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We pay him later. Coach always knew because we took too long to run the course. Let's get a picture. Yeah. Here we'll get a quick picture. T congratulations being chased. This was your Hey, this is your idea. I can do that. Alisa has said if you see me running through the neighborhood Something's wrong. Yeah, I don't think you'll find any of my times in the record books. All right. Next. Next on the agenda is receipt of certificates of the election to the office of the school board members. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Alexander. This evening, um you'll find in the packet the receipt and certificate of the election for the school board members. Um there is I don't believe there's any board action required. Is there this evening? No. No, there is no board action on this presented. You can um see the the the certificate in there certifying the election and um the three board candidates that are now ready for being sworn in.
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it's just because tonight's session started at 5 PM so we don't um we don't legally have standing executive sessions they're only as needed so for example tonight was at five o'clock as that's why it's stated that way oh yeah yes Vicky yes and yes the board compensation of two thousand dollars per year and 112 per meeting 62 for special session definition to uh foreign yes [Music] for the bid opening Committee of the recommendation to appoint Jimmy Jackson director of Maintenance ground status illustrator of Transportation Don Ray Treasurer Jill Ray or Christy Brewer Deputy treasurers David Phelps director of technology and Emily Tracy superintendent as the brown hand schools do you have permission to substitute a second any discussion welcome Carol yes yes thank you and then I have the board committee Representatives the Brown County Schools Insurance committee Bill Bowden from County Schools finance committee Amy Huffman Oliver Brown County Schools health and wellness committee Stephanie kreitzer the Nashville Redevelopment commission Carol Bowden at Brown County Redevelopment Commission Stephanie kritzer sorry Brown County Planning Commission Carol Bowden in the Brown County Schools booked by Community Victory Hardin any discussions Carol yes Vicki yes yes thank you next we have approval of public session minutes you have a motion to table can you bring more approx session minutes from December 15 2019 to a future meeting actually a second any discussion profile Carol yes biggie yes yes and the recommendation to open the donation of 500 for me to sign into the CRC to be used in any area of need foreign County High School winter guard um next question any discussion thank you welcome Carol yes Vicky yes yes I had the recommendation to approve the donation of two thousand dollars from Paul Wales to the Brown County High School winter guard do you have a motion to accept the recommendation to improve the donation or Sunday any discussion and thank you welcome Carol yes Vicky yes yes thank you I had the recommendation to approve the appointment of Corey joy as Brown County High School student learning recovery Mentor 50 per hour not to exceed 225 hours this position is free and funded this appointment is made pending the receipt of a certified background check the relationship s discussion welcome Carol yes thank you yes yes the consent agenda item starting with the separation of Van Buren Elementary School teacher Tina Robertson effective January 20th 2023 through the transfer of Van Buren Elementary School Preschool paraprofessional Leah Hyatt the ESC paraprofessional affected January 9th 2023.
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All right. And at this point, we will now turn things over to Mayor Meyers. Don't stand in front of the screen. Your face turns blue. Oh, it does. It turns blue. ing for I know and my face was it was horrible. We should have traded places. I may I may have better right after I state your name. I, Scott Alexander, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the State of Indiana and the laws of the United States and the state of Indiana. And I will faithfully execute the duties of my office the duties of my office as a member of the governing body. So help me God. [Applause] All right, it's official now. You can vote. I can continue voting. Yes. All right. and takes care of that. All right. Next up on the agenda is the reorganization of the board for the 2023 calendar year.
