They score everything. Once they go through the building, they score everything. That way, we can provide a comparison building to building to building to understand how they are functioning, where the opportunities may lie. Okay, kids. I know we're This is not like your math or English test scores, please. Okay. Okay. You're going to see all these scores in the 60s and 50s below. That's okay. That's okay. So, don't no need to panic. So what I do want to point out is like a like new condition that 80 to 100% that's going to be a building that's like less than three years old. You know the next one the above average that 70 79 that's like 10 years or less. These are new facilities that really don't have a lot to do for about 20 years usually is that timeline. Most buildings in the state of Indiana are kind of in this average to below average area which older buildings completing renovations as there's funding available and kind of continuing to maintain and keep up with those.
Peters to be honest with you. >> One quick question. I know you talked about books, but does it come digital too? Or is it just books? >> We're looking at digital only. >> Digital only. >> That's what we're using right now. So both elementary and >> for elementary we're looking at digital >> and for secondary we're looking at classroom sets of textbooks so that kids who in IEP a 504 they're learning the language they have a concussion there's a lot of reasons uh we'd be able to check that book out you can use them in class and then the exact same book will be digital so they'll always have it with them plus there's um a platform for each one of them that has some other pieces to help kids uh digital labs for example, videotapes that demonstrate some things. So, it's a combination of both.
>> That's all I got. >> Thank you, Mr. Richie. >> Two items. Uh, February was the negotiated premium holiday for our health insurance and so all health insurance premiums were paid from our self- insurance reserves. Uh the total amount was $336,668.18 for for February. So that went for everyone. Um the other thing our health insurance 27 months ago moved to the base trust. At that time we still had claim runout service with UMR, our former health insurance carrier. And there was a bank account that UMR used to service those claims. That bank account has been closed by UMR and they have returned all the unspent funds to us which we put back in insurance. Those are the only items I have. >> Very good.
>> Um and then so last year we started our cardinal connection convocations. Um we really um wanted a way to start teaching our staff as a whole. Um I think before we had started our um counselor's corner and we said to play it right every day right when they did their morning announcements but there were a select few we knew right that were not right and those kids were never getting that and we really knew how important it was. So we started um doing kind of like little tiny mini lessons. It was just Coslet myself Kelly and we just started doing like kind of just little tiny little bits here and there. We really started just focusing on breathing and disengaging stress and then making some commitments kind of promises that we were committing to as a whole school family. Um, we really wanted to focus on the connection piece at first.
He's probably got the shot put neutral because that is one of the strongest that's one of the strongest projectiles in the game. His side is the is a command grab. So Izzy's gonna have to watch herself because uh Oh, yep. He's trying to grab her. Think of it kind of like Ridley's side B. All right, that is simply just pressing the A button. That upbe um it doesn't have a hit box on the back of the move. That is a downbe and it just is a really heavy thing down. Think of it like Steve's anvil, but you can't reflect it. Best to just shield and punch. That's how it is with a lot of moves, especially that heavy hitting ones. And speaking of heavy hitting, man, me brawler is certainly giving Izzy a run for her money. Oh, she's trying. She's maneuvering. She's maneuvering. Oh, and he lets down his shield.
>> Yeah, so it Palum Pelum's budget was set up interestingly. Um I inherited it this way. So if we I I'll explain why this happens and then if we did want to change it in the future what it would look like. Um, so when we apply or have school choice or grants that support the budget, it increases we increase the budget line. So for teachers, say it's 100,000, but we're using 200,000 for school choice, the budget now shows up as a total of 300,000. Whereas in other districts that I work with, um, they don't increase. What they do is they decrease the budget line. and and so you see it that a number what it is after school choice has already been reduced from there but in Pelum's case when you have the budget we increase the account line for what's going to be spent on school choice and then when the actuals come in after we've applied the school choice in the general ledger the number is much smaller so in teachers you'll see for FY25 4325 that's at the actual numbers after we applied school choice.
