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Scott Wyndham our director of finance and operation will do for you so he's going to give you a little bit about school finance thank you we're often asked why are we in this shape why why is it so tough it's important to understand a little bit about the basics of school finance there are two main sources of funding that all public labels have access to in Indiana to support the education of their students on the left-hand side of the screen you can see that one of those is state funding money that we received from the state of Indiana that goes into our general fund the general fund that pays for the majority of our salary and benefit expenses for our teachers and supports that supplies for our students and classrooms professional development substitute teachers utilities those are all general and expenses so the majority of our operating expenses as a school district are in our general fund we also have access that is for those of us who live in this community pay property taxes and those property taxes are divided among the taxing entities that dr.
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Lerner mentions the library that schools downtown as that schools are restricted and how we can spin in and property tax funds we can spend those funds to pay mortgage on our buildings make our debt payments have a project expense things like technology and technology staff building maintenance is repair costs and insurance costs are all part of our capital projects another major part of property tax funding is the cost to transport our students bus drivers us assistants fuel makings and repairs on we do have to replace buses those are all expenses that are paid through local property tax money what makes us unique and a mana is just how significantly we are impacted on both sides of school funding unlike almost every other school district in the state of Indiana and we'll talk about djay the other thing that's important to understand about school funding is that prior to 2008 in 2009 the local school board could decide that if they needed more funding to hire more teachers and reduce class sizes or address compensation issues that they could increase property taxes to address educational expenses however when the state took over funding the general fund they took that ability away from local school boards and in place they gave school boards one option which is a referendum that's the only mechanism that school boards have as a way to generate additional funds for educational expenses so the legislature said to school boards you have to ask the community if you need more funds to educate your students you have to ask for the community to support that in order to generate those funds the other question that we're frequently asked is why aren't other school districts in this same situation this slide it was into more detail about just how unique we are on avon part of what makes this hard to explain is that school funding is complicated in every community and every school district is impacted differently so this slide shows property tax and what that means is when magnet described like that as homeowners our taxes are capped at one percent that's great as a homeowner and in Indiana that's great I get to keep more of my money and not pay it in property taxes but that has an impact on the taxing entities the town the library public schools so the state puts out a report that says this is what the impact to each taxing entity is as a result of property tax caps and that's what this slide summarizes so you can see that in that are negative property tax captain after six point nine million dollars that's six point nine million dollars that the school will not collect as a result of carbon tax X so if you look at this list of other schools it's a pretty diverse list and you might wonder how these schools arrived on this list the ones listed above are those districts that are impacted more significantly than we are in a bar there are only seven only seven school districts out of 292 that are impacted more significantly by property tax packs you can see that those school districts are very different from from ours and that they are larger or more urban school districts are impacted more significantly than we are you can also see those listed below us are those that we most often compare ourselves to they're in our conference they're in our county they're the districts that we compare ourselves to in multiple ways nobles the grounds were are the closest to us however we are negative acted more than twice as much as those two communities all the way down the list a playing field you can see that we are negatively impacted 17 times more than Plainfield is as a result of property tax caps so when people ask why is it Plainfield in this situation this is a really important part of the story to understand just how uniquely we are impacted by property tax taxes and that's just one side of a school bundle so now what we're adding to the slide is save money each school district in the state of Indiana receives a different amount of funding per student based on a complicated formula that the state legislature puts together so we can rank order every school district in Indiana from number one the best funded all the way to number 368 the least funded school district you can see that an Avon we have a 339 fund of the school district about three hundred and sixty eight so if you look at this list you can see that yes Erie is significantly impacted by property tax apps almost nineteen point five million dollars however they are the sixth best funded school district in the state of Indiana look at our neighbors at Wayne Township you cross Raceway Road and you left Avon and are anyway Township yes they are impacted almost 13 million dollars by property tax apps however they're the 63rd best funded school district in the state what does that mean in terms of dollars if we receive the same amount of funding as Wayne Township that would be eight point five million dollars more that we would have in our general fund just this year we wouldn't need to be having this conversation if we had eight point five million dollars more we don't get reading Township the funding that they get we just believe every public school ought to be funded adequately so what does this mean when we look like this but what is apparent is that there are only two other school districts in the state of Indiana that are impacted so significantly on both sides of school funding Franklin Township less Washington and us those are the three school districts that are significantly impacted by the carbon tax and are also some of the lowest funded school districts in the state the other question that were asked is what are other thermal districts doing so that's the final piece that we've added on and you can see that many of the school districts that we've listed here have passed referendum and then multiple rn2 their second successful referendum so let's feel Washington who we men have even more significantly than we are passed a referendum a general fund referendum in 2010 and then has renewed it and are now into their second referendum this list compares districts that we've identified based on these factors but it's also important to note that many other school districts across the state have taken the only mechanism that is allowed by the state legislature and that is general fund referendum to meet the needs of their students so since 2008 95 general fund recommend than different places on the ballot we indicated with the pastor it's those that have passed multiple referendum as we heard from realtor at our first to community engagement meetings a successful school district directly impacts home values so voters in these school districts many of whom of course wouldn't had children in school recognized a great school district benefits all taxpayers we also know that this is hard to reduce several schools there so we've also agreed in map highlighting areas across the state where a general fund referendum has been assessed and you can see particularly around the Indianapolis area again that many school districts have taken the only mechanism that is available to generate additional funding for their students realizing this is even harder to read in the previous slide some of the school districts are West few assignments though Carmen and into southeastern normal is Bill Speedway Wayne Township Decatur Washington Township Perry Township speech through our mouth Cornel West Lafayette what's up yet Sheridan the other piece that is important to know about this whole plan is that financial health is important to the stability of the school district and we believe that part of that financial health is engaging highly respected outside environment to assist us with long-range financial planning a monstruous as well as many other school districts and local tax and enemies have engaged unthaw to assist us in that long-range planning so he passed mr.
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fur collection who to share a little bit about their analysis as they've worked with us and looking at our financial good evening it's pleasure to be here just want to give you a brief overview on bought associates were independent municipal advisors were actually a certified public accounting firm but not in the traditional traditional sense we worked with cities towns and schools across the state currently we probably work over 50% of the public schools across the state of Indiana and then also work with several municipal cities towns and some of the schools that are located plus the Avon Brownsburg and Ville Mill Creek Wayne Township Carmel clay and Clark Pleasant what the unbought team who came on to assist the school and our unbought team has been working with the Avon Community School team to really look at on a long-term basis look at the expenditures and revenue stream for the general fund and we put together several several scenarios based upon assumptions based upon enrollment based upon what the anticipated student needs are going to be in the future and depending on the the growth and the assumptions that are built in what we have looked at on several models is Avon schools looking at student growth the annual expenditures could actually exceed the revenue as early as Monday year 2020 and I refer to that as a tipping point because at that point in time the school corporation really has relative choices to reduce expenditures in some way or start if they want to maintain their programs start spending down their cash reserves at that point to maintain the program and the main reason behind the shortfall at that point in time on revenue is the fact that the state of Indiana the funding for the general fund is not keeping up with inflation for public schools so for for the school to remain really financially solvent and if you look at the school corporation they're in a very healthy financial position basically this the school would have to as I said either look to some other revenue source and what the the state of Indiana has provided for public schools is one option to pursue is that as an operating referendum to have another revenue source to really maintain and enhance their their curriculum and programs moving forward thank you structure of course some recent meetings and interactions with parents community members and staff members we've heard you loudly and clearly you know that home values are strongly correlated to school quality and you said to us we cannot allow the schools falling to the river you can clear about what you think are the most important priorities in a general area to reduce the size sizes to add support for our students in order to be successful to give them a full and comprehensive curriculum and to retain great teachers a ninja community engagement meeting we like to do from one of those teachers and tonight you've invited Avon rural schools Norland Avon Mills for North's Teacher of the Year mrs.
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Erin traders to really appreciate those partnerships the educational philosophy at Avon among the teachers is to teach the entire child that is coming part into total the past few years as our past I've been slowly increased we are all about building relationships and parking Spurs that is our first and foremost job when the school year begins it's all about forming solid foundation because the students have to trust us in order to learn from us so over the past few years personally in my classrooms and I've seen my class sizes grow sometimes 35 40 students in one classroom and not all of these classes have an instructional assistant sometimes it's just myself that is becoming I still spread myself I still give individual attention to every season yes the more students we add the more nor I stretch it's been and that's time an individual as a seventh-grade teacher I've seen my class roster get up to 200 students that's a lot and that's a lot for us to get to them and then really value the relationships we have with our interns thank you because we get to the items that we have prioritized based on our work with administrators staff parents Ward and the community I want to remind you the importance of passing a referendum will be to maintain the status quo you might say live as mr.
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Fletcher said the state of Indiana has not been able to keep pace with inflation for our schools we already know exactly how much you will receive in new funds in 2018 and 2019 in 2018 we will receive one point three percent more and we received in 2017 in 2019 will receive one point four percent more now at first blush that sounds pretty good more money this year than last year the problem is inflation was 2.1 percent last year so in order not to wait until 2020 when it's almost too late I know that this calendar year 2018 we're going to get 1.3 percent more and yet inflation was 2.1 we cannot maintain a status quo success or aluminum but you know what we want to just maintain a status quo you want better our stews so we have worked in defensively since our meetings with you in December to prepare several options to discuss with you and metal order without our principles our assistant principals our directors making in two days over the holiday break to work with us so that we try to develop some sound for every budget rarities and we're going to present three tonight the first is called the ascendant this is what we have and adds what we think we can't do without in order to move forward the second budget we Thailand improves this would indicate what we provide for our students and the third budget is an optimal budget this is what we believe would be ideal for our students hours and hours of work of going to be prioritizing and pricing and negotiating and debating these priorities and you won't agree with all of them I'm not sure I agree with all of them but if there's consensus as of this moment and every day and tonight we'll be gathering it more feedback about these priorities let's talk in general about budget would do for our studio this essential budget will asks the taxpayer the smallest increase of the three options it would target class sizes at the kindergarten level at 22 or human a three to one through four class sizes will be targeted at 25 or here and it grades five through eight class sizes would be targeted at 28 or funeral I use the word target intentionally I don't think you were packed because cap is not unrealistic in a big complicated system when we have some big schools and some small schools so I don't want to give anyone the impression that when the 26th fourth grader walks into one of our schools we're suddenly going to be able to add a teacher that's not unrealistic but these are targets and they're targets that we think are the best for our students this essential budget would also increase time for our students in art music PE related arts it would help us retain our teachers and attract new teachers with memories that become and incrementally and steadily more competitive over the course of the next eight years finally this budget would very significantly our support staff so that we can meet those academic needs of our students let's talk about the improvers budget and you general returners this budget builds on the last one the improvs budget includes everything we described in the essential budget but it will bring 5th and 6th grade classes to a little more reasonable of 25 rather than 28 it would add even more support setup and even more opportunities for our middle school students to be involved in extracurricular activities after school event and let's talk in general about the optimal budgetary the optimal budget includes everything that's in the essential budget the improvs budget as budget targets middle school classes at 25 or newer rather than 28 it adds even more support style and as a more extracurricular activity activities for our middle school and our high school students now one of the questions that was very very clear after our last community engagement meaning is you've got to tell us how much and that's what we've been working very hard to do and so now I'd like to share with you the fiscal impact of the essential budget the total raised by the essential budget in the word pass is seven point three five million dollars per year what would this budget mean for our elementary and intermediate schools specifically well it would allow us to retain our current position at the top of the table you can see that at the start school year we added nine pay for teaching positions we'll need a referendum to maintain those positions before I move on to the rest of the budget I do want to acknowledge what you sent to us in our community sessions and what our teachers and staff have shared with us you've got to tell the community what we will use if a referendum fails we agree we just do it tonight because we don't know which much an option we're going to advance but we absolutely agree that when and if there's a referendum on the ballot we will be very specific without trying to fear-mongering panic be very specific about what we lose this budget would also add one special education preschool teacher 11 more pay for teachers to further reduce class sizes to those target to be discussed for intermediate school teachers to reduce those class sizes to 28 or fewer they are now in the low 30s it would have ten and a half music art PE and related art position it would allow us to have a full time related arts team in each of our elementary schools we would have three instructional coach positions so they are no longer shared into large photos that can be a very difficult concept for people to understand the importance of instructor oh geez I don't know about in your profession but I don't benefit that much from going out to a seminar for a day learning a lot coming back I kind of forget it very quickly and I don't really do much with it the model of professional learning that we use in the Eitan Community School Corporation is to help our teachers get better at their craft in their art through the use of instructional coaches along with administrators we add and induct a lot of new teachers with our retirements and teachers from migrate elsewhere we have a lot of new teachers and they need support but we also recognize that even our master teachers want to get better and they have Clement for more time than their instruction podium we were fortunate thanks to our counselors that we received a loan agreement of eight hundred thousand dollars to increase our counseling and we did add two new Elementary counselors who just started two weeks ago they're currently funded by the grant are going forward that obligation will shift to our school corporation this essential budget would add quite a bit of instructional support to help our students 11 kindergarten instructional assistants oh you're going to have class sizes of 20 two or less a few our excuse me and you're still going to have instructional assistants yes we are finding some of our youngest learners are not coming ready to learn and that is impeding the learning of our to the earnest duties this budget would also add age of special education assistance again we have students who have special needs who are just as smart as general education students but they learn differently and learning is more difficult and we need to provide them the support to succeed we would add for english-language learner assistance again you may not be aware unless you've been in our schools that we have over 70 different languages spoken as the first language in our homes we have hundreds of students who come to our school district not yet ready to use the English language and so we know I need to provide many more superior we would also have a media center assistant I think many of us agree that our technology department does a fabulous job and as you know in your world technology is changing faster than we can keep up but this department is terribly understand this budget would add one more building technician as well as a district level application specialist we have seven upon district level applications we need someone to manage those as mr.