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do you have a motion to accept the consent agenda take a second [Music] discussion welcome Carol Yes Yes mine is short and sweet tonight I want to just start with the most importantly we've had a very successful start to the second semester um it's always exciting to to be able to welcome our kids and our staff back so I just want to thank everybody for for smooth transition to the second semester um I want to welcome Amy Oliver as his name board president president of the board and I want to thank Carol for all of your service as president as long as I have been here with you so truly thank you so much for that um I want to thank Dawn Ray for her presentation tonight she is always able to give us very specific intentional detailed information on our finances and I'm just very grateful for that I want to thank Shane Killinger and Mary kurzio and Becky Higgins and their work to be able to provide opportunities for our kids to do something just a little bit different so thank you for providing that opportunity so those kiddos can come and present um I want to um remind everybody that our next Ambassador meeting is January 24th and our Focus will be all about School Safety and Security and wellness across the district for our staff and our students and our entire School community so really looking forward to our ambassador meeting and then it's at Van Buren and lastly Doug I want to welcome you to board I'm very excited to have you here and sitting up here alongside us so excited for the service that you will be able to provide thank you any discussion
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The first thing up is election of the board president. Mr. President, or actually Mr. Vice President serving as president, I hereby nominate Scott Alexander to serve as board president. All right, we have a motion and a second and the guy they nominated I will accept. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed. Passes 5-0. Congratulations. All right. Next up, reorganization of the board. Um, all the the board members were presented ahead of time, the reorganization list that is up on the screen. Um, I met with everybody individually about this. Um, did Mayor Myers leave already? He did. Needed to ask him about the Greenwood Redevelopment Commission. Um, the only thing that may change on here is my appointment with the Greenwood Redevelopment Commission um, expired in August and Greenwood rotates that around between Center Grove, Clark Pleasant, and Greenwood Community Schools.
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And the last conversation I had with Mayor Myers about it, they were talking about rotating that over to Clark Pleasant, I believe, but I don't I haven't heard what conclusion that they reached on that. So, I will make it a point to follow up with Mayor Myers about that. um all the other things um you know basically follows the line of secession. Um Gary um I think has already started um his term over at Central 9 in December um which was fantastic. We could get Gary started a little early. Um Rob is going to continue. When's your appointment up with the Bartersville Redevelopment Commission? Do you know? They invited me to the next meeting. way. Um, and then my appointment, the Johnson County Redevelopment Commission was just approved by the county commissioners for two years this time, not one year. Um, and I think it's good that we've got representation on those boards.
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And, you know, although we are non non voting advisory members, that's a mouthful to say, um, our influence on those boards and as they begin to um, institute tiffs and tax levies and those types of things, um, I think is important for us to be able to weigh in on and have input on. And I I mean, you know, one of the things that I think we all need to realize and think about is our community is changing. I69 is going to be a gamecher for our community. Um they're already talking about plans for a hotel, a Cracker Barrel, and a Casey's type of gas station at Smith Valley in 69. Um that's already in the works. I know there is has been talk about a tech incubator at 144 and 69. Um, and there's been some conversations around multifamily um housing all along that I69 corridor, which you know creates creates more need um in the schools and in the buildings.
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And those are things that, you know, we're going to have to be cognizant of moving forward. But, you know, the landscape's going to change. I69 is a game changer and it's coming. So, we got to figure out, you know, how we weigh into that and and how we represent. And I think we are represented well now um at least on those redevelopment commissions. So, any other questions from the board members about the board reorganization document? Do I need to make a Yeah, you need a motion. I need a motion. Can I get a motion on the board reorganization document? Mr. Mr. President, I move that we approve the 2023 board organization sheet as presented. I second. We got a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed. Motion passes 5-0. Next up on the agenda are the 2023 board meeting dates.
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I'll let Tracy get that pulled up. Um so every year at this time, you know, the board always approves the board meeting dates for for the year. And one of the things that as we were working through the board reorg process when I met everybody for breakfast or lunch or however it was I met with everyone um we we talked about how do we engage the community and give the community opportunities to meet with the board. Um, you know, board meetings as defined by ISBA and and state statute are are meetings that are held in public for the board to conduct this business, but they're not necessarily meetings for the public. Our board policy conforms with state law in which we allow input on the action items prior to them being voted on at that board meeting. But as we gathered feedback and we've tried various things over the last couple years, we tried the community forums that didn't have quite the success that we were hoping.
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Um we want to try something different this year and we want to do a segment four times a year and those are indicated on this list and they're basically at the end of each quarter um called um for the good of the grove. um any community member can come and um present things to the board um on any topic.
