Repeat that again. What did you say? I was saying well we probably should al I think it would be beneficial to share the forms that are being like common like common and updated that aren't like in the governing board policy like the parent concern form is going to be the same. The student assess the student statement is going to be the same like all of that came out of this committee even though it wasn't like direct work. Oh right during so I I was thinking you just like put like an additional slide at the end of like these are the forms that we're working on. Okay. I'll add that. And in that same vein, there was the um alignment with like the DCS forms and whatnot. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I'll put that right before the slide about uh policy revisions thematic change because it's kind of it's towards the end and it kind of aligns a little bit with that same process.
Every two weeks. So, uh they got one at the end of April, but I'll just tell them that we, you know, we're gonna have to prove it in May. we need to get some answers because they it was it was pretty rushed. So, I had to get a rush meeting with our attorney, have them review it because I just needed to review this uh need their legal standpoint on it. And uh so I don't feel bad about pushing it to May. Uh I think I would feel more comfortable with that. Yeah, I agree.
Um so in order to do that process really what we do is we meet with the building teams uh with each building and understand how are they utilizing it today? What opportunities do they see? Um what challenges might they be facing? where are some of those inequities that, you know, Matt has already identified, but where might there be others or or kind of, you know, on a on a scale, where do those fall? Um, but also challenge those those building teams to say, what might you do differently if you could if you had space? How might you expand a program? Um, is there an activity that you just can't currently, you know, accommodate because of some limiting factor? Let's unpack that. Let's understand that. Um, when we did this process with St. Charles, they went through a similar process. One of the important things for them was they wanted that that staff and faculty voice to make sure it carried through the process too.
There's no there's no athletic lighting, but the uh the lighting coming into the annex or the complex is all is that's all on the city takes care of that all the way into there. So, um I don't know if they're perfect. How much of this work are you trying to do in house? I mean, I um Well, obviously the the fencing stuff that'll be taken out uh or been outsourced as far as the other stuff goes. will probably Linds will be helping with most of the HBAC stuff. So that won't be on us. Um you know the painting obviously we'll take care of as much of the painting as possible. Yeah. I mean as far as the big stuff that's going to be What about the painting on the elementary school? I I have I only have one of the I did get quotes on that, but I was so when I first when I called initially, I was under the impression that we were talking about the top part of the gym as well as the brown that's along the main floor along the so all the way around the building and on that.
Our students that are high achievers, our top 25 caliber, our top 10% students definitely will be be positioned well to earn an honors plus seal and they will be able to elect that as they start meeting with their guidance counselors for student scheduling. But again, we want to position our students well to have success at the honors seal level. Um, I would say if you're familiar with the previous levels um and previous diploma requirements, the honors plus seal will be similar to the academic honors diploma which our students have been able to achieve extremely well before. Um, two other notes that have been recently um kind of batted around some uh communications at the state level. First, there's no final determination or final decision on it. Um but there is kind of a scuttlebutt out there that um there could be some financial incentives for schools and districts tied to um seal levels.
These public hearings and the adoption of resolutions are the very beginning of the legal process. These resolutions establish the maximum financial terms for the proposed project. Thank you, Mr. Rosie. We'll now hear from Mr. Greg correct about the process of determining the communicating and communicating the project to the community and the need for this project. Yeah, the need and purpose really is for us is to uh simply secure adequate funding so that we can operate and maintain our facilities so our staff can uh educate our students in an appropriate manner. All right. Thank you, Mr. Correct. We'll now hear from Baker Tilly Municipal Adviserss LLC, our municipal adviser, and uh about the proposed project, how it will be financed, as well as information about the effect on the typical property taxpayer. Good evening. My name is Joey Cares and with me tonight is Anna and we're with Bickor Mun School Advisors and we serve as the schools.
Absolutely. Um then one other thing that or I've got a couple of others. Um so you had talked about the waiver on slide eight. I'm assuming that that is still um approved by IDOE that those have to be go through the Indiana Department of Education. Correct. Um English credit. I know um that there are options beyond English 9. Could you share a little bit because the current trajectory is English 10 112 obviously um one of the things I loved about my personal this is years and years ago decades ago is that I was able to choose things like other voices in specific English courses that I was interested in. There were other things like um graphic novels, comic books, things of that nature. So are we going to move towards as a district having um specific interest in English or are we going to continue down like a pathway of traditional English 10 112?
