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Aya aya rainbow crow stop the snow crow fly to the high sky. Rain rainbow crowy. Oh, isn't that nice of crow to be willing to fly and talk to the spirit in the sky? Then high up into the sky flew the rainbow crow. Far above the snow and the winds of the earth. Way beyond the moon and the stars and the clouds. For three days crow flew until he came upon the great sky spirit who is too busy to notice him. So rainbow crow began to sing. Oh great spirit in the sky. You rule the earth from way up high. You make the creatures loud and small. You are the ruler of us all. You make the trees and flowers grow. You cause the wind and clouds to blow. You make the rain. You make the snow. You make the cold earth on the earth below.
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And again, it's not unreasonable to put in a pre-ordained date and time for us to physically be there. And we have multiple multiple emails indicating that we're just looking to have a reinspection and we're being told call the inspector between 7 or 8 non- business hours so that we can contact the plumber during that period of time to meet us there at some point at the discretion of the inspector. That's a little bit difficult given that we are a professional company. This is a professional plumber. if we can simply just get um the inspectional services to just give us a date and time so that we can coordinate with the plumber and make sure that um we can do that. In fact, we had an inspection I believe sometime last week. We had the plumber there. The tenant didn't let us in. So there inter there are factors here that are not being articulated that have delayed this both from the standpoint of the plumber standpoint of inspectional giving us a reasonable ability to schedule this.
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Seeing none members, any questions? Senator >> Q, >> when was the last time that DEVED has done a comprehensive evaluation of the program >> of the enterprise zone program? >> Can I call up Jason Ishijima from the enterprise zone? >> Good afternoon, chairs, vice chairs, members of the committee. Jason Ushijima DBED um program manager for Enterprise OS. I don't believe there was a comprehensive study done at least to my knowledge since I've begun with DBED maybe two or three years ago. >> So since 1986 as far as I know there's been no comprehensive evaluation. So do you even know how much money we're getting? How much ROI we're getting for our buck? >> Um we do every year we uh we do produce an annual report and I believe last year it was about One second. I have that for you. Thank you. So, there were the foregone revenues to the state were uh 460,000 and this was in 2022.
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God is not finished with me yet. And I think those of us up here and even our teachers and our staff, we are public servants and we're doing God's calling by educating our kids. And so, I just wanted to to put that out there and honor the Reverend Jesse Jackson and um especially in in this month. So, um, and then aside from that, as, uh, most of you probably know, we did have ICE, um, show up at one of our in the parking lot of one of our schools, um, a few weeks ago, and they're starting to make appearances more in our communities and a lot of community members, families, even students and staff, you know, they're they're scared, they're worried. Um, so we did, um, thanks to a couple of our board members here, have a a community kind of a community organizing meeting, um, for folks that live in our in our district.
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I hope that people make new friends and it will encourage kindness. Thank you again for your time. [applause] >> [applause] >> You know the routine by now >> and by now. >> You're not crying. >> [laughter] >> appropriate not to [clears throat] [laughter] already done. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Great job. >> Great speech. >> The support. [laughter] should do great. >> Wonderful. >> Thank you. >> All right. Sorry to anyone that has to follow that up. [laughter] >> Holly, do we have anyone wishing to address the board? >> Yes, we have uh a total of eight people this evening. >> Okay, >> starting with person number one. I will read this first, so you'll have to suffer through this. Welcome to the meeting of the board of education. If anyone wishes to address the board this evening, please see our recording secretary to submit a form for addressing the board.
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I think it's a solid first step uh in terms of what we should do in the district uh and fully support it. And so the question I received that I didn't answer to was um does that need to come back for a formal approval of any kind or uh is is that something that can proceed forward for uh implementation starting in in the fall. And I think if you could just uh address that whenever you feel comfortable whether it's in the meeting today or subsequent I know to the community I think that would uh uh address a question on the mind of a lot of parents. Uh second topic is uh school calendar. I know you're approving the 2728 school calendar today and we did have an opportunity to talk about it in the chat. Um uh with the recent emergency closure a couple weeks ago um uh there's been uh some energy in the community around um you know there's always energy about like when does school start, when does it end?
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>> Yeah. Yeah. >> So you are unofficially our liaison for watching that social media program and reporting it back to the board. Thank you sophomore. That is definitely the way that it's being communicated in society. >> Absolutely. >> And telling our story and showing all the great stuff. I mean, even we saw >> um I saw something back on our uh the health and wellness fair. So, you've seen that that's on there. That's very important to get out there to the public how we, you know, how we're taking care of our staff. You know, that's really important to >> broadcast that out so everybody can see what's going on. >> Excellent. Let's keep it going. Okay. All right. Uh Dr. Kaganise, administrative updates number A alpha. Usually if there's a A, there's a B. >> Okay. I'm just throwing that out there. You have >> um aside from the things that were already mentioned, I would just wanted to share um this last Friday was our district-wide school improvement day and uh Dr.
