Again, there's so many things, so many changes, and so many inputs for eighth grade specifically. Yeah, totally. >> And I had a question. Is there any like correlation with those like three and four those scoring three and four in rigor and the teachers that are in the cohort or all those teachers part of that math cohort? >> All of the eighth grade teachers are not part of the math cohort. Most of them are. Five. Five of our eight eighth grade math teachers are part of the cohort, but not all of them. >> Okay. Have you noticed a correlation between the ones that are in the cohort and th those rigor scores? >> We would have to look into it. We could get back to you in a board report. >> Yay. I >> I can tell you anecdotally that um Dr. Pombo and I got to visit a classroom with a teacher who is part of the cohort and is some of the best ma eighth grade math instruction I've ever seen.
That's a huge increase and that increase is causing us to look at maybe pushing capital projects down the road. And this is one option that would allow us to get more funds to do this work. But this is really it's really a band-aid option, right? like these are things that we have to do and they're so critical, but then we're not able to do other things because we're worried about these specific tasks. So, I think that gives you a little history on what a worm safe ride bond is because if you don't know what it is, it's kind of hard to talk about it. Um but yeah, >> so if I'm understanding correct that correctly that uh this is like an initial recommendation but it's going to be determined if they're going to come and make a presentation provide more details on this. Is that right or wrong?
We want to have one combined list. So we're going to work hard on that. So again, Tonight is presentation only. Uh after this evening, I will ask uh Miss Zimbo if she would please post these on our website for public review if necessary. And certainly if anybody has any thoughts, questions, needs more clarification, please reach out to Steve or myself or a board member for that and we'll be glad to help you. And then in the March meeting, we I would ask for you to consider approving these in a first. >> Thank you, Lorie. Okay.
Any questions for Dave? Anybody? >> I have a question. Dave, did they talk about the grant? >> I don't think so. Uh, not specifically. >> Grant that's funding the right position. >> Yeah. No, it wasn't specifically uh talked about, but um >> curious. Not that I don't remember. And I don't Yeah. No, not this. Not this meeting.
I mean if it's about like traffic, you have to work with the Department of Transportation, right? Not HTA is not going to change the outcome of traffic and and parking, but you can work with DOT to get all of those things done. So I just see that there's there's just too much on on your plate and this bill is trying to address uh and and and focus you on on what you do. Well, so sorry, it's not a question, it's just a commentary. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Um, how many how many in your team that do destination marketing right now? >> Destination marketing. >> Yeah. >> Uh, currently we have three. Um, but in total there are there are four positions. So a total of four. >> Currently there's four. >> Four. One is vacant. >> Um, yeah. when is that the chief brand officer?
It was when we there the bell work for the students as they were coming in the classroom was to gather it charts that were around the room and teams and talk and review the work they had done the prior day and have a conversation about how they had you know come to the solutions and the answers that they had. It was definitely a a high level of depth of knowledge, a high level of student collaboration. Um, and one of the things that I walked away from um, that day of classroom visits with was I started to notice when the engagement and rigor scores are higher, the classroom misbehaviors are almost non-existent. It's >> correlation. >> It's that every student is always engaged. The question is, what would you like them engaged in? >> Love that. Love that. Thanks. >> Um, and finally, another input that we've implemented this year is monthly content newsletters.
>> Yeah, I think the committee itself is saying we've looked at this and this is a viable option to consider. Um, you know, the resource allocation committee is worried about the resources, but there's so many different facets when you go out for bonding and things to be considerate of that. That's why it goes to that next level and that gives Tom time to reflect on that, us to have a conversation here or in other forums to decide if that's the right lever to pull or if there's a different lever to pull. It's just something that the committee felt would really help get those projects underway. But it it really is just a band-aid on those specific things like replacing fire alarms and some HVAC work. It's not the totality of warm safe try. It's component of it. Feel free to interject anytime you want. >> Can you [laughter] outline uh to the best of your ability at the moment just what the cost and some general scope of of projects we're talking about here.
So, we will not we don't need to vote on this tonight, but um do you guys have any discussion or any questions? >> Yeah, when I was looking through those, it reminded me of my composition papers and colleagues. >> I know. I know. Red ink. Yeah, >> I'm just glad it's not red on my screen. >> I know. Sorry. >> It's a lot of work. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thanks for helping. >> Thanks, Angie. >> Okay. Item H6, the region 8, career coach team grant renewal. >> Great. That's me. So, Region 8 is part of those educational service centers you heard me reference with uh Josh Yankees award. Region 8 is our local um educational service center. And this is uh regarding the next coaching grant renewal. and I'm bringing this tonight uh on behalf of Decal High School, please accept for your consideration approval for Decal High School, renew the current memorandum of understanding with the region 8 education service center for the 2627 school year as part of the Indiana Commission for Higher Education's career coaching grant initiative.
