I'd like to call the South Gibson School Corporation Board of Trustee meeting to order. Um, patron concerns. Come on. All right. >> On to reports.
Um, you have the financial reports there for the end of January for uh, school corporation and not much else because I'll wait to end of March to really take a look at everything as that'll be the end of the quarter. So,
>> okay. On to consent items. >> Uh, this evening for consent items, we have the minutes from the February 17th, 2026 meeting, personnel items and claims from Mr. Armstrong. At this point, we would ask that you approve those uh
claims. >> Make a motion that we approve the claims as presented. >> Second. We got a first and a second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion pass.
Item 5.1 this evening under action items is the 2028 request for the summer European travel to London and Paris with Mr. Griggsby. Um, as I've stated in the uh the comments, these have been very popular programs. Uh, they go the company's been very good to work with.
They worry about student safety. We have plenty of chaperones. Uh, and it's just a nice opportunity for our students to get every other year to do this and then of course a New York trip on an every other year basis as well. Um, if you have any questions, we do have Mr. Griffy here this evening, but he's
asking for permission to begin uh recruiting so that the students have plenty of time to pay for it. And that's a nice feature, too, that we get two years to let them get this paid for without doing a bunch of fundraising. >> Recruiting chaperons, too. >> Always take the board.
>> Take the board. >> Take the board. >> Yeah. We're gonna show you what you do. >> Yes. So, we ask that you have heard that this evening. >> I think it's an awesome trip. I'm excited about it. Um,
so looks like cost of trip is about 5,200. Students have two years to pay for it. Is that right? >> Two years, three months, and there'll be a $200 discount on the night of enrollment. And we have two $500 scholarships we're giving away on that
enrollment. So make their monthly payments 190 a month >> and it's open to who? >> Anybody at Gibson Southern it's not with a club or group. Anybody who will graduate class of 28, 29, 30 and 31 >> are invited to participate.
>> I was graduated way before that. >> I make a motion that we approve the European travel trip with Mr. Griby. >> I will wholeheartedly second that. We got a person in a second. Any discussion? All in favor?
>> I >> opposed. Motion pass on the 5.2. Item 5.2 is an SRV vehicle. Last two years we've been lucky. The Hopsto has had a very nice vehicle for sale. They don't have one for sale this year. So, what we would like to do is ask your
permission to go looking for a used welloutfitted vehicle at less than the purchase price of $48,000, which is I believe what we paid for last year. so that when we do come across a quality vehicle that we feel would fill our fleet that we can make that purchase and not miss out on a vehicle. So we could
find someone one next week, we could find one a month from now, but we'd have permission to go out and seek that which would leave us at that point needing one more vehicle uh next year. This is well below what we have uh budgeted for the vehicles. So if we find one under that, we're saving money. Um, and we've been
looking at used trucks and vehicles and we believe this is actually probably more than we'll need to get a quality vehicle to serve our purposes. >> It's going to be on the question. So, it's going to be used vehicle already um
equipped to meet the needs of the RSO. >> It should have everything. We're looking for everything that you know the lights etc. But normally what we end up having to deal with is a radio >> and then sometimes the radar. We think sometimes we can get that from sheriff's department or from the motor vehicle. The radio would be the piece that we have to deal with and those are coming
way down in price because there are new options out there. So, uh we think we can get that at a very reasonable price and if we get a used vehicle, we'll probably we'll be under this number. We'll still come in under. That's our goal. Uh then we have money to move towards a vehicle next year. And we're
going to have to talk about other vehicles down the road, too, because of age and wear on Mr. Angar's truck and the truck that we got sent out back that probably shouldn't sit to get fixed anymore, but we want to keep it at a reasonable cost and get a good quality used vehicle
from a reputable dealer and gives us an opportunity to look around and find that. Of course, we bring it back to the door once we purchase that that we've done. So, >> are you looking at a SUV, a car? >> Probably look for a truck first to pull what we hope will be a trailer for the
reunification projects. Then also an SUV would be in the works as a possibility too. Um so those are all on the table. We just need to be able to pull a vehic a trailer with it because in the unfortunate event we need to go to a reunification site. We need to have all
the materials there and we want to have that in a trailer and they're working on trying to find that through other means. >> Reunification site of what? >> In the event we have to evacuate a building due to some kind of catastrophe and we have to take the kids somewhere to be reunified with the families. We want all we need all the documentation,
everything we need there to do that in the safest most uh less least chaotic manner we can possibly do that. All buildings have reunification sites. So um we we're fortunate they worked really hard to get all that together for us and
ours work really hard on that. So if we had to go to for example the RH RH center, we would take all those materials there and do it as least chaotic because that's the only way to say it because it's not going to be completely non chaotic at that point and hope we never have to do that.
