Good evening. Welcome, everyone, to the South Bend Community School Corporation board of trustee meeting. Today is Monday, December 1, and it's 05:39 in the aft in the evening. We are now calling this school board trustee meeting to order. Miss Hernandez, can you please call the roll? Good afternoon. Mister Marcus Ellison? Present. Mister Mark Costello? Here. Miss Kate Lee? Here. Doctor Stuart Green? Here. Mister Carlos Leyva? Here. Mister Bill Snedeky? Here. Doctor Jeanette McCullough? Present. We have a quorum. We now move to adoption of the agenda.
It is recommended the school board of trustees adopt the agenda. May I have a motion? So moved. May I have a second? It's been motioned by doctor Green, second by missus Lee. Mister Hernandez, can you please call the roll? Mister Ellison? Aye. Mister Costello? Aye. Miss Lee? Aye. Doctor Green? Aye. Mister Lavo? Aye. Mister Snedicki? Aye. Doctor McCullough? Aye. The vote to adopt your agenda passes unanimously. Seven votes in favor. We now move to superintendent recognitions and announcements. Good evening, doctor McCullough.
Need. Uh-huh. Board members, members of the public. We have, item four point o one, on December 3. That would be Wednesday from five to 8PM. This is for teachers, staff, and administrators. All you need to do is take your, SBCSC ID, and go to the zoo for the zoo gifts of lights. It's a beautiful display of lights and the train ride through the zoo take your
families. This is open that evening only for SBCSC employees. 04/2002, this week is Inclusive Schools Week. 04/2003, National Special Education Day is tomorrow, December 2. And I have only two slides for the attendance update. What we did is we created a heat map, for last year and compared it to this year so far because we've been working with this was last year.
The yellow indicates that it's in the eighties, the green in the nineties, the orange in the '70s and the red in the '60s. This was last year. Can we go to this year, please? If you notice this year, it's mostly in the nineties. We only had that one day in the 70%. We have a few days in the 80, but I think this is a result
of the collaborative work we've been doing with the prosecutor's office and the Casey Center. These are all the announcements. Oh, I'm sorry. One last one. If we can please have a moment of silence for mister Langel, he taught for forty four years in the South Bend schools from Clay Middle, LaSalle, and he retired from Clay High. Thank you, superintendent. We now have the opportunity to hear from visitors under action items 901, 902, 903,
904, 905, 906. At regular meetings, the public is invited to address the Board for three minutes regarding action agenda items. Visitors wishing to address the Board on action agenda items must sign their registration sheet prior to the meeting and state the action agenda item, which they will address. Individuals may only speak once during this section of the agenda. Speaker 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 this statement becomes
perceived or acted, abusive, or obscene. Secretary Levi, has anyone signed up to speak? Yes. On action item nine point o six, we have mister John Paschewski. John Paczesny, 18420 Crown Hill Drive. Under the action item nine point o six, I assume it means to extend the contract of the current superintendent in another school year. I hope this is right. We need more time to create continuity, rebuild trust in employees, parents and taxpayers and to continue the positives that have become over the last nine months.
It is absolutely amazing when I run into people what they're saying the positives are and you see so few negatives that I think now one more year will really settle things to move forward. So let's put to rest any gossip or rumors or people with their own agendas, and let's move forward since we have a capable person in charge of our schools. Thank you. Thank you. We now move to hearing of 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 perceived, directed, abusive, or obscene. Anyone wishing to speak? John Pachesi, Crown Hill Drive. While attending a recent football game of a South Bend High School, they honored their senior players.
The announcer mentioned the future plans of the student athletes, which is customary. There were 19 seniors. Nine of them stated they wanted to go into some kind of trade work and not continue with their education. It really got me thinking. Once the decision is made on the Clay Building and who will get it, I hope this board and the administration will start a collaborative effort to get the CTE Center really moving forward. The need is there. It's obvious by the nine young men who said they didn't wanna further their education.
There is $8,500,000 to start the center. Maybe we can find other partners. We need to find a location and a building and get the process started, and let's not make a knee jerk reaction or a decision just to get it going. I went to back to school night to get a better idea of the magnet programs in the high schools. All we hear about is the IB magnet, the medical magnet, and the performing arts and visual magnet. I learned there are so much more than these titles. The list of programs that Washington offers is a wide range of career choices.
