Um and um and my guess is that's the that was the because I remember at the last meeting we uh we essentially took that that larger uh slide deck and shrunk it down. Oh yeah. Actually all we did was I deleted like old policies that we'd already done. Now I remember. So I deleted four slides and then left a couple so we had like a formatting one to do. Either way, I think what you're on is going to be if you use the 10 slide one, it's going to literally be exactly the same as the 15. It's just not going to have so many repeated policy slides. So, you could copy and paste it. But if if if Hilda can hear me, maybe like whatever you guys are writing on right now, send directly to Hilda and then Hilda can add to your notes and then everybody will have it attached to Hilda's notes.
So every year we will give them a u a report on how many students attended Big Hollow and they'll give us a kick back on uh the cost per pupil reimbursement for each of those kids. And they do that for us and for Grant High School. Um, you'll see that in section five, school district payments. That's where it's outlined. What I just shared is all in section five, page three of seven. But, um, that's what I shared with you is the is the basics of it. Basically, our costs will be recovered. The plans right now for that are a uh from the last I heard, it's a smaller development of uh um apartments that are one and two bedroom. uh considered uh they've used the word luxury, so considered a little more high-end apartments. I think they're gearing towards young professionals or retirees looking to scale back, but they're not anticipating a lot of students, but we'll see.
So we probably need probably about a month up front to do that research phase and then each phase is about a month it all down to three months but typically it's five or six and more you have and the earlier you engage the community just the better the turnout more opportunities they're going to have to be a part of the process. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. It was very rude. I was just going to send a wrestling match. That's the wrestling. Huh? Did you hear the wrestling background information? I was I I didn't hear it. Oh, yeah. He's over here watching for I heard something in a gym. I was like, "What's this for?" Yeah. Yeah. And of course Ryan's like the noise. I stopped third period of a really tight man. Goodness gracious. Can't take him anywhere. Thank you. Yes.
Any questions on that? All right. All in favor? I. None opposed. Which brings us to our general public comments, which we don't have anybody signed up for those. Uh, so we'll skip over that. Um, we move on to our administrative reports. Pan over to Mr. Jeski. Yeah. I just want to go over real quick. I talked to everybody briefly during the hearing about facility management, facility projects that we've got going on. We need to to continue to work on. Um we've got a number of things we've done at the elementary school. Um most of them in the gym. We replaced Yeah, we replaced the uh intercon the uh speaker system in the uh grade school gym. Uh, we tried to replace some of the ceiling tile and clean the vents. They were disgusting. Um, we've got some new playground muls that's been put out there.
Brim or Mr. Wy said if they got to dig it up they got to dig it up. Um but you know those that's the price you pay I suppose. So board what will happen here is at the next uh school board meeting on the 28th what we will do is place this item on the consent in the consent agenda since we discussed it tonight.
Alongside these relationship building efforts, we've invested in improving our facilities and safety measures. We've upgraded key areas like our playground, made important improvements based on the fire marshall recommendations, and strengthened emergency protocols. Just last week, it was um found that uh one of the u improvements that the fire marshall suggested really did pay off. Um when the fire alarm went off at Landis and the fire department had to come, they were able to quickly get upstairs to Landis without any furniture blocking them. And I saw it firsthand as I watched how big their equipment was and they were quickly able to go upstairs um to see to make sure that we didn't have a true emergency. One of our most exciting literacy initiatives has been the one book one school program. It's a schoolwide effort to foster a love of reading across all grade levels.
Harsha who will go over through the specific diploma changes. Good evening. Um when the state board of ed and IDE set out to make these changes um one of the things that they were looking for is to provide some of our students some more flexibility particularly as that got up into 11th and 12th grade and also to allow some intentionality um to make sure their high school experience is directly preparing them for what they're going to do after high school. So on these um next couple slides, you can see on the left side, we've got a list of what our current core 40 Indiana requirements are. And then on the column on the right, you can see in blue um the future diploma. Um and we've just highlighted a couple of the changes in red. I'm not going to read through each of them, but um you can see there um there is a requirement for a communications focused course.