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Um we're going to we're going to start with three minutes for each speaker. Um we'll start with 15 minutes and if we find we need to allocate more time one evening, the board can choose to do so and you know we may allocate up to 30 minutes um depending on the topics and what's going on at that particular time. Um two two things to point out. These will take place immediately following the board meeting. So the board's going to conduct this business in our normal fashion and then we will adjourn immediately to a work session um to take place immediately following the board meeting and we'll start for the good of the growth. Um these meetings will not be live streamed or videotaped um just like we you know had done in the past with with other things. The other thing is I know Dr.
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Arin office talked about restarting the coffee chats back up. Um I know from talking with the the conversations with the board, we're going to try and get a couple of board members at those coffee chats. Um the thing to keep in mind is you can't get more than two of us there um without advertising as an actual board meeting. So um we're going to kind of rotate that responsibility around a little bit. And I I do know from talking with all of the board members, all of us make ourselves accessible if anybody from the public wants to meet with us. Um I know I know I've done it. I know Jack's done it. I know Amy's done it. I think Gary's already done it on a couple of occasions already. Rob Rob has done it. So, you know, reaching out to us and asking for a cup of coffee or a beer or whatever the case is.
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Um, I mean, I know we've we are all open to those types of things, too. So, um, we're going to start with that with the board meetings and and for the good of the Grove at the end of each quarter and then and the coffee chats and we'll see how things go from there and as we come up with new and different ideas, we'll we'll figure it out from there. Sound good? All right. I need a motion to accept the board meeting dates for 2023. Mr. President, I move accept the board dates as presented. I second. Thank you. We got a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed. Motion passes 5-0. There were no public comments this evening. All right. Next up is the consent agenda. Dr. Ariner. Thank you, Mr. Alexander. Uh this evening I'm recommending that the board um approve the consent agenda as presented.
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Thank you sir. Do I have a motion? I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. Awesome. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed. Motion passes 5. Thank you. All right. Yes. Thank you. Sorry, I was getting ready. Steve Tracy even told me to stop. That's right. Go ahead. Well, um, this evening you have just approved the new principal at Walnut Grove Elementary. This is Heather G. Heather, would you stand up for us, please? So, welcome back, Heather. You're here tonight with your husband, Brian. Yes. And and your daughters. Would you like to introduce everyone for us? Sure. This is She's a junior at the high school and who is a sixth grader at Middle School. Real stand up. I see you. Okay, great. All right. Fantastic. How exciting. And Mr. Robinson is her favorite.
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There you go. [Laughter] Well, welcome. It's good to have you back. So, yes, it's great to have you back. Great. Very excited to be back. And she started January 2nd. Yeah. And I know from the email chain, we already had her busy. Yeah, that's right. All right. Anything else, Dr. Arinoff, on the personnel report? Um, no, I'm sorry. Not on the person or on the consent consent agenda. Not on the consent. No. Well, I do we do have additional dates now. February 19th, 7 a.m. board meeting. That will be a regular board meeting um to accept bids uh for the Sugar Grove project. And then February 20th, we will have an 8 a.m. executive session. January 20th. They're both those meetings are January. One's January 18th, the other Sorry, they're both January. Thanks. Y between the two of us, we we'll get it right. We got We'll get it right.
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Yes. Okay, that's it. Anything else? Okay. Uh there were no action items tonight. So, do you have any other comments? No, I just like to uh welcome all the board members, the the old ones back. Um and getting older every day. Tomorrow is Mr. Alexander's birthday. So, um it's it's the big five. That's right. And and Gary, Mr. Robson, welcome on board and looking forward to having you here with us. What's that? I know. All right. Uh, Mr. Russell, any comments? No. Going to the state board meetings and other things that I used to do before came around. Miss Couch, Mr. Robinson, I would like to thank everything else and I gota turn the microphone on. I got but uh I just really appreciate that. It was a good thing to celebrate the center growth students. Mr. D. Um I think I already filled everybody in on the last Johnson County Redevelopment Commission meeting I was at.
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That's where I learned about the the project out at uh Smith Valley in 69. So um announcements. Um immediately following tonight's board meeting, we will move to a board of finance meeting. That's a meeting we're required to hold every year. Uh January 16th, 2023, uh no schools, Martin Luther King Day. February 20th, 2023, uh no school again for President's Day. Um Dr. Arinoff already talked about the additional January um those are the February ones, board meetings. And then u February 23rd, um we have a 2:00 executive session um followed by our regular board meeting at 700 p.m. that evening. And with that we will adjourn the regular meeting.