So, so my concern after we've been in this a few years now is I know when we we signed the agreement and I think when the the vehicles were originally for if um sheriffs had to leave for some other
call or whatever, right? >> My only concern with that is after doing this for three years, I don't want to leave the school exposed at all. I don't know how to get around that. So, >> well, it sometimes there are just reasons they have to leave the school to go somewhere. We had an issue this
afternoon. They went out at the end of the day and they've been out using those vehicles in search of dealing with an issue. Um, you know, they're not always just during the day, it's it's after school, before school, those kind of things are out doing stops in the morning for buses, making sure they're safe. Um, we limit as much as possible
them being away from the building. Generally speaking, it's going to be training. uh and sometimes uh meetings that they have to attend. Uh we've done a lot more virtual meetings trying to limit them being away from the building. So we try to limit that and make sure they're in the building. >> That's fine. But we don't it's not
announced publicly when they're gone. Right. >> Absolutely not. And we have been Dan's been building a a pool of officers to do subduty and we actually got two in the pipeline now. So if we do have officers out often we we should be able to subs
more. Uh but they do have training they have to attend, but we don't and when they're in training, we have officers that rotate and make sure that the buildings are coming and going on on a non-defined schedule. So nobody can figure out way. They do this every time at nine o'clock. So yes, we limit that
and and actually Sheriff Manovven really doesn't want to be with the building anymore than they have to be as well. >> Yeah, none of us do. So >> true. I can I can just add we've written 43 tickets this year for stop arm
violations and speeding in school zones. We've responded to seven accidents to where if we would not have responded to them in front of our building, it would have been over an hour and then it shut down Coalmine Road. We use those vehicles for drive your tractor to
school day, for walk to school day, for ride your bike to school day. We use those vehicles. I've went and picked up myself about 12 students this year that's missed the bus that we were able to get them to school and then we've had some students that missed the bus going
home and I for one don't want them to sleep in here so their parents aren't able to pick them up because they're not home and we take them there as well. We've also served attendance letters when students we have a try program that we follow now
within the last couple of years. We deliver those letters from the prosecutor from the school to inform those parents that they need to make sure their kids get to school because they're getting ready to face some legal ramifications for that. And and and the
list goes on. But I know that's a lot of things that we take for granted that that we do that you guys probably aren't aware of and we need to do better of letting you guys know all the other stuff that goes on um that you probably
aren't familiar with. And Dan was back in June. He'll be doing an SRO at the board meeting like Officer Slater did last fall. It's also good to have the the cars in front of the building that anybody who's coming along and sees a sheriff's vehicle sitting there ready to
row and they do use them for a lot of things and they respond to homes that we don't want them going in without proper tools. >> No, my main concern was now that we've done it for a few years just >> I think we've gotten better at it
honestly. Yeah, we've never we have never left the school for an issue that was going on in the county. No, we've always stayed at the school. The only time that we've left is when there's training that we've had to do and we rotate that. So, there's at least two
SRO's still covering the board building and then when we have our monthly meetings that we went virtual to there sometimes we just got to get face to face and hash out a few things. my concern was to making sure that it
wasn't consistent so that anybody could time it or >> Absolutely. Absolutely. my questions. Any other questions? >> I'll make a motion to approve the
funding of the vehicle up to 48 for the S SRO vehicle up to $48,000. Um, that covers it. >> I'll second. >> We have a first and a second.
