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. Our first item tonight is a recognition. Uh, we will go directly to Mrs. Pollard. Good evening board. I'd like to invite Perry Meridian High School Principal Kurt Broer and Perry Meridian, teacher Tim Dye to the front of the room, please.
Board. Tonight we'd like to recognize Tim Dye, a social studies teacher at Perry Meridian High School. He's received a John Morton Excellence in Teaching of Economics Award. This prestigious national award was given to three inspiring K 12 teachers who exemplify techniques that, that improve their students' economic understanding in and outside of the classroom. Mr. Dye was also recently appointed through the Journal of Economics Teaching Advisory Board. This is a peer reviewed economics pedagogy journal devoted exclusively to transmitting innovative teaching ideas
to educators of economics at all levels. Lastly, Mr. Dye was also recently appointed as an ambassador via econ. Econ works to inspire students to be economic thinkers by providing educators with high quality, diverse, and non-partisan instructional resources to strengthen the education at secondary levels so that students are able to apply these to their personal, professional, and civic lives. Mr. Dye has proven year after year to be a huge asset to the Social Studies department at Par Rutin High School. We are grateful and appreciative of all the dedication he continues to give his students and colleagues.
Thank you and congratulations. I would, I would just like to, um, say something about Mr. Dye. Um, I have four children, two of them thus far, have been able to, um, be graced in his econ class. Um, he has touched both of their lives deeply, but, um, after first semester, my current senior in high school
was in his econ class over Christmas break. She came to me and said, mom, I think I'm gonna give up my senior incentive, which is, as a senior, that means you get to go home. Okay? You, like, you get to leave because you've reached, you've done three years worth of good work, so you get this as a blessing. So she's like, I'm gonna give up my senior in incentive, which second semester was first period, which means
that she would've got to sleep in. Okay. And I'm going to take Mr. D's sociology class. She said he is the best teacher I have ever had. And it's not his content, it's his character. Thank you, Mr. Da. Thank you, Mr. Da. You are more than welcome to hear about consent agendas
and voiding outstanding checks, but if you also wanna head out for the evening, we do understand. Thank you for all you do and continue to, uh, next we have public comment. Anne, if you'd like to come to the microphone, as always, you'll have three minutes to share with us. Yes. Your thoughts. Okay. Um, last, um, time I was here, Mr. Hatcher was kind enough to explain some things about, um, how he saved that money. Can you maybe pull the microphone up a
little, having a hard time hearing? Yeah. The last time I was here, um, Mr. That Hatcher, Hatcher was, um, kind enough to tell me, explain some of, um, how the accounting works and how he was able to make some money off of the money that he invested, got a good return on it. So I appreciate that he took the time to do that. Um, that's not to say that I'm still happy with, not happy
with the, um, um, referendum, but, um, at least, you know, he did do some good there. Um, and I also heard about the trust Indiana. I don't know if the schools are able to do that or not. Um, they can, and most of our investments are, oh, is that what it is in? Okay. Not, not the specific bank that he mentioned. With both. With both. Okay. So you are doing that already?
Yes. Okay. And it's still not enough, is that right? Still not enough money that you have to have the referendums trust. Indiana is where you make money. It's an, it's an investment account. Like a ce. Yes. Yeah. Yes. So, no, it doesn't make up that gap. It does not. Okay. Well, I hope you're still working on that then.
Um, and the rest of the comments go to this table here because, um, it seems that this group is the one that's responsible, um, for the trash in the libraries. Um, are you trying to get rid of the pornography in the library, or, or are you all okay with that? You know, are, you don't have to read every book to know if it's good or not good for children
or for anybody, but especially for children. Um, I think there's like over 60 books that are either LBGT or just t um, in, in the library. Now why is that? I know you can't answer, but, but I would like you to think about that, about getting that out of the library. I mean, there's been incidents now, just another recent one at Southport with violence
with the kids, there was the one who beat up the substitute teacher. There was another one where a kid attacked another kid and he's still allowed to come back to school. Um, something's wrong. I I know you're not the kid's parents, but they, you are with them, the school system with, with, with these kids. And it sounds like sometimes your priorities are in the wrong place.
And I'd hope that you would consider removing some of the trash and maybe putting some better books in the library. Library. You're at three minutes. If you could wrap up your comments. Okay. Thanks for reminding me. Absolutely. Yeah, Because there's a lot of people behind me. I see. Thank you, Anne. Uh, we have next on our list, uh, policies for first read Dr. Spray.