So it's some really good stuff there. So any questions for me? >> Thanks for that report. Really good the awards thing. I kind of like that part too. Just seeing the kids all you know and Miss Spain. She really does a great job. She got the National Honor Society now >> for the art deal. It's a big deal. >> And then uh the the kid win. I mean that was from last year. I think they started that last year, right? This year >> that's been that's continuing >> and uh we have a couple kids that >> Mr. Brun thinks can qualify for nationals and nationals is in Wisconsin this year. So we actually just talked about this year or that today and got a couple kids we think that could qualify for that and make that journey up to Wisconsin to do that. So, you know, it's just it's very impressive to have this many opportunities for our kids in a school this size.
>> Any opposed? Same sign. Motion passes 6. >> Item number 11 are recreation board appointments. >> Okay. So, this recreation board appointment is just for the recreation department in Claplin because they Claplin's in Barton County. So, part of their funding comes through our budget is the best way to explain it. So, um, a couple of these you have already appointed in the past, but we just want to make sure we have a board motion that has the term month and date on it for the rec board. So, um, we want to make sure our our motions match what the wreck has. So, Derek Hollingsshed is appointed through July of 2020. So, we want our board motion to match that. And then also Drew Kerr is appointed through July of 2029. So we want to just make sure our board motion matches that approval as well.
>> Thank you Anthony. Um hello everybody mayor council members of the public. My name is Carrie Hill. I'm from H2M Architects and Engineers. I'm a licensed engineer in the state of New Jersey and I'm here to walk you through the civil site design uh for the New Burough Municipal Site. So, uh starting off just to orient us, we have 71 down on the bottom side here, Union Lane running here. I know this is going to be a little tricky because it's a little small looking at it now, but um first and foremost, let's start with the southernmost point of the property. This sliver of property here. So the property line is out approximately here. The sliver here encased in this trapezoidal rectangle is essentially the affordable housing site which was dedicated as part of the affordable housing plan adopted earlier last year. Um and the remaining space over here is the entirety of the proposed uh burrow municipal building site.
We want them to be at that level so that the um results for our state testing will be better and we will get the the points that we need to get so far. So one of the things that we have been working with is that a lot of our native students are part of our tutoring program um for the elementary school. A lot of the tutoring takes place during the day. Teachers use their specials for their planning periods to pull those students out and um have tutoring for those students and there are some teachers who do after school tutoring as well. So a lot of the Native American students are a part of the during school hours tutoring that is being offered to help them particularly with ELA and mathematics. No. >> So that was so that was one of the things that we had we weren't very keen on getting the students involved in.
You can always just let her know if you want to come. I think you don't need to say if you don't. Just say if you do. So I wanted to give you that. This is the first year they've invited governing board members. So, I thought that was kind of cool. All the other years they have it. Um, and then you have prepared for you a list of events um that will take place between this board meeting and the next one. And Ed, I don't know how you guys are staffed for readers for tomorrow. Do you have any holes left? >> We definitely have holes. If you'd like to come and read to third, fourth, or fifth graders in their classroom for Dr. Seuss Day, um, >> I'll come do it. >> Yeah, absolutely. Um, Just show up. >> Just show up. We'll plug you in.
Um but I do think that is something that needs to be you know there needs to be some alert. Hey, this student has not met with us. They have not put in a request for their transcripts. Are they going to college? Are they intending? Are they going to a trade school? We need to keep this data and they need this needs to be on paper somewhere or in a system somewhere. And it is unfortunately not. And and this discrepancy should not have happened, not at Avon. Um and so I wanted to bring that to the attention of the board and to our community. Um and lastly, my next concern is the lack of representation in um staff in Avon community schools that is not reflective of the student body. Avon boasts of being 54% having students of diverse backgrounds and we don't see that in leadership or staff and and um teachers and I think Avon can do better.
And that's what you'll see here. So I want to provide this information. One, it's a great summary, but two, I'm going to turn over here to Martin. He's going to walk through with Pete building by building some specifics, and that's why you'll get an idea of how we kind of came up with some of those numbers. All right, I'm g turn this over to Martin and he's gonna walk you through. >> Thanks, Tony. So, we're gonna start here at the Deli Community High School. And again, this is the result of uh all the time we spend on site walking every space with the the facilities director and the building head custodians as well. So, again, huge thank you to all them for providing their input. They are the ones that live in the building every day. They know these systems. They're familiar with them. they helped us um kind of point out things that are important to them or challenges that they're experiencing in each building.
