Is that correct? Correct. Joe just clarify with balloon. They're saying that that price is guaranteed regardless of what happen tariffs because they also are saying any alcohol tariffs or fees will apply. confused by their news. We're not going with the student. And as soon as I put the P that will lock in that price without problem. Uh I have a grand total of $90,47. This has been so like it's a new this isn't unpredicted. It's not a spur of the moment thing. It just seems to be because of the way they make it question. This is a plan to go. What happens if next year we can't follow because the funding gets cut? We got to make that and we just can't do it. Are we set to go forward and be able to handle our needs for the next year or two until funding because you got in here maybe next year it may not get to creative but all of our devices that we have now will be able to be updated through so as long as they physically That's why I mean physically close.
But again um legislatively they protected us in that process toward the end. So for that um I am grateful. I don't want to paint not a balanced picture up here of what could have been to what is. And so please know um I am grateful that we landed here. Um you can notice that we're project you know this is comparing apples to apples. This is a flat ADM. Okay. So that's that's the variable in here that that uh can float and fluctuate in this whole process. But Pat, thank you. You did a great job. Thank you Mr. Trout. Um, just very quickly, I want to reiterate for those who are listening in our audience. Um, we are tasked with trying to retain and recruit the best and the brightest for our kids. Um, our teachers start out with a salary that's equivalent of hospitality workers and yet they have to have a beginning four-year college education and additional certifications.
Uh I I wanted to go back to the question I was asking though. So, all right. So, you like I get like I'm seeing this you're moving $90, $200. Great. I don't care. Then you tell us, oh well, we've got $130,000. That's a lot of money. Yep. Is the majority of that in undesated funds? No. So, like where is this? Like if you told me we had 20,000 I'd be like $100,000 the SATs SATs has 30ome,000 in it. Okay. Again, this is money that's that's been raised by students, they own this money. Um I get it. You know, regardless whether it's in undesated or not, it would need to be related to a student activity of some sort. It it can't just be So you gave us this report. You didn't put the dollar figures for every single account. No, no, no. Every single account.
Um then uh it is also communicated to our bus company. Um and so all all the um individuals that are that would be interacting uh with a student to and from school on the bus the health the um sorry the food services and then with the staff working with the child in in the um school are all made aware of those. Um they also have at the elementary level for example um most have uh you know a place that it'll be posted for staff to see that if you're supervising children that might be in another class you know any child in there that has an allergy as well um and they're left for sub plans and so forth. Thank you Teresa question birthday cupcakes do they allow those anymore? No, no. Uh, and I tr I I know the kids don't love it, but the allergies um is just it's too much of a risk.
So, seventh and eighth grade having their track meets here. It takes a while to get through high jump and practice when you're using the middle school high school. So, I did have some stuff here on the light poles. You can see how not straight they are and leaning and the west side. Um, they've been here as long as I've been in the building and before. Most of you guys from around here probably have seen them. And on the south end, we have poles in the ground bolted to the pole to help support it, which to me, I just don't I I think it'd be easier to replace them and then and the chunks falling off of the poles all the time. So, this is just kind of to give you an idea. I made Diane go through and dig this up for me, too. In 2012, they had replaced the light poles at Wilson.
Um May 13th, which is tomorrow, Heritage has their awards assembly, but I think we change the time's not at 1 now, is it? It's at 1:30. And at 14th, on the 14th, Territorial has their first and second grade awards because Kinder is so heavily attended. They're their own thing on Thursday. Uhhuh. On Thursday. and um May 21 at Heritage. We would love to have you there. We do our employee and volunteer recognition. This is the first year we're recognizing volunteers. Lasts for about an hour and it comes with a free ice cream Sunday at the end. So, it's a way for us to recognize people who've had five years 10 15 who are retiring. Um things like that. And Nicole said about that Joekumer won't be assistant sped director next year because Joe's retiring and lots of you know her because she's been in the district for a really really long time.
