Good evening. Welcome everyone to South Bend Community School Corporation Board of Trustee meeting. Today is Monday, October the 20th. It's 5:34. This meeting is called to order. We are now um Mr. Hernandez, can you please call the role?
>> Yes. Good afternoon, Mr. Marcus Ellison. >> Present. >> Mr. Marcostello >> here. >> Miss Kate Lee >> here. >> Dr. Stuart Green >> here. >> Mr. Carlos Lea >> here. >> Mr. Bill Snediki >> here. >> Dr. Janette McCulla >> present. We have a quorum. We can now
move to adopt the agenda. It is recommended that the school board of trustees adopt the agenda. Is there a motion to adopt the agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. >> It's been moved by Mr. Castello or Dr. Green. Moved by Dr. Green, second by Mrs. uh Lee. Um, are there any
questions? Mr. Hernandez, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Castello, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Lebo, >> I. >> Mr. Snedi, >> I. >> Dr. McCulla,
>> I. The vote to adopt the agenda passes unanimously. Seven votes in favor. Um the next item on the agenda is the superintendent's recognitions and announcements. Superintendent Eid. >> Good evening, Dr. McCulla, board
members, members of the public. Uh like to start by congratulating congratulating all of the inductees honored at the Southbend Alumni Association Hall of Fame dinner last Tuesday. It was simply
amazing and a big thank you goes to the new education alliance which is uh two entities combined into one. Uh second thing on the recognitions is
last Thursday was the 15th annual greatest chef of Michigan and Tom Doran who used to live in Southbend a while back had a food truck called Banditos
Burritos and he partnered with Chartwells and ended up winning the greatest chef, Michigan's greatest chef. So, congratulations to D to Tom Doran and Chartwells. And last but not least on
the agenda on the recognitions is the John Adams soccer team has won the regional championship on Saturday and we have uh Mr. Sites with us. if you would like to say a couple of words about that
and where we're going. [Applause] >> Good evening, Mr. Eid, Dr. McCulla, and the entire board. Uh, extremely excited this evening to represent the Adams High School boys soccer team. Uh, they're currently at practice right now
preparing for this weekend semi-state. Uh so for the first time since 1999, the boys team won the regional championship. Uh we won in PKs. Uh so we played a full 80 minutes, then two seven minute overtimes against uh Lake Central and
then won uh in penalty kicks four-2. Uh so now we've have advanced to the semi-state round 5:00 p. p.m. uh at Chesterton against the defending state champion Harrison from West Lafayette. And that'll be Saturday. We have a fan bus that we'll have our students going
over so we can be very well represented. And once we win that and go on to the state championship and when win that we'll bring the entire team and the coaches back so that way they can all be properly recognized. So thank you all for your support. >> Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> And this is all for superintendent's announcement. >> Can I make a comment to the superintendent since it's superintendent? Uh, I got some things that I'd like you to make public on what you're doing to some
items that we have voted on last last school season and some of them aren't being accomplished like I would hope. >> Okay. >> But I'm sure you're still working on it. I want to give them to you all at one time. >> Okay. uh
uh nurses in the schools at uh for number one uh we we still got nine nurses >> nine schools that don't have >> please bring that up in your board comments. This is not the place to mention that in >> it's super >> but he's not making an announcement on
that right now. Don't make it in your board comments. Appreciate that. We now have the opportunity to hear from visitors under action items 9.01 to 9.22. 22. At regular board meetings, the public is invited to address the board for three minutes regarding action
items. Agenda items. Visitors wishing to address the board on action agenda items must sign the registration sheet prior to the meeting and state the action agenda items which they will address. Individuals may only speak once during this section of the agenda. Speakers
shall properly identify themselves after they approach the podium by stating their name and address for for the record. Personnel issues are not to be addressed during open sessions of the board school board. The uh board president may interrupt, warn or terminate person's statement if the
statement becomes personally directed, abusive or obscene. Secretary Lever, has anyone signed to speak? >> Yes. Action item 9.01, approval of the resolution to sell the old Marquette Monosuri to the city of
South Bend. We have Paul Nasses. Paulis 51680 Orange Road using my first amendment right what I say should not be held against me my family or my co-workers. So, I did send the whole board over the weekend a email concerning this uh sale of Marquette
School to the city and I asked if they would consider a better deal. And the better deal is is that since the city owns the property on Bendix Drive still, which is the field uh the grass field over there, that maybe we can enter into
some kind of an agreement to get that back from the city and uh get it back to us and then consider working the deal from there, whatever the deal might be, because all we see is a resolution at this point. And if by some chance, well, and and if you happen to notice at all
the different uh news events that they were showing that field out there, they all always use that field as a backdrop. And I don't know if anybody realized it, but there's a lot of things parked out there. You have your band trailers parked out there, you have your CTE trailers parked out there, and you have
the culinary truck that's parked out there. So, you're going to have to find a new place for those if eventually that disappears on us. And then eventually if by some chance the city does acquire it and they demolish it, you also need to
consider that, and I'm sure the historical society has done this, but there is very ornate decorations on that building that need to be removed and brought back to Southbend schools. So maybe we can use it in the in the new
Marquette like they did at Riley. They have some tiles in there that have u artwork. They're in the limestone and maybe even the door entry like they did at Riley High School. They brought the whole entrance of the door inside the building and it looks beautiful. So, it's just a thought. I just thought I'd
bring it out in public, though. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Next, we have John Pesky. >> John Pachznney 18420 Crowndale Drive. So, after reading the documents and printing them off, I thought they were very vague and I hope we get a clear
explanation tonight. Wasn't that discussed a while back that the current Marquette school needed more green space? So, by getting rid of the current old property, does that eliminate that green space? What if
Marquette expands and grows and needs to be added onto? Would that mean the playground goes with no place to put it because you got rid of the property that the building sits on? Have you talked to the neighbors? I've seen on social media where many of them want that to remain a
green space. But then I look at it again as this. The taxpayers lose again. We built the Marquette school with tax money. The city will buy it with tax money. Then they will take money tax money to tear it down. And then they'll
probably give some developer tax credits and everything else to build whatever they want to build there. And again, at taxpayers expense, the taxpayers of this town need to wake up. >> Anyone else? And we have um on action
item 9.17 um for CT medical renovations at Washington High School, we had John Masheski. Let me preface preface this but John Possni 18420 Crown Hill Drive. Let me
preface this that I am not against this program. My concern is this. We are putting additional cost into the medical magnet program which have been promised years ago, but Washington has the smallest enrollment of the three high
schools. The idea about the medical magnet program at Washington was to attract students from outside of the Washington district to attend the school and enroll in the program. I would love to see a chart of how many students are
in the program, how many live within the Washington district, and how many from outside. How many students are we losing from the west side? And when I look at the numbers from last year, I am just
worried that if Washington's enrollment doesn't continue to climb, we could be facing somewhat of a crisis with filling the building and how many millions would we have invested into that? Thank you,
>> Superintendent. I think people are kind of um not understanding the what the purpose of selling the old Marquette Monasuri building and what it's going to be used for or possibly going to be used for.
>> I believe we have a presentation by the city and by uh but we were going to wait till 9.01 when it comes out. All right. I just want to make sure we we get we get them so they can understand that because they seem like they're not understanding
>> everything. >> Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks. No one else is up to speak. Okay. So, we now have the opportunity to hear from visitors on other items. At regular meetings, the public is invited
to address the board for three minutes regarding items not posted on the agenda. Individuals may only speak once during this section of the agenda. Speakers shall properly identify themselves after they approach the podium by stating their name and address for the record. Personnel issues are not
to be addressed during open sessions of the school board. The board president may interrupt, warn, or terminate a person's statement if the statement becomes personally directed, abusive, obscene. Anyone wish to speak >> though?
Good evening everyone. Uh Sue Castle on 4022 Kennedy Drive. Um I was looking at the school website and I was thinking I've designed websites. What would make it better and what would make it so that
you all can be more responsive to the parents and students? One of the things I came up with is you could have a feedback button on the homepage. And what the feedback button could do
would bring up a form and jot form is something a software you could use. And the person enters their name, email, phone number, um what it's concerning. Is it about meals or transportation or whatever and which school it may apply
to? And then a text box that they can further explain. Now, what would happen when they submit it is it would create a service ticket with the date and time and the information, it would automatically email those service tickets to the right
people. So, if it said it was for Quoquillard um and it was for the lunchroom, it would automatically know to email it basically to that principal at at Quoquillard and the lunch person. Um, just as an example, there's nothing
wrong with Kquillard, I don't think. Um, and then what it would do is create reports for all of you and it would say, look, we had 70 people complain on this day about buses at Adams or we had, you know, whatever. Um, it gives you graphs, it gives you feedback, you can read
people's comments. Um, it's a really useful tool. It could be by week so that um the superintendent and his staff could apply could respond immediately. And then the last part of it would be the customer service people would follow
up and say, "Hey, we really appreciate you sending us and letting us know about XYZ program. Do you feel that's been solved for you?" I think we need to realize that public schools can't just say, "Oh, well, it's
public schools." We have to be responsive because if people don't like it, they go to a charter school. I think we need to kind of up our game in terms of um customer service and response and taking care of problems more
immediately, a lot like corporations do. And then the the other idea I had, >> 30 seconds, >> was that each school have its own app. Um, everybody, the the young parents are all on their phones. We know that. And there could be an app for each phone and
at each school. They're not expensive. And it could um also have this form on it and things like that and what's going on at the school. So, I did email it to you. Um, so if you guys want to read it, it's in your email. Thank you for your time.