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foreign it is after 5 30 and we will begin our regularly scheduled work session um and we begin with our reorganization our swearing-in of the new board members um and so I would like Miss Cara capke our attorney to take over and swear in our two lovely new board members thank you [Music] Jessica Dunn is that what you prefer and are you okay with us so help me God yes okay repeat after me I Jessica Dunn I just solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States institution of the United States of America America the constitution of the state of Indiana and the laws of the United States and the state of Indiana I will Faithfully execute the duties of my office as a member of this governing body doesn't that so help me God help me congratulations thank you [Applause] foreign that's right and are you okay with that so help me yeah that's fine okay okay repeat after me same deal I'm Marta Lawrence I'm Marta Lawrence solemnly swearer firm solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America of the United States of America the constitution of the state of Indiana and the laws of the United States and the laws of the United States and the state of Indiana and the state of Indiana I will Faithfully execute I will Faithfully execute the duties of my office the duties of my office as a member of this governing body as a member of this governing body so help me God so help me God congratulations thank you [Applause] congratulations to our new board members official board members at this point would you like to introduce family and friends who are here with you good absolutely sure family fabulous [Applause] so I will ask all of you to remember now what she looks like uh thank you Miss Lawrence would you like to introduce your family and friends who very importantly and I have a very special response everyone tonight Ian Young okay well as the musician on the board I Think I Can Begin this happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear Mavis happy birthday to you yeah I remember that it's like yesterday it wasn't long I know five years old thank you so much and again remember what uh your wife and your mama looks like because that was fun the next item on our agenda is the board reorganization the board of education is required to reorganize by electing officers for the coming year and it's recommended that the officers will be elected with the effective date beginning January 9th today 2023 and continuing until January 8 2024 or until the next officers are elected the first officer to be appointed is the president of the board are there nominations second are there further nominations any discussion any discussion if there are no further nominations we can take a vote um all those in favor of Wendy Mustin presiding as president of the board please say aye aye those opposed nay yes have it and I thank you very very much thank you thank you for your trust in me and I am going to take just a moment of personal privilege to say that this is a new year and we have a new board and we see as a policy making group we see things happening in different places in our country um even in the federal government that make it very difficult to govern and I just want to say that all of us every single person sitting in on this diet believes in providing safe and clean functional environment for our students and our staff providing an overall sense of safety security and well-being for all of our students and providing our Administration our teachers with the tools they need to teach our children to their Highest Potential we will manage the fiscal responsibility so that those policies can unite Us in those efforts and it is so wonderful to work with a United board without all the other politics I thank you all very much thank you foreign [Applause] we will next elect our vice president are their nominations for vice president Amy Norman that has we've nominated Amy Norman we have a second um are there other nominations no seeing no other nominations all those in favor of Amy Norman serving as vice president say aye aye aye those opposed nay since they are none opposed congratulations Miss Norman you are thank you madam president and I second everything you say and I'm looking forward to serving with everyone this coming year wonderful nominations for secretary I nominate Miss Crystal Puckett second it's been nominated Crystal Puckett has been nominated and there's been a second um and seeing no further nominations all those in favor of Miss Crystal Puckett serving as our secretary we say aye aye aye those opposed since not our opposed it's unanimous congratulations Miss bucket you will be serving Falls just for a second absolutely Miss Blankenship we will redistribute we ask that the president sit to the left side of Dr Smith vice president to the right Jerry will stay here and the other two board members foreign next we are required to appoint our financial leadership and we will be appointing Matt miles our Chief Financial Officer as our purchasing agent treasurer of the district and Renee Hull as Deputy treasurer of our financial team thank you for your service thank you so much it's been a short while and we've really really need you there we're really happy to have you thank you happy to be here now we have appointed committee members some are required by Statute we have a representative the board always has a representative to the our Township Foundation the Lawrence Township Foundation uh Miss Lawrence already serves on that Foundation um and has for some time but we will also appoint as our board representative Miss Amy Norman and they will serve together on the Lawrence Township Foundation meetings tomorrow night on Zoom 6 30.
