>> And then the other thing I actually I'm going to save this for a longer term. That's the only other thing I want to just add to your list. Thank you. >> Okay. So, um, John, >> yeah, I just wanted to you're delving into the minutia around the budget and I question whe the finance committee wants to adjourn at this point. Let you continue your meeting. If you want to adjourn, uh, raise your hand. Let Margaret see your hands up. Otherwise, we will continue. I see one hand, John. Two hands. >> All right. And mine is three. So, we >> I >> Yeah, that one faded into the background. Sorry, Cara. >> Therefore, I I thank you folks very much, Shannon. Great job. Uh we appreciate the opportunity. And uh so, at this point, I will adjourn the uh finance committee. Okay. Thank you, John.
Let's say they've got mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, brother and sister that come. Let's say got six. So 60 kids at six people a person that come. That's going to be about 360 people that would show up for a music program. Would 500 be enough for a competition gym? We could also help with overflow activities for middle and high school. So do you make it 750? Do you make it a,000? Do you make it 500? Those are some of the details that they would like to know moving forward. Do you want to um is it a new building potent if you're interested in moving forward information on a new building? Because again, the belt to grade five facility at 45 million that's gone. We're we're more like 47 million now to do that. >> So, we know that it's going up every quarter >> about 4%.
So, we did have a land request uh to the road to the west of the football field. Um it could be in the best interest of the district to talk about keeping that land on that that road um and leasing it to uh the young man that bought the property. down the line at some point if we do make some enhancements to that practice football field with um uh long jump pits, triple jump pits, polevolt pits, that's going to be the easiest e access in there for cement trucks and things like that rather than having to take them across the practice field. So, um you know, kind of thinking about that. It might be in our best interest to just try to lease that to him for use on a year. Like not trying to make any money off of it, but he can have, you know, lease it and do whatever he wants with it.
>> I yes and no. I mean there is a tendency for police departments in public construction just like schools for some reason are crazy dollar per square foot amount. >> I can't tell you why that is. I think it just grew that way over the years. uh we don't do a lot of school work so I can't speak to that but I know that in the municipal world police departments have a slightly higher square foot dollars per square foot cost attributable to some of the requirements the detainer detainey prisoner areas are hardened they're not cheap they're concrete the concrete block cells are a unique item that are very expensive etc so yeah there are some unique items in a police department drive that cost up a bit, but it's not exponential compared to the burrow offices upstairs. Um, and and you know, if you were to isolate and only build the police department, then you know, it could even be slightly harder because then the all the roof, all the foundation is attributable to that one elevator, right?
>> And then the other thing, um, safegrad. >> Yes. And I'm I do not have a lot of information about that. They're still in the planning stage of that. >> Can you explain to the board real quick what it is? So, safeg grad night, it's a group of parents that are going to put the sign down after graduation that evening and they will go to the gym and stay there all night. I did it when I was at the high school years ago and I absolutely had a blast. Ka I think Casey Barnsworth and I had more fun than the kids and um we were there all night long and [laughter] I don't know if I can do it though. I'm a lot older. Um but it's where they're going to play games and I'm there's a theme wild Is it wild west this time?
And we have had unfortunately this year some late routes in our district within elementary, middle, and high school. And and obviously, in my opinion, it's completely unacceptable. We'll fix it. I don't think that, you know, I've always been hyper aware of um lost instructional time and for us to be, you know, at our own hand making kids late to school, it's not okay. So, we're going to fix it. But I think one of the things that we can do right now is as I look at this and there are eight drivers needed to cover these courtesy routes and it is a nice offering. It's it's not mandatory uh routes that we're running, but this courtesy offering to neighborhoods throughout the district. Um, and what we're proposing for next year is to just streamline our systems. And wherever we can, we're always looking to do that.
We got to figure out the right the right plan is truly, but this is a great starting point for the district. It does include um talk about I won't touch the screen by the way. It does include this inflationary rate. So once again, if you look out 10 years or 15 years, there's a 7% inflationary factor. You say that seems really high. Our estimating team, we track this every single month. So we look at like RS means, look at the Morgansson building building reports. Currently it's seven. Every year it's going to change. It probably will go down. It'll come back up. >> It's important to mention that that inflation rate is specific to the construction industry. It's not like the inflation rate you hear about on the news and that 7% is specific to our region. It'd be very different in Chicago or Milwaukee or Louisville.
