Dudley dr. Beresford Pam any questions I just have to are is being utilized at at all in this process not they not really there may be some where they may be on in classrooms like when the kindergarten class meets the ia might come in so that they can see their instructional assistant in that classroom because they miss that adult as well are IAS dr. o strike just recently put out some Safe Schools training so I don't know dr. strike if you'd like to speak to that absolutely yeah so those employees that are not expected to work at this time but are still getting paid bus drivers for example bus assistants instructional assistants we have assigned not only the mandatory training for next year through Safe Schools but additional training related to their positions and their work here in the district so they received all of that training they're working on that right now while at home at this time well thank you my second question do the counselors contact students on their own or do they just get referred to a counselor by a teacher both so the counselors and our social workers they have their students that they know that they know will need extra support so they're reaching out to them on their own and then they're also reaching out to students that maybe they don't necessarily know but they're the teacher is saying they need extra support so they're doing both okay thank you and share with you Pam every every Wednesday when we were doing food distribution there's social workers are in the line and there's 16 bags of groceries and they're driving them to homes and dropping and they're you know they're an amazing group thank you thank you hi I'm dr.
Gallagher and company for joining us this evening I gotta say that I think have three qualities of what you're doing in time with what we're doing and I'm with right now would not be possible without the technology support that each and every one of you provides so I think that's the first and foremost that's paramount and you do a incredible job and I think you you make mr.
Julie dr. Oh strict dr. Beresford Katy any questions yeah I just had a couple comments um again as a parent it's an amazing view that we have my middle schooler who I will admit was not that great with doing homework has had to learn the hard way about how to work from home and get things done and our grades are going up and so that's really given her this boost of confidence that she needed and I'm that's amazing my son has an IEP for speech it's incredible to see his speech teacher on a zoom with him and he's like the road is rough and I'm ready and doing all these amazing things through technology so that that does not that he can continue that on next year and then too this is tough it's tough for these kids it's tough for the teachers it's tough for parents I know that my husband and I are both trying to work from home full-time and keep our jobs and our sanity and all these wonderful things and I know that one of the great things is that we acknowledge that that's the case that this is hard and we didn't ask for this and I really appreciate the great wisdom and the grace that is given from the teachers when you know you can email and say you know what today is just really not working well we're gonna try again tomorrow and I just really appreciate that flexibility and everything as we kind of go through this uncharted waters and I think the teachers for that and for the administration for supporting that and you know just kind of a shout out in a virtual hug to all of you that are kind of going through the trenches I really appreciate on what you're doing so thank you thank you Katie for for those comments and other board members thank you for your comments as well next we will move the next report is an update on construction and the construction of the new Elementary School's mister McMichael I will ask Li Miller with the Skillman corporation our construction management firm to provide an update for the board you Thank You mr.
Gallow Shah look awesome no and honestly I hear nothing but positive feedback from from your colleagues and from teachers around the district just saying what a great resource you are enable to integrate and work with them as a technology coach and integrating technology into the curriculum so I thank you for all the work that you're doing go ahead I just wanted to mention that you had you had kind of thrown out an idea - another way to communicate with parents may be through the administration at each building but no and I think I can speak for all of us as the IITs we're very very willing and open to you know to helping out that platform however it will work best if that's what you're looking for just wanted to mention that thank you very much thank you thank you thank you thank you madam chair ladies and mr. Gallow Shaw thank you very much for your time this evening it's appreciated it's obvious what's out there for our students to take advantage of it and to do and on the flip side also it's a great way for people residents of the town of diamond to see when they're giving us that technology money every year what it's being used for in my opinion you know it's you know it's not being it's not frivolous stuff that we're doing we're able to sit here with and educate our students you know in this day and age and this pandemic that we have to to help take care of them and try and keep them current in educated so again my thanks to the ladies and to mr.
