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- Call this meeting to order. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag

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- of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible,

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- with liberty and justice for all. Thank you all very much. Please be seated and welcome to the April Pledge.

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- 2026 regular school board meeting of the Richland Dean Boswell Community School Corporation Board of

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- Trustees. I'm glad you could all be with us this evening. Please let the record reflect that Mr. Tucker

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- and Mr. Durnal and Mr. DeMoss and Mr. Kerr are present this evening. And now we have visitor comments.

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- Are there any visitors who would like to make comments this evening?

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- Seeing none, we'll move on to the Mustang moment, and we have Dr. Sanders wants to make some recognitions.

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- Yes, I'm very excited to be able to recognize Edgewood Primary School, Principal Matt Wooden, Assistant

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- Principal Elisa Van Dusen, and our wonderful teachers that are here tonight.

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- As everybody probably knows, and I say this every time, but a few years ago we started down the path

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- of high reliability schools as a way to help us to have a mindset of continuous improvement and utilizing

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- data to make that happen.

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- We've had several teachers. How many of you have gone to one of the HRS conferences? Yeah. And so we

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- take more every year. And so all of our schools have been working towards level one in HRS. And then

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- we're starting to work on level two.

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- We just got word, how long ago? A few weeks ago, Matt, that EPS was certified level one. And so we want

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- to give them a round of applause. And they're, I'm sure, already starting to look towards level two.

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- And so it's a lot of hard work. Teaching and being a principal is hard.

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- Every day, I mean, your plate is full. You're often working late hours and on weekends. And somebody

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- like me comes along and says, hey, we've got a little bit more to do. Sometimes that's something we

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- might push back and say, what else do you want me to do? But our staff here at Edgewood schools have

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- done an amazing job with this.

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- The school board and each of our schools continue to work on this at HRS. And I'm excited about the

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- future. And so once again, good job, especially a school that had a transition in leadership.

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- just as we were starting that. But EPS is catching up real fast. And so just wanted to recognize them

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- tonight. And then I wanted to recognize our Director of Maintenance, Arnold Caldwell. Arnold, can you

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- please stand up? And Arnold has been recognized as the IASBO Director of the Year.

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- Arnold's family is here, even his granddaughter came to witness the recognition. Now, Arnold is not

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- a guy that likes recognition. But, yeah. But. Yeah. Sure. Yeah.

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- Erin Crook, first grade in DPS. I'm Melissa Drews. I teach kindergarten in DPS. I'm Stacy Peay. I'm

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- a Chinese teacher. I'm a pathways teacher. I'm a special teacher. Great April, first grade.

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- Jennifer Montal, special education. Lindsay Paulson, first grade. Caleb Barker, computer. Just a second.

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- Just a second.

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- Thank you so much. Thank you so much for all you do for us. Thank you so much. Right now we're K through

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- 12 now at level one across the corporation. Okay. So what's, as far as the next step, is that another

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- year or how does that work timewise? You know, level one was probably the biggest challenge because

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- it was all brand new to us.

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- Trying to figure out, you know, what are we doing here? Because HRS is a little bit different than what

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- we've been used to in terms of school improvement plans. So we had to kind of get used to that. It was

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- some areas that as teachers, you know, we don't think about as much terms of school safety and things

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- like that.

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- but level two and level three is more curriculum and instruction and so that's gonna go a lot faster

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- because that's the air they breathe. Now I like the view. From there. We put it through

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- forward for an additional? Well, the batteries are just out. Oh, the batteries are out on it. I'm sorry.

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- So, at any rate, level two and three are going to go much faster because that's their wheelhouse. So,

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- yeah, I'd say, I don't know, Matt, I don't want to put you on the spot,

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- what would you see would be a reasonable time for like sometime? Probably maybe next year sometime

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- definitely, next school year. This whole thing has been like learning a language, right? But when you

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- get into curriculum instruction, when you get into teacher efficacy, that's a language we've been speaking

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- for a long time. We've been immersed in the PLC model for so long, and the Marshawn model for so long,

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- and a lot of that.

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- I know I went to, I think Ms. Abe was with me, I went with you guys to Birmingham. That was a lot of

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- stuff in two days, that was cross-eyed. So those workshops will continue on for level two and three

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- at the same rate? Yes, the conference that they have in January in San Antonio, that's always the year

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- that they, the conference that they recognize

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- schools and school corporations across the country who have earned another level of certification and

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- next January EPS will be recognized as well as the school corporation as a whole because we will now

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- have all of our schools at level one and we may even have some schools at level two by then but there's

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- no hurry in all this so

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- There's no pressure to get this done as soon as possible. We want it to work at the right pace so that

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- it's becoming a meaningful process. The old way of school improvement plans were about checking off

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- the box. Check this box if you do this, check this box. This is a lot more deeper and meaningful because

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- we're all taking a look at ourselves and what we can do to

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- Provide a better higher quality education for our students Okay, it just keeps the continuity going

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- then. Yep. Okay. All right. Thanks Congrats As well I and again this was you know gonna be a tough year

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- we knew that we knew that going in When Mrs. Whitaker left, I mean she was here for a very long time

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- and you know, so it's difficult to

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- to make that change from one year to the next. And to be able to pull this off during this year of transition

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- meant that you all have worked very, very, very hard. And we appreciate that and appreciate all the

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- hard work that you put in. And we so much appreciate, you know, leadership getting you through this.

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- And we just, again, just celebrate your achievement.

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- We'll just take it on up to the next step. So thank you all so much for coming and celebrating.

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- And thank you, Arnold, for all you do. Accolades. Too bad your family left. Couldn't hear us go on and

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- on more about you, but we do appreciate you and all the hard work you do.

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- all the things you do to watch out for our corporations, so we really appreciate you. Anything further?

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- Just ditto. Okay. Before we get to the consent agenda, I'd like to keep my questions about position

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- and not about people.

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- I had a few questions and they got answered ahead of time, but I had some other questions and it's related

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- to the school psychologist and training positions. They are not something that I've seen before and

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- so I did get a number of questions answered. I understand that these positions are paid for out of a grant.

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- that their four-year positions, that the positions will keep, they are considered teacher positions

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- with the people that have them, which is one of my questions later, and the people will keep their salary

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- schedule as it is now.

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- questions I have is do we have these positions on our schedule? Do we have job descriptions? Have the

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- board approved those job descriptions? That's a good question. I don't believe that we have the board

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- approved the job descriptions. We took the school psychologist position and obviously there are pieces

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- of this that these people will not be doing.

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- we edited that job description for the positions that we posted on Nimble. Okay, so I mean, because

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- usually we don't put anybody in positions until we formally have those positions, and we usually don't

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- formally have those positions until the board votes to make that position. And Christine, I'm not sure

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- on this. When the board approved to vote for the subaward through the SEEDS grant,

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- in that piece being the school psychologist in training, did that approve those positions? We didn't

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- approve the job descriptions that approve what that position was. Okay. So that's. Okay. Okay. I don't

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- think it included that. Yeah, because I mean, we've created a number of positions through the years

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- and this is just, you know, one that I haven't seen.

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- I guess that was my fault. I sort of saw this as temporary. This wasn't a position that we would have

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- long term. It's something we would approve of through the grant, and I guess that's what I was thinking,

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- that if we're approving the grant, we're approving the position.

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- That was my misunderstanding. So that's my fault. It is important that if we can provide you those questions

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- at a later date, we'd like to get these positions taken care of because it does impact the important

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- conversations we're having on staffing. And it impacts that.

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- There are opportunities here for us to save money for the school corporation. We're factoring that in.

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- We're trying to. Our goal is to save $500,000 this year. If not more, we have to cut up to a million

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- dollars. And so taking some of these individuals out of the classroom will actually save some

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- Some a lot of money for the school corporation and it's a big part of saving that five hundred thousand

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- dollars And I understand a degree comes with this position Education specialist degree in school psychology.

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- Yes. So the grant pays for that schooling and

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- So is that a master's? It is a step above a master's. It's an education specialist degree. So a little

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- bit below a doctorate, a little bit above a master's. It's about 63 to 67 hours, depending on which

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- university you go through. OK. And who pays for the college fees? The SEEDS project does. The grant

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- does. That's part of the budget of that grant.

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- Will any of the classes be during the day? Some of them can be. It depends on which school we go with.

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- This is a hybrid type of program. So some of these will be in the evenings. Some of them will be on

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- Saturdays. They could potentially be during the school day if we would go with ISU's program, for example.

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- So I know that it gets reimbursed, but so we would be

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- paying people to go to school and get their higher education degree, did we advertise this? Yes, this

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- was part of the grant and every person that we spoke with when we interviewed, this was part of the

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- interview process, yes. I mean, was it put out there corporation-wide? Yes. That anybody in the corporation

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- could apply for it? Yes, it's been on Nimble and has been sent out

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- usually every Friday Robinson sends an email out to the corporation that says check our postings. We

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- ended up having we had eight people who applied for the position. So there was did people know that

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- that's degree was part of the package? Yes. Seems like you would have got more than eight people if

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- They need to get a higher education degree while they were making the regular salary and getting paid

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- to go to school during the day. Not every one of the options is going to school during the day.

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- Like I said, one of them is giving up a Saturday once a month to go and do that, or evening classes,

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- also going to school during the summer. And we don't pay them to do that during the summer.

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- that's what they would be committing to with this grant. We don't pay them a stipend during the summer,

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- but they still very much may be taking six hours, seven hours during the summer in order to complete

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- this degree on time. Right, but I know other people on the master schedule, they did that on their own

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- time too. Sure. So I just wanted to make sure that everybody knew about this, knew that that was

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- opportunity that they had. Yeah, definitely. And I can share that job posting with you so you can see

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- exactly what that looked like and was an opportunity for anybody who was interested in that. It's certainly

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- not something that we just posted internally either. It was posted on our site for a couple of months

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- actually. We interviewed about a month into the position being posted.

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- So I believe it was posted either February 12th or 13th and we interviewed for those positions right

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- before spring break. In fact, it was right before spring break because we did not know exactly how many

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- we could hire going into spring break because we needed to work some budget pieces out there with IU.

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- So I was working on that, I remember, over spring break. So it was after that that the hiring decisions

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- were made.

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- Dr. Sanders, you mentioned that afterwards, the program, that they had three choices. If we had a position

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- here for a psychologist, they could have that, or they could go somewhere else, or they could go back

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- to the classroom. And my concern is, what if we don't have a position in a classroom for them to go

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- back to? And, you know, with a, you know,

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- I hate to make somebody a promise four years down the road that we don't know if we can fulfill such

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- a promise. Well, they are still employees of RBB. So there's no resignation. They haven't left the school

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- corporation. They're still all quality employees.