And they're learning how to tear apart the question, analyze the question, and come up with the answer by themselves. They're doing that often at the beginning of class and the end of class. So kids are seeing questions that are exactly like the ones that they're going to see on iLearn and they're not just at home trying to figure it out themselves or sitting in a study hall trying to figure out themselves. They're working with their teacher and with their peers to figure out those questions. That's going to create amazing growth. I also I I said this to a year ago and I I just want to bring it up again. Our teachers were pretty fearless and brave when they created the master maps for the new curriculum because they realized that you couldn't go from chapter one to chapter two to chapter three anymore and actually meet this new curriculum map that the state the blueprint that the state had created.
Um, so we've got one room, a break room, a tiny little break room upstairs used to be a storage closet. And then um, downstairs in our lounge, we kind of made just a little area that has like coffee and things like that. We have our celebration station there and then just some different quotes that are put up to be inspirational. Okay. So, as we began the school year, the overall goal was the most important thing that we could cultivate was felt a sense of safety within our team, within our staff. Right? When we feel safe, our brains are open to learning, creativity, and collaboration. This is the core of conscious discipline and it applies just as much to us adults as it does to our students. And we feel that this is 1400, right? So, you guys want to come up? >> We're just standing.
>> Does another side beat when he's Oh, hits him in the head, dodging the counter. >> Nice shot. Switching to Pyro now. Perhaps wanting a kill. >> Oh, and she almost does. >> That's a big boy. That's a big boy. And he's heavy, too. Oh, tries for a neutral special off stage. That would She's going for the clip, I tell you. She's going for things you could put in a scrapbook, I tell you. >> Oh, does an upy through through the platform. Wow. >> I have to guess she's going to try to land on him again with that neutral be. Yeah, that >> that spinny move. >> Oh. Oh. Ah, but he was ready. He did a side. He did an up and she did a neutral be sending him off to the left. And barely not hitting him with said side B. Does it does an up special?
Thank you all for coming. I I think this was a a good move for all of us. >> Thank you. >> I agree. >> Okay. So, um, so, so the things that we want to have more information about, I guess, at the time we have the budget hearing. Um, or maybe we can fold them into the Thursday meeting. I I'm going to look into that whether maybe that can be a meeting along with a community forum, but I will have to check into that. Um, so we want Tanya, we want more information from Tanya and we want the information about the bus. um so that we have that information when we have the budget hearing. Okay. Um I guess the other question I have is do we need to talk about using the additional school choice to cover the $ 109,000 deficit? Sarah Bass, >> I think that is part of what's being presented in this budget and when it comes time to vote on the budget, then that's will be part of how we vote on it.
>> One 1% every quarter, 4% a year. >> Yeah. So the it's just that's take 45 million and 4% that's about 1.8 million give or take a few dollars. So with that being said the does the board want are you focusing in on this 33.9 33.996678 number? So we'll say 34 million. Are you focused in on that and that's what you want? Do you want to have a comparison between renovation add-on versus a new building? And then you got to come up with the parameters in terms of is it a bel to grade five facility? Is it a prek to grade four facility, prek to grade five, is it a belt to grade four? >> And so that that's that's if if if we are looking at that those options. We just kind of need to know what to give them direction. Am I speaking?
Then once we have things done on the football field, then we can go back to having a conversation and we want to look at selling that, then we can look at selling that. >> We sell it to him, but keep an ement >> so we have access. >> I don't know the answer to that. We could talk about selling it to him, but also putting a stipulation in there of >> keep there's not a lot of there's not a lot of easement there. I mean, it's right up against the trees if you looked at it. So, I can check into that. Dton, I don't I don't know the answer if we can sell it to him, but keep an ement or not. um the answer to. So, um did talk to the city and the county a little bit about what that would look like surveying wise.
As to the shared cost of sticking offices in there as well, right? So, you know, 65 70 it's hard. I I haven't done the math on that, so I would think it's >> and I'm sorry to hit you with that, but it was a question that was asked and I I thought it was important to get it get it asked and followed up on. I think the comparison is, you know, it seems like a small incremental cost to put the second floor on and then you're putting you're housing all of the administrative needs, the meeting needs, the training needs all in one place instead of putting some people here for a meeting or going to the Curtis house for another meeting, which still is possible. >> And you still may need to use this room if there's some critical matter that everybody has to be in on, right?