>> Anyone else wish to speak? June Pritchard, 5800 Summit Hill Court. I want to thank our CFO for a budget presentation last time that even I could understand. We have a great CFO. I admire his willingness to make sure
referendum tax dollars are being spent properly. The school corporation can and must go beyond that with improved test scores, better behavior, improved enrollment numbers to keep to get another referendum.
It makes no sense to spend extra track dollars without any results. You've got an outstanding superintendent and CFO, but they face hurricane strength win headwinds. Who's qualified to incorporate AI into at least the title
one and gifted and talented programs? How many education directors have obtained the new reading certificate? How many of the teachers? Who is in charge of getting rid of the true kryptonite for the school system? failing critical race theory and social
justice policies. It was a fad that is over. I see many occasions with folks failing our kids due to sense of entitlement, conflicts of interest, nepotism, hidden and not so hidden personal agendas.
These are like ships anchor lowered onto the iceberg, keeping the ship crashing over and over into the iceberg, not allowing it to break free. board. It's time we have skilled staff who can make repairs and change course
to meet the needs of the school corporation. I know I'm asking a lot. I know you've already done a lot and a lot has changed, but please keep going because time is screeching by. Thank you.
Lauri McGawan, 2007 East Madison Street. Mr. Tamid recently uh showed some per student direct expenses by school in his budget presentation. And I'm sure he had good intentions in doing that. But I just want to point out that without
context, those cost disparities create a false impression in the mind of the public. We might have just heard some of that. For example, percentages of special education and English learner students are much higher in some schools
in some parts of our district than others. So, it's really less important to calculate that student cost per school than to ensure that the public is aware of the need and high cost for specialized resources.
This leads me to ask again about the 2020 LEAP grant in the amount of $22.8 million that was awarded to Southbend schools for the purpose to increase student achievement by ensuring
more effective educators are working in high need schools. Allow me to read some of the saline points from that grant application narrative. Several factors contribute to equity gaps in Southbend schools. Unequal
distribution of quality teaching and learning resources, particularly human capital impedes equal access to highly effective educators and contributes to poor student academic performance.
Turnover rates are highest at the I'm going to just use low performing schools. Turnover is most pronounced at the middle school level because positions are generally filled with emergency permit instructors and teachers reapply every year.
The lowest performing schools have higher annual turnover rates than the higher performing schools, making it difficult to sustain staff, implement ed reforms, yada yada.
Greater numbers of beginning teachers in high need schools. Disproportionately greater numbers of new educators serve highne schools. Lack of teaching experience can negatively impact instructional effectiveness.
So >> 30 seconds. >> This was the in that grant application and the grant was indeed awarded. So we knew what our problems were five years ago. So my question is how was the money spent? Where's the final report? Were we
successful? And why are we now normalizing the use of EP and other non-certified teachers in low performing schools? Thanks. [Applause] We uh we got a bunch of yellow shirts
back there. This is a time to come up and talk when you >> Anyone else want to speak? Don't do that. >> They asked when is time. >> Good evening. Altha Jones, 1319 East
Victoria Street. It's been a while, but uh I thought maybe it might be time to bring things back to reality. There's a lot going on nationwide, statewide, locally. When's the last time you took a look at your vision statement on racial
equity and anti-racist policies in the South Bend Community School Corporation, which is written by Dr. Stuart Green and submitted to the board on April 12, 2021. I will have to say that there was a lot I had hoped to get accomplished as
I served on this great board, but this is one accomplish accomplishment that I'm glad that we did get accomplished. And the subheadings reads, "Equity is the intentional allocation of
resources, instruction, and opportunities according to need that discriminatory practices, prejudices, and beliefs be identified and eradicated." And irregardless of what's going on,
what's being talked about, these truths are still there. They still need to be addressed. I would like to very briefly say thank you to Mr. Eid and Dr. Green. >> Excuse me. Excuse me. Please don't directly make comments to the board. I would like to just read your your
statement without mentioning names. >> Superintendent and Dr. Green for attending our recent discussion on specific practices and patterns of district on the of districts that are on the pathway of becoming
fully privatized or charterized. We have had several of these conversations within the last seven years. The first one was what would we lose if we lose public education? The answer to that is our democracy. And we
are seeing this happening unfolding even as I speak. The reason why I bring this up is there has been a lot of concern and worry about the direction of the school corporation. And there are people that would like for the board and the
superintendent to make public the intentions of the direction that this corporation is going in. They have a right to know if there's a ongoing effort to charterize this corporation. My last point is I am
giving Dr. >> 30 seconds. >> I'm giving the in-house attorney a um another request for disclosure of public information. I gave him the same one three months ago and unfortunately
he's ignored it. We would like to know is the district operating under the 2024 code of conduct? If not, why? We'd also like a definition for tightening behavior. And instead of talking about the
progress of the code of conduct, >> your minutes are up. >> We're now using terms like tightening. >> Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Good evening. Tiana Batiswadel 330 Kofax Avenue, South Bend, Indiana. The Jackson Aspire Foundation Save the Youth
Michigan campaign urges the school board to propose and pass a budget that addresses the racial disparities and lack of equity that persists in your corporation. Thank you for finally following up on the email I sent on October 1st.
October 1st in regards to the federal executive order on student discipline. There are still emails though from September that I have sent with questions that still have not been answered. And it feels in this room that there's
inequitable distributions of your communication protocols because you have a whole half of a side of town that just loves what's going on, but the black folks don't. In regards to the response I received today, why did Darden receive
approximately $18,000 per student last year and Kquillard received approximately $15,000 per student? What data drove that decision? What decisions are being made about this about this school year? Will Darden
continue to receive a higher student allocation? And if so, why? Due to the federal consent decree court order, your legal counsel advised the board and superintendent to analyze your student discipline practices. Are you admitting
that these decisions about consequences issued to students are based on students demographics like race instead of solely on the behavior that is objectifiable? when you are charging your administration and teaching staff to be quote, and you're going to have to go
back and listen to what I asked, quote, clearly focused on the students actions rather than their demographics. That's what you said in your email. If so, how are you ensuring that teachers are doing that? being anti-racist
so that practices are quote what you said neutrally applied clearly documented and communicated that you have also charged them with doing what professional learning opportunities are being provided to teachers to enhance their intercultural competence and
reduce dis discriminatory practices this should be able to be shared if you're doing it how is restorative justice being implemented are schools embedding it in their day-to-day practices corporationwide. As reported out at the
August 4th board meeting, from what I have gathered, there are leaders leading your schools that don't believe in the approach and are communicating it to their staff that they won't be using it. What's the data and how is it impacting your overall discipline and your school
to prison pipeline data? Lastly, with recent data showing that black male teachers increase achievement by drastic amounts, only 170 teachers out of 1,049 are black. And I don't know if they're certified because you never noted that,
but I would like to know what you're going to do to increase that as well. Thank you. >> Reverend Greg Brown, 4626 Fellow Street, South Bend, Indiana. I stand before the board to say uh I proudly work in the
school and we do Monday through Friday practice restorative justice. It's not a black thing or a white thing. It's a right thing. We have a problem in our school with vapes, THC bottles, and them people back here in the yellow part of
the team. We search them every day. The kids is getting slicker, but we need the board to push the parents in there to help us because we can't just do it. The preachers can't do it. The school can't do it. We got the tools to use. But when
you look at it, it's the drug thing. And it's hard. It was really hard for me to come back to the school this year because to walk in a classroom and see a kid dying is tough. It's tough cuz it's about the students. And when I walked in
there and seen that man and had to give him three Narcams and he was one minute to dying, that's tough. And then when you speak to a parent, they not coming to help us. You got somewhere, Mr. Brown, you can lock them up. Mr. Brown, can you do this? A teacher can do so
much. The principal gonna do so much. The board can do so much. We have to crack down and get the parents involved. If we don't get them in there because I'm telling you, team South Ben, our setback is a setup for our comeback. How are we coming back? We got to come back
stronger because the kids are getting younger and they're involved. You work the games, you out there, you see them, you talk to them, and the same thing is repeating their self because South Ben JJC don't help. You call a officer in
there, they put the handcuffs on the kid and call JJC and they say, "They don't have enough points, Mr. Brown. We not going to take them." It don't make a difference if a kid gets assaulted, a teacher gets assaulted. They working on the point system. So, there's no communication there. So, how can we make
our whole team grow if they don't come in and help us out? Check the statistics. It's not that we not doing our job. We practice restorative justice. But how many times do you have to practice it? Pressure blows the best radiator cap off. And
then you turn around and you get hurt doing this job. Who going to stand up with us? Who going to stand up with it? The parents going to say, "Well, he's all right." You can't be all right. >> 30 seconds. I'm telling you team, we got to get some in there. If we can't wake
them up, I promise you these yellow shirts going to shake them up. >> Anyone else wish to speak? >> We now move to academic focus apprentice teacher train retraining talent.
Mr. Eat. Pretend to eat. Okay. Good evening, Dr. Malo, board members, members of the public. again. Uh, Miss Batist, I do not have the answer for you
as to how many are certified, but I will get you that answer. Um this evening's um academic focus is on the apprentice teacher and this is our response to the teachers shortage not
just in Southbend not just in Indiana but in this country this afternoon there was a program on NPR about Alaska's western counties relying
heavily on Filipino teachers under the H-1B visa. However, there is a new order that anybody applying for an H1B visa has to pay $100,000 per visa. So, that makes
bringing teachers from overseas impossible. But this is not what we're doing. We are growing our own. So I don't know if you can see the numbers.
We have 1049,049 teachers. The number of licensed certified teachers is 8.99. The number of emergency permits or alternative license which is transition to teaching. These are people with a
diploma already who have signed up a to take a program that will help them transition to teaching and it takes one summer, one full year and another summer and the license is good for three years.
