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one or two. >> There's another Why don't you just All right, y'all. We're going to give us about a couple of minutes and then we will get started with our session for this evening.
Soon as Mr. Henderson and Miss Kelly. Well, good evening to everyone and welcome to our work session this afternoon of Dr. Young, we will now give it over to you. >> Thank you so much, Mr. President. Members of the board, I'm excited this
evening we have um Dr. Allen, who you will have an opportunity to hear from from MGT, and also Mrs. Cindy Huffman, uh who was our program manager for the Lily Endowment Phase 2 grant. Um at this time, I would love to turn it over to
Mrs. Huffman >> and then I'll turn it over to Mrs. Allen in just a minute. Um, good evening members of the board, board president. >> Good evening. Cindy >> Cindy Hoffman uh retired in 2021 from
Pike, but this is still my home. Uh, filled in in the spring of 2024 for uh Dr. Huff. And then since then, I've been working on some grant work with the Lily Endowment Grant and uh proud to serve as program manager of phase two. Um, it's
always a pleasure to be back here. Uh thank you for the opportunity this evening uh to for me to introduce um MGT Education Solutions. Um Dr. Leta Allen, senior vice president, is going to give
you uh more detail about MGT. Um it is a wellestablished organization that partners with school districts um to provide uh resources and sort of maximize outcomes that we're seeking um
as a school district. Um she's also going to talk a little bit about some of the activities um that she'll be doing um with the middle schools. Um and I wanted to provide just a little bit of context about that. Uh
we are approaching the end of year one of our phase 2 Lily grant and I have provided uh to you some of the highlights from that grant. I I believe Miss Pedifer did it was on top of the PowerPoint presentation. Um but as you
may recall this grant is targeted at the middle school and uh advancing student achievement and then college and career readiness. So they are um activities that are preparing students for that next level. Um, I am excited to continue
building on those highlights and those the progress that we've made already. Um, and the reason that uh we're we're here is that we have u some unused funds um in that grant to but they must be
used to support and improve the middle schools. So, we have talked with MGT and you We asked to approve that tonight at the board meeting um to work with some of our middle schools um in that regard. So, I'm gonna really turn it over to Dr.
Allen and she's going to talk about that. But specifically, I wanted to mention that she did meet uh and collaborate with the middle school principles in order to develop a plan and also in understanding that we would have a really short time frame between
now and the end of the year to work with. So, uh, with that, I'm going to turn it over to, uh, Dr. Allen, and I'll stay here to answer any questions you have. >> I hope you could hear me, Dr. Allen, but
we're turning it over to you. >> Yes. Dr. Young Presidenting for a very long time. Very concerned. expectations like
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partnership and commitment to reform over a one time. We know that everything works in terms of what you work for Again, we had a chance to engage with
identify what are those levers in a short period of time. And so both and these teachers will receive targeted instruction and monitor an
impact. So we will be doing exactly what we accomplish and then we will also model those effective instruction and also target instructional
priorities. So that instructions you have all of these will not go through but I think it's really important for you to see the work that we've done across the country. some of the Houston independent school district
schools so they had 56 and we took that number down in partnership with the school district schools another district that had over
time So only in the fourstar rating this is the highest performance they had in 20 years public school again this is another
district however we only work with a small number of schools and so in those schools we look at 100% of our supported schools from performing schools we all
the 19th highest performance district but they used to be very um and so you'll see I've also shared some of those results from this particular project you will be able to see how
we started 2019 by 2022 they all very well as you can see with them to see how they're still doing very well. We also got
to be only their second teachers that are in front of students every single day. So we are honored that Dr. the opportunity to engage with partner with you and again we are people
helping people. Thank you. >> I have a question. >> Time for that. >> Yeah, I think so. I thought she was going to stay on but >> she did not. And that's what I was waiting for. Uh, next queue. Miss
Barnes, you have a question. Is she here to answer or >> Yeah, she's coming back in. She didn't mean to do that. Um, can you allow her to come back in? >> Tony, are you done?
Yes. >> Okay. >> All right. >> We have one question. >> So, uh, first, thank you Dr. Allen for your presentation. It was very uh encouraging and enlightening to see all the things that you've been able to do around the country. My question is about
time. Um, I looked at the headers on your presentation. I see a year working with you, two years working with you. The shortest time that I noticed in your presentation was three months working with you. How will you adjust your programming to fit the tight time
schedule that we're in for this particular? >> Yes. Yes. Can you hear me better now? Yes. >> Is that better? >> I can hear you better now. >> Okay. So, just you're absolutely correct. So, uh all the the banner titles on your slides talk about working
with your organization for one year, two years, three years. The shortest I saw was three months. I'm curious, how are you going to adjust your programming with the short amount of time that you will have with our teachers here in Pike
Township? >> Yes. Great question. So, our work is actually what we've done with Dr. Young and the princip can Changes.
