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You want me to get on the mic? >> Yes. When you when you get ready. >> Yes. We have some people standing. >> Yeah. >> And there's two go.

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I mean, as long as I connect because in case they have something to ask me specifically, um, I want to use it as a now. >> No, I'm going to unplug it. Mhm. I'm just going to unplug it and put it on

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the um, sink down. >> I'll make sure I I put something on it to hold it. >> Okay. All right. I I don't want you. >> Yeah, we got see them stand on the wall. Those are standing on the wall trying to

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get them seated. One year probably bones. One year I was here. I'm meeting with Helen Williams. They packed this room. 7:00

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right here in New York, Virginia. We got to get something. No. He said, "We got all people back here." And then we had a whole door pulled outside. They said

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>> I was wait that door. >> We open that door. Did >> you go to this barber school today? >> Yes, ma'am. Waiting on you. >> Look like you did.

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>> No, I'm not saying it was a bad cut. I know you had it cut. >> No, I wasn't saying that. I understand. >> No, no, no, no. I said You look like you talking bad. >> That's not what I was saying. >> Yes.

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So it's just a few and three of them like the same 22. So it's not six and she says the same or do you do that?

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>> She did. She did do the summary of the family. Well, we still have a piece of the evaluation. I already got it. They were like, "No, yes, I was conversation."

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Okay. Good evening everyone. >> Good evening. Thank you. Thank you so much. Mr. President, whenever you're ready. Shall we stand for our pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance to the flag of the

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United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Well, good evening to everyone and

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welcome to our regular MSD Pike Township School Board meeting tonight, June 11, 2026. We do have a board member, Miss Tony Wilson, who is joining us virtually.

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Good evening to you, Miss Wilson. >> Good evening, everyone. Um, at this time we will do the good of the uh call to I'm sorry, for the good of the cause uh for our public uh time to speak. If

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there's anyone that has anything only for the good of the cause uh that you want to share with our assembly at this time, you may do so. Uh 3 minute a lot time and you can step forth and share with us uh at this time only for the

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good of the cause. No one for the good of the cause. Thank you. We are on to spotlight on Pike, Miss Sarah Dorsy. >> Good evening. It's wonderful to see you all again. >> Good evening. >> As always, we have a lot of phenomenal things going on here in Pike. We had an

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amazing school year, an incredible end of the school year, and also a fabulous graduation. Um, normally I would talk about a lot of athletic successes, but there are other people here that had a larger role in those than I did because I had none. I just get to celebrate. So,

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I'm going to let them do that part, but I do want to mention a couple um that are not spring sports. We want to congratulate Kamari Booker who was selected to receive the 2026 Indiana All-Star John Wooden MCL Restaurant Bakery Citizenship Award in recognition

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of our outstanding contributions to her school and community. We actually were represented by six student athletes in the all-star competitions and I believe that that is a record. Um we want to congratulate Kaylee Gold and Grant Myers who were named Catch the Stars scholar

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athlete finalists. Um, according to the Catch the Stars Foundation, the scholarship skill selection committee independently reviewed and scored more than a hundred applications based on academics, athletics, leadership, community involvement, character, and future goals. And from there, they

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selected the top 22 male and female applicants. So, we're extremely proud that we had um both of those students counted among those scholars. four of our outstanding band students, Representative Pike and the Indiana All-Star Marching Band for the 500 parade. And we want to remind you that

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the Pike Township Educational Foundation will host their 2026 for education golf outing at Twin Lakes Golf Club on June 18th. On July 11th, the Orthoindie Foundation YMCA in partnership with MSD Pike Township is providing a thousand

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backpacks filled with school supplies to K through2 students in our community. And this year the event will be held in collaboration with plan B sports management and Pike alumni Mike Jerrell. He is an offensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons and he'll be hosting a

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community funday and football drills for all ages. And last but not least, we want to sincerely thank the generous donors listed on this evening's agenda. Amy Kiger donated $200 towards an exceptional learner scholarship. Barnes and Thorberg contributed $3,000 to our

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teacher celebration. Common Ground Christian Church donated $1667 to the Pike Redstone Zone Food Pantry. I'm afraid I'm gonna mess up this last name, so I apologize in advance.

