Oh, um, also of note, universal vouchers um were also part of that funding measure that did pass. Um but it will go into effect in the second um annuum. That's it for me. 2026. Thank you, Miss Lawrence. That was definitely a busy season. Uh I didn't know Dr. Smith if you had anything you wanted to add because I know we've been busy and thank you to the board too and Dr. Smith for our advocacy this session. Let let me say this. I I don't think the public understands the amount of work that the board and you guys have policy on this that you will be engaged. The meetings, the conversations that take place are numerous and it's important for people to understand is that we have a very good relationship with our local legislators. Uh we talk constantly. Uh we know where they live. We meet often and we talk about the best interests for Lawrence Township.
Now he's going to run it the other way. Kramer quick dish up to Olsen. Olsson little swim move gets poked loose. Good defense from Lucas. Able to scoot it back though. And now you got Raiders with it. This is Atwood. Atwood casually running on that to that far side on the four on the 35 waiting for Hartnet to come in. He's going to dish it up to Hartnet. Right back to Atwood. Atwood trying to get in. Atwood with an opportunity. And what a rocket. What an answer, too. That was like two good shots on both sides of the field right there. Right. And that goal looked oddly familiar. I think uh Hartnet had a similar one from that side just before that for Diaz. Yeah. So, breaking the lead back to four for the Raiders is six-2. They're uh scoring every other minute if not sooner right now in this quarter.
Reno back to Calibris over to Addie Jordan looking to get everybody to clear out as Addie Jordan goes in turns around gets the ball to Calib and Calib throws the ball low side of Davis and gets herself a goal. Good work by Jordan in Calib there to get the Spartans up six to three. Spartans going through a couple girls here trying to figure out what to do against Po. Po seems to be winning a couple of the draws. Throwing the ball straight up. Has a little bit of size. So trying to Grace Howard. Grace Howard gets the ball over to Addie Jordan as Jordan will look to quickly start up the East Sumo offense again. She goes by one. She has clear space. She gets the ball. Another shot off the post. That's got to be like the fourth the fourth time the Spartans hit the tink of the post.
As a competitor at the National Qualifier Tournament, Lane also earns honor courts. Next is Mallerie Over. Mallerie is a four-time competitor at the state championship and is a competitor at the 2024 National Speech Tournament. Mallerie earned honor [Applause] courts. And then we have two additional seniors who are not members of the NSDA. Khloe Gosny. Although Khloe is not a member of the NSDA, she is an outstanding member of our team and is a four-time competitor of the state championship. Chloe, you will get your certificate after this weekend. And then we also have Matthew Deckit. Matthew joined our team this year as well. Matthew is new to forensics um but tried out some new events this year and made a great addition to our team. And Matthew, I will have the quesa certificate for you after this weekend. [Applause] Next is the Ronald Reagan Leadership Award.
We also received some Medicaid revenue. That number is significantly reduced from prior years. We're down about $180,000 in that category. The state has uh changed the way they reimburse districts for certain Medicaid eligible expenses for students. In our case, we used to receive over $200,000. Now we're going to be at 27 or $28,000. Um and then the additional money here, the one to note that was not included in the March tenative presentation is our tax levy incentive aid. So, because we are taking the full allowable amount of the tax levy authority, we also will receive the full allowable tax levy incentive aid from the state of New Jersey and that is $710,62. We also talked about miscellaneous revenues pretty extensively at our uh January meeting. That number has not changed. We received some tuition from other LEAs. We have to budget the interest we might receive on our reserve accounts.
I have some Good evening everyone. We're at the st city of champion and more. From our student of the month to our special Olympic athletes that win medals, I'd like to talk about Gianna Evolina. We talk about gold medals. Giana won a gold medal. And come on up, Gian. Come on up. Let's give a round of applause. talking about my she won a gold medal representing team USA and Mai for her age group and she's going to de Bruis Dubai. Thank you guys in Abu Dhabi. Okay. She's going representing team USA as a city of champion. We just want to recognize her. We recognize her in the city. We recognize her with the school district. and we recognize her in the Garfield Middle School. She's a straight A student. She's one of our top students in the eighth grade class. She practices five days a week.
that has a lasting impact not just on their performance but on their confidence, their opportunities for college recruitment and their belief that adults invest in their success. On top of this instability, the investigation into Willow Canyon baseball was rushed, one-sided and lack transparency. Students were pulled from classes and questions without prior notification to parents. Minors were questioned without knowledge. This is a serious violation of trust and a breach of our parental rights. We also learned that multiple parents were told incorrectly that no appeals process existed, directly contradicting the district's own employee handbook. These failures and process further erode the trust that families placed in this district to fairly act in the best interest of our children. I want to read a quote from the surprise independent from KJ Kavali, varsity member on the team who couldn't be here tonight due to a game. He says, "We've grown so much closer on and off the field.