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- I would think we would have to have just cause for not giving them a position when they come back. I

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- think all four of these individuals, and by the way, I was not part of the interview process at all.

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- But I believe all four are interested in doing this as a future career. So I don't anticipate those

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- individuals

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- wanting to go back to the classroom. I think they liked the idea of they feel like they bring that valuable

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- experience in the classroom to this role of school psychologist. And so they see themselves as being

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- more effective support to the teachers because they've walked in their shoes. And that's the whole point

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- of the grant.

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- I've always believed that the more people you have available for students, the better services we're

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- going to be able to provide to them. And the more people you have supporting teachers, the more it helps

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- our teachers take just a little bit more off their plate. And so that's why we thought this was a great

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- opportunity

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- for our school corporation to get, now at the end of the four years, all four of them are not gonna

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- get school psychologist positions here. I wish we had that kind of money, but they're not. There's always

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- that chance that an individual may say, you know, I really miss the classroom and I wanna go back to

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- teaching. And because they've,

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- stepped out to take this opportunity, and there still are employees. I don't see how we could not promise

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- them a position when they come back. It may not be the exact same position they have right now, but

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- they're all highly qualified, highly effective employees, teachers, and I think we would

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- jump at the chance to have them back if they would like to. If attrition didn't happen though, it's

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- possible they could have to displace somebody in a classroom. In my eight, nine years, that's never

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- happened. It seems unlikely. I don't want us to hold us back on

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- a possibility that we just never see. What happens if they get halfway through and decide it's not for

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- them? They're halfway through the program. Somebody else can't come in because there's not enough time

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- left to do it. Then what happens? Yeah, we actually had that happen on a couple of the grants, the TIMS

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- and the SMART, where we've had some people leave in the middle.

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- We don't have them sign anything that they're going to stay with us for four years. We have had a couple

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- that have started their degrees and have dropped out of the program for different reasons. They've either

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- left positions to take something else or to move out of state. This one is a little bit different because

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- the degree is three or four years, depending on the school that they go with. And it's a four-year grant.

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- The TEMS and SMART with the counselors was a two-year degree, but a four-year grant. So in those cases,

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- we were able to pick up some people and go ahead and finish paying for schooling. In fact, we just hired

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- a teacher, or sorry, a counselor at the beginning of... Goodness. November, December?

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- something like that into the smart grant who had already started her counseling license and we would

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- have we still had time to help her finish on that and she works for accounts as a counselor for us at

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- ECC. So there are.

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- It's hard to say because you don't know exactly what the situations are going to be or when they arise.

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- But thankfully with these federal grants, we work really closely with our liaison there. And they're

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- really good about helping us come up with alternatives. They don't want to take the money back. I know

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- that sounds silly, but it's actually more of a hassle for them to take the money back.

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- they're bugging me constantly to spend excess cost. And in a lot of ways, it's hard to spend the excess

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- cost once it starts to build up. Just for the SEEDS grant alone, we received our first year of funding

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- for the SEEDS grant just shortly into January. And that first year, Debbie, you'd have to help me on

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- it, that we've received was 750, 800,000.

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- That we receive from them in order to go ahead and start the grant Well, what happens on these federal

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- grants is when they start on January 1st but we don't start the school year until July 1 August 1 on

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- contracts Then we're already seven to eight months behind because we haven't been paying anybody on

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- these grants so that's where

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- all of these grants that are going out to public schools across the entire country, we're already starting

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- to build up excess cost just simply because of timing with it. So that's where we have to, as the government

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- says, they don't want us to plan ahead for excess costs, but they want us to plan ahead for excess costs.

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- In other words, we want you to think about how you can make modifications to the grant down the road.

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- We just don't want to know that you're thinking about how to make modifications.

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- So it's an interesting situation to be in because I can't really talk with our federal contractor through

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- the grant about how we would do this. And in our case, we were able to hire four instead of three and

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- still have an excess cost at the end of this grant of over $200,000. But she does not want to know that

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- now. She wants to wait until the grant is up and running and then we put in modifications to the financial,

00:26:48.152 --> 00:26:50.078
- the budget side of the grant.

00:26:50.210 --> 00:26:56.674
- So you do have to plan ahead, but they don't necessarily want you to start submitting those things right

00:26:56.674 --> 00:27:03.076
- away. So to answer your question, Dana, I don't know exactly how that would work out. A lot of it would

00:27:03.076 --> 00:27:09.294
- depend on what the government allows us to do with the grant in order to open that position back up,

00:27:09.294 --> 00:27:15.881
- and then would they allow us to hire someone with a counseling degree? Would they allow us to hire someone

00:27:15.881 --> 00:27:20.190
- with a social work degree? Would it have to be a school psychologist?

00:27:20.386 --> 00:27:26.802
- Would we be able to have someone, we actually have someone now who has a license as a school psychologist,

00:27:26.802 --> 00:27:32.857
- but she's let that expire. If we were able to pick her up on the grant, if she was interested, would

00:27:32.857 --> 00:27:39.033
- we be able to get her relicensed and bring her back in in that capacity? So a lot of different options

00:27:39.033 --> 00:27:44.489
- there, and it's just hard to say exactly what would happen until the scenario pops up. But

00:27:44.489 --> 00:27:49.406
- we have experienced that with the TIMS grant and the SMART grant, and thankfully,

00:27:49.602 --> 00:27:56.704
- we found a lot of flexibility in what we can do with that. In fact, Mr. Dixon's probably tired of me

00:27:56.704 --> 00:28:04.087
- talking about what do we do? How do we spend this? Is there anybody else that we can hire? So. Any other

00:28:04.087 --> 00:28:11.610
- questions? Well, I was going to just mention, too, on the grants, I talked to Dr. Stewart and Ms. Barrett.

00:28:11.610 --> 00:28:18.782
- We've been more than blessed with grants. And when I started seven years ago, my biggest concern was,

00:28:19.714 --> 00:28:26.714
- Grant money runs out at some point. And then can we maintain those positions with our internal funding?

00:28:26.714 --> 00:28:33.579
- As legislators, guidelines change, this could become tougher and tougher with the education fund. But

00:28:33.579 --> 00:28:40.444
- that grant is from the federal government, correct? And I'm guessing there's a big shortage of school

00:28:40.444 --> 00:28:47.512
- psychologists is what they're trying to backfill that. So they're providing the funding for it. It takes

00:28:47.512 --> 00:28:49.598
- them out of our education fund

00:28:49.698 --> 00:28:56.494
- Correct. Including the benefits and everything. Teachers stay on the pay schedule. Okay. They stay on

00:28:56.494 --> 00:29:03.357
- turf. Okay. And then in four years, like you said, we may not need four people. We definitely will not

00:29:03.357 --> 00:29:09.821
- need four. Need is definitely different than want. Mr. Dixon would say, I would want four school

00:29:09.821 --> 00:29:17.150
- psychologists and I would want to hire every single one of them. The budget says we cannot afford to do that.

00:29:17.666 --> 00:29:25.021
- We're already looking ahead. We have a school psychologist position open right now. We don't have one

00:29:25.021 --> 00:29:32.448
- single applicant for it. And this position opened up back in January, February. We don't have a person

00:29:32.448 --> 00:29:39.731
- for this. So we have two school psychologists right now trying to man our entire district. And so we

00:29:39.731 --> 00:29:47.230
- are paying contracted services for a net person. That'll come off of our payroll and contract services.

00:29:47.394 --> 00:29:54.829
- Yeah, we have to use contracted services. We either use that through the education fund or through Medicaid,

00:29:54.829 --> 00:30:01.445
- one or the other, depending on where we are at that time. So we already have a need for a school

00:30:01.445 --> 00:30:08.743
- psychologist. Karen Nastrom is never going to retire, and I'm just going to put that out into the universe

00:30:08.743 --> 00:30:13.790
- so that we don't see any retirement come from Karen Nastrom anytime soon.

00:30:14.018 --> 00:30:20.879
- But I know that she's not gonna be here forever and I do know that there will come a time probably here

00:30:20.879 --> 00:30:27.608
- in the near future that Karen will say, I'm done. Probably when she's one of two school psychologists

00:30:27.608 --> 00:30:34.733
- in a district of almost 2,700 is when she's gonna say, I'm done. But we have a need, I know our surrounding

00:30:34.733 --> 00:30:41.726
- school districts have a need. There will be jobs for these people and the whole point of the grant was to

00:30:42.370 --> 00:30:49.044
- have additional school psychologists in the field. That's when we see these jobs pop up on the federal

00:30:49.044 --> 00:30:55.523
- grant side of things, it's because there's a need. And so they start pouring money into that to get

00:30:55.523 --> 00:31:02.262
- people licensed and get people into these careers. Yes, that makes sense to me. We're getting advantage

00:31:02.262 --> 00:31:05.502
- of it. Let's take another education fund as well.

00:31:13.890 --> 00:31:22.523
- Oh, eight of them internal. No, we didn't have. I guess I had a question. The four that you're recommending,

00:31:22.523 --> 00:31:30.522
- are they internal or was one of those an external, maybe, or two of them? I don't know. They are all

00:31:30.522 --> 00:31:38.522
- internal. Okay. We also had two external, and we interviewed one of those external candidates. Okay,

00:31:38.522 --> 00:31:42.878
- so we had six internal and two external then? Correct.

00:31:45.058 --> 00:31:55.155
- Thank you. You're welcome. policies we have two choices to make and I'll leave it up to my colleagues

00:31:55.155 --> 00:32:05.648
- decide which choice they wouldn't do we could table those to the next meeting or we could actually create

00:32:05.648 --> 00:32:12.478
- those positions right now the position of psychologists and training

00:32:13.154 --> 00:32:20.822
- We don't actually approve job descriptions. We'd be creating it without looking at a job description

00:32:20.822 --> 00:32:28.567
- based on what we've heard tonight. So if you're comfortable in doing that, we could move forward that

00:32:28.567 --> 00:32:36.159
- way and then fill those positions. Or again, we could table those appointments until they bring the

00:32:36.159 --> 00:32:37.374
- position to us.