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Danielle um Ley donated $10 to the Pike High School Guitar Club. The Pike Township Educational Foundation provided $6,395 for classroom grants at Deerrun College Park and Pike High School. the Robin Run

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Golden K Golden K Indie Kowanas Club um donated $2,900 for homeless students and families in Pike Township. And last but not least, Salesforce donated um items to the Pike Road Red Zone Food Pantry

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with an estimated value of $2,480. So, we would like to sincerely thank them for their generosity and support. Thank you, Miss Dorsy. We are on now to reports to the board. Academic Super Bowls recognition,

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Dr. Justin Hunter and David Holly. >> Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Bishop. Tonight, we're excited to have the opportunity to celebrate the various achievements of our Pike Township students. We would like to start our celebrations tonight by recognizing the outstanding

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achievements of our 2526 academic Super Bowl winners. At this time, I'd like to ask Mr. David Holly, director of transportation, come forward and present the winning elementary and middle schools. Mr. Holland. Thank you, Dr. Hunter.

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Good evening, board president Webster. >> High school board members, Dr. Bishop. It is an absolute honor to stand before you this evening to celebrate the incredible academic talent, dedication, and teamwork thriving within the MSD of Pike Township. On Tuesday, May 19th, our

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district hosted the annual Pike Academic Super Bowl competition. This exciting event brought together students from across our nine elementary schools and three middle schools for a true battle of the minds. For those of you that may not be familiar with the format, the academic Super Bowl is a rigorous

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multid-disciplinary competition. It challenges our students to excel under pressure across a wide range of subjects including English, math, science, social studies, fine arts, and current events. Operating in a Jeopardy style format, it

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demands not just indiv individual brilliance, but exceptional team collaboration and quick critical thinking. Tonight, we are thrilled to recognize the teams that rose to the top and claimed this year's championship titles. First at our elementary school division.

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This year, the academic Super Bowl winners hailed from Guy Creek Elementary School. Under the fantastic leadership of their coach, Mrs. Kesha Nicholson. These young scholars prove what hard work and dedication can achieve. Please join me

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in congratulating the Guyian Creek Elementary School Championship team. When I call your name, please step forward. Kase Coleman, Alabatu Son, Kayla Tran, Donovan Walker,

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Phoebe Adigok, Evan Hooks and Emmanuela Ebe. Congratulations to our Pike acade academic Super Bowl champions at the elementary level, Gy Creek Elementary School. All right. Congratulations. Moving on to our middle school division,

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our Pike Academic Super Bowl winners for the 2526 school year are from Gian Creek Middle School. Guided by their dedicated coaches, Mrs. Valerie Dennis and Mr. Edward Kramer. This team showed incredible mastery over complex subjects and standard setting

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teamwork. Please help me recognize our middle school champions from Gy Creek Middle School. Jade Freeze, Eliza Talis, Flores, Karina Brown, Blessing, Olad Gay, Joyce Oligon,

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Amina Ramsey, Trevor Keith, President Webster, members of the board, Dr. Bishop. These students represent the bright future of Pike Township Schools. Their success is a direct reflection of their own work ethic, the unwavering support of their families, and the

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exceptional guidance of our educators and coaches. To the board, I want to thank you for your continued support of programs like the Pike Academic Super Bowl, which give our students a platform to shine. Thank you so much. Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Bishop, we're excited to have this

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opportunity tonight to celebrate our athletes who performed very well during the district's spring sports season. At this time, I would like to ask Pike High School's co-athletic director, Miss Kendrick Champion Melon, to come forward and introduce our standing coaches and the athletes thereof.

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Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Bishop. Thank you very much for the opportunity to recognize these kiddos. This is one of my favorite things to do. Several of you have heard me say that time and time again. This is what it's all about. Um

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the springtime, I was just saying this, telling our coaches this the other day. Springtime is tough for a number of reasons. Um number one is the weather, as you all know. Uh it's crazy, but we're also battling senioritis.