But I think it's always beneficial anytime we're putting we're we're putting kids um in front of law enforcement, sorry, in front of our our uh officers. Um we want to make sure that it's the right intentions there if if they've made a mistake. Um, and nine times out of 10, the conversation is how do we get the kid where they need to go? How do we charge the kid? And what what do they do? What do they violate? Yeah. Um, and so it the numbers are small, but they're still there. Um, and there's there's room to grow in other aspects to be more proactive than just react. Thank you. Thank you. And my last question is just about station adjustments and what is the timeline for that process to take place? Yeah. So, that's kind of the beauty of it is if we were to refer to juvenile probations, there's a time lapse, right?
This summer school I'm finding is very uh um challenging here because all the paperwork I had to turn in by March and it all depends upon and is hinged on uh what the student scores are in May. So um I can't figure that out. I'm like, okay, I I don't know. Put the cart before the horse, but um at least we'll have two people who will be able to do it. We have turned it in. It's will be a little greater expense um than what we had planned on, but we'll we'll be fine. And the kids that for second and third grade kids, it's only what two weeks long. general he's one of them and Jody I do do good things I give them food for free every year so they have great okay you got anything for us Paul I just got a couple go along with what market said with doors door number eight.
Just thinking out the future. We all got to speak my own head and not think that But if you look at the teacher devices, this will are they are they docense. You don't need two shoulding ability show up. I have Please stop. You're good, Tim. All right, votes are in. Uh, motion carries. All right, last item on the new business. Uh, 6.9. I'd like to get a discussion in career cooperative vocational district. Okay. Um, this is an annual agreement that we have with Indian Trails. Um, it's kind of funny that um, if we ever want to get out of the Indian Trails Cooperative, we give them a two-year advanced notice, but each year we sign the contract agreeing um, on the formula for ADM. So, all of that is in here. Um basically it is our cost just outlines um the formula that we will pay per share for ADM of our students.
So, we're demanding more. We started the school year or mid school year and the state of Indiana had um approximately I can't remember the exact number 1,500 openings in classrooms in the state of Indiana. That means that we had 1500 classrooms with approximately 25 to 30 students in each who did not have a highly qualified teacher for that subject area. This is very disconcerting. I appreciate everything all of you are doing, but we are tasked with trying to retain our teachers and recruit for our students and for our community. I hope our community will continue to have dialogue about what's necessary for highquality educations for our students. No, absolutely. And uh to piggyback on that, we are blessed here. Um I the retention rate of our teachers this year is as highest as it's been since I've been here. Um, we have very very few openings at this point in time and that's that's really encouraging.
So, so you would you would imagine that the class of 2025 who's planning a prom and events like that would have a significant amount of money. I think Megan's point, I think the accounting says 134,000, but I only see like 800 or something. Yes. Yes. But what you're saying is we have zero, we know this, we have zero authority over this money. We just need the school committee to say go ahead school, keep these accounts treated the way they are. Sure. So, for example, the the yearbook has again they haven't all of the yearbooks are are pending being paid for, right? So, there's almost $10,000 in yearbooks. Uh, the drama club has almost $10,000 in it and there things down the list. Class of 2026 has 10,000. Um, all right. Class of 2027 has 16,000. Things like that. Undesated funds is actually only 2,000. Why would we why would we put a cap on this if this is why would we put a cap on it?
Um, so it is it is not permissible. Is that in any of this stuff? There is one and off the top of my head, I couldn't tell you what policy, but there is a policy because I know we did it with Kathy Odow and she was adamant that that was one of the things that is it is written into one of theirs that no outside food for those kind of celebrations. It's a health and wellness thing as well. Um, but also for the allergy piece. Thank you. [Music] Any other questions from committee members here? Questions from non-committee members? Did you highlight that on purpose for us? I highlighted that just to strike it through. We have both the district website as well as the school website where these policies are very clearly posted. So there's not a need to do it in another compendium document.
So, this is kind of just rough figures back in 2012 what it cost for an idea to replace the poles. And that would go from what we have is eight poles to four poles and then you'd be switching to go to LED um which is a lot more efficient. I've reached out to uh a local Ben Kerr works for Midwest Energy and he had at one time he had had some offers from Midwest Energy where they was going to donate I believe it was the the time to come in and do the poles and his dad was going to work out a deal on the LED lights to save sell them at cost and he was going to donate some time to put them up but nothing has gotten moved forward with that. So, like he said with the Ubolts and stuff, I just feel like something near future needs to be addressed in that aspect of that.