Any discussion? All in favor? Sorry, we did. We did our discussion. Oh, all's good. Item point 5.3 is the long overdue math
textbook adoptions for K to8. Uh we are using curriculum associates. That's what been selected. Teachers, parents, it was led by Dr. Phillips have reviewed all these. Uh administrators have looked at it. And as I say in here, one good thing about this is we're adding the I Ready piece to it that we used to have at a
great discount, but it also has the I in form inside of it, which is critical for us because now statutoily we are required to do a K to2 K to2 math screener just like we do with reading. So that is built into this. And while the cost is 317,000,
we can do that over we can make six installments so that the money we have in our accounts can continue to work for us. So we'll pay it at one sixth at a time. the books and everything will be delivered to the buildings each year. There'll be training involved in this. We're trying to do that right after school is out so they have access to it
uh before the summer and they have all summer to do it. The be the books will actually arrive before school is out so the teachers will have this all summer to work on. That's one of the things we worked on. Dr. Phillips has done a a really good job of communicating with staff and everybody coordinating this. We nearly had it ready for the February
board meeting and uh so we feel like this has been a really good process and curriculum associates is only one of only two that is approved for the K to2 screener and we believe the other screener might be paper and pencil and that is no way we want to ask our teachers to do that. So, this will give our our our staff six more six years of
up-to-date curriculum material and it'll give them I ready which allows them to do if a kid is at a high level they can move them even higher and which is part of which I'll get into later with the accountability model. But we believe this is the best adoptable materials and we'd ask that the board approve that
adoption so we can get the materials here for next year. I'll make a motion that we approve the math textbook K8 through curriculum associates. >> I'll second. >> Yeah, we have first and second
discussion. All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion pass. >> Item 5.4 is the approval of the 2728 calendar. It does include the two professional de development days. Uh, we will have to write a what I think we'll
have to write is a 103 waiver next year to do it. We can't do it now. Um, that's kind of a formality. We are a performance qualified district right now. We didn't have to do that. We could have three, four, five of these if we really wanted to. We don't, but we'd write a waiver for those or use performance qualified status. Uh, and if
that goes away from the state, we'll just take those off of the calendar and have the be reapproved as those will be just normal days. But it's pretty much what we've been doing. and it still has two weeks of Christmas, etc. So, we'd ask that you approve this calendar so folks can plan their 27 28 vacations.
Apparently, they do that. >> I'll make a motion to approve the calendar as presented for 27 and 28. >> First, a second. >> First and second discussion. >> All in favor?
Oppos? Motion pass. discussion items. >> So, if I could just um I want to give you about a 30,000 foot overview of the accountability model that was passed last week by the SBOE. Uh we've been working on this all year trying to get ready for it as usual in this new
iteration. There were some changes to it, but in essence, I'll just give you an overview. You don't need to I don't want you have to sit through all the details. There's going to be a K3 component, a 4 to8 component, and a 9 to2 component. And when we work on this,
every student's score is now going to count. Every student's math and English score and other items are going to count. All these uh the test scores will be the foundation of the accountability model. Mastery of iLearn is going to be the and then the high school, the SAT,
the I learn government, all are going to be foundational materials that'll start with and then from there you can earn what they call success indicators. For example, if you have a 94% attendance rate and they would add that in and your score would go up. You don't you can't
if you pass I learn, you cannot get 100% right away. You're going to start off, I believe it's 75 and then with the appropriate success indicators, you can move up to 100. And so there'll be a grade level grade for each grade level. Now, high school, I want to be clear,
there's going to be a nine and 10 component. things they did in ninth grade and then things they did in 10th grade will combine and then things they have in 11th grade and 12th grade will combine for a 12th grade grade. Um and I don't want to get into all those details but for the high school 10% of the
grades the SAT um then it also is graduation rate is 10% and 80% is the other indicators like SAT possibility of ACT attendance workbased learning and a plethora of things that they'll have to worry about. Um, so each school will
receive a grade based on these these scores. Now, I want you to also understand that next year we will get a grade for our schools sometime in the fall based on what we did this year knowing that we just got this passed by the state board of education last Wednesday. So, I just want you to
understand that this is year zero. And so, they've they've come up with a grading scale to where like 85 to 100 would be an A. However, if too many schools in the state of Indiana get an A, they'll move that number up by 2.5 until that bell curve, I guess, is met.