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Fletcher mentioned just like any business we need to remain financially stable this budget allows us to do that retaining our outstanding teachers are attracting new teachers if more competitive salaries is also part of this budget again we're not going to fix that over number that's going to take slow steady incremental improvement catching up just a little bit every year and even though this slide says competitive teacher salaries remember this district wouldn't run were it not for our amazing support staff members we need to make sure that we maintain their conversation competitive with the market the school marm you'll notice that there are no building needs addressed in budget some people think that we have some building needs some expansion there's some roof repair or some other things we are not going to spend a penny of referendum funds on anything other than teaching and learning additionally you'll notice that the referendum budget does not include any administrative positions as I said earlier tonight we have one thousand three hundred and forty three more students today than we did in 2009-2010 and six fewer administrators we're in particularly tough shape in a long high school they have grown 700 students since that time but we've not added a single administrator quite the contrary were six down despite that we do not believe that the referendum can possibly fund any additional administrative positions going forward we are fortunate enough to have growth money or some other way to do that we may be able to address something at Avon high school but we are not going to spend referendum money on administrators or building projects but this essentials budget means for our middle and high school students again we added eight middle school teachers at the start of the school year and one and a half high school teachers we would be able to retain positions this essential budget would also allow us to add or more middle school teachers for class size reduction remember the target here is 28 or fewer and as mrs.
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Brown said some of our subjects can get as high as 35 40 today this could also have one high school special education teacher one middle school special education teacher and five more high school classroom teachers a high school counselor again 700 more students but not a single name counselors is 2009-10 and a high school band teacher an additional e.l.f assistant would be added in high school this budget would also improve the extracurricular pay or silence for our coaches and directors right now our coaches and our directors if they are so fortunate to be paid to coach or to sponsor a club they are earning the exact same stipend they may earn in the back of $2,000 how have we managed them so far we have not increased our salaries or extracurriculars despite the fact that we know how important that is in the white house dude coach's pub sponsors and directors are currently earning the same amount as they were eight years ago this budget would specifically increase our opportunities at the middle school we would have assistant coaches at track and football like that because we have hundreds of kids going out for those sports and only a small number of paid coaches those are sports where we don't have to cut kids those are sports any middle school youngster can participate in but without additional coaches without adequate assistant coaches we aren't able to adequately provide programs for our students this budget would also add back middle school B teams for girls basketball and bouncing it should be noted that in our conference there is only one other school district that does not have B teams for basketball is this time in students lives when it's most important for them to be able to experience activities not be cut as the middle schoolers with haven't yet Iran or matured or been able to develop we do not want to decrease our opportunities for middle school scores except a critical age of their young lives now some people have asked us but why would a do soccer to middle school wiretapping baseball before the referendum in 2011 we're thinking about adding baseball and softball and believe me we would love to add it all but our coaches and our athletic administrators have said to us we need to do what we're doing now well before we add anything else we also have great partners an H AAA in our community and many soccer programs many youth leaves and so we think that doing what we are currently doing well is where we need to start right now we have 50 clubs at the middle school level and high school level that teachers sponsor without getting a pennant for them more than 2,000 students participated in those clubs and we don't think it's fair that our teachers continue year after year to sponsor those important clubs that give every student a sense of belonging without any this essential budget would address that so now you know that the essential budget would do for our students but what is natural is for you to want to know what does that mean for me as a taxpayer and so we'd like to share a very specific budget for this particular slide addresses the essential budget which would increase our taxes 27.4 cents for every $100 of assessed valuation now for most of us that's gobbledygook so we're going to do a couple if you don't across the top line of this table you can see that we have listed various market values of almost it goes from one hundred thousand on the left all the way up to five hundred thousand on the right we have highlighted one column in the yellow and that's the common that according to today's information from the Hendricks County Auditor according to today's information the average home price market value in Washington Township is one hundred seventy two thousand six hundred and seventy dollars now many of us don't realize that we don't pay taxes on that full market value of our own so we'd like to give you an example of different deductions that we get many of us not all of us many of us on our market value of our own prior to change tax so let's use the come on the far left the $100,000 you can see that they many homeowners receive a homestead deduction of an a mortgage deduction if they carry a mortgage of three thousand dollars that produced a hundred thousand dollar home market balance down to thirty two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars for what we call an FSS family that's the amount on which you would pay your increase property taxes so let's see how much one homeowner would pay for the essential budget and let's go ahead and use that average home of the 107 2617 dollars once those deductions are after in this homeowner homeowner would pay a little more than eighteen dollars a month in a petition to what they currently pay for there's another as we move forward there will be a tax calculator because I don't care what the average homeowner is going to pay I want to know what I want to pay and I want that information from a trusted group and so I will be providing a tax calculator on a website going forward and the point that I must make to you is this is not a straight math problem you can't say oh if the $100,000 homeowner is going to pay 18 dollars more then that must mean that is a $200,000 will paint over that it doesn't work because our deductions vary according to the Nemesis by overall so let's talk about the improved bundle and then she's before that the first budget would increase our taxes or regenerate seven point three two million dollars the improves budget what would that mean for the school district that have made an additional eight point six six million dollars per year and again let me remind you what's in that essential budget in addition to every person in this improvement in addition to everything that we talked about in the essential budget this improves education for elementary and intermediate students by targeting class sizes of 25 or fewer at the intermediate level the essentials are generally had them a twenty-eight or fewer the improves budget has been a 25 at this budget also adds an intermediate can't learn to be shared between east and west and into more of their special education teachers it would add for our interventionist of the intermediate level and again lots of people what's an interventionist that sounds are other medical to me we have some very highly skilled teaching assistants who work with our students in small groups if they are struggling to keep them moving forward or if they are excelling to make that were challenging them and so the interventionist model is one that has worked very well at the k4 level but this improves budget would add into intermediate interventionists recall oh this would also add one more building technician for technology so what is the approved budget do for our middle school and our high school students again at the top you see it generates a point six six million dollars each year for eight years but it also adds a new school special teacher high school special teacher for more classroom teachers at the high school level economy is central there were five more classroom teachers this one for more additions back and another counselor today the high school by special education assistance would be added to the middle schools along with to middle school interventionists this budget would also add more positions in Avon high school to allow more opportunities for students to be able to participate again that's what it means for students what's the impact on taxpayers you can see that the essential budget increased twenty seven point four seven additional 400 dollars of assessed valuation this draft budget takes that to 30 2.30 - MS let's again just review one example and let's be consistent and review the example of the average home in Avon 1033 one hundred seventy two thousand six hundred seventeen dollars the yellow highlighted table when we deduct the various mortgages that that homeowner we receive the net assessed value of that home is now seventy nine thousand nine hundred and fifty one dollars so the monthly impact for the homeowner would be $21.58 a month or two hundred and fifty eight dollars and 96 cents a year let's move on to the under this budget would raise nine point seven three two million dollars annually as far as elementary and middle school the only addition would be to increase the clubs that we have at the intermediates will love the activities we have for our students but it does have a more significant impact of a secondary school this optimal budget would reduce our middle school class sizes to twenty five or fewer recall that the essential budget had class sizes that the middle school is Bru's budget had class sizes at 28 or fewer so we would have for middle school teachers to choose that we would have three and a half high school teachers we would add new support staff positions with two middle school music assistants six more interventionists of a noticeable level and two high school support staff positions these are not instructional support positions these are simply positions to help that building run it's a very large building of over 3,100 and we have not been able to add any sort of support office clerical staff this budget would also increase the number of clubs and both middle schools and it would even provide an activity bus where our middle school students four days a week whether they're staying after four extra health to attend the study tables to participate in a club or athletics we know that one of the barriers to middle school students being involved as a lack of transportation we also know the keeping students engaged at the middle school level is the key to their own success when they go on to high school so the optimal optimal budget includes that we'd love to have it at the high school also but at least some of our high school students have licenses and are less likely to be impeded from participating in extracurricular some of you wonder which clothes would you add how much you increase the stipends for the extracurriculars and we have to acknowledge that that is negotiated between the school district and the Union that is not something that I can say the yearbook advisor has earned this for the last eight years but we'd like to increase that stipend $200 but our administrators and our athletic directors have given us a sense of what we could accommodate we will still not be leaving our conference right now our coaches that Avon high school are the lowest aid in the comments our music directors Avon High School are the lowest faith in the conference we aren't going to catch up overnight but we do feel that we need to both make progress for retaining those great coaches and directors we also need to make progress to expand opportunities for our students that's what it means for kids was it me or a taxpayer the honorable budget