Okay, >> Maurice Barbara, any questions? >> No. >> Uh, no. All set. Thank you. >> No. Thank you. >> Great. All right. Uh, next thing on our agenda is the health director's report. >> Thank you, Chief. Uh, so first with our food establishments, uh, Joani 67, that's the, uh, ice cream place we have on Union, right? Uh, so that been closed for some time now. We did had an application from the new owner. Uh we almost done the review of it. Uh only thing we are waiting is uh in more information on the new hood they're trying to put over over the pizza oven they're going to be installing. So that's almost there. Killer's Pizza, we did had our pre-opening inspection. They we didn't had any issues there. Hopefully now the owner was here in front of the board uh tonight. And then New York pizza previously Bella Pisa we did had an inspection before the current owner took over and it was a bad bad inspection.
>> Okay. And I'm not sure when you refer to the tourism leazison before that it worked because if it worked I don't know why we don't still have it. So in what manner did it work? >> So the um the tourism leazison was under Governor Lingal's administration. Marshia Weinert was the tourism lison and we know that you know working with her I mean from what my recollection [laughter] um you know uh she did help to coordinate different state agencies um and she did uh you know um we had our strategic plan back then >> um and you know she helped >> and it didn't require a a bill right the governor's office have can just do a leazison right Yes. Yeah. I don't believe we did a bill on that. Um I guess I have a differing um point of view having been tourism chair years and years ago and and so forth.
So, each team puts out a monthly newsletter. The math team is putting out our second one next week. Um, it's been a really great way to make sure that there's consistency in messaging for all teachers across the entire district. Whether they work really closely with a coach, whether they're part of the cohort, it reinforces what they've learned in Kraton professional learning. Teachers learn so much every every day, every year. And so sometimes to just have those reminders. Remember we learned about how to open up your math lesson, how to launch it. Remember we said that we were going to try this. Here's a couple of resources. Um celebrating teachers who are using successful practices and our SOFG updates and goals are right at the top for every content newsletter because we know that we know the goals really, really well. and we want to make sure that everyone knows the goals and where we're at with them.
So, um, what we looked at, myself and my team and architects looked at is when we I brought I don't know a few months ago the 10-year health life safety, we identified a items. So, A items need to start. So, we're kind of in that timeline of like we need to start those. So, identifying those is about 1.5 to two million dollars. Then on top of that, there are fire alarms as Josh mentioned. Okay, there's fire alarms at multiple schools, but mainly the high school, middle school that are in need. Okay, that's another $2 to3 million. Then, as you know, I've talked a lot about the HVAC at certain areas um specifically in two schools that need to get done and other schools behind that. So, we came up with basically $11 million. Now, where that number came from is really working with PMA. Okay, PMA um to see where that number is correct as far as you know because this will you know increase taxes and we talked about feathering that in.
Region 8 career coaching has been instrumental with helping the high school develop career discovery meetings which have become extremely important and agility's training for career focused curriculum courses and this has been a really good opportunity for several of our teachers. Um so we just need to enter intoou for next school year if we'd like to continue this service from region 8 and Mr. Wagner would like it if we could. >> Thank you Lori. At this time I'll entertain [clears throat] a motion. to approve. >> I'll second. I have a motion and a second.
So he's actually currently renovating it you know as he mentioned and then hopefully we have him back soon. Uh with connect church uh this one is uh pending from new year you know they they had their permit laps because they didn't apply on time. I guess we still missing one certification from them. Laura that's correct. So we have not granted them permits so far for this year. Uh that's with the connect church. We'll be hosting our second stop the bleed training snap and uh she did the first training and she'll be doing the second one as on March 18th from 6:00 to 8. Then we are also planning uh a bigger training uh with our MRC unit uh Mr. Faric who's who's the main coordinator for for our whole unit the middle folk uh he and me and planning a bigger training uh on on the shelters right last year the town we updated our shelter plan now u this training will going to be more for 10 towns uh earlier we was looking at our community center the space might be a little smaller now they're looking at a space in nic where will be looking or they'll be training us you know multiple departments almost every other department in the town you know who in case we have to shut up a shelter in three three different scenarios right like shelter just if it is cold or hot day we have to shut up a shelter or then if it is a bigger event you know if we have to set up a shelter overnight you know how how do we deal with that so that's what we are planning right now I did also attend uh the MOS Boston Marathon meeting on Jan 30th with the PD and other town departments, you know, with the with the course planning team.
