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I pledge 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. >> Good evening everyone. Thank you for

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joining us. Um, our first action this evening, do you need to talk about just before we leave? >> No, I I can um just to help frame the actions that will be happening uh of course the board knows and the community is aware that last month uh was the last

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board meeting for board member Rob Chalice. He is here tonight which we are grateful for. Uh, one of the actions that uh, needs to happen, as you all know, Rob is now an employee of Beach Grove City Schools and so he uh, needed to transition off the board. Uh, the

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board actually has to act to accept his resignation and that's your first action this evening and then uh, we will move into the board has engaged in a process of sol soliciting and accepting application and ultimately interviewing uh, for a new board member. And tonight

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we get to uh the board gets to appoint our new school board member for Beach Grove City Schools. But the first action needs to be the actual acceptance of the resignation of Rob. And then we move into uh the acceptance of Madison as your new board member. That includes the

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oath of office. >> Got it right there right now. Okay. For this meeting and we can change however you would like. >> Great. >> I like Oh, we will do our best. Okay. >> Well, next time for sure. >> Sadly, um we need a motion to approve the resation of Rob Chalice.

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>> I move we approve the resation of Robustees. >> We'll second that, please. >> I'll second. >> Tara, all in favor? >> Opposed? >> And then we need to make an motion. Do we do this before she takes oath? >> Yes.

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>> Okay. We need to make a motion to approve the appointment of Madison West to the Beach Grove City School Board. >> I'll make that motion. >> We approve Madison West. >> Tara already did that. Beth, do you want a second? >> Beth, do you want a second? >> Yes. >> Okay.

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>> All in favor? >> I opposed. >> Okay. The administration of office. >> Very good. So, thank you, Kathy Comedo. Uh Kathy is our notary and she is entrusted to uh deliver the oath of office. So, Madison, we would ask for

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you to uh come on up to the podium and Kathy will um state the oath of office and then she will memorialize all the paperwork as she is the notary. I >> I Madison West >> do solemnly swear

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>> do solemnly swear >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America >> and the Constitution of the State of Indiana >> and the Constitution of the State of Indiana >> and the laws of the United States >> and the laws of the United States

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>> and the State of Indiana >> and the State of Indiana. >> I will faithfully execute the duties of my office. I will faithfully execute the duties of my office >> as a member of the governing body >> of the member as a member of this governing body. >> So help me God.

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>> So help me God. >> Thank you. >> We were we were thinking that we would have a new board picture taken after the conclusion of the meeting tonight so we can get this uh memorialized on the website. But Madison, you're welcome to

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take your seat and we will have a name plate for you next month. We promise. >> Can she get a picture with her family before they leave? >> Okay. Very good. Sorry. >> Can she get a picture with her family before they leave? >> Of course. >> Why don't we do it now? >> Yeah. Sorry to take time, but

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>> would you guys like to get a picture with Madison >> before you go? >> The family. Would you like to get a picture with Madison? tonight. So, we're gonna have you right here. >> Oh, no. I just knew we needed >> Hi. How are you?

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>> I'm more than happy to sit. I've sat on every side now. >> There we go. Bye guys. Thank you for coming. It was so nice to have >> Bye girls. >> Thanks. Not sure. >> You're welcome.

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>> Darling. Darling. Good. >> Okay. Hi Mitsy. It's lovely to see you. Um, I've been told, right, Julie, I am going to keep this at 10 minutes. So, I'm going to time myself.

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Those of you that know me know I can go off the rails and talk a lot and I can talk quickly. So, I will do my best on this one. Um, so this is just a snapshot. And what I've realized is April, I don't know if

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you were here the last time I presented and I know that obviously Madison has not been. So please reach out to me. I'm going to kind of go through things quickly that might, you know, you might understand the background on a few

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things, but in 10 minutes it's almost impossible. So we're going to go through this. I'm going to quickly go over Parent Square, the Hornet Blast, the website, and a couple other programs and initiatives. Right now,

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Parent Square. What is important about Parent Square is it is our one unified communication platform that keeps us connected, informed, and engaged. It took a little bit of some there were a few pain points in the very beginning because those of you that were parents

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or were in the were in um the school system knew that athletics had a couple different ones. Some teachers had some different ones and so teach parents were having a lot of different apps and communication. We believe that we've got this streamlined at least as as the best

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that we can. And I I just want to show a couple highlights of what we have. I will send this slideshow by the way to you. These are what goes through. I don't need to read it all right now. But the most important thing again, it's a united platform where all school

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communications. It replaces all absent systems. Two-way communication posts, alerts. All right. New data for the 2526 year. And I'm going to compare this in the next slide to the year before.