00:32:40.386 --> 00:32:48.987
- Can we take the job description that was in the posting, have Jennifer go print it off and give the

00:32:48.987 --> 00:32:57.760
- board that job description and approve that? We've approved before the job description the same night

00:32:57.760 --> 00:33:06.620
- we voted the person in. We've done that before. Right. That'll postpone us, because the positions that

00:33:06.620 --> 00:33:09.630
- these folks are leaving have to be

00:33:10.306 --> 00:33:17.994
- Advertised to and we don't we have another meeting may so it gives us it correct, right? But we're making

00:33:17.994 --> 00:33:25.900
- staffing decisions now correct. I get it. I get it. We need to know What positions are going to be available

00:33:25.900 --> 00:33:33.370
- or not and they did post the position they did pose this wasn't created. Yeah, okay. All right Are you

00:33:33.370 --> 00:33:37.214
- okay with creating it tonight? Yeah, that'd be great

00:33:38.146 --> 00:33:44.867
- No, because I won't have time to look through the job description. OK. It's fairly short, but I can

00:33:44.867 --> 00:33:51.723
- do either way. Are you OK with moving the board? Yeah. OK, there's a general consensus that we should

00:33:51.723 --> 00:33:58.445
- move forward. So is there a motion to create a position of psychologist in training? I will move to

00:33:58.445 --> 00:34:04.830
- create the position of school psychologist in training. Yeah, I'll second. Moved and seconded.

00:34:05.410 --> 00:34:11.711
- I had lots of discussion, any more discussion? This is all funded through the CSRAM for four years.

00:34:11.711 --> 00:34:18.075
- 100%. And we start off with three, but the budget allows us to do four across the board. Yes, and IU

00:34:18.075 --> 00:34:24.376
- also made, they did not want their full-time school psychologist to be employed by RBB. They wanted

00:34:24.376 --> 00:34:31.118
- to keep her under the IU umbrella. So they actually took her in through contracted services, which allowed

00:34:31.118 --> 00:34:34.206
- us a little bit more of a cushion there as well.

00:34:37.346 --> 00:34:43.816
- It does, Hannah Kassab. She is. She works with us now on the SMART grant. She will actually continue

00:34:43.816 --> 00:34:50.222
- on the SMART grant about a third of the time. She'll be working on the SEEDS grant about a third of

00:34:50.222 --> 00:34:56.885
- the time. And she received, IE received another, it's not called SEEDS, but another school psychologist

00:34:56.885 --> 00:35:03.868
- grant in a neighboring corporation. And she'll be working in that as well. As an employee through contracted

00:35:03.868 --> 00:35:06.238
- services with, as an employee of IU,

00:35:06.370 --> 00:35:14.190
- through contracted services with all of these schools. So the sub-award agreement that you all approved

00:35:14.190 --> 00:35:22.009
- last month, part of the funds that are going to IU are paying for Hanna's services to us. Mm-hmm. Okay,

00:35:22.009 --> 00:35:29.679
- thank you. I'll just make two comments for the vote. One, please bring the first job descriptions and

00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:34.942
- positions to us first so that we know what we're looking at. And two,

00:35:35.714 --> 00:35:42.948
- position like this comes up before I think extra efforts need to be made in getting that out there.

00:35:42.948 --> 00:35:50.182
- You know, yes, getting it posted, you know, Robin putting out there. But if I would have looked and

00:35:50.182 --> 00:35:57.705
- saw a psychologist in training as a position, to me, that's not going to sound very exciting, honestly.

00:35:57.705 --> 00:36:03.998
- But if I found out that, wow, that in training is going to get me a high level degree,

00:36:04.418 --> 00:36:13.518
- and it's gonna be paid for and I'm gonna get my regular salary and regular increases in salary while

00:36:13.518 --> 00:36:22.528
- all that's happening, that's a lot different. So I think a really, I hadn't heard anything about it

00:36:22.528 --> 00:36:31.898
- until this. So that's why I'm really surprised because I do think there would have been more applicants

00:36:31.898 --> 00:36:33.790
- if they'd known what

00:36:34.530 --> 00:36:43.493
- the benefits of being a psychologist in training were. So I would like it that when there's those kind

00:36:43.493 --> 00:36:52.543
- of extra benefits, that extra efforts be made to make sure that the word gets out there so people know.

00:36:52.543 --> 00:37:01.767
- Because again, the wording of what the title, the position doesn't look like it's very much a high paying

00:37:01.767 --> 00:37:04.030
- job or high fruitful job.

00:37:04.130 --> 00:37:12.991
- Any other comments? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Now we'll move on to the

00:37:12.991 --> 00:37:21.594
- consent agenda. Sorry. We have approval of minutes for March 24th, 2026, the regular board meeting.

00:37:21.594 --> 00:37:31.230
- We have the financial report, which is the treasurer's report for March of 2026. Mr. Turner, the claims please.

00:37:32.066 --> 00:37:44.559
- Thank you, Mr. President. For gross wages on March the 13th, 2026 is $856,877.57. For gross wages mini

00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:56.689
- payroll, March the 26th, 2026 is $1,194.42. For gross wages on March the 27th, 2026 is $729,901.03.

00:37:56.689 --> 00:38:01.662
- For total in that area is $1,587,973.02.

00:38:02.274 --> 00:38:17.237
- for claims and prepays from 3126 to 33126, $1,154,939.34 for claims regular vouchers for April 21st,

00:38:17.237 --> 00:38:30.718
- 2026 at $616,454.79 for total in that area of $1,771,394.13 for a grand total, $3,359,934.

00:38:31.522 --> 00:38:41.083
- $367.15, thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, sir. We also have personnel, resignations, retirements,

00:38:41.083 --> 00:38:50.456
- non-renewals, leaves, and terminations, C1 through 19, and personnel appointments and transfers, D1

00:38:50.456 --> 00:38:59.454
- through 23, and we do have a donation this evening, and it is equipment from Boston Scientific.

00:38:59.810 --> 00:39:08.702
- We're excited, very excited about that. Dr. Sanders, would you give our field trips report on those?

00:39:08.702 --> 00:39:17.770
- Absolutely. We have four field trips for your approval tonight. The first one is a high school concert

00:39:17.770 --> 00:39:25.342
- band to Decatur Central High School for a performance. They'll perform on April 24th.

00:39:25.474 --> 00:39:36.431
- And then on April 25th, they will be going to Kings Island. And then the second one is the band camp

00:39:36.431 --> 00:39:47.279
- for our state championship band going to Vincennes University. And that'll be July 19th through the

00:39:47.279 --> 00:39:55.198
- 24th. The high school senior class trip to Kentucky Kingdom is May 28th.

00:39:55.330 --> 00:40:07.269
- The high school drama club is going to Kings Island on Saturday, May 9th. Thank you. Do we have a motion

00:40:07.269 --> 00:40:18.639
- on the consent agenda? I move approval of consent agenda. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Can I

00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:22.846
- address Mr. Ackerman? He loves that.

00:40:23.042 --> 00:40:29.677
- I'm just curious, I've never heard this term Odyssey Students from choir. What's Odyssey mean? Is that

00:40:29.677 --> 00:40:36.569
- local Odyssey? It's one of the choirs. Is that a new name? Yeah. Okay, I had never heard that name before.

00:40:36.569 --> 00:40:43.397
- I didn't know if it was like a hybrid. It's the choir, it's a singing choir, it's not a performing choir.

00:40:43.397 --> 00:40:50.032
- Okay, okay, but they're gonna be going with the band to do this, okay. Yeah, it's just a new term, I'm

00:40:50.032 --> 00:40:52.286
- just curious about it on that one.

00:40:52.994 --> 00:41:03.815
- I had a quick question on the drama club that was not during the school day that's that's on a Saturday

00:41:03.815 --> 00:41:14.428
- correct yes that trip to Kings Island okay all right perfect leadership of the senior class that they

00:41:14.428 --> 00:41:18.174
- decided to do the senior trip after

00:41:18.722 --> 00:41:27.266
- all the class days were over so that everybody could participate. I just think that's terrific, that

00:41:27.266 --> 00:41:35.810
- they wanted to make sure everybody could participate. So I'm just so. Yeah. And yeah, that's just so

00:41:35.810 --> 00:41:44.523
- mature and so inclusive. I was blown away. And I want to congratulate Ms. Waterford for a great career

00:41:44.523 --> 00:41:48.414
- at the high school. And Ms. Cowden, 36 years?

00:41:48.994 --> 00:41:57.857
- Mr. Show, is that right? Yeah, I liked her resignation letter. Retirement letter is pretty good.

00:41:57.857 --> 00:42:07.269
- And Ms. Pittman is going to retire this year as well. And I hired Payne way back in the day and I know

00:42:07.269 --> 00:42:16.498
- she's done a great job in the guidance department. So, congrats to those two on those great careers.

00:42:16.498 --> 00:42:18.782
- And Mr. Brewer says that

00:42:18.946 --> 00:42:29.244
- The deja vu of having him and Berta Slinkard in the hallways again is a little bit otherworldly. Any

00:42:29.244 --> 00:42:39.541
- further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Dr. Sanders. Yes, Brad

00:42:39.541 --> 00:42:47.902
- just mentioned Pam Waterford, one of the nicest people I've ever met. Absolutely.

00:42:48.642 --> 00:42:58.444
- And she will definitely be missed. I haven't asked her what she's doing, but I hopefully, I hope it's

00:42:58.444 --> 00:43:08.149
- singing. You will be. And Christina Cowden, 36 years as a teacher. Now, I knew her husband and Craig

00:43:08.149 --> 00:43:17.470
- Cowden from Martinsville for a long time. So I've had the pleasure of working with both of them.

00:43:17.730 --> 00:43:28.308
- Let's love them both. They're great people, and I wish Christina and Pam the very best luck. I would

00:43:28.308 --> 00:43:39.200
- like to recognize Brian Paulson. I love that man to death. He's a great man, a wonderful man. He helped

00:43:39.200 --> 00:43:46.846
- all three of my children through show choir, taught them a great amount.

00:43:47.394 --> 00:43:57.686
- Some of you know that he's basically like family to me. When, after he moved here from the Boston area,

00:43:57.686 --> 00:44:07.978
- Waltham, it ended up, I think my son John was the second class he had. But we got really close. I ended

00:44:07.978 --> 00:44:17.182
- up being head dad for him for many years. And it was one year as head dad for Virta and him.

00:44:17.282 --> 00:44:25.308
- Anyway, he was spectacular with the students. They all learned so much. He taught all my kids so much.

00:44:25.308 --> 00:44:33.334
- We got really close. He started coming over to our house about every night watching Will and Jeopardy.

00:44:33.334 --> 00:44:41.438
- We watched Lost together. And we'd always have to watch the previous seasons where we started doing it.

00:44:41.538 --> 00:44:51.190
- So we're really close. We are really close. I love that man. He's great. He's outstanding. I just really

00:44:51.190 --> 00:45:00.474
- respect him. All my kids love him. They learn so much from him. I've learned so much from him. And I

00:45:00.474 --> 00:45:10.494
- know there's a lot of kids out there that have. I saw my nephew in here earlier. He left. He's probably sad.