Each town voted their separate budget but there was still an implication across the board for both. And I know you understand that because you're in the same situation. So, but um so we have that as far as you know when I was in Battle Creek, Michigan and I was the um director of student services of Battle Creek Michigan as a city and my department alone had a budget of $50 million. So really balancing that budget and looking at all the different we had four high schools, we had six middle schools. It was really quite large. um we had a very high um population of students with disabilities. So managing that whole budget gave me a good opportunity to really take a look at a larger overarching budget and how to manage that and prioritize as well. And again, circle back to what are is our district plan and what are our priorities and initiatives for this year while balancing those unexpected district placements or busing situations that you might have.
And I think the best part is um because it it'll it only takes one student to write an article to spend a week doing a little research and then publishing the article. Um and I think it's helpful to keep our student body more informed. Obviously, not every single student checks out our email blast every week. Um but some people do. I think one of our highest viewed articles right now is about the tw the census article. Yeah, the next census is about the next next uh the 2030 census which I have absolutely no idea about and that's not something I'm you know going to go look up on my own. Um but one of our staff writers, Levi, wrote a amazing article about it and I think now it's one of our most viewed articles. So people are now finding out and like learning more than they would themselves and I think that's super amazing.
The most popular is u simply an employee retires. We replace that employee, the district employee retires and then that new hire comes over to the food service management company and then over time through attrition you transfer labor over to the food service management company. That tends to be the u most popular um method of doing it. It's a little more politically friendly. Um now the board has some options here too. you can determine how that transition works. So you could tell your employees, hey, we'll let OPA come in and you guys can decide whether you want to get your paycheck from the district or get your paycheck from OPA. And in that case, I tell employees, I said, look, and I will tell the superintendent too, as well as you guys, if you got somebody that's on capers tier one and maybe that uh they have some health issues, I would keep them on the district side for sure.
So the whole facility is after be still, but that individual court would be named after them. Um, and what he recommended was uh because if you put he says you got to go to people's egos a little bit and if you can put their name on if you get one person to do that then you're going to get two then you're going to get three and you're done is what he said. And they did the same thing with their shelter that they did. Um if you I don't know if any of you guys ever been to Smoky Valley but it is absolutely beautiful their tennis facility. It's really really nice. I don't mean many when they were you when before he advanced Smoky Valley's cords. What did they have? Did they have three or did they have eight and they just updated the whole thing?
That is a marvelous night. We give away about $2 million in scholarships. Chino Valley Education Foundation will be awarding almost 79,000 this year. Um it's a long night, not going to lie. It's a really long night. Um the biggest one for you guys is graduation on May 21. Um, it's at Finley Event Center in PB. I would tell you to arrive by 6:30 and if you drive around the building, there's a loading dock on the back side on the east side. You can come in the door by the loading dock and you'll be sitting on stage and handing out diploma covers. So, these are we have all kinds of fun things happening. Thing I wanted to share with you and I'll pass it around. Um, the Chino Valley Education Foundation is co-sponsoring a meal packing event. So, as you know, we send home tens of thousands of weekend meals with kids.
Okay, that sounds good. Oh, I think my car might be done. Oh, so go go go get it before they close at 6. Um, checklist. I'm assuming you're guys going to go through 6 go to 6:30. Yeah, have some sort of approval. We don't Okay, then I think I don't know if if it's sent for Oh, wait. If it's if it's green, I can hear you Adriana, but I'm not there so I can't answer the question. J and J. I think Adriana's asking if it's going till 6:30. Yeah. And I did tell her yes. Oh, I didn't hear. Oh, sorry. I thought it was part of the conversation. Evan, you got J. Yeah. Do what you need to do, Adriana. Don't worry about us. J. Okay. It looks like they are just starting it. Actually, I can do they pulled it in and I thought they were like pulling it up so I could get your name in the comments so we can just keep make so we can make sure that you're working on JI and J.
