So it's very situation specific. Okay. So it's advantageous for us to do the one year. Yeah. And last year we got a really good rate. This year it's not bad. And that's the it's insurance on insurance. So depending on how we perform, that's how we get these um rates. So thank you. Could you just because insurance is pretty confusing insurance? Yeah. So basically we're a self-funded insurance plan. That means all the medical bills get paid out of our uh account, right? So if a large claim comes in, this puts a limit on that claim so that this company pays those bills instead of us paying those bills. So basically, it's insurance against a catastrophic event on someone on our insurance. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. I will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. So moved. So moved by Raquel.
And I know when I did this earlier, I think I'm going to have to Oh, that's corporations. didn't work. So I took but this is about three minutes long but this will explain Senate Bill one a little bit more and then we'll show um another slide deck that we like to share. So I'm going to go to working all that. We're going to go to 18. And these are the the the top three things that the Indiana School Boards Association, they sent out on Fridays. You might have heard seen this already. Um, but Lisa Tanzel is one of the attorneys there at the Indiana School Board Association. The director actually usually does it, but apparently he was not available. So, I just want to show this and learn a little bit more about this. Was the third reading deadline for both the House and the Senate?
Does anybody have any questions on any of those dates on the calendar? Update on aviation. So the uh the building con uh the aviation building that they've been working on since November of October is now 98% complete. We have two punch list but um we started uh bringing in the equipment today and all week working on getting the equipment in there and then on I think it's April 28th FAA will be in to assess all the spaces the all the documentations to get approved to be a school all the curriculum.
Um and so that 75,000 uh was pulled from the major projects um line item. So that is the only change from the original presentation. Thank you. Do we have any questions or comments from the board before I motion? I motion that the governing board tenatively approve the fiscal year 2026 capital outlay budget. Second. Miss Banana Hook. Seconded. All those in favor? I. I. Motion carries four to zero. This brings us to item 8.3, approval of RFP number 25-01-30, Athletic Trainer Service.
Are there any questions? First of all, it was great. Um I really enjoyed that. and the slide that you put up where they gave the feedback in the comments on the other I didn't have a chance to read through it real carefully but the little bit that I read you I mean it was so thoughtful it really is but one of the things that popped in my mind is standardsbased grading too it was like they were to me identifying the skills and saying how well they were being mastered and I'm just curious can you comment on how the and and the grading works together particularly in a class like dance I mean is this is it feed off of each other is it um complement each other is any thoughts definitely complements what we do because it's a in real time work it it complements the fine arts in general because you're constantly learning you're constantly trying to improve on what you're doing and so as you're learning it's your body is your instrument so You constantly have to give that feedback and then you know we do a lot of videoing in our classes.
Second. Second by Aaron. Cindy, please lead us in a roll vote. Carolandu, yes. Gonzalez Thomas, yes. Gilbert, yes. Siger, yes. Meadows, yes. Matthysse, yes. Lock, yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Under reports, Tom, would you like to lead us through the reports? Yes. So we are presenting uh our monthly reports of foyer requests. This month uh had a little larger volume than normal but other than that uh we were able to grant all the requests.
meaning that any bill that was not called by the author by Tuesday of this week is considered dead. Looking at the ISBA tracking list, it looks like we remove at least 13 bills from our list because they are considered to be dead. Other bills on our list are on their way to the governor for his signature or are being assigned to conference committee. So, speaking of the governor's signing bills, issue number one, Senate Bill One, has been signed by the governor. He signed this bill on Tuesday of this week. As you know, this is the bill that was designed to give significant property tax relief to taxpayers, but unfortunately resulted in a significant decrease in expected property tax revenues available to public school corporations. Other provisions in the bill include limiting referendum questions to the general election ballot and requiring certain school corporations to share operating referendum dollars with charter schools beginning in 2028.
uh we'll be doing an assessment with the instructor to obtain his knowledge and expertise in utilizing all the equipment in the curriculum and then if everything goes well we would expect their final approval once they approve department head to come in and do their inspection of the space as well and uh once that's done we should be ready to open in September get a chance to see Any questions on that? Yeah. At the end of the meeting, if you want to take a quick look down there. Yeah. So, if everything goes fine with the FA on the 28th, then we're all set to open the program for the fall. uh after they're done, Department of Ed has to come in and do theirs, but theirs is basically predicated on FAA's approval. FAA's approval is much more stringent than Department of Education. They won't give you clearance to start program until FA approves.
