Alright, good evening everyone. Welcome to the April meeting at the Beech Grove City School school board. We will get started, with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. I would like to welcome you all, to our school board meeting this evening. My name is Laura Hanna. I serve as the superintendent of this district, and it is such a gift to
be with you all tonight. We are going to move right into our student of the month recognition. This is one of our favorite activities that we do, not just as a board, but as an organization, because tonight we pause and we celebrate the best of the best. So we like to say that here in Beech Grove, we have about 2,800 students that attend Beech Grove City Schools. Right? Amazing. Tonight, we are celebrating five. So of all of those students, the students that are being recognized this evening have
been selected because of the great great character and all of the great, celebrations that we'll hear about here in just a couple of minutes. But we do want to congratulate you students. We also really like to pause and honor and lift up the families that are here, because when you are a student of the month, you don't get here by accident. Right? Lots of love and support have been poured into our young people, and we just wanna thank you and honor you and celebrate you for for your place in, where
our students are, this evening. We are also gifted tonight to have some educators that are in our audience. We love when we have teachers come to celebrate our students of the month, who are being honored, so thank thank you to our educators who are here. It means the world to us. How this goes is effectively, each principal will come up, will say a few words about their student of the month. That student of the month will be invited to come up to hear those wonderful words that are said about them, and then they will be given an award. We'll take a picture. We'll do that five times when we go through all five of our school buildings,
and then we will adjourn this section of our meeting. So, we are again just thrilled and so excited for all of you. I believe we will start things off with Hornet Park. So mister Adamson, our principal from Hornet Park Elementary School, we are celebrating Kyle Bovee tonight. Congratulations, Kyle. So don't know if you can tell there. Yeah. And just mature and a leader. Kyle always has a good joke or a one liner or just something very appropriate when he gets on the bus.
Like, seriously. And he is the kind of kid that at the recess time, he's the one organizing the soccer game, the football game. Other kids look up to him, and he is very mature and very smart. So I'm gonna read some other nice things that his teachers have said about him. But Kyle is really a first grade leader, and you don't see a lot of first graders that are leaders because, you know, they're first graders. So miss Burns says, Kyle comes to school each day with a big smile, positive attitude, and so much excitement to learn. He loves to explain his thinking and is always eager to contribute to class discussions.
He would make a great co teacher. He works so hard and takes pride in everything he does. Kyle is kind and caring friend to his classmates and always there to lend a helping hand. We are proud of you, Kyle. Keep up the good work. Miss Castelletter. Miss Castelletter says, Kyle is such a blessing to have as a student. He is hardworking, helpful, and kind to others. He is a wonderful example of showing the Hornet Way. We will miss Kyle so much when he leaves Hornet Park and ventures on to second grade. Having Kyle as my student in kindergarten was a delight, and getting to watch him
grow into a splendid young man has been so rewarding. And then finally, missus Reed said Kyle is a fine example of the Hornet Way. He is respectful in his interactions with other students and staff, and he is responsible in the classroom. Kyle seems to always be smiling and friendly. He is a true joy to be around. Kyle may not realize it yet, but he has true leadership potential. He leads by example. He loves to show what he is learning in class, and he is helpful to other classmates. This is exactly what we want from our little horns.
Wonderful. You can see why this is our favorite time of the evening. Next up, we have South Grove Elementary. Our principal is miss Stephanie Cotter, and she is celebrating Anaya Barnett. Anaya. We are so excited to celebrate miss Anaya this evening. She's new to our school district this year as a fourth grader. And usually, as you all know, I celebrate students that I've known since second grade. But she has really stood out for all of the right reasons this year and has been a huge, asset to our community. When I was speaking with her about becoming a V trophicornet, she said that she
felt really welcomed after trying a different school. She said she came to South Grove and everyone was so friendly and kind and nice. And I think that's who she is too. It goes both ways, right? And so it's really exciting to hear that not only was she welcomed, but she gets to teach others how to, be kind and polite and respectful as well. When we were talking, I asked her what she likes about school, and she said she really likes math and she likes history. She likes to learn about the past and how people have changed and impacted our future, which I thought was really wise beyond the fourth grade years.
Right? When Anaya grows up, she wants to either be a teacher or a doctor, which aligns right with her loving her academics. So that was awesome. Miss Jacobson is her homeroom teacher and she said, Anaya is always putting her best foot forward, helping others to succeed and going above and beyond in all efforts with classroom expectations. Miss Crewey, our PE teacher, said, Anaya's bright and shining star in her class. She's always got the best attitude and is such a pleasure to have in PE. We're very proud of her.
And then Miss Schweitzer, her reading teacher, teacher shared, Anaya is the sweetest girl who is always treating both staff and students with respect and kindness. She comes into reading class each and every day acting as a peer role model who is focused, participating, and giving her best. Anaya is such a joy to have in class and I'm so grateful that I get to spend a chunk of my day teaching a student as wonderful as her. Congratulations, Anaya. We're so proud of you. Congratulations Anaya. It's an Anaya night. Tonight, we also have from Central Intermediate School, Anaya Davis.
Yeah. There she is. Alright. I'm trying to introduce everyone to Anaya Davis. She is a sixth grade student at Central, very humble one. And, Anaya is a wonderful young lady. She is a part of, central sixth grade band. She's participates in, sixth grade basketball team, and then I believe was pulled up to the seventh grade basketball team. She is before I read what her teacher said, she is, just one of those just overly kind spirits at Central.
Even today, at the end of the day, a dismissal, one of Anaya's peers was, telling me who's on the track team how much faster she is than than I am. And I think Anaya recognizing the despondent look on my face as a result of my life choices and speed, she said, well, that's okay, mister Card. You're probably faster than I am. And, and I said, thank you, Anaya. I'm probably not. She was just being kind. We have a couple of her teachers, miss miss Solar, miss Strickland here tonight, and I wanna just read.
So miss Solar said, Anaya is a natural leader with infectious energy. Her vibrant personality brings a sense of fun and lightheartedness to our classroom. She has shown a special kindness to students in our essential skills program. And seeing the massive smile on her face, chatting with us. And it truly warms my heart. Mr. Money, her band teacher, said Anaya is so deserving of this recognition. She's an outstanding member of the sixth grade band program, and a true joy to have in the class. Throughout the year, she has consistently led by example through actively participating, stepping up to
help both teachers and classmates, and bringing a wonderful sense of humor and positivity to our community. Anaya excels not only as a musician, but also as an athlete and a student, always giving her best effort in everything that she does. Her dedication, kindness, and leadership make her truly deserving of this recognition. She'll be greatly missed as she moves to Beach Grove Middle School next school year. And mister Spafford says, Anaya is not only a dedicated student and and she's also an exemplar of what a Beach Grove student athlete should be.