Rick Michael ladies and general the board we appreciate the opportunity they provide you a construction update for the two new Elementary School's karmically schools Clayton Road Elementary and Carr elementary school I am alive Miller with the Skillman corporation senior project manager serving you district-wide across all the construction projects hopefully you can hear me all right and I'll keep the presentation brief so I know it's getting late and past 9:00 I'll go ahead and share my screen remember to see my semi screen excellent so this is our first construction update for both school projects as a reminder both projects are twin month projects closer in elementary school started last fall September last year so we're about a little over one third of the way through the project that school is tracked to be turned over June of 2001 Cartman elementary school we complete a permit the fronting process and started construction last month and are well underway to start you till ities and other underground work at carmella mentor each school first those clicks Mariel entry progress to date we've completed site demolition and the mass excavation of the site I'll step back a lot of the work we've done so far at both sides was underground bringing utilities to the sites putting concrete foundations in place improving the soils under the building both under the footings and under the concrete slab on grade so especially it clicks in elementary school you'll start seeing the building take shape and we have some photos that we'll get into later the presentation some highlights we complete at Clay Center Elementary we've completed the cement stabilization for soil on the building pad so that provides strength to the soils for the building's sit on some specialty foundation systems due to the poor soil conditions we had at the site all the concrete footings are in place and we've started the underground utilities for the building and we've erected about half of the structural steel and as of today approaching 3/4 of that this is an aerial view to give you a point of reference Clay Center Road is on the right side of the site north is to the bottom left the new athletic field would be in the upper right hand corner for the baseball and the football field you can see the buildings about half completed as far as a structural steel erection and you see the balance of the footings off to the east out of sight this might not mean much to a lot of people this is the sanitary sewer main extension this excavation is about a little over 30 feet deep so this is a huge endeavor to undertake takes a lot of planning a lot of coordination for the watering that the shoring system that keeps the excavation safe for our workers there's a lot of work a lot of effort a lot of time so I think this picture really shows some of the work as far as the underground utilities we're doing right now and the projects we are making this is a good image of the structural steel erection for the building this is taken from the north side of the site looking to the south you see the buildings about half pathway done as of today we're about 3/4 the way done and once the all the structural steel is set we'll start with the metal roof decking and also the concrete black walls plane works for the next two to three months at Clay Center Elementary we plan to complete the structural steel framing as long as mother nature works with us all the steel bar joists a metal deck installed starting the roof the next major milestone we hope to report on earth is the building is weather tight so that means the roof is on the exterior walls are up and the building is pretty well protected from rain and increment weather that allows us to start some interior walls and drywall work inside you'll start seeing the exterior concrete block walls go up starting about two weeks we look to complete all the underground utilities under the building footprints that's the plumbing and electrical work that's under the building and then start pouring the concrete slabs on grade and we completing the rest of the site utilities the water the storm sewer and the sanitary sewer Carmel elementary school that building started less once worked our progress to date we've completed the site demolition install all the temporary construction fencing which there's quite a bit of that to protect the adjacent neighborhoods keep our Tabriz inside the fence and keep on lookers outside of the safe distance and then we've installed all the temporary construction roads next week we are mobilizing to start some of the specialty foundation systems you'll see some really interesting construction equipment on site if you wander over there this picture is taken from the south looking north fourth Street is on the left side of your screen in the foreground you see come a library in Carmel High School all the flight demolition has been completed as of this week all of the cement stabilization life stabilization will be completed that that brings extra strength to the soils for the building itself so we have a nice solid foundation to build upon next week we'll be starting foundations the concrete foundations and the AG repair system that support those foundations here you see some of the equipment staged and our construction fencing is installed there's a it's hard to see from the pictures our construction roads are in place to the on the west side of the site as a reminder from our presentation prob about a year ago now we do have construction fencing that separates the bus loading unloading area from our construction drives and there are gates in place so we can control construction deliveries during the school day hopefully one school gets back in session this fall in regular session not elearning plan work for the next two to three months we will continue with our Mac's activation we will start digging for the underground storm sewer detention system that's on the north east side of the site that still hold the stormwater which the requirement that we have to control that on-site and slowly release that into the storm sewer network will start the concrete footings