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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. Okay. A little larger than our typical crowd here. And Ms. Pollard, I think it's on you, right? Thank you. Yes. To introduce some guests here. We sure do. Thank you so much. Good evening, board. I would like to invite Kurt Boedeker and David Walpole up front, if you could help me to celebrate these groups from your schools. I would also like to invite the students from Perry Meridian High School who are

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here to join us, the department chairs and the teachers of the music departments from Perry Meridian High School, Southport High School, and Southport Middle School. If you guys could all come forward and bring your goodies so you can show off for us a little bit. Board, tonight we are recognizing- This is the 50th . That's great ... Yes, thank you. Tonight we are recognizing these student groups from three schools, Perry Meridian High School, Southport High School, and Southport Middle School. Come on up, guys. Come on up to the front. Hey. We are here with some really big news. This year, board, Southport Middle School received the All Music Award

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for band and orchestra. Southport High School received the All Music Award for band and orchestra, and Perry Meridian High School received the All Music Award for band, orchestra, and choir. Wow. Perry Meridian High School was one of only 16 schools in Indiana to receive the Total Department Award in 2026. This is the fifth consecutive year and the seventh time overall that Perry Meridian High School has received that Total Department Award. In addition, we've got our students here showing you that they also received some pretty prestigious state awards

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for their Univ voice groups. So please help me to congratulate the hard work of these individuals and to thank them for all that our staff pours into our music students in Perry Township. Congratulations, guys. Well done. Thanks for being here, guys, and congratulations to all of you. More banners to hang. Woo-hoo. And you are welcome to stay if you'd like, but if you also would like to leave, this would be a good time. We'll let you do that. And Mr. Shirebly says you always go for ice cream if you leave now, so. I think that's good advice.

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All right. And we'll move to public comment, and we have one person signed up for that. Anne, if you'd like to take the podium, and remember three minutes, please. I wonder if there can be some clarification of why Project Wayfinder and SchoolCare subscription agreements are necessary, and why with the SchoolCare one, it's based in Aunt Bertha in Austin, Texas, for Medicaid-eligible services. Why isn't it in Indiana? For one,

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and I don't know, Aunt Bertha sounds a little bit fishy to me. But I just wonder what all these extra contracts are about. And then I wonder if I can get an explanation of the board of three men, Mr. Sponsel, Mr. Leach, and Mr. Palmer, who are working in regard to the bonds and why they're not open to the public. That's it. Thank you, Anne. Okay, we will move on to policies in first read. Dr. Spray. Yes, thank you. In your packet is a list of several policies.

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Just as a reminder, the process is we review those internally, we make a couple of adjustments, we'll have a first reading on policies, take any input suggestions, either now if you've read through them or between now and our next meeting where we'll have a second policy, and we'll typically move for adoption at that point in the second meeting to do so. The biggest policy in here has to do with cell phones at the schools and the cell phone ban. We were required to adopt a policy,

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but we're basically adopting the law in that essence. So, if you've got any questions or whatever, just ask. This is the first reading. Again, the next meeting, we'll have a second and potential vote at that point in time, and we can take some input either this evening or later on as the month goes along prior to the next meeting. I spent some time this weekend reading through all these, so I do have a couple of questions. There's a couple policies, the employment of personnel for extracurricular activities, 1520.08,

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employment of personnel for extracurricular activities, which is 3120.08, and then 4120.08, Employment of Personnel. So it's essentially the same policy three different times. Yes, because you remember we have it in the certified, the classified, and the administrative portions of the Neola policy. Okay. That's what I assumed, but I don't think that it's specifically stated that

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way, or maybe it's because I got them all individually and I wasn't looking at it- Okay ... as breaking down. Are the policies categorized where we can see? Yeah. The first number, the four, the three, and the other one- Yeah ... are sections of the Neola policy. Yes. Perfect. So on the first policy that we have, the definitions policy, it talks about our personal communication devices. And so that's on page, looks like to be three of that policy. And it talks about, depending on the election made in

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Policy 5136, personal communication devices, smartwatches, are not considered PCDs, which is personal communication devices, unless connected to a cellular telephone, a cell tower, or an internet. If not connected, smartwatches and smart glasses are electronic equipment pursuant to policy, yada, yada, yada. So it's talking about how we can choose to allow them to wear them if they're not- It would make a selection ... attached to their telephone.