She is a positive influence on others in her class and has it has been a genuine pleasure to have her in class this year. Miss Strickland says, Naya is a ball of energy. I can always count on her to come into class with a smile and a positive attitude. She wants to do well. She works hard to be successful inside and outside of the classroom. Not only that, but she doesn't take herself too seriously. We can all see. She knows that learning can be a messy process and doesn't take and doesn't take it for granted. She's okay and comfortable with making mistakes and learning from them.
She's funny, sarcastic, and makes us laugh every day. I appreciate her hugs, kind words, and I'm grateful for the positive relationship we've built this year. I'm very proud of you, Naya, mister Cole. Great job, Naya. What? Oh my goodness, Annette. Amazing. Okay. I think mister Morgan's, like, drooling over getting the seventh grader next year. I I got a little bit of it fast. Oh, I bet you did. Of course. Very good. Congratulations. Next up, we have a very special, student of the Month at Beech Grove Middle
School. Mr. Morgan, will you be introducing Miss Lena Morgan? Outstanding, yes, congratulations to her. From Mrs. Richardson, Lena's eighth grade math teacher, she stated, Lena perseveres through challenges to understand and master the material presented. She doesn't settle for close enough, consistently striving to achieve her goal of academic excellence. As a student, she asked thoughtful questions and advocates for herself and her educational outcomes.
In the classroom, she sets the bar for others by exhibiting outstanding classroom conduct. Personally, Lena is warm, friendly, and helpful to both classmates and staff. In short, Lena Morgan epitomizes excellence and I fully expect her to make a positive impact wherever she goes in the future and in life. Keep up the amazing work and thank you for being a model. Yeah. Congratulations, Leila. And last but not least, for Beech Grove High School, we have Ishmael Carretto, and I believe mister Daniel is going to be celebrating you.
So congratulations. There you Yes. Mister Austin's a little under the weather, so he asked me to sub in for him. The sports pun intended. Let's see here. Ishmael. So it is my pleasure to recognize our Beach Grove High School Student of the Month, Ishmael Credo. This honor is not just about achievement, it's about consistency, character, and the way a student shows up each and every day. Ishmael embodies all those qualities. I'd like to share a few comments from the teachers who have the privilege of working with Ishmael each day. From our department, missus Tingle.
It is my absolute pleasure to recognize Ishmael as our student of the month. As a dedicated student athlete, Ishmael brings the same drive and discipline he has on the court into our bookmarking or bookmaking class every single day. While he might occasionally claim he isn't the creative type, his project's still a completely different story. They're consistently filled with ingenious high level ideals that show off his unique artistic vision. Beyond his talent, Ishmael is truly the heart of our classroom. He's remarkably personable, always ready to lend a helping hand to appear in need, and
possess a sharp sense of humor that never fails to keep us laughing. His fantastic conversational skills and genuine kindness make him a standout member of our school community and we are so lucky to have his positive energy in class. From our social studies department, missus Lalage and mister Brendle. Ishmael stands out not just for what he achieves, but for how he supports and inspires us around him. He naturally takes on leadership roles, helping guide his peers with patience and encouragement, and debates his energy and personality truly bring conversations to life, making discussions engaging and meaningful for everyone involved. His essays show a genuine depth of thought reflecting both care and insight in his
work. He is also a dedicated participant in the academic super bowl. Always eager to challenge himself and grow, above all, Ishmael is constantly striving to improve, showing a strong sense of determination, and a love for learning that others can't help but admire. From his volleyball coach, missus Beaver. For miss Beaver, if you ever have the pleasure of meeting Ishmael, you'll immediately notice his incredible ability to bring a smile to your face. He has a natural gift for lifting people's spirits. He's always cracking jokes and somehow knows exactly what to say, especially in those more serious or stressful moments.
His sense of humor and positive energy are truly contagious. He's known as our team's hype man, but he's so much more than that. Ishmael consistently goes out of his way to support others, making sure everyone feels seen, valued, and encouraged. Whether it's celebrating someone's success or helping them push through a challenge, he makes it clear that no one is alone and that he genuinely cares about the people around him. He brings such a bright and uplifting presence to the team and his impact goes far beyond just keeping morale hot. He helps create an environment where people feel comfortable or people feel comfortable, confident, and
motivated. I truly couldn't be happier to see him being recognized for his hard work, dedication, and the positivity he brings to every single day. Math department, mister Bush. Ishmael has been consistently strong student in my algebra two class. He produces quality work, thinks carefully about what he's doing, and puts in a steady effort each day. He takes pride in his work and approaches challenges with a thoughtful mindset. What stands out just as much as is the way he carries himself. He's respectful, kind, and a positive presence in the classroom. He doesn't seek attention, but he leads by example and is always willing to help others. Ishmael is very deserving of his recognition.
Ismael, we are proud of you and grateful for the example you set. Congratulations on being named b named BGHS student athlete of student of the month. Sorry. So as an organization, we've been thinking about what the characteristics are for an ideal graduate. So once you're ready to go off into your next step, what are those things? And some of the values that have been coming up are things like character, and leadership, and teamwork, and thinking, and problem solving. All of these things have been identified, and what I heard in every single comment tonight is showing up in all of you.
So here we're talking about what we want for graduation, and you all are showing up with these characteristics here this evening. We couldn't be more proud of you. You are doing wonderful things. Congratulations, students. Congratulations, families. Thank you for being here this evening. We're gonna take a quick break. We're gonna move into the rest of our meeting. You are welcome to leave. You can take photos, but thank you for being here tonight. And one last round of applause for this incredible group. Have a wonderful evening. We gonna do the athlete's stuff again? They are we're not Sorry.
I was late. Apologize. Will it happen again? No. I thought wait. No. It's, completely understandable. Okay. Are we ready? We are ready. Okay. So I don't believe we have any public comment this evening, but we do have a presentation from mister Daniel and mister Hanahan and Hey, Jen. For athletics. And then, mister Garment, are you gonna talk to us about robotics too? Whoo. Exciting. It's a big night. I didn't say that too quick. It will be exciting. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. Mister Shaney will be here.
