Questions? Ladies, a little disappointed that wasn't the real horses this issue. Oh man, I shouldn't have said it, but they're that cute. They are that cute. I know they are. Yeah, I would like to just make a comment. You guys are amazing. What you guys do, the special education department, I think, in our area is like the best. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you so much. Thank you. You're welcome. Next item 6C is our superintendent Daniels. Okay.
Canor? I'm okay. I just It's weird because a law is like any person who violates a section is guilty of a petty offense. I was just reading that 36798.03 3 just to see what what the law actually says, but it doesn't look like it's applying to kids. I mean, I guess a person would in include anybody, but I don't see why it needs to be in our policy. So, this would change here. I mean, I like the blue a lot better. Like, yeah, shall be subject to disciplinary actions and supportive services. Okay. So, I'm [Music] gonna Are you good with it, James? Yes. Yes. Yes. So, then text drag out that add this. Okay. So, that's done. [Music] Um, it's too bad we don't have something like that for like chaperones on field trips. That'd be awesome. Well, it I mean anything that applies to staff would apply to Yeah, but these would be chaperons, right?
And you can see that our numbers are lower, too. So, uh, we're not quite sure, but here's what we do know is that we're always continuing to make improvements with and looking at our data and seeing what is the best way that we can handle our um our issues with students. And so, I'm happy to tell you and I'm very I'm very excited um to to to say that starting next year, we're going to implement what are called station adjustments. And I don't know if any everybody knows what a station adjustment is, but basically it's a way for us us to still hold kids accountable, to still teach them what's right or wrong, but to keep them out of the formal criminal justice system, out of the courts. And so what that's a big deal. Now, I can't tell you that we're going to be able to do that with every crime, but we went ahead and looked back at our last years and the years prior crimes and said, "How many are we going to deem as high level?
Any problems. um clean the junior high gym area and paint some of it and then replace the ceiling tile in the annex as needed. Uh Ross will help out with that, take care of that kind of stuff. So, uh there's a whole list of stuff to be done over the summer. Um a lot of it won't be expensive to do other than the fact you just need uh we just needed the personnel and the time without students to get it done. questions about that. Sorry it's so long. It's a long list. All right. Second thing, um I have balance sheets for you. You can look those over. This gives you an idea of all your accounts on April 30th of the last five years. So you got an idea of how you stack up. Education fund is doing pretty level. Um operations, you can see operations is in the red.
Um there is an information in contract notes publicly. Um but I would just ask that you would approve this contract for um evaluation services for one of our students. So everyone did get that in their email. Um, if you do have a question, ask me very special education 61. Okay, this is solely based off that for those child's needs is what this is about. It's not like a forever contract based off that need that child as long as needed, right? No, it's just for contracted services one time evaluation contracted services. Okay, it's just evaluation. Okay. So, just not open. Okay. All in favor? Are we voting on that? Michelle, you've got that. Okay. Michelle will send you the vote for 6.2. All right. Motion carries. Uh 6.3. I'd like to get a motion to discuss the Spear and Landmark products. All right. This is just a request for our annual renewal of chemicals and supplies for our pool.
So, um the the slide that you see up on the screen kind of talks through what the uh foundation amount for the ADM count will be moving forward uh into fiscal year 26 and fiscal year 27. U there's about a 1.6% increase uh in funding for 26 and about a 1.4 increase for 27. they'll tout that there's a 2% increase for schools, but that's actually an average across the state. Um, so ours are in that 1.6 1.4 range. Um, and initially they were touting closer to 3%, but that was because they had dumped the curricular materials reimbursement money into our state basic grant and we're counting that as part of our increase. So when you take that out, we fall just below 2% increase over the next couple of years. Um along with that, even though there's an increase in the foundation amount, the complexity amount, which makes up some of our special populations, uh that actually is going down uh by about $23 per student next year.
Our district celebration will take place on Friday, May 23rd. By correct, Carla, the board will be front and center as we will celebrate the true excellence in our district, our staff members. And then also board, don't forget front and center June 4th and 5th are our graduations. And that is a profunction of Lawrence Central and Lawrence North High School. You will be there to accept their recommendations for graduation and that is always truly a wonderful celebration. Board Saturday I traveled to Bloomington, Indiana. Excuse me. Friday had an opportunity to have time to celebrate my son but in the presence of many Lawrence Township graduates from Indiana University. And so normally a superintendent doesn't get to attend college graduation with their former students, but I did. I want everyone to know they IU is well represented with bears and wild cats. Okay, well represented and I took several pictures with those that I was able to do.