00:45:10.850 --> 00:45:20.924
- Soft-hearted kid, strong boy, but soft-hearted kid. But there's a lot of us that's gonna miss Brian

00:45:20.924 --> 00:45:31.301
- in the schools. Again, he's a wonderful guy, and we're sorry that he's not with us in the schools, but

00:45:31.301 --> 00:45:40.670
- he's a great man, wonderful man, and just breaks my heart to accept his resignation tonight.

00:45:40.898 --> 00:45:54.295
- But just couldn't do it without telling how much I love you. But I must carry on with business.

00:45:54.295 --> 00:46:08.668
- That's my job. So next, we have consideration to approve latch key fees for the 26-27 school year. Dr.

00:46:08.668 --> 00:46:10.622
- Sanders. Yes.

00:46:11.618 --> 00:46:22.018
- We've always tried at Edgewood schools to support our families, not only with obviously an excellent

00:46:22.018 --> 00:46:30.462
- education, but before and after school childcare. And we try to keep those costs,

00:46:30.658 --> 00:46:38.670
- down as much as possible. We're so lucky to have the Boys and Girls Club to provide that service at

00:46:38.670 --> 00:46:46.842
- a very minimal cost. We have continued to provide latch key before and after school child care on our

00:46:46.842 --> 00:46:55.095
- campus in order to give parents options. But as I mentioned earlier in the meeting, with the financial

00:46:55.095 --> 00:47:00.062
- position the state of Indiana has put school corporations in,

00:47:00.162 --> 00:47:13.020
- We're trying to find every penny we can in order to continue to provide that quality education. So we

00:47:13.020 --> 00:47:25.626
- have increased the fees for latch key and that information was provided to you in the board packet.

00:47:25.626 --> 00:47:29.534
- I think we have, well we have,

00:47:29.634 --> 00:47:40.881
- Right now this year we have 85 students in the morning and 65 in the afternoon, so we still have a good

00:47:40.881 --> 00:47:52.021
- number of families who participate and utilize that. I tell you what, the increased costs also I think

00:47:52.021 --> 00:47:58.942
- will enable us to put that money into reaching, trying to pay a

00:47:59.682 --> 00:48:08.579
- competitive salary to these folks that, you know, this is kind of a job where you come in early in the

00:48:08.579 --> 00:48:17.562
- morning, you work in the morning, and then you have to come back in the afternoon. And there's not that

00:48:17.562 --> 00:48:26.373
- many people out there that will do that for what we were paying them. And so we are recommending that

00:48:26.373 --> 00:48:28.446
- we increase these fees.

00:48:28.802 --> 00:48:37.227
- It's not something we'd like to ever do, but we're still cheaper than most opportunities around us.

00:48:37.227 --> 00:48:46.326
- Do we have a motion? I move approval for a last key for school year 2026-2027. I'll second. Any discussion?

00:48:46.326 --> 00:48:54.836
- Quick question, Dr. Shainer. So last key in the morning, there's 85 right now. Does it start at six?

00:48:54.836 --> 00:48:58.206
- What time does it start in the morning?

00:48:58.562 --> 00:49:05.833
- Six thirty. Okay. And then in the afternoon to, I don't know what our participation is, the Boys and

00:49:05.833 --> 00:49:13.176
- Girls Club. Is that, do they go from the same time frame in the afternoon as the Boys and Girls Club?

00:49:13.176 --> 00:49:20.375
- I think Boys and Girls Club might go later. I think about an hour later. Heather can speak to that,

00:49:20.375 --> 00:49:28.222
- yeah. I don't know what time it is. Okay. I'm pretty sure it's six o'clock. It may be as late as six thirty.

00:49:29.282 --> 00:49:36.716
- But it is open. So the Boys and Girls Club, they get on a bus here. We take you over there. And transport

00:49:36.716 --> 00:49:44.360
- them down there. And that Boys and Girls Club is just in the afternoon. We would be interested in partnering

00:49:44.360 --> 00:49:51.514
- with the Boys and Girls Club maybe someday in the future for morning. Right. But I think the last key

00:49:51.514 --> 00:49:57.054
- enables parents to be able to where they would just stay right here on campus.

00:49:57.410 --> 00:50:03.319
- Right. I didn't know if a lot of the younger kids stayed on campus and the older ones went to Boys and

00:50:03.319 --> 00:50:09.170
- Girls Club, that's what. I'd like to know a little bit more about that for the future. Because I know

00:50:09.170 --> 00:50:15.079
- they've kept their costs at $25 a year, but they've got a lot of private donations too. Yeah. Boys and

00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:20.816
- Girls Club, they're just a great partner. They are. As you'll see later, we're partnering with them

00:50:20.816 --> 00:50:25.118
- for summer school somewhat. OK. And we're hoping maybe we can expand that.

00:50:25.570 --> 00:50:32.812
- partnership down the road. So we're always working together, meeting with Boys and Girls Club leaders

00:50:32.812 --> 00:50:39.912
- and trying to find ways to just enhance what we do for our students. Okay. I'm getting a little bit

00:50:39.912 --> 00:50:47.154
- ahead of myself, but is the latch key self-funded or are we supplementing it from the education fund?

00:50:47.154 --> 00:50:53.118
- We've always supplemented it. Okay. Yes. Okay. Then with summer school, would it be

00:50:54.082 --> 00:51:02.377
- would pay for itself through state reimbursement? We never get enough from the state to fully fund summer

00:51:02.377 --> 00:51:10.358
- school. We get some back, but not nearly enough. Yeah. OK, that's something over the time we may have

00:51:10.358 --> 00:51:18.418
- to look at. I mean, I don't want to give up summer school, but with the restraints the state's putting

00:51:18.418 --> 00:51:22.174
- on us. Yeah, we're looking at that in terms of,

00:51:22.274 --> 00:51:31.816
- conversations we've had this year has been really on transportation of, we're gonna try to, in the past

00:51:31.816 --> 00:51:41.541
- we, well we used to not provide transportation at all. A few years ago we started it and we take students

00:51:41.541 --> 00:51:47.230
- right to their home. We're going to look into the possibility

00:51:47.426 --> 00:51:54.067
- of having some group stops so we could reduce the number of buses. Because fuel for buses right now

00:51:54.067 --> 00:52:00.907
- is extremely high. And so we're, and that's kind of the mindset we have right now is where can we save

00:52:00.907 --> 00:52:08.013
- some money? Okay, all right, thank you. I know you'll be shocked by this Mr. Tucker, but they've continued

00:52:08.013 --> 00:52:14.654
- to add requirements for summer school, but they have not upped the reimbursement for summer school.

00:52:15.426 --> 00:52:22.110
- So second grade, third grade, any kid who has not passed, I read. Second grade is still not mandatory,

00:52:22.110 --> 00:52:28.729
- but any kid after third grade that hasn't passed, I read, it does become mandatory. If not, there are

00:52:28.729 --> 00:52:35.543
- pieces that we have to put in place for them during the school year. And then of course, as Mr. Ackerman

00:52:35.543 --> 00:52:42.162
- would attest to, the high school students for credit recovery, that's such a big piece there with our

00:52:42.162 --> 00:52:45.342
- summer school programming. So Matt and Andy are,

00:52:45.442 --> 00:52:51.548
- not really reducing our numbers, but we're probably a little bit more choosy about who we do take in

00:52:51.548 --> 00:52:57.653
- summer school, simply because we can't take everybody, we just can't afford to, but the mandates are

00:52:57.653 --> 00:53:03.759
- coming. Well, they're there, the mandates are there, but we have not seen an increase in that. Okay,

00:53:03.759 --> 00:53:09.925
- and we're still gonna do the food truck in the summertime? Ms. Coffey's gonna take care of that? That

00:53:09.925 --> 00:53:13.854
- is for the summer school students? Yeah, I know she would go out

00:53:13.986 --> 00:53:19.872
- stops in the summer, which I've gotten a lot of good comments from people. That's really helpful for

00:53:19.872 --> 00:53:25.817
- folks. I don't know if she's going to continue that this summer. I haven't heard. That is a good Mrs.

00:53:25.817 --> 00:53:31.704
- Coffee question that I don't know an answer to. Is she continuing it out in the community for summer

00:53:31.704 --> 00:53:37.823
- feedings? I'm pretty sure that it's covered. Like, it's free for the kids. Correct. Breakfast and lunch.

00:53:37.823 --> 00:53:40.446
- Right. Are you talking about the food truck?

00:53:41.250 --> 00:53:49.629
- Yes. Obviously for our students participating in summer school, we are definitely having free breakfast

00:53:49.629 --> 00:53:57.767
- and lunch. But we're hoping to continue what we did last year, which was we provided food, meals for

00:53:57.767 --> 00:54:05.824
- families to come pick up. Correct. And we haven't received approval, official approval on that yet,

00:54:05.824 --> 00:54:07.838
- but that's in the works.

00:54:08.066 --> 00:54:19.581
- Perfect. Okay. Yeah, I know a lot of people really appreciate that in the community. Thank you Now on

00:54:19.581 --> 00:54:31.322
- to that summer school program, yes So we are once again doing summer school and really the program that

00:54:31.322 --> 00:54:33.918
- I shared with you is a

00:54:35.042 --> 00:54:43.612
- Similar to what we've done in the last several years. The difference is we're going to partner with

00:54:43.612 --> 00:54:52.353
- the Boys and Girls Club for kindergarten and first grade. They have an excellent remediation program.

00:54:52.353 --> 00:55:01.179
- Andy Scholl and Matt Wooden have been talking with the Boys and Girls Club. And we're going to dip our

00:55:01.179 --> 00:55:04.350
- toe into that partnership by working

00:55:04.514 --> 00:55:14.241
- having our kindergarten first graders go to the Boys and Girls Club for summer school. What that will

00:55:14.241 --> 00:55:23.967
- do will enable EPS then to focus on iREAD3 remediation and helping get those students past the finish

00:55:23.967 --> 00:55:28.926
- line. And I like that idea of having that focus and

00:55:29.154 --> 00:55:39.340
- with iREAD 3 carrying so much weight more than ever, we want to make sure these kids pass. And I believe,

00:55:39.340 --> 00:55:49.045
- isn't it true, I'm glad we have our EPS teachers here, isn't this the first, the best year we've had

00:55:49.045 --> 00:55:58.174
- in terms of percentage of students passing iREAD 3? At second grade. And how did EIS do? Okay.