Actually, all my events tonight were away, and he had the track meet here at the high school. So he's actually dealing with weather and stuff, I think, and delays and whatnot. Parry weather, lightning delays. Yeah. It's all, you know Good. Great. Alright. I'll jump into the presentation. By all means, if you want to, like, ask any questions as we go through, feel free. I do have, like, a slide at the end to have questions if you have any. I was gonna say this kind of presentation would be to start off because I have some other slides that I'm gonna pop into. It's easier that way. I feel like, oh yeah. You guys should all have a packet because I can't prepare today, unlike someone who's
gonna present next. Just kidding. You're a good time. So you have a packet you can actually follow along as well. There's the agenda there. We'll just go through that stuff. So athletics website first was on there. So this is like the main hub for everything, sports related, right? We worked really hard to get as much information on there as possible, whether it's score updates, schedule, pictures, all good jazz. And then it really syncs really nice with final forms, which is an athletic database for our, sports physicals and parent communications and whatnot. On the board tab, there's just a few more things you can click on going
through there. But, yeah. So it, it's pretty nice. Oh, yeah. Our X account is on here as well. Oh, my series. And then, sponsorships at the bottom. So, obviously, beachgrovedashflex.com is the high school website. And I know most of you guys, like, know of me or obviously have seen me around, but maybe, like, not know as much about me. So I just had a quick slide about me. So this is my fifteenth year at Beach Grove High School. This is my seventh year as Athletic Director. I start off here, mister Ryan Morgan, who heard of me to come here to Beech Grove along with Matt English.
I'll never forget, like, going to the McDonald's over here off Emerson. Matt wanted to meet me at, like, 05:30 in the morning, which is always crazy because, clearly early. But we knew Matt. He was a early bird. Got after it. So that was a good meeting. Obviously, got brought in here at Beech Grove as a special education aide and a boys basketball coach. And then from there the next year, moved into a teaching role and just kinda from there just kinda kept going. So, I have taught math and PE before. I was a mentor teacher. Yeah. And you. Just, you know, helping other teachers develop as teachers and teach well. So, married fifteen years to Carly with my three children.
You can kind of see a picture down there. It's a little small, but we're big, big Disney people. So that's a picture of us on this recent trip to Disney. Ashton's actually currently at a track meet herself. She lives at Franklin Township. Don't boo. But she's in center girl right now to her meet. And then, Landon, my son's into drums. He takes drum lessons. And then Jordan, she's my little one. She's kinda like all bundle of joy. So, we'll see what she gets into. Okay. So, yes, actually that was the website, or that one. The mission and vision statement on here, you can read through those. Basically, if you had to ask me what these mean, like, sports to me is
a great way to develop as a person. Right? You're gonna learn a lot of lifelong lessons that you can take into the real world. Okay? Stuff that you cannot typically maybe not learn in the classroom setting. But definitely in the real life setting with the emotion of sports, developing, with some teamwork, stuff like that. And I'm definitely not like a win it all cost type of person. Like, I'm more in for for the development of that student athlete. But we do want to be really competitive. Like, I'm a competitive person. We're gonna go out. We're gonna compete as best as possible. But I do want to make sure the kids are having fun. I was actually gonna bring one of my fun tools.
I purchased a Beach Grove speaker. I was gonna show off today but actually it's being used by our little dribblers in the auction basketball tonight so they can take it and have fun with it. Hoosier Legends Conference. This is our new conference. I hope you guys are aware of it. But this is our first year in it with the six schools. Those six schools right there. And then next year, we'll have all eight going. So it's been really good to start off with them. We've been doing a lot of work behind the scenes. We meet monthly. Our superintendents have met at least once, I think, at this point. Yep. Our principals have met at least two or three times now. So it's really like a collaborative effort from all standpoints of the school and education
and through athletics. We're we're excited to just keep moving forward with it, keep building. Great group of ADs to work with on my part. And also we've been moving to the middle school ADs as well. So, will be our first school year there. Branding, athletic facilities is something that, I've kinda done, like, in phases. I've done some stuff here and there, then took some, like, little time off, and then now I'm kinda back at it. I kinda got three phase phase of push right now. So, obviously, with the new conference, we need to do signage there. There's some before and after pictures you can see. That's the main the athletic lobby, the main gymnasium.
The lobby hallway, this is actually over spring break. I was here drilling holes in walls, finding out the the safest thing for me to be doing, but I'll do it. We moved a lot of the pictures. If you look over here, you will see it on this side. It used to be the older pictures. This is all right here. So I moved all of them on this side, and then we moved further down the hallway before pictures. Yeah. Thanks. So, yeah. So we moved from that side over here. And then by new, you'll see the new design go on that wall. But we're running out of room to lobby. Right? We have a nice lobby, but it's it's reached its capacity. So I gotta start moving down the hallway, so I have some plans for that.
Okay. So down the hallway, you'll see there's the old sign down there. Very nineteen eighties retro look. We'll replace the new Be Legendary sign and, you know, kind of coordination with our conference. And then this is the new part where the pictures were with the old pictures for the teams. I've over the years, we've done this and that as far as decorations. When I have plaques, I don't have a spot for anymore. So I wanted to make a new spot for them because to me, Marion County Athlete of the Year is a really big deal. Marion County is by far the best county you can play for sports in the state. So being able to recognize those, five athletes, I believe, right now we have, on
that wall. So that would be something coming down the line. And then in the this would be our locker room slash wrestling weight room hallway. We started a couple years ago, I started a team plaque for each team and had three specific awards that we give out. Week four me, sportsmanship, and most improved. But it just like, we saw the plaques, but, like, what is this wall? So now I'm looking at, like, bringing the wall to make sure everybody knows each one plays team wall. So just kinda, like, be a little more eye catching. Outside, oh, yeah. That was one of the ones that we got to. So I would say that's the first phase was outside in the fall. We did the stuff on the concessions building, with the wall of fame with some
jerseys for the Nina All Stars. There's a cross or cross country jerseys on there and Josh Fryer's All American jersey. I did miss one kid for track so I'm getting that up this spring. Also with our buildings outside, of course, really nice. At the time when you're building something, you don't really think about it but they were just blank. Right? So I wanted to kinda add a little pizzazz to them with some colors and pop. For restrooms, that's also what I think. I can't believe how many people would ask me, where's the restrooms at? And I, you know, I figured that out. So now the sign itself out with that. So restrooms, concessions, just kinda branding those outside areas. So then the next phase, going back to presentation, will be the softball baseball, dugouts.
So on the back there you can see before there is blank but now we're gonna add on some record boards. On the left hand side will be team boards for the recognition, and on the right hand side will be an all stars. In the middle, I'm still working on. This is something I might need to incorporate some maybe as an alumni to get help with, but finding records. That was one thing I did not have in my office when I started doing some of these things. So like, softball is pretty solid, I think. Baseball, I need to do some lot of work on. But trying to find those records as far as like season career things so that I don't make anybody upset when I start putting some records up. Like, no. I have that record.
