In addition, we would be available to have designated input on that week of March 9th. And again, as I mentioned earlier, typically three days or so, um we would be available for that. But it coincides with the survey, the stakeholder input with us and then the survey continues >> and then I might ask a question in your would March 10th or 11th those days if we really concentrated on that for input are there any conflicts that you see or if there are >> no I think I think that is that is uh doable. We do have a board meeting on the 10th but >> and these won't be meeting board to go to. Yeah. And it's actually sometimes preferable not you know just because people can feel very free to talk >> and so maybe we'll look at we'll talk more maybe the 10th and 11th those two days um it gives some time later in the week to pick up anybody who would miss too.
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I had a tumor thing removed my arm this morning and uh the it was okay, but the the stuff's wearing off a little bit. So, >> here a break. >> I apologize if I'm if I'm rambling, >> but I'm probably the only person our company talks more than done so I talk quite a bit so jump in the questions are telling me I'm getting too detailed um so for PSG you know our foundation was solar was distributed energy projects um from that we've grown to be a partner like um Denn both spoke to tonight to helping our clients in K through2 and commercial do more in energy efficiency facility improvements and so forth we do that again by leveraging our sister companies. We got HVAC and controls um subat experts in our portfolio and then also with just partnerships and relationships. So finding likeminded again really focused on improving and getting everything back to the students.
I think it's at 11:00 a.m. uh at the state house. was 450. >> Um, not sure if it was 450 or 750. >> 450. >> Oh, I think that was Fidelity. Fidelity gave us 450. And we just met with Fidelity last week. They're looking to give us a substantial amount of money again. We've gotten three grants from them uh uh for to continue our work with the uh medical and health programs for the work that we want to do to expand that program. Uh so we met uh they're going to be meeting in the spring with their board. Uh but uh the gentleman that we're working with coming out next week to look at our project and they can uh do another tour of the school. But um Fidelity, we got the first grant from them about four years ago. We were the first vocational school in the Commonwealth that get money from Fidelity Corporation.
So Dr. So that >> perfect. Yes. >> And then the survey would get kicked off on the 9th through the 20th. Close that 20. We do all that. Um but there may be reminders that go out to say principles or to make sure that we tell the teacher association please we want your input on on. In fact, we will monitor the number of survey responses and if we believe it's u a little bit low, we'll uh utilize your site principles and through perhaps u you you I you probably have some kind of a communication system where you can reach all parents and remind them that the survey is available on the district website, that type of thing. And anybody that we speak to stakeholder-wise, we're always reminding them to extend to their colleagues and friends to take the the uh uh the survey. The survey will also indicate who it's coming from.
Now, [laughter] [gasps] um, Jonathan, if you want to come up. >> Thank you. >> Okay. So, you'll have 3 minutes. There'll be a timer that pops up >> and it'll go yellow and red for you so you know on your time. >> Okay, got it. Think can everybody hear me? Okay. Members of the board, my name is Jonathan Pagnisat and I'm here with my wife Carrie as parents speaking out for a deep love of our son Andreas and from our responsibility to protect them. We are here to make sure that what he endured as a sixth grade student at Town Meadows Elementary is not dismissed, minimized, or repeated. On June 4th, 2025, we submitted a formal complaint to the superintendent detailing repeated immoral, unprofessional, and abusive conduct by three school personnel. According to our son in the documentation we provided, copies of which I just handed out, these actions and failures to act resulted in injury, severe physical injury, severe emotional distress, and disparit treatment.
So whether that's, you know, being able to invest more in staff, facilities, etc. for the students. Um, one thing Grant didn't mention that I've always liked is one of our longest school relationships is the district he went to, um, West Aurora in Illinois. We started doing work, I started meeting with them in 2017, and we've been doing projects with them, um, every year. So, for solar, I just, you know, Don is asking me to join tonight. um happy to join in all the facets, but for solar just to know that it's confusing right now at the federal level and the administration changes and the incentive changes. Um I guess some think you know there's there's no opportunity left but there is opportunity to kick off a project really safe harbor until uh July 4th. And so with the previous incentives and the previous administration it gave incentives for the first time to to K not taxable entities.
