Nice. >> First time for the gavl. >> I know it. >> Good evening everyone. Welcome to our December 9th uh schoolboard meeting. If you would please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. So, we'll start off with public comment. Uh, Miss Alfred, do we have anybody signed up for public comment?
>> Thank you, Miss Alfred. All right. Let's move on to the personnel and operations update with Mr. Garmin. >> Two recommendations, snipers, for the um submitted personnel report for November 7th, 2025 through December 4th of 2025 and also requesting approval for the
2025 2026 city schools teacher handbook. I listed personnel updates and um under success stories, you'll notice that JOTC is no longer on there. So, um, we, yeah, we got our, um, authorization letter to
hire from the Department of of the Army >> for Nicholas Smith. And so, we are incredibly excited. It's taken, uh, well, about right at a year, hasn't it, Trent, for us to get this hired. So, we're really excited. He starts Monday,
so we are going to be full staff now. Um, and just a reminder that the the federal government subsidizes that, but also requires us to have two instructors as part of the program. So, we don't really have an option there. Uh, one of our current challenges um,
actually we got resolved because I was I just put on there that uh, you know, some finding a math teacher mid year is very difficult, but Mr. Morgan uh, looks I think looks like uh, had a lot of success there. So, he's got a recommendation. So, we're really pleased with that.
uh some school safety information. Um the school safety summit is now open. So uh Chad is working with um all each of our buildings to make sure someone goes to that. It's a two-day summit on January 6th and 7th. Uh the focus this year is behavioral threat assessment and
management. So those are usually great conferences and they will also satisfy those that are advanced school safety specialists. That training will get you reertified for another year. So there'll be several people from the corporation attending that. Winter brings a few challenges. Exterior
doors are always a problem in winter. So just asking our principles and and staff to be extra vigilant because doors don't like to operate for some reason in the cold as well. So we have problems with them shutting. Uh food service. I wanted to just give a shout out to the food
service. Uh our whole team, Clara, Lauren, the entire char team. I thought the Thanksgiving dinner was a huge success and the food was great and it was on time, it was warm, everything was great. So, uh, we had a lot of really positive feedback. Uh, I did at least
from from different community members that just came up and and not only said thank you, but also just reiterate what a special place Beach Grove is, and I would completely agree with that. And then finally, um, some things from facilities, grounds, and maintenance. Um
um I think I duplicated the Thanksgiving dinner for some reason, but our current challenge is uh just we have a another leaking roof. So at the high school over here by the wait room. So TripleA came out and did a temporary fix and we'll have to get that addressed in the springtime. It gets a little warmer.
Those roofs are are are difficult to address when it's really cold like this. Uh the flat ones that you know that have the tar and everything, the old roofs. So, uh, that's a little bit of a challenge right now, but we'll continue to keep on top of that and and hopefully won't leak, uh, too much until we can
get it addressed in the spring. That is my report. >> Okay. Can I get a motion to approve the employment recommendation that's listed with salaries within the parameter of the approved salary schedule? >> I'll make that motion. >> Brian, can I get a second? >> I'll second.
>> Janice, all those in favor? >> Oppos? Now, can I get a motion to approve the 2025 2026 teacher handbook? >> I'll motion. >> Janice, can I get a second? >> I'll second. >> Terrace Tara. All those in favor?
>> I >> oppose. Uh Dr. Hammock with superintendent business update. >> You bet. So, tonight uh we are uh very pleased to present to the board uh two requests. Uh first regarding our administrator raises and second
regarding our classified staff raises. Uh for uh administrators uh for the 2526 uh school year for our classified staff just to um so the board recalls because there's a little nuance with our classified team. Um salaried classified
staff members are paid on the school year. So 25 26 and our hourly classified team members are paid on the calendar year. So starting in January. So our classified salary employees will um
receive a retroactive payment as a result of this being the 2526 school year. But our classified staff members who are hourly will receive their new hourly rate beginning in January. And that is without a retroactive check. Um
That's all I wanted to say about that. So, thank you for your consideration of those two. >> Can I get a motion to approve the 2025 2026 administrative bracelet as presented? >> I got Beth and who want a second?
>> Second, >> Janice. All those in favor? >> I >> oppose. And now, can I get a motion to approve the 2025 2026 classified staff raises and the 26 classified staff raises that are hourly as presented? Terra
>> second >> Beth. All those in favor. >> Those uh minutes and claim. Oh, you know what? Hold on. >> Oh, sorry. I'm sorry. >> No, no, you're fine. I caught it. >> Um, next up, I just I had promised to the board that quarterly I would give
you an update on our strategic planning process. I did include a little narrative in my update to you all about that. Um but I I would I would just like to say that our strategic planning work is going very well. It is extraordinary that it's already in December. But uh
what has happened explained to you all a few months ago, we have four working groups for our strategic plan. Each working group is for one of our strategic goal areas. We have four committee leads who are leading the work of the um actions that have been
identified in each of those goal areas. Um every other month the committee leads meet and we plan the next meeting after evaluating the data from the meeting prior and then on the off months is when our committees actually gathered
together. So uh each initiative right now is going through their goals um and how those goals will be measured when things are going to be implemented. I will share that because of the um the phase three of the Lily endowment grant
news, we are going to need to modify uh some of the actions that are included in the strategic plan just because of the resource level that was needed to be allocated for some but certainly not all uh of the area. So we might be um
thoughtful about creative ways uh to modify uh based on um resource needs or uh introduce new actions al together. But I'm very pleased uh with where we are headed and um we are
looking to our next meeting will be with our our goal area and our meeting in January will be with our our committees again. So, I think we're on a really nice cadence to keep this work moving forward. >> That's all. >> Okay. Can I get a motion to approve the
minutes from November 11th at the regular meeting? >> One more thing I had to tell you about. Go ahead. >> I am so sorry. It is at the top of page two and it is um uh a required notification that we need to make in a public meeting uh regarding uh the
Indiana Department of Education funding floor and the teacher compensation notification. So in both uh areas we are uh required by the state to meet certain thresholds where we are allocating resources
towards uh teacher compensation because beach grove has been reducing our expenditures in order to ensure that those expenditures match our revenues. So that's good budgeting practices.