Auxiliary gym will be a third phase. This play next fall. Putting in more signage for the teams. Our auction is pretty bland. And then the swimming pool doesn't really have anything as well, so putting some, team signage in there as well. Okay. Moving into athlete athlete participation. So these numbers kinda got put together, so sorry about that. But this is just basically a breakdown. So we started to find a form of this really nice tracking system to see how many athletes have been participating over the years, between high school and middle school. So I kinda broke those down and, you know, the totals there. On the next page is a graph. So you kinda see in the green line, it's total, and then the the lines
down here between blue is high school orange is the middle school. So we've seen a steady increase in our athletic participation, which is great. At the high school, I think my numbers this year over 300, which is a third of the building that we have athletes participating. A lot of those kids are multi sport athletes too. Or they're also participating in some other extra activity, National Honor Society or even band drama, this stuff. So SALT, my student athletic leadership team. This is one thing I started a couple years ago. So, right, I went from being a teacher coach, very entrenched with the kids.
Then you move into this administrative role as an AD. You kinda get pulled away from that a little bit. So I think that was something I noticed over the years. My first off, I really wanna get back with the kids a little bit more. So, I wanted to start this team to be kinda help them obviously serve the school in different ways and do some fun stuff, but also, like, have a little more personal connection with these kids. So we started this group, or I started this group. Coach recommendations first, how you get in there. I look at GPA, discipline records, sports they participate in, and what grade they belong. They are in started off with juniors, seniors. I kind of bumped down to sophomores this past year.
I think two and two maybe maybe for boys and girls. So that's just kinda, like, the criteria, basically. This past year, we've gone to the IHSA Student Leadership Conference. And actually, this is where I wanna bounce back out to my pictures because it's actually more fun than just me talking about a bullet point. So let me go back here. Okay. So alright. Yeah. Right. So I took some students to the, the IHSA Student Leadership Conference at the Indy 500, which is really fun. And they got a chance whoops. They got a chance to kinda do different activities with their schools, kiss the bricks,
some fun stuff. There's some driver education stuff there. This was like a a whole session where they had a speaker come in and talk about, different leadership activities. This was a group activity with other schools. So it's just a really good way to kind of bring our best of the best to these programs with other schools and kind of mingle and learn and kind of collaborate. I've always enjoyed those kind of activities. And then we hosted the first ever Hoosier Legends Conference student, conference yourself leadership base. It's our, like, little mini version of it. It was here at the high school. So we had kids from Tri West, Indian Creek, Monrovia, Trident Central, and I'm missing
someone, Speedway. So those six schools came this year. We had different breakout sessions, like a whole session to the auditorium, breakout sessions at other other places, fed them breakfast and lunch. So it was a good overall, time. And different ADs or coaches from the other schools came and, like, presented to the kids on different topics. So let's lock on. Oh, let's see. What else is on here? Oh yeah. Hornet high fives. So this is something we started this year was new. We would go to Hornet Park, Central, South Grove, and we'd greet the kids coming off the bus in the morning. So trying to spread some smiles, some laughter, just some Hornet high fives.
Right? We had a lot of fun with it. We usually would stop by and get breakfast after we did that, but it was a good experience overall. Alright. You guys liked it? Brownsburg is another fall area where all the principals and ADs come to this meeting. We'll see also broken up by different sections. But take the kids there, it's another breakout session where they meet with other kids and do stuff together. The funny thing about that one was when I went to go pick them up from the main gym, they were so excited to tell me that was on one of the slides. Aw. So I got I think I was on the slides for the AD thing, and we got from the I should say expert.
So they're like, you were on the TV, and we started talking about you. No. What else? More high fives there. And then that might be about it. So coming up, we're actually going to the middle school next week. So we're gonna go talk to the incoming freshmen. So we're gonna do a presentation with them, kinda talk about what to expect, coming into the high school, doing a Q and A session with them. So we'll take the kids with their deck. Oh, pep sessions was something big. We came back. We did those last year, like, kinda starting back off, but this year was, like, kind of all me and my kids do. So those are always fun.
And then we usually go to read at Hornet Park at the end of the year. Sportsmanship. Doing pretty well. Oh, presentation. I'm gonna see. So as you can see the pass shoes at the top, you start off with a 100 points. And then based on what happens in athletic participation as far as coaches or athletes, you either go up or down. So you can go down by ejections. So player ejections are five all, coach or parent ejections are 10. We've had a couple of those. So that's why you might see, like, in that 2223, we went down a little
bit more because we've had some apparent ejection or two. But we went back up 2324 because we try to spread sportsmanship and how that affects us. In 2425, it never did. Don't ask about it. Right? So let's talk about those points. I think we're like in the probationary point area. Maybe it even needs improvement. I honestly forget how much it was, but it it was lower. But this year, we're rocking and rolling. Right? We're at one ten. I don't like they maxed out our we can't we actually capped it now. They capped it at one ten. So you can't go higher or else we would be higher. We would be like at one fifteen, one sixteen right now.
So we were auto mentioned in the fall for sportsmanship. We're gonna be, I I guess, first team sportsmanship this winter because we had no issues. And so my goal is that there's no issues moving forward. And then over here to the left, you see the banner award steps. So that's the first step is reading the points right criteria. And the different things that my leadership team is doing will meet a second criteria, and then there's a third criteria. So we I'm hoping to meet all four criteria to get to the sportsmanship banner, which they present in the fall at the Brownsburg meeting. So that'd be really cool. That's my goal. I should say so we have added two varsity sports the past couple years.
Girls wrestling, boys volleyball have both been very, good numbers. Boys volleyball is actually doing really well this year. They started three years ago, I believe. And, that core group, including Ishmael, who you saw earlier, are doing really well now. Like, I think they're I mean, they're definitely winning record. I think they've only lost two or three matches, but they're, like, six or seven or three now. So they're doing really well. Girls wrestling has been like right from the get go. I mean, it was like they didn't walk, they ran. They've been really successful. Our most recently, Kaitlyn DeByrne placed third at state, which is awesome. And then, flag football was a brand new sport this year.
We have 32 kids participating and they're just basically a year away from becoming an official sport. Sponsorships or corporations we work with, companies, these are all those. Right? High school. It's a colorful display there. I won't go through all of them but we use all these different corporations or partnerships in different ways, that kinda meet our needs for athletics. Yeah. And then I'd say moving forward, I I guess I can always describe myself as a person who I'm never, I never get, like, too complacent. Like, I'm always looking for the next thing. How can I improve something?
So one of those things in the past, I was working with NEFCO to get some new scoreboards in our main gymnasium. Actually, yeah. For our main gymnasium, we moved the main gym ones into the auction because the auction ones are light bulbs and were terrible. Mhmm. So that was my goal. Well, working with NEFCO, they're not doing a great job of raising money like I said. So now I'm partnering with scoreboard nation. It's actually Didi Horn, former PeachCode teacher. Her husband is the one who started the company. Ryan Horn and her son, Rylan, is the one who will be working with me to help get those sponsors to make this happen. So we're in the process of getting that off the ground.