Yes. There's six policies in your packet for, um, first read. Um, again, these are, um, recommendations from our policy, um, organization, ola, um, having to do with, um, just some cleanups with regards to, um, acceptable use. Um, three of them have to do a little bit with AI and how we, um, utilize that or allow students to use that in a nutshell, um, with supervision and permission, um, teach, uh, students are at, at times, especially at the secondary schools, allowed to utilize AI in a responsible and reasonable way.
And it kind of outlines that. And we refer a great deal back to the teacher's discretion, um, as, as well. And how they're able to use that. We have various uses levels, um, within our staff. Um, and typically the more comfortable the staff is with it and being able to give direction to students, the more students are able to use some of those tools in the classroom. So if you have any, uh, comments on some of these, that's, that's great. But then also between now and the second reading, um, if you send something forward, we'll make some revisions.
I I have a couple, three different things. I think your, uh, policy 5 1 1, 1, um, on the second pa, no, first page at the very bottom point. D states foreign exchange students participating in a foreign or foreign students, excuse me, participating in a foreign exchange program approved by the Indiana State Board of Education and living with a resident host family will be admitted. I know that there are some different visas in which
we can take that. And IJ one, F1, I can't remember exactly what it is. I could find that out from foreign exchange student placement people, but, um, I do know one of them you have to, it's because you pay for school and we're not on the list of approved schools. So, um, that was one point on that one. And then the next one is 56 10. Um, there's a couple places on page two
where it's an either or, and neither, neither one of the options have been selected. Review this. Yeah. And the last one would be 75, 40 40. And this one is on, um, page two at the bottom. It says, the board prohibits an employee from using corporation technology resources and information resources to a engage in lobbying
that is outside the scope of the employee's duties. And it, and it lists in parentheses there in Indiana code and Dr. Spray. And I actually were looking up the Indiana code because it says engage in lobbying. And my question is, what is, what is lobbying do or what, what is defining lobbying? Um, and it says, as defined by Indiana code two dash seven dash one dash nine. But it really didn't answer our question,
so we're gonna review that again. So he, he, he said he's gonna look at, but I just wanna make sure that we know and that teachers are aware, I guess more than anything, um, of, of this policy and kind of where we're at. 'cause I know that can kind of be a gray line, especially if you're lobbying on behalf of things that would benefit the school district and those sorts of things. So yeah, The biggest part of that is within the scopes of the duties. So,
Moving on to our consent agenda. Next, Move to approve. Second motion was made by Mrs. Hartman and seconded by Mr. Hernandez. Are there questions or comments with none? We'll go ahead and vote. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Nay. The consent agenda is accepted.
Uh, number six. We are looking at five items requiring action tonight. Uh, the first is, uh, 6.01. Looking at the supplemental personnel report. Mrs. Baker. Hi. I recommend approval of the supplemental personnel report. Move to approve. Second motion was made by Mr. Lewis, seconded by Mr.
Mong. Are there questions or comments? Seeing none, we'll go ahead and vote. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed nay. 6.01 is accepted. 6.02 looking to void. Outstanding. 2-year-old checks. Mr. Hatcher. Thank you very much. Board, this is our yearly, um, requirement To void any checks that are outstanding after two years. Um, all of these, um, checks have been, um, attempted
to track down the, um, holders of the check, uh, to no avail. Some have said a couple of 'em were field trip refunds. They said just keep it and leave it in the fund for the school. Um, and some of the couple of the vendors, um, don't ever, don't have any debt outstanding for us. So, um, we would approve, we would request that you would approve the list, um, for this year. Thank You. Move to approve. Second motion was made by Mr. Mertz, seconded by Mr. Hernandez.
Are there questions or comments? So even if the person has said, I want it to go back to the, like, field trip fund or whatever, they're still listed on here because it's a, it's one of those checks, correct? Yeah. Okay. And if any of these people contact us, we'll, we'll refund, we'll issue a new check. We'll go ahead and vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Nay. 6.02 is accepted.
The, uh, consideration of resolution 25 dash 0 0 7. Mr. Hatcher? Yes. This, uh, resolution is in response to State Board of Accounts, which is requiring schools to get approval by their boards to use electronic payment systems for paying officials, um, or any non-employees of the district that work on our events. So we just ask for approval. This is, um, pretty straightforward, allows us
to use the systems that are already in place to pay, um, athletic officials. I, uh, I, as far as I know, every school around us is doing this as well. So, Move to approve. Second Motion was made by Mr. Mertz, seconded by Mrs. Hartman. Are there questions or comments? Hearing none will go ahead and vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Nay.