>> Thank you. Uh I do have a follow-up question then. I'm curious as to the benchmarks that you have in place. Um I know you you spoke of a list that you have. What is it that you're looking to accomplish in these next 30 days?
>> So the biggest usually longer in terms of those teachers out. Then we will also go back and look at these are across the board. Whe bless.
>> Is there an incentive for you to for a certain amount of your goals to be met? >> I didn't Can you say that again? >> Sure. Is there an incentive for meeting the goals? Like if you meet it at 100% or 75%
is that something that you typically do in your contract? >> Yes. And if I could just piggy back on what Dr. Allen said and that is that it we did talk about long-term and shortterm
and and it doesn't preclude that we wouldn't do something in the future that was longer uh longevity so to speak. >> So I I have a question. Um my understanding part of this is because we have some dollars left over from the the
Lily grant. Is that correct? >> Say that. >> I'm sorry. Um part of why we're entering into this is due to dollars we have left over from the Lily grant. >> That's correct. We have unused dollars. >> So I see what the total cost is here for this contract. What are our unused dollars? How many of them are we
utilizing for this? >> $50,000. >> So we're using all of them for everything that's left for this. Okay. And the one thing that I will say about the grant, it is a, as you know, a five-year grant. So we project what we
will spend one year to the next year. And so every year we regroup and we say if we didn't use all those funds, for example, in and I'll be specific in this regard, um we partnered with IUI to hire
tutors for our middle schools. it was more difficult to get the number of tutors that we wanted. So that is the reason for the excess dollars in this in this pot so to speak. So we are arranging our spring meetings with the
the partners again to talk about next year talk about how those funds if they're not expended in the manner that we designed then maybe we need to think about how to redesign that and obviously I have to do amendments with Lily
endowment get permissions and all of that comes with it. So, if these funds are not spent by the end of the school year, do we forfeit these this $50,000 then or does it roll to next year? >> We would for this year. >> We would forfeit it. Okay. >> Question. Thank you, Dr. Allen, for your
presentation. >> Um um this will probably be your second or third mid Midwest area. Am I right? You've been in the Gary area, the Lake County area. Is that right? >> We were in Gary.
>> How did that work out? Well, it worked for me in terms of Gary Gary was really focusing in terms of where they were financ. contract. >> So you did not you did transformation
type of work with them apparently. What was the academic piece that you added to that? What was the academic piece? The academic piece that you added to that. You said you left so many dollars with the with the with with Gary. >> Uh what was the academic piece? I see
where you did the finance piece, but what was the academic piece you added? over. >> Okay. So, Gary is the closest we could look at as it relates to uh what uh MGT offers, right? That's the closest to us.
I believe that are Knoxville, right? >> Cleveland. >> Okay. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you so much. >> You're welcome.
>> Dr. Allen, how are you? Can you hear me? Okay. >> How are you? >> I'm doing well. Thank you. So, um the the middle school is a pivotal pivotal pivotal I can't get that word out right. Pivotal pivotal pivot. Thank you. uh part of K through 12 uh is a
transition period from elementary over to the high school. Um I'm curious, how long have you to develop this scope of work? How long have you had to look at the condition of our middle schools?
So we started this conversation I don't know how long but wese were identified with understanding the entire school we're focusing on the needs of these particular teachers.