Hopefully next week or two, we'll start sending word out to meet those meetings. And being very aggressive, basically, you should see here, the below picture would be what is listed now. But then above would be adding a visual board in here where we have the scoreboard, but we also do a lot of fun and creative ways to kind of spike that engagement athletic events as well as run sponsorships. So hopefully, it works out. Alright. I went through that really fast. I'm sorry it wasn't three minutes, Gina, but I think it was, like, eight or seven. Anybody have any questions for me? I don't have a question necessarily, but all of them, it looks very, You've worked
hard. Yes. I appreciate it. Says you've worked very hard, and it does look nice. I've seen most of it in person, not all of it. And my family, we we try to go to a baseball game, a football game, basketball game. We we really do try, and every time, everything is great. So Perfect. Thank you. Yeah. I'd say I'm really lucky. A big support staff. I've always been very supportive here at Beach Grove in what I've been trying to do, as well as I've been fortunate to hire great coaches. So that's easy to work with, you know, kind of build their vision throughout the
programs. I mean, obviously, I know, like, one girl's basketball Ryan got a chance to be be a part of. Like, she probably at the top of the top. It's the first coaches, but I do have a lot of great coaches doing other good things. So, I mean, I think the community aspect of it too, like, having people come out, it's great. You can definitely see that a lot. So it's definitely doesn't go unnoticed. Thank you. Well, awesome. Thank you. Add to that, you know, I get a chance to to be with Garrett monthly for the last four years now. So I would just say, a 100% echo echo what Tara said.
You you do a great job. You work extremely hard. And a project director is kind of a lonely job sometimes. You you feel I I know I have lots of background in there. You can kind of feel like you're on an island by yourself a little bit. And Garrett handles adversity extremely well. He's level headed, makes great decisions. He doesn't really need me to be a mentor. I think I'm more of just a sounding block, really, sometimes for him. He just somebody to bounce things off of. So I just wanted to say, you're good. The less we are to have you. You know, Garrett, one thing. You have so many coaches and we don't get to meet all of them.
And I would love it if you could bring one section and introduce them so that we could meet them, get to know them a little bit. It's just always nice to see who we have and know who we're talking about and get a chance to say hello and, I you know, we don't wanna drive the meetings into, like, all night. Right. It's important to know who they are and for them to know us as well. We appreciate everything they do. Sure. Yeah. I'll I'll, definitely thank offered insurance.
Obviously, that's an option that I have to get in here with athletes. I get a chance to kinda talk about the program as well as the athlete, which is awesome. But yeah. I think, you know, having some type of maybe, like, maybe once a year, maybe get some coaches that maybe not be here as well. I actually was gonna show them the website too. There is a nice little section. So that's like a visual of the different coaching staff that we have in the programs. So, as well as most via school email addresses. For our coaches in case you wanna email them. So but they're all in there. Thank you. You. Oh, yeah.
That's what you would like. I don't think middle school has No. I don't see that? Because I Oh, you I would be on there. But, yeah, no. I don't see that over there. Anything else? Really great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You guys. I can tell you. Hey. Mister Daniel, before, mister Garvin, begins, can you share the names of the mascots for the the conference? Thank you. Oh, mascots? Can you can you add the mascot to the conference on your presentation?
Like, name the schools. Yeah. Which schools are which meant? Breeders, women. Yep. No balance. There's the Indian Creek grades. Oh, there you go. Trident Central, Tigers, Speedway Smart Plugs, Tri West Bruins, Monrovia Bulldogs, and the Shelbyville Golden Bears. Oh, yeah. It's the Golden Bear. Yeah. The bottom left would be the golden bear. It's okay. And then all the way right is? All the way right, bottom would be attracted to the tigers. He dared to say that he was gonna try to put his shirt on before
he went to a camp tonight. I'm like Yeah. I'm sure I was playing right now. Yeah. So I hear. Yeah. It sounds like you wear the shirt that pays you. Oh, how exciting. Good night. Thank you. Alright. It's a great conference. Thanks for the, sports update here. We're gonna shift gears to to the, robotics program. So, doctor Hammond asked me if I would just give a kind of an overview of where we've been with the robotics program when we started it, where we are today, and just some of the details that you might find interesting.
And I have a couple of videos that I'll show you too. So, the logo there is one that was designed by the students. The week before we kids did that, They've been doing all the the shirts for the students for their, when they do their competitions. So the first, slide is just a little bit about who we are engaged with. And it's first Indiana robotics. So if you are familiar with the robotics world, there's, VEX, which is what I my experience was when I was principal. We were a VEX robotics school.
But this, first Indiana robotics has really gained a lot of traction, and they use, foundation of of LEGO. And so the the nice thing about the LEGO, robotics is that it is much more affordable than what VEX is. So, it's been a great experience. I feel like it's very user friendly, and, I had really good feedback from all of our coaches on just how easily they can teach themselves, because a lot of them know I didn't have any background in this before they decided they would help coach. So Indiana for First Indiana Robotics, it's a nonprofit organization, and it's all about STEM.
Right? It's about, that inquiry based learning. It's about problem solving, coding, and then they also sponsor a lot of robotics competitions. Everything from the second graders all the way up through high school. And I'll show you what high school will look like. We don't have that currently. That is a goal, and I'll talk a little bit about that in a minute. But it is a we've had great support from them and, can't say enough about just the engagement so far with with, First Indiana Robotics and LEGO. I wanted to introduce our coaches. So I I I feel like we've probably struggled just a little bit because we've
had, just trying to find coaches. I think a lot of it's just they're being comfortable with robotics. You know? Oh, I don't know if I know enough about that. But really, the Lego robotics is easy enough that anybody that has an interest it can learn it and then teach it to to kids. So here's who we have on our teams. Our our middle school, Brian Oliver, you might recognize that next name. Anthony Hammock, he's been helping now for three years. Nikki Nikki Noah. At Central, Tyler Warren, and then South Grove, Chelsea Mellinger and Alex Bowden. And they were both new this year.
Brian Oliver was, new this year as well as Tyler Warren. So we kinda had a brand new coaching staff, so to speak, at all the grade levels. And there's pictures of them, at their competitions. And, in the middle there is a picture of them just kind of preparing for one of the competitions. That was the, intermediate school and the middle school there. So talking about the youngest kids, this was the first program. So let me just kinda go back, I guess. We started it at the middle school, and then we pushed it down to the fifth and sixth grade. And then this year, we started in the second, third, and fourth grade.