generates 36 point 37 cents more or $100 of assessed so again using that highlighted calm of the $172,000 own the taxpayer would pay twenty four dollars and twenty three cents more per month and currently painting again I will never utter the words your taxes are going to go up this month because that is entirely dependent upon the market value of your home whether or not you have all these deductions whether or not I'm carrying a mortgage and we would rather that every taxpayer knows exactly how much this would cost so to do that I really have to know a lot about my name's value and a lot of and I have to use that tax calculator these are draft budgets notice that every one of these says direct they're not final ultimately the school board has to decide if any of these three budgets is appropriate to ask for our tax payers or if they want to modify these three budgets to make a good decision our board wants feedback and we've been getting a lot of it from our staff and we hope now in our community when the community engagement meetings are done which will be Monday night after our session January 22nd at 6:30 our board will make that decision we have already scheduled a special board meeting on Monday January 29th at 7 o'clock and the administration Center in anticipation that the board may take some action that is about it as long as we can wait and still make it to a May election given all the legal hoops that we need to jump through I believe that this referendum whatever level it ends up being at is a must-win for our community in Ferb days I also want to be very thoughtful about what we asked from our taxpayers particularly our seniors and those that unlimited interests so I have struggled through these priorities debated them talked about other principals and teachers and board members and I keep asking myself this impossible question if there was one item in this budget that would mean we would lose when I remove it it's an impossible question it's a disturbing and uncomfortable question and it's one I'm gonna struggle with right until we make a decision some of you won't agree with these priorities that's great speak up tell us what you think is right or wrong about these bunch of priorities that's why we're going to go into the small groups and get information from you but please know that you are we talking to a couple of dozen administrators who have been intimately involved in crafting these priorities based on information that their teachers and staff members parents have provided for them so in the summer I hope you'll all remember a movie here we will be asking our community to support the general on refraining to reduce class size to retain great teachers and to support our students needs we will not ask for additional funds to build or renovate or add-ons to schools we will not fund administrative positions and even though we have serious technology infrastructure needs we will not use referendum funds to improve or upgrade equipment what are their sales well we will be more explicit about that once we have actually kind of evolution our org and we've established a budget and there were many many many opportunities to hear about a referendum going forward I can make one very clear stay in Li the differente for ever and them doesn't pass today we will not stay where we are today this will be as good as it gets for our school system and for our children and how do I know that because the meager 1.3 percent of the state of Indiana has provided that the inflation requires us to trim our expenses don't get me wrong I'm not down in the state of Indiana these are good people doing hard work trying to prioritize all sorts of needs so I am NOT critical at all of our hard-working legislatures and the tough decisions that they've had to make for all of our state I don't always agree with them that's okay they were elected to do that but what I can say is they have provided a mechanism the new normal in Indiana and that mechanism is if you want something different for your students and your community then your community needs to support it so what a minute we can't do this alone we have a tremendous amount of support in this community but many of our parents are not registered to vote most of you are not registered to vote most of our staff are not registered to vote workers registration is the public document and we've been studied we know who goes to the polls we know who's likely to go to the polls in minute and right now we won't winter up remember unless the people who understand this issue get registered by April 1 there is an online link here it is very easy to check and see if you are registered I had 20 different people tell me Monday that when they went here they thought they were registered vote and they weren't maybe they moved maybe they were purged if they haven't voted in several they might be hurt so already 20 different people have said Wow Maggie oh so think I've told us about this website because I thought I was registered to vote and I'm not so certainly our enemy is against the people who are most likely to vote to the polls and they are the least informed about what we've done to keep our community away camera ringing that in general they're over 60 and they don't have any association that they run Community Schools we remind our patrons especially our seniors that our own values are directly tied to a quality school system I think of our home as my 401 K my retirement and if the quality of the school system erodes the quality and the price of my home is going to go down Realtors have already been speaking up to this why they did it and you'll hear a lot more from our local Realtors during their campaign so our win strategy certainly includes reaching out to current registered voters they are important active members of care about this community regardles every time and vote for every different election so we need to reach out to them and we will but we also know that we can't win unless the people who do know get registered by can go mana and show up on the cold I'm an unready you know some people said to me go to the polls and I don't know what's going on I don't know those judicial things in this prime area I don't know who's running for Town Council I don't know who's running for township order you know what you can vote one thing if you want you don't have to fill out the entire ballot if you don't feel like you are prepared to make an informal vote maybe you don't like to vote the primaries because you don't like saying that you're a Democrat or Republican and they hand me that big ol D go go over there that big little dog over there if you don't like that I found out that's not from someone in our community a community leader you can just say I just want a referendum out so if that's your hang-up about voting in a primary you got to come over you can vote early remember election they'll come and you'll get a flat tire or so will be sick and suddenly it will be quarter to six and you will not have voted we will be providing information to you about how you can vote early and I'm so excited that our Hendricks County and our Board or excuse me our election supervisors Laura herself will be providing us an opportunity this primary for the first time to have centralized both only locations I am a high fidelity voter you never remember where I'm supposed to go to vote I have to look it up every time is it this church is about four miles well starting in May Pender's town have 26 different polling locations you go to whichever one you want now chances are you probably gonna want to come to one of the six located in Washington Township but it will be very very easy to vote right after the board passes a resolution a path for political action committee is formed it will be made up of hundreds of volunteers I hope including everybody in this room they'll be co-chairs a treasurer a social media coordinator yard site coordinator learners to behavior coordinator a volunteer coordinator an absentee ballot coordinator get-out-the-vote coordinator there's a job for everyone so there will be a whole cadre of fifteen or sixteen people who are really really committed and maybe you're not ready to commit that level but there's still a job for you we've been thinking about this for a long time we've done a lot of research we know what it takes to succeed some of us have been asked are you getting advice from other districts you have we are we're learning and the common theme is if you have a great pact with hundreds of people filling a role that they feel comfortable filling you will win it I also want to emphasize to you that this is a political pain that is governed by new laws laws that are different than the last time this district ran under our new campaign one of the most important laws is that a school district may not use school time school resources computers or website or email addresses anything to promote the referendum we won't even hold our PAC meetings in our lives that's not appropriate because what does have doing they're promoting a political campaign so we will look to our community partners throughout the community and our regular cafe teams will be held somewhere else we'll find supportive community members to provide a space just like Kingsway my goodness they have rolled out the red carpet for us Monday night January 27 they've been unbelievably supportive about our need to hold a meeting October and I want to emphasize to you this is a good law this law that restricts what we can do this is a good law we're not going to use school time to talk to kids about this we need to be teaching them not talking about we are going to be squeaky clean and completely applicable about how we conduct as political campaigning once the board passes resolution I assure written information would ever so we are all very very clear about what our obligations are I will explain them what they can do what they can't do when they can do it I'll explain that if they have a personal email account and they want to use that off school hours to promote the referendum or to oppose the referendum they may do so yeah I'm talking like everyone's gonna support it but our employees also cannot oppose the referendum using school resources they can use their social media accounts off school hours to promote this they can wear a button or a t-shirt out of school hours but they may not promote the referendum during school hours now somebody's going to come up to some teacher or some employees they don't think about that referendum they are allowed to provide factual information so we'll be scripting them to say something along the lines of it I can't really tell you if I support or oppose the referendum but what I can do is direct you to some factual information and guide you to where you can get some information this is a good law it's going to allow us to conduct a good campaign there are some exceptions the superintendent the associate superintendent assistant superintendent and the director of finance and operations belong with the School Board may promote the referendum on the school time we may not useful resources so you won't be getting any emails from MEP Horniman at avon - schools org but we can use full time to promote it and what I love about this law is that our kids are watching us I want our students to say when it's all over that we ran a great positive political campaigning some people have asked me quite people I've asked me oh there will be alcohol out eating for the pack coming up and you can do everything from writing letters to the editor to contact and alums to get them involved - using your circle of influence to invite me or anyone from Avon that you think would be helpful to your clubs your churches your homeowners association I just got invited tonight to speak to five senior citizens who have a candle express concern about being on a fixed income but they still want to know they still want to understand they're not looking forward to those meetings we'll go anywhere you want us to go now I'm going to move to the cafeteria and invite those of you who choose to stay to pick any table that you want to sit at maybe you want to go to an administrators table if you know the administrator maybe you don't want to go to an administrator you know and they will simply be taken notes they're not going to ask a name they just want your questions your comments your feedback this will probably last given the small size or group and that some of you may choose to just say don't we're not you know kind of what I need I'm outta here this will last probably no more than 20 minutes but I do want you to know that what will happen at the conclusion of those 20 minutes is that each of our administrators will get out and they think to tell us what you said that way you get to hear your voice heard and more importantly our school board gets to hear your voices heard so the first administrator would get up dr.