Medicine, health and human services, leadership. There are many pathways of study in the handout they gave that I didn't know about, and I'm sure many others don't. While Riley has and Riley has more than the arts, engineering and computer science, in addition to the many different types of arts. And Adams has the IB program, but they also have a bilingual educational program and advanced placement. So there is so much more to these magnets and how we kind of categorize them. The corporation needs to find a way to get the word out on all the
different opportunities in these three high schools and what they have to offer. I'm sure there are many parents and many people like me who have no idea about all of these programs. If you want a successful program, it all starts in the early grades. Reading, writing, arithmetic, other. It was great to see Newnier started a marching band. What better way to see a high school band program grow than starting at a younger age in an elementary building? I hope that you will look to start a marching band program in every elementary
school and every high school district that will help grow the program. It might not be a bad idea to let this new band march in the Saint Patrick's Day parade and Memorial Day parades in South Bend. What better way to market a program? Let's the people see what South Bend Schools has to offer. Thank you. Anyone else? We now move to academic focus. McKinney Vento. Welcome. Can you introduce yourselves for the listening public, please?
Sure. My name is Stephanie Stewart Bridges. I am the director of student services. Sarah Nowicki, Families in Transition, corporation liaison. Good evening, doctor McCullough, school board of trustees, and superintendent aide. I appreciate you, having me speak about our McKinney Vento program. McKinney Vento is a federal law that was enacted in 1987 that protects the rights of students on the federal level that are unhoused. Also hearing the terminology of housing hardship, those are students that do not have an
adequate, regular, fixed night time residence, can be one of those three to identify and qualify for the program. The four different ways we identify under the program are students that reside in our local shelters. We have partnerships with YWCA, for their transitional housing, their safe station, Hope Ministries, Center for the Homeless, and YWCA. I work very closely with a representative from each of those, shelters to make sure
the needs are met for our students and supports are provided. Families that are doubled up are identified under McKinney Vento. That means they are residing with a family member or a friend or an acquaintance because they lost their home due to a DV situation, due to an eviction, or some kind of hardship such as, job loss. We do have families that are identified under unsheltered.
That's obviously residing in their cars. But also, they are identified as unsheltered if they lack a regular nighttime residence or an adequate residence, such as no running water or lack of heat, they can be identified for the program as well. And then our families that are in the hotels and motels, not due to an agreement of this is what's best for our family right now or an agreed upon
situation of I took, or residing here due to, a new job, or we haven't been able to find a home of our liking right now, so we're gonna just stay in a hotel as a convenience. These are families that have been evicted that, do not have a place, to go, and, maybe are on a wait list for a local shelter. Under the McKinney Vento program, as we call our Families in Transition program, students are re identified each school year.
They can be identified at the beginning of the school year and throughout the school year, but it ends the last day of school. The services end. So they have to go through a reidentification process at the beginning of each school year, whether that is through self identification, through the support of our facts and social workers who help with the referral process in each school, or, them reaching out to me directly. We have certain forms that are collected, from the DOE or for the DOE along
with, initial referral process, and, I connect with each and every family that is referred for the McKinney Vento program. Our main goal is to eliminate any barriers. Families that enroll have missing documents. They don't have proof of address because of the scenarios that they are in, especially our families that are doubled up or who have left a scenario such as a DV situation or eviction, last minute, and they don't have these items to enroll in
school, under McKinney Vento, they have immediate enrollment. And then through the help of myself and our school workers, we help get them the documentation that they need, such as immunization records or birth certificates. Our biggest goal is to eliminate extra barriers. So we want to make sure our students that are identified can stay within the school of origin. So that is the school in which they are currently enrolled, but they now reside in a new boundary.
