And so I took a team to see an a national expert that I knew was going to be wonderful and she was absolutely wonderful. Um then um so I had a core group of people that were interested. I looked and I actually called her up after the training and I said, "Ken, I need to really get a great person who can train." And um and she was in Florida and and so um we worked out a we worked out a situation where um I had to actually go virtually and teach some of her PhD classes in STEM, which I did. um we did that worship but she came um she had a daughter going to Boston College and she came um once a month and she did some trainings so that by the end of the year I had a core group of people who really could function with all the different there's six ways you can do co-eing and so um you know she was very good um and made them feel very comfortable she visited classes as we got this going and we made sure to recast the schedule so that it allowed for common planning time.
Porter to take any questions. Well, first of all, thank you very much for taking the reigns on your uh school improvement plan presentation, Mrs. Mckenry, and congratulations on 35 uh dedicated years to the Dartmouth school system, Mr. Porter. So, we wish you I wish you well uh in all your future endeavors. uh you will solely be missed in regards to the uh school improvement plan questions for my colleagues. I just have one quick one. How did how did you determine who would be on the data team? So I asked for volunteers first and then once I got those and kind of wanted to make sure I picked across different areas so it wasn't just all filled with classroom teachers for example. So, it's uh two classroom teachers, two interventionists, and two coaches at the moment along with myself and the school psychologists. Great. Thank you.
That's that amount that the school district would owe for retirement obligations if Capers were to ever quit being funded by the state. Obviously, you don't ever foresee that happening. But since it is an underfunded plan, you can see that number is pretty large, a little over 11.5 million, we're just required to disclose that year in. and that fluctuates greatly based on kind of that state legislation that's in there, stock market performance, things like that. So, you'll see big swings of that. Finally, the last couple footnotes we're going to talk about is on page 15. I always like to highlight footnote number 11, which is your inner fund transfers. Essentially, biggest thing to take away from this is that each of your internal fund transfers all had statutory authority to be made. And then the following page, page 16, that's subsequent events. Nothing to highlight there, but just like to point out that's going to be anything major uh from the end of the fiscal year to when we issued the audit.
When we got those, would we also have an idea of the difference in price between the two projected? Yeah. And we could give a projected price right now. Uh because a lot of it's based on square foot, but it just it depends on on total square footage of the building. So, and you said the tie in to the old building isn't a significant expense. No. Um, you know, you're going to have additional demo expenses, but utilities are going to be less. Um, like I'm not saying it's break even, but it's trade-offs. It's trade-offs. Yeah. So even though we were tying into our existing building, so would any of that expense fall on us and out of, you know, their federal funding, their the money that ABCC has or would our our tax write offs that we sold, would that be able to cover like the changes that we make, you know, in case any of that would fall out out of the realm of what they're doing and fall back on us or anything like that.
So do sitting back in the room who streams our meetings. Probably will be able to get a little help from the the county people who stream meetings which you I'm sure you do as well. So he'll be familiar with utilizing agenda quit as well. So well we sat through the training. Are there any additional questions that I did not? So when are we going to officially start this? So should you vote to approve it this evening? um we would begin the process of um moving to that internally and preparing all the things like you know behind the scenes that need to be done. We would have a training for the board in June and our first packet would be July one. So it' be our July packet would be our first packet that would be electronic and we're probably going to have like a practice packet in some of what we're doing.
Um, then in 2019, we added one at Andrews as well. 2011, we all went to the Horseman Education Center. We had the privilege of sharing that building with the administration at that time. Um, so we were in our own wing and then got to spend our time with them. And then we all went to back where I was 2015, we all went to Flint Springs. So at that time there were three classes um of all mixed. So we had 64 identified students, 36 typically developing peers and as I stated before tuition was required. Um in 2016 we had four classes at Flint Springs with 99 students, 60 identified and 39 typically developing peers. 2019 uh we split and two classes went to Flint Springs, two classes went to Lincoln. Um, and all of the students attended five days a week. We eliminated that 2-day, 3-day, 5day, and provided that opportunity for all of the students to come five days a week.