00:55:58.530 --> 00:56:08.659
- So that those dates will be June 1st through the 18th for EPS EIS and the high school will be June 1st

00:56:08.659 --> 00:56:18.493
- through the 19th and then junior high has more of a jumpstart program that is July 20th through the

00:56:18.493 --> 00:56:25.278
- 30th and the hours are all similar to that I recommend your approval

00:56:28.578 --> 00:56:34.345
- I'll second. I didn't second it. Any discussion? I just had a question for the administrators. You guys

00:56:34.345 --> 00:56:39.890
- have all worked this out as far as summer cleaning? Because they have to be out by July. They'll be

00:56:39.890 --> 00:56:45.490
- done, right, Mr. Mitchell? Mine will start instead of where they have a couple weeks where they have

00:56:45.490 --> 00:56:51.478
- kids still in the building. Mine will start the day that kids are out of the building and we start cleaning

00:56:51.478 --> 00:56:54.750
- lockers out. OK, so I didn't know if you guys tagged team.

00:56:54.882 --> 00:57:02.231
- Like, your custodians would go help out EIS and vice versa while summer school is going on. OK. Arnold?

00:57:02.231 --> 00:57:09.297
- Arnold's the director of the year, so that's good pressure, Arnold. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure Arnold has

00:57:09.297 --> 00:57:16.505
- it under control. Thanks. So second grade was the highest percentage passed? I believe so. Wow. Do we

00:57:16.505 --> 00:57:23.006
- have a second grade teacher? Congratulations on second grade. That's great. That was great.

00:57:24.546 --> 00:57:33.018
- So we love to hear. Awesome growth, awesome growth, thank you. Any further? All those in favor say aye.

00:57:33.018 --> 00:57:41.571
- Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next is consideration to approve sub for insurance pay for administrators.

00:57:41.571 --> 00:57:49.799
- We've done this for teachers, now administrators. Yeah, you know, it's really worked out well for us

00:57:49.799 --> 00:57:51.998
- to implement this program.

00:57:52.130 --> 00:58:03.112
- It benefits our retiring teachers and you know anytime we can do that it's a good day. It also benefits

00:58:03.112 --> 00:58:14.094
- the school corporation and so it's worked out so well. We explored the idea of expanding it to retiring

00:58:14.094 --> 00:58:18.846
- administrators and obviously it will include

00:58:19.234 --> 00:58:28.270
- the opportunity to sub in the classroom. But it'll also benefit the school corporation in so many other

00:58:28.270 --> 00:58:37.046
- ways. And so in the agreement, I list several different ways that they can sub or support the school

00:58:37.046 --> 00:58:46.255
- corporation. One of them is to serve as the expulsion examiner. That really will help us to have somebody

00:58:46.255 --> 00:58:48.862
- who truly does have a neutral

00:58:49.410 --> 00:58:57.963
- position to expulsions transportation support there are some times where Our director of transportation,

00:58:57.963 --> 00:59:06.191
- you know life happens and sometimes she might have surgery or her parents She might have to help her

00:59:06.191 --> 00:59:11.486
- parents out and she can't be here and when she's not here then I

00:59:11.682 --> 00:59:20.415
- man the radio and support the drivers. And sometimes that's a challenge with my other duties. I'll often

00:59:20.415 --> 00:59:29.065
- be sitting in a meeting with a parent or with administrators or teachers and have one eye on the person

00:59:29.065 --> 00:59:37.964
- I'm talking to and then my ear on the radio and trying to listen to both. So I would love to have somebody

00:59:37.964 --> 00:59:41.374
- like that who could sub in that position

00:59:41.506 --> 00:59:50.847
- or on those days where we're short bus drivers, where this person can come in and drive a school bus.

00:59:50.847 --> 01:00:00.370
- Sometimes administrators, principals, assistant principals have to be out of the building for a variety

01:00:00.370 --> 01:00:10.718
- of reasons. And I would see this as if there's a lengthy time that somebody might be out that we might have this

01:00:10.850 --> 01:00:20.465
- retired administrator come in and support the building and support the other administrator. Event assistance

01:00:20.465 --> 01:00:22.494
- if we would need that.

01:00:22.626 --> 01:00:32.225
- construction project assistance that takes up a lot of our time and addressing the construction projects

01:00:32.225 --> 01:00:41.366
- we have so I could see that person helping in some way and then serving as a substitute teacher and

01:00:41.366 --> 01:00:50.782
- really board it would be under my discretion my leadership to determine how this person would be used.

01:00:52.386 --> 01:00:59.669
- Your motion. Is there a second? He moved approval. Okay, I second. Questions? And this is very, the

01:00:59.669 --> 01:01:07.171
- way I read it, Dr. Chen is very comparable to what we do with our teachers, correct? What's that? It's

01:01:07.171 --> 01:01:13.944
- very comparable financially to the school as we do the sub-teachers. Yeah. Okay. Sounds like

01:01:13.944 --> 01:01:21.300
- the administrator though is gonna end up working a lot more. Correct. It sounds like he just created

01:01:21.300 --> 01:01:22.174
- a position.

01:01:22.274 --> 01:01:34.453
- All right, thank you. Anything else? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next

01:01:34.453 --> 01:01:46.755
- consideration to approve declaration of surplus items. Yes, so I don't know if everybody knows this,

01:01:46.755 --> 01:01:51.870
- but the farmhouse and the barns and silos

01:01:52.674 --> 01:02:02.155
- We purchased that years ago and the gentleman who farms the land out here lived there for a while and

01:02:02.155 --> 01:02:11.450
- he has since moved into his own place and the house and the barns are in very bad shape. One of the

01:02:11.450 --> 01:02:21.024
- barns is basically standing because it's leaning against a tree. And so we have plans to take down the

01:02:21.024 --> 01:02:22.046
- farmhouse,

01:02:22.146 --> 01:02:32.735
- barns and right now we're in the process of trying to get the asbestos removed before we can move on

01:02:32.735 --> 01:02:43.534
- to actually taking those structures down. The silos up there are still in good shape and we would like

01:02:43.534 --> 01:02:47.518
- to declare them a surplus in order to

01:02:48.546 --> 01:02:57.413
- Anybody that's interested, I don't know who goes around buying silos, but make them available. One of

01:02:57.413 --> 01:03:06.366
- them is 24 feet by six rings, whatever the heck that means, 6,500 bushels. The other is 18 feet by six

01:03:06.366 --> 01:03:15.233
- rings, or 2,750 bushels. So I recommend your approval. I move approval to approve the declaration for

01:03:15.233 --> 01:03:17.406
- surplus items. I second.

01:03:18.754 --> 01:03:25.317
- Any discussion? Do we have a contract for the demo, Dr. Sanders? Was that voted on at the last meeting?

01:03:25.317 --> 01:03:31.690
- I wasn't, I was not here at the last, is there a contract to demo the? No. Okay, but that'll come at

01:03:31.690 --> 01:03:38.190
- a next, another board meeting? Yeah, what we've been working on recently is getting with a company to,

01:03:38.190 --> 01:03:44.500
- first of all, to determine if we had asbestos and we do. So now we're gonna have to get rid of that

01:03:44.500 --> 01:03:48.286
- before we can start tearing it down. So one step at a time.

01:03:48.578 --> 01:03:57.750
- Okay, yeah, that's because it is a liability that building it's. All right. All those in favor say aye.

01:03:57.750 --> 01:04:06.745
- Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Now consideration to approve replacement of the Edward High School

01:04:06.745 --> 01:04:09.214
- pool deck. Yeah, we this is

01:04:10.306 --> 01:04:21.731
- It is unfortunate because it hasn't been really that long ago that we replaced the pool deck tiles.

01:04:21.731 --> 01:04:34.070
- But immediately, while it was under warranty, we had issues with the tile becoming loose, rusting, bulging.

01:04:34.070 --> 01:04:39.326
- There's puddles, so the surface wasn't level.

01:04:39.458 --> 01:04:49.751
- And it's really become a safety hazard. Our own maintenance department, once the warranty was out, tried

01:04:49.751 --> 01:04:59.750
- to keep it up, and it's just continued to cause problems. So we're recommending to, and we had quotes

01:04:59.750 --> 01:05:08.670
- done on this, and we're gonna have Jack, Jack Laurie Group had the lowest quote of 120,000

01:05:08.802 --> 01:05:20.559
- $105 to Replace the tile with an epoxy type flooring that will have like a it'll be rough, you know,

01:05:20.559 --> 01:05:32.316
- so Resist slipping And so if we can get that approved tonight, we'll have that work done this summer

01:05:32.316 --> 01:05:38.718
- Any discussion and I understand this coming out of the

01:05:39.298 --> 01:05:47.068
- Oh, yes, thank you. Thank you, Larry. It's coming out of the 2022 General Obligation Law. Okay, and

01:05:47.068 --> 01:05:55.150
- then I'm gonna put Martin on the spot. Who vetted this lorry outfit? Well, this is a company that we've

01:05:55.150 --> 01:06:02.920
- been using in a number of our projects, current projects that we just finished. They've been in the

01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:09.214
- elementary schools quite a bit. And we're not, if I read it, maybe I misread it.

01:06:09.442 --> 01:06:19.657
- and maybe Arnold could fill this in. We're not replacing the tile, we're putting this. The epoxy's gonna

01:06:19.657 --> 01:06:29.580
- cover the existing, and it's just on the deck, not down in the pool, it's on the deck. Correct, okay.

01:06:29.580 --> 01:06:38.238
- Right, so our warranty is gone for the previous contractor. And that was under VPS? Yes.

01:06:39.554 --> 01:06:55.246
- Thank you. So what if the tile underneath that epoxy breaks loose? Will it still be held by the epoxy

01:06:55.246 --> 01:07:09.246
- in place or would it? How long to guarantee it for? Yeah, I like forever. I like it. Okay.

01:07:09.634 --> 01:07:19.080
- But it won't be really, when you says epoxy, I don't want to be like super slick. It's gonna have some.

01:07:19.080 --> 01:07:28.253
- Okay, that makes sense then. It's got a little grit to it then, okay. That's what pools are going to

01:07:28.253 --> 01:07:38.334
- now. Okay, all right, got it. Any further questions? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

01:07:39.010 --> 01:07:51.380
- Next is consideration to approve the Ready 2.0 resolution. Yeah, so as you know, the school corporation

01:07:51.380 --> 01:08:03.394
- received a $500,000 grant through regional opportunity initiatives. The organization that supervises

01:08:03.394 --> 01:08:04.702
- that whole

01:08:04.834 --> 01:08:16.052
- grant process, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation has asked for specific documentation that

01:08:16.052 --> 01:08:27.159
- the construction bond dollars that we approved in the fall, that there's been $2,255,500 of that set

01:08:27.159 --> 01:08:33.758
- aside for the biomedical life sciences project. I sent them

01:08:34.082 --> 01:08:42.606
- The documentation I sent them was all the documents that we approved as far as the bonding process.