Under McKinney Vento, we help transport them to remain in their school of origin, the school where they were attending when they were permanently housed. Parents have the right to either enroll within that new boundary school or remain within the school of origin. Some of the other services we provide, very thankful that, Miss Bridges, was able to kind of share the idea of our McKinney Vento closets. We have closets in most of our schools where they are supplied with hygiene products
and clothing products, for our students that are identified under McKinney Vento. Here at Brown, through the help of partnerships and grants, We have started a great surplus of hygiene and clothing products, that I hope to continue to, build and grow so it lasts many years to come for our families that are in need. A lot of my duties, are just making sure that the educational rights and protections
are in place and that we are in compliance. One of our biggest supports is the transportation piece. I work very closely, not only with our transportation department, but with other districts. So under McKinney Vento, if you're identified, students obviously may move out of district. And we work together with that, other district to provide one way transportation, and they provide the other. That is expected from the DOE, and that's part of the federal guidelines. So remaining in compliance within the transportation guidelines and working with other districts, to make
sure those students, have that choice in remaining within the school of origin. Spreading awareness, providing trainings, professional developments, and speaking with other organizations out in the community to bring awareness to McKinney Vento. I've been an educator for twenty three years. This role has just, been my job for just under two years come February. And working in public schools, I had never heard of McKinney Vento. And think of the disservice that it's done to the families and students that had
been experiencing some type of homelessness. So just getting the word out and sharing with community partners and, bringing about advertisements, so to speak, which we'll share here shortly. So that way people are aware that this is available to support them during difficult times. And then sharing resources. As I mentioned, I speak with every single family that's identified, and I share out those community resources that I learn about by attending community meetings and, the partnerships that
I have with community members and providing those supports to the families along with those McKinney Vento closet items that they may be in need of. As I mentioned, the advertisement piece, hopefully, you have seen these around our building, in our schools and continuing to work on getting them out into community agencies. This is to spread that awareness, and families can self identify by using the QR code that is on the poster. Besides that, our agencies also use these, to help families complete the referral process.
And then we have the different documents that our school social workers and fax workers utilize to help identify families. Some of our data, as you can see, I included May on there, just to kinda show you where we wrapped up at the end of last year. When I started my first year, we had about a 188 identified, my first year, at the end of the school year. In the May year, we had about 293. And then you can see, our numbers continue continual continually rise, as the months go
on because families do re identify, so that August number is always lower. For the size of our corporation, I've been told that, we still are pretty well under identified. There's lots of reasonings for that. One being, the stigma of being identified as unhoused. A lot of families, don't under don't realize to hear that, that, oh, wow, we could qualify when, oh, we live with aunt or we're we we stay with grandma. A lot of our high school students, are are couch surfing, so to speak, and
they don't identify themselves as being unhoused in that scenario. So, our goal is to get the information out there and our our social workers at our high school level, along with our YSB connection with, their outreach program, work work together to try to help identify those high schoolers so we can provide those additional supports, such as, FAFSA support, for our graduating seniors that might be unhoused, in
addition to some of those other, clothing, hygiene, you know, financial supports that are accrued over those senior years. So I predict, last year, we had a big big influx in our numbers between November and December. That's we have a lot of that's we have a lot of mobility in our district. A lot of families are moving about, a lot of evictions, a lot of families are on the verge of eviction right now, with everything going on in our in our world. So we we, sadly, will see those numbers go up, but it's a great thing
too because we're able to provide additional supports and services for them. So, it it here, to provide you some information on how our families are housed, doubling up is, our our most popular in the sense that, I'm thankful that our families have friends and and family and acquaintances that they can reside with because many are wait listed for our shelters. As you can see, our unsheltered families, as months go on, gradually rise, and our
shelter numbers have risen. That is probably the highest our shelter numbers have been in the last couple years that I've been taking, on the role. As far as the hotelmotels, I've been working closely with a hotel as well, to get a set rate, weekly and monthly rates for our families. We're kind of just getting that up and running, so that's a little side work, in addition to the daily work that I do, because a lot of our families, they raise the hotel rates for those Notre Dame weekends, graduation weekends.
And so they have to leave and find somewhere else to go, or they're residing in cars on those weekends. So just, again, navigating different ways to support those families, and partnerships with, people in our community. And then here just highlights some of the partnerships that, we've recently had, Portage Township trustee, mister Critchlow, he supported, two different things this year. He, made a donation of uniform and clothing items for our closet here at Brown,
in addition to, funding, for our shelters, fill a backpack. Instead of kind of supplying the backpack and having everything in there, families from all the shelters were able to sign up, and we did a day, early August. And the kids were able to come in and pick out their own school supplies, the fun pencils, the fun notebooks, you know, the items that they they normally can't shop for. So that was a great day, partnership there.