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according to Comcast it's 503 bringing us together for our January 2023 Finance subcommittee meeting thank you all for taking the time I know we have a crowded night and we have a lot to discuss here also Gladys I can't see you but thank you for joining us Rachel Rachel it's always an honor to have you on board matter of State Rep 138. and uh let us begin and say without the agenda in front of me that the big tune tonight for us to play is is our our budget proposal for 2023. and uh excuse me uh Al we have to uh select the committee chair and vice chair well done man all right I'd like to nominate Al Russo as chair I don't even know do we have a do we have a quorum yeah you you only need three we've got it okay I'll second that motion sorry do I hear any other nominations any other nominations on the floor any other nominations taking a deep breath going once going twice I move the nominations for the position of chair of the finance subcommittee be closed all right well without without any uh one to uh run against I guess uh do we need to vote well motion all in favor I say hi we sir welcome aboard Luisa Britton all right being there having that issue settled uh as chair I would I would also like to put for the the subcommittee to uh bring on a vice chair once again and for the position of Vice chair uh I I would like to nominate uh Kate knetter do I hear a second I second Luisa are you on board Luisa you are muted um I'm here I'm sorry nope be sorry be happy yes I'll second yes okay do I hear any other nominations for the position of Vice chair any other nominations for the position of Vice chair going once going twice okay I vote for Cape Canada for vice chair all in favor aye aye thank you so much for Robert okay all right thank you do we have that settled down any other administrative little do we have to do we have to accomplish before we get down to the the I would say the problem the issue at hand which is our 2023 budget if it's okay uh Mr Walston would you like to start off with this or hand it off to John or what is your pleasure sir I will do both um Mr Musso so thank you um and again happy Monday evening to you all and board members I want to thank you for joining us tonight uh one first I'd like to make an announcement this evening we have uh Citywide PTO meeting scheduled it is a remote meeting for tonight and Miss Erica Haynes will be joining us to provide an update on school Finance 101 and so I encourage any board members who have the time and availability this evening to join as we have um asked a number of our families to do so as well so if you are available it's really just gives uh some Basics around how the school budget is formed and developed so we of course would take this opportunity to thank Erica for her continued partnership here with us in the district uh second I know the board and of course subcommittee finance committee received an update we were hoping and planning for an opportunity to review some of your questions that you might have before before we should we speak about it publicly on Wednesday and so I've asked John and Ed to have the PowerPoint available John is prepared to walk you through the presentation tonight and anticipating there'll be some questions that follow of course all of us will be available to take on those questions John Ed could you guys post that plan up and thank you Kevin and um Mike do you want me to do it for my screen or do you want to do it there you're muted I can do it for mine okay um before we put it up I just wanted a just a couple uh preliminary comments um as Kevin mentioned uh Wednesday night night we have our uh full board meeting and um we'll be uh presenting the budget again um and then the way the uh calendar Works uh we will hopefully uh after several meetings and workshops adopt a budget on our February 8th board meeting which will be in time to get it over to the City Hall um by the following Monday that's the statutory deadline for us uh submitting our request to them and then um the next big date to look for is uh April 4th uh that's when the the mayor releases his recommended budget which includes our our spending levels uh by April 4th I think that's if it's not in the uh chart or it's in their their rules and then we'll see the City council's ad hoc committee uh sometime in May we don't have the date yet for that uh but that will be uh the usual process that we've gone through here uh before the city council adopts its budget the first week in May the full City Council um of course we're hopeful it'll be the same uh as we're asking for but if if it's not then we'll come back to you at your June meeting uh if any adjustments have to be made so that's the that's the calendar um it's uh the calendar itself is unchanged from last year so uh they what uh what I just uh looking back you know is how did we do this year uh we were talking Friday um just about the city and our budget and all of that and we want to we took a look at our increase last year uh remember we went to 141 million uh it was a three percent increase uh the overall City budget though went up almost four percent uh there were other departments that got a bigger increase than we did um not that that means anything but we hadn't gone back and looked at it uh until now and um that's what we saw uh so what uh if you remember in June what we had to do was we took when we got our reduction uh there were some places we could cut our requested budget you remember we cut um what we thought would be some salary savings from teachers who