needs working. >> Dr. Young, can you shed some light on the time frame? >> Maybe we engage about a month maybe >> that we've engaged with MT on this topic. Yeah, maybe a month
>> like spring break around. >> Yeah, >> like right around spring break. We we Yeah, we began having um piggyback on that um if I may. When I was um here in 2024 in the spring,
>> MGT um worked I worked with them. They actually uh wrote >> uh the NextGen grant um to the IDOE for us. Um I just communicated with them and the principles communicated with them. We
were on calls. We did not get that grant. Um it was not any money out of our pocket, but um MGT at the at the time when we got that back, it was apparent that the IDOE was approved the
grants that were um partnered with companies that they vetted, if that makes sense. So when Dr. Allan mentioned earlier that they were on the list of vetted um companies
that to me they took that extra step to go and make sure that happened. >> Um and they've been vetted by the state. So >> yeah, I think probably again around spring break we kind of look at the budget and said, "Hey, we're going to have some additional dollars
>> um engaging the principles to figure out within the scope of what the grant is focused for. what are some areas and then because we knew of MGT MGT is this an area based on what the principles are seeing that they need that you guys can
come alongside us and support us and so once we had that answer yes principles here's what we need MGT yes then that's when we said hey let's let's try to get uh something to the board >> you know um as I listen to this it sounds good it sounds great it almost u
I'm going use this as only as an example Uh, and when you go to Costco and they got the samples out and you try the sample, next thing you know, okay, I'm ready to buy the whole product. This is kind of what I get from this. Uh, I'm
very curious to see how this program and supporting our principles, which in line will help our teachers, uh, help us in ways that will show results in our in our test scores. Uh, I'm very curious to see that. Um, also
I'm I'm really not a percentage guy. I like to see numbers. Like I see the percentages that you have here. Uh but is there a way that I can see how many students how many students does like some of your percentages represent from before you got there to what happened
after you got there? Is any way I can see that the number of students >> she would have to make the impact >> and you Yeah. So, and you don't have to do it today, but is that something that we can get down the line as I from the other schools if we can see like the number of students that were impacted and how so that way I can see the number
of growth in student wise instead of percentages? >> Sure. 150,000. >> Okay. Uh, another question, Dr. Allen. Uh, I might have I don't know if you I heard it or not. Have you talked with
any of our principles yet? >> Yes, >> she said she had. >> Okay. Well, how did they feel about how did they how did they feel about uh what you bring to the table? feel the
school. What it So it sounds like you you do your best to create the best relationship with principles. And so relationships are important. >> Thank you, Dr. Allen. >> You're welcome.
Are there any other questions? >> I guess one of I guess I'm and I'm not sure who can answer this question or who I should really pose it to. Why only two out of the three middle schools?
>> Yeah. So what we did was we sort of had conversation with the principles. We had Dr. Allen and her team kindage come and share. We talked about what our needs were. They talked about the services that they provided. And then at that
time, I said, "Hey, principles, let me know if this is something you want to take advantage of. We only have so much money." And the two schools that Dr. Allen's working with are the two schools that said yes, we want to take advantage. >> What schools are those? >> Those will be Lincoln and Guyian. >> That's correct.
Will there be any more meetings between uh MGT and the principles? >> Yes. >> Coming. >> Oh yes. >> Yes. Yes. >> Okay. Would you be uh would you be so kind to share the dates? Once you get those um solidified, please share the dates with us, please. >> Of those meetings. >> Share it.
>> Uh you're saying once once >> Yeah. Once the dates are set >> that will Yes. >> schedule. Okay. >> Thank you. >> All right. Any other questions or concerns?
>> Thank you then, Dr. Allen. And thank you, Mrs. H. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Allen. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, board, for your questions and concerns on this on this matter. Okay. I
think we are now on to our exec session. >> Okay. >> All right. So board we will take about five minutes and uh move over to our other area for our exeact session. Anybody need to
refresh real quick? Let's do that. We'll get over to our exe session. Part: 2
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>> Is that it? >> Mr. President, whenever you're ready. >> Shall we stand for our pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Well, first of all, let us apologize tonight for running just a little bit behind uh for our uh exec session
tonight. So, we thank you for your patience. Uh good evening and welcome to our MSD Pike Township Regular School Board meeting tonight and uh we will begin uh with the good of the cause. If there's anyone that want to share
something that is for the good of the cause, you can step to the podium, state your name, and share for the good of the cause if there's anyone. All right, no good of the cause. Then we're on to Spotlight on Pike. Mrs.
Sarah Dorsy. >> Good evening. It's wonderful to see you all again. >> Can't hear you, Mrs. Dorsy. >> Good evening. It's wonderful to see you all again. As always, we've had a lot of fabulous things happening here in Pike. Last Tuesday, Harvey Saledo was awarded
the 2026 Indianapolis Municipal Band Scholarship of $2,000. It was announced at the band's ISMA preview concert by the Indiana B marching band director, John Marshall, who also served as the band director and department chair for
Pike High School for several years. So, that was a very special full circle moment, and we would like to congratulate Harvey. Um, we are celebrating frequent victories and impressive achievements across several of our spring sports. Um, I can't name them all, but this evening I do want to
congratulate our Pike High School girls tennis team who are 4-0 after their win against the international school yesterday. And also congratulate Jay Brown who is the 2026 Lafayette Jefferson Sprint Showcase 100 meter hurdle champion. Uh
we had several other girls tracks uh celebrations as well, but we're extremely proud of um all of our spring athletes and look forward to >> She said she was a hurdle champion. >> Thank you. Last Friday, we had representatives from
Indiana Members Credit Union visit Central Elementary School to present third grade teacher Regina Neil with a National Teacher Appreciation Award and a $500 gift card. Miss Neil was one of only five teachers selected from 1,200
nominations. Uh her nominations all highlighted her dedication and love for the students she serves. So we're extremely proud of Miss Neil and congratulate her on that recognition. This evening, Pike High School hosted their annual community Earth Day celebration. I just want to congratulate
Mr. Ma, our Pike High School science teachers, and all of the student clubs that were involved, as well as several community organizations. It was a great opportunity with a lot of really fabulous activities for our community. Uh we want to remind registered voters
um that the May prim for the May primary that all Maring County satellite voting sites open this Saturday, April 25th, and end on Sunday, May 3rd, and they'll be open from 11 a.m. to 6 pm. And the Pike Library branch is the location for our area. So, we encourage everyone who
can to vote. Last but never least, we'd like to acknowledge the generous donors listed on this evening's agenda. We had an anonymous donation of $10,500 to fund scholarships for exceptional learners. We are extremely extremely grateful for that.