And he continues to support and share out, our information about the program and and inviting me to come speak to different organizations. We also had the South Bend Educational Foundation last year, make a donation in purchasing hygiene products and clothing products. And again, these things are collected over time and with grant funds, through the McKinney Vento grant and additional grants that I apply for because I want these items to,
continue to be there years on end. And then we had our community health workers did a drive last Christmas and made some donations for our program. Those are just some. One other partnership that, we currently have as well as with Sylvan, Tutoring, and they are they have and will continue to provide, tutoring services for our students in our shelters who are identified as McKinney Vento. Appreciate you taking the time to hear about our program.
And, my goal is to continue to grow the partnerships and projects, with not only in our district, but within our community as well. Anyone have questions? Mister Costello? Well, first of all, I thank you for your dedication and your work. You you are focusing on a segment of our student population that a lot of people don't really understand very well.
And I think you have enlightened us a little bit tonight, on the need to reach out and assist some of these kids who are in desperate need of assistance. And, thank you for your both of you for your dedication in this area because it's very, very important. The questions I'm gonna ask you is basically, are is the school corporation, the administration in particular, are they giving you what you need to get the job done?
Absolutely. Okay. Complete support, from miss Bridges under student services, which is, where my role is housed. Administration, communications, everybody who's been, very on board with the different projects and supports. Okay. And I would imagine, every once in a while, you're gonna have to reach out to some of the legal services in order to assist and help, you in trying to assist these students.
So are you getting the needed services from the legal system as well? Our community partners have created, referral lists, along with those that I work closely with at, Jim Baxter at OneRoof and and Jason Critchlow, KC Center. Those, organizations provide lists of resources which we then share out. There hasn't been a whole lot of of need, for the legal part, but anything I get from the community, which comes through email, I directly send to each individual
McKinney Vento family. In addition to many families that reach out that are on the verge that are not identified, I still share those resources out. Recently, in October, Portage Township trustees did an eviction ceiling clinic. I had a lot of families, you know, reach out and say they were going to be attending. So, they do have free counsel at those kinds of things. So I'm you know, they the community partners are are really have been a a huge help in providing and ensuring those things. And and, luckily, we we haven't had to deal too much directly, in my role
in in sharing that besides just the referral list out. Thank you. And what finally, how about the our religious communities? Have they, supported and and assisted and helped? Absolutely. Saint Vincent de Paul, specifically through Christ the King Church. They have taken my, postcards, which are similar to our posters. They have they meet with a lot of our families in the hotels on September. They will provide those cards if, they hear wind that, there are students that reside
there that attend South Bend Schools. They have provided furniture items for our families. Yeah. Same with Clay Church. I've met with them and a lot of our families, utilize their pantry, and they have helped assist in finding furniture items or larger items for families that have been identified through our program. Okay. Well, obviously, I thought I was hoping you would say yes on all those and also fill us in a little bit on what they were doing. And, again, it takes a community, but it all starts with you, and I thank
you both for what you're doing. God bless you. Doctor Green. I have to agree. There are a few things that could be more important than the kind of work that you're doing and the kind of outreach you're providing. I can't help but think of, the DOE right now, and, this is a federal program. And while I think it's encouraging to know that local, agencies are helping in the ways that you described, and I'm grateful that you asked those questions, mister Costello, I
really do worry about the funding streams and the fact that those streams have developed over time through teams and protocols. Do you, and this is partly a concern I have, not necessarily directed at your work. But I worry, however, that, with the shifts that are occurring, is that gonna affect the McKinney program? I worry as well. SchoolHouse Connection is an amazing website, that I follow, regularly and attend webinars on as
well. They put out information on the McKinney Vento and where it stands as each new federal cut is happening. It you know, right now, I don't think that is I think it was more of a worry early on, but I feel like from what I'm reading and hearing with the DOE, I will say our coordinator is amazing, Sherry Jones. I communicate with her regularly, but it doesn't seem like that is something on the
forefront right now that that is is a worry. We are title, under title one funding, but, it seems to be safe for the time being. I I'm glad to to hear that because I know it's title one funding and the idea that the Fed would give less money that's than is available now to the state. It has never actually dealt with these formulas, and, and they haven't acquired the know how necessary to get the funding to the places where it's necessary efficiently.