Yeah, I don't feel bad about that because So, if any questions come up to you between now and tomorrow, let me know too because I'm going to send them some questions to answer. the section about us having to champion this thing or wasn't there like a public or something to say something publicly yes support it publicly support of the route 12 south tiff district oh I don't think I think our approval of this would be supporting it that that that's it that's all they're that's all there they've not mentioned anything other that to me. So, I don't think we need to go out and uh we approve. I just don't want to put anything on social media saying they call I don't think um you know, nobody likes a residential tiff usually, but uh if there if we're going to have one, this is this one.
You know, this is the factf finding phase, but once we get into that second step, how are those voices still be a part of the process? So, what we did is we met with their um they had BLTs, building leadership teams um and asked those groups to actually prioritize our findings um of the opportunities and the challenges. So that way when we presented that data to the long range planning committee, their voices were represented in that group as well at a larger stage. Capacity enrollment is another factbased piece that we need and especially in a growing district and we know that you've worked with RSP. We have a long relationship with RSP. We worked with them in D15 as they went through additions and renovations and a referendum as well as boundary changes. Uh more recently we've uh worked with them in St. Charles as they uh really came on board to help with the boundary change discussion.
So that was the initial quote that I got. I only have one of them here, but if we did the the entire thing, you're talking like you don't have to say it out loud, I guess. We're getting more quotes, but we do have, you know, I do have two quotes, but I didn't The other one I didn't I didn't bring was was less. But okay, you know, as far as the uh the top part, I think if we if we had to, I think we can handle that. But if we had to come down to where we were doing the entire building, then that would take our I mean, for us to do it, it would probably take our entire summer at some point because that's a lot. If it's just the gym part, I could probably handle that. I think so. I think there's some things I mean just like the I was sitting in line yesterday picking up a kid from me school and that from where the new when I call it the new part the the kindergarten rooms when they were built on to the old part.
So it's not out there yet, but it could be such similar to how CTE funding works that schools and school districts could be um rewarded so to speak for students that achieve um diplomas at these additional SEAL levels. The other thing, and this is really hot off the press, I think it broke over spring break. Um, and we'll have a a large number of our students that are able to achieve this. The state released a a media release that said that any student that earns an honors plus seal diploma within the enrollment category will be guaranteed admission to any public Indiana University or college. So, that's guaranteed admission to the likes of what we heard tonight. um an Indiana university, a Purdue University, etc. It's suspected that private universities and colleges will follow suit because they won't want to lose out on that recruiting edge.
My name is Joey Caris adviser. um with school advisor and we serve in the schools questions or any clarification on anything. So on the first slide slide two um before hopping into the post financing going to look at the school's existing debt service. The school has two existing two outstanding bond issues the 2021 and 2023 bonds. You'll see here in the far right column I'm looking at the totals for those. In 2025, the total payments are about 4.6 million and payments begin to decrease in 2026 to about 4.5 million and again in 2027 to about 3.5 million. This just shows that some payment capacity is coming on for the school. Um so as part of this project, we're going to look at how these proposed bonds layer and with the school's existing debt service. And just as a point of replication for when you look back at this uh presentation down here below that call date row that just represents the date in which a school can refund a bond issue.
I think it's yes an okay I think it's both and those type of recommendations would come to you as a board um because you approve all curricular courses through our curricular advisory council. So as our teachers and our department chairs really begin to grapple with the type of courses that would be offered particularly to upper level students that'll come through curricular advisory. And one other thing I was at a dual language networking event on Friday and one of the things that I learned is that worksplace Spanish 2136 um will be um counted as a communications course. And so just want to make sure that we are thinking about again obviously this district always thinks about dual language was the top topic of conversation is what great work Lawrence does. Um so I know that it's already top of mind but yes just thinking about how we can make sure that we're thinking through all of those options for those kids.
Um, as far as, you know, and that's the same with the other opportunities that I've had when I was the director of student services or the assistant superintendent. Um, working as an assistant principal, I understood how you really are looking for your own building, your own people, and that budget is the most important piece to you. Um, so I I feel like I can appreciate that and I can understand that perspective as well. As an executive director, I had mentioned earlier that we don't receive like our budget on July 1st and then we manage our budget. um we have to generate a revenue, we have to bring in competitive grants. That's how we have our budget. So we propose a budget, work collaboratively with my central office senior team. We propose a budget starting we would be starting our budget um couple few months because we have the budget approved by December of the year.