and complete those the aggregate piers which support the concrete foundations will be started and completed structural steel that's going to be a big one that'll be coming late May so in those delivery show up and then all the other gun utilities the sanitary main extension the water main extension and the storm sewer system all that work will start taking shape mid-may and hopefully come June July of next year the buildings will look like this I like that's the goal that's the intention for us when CSO architects at this time if there's any questions I'll entertain those if not I'll give it back to Carmel school board well first of all ui1 thank you for the very exciting and informative report and second we appreciate you hanging out with us for a couple hours - till we got to you before I open it up to questions for the board Roger do you have anything you want to add or should I just let you I answer questions I just let Eli answer the questions I believe that he covered this but we are on schedule so the the current Rick has not had a negative impact in terms of the construction work that we're doing all right Thank You Pam any questions Pam you are muted right now yeah I got it so Roger what did you just say that the did you say the virus doesn't have any effect on what's going on or what did you just say essentially yes that we the the current crisis has not had a native impact on our construction projects and certainly including these two large projects they are on schedule as originally planned okay that's good to know and let's see where are we with the purchasing or the accessing of that house that's supposed to give us an entrance to Carmel Elementary we're really not we have attempted to purchase the house on two different occasions most recently you know we tried a second time and and the owner of the home is just not at this point willing and interested in selling her house and we're now very quickly approaching the point where it will be it would be too late given the schedule for the school to continue to pursue that well where will we put the other entrance then well the current plan for the entrance is on the west side essentially as it is now it's it's configured much better but it'll be the traffic will come in on the west side oh okay thank you Thank You Katie any questions you no questions thank you learn any questions no questions thank you thank you Leanne Leila any questions just one quick question has there been any cost savings with this the epidemic or the guess the pandemic I know gas is a lot cheaper are there other things that might have decreased in price so we'll save some money through this are you referring to the construction projects yes nothing that immediately comes to mind the you know the construction bids are already in and so certainly that will be the majority of the cost we have not we will still have furniture and furnishings and a few things like that but nothing of in terms of the scope of the project nothing of you know major expense as far as future expenses I was thinking maybe really cheap prices on steel or something okay well we're past that because we you know we have accepted bids potentially that could benefit the contractors but well they will not be changing their prices as far as I know okay that's all Mike thank you okay well thank you Eli before we let you go dr.
Gallow chef of putting this together and it was an interesting was an interesting presentation I did enjoy it so thank you thank you doctor carefully I would just like to echo what everyone else has said in appreciation of all your efforts you know with any tragedy is maybe not Annie but in something like what's happening today it has really put pressure on all of us in education to to become more familiar with all the opportunities out there in technology that we probably would have been a little hesitant to use prior we you know many times we just don't think alike I can't do that but because of this need for remote learning we found I think teachers have come up with a well certainly great resources and staff that you offer but also now that they've used all these different types of technology they'll be more apt to use it in the regular classroom and that will just be a one other tool that will enhance the learning of many so thank you so very much appreciate it so sorry I've got medical emergencies upstairs in my house Oh disappearing as what's going on in there but I do really appreciate seeing what you guys have been doing you know I've been teaching online at UMass Dartmouth for well over a decade now I think people sometimes think it's fluffy or right not rigorous but done right it can be done very well and I think dr.
Beresford any update thing that you'd like to add to the construction report no it's just getting exciting I see the bones going up out there on place in a road and and they talk about soil stabilization you know that's the foundation and those you have to have that good foundation and then so once that gets going it will go up quick looking forward to seeing seeing it happen thank you dr. Beresford Roger and Eli thank you very much for the report next we will move to the monthly financial update again mr.
Cerf Otis is right teaching online is transformed my teaching both face-to-face things that I do it's changed the what I do as a teacher and we have instructional designers at UMass they play a similar role to what you guys do and they're critical to doing it do what I do right and also to mr. Nunes is mind about investments right I think a lot of times people think it's just teachers doing teaching right but this I think you coming on it critical everything that are not you know with the teacher in the classroom are to the success of our students and so we're super happy that you guys are around and there to support our teachers as we do this thank you thank you yeah I just reiterate my colleagues are saying thank you very much and thank you for for you know bringing us through that Google across from that was very helpful appreciate that thank you thank you everybody all right thank you yeah thank you everyone yeah so dr.