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Yeah. I'm going to need to review that, but we can talk about that at another time also. So yes, in the policy, it gives us options, like you can do this or this or- Yes ... or decide not to do any of it. It's the difference of there are... And I guess it goes back to where, how we want to police it, if you will. If I have an Apple Watch on here, on me, and it connects to my phone, and my phone is off and out of sight, versus my Apple Watch that has a cellular connection. So what that would, if we said no,

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because in the law it says no smart devices that have a cellular connection. In the classroom, the teacher's going to have to, if they want to, they see an Apple Watch, it's like, "You can't have that," and the kid's, "Well, mine, it's connected." So, I mean, really, the teacher's going to have to police whether it is or is not connected to a cellular connection. The potential easy way with that is like, "Hey, we're just not going to have Apple Watches in the classroom." We left that without making a selection because we were going to have a further discussion with our team on how we wanted to do that as well. So that's the split in the

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hair, if you will, within the policy. So I hear you saying that we've decided to just not make a decision or to just leave it out so that- We're still in that discussion as we put it through. So I think we will either leave it out and allow that judgment or just say, "Hey, we're not doing cellular, we're not doing smartwatches, we're not doing the glasses that are connected- Right ... back," because we don't want to have that as a thing that our administration and our schools have to work through. So should we pull this policy from this,

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or will we have- We'll have discussion. We need to have further discussion before we approve it, yes. Whether we bring it back at the second reading for approval or, which would give us more than 30 days to do that, we would make a decision- Okay ... and make a recommendation. So if it's still in next month, we need- We'll have a selection and a choice of what that would be. Okay. Yeah, that smartwatch thing is hairy. Mine is not connected to cellular, but when I'm at work, if it's sitting on my desk, I can be walking all around the department, in the cafeteria even, as far away, and I'm still getting

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texts and can respond to texts. Mm-hmm. So that's a fine line, I guess, and I don't know. I hate to have teachers police something else. But I also, it's a lot, the whole thing. We're going to learn a lot through this process. We're trying to apply common sense to it and not also go to the level of paying a lot of money to lock devices down- Okay ... buying more lockers or something of that nature. And we're going to learn a lot, and we're going to support our administrators and how they do it, see what they do and what they recommend as we go through, too.

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All right. But the bottom line is we're going to follow the law, and they need to be turned off. They need to be secured. We're not using them during the day, except for our own devices. Right. If we do make any revisions between now and our next meeting, can it stay on as second read with an explanation, or does it- Yes. Okay. So we don't have to go back and start over at first read and that sort of thing, but we'll make sure we point those out specifically. Okay. There's a couple policies that were more specific to HR, the employment of all the ones that I mentioned before, and then

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1220, which is employment of the superintendent. Has Ms. Baker looked at these? Not yet. Okay. There's several of these ones And then I can email you about some of these if that's what you would prefer, I guess. I just didn't have time this weekend. No, you're fine. There's a couple in that policy, a couple of the options to be considered. And so I guess that's why I thought, I wonder if HR, if Ms. Baker has looked at this because- Several of those have been revised and had those options. So the policy that we have in place,

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these were recommended, maybe something was a revision. So when they send out the revision, they have all the same checkboxes, but we've already decided on what the policy we wanted to have read. Does that make sense? So the policy we adopted, let's say last year, had all those same checkboxes when it was adopted, and we decided to whittle it down and make it just what it is now. When we get our next step revision from Neola, they don't take our policy and revise it. They take their boilerplate and revise it. So all those checkboxes are still in there.

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So a lot of times, Joanne will go through and we'll take it back to what our current policy is and take into advisement what the recommended revisions were with that. And was that a revision based on an opinion or a word change, or was it a revision based on statute- Yeah ... as well? So that's a hard one to decipher because you don't see all of that when we bring those pieces here. We have what Neola's is and not necessarily where our current policy might be.

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We'll get those pointed out. I still think- But yes ... some of these might be good options. I understand that we just revised this last year, but reading it again this time, I was like, "Oh, maybe those would be some good options." Okay. I'll email you these questions. Well, here's one. Youth sports. Because those three policies that I mentioned they were the same thing. So all three of them discuss assistant coach of an intramural sport other than football, for concussions and all that stuff. But it talks about assistant coach of intramural sports.