01:08:42.606 --> 01:08:50.875
- But they wanted something very specific. So I asked Christine, what can we do? And she suggested

01:08:50.875 --> 01:08:57.694
- a resolution. And we checked with IEDC. And they said that would be acceptable.

01:09:02.722 --> 01:09:09.706
- I'll move to approve the ready 2.0 resolution. Did they give us any kind of timeline on this as far

01:09:09.706 --> 01:09:17.040
- as making sure we get our, we can receive our half a million? Yes, well we just. We've got the contracts

01:09:17.040 --> 01:09:24.094
- in place to move forward. Yes, yeah. And we're in the process, we just met today talking about, with

01:09:24.094 --> 01:09:31.358
- our architect talking about the Bain and Quire expansion out here and also the biomedical life sciences

01:09:31.458 --> 01:09:41.065
- and we have until 2028 to spend that grant money. We'll be, unless there's a big setback that we don't

01:09:41.065 --> 01:09:50.858
- expect, but we should be good on that timeline. Okay, move and seconded, any further? All those in favor

01:09:50.858 --> 01:09:59.998
- say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next is consideration to approve the career coaching grant

01:10:00.130 --> 01:10:06.843
- a sub-award agreement, Jennifer Barrett. Yes, this is one, the Career Coaching Grant is a sub-award

01:10:06.843 --> 01:10:13.690
- that we're receiving through ROI. ROI receives the grant through the state. The Career Coaching Grant

01:10:13.690 --> 01:10:20.605
- essentially pays for the salary and benefits of Susan Harrington, who works as our career coach at the

01:10:20.605 --> 01:10:25.438
- high school. The grant runs from January 1st through June 30th of 2027.

01:10:25.698 --> 01:10:35.031
- The total amount of that grant is $112,476. I move approval of the Career Coaching Grant Subaward Agreement.

01:10:35.031 --> 01:10:43.680
- I second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Did we get the first installment already, Ms. Barrett?

01:10:43.680 --> 01:10:46.334
- This is a reimbursement grant.

01:10:46.882 --> 01:10:53.926
- So what Mrs. Tate does is about every quarter or so, she'll submit a reimbursement to ROI. She'll show

01:10:53.926 --> 01:11:00.765
- what we've paid Mrs. Harrington during that time. They send us the reimbursement for her salary and

01:11:00.765 --> 01:11:07.605
- benefits. It started January 1 of 26, but she didn't sign it until March of 26. Correct. That's why

01:11:07.605 --> 01:11:12.734
- I was a little nervous. I'll make sure we got our money. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

01:11:12.866 --> 01:11:19.883
- That's pretty typical with these types of grants that the money is already there in ROI funding from

01:11:19.883 --> 01:11:27.109
- the state It just takes them a little bit longer to get the sub awards out and in this case This career

01:11:27.109 --> 01:11:34.126
- coaching grant as an extension of the first career coaching grant that we've had Mr. Ackerman left a

01:11:34.126 --> 01:11:36.766
- year and a half two years in place so

01:11:37.634 --> 01:11:45.717
- from ROI's perspective, they're basically extending all of these grants that they already had in place

01:11:45.717 --> 01:11:53.564
- with the neighboring counties and school districts. Okay, perfect, thank you. Anything further? All

01:11:53.564 --> 01:12:01.882
- those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. We are tabling item number 14, and so consideration

01:12:01.882 --> 01:12:07.454
- to award bid for the softball and baseball turf projects, Dr. Sanders.

01:12:07.970 --> 01:12:19.364
- Yes, this is, I think, a really exciting night for us. We strive very hard in our school corporation

01:12:19.364 --> 01:12:31.322
- to provide our students and staff with the highest quality facilities. And it really, people don't always

01:12:31.322 --> 01:12:36.286
- understand this, but we are in competition.

01:12:36.834 --> 01:12:45.574
- students the state has put us in that position where we have to compete and believe me parents take

01:12:45.574 --> 01:12:54.313
- advantage of that and particularly in this case if they have a softball or baseball player and they

01:12:54.313 --> 01:13:02.878
- they will look at neighboring school corporations that see what kind of facilities that they have

01:13:03.234 --> 01:13:11.819
- and exercise their options. So not only does it provide us with a safer facility, having turf, it helps

01:13:11.819 --> 01:13:20.238
- with the maintenance of the fields. When, and I've been there, I think it was a few years ago, we had

01:13:20.238 --> 01:13:28.493
- a sectional, we were hosting a sectional, but we had a lot of rain. And even though we were hosting

01:13:28.493 --> 01:13:29.566
- a sectional,

01:13:30.082 --> 01:13:40.288
- In order to play the games, we had to go over and use the turf field at North High School. And so with

01:13:40.288 --> 01:13:50.791
- the turf, we won't have to do that anymore. We obviously went through all the requirements of advertising

01:13:50.791 --> 01:13:55.646
- for bids. And last Wednesday, we opened the bids

01:13:55.810 --> 01:14:07.155
- Skillman looks and the architect Lancer architect they vet the the bids and So the the company that

01:14:07.155 --> 01:14:18.727
- had the lowest bid And really there was I Think the person works for Lancer right Martin that that is

01:14:18.727 --> 01:14:25.534
- the expert and field turf Okay, and so she will look at the

01:14:25.794 --> 01:14:41.768
- the products that these companies are offering and making sure that they're quality. So the base bid

01:14:41.768 --> 01:14:45.406
- came in at $2,603,221.

01:14:45.698 --> 01:14:59.013
- I didn't get that right yet, did I? $2,603,221 and we had two alternatives. The chain link fence will

01:14:59.013 --> 01:15:12.198
- be $51,977 and then alternative two is a sidewalk that will go from the junior high across the field

01:15:12.198 --> 01:15:15.070
- by the baseball field

01:15:15.170 --> 01:15:24.644
- and provide our students with a walking, an area to walk if they're walking down towards the high school.

01:15:24.644 --> 01:15:33.672
- That's just part of the project. Eventually we're gonna have a walking path right along the baseball

01:15:33.672 --> 01:15:42.878
- and football field complexes and to provide some safety for our students who are walking after school.

01:15:43.298 --> 01:15:54.567
- So that alternative, too, was $80,685. And so the total bid was $2,735,856. And that came in under the

01:15:54.567 --> 01:16:04.960
- estimated cost. So we're in good shape. And the work will start this summer. Old turf project.

01:16:04.960 --> 01:16:10.430
- I'll second. Martin, do you want to say anything?

01:16:11.778 --> 01:16:19.330
- Well, you came all this way. I didn't mean to steal your thunder. Can I ask Martin a question? Sure.

01:16:19.330 --> 01:16:27.032
- So this is going to take care of all the backstops, both also correct. The softball into baseball. OK,

01:16:27.032 --> 01:16:34.584
- and I'm a little concerned. I just want to make sure that we're going to get this done, Dr. Sanders.

01:16:34.584 --> 01:16:38.846
- The safety going from the junior high to the high school

01:16:39.202 --> 01:16:46.127
- I just hate to see those kids walking along that road. This isn't gonna take it all the way, it's just

01:16:46.127 --> 01:16:53.456
- gonna take a part way? This is the first part. Right, we're in the process right now of getting measurements

01:16:53.456 --> 01:17:00.381
- for that part of the project. Okay. And once we get those measurements, then we'll go through the same

01:17:00.381 --> 01:17:07.306
- process and tag that right along with this. In the end, it'll probably be happening all about the same

01:17:07.306 --> 01:17:09.054
- thing. That's what, yeah,

01:17:09.314 --> 01:17:16.540
- Scares me to death all the time there. Still. We're just approving this part of the project now. I'd

01:17:16.540 --> 01:17:23.694
- really like to see it once we get all these connections made. I've always wanted to see it where we

01:17:23.694 --> 01:17:28.702
- had a true walking path, where it was measured out, and a start here.

01:17:29.058 --> 01:17:36.362
- and maybe something along the way of history or something about the school corporation, something to,

01:17:36.362 --> 01:17:43.523
- you know, and now you've gone a tenth of a mile or whatever. I think it would be, that would really

01:17:43.523 --> 01:17:50.827
- be helpful for the community too, you know, and then so I would really like to see eventually that we

01:17:50.827 --> 01:17:56.126
- add that. I don't think it'd be very expensive once the trail is made to,

01:17:56.226 --> 01:18:05.868
- Right. To market. Several years ago, I wrote a grant. It was a grant for $30,000 and another community.

01:18:05.868 --> 01:18:15.231
- But we put exercise equipment along the path also. And it was for the community. OK. I've seen that.

01:18:15.231 --> 01:18:24.687
- And wearing my tennis shirt, it just makes me think we need to be looking at the tennis courts before

01:18:24.687 --> 01:18:26.078
- too long. Yep.

01:18:26.498 --> 01:18:34.016
- We put a patch on quite a few years ago to get us back a couple years, and it's been way past that.

01:18:34.016 --> 01:18:41.685
- I'd really like to see something happen. We're always looking ahead. We're wrapping up some projects,

01:18:41.685 --> 01:18:49.278
- getting ready to start some others, and then we have others that are kind of out in the near future,

01:18:49.278 --> 01:18:55.518
- and then we want to be prepared. There's always a need, but we want to be prepared

01:18:55.746 --> 01:19:06.064
- for when we qualify for additional bond dollars. Okay, any further discussion? All those in favor say

01:19:06.064 --> 01:19:16.483
- aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Now we move to our business manager's report and we have an update.

01:19:16.483 --> 01:19:22.654
- Good evening. So looking at the projections in front of you,

01:19:22.818 --> 01:19:29.908
- with the education fund and the operations fund. Right now, we have been on target with our projections

01:19:29.908 --> 01:19:36.794
- actually under, which has been really good and positive. I'm still making sure to move as much money

01:19:36.794 --> 01:19:43.611
- over to trust Indiana as possible. Anytime I see a balance that I can move, I move it over and then

01:19:43.611 --> 01:19:50.974
- I only pull it over when needed. So I just wanna make sure you guys are always aware that that's a constant

01:19:51.170 --> 01:19:59.269
- in my process. We are working so hard as a team with all these changes that are happening with funding

01:19:59.269 --> 01:20:07.289
- and everything, and we're meeting weekly, if not more than that, in very detailed conversations, like

01:20:07.289 --> 01:20:12.478
- we are speaking names, we are speaking positions, we are speaking

01:20:13.122 --> 01:20:20.157
- all kinds of things because we care so deeply about everything in this corporation. So the details are

01:20:20.157 --> 01:20:27.123
- very important to us. So we have a really good team, and I know I mentioned that last time, but those

01:20:27.123 --> 01:20:34.294
- are some things we are working on, new procedures, new processes, just so everybody's spending properly,

01:20:34.294 --> 01:20:41.124
- too. And nobody's just overspending just to overspend, just to make sure we're staying as low as we

01:20:41.124 --> 01:20:42.558
- can with everything.