So our second and third grade, that's them right there, and, they are engaging in something called the explorer program. It's a little bit different than what the older kids are doing. So it's they're still doing coding. They're still having tasks that they're completing. They're still building robots. They're still using their computer to, develop code that that allows the robots to complete tasks. The difference the main difference really is is that this is just sort of a showcase that they do. At the end of that, they will have an invitation to the community.
This year they did it along with their mathematics. What's Math night. Math day. Math evening or whatever you call it. And the kit the parents can come in and see what the kids are working on. So it's not a competition like they get at the older levels. Okay. Did we did we skip one? No. We're good. So then the it's actually I I should put fourth. The fourth, fifth, and sixth graders, the seventh and eighth graders are all participating in the FLL challenge. So that one's a little bit different.
This one is where they're actually going to competitions. If they do well enough, they can qualify for state. It is a a board. You can see there's it's called an FFL competition board. And so this new theme each year lays on that. And this year's theme was called unearth, and it was a theme on in archeology. So there's always some sort of academic theme to it. And so you purchase that each year, this new theme, and then there's brand new tasks. So it never gets old for the kids. If you were, somebody who participated in the year before, you've got a brand new
challenge this year. So the kids work hours and hours. First, they build their robots. They're just little things. I'll show you in a second. Tim will have a video that he'll play, but, and then they, code it and make sure over and over and over that they can complete the task. When you get to the competition, they have a time. So within a certain period of time, it's how many tasks can they complete. And then you get a score based on that. And they have judges there, that that give you final scores, and that's how you either, you know, your your replacement for the competition.
And, Tim, if you wanna hit that button real quick, or that video, let me kinda see what it looks like. I thought no, you know what? The video might be yeah, there should be a video there. It is a video. Now there's two. There's one there too. There should be. Yeah. It's not working then. Okay. Well, it's okay. I I could bring my computer up and it would work on that one maybe, but Do I need to grant you access?
What do you have access to? We can send it to the board after and provide Yeah. I'm gonna share the presentation with you anyway. In the in the video, it'll work in line. I'm not sure why it's not with what I shared with Tim. So we can move on too. That's fine. Hopefully that other thing's gonna work. So funding the program, this is how we funded the majority of it, which is through these, k 12 grants, robotics grants. So the first year, we got, I think it says well, I got it right here. 26 $2,680 and then we got $10,500 the following year and then 12,000.
So we've just used that to build the program each year. It's an in kind grant, so we have to have community matching dollars. They'll they you have to have 25% of your total ask has to be from in kind match. So that has been the way we've been able to sustain it. It's been a big, push for the state is to grow the state, and they're offering the robotics grant again this year. So the goal this year is to write the grant again, and then we can, push it into the high school.
So I will show you a video here just a little bit of what the high school ultimately will look like. We'll have to start slow. But there are schools that literally pour a $100,000 a year into their robotics programs. They are that big of a deal, and the competitions are amazing. So you you really have to network to get a lot of sponsorship, clearly, if you're gonna put that kind of money into it. But I'll show you what they look like here in a minute. Next one. So in addition to the, the grant money, we get some program funding. Crossroad Engineers has been a great supporter. They give us money each year.
The promoters club also has given us money. So that's what allows us then to apply for the grant. And that 25%, then you can multiply that and and ask for more. The high school, because it is so much more expensive, the, we're gonna need a lot more money. So I was really pleased today. I was talking to, HES, facilities management, our custodial, folks, and they I've initially just asked them if they'd be willing to give maybe $1,500, and he said, no. We're gonna give you 5,000.
Oh, wow. So, yeah, so we got 5,000 pledged from them today in addition to what I know the Crossroads will give and, in, you know, in in what the schools raise. So I think we're gonna be able to ask for, hopefully, somewhere between 30 and 35,000 with this grant for the high school, which will get us at least started, on the road because you gotta purchase everything. But I wanted to show you if we go to the next slide what it will look like. Well, we can go future goals, I guess, real quick. But, this video will show you what ultimately the high school will look like. Doctor Hammock and I have been to these.
Yeah. Amazing. It is unbelievable. I mean, the gyms are packed, and these kids are having the best time. So hopefully that video will play to them. So that is where we're heading. That's it's just stepping stones to get there. That is extremely expensive to, engage in each year. But the the students built those robots. They have mentors that obviously are working with them. And then they have this massive arena, and inside that arena are all kinds of tasks that those robots have to accomplish. And so they're all they have to program those robots and they're and they have
to they're controlling them as well. And then, you have multiple schools in the arena at one time. So it's really interesting because the kids are all controlling their robots and they're all cheering for their robots against other schools at the same time. And then depending on how many tasks you complete, you get the points. And then at the end, you become, you know, potentially a state champion, and then these schools all go on to the national competitions, which are massive. So if if you ever, wanna go to one, they they are they've been local here lately. The first one that doctor Hammock and I went to is at Lafayette.
But, lately, they've had I think last year was at Center Grove. Oh. So you can check them out. They're really neat to see. But, that's our goal next is to get to that level, and, hopefully, we'll have to secure the grant first. So I'll write that grant. We we're three for three, so, hopefully, we'll be four for four. But we at least have some in kind match money now that we can ask for a significant amount to be able to get that launched at the high school. And mister Austin sent out, something today to just see if anybody would be interested. That's also a a challenge. You gotta find someone who wants to put this kind of time and effort into
it because there is definitely, time involved. But I think it's really, really rewarding in the kids. I think Anthony would say that He just loves it. He he does. I he just absolutely loves it. And, I think he's even takes the robots home on occasion and He does. Plays with it there to try to get out in front of the kids a little bit. And, I think he knows it pretty well now, though. Yeah. Yeah. So any questions? I'm surprised some of the colleges like Purdue with their engineering department doesn't offer the sponsors. Yeah. They they are involved in this kind of thing, and they're involved at the collegiate
level though, and theirs are it is amazing what they do. They do all kinds of things with, you know, fuel cars, and it it is pretty amazing. But if you look around the state, there's not a a ton of schools that do this, but there's there's a fair number now, and we wanna be part of that because Sure. I think that the skills that the kids learn you know, we could sit here and just list the number of things that the kids are doing in this program that are gonna be beneficial to not only their cognitive development, but their development in the skills that they need to be successful in life. So I think it's just that the program is a win win all the way
around it. You know, the the challenge is is to keep it sustainable. So I'm gonna be meeting with the, robotics coaches. I need to set that meeting up soon. We really talk about now that the grant money is gone, like, what are we gonna do now to be able to, you know, earn to raise some money on a yearly basis so that we can sustain it. But because the equipment has to be updated every so often. For sure. Because they they change some things here and there. That's cool. Thank you. Are you ready now for the personnel and operations? I am. Okay. Let me get this to come up here.