Do we have any questions or comments from the board before I motion? I do have one question. Do we get consent from parents ahead of time for them to be treated by the trainers? Uh, board member Van Hook. Yeah, when you go do your athletic packet, that's part of what you're doing when you sign the athletic packet is so that uh when you go to register that we are able to treat in case there is an emergency that's happening on that. And so when you go through that register my athlete, you in there you're giving us consent. And then what we do is take that information because you have your um your physical all that information and then the trainers get that as well so that we can appropriately address if there's concerns that come up. Okay. and I forget, but is there an option to opt out of being treated?
They have a lot of video portfolio. They have to look at themselves. You know you have to watch yourself dance and then you have to get that feedback. and the way our rubrics are set up, you know, to really um get detailed in terms of what it is they're being assessed on or even if it's in this case where they needed to just talk about the relationship versus talking about dance in general. So, it's it's a constant feedback. We we always are giving feedback and they're always asking questions like the way we pace the room, the way what we're asking of them. I it's constant talking and dancing and counting and yelling and music. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's a constant cycle. And so these are the OGs of standardsbased grading. These were the founding team that started it at Stevenson High School. It made more sense like standardsbased grading made more sense with the art form than trying to put a percentage on things.
Any questions? Any questions? Okay. I have a weird question that I wasn't going to ask but I decided to. Now you're going to. Yeah. Wonderful. Bang. My friend. If I was wonderful, if someone was so inclined to find out who an anonymous requester was, would they be able to request that via FOYA? That is a interesting question. No, because a FOYA is for a public body and so waiting to ask that question, haven't you? I just I've never seen such an amount of anonymous requests. Have we gotten anonymous before? This, in my recollection, is the very first time we have ever seen anything like this before. Okay, cuz I asked I thought this was I didn't even know you could submit a request that I'm going to be sending a lot now. There are some schools of thought, but we're sticking with a safer approach for the district and responding.
Lastly, the bill also includes language that will dissolve the union school corporation effective July 1, 2027. Issue number two, the revenue forecast was presented to the Senate Budget Committee just yesterday. The April forecast estimates a loss in state revenue or a decrease in state revenue of over $2 billion over the next two years. Obviously, this news greatly impacts House Bill 101, the budget bill, and the ability of the general assembly to give school corporations any significant increase in tuition support dollars. Issue number three, conference committees. House Bill 1001 has been assigned to a conference committee and it is through this conference committee process that the final version of the bill will be negotiated. Other bills assigned to conference committee include Senate Bill 287, the bill on partisan school board elections. The conference committee was scheduled to convene to this morning. Um but that meeting was cancelled so we are awaiting to see if it will be scheduled sometime next week.
Okay. And nothing at the hanger will hang it up at all. It's just what's on on site here. It's well first it's curriculum. All your curriculum has to be aligned to the FAA standards and then all equipment has to be aligned to their standards as well. You have to have specific kinds of trainer tools equipment right down to the screwdrivers you use. So they uh they inspect all the tools and all the equipment as well. Uh they also inspect all of our aircraft. So we have the two three airplanes to check and the helicopter they review all that and how that aligns to the curriculum. So they'll be uh going out to the airport, take a look at the hanger, making sure also the setup and the layout of the space laid out uh also how you how you document and keep all the assessment students do all in separate room.