McMichael you know let's see if we can get this going here okay I assume everybody can see the screen and I'll begin we're through March now and so rowdy to our education and referendum funds we are on track with where we would expect to be you can see from the report that our ending cash balance Wilkin is continues to decline and that will continue until we start receiving the local levy the primarily from property tax I think the board is aware that potentially well not potentially that taxpayers have the opportunity to delay their taxes up to 60 days unless they have had those taxes escrowed so we're anticipating a delay in receiving all of our property tax but it will be a delay which is not assuming that we will not receive the taxes it's just that there will be a delay but so it's really a cash flow issue but we have sufficient cash balances in our in our combined funds to to handle the cash flow so I we will not find it necessary to take out tax warrants or temporary borrowing and if you compare 2020 or the Education Fund a referendum fund you can see that our cash balance at this point is is better this year than it was last year that too is not surprising one is as our we would expect are the actual cash to grow to some extent because our budget it's larger and so that was you know that's a part of our planning because we mean we we look at our cash balance from a percentage standpoint not not just a cash standpoint relative to our operations find its again we're three months into it it's not this fund is not does not track as as closely as our education fund because there are you know any number of non personnel expenses in our operations fund and so it depends on you know the timing of those expenditures and that can vary from one year to the next but in addition to that we had accumulated cash in our operations fund to pay a deficit really that we had in our insurance fund that was needed to support the early retirements any program and so we got that caught up this past year and so if you were to compare our cash balance beginning in January of this years compared to previous year it's it's down you know a couple million dollars or so and so that that reflects through as we go through the year so again it's we're on track with what we would have what we have projected and and are not surprised that the balance is is less this year at this time than it was last year and you can see here on our bank reconciliation we had a balance of just over thirty three million dollars and and then the the last report is is just the funds report which shows the cash balance in various funds so with that I'd respond to questions that you might have Thank You Roger for that report we'll go to questions from Katie first no questions thank you win no questions Thank You Leila no questions Thank You Pam any questions no already asked them earlier so no questions thank you dr.
Gifford do you have any anything else you know so I figured we'd end on a very positive note yeah that was fantastic I don't really have anything to report then I'll put it to Mike to the committee to see if anyone else to share except they have one thing under sort of new business that that came to mind that I thought I would just mention is just bringing it to you that you know here we are it's 27 and outside of this global pandemic and another at another year we would have reorganized the committee and so while I am I'm perfectly happy to remain as the chair I just wanted to put it to all of you thinking you know it's been a pleasure to serve and I would be happy to continue to serve in this capacity until the town decides on elections and all of that however I just thought I would bring it to you to see how you felt and anyone felt a certain way about us thinking a little bit about reorganizing prior to does anyone have any thoughts about that or dr.
Beresford's anything you'd like to add for that reporter any questions you have Oh sir thank you all right well thank you Roger next we will move to reports we have a legislative update Leila you lalla we can see your screen you're just probably muted you okay am i unmuted now yep you're good okay thank you I have now two screens and I was lost so sorry a 20/20 legislative report is a liaison I'm presenting that this this evening we've just finished the second regular session of the 121st Indiana General Assembly just a just a small little recap it was the short non budgetary session but there are little cost savings and some of the acts that were enrolled it opened January 6th concluded March 11th than during those ten weeks 903 bills were introduced 168 were actually enrolled in of those thirty-three enrolled acts impact K to 12 public education pretty significantly not all of them impact karmically schools so we're really going to be focusing on ten specific acts that have the most impact and we're going to break this up into several different meetings tonight we're just going to be talking about the three that have had the most impact so far and with enrolled acts they can go into effect at any time some well most often it's July 1st of the year that they've been enrolled sometimes these bills will be effective upon passage and then there are some that are retroactive and we'll be touching on all three of those this evening as a reminder since we know that we together we achieve our mission Carmel clay schools will provide opportunities for all students to realize their potential in an ever-changing world and as dr. Beresford referenced earlier this evening our guiding principles start with students are at the center of every decision and end with fiscal responsibility is fundamental to achieving our vision and with that having both of these in the back of our minds is how we approach our legislative session and how we look to see what ways we can engage our legislators to be the best at getting better so this year as a reminder our legislative goal was to partner with our state and congressional legislators for the purpose of being credible resources to help them in developing initiatives to improve what is the general and uniform system of common schools as well as minimize the under unintended negative financial consequences that typically happen when the best intended policies are passed and through various discussions with our legislators with our board as well as administration there is a number of areas of common interest that we focused on this year we did essa compliance deregulation Student Support Services the public question otherwise known as a referendum and dispute resolution and accrual accounting and I'm happy to report that several areas have been addressed with this legislative session so we're quite excited as I've reported earlier we have a number of state legislators and congressional leaders that we have had extensive dialogue with and meetings dr.