were leaving at the upper end of this uh schedule we knew we'd be replacing them at uh staff at the beginning of the schedule so we every year we save some money there and we also at the time thought we wouldn't need as many K5 sections uh just a few so so we took those uh positions out of the budget and uh but the the big thing we did if you remember was we looked to our one of our Esser grants uh those are the the pandemic grants that the covet grants uh we'll talk about those in a minute and uh we put expenses that would have been in the in the school budget we might have been faced with reducing and uh we assign those into the Esser Grant and so what you'll see in a minute here is uh almost the same kind of strategy uh the the there are two s or grants one expires in June and then there's uh one that expires the following year I think there's some room left and uh third grant that we're gonna propose uh accounting for some expenses there again so uh without his background Mike you want to put up the the first slide okay using our our new software not sure we see it yet Mike what do you see right now uh black screen Mike C league has started screen share um okay try again it's not it's not micro John I can share it as well let me try one more thing that should be working there it is all right okay so we're we're seeing the first page and a little bit of orange at the top there we go that's it good okay so we could probably go right to the next page Mike you know everyone uh will recognize this of course um you know this our vision and our mission at that guides us uh through everything we do and and we think it's important to uh restate that this is a good place uh to remind people uh what those are for us so we we opened our document with that and maybe to the next page Mike all right and here we are us cabinet members don't get pictures but we get our names uh so this is uh that's the second page we can go to the next one okay uh so for a minute on this uh you know the Strategic plan that we've uh spent so much time on and put so much effort into it it really does guide uh preparing the budget the the different things that um the different uh the six of them uh the sub plans that we have the priorities uh we really do uh fund those in the budget that you'll you'll see next in our efforts are when there's choices uh where to put money or where we want to we'll we'll put them into these areas so that we can come back uh a year from now and and tell you about the progress we've made and not uh say to you well we we didn't have the money to do it uh this is this is how we we get the money to achieve these objectives and you can see them right there you'll you'll see uh more of each as as we go through things in the in the next couple weeks but this this guides us as does a portrait of the Danbury High School gradual so the next one and um so uh we all know this but it's I think to a a reader of the budget it's it it this is our our point really that um you know our enrollment has been up over 12 000 now for a while we've we've stopped saying that we're going to go over 12 000 we're we're over you can see there right at 12 210 uh and then uh over to the right we we described that a little bit nothing that um you're unfamiliar with but um to some of the readers um it's always good to remind them that um given our our demographic that leads us to make uh certain decisions that are probably not made in in other districts that are nearby or that we might compare to but it's so it's good to um to start with that next slide okay so what what you see here uh we've taken the different uh parts of our budget that we subdivide we manage uh they get built each one gets built uh a little differently uh and then together uh they represent uh the whole budget uh salaries and benefits uh as you know you go through that with uh mostly our collective bargaining process uh dictates a lot of what that will be enrollment increases there it's um you'll see something about that in a a second uh enrollment continues to go up especially at the high school um the new um you could almost call these budget drivers uh what's what's driving our budget and right there in the middle uh no different than what we're experiencing at home uh our prices are for energy and electricity are are going up uh particularly electricity um you'll see a chart on that but that's uh that's pushing our budget uh in a way that it hasn't pushed before uh technology uh we'll talk about that the Esser I'll call it the Esser shortfall that just means that um what we have in our sr2 grant that's expiring uh we we need to keep the the staff in that Grant has become uh very very important to our uh the the Strategic plan you just saw in our our mission and our vision we'll we'll talk about that so this this page uh just summarizes the different categories that we're looking at so um a little different way to look at it when you start to line it up and add it up you can see I won't I won't repeat what I I just said but you could see our needs uh are much more than what we can afford so we're going to um to try to not to try we're going to identify other sources of financing that will include our current year budget where we have some uh we think we're going to have some available money come June 30th that we could uh Advance purchase some things we'll talk about that in a second uh and as I mentioned the other uh the remaining Esser Grant the sr3 I think there's some capacity in the area I called them here savings and efficiencies uh there are also other sources of funding to bring our