I don't know why I'm struggling with the word I'm trying to find way well but communications is a part of the mandated right and so those would be acceptable courses for those two. Yes. And then how long will we know until we find out if we are approved for those courses? Does it take like how long it takes? I'm not certain about the turnaround time. Um but I know um but we're pretty confident that we would be able to offer them in the 2526 school year. Yes, that would be the goal. Well, and Mr. Harsha, you have already contacted the state about our desire to do this and this was the process that you were recommended to follow. Excellent. Excellent. Um, the other thing real quickly because I think that it is amazing that we're able to offer so many dual credit options. It's a way for students to get a leg up obviously in college.
So I can also do that at the drop of a hat, you know. So I I had I learned to test myself and challenge myself. So what was I would have considered before I started a weakness now and it's a strong strength. Um, I think my other strength is working collaboratively with teams to overcome barriers that lead to really good solutions and some are um some are um really um when there you talk barriers um in terms of really good solutions I found that we were able to recreate that was supposed to be the time I was supposed to walk in But anyway, the same thing. Yeah. So, um, in terms of strength, um, we, uh, took a middle school schedule and really had to get on a total recreation of it. Um, we had a big fiscal loss. Things didn't work anymore as they should have.
It would encourage critical thinking and it would prepare students for realworld challenges so that students are becoming less reliant on the adult coming in and solving the problem but building their skills to do so. Continuing under safe and supportive schools we're always looking to improve our safety practices uh across the school. So again, our SEAL team, which includes our school counselors, Carrie Gregoire, Paul Schwinard, and Caitlyn Colbeck, our school psychologist, um we meet and schedule and they work with students on the safety drills throughout the the school and we're constantly taking a look at those and where do we need to improve, where's something we need to add. We're collecting staff and student feedback after those drills. So, we're always looking to improve our effectiveness and updating our protocols. Just to give you an example of some of the work that we've already done is we've uh this year we've added a reverse evacuation drill.
It's a foundation conference. So they there have been so many requests about educational um conferences that someone from Goddard I can't think who it is um they've started this foundation there this the first time in Odora is hosting it and so I think it's just like learning about foundations and we actually met with theora foundations conferences well it's a foundation it's kind of a conference foundation I was thinking like the model Okay. Sorry. So, uh, yes. So, we did meet with Udora, their foundation. They have an employee actually, but yeah. So, we're going to go something to anything else. Okay. Move to our court. I wish I could say I was surprised if you walk out every time I said my name is Kyle with Jared one just here to walk you through your packet. You've been on the board before we have those letters in the front.
Uh we changed design teams um that came up with a really good cost savings to go with with someone else. Um, so there's going to be some similarities there, but either way, design starting over. Also, this with the tennis court thing, one of those has an outdoor patio on one of the drawings with the bathrooms in a patio tied on. You could say, "What would like a bathroom cost?" Like, what what size of building were you wanting in the I couldn't tell you dimension. I'm awful at that kind of stuff. But if I was going to guess, if we were going to do it, probably about the size of your guys' tables here. That makes sense. With bathrooms and if we were going to do bathrooms. Yeah. Cuz then you or a little strip would be bathrooms. Yep. And off the top of your head, 250 grand.
Of course. All right. Request to adopt puppet item 9A. Miss Grace. Well, ladies, I'm not sure how you got so lucky tonight to see me twice, but here I am. So, I am here tonight. Um, I was not here um in January when this came in front of you to ask for permission to pilot this program. It is a leadership program that Mr. Richardson has brought to us um from his past district and um it he says that it has brought a lot of success success to them. So, we are looking to bring it here. I'm telling you, I've witnessed the um lessons I've been in. I've observed and it brings me to tears. And I I know I cry easily, Cindy, but but I'm telling you to see the kids interact and really take part in these um lessons is amazing. And I would I suggest that you take the time to go in and observe a lesson because it is on leadership and it is going to help our population of our students.