Jenkins well that was the new business that I was going to bring up to have that conversation because I know being chair is more work than being a regular school committee member being a chair during a pandemic I'm sure it's just extra on top of that so I mean I don't have really strong preferences either way but I'm you know fine with with if you want to step down I mean I don't think we want to do at this meeting we could put it on the Internet the next meeting if everyone wants I don't have strong opinions either way but I was thinking along the same lines on there we should have that conversation calm mr. Newman thinking thank you man yeah I I agree whichever way we go on is it's fine with me I know you and I had a conversation on this a couple of weeks ago and I know whoever we do it is is fine I'm you know not trying to rush you out or anybody else in type of deal it's whatever the committee is is is good with those is fine with me was that Chris yeah it was me I'm gonna say the same thing you know I'm I'm okay either way I agree I'm sure you've got a lot going on right now Kathleen as we all do and this is just one more thing you know been there done that like I can appreciate everything dude I think we all can appreciate everything that you're doing during this time trying to just balance balance another plate so yeah I'm okay with putting it on the on the next agenda and we can take it from there I guess yeah and Santana and also just thinking too careful is for sticking with us through through this time yeah no I mean let's put it on the committee that was put it on the agenda for next you know I'm happy to remain but in talking with mr.
Beresford and I have met with everybody on this list or well and continue to have conversations I'd like to add that my Kershner as well as Pam Niles have been with me on a number of occasions as well and have met with our state legislators and our congressional leaders with me which has been very helpful the team approach has been very effective so the three that we're going to be focusing on tonight the first is Senate enrolled act two many of you might have heard this as the hold harmless law and this was one of the very first to be passed governor Holcomb signed this bill on February 12th and it is a retroactive bill and this bill addresses the use of the 2019 and 2020 I learned scores for our state accountability grades and it gives school systems of flexibility to use - 2018 ISTEP scores now we were very fortunate that we had great I learned scores not as high as a ISTEP but overall caramel clay students perform very well and being that our state assessments have been canceled this year I'm not quite sure if this will be extended that remains to be discussed but what this will do and does do is it allows time for our professional educators to align the instruction to the new proficiency standards that the state tests are measuring the suck in this house enrolled act one thousand two this otherwise is known as a teacher evaluation law and what this bill does it eliminates the statutory requirement that the I learned scores must be used for teacher evaluation I know we were very much pushing for this hour during our discussions it's very important to us in Carmel clay schools to D couple having student performance impact the teacher evaluation and their achievement scores which we don't have them this year so this is probably another area that will be extended but those the decoupling is very important and we are thrilled to see this particular house enrolled act move forward this one was actually effective upon passage so this went to effect March the 21st signed by governor Holcomb the next bill is pretty extensive it's the school freedoms after the dreg law for this house enrolled ACT 1309 close i simply included the areas that really have the most impact for Carmel clay like I said it's a robust act what this deregulation bill does allow it gives the State Board of Education the authority to streamline the process for school employee training including the timing frequency and the method of training so we were very much pushing for deregulation and this has provided it gives oversight to the State Board of Education which is excellent the other area that the State Board is allowed to do it can grant waivers to schools or a group of schools that apply for flexibility to the rules so if there's a rule or a statute that we would like some flexibility to not push forward as long as you can prove that it improves student performance and outcomes that it would offer flexibility to our administrators to approve efficiencies in school operation that if it would promote innovative education approaches for student learning as well as advance the mission of purpose of our school or the school districts that are involved we can apply for these waivers so this is a really exciting addition to this enrolled act the other areas that actually are cost savings for our school system are the first points here this enrolled act allows our school corporation to publish simply a summary of our annual performance report as well as the annual financial report in the local newspaper with the description of where to find the report the full report online prior to this enrolled Act being passed it was stated in statute that our school system had to print pay for an ad in the local newspaper each and every year the entire annual performance report as well as a financial report and this will be a considerable cost savings to us since most everything is done electronically any way that we can just publish a summary and then have additional information on where to find that online on our school website interestingly enough this particular accents there are so many components various parts of the law are effective this July first some were effective upon passage and still others and it was they impacted actually charter schools and freeway schools those don't go to effect until July 1st of 2021 so this particular law has all sorts of effective dates this was went into effect well it was signed into law then on March the 18th now what we have for future review and I'll break these up into Senate enrolled acts and then house enrolled acts we've got several Senate enrolled acts SCA 273 Indiana Behavioral Health Commission then we've got 295 various education matters 319 which are practitioner an accomplished practitioner licensed 346 students with disabilities and then SCA 398 various education matters there are two other house enroll or two house and world acts that have various components that impact Carmel clay schools and so we'll be unpacking those at a later date as well house enrolled act 1065 various tax matters and then 1066 various education matters and so with that I am opening up for any type of questions well thank you Leila for that very informative report and update we appreciate all your work from before the start of the session through this session and through the report today and going forward before I open it up for questions to the board dr.