I want to talk to her about this problem which is kind of fun. So it's nice. Um but yeah thank you. Um another question from Megan. So how do you handle conflict situations within the school district? There's always lots of conflict situations in school districts. Um, and again, I think the uh important part is we need to form relationships. That's, you know, key and utmost of importance is forming positive relationships and rapport with um all of the people in the school district. Really getting to know people, understanding their values, understanding the culture. Again, each of your buildings has a different culture. I'm sure your admin team has a different culture. your principles probably band together and have their own culture. I know that when I was in that position, we did that because, you know, only so many people understand that role thoroughly. Um, so really looking at, you know, what is it that people are striving for and what is it that they want?
I think that growth continues on um after high school, academically, socially, in every aspect of our lives. So, I think having those artificial measurements isn't the most important thing. Education is about growth and h making sure that kids grow and get better every day as opposed to, you know, making the varsity basketball team. The challenges were that people always told you you couldn't do things. If I went, and this is for everybody in this darn room, if I went by the outside and what they were saying about me and a popularity contest, we would have failed miserably. We built two new elementary schools and a new athletic turf field because we never gave up and it was for kids and it was for the greater good. If I went with the popularity contest, I would have sat in a, you know, in a position in my room somewhere all curled up.
That's a lot of money. Okay. First year we had OPA, we made $61,000 in our food service account. So, um there I think there's a statue of me somewhere in Iola. I haven't found it yet, but anyway, uh that was that was a nice turnaround for our district. But then more importantly, it helped our kids because we were able to take that savings and we bought uh uh you know for computers and things like that and and textbook rotation. We weren't uh we weren't using a textbook rotation. So that money went uh and was well spent on education like it should be. Um the other thing is increase participation through quality and choice. We have multiple choices that we offer kids. Um we stress quality uh in our practice. The other thing that we'll do is make sure that you're fully compliant with federal and state regulations.
But it's a lot easier when you're by yourself in the evening and stuff like that because you're going to be spraying balls everywhere. And when you're hitting right next to someone, then you're going to have to stop every couple seconds. Um, so that makes it to where they got to time it up. So, some people come right at about 7:00. Some people come in at 8:30 uh to where they're trying to get core time by themselves. Um I know I'm biased on this and I know a lot of the projects that we do make facilities look nicer, but I think this one would really help our kids get better, if that makes sense. And that's something that I think is important that we're really trying to extend to get better something. Um a little perspective, there is only three uh schools in the state that have tennis that have a worse facility than us.
So those are things that we really want to highlight and as people exemplify that we've been going around and recognizing them, shouting them out on social media. So we've uh all told we've recognized about 10% of our employees this year. So that's kind of neat. Sort of that top 10%. So that's been fun. Um and then I provided some statistics for you about where we are currently with enrollment. We're sitting at 2220 as of last Monday. And you can see where enrollment lies. Remember, for budgeting purposes, preschool and kindergarten students are only half funded. And um in your packet behind the superintendent report is information about each grade level enrollment. So you can see what that looks like. One of the things that I wanted to um highlight is that our attendance statistics from January to now are still very, very good. Um, we are running at 91% districtwide.
Would that work? Okay. Um uh let Hilda we should make a let's if if everybody's okay let's use the one that has the larger amount of slides because then you like J I don't think you're hearing me. I think the one with a larger amount of slides is the original presentation like so you would be writing over the original presentation. So if you want to use the one with the larger amount of slides then you do have to make a copy of it because the 10 slide one is the one we started working on last time. I'm looking to see what these slides back to the other one. Let's do the 10 slide. I'm trying to see what slides are missing. Is that the 10 slide already has updated committee members, updated timeline? Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's do that then. Let's just say that that the shorter one is it.
