So, I feel good about that. We will gain some more between now and August and I'm going to just wait and see. But, I was excited and I want to thank Beth and our kindergarten staff Kristen just for all those work they put into making that such a good night for everybody. >> [clears throat] >> I also want to say that was a nice night. I was able to spend a little bit of time there. It was good to see incoming kindergarteners and they seem to be excited about it. And so it was good to see that many people and I agree. C&E we probably don't need to talk to anybody. Shawn and your team high school junior high. >> Yeah, just a couple things. Um we're heading into the fourth quarter. I always wonder how we got here. I say that every school year, but it goes so fast.
Number one, they gave us the We estimate somewhere around 165,000 loss in 2026 um in legislation obviously the state has finished up the short session and they gave schools an option to be able to split the money or split the loss between your operations and debt service. We're not a district that carries a large debt service balance. So, we're not going to split that because if we were we don't know what our tax revenue might come in. We might not be able to make debt service payments. Then we'd have to pull from rainy day to make them. That seems more of like a crisis management as opposed to a plan. So, we're we're just going to unfortunately have to eat it in our operations fund. The the other good news though the local income tax which for our district is about 150,000 a year. That was supposed to expire after 27.
Happy to answer any questions you have. >> A motion motion and a second. Uh, one question I have is there's an advisory board. >> Yes, we did. >> And so who makes up the advisory board? >> That's a great question. Um we had 27 participants on the advisory board. So we had collaborated with um ETA and also our administrators for recommendations of those names. We had representatives from different schools. So we did have they were teachers who were on that team. Uh different grade levels were represented different schools. Um we did have a variety of teachers across elementary, middle, and the high school range. >> And this lines up with state standards and everything. Yes, there is an Indiana.
>> Any opposed? That motion passes. I'm now turn this matter back over to the board council to advise the board on our next steps in this matter. >> Thank you very much, Mr. President. The board is also required as part of this process to adopt what we call findings of fact and conclusions of law with respect to your decision in this matter. As the members of the board know, I sat in on the board's deliberations in this matter to be able to hear the discussion that occurred and to be able to witness the review of evidence that you are engaged in. Based upon my observations during the board's deliberations, I prepared for the board's consideration, draft findings of fact, and conclusions of law, which I have shared with all of the board leading up to this meeting this evening. The board now needs to vote with respect to those draft bindings of fact, and conclusions of law that I prepared and that are before the board this evening.
So, that one might not score as well for reasons such as that. Thank you. I know you all did a lot of work. This is not easy to go through all these. So, thank you very much for your time. Thank you, Board. Any other questions? All right. Thank you, Mr. Harsha. >> Information item 3.4, results of the RFP bids for mental health services. Ms. Niemeyer. Um good evening, Madam President, Dr. Smith, and members of the board. Tonight, I bring to you um the outcome of our school-based mental health provider RFP and interview process. We did interviews on March 6th and the interview committee convened um consisted of Dr. Emily Haws-Brown, Ms. Stephanie LaPlant, Ms. Shawn Bush, and Mr. Brett Crawsour. We felt that this interview committee encompass the district with everything from preschool through high school um as well as multiple multiple divisions. And as a reminder, this process is needed due to the Senate Enrolled Act 246 making this requirement that schools do have an MOU with licensed with a licensed mental health provider.
Mark Done online has his hand raised. >> Mark Done, you can come off mute and ask your question. Okay, thank you. Good evening, Mark Sony, 119 Main Street. Um about the flood planes when there when there's a loose flood planes in one spot and you got to be blasting maybe in that other spot in the spot near it. What's the regulations of doing that correctly and where your responsibility that nothing will be um pushing against each other? Mark, this is Carl. Uh, there is no flood plane issue in 61 Waverly Street. The flood plane issue is in 10 to 60 Main Street. So, um, so do you want to rephrase the question? Does it have to do with blasting or flood plane? >> Okay. Okay. with the the blasting and um they would have wouldn't they have to go out there and do surveys and and make sure the soil and all that is going to be correctly um suitable.