The Pike Township Educational Foundation donated $10,000 for this year's teacher appreciation celebration. They provided New Augusta South Pike High School, College Park Elementary School, Lincoln Middle School, Eastbrook Elementary School, and then Nathaniel Jones Early Learning Center with the proceeds from
their school baskets, which were sold at Treasures. The total amount was $995 with College Parks basket bringing in the highest amount at $45. And they also gave Lincoln Middle School a $275 grant to purchase flexible seating for one of
their sensory rooms. We'd like to thank Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority for donating snack bags for students at Deerrun Elementary School. Their donation had an estimated value of $3,000. And Common Ground West donated uniforms, hygiene, personal care, and school supplies worth
an estimated value of $2,500 to Lincoln Middle School and milk and eggs worth an estimated value of $1667 to our Pike High School Red Zone Food Pantry. We are extremely grateful to all of the generous donors listed on this evening's agenda for their support. And
just as a reminder, um our next Red Zone food pantry distribution will take place on Monday from 4 to 6:00 p.m. at the Pike Freshman Center. >> Thank you, Mrs. Dorsy. We are up next reports to the board winner sports
awards, Dr. Justin Hunter. >> Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Young, good evening to you. It is with great pride that we take a moment this evening to celebrate the outstanding athletic achievements of our students during the winter sports season. Their dedication, their discipline, their commitment to excellence both on and off
the field are a true reflection of the strength of our school community. At this time, I would like to introduce Miss Kendra Champion Melon, the co- athletic director at Park High School, as she will introduce them the coaches. >> Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and >> Dr. Young.
>> Thank you very much for this opportunity. This is something that I really look forward to throughout all seasons. Um, is getting to honor our athletes. This winter was an exceptional, record-breaking winter, and it's because of these kids sitting right
here. Um, it was awesome. We throughout really all of February and early March, I spent almost every Saturday at wrestling in the morning, at swimming in the afternoon, and at basketball at night. And that's because they were all going throughout the tournament, sectional, regional, state. It was
awesome. So, shout out to you guys. You killed it. UM, GREAT. I'M GOING TO WELCOME our coaches here individually to so that they can share specifically some of the honors of these athletes. Um, I will say I'm gonna welcome first girls basketball. Coach
Keith Holland couldn't be here because he was named the IBCA District 2 coach of the year and he found out a couple weeks ago. He's actually receiving that award as we speak and speaking at the clinic. So, he has delegated to Miss Kathy Mitchell,
assistant coach. She is going to come and share the accomplishments of our phenomenal girls basketball team. Good evening, Miss >> Mr. President. >> Miss Kelly, >> members of the board, and Dr. Young, >> y'all switch sides. Y'all switch sides.
Coach Holland was selected also as a future all-star coach which he will be participating on June the 1st and that is for the freshman's and sophomores of Indian of the Indiana. Coach Holland, Coach Williams, and Coach Barlo are also
going to coach the allconerence hooer all-star game which is this Saturday at 11 o'clock. For our athletes, our young ladies, we have Annayia Bishop. Annayia is a Pike Scholar, a Indie Star
super team honorable mention. We have Kamari Booker who's committed to Northern Illinois UNIVERSITY all conference hooer allstar which is April the 25th at 11 o'clock. She's also going to play in the Ind Indiana
All-Star game which is June the 6th at Gainbridge Richfield House. Tip off time is five o'clock. All right, we have Sava Mitchell allstar. She's all counting. She also is going to play in the Indie Future
Allstar. That game is June the 1st at New Palestine High School. That tip off will be six o'clock. We have Karen Nicholson. She too is an outstanding height scholar, the indie star super team
honorable mention player as well. We have Sayia Smith, all conference, all county Indiana junior allstar. That game is May 31st at Charleston High School at 2 o'clock. WE HAVE A few more young ladies that
were not able to attend, but I just want to recognize them. We have Deniah Warren, Shaniah Williams, Morgan Anderson, um Alana Divine, Malia Evans, and Marley Jeffers.
