 01:29:01.826 --> 01:29:09.262 - You know, we shouldn't take that for granted because 80% of school corporations in the state of Indiana 01:29:09.262 --> 01:29:16.841 - are in declining enrollment. And it's nice to see that Edgewoods is increasing. And a couple other things 01:29:16.841 --> 01:29:24.134 - I want to shout out to our marching Mustangs. They're going to be in the Bands of America this coming 01:29:24.134 --> 01:29:31.070 - weekend. And then the next weekend is semi-state. So we want to wish them the very best of luck. 01:29:31.170 --> 01:29:40.711 - And our football team plays at Scottsburg Friday night. And I lived in Scottsburg. I was telling my 01:29:40.711 --> 01:29:50.443 - wife, I really want to go to that because we used to live down by Scottsburg. But that was like 1982. 01:29:50.443 --> 01:29:57.790 - And she kind of thought maybe those folks wouldn't be at the football games. 01:30:00.130 --> 01:30:09.584 - I think like around here, it wouldn't look the same. No. At all. Okay, thank you very much. Now we have 01:30:09.584 --> 01:30:18.492 - RBBEA comments and we have Brandy Abel. This evening? Still. Still. No, yes. Keep it brief. Well, 01:30:18.492 --> 01:30:27.582 - as you know, we ratified the contract before break. And then last month, Ty and I addressed the new 01:30:28.098 --> 01:30:36.617 - updates with the tag grant and since then Jennifer Barrett and Megan Scott took time to create a proposal 01:30:36.617 --> 01:30:44.574 - that they have they shared with all teachers starting with members and and there was just a lot of 01:30:44.770 --> 01:30:52.809 - opportunities for teachers to discuss and give input, and I just, you know, speaking for myself, but 01:30:52.809 --> 01:31:01.086 - I just feel like there was a sense of, you know, a lot of communication between both parties of finding 01:31:01.086 --> 01:31:09.363 - a way to, they've proposed a plan that meets the criteria the state has given, but giving opportunities 01:31:09.363 --> 01:31:13.502 - to everyone to apply on a rotating basis. This plan 01:31:13.954 --> 01:31:20.546 - It appears to be one of the first because I'm in contact with Monroe County's association president 01:31:20.546 --> 01:31:27.600 - and she requested a copy of that, which I was given permission along with Christie Billings, our director, 01:31:27.600 --> 01:31:31.358 - also wanted to see the copy. So really kind of the first 01:31:31.906 --> 01:31:38.895 - document in writing of possibilities for this grant. So right before break, there was a vote. We were 01:31:38.895 --> 01:31:45.815 - given a vote of whether or not we approved of this proposal or needed changes. And those results are 01:31:45.815 --> 01:31:52.187 - forthcomings, and next steps are forthcoming. But again, I just feel like there was a lot of 01:31:52.187 --> 01:31:59.108 - good communication between administration and teachers. And so we'll see where that takes us. That's 01:31:59.108 --> 01:32:00.478 - all I have tonight. 01:32:01.602 --> 01:32:11.580 - I love to hear good communication. Luckily, I hear that a lot around here, so that's great. So we have 01:32:11.580 --> 01:32:21.850 - board member comments, and we'll start with Ms. Jacobs. Well, I'm really excited about all the happenings 01:32:21.850 --> 01:32:29.406 - that's going on across our corporation. I love seeing the improvements across 01:32:29.570 --> 01:32:38.098 - across the board, across all the schools. And it's just super exciting when you come here and you get 01:32:38.098 --> 01:32:46.626 - to see the students every time to talk about their skills and stuff that they're learning and growing 01:32:46.626 --> 01:32:55.070 - into young adults. It just really hits you in the heart, in the right place. And it makes everything 01:32:55.070 --> 01:32:57.662 - that we do worth every moment. 01:32:59.778 --> 01:33:06.157 - Thank you. Sam Jones, what a great young man. Seen him mature over the last few years and what a great 01:33:06.157 --> 01:33:11.917 - asset he is to us. Good luck to the football team and thank you so much for your leadership. 01:33:11.917 --> 01:33:18.421 - All you here, I'm including that Jennifer, Jerry and everybody here. Thank you much for your leadership. 01:33:18.421 --> 01:33:24.614 - It shows what things we're doing and things are happening here. Thank you so much. Mr. Demos. Yeah, 01:33:24.614 --> 01:33:28.702 - just to echo what they're saying. I think the group that was here 01:33:29.794 --> 01:33:36.011 - reflects the positivity in the school corporation as a whole. I was so impressed with them. I got the 01:33:36.011 --> 01:33:42.229 - opportunity to go on one of Susan Harrington's field trips today to IU, and I couldn't have been more 01:33:42.229 --> 01:33:48.446 - proud. There were 74 juniors and seniors, and they just represented Edgewood High School really well. 01:33:48.770 --> 01:33:57.241 - It just made me proud as a board member, but also as a former teacher to see the improvement over time, 01:33:57.241 --> 01:34:03.838 - and I credit the administration as you did. And Brandy, I'll tell you that I do. 01:34:04.066 --> 01:34:11.271 - I understand what you're going through, and at the same time, I had, when we talked about negotiations, 01:34:11.271 --> 01:34:18.338 - I had one colleague, every time we'd open them, she said she didn't really care about anything except 01:34:18.338 --> 01:34:25.543 - she wanted an afternoon pastry cart to come around to the classroom. So just consider that for the next 01:34:25.543 --> 01:34:29.630 - time. She's no longer with us. She has retired. Thank you. 01:34:29.954 --> 01:34:39.598 - As always, I appreciate everybody coming tonight. It's been a long evening, but we've got a lot of really 01:34:39.598 --> 01:34:48.877 - great things done. I, too, just love it when the students come and they present what they're doing in 01:34:48.877 --> 01:34:58.430 - our buildings and across the sports fields and across the community. We do have a great group of people. 01:34:59.490 --> 01:35:07.852 - When I talk to other people about RBB, a lot of what I talk about is the culture. That we've got a good 01:35:07.852 --> 01:35:15.973 - culture, we've got good people. We all want what's best for the kids, for the community, and we just 01:35:15.973 --> 01:35:24.094 - work to that end. People are surprised at how well our school board gets along. But I'm not, because 01:35:24.094 --> 01:35:27.230 - they're great people. So I appreciate. 01:35:27.330 --> 01:35:34.142 - you all and I appreciate Katz and his long evening and thank you all very much and have a wonderful night.