So between the TTT and the EP there are 130 of them and the rest of them are the apprentice teacher which is the topic of this evening. Uh basically
we had a few classrooms covered by long-term substitute teachers. And the substitute teacher does not have the background, does not have the educational pedagogical
knowledge to be able to produce lesson plans and follow the lesson plans and make sure that these lesson plans are following the state standards. So these are the things that
we were we had a few classrooms where they had long-term assignment substitute teachers. So we said how can we fix this? and the zone uh started the apprentice
teacher program and what we did is we inherited those teachers and we started working with them and we recruited others. So let me go. These are the highlights of this apprentice program.
It's a fast track to becoming a certified teacher. lowcost pathway. We are investing in our community and we can be begin filling teacher vacancies almost right away.
So we contacted Indiana Wesleyan University and they have this program called Step Up Indiana support train educator partnership and this is how it works. You build a cohort
You have so many apprentices get together. Now mind you, most of the apprentice teachers have college degrees. So one in particular had 120 credits, college credits. So you would
think 120 college credits, that's a degree by itself. However, they were in several areas. So the teacher did not have a degree per se. So, this program is going to help them focus. And that
person was subbing in our school and in a long-term assignment capacity at the fourth grade. Now, these are very critical ages. So it behooves us to work with that teacher, make sure they get
that certification, make sure they get the pedagogical knowledge, uh how the learning processes, how do we sync with the standards set forth by the state, by the district. I mean, these are all
complex things that a substitute usually does not have to worry about. So the way it works, we approach them. Is this what you want to do? Uh we set them up at the beginning of uh
the school year or actually in the summer. The board approved a teacher facilitator uh position and that person is occup uh that position is now occupied by Jessica Hoover who is taking the lead in uh
making sure that this program is implemented with fidelity. And these are the steps. You identify the candidates. You see how many credits they have. Do they have a degree? I mean, do they
have a certificate, a substitute license? And as of this morning, only one person did not have the substitute license and they had the receipt that they had sent in the application. So
basically all of the apprentice teachers have their substitute license. These are also some of the highlights. They're vested member in of our community. We can improve teacher retention.
We can build a teacher pipeline, elevate instruction, and at the same time get a multi-year commitment from that person to the district. The degree that they will get from Indiana Wesleian is a bachelor's of
science either in early childhood, elementary, or secondary concentrations. And this is going in the nitty-gritty. I don't think you would be I could cover it. It takes one second. 120 credits C
average minimum 30 credits general studies four core core content credits and 30 of these must be above the 300 and 400 level courses. The best part about this program is the
practicum or student teaching is done where the teacher is teaching at that apprentice teacher is assigned a mentor and we already talked to enough
and in the appendix two from previous years. There is always a budget for mentor teachers, 500 per semester. The teacher goes in, helps the apprentice teacher writes write the lesson plans
and so we have better outcomes. We have better lesson plans, more focused lesson plans, mentored by a veteran teacher. And this is again going in the
nitty-gritty, but how do we pay for the education? So a substitute right now makes 120 a day. So by us offering them 38, the beginner
teacher salary in Southbend is 46. So we offer them 38 which makes the daily rate 202 and we keep the eight in an escrow account to pay for their tuition, the
education. So there are no additional costs to the district besides getting the mentorship and tutilage of Jessica Hoover and we interviewed a few.
I have appreciated this opportunity since I started two years ago. It has afforded me knowledge potential that I did not think I had. The courses I'm taking have helped me teach better. Being an example that gives other teaching prospects the drive that they
can do the job too is influential. Here's a picture of me teaching a sixth grade math skill. Gail Kirkland Navar, grade six. This is Miss Pania at Harrison, grade two. The apprentice program has been such a blessing for me. It's helping me
grow both as a teacher and as a learner. Given me real classroom experiences while being supported by my amazing administrators and literacy coaches who genuinely want to see me succeed. This person works in the life skills
program. She was a parah last year. has a few college credits but not a focused degree. So this person this program has helped me prioritize myself. It has also helped me with time
management and maintaining the relationships in my life. I'm so thankful for this opportunity to better myself for both me and my students. And the last one is Miss Ngi and she's the one with 120 college
credits. So this is going to be it's going to take her less than 6 months to basically be a fully certified teacher. The teacher apprenticeship program allows me to grow as a learner and as a
teacher. I believe I copied this. So in summary, this is not just a compliance issue. It's a student success issue. With structured support and sustainable funding, we can elevate teacher quality, improve academic outcome outcomes across
the district. questions. >> I guess one question I'd have. >> Yes, sir. >> You say we got apprentice teachers, but they're with
uh mentors, licensed mentor teachers. How is that possible when they're not even in the same classroom? Uh they meet with them during their prep time to help them.
>> Do they have any kind of training before you throw them in the classroom by themselves? >> Uh may I remind the board that these uh apprentice teachers were long-term substitutes in our classrooms before? So
they were basically covering but without the direction, without the help, without the mentorship. So now we're giving them the support in order to have better outcomes for
them, for our students, and for the district. >> Okay. >> One quick question. So once they complete this program, what do you have anything in place to make sure they don't just leave us and go somewhere else?
>> Uh we don't, but we believe in people. >> I appreciate your belief, but we're paying for them to get an education. We want to make sure that when they get that education that they stay with us and not move. So is there something that we can put in place to make sure that happens?
>> Okay. Y that I think that's something that we need to consider with the union on the collective bargaining agreement. >> Okay. >> Whether that that needs to be bargain for or not. >> All right. Appreciate it. Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> Thank you, >> Mr. C. >> Yes, sir. >> Are other school districts in the area going to this method as well? Uh, Indianapolis is
so um the great there is a great need uh to find quality educators out there and if we could but the first thing is to find quality
people who want to educators. >> Mhm. >> And if we can find these people who don't have the license right now, I think this is an excellent program of trying
uh to recruit uh people and get them into positions. the experience of the classroom uh plus the knowledge you're picking up
by going back to school. Um, I think schools, this is the only thing this the school corporations around not only the state of Indiana but everywhere is going to have to try to resolve is
that the old method of waiting for teachers to come in from these universities uh and take a job that we have. I think those days are over. Um,
I was very fortunate back in the 90s of going on trips into uh universities around the state of Indiana uh recruiting
uh teachers for South Bend. Uh I had a great priv privilege of doing that with a person by the name of Mr. Roberts who was a human resource director at the time
and especially trying to find uh people of color to take our teaching positions up here. Uh but you know, you go to Purdue, you
go to Indiana, do you go to Ball State and we would have a collection of people who we could interview and very few if any on those trips resulted in trying to interview one
person uh let alone trying to recruit as many people as we could to South Bend. Um that is that has been an issue uh for many years
and I am a belief that we would be much stronger if we had a more diversified staff uh teaching diversified students that we have. But it's one of these things and I hope
this program can resolve this a little bit um and the focus that we must have not only for now but for the future and that is to get quality people
to become quality teachers. Thank you. If I may add something, you mentioned something about going around to recruit uh Ball State University, I believe, is shutting down parts of their uh teacher
preparation programs. So, and that is the college that was started, it was based to get teachers certified. >> Miss Lee
just um so I know that IU also has a teacher apprenticeship program. So have we thought about also talking with IUSB about this opportunity and how it might work with our high school students who are interested in teaching careers to get some of those dual credits while they're especially with the new
graduation requirements coming online. >> We can reach out to them. >> I I I just think that might be a good okay >> something to pursue. Okay, >> Mr. C uh
>> when I first got back on the board this this year sometime uh I asked a question because uh our homegrown uh people are the best to get for these jobs. And I asked if we
had a magnet uh program like 6 through 12 starting to get them to be learn to be teachers and and administrators in the school corporation. I thought you guys told me you had one.
>> We do. It's called education professions and it's a CTE program. >> Where is it at? Uh they it can be anywhere. As long as you have a teacher who has 2,000 hours of uh proven
background of teaching, they can take somebody under their wing and help them to become a teacher. Uh we used to have the cadet teaching program and that's still on the books of the state of Indiana. We do not offer it in
Southbend. I don't know why but we will be bringing it back into our course uh book to offer because the cadet teaching program is the one that gives the students the first taste of teaching
where they can go and work within the first three hours or the last three hours of their high school experience to work in an elementary school with a teacher. And we have A lot of our current teachers work at
that teachers at Clay or Adams or Riley or Washington. So we really don't have a regular magnet program just for the teaching or educational field.
>> It's not a magnet but it is a pathway. Education professions is a pathway. And how many do our kids know about it? >> How many? Uh I can get your numbers. I don't know right now how many are taking it.
>> Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? >> Thank you, Superintendent. >> Thank you. >> We now move to the consent agenda. It is recommended that the school board of trustees approve the consent agenda.
8.01 approval of minutes October the 6, 2025. 8.02 Financial Reports and Statements. 8.03 Bills and Payroll for Payment. 8.04 The Personnel Report. 8.05 Resolutions Requiring annual adoption.
8.06 Gifts and Fundraisers. 8.07 Contracts for $50,000 or less. Do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Second.
>> It's been moved by Mrs. Lee, second by Dr. Green. >> Are there any questions? Seeing none, Mrs. Hernandez, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Costello, >> I. >> Miss Lee, I.
>> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Lea, >> I. >> Mr. Mr. Snicki, >> I >> Dr. McCulla. >> I The vote to approve the consent agenda passes unanimously. Seven votes. >> We now move to approve action items. It is recommending that the school board
of trustee approve action item 9.01, approval of the resolution to sell the old Marquet Marquette Monasuri to the city of South Bin. And I believe there's someone here to speak on that. I don't know. >> Good evening, board members. Uh, my name
is Caleb Bower. I'm director of community investment for the city of Southbend and I'm here with Mark. >> I'm Mark Herman. I'm president and CEO of the United Way of St. Joseph County. Uh before you today, Mark's going to be pulling up a presentation, but before
you today is a resolution authorizing the sale of the old Marquette school to the city of Southbend. This would be part of a partnership uh with the United Way of St. Joseph County, looking to establish a new one roof uh neighborhood
center in the north this neighborhood. Uh this has been a goal of both the city and United Way since the completion of the Southeast Neighborhood Center near Riley High School. Uh and it would involve uh adaptively reusing the old
Marquette school facility. So uh Mark uh I think has a presentation here and then we're happy to take questions. >> Yeah, thank you. I'm very honored to be able to come here and present to you all today. Um the point of this is I think to elucidate some of the things for the everybody here about what exactly our
intentions would be provided the sale to the city went through and that was transferred to the United Way. So those of you who may or may not be I imagine there's mixed understanding of what one roof is is um probably in 2017
the United Way initially started thinking about value proposition or ways we could make better impact in the community and we came up with what's called place-based initiatives where you can put a building or put a resource in
a geographic area and that ge that resource by being proximate to the people who need the assistance tends to affect those individuals. Um, specifically we wanted to put a neighborhood center uh consisting of
resources in neighborhoods where they might be a most benefit. Our first foray into that was a southeast neighborhood center and the process looks like this. is we go into a neighborhood or go into a geographic area and figure out what resources exist and do not need
augmentation and then we figure out what gaps exist and then we try to build a building or rehabilitate a building to provide resources in that building specifically for the gaps of that neighborhood. Okay? So, it's built
around the community it sits in. It's not supposed to be coming in and reshaping a community. it instead is works um closely with the community to figure out which things are going to be the most meaningful to the people who live here.
So we have done this in the southeast neighborhood and that's been successful since 2022. Um, these are self- sustaining buildings with neighborhood advisory committees, uh, consisting of people who live in the immediate neighborhood who provide input about how the building is used, feedback, um, have
even worked with some grant funds uh, with United Way in the past before. Um, but when this was a possibility, if it's a possibility, um, this I think would be an ideal location simply because of the Northwest neighborhood. Um the far
northwest uh has a pretty heavily underserved population particularly for youth services uh health care uh and a variety of other things including early childhood education that we should bring we could bring. Um so up on the screen you'll see I've got a one roof um
renovation potential. You'll see the dotted line up on the northern part of the screen there. That's an additional um say this building is 70,000 square feet. I need about 40, could do 50, can't quite do 70 uh without further
discussion or additionally potentially other fundraising because that other chunk of building there would add about 4 million to the project. Um and I got to be careful about how much I try to fund raise from one community and how long it'll take me to open it. So, this
is a general overview. Um to the right you'll see a parking lot, 38 spaces uh that has been um already talked about with the owner of that property and a lot of these other parking spaces around the outside are still pending discussion with the city of South Bend. So I do not
have permission from them as of yet, but it's just a theory that Aros design was uh nice enough to draw up for us. Prospective services, we've already done some work in the Northwest because this has been a longstanding conversation. We've been looking to put a neighborhood
center in the Northwest, I would say probably since 2021. Um, repeated um, failures, things have fallen through, buildings uh, were not sold like they were supposed to and things like that. And so we we're this would be about try number four. Um,
because we will not come into a community knocking down homes. I don't want to buy up homes and knock those down in an area where we need homes. And I certainly don't want to look at at parkland either. Uh we want to come in as a good neighbor, but the area of need has said it needs youth mentorship
activities after school programming, primary care and a mental health clinic. Uh wick community navigation. That would be when you walk in the door, you're not exactly sure what you need or what's out there, but you can talk to somebody and they can line you up. Early childhood
education. And some other possible considerations that have been thrown around when we've had discussions is reduced rent housing. We've never ventured into that before and I'm not claiming to be some sort of housing developer, but it's something that if that would be of benefit to this
neighborhood. Um, possibly in that larger space we were looking at knocking off, that could be a discussion. Um, same thing that's always been an issue over there is we've I mean, I've been on the food uh discussions for Southbend and certainly in Northwest is struggling with needing a grocery store as well.
So, could there be some ideas for some of that property being used that way? And then any other ideas that are used come through in discovery doesn't mean because we're considering it that it's going to happen. It means that because it came through in discovery that it would be a discussion between us, the
city, the neighborhood, and a variety of other interested parties to figure out what's feasible and what makes the most sense to try to make the most impact in that community. So, I had our draw our our architect Aros Design draw um the spaces rough
sizes of partners I know who have already expressed interest in being in a Northwest location. Uh a lot of these partners have expressed interest sight unseen um because they've become convinced from past experiences in Southeast and soon to come the Mishawaka Neighborhood Center which I'm finishing
up now. Uh so as you see up there, those colored blocks are just chunks of space that could be used for things like a medical clinic, afterchool programming. Uh there's an empty space uh for that's not yet programmed, which allows me a little bit of flexibility if I wanted to
add somebody in. uh a neighborhood center space which is typically going to be offices, places for people to come, convening meeting rooms, um community usable space, uh places for the senior lunch that happens for example at
Southeast. Um and then the the peach in the lower leftand corner there is an early learning center um scoping for about eight classrooms worth which would be enough to uh license up to about 120 kids. usually they're not going to run
quite that many kids. They might run closer to a hundred with that big of a classroom size. Um with some of the partners we work with tend to be the ones who try to have a little better teacher to student ratio. So another um piece of feedback I heard earlier tonight which um I appreciated
was the historical uh nature of this building. One of the things that we are in particular attracted to this building for is the historical nature of Marquette. So um when our architect went through discovery and found all these
old pictures of Marquette, uh we actually found a historical document of like the whole history of Marquette and how it came to be. Um, but I would like to put something like that in the lobby of the space, provided this is done um that this goes
through to to give a nod to the history of this location and the folks who worked before us to get it here. It's quite a stunning building. uh if you look at it, if I took pictures, the pictures I put up here are the ones that caught my eye of things that are throwbacks to history that I personally
think uh help make a building successful is when you give a nod to the history of the area. Um some people would call it retrocool. Um I would call it historical as well. And I think that it kind of more melds easier with the community when it's all something we can still
recognize. So, these pictures are all ones I picked up on of architectural things and looks that can we recreate or keep some of it um when we rehab the building. You can see the old gym on the right hand side in the middle of the gym. If
you go in there, it still has the original Marquette seal on the gym and it is not destroyed by water or mold. Um, so we've been eyeballing that as well. I liked that window on the left side just because it shows some of the
age appropriate um things that were going on in the building that I'd like to recreate when we actually make some of these designs. What about that tile on the left? This was a specifically referenced in uh the discussion earlier tonight. Um I agree.
I also kept that picture. Uh coming to that you got Terzo with that um slate and green tile. Not exactly certain if that is a Terzo tile floor or not, but it would be neat if I could have a if I could restore that. Um, the thing I
don't have a good picture of is the original wood is still there. When you walk in the front door and you look, it's it's not rotten. Uh, a lot of it is uh could be salvaged. And so there's a lot of things like that I think that should in fact be saved.