total increase uh down to to 9 million in what's being proposed next slide Mike right so I'm not I'm not going to read through this but um we things things have changed from the pandemic that's that's our point it's um we're more for example uh more technological uh all of our students have Chromebooks now they didn't have them before a lot of those also came in uh from Grants or from the state but but they're being used they're being used a lot but when you have more computers and more technology you uh you need people to support that and you need to replace them as you go along there's there's no going backwards on technology so we talk about that here are changing our enrollment continues to go up as I said especially at the high school I you'll hear more about that uh in the weeks to come but that increase at our high school is not just on the way we're not done yet but but we like to think it's it's here now and it's it's very difficult uh to staff on a regular basis uh so we mentioned that um our enrollment gains also bring kids with special needs whether it's special education or English language Learners you recall when I when we showed the demographic uh this isn't a situation that every school district around us has to deal with but we do so we mentioned some things on this page I mentioned uh the utilities coming up as well so why don't we move on to the next one Mike just a summary uh before we start 6.4 percent is 9 million uh when it's added to 141 million next one Mike okay so uh when we say uh currently budgeted positions the way we build our budget the way we built it last year we went in and uh called exported the December 6th payroll looked at everyone who was here what they were working then began to look at what bargaining unit they were part of I used teachers for example we put in the labor contracts in our software for for next year and then uh for everybody in the uh who was here 1700 employees uh I'll use the term we push them up a step so if they were on they're on step five right now uh say with a master's degree and we put them on step six next year with a master's degree but next year's collective bargaining agreement did that with uh everybody in the in the school district and you can see the increase there is 5.2 million it's a 6.6 percent uh because people you know they get steps as well as their uh gross wage increase and it's um you know one of the reasons we have the vacancies we have is it's it's so hard to hire people they're just they're not there to hire at some of the the salaries we've had so as most of you know as we've settled our labor contracts we've often said to you uh we need to stay competitive it's a little higher contracts around us are they're not settling for two percent anymore and I I won't go into each one but but the theme uh the last six months has really been uh labor contracts are going well uh the other thing we did was we we looked at exactly um what type of benefits uh people have today uh meaning uh if they're in the health insurance program uh do they have single coverage or family coverage uh what it whatever it is they have we assume that they would keep the same thing next year and then built in what we think the costs are for our our health insurance claims and Cigna and all of that and uh it came up with 30.6 million it's not the the uh large increases we we've seen in other years but this is what it came out to uh mathematically based on the people we have today so um this again is just the currently we call them the currently budgeted positions really they're they're the people working here uh right now uh next slide Mike uh so this let's just state for this uh for a moment um I like this thought slide because certainly our enrollment is what leads us to our decisions um but this is just a five-year look and you can you can take away a couple things from it um it's going up each year uh for the five years uh number one um a second thing is we're already over twelve thousand as I said earlier um and uh so what what the key is what the different colors mean the yellow bars are um you know we have to count our students officially every year on October 1st all school districts do and and those were the counts uh when we took them in October of each of those two years um but um I'm yeah I'm sorry the the uh yellow is the actual cow yep the um blue is what our uh demographer uh McClone and room they now have a new name slam uh that's what they were uh projecting but as you can see there we're already over the projection look at the figure of 12 210 and compare that to what they were saying we'd have next year and you can see even on there this was their High projection they have low medium and high we've been blowing through that uh by uh what we predict here is uh by a hundred students so our projections you see that red adjustment uh that's what's that's what we think is here now um so we thought rather than just rely on those um projections done earlier uh we're bet we're better off doing this um I I don't know if Kevin did I explain that uh right it's a it's a hard concept uh in all the different colors wait did I miss something or right and so uh for the committee we added a quick little legend key on the left hand side of your screen because we got some feedback um while we had posted this on Friday and so we added that what you see in yellow again to John's Point those are the numbers from our uh demographer starting at 11 843 this year demographer projected 12 110 and then you'll see all the way up to 25.26 the um the demographer projected up to 12 301.