Two really quick things on that. Um, just because I want to make sure it gets the the credit due. The Indiana Allstar, that's if you've been in our gym, those are the jerseys that hang on the gym wall. Kamari Bookie, Kamari Booker is an Indiana All-Star, so her, we've already
ordered her jersey. And if you heard Coach Mitchell saying junior all-star, junior allstar, that's because those kids are coming back next year and THEY'RE >> OKAY, on to boys basketball. Um, boys basketball has the we had several
members invited to play on the county all-star game, which is tonight. and our coaching staff was invited to coach the event. So many of those players are there and then several others are in AAOU. I don't think any of them are here. I want to say their names and a
couple of just huge accomplishments. Um, Coach Jeff Teague was named the county coach of the year, which is awesome. And on our list, and these are our sectional champions, uh, Terrenio Davis Jr., Brennan Dos, Isaiah Hill who was all Mick all county and the Marian
County player of the year coming back. Uh Kenneth Lampley the third, Landon Lampley who is also all Mick and second team all county. Ian Min, Jiari Miller, all Mick all county muna Chimanma Newman Noika Timothy Smith Jr. Bobby Thomas
Colin Washington and Aiden Woods. So shout out to all those guys. All right, up next we have girls wrestling. I would like to invite our head girls wrestling coach and Pike High School alumni, uh, Leslie Morales.
>> Uh, good evening, uh, Mr. President and members of the board and Dr. Young. Um, so today I have the great pleasure of introducing and recognizing a group of talented and dedicated uh, young lady wrestlers. These individuals have conquered many battles um, in the sport
of wrestling and have exceeded my expectations far beyond what I imagined, especially with this only being the second year that the uh, sport has been sanctioned by the IHSAA. Um, I'm extremely proud of their hard work, their dedication, and their
leadership as well. um the sisterhood that they have cultivated within our team. Um first I'd like to introduce Miss Cynthia Lar Rose. She is a first YEAR so uh Miss Cynthia LaRose is actually a
first year wrestler who showed fierce and eagerness to be great. She solified her presence in the room by becoming a sectional champ and giving us a great match to watch. Um I wish you could have all watched that match. She was great. Um um she showed great perseverance in
that match and it literally that match showed uh what believing in yourselves looks like because Miss Cynthia actually started in the team like a month after we had actually begun the season. So she had a little bit amount amount of time to train and have matches that qualified
her for the sectionals. So that was a great thing uh to watch for her. Second, I'd also like to introduce uh to you Alyssa Vega. Um, Alyssa is a remarkable athlete and a student. Alyssa loves wrestling so much. Uh, we actually had an introduction for
all the girls during our team. And one of the things that Alyssa said for she does for fun is just wrestle. That's literally what she does. Um, this season she has shown um, great sportsmanship. She has shown what true hard work looks like. Um, and also by earning herself a MC championship, which is a statement of
her hard work. Um, third, I'd like to present to you Amamira Pucket. So, Amamira Pucket is an amazing senior with a great future ahead. Uh, she had the pleasure, we had the pleasure of witnessing what a great athlete she is in our room. Uh, with consistent
motivation to her teammates and having great grit. Um, also again being a firstear wrestler. um she was a runner up at MIG and sectionals as well. So great accomplishment for this young lady. Um finally u I'd like to introduce
Victoria Flores. Um she has also shown great dedication and hunger. Um every day she would come into the room she just want to learn more and more and more and become better. Um she also pushes all her teammates to the limit. um she has a great amount of fuel wi to her which
actually fueled her to also win the MC championship and then if I may add both uh Alyssa and Victoria are both wrestling partners which shows you just how much they push each other and all these young ladies in the room. So definitely appreciative of all these young ladies that are here and I'm
really looking forward to this third year what it looks like because all of them except for air are returning next year. I do have one final one. She could not be here today, but also she's um was also a MC champion, which was Corana Edwards. >> All right, thank you guys.
All right, thank you. Next up, we are going to talk boys wrestling and with us we have assistant coach Leland Hoya. I'm a teacher at high school. So, had a lot of them as eighth graders. So, uh good evening, Mr. President, uh members of the board and Dr. Young.