Um, here's an example of the Southeast Neighborhood Center just to give you an idea. This is a brand new one. So, it's going to be a bit of a different approach because this was brand new empty lots that the city and some in 466 Works gave us to put this one in. But, it gives you an idea of how we tend to
finish things. Um, we tend to do it up. Um, we we don't really want to do a cheap looking building that's poorly built. We want something that's going to last um I I'm eyeballing at least 50 years. Okay. But this gives you an idea of the level of quality that is is
focused on when we built that building. These are interior actual photos of the Southeast Neighborhood Center, not drawings. That's the actual playground out there. Kids are tough on those rubber ride services though. I got to get them
redone every year, I swear. But um we got a professional kitchen in there that would also be in this. you'd need a professional kitchen, especially for the early childhood center if you want to put one in there that actually cooks from scratch is which you generally want to. Um, that's a picture of the early
childhood education center on the right hand side here of what it looks like when you walk in the door to that center, which is separate from the rest of the building for security sake. But that's uh that's my basic pitch. But one of the things I would bring up um
that didn't come out very clearly in the slides is I think the the other thing that's particularly beneficial from some preliminary um meetings that we'd had is a potential very close relationship with the existing Marquette Monaster. Um part
of the beauty of this is that we would be on the same piece of property. we would share a block with um a school that's very forwardinking with a principal who I've got a cell phone number um where we could actually I
think um double down and and possibly have a symbiotic relationship to um even have more impact and do better things. So, um, ultimately I look forward to this as a potential partnership not only with the city and with the Northwest
neighborhood, but also potentially Southbend Public Schools. >> Appreciate it. Are there any questions, Mr. Castella? >> Okay, tonight it's a it's so just approval
uh for us to sell it. It's we don't have a price on this yet. You haven't negotiated a price on this yet, right? >> You do. >> No. Yeah, >> you do. >> Yeah, we have. >> So, that would be what we're voting on
tonight. >> Yeah. >> And what what is the price that we agreed on? >> Well, there was two appraisals done on this. one from the city I think at 59,000 and then we had an appraisal done I
think it was 62 and some change and the middle of those two appraisals is 6 thou 60,750 >> okay >> any other questions >> you know when I was on the
board and we put that in monator program in there. I wanted to take that school and make uh uh keep our new monastery at
a K through six and move and send them into high school with the six through 12 in that building that you guys are buying right now. and then but uh or even if we had to knock it down, but then we talked about that and and
then we ran into problems with the historical committee. Now, any renovations you do to that, are you going to have to run into problems with the uh historical preservation corporation? >> The improvements to the exterior of the
building would require a certificate of appropriateness from the South Ben Historic Preservation Commission. Uh but I think the we would need to work through those details and take a certificate of appropriateness request to them at the point that a project is uh in a position
to move forward. Uh I don't I don't I cannot speak for the commission, but I do think an adaptive reuse of a building like this that's preserving the historical character of it would be wellreceived even if it does involve partial demolition. >> I agree. >> Dr. Gree,
>> I was just curious about the impact that it will have on the neighborhood and it sounds like you've had conversations, but I wonder u have there been extensive conversations on the impact uh on the community. Is this something that the the neighbors
want? >> So, um I haven't had extension extensive conversations specifically about this building because land in the Northwest has been a bit of a lightning rod. Um, so what I certainly didn't want to do is go talking before
>> I had a building, right? So what I do understand is neighbors want something done. A vacant building is the wrong answer. So what I am getting from these smaller scale conversations I have had is that some people are like no no I I
we should make it woods or and then you get other people who are like no we should make it housing. Other people are like you should just yeah this would be awesome. And so you get mixed opinions, but overall the loudest voices are do something, don't leave it vacant is what
um I've overall picked up. So my hope is uh or my belief is that if we were to enter into this community, I don't think I'm not sensing an undue headwind from our perspective. >> Is that true also of the the families
especially at Marquette? What is their response that this would now be one roof as opposed to maybe a green space that would be adjacent to the current school that could be used as
many monasteries are as a a garden farm those kinds of things. >> I can't speak for those parents. Um what I would suggest that you do is is touch base uh with the principal of that school. I have had private conversations
about how he felt and rest assured it was supportive. Um, but I would like I do not want to put his words out here in a public forum. So, I would encourage you to follow up with him. >> Okay. Thank you, >> Miss Lee. >> So, can you talk a little bit about
particularly like because you've done this in the southeast neighborhood and you're working on in Mishawaka, how would you see like neighbor and school community engagement unfolding if this is approved and you start these conversations? like what would that look like and how would people be invited into the conversation and how would you
respond to kind of what they're hoping to have in this space? >> There's a process of love listening sessions. You'd set up listening sessions. You'd bring invite people in, let them know that you're going in in wanting to hear it out before you ever break around. Um
you would certainly the school I think um we would need to talk about we've already had some basic conversations about what would be nice right as a partnerships or things that would be positively symbiotic relationships but I think as far as the neighbors that's really where the most of the work needs
to happen um and the biggest thing is uh a lot of local um pastors and folks like that have offered to organize discussions and meetings for us when I've had conversations um we're not completely completely new to that area. And so when I've had conversations with
people that uh are friendlies as far as already willing to kind of go out and say, "Hey, let's have a conversation." That would be the first process as a listening session and say, "Okay, what do you think your biggest problems are? What do you think's going to work? What do you think won't work and why?" Because I mean, the folks who live there
are going to be the ones to best advise as to what I should expect. Um, so there's definitely an involved process there. Then once you figure that out and you get satisfied with it, you go ahead do the design process. You start building the building after you do
fundraising. Uh this one's going to be probably 14 mil. Uh pretty big fund raise job. Um probably take a couple years to do that. Um but before we ever do any of that, you'd have to seal up the building, put a new roof on it, get
it so it's actually in good condition, and secure it so I don't incur any more damage. But then once you build it, then afterwards as you come to the tail end of that, you do a neighborhood advisory committee. And that's typically people who are outspoken or gave valuable feedback early on. You invite them to
say, "Hey, can you come be kind of my advisory group going forward? We're going to meet quarterly and we're going to sit down, talk about, hey, what are the changes that are happening in the community? What should we do different? Oh, by the way, this situation happened." Um they the first thing they
did at Southeast was do a neighborhood strategic planning session for the neighborhood. The second thing they did was wrote the standards of conduct for the center itself. So that's how that that's kind of how the whole process goes from beginning to end. >> Okay. Followup question. Um in the child
care center at one roof is there infant care when what >> the ones we currently have take 12 weeks. 12 weeks to through your 12th year. >> Okay. Um, that's the current one we're working with. Northwest, it's too early to say, uh, who that would be. We've got a couple people who might be interested
in having discussions with us, but like I said, um, I don't really I don't have a strong concern about finding somebody to go in there that would be of somebody that would be of caliber. We won't we would only do accredited uh, path pathways to quality uh, level four, that
kind of thing is what we'd be looking for for somebody who's going to be doing those kinds of things. just know all of it is a challenge but infant care is the big challenge in child care so yeah that'd be great for that neighborhood >> thank you so you had a question
>> yes no we we had mentioned that uh >> we could maybe share the gym space at some point but that's looking three to four to five years down the line >> we we talked about that because I understand that like the middle school
the gym they show showed me We met at uh Marquette and uh we being the city and and all of Mr. Eid. Um and we went in there and like it wasn't exactly a gym built for middle school sports versus this one would be. So again,
>> thank you. >> That wouldn't be a huge concern to me. I'd be all about it. More more hanging out the better we are, >> Miss Ellison. >> Yes. And just my my understanding is that this building is was closed when the new Marquette was
built like in 2011. So, it's been about 14 15 years. Is that correct? Roughly, >> something like that. >> Yeah. >> Has there been anything in this building since then or has it just been vacant for 15 years? >> It's been vacant.
>> Vacant costume. >> Costume shop for Well, that's good. I mean, I I I do imagine that's something that can be in a lot of other places, though, too. But I I mean, I would just point out that if it's been vacant for 15 years, if we don't take this opportunity, I don't
know that you won't just have another board sitting here 15 years from now. Wondering, you know, what are we going to do with this building that's been sitting vacant for 30 years? But I I just wanted to confirm. >> They're homeless been using it. >> Well, there are other places for them,
too, that were probably better suited than that. Any other questions, concerns? >> I I just have one more. >> Mr. Cass, um >> I'd like to have uh either Mr. Eid or Mr. Austinino, do you think this is the best deal we
can have? >> Yes. >> I think when you compare it to other uh costs that would be involved in either >> rehabbing, remodeling, or tearing down, uh this is a better alternative. Okay.
Thank you. >> Why what why can't we ask Matthew see what he says? >> Any other questions, concerns? >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Is there a motion to approve action item
9.01? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> It's been moved by uh Mrs. Lee, second by Dr. Green. Are there any further questions? >> Mr. Hernandez, can you please call the
role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Costello, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Lea, >> I. >> Mr. Snakei, >> I. >> Dr. McCulla, >> I. The vote to approve action item 9.01
passes unanimously. Seven votes. It is recommended that the school corporation I mean school board trustees approve action item 9.02. 02 approval of the job description special ed pair/homebound. Is there a motion?
>> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. It's >> been moved by Miss Lee, second by Dr. Green. Are there any questions? Mr. Hernandez, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Cello, >> I.
>> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Leva. >> Hi, >> Mr. Snakei. >> Hi, >> Dr. McCulla. >> I The vote to approve action item 9.02 passes unanimously. Seven votes. It is recommended by the school by the school
board of trustees to approve action item 9.03, approval of SNAP McKinley early childhood childhood curriculum with creative classrooms from teaching strategies. Is there a motion?
>> So moved. Is there a second? >> Second. >> It's been moved by Mrs. Lee, second by Dr. Green. Are there any questions? >> Mr. Nes, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Castillo,
>> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Lea, >> I. >> Mr. Sniki, >> I. >> Dr. McCulla, >> I. The vote to approve action 903 passes unanimous. Seven votes. It is
recommended that the school board of trustees approve action item 9.04, approval of board resolution for in inter fund transfers and budget appropriations to make necessary accounting adjustments for different
fund balances impact neutral to corporation actual cha cash cash balance. That's a lot. >> Can you explain what that is? Wait, will you explain what that is? Uh, Mr.
and >> Oh, sorry about that. So, uh, we do have a cash balance of $119 million as of August 2025, which is a $17 million increase from the last year. However, in
terms of accounting, we do have to make some adjustments. There are some funds with negative balances that we cannot recover. For instance, the empowerment zone fund, right? When the zone ended, that ended with a $5 million in the red.
Uh in addition to that, we do have some grants including a special education. uh those grants have been in the negative for quite some time from the previous fiscal years and we cannot recover those balances through reimbursements as the
reimbursement cycles have already ended long ago. So approximately in our analysis uh those amounts total up to approximately $1.5 million. So we recommend that we transfer those uh
amounts from our operations fund cash reserve to those different funds to have a fresh start so that we know that we are starting from zero and we keep a better track of our reimbursement and
receipt to expenditure or budget to actual situations there. This is just an accounting adjustment. it will no way affect our true cash balance because we already lost the money which is not good news but the good news is we are not
going to lose the money again. We already consulted with the state board of accounts and they also recommend that we do the same thing. I have already incorporated that into our 2026 proposed budget for the transfer to be made from the operating fund cash reserve and it
is another resolution for better transparency and the board separate approval. >> Thank you. Is there a motion to approve action item 9.04? >> So move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> It's been motioned by Dr. Green, second
by Mrs. Lee. Are there any questions? Miss Lee, >> can you tell us are there what are the new protocols in place to like work to ensure that we don't end up with something like this happening again? >> Uh, thank you Miss Lee. Great question. So for instance for for the grants what
we do is based on the federal or state approval. We now set up the budget into our financial system and those departments or schools or the grant fiscal officers they cannot uh overspend uh more than what is allocated in the
budget. Uh previously it was not the case all the time that we had a solid budget plugged in into our system. uh that is what I believe caused the overexpenditures and those overexpenditures gradually uh accumulated to be a
considerable amount. uh also we are performing very very well now compared to the past in terms of timely grant reimbursements and uh I mentioned that in my budget presentation too. One of the core reasons our cash reserve grew
so uh well over the past year is because we are now very timely in terms of submitting our grant reimbursement uh forms there you know so I believe we have already rectified the situation in practice now we just need to do the accounting adjustment so that we can
have a fresh start going forward >> thank you >> thank you >> thank you any other questions Mr. or Castello >> so I can get it into my language. So what you're trying to do is >> get an an accurate picture of what you
have in your fund balance >> that yes that summarizes it very well. Uh sorry I didn't use that sentence but you basically summarized everything that I just said so far. Thank you. >> Any other questions?