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This year there were 6,000 there about 6,400 posts. In the next slide I'll show you what a post looks like but think of it as a Facebook post almost but it is to a specific school classroom. This one

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152,000 453 direct messages. Direct message could be just to that child's or yeah child's classroom. It could be to the parent directly. um alerts. We you most of you will

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probably have all those alerts whether it's a catalytic converter or it's snow whatever auto notices is done done differently. You can see as a school system beach city schools we don't do

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that like overall but the high school attendance uh fees some different things are those every school's different on that but I'm not going to get into that right now. What I really want to show you is the difference. One year ago today, there was 2,800

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posts compared to our 6,400. Um, a year ago, 63,000 compared to 152,000. And if you, you know, we can look later at, you know, the high school is leading. This isn't a contest, though. When I say leading, you have athletics,

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you have some more things and and I will say the high school also has student square that your primaries don't have. So, their students are getting that. Again, I would love to ever sit down with anyone and kind of go over all the details of this

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to show you. There's a post and I I just took a a screenshot of it that day. It's we sent out the uh free breakfast and lunch information. Underneath that was our community conversation the day I did that. The arrow points to the question mark. I

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feel like I'm shaking but I'm not. It's nothing. The arrow points to the question mark. If you ever have or if anyone that's listening if you ever have a you're stuck for whatever reason you're confused that question mark leads to if

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you see when you do the dropown menu not only help articles and training you can email parent square the chat is phenomenal it's a real human this it's not AI and sometimes it'll say you have a two-minute wait but it's that and then they'll call and you can call and they

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will they will answer your question I've asked what I would consider dumb questions. They're very kind on there. And that's what it looks like if you go to some of the articles and some of the training. All right. The Oh, no. What did I do?

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Okay, good. Hornet blast. Most of you have seen that. What I wanted to highlight, it is every two weeks. The summer is slightly different. It does get sent out often. It gets pinned. It goes in parent square, but it just keeps we just keep adding information. So,

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that's slightly different. Throughout the school year, you're getting new information every couple weeks. Here's what I mean by adding new information. It's a one-stop shop right now for back to school. You have all the back to school nights, registration days. If you

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haven't registered, there's links. Each of those buttons, those are links. You click there, you're going to get the school supply list, photos, registration. There's more. I just took a screenshot. You've got community happenings. We're listing the summer music series. We're

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listing some of those. Got that. All those are links, right? And that was taken I think I did that screenshot a little before I had left for Virginia, but we've now got uh the 2026 referendum that uh link on there. There's a couple more on there, but

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those are all direct resources. Contact us, district event calendar. What I've loved to see from the community sometimes on our community pages. So, we get screenshots of this and so people like where are the school supply lists where you know these are

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here. Tech help, parent square help, chart wells. It's got a it has a lot to it. Always taking suggestions of you know of high-flying, you know, questions that are out there. All right, going to the website. Website

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has a lot. I want to highlight just a few things. Couple new buttons, features. I can't remember exactly from last year. There's a whole new row at the top. Uh registration, parent score. We we did

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this based on feedback from one of our committees with our strategic team. And they said one of the things at the high school that they were finding is parents would come in, they couldn't find how to get on Parent Square or Skyward. It was in the it was on the website, but because it was a repeated concern, we

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listened and we put it on the top and the counselors really appreciated that new financial transparity transparency portal as well as the my glasses aren't on, but the 2026 operating referendum information.

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And as you also note, contact us button at the top. Contact us stays. What I like about this, if you go back, you see one page, but you flip, you scroll, you're still going to going to see for students, for

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parents, for staff, contact us. Our goal was to try to find places where they could reach out to us all over the website. And I think there's five places. For example, they could click on the contact us at the top or you scroll to the bottom, there's a form. What's

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your question? What are your concerns? There's the bottom left picture shows the dropdown. What department? If they don't know, there's an other. Also, if you see an arrow, there's part of the chat feature.