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thank you we will be appointing appointing a liaison to the Indiana School Board Association I um it's it's an important Association for us and through that membership we're also members of the National School Board Association and we have learned a lot through the years and I think members of that Association have learned a little bit from us so Miss Lawrence if you would please be the liaison to that group I would appreciate it very much that would be my pleasure thank you thank you very much and we'll be pointing Lawrence Parks and Recreation board member Miss Puckett would you be willing to be our Lawrence Parks and Recreation board representative absolutely thank you very much we're going to have a talk about the dog park all right and now I will leave this to Dr Smith Dr Smith will appoint our policy committee chair and the legislative committee I'm honored to do that Madam president uh as all board members know you are all responsible for policies one of the main statutory responsibilities of the board of education but we need a lead with your Administration to assure that our policies are well done Tim harsbarger Dr hoshbarger out there is my liaison as superintendent and full-time policy Guru okay and uh Miss Dunn we asked would you serve as our lead I have to ask her because she's one of my bosses so would you serve as our board lead for our policy committee and then Madam president our legislative committee over the years this has spawned into a full-time job for the entire Board of Education so I'm going to ask Madam president that all of our board members serve on this committee as we have relationships with our current uh our Lawrence Township let's state legislators but also legislators across the state our lobbying groups and as well as our professional organizations that we belong to so all board members be ready to serve and that starts today okay I don't know if I have to do this or not but I'm going to recommend that the board approves the annual reorganization appointments as submitted so moved yeah it's been moved and seconded to approve the annual reorganization all those in favor aye those opposed reorganization is complete and thank you very much Madam president I would like to take over the um Duty unofficial duty of um first of all thanking the public who's come out to support our new board members and to let you know that we're getting ready to get into our information and action items you're more than welcome to stay for this riveting information or you're welcome to leave at this time so thank you perfect they're natural so we release you okay now um Mr Smith would you give us an update on the ribbon facilities Madam president Dr Smith members of the board of course renovation continues on what you're looking here is that West in entrance and uh Media Center going up uh Lauren Central the media center this is the art area and the family and consumer Arts area that is being built uh site improvements continue of course with the weather ways to be in with the rain it's kind of slowed that down but Phil is coming in LC pool foundations of course the foundation continues on you'll notice this is an actually the North End of the pool which the next slide shows you that starting next month the North End sides will be delivered and we'll start erecting the the pool walls ln3 story continues on you'll see a lot of classrooms on the second third floor are equipped the three-story again moving down and through the first floor and also the center entrance way continues on LM pool the deck around the outside the pool is poured but we will also continue with the deck and the south end of the pool as you can see some additional slides there uh the new HVAC and mechanical room massive and the pool and projects continue on and of course the middle schools uh continue on with uh HVAC upgrades and also as you recall last board meeting moving forward with the Middle School Renovations the bids will go out this month are there any questions for Mr Smith no if you could remind us actually of the move-in day for our lovely three-story building for Ellen Lawrence North we're looking at February 13th the week of we do have a long weekend that weekend that will give teachers and staff uh extra time if you will to move set up prior to the 20 seconds of students return thank you sir I have a question we we did have a few water issues over the break with a very cold weather how are we doing with that um I have to say I I'm very proud of our maintenance a custodial and course or uh director of operations monitoring their buildings we had minimal damage and what little damage we did have we've been on it and the schools are back together we're back together receiving students last week so thank you very much for watching over that during that cold weather because we were on it wasn't even it was even when we were on break and you had to make sure people were there watching watching out for us so thank you for that okay now um before before this next item 4.2 request for proposal for Architects for the new lecc project we will present the information this evening and then in our action items we will ask you to approve that is rare we usually have our information items and we don't have approval of those information items until the next month this is a rare circumstance in which we um the board the previous board approved the funding for this but we had to wait until the bonds we were approved to to set up sell the bonds so now that that's been approved timing is of the essence so on rare occasions like this where an item has already basically been approved we can move forward with the both the information and the request for action so Mr Smith Madam president and Dr Smith members of the board yes we do request to seek approval to send out a request for proposal for an architect for the new lecc facility on the fort the RFP would be sent out tomorrow with the proposals submitted back on the 25th in interviews for The Architects on the 27th the board recommendation for architect would be then on February the 6th the overall timeline would be to move into the new facility approximately mid to end of 2024.
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