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It was not a super easy process this year as far as giving the guidance that we received. Actually, I'll actually start with the state. The guidance that the state received was not super clear. They had a lot of interpretation that they had to do. That then flowed down to the school districts to have to do a lot of inter interpretation as well. In giving out the guidance to our teachers, we didn't want to accidentally exclude anyone by going too narrow of a scope with the guidance that we were giving. We tried to keep it somewhat open-ended just because again, we're basically playing a game and then learning the rules after the game has already been played. And so, as far as teachers having access to data and assessments and things like that to use. And so I just want to say thank you to our applicants who did apply because the one thing that we learned throughout the process, if we wouldn't have had people apply for the grant, we wouldn't have been able to learn lessons on a possible way to make it better in for future years going forward.
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We went ahead and applied for that. We don't have to take it, but I figured we'd go ahead and apply for it. uh and then could decide. Uh they granted us two days. Uh we had asked for three. Um so with being granted those two days with a 1003 waiver uh to get to our required instructional days, we will have one additional day to make up at the end of the school year. Uh and that will be the Tuesday following Memorial Day, which would have been the teacher's last day. Um we're a little different than a lot of school corporations around us because we did not this year utilize the synchronous learning options. Um it the connectivity issues that still hit us um are very difficult and attendance issues are very difficult. You have to have at least 50% of attendance for uh more than four hours for that day to count.
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So, I like to try and explain the process to my kids, but pyrolysis is a little bit complicated. So, we made up the pyrolosaurus to explain how things work. >> Pyosaurus, >> it eats plastic. Chomp, chomp, chomp. >> We're able to take just co-mingled mixed plastics, styrofoam cups, plastic wrap, >> all kinds of plastic. It gets turned into tiny little bits, then it's made into new things. car seats, traffic cones, bicycle helmets, you name it. >> It's totally circular. >> I'm pretty proud of our dad. >> To celebrate Breit Mark going fully circular, we decided to take the Pyrolosaurus and make it real to inspire more kids to recycle. It >> could be the coolest recycling bin I've ever seen. So, we've been working with a local school here in Ashley, Indiana, and today we're going to surprise them with this magical dino bin that they can collect their plastic in.
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Oh great spirit in the sky. for you. I sing this lullaby. So, he's singing away. Do you think that's going to get the spirit's attention? Let's find out. The great spirit stopped to listen to the lullabi. Never before had he heard such a sweet voice, such a beautiful song. And he told Crow to choose a gift. Now Crow knew that far below on earth the snow was getting so deep that soon all the animals would disappear. So he asked the great spirit to stop the snow. The great spirit replied, "No, crow, I cannot stop the snow, for the snow has a spirit of its own." When the snow spirit leaves the clouds to visit with his friends, wind spirit, the snow will stop. But earth will still be cold. So Crow asked the great spirit to stop the cold. The great spirit replied, "No, Crow, I cannot stop the cold.
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We complied with that and we still had the plumber there and we were not let in. We would assume that you know the town would have made it very clear to the tenant that we had to address this and we now have to reinspect it. So we're at this juncture, granted because of some delays that had to do with uh ordering in the beginning. We take full responsibility for that. We feel that the recent efforts on our part are not our fault and feel that we should at least be given an opportunity to coordinate this with some degree of professionalism both with our company, our business hours and around the coordination of a plumber who again he you know he 7 to 8:00 a.m. 7 to 9:00 a.m. those are deemed as emergency hours. We've been cited for this for the delays that are being done by you know exterior variables out here.
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>> Yeah. and overall um revenues of the companies who are currently in it um are 221 million. >> Uh and how many firms are you expected to qualify under this offsensus track collaboration? >> Um right now I'm I'm not sure about how many are going to be in the qualify within the the that specific track. Um yeah I I I don't know what that number is. What safeguards will prevent firms from restructuring existing activities to qualify for the benefits? >> Um, we do take a look at the ex the what the firms are doing as far as what their business activity is as long as 51% of those business activities are one of the qualified ones, they will qualify for the program. >> And so, how does this bill avoid subsidizing activities that would have occurred without the uh e benefits? Um so these companies who happen to be within this zone will be exempt from uh and do qualify for annual benefits uh do qualify for um uh get tax waiver as well as um tax credits for income and unemployment insurance.