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Last year, I had five, and this is what I counted. I I hope I didn't lose any. 544 website contact us submissions. What that means is 544 emails to me with

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questions such as where's the supply list for the high school? I need my final transcript to send to college I'm attending. Um some different questions and then it comes through with their name, email, phone number, their concern. I try as much as I can to keep it off

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Steph's desk, to keep it off other the the secretaries, the principles. I try to answer these questions. There's a lot of times I'm just forwarding because I I can't answer those questions. But the more families can feel free to find different ways to reach out without having to make a phone call. So, it's a

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great way to do that. If I don't know the answer, I still reach out and say thank you. Well, if if it's a if it's sometimes there's discipline concerns. There's a lot of private information, so I don't share that. There's a lot of private information, then I've blacked out some of that, but I will say thank

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you for your concern. I will I will forward this to the school. You will get contacted within 48 hours. Please let me know if you do not. I can't even tell you on a hand how many people have reached back out and said no one has contacted them. Our principles, our secretaries

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are in, you know, they they understand this and it's been great. This is the chat feature. So I just want to kind of show you with the chats what comes on my end. What I see I don't respond to the chat. That is

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an AI bot. But what I do is I read every one of those because it is telling me what the questions are and what we need to address. Some things are. So the one up there I thought I I literally just kind of grabbed one out, but it said something

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about HR. It wasn't very clear. It immediately gave Renee Secat Brian Garmin's email. Contact them if you're HR. If they do it in a different language, they the chat will respond in that language.

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So that's what I see. And it's just it's nice to say, "Oh, here's all the questions. Here's a pattern." If there's a pattern, we try to react. These are just different things what the website looks like. I would love for you guys to look through it sometimes. It's

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not perfect. Things change, links die for whatever reason. It's constantly we are constantly working on it. Um but we hope that we are making it better with feedback. Last thing on the website I want to we have now three places on the front page

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of the website to access the calendar. Don't it it tends to be you can scroll down and the other thing is now when you click on the events it's downloadable so you can actually add it to your Google Gmail outlook there's a whole list that you can add it to it right from there

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you don't have to type it in you can download the whole thing Mr. Shanahan worked on one of he he did a great job working on cleaning up the events calendar for sports. The uh website was having was having the

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middle school sports and the high school and it was kind of clogging it up. So people you would have long lists. So we have the events calendar on the website for sports. We're trying to keep this as as much as we can um just activities. But this is the sports calendar by the

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way that I have shown you. So, there's two different ones on there. Then these next slides are just some of the things we've done this year in addition to these. We had our Thanksgiving dinner. One of my favorite photos ever. I don't know

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why that community night. Community night. Dr. Hammock, I I forgot the number. Did we not say there's about 4 to 500 plates that CLA that >> Absolutely. Yeah. I think it was a little bit over 500. Yeah. It was all said and done. ended up being a gorgeous night.

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>> It was it was wonderful. >> Great turnout, great advocacy. Our our educators came out. It was wonderful. We had we had representation from every single school just there to support our go to recruitment fairs. The orange and black looks great, by the

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way. Recruitment fairs. We have we honor our educators through harm to heroes. Oops. Our BG connect. I didn't have great photos of BG community connect though we have our community members who who really pour into them just you know

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they educate this our second year going to our third year of this program and of course our teachers of the year we just got off that recognize one of those Caitlyn and Carrie and they will be going on to the state process.

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This does have links to these videos, but a lot of you have seen our video work, our one word. We just had a great one with our main street there. You can see bottom right. Bless her heart. I was part of that day. She was so authentically

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just joy. Um it was really neat that literally everyone was just tearing because she just started crying. And it doesn't really reflect in the video. Uh but there are more videos to come. Hopefully, we'll get some of that on. And then there's a new one that we haven't.