>> Um I'd like to take a moment tonight to recognize our five wrestlers tonight, although most of them could not make it because we are very very busy with club wrestling >> and many of them do work. >> Um focus on our middle schoolers today. Uh Quinton Richardson was an eighth grader, also a MC champion.
>> Um he's currently not here. >> Um focusing on football. >> Our next one is here is Kaden Za. He is our middle school MC champion. Kaden is a multisport athlete currently in soccer.
Uh he went undefeated his sixth grade year. So very big high. Our next three is our high schoolers. Um three of them uh Nathaniel Anderson Dada and Michael Tummer could not make it. But I do want to highlight their accomplishments. First one is uh Michael
Tumer. He was a freshman, a Mick County champion, and also a regional qualifier as a freshman in a very difficult section with top two teams on the entire state. Next one is Nathaniel Anderson at
165, another MC champion. And our last one who could not make it is I dada who is also a MC champion and a regional qualifier as well. Kaden, we're very much looking forward to having you. He's a heck of a soccer player, too. Uh, next up, swimming and
diving. We have head coach Charles Grace. He's got a lot of student athletes to honor. He knows he's on a time limit. Um, but this was a record-breaking season for our swim dive team. Charles Grace. >> Good evening, Mr. President, members of
the board, and Dr. young. It's another great day to be a Red Devil. >> Just a brief summary of the work we've done in the aquatic center this year. I'm going to get started with honoring our coaching staff. Um Pike High School coaching staff was honored to be named
coach of the year for both men's and women's Marian County swimming and diving this year. >> I'm going to kick things off with our ladies this evening. So, um, honoring our ladies this evening, Emerson Allen,
Laney Gorick, Maggie Manahan, Chloe Tower, KATIE WARNER, ANGELINA MICHAEL, those not with us this evening, Aaliyah Briggs, Lorie Boslett, Madison Crane,
Kamay King, and Anna Velasquez. FROM a third place finish at county in the sectional meet and runners up at the Mick. We were blessed this year to take 10 girls to the state meet and nine girls in um earning all Mick honors.
Now at the state meet, our girls 200 medley relay and 200 freestyle relays both placed in the top 16 of the state of Indiana earning second team all state honors. Angelina Michaels 12th place finish in the 53 was the first individual
lady to score since Olivia Darusa in 2021. Also at the sectional meet breaking a 37year-old school record back from 1989 and also earned individually second team all state honors.
The girls as a whole placed 22nd in the state, scoring the highest point total for Pike High School since 1999. >> OUR LADIES All right. This evening, I also get the honor of presenting both middle school boys and high school boys. So, I'll
start with our middle schoolers. So, Lane Adams, come on up. AJ Strong. AND NOAH WINKO. Our fourth middle school boy was not able to be here this evening, Brody Coughel.
But this forum of eighth graders broke five middle school team records and a runner-up finish at this year's MC Championship meet, >> winning six events over the course of that meet. Lane Adams winning the 100 IM and the 100 back. Also setting school
records in those individual events. AJ setting records and winning the MC championship into 200 free and rebreaking his breaststroke record from last year. >> The 400 freestyle relay of that quartet was Mick Champions and also broke the school record.
>> And that same four group of four were Mick Champions in the 200 medley relay. Meaning that our middle school boys over the last two years have broken nine of 11 swimming records. >> Now, let's get to the high school boys.
>> Third place finish at county, runners up at the Mick and sectional. The boys team arguably had the best season in school history. So, Asher Allen, COME ON UP. MARIS SHEBORO, Sam Durlage,
Liam Gity, Alex Guone, Isaiah Winko, ROWAN DAISY, THOSE UNABLE TO JOIN US THIS EVENING WERE Ryder Daisy, Ryan Dorsy, Brody Pierman, and Colton Pal.
This group of boys had eight selected to the AllMick team. 11 boys went to the state meet, placing 13th overall, which is the highest school finish or highest team finish in school history. >> WOW.
>> Also scoring the most points in school history as well at that meet. >> Wow. >> In total, this group broke seven school records over the last two years. The boys 200 free relay of Sam Derlich, Rowan Daisy, Liam Gity, and Isaiah
Winkco placed sixth onto the podium at the state meet. The highest relay finish in school history. They earned first team all state honors in that. And in that event alone, the record coming into the year was 127.