Uh, so just be aware of that. We've been attending I' I've attended two different webinars. I've been working with superintendents and going through the the rule of law, etc., trying to work through all this and figure everything out. One of the things we're trying to do right now is, for
example, in the seventh grade, they need a gra they need a graduation plan signed off by their parent, which is laid out in the statute. We could count that for this year. So, we're working on meeting with the counselors tomorrow to make sure they like kind of what we've got. And we're going to try and get that out so that hopefully we get points for that
for our middle schools for this year. Uh, not much we can do about some of the other things. Next year, we'll be putting high school classes, as you know, into the middle school. That will help the middle school because they they have to have a C or better and if they get two high school credits in eighth grade, those are success indicators. It
also helps the high school out because to be excellent, I think it is the terminology. They need 14 credits at the end of their freshman year to be considered like super on track, ready to go. Then it goes down from there. So if they come to us at the high school with five credits, that's helping them get
closer to that 14 total. Now there are they have to have two in math and English, etc., etc. But uh I learns that haven't really been accounted for in the past will will now count. You have social studies and science in elementary schools will count. Biology will count as a success indicator. There's a new government I
learn that kids will take in their senior year after they finish government that will be factored in as a possible success indicator. So it the the reality is that this is a very data heavy u component. This is what that is going to
be important. It's done well, done correct, but that's what's going to drive our grades as we move forward. I feel like we've set ourselves up to be ready go to go for it. We've been working on it. But I just want you to kind of understand this accountability model is going to continue to grow. It's
going to grow legs next year. It's going to rock some worlds, if you will. We've been talking to teachers about the new things that they're going to have to be doing. Um, you know, so and and parents likewise, a 94% attendance rate, that's a pretty easy success indicator. That's less than 10 days or less than a year.
>> So, I kind of wanted to give you an just an overview of what this going to look like and every school is going to get a grade in the state of Indiana. And of course, we want to shine. You saw recently for WKD, we were the second rated school in southern Indiana.
>> Okay. I I still think we're first, but but when it comes to things like that, we we'll take it. Uh, I also wanted to let you know that scores, I can't talk to you about scores or anything like that, but I will say that I'm very proud of our second and third grade teachers
and their students. Very pleased with what I'm seeing. Uh, I think the work that's being done in our schools is phenomenal. And I think once this comes out that you're all going to be very happy. A whole lot of happy parents out there. And it's going to take some pressure off kids as they
concentrate on some other things. But I'm super proud of all our teachers and the work they've been doing because it's just you when I look at it is it's it's incredible. I'm just really excited about that. Um actually when we have our IE perfect score, which I haven't been able to go through, I'd really like to
invite the teachers to come along and maybe have them hand it out with you because they did the work. So anyway, I'm pretty excited about that. Uh staffing, we're doing some adjustments based on enrollment. I've alluded to this in the past. Kindergarten enrollment nationwide is dwindling. People aren't having as many
kids. People are staying in their houses longer. It doesn't open up houses for young families to move in. Uh so we're having to do some adjustments at those or those grade levels and we're really trying to do it through attrition. We're making some adjustments uh there. The high school is booming. Out of district
enrollment is still exceptionally strong. We're well over 400 for next year at this point on the sheet. Uh I have closed multiple classes in our district because we're not going to add teachers. we're not going to build onto the buildings and we want to have room
for people who move in or you know, etc. So, and we're closing classes to try and hold room and make sure that our classes are still at a very reasonable size. So, um it's it's nice to say that we're closing classes in March in in buildings around this district. Um so, it's a
great problem to have. It >> it is. And you know, Owensville is sitting right where we would expect them to be. Hobots's grown as we know to almost 430. Uh poor branch is sitting around the 560570 range which is really
a good number for them. The high school is still sitting at that 740 to 750. We have about 210 freshmen on paper in the building for next year and they're still rolling in. I got a sophomore to sophomore two sophomores today that will be joining us
next year. So just kind of >> senior class >> senior class is like 1780 which is not too bad. It's one of the smaller ones, but our sophomore class is 198 on paper and they were about 200 last year. So it's it's going well. Um and then I was
going to ask Mr. Angar just give you a little bit of an update on if you noticed out back there's a skeleton starting to rise out of the ground up there. >> Yep. No, as you can see they started putting steel up today. Uh the last pour on the big pad will take place Friday I
think. Uh well I don't think center point you know set the new transformer. We rerouted all the electric to the bus barn concession stand the stadium. So we have to uh b in the natural gas line yet and finish the sewer lines up and then I
think the underground part should be done and then it's all out out of the ground then. So, I'll sweep a little easier once it's out of the ground. There's there's been a lot of unknowns, but we've worked through it and uh it's it's coming on quite nicely. They've worked they've been really good to work
with and that that all happened today and we were really glad it wasn't up over the weekend when we had that horrendous wind. So, >> yeah, they put a lot of steel up today. >> You know, we think by what end of the month we might have the full skeleton out there. >> And and the skin is sitting out there,
too. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The building's all all here. So hopefully on target for the start of school. >> That's all I have for you. Okay. Anybody like to make a
uh to adjourn? I'll >> move to >> I will second. First and second. All in favor? >> I oppos. Motion pass. >> Figure that out. Motion to sorry