01:20:43.010 --> 01:20:49.465
- And then one of the other things, I know Brad had mentioned this before with the seek money, I wanted

01:20:49.465 --> 01:20:55.919
- to make sure we do have that money coming in now. So that is something that has been, Noah and I have

01:20:55.919 --> 01:21:02.310
- been working on that. And so that funding is coming in at this point. So it's helping build up those

01:21:02.310 --> 01:21:05.854
- balances that were really high from those students, so.

01:21:07.746 --> 01:21:15.049
- Yeah, they were pretty excessive, but we got, I think the last month we had like 400,000 come in,

01:21:15.049 --> 01:21:22.724
- so we are, we're, yep, so they're reimbursing, we're on target with everything, so I wanted to let you

01:21:22.724 --> 01:21:30.325
- know that, because I don't think you were here last month, so I wanted to make sure you were aware of

01:21:30.325 --> 01:21:36.286
- that, so. So our cost will be 30,000 for our portion correct per student. Yeah.

01:21:36.514 --> 01:21:42.430
- As far as the transfers, are we up? Is our goal to get to 15% of transferring from the operational education?

01:21:42.430 --> 01:21:48.077
- We are staying under that right now. Well, I didn't know what percent we were at. We're at 250 per month

01:21:48.077 --> 01:21:53.670
- is what we're, I don't remember the exact percentage that it is right now. I don't know if I have that.

01:21:53.670 --> 01:21:59.264
- Because we can go up to 15%. But we can go up to 15% if we're still staying under that right now. Okay.

01:21:59.264 --> 01:22:04.158
- So. All right, thank you. Do you guys have any questions? Okay. Okay, thank you very much.

01:22:06.594 --> 01:22:14.534
- of our funds. Okay. Next we have the assistant superintendent's report. Just an update. Our first Edgewood

01:22:14.534 --> 01:22:22.325
- Ready magazine is going to be available at our next board meeting. We just got the preview of that today

01:22:22.325 --> 01:22:30.116
- from the printer, so I'm excited to bring that to you guys next month. We'll have them sitting out front

01:22:30.116 --> 01:22:32.862
- for anybody who attends. Information

01:22:33.538 --> 01:22:41.687
- The K-12 accountability is going to start taking place in 26, 27. You may remember back in 2018, that

01:22:41.687 --> 01:22:49.836
- was the last year that we received a letter grade as a district, as schools. It's starting again. And

01:22:49.836 --> 01:22:57.825
- I kind of cringe when I say it because all the things that we didn't love about it are kind of back

01:22:57.825 --> 01:23:00.382
- in place again, so starting in,

01:23:00.962 --> 01:23:08.519
- at the end of 2026, we're gonna see our first letter grade scores across the state come out. 2025-26,

01:23:08.519 --> 01:23:16.076
- I'm missing a five there, is considered year zero. What they mean by year zero is that we're going to

01:23:16.076 --> 01:23:23.782
- receive an accountability grade as a district and by school, but this is not necessarily going to count

01:23:23.782 --> 01:23:27.486
- for us or against us. It's to give us information

01:23:27.618 --> 01:23:34.945
- from year zero, so we kind of have a starting point, and then we can assess where we are. We can look

01:23:34.945 --> 01:23:42.129
- at our report card, if you will, and use that information to make decisions about where we can just

01:23:42.129 --> 01:23:49.456
- simply do better. What are we doing great? What can we do better? That's the type of information this

01:23:49.456 --> 01:23:57.502
- is gonna give. I gave you, if you really want to dig into this more, this is the future of K-12 accountability.

01:23:57.698 --> 01:24:04.760
- It really breaks it down into kindergarten through grade three. With all of these pieces, you're going

01:24:04.760 --> 01:24:11.616
- to see three areas, academic mastery, growth, and career readiness. So you'll see with kindergarten

01:24:11.616 --> 01:24:18.609
- through third grade, we're focusing on ELA and math. That's the academic mastery for iLearn. And then

01:24:18.609 --> 01:24:22.654
- the students can earn additional points for passing iRead.

01:24:23.490 --> 01:24:30.790
- Accelerated literacy, that's basically their growth on iRead. School attendance, and then for our students

01:24:30.790 --> 01:24:37.749
- who are English language learners, they can earn additional points when they pass their WIDA exam. So

01:24:37.749 --> 01:24:43.070
- we basically receive points by student. So each student, depending upon their

01:24:43.746 --> 01:24:51.677
- Individual goals, depending upon their individual progress, is how they earn points for their school

01:24:51.677 --> 01:24:59.765
- and their district. If you go on down grades four through eight, there are additional pieces in there.

01:24:59.765 --> 01:25:08.403
- You'll start to see that's where the growth comes in on iLearn. That's also where you will see the coursework

01:25:08.403 --> 01:25:09.502
- coming in for

01:25:09.634 --> 01:25:16.588
- high school level, so students who are taking high school classes, you'll see things in there like completing

01:25:16.588 --> 01:25:23.415
- a graduation plan. These things that Callie Schlummer has been doing for years now are a part of additional

01:25:23.415 --> 01:25:29.990
- ways that students can earn points by being a student at Edgewood Junior High School. So a lot of these

01:25:29.990 --> 01:25:36.438
- pieces, I would even say at this point, all of these pieces we already have in place and our students

01:25:36.438 --> 01:25:38.398
- can begin earning these points

01:25:39.138 --> 01:25:47.432
- ASAP. What's interesting with this, the high school piece actually started with last year's graduates.

01:25:47.432 --> 01:25:55.645
- So every school district across the state is going to their high school score is going to be based on

01:25:55.645 --> 01:26:03.938
- last year's high school graduates, not this year's. It will be one year behind. We are really sure how

01:26:03.938 --> 01:26:05.790
- this is going to look.

01:26:06.050 --> 01:26:12.499
- And there are a lot of pieces out there that we're still trying to figure out. Everybody across the

01:26:12.499 --> 01:26:18.948
- state is trying to figure out. But if you're interested in watching any of the webinars on it, I do

01:26:18.948 --> 01:26:25.527
- have a couple of recordings. They're about two, two and a half hours, but they are really interesting

01:26:25.527 --> 01:26:30.686
- and go into more depth with all of this. Also, you'll see a list of enrollment.

01:26:31.362 --> 01:26:38.059
- close to where we're going to be starting out 26-27. You can see what's happening in some of these pathways

01:26:38.059 --> 01:26:44.384
- that we've been talking about for the past few years. I'm excited to see that our biomedical pathway,

01:26:44.384 --> 01:26:47.422
- 52 kids signed up for that Principles of Biomed.

01:26:47.522 --> 01:26:53.912
- anatomy physiology, which is a dual credit Ivy Tech course. We have 69 kids signed up for that next

01:26:53.912 --> 01:27:00.493
- year. That's going to be an interesting one for sure. Medical interventions is the third course there.

01:27:00.493 --> 01:27:07.202
- We have 22 kids. You may wonder what happened to those 54 kids in anatomy and physiology. A lot of those

01:27:07.202 --> 01:27:09.630
- kids are seniors. We did not get that

01:27:09.762 --> 01:27:16.390
- pathway completely built out and time for them to be able to take the third course, which was medical

01:27:16.390 --> 01:27:23.083
- interventions. So we graduated several of them, but we're keeping several of those juniors and medical

01:27:23.083 --> 01:27:29.581
- interventions. I don't know what the other Mr. Kerr is doing, but look at the growth there in those

01:27:29.581 --> 01:27:36.079
- engineering classes. The intro to engineering is the only pathway that starts with intro instead of

01:27:36.079 --> 01:27:39.198
- principles. I always have to keep that in mind.

01:27:39.298 --> 01:27:46.585
- 50 kids taking intro to engineering next year, 19 continuing on to that second course after taking the

01:27:46.585 --> 01:27:53.661
- first one. Marketing fundamentals continues to grow. Digital marketing is our third class there. We

01:27:53.661 --> 01:28:00.877
- had six kids take it this year, 11 who will be taking it next year. Those are our dynamos who do most

01:28:00.877 --> 01:28:08.094
- of our work across the district on our website, all of our flyers, social media, all of those things.

01:28:08.898 --> 01:28:14.765
- So it's exciting to see that, that principal's a computing class, which is a computer science class,

01:28:14.765 --> 01:28:19.006
- also growing up to 25. So it goes to show that the work that we're doing

01:28:19.138 --> 01:28:23.961
- down at the junior high level, down at EIS, down at EPS, where we're starting to build these pathways,

01:28:23.961 --> 01:28:28.643
- you know, even just through things that, Earth Fair, you think it's just a one-day thing, you know,

01:28:28.643 --> 01:28:33.372
- the Earth Day is a one-day thing, but it starts getting them excited, starts to build their passions

01:28:33.372 --> 01:28:38.054
- for what is coming down the road. And, you know, we used to just hear from our little guys, I wanna

01:28:38.054 --> 01:28:42.924
- be a police officer, I wanna be a fireman, I wanna be a teacher, because this is what they saw in their

01:28:42.924 --> 01:28:47.699
- community, and now it's, I wanna be an engineer, I wanna do, you know, all of these different things.

01:28:47.699 --> 01:28:49.104
- So it's work that we're doing

01:28:49.104 --> 01:28:55.416
- all the way down, I would even say go as far as to say all the way down into EECC and the exposure that

01:28:55.416 --> 01:29:01.667
- we have there. Touch of Truck is coming up with those little guys here pretty soon. So it's definitely

01:29:01.667 --> 01:29:07.735
- showing the proof is in the pudding here with all of that. On the back side, you'll see a couple of

01:29:07.735 --> 01:29:13.865
- upcoming items. We are doing a second round of mentor training, March 12th, 13th, and 14th. So we'll

01:29:13.865 --> 01:29:14.654
- have another

01:29:16.994 --> 01:29:27.815
- 9 to 10 mentors who will be trained across the district on those three days and then this year's a little

01:29:27.815 --> 01:29:38.228
- different at the end of the year instead of One or two end of the year teacher days. We have three so

01:29:38.228 --> 01:29:45.374
- the 22nd 26th and 27th I Did pretty well you have a minute 27 seconds

01:29:45.570 --> 01:29:53.405
- Dr. Sanders? Well, Mr. Durnall, I just want to point out that my report is only on the front page.