>> I haven't even seen the um anyway. So, they're putting that on and they're still in the planning stage. I believe right now they're taking donations for um because they'll um auction online. >> I do I do know that too that they are starting their auction items soon because I donated some stuff >> and that's what they're doing right now is collecting those. So they collect gift cards, they collect gift baskets, you know, things that kids would want when they move out of the house, you know, that kind of >> good for college and like suitcases. Yeah. Microwaves, things like that. And I don't know if it starts at 11:00 or at midnight, but it should go till about 6:00 a.m. So it'll be a lot of fun. You're welcome to join. >> I think that's the big stuff. >> It is. Uhhuh. All right.
And we're looking at at maybe offering satellite sites and and doing one on the north side and one on the south side of Rockville Road for convenience for families and um having two pickup sites. So in the morning, families will drop off for the buses. And we'll have one bus going to Ben Davis, we'll have bus going to one bus going to Brownsburg. And so we're eliminating eight routes and going down to two routes. So we have these six additional drivers. And honestly, if we had six additional drivers right now in the morning, we would have fixed our problem because it's about approximately 800 well probably five to 600 students you could get on um those six routes. Probably about 550 or so. So, we're missing a lot of opportunities and a lot of students are arriving late to school simply because we're running these courtesy routes.
It's it's very specific to to our our climate. >> So just want to point that's that's all good points but then it's factored in for the future. So if you have a conversation now if we talk 10 years later that price tag right that goes up with that inflationary rate. And then I do want to transition a little bit just to highlight that there are some upcoming projects that I know we're super excited about, hoping that you all as a board and community are excited about. Um these are just bullet points of them. Um but really looking at a lot of the different main entrances kind of on the front the front elevation of this building. You're also familiar with what's currently there. It's quite bulky. Some of it's deteriorating. A lot of the different glass structures are struggling. but looking at redoing those and updating those.
And so they tore apart their textbooks, not literally but figuratively. And they figured out what to teach when. And then occasionally they said, "Oh, but we're still going to have to teach this a little bit here or they won't understand it." for teachers that's a big deal especially some of our teachers who had taught something for 20 years and we asked them to rearrange and redo and rework. The other thing that um that's not on there but that we realized this year is we were going you know at or above proficiency or die right early in the year that was we weren't even going to think about anything below that which makes complete sense until we found out that lots of the questions were at approaching level and the kids hadn't seen those kind of questions for a really really long time and so they were missing questions that on the same standard but were easier and I said to them huh that happened to us on the SAT as well.
You can just stand. >> We're not coming up. >> But we're not. >> You didn't tell us we had to do that. >> Well, we're we'll introduce ourselves first. >> Go ahead. >> Hi, I'm Miss Cosa. I'm the counselor. >> I'm Robin Huffman. I teach special education. >> I'm Karly Blackburn. I teach second grade. >> Um, we wrote ours out. I did not. >> It's okay. >> Not a public speaker. If I didn't, I would everything would leave. >> Conscious discipline has taught us how to be better regulate our own emotions, which then allows us to go and help other staff and students regulate theirs. We know that it is not possible to help someone else regulate if we are not regulated ourselves. And we use the same skills that we teach the students. So they are seeing it modeled and practiced in real time.
Oh man, he was probably expecting that side beat. Good. Good counter play from Izzy part from Izzy's part. Look at that. And she has brought it all the way back. Look at that. She's got two stocks. King Kru has one. Let's see if she can keep both of those stocks. She's going to have to play strategically to do it, but I still believe in her. >> It will be very difficult. There's not a lot in Kru's kit that if it sends the right way that wouldn't kill Mithra or Pyra here. Very high percent against a very hard-hitting character. >> That's true. Luckily, uh, Mithra is definitely fast, so it wouldn't be impossible, I would say. >> Good swats with the bears there. >> That's true. Using and she is using that upy projectile. Yeah, that was a projectile I actually forgot about. The uppie has a projectile [clears throat] which can hit pretty good.