Nunes you know I'm I am caught you know aware that if someone is you know however it works out want you know ready and willing to step into the role I do know that I'm kind of on your time right now so I'm happy there way on Peter inane but let's just add it to the agenda and lowliness meeting anyone else any other anything to share yeah I've got just a couple of quick things Ben Adams here and again like dr. Gifford said to kind of an end on a good note the music that mystical Music Association's always these are the people that so all the costumes for the indoor shows for the color guide and the answers and the performers than that of course their season got cut shot when everything all the circuits all shot shut down and miss a beat they just swung right into making the these masks for everybody that you're seeing and you know there's a lot of other groups a lot of other individuals that have done that but you know the last time I saw her account from the Music Association website Digg Facebook they were up over 3,000 of these masks that they've made and handed out to you know first responders and you know people of that nature so it's just a you know I had soft to them for what they've done and you know again all volunteer we've had people donate the material they happen to run shot of the elastics forum and all of a sudden somebody showed up with a huge amount of elastic putting themselves you know just just the thanks to them for what they're doing and fantastic wonderful thank you for mentioning anyone else you know so our next meeting our next meeting is scheduled for Monday May 18th and with that I will entertain a motion to adjourn into executive session to discuss associations with union personnel not to come back to open session moved second okay roll call you're on mute Kathleen Amaral yeah yeah Chris Oliver yes Carol carofoley yes Shannon Jenkins yes John Nunes yes alright thank you everyone take care they helped a little bit in a minute all right Jim can you send me the link for the executive session please who sent it out okay okay I lost a bunch of
Beresford would you like to add anything to waitlist comments one other than what just said I really appreciate Layla's leadership and the whole board really in your involvement in legislative matters because in order for us to be efficient and and to make Indiana a teacher friendly state and you know changes have to occur legislatively and and I think we were a good resource for our lawmakers and there was some influence there and you know I think we're making steps very positive steps towards again making this a teacher friendly state so appreciate your work well I would like to just add in a big plug for dr.