At this time, board members and district administrators are invited to ask questions of Dr. Mitchell. Good evening, board president Simamilton, Vice President Gaywood, members of the board of education, and superintendent Kilgotti. The purpose of the current state waiver application is to request the renewal of our previously approved waiver that would allow SD308 to continue the opportunity for high school students participating in commotion, the Asiggo Community School District 308 showquire to be able to continue to utilize a state physical education waiver. The state waiver application is specifically for a waiver of school code section 27-6 to allow district 308 to exempt students in 9th through 12th grade who are active participants in commotion from the statemandated physical education requirement. Students eligible for this waiver have a minimum of three rigorous practice sessions for a total of 7 and a half to 10 hours per week. and the waiver, if renewed, would allow these students to schedule a study hall.
He taught me to have more of a passion for what I'm learning about and especially like what I'm reading and what I'm writing about. I'm Macy Eaton and I plan to attend Purdue University and study engineering. My favorite BCSSE experience was winning cross country state my freshman year. My favorite BCSSE teacher is Mr. Spock because I really enjoyed his AP stats class. My name is Cara Buntton. I'll be attending Florida International University in the fall studying biochemistry on a pre-med track. My favorite BCSSE memory was being on the golf team. I made a lot of personal connections and great friendships with all the girls on the team. My two favorite teachers are my C4 nursing teachers, Mrs. Westerfeld and Miss Richards. They really supported me in my decision of going to medical school instead of going to nursing school. and they really helped me um get my medical assisting license and really prepared me for the future.
In fact, the top two choices came down to a difference in total about $80,000. We were happy with the quality of responses we received. Part of the agreement, we're also including the option for our other 10 locations, the individual buildings with their ECA accounts if they'd like to participate with these interest rates. We're going to cover all the fees for them if they would like to join us. I don't know why they wouldn't, but they may. We're going to leave that up to their choice to do that. So, with that, compared to what we're currently doing, we're anticipating this generating about a quart million dollars of addition interest that interest income at this point going into our education fund. So with that, we're recommending a three-year agreement with First Merchants Bank for our bank services. Thank you, Mr. Ree. You've heard a recommendation of the administration for approval of the three-year agreement, First Merchants Bank.
Any opposed? That motion will carry. Thank you, M. You're welcome. Okay, moving on to reports. Starting with the assistant superintendent, Mrs. McKerson. Yes. Um, Mrs. Goodpastor and her high school staff have been working really hard um getting ready for the new high school redesign. And as part of that, they have been having conversations and planning on what it can look like to um honor those students when they get into senior year and graduation. And so what they are looking at is possibly transitioning to a Latin honors um graduation rather than what we do right now with validictorian saludiatoran. This isformational only um and then in next month if there are no questions or based on your feedback we'll submit for approval from the board.
Um, I've actually been on an EF tour myself in 2014. I went to London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Brussels with them. And it was a great experience being a young adult and um, being able to do the traveling without the stress of planning my own itineraries and arranging my own hotels and everything. Um, another big perk with doing an EF tour is that everything is all-inclusive. Um, the only money that students need to have separate on the trip is for lunch and souvenirs. Um, all of their dinners, breakfast, hotels, flights, everything is covered in the trip cost. Um, the trip to Ireland is going to be nine days. Um, we will two of those days we're going to be traveling between Indianapolis and Dublin. um either way. But then while we're in Ireland, we're going to be in Dublin, Kilkenny, Cork, Blourney, Ring of Carry, Killery, and Goway.
Those roads also cross and intersect with other school corporations and other legislators and board members, board presidents and others talking across the state of Indiana. I'm very proud of our board because they were active and engaged in this legislative session. And guess what board? The work now begins immediately as we work for the next legislative session. So we'll be engaged for the rest of the year as we prepare for next January. And then of course the budget is every two years, but the work starts now. You with me folks? It starts right now. So, thank you board. Thank you, Dr. Smith. And now we will move on to our foundation, Dr. Mahaland. Well, the Lawrence Township School Foundation kicked off their spring up and running program. Um, and I just want to read from uh their their site. Uh the mission is to challenge students to experience the benefits of goal setting, character development, adult mentoring, and improved health by providing them with a life-changing experience.
Yeah, for sure. Sawyer Kelly a little frustrated about that. All right, balls up. Good win there from Simon Hart. Quick pass and that one gets a little away from Fowler. And good scoop up though from Kelly. Kelly now going to try to dish it up. Passes it off to Mclligot. Kelly got puts on the wheels. Goes by Simon Hart, which you rarely hear. He's going towards the net and what a rip. Wow. He gets his second in a row there. He's uh he's starting to feel it, I believe. Yeah, cuz that was another great shot. Malagot just comes in. He's got it, folks. He sure does. Very nice goal. A very quick answer. I think answered within like 10 to 15 seconds right there. Maybe 23 at the most. He saw the Raiders running down that right side shooting it and he wanted to join the party.