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Well, when people think about intramural sports, I would venture to say that they're thinking of the Perry Township Youth Football, but I know they have their own. But legally, do we need to differentiate that in this policy because they have their own 401 or 501 [c] [3] ? Do we need to differentiate that in this policy or I- I think the definition of intramural should cover that. Okay. Perfect.

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Hold on. I'm sorry. It's okay. It was a lot to read. Okay, so in the drafting notice that's in these as well, are those things... Because in the disciplinary actions policy, it talks about

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reviewing the staff handbook and the CBA agreement. So when we're taking what Neola has suggested, are we- Curtailing it and making sure it doesn't violate either of those two? Correct. Yes. And then how often, I guess, when we do the CBA agreement, is there a way that we know that we're not... I don't want us to do something and then it violate a state law. Is that what our legal counsel reviews for? Yes, but also the collective bargaining agreements have changed so much that

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we're just negotiating wages and wage-related fringe benefits. We don't have a lot of the working conditions which could certainly violate policy and those kinds of things- Right ... in that case. So the CBA has been, I'll use the term, stripped down- Mm ... of a lot of that other language, that it's pretty cut and dry of what that is with that. And we do always make sure that our staff handbooks, et cetera, align with the collective bargaining agreement and align with policy. Perfect. Thank you very much. Thank you. No, we're fine. No, not at all.

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Okay. Item five, the consent agenda. Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mrs. Hartman and a second by Mr. Lewis. Do we have any questions or comments in regard to the consent agenda? There being none, we will vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Consent agenda passes. And item six, information- We have some recognitions or some introductions from the consent agenda. Mr. Spencer? Who are we going? I think both as well. Both? Okay. Sorry. Yeah. All right. Good evening, board. If I could call Mrs. Darlene Hardesty, the principal of Henry Burkhart Elementary up.

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She has an introduction to make to the board. Good evening board, thank you for having us this evening. On behalf of Burkhart Elementary School, I am proud to introduce our new assistant principal, Mrs. Brittany Bullenber. Brittany served as our master teacher for two years before her husband was relocated for his job to Michigan, and they've been relocated back. So much to our benefit, we are glad to grab her back for Burkhart Elementary. Great. Awesome. So grateful to have your acceptance of her, and we're excited to have her

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lead at Burkhart. Great. Awesome. Welcome. Congratulations. Congratulations. We can get a picture here. Okay. Do you have anybody with you that you'd like to- Yes. Go ahead. I brought my mom and my sister, and my niece. Aw. Tonight I heard we will play here for the next couple of years. Welcome back. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, you guys. I'd like to invite Kurt Boedeker and Emily Steinmetz to come up from Perry Meridian High School to introduce their new hire. So we are very excited. They have been Falcons since they moved to Indianapolis, and we're excited to announce Mike Burris as our new

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boys basketball head coach. Wonderful. He has served as an assistant coach for us for a year, has had some college experience, has been working with our kids in the interim while we were doing some interviews. Um, and we've already seen some huge growth over the last couple weeks and just really excited to get the ball rolling. They played in a tournament this weekend and just really excited to get going with him. So would you like to introduce to you, Mike? Yeah, absolutely. I'll introduce my wife, Lacey, my boys, Baden and Braxton. Baden will be a seventh grader, and Braxton will be a fifth grader. My wife works at Roses Parks Kindergarten Academy, going on

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year six with the district. She did three years at Homecroft and three years at Roses. So I just want to say I appreciate Kurt and Emily, Paul, Dr. Sprang, the board, for your support and the opportunity. We will play hard, we'll prepare hard, and we'll represent Perry the best that we can. I'm extremely excited to get going. Thanks again for your support. Congratulations. Smile big, Baden. Let's go. Set it. Okay. That is great, and we will now pause for a minute. If you guys want to go get ice cream now.