So what time is that? So it's at 2 o'clock on May 21 which is uh only a week from Wednesday which I can't believe. And then we have May 21 at 7 is our graduation at Finley. I recommend that you re arrive about 6:30, drive around to find the loading dock site. Looks like you can't go in there, but you can just go up the steps. You'll actually be behind the stage. You just kind of feed your way through the curtains and come on up on stage. And then May 29th at 7:30 is the beginning of our strategic planning day and we will be done by two o'clock. So those are in the next two weeks. There's like all kinds of stuff going on, but it's all super fun stuff.
You're working with multiple organizations. It may take a month for them to get an an appointment or and I don't like that. I like in order to make the biggest impact. Well, I know from having my own kids, if they did something wrong and then I tried to correct them a month later, they'd be like, "What are you talking about?" Right? And so, this allows us literally on the day of to do start that collaborative effort. Um, and I'm sorry, is this in practice right now? The station adjustment, is that in practice, right? My question is about timeline for implementation. I'm so sorry. I thought you were talking about inside of the station adjustment. I apologize. Uh, no. Timeline would be starting at the beginning of next school year. Okay. Yeah. I apologize. Okay. I will say that the other agencies are looking at this also, you know, because these guys only have 13 schools.
Um got an automatic uh handicap accessible button. We're going to take that all out and just fix the doors. The door parts already been ordered and uh mahops are going to be the ones repair all fours. What they're doing is they're they're get rebuild kits for those and shuts. Um so that's that in the works. Um the other thing is starting on the 15th uh door accesses they will start with the middle school gym and the admin building get those panels changed out and then on the 21st they'll start with the principally two weeks max and what reissue all new keys and everything. We've already got everybody's name and everything down access. So, put a little bit of work on Sam and I um some of the projects for this summer um we're we're tightening up security um just because of cyber security and everything.
Um whether we receive those students or we send them out to other schools in our cooperative. Um I have to say and the other schools that participate in the cooperative um are fabulous and provide our students with a lot of excellent opportunities. Um, I can't be more pleased with our participation in that cooperative. So, I would ask that you would accept this year questions or comments. We're all looking at you. Pressure's on. Michelle, I don't have anybody. We haven't got it yet. There it is. All right. Motion carries. Okay. Uh all right. New business is done. Moving forward. Well, that was a lot. So, thank you all for bearing with as we got through all of the consent items. Um it has been a busy time of year but we are fiscally doing really well. So our percent uh our budget goal for our we are right at third3%.
Uh, matter of fact, in our mid admin meeting this afternoon, those couple of those positions that we didn't have filled are going to be filled as of the next school board meeting. Now, that doesn't take into account late retirements and people's lives change and they move. But what I'm saying to you at this time this year, it's greatly reduced the number of staff. And so for us to fill all our classrooms last year and to do all we're doing, um, I'm very encouraged about where we're at moving forward. But Deb, you're your comments are spot on with where we're at as a state. No question. Well, thank you to all of you H to all of you, Ryan, for staying aware of what's happening and keeping us a breast of it. I think that's very important for all of us and for our community to stay aware of what's happening.
Uh, you're mandated to put a cap on it. So that the requirement is that we come to that that you authorize a cap to the the balance. Um there's certain activities that your you know so if they have a car wash next month to clean everybody's pollen off their car they raise $17,000 they can only take we would come back to you at the next meeting and ask you to authorize bringing we're trying to anticipate that no one's I don't think anyone's going to have a $17,000 um car wash. We're anticipating that the graduating class is going to spend a lot of its money. yearbooks, money is going to get spent, things like that. And a lot of money is gonna get cycled through. Well, we're trying to this a lot. So, we're trying to avoid people having their own individual accounts, right? Or 10 years ago, a few years to keep it in their in a in a in a lock box in their classrooms and stuff like that, right?
Okay. Thank you. Appreciate your clarification. All right. Last chance. Any thoughts on this policy before we uh call it for a vote? All right. Seeing none, I will ask for a motion to make a recommendation to the board for first read of policy 5141.25, students with special healthcare needs, food allergy. Motion second. Thank you. Second from Al. Thank you very much. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I.