Maybe she can give us some insight here. I mean I'm that that to me seems to be the only major change which is fine. That makes the presentation a lot shorter because essentially you're just giving the history, the timeline, the people, the policies that we reviewed on one slide. Yeah. And then recommendations or next steps and next steps and recommendations and that's it. Yeah. I'll make this I'll make this Hello. Uh, can you hear us, Adriana? Yes, I can hear you. Okay. So, we're we were just going over the slide deck presentation for the community council and the governing board and um uh it and we're trying to remind ourselves about like the pro and so last year we had the power we had the PowerPoint and it had a different policy on each slide and sort of gave and gave some bullet points. Um and the one that we are working on now it uh there was a slide that you put in that talked about um uh where is it the slide that says uh policy revisions thematic change policies this this pertains to listed.
So guys, when I call your name, come on up and receive your certificate. Evan Baker. And then you got to stay up here so we can take a picture. Giovani [Applause] Jimenez, Jasmine [Applause] Paddock, and Chloe Hardle. And then also a thanks to our head coach, Cliff Nims. You want to come up, sir, and take a picture with the kids? [Applause] Uh, Miss Larkin, you want to come up and introduce our primary student of the month? So, our primary student of the month is Gage Gentiel from Mrs. Polark's kindergarten classroom. So, we'll have Gage come up and Mrs. Polar. We'll let Mrs. Polar brag about him. Oh, actually, I did. Thank you, Melissa. All right. I am so proud of this guy. Um, I'm I nominated Gage for student of the month because he is a joy to have in our classroom. He consistently demonstrates love, kindness, and compassion.
And then more rec most recently the Salt Creek School District 48 48 million referendum that the project just went out for bids or just got bids back I should say. And as I said, we've worked in Sycamore and Geneva doing this process, building to successful referendum that resulted in extensive building programs. It's a it's something that's worked very well for us and for the communities that we've worked in. So, defining a successful project. Um, as your project architect, it is my role to work with you and bring your vision to life through collaboration. So, I'm excited to get to know your staff members and your facilities in the process. Um, we'll get to do fun and exciting things like be creative, um, and think of big ideas, but we'll also work through any challenges that come along the way. Um, all in pursuit of improving the facilities.
Well, this one this one versus the other one where if you needed a bigger chunk, you'd spread out your initial payments for like plan two, right? To where you can get you could grab some more money. Go back to that payment one, Vicki, the where I showed the difference in in payment. You're talking about a difference on paper about $15,000 in interest between the two options. I will also point out that with not knowing exactly what's going to happen with the Indiana General Assembly and their decision, you see in footnote one that we are stretching just to give this board and community as much flexibility as possible. the maximum term. You could stretch these out to a 2032 budget year repayment if you so choose, but you don't have to do that. We're setting these parameters to be as flexible as possible. So, with so many variables unknown at this point, all you can do is prepare yourself to react to in the time when you want to sell bonds.
And I'm sure all of you have lovely families and lovely family pictures. But eventually that would be too many family pictures. Um, so it's the same thing with this. We're going to plant trees, but we can't only plant trees. There's got to be something below that because we don't want the custodians to have to come back and mow the grass that's currently there. So, at some point, we're going to have to till this all up um after the rye and after the nutrients are back in the soil, till this all back up and plant some native grasses. And um yeah, from there on then we can plant the other things and add the trails and move forward. So this is an example of like some of the native grasses and wild flowers that we were thinking of with the paths. But the wild flowers, I think, is a really good idea because it's more aesthetically pleasing.
It's another set of letter and cards and songs and movements that teach the students um letters recognition and sounds. And here is just I'm going to play a little bit of one of the songs that I use with the [Music] kids. Who who [Music] who do the party was bumping? All letters having a ball. [Music] Then I hear footsteps running. Letters. Where did they all go? Who left the A? A a Who let the B out? [Music] out. Okay, that's catchy and I'm sorry if that's with you for the rest of the night. Um I I saw this when I worked at Landis as a kindergarten aid. Um I noticed that back then that a lot of students learned their letter sounds earlier on in the school year. So I was like, let's go back to an oldie but goodie. Um, and then the other part.
Schumacher, and thank you and all your volunteers and all the work that you guys do to provide food and I mean at food for children and families that are in our community and that that makes a difference folks. So thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. And a lot of this has to do too with our personal relationships that we were that we were forging over years that we are so successful. I think is there's always a wonderful support from the administration and I think that's uh uh that's very important too that makes this program successful. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Schumacher. Thank you board. At this time we will move on to our blue ribbon facilities update with Mr. Roger Smith. Thank you madam president. Dr. Smith, members of the board, excuse me, coming off spring break, uh really we took advantage and uh got a lot of work done at all of our sites.