So, uh, on the next slide, you can see our recommendations for grades 7 through 12 in physical education at our middle schools. They would like to recommend, um, Spark digital curriculum. And, um, some of the supplies that will come as a result of some of the new activities that they would be doing with those. And then for our high school, um, the recommendation came for REF reps, and I'll talk about that uh, in two slides. On the next slide, you can see for SparkCC, very tight connection from that curriculum to the Indiana standards for um middle school. Um very inclusive activities. Um the the curriculum is designed that way. Uh longstanding organization with a lot of research-based programming. Um and it was really the favorite from our um pilots. On the next slide, you can see a little bit about refs. Our high schools were very excited about this.
So people chose their matches, they had better training and it was successful and people are so excited now to be doing this and the data showed that it is um boosting achievement for all students. So we looked at the specific strands on the um MCCAST map um and we noticed that the performance of all students was much better and stronger and we felt comfortable with it. So that was good. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Jess, please take How could you create an environment where staff felt safe to approach you with problems? You know, no staff member has never felt uncomfortable approaching me with a problem. I will say that. But it's part of who I am. Like I'm not um I like to be visible at the same time approachable and I choose to work when I don't have confidential things that I am doing.
You're welcome. Any other questions? I'm good. I don't really have questions. I just I just wanted to I just I love acronyms that really are meaningful and that win acronym just I can't take credit for that. That's been around forever. If I could just take a minute, Mr. P Mr. reporter. Um, I just want to say thank you for your 35 years. I won't get emotional. Um, I may uh I just want Yeah, I probably said this a million times, maybe over I don't know. Um, but uh you know when I when I um I just remember um my most precious cargo, my um middle son with uh you know, who was entering school at kindergarten um unable to talk and really had complex needs. um learning that your sister-in-law and uh you and uh Lorraine and Wendy were going to be at the helm, but knowing you um really put me at ease and made that transition easy.
Kind of out of the ordinary for the district that we felt needed to be disclosed, but we didn't have anything to disclose there. Now, we're going to get to that supplementary information that I talked about. That's schedule one. This is that budgetary comparison schedule. Um list all your budgeted funds on the far left. Then you've got your certified budget, those adjustments to comply with that legal max based on your enrollment. Your adjustments for qualifying budget credits. Um these are called budget extenders. Um things like reimburseed expense, loan proceeds, grant proceeds, essentially anything. Um that money is kind of coming in from an outside source to extend your budget essentially. So we sum those three columns up to get your total budget for each fund. And we compare that to your total expenditures. And this is where that far right column is your most important one.
I think the contractor's bid coming in is what ABCDC is prepared for. Whatever that looks like, that's going to be included in the price, right? Yeah. We wouldn't necessarily We would prefer not to break things up, right? Um we'd prefer that they put the bill for it. That garage area, how big is that big enough for like a district office? Not big enough. You're talking about where that overhead door is. Yeah. No, that's where the all the shipping and receiving comes through there, too. Like if we have a big order coming in the semiis back up in there or, you know, that's where Tim unloads and loads. So, I mean, that's why we need to visit Tim. Well, everyone would like to see the schematics for both options. about the stand. Is it easy to unload bring food in on these plants? Yeah, that'd be probably more.
So anyway, I would um kindly ask that if you um are willing to support this that you vote affirmatively this evening. All right, with that then I'll entertain a motion to I'll make a motion. Yeah, you all signing software services. All right. And I'm gonna presume I have a second. Thank you. All right. All in favor? I. All right. Item um 11A is just first reading. Generally, we don't discuss a whole lot on first readings, right? We don't. And so, but what I did want to say because u this is a lot of cleanup by ASBA. Um a lot of ASBA policies are strictly a restatement of state statute. So, they're working through trying to clean these up, eliminating things where there are multiple versions or, you know, duplicity in a lot of the policies. I would encourage you um because next month will be second reading.
Um, tuition was then uh changed to $100 a month. Um, in 2013, then Flint Springs, Lincoln, and Andrews, we started that in January with Christy. She started that classroom, and we had 120 students in our program. Our goal is to have a preschool in every elementary building. We are so close. Um so Flint Springs, Lincoln, Andrews, Salimony, we just opened this year as well. And in August of 2025, we will be opening a preschool at Ronoke. So we will be so close. Horseman is our last one. We are working through the kinks to figure that out. But just because their your students home school is horse man doesn't mean you don't have an opportunity to attend. Um those students still have the opportunity to attend at Lincoln or Andrews just depending on spaces and availability. Um so for 2025 I right now it's projected that we will have 137 students um that will be enrolled in the preschool program.