Calibri gets the ball in over to Marino. Marino marked up by Canada. She feeds the ball into Trulio. Trulio there with a little shifty behind Quizzler. Nice shot by Trulio to to get a goal. Number four, Angelina. [Music] [Applause] Trillio had a great game the other day against Notre Dame Academy, putting herself up a hat-tick. She's keeping the ball rolling with a goal here in the in the second quarter. Spartans up 73 with 1017 to go. Howard gets the ball up all the way over to looks like Addie Jordan ends up with it. Addy Jordan goes in and out and she gets shoot herself shooting space and she'll be on the eight meter. Jordan goes up, goes right, gets another one past Davis as Jordan gets another goal. Number seven, Jordan. Timeout. West Springfield. All [Music] right, we're back. 83 Spartans. 945 left to go.
The Ronald Reagan Leadership Award is a prestigious award that is typically presented to a graduating senior who best exemplifies drive, humility, and service before self. Last year, the Ronald Reagan committee allowed us to choose a junior and a senior. this year they're not having the opportunity at all. So, we're going to re-recognize our student who received this award last year. We would like to uh recognize her. Call her up. She is Hannah Sides. [Applause] The Kansas Masonic Lodges recognizes students for being exemplary in their schools. Recognition could be for academics, leadership, overcoming special circumstances, or just because they are an allround good. The staff at BHS chooses the recipients of the Kansas Masonic Foundation Exemplary Student Award. They are Olivia Lions and Eli Irving. [Applause] Each high school in Kansas can nominate one student as a Kansas Governor's Scholar. The requirement is that this student ranks in the top 1% of the graduating class.
And then we also are still maintaining the withdrawal of capital reserves for the identified projects of 283,000. Here's our year-to-year comparison of each of those categories. Please note that on this slide I did cate or lump all the state aids together as one number, but you can see the most significant increase for us is going to be tax levy going up at $18 million. And we'll talk about that number in another slide. All right. Um I wanted to see if there's anything else to talk about here. I don't believe our budget fund balance is down. So that's a significant reduction. We had also uh identified that previously in another meeting. All right. So let's talk about our tax levy breakdown. So how did we arrive at our 88 million or $89 million number? Well, this is exactly how we take the prior year, the pre-budget year number, which is the current year's tax levy that we're receiving, which is 70,89283.
Mai, what else? Mai jiu-jitsu and MMA. So, for anybody who wants to get in the ring to mess around with her, you're more than welcome. But to represent the city of Garfield, our school district, is unbelievable. And that's the city of champion. And she's a champion. So let's give a round of applause to our champion. Just a footnote to this is that unfortunately it's very expensive to represent team USA for some reason against the United States with all the tariffs and everything going on. They can't represent our athletes when they go there. the that that dime falls on the family. So, uh Garfield, the middle school, Garfield Middle School is holding a dress down day. Anybody would like to donate, you know, to help offset the cost, uh to go out there is really appreciated by the Garfield Middle School, the school district, as well as the Eveina family.
We've gone out and had fun. We're relaxed. Last year we'd go out there and feel tense and stressed out. this. Thank you. Did we have any other speakers? Okay, thank you. All right, next up we have superintendent update. Dr. Cartto. Thank you, Madam President. Uh, just a few updates. Recently, our emergency medical technician program um housed at Valley Vista. They hosted an EMT family night. Um this was an opportunity to work alongside our Surprise Fire Department um and conduct a mass casualty training scenario. So, families had a viewing area. They were able to watch their um children perform and as well as take pictures and ask questions about any of the training. So, that occurred recently. Um we had some FBLA state award winners for animation. First place is Elias Ramirez, Vanna Jaren, and Kai Langub. And third place, Eduardo Martinez Tustado, uh Jade Thomas, and Gabe Martin.
The application requests the renewal of the waiver for five years. Thank you. Okay. Do we have public comment on this um waiver? Okay. At this time, I would like to ask our administrators if they have any additional information, documentation, or recommendations that they would like to have before the board while we consider whether to authorize the show choir waiver application. Dr. Mitchell or Dr. Concincaid no. Okay. All right. At this time, recommendation is to continue. We are in support of the right now. Yes. At this time, we will close the public hearing. On behalf of the board of education, I would like to thank the members of the community who have spoken here tonight. The board of education will review the application and consider the testimony that um has been heard today as well as any additional relevant information it has received. The board of education will discuss the application and vote whether or not to authorize the state waiver application during the action portion of this agenda.