Um and hopefully that intent, it appears like there was an intent to take quite a bit out of school choice. Hopefully we won't have to take that much. Right. I think we talked about, you know, rather than trying to commit to a number up front, we'll get towards the end of the year and we'll see where we are and and try to minimize what we take out of school choice. Thank you. Thanks, Sarah. There other questions? Okay. Uh item two um is a memo from me regarding these are actually Tanto student activities accounts. I'm sorry I haven't uh the elementary school uh accounts uh typically fall under the threshold um to require that much action on it. Um but uh our uh Tahanto accounts are under a little more scrutiny. They're audited on a regular basis, things like that. I will look at the elementary student activity accounts, but those don't change as frequently as well.
And so that's a a way that they are just preventing them from working. So you know people um from just one one mutation um can have a whole uh spectrum of symptoms. And so you know you see how easy it is for us to just you know do stuff with nematodes that has effect on human health. So we're very hopeful you know that we can try and solve this kind of problem and then you know then it's up to the people you know also at UMass who are doing RNA therapeutics to develop drugs to you know change that. So this, you know, it's a very exciting time to be a scientist. There's so much um that we don't know and still needs to be done and lots and lots of questions. Yeah, that's a really good point. The sea elegance is a a model model organisms can be studied, right, to sort of learn stuff and then sort of make inferences about human biology.
Uh seeing no questions from committee members, any questions from non-committee members? I would just like to ask a question and I know how important it is uh when the child first enters uh kindergarten because I went through that process myself. Are there any waiverss given at any time? Miss Cooper, are you referring to the vaccinations? Right. Yes. So, formally there used to be religious exemptions for vaccinations. Um, and any student that started uh school, that was a couple of years ago, um, that that waiver discontinued. Um, and so any student that's entered since that change in statutory language is required to have um to have the, uh, vaccinations. There are very rare circumstances um, in which it would be, you know, potentially, let's say, very dangerous for a child or a family member. Um, and that is with uh, serious medical consultation. But otherwise all um of our students that are entering school um are required to have all the vaccinations.
Um and you know that leads to some things that may not and I know that's not but I do think that there are some ways it's just maybe not. So I really encourage you to look outside just make a quick comment. Thanks for everybody for coming. been my concern all the time is I wish more people would come to the meetings and provide input more than just one time. There's a lot of things that go on when they look at the agenda. So I appreciate the people that echo everything else. I motion in to recess into executive session for 45 minutes to discuss a performance evaluation of the superintendent pursuant to the personal matters of non-elected employees exception under ASA 75-41 191 with the board and superintendent to protect the privacy of the individual involvement. cuz I said zero. Heat. Heat. TV on the BMS.
I got Kayla's first. Yes. So then the amendment which was that new motion was Josh. So then this new one that is the that's Oh, this isn't another motion. No, that's basically Kayla's motion after it was amended. So that's what the amendment is. Still made the motion. Yeah. So in in essence, that was Dalton's amendment. Gotcha. Okay. Are we good? Yes. Item number 13, the high school middle school track. You ready? I don't think everything in the handout got in the order that I saved you the time for all the slides up here, but [Music] I'll just start off. My name is Justin Robson. I'm been teaching here since 2007. I started at River Heights um through the 2011 through consolidation um wood shop teacher out here also. Um I did three years well four years coaching at Central where heights first two years I was assistant football assistant track and then after Jeff Savage left I took over the head track over there and since we've consolidated I've been the head track coach here.
Good evening everyone. My spot here. So, this is celebration month um in the school district where we get to celebrate all the amazing things that have been happening. Um, one of the things that I wanted to share with you was we, you'll remember that Chino Valley Education Foundation had had a request from parents um, who are Spanish speaking if there was a way that we could offer classes to help the parents learn how to speak English so they could better help their students. That's not something that the school district can use our public funds for, but the foundation wrote a grant and was able to um provide uh classes all year long. We had as we had 60 people who um attended the classes. We had about 20 who were regular attendees. The kind of change in administration at the federal level created a little bit of student loss and some parent loss in those classes.