That's something that I think we should be paying attention to, and I wonder if in part the burden isn't falling more on local agencies that themselves can't necessarily afford. You know, this is really related as well to, the mobility issue that you that you mentioned, And I wonder, you know, what that rate is, maybe 10, 15% in some schools, maybe higher, lower in other schools, but it certainly affects attendance, achievement, and
the like. If we're asking families, which we are you are, to fill out forms and put themselves out there at a time when I can imagine immigrant communities are not gonna be doing that, Is the level, is there a way to gauge the level of mobility that isn't necessarily related to, the unhoused? How would you describe the dynamic now within our schools? You know, it it's tricky. Last year, I didn't I didn't keep track of the mobility. This year, I am monitoring it and and tracking addresses and and keeping in good
communication. And one thing I didn't highlight was that, you know, as we saw, if you looked at the slide, 23 students have unenrolled or not active in in our PowerSchool anymore because they have moved elsewhere. And and a handful of those, we we, you know, we because of the records request, we're able to document that. But I'm I'm not notified. Parents aren't reaching out always to me to to notify me that they are going to be moving. But some are out of state, some are, you know, just, Elkhart or Plymouth.
We we also look at the distance for transportation. What makes sense? What's in the best interest of the student, as it as I didn't mention that. And then we we have families that become permanently housed in the sense of that they do rent or own that property at this point. And currently, we have nine students who have become permanently housed, but they continue to receive services till the last day of school, because I I did not mention that. But it it's tricky because we've had families that become permanently housed by renting or
owning, but within a short time, they're back in that unhoused situation and reidentified. As far as families that were impacted immigrant wise, they really they they really wanna stay off the radar. They do not wanna be identified. Knowing and and trying to communicate with them that, you know, this information is given to select, staff in each building. Shared with select administrators. Really, the the DOE document is just housed by myself until we're audited or or
asked for those documents, through the state. So I hope that they realize that it is a safe thing and we're not here to share out that information. It's private and as for all of our families. But documenting that mobility is something I just started this year and I'm hoping I can gather some some good data as as the state's collecting it as well as I enter it in through our PowerSchool system. I am grateful that you have a handle on as much as you you have at a time when things continue to change in what you describe.
When explaining that we allow students to remain at their home school, I wonder, and this is something for the corporation to think about, superintendent in particular, are we creating stability for those students? Because not only did you mention the unhoused, you mentioned those who are really on the edge almost every month, and they may not have that place. But, you know, the way our, transportation works, we could we have been telling families
we can't follow you with transportation. And that, again, will affect, their the children's attendance and will affect their achievement. So if we can apply some of what we're learning about the work you're doing, the great work you're doing to try to create stability for all of our children, you know, I think all the better. So I'll just stop, and just say, thank you for the way you've informed us and enlightened us about this work. Thank you. I have just one quick question, and I'm not quite sure.
Maybe you can answer it. I don't know. But, anyway, I was looking at the you said there was a waiting list for the shelter, and some of the families are in hotels. And when they have big games in the city, they have to go out and come come back when the games are done. So my my question is, you this is a government federal law federal program, and you're working with community partnerships. So have you thought about maybe some of houses that we have throughout our community that are rentable and that that are vacant right now, maybe seeking partner with those,
those, those those homes that are vacant that are rentable, maybe the the, landlords and seeing if they can rent rent their homes to to families that don't have shelter. And I'm I'm also curious as to does the government help the families with their rent or their you know, so that they can't because I I heard you say that they were evicted. So do they get any kind of assistance with their with their with their rent
so that they can't get evicted? If not, how can we see that happen? I know there's a lot. No. That's okay. I can I I've unpacked that? So through the McKinney Vento, that is the support for the students. So besides sharing out the information I received from community partners, our goal is to make sure students are attending school, that we eliminate a transportation barrier, and provide some of those clothing, hygiene resources for the students, tutoring services, those kinds of educational supports.
As far as the parents, or the guardians who are really needing that support, sharing out those community resources. Carl Hetler, he's our homeless coordinator for the city of South Bend. He was one of my first contacts and and has been providing me with information about, wait lists or, housing opportunities, as they come available for me to share out with our families. I personally have not been in contact with anybody.