Beresford he's continuing to have conversations with our state legislators there is a number of different areas that need to be addressed given these new virtual learning situations and that we are no longer in the school and he like I said is continuing to have some conversations to get some emergency bills and waivers passed that will support our students well thank you both Pam do you have any questions for the legislative report I know I do know I thanks great job Leila oh thank you thank you Katie any questions my question is just kind of Leila is just kind of your feedback on do you feel like with what we did a little bit differently with our legislative priorities this year do you feel like that was successful like how do you feel like that worked for us I feel like it was very successful I'm it gave us flexibility to have far greater and more in-depth conversations and I didn't feel like we walked in with an agenda that was do this for me do this for me do this for me we still have an agenda we still had several areas that we wanted to be sure we addressed and those conversations happened but it was I think it was an easier way and a more friendly way to approach the conversation perfect thank you for sharing thank you when any questions on legislative report I had the same questions Katie and I'm glad to hear there are a new approach to getting engaged building relationship with lawmakers well thank you thank you well thank you both I mean we know a lot of this is about building relationships and part of the reason that we shifted our focus a little bit was to be able to be a resource to the legislators that we've had great relationships with in the past and continue with and we're fortunate as a district to have great elected officials that not only listen to us but you know turn to us when they've got questions so thank you both next we will move to the superintendent's report dr. Beresford but you gotta unmute I hear that was gonna happen I think I heard that clock ringing that I know if that was the hey Beresford hustle up here but I tell you what I'm gonna do I've got two meetings worth of things to report and so what I think I'll do is I'll publish those in the board update and it's total and you know this to kind of some headlines for you how about that we'll cut it down but we will get the detail into that that board update so I'm just gonna go fast I want to congratulate senior Angelo Lee who was named at at 2020 academic all-star there's only four kids that forty kids across the state to get chosen as tax gimmick all-star so that's a big honor for Angela reminder that 2020 census is going on synapse gotta have big impact on finances around crime over ten ten years or more Wellness Center congratulations Roger his team and they got national a national recognition at the world health care summit and they tied for first place in the mid-size group received health value award and keep popping there so if I can give a virtual clap for that once again Carmel has named best communities for music education by NAMM ninth consecutive year and Carmel place goes with only four percent of districts across the nation jury sees that award and so to get that nine times in a row you know our music department amazing just amazing don't forget the Carmel education foundations educator Honor Roll so a teacher's appreciation week next week one way to show that appreciation is you can nominate a teacher and donate on their behalf to the to the foundation and then they give out great idea grants and there'll be information on how you can do that you know on the in the report I like Carmel High School highlight again I earned a pacemaker award which is the poll surprise of scholastic journalism and they were first place in website large school first place in their kovat nineteen coverage online news feature or pack feature package there second-placed in print news magazine and tenth placed in the special edition that they did earlier in the year last week was National Library Week and we wanted to celebrate our media specialists and assistance and they've been doing some amazing things in this virtual world supporting our teachers and and you know you know people is wondering what would the media specialists do they jumped in really helped a lot with canvas and a lot of the the technology training with that was great Carmel cares initiatives has been fun hasn't a great idea I think it came out of Carmel High School one of our assistant principals yeah had the vision and shared it and it grew and grew and grew Courtney Taylor's been real involved with that and this week's theme is exercise your body and mind and so we want everybody exercise your body in mind and share it on social media with the hashtag Carmel cares and did some good things going on with that and that's good for your mental and physical health along those lines I think this section is called cool things people are doing and what it was Ryan Osborne's basketball team I don't know if you guys caught this they they made up this bingo game and the bingo game is very interesting because it says like shoot 100 free-throws and record it with time-lapse video and post it and then it says thank a nurse doctor health care professional make breakfast for your family run two miles before the Sun comes up just a lot of interesting things keep kids engaged and and keep them you know keep them busy and in a positive way which was good cherry tree used a 3d printer to make what they call mask relief hooks and belts instead I go around the ears so there's a plastic strap and I just help our our medical folks of proud of those guys High School's does some really cool stuff graduation boxes are going to be delivered to every graduating senior with cap and gap so you get their pictures go on their grad raishin pictures go on and then distinguished committed graduate attire the official graduation program student compositive and a special gift butshe won't i won't clearly the man because it's a surprise and kind of a cool thing about those our bus drivers and a staff member are going to deliver it to their but they're their afternoon bus stops and to deliver them they're gonna use you know appropriate social distancing to keep everybody safe and we need to remind students be safe be smart stay apart make sure as you come to your bus stop keep six feet apart and there's plan and that's being communicated but how cool is that then we're back to wh je 93.1 on your FM dial and they had major successes in the state and radiant national radio competitions they