Any questions? I thought we'd be a little more involved in this, but they they really uh I thought we'd have to negotiate, but they they set it up right away where even our attorney looked at it and he goes, "This is better than most agreements I see." So, I thought I felt pretty good about it. I I guess I I was confused when I was reading the district payments is um so if the if our amount of pupil expenditure goes up every year, they will continue to pay that for forever. Yep. based on our audit. So every year we get audited and we get a cost per pupil for that year. Okay. And that's the number. Yeah. And what's the 5% I was talking about based off CPI? Which section was that in? I'm trying to find it. Because if it's not in section five, then it doesn't.
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I'm short. Um, he's supposed to be coming back in the next day or two and dropping off the rust so we can get it fixed up and finished. Um, we've got a new ceiling tile areas in in the high school. We've got at the athletic complex. Oh, we have new new water heater, excuse me. um that's going in in the gym and the annex building. Um it's been set to be put in place. We got irrigation fixed in the baseball and softball fields. We got a new hot water heater in the athletic complex. Um baseball field infield was turfed. Uh by turfed I mean it was we had the stuff that was laying under the field. Um repaired the softball press box stairs. We repaired the I assume we have so far. We ordered the window for it's in it's in process in the process of getting here.
Um in the meantime if you have any questions please do not hesitate to get a hold of myself or Mr. Brimberry. Yep. Um and we in turn will do that. But you will see this in the consent agenda uh on the 28th meeting. I just want to say uh thank you um it's quite impressive um what's all has happened here with the support of Mr. Wy, Mr. Carl, Mr. Brimberry, uh your whole team um students, it is just it's just exciting to see this evolve into what it could possibly potentially be one day. So um thank you and I mean that in all sincerity. We are so so grateful uh for all of you. Uh in closing with this um I think you all are seniors sitting here at the table, right? Junior, sorry. Uh if you're a senior and you're sitting here, Mr. Grog, I'll start with you because we don't we don't hear this a lot.
This this initiative was funded through the Cass County Community Foundation. It was brought to life by the help of the art club at the high school as they came in on one of the long weekends and spent the entire weekend transforming the uh display cases and walls um to bring this book to life for our students. students participated in activities and made um created a sense of shared learning and excitement throughout the entire building. These initiatives across engagement, safety, and academics reflect a long-term commitment to building a vibrant, inclusive, and safe community for all students. We're proud of what we've accomplished and we're looking forward to the next few years. So, with our uh student leadership and service opportunities at Landis, our students get to do things they wouldn't normally do unless they're part of this committee. And so, over the years, they have done a variety of things, but now that we're out in the our students are more out in the community.
Um in the second line there, you can see personal finance is a new requirement. Um in science there is a computer science requirement. Um and then you can see also um in social studies there was a change there um from six credits down to five. On the next slide um you can see also one fewer credit required in PE. And then you can see they've also taken the directed electives and personalized electives which was 11. And they've just sort of combined those to allow again some flexibility for students in their choices of electives. Um and then also they've added the one credit for preparing for college and careers. Then um the state created with some feedback uh created some um readiness seals and those cover the three E enrollment, employment and enlistment. Um students can opt into one or more of these honor seals. Um and you can see there as you read through the the difference there um different requirements for each one depending on what students are um pursuing as goals after high school.
So, I talked a little bit about how I we've done some schooling with my leadership team with regards to budgeting, right? Um, what does the budget look like? what is your piece of the pie? You know, how do you manage your piece of the pie and how does that impact this? So, and the reason for that is because oftentimes, and I'm just using the budgeting as an example. The reason for that is, you know, people look at a $25 million budget and say, I know you have $150 in there to get me fill in the blank, whatever that is. We don't. And here's why we don't. Right? So what does that look like? You know, when you have in principles are wonderful at protecting their people, you know, and giving them what they need because again, happy teachers, happy kids, positive outcomes for everybody. Um, same thing in special education.