It's a matter of what I'm given or I can request those things. You know, do you have an updated list? Are you aware of any openings or, you know, partnerships with those agencies, such as, Geminis, who is a new organization. They work as navigators. So we, myself and our social workers, our fax workers, are completing referrals for families to connect with those navigators who do know those insights, with deposits and what might be available out there.
What I can speak to, though, is because of that cuts because of the cuts in funding, the resources that families could apply for for, utility support and rental support are dried up or drying up if they're not already gone. And because the need's so high, there's not a lot available out there, from a lot of those agencies that have been providing that support for our families. And I appreciate the fact that you you are your focus is on the students.
But saying that and then going back to the other resources, that I'm concerned that that, with your partners, maybe in the conversations with your social workers and the the counselors or whatever and your partners out there and trying to find maybe employment for some of these families. Maybe that should be some of the conversations that go across the table as well. Because I'm just trying to figure out find a way to not only help the student, which is important, also help their family too.
And the social workers have done a a huge job of partnering with Sarah and working with those families. A lot of times, some of the requirements from Jimenez or some of those other social organizations, they can be cumbersome. And so they walk through those requirements with our families to try to make sure that we're eliminating barriers that way as well. So we do try to look at a well rounded approach to supporting our unhome families to make sure that not just the student you know, we definitely wanna send our support on the students students, but we also wanna create an environment for them
to be able to thrive and move forward past this particular piece of their life. So we work with the families as well. I appreciate it because I know some if the conversation, across the table is is also providing resources for the student and that maybe the conversation should also be to those partners that are out there, that we also try to find ways to help that that family as well. That was just my my main concern there. Appreciate it. Thank you. Any other questions? Miss Lee? Just saying what you're saying about the families, I think one of the things in
our community is we're so lucky to have, like, this abundance of nonprofits who are supporting families. And I appreciate the time it takes to manage those relationships to make sure you're taking advantage of all their areas of expertise so you don't have to do all the work yourself. So there's no way you can have a relationship with all of them. You would never get to do your actual work. So I appreciate that. And I'm wondering, like, at the state level, do you is there a a community of practice of people who do your work, like McKinney Vento coordinators? Is there a group that's trying to navigate I I think I think you brought
up, like, what's gonna happen at the state level depending on this waiver for funding and all the things that are happening so you guys can advocate for what you need to our legislature and our state leadership and the IDOE to make sure we're really validating what's important for families and students. I appreciate you bringing that up. That was something I kinda left out. So there is a McKinney Vento liaison for every public school and charter school. So in our area, I'm fortunate to also do some DCS work.
I work with our local consultant and kind of the relay person in between our schools and the consultants. So, because of that and the work I'm doing, I'm able to do this as a full time role. Our local area McKinney Vento liaisons are directors of student services, athletic directors, superintendents. So to connect with them, has been pretty tricky. But luckily, at some of the community meetings, we're able to touch base, through the
DOE. They have webinars and office hours provided, regularly, that we're able to, meet and discuss concerns. There's a lot of gray areas whether families qualify or students qualify for the program, so we are in constant communication, especially the transportation piece. There's that connecting with each district, and we have students all the time that are coming through that we have to communicate about. So, they're not as I I don't wanna say, how should I say this?
They have other duties on top of this, and they have a team of people to kind of help, run the role as well. Like I do, the social workers and our fax workers that are in the building, they're that first point of contact with the student daily where I'm kind of overseeing everything in the district. But, yeah. So I've been in contact. They are in our area. Unfortunately, the time that they're available is is not Right. It makes it hard. Mhmm. Yeah. For sure. Well, thanks for that.
It's I I always feel like having that. It's like a support group and a community of practice all wrapped up into one. So find a few people that didn't bounce things off of is always really helpful. I I can speak to the fact that, many community partners are very thankful that South Bend has dedicated has this dedicated role full time because the need is there, the need is growing, and I foresee it to continue to grow. Well, thank you both for the work that you do. Thank you. Thank you. We can now move to the con on to the consent agenda.