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So, Julie, I went over about three minutes. I'm really sorry, but do you have any questions? And I apologize for speaking quickly. >> Quick question. Is there is there a metric on engagement with the new parent

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square communications the last over the last year? Is there improved like uh reading like does somebody actually go through all of the the post that >> that is a great question. The so our our biggest jump Ryan was from the first

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year to last year and it went from like 70 I might have to I can look at it and send it to you to 99.2%. Right now it's 99.5%. So I didn't I didn't really highlight it because it the mobile app is the one

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we're really pushing. It went up about I want to say 8%. I would love to still get people on the mobile app because I feel like it's a great way to also receive that information, but we are thrilled with it. There is a there's actually a screenshot that I had that

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said you are doing better than 99 whatever of school districts. We we are very and I would give that credit to our secretaries at our schools who have really helped and they've dug in and really got made sure everyone gets signed up. >> It's great. Yeah, it is a it's great.

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Now, do they use it? I don't know. But they're signed up. They're receiving it. It's saying delivered and it's saying opened, right? That's that's about what >> If you're using the app, what do you look up? Is it city schools parent square? Is it just parent square?

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>> No, it's just Parent Square. >> Okay. >> Um, you've had the app, Steph. >> Um, and and they >> Okay. >> They've improved greatly there. the the concern for a while were some of our

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educators who have children in different school districts that they have parent square and then they have parent square as an educator and so they tried to make that easier because you were having to kind of go back and forth between

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yeah honestly I know parent square from an admin end but it would be really interesting to hear sometime from our principles I know they've had great things to say they really do understand it and I believe these auto notices and I Ryan Morgan, Donna Webster at the middle school

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dug in first on that from what I understand and they said it's great. They're sending out progress reports. They're sending out things. April, I don't know if you've been part of that. Was Did they do that last year? >> Your kid, she's two. Allie's two. >> No, she's Yeah, she >> she's too old.

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>> But I do get the middle school because I coach there. So, >> I will say one of the things as a parent that has the app, um, when your child moves from school to school, so Jojo went from Park to South, I still get all of parks updates even though I don't

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have students in that school. Sometimes that's a little confusing because they are pertinent to Southro when they're actually born park. I know now the difference because the principal's names or who posts them, but as someone that has two kids coming into the school now,

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so I'll have one in each. I Curious to see how that works out. >> Yeah, let me know. I haven't heard that before. >> Right now only jobs profile. I can't even look at anything for Lucy. I know schools start. >> Yeah, they don't. It's not It won't be

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set up until So, I'm glad you said that. Skyward and Parent Square. So, Parent Square syncs with Skyward. If something is wrong in Parrot Square, I don't want to say it's not Parrot Square's fault, but what do we I don't 99.7%.

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It syncs with Skyward at 1:00 a.m. And so it will take all that information, but Skyward needs to be fixed on that end. I'm wondering if sometimes posts are posted. You can post to Beach Grove City Schools, which will include which all schools will get that, or you can

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post just to H or H or H or H or H or H or H or H or H or H or Hornet Park, just to South. >> I think the other complication is um being a part of the PTO, I have access to every school. >> That's why. >> Yeah. So, but my on my husband's point of view, he still has targets out there

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just for join. So, he's going to be my test case for >> Yeah. Madison, if you would check that for me and let me know, I'd be very curious because I do believe like as an admin, we do. And if you have access on a PTO, you are going to receive all of them.

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>> Okay, I got I'll make sure >> they they should be different colors. >> They are. And that's that's how I've trained myself at least to understand. That's not something I get to look at. Um but it took me a hot second. >> Yes. And you're I'm sure you're you're not alone. Obviously, people that have

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different but yeah, use him as a as a guinea pig and let me know. >> Well, you can only see one school at a time. Like you can toggle between those two schools, but you can't unless if you say all, then it's going to show you all. But you can just choose one school. I have the ability to choose to. So, for

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example, Joselyn's in after school care. So, I have a YMCA logged in for her and then I can also go and select her for second grade then South. It's like there's multiple options just for her. So, I'm not sure if it'll mimic the same for a second student in the school

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district or what that looks like yet. So, I'm the first of all my friends have multiple kids at the same time. So, I'm trying to figure that out. Well, you'll be the first one I know that that does the PTO because, you know, all that's fairly new and the access has been fairly new. So, let me know because we

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can probably tweak that on our end if it gets too much for you. >> Anybody else? >> Last question. If someone from the community that does not have kids in our school wants to follow us, get more information, what's the best way? So, there is a button and I don't have it

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screenshotted in the hornet blast that it says um follow that you can follow and parents I will if they sign up for that parent square notifications will go to them if I choose. So, let me let me go back.