Mr. Hernandez, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Mr. Ellison, >> I >> Mr. Cassello, >> I >> Miss Lee, >> I >> Dr. Green, >> I >> Mr. Lea, >> I >> Mr. Spiki, >> I >> Dr. McCulla. >> I The vote passes unanimously. Seven
votes. >> It is recommended that school board trustee approve action item 9.05, conduct a second public hearing 2026. budget. Is there a motion? >> So move. >> Second.
>> It's been motioned by Dr. Green, second by Mrs. Lee. Are there any questions? >> Well, actually the uh what we're going to do is actually conduct the second hearing from >> Yes. >> Okay. So, we we we have to read our
statement. >> The public has an opportunity to speak at this time or ask questions at this time. This is the second uh public hearing on the 2026 budget. Are there any is there anyone out there that want to speak on this action item?
Seeing none. Oh, Mrs. Mrs. uh Jones actually 1319 East Victoria. When I read the um subheading of the vision statement that was actually pertaining to the budget
conversation because I wanted to implore upon you to consider the equity statement when it comes to the budget. Oh, I actually wanted to ask what kind of consideration
that the vision statement played on the budget because we know and I don't care how many people want to diminish the issue of race and inequalities in the corporation.
They're still here. As long as we are under the consent decree, they're still here. So whether we're talking about the budget or any other aspect of the corporation, these things should be taken into
consideration. So it doesn't matter. I just want to remind some of you that for years I spoke to a board that was complacent like yourself in the matters of race. But then after a while, the truth just
kept going out and people could no longer deny it. So, I wish you would consider reconsider your position on not um considering race in all of your decisions, whether it's the budget or any other aspect. Thank
you. >> Any other questions or comments regarding this action item? Seeing none, Mrs. Hernandez, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Castillo, >> I.
>> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Lebo, >> I. >> Mr. Smecki, >> I. >> Dr. McCulla, >> I. The vote P uh to approve action item 9.05 passes unanimous. Make seven votes. Uh it is recommended that the school
board of trustees approve action item 9.06. We're going to conduct a second hearing on 2020 2026 school bus replacement plan. Is there anyone wish to speak on
the action item 9.06 >> moved. Actually, if I may come, >> excuse me. Excuse me. >> Uh, so we we're not really voting on approvals tonight. We're just conducting the second hearing. >> So, uh, you can just announce announce
the opening of the matter for the hearing. >> If people want to speak, that's great. And then when they're done, then just close that portion. >> Just close that portion. Okay. All righty. So, is any does anyone want to
speak on action item 9.06, 06 second public hearing of 2026 school bus replacement plan. Okay. So then we'll just close that item. All right. So we're on
it is recommended the school board of trustees um approve action item 9.07 7 conduct a second public hearing on 2026 capital projects operations fund. Is anyone wishing to speak on action item
9.07? Anyone wish to speak on action item 9.07? 07. We will close that uh action item 9.07 out uh and move to action item 9.08. It is recommended that
the school board trustees approve action item 9.08 approval to receive donations of 300,000 with a 25% matching commitment from the district for give AF. If there is there a motion to
approve action item 9.08. >> So moved. >> Second. >> It's been moved by Mrs. Lee, second by Dr. Green. Are there any questions? >> Uh we do have uh Mr. Sides and also uh representatives from the donor
organization. >> Okay. Welcome Mr. Sites. >> Thank you uh Superintendent Eid, President Dr. McCulla, and school board. Uh we're extremely excited to be here today and we do have representatives from u the foundation give AF. It's um
we have two individuals here um well I'm sorry we have one individual here um Eric Hudac and he is here representing the organization and we are extremely fortunate. So, we have a wait room at Adams High School that had about $15,000 worth of equipment purchased in 2016.
And before that, uh the last time any amount of money had been put into the wait room had been uh before the renovations, uh the 2001 through 2004 school year. So, um we have been able to secure a generous uh amount of money to
completely uh redo the weight room. Uh the weight room will impact uh has the opportunity to impact every single student in the school as we also have our strength and conditioning uh teacher back here uh Mr. Chelmaniac. We have about 300 students each day that take
his class. Every kid in the school has the opportunity to take the class along with the 700 student athletes that we have throughout the day. >> Thank you. Are there any questions? >> Thank you. >> Thank you.
Mr. Hernandez, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Castillo, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Lea, >> I. >> Mr. Snicki, >> hi. >> Dr. McCulla. >> Hi. The vote passes unanimously. Seven
votes. It is recommended that the school board school board trustees approve action item 9.09, 09 approval of partnership extension with smart systems for the
2526 school year. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> It's been moved by Miss Lee. Second by Dr. Green. Are there any questions? Mr. Nendes, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I.
>> Mr. Cassillo, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Lea, >> I. >> Mr. Snakei >> I >> Dr. McCulla >> I the vote passes unanimously seven seven votes it is recommended that the school board trustee approve action item
910 approval of quotation for convention oven replacements multiple school locations central restaurant products is there a motion >> moved >> is there a second >> second
>> it's been motioned by Mrs. Lee, second by Dr. Green. Are there any questions? Mr. NZ, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Castello, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Leva,
>> I. >> Mr. Snakei, >> I. >> Dr. McCulla, >> I. The vote passes unanimously. It is recommended that the school board trustee approve action item 9.11. Approval to move forward with Walt's paving to do work with at Clayton Middle
School the west parking lot. Is there a motion? >> So move. >> Second. >> It's been moved by Dr. Be moved by Dr. Green, second by Mrs. Lee. Are there any questions? >> Mr. Hernandez, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I.
>> Mr. Costello, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Lea, >> I. >> Mr. Sniki, >> I >> Dr. McCulla. >> I the vote passes unanimously. Seven votes. It is recommended that the school
board trustee approve action item 912, approval of contracts with Walsh paving for asphalt rework at RiseUp Academy. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> It's been moved by Mrs. Lee, second by Dr. Green. Are there any questions?
>> Mr. Nes, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Castillo, >> I. Miss Lee >> I >> Dr. Green >> I >> Mr. Lea >> I >> Mr. Snakei >> I >> Dr. McCulla >> I the vote passes at seven votes
unanimously. It is recommended that the school board trustees approve action item 913 approval of contracts with Wolf Commercial Roofing Incorporated for re-roofing projects at Marshall Traditional School. Is there a motion? >> So move >> second.
>> Been moved by Mrs. Dr. I'm sorry, Dr. Green and second by Mrs. Lee. Are there any questions? >> You had a question, Mr. >> Mr. Leva. >> How often do we have roofing repairs? Is that something we do every year? >> Mr. Summers will answer that.
>> Thank you. Yes, we do. We are moving aggressively forward with roof repairs as you see today in front of you at Marshall and you're going to see a couple more in advance. In addition, we're going to have some additional replacements at Marshall's an actual replacement roof
>> and then we have some additional repairs that are coming up and as we move forward with our capital project funding, we'll do some additional replacements throughout the district. >> Right. Thank you. Mhm. >> Any other questions?
>> Mr. NZ, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Costello, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Lebo, >> I. >> Mr. Snakei, >> I. >> Dr. McCulla, >> I. The vote to approve action item 913
passes unanimously. Seven votes. It is recommended that school board trustees approve action item 914, approval of contract with Wolf Commercial Roofing Incorporated for re-roofing project at RiseUp Academy. Is there a motion? >> So move. >> Second.
>> Is there a second? It's been moved by Dr. Green, second by Mrs. Lee. Are there any questions? Mr. asking to call the role. >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Castello, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Mr. Lea
>> I. >> Mr. Snakei >> I. >> Dr. McCulla >> I. The vote to approve action item 914 passes unanimously. Seven votes. It is recommended that the school board of trustees approve action item 9 hold on a
second. 9.15 approval of contract with Wolf Commercial Roofing Incorporated for various repair work at different buildings. Is there a motion? Some move. >> Second. Been moved by Dr. Green, second by Mrs. Lee. Are there any questions?
>> I have a question, >> Mr. Castello. >> Uh, how many schools are we talking about? >> There are 25. >> Wow. And are there just patchwork? >> Patchwork. Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions?