This course will allow our high school students to earn a PE credit, meanwhile having the opportunity to be certified in up to three different sports in which they would then be um certified to go and referee. And so great opportunity for kids to learn about different sports, but also be able to go and um serve back in our community, maybe um refereeing some youth sports games or go out and um get a job and make some money doing so. So, we were really excited with that option for uh ref reps. And our goal would be um next year that we would start with one section in the fall, one section in the spring at both of our high schools. In health, both our middle schools and high schools after uh exploring both chose health smart. Um, I'm excited that our middle school and high school students will be using the same curriculum.
I choose to work. Laptop can come with me. um phone can come with me. I might choose a school library where I sit down and I get my work done. And I might choose a staff lounge where I get my work done. There are desks that we used to have in the hallway where our hallway teachers sat when they did their hallway duties. And so I really people thought I had assumed duty as a part of my job, but it was just really it was what I enjoyed doing. Like I enjoyed I could get my worked done and be visible and and people would approach me and say, "Wow, the administration is so supportive because I see you in the, you know, frequently." Um but the other thing is you have to provide to make sure that things keep moving. You have to have as a superintendent, you have to have several um groups um where you have a planned agenda where there are um and actually the Google agendas work great and um people um you have your central office leadership team, you have an instructional leadership team, you have a district leadership team which is like the like um you know the central office the PE the princ some of the principals and some of um the facilities director and um technology director and things like that and the groups the secret really is you can't just plan a meeting like happen stance with no agenda.
And so I have never forgotten you for that and all lots of other stories that we we don't need to share today. Um so I just wanted to lead with that. But that acronym and I just had one question relative to so I don't want to because I might get emotional if I continue. Um uh he's going to be 22 soon. So yeah. Um we're 28. We're Jack Benny's age, right? Uh there was something else. The Yeah, the fifth grade leadership program was fabulous and everything. I really could really see the strategic plan alive in this um school improvement plan. Um that peer mentoring program. Is that um all of the grades like K through five or It could be. And and it was interesting what sparked my thinking along this line is I had a fourth grader and a kindergartener both, you know, having a tough day and it was just magical to watch them work each other's stuff out.
um that one time that a negative number is a good thing. Means you were under budget in all your funds. You glance through there, you can see you met that requirement. Like we mentioned earlier, the following pages, page 18 all the way back to page 43 are the individual fund summary statement schedules. Um this goes through all that information on statement one and breaks it down in more detail for you. Um gives you the receipts coming in the door, kind of are they tax dollars, are they grant dollars, etc. um gives you the broken down expenditure categories uh supplied by KSD that you follow. Talks about your transfers. Uh this is where that prior year information comes into play. So you kind of see what's going on one year to the next. Gives you that budgeted by line item and then your variance over under by line item.
Yeah. So, so bringing food back and forth if it was attached would be a lot easier on our faculty and staff and the people that work to go back and forth because the holiday. Yes. So, what would it consist of me to do two floor plans? Can you tell me about like I mean how much time that's going to take out of your crew to be able to do both of them? Uh, so we we would not be the ones doing that. Um, I would imagine we probably have something I'd like to say by the end of the week, but it would probably be sometime next. So, Let's talk about like a building scope. You know, talked about the the funds being encumbered by September. That's really ABCC's deal, but know that they said they really want something built by the end of December. Where does that put your timeline on this?
Like Cindy said, we typically nitty-gritty it at the second reading and if there's something that we want to strike or add whatever localize we can. You are free to remove that whole section. Oh, really? from your binder and take it with you if you have insomnia. I think it will cure it.
102 typically developing peers will be attending as well as 35 identified students. Um, right now we are working through the process of vouchers and Christie will go through that in just a little bit, but we are asking that we have permission to raise our tuition price to $200 a month um just to compete with the area preschools that we do have. Um, right here I have a couple examples of some other programming around. Uh, 3-day programming is 115 a month, 5day 200, and 5day 175. just depends on where you go. Um, but these are half day programs as well. So depending on what school you go to, um, everyone attends two and a half hours, AM or PM. And next, I believe we have vouchers.