But just like big big credit to the student leadership um that you see from these four and then just to our teachers who when students say I want to do this and they're like okay let's go do it together. Um we're just really really proud as a DJS community. So, thank you everybody for >> All right, student board members. Who's up first this morning? >> I'll be going first.
It's a really wonderful night and a great time to celebrate, um, their work. Uh, another event upcoming, uh, which is important to, uh, my predecessor, uh, the good, better, best 5K run and out of the box award, um, will be held April 25th. So, Todd Grimes is involved in that, um, and it's just a wonderful event as well and celebrates one of our educators. So, April 25th, save the date. And we are gearing up for spring grants soon. So, those will that information will be heading to teachers, which is, um, the reason we do all of this. So, that's exciting. Um, the last announcement is just for Council for Youth Development. Um, you may have seen online that 17, uh, Bartholomew County Youth Ambassadors and Echo Teen Council members visited the State House on Friday the 25th for Voice Advocacy Day. If you are not familiar with Voice, it's Indiana's statewide youth empowerment brand, uh, dedicated to engaging, educating, and empowering teens to take a stand and promote a tobacco-free lifestyle.
So we explained that while district leaders are considering a referendum renewal asking for a lower amount than the 10 and 1/2 million currently received, the district wants to understand if the community would support additional funding for the initiatives above. So there's a lot of numbers, a lot of colors on this slide. So I'm going to start and ask you to look at that top row where it says non-parents, non-staff. So when we asked the question, what additional funding amount, if any, would you support? Starting in that dark green space, 8% of your non-parents, non-staff said they would support an additional 4 million dollars. As we move to the right on the non-parent, non-staff row, and the colors change, we're going to lower amounts. So the next green where it says 3%, 3% of your non-parents, non-staff said they would support an additional 3 million dollars.
Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the consent agenda signify by saying I >> oppose. Same sign extensions. Yeah, we don't have any transfers. Um, just a few things before we get to the the final legislative update. Um, for this I want to wish kids uh good luck and and everything. They need good vibes for I testing this week at all three of the elementary. Um, I also want to send the same good vibes and and best wishes to the basketball uh boys tomorrow. sectional at Southwestern. Um want to congratulate Emily Llewellyn and her students advancing to the state competition for National History Day. Um this is for middle school students and high school students. Um we have Ronin Todd sixth grade, Lincoln Adams and River Taj Log in sixth grade as a team. Satie Roberts as a seventh grader. Allison Sher as a seventh grader.
We're going to try to do this several times instead of just one time. Sometimes we have a registration and then people find out about it and then, oh wait, did I miss it? So, we're going to do one during the day on March 20th, then we're going to follow it with an evening one, and then we'll see where our numbers are and probably follow with another if we need to, just to make sure the word's really out there. Um, and our kindergarten registration is now set for April 7th, which is the Tuesday we get back from uh spring break. So, more info on all of that. Have any elementary questions? Okay. Thank you. >> Good evening everybody. >> Good evening. >> Thanks for having us. Thanks for having me. Staying true with our uh presentation format, we'll talk about school culture first. Uh we celebrated national culture or national counselors week and we recognized and honored Mrs.
The consultants were not involved and I do not think could attest to whether the buildings flooded or not. As I said, we will stipulate that this is the significant portion of the site is in the flood plane. And if you'll share the photos with us, we'll review them and get back to you. >> We will do that. Thank you. and and uh to to the point of flooding too, we we'd like to take a look at the the storm events that occurred um in 1955 as well. We can take a closer look at that. And um just too, we also have an order of resource area delineation for the site confirming the limits of the flood plane. Um and as part of that ORAD process, it was assumed the building didn't flood. Um so we just we can take a closer look at that um and have further discussion when we have a more detailed meeting to get into the flood plane issues.
Um so I know they're working on that from what I understand. Um that's what um Mr. Hadad um conveyed to us this afternoon that they're working on that spreadsheet. It's helpful because it gives you more information and a better perspective on what the overall budget of the town looks like, which you know, yeah, would be helpful to all of us um at this point. And uh so so yeah, >> Chris, >> Mr. Kylie, what are do you have any idea what they're funding circuit breaker at and are we has it been our our practice to prepay or carry that money over? >> Right. So we prepay one. So we the money we receive this year will be expended next year. So the beauty of that is you have some money in circuit breaker at all times and um >> for those possible for whatever it's required to be expended by June 30th of the following year.