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You've graduated now, so you're not allowed to be that way anymore. Uh senioritis and just ready to be done. Final exams, all of the insanity. our coaches and our athletes have really excelled this spring. Um, it was hard to keep up with the successes, which is

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awesome. Um, so I want to congratulate you all together and your families for your support through the spring and also I'd like to publicly uh thank our coaches and families just for your help. It was a crazy especially

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crazy spring for me. Um, so I am I'm so grateful to all of you and the families that are here. Um, I'm going to introduce each one of our coaches and then they will introduce you to their outstanding athletes. We are starting with boys track and field. Um, our head

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coach could not be here this evening, so we have assistant coach Noah Richardson. Good evening, President Board. >> Good evening, Dr. Bishop. >> Uh, I'm Coach Neil Richardson for Boys Track and Field. Uh, thank you guys for having us here um this evening. Uh, I

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just wanted to highlight a couple uh of our athletes that are here this evening. Uh, when I call your name, you can step uh stand up. We are uh joined by Oryua Kinro, Zion Crowder, Francis Hulahan,

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uh Kobe Stingley, Christopher Boyd, Willie Chapman, Jerome Mccertie, Jacobe Ryan, And with Sean Nash here. I thought I saw him walk in. Some other athletes that couldn't make

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it uh here tonight. uh Jeremiah Corbin, Ryder Daisy, Grant Meyers, uh Moang, uh and Lauren Worthy. Uh we had a uh phenomenal track season. Um couple highlights to start off. Uh we uh defended defended home turf, got the win

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at Pike Invite. Um that was a phenomenal phenomenal performance from our boys that day. Um, as well we had five allconerence selections, four all county selections, 14 all sectionals, five all regionals, um, and one all state being

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Kairen Oliver in the 300 hurdles. Um, couple other shout outs. Uh, we had Chris Boyd state qualifier as well as Francis Hulahan. Um, they had a phenomenal season. Um, yeah, thank you guys for for joining us and uh, this is

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OUR PIKE TRACK. GOOD JOB, Y'ALL. The state track meet had not one, not two, but three lightning delays. We finished up around 11 p.m. with our 4x4. They were fantastic. Uh, next up would be our head coach for girls track and

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field, Mr. Lance Garbin. >> Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Bishop, the ladies that could attend today. Uh, first up we have

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Tabitha Reed, all county, all sectional. Mila Anderson, all county, all sectional. Laney Gornick all conference all sectional. Kamay King academic all state and all sectional.

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The uh team um had great classroom performance. So, we're two other academic all-state ladies. Um, with a team of 90 90 individuals, we uh maintained a 3.2 GPA uh which was one of the highest I've seen for our girls

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track team. Um, we were also the sectional champions this year. and we had eight girls that qualified to run at the state meet. In addition, those that could not attend

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tonight, we have Gabby Bellamy, Amina King, Micaia Nance, Georgia Sicheki, Aiana Aguire, Avery Bennett, Jay Brown, Morgan Chestnut, Zalee Crowder, Maniah

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Darling, Genesis Davis, Demaya Downing, Jamie Hajj, Justice Irving, Sandra Johnson, Evelyn Marin Rodriguez, Nia Matisse, Akina Mutan, Precious Oladasi, Kimora Sanders, Simone Suggs, and Jada

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Walker. No. Okay. Ready? Next up, I would like to welcome our boys golf coach, Mr. Thomas Roars. >> All right. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Bishop.

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>> Uh my name is Tommy Roars and I am the head golf coach for Pike High School. Uh right now I'd like to recognize two individuals for some stellar performances this season. Uh it's going to be sophomore Edison Armrestster and senior Kellen Eer. Please come up to the front. All right. So Edison was a allconerence

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all county and just this past Monday he was the lowest score of all participants and was our sectional champion. Uh, and Kellen Eater in his senior year also picked up an allconerence, also collected an allsectional team. And both these boys will play at regionals at

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Coyote Crossing tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. Shucks. I will be honest, the sport of golf never excited me before I became a high school athletic director. It is so exciting. He didn't say this, but Kellen

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played a sudden death playoff to qualify for the regional and it was awesome. Three holes. It was awesome. Next up will be our head baseball coach, Mr. Todd Webster. >> Good evening, uh, Mr. President, members

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of the board, and Dr. Bishop. Um, I have two young men to, uh, acknowledge today. Uh, the first one, uh, was a 2026, uh, Almick, uh, baseball player. He's a four-year letter award winner. That's

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his second time all Mick, by the way. He caught for us, played shortstop, pitched, and played third. Uh, honorable honorable mention all county. Um, he's going to go to Michigan State for environmental science. Please stand up.