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That was very confusing. I have a list called Hornet uh community or Hornet blast community. we have a button to sign up and you would receive all posts that were also pert pertinent to the community, right? We don't have the

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ability for let's say Mr. Adamson sent something out that says ice cream in the cafeteria tomorrow. We don't have that. But when we have the things like join us for community night, a veterans memorial ceremony which is coming up, that will get that will get blasted out in the in

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the hornet blast. Dr. has a a place also that says, "Would you like more information?" If you sign up there, I also put it in that Hornet Blast community list. >> But it's a good reminder for me to push that out again, probably on Facebook or

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as a button on our website to have people to be able to see that. >> Thank you. >> Facebook. Yeah. And I and right now on Facebook we have pinned, you know, you can pin at the top the community meetings and the Hornet blast summer edition as well.

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So that's kind of helpful sometimes people go back. It's it's been, you know, there's been pain points, but I feel like we're starting to get that community, you know, the transparency is what we want. We have every principal's every ad to district administrator's email on there. We want people to reach out that way. We have the contact us

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button. We have, you know, on four different pages, I believe. We want to have that information. We want to answer questions. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thanks, Christie. >> Thanks, Ryan.

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Your turn. Okay. So, a couple things. Um requesting uh the board's approval for the personnel report from June 12th, 2026 through July 7th of 2026. And then also uh just some

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updates. We have quite a few um current openings that I had listed here. I will happy to say that we have that whittleled down to I think five. So, the principles have been very busy, which is the first bullet point that I have here in the personnel section. Just the the

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work that they've been doing to get positions filled. We we've had a a little larger number of turnover this year than we've had in the last couple years. So, uh I feel like we've really been able to fill the positions with some really high quality candidates. I think they're really pleased with the

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hiring so far and we have, like I said, about five to go, provided we don't have any additional last minute resignations. Um it's just so common now to have those especially in an area like this where there's so many school corporations. So you get a lot of movement uh during the

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summertime. New new teacher orientation is scheduled for next Thursday, July 23rd. Um we're really excited to welcome all of our new teachers and um that's a great day to uh for them to really learn about Beach

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Grove City Schools, about uh Dr. hammock speaks. We have just a litany of different things that we talk about and then they that's in the morning and then the afternoon they go to the building and each building then has their own building level orientation. So it's really a great day. Um want to invite

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invite all the board members if you are interested in coming and join us for lunch. It's at 11:15. Feel free to uh come join us and eat with the new teachers if you would like. Chartwells will cater that. I think it's going to be a pasta bar again this year. So if you're interested, please come and join us.

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Did you say 11:15? >> 11:15. Yep. >> Just a couple other updates from a school safety standpoint. We are still working on um proposals for the some improvements to our transportation lot

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safety uh and security. So, we've gotten six proposals and we have a committee of people who are uh have already went through all those proposals. We did a really comp comprehensive look at all of the pros and cons and we kind of have that narrowed down a little bit now and

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uh we're we're going to meet again next Tuesday with a few of the companies to follow up and and another presentation. Uh basically we're looking at upgrades that would provide us with some 247 monitoring so that if somebody breaches

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our perimeter uh we would know that and there's a few ways you can set that up. they would notify not only the school corporation but also notify local police if they believe that it is a threat like we had obviously with the breakin that resulted in catalytic converters being

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stolen. So um it's unfortunate that we you know have to look at increasing our security but it's something that we we're going to need to do. We can't have that happen again obviously and it would have been a major disruption if it hadn't happened kind of at the timing that it did and thankful for Warren

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Township for helping us out. So I'll keep you updated on that and Dr. Hammock is is uh involved in that but she'll be really involved when we get ready to make a proposal to her for kind of who we think is the providing us with the the best um security system at the

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best price. food service. Uh we um are in our entering our last year of our C. So um that means that free breakfast and lunch is provided again for this school year for all students. And again that is a

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part of the federal program. Uh that is something that if you have a high enough poverty rate then your reimbursement rate essentially pays for all of the breakfast and lunch for students. We will have to reertify next year. So, we'll just have to see where those

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numbers are. Once you certify, and we had a a really uh great reimbursement rate, uh once you reertify or once you run a four-year course, then you have to reertify and then it depends on where your numbers fall. So, we'll have to see, but it's really nice to offer that again to our parents this year, uh free

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breakfast and lunch. And then just finally, just a little bit on uh from the facility standpoint, we uh were involved in a energy audit with Schmidt Associates and uh it's it's kind of done through it is done through AES.