They want to know that their voice matters and that they can have a voice in what's happening. I mean, after all, if we don't have happy, productive teachers in our classroom, we're going to see that with our children, right? So, we need to value our teachers. We need to value our pair of professionals and our related support staff. Um and but we do that by applauding and celebrating all of their achievements and then bringing them into the new initiatives that we are looking at. I think I would also say um so we've had um a couple new initiatives that we've done at the Except Collaborative. So we've seen it change since the pandemic. our biggest um initiative that we have our programs for students with disabilities and we've had a shift a huge shift in the six years that I've been there from most of our students initially were students who had multiple disabilities who had intellectual impairments who had autism in in since the pandemic our is 80% of our students are students who are marching towards a general education diploma who's going to go on to either you know service or college or the workforce.
So, which is great. Um, so we really want to spot like our Spectrum podcast. They've done some incredible things over um the course of the last few years and as they've been developing and and growing and um they really get into that strategic plan uh especially that pride side and you're going to see even stuff like that that um portrait of a learner stuff that comes out with the communication and stuff that we're really proud of of what what they have done as a as a crew. So, our Spectrum podcast, if you don't if you have not been on Spotify or if you have Spotify, my highly recommend you like and subscribe, as they say, um to it because every Friday I get an alert that there's a new podcast that drops and I get really excited and that's my car ride home. So, highly recommend you all do that before we begin.
I don't know about that. Yeah. So, they got moved up. So he's taking two full teams and I appreciate that he's going to do some engineering classes next year that yes this is this is the second year with our engineering. So we started out with the intro to engineering and so known as engineering design and intro to engineering until beginning. So yes, so we we've incorporated he has a full schedule. I mean he's teaching like six preps, but um that's what you do on your CTE. Um so that's been really good for the kids. And I've been working with Jody. Jody has been working with me helping um cuz we have at Wolf Creek we're planning a big um clean up volunteer day out at the Wolf Creek environmental area trails. Um, and I had contact reached out to Jody to get some volunteers, see if she had any students that wanted to do some volunteering.
So, we have an additional health pathway for the students. Um, I'm really excited about that because that means any student that um takes a um CNA, CMA, phabbotomy, anything that has an industry recognized certificate to it, we get to count as completers. Um, and they get to walk with chords at graduation. So, I'm kind of excited about that for our kiddos. Um, and we already provide most of the classes um at our school, so we don't really have to change a whole lot. So, that's really excited for exciting for those kids. Um, the other thing that that does provide is when they go to college, um, sometimes they can, it's not really testing out or clapping out, but it's like them recognizing that they've taken the course protocol and they might be able to skip a prerequisite or something in their regiment. So, um, it's a good thing for everybody involved, um, but mostly for those kiddos.
That's on them. Um but we're going to literally paint these on pillars. Um, and we reward kids every quarter for practicing these and um, lift them up and give them certificates and kind of point this out when we can with kids in their classrooms. Go. Um um one of the the key elements of our our campus is um safety and um that on our campus obviously we are a complete perimeter and we are a um one entrance and exit access point um throughout the day. Um but a large part of that is the integration of our SRO on campus um officer Gronic who's in the back of the room right there. Um he is an amazing amazing portion to our um school life. Um you can often see him at recess throwing a ball around with kids. Um you know grabbing a Frisbee and then you know chucking it back um interacting with kids high fives and in fact um I have two very favorite portions of the day.
So the we were thinking that instead of having a separate slide for each uh policy that we would just put them all on uh or as many as we can uh because we I mean I felt like I feel like we've gone over a bunch of them just to list the policies on there and then so this this year's slide deck would essentially be you know the introductions the people uh people that were on the committee the timeline and then the one slide with all the policies and then next steps and recommendations and that's it. Yep. I think that I think that was what we discussed in the meeting. My thought um was we were going to need to kind of review like well what were the changes we did and we would need to tell governing board more detail anyways. So, I thought if you if we still made like a slide per um power like per policy um and then we did the like this is what was big in this we could like hide those slides during community council and then have it already made for the governing board and then use those to decide like oh okay all of these slides those like similar thematic change was this this and this because I didn't know if we'd be able to pull those patterns just off of memory and we have to have the detailed slides anyways And I am totally down to do whatever everybody else wants to do, especially when I'm not even there doing it.