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LeMay he's drawn the short straw he's going to probably have a longest report and then the next administrator will say well I'm not going to repeat anything dr. LeMay said but there are two other questions that came up from our table or two concerns and I'd like to add those and work our way to and until we get done we do want your feedback whether it's a positive or constructive criticism we want to hear from you I am Not Afraid of anyone telling me that opposed to this or that they think were wrong I'm welcome now that's civil discourse that's healthy we welcome matter once the resolution passes it will not be me who's communicating so much when people submit a question to the PAC website or read the FAQ and say it isn't clear it will be packed leadership the words bomb I want to communicate and say one more thing that I said to the staff I am both optimistic and I'm terrified and honest as I can be I'm terrified because I know what the devastating impact will be on our community and our students if we do not succeed but I'm optimistic because we have a great story to tell I've been superintendent for coming up on six years and I've been doing everything I can to avoid this moment and I'm proud of it and it's not me we have been doing everything we can to avoid this moment but we are out of ideas I'm also optimistic because we work well to become lean and efficient to generate the resources to develop great relationships with our legislatures and don't get me wrong even if a referendum passes it's not like happy days are here again we must continue to be fiscally conservative to live within our means and to become a vision to become moving more initiative we must continue to work with our legislators to explain the importance of a very simple concept not asking for more just give us enough to keep pace with the cost of living but now I'm optimistic because I know we can't wait any longer we must move and I'm also optimistic cuz I feel alone even as recently as six months ago I felt really alone with this but I died because of the oral advocates because of our staff and because of our community and because I recognized that the referendum won't win because I do such a great job communicating the referendum will only win if we all work together and that makes me I'm a mystic because we have a great history of working together so my thing is that you and those watching at home will become informed you'll become involved and I hope you'll become committed I've appreciated your being here tonight and now going to take a break and move into the cafeteria thank you very much
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[Music] hello and welcome to the Henry Cabot Lodge Fieldhouse here in Beverly Massachusetts thank you for watching the Bev cam Sports Network on channel 22 I'm Alex silico flying solo tonight to bring you the five and four Beverly Panthers hosting before and for Malden golden tornadoes odd name I'm not gonna say anything else about it I just don't like it so we're here at Beverly High School Beverly lost their last matchup it was a heartbreak against Lynn classical it was tough down the stretch Beverly was in position it was freshman Alyssa Moreland with the coast to coast and one to put them up Beverly then fouled with 2.2 seconds left on the clock to give classical to lead again after some free throws and once apparently got the ball back head coach substantial called the timeout but with no timeouts left that was a technical foul the ball was given back to when classical four free throws and that ultimately was the game and now if you want to say he was unfunny say he wasn't aware of the situation that's fair but also it was an instinctual situation in that situation you expect to have a timeout left you want to get your group back together and we say it all the time in midseason games we talked about with players if they make a mistake like that that it's gonna help them grow it's gonna be better for the team in the long run because you know you should have had that game against classical and if that goes for players as well you can say the same thing about coaches you know that's never gonna happen again for says Sancho he's never gonna make the same mistake like that him and this team is better for that happening because now they'll just bring that much more focus into each and every game here this season a few minutes away from tip-off we already know Beverly led by the freshman ELISA Moreland last week 21 points 26 ports 11 blocks unofficially triple-double she had herself a night played very well in the defensive side again against Lin classical struggled offensively ended up getting out of those struggles and performing to her abilities at the end of that game this Maltin team comes in at 4 and 4 this is a new team in the NEC Beverly's not really used seeing them in recent years or even all-time two captains for them senior McKenzie furlong and senior Tiffany tortora lead the charge for the golden tornadoes it's gonna be interesting Beverly needs this game they need five more wins to qualify for tournament play in the NEC [Music] [Applause] look at this Beverly Team schedule over the course of this season they've beaten some pretty good teams especially in the NEC South if you look at it they beat the leading Danvers the second-place saugus team and as well as Swampscott and other teams in the south so they are taking care of business in the south when they have to go ahead and look at the standings for the any ceil in classical two wins in the past few days were excuse me over a course of five days for the Rams against Beverly they're sitting there at nine and one overall eight no in league play then followed by Revere at five and O in the league 6 and 2 overall and Beverly sitting there in third and you look below everybody every team below commenting Marblehead Peabody all those teams are inferior now I'm not saying or virulent classflow superior to this Beverly team because Beverly played them really close in classical Rams few nights ago everybody in this NEC North can be beaten everybody in the NEC South can be beaten there's no reason to say that Beverly is not the best team in this conference when this season is said and done they've played that well against the top opponents we'll see in the Revere game down the stretch we don't play them until fit at Revere that'll be another telling game but they beat that danvers team that one loss you see next to danvers that came to the hands of Beverly could have given one class Glo loss also in league play but it's gonna be a story for another day maybe you'll see them actually you won't see them they're not in Division one anymore they actually got bumped down so we'll not be seeing the Rams in the playoffs now that Revere game on February 13th I'm sure everybody will be circling on their schedule it's Breast Cancer Awareness night here be Henry Cabot Lodge Fieldhouse we will have starting lineups momentarily starting lineup for Beverly it looks like it's going to be [Applause] Beaudry Bernard Anderson dodge and Sprague so no more than the starting line starting lineup for Malden [Music] Mackenzie for long [Applause] we have stringers Silva out there also [Applause] Audrey Carlton as well as bez it out there rounding out the starting lineup number 23 tor tor another captain for the golden tornadoes [Music] Beverly's squad will be introduced and he said it's Anderson Bernard go drew gotcha and spray and we're gonna go to the court well we let the Beverly High School ROTC present the colors [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] opening tip underway momentarily his Malden team coming off of a 38-point win at Salem for that they were at Averett lost by 22 you don't know what you're gonna get out of this Malden team put up big points they've put up ducks also lost to a Peabody team this season Peabody team that has only one win so Beverly looking to get the job done here at home proved their conference record make up ground on Revere annalen classical tip won by the Panthers Beaudry to Anderson in the corner Malden coming out with a 2-3 zone Anderson for three from the corner no good rebound Malden tortora [Applause] for a long bringing the ball up [Music] stringer Silva over to the corner tour tour now going up against Prague off the mark rebound Bernard Anderson mid-range Jay can't get it to go she's old for two tonight but she grabs that board tries to put it up can't be called for a travel [Applause] gosh applying pressure it's in the corner using a pick mid-range Jay can't go offensive board golden tornadoes they throw it back up defense by Bogut furlong puts it in for the first points of the game - Oh lead for the golden tornado Sprague now in the corner Bernard thinking about a shot cross-court pass Beaudry has it deflected that was blocked by tortora both are gonna come away at the board are gonna get a jump ball it's gonna go to Malden stringer Silva guarded by Anderson sprayed with the help Dee Bernard comes over to help they dish it off put it up no good Anderson comes away with the board but she steps out of bounds it's gonna stay with Malden inbound play looking for a stringer Silva end up getting it in Sprague hands up but it falls two points there for number 12 it's Carlton [Music] [Applause] Beverly down for Oh early looking for Beaudry she gets it to her drops it down Bernard for three back iron rebound Malden that's furlong she's off to the races Beaudry in pursuit three no good offensive board taken away Bernard ends up with it heads-up play by Beaudry who allowed that rebound to furlong but picked her pocket Sprague post moves the hook no good as tortora has it taken away from Bernard but she goes stumbling out of bounds [Applause] for a long driving left on Beaudry tries to drop it down the bezel she gets by and an an one there is weird play she was stumbling forward I believe Sprague is gonna be called with that you know it's gonna be Bernard six Oh lead for Malden Bernard her first foul on the evening as it knocks it down the old-fashioned three-point play seven I'll lead for the golden tornadoes Beverly trying to get something going put some points on the board with Moreland on the bench it's got Anderson thinking about a three passes to Sprague has it stolen Carlton that looks like she almost stepped out of bounds their referee wasn't looking [Applause] for long using the pick it's Carlton the corners bezel tortora elbow got it to go I know golden tornadoes lead no timeouts being called from head coach says stanchion just yet tortora her first two points four scores now from all that as that's turned over Malden looking to take a double-digit lead as we're gonna get us a couple substitutions soon for the Panthers it'll be baekje and white hair Fez it portora good move but it's a travel white heron baekje in forgotten spray they're really going small here Beaudry bringing up the ball baekje white hair loses control gets it out then range j4 Beaudry off the mark rebound carlton come the other way now [Applause] [Music] 3:38 left to go in the first quarter Beverly trailing nine nothing tortora with contact no foul called offensive board crawl ttan white hair brings it down she tries to blow a little too quickly as it poked away and pins up the hands of carlton two points for them we're gonna get a timeout from head coach says nancial as Malden leads 11 nothing early in this first quarter Carlton leading the golden tornadoes in scoring with four she's also got two boards for long with two points and two boards three points from bezu and two for tortora with three boards and assists of her own no points for the Panthers Moreland still on the bench barely will send out Anderson Bakey white hair Barnard as well as McCarthy so a young group for the Panthers going out there same five from Aldens out there we're gonna have tortora for a long bezel in that time out from substantial as you could tell there was no coach in the huddle appears as if he's letting him coach themselves don't know what that means don't know can only speculate but might have something to do with the game against Lin classical and how the end of that one ended white hair excuse me that was McCarthy gets it down the white hair McCarthy now Bernard white hair mid-range Jay couldn't get it to go rebound tortora [Applause] [Music] [Applause] offensive board Carlton trying to put it up she can't stringer Silva kicks it out it's bez it could cast a furlong down the tortora lot of passing stringer Silva four three gap it's all five starters for the golden tornadoes on the board 14-nothing lead for the Panthers McCarthy now bringing it out faking Bernard Anderson for three couldn't get it to go down low it's Bernard passed a few defenders Beverly's on the board now Bernard for to see if that will spark something in the Panthers here 14 to 2 left to go in the first quarter furlong drops it down to Carlton white hair with the defense she's going to rip it away from Carlton good play by the freshman three from baekje off the mark white hair though at the board she kicks it out to Anderson to three of her own couldn't get it to go and we're gonna get a travel called on bez it's gonna be with the Panthers now [Applause] [Music] McCarthy Bakey for three off the only ill-advised shot off the mark almost traveled with that one 1:15 left to go in the first quarter for a long past half court drives pass multiple Beverley defenders offensive board tortora puts it up for two clinic right now Beverley not playing well the offense or defensive side of the ball [Applause] McCarthy Anderson she'll Drive mid-range Jay couldn't get it to go and it's going to go to Malden barely really missing the size right now of not only Moreland but Gaucho and Sprague who subbed out quickly in this first quarter Carlton coming out in her place will be Joe excuse me nope that's Darcy Cummings for long for three off the mark Anderson with the rebound 26 seconds left in this first quarter shot clock turned off Beverly trying to gain some momentum Bernard for three off the mark rebound Cummings for long with it now Cummings looking for tortora she gets it to Joe and we're gonna get a foul on bez it will be her first and called for the push 6.9 on the clock another substitution as Camille Nomi jr.