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Rory Weieber. Uh my next athlete uh is another four-year letter award winner. All midconference. Uh he was a center fielder, pitcher, and a shortstop this year. All around really good guy. Uh Indiana academic

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all-American going to South Valley College. Um Lincoln Sigman, please stand up. Next up, we're going to recognize Unified Track and Field. This is only our second year of existence with this program, so this is pretty awesome u to

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have some honores. Head coach, Miss Tori Miller. >> Good evening, uh Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Bishop. It's my pleasure um to speak to you guys about our unified track and field athletes this year. Uh for those of you that are

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not aware, unified track and field or unified sports in general is an inclusive sport. So it includes athletes that are have an identified intellectual or developmental disability as well as those who do not competing together. Um and I have um a few athletes I get to

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recognize tonight. This first um athlete that is here this evening uh is Mr. William Brewer. Mr. William Brewer is in his uh second year of competing with us and he actually uh PRD in every

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uh in at least one event in every single meet he competed in this year. He also um had a PR and placed second in his flight for shot put during sectionals. And as a result, Mr. William Brewer is one of our all Mick Conference um

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athletes. He did not know that before showing up this evening. Um, in addition who could not be here today, I have um several that received academic all-state which would include Caris Dixs who is actually all um a senior who is a two-year member

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uh for our team as well as the uh Trinity Olden who had academic all state and then Katie Warner received academic all state as well as all Mick as well um this year. CONGRATULATIONS.

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Next up would be our head girls tennis coach, Mr. Josh Vafu. >> Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Bishop. Tonight for girls tennis, I'd like to call up our number one singles player, Amaya Roer.

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Amaya Roer has led our team for the last two seasons her freshman and sophomore years as our number one singles player in this position this season. She led our team to a team record of 12 and four but individually she finished the season with a 15 and3 record uh which is quite

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a feat at this position and those three were against top 10 players. Tonight she is being recognized for two accolades that she received this season. She's earning Mick allconerence honors and Marian County all county honors. If you haven't gotten a chance to see

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her play, you definitely need to. She is an excellent tennis player. Really fun to watch and coach and has a very exciting future ahead of her. So, congratulations Amaya Ro. Next up, head softball coach, Mr. Andy Lawrence. Good evening, Mr. President, members of

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the board, Dr. Bishop. Uh we're here tonight to celebrate our softball season. Uh much improved season, m thanks in part to uh two players I'm going to mention tonight. Um both are seniors who uh did a lot for our program

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over the four years and uh will be greatly missed. Uh first is Ariel Hutchinson. Ariel received uh all honors both uh academic and athletic and uh

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that is despite uh one one of her her A's was in in a government class with a very very difficult teacher as well. Um, our second honore is Liliana Richardson. Lily is a four-year uh

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four-year uh letter award winner uh four-year starter for that matter. Um she is also an allconerence and all county award winner. Um and that is uh uh all county at least two years in a

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row and all conference I think. So she's she's been she's been holding it down for us for four years. Uh she's going to go on to Carthage College where um she's going to play both softball and soccer. And uh you'll be seeing her again up on

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stage later with choir. HEAT. HEAT. The last group of athletes that we want to talk about at the high school level would be boys volleyball. And our head coach could not be here. We've got two kids to recognize and they could not be here either. But I would just like to

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say um boys volleyball inaugural season was last year. I could count their wins on one hand. Um it was a growing year. It was kind of awesome. It's also very exciting to watch. Um this year they finished the season at 500 11 and 11