Here we go. A couple of things I'll be requesting board approval tonight. Obviously, the the personnel report from March 6 through April 9, but also seeking board approval to renew our contract with Chartwells. So that would just authorize doctor Hemming to sign that, contract extension for the 02/2627 school year. So those are two things I'll be asking the board to approve tonight. Personnel, some updates, current job openings, a couple of those. The assistant administrative assistant at Hornet Park and the assistant principal at the high school.
We we're in the process of doing that currently. So those are we haven't onboarded them yet, but we have those individuals selected. And I think Dale's gonna be starting soon on his, interviews for the grounds, maintenance, and transportation position. We had a really great day at the Indiana University teacher job fair on March 10, and I was, we were really encouraged by the fact that they are seeing an increase in the number of, teacher candidates, which is really good, particularly in math. Now it's small.
I mean, like there's maybe six more math than there were the year before. But, you know, we were going through a period there where we weren't seeing hardly any in math and science. So I think that's really encouraging. And I thought that the fair was really a great opportunity for us to we to make, connections with kids, try to spend a lot of time with them. We we've had some success, particularly at high school with a couple of hires that we're we met at the job fair. So if you could make those connections with them, and I've been doing something a little different where I give them, what I call their their total benefit package, their
whole salary package. So it's been resonating with the kids. So kind of breaking it all down so that it's not just a salary that they see on a on a salary schedule, but they actually know what the real dollars are. The benefits of at Beech Grove are exceptional. I would compare them and say that they are better than 95% of the schools in the state. So they have to understand what those real dollars mean. When you say you're gonna match someone two and a half percent in a four zero three b and this is your salary and you, are gonna do the max, what does that really mean in real dollars?
And so they it's kind of eye opening for them. And it's funny because I oftentimes hear the kids will respond to to me and say, yeah. My dad's an accountant, and he he'll be all over this. I'm gonna take this home and let him see it. So it I think it's been a good positive thing in helping us. A a little bit of re update on our sub fill rate that I talked about the last couple times. We're making some progress, you know, that we raised our rates, in order to address what we saw as a, really, a dropping, fill rate across the corporation. So in March, we, made some headway.
We did have a significant increase in in request from the March before, but yet still maintained an almost 85% fill rate. So we're not quite where we wanna be. We'd like to be at, you know, at 90% plus, but we're making some progress with that. Some school safety updates. The Department of of Homeland Security is now partnering with the fire marshals. So they are doing, all of the school fire safety audits. So that was a little bit of a new experience. A little more thorough, a little more in-depth, I guess.
The high school was first, and now, all the buildings are scheduled. So we learned a lot from the high school. We had 45 violations of just different things. Most of them were very simple things that Dale was able to take care of pretty quickly. But some just some protocols and procedures in place that, we needed to get that we didn't have. Have. Things that we did, but we couldn't necessarily provide documentation of. So we're working on that. Did you feel that the them coming in, did you feel that that was beneficial? Yeah. I think it was beneficial. You know, you know, we there were certainly some things that, that we weren't aware
of that that were even part state statute that I'm sure most school corporations are not aware of according to them. These are things that school just don't typically know. That I think that they're kind of aligning this a little bit better, than what it has been in the past. So they're very nice people, very helpful, but they do they're serious. So they they come in and they give you thirty days to address your issues, then they come back. Some things, they give you a little bit longer, like boiler inspections and some things like that that, you need to get a vendor in to do that. So I, yeah, I think it's been positive.
And then we back that 42 violations up, with our next visit at South Grove, knowing what we learned from the high school to 12 violations. There you go. So and some of it's just buildings are aging and some things that you just have to get taken care of that, you know, just takes a little bit of time. Sure. And and Dale and his staff, you know, I don't need to say enough about Dale and and the maintenance department and what they do when they when we need to have things done. Dale's just incredibly knowledgeable. Just thought I would talk a little bit about our the attendance and school safety
coordinator. You know, that transition will will start over the summer and and, with mister Talis and, you know, mister Mann has already made his time in the summer. You know, he is just a such a great guy and and has, said, you know what? I'm I'm here to help in this transition along with principals, building leaders because a big part of this job will be attendance. So working with our building leaders to come up with strategies and and just tracking our kids that are really chronically absent. Some food service updates. This is two thousand twenty six, twenty seven will be the last year for our
Chartwells contract. So we will have to do an RFP and could take that out to bid for the 2728 school year. So I'll start that process probably around December 1, and we'll go out and have an an RFP we'll create, and that'll go out and be publicized. And then we'll go through the process like we did with HES for our custodial services. And then, we are in the final stages of getting approval for our summer food service program. So just a reminder that that's a federally funded program. It's completely free, for for students, that are 18 and under.
There's also some exceptions for students. You can be 19, and and there's some things with that if you have some cognitive disabilities and so forth that that, allow you to participate as well. But it's really a great program, and we're, finalizing our locations, this year. We'll have multiple locations again just like we did last year. Is that the one that happens at Chalice? This year, we're gonna we're moving to Saribolt. Yeah. Just, some logistical things that work a little bit better there. But, yes, that's that's the program. And then finally, from, the the facilities, grounds, and maintenance, the Veterans Memorial, project is,
if you noticed, is underway. So they they came and the concrete has has been knocked out, the fence has been moved. So we are underway with that project, and, we are planning to have that completed for the dedication on August 21. That's the first home football game. So we'll coordinate what that will look like, but I thought that would be good for you to know because I know there are, part of our Beach Grove alumni association, people that donated some money for that. They probably were wondering, you know, when are we gonna get going on that? So it it is off and going.
I I I let them know what's up. They they know. Yeah. And then finally, just the asphalt project. Unfortunately, it was we were gonna hopefully do it over spring break, but, the asphalt plants did not hadn't transitioned yet from winter to summer asphalt. So we don't want winter mix. We wanted summer. So it's just better. And so we we're gonna there'll be summertime before that gets done. And we are addressing some sidewalk issues if you happen to be over at the middle school. We had some issues with, code. Ryan could tell you we've had a couple people that, we had a person fall
recently, and, we just, we needed to get that addressed. Essentially, the concrete has fallen and the curve is too high. So, we're doing that right now, getting that taken care of. It doesn't look as great as I'd like it to because it's just you can't knock all that out. But blending that certain special blend of concrete in there will make it safe for everybody now. So that's something we're working on currently. And hopefully, we'll be done here. If not today, we'll be done. I haven't been there today, but hopefully, it's, done today or or this week. So that is my report.