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slowly will enter the game McCarthy has clock running down Bakey Anderson in the corner three seconds left off the side of the backboard that was not gonna get another shot attempt so at the end of one Beverly trail 16 tit to know Moreland in that first quarter and really no substantial so we'll see what happens moving forward Moreland now checking in Stan shil in the huddle now I wonder if there's only speculation but maybe he felt like he deserved a one quarter suspension for the way he called that timeout at the end of that game on Monday and if that's the case you like to see that out of your coach hold yourself accountable as well as your players got a set an example expect a much more focused in a much more energetic Beverly team moving forward after that 16 to 2 1st quarter it's going to be Moreland out there with baekje Bernard McCarthy and Anderson [Applause] only two points for the Panthers coming from Bernard all five starters from Malden have scored [Applause] sixteen two three from Anderson got it right out the gates in the second quarter Anderson knocks down a three [Applause] Panthers are back focused in this one as they force a turnover all momentum early just 20 seconds in to this second quarter is on the Beverly side McCarthy taking the ball up she has Bernard next to her drop it down to Moreland triple team to McCarthy for three she got that one to go two quick threes for the Panthers right out of the gate in Beverly is back in business [Music] [Applause] 16 to 8 tortora guarded by Moreland off the mark rebound Bakey McCarthy charging drives right Bakey Moreland at the top of the arc it's baekje now head fake to Anderson Bakey looking down low to Moreland has it poked away Anderson comes away with it 10 seconds on the shot clock drops it down to Moreland she's looking to pass Anderson another three another Meg Beverly three for three from downtown to start this second quarter and the Panthers are in this a 900 run for Beverly to start this second quarter they cut the lead down to five off the mark white hair excuse me not white here McCarthy with it now charging Anderson can she get another off the mark he checked there from Anderson we're gonna get a foul believe on McCarthy 621 left in the second Beverly on a 9-0 run gosh we'll check in on the next whistle Joe with the ball for a long out Joe guarded by Anderson portora thinking about driving on Moreland a three from furlong in the corner no good rebound Anderson goes up and gets it three boards for her in six points McCarthy pushing it up Moreland can't handle it she ends up getting control past the defense puts it up for two Portland's on the warm eleven Oh run might get a timeout here from Alden head coach Scott Murray no team not looking too hot to start this second quarter this is a passionate and more inspired Beverly squad as Carlton gets the offensive board and Anderson collects the miss M'Lynn on the high post Bernard she'll be fouled she'll shoot - that's Bessette second [Music] my thoughts down the first peasant will sit with two fouls coming censors in her place both free-throws knockdown from Bernard she's got four as gosh answers enters for her thirty no run to start this second quarter by the Panthers 16 to 2 at the start of it were three minutes in Beverly only down 16 15 furlong the running jumper another miss another board for Anderson she already has five go along with six points double-double alert Anderson another three got it and Anderson's on fire nine points all by way of three in this second quarter [Applause] Joe for three of our own ends the run puts Malden back up and we're gonna get a timeout from Alden as they lead 1918 after that three from Joe [Music] Joe now with six but Beverly was on a huge run of beginning of this second quarter through trailing 16 - they got it to 1816 1600 run before Maldon ends it with that three from zel you see their head coach chef Stan shil in his third season with the Panthers and again we're not sure why he didn't do much or didn't do anything at all in that first quarter you saw him in that huddle or not in that hull but the girls really coached themselves through that first quarter maybe it was him punishing himself who knows if it is I like to move didn't play too well in that first quarter but once they were back there's a much more focus Beverly team nine points for Anderson already in the second quarter not even halfway through three from McCarthy two from Bernard [Music] McCarthy's pass is tipped by furlong she's going to follow her [Applause] [Music] second foul from McCarthy Beaudry will most likely come in for her she does for long so taking a pic from tortora long to off the mark rebound Gaucho gets it up to Beaudry quickly up to Moreland she's unstoppable in for two to four Moreland the assist coming from Beaudry [Music] portora guarded by Moreland trying to create separation but Moreland sends her packing grabs the board quickly pushes it up to Anderson Anderson one-on-one with Cummings no foul call Becky tries to say that she doesn't substitution is Anderson really seems to have the wind knocked out of her no charge no block call on that McCarthy quickly back in after being subbed out [Music] so guarded by McCarthy torture' now Cummings mid-range J no good McCarthy with the board going the other way now her second tonight nice pass Moreland all wide open gets that one to fall calling for a foul against tortora but Moreland has really just unstoppable six points since entering this one in the second quarter Beverly leading now 20 to 19 they were trailing at the end of one 16 2 to tail the two quarters as Moreland plays D on her long and again on tortora she's got to be called for the foul her first then the three points being scored in this quarter so far by the golden tornadoes over Laura knots down that free-throw as it re-enters for Cummings as it has two fouls second free throw off the mark Moreland grabs it she's already off quickly gets it to Beaudry Beverly has numbers Beaudry thinking about dropping it off to baekje for three no good rebound bezel [Applause] 2:40 left to play in the second quarter Joe looking for furlong she's gonna take a three good form doesn't fall McCarthy with the board Bakey thinking about a three has it deflected by she'll pass was intended for Beaudry quick sub for the golden tornado Joe's out in her place will be number two Mele Ephraim Beaudry down to Moreland kicks it out it's McCarthy for three now off the mark board Beaudry Bakey in the corner Beaudry drives right pulls up no good Moreland offensive board puts down his shoulder throws it up can't get it to go it's coming the other way now furlong one-on-one with Beaudry stop and pop no good kept in there by Carlton it's bez it now for a long 147 left to play in the first half gonna get a charge and furlong stands Boulder to the ground but Beaudry gets the call way to sell it [Applause] she took that one hard as McCarthy in Moreland exits Prague and Anderson entered 20 to 20 panther lead 142 left to play in the second quarter pay key to Sprague in the corner back to Becky she'll try another three this time still off the mark Beaudry her pastor Anderson intercepted by Cummings back the other way now as it took tortora good move putting it to the floor two points for the golden tornadoes were all died here at 22 Bakey to Beaudry Anderson baking open for three she'll take the shot she'll make the shot 25 20 to bake he puts Beverly up three her first points of the evening this Beverly team has just erupted 23 points for the Panthers after only scoring two in the first quarter Malden probably felt good coming out at quarter number one with a 16 to lead but Beverly quickly put those hopes to rest as Anderson deflects out 1 and we're going to get a jump on we're gonna get a Beverly possession I believe no it's gonna stay with Malden [Music] for a long coming off a screen they get it to tortora but it's deflected by baekje sprague playing defense on the senior captain Cummings for three in front of Anderson no good new shot clock after the offensive board furlong goes up Sprague eventually coming away with a good job by Beaudry doing her best Tyson Chandler impersonation tipping that one back out to the three-point line jump all this time it will stay with Beverly [Music] we'll of you to inbound it she's got a wide open baekje in the corner takes out for a long a couple times Sprague from the foul line no good Carlton keeps it in three seconds left on the clock furlongs gonna have to even from half course she does on the mark but just a little short so after the first half Beverly leads 25 22 23 points for the Panthers in that second quarter only 6 for Malden Bell did a great job of limiting Malden 'aa temps within the paint with Moreland back in Sprague playing some defense as well with Koch they got the hike back in deflected some shots from this golden tornados team and Beverly who really did well more than one with six points in that second quarter Anderson had 9 all on three pointers Barnard added to baekje in McCarthy added 3 apiece and Anderson 9 points five boards so far for the Panthers she's on double-double watch who knows Beverly did not play very well in that first quarter we saw what happened with coach Dan sure we saw what happened with Moreland on the bench you know everything really came together in that second quarter 25 22 Beverly leading going into the second half we'll be back in a few minutes with more analysis and more Beverly basketball from the Henry Cabot field Henry Cabot Fieldhouse you you are watching web cam here anyone can come to the studio to make their own local TV show contact us with your idea we'll help you get started with producing your own show editing it and then we'll broadcast it to all of Everly for your friends and family to see you might even get some new fans we also film local events like sports music City Council meetings and more if you miss out on anything in town you can catch up on it here follow us on Facebook and Twitter contact us at nine seven eight nine two seven five five four four or email us at admin at Bev cam org [Music] you listen it took was someone who would insist that I just try suddenly everything was turned around because they judge you you tell them I don't need this no one is going to understand unless they've been through it how can they then one day you realize do you feel so hopeless I need help I need help you feel so hopeless then one day you realize unless they've been through it how can they understand I don't need this no one's going to church suddenly everything was turned around because they insist that I just try all it took was someone who would just listen [Music] everything starts out small the things that hurt us they all start from somewhere the words we say the things we do that can grow into something else what was small and innocent can become big and sometimes scary all it takes is one comment one picture one video for something to catch fire but a big problem doesn't need a big response not at first even if we don't know what to say the eye emoji can be that first step we take let's all pledge to take that first small step together and change the world in a big way I'm a witness and so are you [Music] you creativity is putting your imagination to work and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture [Music] dreams come from inspiration inspiration comes from an idea and ideas come from creativity we believe in raising up a new generation of creative minds and it all starts with you helped sponsor the award-winning Beverly High School meeting program so the students can have the resources they need to make dreams happen you [Applause] welcome back to the Henry Cabot Lodge field house in Beverly Massachusetts thank you for watching Bev cam Sports Network on channel 22 or on our livestream at youtube.com backslash Bev cam TV Beverly leading 25 22 after trailing 16 to 2 after the first quarter while we have some time here at the beginning of the second half let's look at the road ahead for these Beverly Panthers few games coming up you're gonna be at Gloucester on the 23rd then they host a Salem team that is not doing very well this year really focus on the rotation what they want to do heading into the playoffs cuz this is a team who should not be overlooked especially when you have Moreland playing the way she is you have Anderson shooting the way she is and you have the complementary pieces of the young and the old we have the veterans like Gaucho and Sprague in there as well then you have the young talent you have McCarthy playing well white-haired giving minutes as well as Bernard they have a coach like substantial to who was gonna devote everything he has into the rest of this season and imagine after that game against Lynn classical this is the last time I'll bring it up because I don't I don't want to bring it up if I don't have to I don't want to have to keep talking about it but what it reminded me of was or what he's doing now and what he did in that first quarter and moving on in this game reminded me of the Tim Tebow speech at Florida when he got that loss and believed it was to LSU I'm not sure but that speech he gave after he said you're never gonna see somebody work as hard as I will the rest of the season you never gonna see a team fight as hard as us the rest of the season and I expect that from the Panthers after the way that one ended here on Monday night the Panthers team nobody wants to get in the way of shoutout Tim Tebow also for being invited back to the Mets sports training producer Robert Doakes huge Mets fan you'd Jets fan not sure he's a Tim Tebow guy but if I know Robert the way I think I do I'm pretty sure as a Tim Tebow guy Robertson might not attempt Tebow guy all right you heard it here Robert no one Tebow the start of the second half Beverly leads by three locking change and a quarter they were trailing by 14 after 1 [Music] Moreland starting this quarter on the bench nice interception there by gaucho takes it away Beaudry now leading the charge up to bernard quick pass cross-court pass anderson for three no good Bernard can't handle the rebound but it's last touched by Malden it's gonna stay with the Panthers Bernard looking for Beaudry a long two got to go good arc from Beaudry the junior captain first points for her tonight did come early in this third quarter to give Beverly a four-point lead excuse me five-point lead Joe in the corner trying to match no good Anderson with the board her sixth Beaudry to Anderson on the corner back to Beaudry Gaucho now at the top Sprague pivots has it deflected by Joe she can't maintain control that that will sail out of bounds back to Beverly Cummings enters for bezel Beaudry taking a pic from anderson bernard now back to Beaudry this time for three can't get it to go tortora with the board Bernards down there trying to rip it free it's gonna stay with the Panthers first time I've seen Bernard played this season definitely plays with fire gives it all in the defensive end of the court as well as that's blocked by furlong Sprague can't control it Bernard only a sophomore as well to go along with his young core that looks to be set up for the future for the next few years for long down to tortora guarded by Sprague tortora pulls up no good rebound Bernard so forth [Applause] pass from Beaudry to Gaucho off the mark 601 left to go on the third the two points scored in the first two minutes of this quarter those by Beaudry code recovering furlong drops it down at the Torah Zoo driving right on Anderson Anderson will be called for the foul [Applause] Joel suit chute - did you knocks it down she has seven tonight can't get the second to go and it looked like Cummings pushed Sprague there at the end of that play will be called for a foul and get called for a push was very emphatic call by that referee under the basket actually scared me just a little bit Barnard trying to drop it down deflected by shoe with meant for Sprague 533 left in the third [Music] Sprague for an easy two can't get it to go rebound for Tora timeout called by Malden Beverly leads 27 23 with five and a half left to go in the third quarter no Moreland yet in this third quarter Beaudry gosh Bernard Sprague and Anderson still will be out there slow-moving third quarter which is two and a half minutes into it only three total points scored two from Beaudry one free throw from Shu [Applause] resume play furlong bringing the ball up through the golden tornadoes port or guarded by Sprague dropped it down the furlong guarded by Bernard now Joe with a nice move gets past the defender her shot off the mark Carlton keeps it in into the arms of Anderson though Beaudry now bringing it up for the Panthers five minutes left in the third Bernard thinking about a 3-2 Gaucho Anderson Beaudry long to seems to be her range off the mark though Josh coming away with the board can get a foul on Cummings I believe V her second second team foul from Walden both are looking for gosh gosh using the backboard Carlton comes away