Mr. Nendes, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Cello, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Mr. Lea >> I >> Mr. SKI >> I >> Dr. McCulla
>> I the vote to approve action item 915 passes unanimously and it is recommended that a school uh board trustee approve action item 916 approval of a turnkey proposal from Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP to
provide a full upgrade for the McKinley school fire alarm system. Is there a motion? >> So moved. Second. It's >> been moved by Mrs. Lee, second by Dr. Green. Are there any questions? >> Mr. Nandez, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison,
>> I. >> Mr. Castillo, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Le, >> I, >> Mr. Snakei. >> I, >> Dr. McCulla. >> I. The vote to approve action item 916
passes unanimously. Seven votes. It is recommended the school board of trustees approve action item 917, approval of change order number one to the architectural design work with Herbert and Herbert Architects Incorporated for the CTE medical magnet
renovations at Washington High School. Is there a motion? >> So moved. Second. >> It's been moved by Mrs. Lee, second by Dr. Green. Are there any questions? Miss Lee, >> I'm guessing that's why Mr. Summers is sitting there. Just maybe explain like
were there things that just had to be adjusted? >> That is correct. >> Such as >> Oh, such as um the actual the design was approved by the state. What we originally planned for was to have a partnership. However, that partnership
didn't come to fruition and what we did is take a look at the architectural plans and we had to send them back down to state and that's what caused a little bit of delay. >> Thank you. Any other questions? Mr. Hernandez, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison,
>> I. >> Mr. Casillo, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Lea, >> I. >> Mr. Snedi, >> I. >> Dr. McCulla, >> I. The vote to approve 917 passes
unanimously. Seven votes. It is recommended that the school board trustees approve action item 918, approval of engagement letter. agreement with Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP for advisory services, including debit insurance,
um, budget support and an analysis and continuing disclosure services. That's all. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Is there a second? It's been moved by Mrs. Lee, second by
Dr. Green. Are there any questions, Mr. Ned, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Castello, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Leva, >> I. >> Mr. Snakei, >> I. >> Dr. McCulla,
>> I. The vote to approve 918 passes unanimously. It is recommended by the school board trustees to approve action item 919, approval of Elkhart and St. Joe County's Head Start Consortium Program Bus Maintenance Contract with the South Bin Community School
Corporation. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> It's been moved by Mrs. Lee, second by Dr. Green. Are there any questions? Mr. Hernandez, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I.
>> Mr. Castello, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Leva, >> I. Mr. Snakei. >> I, >> Dr. McCulla. >> I The vote to approve nine action item 9.19 passes unanimously. Seven votes. It is
recommended that the school board trustees approve action item 920, approval of the Everdriven's transportation blanket purchase order. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Been moved by Mrs. Lee. Sec. I'm sorry.
Moved by Dr. Green, second by Mrs. Lee and I Is there someone there that can tell us what this is? >> Good. Uh this is transportation services for our uh population of students who are experiencing homelessness. Um it's a
blanket purchase order to be used as needed. >> Okay. I appreciate it. Thank you for explaining that. Are there any questions? Mr. NZ, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Costello, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green,
>> I. >> Mr. Leva, >> I. >> Mr. Snedi, >> I >> Dr. McCulla. >> I The vote to approve action item 920 passes unanimously, seven votes. It is recommended that the school board of trustees approve action item 9.21,
approval of the M squared learning/clear square group invoice. Is there a motion? >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> It's been moved by Dr. Green, second by Mrs. Lee. Is there someone there can
explain what this is? Um, so this is for our equitable share services with our nonpublic schools. They have chosen to utilize an organization to provide intervention services as opposed to using a intervention specialist.
>> Okay. Thank you. And this was also approved by the uh by the IDE. >> Okay. Thank you. Are there any questions? Any Mrs. Hernandez, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Castello, >> I. >> Miss Lee,
>> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Leva, >> I. >> Mr. Snedi, >> I. >> Dr. McCulla, >> I. The vote to approve action item 921 passes unanimously. It is recommended that the school board of trustees
approve action item 922, approval of the South Ben Community School Corporation Wellness Policy 2025. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> It's been moved by Mrs. Lee, second by Dr. Green. Are there any questions?
>> So I I was going to ask the board if I may um if there could also be a waiver of our three reading rule on this particular wellness policy. And I think Mr. Lataya is here. and um to discuss
the importance of this policy and and this was something that was done prepared towards the beginning of the year. Somehow it fell through the cracks and we're here to catch it. But I'll turn it over to you, >> James Lutaya. I'm the director for food and nutrition services. I also serve on
the USDA IDE advisory council. >> Okay. So, first we'll do then we'll do um we'll see if there's a a vote to pass the three reading rule >> or wave the three reading rule.
>> Correct. >> I'm sorry. Do what? >> To wave the three reading rule. But >> w I'm sorry. To wave the three reading rule. Why don't you correct me on that? >> To wave >> that policy. >> Do do you want to hear about the policy first? >> The policy is there. You want to read the policy? Yeah. >> Can you read it? Let read the policy to
Mr. must not take it please. >> Oh, >> I've read it but maybe need to let it >> so I can give a a brief >> why are we changing our policy I guess. >> So I can give a brief about the policy. So the wellness policy was passed under the local wellness policy and the rule words that local educational agencies
like uh school uh corporations had to put in place the local wellness policy. And under the rule, the requirements were that the policy has specific goals that address nutritional promotion, education, physical activity, and uh
school-based activities that propose promote student wellness. Among those uh among the other rule that were requirements were the standards for nutrition guidelines that uh include the b beverages that are sold to students
during school uh time and also when they are on campus. Under the policies also covered were the policies around food and beverage marketing um around snack smart smart snacks compliance and also
public involvement. So for this policy among the other things is after the development of the policy it had to be reviewed trianually that means every 3 years. So this was the time when the policy had to be
reviewed and we engaged parents we engaged students we had board presentation we had teachers administrators and we made sure that all these people are engaged in the review of this policy. So it started last year
around um I think September. Yeah, it started last year September. And we've had several meetings engaging with these uh parties to make sure that we get their views on informing the policy. So this is one of the activities. The policy has not changed. It has just been
reviewed. And I I think in uh in the a document that was provided to we did highlight the changes some of the add-ons and some things that were discussed I think on physical activity we excluded
non-physical sedentary video games as a for example as not meeting physical activity requirements and I think there were some adjustments to some of these other provisions right but the policy already exists. It just
was up updated. >> So number A up there you said students will in will be encouraged to increase their consumption or helpful foods during the school day. >> Are you including that?
>> That is correct. So among the activities that we do to increase uh student engagement with meals uh meals promotion we also conduct surveys in students. Uh the previous three weeks we have been in intermediate schools carrying out
surveys and uh encouraging students to build their own meals and also getting their input on how they want to see the menus changed in regards to the compliances. >> Okay. So go back up. Go back up because I I saw something else that you had.
Yeah. Go back up. Um right there students will >> on I is that it >> to participate in school meal programs. Students will be encouraged to
participate in school meal programs and the identities of students who eat free and reduce meals will be protected. Are you eliminated that? >> No. >> No, we're not. >> Oh, okay. When it's highlighted, I don't know what that means. No, that means
that it's in there. I think there was some potential language modification, but to make clear, it's I think it was rewritten along the way. >> Yeah. So, I think the highlighting is emphasizing the um some of the tools
that were edited but not changed or removed. >> I'm sorry, what? >> It's just emphasizing some of the points where the edits occurred. So, they were not removed. They're still upheld. This portion will be in the policy. >> Okay. I just want to make sure that
we're not taking that out of the policy. >> No, not at all. >> Okay. Because >> I think that the premise for that edict was to emphasize that those students who are coming from those populations will be protected. Okay. >> So, we wanted to make sure that we included that language.
>> I want to make sure that stays in there because when I'm looking at that, it looks like you were eliminating it. I was thinking we can eliminate that. Oh, it's it's highlighted because it's being it's being >> in there. Okay. All right. All right. Just to make sure. I'm just double checking.
>> And what's motivating the changes? >> It's a requirement that we have three. >> Okay. >> And as far as I sorry, as far as I can see, there's nothing substantive
here that's been added or deleted. It was primarily formatting changes, just making the language clear. >> I'm just clarifying because >> Yes. >> Well, that makes more sense then to me. >> Yeah, we're being asked if we want to wave >> the three readings >> and
that helps. Thank you. >> Miss Lee, >> when I was reading through it, I saw that it there was a note about changing healthful to healthy and which I thought made sense, but I also noticed healthful was in other places. So, I don't know if you want to just do a search and replace. Thought healthy made more sense
than healthy. >> We can fix that. >> Although it might be the same thing. I don't even know. Have >> Have the teachers reviewed this? >> There was a teacher on the committee. >> So, there are a set of guidelines that individual stakeholders that have to be
at the table for the revisions. And so, we did have features included. >> I I I asked about that early on too. And it's quite a big committee that's involved in this. So, yeah. >> Okay. Any other questions? So, what
we're voting on right now is to wave the three breeding process. >> I think we need to uh have a motion for that because I think when you started out, you just asked for a motion to adopt this, but I think >> I'm going to get there, but I want to
make sure that's what we were voting going to be voting on. >> Okay. >> Okay. So, do I have a motion to wave the three reading process? >> So, moved. >> Second. >> It's been motioned by Mrs. Lee, second by Dr. Green to wave the three reading
process. Are there any questions? >> Mr. Nandez, can you call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Castillo, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Leva, >> I. >> Mr. Snedi, >> I
>> Dr. McCulla. >> I the motion to um the vote to um wave the three reading process for the policy is passed unanimously.
Now we'll go back to it is recommended that the school board of trustees approve action item 922 approval of the South Bin Community School Corporation Wellness Policy 2025. It was motioned by Dr. Green, I mean motioned by Mrs. Lee, second by Dr.
Green. Are there any questions on that? Mrs. Hernandez, can you call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Cassello, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I. >> Mr. Leo, >> I. >> Mr. Sniki, >> I. >> Dr. McCulla,
>> I. The vote to approve action item 922 passes unanimously. That's it. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> I think so. There was an item from the close session litigation. Uh, Mr.
Austinino. >> Yes. This was a resolution of a contract claim in terminating the U. Panorama education contract and a resolution to um for that.
Is there a motion to approve uh item 10 01? >> So we're approving the cancellation. >> We're approving the cancellation. Right. >> Okay. I'll move >> back Dr. Green. Second by uh Mrs. Lee.
Are there any questions regarding this uh process this program? Mr. Nendes, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Ellison, >> I. >> Mr. Costello, >> I. >> Miss Lee, >> I. >> Dr. Green, >> I.