But to from my understanding is that even if we didn't do a dollar of marketing, would we still have visitors? >> We would still have visitors. Correct. But maybe Oh, sorry. Go ahead. No. >> Um, it maybe it might not be the right type of visitor that we want um to Hawaii and um >> Sorry. No. Okay. Because I hear this all the time from from people is that, you know, if we didn't spend a dime, the hotels are spending it. The airlines are spending it. They are marketing. They're not going to let they're not going to let their planes go empty. They're not going to let their hotel rooms go empty. So the marketing dollars that we do give supplements and many times the entities have cut their marketing budgets because the state is supplementing the marketing budget. Um but what I hear is that doesn't matter how much money we spend on marketing, if our trails are not pristine, our beaches are not pristine, if our environment is not taken care of, if crime is not maintained, they're not going to come.
>> I love that. >> One other thing I wanted to share that um Superintendent Man and I talk about, we also talk about as a team all the time that we're looking for in the classroom is that they every student has opportunity to listen, speak, read, and write. And so those ones and twos are a lot of listening and there's not as much time to read, write, and speak and collaborate with other students. So, those are like the four things that we're looking for we want our students to be doing in every lesson. >> I've got to give kudos to our principles and and particularly to Dr. Pomo who we probably only a few weeks ago that we had most of our midyear um uh meetings with our principles around their evaluations and the questions the principles had were really good and and some of the advice that Dr.
Now $11 million is basically a start. Okay, that is what we can do is for instance um at the high school there's many different um fire alarm as far as some are in the 90s, some are the recent edition. The state board will only look at replacing what needs to be replaced. But if you replace some components, the actual fire alarm is not going to work. So you have to replace all of it. So, we'll get about $1.5 million from the state, but it might cost $2.5 or $3 million, things like that. So, the point is is you can turn a lot of items into the state from HVAC to roofs to parking lots to fire alarms. I can go on and on and on, but it's really about the comfort level of how much money you want to borrow in the bonds. Basically, you don't want to just borrow $2 million this year and then go back for two million more.
Any discussion? >> What's the value of the grant? >> I I don't I don't know. It's more of an agreement versus the money thing because I've never seen like the agilityities training broken down. It's they they cover all the cost. They just [clears throat] provide it to us and grant us the opportunity. I don't have an amount. I can dig for 120, but I I've not seen it. >> Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I oppose. Motion passes. >> Thank you. Item H7 are the resolutions for the 2026 lease bond. >> As we get ready for our backpack bonding process, um I just want to cover a couple highlights and then I'm going to turn it over to Josh Winters from Ice Miller, our bond council, to go through the resolutions for the board. First thing I'd point out is this is not a hearing.
And then again, I'll request the board, you know, if you can be present for for the marathon day for for our shelters, you >> wanted to talk to you about that. I'm going to be in New York. >> This will be the first time in a while that >> maybe somebody else too. >> Sure. >> But we can talk about that. >> Thank you, sir. And >> we'll fill it in. >> Whichever board member can be present, you know. uh I guess most of you have done it you know so please let me know uh with the citizens academy this will be my third citizens academy will be presenting in front of the citizens academy on March uh 12th and then with our tobacco educational visits uh tobacco control manager or the team uh conducted uh the training for all the 17 vendors in town uh with the housing cases 49 Cherry Street this this is the case we we picked in August 2025.
>> They're not going to come. And that's one of the things that we try to push for hta to do not just marketing but to take care of the environment or take care of the the visitor experience which is the environment and our pristine um beaches and our mountain trails and so forth all of those things. So in that sense I think that you know it is the role of HTA and if all we're going to do is have and there's nobody here from the governor's office but one leazison sitting in the governor's office then dictating to these three positions I don't see the difference if the CEO is reporting to the governor. Isn't that the leazison that the CEO would be direct lying to the governor? >> Mhm. [clears throat] >> Um to to prepare all of this or to be able to to get the information cuz I don't see the governor putting in staff within his department to actually do this cuz they're just going to farm it out to DOT, farm it out to egg farm depending on what the complaints are or what the problems are.