They're 1252 right now. I'm I won't hear this until June, but it is up for all American honors, which if they were to earn that award would be a top 100 time in the country. >> WOW. >> That same group of four placed ninth in
the 400 free relay. Again, that record dropping from 316 to 309. Spectacular swims. Isaiah Winko's 13th place finish in the 200 IM was the highest individual swim at the state meet for boys swimmers
since 1994. >> As I said before, it's a great day to be a Red Devil. I don't cry very often. For those of you who know me, that's a joke. Uh, I cried at more than one swim meet this year. That's how incredible it was. So,
Thank you again for the opportunity. Congratulations again. We might we might say just before we dismiss to our parents who are sitting tonight. Um again it it it really it
really it really showed the talent that that Pike has here in our even middle schools. >> And it really it really it really breaks our heart really especially as a board. It really breaks our heart to see I I think we got some someone somewhere I
just heard someone set a best record in the country and it really breaks our heart to see the talent that we have at the middle school level and then everyone is reaching in to pro uh to to to to recruit our talent to other places
versus coming to Pike for all four years. So I would say to our parents again, please help us close the door uh on those you live in Pike and those who come and recruit our children to go
elsewhere to play sports and and everything and compete. Please help us. That means the world to us. Help us as we keep our talent in Pike uh to continue to be a force for for years to come. Thank you all.
It's it's it's a shame that you see this type of coming. Going to take a few minutes. We're going to take a few minutes just to transition. So, if you all would just uh quietly transition for us and we're
going to continue on with our board meeting, unless you plan on staying and joining us for the rest of our meeting tonight. >> Nice. Nice try, Dr. Nice try. >> I thought we could get him. Thank you, Trey. All right, we are on to
our action items for this evening. Uh, first up on our action items is our April 9th, 2026 minutes from our board meeting. Motions in order. >> I move we accept the minutes as presented. >> Second. >> Been moved and second that we accept our
minutes from our April 9th, 2026 board meeting as presented. Due to the nature and confidentiality, we're on the vote. All in favor say I. >> I. oppose. Thank you. We're on to item B, human resource. Dr. Justin Hunter.
>> Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Young, I request your approval of the HR report as presented. >> I make a motion that we approve the human resource report as stated by Dr. >> Second. Due to the nature and confidentiality of our HR report, we're
on to vote. All in favor say I. I oppose. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, sir. >> Next up is request for approval of the ID IDOE. Mr. Troy Ammon. >> Good evening, Mr. President. Board, Dr.
Young, I'm requesting approval to apply for the Indiana Department of Education 2026 2027 K12 Robotics uh competition grant as presented. Um, I move that we accept the um IDOE
2627 K12 robotics competition grant as submitted. >> Second. >> Moved and second that we accept action item C as presented. Are there any questions? >> No questions. We're on the vote. All in favor say I. I. >> I. Opposed.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Are we up next is action item D, Mr. Clayton Gruber. Thank you, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. I'm requesting your approval of action item D, which is
to accept bids number two and six in the new the NJ ELC expansion project as presented. >> Motion is in order. >> So move. >> Second.
>> Moved and second that we accept action item D as presented. Are there any questions? No questions. We're on the vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Thank you, Mr. Guber. >> And we want to combine action items E FG
and H. Mrs. Gray for recommendation of approval. >> Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. I request your approval of action item EFG and H as presented.
So move second. >> Been been moved and second that we accept action items EFG and H as presented. Are there any questions on action items E FG or H? No question. We're on to vote. All in
favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Thank you, Mrs. Gray. We're on to board member items. Dr. Moore. >> I have nothing this evening, Mr. President. All right, Mr. I'm sorry. Um, Mrs. Wilson,
>> um, couple of things. It's great to be back in in the Central Elementary School and to see the records that have stood for so long and we had these guys just out outshine from years.
I think 1989 maybe. I think that's that's a great testament to Pike and I like the fact that that uh Pastor Webster did say we need to keep our middle school and elementary schools in Pike and we need to do whatever it takes to talk to the parents to allow them to
know that we have just as much of a experience and opportunity for the students even when they get into high school. And then um secondly, I wanted to give a shout out to J. Michael who was uh he's in the PIP fire department.