Since then, four other vocational schools have gotten funds. Uh and we connected with them through the Smiths Foundation who originally funded the afterdark program. We got that off the ground from a grant foundation grant that we put together uh that the state didn't want to fund was so successful then the state started funding it for other schools across the state. So we've been a leader in a lot of different things throughout the state. So uh that's just u and they appreciate what we've done and they feel like we're good for the clean energy center. So that's why >> the after dark admissions policy on us. >> So you got a copy of the afterdark uh admissions policy. It uh it really aligns to our day policy with a few small exceptions um that um that have to do with the timelines. really timelines are a little later uh for the uh for the drawings for the lottery because of uh program starts later and it takes longer to recruit kids and everything into the pro into the program.
Is it a student? Is it a volunteer? Is it a teacher? Is it a CSEA member? Um so that classification is important for us so that you know what voice is being uh shared with. >> Thank you. Board member Ariana. Um, you answered part of my question, but my question is, um, you said it was going to be on our website, correct? >> Correct. >> Um, it's going to be ma emailed to all staff, parents, and so forth. It >> all the all the emails that we have. >> It can be communicated that way. And we also, I'm sorry, Mrs. Adians, we also maintain it on our website, Leadership Associates, as well. And I I I think I would I would like to ask for for the emails to be sent. Okay. Um I don't know about my colleagues. So that way each employee has the survey in their email and they don't have to go looking for it.
The district's response was inadequate. It took 5 months to receive any reply and only after two weeks of our repeated follow-ups. The process was slow, apathetic, and disconnected from the seriousness of the allegations. This is especially alarming given the recent Gilbert Goons [clears throat] incidents that raise community expectations around student safety and the district's duty of care. What should have been a celebratory final year of elementary school became a year of fear. Andreas, our son, faced harassment and bullying, not only from peers, but from adults in positions of authority. Despite repeated reports, no meaningful protections or support were provided. Andreas has attended GPS since kindergarten. He's always been respectful, compassionate, and and academic academically successful with no behavioral issues. When change in sixth grade was not our son, it was the environment around him. Under inexperienced leadership and insufficient oversight of two sixth grade teachers, that environment rapidly deteriorated.
Um, and something that we actually personally pushed for hard because before that it obvious you had to have a tax taxable entity and in other states other people can own the projects but in Indiana the facility owns the project. So there is something called elective pay direct pay. It's the same equivalent amount of a tax credit but it's actually a check that gets cut from the school district. Um it's for % of the turnkey cost of a solar project. So, it is a nice stack in there to the payback and get you closer to paying off the project and just having year overyear utility savings. Um, and I don't have detailed you want me to go tonight, but there's also still net metering mechanisms with the investor owns with the center point and Duke schools. It's not a full retail rate, but they still value any export you have.
So, but basically the process is the same in terms of the lottery and everything for this as our day program. >> So, um through you chair. So the after dark the program admissions policy is the same as the day one >> in terms of the lottery aspect of it. Recruitment's a little different because we work with the schools on recruitment. >> We we go into the schools and talk to the uh 10th graders. We've been into all the different uh high schools already to uh recruit students and tell them more about the program. And so um the number of students who apply are uh also need to be recommended by the by their existing schools uh because they have their own stand like Lawrence has Lawrence High has their own standards of students that they'll allow to participate in the program. So there are some uh changes with regards to how we recruit students for the program.
>> Um >> and even though it, you know, it's on our website. >> Oh, no. That's good. >> One more one more thing. Um so are you guys, like you said, you you need you need it for data, right? Um, it's going to be one of the the questions where it says, you know, CSEA, are you a parent and so forth? Who are you type of thing? >> Are the surveys going to be attached to the emails to to an email? That way they can only do one survey. Are they going to be able to >> to to be open? Um, how is that going to work >> with the IP addresses? They can only do it one time. >> Only do it one time. >> Do it one time. And u they identify who they are. It's anonymous. And so when they link, it links over to our website to our survey.