with the rebound that's her fifth to go along with four points woman we'll check in next whistle she'll be coming in for Tora [Music] [Applause] Barnard drops it down to Bodrum voter uses the pic drops it down Sprague she'll be fouled by tortora Sprague will shoot two misses the first baekje in forgot one still kneeling at the table she'll be entering for Sprague Sprague misses both [Applause] we've reached the 4-minute mark in the third quarter very slow third quarter for both teams for long the running jumper off the mark it'll go to the Panthers in Moreland will enter for Sprague Moreland in that second quarter six points three boards one assist one block Beaudry gets it past half court can see they're double-teaming Moreland leaving a wide-open Bakey in Wolens gonna be called for three seconds [Applause] comings to tortora Moreland with the defense off the mark warlin grabs the board quickly to Beaudry quickly gets it past half court baekje with another three got it Maggie for free she's got six tonight stanza Beverly's lead up to 7 now just under three left to play in the third furlong trying to work on Beaudry the running hook off the mark barnard grabs the board she has five now to go along with four points Beaudry quickly up to baekje set it going with a heat check she drives can't get it to go furlong comes away with it she's running the other way pulls up no good Shu with it now puts a move on but retreats back gets it to Bezeq for a long driving right on Beaudry time Beaudry gonna get called for the block took a charge earlier in this game [Music] [Applause] there's three throw off the mark McCarthy she'll come in for Beaudry after that foul Karthi three points three boards unofficially in her minutes both free-throws no good rebound Moreland that's her fifth thinking about going coast-to-coast drops it to Becky Anderson now in the corner back to Moreland but it's too high of a pass Jewell comes away with it looking for fur long she ends up getting it over to Bezeq Cummings now tortora working on Moreland not much you can do against her she just pulls up and hopes for the best McCarthy comes away with the miss Morland trying to kick it out has it taken and it's given right back it's McCarthy Becky thinking about another three no good Anderson trying to come away with the board it's McCarthy who does she'll Drive try to drop it down to Moreland it's kicked Bernard with it now Bakey thinking about another three 15 seconds on the shot clock very hectic possession here for the Panthers McCarthy will slow it down ten seconds on the clock Moreland has it blocked away by torque Tori you don't see that often more than having her shot sent Joe thinking about a 3-2 Cummings for Tora guarded again by Moreland poked away forms of Anderson so Moreland and tortora exchanging pleasantries on each end of the court as McCarthy pulls up can't get it to go Anderson for three off the mark tortora grabs the miss drive by furlong good defense by Barnard she redirects the second attempt rebound McCarthy she has seven Moreland gets fouled she'll shoot to pass came from Anderson fouls gonna go on Cummings it's her third Moreland can't knock down the first free throw as white hair enters for Barnard in Carlton enters for Cummings [Music] in Wolens free-throw woes continue as that one didn't even hit the remnant 30 and a half seconds left here on the clock shot clocks there but it's not a factor Malden holds out that will have the last shot as it almost has it taken away for long Carlton looking down for Joe gets it over to bezu ten seconds foul on Moreland only her second seven point seven shot clock turned off Beverly with a seven-point lead six total points combined in this third quarter by both teams only one from Malden five from the Panthers for a long open free can't knock it down white hairs gonna charge up gets it Anderson she's gonna have to throw it up she does she can't get it to go so at the end of three Beverly holds on to a seven-point lead 32:23 only six points again in that quarter combined for both teams two from Beaudry and three for Becky that was the scoring on the Beverley side and on the Malden side only one measly free throw coming from Joe so Beverly in good position they're gonna start the fourth quarter with Moreland white hair Bakey McCarthy in Anderson three freshman a sophomore and a junior for the Panthers to start this fourth quarter Moreland six points five boards one assist Anderson with nine points and six boards Beaudry two points two rebounds in and assists Bernard came in and played well she had four points to go with five rebounds and Bakey six points all from three and McCarthy doing a very good job as well in her minutes three points a big three in that second quarter to spark that run for Beverly and she adds 7 boards to go with it [Applause] this is a barely team that has a very deep rotation nine girls can come in give you good quality minutes they have good size good length they have speed good shooting ability in a very young team I keep saying it team that's built for playoff basketball they can beat you in a multitude of different areas just a matter of whether moorlands on the court she's not in foul trouble and what she does even if she's not scoring it attracts double teams from opposing teams and you have the three-point shooters on the outside like Anderson and like Bakey where if you have them on the corner you give it to Moreland on their side they're gonna have to close in on her and leaves one of them open they combined Anderson in Bakey tonight for five threes two points to start this fourth quarter buys you she has nine to lead scoring for the golden tornadoes five point Beverly lead Mullin pulls up can't get it to go [Music] [Applause] 30:25 every lead jew who just scored there gets it off to Bezeq Ezzat now for three excuse me that Jew getting all the bounces in the world but it ends up with Moreland quickly gets it up to baekje drops it to Anderson puts it up for two and gets it double digits now for Anderson she's got 11 good assists there by baking in a great outlet pass by Moreland to start it visit to zoo Jill for three off the mark rebound more when she's off the charge gotta go coast to coast pulls up and Walsh gonna be called for a travel turned around didn't seem to realize it was a travel thought she got fouled [Applause] Cummings enters for tortora looks to be winded there would have gotten hit in the stomach in the rib cage still anybody's game Beverly lead at seven times their largest they're down 16 to two after one when we scored nine total points since the first quarter white hair rips that one away anderson guarded by bezel pulls up no good rebound Cummings timeout called by Malden 609 left to play in the fourth Beverly leads 30 to 25 [Applause] stan shalom the hell it will huddle there excuse me you're gonna see a couple subs McCarthy and Gaucho will enter the tour tour is still gonna be out for Maldon for the meantime just over six left to go in the fourth Maldon we'll send out you for long Carlton Desert Inn Cummings [Applause] [Music] desert past half court deflected by Gaucho [Music] three from bez it no longer controls it sends it up to moorland quickly she has Anderson drops it to her trying to get it back to Moreland she does gets it to go great ball movement from Moreland and Anderson to get Beverly's lead up to nine didn't get a foul I believe on Anderson Beaudry's gonna come in from McCarthy that was fouls on Hertz or third Carlton short jumper can't get it to go rebound Moreland she's got nine dribbles by everybody on the Maldon side has it deflected she's not going to get a call on the defensive end God's trying to come back behind furlong Moreland sends that one away that's another block trying to go for the board she gets it that's her tenth woman playing very aggressive on that defensive possession for the Panthers drops it down the Gaucho Gaucho wasn't in position [Applause] 4:55 left to go in the fourth Beverly holding their largest lead it's nine [Applause] [Music] Jew gets it to furlong furlong the runner no-good offensive board Alton she puts it in for two her first points since the first quarter she has six tonight to go along with six boards Moreland kicks it out to baekje gosh with it bold Rita Anderson in the corner trying to get it down low to Moreland workin in the post easy to for the freshman and she now has a double-double ten and ten for the freshman I think it's official she is the Beast of the Northeast no denying that after last week's performance as you mrs.
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a3 Beaudry coming away with the board coast-to-coast gets it to go Beaudry great play nobody playing very well in these minutes in the fourth quarter we're gonna get a whistle and leave the referee never got the ball to give back to Malden to inbound it substitution has baekje exits in Bernard gets back in 348 left to go in the fourth Beverly leading by 11 Ephram [Applause] - furlong pulls up for three no good bernard with the board Beaudry - moorland quickly - gaucho can't handle it holder he pulls up mid-range no good more than with the offensive board hook putback is sent away by tortora second time tortoids got the better of her three blocks for the senior captain no good rebound Beaudry trying to go coast-to-coast again not called for an offensive foul they are surprisingly but Beaudry gets it to go four points in this fourth quarter six total and get another timeout 40 27 lead with 250 left to go in the fourth quarter in head coach marino not happy not getting that call and I agree with him that was definitely an offensive foul should have been called on Beaudry that won't complain though they're fully gonna send out the same five Morland Beaudry Bernhard Anderson and gosh [Applause] after that timeout Beverly with their largest lead 13 points camera man's chirping at me he's not gonna get a thank you at the end of this program I can tell you that poked away by Gaucho as it driving drops at the furlong furlong hasn't shot a high percentage here tonight she's gonna take another long too off the mark again offensive board towards Laura her put backs good for Dora eight boards to go along with nine points I mean range J from Anderson no good Barnard with another board she has eight excuse me she has seven driving his boat he has it poked away for long ends up with it Beaudry trailing trying to poke the way she can't two minutes five seconds left to go in the fourth Beverly looking to hold on to this 11-point lead the Anderson comes away with it quickly gets it up to Bernard nobody to beat her long trailing she'll be fouled she'll shoot two [Applause] yeah 15 fowl from Alton ii on furlong bernard knocks down her first free throw she has five to go along with seven boards couple substitutions cummings enters bernard knocks that one down 152 it's won all but over was in doubt especially in that first quarter as furlong misses that shot offensive board cummings another rebound for bernard after that miss Morland can we called for another travel about her third travel violation this game Sprague's gonna enter wonder if that's gonna be for Moreland and it is her night is done not before she got yet another double-double ten points 11 boards for the freshman unofficially a couple blocks in there as well a couple of cysts [Music] for long trying to get it downloaded tortora working on Sprague can't get it to go he'll stay with Malden Sprague holding her own in their tortora she's a force almost a double-double for her tonight [Music] hold REE almost takes it away she does take it away from furlong and furlong struggles continue all the way through to this fourth quarter great play by the junior captain Beaudry just under a minute left to play Bernard driving gets it to Gaucho Anderson now download a Bernard just a little too high shoe takes a pic from tortora long to from the corner got it to go two points for ephraim her first two and we're gonna get a timeout from Beverly 36 and a half left to go in the fourth we're gonna get some subs on both sides I believe we're at least on the Maldon side Beverly winning this one this will improve their record in the NEC after this win Beverly will improve to six and four overall six and two into the NEC again after tonight they go to Gloucester than have a home game with Salem and a couple of road games at some of them then the R at Peabody and Revere and end their season at home against Marblehead and Bishop Fenwick and then they will enter a tournament the end of this season and Beverly after tonight's one we'll only need four more wins to qualify for the playoffs and I I'll put money on it those four games on your screen right now Hurley's got the wins [Applause] gosh they inbounded Maldon pressing they get it to Beaudry though Gaucho Beaudry den and girls basketball you don't have to get it past half court in a matter of time you can take all the time you need and Mauldin fouling and I this is what I don't like about basketball because this game's over don't follow your down 11 points with 30 seconds left stop fouling [Applause] none of times I've lost sports bets and over-unders in money lines because one team down by 20 decides they still want to follow it just angers me to no end and another foul and we're gonna get one and one now for the Panthers twenty five point two left on the clock Beverly up by 11 for long enjoy entering again for bezel Audrey knocks down the first Bodhi was held scoreless in the first half she's got seven all coming in the second half five of those in the fourth quarter go along with four rebounds in and assist unofficially in Boulder knocks down that one as well so six points for her in the fourth Beverly doing a good job of closing out she had six this quarter Moreland with four two points a piece from Anderson in Barnard 15 seconds on the clock shoe throws up a three got it to go and I'm sure we're gonna see another foul and we will Beaudry will be at the line shooting one-on-one against you after that three standard her point total she's got 12 to lead all scorers tonight on both ends 6.6 on the clock 44 34 doggery knocks down the first free throw she makes this one she'll be in double digits tonight she when your captain and that was reminiscent of Paul Pierce against the Cavs on Oh 7 that free throw that went up to the ceiling 10 points for her this one will be over Beverly takes the lead after Bernard gets that steal Beverly Lee or wins 46 to 34 they come back from a 16 to 2 first quarter deficit they switch the tables immediately on Malden they go on a quick 900 run to start it eventually that turns into a 13-0 run for the Panthers excuse me a 1600 run for the Panthers to begin that second quarter and they never looked back never look back in that first quarter Moreland substantial sat in although they were down early in that game they didn't get phased yeah they were down 14 but it woke him up it really woke him up it really gave them a sense of perspective they sat back and saw where they were down 14 points and they flipped the switch big time Moreland a double-double for her 10 points 11 boards Bulger played very well she had 10 points to go with 4 boards in and assist unofficially eight of those points coming in the fourth quarter to seal the deal for the Panthers against Malden Anderson she was on fire in that second quarter she had seven boards to go along with 13 points bernard herrmann it's 6 points for her to go along with 8 boards and McCarthy played very well as well only 3 points but 8 rebounds Bakey with two big threes one coming in the second quarter one coming in the third and this is a Beverley team that didn't let that first quarter affect them they came back they fought hard and this is a team you're gonna you're not gonna want to see coming to playoff time as Brian shows his head a nice bald spot Brian they're in the in the camera that was a good good blooper we'll throw that one on the reel for everybody here at Bev cam our producer Robert Doakes on cameras Matt Apuzzo and Brian Thompson with a nice shiny bald spot we might have to might have to clean up after tonight's game I'm Alex Lucca thanks for watching we'll be back for another game we're gonna have the Beverly boys hosting Gloucester I believe next Friday next Tuesday I'm told so stay tuned for that one thank you for watching everybody on the live stream as well as channel 22 and thanks for watching Brian Thompson's bald spot you [Music]
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good morning big hello today is January 22nd it is the 91st day of school this is w bh emus I am Claire and I'm gonna get them today for lunch there will be Chicago hot dog fries baked beans cantaloupe milk and catch up tomorrow for breakfast there will be a breakfast bar graham crackers apples orange juice and milk yesterday's fun fact question was what stay has the abbreviation WI the answer is Wisconsin we have some friends celebrating birthdays Oh Lilian sobra James snap and Lilian nap come to the office to pick out your birthday prize the winner is Rowan P and mrs.