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which was outstanding. Um and had two members of the volleyball team selected as all Mick players. And there were a lot of schools that had volleyball clubs beforehand. We didn't even have a club and here we are now. We've got all mix selections. So that's pretty cool. Those uh individuals are

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Joshua Johnson and Feron Way. >> That is a wrap for the high school. Thank you very much, Dr. HUNTER. MR. PRESIDENT, members of the board, Dr. Young, Dr. Bishop, we're excited to have this opportunity to celebrate our middle school athletes who perform very well during the spring sports season. At this

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time, I would like to ask new Augusta Public Academy North athletic director, Mr. Blake Arnett, to come forward and introduce our outstanding coaches and athletes. Mr. ARNETT, >> good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Dr. Bishop. Um,

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I'm here to recognize our girls track team who uh won the state championship as a team this year. Um, I would also like to just shout out our coach, Coach Chestnut, our head coach. She could not be here tonight. Um, she really wanted

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to be here. She had to have surgery yesterday. So, uh, she's hopefully, I think, watching live. So, you know, we're hoping she heals well. um kind of to to speak to her toughness and kind of how she got in the position she's in

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today. She um she was actually hit by a car while she was on a bike about halfway through the year on the way to like right before a meet and just to her toughness and her credit, she still came to the meet that day. She's just very

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tough and she really instills that toughness into the girls. Um that's kind of, you know, just why this this group has done so good and uh over the past couple years. This is the actually the fourth time these girls have won state as a team in the last 5 years. So we're

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just really really proud of that group. Um we also have Coach Livingston here uh just representing the the coaching staff as well. Um uh this year the girls um not only did they win state, but they

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had the best performance at a state meet uh in the history of of the the middle school state meet. Uh for instance, last year as a team we scored 34 points and were runner up. We lost by one point. Uh this year uh the girls left no doubt and

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we scored 90 points uh as a team. Uh this year we had the girls state champion 100 meter dash winner, 200 meter dash winner, uh 4x1 relay, uh and 4x4 relay as well as first and second in

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the girls long jump in the state. So uh those were all the the girls who who won their individual or relay events. We also had a plethora of other girls who placed top nine and scored for the group as well. Uh at this time, I'll go ahead

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and recognize our girls. When I call your name, please just come on up. Uh, Tawwani Adileu, Jessica Anderson, Olivia Colbert, Leila Blackman, Paige Dills, Anivvia Ransom,

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And then those that couldn't be here, Baya Fields, Jolie Johnson, Chanel Paul, Ariana Tatum, Josephine Wheelock, Jenna Barry, Michaela Coleman,

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Promise Mley, Promise Solid, and Lucy Wagner. Thank you. Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Bishop, at this time we would like to ask Lincoln Middle School's principal, Dr. Tapler, to come forward and

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introduce his outstanding coaches and athletes. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Bishop. I'm representing uh Lincoln Middle School on behalf of Mr. Andre Kelly, our athletic director. He's not able to be

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here on this evening, but I'm glad to fulfill and serve within this capacity on this evening. During our spring sports season at Lincoln Middle School, our boys track team had an outstanding year on the track. These young men made history during the 2025 2026 school year

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by becoming the first students at Lincoln Middle School to qualify for the middle school state track championship meet at Indiana State University in Terote, Indiana on May 23rd. The following students are going to be

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recognized at this time. Aiden Cheeks would come forward. Aiden completed the 400 meter dash and the 4x400 meter relay. Next, King Mallister. King completed the 100 meter dash, 200

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meter dash, and the 4x400 meter relay. Next we have Elijah McFersonson. Elijah completed the 4x400 meter relay. And we also have another special individual who I believe is not here on this evening, but we want to acknowledge him as well. Chris Dawson, who completed

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the 4x400 meter relay as well. Once again, we're very proud of these young men and their recent accomplishments. And we're going to make sure those pictures aren't blurry as they stand still and take their picture. They're that fast. So, we just want to make sure they're not blurred.