So could we get a motion to approve the employment recommendations? I just wanna mention that Rob will not be voting only because he is on this. He doesn't need to recuse himself and remove himself from the room or anything, but he's just not gonna vote. So everybody he's improving. He likes himself, but he can't. So I move we approve the informal recommendations. Did you have a question, Mike? Has one part of it. So if we approve this tonight, is Rob considered employee today or are they effective today? Not it doesn't start until later by effective data is in December.
Wanna break the law? Nope. Right. Right. Yeah. Alright. Beth, who'd second for me? I'll second. April, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Okay. And then Chartwells, could we get get a motion to approve the authorization to renew their contract? I'll make sure that's it. Brian? Tara? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Okay. Doctor Hammack. Just all in favor. Oh, all in favor. Didn't I say that? Yes. Yes. Aye. Okay. I am. All in favor of those? Okay. We're good. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So, this evening, I'll have you I I won't read through my report, for you
all. So most of it, we will be getting, we will touch on it in the work session. But we do have two items, for your consideration this evening. The first is, we have been working in partnership with the city of Beech Grove police department to update our memorandum of understanding, between the school district and the police department regarding our school resource officer program. The board was presented with that MOU, I think that would be two meetings ago. The board had feedback, that the board would wanted the police department to consider.
The police department adopted all of that feedback, so the document that we are asking for you to approve is inclusive of your feedback. And that is an agreement that would go into place as of July 1. So that's the first item for consideration. The second, I had shared an update with the board that the Department of Education granted, Beech Grove City Schools an additional waiver day. That was all related to the weather, and that, was a day that we kind of tucked in our back pocket because we wanted to hold on to that just
in case we needed to use it again for weather. Thankfully, the the winter that seemed awful at the beginning, didn't end up being as awful as we had feared. So that means that we are able to end our our school year, one day earlier than what our calendar indicates. So would just need board action to do, that modification. And if the board is agreeable to that modification, we would notify all of our families and our staff tomorrow, because we want them to be able to make, their
plans, accordingly. But that will allow for a day, in between graduation, which is gonna be very helpful, particularly here at the high school. Okay. So could we get a motion to approve the memorandum between us and the Beach Grove Police Department? I'll motion. Rob? I'll take it. Tara? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? And then, a motion to approve the updated school calendar to end school by one day. I think that's it. Tara? Jill? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Is is that all you have, Laura?
Did you have more? That's it. Thank you. Okay. So I'm gonna ask about something. So in our notes, Laura had made mention about the referendum and that there are several groups that are splitting out to work on that referendum. How many of groups are there? Six? There are five. I have yes. And I was thinking that during the work session, we would go through. I've kind of listed those out, and I can talk through a little bit more about what each one does. And I I am gonna ask everybody on this board to be on one of
those committees. This is important to this school system and we all need to participate. You don't have to be on all of them, but everybody should at least do one. Appreciate that. That's all I have to say. Thank you. You're welcome. Could we get a motion to approve the minutes and the claims? We're gonna do it together. I'll motion. Rob? I'll second. Tara, all in favor? I'll. Opposed? And this is so nice. Thanks, Steph. The fundraisers, the field trips, the donations altogether. I do have one question on the field trips though. And if you guys don't care about it, I don't care about it.
But for the field trips, I believe one of them had everything, but was there three field trips or two? Anyway, two of them didn't show who was gonna be, going with the kids as monitors. Is that important to you guys to know that? How many people are going as chaperones? Do you care? Do you want them to put that on there going forward? Yeah. I'm a capitalist. Mister Bush. Yeah. She's just Yeah. She's just missed the activity. But could we ask them to put that on there just to be on the
safe side for the next time, which would be awesome. Okay. So could we get a motion to approve the fundraisers, the field trips, and the donations if nobody has any questions? Beth? Second, please? Tara? All in favor? Opposed? Brian, how about C nine? So, we just had our meeting last week, so it's in those months. We can actually talk about it. So, there's a few things coming up. On May 7, there's a planned superintendent meeting to discuss the c budget for this next year, the next school year.
There's also a college career day on April 16. Words day for c nine on May 9 or sorry. May 7. Sorry. May 7. My bad handwriting. And then, oh, yeah. And, c nine is also considering an IT solution for tracking career experience for the new diplomas. They're also possibly gonna talk to different schools to see if they wanna participate and use it for credit outside of C9. So I don't know what that means in terms of profit sharing of costs and all that stuff, but that's something that I think, Doctor Kovacs is gonna bring up
to the superintendents. And there's no Beach Grove students on the month. It's a month, unfortunately. Look good. Thank you. It looks good. And then the summer concert series starts at the May. Okay. It'd be a lot of fun. A really great lineup. Yeah. Okay. How about, do we have anybody else we need to ask about? RDC. Sorry? RDC. RDC is actually in a little bit of rebuild. Oh, wow. This Thursday will be I believe Derek Blythe is gonna be seated in one of one of the positions. Involved in promoters club, local, BG grad.
Good guy. Yeah. Mister Davis, stepped down for family and health. Dave Copenhaver stepped down for health. Andrew Noon stepped stepped down. He has started his own law firm, basically. So we're, we're a little bit of a rebuild. So are you are you there alone? Me and Matthew. You know? No. But yeah. One is definitely back or a new addition. I don't I don't know if the council has so I'll be able to tell
you who shows up Thursday night and what we got. Okay. Education Foundation, April. Just got an email today. We are trying to get a date put together for our next meeting. But hopefully, we'll have the nominations for scholarships. We do vote on those. Good. Good. The, I think that's about it. Anybody else? Alumni, they didn't meet last month, so we have nothing. We're meeting this month, so I'll let you know.
What? I was the speaker. Was it last month that you were the speaker? March. God. I swear. Okay. I was really, it it was a wonderful evening. I was able to give a presentation to the alumni association. It was on Saint Patrick's Day, I think. Because it was Oh, it was Saint Patrick's Day. I'm not sure if you were that. Just gave an update about the school district and then also, sort of, treated them to, a little bit of financial update and sort of, the stressors that are happening from some of the, state action and how that, will ultimately present the need for
a referendum. The alumni association was wonderful. They were very supportive. Lot. Yeah. And, honestly, and I'll be very transparent, with our community, I so appreciated the opportunity to present to the alumni association because it was kind of my field test, if you will. Like, I was able to, see which slides worked and which didn't and was able then to kind of rework, some things so that hopefully, some of this content that can be quite complicated will land a little bit better.
Yeah. I really appreciated the evening. Such a great group of people. Thank you very much. Anything else? Okay. How about if we adjourn? Can I get a motion? I'll motion. I'll second. Let me not do it. It's not your last meeting, is it? I don't think I'll move. Okay. Tara and then Rob. Alright. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Good night.