Um, that would be very, very rare. As far as I understand, that's not an option to come out being treated by the athletic trainer for injuries or anything. I would encourage any parents that have concerns to talk to the athletic directors at the site and or the trainer if there's a concern that's coming forward. But we do provide athletic training services. We think it's really important to help protect our athletes. As we know, especially there's lots of sports that have a lot of physical contact. We want to make sure that we keep them safe. And so, the goal of providing this RFP is to increase the amount of coverage to actually make it safer for our kids as well as providing more direct support for our middle schools. And so, we're really excited about expanding the coverage for our kids through the athletic uh trainer RFP and working with com one company to cover all four of the secondary schools.
Yeah. How do you put a percentage on just Exactly. Exactly. So, it's a big challenge. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Um, it's a big challenge when you have u incoming freshmen who like you said before like some have had tons and tons of dance and others are total. How how do you guys address that in the that dynamic? Well, we do have uh our placements um and so students get the opportunity over two days to show us what their technical skills are and so we have cl our classes are mixed classes. So we have classes that have freshman through senior in them. Dance one obviously has a tendency to be more freshman. Um, but it is interesting when you're talking about someone who maybe came to dance and it's natural for them, but they haven't had a lot of training. And so in those situations, you realize that there is a learning curve um to that.
There's nothing against it. No challenges. Okay, Tony, treasur report. U Mr. Kilberg asks me every month if there is anything uh anomalous to report on the treasures report and indeed this month this there is nothing anomalous to report. So the usual things are thought you were gonna just kill it. Sue's last meeting. So yeah, no one nothing new. Okay.
Two other bills on our talking list that are currently in conference committee include House Bill 1002, the education deregulation bill, and Senate Bill 482, the absenteeism bill. As I said, all of these bills That's I was going to end it there at 3:25. So, um, not necessarily great news at all, but just want to make sure you saw and heard that because it explains it pretty um, succinctive. So, questions, comments, maybe it doesn't pertain to us, but Union Township School, why did they dissolve that one? Were they financially bankrupt? No, they have a I think they have a $20 million budget approximately. Yeah, I don't know the specifics. I do know that it's a brick and mortar school of about 300 kids districtwide, but they actually have an enrollment of 9,000 kids because they have a a virtual school that they run. Um and so I think there has just been some concern with that school corporation in various areas related to um testing results scores as part of it.
So they're very strict about uh the whole process and operation of the school and they come in every three to four months uh to do a review on how much they do approve it. So it's not like you get approved and you're all done. It's at least three times a year and they check your the students work they check all the curriculum ongoing to make sure that we're following what we say we're going to do. So it's very strict everything is got to be followed to the te so we can expect taking in freshmen next year. One other question, that list of tools, that's from the FAA themselves, that's not going by our curves, right? These are things that the FAA say we have to have. Yes, we have some equipment, some trainers that we purchased two years ago have still here. Are they updated?
Thank you. Yeah. I just want to make sure that if a parent for some reason decides that they don't want um the treatment that there is an option for them to be able to opt out. Thank you. Not bad. I motion that the governing board approve RFP number 25-01-30 for athletic trainer services to Phoenix Children's. Miss Van Hook seconded. All those in favor? I I motion carries four to zero. This brings us to 8.4 delegation of authority to execute requests for certification and asurances issued by the Arizona Department of Education regarding eligibility for federal grant funding. Um I actually have something I would like to say first and then we can open it. That's because it's time for questions or comments. Um, so look, I'm having a hard time uh with this executive order from the president of the United States that demands we follow title six of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
But I would say because we have the opportunity to place them, there's a little bit more balance to their understanding of the art form when they come to it. What's your ratio in terms of students who are brand new to it versus how many come in? Do the majority come in with some experience or do you get a fair amount that every year that have not? It es and flows I would say but again because of our um our placement auditions we are able to meet them where they need to be. We have about six or seven sections at dance one right then two two of three one of four. So every year you must get definitely more new new dancers than experienced dancers. So in one of the slides it said um special education students. Yes. And I didn't talk for special education. I'm glad you went back to that.