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Anderson. Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Bishop, we are excited to have this opportunity to celebrate now our performing arts students, the illustrated outstanding performances during the 256 academic year. At this time, I would like to ask Pike High School's uh Miss Sarah Valinsky,

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performing arts department chair, and Mr. Cole Dawson, to come forward and introduce our outstanding performing arts students. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, uh, and Dr. Bishop. Thank you for having us tonight. We would, um, first of all like to thank you as well

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as the Pike community for supporting performing arts. Our students love seeing you all in the audience. Um, we love seeing you in the audience. Our directors love seeing you in the audience. So, thank you for helping to make the 2026 year a great success in performing arts. Um, we would like to

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recognize some students tonight. I'm going to start with um theater as that is my department. Um, and move on to we like the acting uh and move on to some of our other areas. Um, so in theater we've chosen to recognize we do

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awards every year. Um, and we um award best actors in our plays and such. Um, and so that's who we have chosen to honor. I think we have a couple of them here tonight, but I'm going to read all their names. Um, first of all, uh, a lot of work goes on behind the scenes that you don't see. So, we always want to

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make sure we recognize a technician. Um, so our technical theater student of the year was Leila Carbajo Gonzalez. um not here tonight, but our best actor in a play was Fernando Detora. Our best actor in a children's show was

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Christian Diaz. Our best supporting performer in uh a children's show was Christopher Garner. Our best performer in a musical is Tiana Harris. Our best supporting performer in a play

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was Jada O'Neal. And then this next student actually has two honors. Uh in addition to being our best supporting uh performer in a musical, he was also our award recipient for the Jim Franchek award, which is our highest award in the theater department. Um so it gives me a great pleasure to

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introduce you to Malcolm Reynolds. And those are um a sampling of the many talented students that we have in the theater department. All right. And then on behalf of Dylan Ree, uh, orchestra also had another fantastic season. Um, I I you know was

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able to to attend several of their events and it just sitting back and listening to them play is is amazing. And if you miss the spring concert, we had some guest directors like a Jedi Knight and the Hulk. It was really fun and theatrical. That's why I like it.

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All right. Um, so some students from orchestra. These are our award winners for the year. Uh, Caleb Barnett, if you would join us. Aaliyah Donald, Hannah Ramirez, Xavier Reus, Gabriella Ro,

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Kevin Velasquez, Kevin I I've never said your last name before. I I just see you in the hallways and call you Kevin. I'm sorry. Uh and Camila Vera. Um also not in attendance tonight, but

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I'd like to acknowledge uh an Angeline uh Auha Flores, Jack Aristio. You want to go um Christopher Castellion Perez, Elisia Coleman, Libby Mson, and Ashley Nia. That's our orchestra.

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All right. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Bishop. >> Um, we're going to recognize our band students at this time um for their outstanding achievement and leadership. We have Frankie Buchanan, Analy Sanchez,

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Fatu Thai, Aaron Ber, Daniela Garcia Fuentes, Robin Haney, Watanda King, Elena Metric, David Oalabi, Tabitha Reed, she was just here, Harvey Saledo,

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Justin Schwab and and Harrison Van. That concludes our band members. And at this time we would like to recognize members of our winter guard that made state finalists in their division. And that is Sierra Brigadier

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Fu Figureroa, Gia Tucker, Ava Wolf, and members that could not be here this evening are Brandon Aldez, Amaya Anderson Pullman, Zion Brooks, Demi Cington, Exaniah Gomez, Antonio

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Monica Montgomery, Madori Mutan, Maya Pipkin, Amaya Smith, Leila Taylor, Niera Thompson, and Raven Tindle. Heat. Heat. And now we're going to move on to our

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recognition in our coral department. Uh we have two individuals we would like to recognize um for receiving the national school coral award. Um that recognition is of singular merit, ability and achievement of outstanding contributions to the success of the school vocal program and of an unusual degree of

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loyalty, cooperation and high qualities of contact conduct by the general con uh consent of the music faculty, school officials and others. And that goes to Charlotte Doulson and Malcolm Reynolds. They are also members of the group the Pike Encors. Um, and we are recognizing

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and honoring them on their achievement to the ISMA state finals this evening. I believe we have one other Pike Encore tonight. Do you just want to get one picture? Okay, Elise, you want to come join us? HEAT. HEAT.