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So Schmidt Associates will come in and take a look at all of your HVAC systems. Uh also um they will help us understand how we can get better efficiency from all of our systems. So they're experts in this. It's it's no cost to us

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whatsoever. AES pays them uh to do this because they're interested in the in the energy savings. So we uh went through a really comprehensive audit of all of this. And so it involves maximizing the efficiencies, tweaking our schedules. Um

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a lot of credit to Dale and Brent who were part of that process with me along the way. Uh for as many hours as we put in it. Um it was well worth you can see what a so when you're done you plug all this into AES uh they have a calculator

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and then they will calculate the um how much you're going to save energy savings and you can see that they're estimating that we will save $152,000 a year uh as a result of this. So, um it was a really worthwhile endeavor and uh

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probably something that ought to be done, you know, every three years or so is just to kind of make sure because what tends to happen is you people request a change or request a an alteration to your systems or whatever and then next thing you know your schedules are off. But some of it was

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just simply maximizing the efficiencies of the systems that we currently have. So, really happy for that. That's a nice chunk of money that we're gonna They estimate that we will save. >> Does anybody have any questions for Brian?

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>> Okay. So, we need a motion to approve the appointment recommendations. >> So, moved. >> April. All in favor? >> I oppose. >> And then we need to Okay, I think I'm going to put all these together. Does

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anybody about that. So, could we get a motion to approve? Well, I'll do this. The 2026 2027 Beach Grove City School classified handbook. >> I'll make that motion. >> Terra, >> Beth, all in favor?

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>> I opposed. Okay. Then I'd like to do to make a motion to approve the 2026 2027 Hornet Park Elementary handbook, Southro Elementary Handbook, Central Intermediate Handbook, Beach Grove Middle School Handbook, and the Beach

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Grove High School student handbook. Is that okay with everybody? >> Yes. Who would make a motion for that, please? >> I'll make a motion to approve the handbooks for schools. >> Second. I'll second. Tara, all in favor? I opposed.

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Okay, Dr. >> Excellent. Well, we just have a few actions um from uh the perspective of Julie and I. Uh first off, this is um always just the kickoff of one of our favorite times of the year, which is our

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formal budget adoption process. Uh tonight, all that we are asking permission uh from the board is to advertise uh the 2027 budget. And uh Julie will talk through the timeline of what the budget will look like. >> Could we get a motion to advertise that

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please? >> I move to advertise the 2027 budget. >> Jill second. All in favor? >> I opposed. >> Okay. We do have Mola board policies uh volume 38 number two. There is one policy uh

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Mr. Down brought our attention to that does need to be clarified. I promise that I will follow that uh updated policy uh with you all uh after we get legal council's opinion on which of an option is selected. But uh the rest of the policies are are ready to go with

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volume 38 number two. C >> can we conditionally approve that today so that uh whichever is selected because there's two options say select one both are selected currently. So can we just say whichever is selected by Dr. Hammock we can move forward with. >> Yes. Great. Is that is that acceptable

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to everybody? >> Which one is it? What is this? >> I'm asking. Everybody okay with it? >> Um it's it's concerning um the presentation of not subpoenas, warrants, whether it's a judicial warrant or a different type of warrant and it says

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choose one. There's an option under the two. Um so they decide to have Michelle Cooper take a look at it and advice. Do you want to hold you want to hold off and approve or >> I mean we we have to adopt the the

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changes at some point. So I'm I'm okay with moving forward as long as one of them is selected. I think we understand which one we think is supposed to be it but we needed to verify that that's the direction to go >> which we know comprehend would take care of. We're happy to do that. >> I'm I'm comfortable with making conditional approval.