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We're going to get ice cream. We have baseball practice. There we go. We'll see you. Go get ice cream. Okay, now we'll move back to where I jumped the gun, and we'll go to information requiring action. Item 6.01, consideration of Crowe LLP agreement. Mr. Hatcher. Yes, thank you, board. We would bring forward the Crowe agreement for this year. No changes from last year. We've used Crowe to help us with our modified accrual accounting reporting as required by the state, and we would like to use them again and bring forward their

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contract for consideration. Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Mertz, second by Mr. Shively. Does anybody have any questions? You've been happy with their work? Yes, very happy. Yeah. It's nice to have consistency too, isn't it? Yeah. There's nine schools that are required to modify the books and they work with, I believe, seven of them, so. And they continue to work with all of them. Great. All right, we'll vote on 6.01. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed nay. 6.01 passes. 6.02, consideration of

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Project Wayfinder contract. Mr. Spencer. Good evening board. We bring you the following contract for consideration with Wayfinder. Wayfinder is an MTSS curriculum product. Second Steps is our current K8 version of this curriculum. We are coming to the end of our agreement with them, and so John Romine and the team at student services with the social workers has worked through some different options and we're going to try this. We're going to use this curriculum at 10 schools next year, as a part of our MTSS curriculum. Move to approve. Second. A motion by Mr. Shively, second by Mrs. Hartman.

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Does anybody have any comments or questions? What does the rollout of the curriculum look like, in terms of classrooms versus advisory periods, those sorts of things? It's different at each level. So at the elementary level, it's typically during a morning meeting time, during a circle time. At the high school level and middle schoolDuring advisory time. And so, yep, we have 10 schools that are going to help us work through the kinks of it next year. And then assuming that it meets our needs as we think it will, then this will be the thing that replaces Second Steps. It's also nice because it started at the high school level, which is always the

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piece that Second Steps lacked. This started at the high school level and then has worked its way down to now it's a kindergarten through 12th grade curriculum. So it will give us an option at the high school we've not had before. Can you explain what it actually is? Yes. Basically giving students skills that they need to develop to be successful humans. So they have six different ones: self-awareness, adaptability, empathy, collaboration, agency, and purpose. And so it's lessons that they learn in the classroom setting that they then apply in life to become more well-rounded, successful

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human beings. And so another piece that this one was positive in is that it was more interactive than Second Steps. So it gives an opportunity to talk about the skill, see a model of it, and then do something with it in the classroom setting right then and there. And so, I think we look at four different possibilities, and this was the one that stood out for the reasons I mentioned, the high school aspect of it, and then also the ability to be more interactive in the classroom. I know you all are very good about progress monitoring and using data to inform decisions. Does this curriculum

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have a component where we know periodically or at the end of the year to what extent it's been effective? Yes, it does have those components built into it. So we'll be able to create some data and some tracking that, yes, it's showing progress. I would like to note that Policy 2221 says that we are required to instruct with special emphasis on honesty, morality, courtesy, obedience to the law, respect for the national flag, the Constitution of the United States and Indiana, respect for parents and the

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home, the dignity and necessity of honest labor, and other lessons of a steadying influence which tend to promote the development, upright and desirable citizenry, which is exactly what this is doing. Thank you for pointing that out. Any other comments? Okay. We'll vote on 6.02, the consideration on Project Wayfinder contract. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Nay. 6.02 passes. 6.03, consideration of SchoolCare subscription agreement.

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Mr. Samson. Thank you, board. We ask for your consideration of the approval of a subscription agreement for SchoolCare software. SchoolCare software will enable our nursing department to track and bill Medicaid-eligible services, which are provided by our nurses. As a Community Health Network-endorsed product, the agreement is for one year. The cost of the agreement is 40 cents on each Medicaid claim. The agreement assures that all medical records and correspondence are protected by FERPA, and the functions of SchoolCare will be managed by our director

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of nursing. Please consider our recommendation as presented. Move to approve. Second. A motion by Mr. Lewis, second by Mr. Shively. Any questions or comments? How many claims do we usually file per year? Zero. Really? Yeah. So this will enable us to do so. Wow. Yeah. The 40 cents per claim will actually come out of any Medicaid reimbursement. It won't come out of any funds from the school corporation. And then also, this is Community Health making the claim, because it's their employees and their nurses. Are these funds we've been missing out on, then? Yes. Yeah. The answer is yes. Yeah. So from our nursing department,

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we have Medicaid expenses in special ed, and they're responsible for filing those. This is for the nursing department to collect Medicaid expenses for eligible students, a kid who's eligible for Medicaid. So Community has facilitated this agreement with this company. It's a software that will enable our director of nursing to then go in and enter the services that we provided, whether it's feeding tubes or medicine delivery or whatever it is, to students who are Medicaid