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And we would also like to recognize Miss Seeks, which is our Univoice show choir, for their achievement on state finals. Um, so if the members of the Pike Mystique that are here, if you guys would like to come on up. You'll notice we've got two uh athletic

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students here that were recognized tonight as well. So, all right. WOO! >> The crowd wants a dog. And we have one final award. Um, and this is the American Coral Directors Association Award. And we want to acknowledge Liliana Richardson for

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receiving that award for her dedication and hard work not only in choir but her academics and athletics. She was willing to learn a new vocal part and always learning her choreography and solidifying things and was an excellent leader. And I will greatly miss her next year.

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Thank you so much and we hope to see you guys again at our events next year. Excuse me. Thank you so much. All right, we are now on to our um first reading of the board of education

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policies. Dr. Maggie Bishop. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board. This evening, I present to you the first reading of policies. As committee, we have begun the process of reviewing approximately 45 policies that we will be bringing to you. This is the

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first round. It is our intent to bring these policies back to you for approval at our next meeting on June 25th. Should you have any questions for us, please do not hesitate to reach out and contact me. We'll definitely provide you the information that you need prior to approval.

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>> Thank you, Dr. Bishop. >> Action items for tonight. First up is the approval of our minutes from our May 14, 2026 board meeting. >> I move that our minutes are accepted as presented. Second.

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>> Move and second that we accept our uh May 20 May 14, 2026 public hearing and regular board meeting. Um no discussion on to vote. All in favor say I. >> I. Oppos.

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>> I. >> Thank you. Next up is approval of our handbook Dr. 2026 2027 student parent handbook. Dr. Bishop. >> Good evening, Mr. President and members

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of the board. I seek your approval of the 2026 2027 MSD of Pike Township student parent handbooks as presented. >> I make a motion that we approve the 2026

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2027 student handbook as is. I moved >> second. >> It's been moved and second that we accept our uh 2026 2027 student parent handbook as presented Dr. Maggie Bishop.

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Are there any questions on the handbook? No questions. We No questions. We're on to vote. All in favor say I. >> I >> oppose. Thank you Dr. Bishop.

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>> Thank you. We're up next for the human resource report. Dr. Justin Hunter. >> Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Bishop, I ask the request your approval of the HR report as presented. >> I move that we accept the human

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resources report as presented. >> Second. Due to the nature and confidentiality, we will not obtain discussion on our com on our human resource report tonight. So, we're on to vote. All in favor of

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accepting our human resource report, say I >> I >> oppose. Thank you, Dr. Hunter. >> Thank you, sir. >> Like to combine items D and E for approval uh for presentation. Mr.

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Goober. Thank you, Mr. President, members of the board. Dr. Bishop, tonight I'm requesting approval of action items D and E, which include uh accepting the lowest responsive and responsible combined bid for the Fishback Creek and Snacks Crossing

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paving project, as well as approval to apply for the secured school safety grant for the 2027 year as presented. >> Thank you, Mr. Gubber. Motion is in order at this time.

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>> I move that we accept items D and E as presented. >> Second. >> It's been moved and second that we accept action items D and E as presented by Mr. Goober. Are there any questions on action item D or E?

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No. No questions. We're on the vote. All in favor say I. >> I. opposed. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> We're on to action items FG and H for

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recommendation of approval by Mrs. Gray. >> Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Bishop. I request your approval of action item F, uh, which is the request to accept the bid for the 2026 food service project. Uh,

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action item G, contracts, and action item H, donations. >> I make a motion F, G, and H. >> Second to move and second that we approve action items FG and H as

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presented by Ms. Monae Gray. Are there any questions on action items FG or H? No questions. We're on to vote. All in favor of accepting actions items FG&H as presented say I

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>> I oppose. Thank you Mrs. Mrs. Gray. >> Thank you. >> And we're on to board member items. Dr. Moore, >> I have nothing. Mr. President, >> thank you Dr. Moore. Um Mr. Huffer. >> Um just a couple of items. one. I know we don't generally discuss anything on