>> Mr. Leva, >> I. >> Mr. Sniki, >> Dr. McCulla, >> I. The vote to approve the uh cancellation of this. What is that again? The Panorama Education Contract >> Panorama Education Contract passes
unanimously. >> It's a lot. >> We now move to board communications. Does anyone want to speak? >> I'll bring it up after they're done. >> This is your opportunity. >> No. Passing it to next week by next
meeting. I'm talk to you about this about uh >> Mark. Yeah. >> I'll give you a hint. I want the nurses need uh the the people
uh pair of professionals in the buses. Uh we need to talk about as uh getting SR into RiseUp. We need to start enforcing strongly our cell phone policy because that's causing
a lot of the fights and stuff in there. And we got rules. We need to set the rules. And if and you know if we have to do something about it, you know, uh where the adults tear the kids, you
know, no rules, there's no no cell phones. There's no cell phones inside the schools. Uh and one thing our officer there when is our buttons
going to be here in trained that was that was in the last school year. It was supposed to be here by now. So I need you to get an answer from him next uh by next meeting. >> I'll answer some of them now if you want.
>> No, too late. >> Okay. All right. >> Anyone else wish to speak? Mr. Castello? >> Yes. Thank you. Um there has been some recently some
recognition of uh coaches and and athletes uh that have performed or participated um in the uh South Bin Community School
Corporation athletic programs. And tonight I'd like to uh focus on one individual. Uh I've done some talking in private and
now I'm bringing it public to Mr. Reed and uh everybody in South Bend that I think it's time to retire a
basketball number of a person who played at Riley High School about 10 10 years ago, 10 15 years ago uh by the name of Dezy Anderson uh In his four years at Riley,
he scored well over 2,000 points. In fact, his I think he is the leading scorer in the history of Southbend basketball. Um, the Indiana Hall of Fame will have Dezy Anderson there.
The problem is uh the number of years and everything is going to be uh I think they have to be uh out of high school about 25 years for that to happen.
Um I know Deezy personally. Um, I was a parah at at Jackson Middle School when I first uh ran into him as an eighth grader and uh I was always impressed with him
as an academic person uh and also obviously as an athlete and I followed him very closely for four years at Riley. Uh he not only was a
Indiana allstar um and was a great athlete on the floor, but I can tell you right now he was he's even even better person in real life. Um
and I think we need to retire his basketball number. It's been done here recently and and uh and the other people who they have retired their numbers deserved it.
But Dezy Anderson deserves it. Now right now Dezy's in China I think at least that's what the last time I talked to him that's where he was headed. >> Uh playing in their professional basketball league over there.
But he will be home >> meeting >> uh around the uh the the uh holiday season in December. And uh so if there's anything we can do,
I encourage uh the administration and anybody else who uh can get involved in this um because I think um it would be very special to him. He talks about
his experience at Riley High School >> uh with uh greatness in mind for all the the coaches and the other players that played for him. And I've always told
people uh his senior year uh they were eliminated but I by I think uh Newcastle High School just before they got to the state finals. He was sick that day
and did not play up to his capabilities because he was ill. But he tried everything possible uh to be on the floor and be a part of that. And I know in my own mind if he
was healthy they could have won that thing. And uh and then we're then we'd be talking to about uh uh like Adams here going into the
uh soccer with a chance to win it. A I think Riley could have won it very easily that year if uh if he was healthy and was ready to go. Anyway, um I just thought I needed to take that
the opportunity tonight to bring it to people's attention uh because he's worth it and we want to recognize and honor people uh who uh excel at what they do in South
Bend. And I think uh you know he uh he he deserves that recognition of having his uh basketball jersey retired. I think it's 24. I think it's uh somebody who played for the Bulls
number, but I don't know. Okay. >> I guess uh I believe everything you say and I'd be in favor of it. That's another thing to add on your list to check what the procedure is. uh in the past when we retired I think Skyler
Dickens didn't we retire her jersey and stuff is uh at the time and but um the only question I got for you is he scored that many points. Did he ever give the ball to anybody else? >> He did. He's a good player too. He
surely did. >> He was a team player. >> Yes, he was. And I watched him play the whole time he played. Demetza, I'm glad you brought it up, Mr. Snider. Mr. Castello cuz the means is an excellent athlete and he's a wonderful person and
so if anything that we can do to help I think that we should probably look into that. He's an excellent person. Anyone else have anything else to say? >> Yeah, I'll pick it back up what Mark said about, you know, fall sports coming to a close. I want to thank all the student athletes, the coaches, they put
the time in. Um I was at the Adams game with Mr. Eid. It was the same environment, you know, when Riley was making their run in basketball when Washington was making their run. It was the same environment, community coming together and it was great when Mr. Eve there all his former students were
coming up to him say, "Hey, Mr. Eve, that relationship, you know, transcends time." And I appreciate, you know, Mr. E coming and, you know, good luck to our student athletes and all the families who came. Let's keep it going. And then um I want to give a shout out to our
marketing team. I've been seeing the principles to interview all the principles. That's great. You know, hearing their stories and we're talking about teacher retention. A lot of teachers who keep coming back is because of the principles. They want to work for the building principles. So as long as we have strong principles, strong
leaders, we'll keep those teachers. They'll keep coming back. So uh teacher principal said building relationships. That's why I became a principal. And that's what it's all about. uh being personable and then um someone mentioned equity statement. I know Dr. Green, we let's get together and let's let's find
a way and get a get a statement going and I know you're the lean on you on that. So, we'll talk about that in the future. And then uh give a quick shout out happy birthday to one of my favorite teachers, Mr. Weaver. We got Mr. Summers over there. Hired him right here in
Brown 20 years ago. So, thanks to that guy. So, give a shout out and um thanks for coming. Thanks. Anyone else wish to speak? Our next uh school board meeting is Monday, November the 3rd at Brown at 5:30. Uh however, we need to have to
schedule a meeting on the 27th. And I'll let uh Mr. Augustino, attorney Augustino explain uh what that is meeting is going to be about. So, as you know, uh the school has been in negotiations with the teachers union to
uh for our next collective bargaining agreement with the teachers. There were a couple loose ends, so we're not ready to announce a tenative agreement. uh but we're very close and there are some strict uh timelines under state law once
a tenative agreement is announced to uh proceed with uh presentation of those terms to the board. Um and there's also a timeline for the union to act on. So, I'm asking that we have a special
meeting scheduled for next Monday uh in case we're able to announce a tenative agreement uh prior to that, we'll be in a position to act in a timely manner to proceed. If it turns out that we're not able to do that, then
um uh then we could cancel the meeting. But for now, I think uh it looks like we're on track to be able to get things resolved and and be able to take the next step on the 27th. And I think Matt's got a schedule here of
>> dates and statute references. You want to tell them what they are >> just in terms of after the special meeting on the 27th? >> Yeah. If if we're able to move forward on the 27th? >> Yeah. Yeah. So, if we're able to move forward on the 27th, that would be uh the board's first opportunity to um to
hear about the the CBA. Then the union ratification period would be the October 28th through the 31st. Um then the the union would then conduct a ratification meeting, I'm sorry, the board ratification meeting uh where the board would officially vote on the CBA would
be on the 3rd uh November at the regularly scheduled board meeting on November 3rd. >> Right. So, so this this is all independent on being able to >> actually finalize our tenative agreement with the union um in time to act on it
for the 27th, but I um so we're not at that point yet, but I think we're very close. One of the issues dealt with uh establishing a uh uh reimbursement benefit for specialty
drugs which uh there's going to be a modification of how that works under our new health plan starting January 1. So in order to um minimize the impact of the change over in the plan, there was negotiation
on a u specialty drug reimbursement. And um that's a little more complicated issue that would take about seven hours to explain. >> I'm not going to do that. But but I think there's been a lot of behind thescenes work on that and uh we're very
close to having that resolved. >> Okay. So, we'll ask um uh Mrs. Hernandez and Superintendent E to schedule a special executive session meeting on the 27th. >> It's actually going to be a regular a special public meeting, not special
public, >> not executive session. >> Okay. A special public meeting. Um on the 27th, that's a Monday >> at what time? 5:30. >> That That's fine. >> 5:30.
And then we'll have our regular board meeting on Monday uh on we'll have to reschedu that for possibly um it'll have to be Tuesday or Thursday because I'm out of our regular schedule
meeting. Wait a minute. Let me get this right. Is this meeting going to be our regular board meeting? >> No. No. This is a special meeting to hear. We have to present once we reach a tenative agreement. >> I got that part. So our regular board meeting is scheduled for the the 3rd.
>> Leave leave that on schedule. >> Okay. It's on. Okay. All right. >> This is this is an extra meeting. >> This is an extra. So our regular board meeting will be on Monday the 3rd of of November. So that means we have two meetings coming. Special meeting on the 27th and our regular board meeting on
the 3rd of of uh November. So that hasn't changed. >> Correct. >> Okay. So you got that part. >> Will there be an executive session ahead of the 27th meeting? No, >> we'll have our regular executive session on the 3, >> November the 3rd. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. We we are required once we get to the point of that tenant green to present that in a public meeting. >> Yeah. >> You guys got that? >> Okay. All right. Are there any other comments, questions,
>> confusions, whatever? >> If there's no uh additional questions or comments, Thank you. >> Um we um I need a motion to adjourn. >> A motion to adjurnn. >> I'm sorry there's too many people speaking. Mr. Snide second.
>> Second. >> Yes. >> It's been motioned by Mr. Snake. Second by Mrs. Lee. All in favor signifies by saying I. >> The meeting is adjourned. Thank you.