Um and then we consistently evaluate if this is contemporary or not. You know, it's hard to find the old school encyclopedia Britannica in a library anymore. Nothing's relevant anymore. I, you know, a lot of it get rid of it. So, that's what our the regulation um addresses. um the the policy I I want after we hit this policy, I just want to um show you what our existing because we talked about this at the last meeting and I wanted to show you what our existing policy is for people who challenge materials that are in our libraries and in schools. So this is the display policy. Uh, this is more or less a complement to the actual materials policy, but I think the legislature felt compelled that they had to address not just the books in the library, but the, you know, whatever um, displays on top of shelving units or, um, posters and whatnot.
>> All right, good evening everyone. Um, I'm really happy to see so many people here, some familiar faces. Um, I wanted to start off by saying that I'm really glad that we were able to highlight those emerging clubs. like u Miss Lip said, it's very important that students feel heard and that their um passions and interests that they feel comfortable to pursue those and that we provide those resources for them. Um so for the report for the student body um there continues to be the very strong push and the messaging that every day matters. Um we continue to remind students that it's not only important to be in class every day but also being engaged um with your teachers asking questions um just being present. Um we have I think overall seen that doing that truly leads students to be successful and those small choices do truly make a difference with the phone scanning.
So, pretty great of our kids. Oh, they met with, [clears throat] uh, Mr. Lauer and discussed the importance of schools adopting safe vape disposal boxes and prioritizing rehabilitative approaches over punitive consequences. So, kudos to the kids for using their voice. Thank you, Ms. Lloyd. Mr. Glick. I'm going to talk about redistricting and, uh, we will have three public discussions coming up next April or this in April coming up. Uh, first one will be April 7th at Columbus East in room C110. The next one will be April 9th at North in the cafeteria. And then the last one will be April 21st at Westside Community Church. All three of those will be at 6:30 and it's kind of open discussion to kind of talk about where we're going to go as a corporation and our our focus on redistricting cuz we've not had uh, redistricting of this size and capacity uh, in quite some time.
What we found historically is that respondents who would support a higher amount will continue their support as the amount gets lower. Therefore, we add those numbers together as we move to the right to determine how much support there is at a given level. So in that case for your non-parents, non-staff, we would add the eight and the three, and we would say there's 11% support among that group for an additional 3 million dollars. As we continue to move to the right, for 2 million dollars, another 6% of respondents would support that, which brings us to 17%. Another 13% would support an additional 1 million dollars putting us at 30%. And what we really look for on this graph is where do we cross the 50% threshold? As you can see, you do that in the yellow for all three groups. But again, we're we're focused on the non-parents, non-staff.
Kristen Evans eighth grader. Addie Adams nth grade. and Genevie Laguna, both great. So, always exciting and they always have a team. They go every single year. So, it's pretty pretty impressive. Um, next week we have high school band concert um on Tuesday and high school choir concert on Wednesday evening. So, that should be something fun in the evening to come and support our kids. And um gosh, we're moving really close to spring break, which starts March 16th. Um, that pushes our normal scheduled board meeting out to Monday, March 23rd. >> Legislative. >> Um yes, and this is the last one. Uh because the session ended on Friday and it was uh in the education world. Um there are a number of bills that passed and I was just going to mention a few of them and then there were three bills that didn't pass and sometimes you're very happy when those don't pass.
Noble who's absolutely fantastic. Uh we're so fortunate to have her join our team this year. Like Michelle mentioned, we also celebrated kindness week and the importance of being kind to others. We had various things going on throughout the week to demonstrate acts of kindness. We also put a kindness tree in the cafeteria. You might see that if you're walking through where students could uh post kinds or thank yous about their peers or their staff. Our choir boosters hosted an afterchool glow dance for our students. We hadund over 150 students participate. That's my 42nd year of doing school dances. And no, I can't get out there and cut it up anymore like I used to, but I can sit and have fun. Uh community, our PTO continues to work really hard towards uh meeting the requirements for our matching grant. Uh money for the grant is going to be dedicated toward that playground, that picnic pavilion, and furniture.