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And it was really encouraging to see such a big turnout. We a lot of our neighbors care very deeply about this community and um, you know, want want to protect it, want to protect our kids and our students. And you know if anybody is is perhaps feeling a little um worried or stressed you know I want to offer encouragement that there are a lot of good people who are coming together and organizing and um you know coming coming up with a plan to to protect our kids and our neighbors and our communities um from a lot of the really terrible injustices that are happening and that unfortunately we will likely be seeing more of in in the coming months. months. Um and um like you saw today, we we did have TCA had their their um Frozen musical. My daughter was part of that. They performed their full show earlier today at Kraton Academy and um a lot a lot of work went into that.
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Please put your full name and address on the form. In general, the board will not answer questions or engage in dialogue during the public comment. This does not mean we do not take your concerns or comments seriously. The board values active community participation in the district's endeavors, encourages people to engage with the district using appropriate channels and systems designed with your input in mind. Board members are not involved in the day-to-day operations of the district and cannot engage in district business individually. If you have specific questions or would like to further engage with the district, you may submit your questions using the link on the website and the appropriate staff person will communicate with you. All right, first person is tribute >> is Marissa Hunt. [applause] Marissa, I'd also like to mention to you that there'll be a threeminut timer that will start as soon as you're ready and that will apply to all the people.
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But what I decided to uh inquire about was the predictability of the end date. And uh I did an informal online poll. I got 300 responses from the community, mostly parents. Um people by and large uh prefer something other than the district's current practice of uh you know there's one day of closure, we add one day to the end of the calendar and use that emergency day. Um they prefer something that keeps the last day the same. Uh and there are some practices used by surrounding districts. What we do is not unusual, but there are other ways to do it that employ um that would create that predictability. Uh and so that may be something good to explore further with the community um whether it's for the 2728 calendar uh or for future years and I have more information about that if you're curious. Um but in the interest of time I'll move on to the third topic which is um for approval today you have the bus bids um renewing uh the contract with Midwest Transit which is the incumbent.
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Perkins and her team did an outstanding job. We provided training for every employee group for that day. Sometimes we don't have something for everybody. We a managed to have something for every single employee. So we started off with a speaker who was outstanding um basically talking about our professional learning communities but really focusing on culture and as you know that's really important um about establishing a culture but holding everybody accountable for creating a positive culture and uh I think just heard lots of really good feedback from everybody. He had some books out. He did a book signing, but as we went out um and Pam and her team, they did a great job with salads and feeding everybody and they had everything scheduled. So, it was just this constant um flurry of activity. I went to as many as I could um to see them for everybody.
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So that is one of the things I'm thankful that people walked alongside us and and took our guidance as vague as it was and still put the time into putting an application together. minimum 11. >> Yeah, we had 11 grants that we awarded and we went ahead with all tier one this year. Again, it's just everybody was learning and trying to figure out kind of what we were doing with it. So, that way we were able to give out the most that we could. >> So, we need to accept the pay or >> you need to pass the board resolution. >> What was the number you had to supply on your own? Was it 288? $288.91. >> That's to get to 11. >> Mhm. Yeah. >> And where' that come from? >> Education. >> Can you mind explain um the turf and the pip? So when the teachers receive those grants, um, will money won't it be deducted to that to go to turf or does the school >> So the turf the the school pays the employer portion and the teachers portion of turf.
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Um, so we chose not to do that this year and of course this would be the year that we would have time for it. Any questions about that? That's so far winter's so far. >> Hope so. So far, >> largest snow in the state of Indiana happened on February 25th, 1920. >> 16 in. >> What year? >> 1910. Well, they walked. >> They didn't know what Sunday were. Okay. Uh uh board policy first reading 11:06 board vacancies. This policy uh comes to us through ISBA. This change, the only change in this has to deal with the new statute um that allows for school board members to declare uh their uh political affiliation. And that if they choose to do that or if you choose to do that, then that changes the replacement um process. if your seat becomes vacant green. The second policy 1503 was another ISBA suggested policy.
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>> The kids know a lot about the recycling program, but they [music] have no idea about this dino bin. >> It's a secret. >> But before we show them what was inside of the crate, we read a whole magical backstory about the dino bin. >> We got to hear a magical story. There's a little girl. Her name was Ashley. She love dinosaurs, but >> she hates plastic waste. >> She wishes on a bite side to fix it. And a magic dinosaur appealed. It like to eat plastic. Wow. When the tiny dino eats the plastic, it gets bigger and bigger. It became bigger. Then it can cough up new plastic things made from the plastic waste. She runs out of plastic to feed it. and then Ashley put wheels on it and she took it to school. It was pretending to be a recycling bin. >> Are you guys ready to see the big surprise?
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