6.03 is accepted. 6.04 Consideration of Elevation Forms Platform with Mrs. Pollard. Thank you board. Tonight we would like to ask your approval for the Elevation Forms platform, which is just in addition to our current elevation subscription. This will allow EL teachers to create the individualized, um, language programs, the, the ILPs that they have to create at the beginning of the year, um, in real time in collaboration with teachers.
Um, with the number of EL students that we have in our schools. This will help improve our efficiency and meeting that 30 day deadline at the beginning of the school year. This add-on will be funded, um, through Title three funds for Yale students. So tonight we ask your approval, Move to approve. Second Motion was made by Mr. Hernandez, seconded by Mr. Mong. Are there questions or comments?
I have two questions. Um, first of all, I, I know that you are presenting this. Is this, it's case K through 12. Okay. Thank you. Um, and then second question is, um, it talks about progress monitoring. Um, is this replacing something that we currently have or is it adding on? Is it, is it solely just adding on to el the elevation? Go Ahead. Yeah. So we have cobbled together over the years, a series of very custom forms and skyward.
And this is creating, this is a true platform that does this with a number of our students. It's become extremely difficult to go through that cobble together environment. And then now the transition to the new Skyward is making that even double hard. So what it's replacing is this goopy goopy thing that we have created over the last several years to get us through. And it's worked pretty well. But as the requirements have gotten more and more, this is a more intact platform designed for this And moving forward into a bre.
Yeah, that's a great question. So this is one of the ideas we have for a bre. Um, we are not gonna be there quick enough to meet this need. Um, this is a one year contract or one year add-on. We can take this piece away if we get there with Aubrey, for sure. Thank you. We'll go ahead and vote all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Nay. 6.04 is accepted. Uh, finally 6.05, the consideration
of acceptance of donations. Uh, Mr. Spencer and Mrs. Poller, Good evening board. I would like to present the following donations for your consideration. Uh, for Clinton Young Elementary, uh, Rosedale Hills United Methodist Church donated $500 to Clinton Young. This money will be used, uh, for their fifth grade outdoor education camp, uh, which will be held in the fall of 2025. Shutterfly Life Touch donated $890 and 37 cents. It's a portion of the proceeds from their school photos, and this money will be used in their, uh,
student activities account. And then Earth Charter Indiana donated $2,392 to Clinton Young Elementary to be used with the before and after school gardening club. And this donate donation includes a $500 stipend that will be paid, uh, to the teacher, Kim Butler, who runs that club at Douglas MacArthur Elementary, uh, school, Chick-fil-A donated food to Douglas MacArthur. Uh, the donation was used as a part of their student services attendance incentive program. Mrs. Chu's classroom was awarded a Chick-fil-A party
for having the most perfect attendance days for the first semester of this school year. DMK, um, received a donation of a hundred dollars from a dining donate, held at IMBI restaurant on November 13th. And then this money will be used to fund their monthly vocabulary building activities. And Mr. Douglas E. Stark, the father-in-law of a teacher, teacher at DMK donated a thousand dollars to, to the school. This money will used to help offset the cost of the whole school field trip to the Indianapolis Zoo, which they're taking in April. At home. CRT kindergarten,
an anonymous donor gave a hundred dollars, uh, which will be used to help supplement school field trips. And Mr. Clay Long Gardener, the owner of Hotbox Pizza, donated 30 free pizza coupons to the, the Kindergarten Academy. They'll be giving to staff and students, um, teachers and staff as incentives. Rosa Parks K donated, uh, received a donation of $600 in gift cards from an anonymous donor from Mount Olive Lutheran Church. That owner asked that the cards be distributed to recognize staff at the administrator's discretion. And then finally, Perry Township Schools, uh, receive checks
totaling $2,945, which have been donated by Robotics Education and Competition Fund. And those will be deposited in our elementary district robotics account to support robotics competitions and events hosted in Perry Township schools. And those donations, uh, come to $8,527 and 37 cents. We don't often beat the secondary schools, but this month was a good month for elementary. I agree. On behalf of the Department of Student Services,
we'd like to ask your approval for a thousand dollars donation from Hoosier Coordinators LLC to be used to support the food pantry at, at the, here, at the PTAC building, and also another $500 donation from the Perry Township Trustees' office. For the same reason. On behalf of the JWR Success Academy, a $500 donation was received from the trustee's office to support their bench project. And on behalf of Southport High School, they received a thousand dollars donation from the Kiwanis Club to support the Southport High School Key Club, a $750 donation from JFW Industries
to support the DECA Club. A thousand dollars, uh, $1,100 from Chicago's Pizza on Arlington used to support the DECA Club, a $35 and 76 cents donation from Smith Vending to u to be used to support student activities. A $900 donation from Meyer to support the athletic department and an additional $211 and 87 cents from Shutterfly to support the athletic department. So on behalf of both or all the buildings, we ask for your approval
Move. Duper Second Motion was made by Mr. Hernandez and seconded by Mr. Mertz. Are there questions or comments? Hearing none will go ahead and vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed nay. 6.05 is accepted. Finally tonight, we'll start, uh, comments with Mr. Mong. Uh, no comment.