And our classroom is generally filled with love and kindness. And it's it's because of students like Gage that are a great role model for everybody else, and they just follow suit. He has kind words for others. He's always willing to offer support to another classmate, whether academic or emotional support. Gage is responsible. He puts his be best efforts into our classroom work. He's a role model. and not just his academic achievements, but also in his positive attitude. And he genuinely cares for others. He's also our football expert. So, whenever I have a question or someone else has a question about football, I just defer to Gage and and he's spot on every time. So, congratulations, Gage. I'm so proud of you. Yes. All [Applause] right. Dr. Bianca. Okay. So, I'm going to call Connor Julian up here. I promised him. I promised him he does not have to make any speeches.
Um and as it's been mentioned um in the design process, we'll chat with staff members, community members, really any key stakeholders that will help us, um assure that the goals are being met and um ideas will evolve along the way and eventually we'll get to a point where um we'll have a thoughtful and detailed project. Um, and then personally for me, my favorite part of the journey is really when we get to a point when the things that we've been having conversations about and that live in our drawings start to be realized in a built form. Um, so it's a very proud moment to be able to turn the project back over to your team. Um, and start to see that next generation of users and interaction start to occur in the space. And yeah, I'll turn it back over to Troy. All right. So, in closing, we think we're the perfect partner for you.
So by the time we assume we're going to sell in the fall, we'll know net assets value, we'll know what the general assembly has done for any type of project threshold, and we'll know better at that point what the market's doing in the interest rate. So we'll be able to react to it. All right, any more questions? Great questions. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Um, we had nobody sign up for public comment. Correct. Right. So, we will just skip the public comment portion. You guys are able to leave these. You guys are good too. It's up to you. Question. Uh, we can you can just wait. We'll go ahead and we got a we got a vote on this here in a second. So, we can after we do that, you guys can take off if you want. Um, you got that next part. You're talking about consider resolution.
People can see the bright colors when they drive down into our school parking lot. So, if there's a sporting event and people are coming to watch the sporting event, they're going to want to see if we keep our school very nice and clean and they don't want to see the big lots behind. And so, the trees will cover that. And then the grass in the flowers is definitely a good add-on to that. And I think wild flowers is especially important because it's good for pollinators. So, we're going to want bees and butterflies and hummingbirds to come back to this area so it keeps on being more diverse and have more animals and just be more naturelike, I guess. And then also going back to what Isaac said, we won't have to mow it. And that's a really good thing is it's less maintenance and it will be less cost overall, too.
See if I can do this. I might ask for help. Okay, this is crossing the Midland. My video originally did not work, but we'll see. Unmute it. [Music] Okay. So, in that um that was showing you some of the u moves that they have to do with that that helps connect the right and left parts of their brain. Um that exercise that they were doing I picked specifically because it was hard for them to do this in the beginning and the crossing the midland helps like I said connect the right left brain. So if they couldn't do this it said that they might not be able to read read learn to read very easily but a lot of them were doing like this in the beginning and going like this way they couldn't do the crossbody movements. Okay. And this slide just talks about that difficulty crossing the midlinin um could also impact reading, writing and language.
Bells are serving lines. We have three new serving lines in place and we continue to put the cafeteria or the kitchen back together. Uh demoed the wrestling room and we'll start putting that back together. uh orchestra room was demoed and now it is going back together. A lot of hallways were stripped, removed of the old flooring and they are working evenings to replace uh Fall Creek Valley uh cafeteria walls. They continue to work around the outside of the cafeteria. Again, the cafe also ceiling work and lighting. Uh the main gym, a lot of work went in there. They removed the old uh bleachers and uh now working on the walls and then the floor site work. Uh we've had a little some some good weather out there. Uh so we continue to do site work. New LACC the exterior uh the brick twocolor brick is all finished.
Um, and they deserve a right to the same general curriculum that everybody else has. Well, when I got there, we didn't have that because we didn't have those students. But now we have these students with significant trauma, with significant behavioral, emotional challenges, but who are very bright students who deserve the same as every other student um in the Commonwealth. So what we did is we um rolled out two huge initiatives. One was reading and literacy because all students deserve to read and they had lost a lot of instruction between both the pandemic and the fact because of some of their behaviors they were out of class and they missed instruction. So we wanted to make sure they felt safe, secure and they could access that instruction. Um, and the other piece was the SEAL initiatives because again, this is what our students need right now and it's a mandate by the way.