One teacher created a climate so hostile that Andreas could not bring himself to intend school on multiple occasions. He was threatened, humiliated, and stripped of his dignity. He was told he would be confined alone, placed in a lower grade classroom for an entire day without our knowledge, forced to give away school supplies, repeatedly screamed out in hallways, falsely accused of cheating, and denied basic instructional support. [clears throat] At the same time, Andreas endured severe peer bullying. He was thrown into a steel fence, struck repeatedly in a hallway, shoved to the ground, and suffered a lacerated arm while shielding his face from a thrown object. In one especially degrading incident, bullies forced him to clean smash fruit in the cafeteria with his bare hands while taunting him. These were not isolated events. It was a pattern of abuse that left them physically and emotionally scarred. We acknowledged the recent district efforts to improve safety with upgraded security structure on each premises.
So, layman's terms there years ago if you remember back I'm talking like 2017 it was a one for one anything you exported you got that value so utility was essentially your free storage at this point your utility you can look at it charges a little fee to store it so if you export you get value for that it's just not a one to one it's a fraction of the retail price um and then anything that to produce and consume at the moment to get full value that um I think what Dennis really wanted me to talk about is not all the details of solar but that it's still possible to do it. So the safe harbor put in 5% spend on the project and that buys you four years until the project needs to be energized. So if that's something you know as the study's going and something that wants the district's interested in um it's really just a time consideration part.
So um I'm seeing here the section A for the afterd dark admissions. So it says admissions lottery. Um so my question would be is the afterd dark program applicable to the lottery. So the essentially the way now that students would be enrolled through after after dark is the same as our day program. >> Yep. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. >> Welcome. question. >> I have a question. Um, so the DART program, the afterdark program, do we have the same list of admission applications? And do we know what that that is? >> At this time, we don't know what it is yet because we're still working with the with the schools to uh get those numbers from them. and the students that are interested in applying because it's a whole different it's basically a a separate application. >> Well, we've been doing um we've been doing after dark for a while.
So it's not tracked in any way to the person other than I'm a parent or I'm a teacher, whatever the case might be. And then so on your on your website, they can just click it and and they can go on or that's a great idea. Any of the emails, they click it and they can take it. The other thing we may just want to be flexible because the survey goes to the 20th depending on Mrs. Near and how we can schedule whether it's the 9th and 10th or if we find we're pressed and we can't get all those that out. It could go into the next week. It doesn't really make I don't think any difference to the board. It may not doesn't make a game of us. We just want to make sure we give everyone enough time that they can come to the meeting and they're aware of it.
But where is the same urgency when abuse comes from peers and from those in powers policies cannot s simply exist on paper. They must be enforced, monitored, and embedded into captain's culture. We refuse to let our son's suffering be meaningless. Andreas is bright and resilient, and those who ignored us please believe we had no voice. But he does have a voice, and that's why we're here. We respectfully request that you review Town Middle's elementary failure to uphold the district's anti-bullying policy and place this issue on upcoming agenda so it can be addressed transparently. >> I just have one more sentence. >> Yeah, this three. Sorry. >> Thank you. >> You you could email it to the board if you wish. >> Yes. >> Actually, I was I was going to say I believe there's a copy of it right here. So, we've we've got it.
Um the other difference which we do have some slides on is starting at the start of this year for an entity concern restrictions. Um that's really tied to the supply chain of the equipment and our team. Um we really have that down for uh first off I've been the elective distributed generation representative for the board for the solar industry association. So I spent a lot of time in BC a lot of time and understanding nuances of all the guidance and incentives. also made a great hire. We had someone working for us out of IU um parttime during her masters and she's joined full-time to help with policy and strategy and she focuses not only on where energy is but in K through 12 um at the federal and state level. Um so we really do have some experts on the team help navigate this answer and we've done a number of schools um in the past few months.
>> Yes. >> For me. So, >> have we ever had those numbers? >> We've >> because I I'm sorry. I just don't I didn't I'm trying to picture the whole program. Yeah. And I don't remember where we needed to choose people applying and people were in wedding list or anything like that for the D program. So now how it fit in with the lottery and what do we have for applications and how that's looking like? >> Yeah. So you uh so this year we'll only be drawing for 11th grade because the kids that are in 11th grade now will continue on to the 12th grade. So the lottery will always be for 11th grade student or 10th grade students who want to go into the program when they start the 11th grade. So it's 10th grade students who will be applying for the program and um so we we have had more students than we've had seats in the past and we did it more of a we used our uh our numbering system like we did for the day program in the past.