It is recommended that the school board of trustees approve the consent agenda. Eight point o one, approval of minutes, 11/17/2025. Eight point o two, financial report and statements. Eight point o three, bills and payroll payroll for payment. Eight point o four, the personnel report. Eight point o five, resolutions requiring annual adoption. Eight point o six, gifts and fundraisers. Eight point o seven, contracts for 50,000 or less. Do we have a motion? So moved. Do we have a second? Second. It's been motioned by doctor Green, second by missus Lee.
Miss are there any questions? Missus Hernandez, can you please call the roll? Mister Ellison? Aye. Mister Costello? Aye. Miss Lee? Aye. Doctor Green? Aye. Mister Leyva? Aye. Mister Stanicky? Aye. Doctor McCullough? Aye. The vote to approve the consent agenda passes unanimously. Seven votes in favor. We now move on to approve action agenda items. It is recommended by the school board of trustees to approve action item nine point o one, approval of special purchase for custodial equipment from KSS Enterprises Incorporated.
Is there a motion? So moved. Is there a second? Second. It's been motion by doctor Green, second by missus Lee. Are there any questions? Mister Nunez, can you please call the roll? Mister Ellison? Aye. Mister Costello. Aye. Miss Lee. Aye. Doctor Green. Aye. Mister Leyva. Aye. Mister Snidergui. Aye. Doctor McCullough. Aye. The vote to approve action item nine point o one passes unanimously. Seven votes in favor. It is recommended that the school board of trustees approve action item nine point o two, approval of special purchase of dental equipment for Washington High School magnet medical magnet
program. Is there a motion? So moved. Is there a second? Second. It's been motion by missus Lee, second by doctor Green. Are there any questions? Mister Nunez, can you please call the roll? Mister Ellison? Aye. Mister Costello? Aye. Miss Lee? Aye. Doctor Green? Aye. Mister Lava? Aye. Mister Snedicki? Aye. Doctor McCullough? Aye. The vote to approve action item nine point o two passes unanimously. Seven votes in favor. It is recommended that school board of trustees approve action item nine point o three, approval of special purchase for district wide pump replacements for Trane US Incorporated.
Is there a motion? So moved. Is there a second? Second. There's a motion by doctor Green, second by missus Lee. Are there any questions? Mister Hernandez, can you please call the roll? Mister Ellison. Aye. Mister Costello. Aye. Miss Lee. Aye. Doctor Green. Aye. Mister Leiva. Aye. Mister Stanicky. Aye. Doctor McCullough. Aye. The vote to approve action item nine point o three passes unanimously. Seven votes in favor. It is recommended that the school board of trustees approve action item nine point o four, approval of special purchase for flooring placement from Value Flooring Incorporated.
Is there a motion? So moved. Is there a second? Second. It's been motioned by mister Snedechi, second by missus Lee. Are there any questions? Mister Nadez, can you please call the roll? Mister Ellison? Aye. Mister Costello? Aye. Miss Lee? Aye. Doctor Green. Aye. Mister Leyva. Aye. Mister Sandicki. Aye. Doctor McCullough. Aye. The vote to approve action item 9.4 passes unanimously. Seven votes in favor. It is recommended that the school board of trustees approve action item nine point o
five, approval of special purchase for fencing repairs and replacement at various schools. Is there a motion? So moved. Is there a second? Second. It's been a motion by mister Snedicki, second by doctor Green. Are there any questions? Mister Hernandez, can you please call the roll? Mister Ellison? Aye. Mister Costello? Aye. Miss Lee? Aye. Doctor Green? Aye. Mister Leyva. Aye. Mister Snedicki. Aye. Doctor McCullough. Aye. The vote to approve action item nine point o five passes unanimously. Seven votes in favor. It is recommended the school board of trustees approve action item nine point o six
and, the mister Augustino, the attorney, will explain what that is. Thank you, madam president. So, tonight, for consideration is what I would, classify as a action to encourage, the board, myself, and mister Ead to move forward with, negotiating his contract through the end of the 2027 school year. His current contract is set to expire at the end of the 2526 school year.
So to do so, we're going to be entering a new contract. And under state law, that requires us to give notice to the public and to have a public hearing on that, along with disclosure of the financial details of that extended contract through 2027. So tonight's action would not actually be approval of that contract, but simply, a vote of support for moving forward, with that contract.