He became a lieutenant >> um which is something rare >> good >> and he made it and I just wanted to give >> give him a heads up for that >> and then a shout out to my husband because today is our anniversary and I'm here with you instead of with him so
>> duty calls Mr. >> Duty calls >> thank you Mr. Wilson Mr. All right. So, um do just want to real quick say um congratulations to all the athletes. Like we said, just hearing all of those accolades is so impressive. Um congratulations to the parents too. Um
kids don't get themselves to practice get themsel that takes a uh all the work of the parents and just really do appreciate all the work that they clearly have put in on um just put in with their children. I guess leave it at that. Um, also congratulations, you
know, to have all of these accolades of coaches of the year. Obviously, we have the athletic director of the year also. Um, when Dr. Webster is saying, you know, help us keep our kids in Pike. Why in the world would you go anywhere else? I mean, we've got all of the of the years wrapping up. So, don't bother
going anywhere else. And then finally, um had the chance to go with some other board members to the um ISBA regional meeting this last week. And one of the things they went through was a lot of the legislative um legislation that was passed this last year. Um which is a
reminder as early voting uh is out there. Please get out and vote. Remember, I know this is the primary. Sometimes our options are limited in the uh election in November because of what happens in the primary. It is important. get out and vote. And um if you're
watching in the news at all, things that have been going on today, it is clear how under attack um public schools are at the highest levels. Um and please, it it matters who you're voting for. For state senators, for
representatives, everybody that's downtown, it matters. Please go out and vote and keep your school public schools in mind when you're doing so. >> Thank you, Mrs. Hoer. Um, Mr. Anderson, >> uh, want to give another, uh, congratulations, shout out to Miss Neil
on the work that she's done and also again to our our exceptional athletes. Again, to their parents. I know it is not easy and is not cheap. So, thanks again for those. Also to our anonymous donor who has come alongside of our
exceptional owners teachers that have shouldered the load for scholarships to bring in $10,000. That is phenomenal. I know that They did it anonymously, so they want to be low-key. So, I appreciate them for that. And also just want to share my sentiments. I had the
opportunity to go down to San Antonio for the National School Board Association. I learned so much about uh board superintendent relationships that we have brought back and that's going to help us move forward in the future. >> Absolutely. >> Thanks again. >> Thank you, Mr. Anderson. M Barnes,
>> uh I'd like to congratulate the Pike chapter of Best Buddies. I was with them on Sunday at the friendship walk and the chapter won the spirit award for the second consecutive year and if you check
the website they are third in fundraising uh in our area. So congratulations to Pike Best Buddies. Uh it was fun to be part of their celebration at that event. I had the opportunity to represent our board at
our district wellness council. Um, so many wonderful things are happening. We're getting ready for our red devil dash. So, uh, board members May 16th, May 16th. >> May 16th.
>> Gotcha. >> Gotcha. >> Um, for us to participate with that. And one really interesting thing from that meeting that I just want to share here, we are going to start using a small device that it's a small MP4 player to
have a walking classroom. And what it is is there are small short lessons loaded onto this just tiny little like a deck of card size device. It's an MP3 player, so it's no Wi-Fi. It's just a little
battery and phones and it walks students through lessons that they can use during recess. So for those who are just really not wanting to participate in team sports or whatever during recess, they can choose to listen to podcasts that
are about lessons in a variety of topics. And so that's something that'll be um starting in our elementary schools. So it was exciting to learn about that. It's called the walking classroom. That's all I have. >> Thank you, Mr. Barnes, Miss
Kelly. >> Good evening. I >> am going to take my opportunity. The board wants this is administrative professionals week and as you all know, we have one of the most outstanding
administrative professionals that supports our superintendent, the board, and many of us sitting here. So, we want to take this opportunity to recognize Mrs. Pedford for all her hard work and
diligence with the board. We have a small token to give her from us to you. Thank you, >> Dr. Young. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Um, I would also like to congratulate our student
athletes, coaches, administrators, parents, uh, for an outstanding, uh, winter season. Just couldn't be more proud of those athletes. I also want to give a shout out to the teacher leaders
that completed the leadership academy this year and those aspiring um administrators completed a um group of of proficiencies. They attended multiple meetings throughout the year. Uh they engaged in activities all with
the um goal of really sharpening their their administrative skills. So congratulations to those. >> All right. Well, that is it. We like to obtain a motion to adjourn. >> So move, Mr. President. >> Can I say one thing?
>> I'm sorry. >> Motion's on the floor. >> Motion's on the floor. >> You don't want me to say it. >> On the floor. Second. >> Come on. I need to say this. >> Motion's on the floor. >> You need to re >> You don't want me to say it. >> Let me re >> Yeah, don't say it. >> Let me re re recant the motion. And And
Mrs. Mrs. uh Wilson, >> you guys know I'm new, right? So, I'm gonna hold on to that as long as I can. But I I wanted to say this because I know it's anonymous and in my corporate world when I worked, they always used to say it's better to ask for forgiveness
than permission. So, I'm not going to ask for permission, but I'm going to tell you that when this young man found out that exceptional learners were given out a scholarship and they were f that they weren't getting the money that he
thought they should have, he called on upon his friends and co-workers or whoever he did and came up with that $10,500. Thank you. All right. Motion is in order. >> So move. President
>> second meeting. >> Okay. All right.