Just a few things for me tonight. Um, I get the opportunity to embarrass Joanne just a little bit to say thank you. Um, for those of you who don't know, she runs not only the superintendent's schedule, but all seven of ours is. We meet with her and him to do certain things. Um, I can't tell you how many times I've either called texted or emailed and said, when was that meeting again? Or, wait a minute, did I miss something? And Joanne's always, always there to make, uh, uh, make sure I know what I'm doing and where I'm going. And she always does it with a smile on her face.
So Joanne, thank you. Um, the other thing, the one thing that I definitely will agree with you on, Anne, is Mr. Hatcher is definitely, uh, the person that we are extremely fortunate to have running our finances. Um, I had the privilege of calling him the other day as I'm reading an article about proposed legislation and how that's going to affect schools, I think I totally confused myself on what we do versus what they're actually proposing to do. So I reached out to Kent and said, alright, take me through 1 0 1 again.
What, what, what am I missing? And Kent was gracious enough to explain everything to me, and I really appreciate that, um, good person to have and certainly, certainly knows his stuff, um, way beyond even where I, where I understand. So I appreciate that. Just wanna say congratulations to Mr. Dye, and I would love to read your publication, so let me know what it is. Thank you. Same here, Mr. Dye. Thank you for your service. It's, it's greatly appreciated.
It's, it's tough to lose people like you, it, it, as Ms. Hartman said, you, you're making a difference in the kids' lives. So thank you. Um, couple, three weeks ago, uh, I was able to attend the, uh, township, uh, robotics competition. If you haven't ever been to one of these, check it out. It's awesome. Uh, just to see the kids just so involved. All of 'em had a smile on their face, even when stuff didn't go the right way. They were all working as a group
to figure out why it didn't work. And I'll be darned in in minutes. They had it figured out and the robot was working the right way it was supposed to be. So, uh, like I said, if you get a chance to check one of these out, it it, it's pretty neat. Um, and then lastly, uh, Perry Meridian held the, uh, wrestling regionals here this past weekend. What, what a great event. I mean, uh, I didn't get to go to all of it, but I got to catch the, uh, the championship matches. And wow, that was awesome. I mean, absolutely. Awesome.
So to our township participants that advanced to semi-state, congratulations, uh, to the ones that didn't advance it, it still, what a great season. And I'm, I'm glad you had the opportunity to, to go as far as you did. So thank you. Um, I was, um, sharing with Dr. Spray earlier, and, and he had heard about this already, of course, you know, um, but our website, we've done a couple, um, additions,
um, upgrades to our website recently. And, um, I was with a child of mine who is a lifeguard at the high school and had some questions about her pay. And I'm trying to teach some life lessons about how we keep track of how many hours we work and you should be able to see your paycheck online and these sorts of things. And so I thought, well, I'm gonna get on the website and let's see who we needed to get to, right? And, um, so, and she's sitting next to me
and so we're nega navigating this and up pops the talk now option. And I thought, I'll be doggone, this is the perfect opportunity. Let's see if this works. Right. So I typed in my question, and probably within four hours, somebody from payroll had contacted me, um, and they graciously, um, had a phone call with us and helped me learn some things,
but also helped teach my daughter, um, about it's important for you to keep track of how many hours and you can take a picture of the document 'cause she's not clocking in and out for the lifeguarding position and those sorts of things. And so this person was very gracious to help me with some life lessons for a child and helping to, to grow our students, um, even as employees, I guess. So, um, so my plug here is if you have a question about the township
and you don't exactly know, um, where to go, the talk now function works, and it was very successful, and I got an answer. And, um, Sharon, please thank your staff because they were absolutely wonderful. So I think it was someone from your staff that contacted me, so, uh, probably working together, but, um, but it, they, it was absolutely wonderful. So thank you very much. Thank, thank both of your staff. So, and,
and I think I put on the talk now I'm on the school board and, um, I just wanted to see how this worked, but it worked and it was fabulous. And, um, so I thank you. Um, I, I know I've already spoke about Mr. Dye, but I will also put a plug in that students do not have to take econ online. Um, when you take econ online, you're missing out on Mr. Dye. So if there are any parents or students that are listening to this, I refused
to let my daughter take econ online because I knew that there was Mr. Dye. Hence she gave up her senior incentive at 6 55 in the morning to take a sociology class. So students, you do not have to take econ online. That's it. I just wanted to add, Mike, congratulations to Mr. Dye. He's, uh, another treasurer that, that we have and, uh, great work
and someone with great character and an inspiring role model that, that we need. Uh, several of you. Um, I'll just make another, uh, comment about the donations. Great job Elementary, uh, uh, gardening club. What a really intriguing and great idea. And that was a nice, nice little gift that that, that they got. Um, thank you to, to all the donors, uh, including the anonymous ones.