Um it's the cheapest possible way we can do it and still put textbooks in kids' hands if they need one. >> It's amazing. You say cheap, but you know, you think of all the paper and all that goes into making a book and you're talking digital and you know it's like a price of a USB and hand a USB out but it's still expensive. >> My thing is Jay ladies, you got the parents involved. You got the parents felt feel like a couple parents I've talked to have felt like you actually got us involved in this. We're involved in our kids' education. I'm glad you did that, Jay. That was a good Thank you. >> And moving forward, guys, um critical when that social studies adoption list comes out, that that vendor list that we've got to choose from, that parent involvement will be, it's critical anytime you have textbook adoption, it's going to be really critical when that social studies curriculum comes out that we get eyes on that at all levels.
Any questions for Chris? I want to remind all of you the Indiana School Boards Association regional meeting on Tuesday, April 7th. So if you're interested in going, please let me know later. Take a look at your calendar so we can get registered for that. And those are all the meetings or all the items we have for our work session. Oh, anyone have anything at this time? >> Yeah. Okay.
Um, because if you recall, we just came off of like all of our morale surveys and all those things and we really needed to come together as a staff. And so we took the connection piece out of um, cognitive discipline and we did it with our staff in the mornings. So Tammy would come over, she would teach a new connection activity to our um, staff. we would do it and then we would kind of present it at the call invocation and then they would go and break out with their buddy classroom and then do it with their buddy classroom just getting to know each other starting to build some relationships um because we knew relationship was a big thing our staff was not ready at that time to teach anything so we didn't teach the big skills yet right we just focused on making connections um yeah and that led to um more staff were kind of interested and wanting to know more and so we had a couple of opportunities for some 2hour PD pops around the community um and so that were free so they um signed up to go and do some of those and then we also had a corporation full PD day um that was with conscious discipline last year if you remember on one of our PD days we came and presented to all of the levels um here in Loganport so that was huge So the next few slides are just a couple of the things that we had did in our cardinal connection convocations last year, right?
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your shield. And he did. Oh, that's a that's a freaking pile driver right over there. Does a side B over there. That side B hit box is really big. Really big, I tell you. Gets right back on the platform. Does a neutral special in the wrong direction. Both of them dodge to the left. Neither of neither of them are punishing. Oh, but speaking of punishing, oh, looks like uh looks like Franklin County punished is punished Izzy right there with a forward smash and took her stock away. Is he trying to give some pressure from the from below the platform? Ooh. Does a down air and she's trying to punish. Does an upbeat. Ooh. Ooh. But he shields the upbeat. Oh, and he jump and she jumps trying to follow him up with an up air and she succeeds in doing so.
But in FY26, it's $811,000 budget, and that's because when the budget's been presented, it's been added back in. Um, so I've continued to add it in as it has been. However, if that's something that the committee would like to see differently, uh, I'd be more than happy to do that because I find this way quite complicated. Um, but then it will, you know, it'll just be a few years before it's when you look at this and it all makes sense where it's not these big jumps or big decreases. If that makes sense. >> Yeah, that's helpful. I think I mean for me personally, I think it would be helpful just to be able to compare trends and spending across the different categories over time just so that you can have kind of a decent idea as to what the budget is relative to like what we've actually spent in different categories.
You you just don't see that. >> Well, I can speak for myself, but I think this board supports all of those programs. I think it really makes our kids thrive. >> Yeah. You you just don't see a lot of schools this size have the opportunity like a kid win. It's just >> very rare. So, you might visit with Mr. Marshall early if you're talking about if you think a couple might go to Nashville so you can get some stuff worked out. Yeah, we talked about that today and once that gets announced, yeah, we'll definitely get that done because they would actually leave, oddly enough, the day of graduation. So, some logistics to work through there. >> So, so can I have one thing that I didn't I forgot to add to my board report. >> Oh, yeah. >> Your time. >> It's not your time.
So I would recommend approval of those two. Our board motions match our recreation department at plat as our clin board member through July of 2030. >> Second motion by Allison and a second by Josh. Are there any other questions or anything regarding this?