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the HR report, but if this person uh has an issue with it, she can take it up with me the next time she's at our house for my wife's book club. But, uh, Carol Poglish is retiring from Pike, and she has been a longtime faithful teacher. Uh, just an amazing person, amazing

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teacher. Every student that had her was lucky. And so, just really wanted to recognize that and the the the time that she's put in um teaching our babies at the middle school. So appreciate that. And then also wanted to recognize um Chartwells. I volunteer often at the um

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at the Pike Food Pantry and it was shared with us that over the last academic school year, so from July 1st through the uh the um food pantry in June, Chartwells donated 8,200

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lb of fresh fruit to the food pantry to pass out to the community. So really appreciate that support of our community. Thank you. Uh Mr. Huffer, >> I just want to uh thank everyone for all their efforts in our graduation um LA two weeks ago. Uh it went off smoothly.

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Uh I got a lot of compliments. So, thank you all for your help. Enjoy your summer. >> Thank you. Um Mrs. Wilson. >> Yes. Um nothing to say other than I'm glad that I was able to make the board

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meeting today. And although it was a 3-hour difference between where you are and where I am, uh I was here in Seattle for the ring ceremony for the Super Bowl team, but I opted not to go to the ceremony so that I could be on the call

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with you. Yes, I'm still here though, but um I'm glad I was able to see all those great uh accomplishments by the academic, by the um track and athletic as well as the uh performing arts. It's

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just great to see our students are doing great. So, it was it was nice to see that and the middle school to see that they're performing at their best as well. So, we leave in the morning at 5 in the morning head back that way. >> Well, safe travels to you, Miss Wilson.

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Thank you for your loyalty to the board. Um, Miss Barnes, >> I'd like to thank all the donors who uh were so very generous in donating to our schools and our programs in many different ways. And also congratulations

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uh to all of our recent graduates uh to our educators who are getting hopefully a really nice break right now. And a word of encouragement to our third graders who are in summer school right now. We see you. We hear you. We know

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you can do this. Good luck on your next IE test. >> Thank you, Miss Barnes. Um, Miss Kelly. >> All right. Good evening. >> Good evening. >> Glad to be here as always. um very proud of the young people who

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with their academic as well as athletic and performing arts accomplishments. Um we have students that are able to compete nationwide and that is awesome.

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And I would again graduation I can't say how proud we were to have 824 students graduate. So, that was an awesome um time. And then again,

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while you are resting, reflecting cuz we're going to blink and it's going to be time to start this all over again. But do take the time to rest, recharge, reflect. Um, I had some time I had an opportunity to spend some time with some of the

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teachers that did some onboarding today and they are super excited about coming to Pike and they were excited about our reset rooms and all the things that are available to our staff. They were very

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excited and they were like and this and this and this. So, I I'm pleased that the word of what we're doing at Pike is getting out. Um, have a great rest of the summer. >> Thank you, Miss Kelly. Uh, Dr. Bishu,

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>> thank you, Dr. Webster. I too want to congratulate the class of 2026. Um, we're proud of their hard work and achievements, but I can't go without saying that we also want to thank their families, our staff, our teachers, administrators, and school board who all

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collectively work together to support and make that commitment to the success of the class of 2026 and all of our students in Pike Township. >> Thank you, Dr. Bishop. In closing, we certainly hope that you all continue to enjoy the summer. And as it was stated,

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get much rest and stay safe and cool. Uh, with that said, we like to obtain a motion to adjourn. >> So move. >> Second. >> All right. Meeting adjourn. >> Goodbye everybody. >> Goodbye. Oh, boy. Could you stay just a

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few minutes? Uh, Miss Wilson, we will call you. We uh will have a a quick five minute update uh from Mrs. Barnes and I'll give you a call on the information on the evaluation. >> I I will give you a call.

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>> Okay. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> I love that she still calls me by my name. So you are you going to pull it up and go? >> Shouldn't take it shouldn't take long. Everybody would like

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we know each other.