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>> Okay. >> So could we get a motion to adopt that award policy? I'll make the motion um with the addition of uh you know uh conditionally approving uh after the uh u selection is made for the the one

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section on federal law enforcement. >> Then do you want to wait until she chooses to make sure because this is a so now we're on a conditional approval. So it's really not approved because she hasn't done it yet. >> Well, do we need to have it improved by the start of school? I guess that's the

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big question. There are very timely policies included in the volume. >> So, so then what how we should approve it is we will improve we'll approve the policies with the exception of >> policy >> whatever policy number that is

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>> number is that that's a good act that's a great recommendation >> and then to to be finalized >> the policy number is PO5540 it's called the schools and law enforcement agencies. >> Okay. Um, so I will make the motion to

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approve the recommendations from Niola with um the exception of PO 5540. >> There you go. I'll second. All in favor? >> I opposed. >> Okay. Do you want to talk about the administrative contract?

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>> You bet. So annually, uh, the board is asked to approve the 20 the the administrator contract renewals. Uh really important to understand this is nothing related to salary or compensation. Rather the board needs to

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annually act on the renewal of the administrator contracts um so that their uh their their their new set of years is deployed. This is an annual action but again nothing is is has changed as far

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as compensation. >> It's just like we do in everybody else's contract. >> That's right. Can we get a motion to approve those administrator contracts, please? >> I move that motion. >> I'll second it. >> Beth and Jill. All in favor? >> I opposed.

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>> Okay. And um this is a a request to authorize Rob Chalice as our uh Beach Grove City Schools attendance and school safety coordinator uh to carry a firearm while performing official duties in accordance with our Beach Grove City Schools schoolboard policy 4217

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and all applicable state laws and required training. just ask for your >> um can can I just real quick ask the for the clarifications that are surrounding this because this is a topic I think that deserves a little bit of

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clarification. Um my understanding and correct me if I'm wrong is that this is allowing Rob to do this off of school property. Is that right? So I just want to verify that that is the correct understanding. >> Yes. So uh this particular role will

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require uh that that this this position Rob will be in the field. Um and during that time uh many times might not be in fact likely will not be with the school resource officer. Um and there therefore we were very concerned you know to

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ensure safety out in the field uh that this would be um an added safety measure for this role >> specific to being out in the field. >> Thank you. Appreciate that

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>> everybody. Okay to approve that motion then for Rob. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Make a motion to authorize Rob. I'll make said motion. Cher >> April. All in favor? >> Opposed.

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>> Okay. I don't think Julie went through the timeline. >> What? >> I don't think Julie went through the timeline. >> She did. You didn't go through the timeline. Did you want to? >> I can. It's very short. So we will we will have the public

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hearing at the September meeting where I will be presenting the budget and then in the October meeting is the budget adoption where it gets approved and then in December we get approval from the DLGF uh when

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when we get our 1782 notice. So very shortly. Okay. >> Thank you. Um, could we make a motion to approve the minutes and the claims for June? >> I'll make said that motion.

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>> Terra second. >> Oh, Jill. >> Jill. >> Sorry. All in favor? Opposed? >> Okay. And we have uh one field trip, right? >> And one fundraiser. Was that right? Did

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I read it correctly? Could we get a motion to approve both of those? >> I move that we approve the the fundraiser and field trip. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> I opposed. >> Um I uh committee community reports

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go around if you C9. >> Um yeah. Um, so we met uh this this uh last week at UC C9 um and looked at the preliminary um billing for each school that was that was released. I don't know

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if you received that yet. >> Yeah, it goes down a little bit from last year based on enrollment number. Um and we also looked at the budget for the the school year based on both the high school and adult education. Um,

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no other major updates from C9. >> No updates from parks this month. >> Uh, there's a few um summer concerts left in Saratogle. >> Um, I think alumni association I didn't get to this past meeting, but I

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understand it was uneventful. So stay here. I think it's summer time education foundation. Not yet. I think that's it, right? >> Okay. >> Sorry. Can I ask a question? >> So, those are the only community folks

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that heard that represent. >> No, there's there's a larger list, but not everything is attended every month. Education foundation is quarterly. So, we'll we talk about them as we have meetings or something happens.

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>> And then there's a couple legislated groups and things like that. We'll give you a list. >> Okay. >> I think there's currently Rob's position on RDC is not filled. So that's something to maybe talk about later. >> We'll probably talk about that.

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Or we may want to wait >> do it. >> Um anybody else? like to officially welcome Madison to the board of school board. So glad to have you and look forward to working with you.

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Anything else? Okay. Could I get a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> So move. >> I'll second. All in favor? Opposed? Okay. Good night everyone. Thank you.