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eligible. We submit that application, we get all that money back that we're due for Medicaid would pay, minus 40 cents. Okay. And then 40 cents goes to the software company. So it could've been Community that was missing out on some reimbursement. Could've been, yes. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yep. Okay, so that's my question. Because currently our nursing staff is employed by Community Health Network. Correct. Correct. So right now, under the current contract that we have with them, would those funds be going to Community? Community would've submitted

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those, but they are turning that over to us to submit to collect the money and keep. Perfect. Thank you. Community was not doing that. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other questions? Okay. We'll vote on 6.03, consideration of SchoolCare subscription agreement. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. 6.03 passes. 6.04, consideration of acceptance of donations. Mr. Spencer, and then Mrs. Ballard. Thank you, board. On behalf of the elementaries, the following donations are for consideration. From Douglas MacArthur Kindergarten Academy, they have a $79.40

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donation from Kroger Company. This will be used for their community outreach program. It's coming from their community outreach program and offsets some student activity cost. Henry Burkhart would like to accept a donation in the amount of $10,000 from the Burkhart PTA. This will be used for student activities and support teacher appreciation. Burkhart also would like to accept a separate donation from $1,277. That is also for student activities. At Homecroft, they are asking for the acceptance of an iPad that will be a culminating prize from PBIS that is given by Aaron and

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Stacy Hufnagle, Aaron Hufnagle being the assistant principal. Homecroft Kindergarten has a couple of different donations from parents to pay for a field trip to the city of Greenwood, also from parents that helped support children's museum field trip, and then finally, an anonymous donation that was found at school and is going to be in the student activities account. And then finally, Mary Bryan Elementary would like to accept a donation of $1,000. This is from the Shutley family, and will be used for fifth grade field day, helping purchase shirts, activities to create lasting memories for our fifth graders. The Compass Education Center received a $100 donation from Diana Johns to be used for student incentives. On behalf of Pearre Meridian High School, they received a

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$100 anonymous donation for their unified sports program, and Buffalo Wild Wings gave a little bit better than $100 to support the lacrosse teams at both the high school and the middle school. The PTSA donated some SD cards valued at $160 for the Falcon web radio. On behalf of Southport High School, the adult booster club gave $150 donation for boys' volleyball. The Southport High School AABC gave a $1,230 donation for the baseball team. Kroger gave it a donation of a little more than $150 for the basketball and football teams. JN Electric gave $1,000 donation to support

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cheerleading. The softball team received $7,750 from APCO, $250. DRS Mechanical gave a $500 donation, and the softball club gave the $7,000 donation. Jeannie Shackleford gave a $500 donation to be used to support the Marilyn Ramsey Scholarship. A Nelson pump organ was donated, valued at about $200, to be used by the music department. Smith Vending gave a donation for student activities and events, and the Kroger Community Awards donated $403 this

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month for various student activities. Southport Middle School received a $390 donation from the Southport High School AABC for their athletic programs. The James Whitcomb Riley Success Academy received a $250 donation from Chris and Deborah Sampson to be used to support their workshop. Then Department of Student Services received a $250 donation from the Glenns Valley PTA to support their SHARE event. On behalf of all of these generous donors, we ask for your approval. Excuse me. Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Lewis, second by Mr. Merz. Any questions or comments? There being none, we'll vote on 6.04, the acceptance

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of donations. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. 6.04 passes. We'll now move to comments of the board, and we'll start with Mrs. Hartmann. Perfect. Thank you. So I had that one section that I've already read, highlighted to read at this because policies and procedures are not the most riveting thing that we vote on, right? They can also not be the most riveting thing that we read, but it's so critical and so important. And yet,

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I think sometimes we lose sight of the fact that our state has to require schools to teach morality, decency, honesty, hard work, when in my opinion, these are values that should be taught in the home. And, so I applaud all of our educators that put in the extra work to get outside of their content area and pour into students to make them good human beings. And that is happening over and over and over again in our classrooms, and I think it's appropriate that we

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highlighted the music departments tonight because so much of that happens in those classrooms specifically. So, I thank all of our teachers that are hopefully enjoying a little bit of rest and a break right now, because when they get back, I know that their hearts will be full, and they'll be ready to go and help our students grow emotionally, socially, and behaviorally, and academically. The tech policy is, I understand it's law, and I understand the reasoning behind it, and I don't disagree.