I guess what I would propose, we, as the board vote on this, to post the the agenda item to renew, You said by law to renew doctor Eads' contract. Right? Yeah. Yes. If there's support to move forward, then the next step is to I wanna I wanna get it Yes.
I think the people wanna see something happens. So I'm asking that we take a vote, not on that particular thing until it's law to post it. Yes. But so I'm asking for if we're all in agreement that we want it posted. Yeah. So as I would ask is is is it, does the board want to adopt a resolution to support moving forward with posting a notice and renewing or extending the contract for Mr.
Eid through the, 06/30/2027. If the Board, so resolves, then I'll proceed with the process for doing that. I wanna make a motion what he just said. Getting ready to do that right now. Thank you. Is there a motion? Alright. So moved. Well, he just moved. I think mister Schneidecki so moved. Yeah. He moved. Yeah. I made the motion. I'm seconding. You moved it. Okay. You Schneidecki made the motion and you second it. Thank you, doctor Green. Okay. The motion, it's a motion by, mister Snedeky and second by doctor Green.
Are there any questions to this motion? Mister Hernandez, can you please call the roll? Mister Ellison? Aye. Mister Costello? Aye. Miss Lee? Aye. Doctor Green? Aye. Mister Leiva? Aye. Mister Stanicky? Aye. Doctor McCullough? Abstain. The vote the vote passes, action item nine point o six, six votes to approve and one abstention. We now move to, board communication. Does anyone wish to speak? Mister, Costello. Thank you.
There has been, in the three years that I've been seated on this board, I have tried the best of my ability to support, the teaching staff of the South Bend School Corp Corporation, to the max because we got some great, great teachers. I have said very little about central office or the superintendent position.
Tonight, I'm gonna change that. Back in 1990, I think it was 1992 or '93, I can't remember the exact year, I first met Mansour Eid, mister Mansour Eid, who was a, I think, a candidate for a teaching job at John Adams High School. '91. '91. Okay. I'm off a couple years. And I had the distinct pleasure at that time as the assistant principal at Adams
to interview this candidate for that job and was very impressed. And as I found out as the year went on, he lived up to all the expectations I had as a school administrator in that building. And we had some we had some really, really good teachers back then and still do now at Adams. But, mister Mansourd, he'd, proved himself, worthy of being a superior teacher.
So I have always kept in contact with him periodically because of remaining in education like I did. I always ran into him every once in a while And we always had a very nice conversation. But we came time to a decision this past year, where we had to make a decision on leadership of the school corporation. Looking around inside, I only knew one person, that I trusted to take over a
very difficult situation. And that was mister Mansour Eid. Thank goodness, the we had a support of a majority on this board. But I knew that if given a chance, he would do the job the right way. And other people, not only on this board, but throughout the school corporation would have
the opportunity to see what he is really like. He has taken over at almost an impossible situation. And just like I thought, he has come through. Now, I'll be honest with you, We have had some disagreements individually. But that never inter, interfered and I've always maintained, that if he wasn't the right
person, I'd be the first one up here saying that. Because the role of a board member is not a friend of the superintendent. Board, the role of the board member is business. But he has done a remarkable job. Even though again, he's probably has not made everybody in the school corporation happy, but I think we can all look at him right now with honor of having him
in this role. And I don't know where the future is going from here, but all I know is I'm glad you're on our team. Thank you. Anyone else wish to speak? No. Go ahead. Thanks, Mark. Appreciate your kind words for our superintendent. Basketball season started. Girls started. Now the boys starting this week. We have three great high school boys' basketball coaches, Daniels at Riley.
We have the legend, Moe Scott at Washington, and we have Chad Johnson at Adams, who's also a special ed teacher. And when coach Johnson first got hired at Washington, I was a freshman 2002, and Crittendon was there. I remember his first high school game, and he's been high school coach ever since. And he's also a teacher in special ed department, so appreciate all he does and try to make it to all the high school games. So very excited for the season, and, good luck to our winter sport athletes. Thank you. Anyone else wish to speak? Seeing there's no additional comments, the school board meet next school board meeting is Monday,
December 15 here at Brown. Is there a motion to adjourn? So moved. Is there a second? Second. It's been motion by mister Snedicki, second by doctor Green. All in favor, signify it by saying aye. Aye. Aye. The school board meeting is now adjourned. Thank you for coming.