>> Okay. Noted. >> Thank you. >> We'll we will send you the pictures and any other information that we have. >> Great. Thank you. >> Okay. Stipulated fact four. The site is contaminated. Uh I think we're we're uh okay stipulating that there are uh reportable materials on the site. >> Okay, that's Mr. Angler speaking. >> Yes. >> Okay. And the last um fact, the site is within the 200 foot riverfront area. >> Yes. And I'll add to that that it is historic mill complex which has you know it affects how we review the performance standards for certain parts of the site and exemptions >> but that's not what we're asking. The site is within the 100 200 foot riverfront area. >> Yes it is. >> Okay. Thank you. Okay. That's it for stipulated facts. The next section that we have are topics for discussion and the commission has divided it into um four different topics that we would suggest that we um discuss separately um because of the nature there's an enormous amount of information as you uh are aware of and we are now aware of uh that we have to go through uh in order to complete our deliberation and to um and to get our peer reviews back from.
>> So it's similar to the way we prepay special ed tuition. It's like once you could tap into it, but if you tap into it, it's no longer there. And um so >> but yeah, so we have a we have a one-year sort of buffer on circuit breaker, but it's always there just like prepaid tuition as long as you continue to do it that way. Once you have to tap into it, then it's gone. I think that makes the most obviously from a budgetary standpoint. I think that makes the most sense. I'm just I'm just asking this and you know in the just to put it out there with us presenting you presenting to the fincom that yes um it's there but it it makes prud it certainly makes prudent sense to to do it in this manner. >> Yeah, I would say um a good number of communities do it this way.
bulletin boards and knock >> knock on wood. We've never had a complaint about anything in our displays. Correct. >> I wouldn't say never. Um but I'll show you. That's why I wanted to talk about this Mark. This is our policy um that I'll share the screen on this one. Carol, do you know how to collapse this like to squeeze it? This is a new um program that Cab is using. Nice. I feel like I was in here recently and it was those double left arrows. >> Yeah, I was going to say try the arrows, Jeff. To the left. >> It goes to the next track. >> All it does is collapse the folders. Yeah, I just kind of wanted to make it a little easier to read, but um without half the screen being eaten up by these. But anyway, um so people can make complaints about anything in the schools really.
Everything um has been going well. It's routine. There's no problems. Um it I will say it's mostly again just routine. Um nothing has truly been a glaring problem. Uh we continue to see effects of that. Um again with students being more engaged in class u more engaged with each other and overall that um skill of hold holding yourself accountable. Uh I think you can see truly throughout every area. You can see it when students are doing their homework during lunch instead of just being on their phone. You can see it again with the action of just going up there and scanning in. Um and overall those habits will build off and truly help students not only in school but also outside of school as well. Um with activities we have the very exciting uh Polar Plunge coming up. So, this is in support of the Special Olympics of Illinois and it's just a great way to raise money for an incredible cause and it's a good way for students to get involved.
And so with the opening of a new elementary school, it's going to change some things up. And so we just want to be able to open it up to public and hear some things and talk through things and, uh, hopefully we get a lot of people to to participate so we get a lot of feedback. The next one is the wellness, uh, council. The big piece out of this is BCSE will participate in the Indiana Youth Survey next month as well. Uh, this is for all 6th through 12th graders. And this is a opt-out survey. So, all students will take it unless parents or guardians opt out, which you should get a, uh, notification or letter sent home, uh, to uh, give the consent to opt out of that. Um, and I know that Northside has already sent out, I got it today actually, the notification for that.
When we add the 26% there, we get to 56% support at no additional funding. So that basic level that you had already asked for. 22% of non-parent non-staff respondents were not sure or needed more information. And 22% to the same level would not support any referendum. When we look at parents, similarly, we start with 13% supporting the highest amount. And as we move to the right, we pass that 50% threshold within the no additional funding. 30% of your parents said they were not sure or needed more information, while 8% said they would not support any referendum. Finally, staff, once again, they had the largest support at the highest level with 14%, but you still don't surpass 50% within that group until you get to the no additional funding option. 22% of your staff respondents were not sure or needed more information, and just 4% said they would not support any referendum.
So um the most interesting ones and ones we've been talking about all this time um one is the social media um I want to call it restrictions on social media for uh teenage students. And again, I wasn't even sure what the parameters of were of this because they keep changing it. So the way it ended up is it is a um children who are 15 and younger in Indiana are to get parental permission before opening an account with certain social media apps and there are at least 17 other states who have this. Um it forces media companies uh to redesign the platforms to be less addictive for kids. Uh it has u minor children are limited in their ability to do direct messaging which I think is important. Um parents can access the child's account with their own password so the child can't keep them out of their account and um they can also set daily and weekly limits on the child's usage of that account.