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Connelly class today's fun clap that question is what Burt wind ride is called a pre remember to rate your answer immediately in the food remaining class day 9 of our kindness challenge and today's challenge is write thank-you note to the country cafeterias cafeteria workers and now we will be a observe a brief period of silence to reflect on the anticipate activities of the day I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all have a moist London and remember kindness counts every day everywhere thanks for watching
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good morning big Hollow today's January 23rd it is the 92nd day of school this is wbh dnews I am Gavin and I am today for launch there will be chilly men chili mac tossed salad celery sticks blueberries milk ranch dressing corn bread tomorrow for breakfast there will be scrambled eggs bacon bananas animal crackers sunset juice and milk we have known we have known salivating about that today yesterday's fun fact question was what food when it's straight up it's called a plume the answer is plumb the winner is Cameron W and missus Glover's class come to the office to figure out your prize today's fun fact question is clemson is a shade of what primary color remember to write your answer neatly and including your neighbor class day day 10 of the kindness challenge and today's challenge is introduce yourself to two people you don't know at school and now we will absorb a brief period of silence to reflect on my anticipated activities of the day please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all have a thorn Tuesday November kindness comes everyday everywhere thanks for watching
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[Music] good evening welcome to this meeting of the school board they've owned school board the third of our the fourth of our four community engagements meeting community engagement meetings at 6:30 and I would like to call the meeting to order and as usual the first thing we will do is say the Pledge of Allegiance so please join us thank you first I want to thank Kingsway for letting us use their facility and not just use their facility but have people on staff to assist us and make sure things run smoothly it's up if dr. Horniman has said they've been unbelievable in their cooperation so we really appreciate that I want to just give you a brief outline of how the game is going to go if you've been to other of our community engagement meetings of much like the last one dr. Horniman will give a presentation that will cover a lot of area a lot of picture where we've been where we are today how we got here what the change in state financing means for the schools dr.
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Wyndham will also give a part of that presentation that deals more specifically with the financial picture and then as we always like to do in these things we have a teacher to give a picture of what it means on the ground level and tonight we have mrs. Lori Rosemeyer from Intermediate School West and finally we will have our financial consultants involved mr. Caleb Moffitt is with us to give their brief input on where things are headed in the future there's a lot to cover tonight after the presentation we'll break down into rooms so that we can get the input from you we have had a fabulous amount of input comments questions after these things the administration is working hard to respond and answer to questions that be online the comments we take all that into account this is an ever-shifting picture as we learn from you the things that you want to prioritize for your schools and since there's so much to do without further ado I'll turn it over to dr.
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Horniman thank you Thank You mr. McDavid and welcome I have to begin by saying welcome to all of you and welcome to those who are watching the livestream or will be watching this later when it's recorded but first and foremost we must thank the staff and members of Kingsway Christian Church we sought a venue and outside of our school system because it was sent to us that maybe people would feel more comfortable coming to a place other than our schools and Kingsway immediately welcomed us with open arms and they could not have been more welcoming as I know you felt when you arrived today as we said this is the fourth community engagement meeting to discuss the financial challenges that our school district is facing for those who are watching online it may be frustrating you may wish you have the PowerPoint and you may be wondering why we haven't posted the PowerPoint it is because it is simply still in draft form and is changing literally by the hour but rest assured that as we move forward all documents will be posted online for you to see at some point in the next few months everyone in this audience will be asked why to say buy me more money our other school districts facing the challenges we have we are what has the school system done to avoid asking for a referendum and we want you to be knowledgeable we want all of our taxpayers to be knowledgeable so tonight we're going to answer the question of why is it different in Avon than in some other districts we'll explain what a general fund referendum is and how it works and perhaps most importantly we will explain three different budget options that we are presenting as for consideration finally as mr.
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McDavid said for those of you who want to and are able to stay after the presentation we will break out into small groups in the classrooms down the hall to our right there'll be people directing you there'll be an administrator in every classroom and we'll try to get groups of maybe ten or so to simply record what it is that you are your impressions of what you've heard tonight you know it can be difficult in a big group presentation to walk up to a microphone and say what you believe or ask a question but by doing it this way we will hear what every single person in the audience thinks and what they have to say because at the end of that twenty minutes we'll come back into this facility right where we are and each of the administrators will report out what they heard at their table that way you get to hear what you said and you get to hear what everyone else said now one of the things we learned Thursday night there were some easy questions a question that we could have answered right then but we were furiously taking notes and nodding our heads if it's a simple straightforward question that has come up in our administrative groups we'll answer it on the spot many of the other questions were far more detailed and we posted this afternoon at about 4:30 we posted a QA from Thursday night so you can go ahead and see that let's begin thus far we have held three fairly well attended community engagement meetings they started in November and they were recorded and they are still available for viewing on a dedicated web page the small group discussions have been very very interesting and as I mentioned some answers have been posted we have reviewed our funding challenges we've emphasized how we have been efficient with your taxpayer dollars we've heard from our teachers and most importantly is that last bullet here we've received input from the audience about what your educational priorities are and possible next steps now at the very first meeting back in November a community members stood before the word referendum had ever been mentioned and she asked what's a referendum how do they work who else has done them in the state of Indiana we want to explain that referenda have been established back in 2008/9 by the Indiana State Legislature as a way for schools and other taxing entities to ask their public for additional dollars in support we can ask for a construction referendum to build buildings or renovate buildings or we can ask for a general fund referendum that's what we're talking about tonight a general fund referendum in a nutshell a referendum is a question for the public on a ballot asking the taxpayers for their support if the public approves a referendum they're saying that they will support paying more than 1% that they currently are capped at in taxes on their homes so it's a property tax it is outside of the 1% that we currently pay or our home property taxes even though it's a property tax the school board can determine that it can be used for operating or general fund needs specific aspects of a referendum are that the board must adopt a resolute in public at a public board meeting months in advance of the referendum our board has not yet passed such a resolution we do anticipate that we're headed that way and we have a special board meeting scheduled for a week from tonight Monday January 29th at 7 o'clock at the administration Center and that is where I believe the board will be passing a resolution however they didn't want to just pass a resolution and tell the public what we're going to ask for they wanted to have input and interaction with the staff and the public now the second bullet on this slide emphasizes that the laws have changed in the past several years about how referendums can be conducted there are legal restrictions on what the school can and cannot do what we can say when we can say it and even where we can meet the school district in a nutshell may not promote a referendum using school email school facilities or school materials once the board passes a resolution we may not spend taxpayer dollars to promote a referendum we'll talk a little bit more about that a few minutes we've learned a lot from other districts that have passed an or fund referendum and we realize that a successful referendum requires a sophisticated political campaign a political action committee will be formed it will include hundreds of volunteers people just like you our students our staff members our community members our parents people who are responsible for promoting the referendum the pack includes share people a treasurer several violent arts ever coordinators and lots of us anybody can donate to the PAC now why would the PAC need to fundraise well to pay for printing mature printed yard signs anything that promotes the referendum they will need to raise funds to do that all will be invited to participate in the pack and training will be provided now the board also has a decision to make about whether or not to put a referendum on the ballot in May or November popular wisdom says November is easier we can't wait we need relief before the next school year starts if we're going to support our students the way we know they need to be supportive if the majority of people who vote that day agree to support a referendum there's agreement to pay these additional taxes for eight years that is how long a referendum lasts those funds go into a separate budget and each year in public the board will again talk about how those funds will be spent and we can only spend referendum funds on exactly what we promised we would spend them for so people said well what happens after eight years well we don't have a crystal ball we don't know what will happen in the next eight years but in many communities there is another referendum campaign and a referendum gets renewed sometimes for less money sometimes for the same but it is through the same public voting process now another question I'm pretty sure you're going to be asked as well you know a district needs to live within its means what have they done over the last six years to be efficient with our dollars you know in my business I have to live within my means well we've reviewed several of these items on the next two slides but I'd like to highlight a couple of them for you because I feel very confident that over the last six years we have done everything possible to avoid this moment we have become way more efficient in how we spend our money we heard from our community six years ago that we needed to do some we have also become very creative in generating additional revenue for our district a couple of examples back in 2015 we convened the efficiency task force a 28 member community and staff task force that helped us identify ways that we could save additional funds and as a result and this is in the Q&A that was posted this afternoon as a result we were able to generate more than $350,000 in savings by changing bus routes by combining bus routes and by changing the way we transported students a better example that seems to resonate with our business community is how well we've managed health care costs the second bullet emphasizes that in 2016 and in 2017 we did not raise our health insurance premiums one penny for our employees and this year in 2018 we did have to increase our health insurance premiums but only by 3% I always asked whenever I speak can you identify a business and a bond that has been able to enter their healthcare costs so well and I never yet have had anyone come up and asked me I have lots of people come up and say well how to do that and it's not magic by any means we work very very hard to help our employees become educated healthcare consumers we have a wellness clinic as part of our partnership with Hendrix Regional Health that our employees can use at a much much lower cost than if they went just to the urgent care or the emergency room or their doctor we have also as I said become very well educated about what we can do to make sure that our health insurance costs are contained but that's one of the ways that we work very hard to keep our or budget in check as you can see we also have some amazing partnerships as I mentioned Hendricks Regional Health anymore Automotive Group which over the next 10 years will bring more than 2 million dollars in revenue to our district that we wouldn't have other than that last year we made a strategic decision to do some limited open enrollment where we accept students who don't live in Avon Community Schools to come to our schools many other districts in the area in Indiana have been doing this for years now we wanted to keep it very small and very limited because our goal was to bring additional revenue that follows those students but only accepts students at grade levels and in schools or by accepting them we actually were able to use those dollars to drive down class sizes so we only did this at the k4 level and it grades 9 10 and 11 we added just 63 students last year but that brought us three hundred and fifty thousand dollars which helped us hire a number of teachers now you can imagine at Avon high school a school of over 3,000 when we add 30 out of district students the effects are not very significant and we don't feel that at the elementary level we spread them across all seven buildings because we get to decide which building they go to and we did that so that we could make sure that our class sizes were actually getting smaller you can also see from this list that we thought after grants very very hard we compete part for competitive grants and we've had some good success additionally we are constantly renegotiating terms of contracts and services for our school districts again to be the most efficient we can be with your tax dollars now as taxpayers you don't pay taxes just to afford the schools you pay taxes to support all of the taxing entities our wonderful Avon Washington Township libraries are department or fire department or town or Township and so I'm very proud of the fact that we are one of the few communities were kind of the only community we know of in the state of Indiana that has established very strong relationships with the other taxing entities to constantly figure out ways that we can be more efficient with Washington Township taxpayer dollars so a couple of examples that are up here for example we share fiber optic cable with the Washington Township Public Library because as a large school corporation with many many buildings we can provide that fiber optic to the library they can