01:29:53.405 --> 01:30:01.081
- I tried, really. I almost just cut it off completely. I'll deal with that after the meeting. OK,

01:30:01.081 --> 01:30:09.153
- all right. I'll make this quick. A couple more congratulations that I'd like to shout out to. And EIS

01:30:09.153 --> 01:30:15.326
- ambassadors, they collected 319 boxes of cereal. Is that going to pantry 279?

01:30:15.970 --> 01:30:24.201
- And so that's always exciting. Did they have the, where you put the boxes down in the? Yes, it went

01:30:24.201 --> 01:30:32.680
- almost halfway around the front of the building. It was about twice as long as last year, so. Oh, wow.

01:30:32.680 --> 01:30:41.240
- Very exciting. And then I attended the National Honor Society induction. And I tell you, if you haven't

01:30:41.240 --> 01:30:45.438
- gone to that, you need to, because it sets a nice,

01:30:45.954 --> 01:30:56.755
- program and it's all run by the students and they, I mean, they did an excellent job. I was so impressed.

01:30:56.755 --> 01:31:07.862
- And then the theater arts team, the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, once again, just a great performance.

01:31:07.862 --> 01:31:11.326
- I was just in awe of not only the

01:31:11.970 --> 01:31:21.446
- the set and the props, but the acting. And I don't know if you haven't seen it, the lion was a puppet,

01:31:21.446 --> 01:31:30.830
- a huge puppet. And it was created and built right in our ILC. That's pretty cool. I wanted to let you

01:31:30.830 --> 01:31:40.766
- know that Alec and I attended the Monroe County School Safety Commission meeting. That's held twice a year.

01:31:40.898 --> 01:31:49.515
- which basically we go over to MCC, they host it. They're required to host it as being the larger school

01:31:49.515 --> 01:31:58.215
- corporation in the area. And there are law enforcement there, police department, Bloomington, Ellsville,

01:31:58.215 --> 01:32:06.749
- sheriff's department. And then we just talk about school safety. And I really value that because we're

01:32:06.749 --> 01:32:09.566
- sitting around a table of experts

01:32:10.082 --> 01:32:18.698
- And those experts are informing school leaders on what we can do to keep our schools safe. And so I

01:32:18.698 --> 01:32:27.487
- appreciate that. Alec, he's a shining star for not only the school corporation, but for the Ellsville

01:32:27.487 --> 01:32:36.103
- Police Department. Once again, for the fifth time, we've sent students down to Brown County for the

01:32:36.103 --> 01:32:39.550
- annual student-run business conference.

01:32:39.746 --> 01:32:46.572
- we go down there, we go down as leaders in this area. Of course, we want to learn, but more importantly,

01:32:46.572 --> 01:32:53.334
- people are coming to our students and asking them what they're doing that's working out so well. I want

01:32:53.334 --> 01:32:55.934
- to give you the dates. I know it's hard

01:32:56.066 --> 01:33:03.544
- to believe I'm sharing this, but end of the year awards ceremony and dates and times. I just wanted

01:33:03.544 --> 01:33:11.397
- as a board for you to have that. And we invite you to any and all of those. And then we're in the middle

01:33:11.397 --> 01:33:19.024
- of iLearn testing. And the prom is coming up on May 2nd. And we have students going to Bradford Woods

01:33:19.024 --> 01:33:20.894
- May 4th through the 6th.

01:33:20.994 --> 01:33:30.316
- Six through the eighth we have such a big group. They've divided us into two groups. That's my report

01:33:30.316 --> 01:33:40.734
- tonight three minutes And now we have our BBEA comments Every every month I feel like there's something that just

01:33:40.994 --> 01:33:46.649
- makes me feel just awe for our corporation, and those pathways are just so exciting. I mean, it just

01:33:46.649 --> 01:33:52.248
- is amazing how our high school continues to evolve like that. In addition to the names mentioned, I

01:33:52.248 --> 01:33:57.624
- just wanna wish Katie Brookman, Micah Mobley, and Rachel Mathias the best. I can echo Mr. Kerr,

01:33:57.624 --> 01:34:03.223
- you know, all three of my children went through this corporation, and just lasting memories with so

01:34:03.223 --> 01:34:08.542
- many of the people on this list this evening. And speaking of recognizing someone, I think it,

01:34:08.994 --> 01:34:17.828
- You know, we can attest EPS teachers to paying our retirees for subbing because we have Vicki here this

01:34:17.828 --> 01:34:26.576
- evening and I think we're all always fighting for her to be in our room. So it's just a great program.

01:34:26.576 --> 01:34:32.862
- We love her and it just is working for us and probably other schools too.

01:34:33.058 --> 01:34:39.288
- you know, when I think of these lists, I'm gonna be giving our building reps just things to give out

01:34:39.288 --> 01:34:45.703
- trying to recruit new people. So they'll be seeing some things too to see if we can get some membership

01:34:45.703 --> 01:34:51.070
- before the end of the year. And then finally, I just, you know, I'm so appreciative of

01:34:51.266 --> 01:34:58.218
- all these wonderful colleagues that I have here to recognize our HRS level one and we know how hard

01:34:58.218 --> 01:35:05.170
- Matt and Elisa worked as well as all the other administrators. A very, very time consuming task and

01:35:05.170 --> 01:35:12.330
- we just appreciate all of you and just wishing everybody the best in these last few weeks. And Brandy,

01:35:12.330 --> 01:35:17.822
- we're good for the meeting on Thursday. We're good, we can be at your meeting.

01:35:21.506 --> 01:35:27.415
- Now for our board member comments, we'll start with Mr. Durnall. Well thank you, I appreciate that.

01:35:27.415 --> 01:35:33.383
- I'm really excited about the pool deck and of course the turf for the softball and baseball. Arnold,

01:35:33.383 --> 01:35:39.292
- thank you for keeping track of that. Thank you for helping with that, appreciate it Mr. Schruestel.

01:35:39.292 --> 01:35:45.378
- And I'm really impressed tonight that all the EPS teachers stayed through this whole meeting. I really

01:35:45.378 --> 01:35:47.742
- want to pat you on the back, thank you.

01:35:48.578 --> 01:35:55.771
- Vicki says it's a good example. She didn't even move when it was all over. Thank you. So appreciate

01:35:55.771 --> 01:36:03.036
- you being here. Good seeing you all. I was just gonna add, I think this is the largest audience that

01:36:03.036 --> 01:36:09.942
- Dr. Sanders has ever had for his report. So I was wondering if they were coerced. I don't know.

01:36:09.942 --> 01:36:18.430
- Congratulations to the EPS teachers and the administration for the level one accomplishment. Congratulations, Arnold.

01:36:18.850 --> 01:36:25.871
- really cool and well-deserved. And some thanks, thanks to everybody for expressing sympathy with my

01:36:25.871 --> 01:36:33.242
- family loss. It was, thank you. I also want to thank the volunteers, speaking of National Honor Society,

01:36:33.242 --> 01:36:40.263
- some of them showed up for, I was the race director for the MAG-7 kickoff and I had some volunteers

01:36:40.263 --> 01:36:45.950
- and they were outstanding and it was just, made my day so much better. Thanks to

01:36:46.274 --> 01:36:53.971
- Boston Scientific for the donations. And just want to encourage all the students to finish the year

01:36:53.971 --> 01:37:01.514
- strong. Mr. Tucker. To Mr. DeMoss and Mr. Dornal, thanks to the EPS folks for coming out tonight.

01:37:01.514 --> 01:37:09.519
- And Ms. Hardy, I hope you still have the energy to put up your Halloween decorations. Because I do have

01:37:09.519 --> 01:37:10.750
- to go by there.

01:37:15.970 --> 01:37:22.114
- Yeah, I have. I have to go to your house. So thanks for getting me out of my house. And I don't want

01:37:22.114 --> 01:37:28.258
- to bite any of your stuff at a yard sale, though. So thank you again, Kress, on the HRS designation.

01:37:28.258 --> 01:37:34.341
- It's kind of neat, my little trip down here with, I think a lot of EPS teachers are there at night.

01:37:34.341 --> 01:37:40.606
- It's kind of neat to see what all goes on. And the Marzano thing's been around Mr. DeMoss a long time.

01:37:40.834 --> 01:37:49.149
- He's kind of reinvented the wheel, but it just helps you reflect what you're doing. So thank you for

01:37:49.149 --> 01:37:57.711
- doing that, and kudos to all with that. And best of luck to all of spring sports, and everybody be safe

01:37:57.711 --> 01:38:06.108
- this spring. It's coming. I mean, the end of May is going to come fast. So thanks. Thank you. Back on

01:38:06.108 --> 01:38:10.718
- Thursday, it was supposed to be here tonight. It's not.

01:38:10.946 --> 01:38:18.944
- We checked the delivery. It's supposed to be here Thursday, so put it up proudly. We will hand-deliver

01:38:18.944 --> 01:38:27.409
- it when it comes. Didn't catch that, but hearing they died like five minutes ago. Mrs. Hardy, your husband's

01:38:27.409 --> 01:38:35.174
- name's Bo, right? Yes. You never know what influence you teachers have on kids. I'll tell you this,

01:38:35.174 --> 01:38:39.678
- because my daughter had a son, and because of Mrs. Hardy,

01:38:39.778 --> 01:39:01.217
- She always loved the name Bo. And so she named her son Bo. So you touch so many lives in so many ways

01:39:01.217 --> 01:39:07.102
- that you just never realize

01:39:07.266 --> 01:39:17.886
- So I'm glad that one came back around so you could find out about it. But I appreciate everybody coming

01:39:17.886 --> 01:39:28.200
- tonight. And I believe that we can get through everything together. And again, just because we're so

01:39:28.200 --> 01:39:36.574
- close, I am sorry for Mr. Paulson to go. And I love him. He's an outstanding man.

01:39:36.674 --> 01:39:44.180
- an upright man, and, but, you know, again, he's great, and I love him, and I know there's many out there

01:39:44.180 --> 01:39:51.472
- that do as well, and I get to say that because I can. I'm sitting up here. So, to you, I wish you all

01:39:51.472 --> 01:39:57.406
- very well, and I hope you have a wonderful evening, and this meeting is adjourned.