The HSE High School DECA Club was honored at Wednesday night’s Hamilton Southeastern School Board meeting.  Eric Bedrosian, Alex Jurkovich and Ajay Singh were named International Champions at this year’s International Career Development Conference.

DECA stands for Distributive Education Clubs of America and is described as a non-profit student organization, preparing emerging student leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, hospitality and management in high schools and colleges around the globe.

In other items from the board session:

–The district has a new contract to provide most custodial services for school buildings.  It is a $4.2 million pact with a SSC.  The bid accepted is what was described as a “base bid’ providing custodial services.  The new contract takes effect July 1.

–Administrator Matt Kegley provided a presentation on Work Based learning, helping students not headed for college go to a certification program.  For more on Dr. Kegley’s presentation, use this link.

–The board approved matching funds for Fall Creek Intermediate and Sand Creek Intermediate playgrounds.

–The board voted to adopt new Spanish language program resources, botht print and digital.

–Bus leases were approved for 9 new buses at a total purchase price of $1,252,525.00.

–Board members voted to replace the chiller at HSE High School and hired a construction manager, Pepper Construction, for the renovation of Lantern Road Elementary at a cost of roughly $911,000.

–New lighting for Fishers Elementary School was approved.

–There will be a “Back to School” party at the Nickel Plate Amphitheater July 30th, 4pm-7pm.

The video of the board meeting is online at available at this link.