Yeah. Okay. Okay. So then, yeah, we do want to ask if they want us to look at it. Oh, so wait. I I think that because it came up in conversation though, they were like, "Yes, that's a great idea. You guys should get that." But then we just like couldn't find anything. Like we went to the ACLU and we went to other school districts. So I almost feel like what we're asking then is like for the board to define for us what they want to regard hate speech as so that way we can align policies to that definition. But it's like we're kind of asking the board to write their own or sorry I get what you're saying because at the last presentation to the board we just we brought this up as or you all brought I keep saying we y'all brought this up at the last presentation to the board.
I know some neighboring communities are going that way. Kendall County. Yep. Yep. And that the main one is Kendall County, so it's not even in K County. So, our ROE wouldn't even speak to how or what they're doing. I know it's three to four million dollars that they're putting into that into that project. So, so that's kind of where that's at. So, it's not something we didn't evaluate. Believe me, I I mean, we're look we looked at every option that we could think of for a temporary solution and mobile is where we kept landing. And remind us the cost of mobiles. So, the current the current mobile for the mobile itself is roughly $540,000ish. Don't hold me. It's in that neighbor. It's under 600,000 for the mobile itself. Then we have the utilities to hook up and the rest of it. And then the pump out washroom facility.
Um but we of course look at our shops, we look at safety, we look at how many can we really have in that space. Um so we are excited about that. But we we are very full within our programs. So we're excited. So how close are we? Numbers are climbing for these people that like to make budgets. Um How close are we to be? Yeah. You know, I just told my staff today between now and um Labor Day is when I'm the most nervous. Um because especially with this legislative session and all the cuts that are on the table. Um I just peaked my email before I came in here uh just to see where we're at in the process. the you know um our student population is hugely important as you know last year we were able to start turning that tide for the first time.
Like you guys just focus on the kids in the school. We'll worry about it up here. Um and so once the dust settle dust settles at the end of this month, we'll sit down and figure it out and continue to do what's in the best interest of our kids. That's all I have.
Are those are the ISU credits? I know IvyTechs are transferable to other um Indiana institutions. Is it the same with ISU? Yes. And um I put a point there at the bottom that I didn't speak to, but um obviously those will transfer directly to if one of those at ISU if our students wanted to go in into those pathways there, but um I know ISU mentioned that they absolutely are transferable to Indiana University and I didn't ask about every other university, but I know they did mention that during our conversation, but the assumption would be that and I know the answer to this, but just for our families, um what is the cost for those dual credit courses? zero dollars. Yes, indeed. Thank you very much. Yes. Thank you. Yes, it is. C can I get an amen from everybody who has students that are coming through this district and looking looking to pay for college?
And so, um, we sat down with the full middle school team and then said, "Hey, you know, how can we look at our data points? How can we make this better?" And we looked at things we wanted to change. We had a world language program we needed to make better because the students by the end of 8th grade were only getting threequarters of a year of world language. So, um, plus they were only getting one um one language. So, we separated into two um languages and we got them a full year. Um we also looked at um revising the eighth grade math program so that our students were better prepared by the time they got to be a se senior in high school to take calculus and um take calculus AB or BC which was excellent. We revised our intervention and enrichment programs so they all met at the same time and um therefore um we had kids that were always winning and we fixed a block.
So, students who are playing outside on the playground, how would they get in? And just in doing some of those things, we you know received some feedback from staff who, you know, our third grade team, for example, has doors um facing the playground. So they're an important part of that reverse evacuation because they're another door that a child can come in through. So um that was one example. And another piece of feedback that we received was some of our younger students when we were going over the intercom and we're saying, you know, we're practicing, okay, there's an intruder in the building and they're over by the connector door in the second grade wing. Some of our littlest learners may not know what that second grade wing. They don't know where second grade is. they just know how to get to their classroom. So, we now connect it to an area that all schools uh all students would know.
We'll get those at the end of the presentation. We'll dive right into page one. Page 1 through three is an independent audit report. This report as well as a couple others at the back are the only thing that belongs to us as authors. Everything else in here is the district's information, district's numbers. I'm just taking the prescribed 5K back. So your first three paragraphs, those are kind of your most important ones. First one talks about what we audit, which is the fund summary statement of regulatory basis, receipts, expenditures, and unencumbered cash balances of the year ended June 30, 2024. Next paragraph talks about that adverse opinion on US GAP financials. Since the district elects to follow KAG, we have to issue that adverse opinion because you'd have material differences in your financial statement. Things like debt, prepaids, receivables would show up. Uh with KAG, all you simply have is cash and accounts payable.