So, you're saying they're volunteers. They're not staff chaperones. I've had more problems with chaperrons than I've had with kids on field trips sometimes. Do your CEO um do the chapron and the volunteer training with them? Yeah, because then it should tell them they selectively forget those things. I think though well that might be I know Adriana brought up at the board meeting this committee perhaps once the student policies are completed looking at the staff policies but I think what you bring up brings into pretty clear focus that we probably would be um advantaged by taking a look at the volunteer policies as well to make sure that they're that they're in alignment. Um okay so the next part is we okay we didn't look at it it's JKD student suspension and then also um the expulsion um but the JKD everything that's in there is like current practice so I didn't know if we just wanted to read through and just be like this is fine um If you open up JKD the one part is that like this suspension stuff here about K4 we have from we should probably copy and paste what we put in uh JK uh just to make sure that it's exactly the same.
How many are we going to deem station adjustment?" is a humongous number. It's a large percentage. I can't tell you what percentages off the top of my head, but it's very much the 3/4 to 75% if not higher of those. We'll be able to give station adjustments. So, basically what that looks like is we'll be able to sit down and collab with with the school, sit down with the parents, collab with the parents, and that happens immediately. So, we have an effect that's going to be able to show the student this is what they did wrong. These are the conditions that which the parent thinks the kid should get as well as what the school can help them out to bring this kid forward and get them on the right path and then impose those conditions on them. What's awesome about it is they can work in conjunction with the SRO and now we have continual conversations with this kid with the SRO and it also can build that relationship with our SRO's as well.
Debt service is down a little bit. Randy Day is still a million dollars. Um I would never I I've always done my best never to touch the rainy day fund until you absolutely have to. Um, but you can see that in the end you are down a little bit from a year ago. I did put together several pieces with this to give you an idea. The revenue comparisons for April from 2021 through 2025. You can see how your revenues have changed. From 21, you you received 2,920,000 by this period of time. That's not for the month of April. That's for January through April of 2021. Um, this year you've received 4,640,000 so far. So, obviously your revenues are way up, but so are your expenditures. Um, not quite as much. You can see the expenditures um were as low as 3,799,022 and they are at 4,968,000.
Um that happen to total above the $5,000 threshold. Um, Sphere is pretty much, you know, the pool company in our area that does service high schools and so they are the ones that provide our chemicals to us because they necessary. So I would ask for your thank you very much.
Uh and then it goes back up 14. So, we're still down $9 uh per student in the next two fiscal years. And part of that, it's not because we don't see, and this is statewide, uh there there's not a decrease in special populations, there's a decrease in special populations applying for those benefits that are available to them in the community and in the state. Um, and that's what those numbers are based on. That's what our complexity index is based off of. So, it's not that Hoosiers are wealthier and there's fewer people u you know struggling financially. Um it's that there are fewer people that are applying for these benefits and that's what the state is seeing and that's why that complexity uh has gone down. Um so the budget itself you can see that there is an increase in the yellow or just outside the yellow there.
But I also enjoyed my son, okay? He's a bear. So thank you board for educating my young man as he is moving on to bigger and better things. And that's what it's all about is to watch those young people go to the other side. So education is very important and Lawrence Township provides a very good education for its students. So we made it through Indiana University in four years. So thank you to you and the previous boards. Keep it going. Thank you. Thank you Dr. Smith and thank you board cabinet everybody. Um just a reminder our next board well actually our next board meeting will be a work session on Monday June 9th at 5:30 here. Um, at this time I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Properly moved. Miss Lawrence and seconded Miss Dunn. All right, we are out. Thank you everyone.
So there's a little little more um movement in middle and high school. So, uh, what I'm hoping to do is I can't see anywhere that indicates that the school committee has taken any action in the past few years, um, regarding student activity accounts. So other than the ones if you look at the top two that say pending to Hanto world uh explorers and sweet and savory which are clubs that the school committee already approved um as well as if you go down to the second page the bottom of the second page you'll see class of 2032. I apologize if you pulled this um uh earlier it may have said uh 2023. I just mixed the two numbers up. Uh thank you Jess for pointing that out. Um but it was intended to be 2032. That's the incoming grade six, right? So they'll come in and they'll have a class account.