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I struggle with putting one more thing on our teachers' agenda now. They have to be technology police, and I'm sure there are things today that are being developed that we don't even know aboutWho, if you were to ask me 10 years ago, "I'll have a watch that will read my texts to me and let me know I have emails," I probably would've looked at you like you had a tree growing out of your ear. But it's here. So hats off to our administrative team and our teachers that'll be executing the policy. I know we'll do it with common sense. We've done it with every policy we've had.

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There's going to be a learning curve, not just for Perry Township, but for every school district that's got to go through that. So do know that this may change as we work through it and figure out what does work and what doesn't work. So just one that I struggle with, but it's law, we have to follow it. So, again, kudos to our staff and our teachers who will be developing and then implementing the policy. I'm certain it will not be easy. So thanks to them. And that was all I had tonight. I apologize for missing last month's meeting. I probably would've said this at that meeting, but I was dealing with skin cancer on my face, and I didn't

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look real pretty, so I didn't attend that meeting to your benefit. But I wanted to say congratulations to our seniors. Great job. One of my highlights being on the school board is being able to hand out the diplomas and I was able to give my daughter her diploma, and that was probably one of the greatest feelings ever. I want to say thank you to principals, teachers, coaches, trainers, anybody else that I've missed at graduation that I didn't get to tell this to. Thank you for giving my daughter an experience

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that she'll never forget. This is why I sent my child to Perry Meridian. This is why my other children attend Perry Meridian, is because of the education that she got and the opportunities that she was able to have. And I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving her that chance. Have a great summer, and we'll be back out of here soon. Students and teachers, enjoy your summer. That's all I have. Excuse me. Just echoing the excitement of graduation and what a success it was. Just a great culminating celebration of all the hard work that students and staff have put in over many years.

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But also kind of a symbolic moment of teamwork in our district, where we have two high schools who seemingly, Kurt, you can tell me otherwise, work really well behind the scenes to make sure that we can get as many family members to be part of that event as possible. I also want a special shout-out to Brian Filan. I've talked about him before. He's in charge of our Southport Developmental Football League, and they just wrapped up their flag football season yesterday with the, I think, Super Bowl number 11. And you're talking about boys and girls, kindergarten through eighth grade.

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He and his staff do a really nice job of coordinating that, making sure as many people are involved as possible, and maybe most challenging, managing the parents, which can be a tough task at times. Emily, don't ever apologize for doing your job. You apologized several times when you were asking questions tonight. Don't, because you're doing what we should be doing. And to that end, I would potentially propose, Dr. Spray and your staff, as you have another couple of weeks to discuss potentially a second read at a work session so that that would give us then a couple more weeks prior to the July meeting

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to vote on those things. So just an idea I wanted to float out there. So that's all. Mr. Steal My Thunder. A few things. The graduation. It just keeps appearing to be smoother and smoother. Mr. Boedeker, Ms. Boone, great jobs. Mr. Boedeker, hour five, awesome job. The music departments. Think about all of the hard work to get the All Department awards. That's just phenomenal because those are different groups. Just really think that was great. I'm also going to say, Mrs. Hartman,

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thank you for your caring and your attention to detail. And yes, please don't apologize because we're the ones that are going to be asked about a lot of these policies. And some of the things you brought up, it was like, "Yeah, I read that, but you know what? I need to have more depth," like you addressed. So I think keep doing it. You are. It's our job. So maybe we need to look at maybe redoing

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some of the subcommittee. I know we don't want more committee meetings or whatever, but we can discuss what may work with some of these more important changes that are coming through. And then last thing on donations. Great job on both parts. I do want to highlight something. If you did hear baseball and softball clubs, there were several of those that came out there, just a plug for them. They are working, I believe, effectively, and we're trying to really standardize them and

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make sure that they are run properly. And it takes a lot off of coaches, families, that sort of thing. So we've had quite a bit more experience with them and have more and more of the coaches that are interested in exploring those. So I think that highlighted some of the things that they're able to do. That's all for me. Director. Not a lot. Again, graduation went off very smoothly, and it's due to a lot of really hard work from our

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staff, our administration, our police department, our communications staff as well. I think Olivia said she snapped over 3,000 pictures on Friday night and was up until 2:30 in the morning trying to edit and get them on social media and that kind of stuff. But just a lot of that going on, and a big celebration for everybody to make those things happen. We will have a work session on the 22nd at 6:00 PM, and then the executive session after that as well. And thank you very much, and that's all I have. I don't need to do those announcements. So we are adjourned. Thank you very much.