So if we put that in this building, that's 250 grand. We don't have to spend on the tennis court. That would save a lot of money. Save a lot of money. And we just did something for Griffin Wreck, very similar to that, a little bit smaller. And I want to say it was 158. And that was a low bid project. So it was competitive. And also that whatever that room is, we'd open that up that multi-purpose room, right? Yeah. For coaches and or whatnot. We just thought, you know, and I'm not a big tennis guy. I don't know a lot about I'm learning this year, but, you know, I just kind of liken it to a track meet. we're if we would be fortunate enough to get regionals or state or something like that, you know, it's on a weekend and we had that room to use where the coaches meet, do all their I don't know what you call I call it scratches, but you know, items like that.
Billy introduce Heather. I will do I will get to that. So I'm going to ask Billy if he wants to come up here and join me. And um how we're going to get this program is this is a costly program, but um Heather Worley has um met with Billy and they've worked together and Heather will be funding this program for us. So it's no cost to our district and it's a program where it brings in business leaders and we're looking at going full blast with this next year if it's adopted tonight where we are looking at how many business members? 40 is what we're 40 business members committing to coming into our schools once a month to work with our teachers, co-e and work with our students. And this is 40 and this is a commitment. And what how many years of commitment are you asking?
my rent and everybody was like, "This sounds great. Yeah, go ahead." is what you're saying. Um, but it basically like when Allan and I were looking at it on top of that, it was like um and I I I should know my history better than I do, but it was like everybody was basically like, "Well, I know it when I see it." Like that pornography Supreme Court case and and that like didn't leave us with enough tools to like feel comfortable for this committee to create those things. Okay. Well, I'm just going to leave it and uh feel free to massage it. Maybe uh you and uh you and Jess can get together and like come up with some amazing word choices that would make that more um more less wordy and more specific to what we're trying to get to. Um any other recommendations to the board?
So yeah, said and done. We'll probably be in that 3/4 3/4 of a million to 800,000. We get electric hooked up and the connecting link and all the other parts to it. And that's per mobile. Yes. That's just for the country trails mobile. Correct. That we're doing that we're doing now. Correct. And how many classrooms? That's four four additional classrooms. And are you saying that right now as far as the need is just country trails or are you looking for that's that's the current need right at this time is the multiple meetings we've had in discussions and looking at our student populations that's where the imminent need is. Yeah. I know the foreseeable future it's at every elementary. Right. Right. I mean we have space and infrastructure i.e. power and things like that to add mobiles to the other three sites. we had the the foresight and the planning to kind of think through what that could possibly look like knowing that there wasn't a lot of short-term options.
Um I have no doubt that we can't continue that momentum along the way and where it starts is really what we've been talking about the last two presentations. I mean, if you look um about the opportunities that our students have that not many around us can provide, it puts us in a very unique situation. I became aware and I'll just share one story with you. I I became aware um last week um of a student who started attending our school district this year um from a neighboring smaller school district. And the reason for their them attending here was the last two presentations the opportunities that they have here that they could not get somewhere else um was that so now with Mr. Butler and the marketing and the communications and everything that we're doing um you know the branding that we have done it all ties in together.
Any questions for Mrs. Starky? Comments? All right, this is your last opportunity for public comments. No takers. All right, moving on to board member comments. Mrs. Bird, Matthew, Mrs. Grog, I'm sorry, sorry. Been a long day. Sorry. Put that on my list. There is a grog. There is grogg. I had her daughter in second grade. just pasted something to Facebook. I saw that and I didn't know she was still in town, but anyway, sorry. No, just thank you to Landis uh elementary um staff and and Patty. Congratulations on again on your retirement and enjoy it. You've heard it. Yeah. Mr. Hess, if that's your name, I've been called worse so that it is today. Mrs. Wolf, I wish you well. I think I was not able to be at the meeting where we officially accepted your retirement, but I wish you well and thank you for your years of service.