And, um, I just wanted to echo what Ken said to, um, appreciation of Joanne for everything that she does. That's all I have. It was about 20 years ago I was trying to decide which areas of social studies I wanted to get licensed in, and I took one macro econ class, gotta a B minus, and decided that was not for me. So, Mr. Dye, for someone who is willing to take on that challenge, but also do so in a way that sounds, uh, you know, kids are engaged, uh, to,
and attracted to, speaks volumes of who you are as a teacher and as a man. So thank you for all you do. Uh, just in general, uh, just make you hoping everyone stays healthy. It seems like everything's going around, so knocking on wood or prayers or whatever you prefer. Uh, but finally, I just want to touch on, uh, special recognition tonight. Um, you could say it's two years in the making of this, right? But Mrs. Hartman, um, you spent the literal last two years as our president, uh, selflessly stepping up two years ago,
and then last year, uh, agreeing to stay on as president. Um, you have sweat, tears, and maybe even some blood in the district, although we won't go there. Um, but I can tell you not just from what we, you see up front, but behind the scenes, casual conversation, uh, other types of meetings, questions asked, follow ups. Uh, you lead in a way that is both, uh, filled with integrity and diligence. And, um, I can only hope, uh, this next year and nothing more.
Um, I could do the same. Uh, you, you truly set a, an example that I would, I would, I would guess is, uh, one of a kind throughout the state. So, uh, not my deciding at all, but some people decided that you probably had enough, um, faux gavels around your house. So they, we decided to go a different route. So if you wouldn't mind coming and receiving your recognition. Thank you,
Dr. Spray. Yes, good evening. Just a couple real quick things. Um, legislative session is in session. Um, and so getting a lot of hi headlines on a lot of buzz on a lot of different topics. Um, I like to remind people is that it's very early, um, and nothing has moved houses yet. Um, lots of amendments being filed, a lot of things not hearing here, getting hearings and things, getting hearings. So, um, we'll know more of kind of what we really need to engage and spend them bulk
of our time on here in a couple weeks as we close out, um, February and get into the first part of March. So, um, Kent does a great job of keeping up on that. We have many, um, of our different professional organizations, including the school board association that keeps us abre abreast of many of the, the proposals as well and those impacts. Um, we do have a work session on, um, February 24th, um, agenda and location and time will week forthcoming. Um, one thing I do want to say is today, um, um, we put out, uh, Elizabeth put Choi put out our, um, latest, um, podcast.
Um, and so, and I just encourage you to take a look at this one, um, ignore me in it, but really focus in on the students. It was about the Best Buddies program it specifically to Southport, but we have a great Best Buddies program over at Perry Meridian High School as well. And, um, just the level of, um, support the level of, of heart, the level of just what these kids have
and giving back to their peers with intellectual disabilities and the joy and the, the life lessons that they get from it as well. And, and, and the teacher that we have that sponsors that, and she's been doing it for years and years. And so it's just, it's just another, um, great attribute, um, recognition of the, the amazing kids we have in Perry Township. Um, not only just what they're accomplishing as individuals, but what they're giving back to our entire school community and community as a whole. So if you haven't seen that, um, take a look.
Um, I'll try to make sure the link is inserted in your notes this week as well to take a peek at that. And then the last thing, I just want any reminders if anybody has some time on Saturday, February 22nd, it is Chen National Day and they'll be having that celebration as well. So, um, thank you Dr. Ty mentioned our work session on the 24th. Our next regular board meeting will be March 10th, uh, 6:00 PM right here. Have a lovely evening everyone. We are adjourned.