were the indiana radio school of the year and then they were runner-up national radio school of the year at sixteen national winners to individuals state winners twenty five national runners-up in nine state runners-up along those lines are my high school's athletic program were awarded the best all-around high school sports program for 2019-20 school year awarded them what they win is called the MaxPreps cup and what they do is they take all the athletic programs in the nation and they have a scoring system and we've been in the top ten a bunch but this is the first time we've won the entire thing so there that's a big shout out to the athletic program and the coaches and the athletic directors nice for bruce wolf to go out as a the best athletic program and the in the nation along with of course jimmy ins keep our directors a great job their graduation big topic of conversation working on three plans one is to if this order gets lifted in time we could have a regular graduation percentages probably aren't great for that to happen but I'm always optimistic Plan C is to have a virtual graduation they're going to make the virtual graduation regardless of what happens so that's kinda like our safety and it'll be kind of cool to have that even if we're able to do something else that'll be something the kids will always have and I think it'll be it's going to be a pretty cool thing and then Plan B is kind of a little bit everything they're using all kinds of creative ways to to to celebrate and have some kind of a ceremony and they'll probably be catered to whatever the rules are you know by the state for social distancing if we're able to do some kids have been submitting cool things that they've heard or they thought about or they've seen on social media as there's a lot ideas getting cooked around but I really appreciate the the Carmel high school administrative staff because it's hard enough to just plan one graduation and they're like working multiple scenarios trying to figure out what's what what can we do to make this special for the class of 2020 and that that Greyhound nation they've got going on over there I'm real proud of them and not to be outdone by that there's planning a summer dance for juniors and seniors because we didn't get to do prom but they're also doing it a virtual problem it's going to be on May the 2nd and they're gonna have a DJ and a mix of music and light show online and then they're also gonna have celebrities who will visit and these are like real celebrities now like you know Roger McMichael and Tom Ostra it's like you know big-time stars like Aimee deadly at the but it has I think it's gonna be pretty cool but Sony has transfer students get dressed up and dance night away of course there's been no clothes dancing it's all least six feet apart so so we'll be keeping your distance like a junior I danced here finally my penultimate announcement is we're very pleased to present the distinguished and commended graduates for the class of 2020 and we'll have that 137 seniors were chosen for this year and they've got criteria for folks to make that and then Madeline Saylor's was awarded the top distinguished graduate honor so she'll be given a speech at graduation and that we just want to all celebrate these seniors any chance you get these coming weeks because we really want to show them that we love them and and we are proud of them and that they're amazing group to be able to keep going in this environment my bell ringer is simply to talk a little bit about the Carmel Youth Assistance Program karma get the Assistance Programs annual gala was canceled because of the virus and this is a group that does the summer summer lunch program Summer Food Program for us so their their funds are down very low and given this environment last year they fed over 200 kids already over 500 have signed up for summer meals that's 11 weeks of meals so on their website and this will all be in the board update there's various ways that you can donate or you can do some different activities there's places you can shop that will donate parts of the you know what you pay to that to make sure that all of our kids who are on free and reduced lunch will have food security this summer so let's but still we can to support the the Carmel Youth Assistance Program as they do the summer meals and that concludes my abbreviated superintendent's report thank you well thank you as always for the very informative and uplifting report about all the great things that are going on do any board members have questions for dr.
Beresford seeing none we will move to announcements before we close out the meeting as we've heard we will continue with virtual learning for all CCS students and administrators and families and staff it takes a village to get this done so we appreciate that may 18th is our next school board meeting it is a regular session May 21st will be the last virtual day for students followed by May 25th Memorial Day probably not much significance to the school year anymore and then our next board meeting will be June 8th currently scheduled for a workshop session in 955 I think all the board members for participating I think our administrators I think all of you in the audience who have stuck with us this long it was a long meeting but I think it was a very informative productive we talked about a lot of things we learned about a lot of things as always great things are going on here in Carmel clay school so with that may I have a motion to adjourn the meeting so move thank you second okay thank you I assume all are in favor please signify by saying aye hi meeting adjourned thank you and good night thank you
everybody remember don't give in you I call this order I call to order the special meeting of Bullhead City elementary school board meeting on Tuesday April 28 to 2020 at 5:30 p.m.
dr. Santa Cruz were streaming to YouTube now so whenever you're ready you can begin the meeting at 6:30 till about 4 minutes so I have 626 so according to the clock that I have here at 6:30 you hey John could you send a media could you send the meeting to trace Taulbee because there is an agenda item on bus purchases tonight just in case there's a question you good evening I'd like to welcome all of you who are joining us virtually dr.
good morning I'd like to call this meeting to order dr. Thomas and roll call please president Kaler members of the board we do have all five board members present one telephonically mr. roat ovitch is here by phone and the other four members are present live thank you very much and just so mr.