get much more bandwidth for much less than they were previously paying obviously library pays for that we don't pay for the libraries but they can get it through us from a much better price another example is that recently Avon Washington Township and that's our wonderful fire department employees as well as the department employees for the township have started to use our wellness clinic thereby helping them manage their software or excuse me their healthcare costs a third example would be that we purchase a lot of fuel we run a lot of buses and we have lots of needs for fuel well our town and our township have a cooperative agreement that our school board approves every year we don't make any money off of it but we don't lose any money and they're able to get their fuel from us again if they were buying their fuel without the benefit of the big public school consumer you would be paying a lot more for the fuel for police department cars and for fire department cars etc there are many other examples here and in fact when we meet again because we do meet by monthly when we meet again we're going to put out a document that lists everything we've done since we began meeting as a group those meetings are not just attended by the town's Township librarian school we're very fortunate that representative gregster wealth and Senator Jarno crane also come and attend our meetings because they're very excited about what a community is all working together for the benefit of its taxpayers they're very excited about that model and it seems to get back out in the attention of the governor and many of our legislators now I can predict another question you're going to be asked between now and May 8 and that question is well they seem to be fine to me school poor person seems to be going on pretty well when lots of state championships it's safe my kids are happy everything seems to be pretty good and why and have its name do we need to spend more money and I'm not proud of this slide but this slide tells part of the reason why we're not really doing okay because this slide demonstrates that we have only managed thus far on the backs of our students and our employees you can see that this the blue bars on this slide represent the enrollment growth which has been significant in our district since 2009-10 you can see that we've grown from 8180 for students to 9527 students an increase of 1343 students the red line represents the number of teachers we have and you can see that in order to manage our growth without funding from the state that has kept pace with inflation we have today compared to 2009 1343 more students than eight and a half fewer teachers six fewer administrators 20 fewer custodial and that's all we could show on a simple slide that really tells the story but our valuable support staff our custodial staff our maintenance staff our food service workers our secretaries our teaching assistants in every category we have become more and more lean it's a little different a little difficult to quantify those support staff cuts because some of the work ten hours a week some work 20 hours a week that you can rest assured and we are as lean as we have ever been from a staffing perspective in fact we are now cutting to the bone you also know if you have a student in our elementary you know that we were fortunate we did add 18 and a half teaching positions at the start of this school year those are represented on the far right by a dotted line the reason those are represented by a dotted line is that we went out on a financial limb to do that we simply could not see having 30 or 31 kids in a kindergarten or first grade a second grade any longer so we went out on a pretty significant financial limb but I don't want someone to just glance at this slide to think oh great the trend lines going up things must be getting better they really aren't we went out on that limb and we didn't do anything for class sizes at grades 5 through 12 we went out on that limb because we knew we were heading to a referendum we knew that we were going to be asking the voters at some point in the near future to help us stay on a path of steady restoration and on a path to not just restoration but improvement what if people don't go to the polls on May 9th if people actually be engrained in my brain if people don't register to vote by April 8 we don't stand a chance because if this referendum does not pass we cannot maintain where we are today we'll talk a little bit about that in a moment pardon me many of you have seen this sobering table before I didn't have to give a drink of water thank you many of you have seen this simmering table before it compares the salaries of a bonds veteran teachers to those in our conference in neighboring schools this is a slide that keeps me up at night because we know that a quality teacher is the number one factor in student success no other variable not poverty not intelligence not buildings not particularly teachers have the biggest impact on students lives and learning we must retain our fabulous teachers with competitive compensation and reasonable class sizes we know that right now our veteran teachers in whom we have invested so much and who have invested so much in us can go to any one of these other districts and earn between five to eleven percent more annually those of you who've been around for a while know this wasn't always the case there was a time where we had done we led the pack we don't need to lead but we sure need to be more competitive it didn't we didn't get here overnight and we're not going to get out of this situation overnight but if we have a referendum for eight years and we can make steady progress each year on improving teacher salary we ought to be able to help close these gaps retaining teachers is our number one goal but we have a teacher shortage in Indiana and we also have to attract great new teachers as you can see on this table the first year teacher will do better at Brownsburg Wayne Zionsville and Plato now you might be wondering what about our great support set our custodians our teacher assistants they are extremely important to us they make our schools work but right now as we've done the research compared to these other school districts on the whole we are competitive with those positions however we can't lose ground by our support staff either now school finance is pretty complicated I've learned a lot in the last six years but nobody explains it better than our Director of Finance dr.
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Scott Windham and he's going to share some important information with you so as Maggie said we know that you're going to be asked why are we in this shape why is it so tough financially in a bond so to answer that question it's important to understand some basics about school funding this slide highlights the two main sources that all public schools in Indiana have access to for funding the education of their students on the left-hand side of the screen you can see state funding the state provides funding to schools that goes into the general fund and the general fund pays for the majority of our salaries and benefits our supplies professional development substitutes utilities the majority of our operating expenses as a school district are in our general fund and so we're only able to make those to pay those expenses as a result of the funding that we receive from the state of Indiana so when funding doesn't keep pace with inflation that hits us signal on the general fund you can also see property tax funding property tax funding comes from those of us like me that live in this community we pay our property taxes and then those property taxes are divided up between the taxing entities that Maggie mentioned the library the police fire public schools schools are restricted in how we can spend property tax funding so we can spend property tax funds in debt to pay for the debt and a mortgage on our buildings for capital project expenses such as technology our technology staff building maintenance and repairs and our insurance on our buildings as well as the cost to transport our students so bus drivers bus assistants fuel maintenance serve and repairs on buses and occasionally we need to replace buses those are all expenses that are paid for through local property tax funds so what makes us so unique in Avon is how significantly we are hit on both sides of school funding that makes us unique compared to just about every other school district in the state and we'll get into more in detail about that the other piece that's important to know is that prior to 2008 and 2009 the local school board could raise additional funds through property taxes to address educational expenses so if the school board wanted to address a class size and hire more teachers they could increase property taxes to generate additional funding but in 2008-2009 when the state legislature said funding for educational expenses came from the state they eliminated that possibility from local school boards in place they gave local school boards one option and that is for in them the referendum is the only mechanism that a school board has to generate additional funds to address educational expenses so the legislature said to school board to local school boards if you need to raise more funds for your students you need to ask your community you need to ask your voters to support additional funding so I mentioned just how uniquely we are hit and Avon on both sides of school funding we're gonna go into that in a little bit more detail so this chart summarizes property tax cap impact for 2017 property tax cap impact means as Maggie said for homeowners we know will we will not pay more than 1% of the value of our home and local property taxes and that's great for us as the taxpayer because we get to keep more of our money however that has an impact on the taxing entities that month that is money that the taxing entities don't get to collect so what the state does is put together a report that says for each entity across the state here's what your tax cap impact is so you can see that in 2017 our impact is six point nine million dollars that's six point nine million dollars that we cannot collect because of the property tax caps so if you look at other school districts that are listed on this slide you can see that there are only seven school districts that are more significantly impacted than we are in Avon by property tax past if you look at that list you can see that those are very different communities than Avon there many are larger more urban school districts very Wayne Township Muncie I yes those are districts that see even more significant tax cap impact then if you look below us you can see the districts that we most often compare ourselves to these are the districts in our conference in our County that we compete against and you can see that Noblesville and Brownsburg while they are the closest to us we are hit twice as hard as those districts in terms of property tax cap impact go all the way down to Plainfield we are impacted 17 times more than Plainfield schools because of property tax caps so you will be asked why is it Plainfield in this situation this is a major part of the story as to just how significantly we are impacted in a bond and that's just a property tax cap side of the equation when we talk about state funding we've added that to this slide the other part that makes state fund mix school funding so complicated is that every community is impacted differently by property tax caps and every school district is funded differently when it comes to funding from the state the state has a complicated formula where they decide and they determine how much funding each school district will receive and it's different so you can rank number one to number 368 in terms of funding we rank 339 in the state in the amount of funding that we receive per student from the state of Indiana so if you look at this list you can see that Gary for example is significantly impacted by property tax tabs 19 point five million dollars however they're the sixth best funded School District in the state of Indiana so they can certainly make up for some of that impact by being so well funded go to Wayne Township I use Wayne Township just because there are neighbors you cross raceway and you've left Avon and are now in Wayne Township yes they're impacted just under thirteen million dollars by property tax caps however they're the 63rd best funded School District in the state what does that mean in terms of dollars if we receive the same funding that Wayne Township did we would receive eight point five million dollars more just this year into our general fund we don't begrudge Wayne Township the funding that they receive we just believe that all public schools ought to be funded adequately we are not so the key point from this slide is that there are really only two other school districts in the state that are impacted so significantly on both sides of school funding and we've marked those with a narrow Franklin Township Westfield Washington and then us we are the three school districts that see significant property tax cap impact and are among the lowest funded when it comes to state funding that's what makes us unique so when you're asked that question this is important to understand just how significantly and how uniquely we are impacted the other question that we have been asked frequently is so what are other school districts doing so you can see we've added a final column to this slide to show that many of these school districts have taken the only mechanism that the state legislature allows which is a referendum and presented that to their voters so you can see Wayne Township recently passed a referendum IPs and Anderson their school boards have both determined that they will be placing a referendum ballot on the maine 2018 election you can also see Westfield Washington who I said is similarly impacted to us by on both sides of school funding they are into their second referendum so they passed one in 2010 referendum and then they have renewed that referendum so they're into their second and others are marked with an asterisk that have also gone into renewing a referendum so this list compares a smaller segment of school districts across the state but it's important to know that across the state since 2008 ninety five school districts have placed a general fund referendum on the ballot for their voters so we've listed those here and again if they're marked with an asterisk they have pursued multiple had been successful with multiple referenda if you were at our first to community engagement meetings you know that we had Realtors that stood up and talked about how a successful school district directly impacts home values so voters in these school districts many of whom of course wouldn't have had children in schools recognize that a great school district thatif it's all taxpayers we also know that this can be hard to read so we created a visual to outline where across the state general fund referenda have been successful and you can see that particularly around the Indianapolis area there's quite a concentration of school districts that have pursued a general fund referendum because of the inadequate funding that is received from the state of Indiana and again this is hard to read as well so I'll list a few Westfield Zionsville Carmel Hamilton Southeastern Noblesville Speedway Wayne Township Decatur Washington Township Perry Township Beach Grove Mount Vernon West Lafayette and Sheridan and that's just to name a few these school districts have has been successful in a general fund referendum now we know that maintaining financial health is important to the stability of the school district we believe that part of that financial health is engaging highly respected outside advisors who assist us with long-range financial planning Avon schools as well as many other school districts and taxing entities engage unbought as mr.
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