uh we are not meeting a threshold that has been established by the state as far as the uh percentage of education fund dollars going towards teacher compensation. Now we are always wanting our teachers
to have more compensation. Uh they are treasured. We have thankfully been able for the last I guess five bargaining sessions been able to confer a raise for our teachers. However, we still do not meet
that threshold because part of our budgeting process to ensure that those revenues and expenditures are matching is we've reduced the number of staff that we have had employed. Therefore, the percentage isn't met. So every time we talk we talk to the state
about what we are doing and why this is still adding up and still um we need to by statute in a public meeting notify that these thresholds haven't been made. We have to post this content on the
website. I included what that content looks like in your packet. Um and that's it. So, we are satisfying our statutory requirement this evening with this notification. >> Laura, with that information on the
website, do you also publish an explanation as to why >> so that no one thinks that we're >> not taking care of our >> Yes. >> peeps? >> Yeah. Um Yes. uh we we take the actual notification
from the department of education and then there is a second document that is the explanation and that's from us. So yes all of that is okay >> because we we we just want to be very clear that there is really only good budgeting practices
that are happening. It's just as a result uh this um these thresholds aren't being met and and quite honestly I'd get used to this every January because with the virtual programming Julie very smartly um sorted out uh
because of the transfers that will need to be made as a result of virtual and then paying out to K12. We will never hit these thresholds. So, but just we will continue to be transparent so that uh we the goal of these two
notifications is to ensure that our educators are receiving appropriate compensation. Uh so we will continue to be transparent in the revenue that we receive so that none of this is ever a surprise. That's all. Mr. President, I'm sorry I
keep interrupting you. >> Is that your final answer? >> Yes, sir. Can I get a motion to approve the minutes from November 11th, 2025 regular meeting? >> I'll make that motion. >> Brian, second, >> Tara. All those in favor? >> I.
>> And can I get a motion to approve the claims from November of 2025? >> Tara Janice on the second. All those in favor? >> Opposed. Uh policy and guideline considerations.
>> I move we approve the adoption of the >> Beth. Can I get a second? >> I'll second. >> April R. All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Uh quotes, bids, and donations. Can I
get a motion to approve? >> I'll make that motion. >> Terra, >> a second. >> Janice. All those in favor? I >> oppose. And let's see. Um, can I get a motion to
we'll bundle and save. Let me get a motion to approve the fundraisers and the field trip request. >> I'll make that motion. >> Terra on both. >> I'll second. >> Janice on both. All those in favor? >> Oppos.
Um, do we have any committee reports? I don't >> it's been about a month for C9 but uh you know what we did last month what we had uh let's see sorry um a Neola policy update go figure lots of stuff to go through that
>> um we had a donation from Cumins with a large diesel engine um which was really excellent for uh education opportunities. We also did a director contract update to fix a provision that was added erroneously or mistakenly. You
pointed that out. Um we uh ratified the uh teachers association contract agreement and approved non-teer salary increases. This month there are no beach grove uh students of the month for Cena. Okay.
>> Can I get board member superintendent success stories? Anyone? something that I thought was really special uh um regarding robotics. I just thought we could elevate here in the public meeting. Um so uh gosh, I guess just a couple three years ago, Beach
Grove didn't have any robotics teams. Uh and so just a couple of weeks ago, we had six robotics teams competing across the state. So um two from the middle school, uh two from Central, and two from Southro. and um it was just a
thrill to watch and such a great expansion of that programming and we just plan to continue to not only elevate the current programs but to expand as well. >> We had just to add on 72 applicants for second and third graders. They're starting
>> very soon. 72 is then they had to apply like >> so we had to turn some away which is so sad. We'll figure something out. But yeah, so expect it to continue to grow. >> Absolutely. >> That's awesome. >> Wonderful.
>> That was just fun. >> Well, your Lady Hornets are seven and three and playing in the first round of county right now. >> And your boys varsity is currently three and one. >> Woo. >> There you go. >> So good. >> So that's all I got for that. Anybody else? >> And MLL night right now, I think, is
happening in the cafeteria. >> Okay. Stephanie Paris and catered >> from one of the local restaurants. I'm not sure exactly one. And she she's just got so much energy and she's doing so much. >> Okay. Can I get a motion to adjurnn?
>> Tara, can I get a second? >> I'll second. >> Brian, all those in favor? >> I oppose. We are journed at 6:33 p.m.