The rest are 70 which are for people minivans, smaller vehicles. Um the the CDL would be any of your yellow buses whether they're small, medium, or large sized. >> So So that's um that's 22 positions. They're all they're filled. >> No, I would I would off the top of my head I would say we have two openings. Thank you. Couple more. >> Yes. Go ahead. >> Under it. Um I guess the hardware you call it did the grant that um we got jointly schools and the city um was that all figured out into the IT hard um I guess you call it hardware? >> Yes. The buying of computers and things like that. Yes. Okay. And lastly, I was looking at the numbers from one to the other. Will we be adding teaching staff as well in middle school? Will we be adding one teacher from this year to last year?
Happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you. Ben Cripps in opposition from Public First Law Center. Let's see, just signing for the University of Hawaii Board of Regents, Gabe Lee, chair of the Regents. Thank you, Chair committee members. Gabe Lee, chair of the Board of Regents um testifying in favor of um this bill in particular the exemption from the Sunshine Law would um facilitate uh a more meaningful discussion among the Regents as well as management um outside of the rules of the Sunshine Law. Uh mostly one-on-one conver- conversations. And the exemption from the um public disclosure of the financial statements would um widen the pool of qualified applicants, especially in the expertise of large-scale organizational management, finance, accounting, and budget. Thank you. Uh we have let's see, Carl- Carlotta Amorino with comments from Office of Information Practice, Douglas Meller in opposition, League of Women Voters, and Sterling Morita for the Professional Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists in opposition.
Several of you have terms coming up in 2027. Is it possible to get you on the record whether you support teaching children that men can become females? Is that possible tonight? Can we address the board? Not at all. All right, that's too bad. Thank you. >> Our next speaker is Matt Sperry. >> Thank you. Um, my name is Matt Sperry. I'm an attorney. Uh, longtime Bavia resident. I grew up here. I graduated in 99. My kids go to school here. Uh, I come here to thank the board and to speak in support of the post related to Representative McBride. Uh, you've heard from lots of people tonight that have spoke more eloquently than I can. I would echo a lot of their points. Um, I know in relation to my own children, I view kind of what's been going on with the posts and kind of the current political environment as a teaching moment for them.
And doing it multiple times a week with different words to make sure we are giving kids um helping them acquire as many words as we can cuz we know that that leads to student achievement. It does. Good. Thank you. Thanks. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> [applause] >> Next we have approval of resolution affirming the district's commitment to ensuring a safe educational environment. Um I have a pre-approval statement from the board I'd just like to read before I ask for approval. This resolution serves to reaffirm the district's commitment to a safe educational environment and this recent events have affected our community, families, students, and staff. As a school district, it is an honor and our responsibility to serve and support all students and their families regardless of immigration status. Here at District 62, it is our priority to ensure all students have access to environment that is caring, safe, and conducive to learning.
They mentioned the flexibility that our staff have. I've been really impressed over the last couple of years seeing how many staff of our staff have gone or are seeking to get their EL endorsements, which has been uh know, over the last several years an area of growing need for us for us, so that's really great to see. Um and just the work of everybody around the table who come together for this process and like I said, the people who do the work outside of it cuz um you know, it's a lot of very difficult conversations at the table in terms of make sure that we're providing our students with the opportunities that we have that we can for them that we can provide for them that we are being fiscally responsible to the district and taking into account the human factor of all of those things.
Basically we're focused on two things. One is the condition of the buildings as as they sit today and the other being items from your buildings that are starting to reach the end of their useful life. Most there we go. Most um most building components have roughly a 20 to 30 year life cycle. So even your buildings that are newer like Country Trails which was built in in '09 we're starting to hit come up on that 20 year mark so we're going to start to see some things popping up on this that are are going to be due to replace in the not so distant future. Like I said we walked the interior and exterior of all the buildings. The only thing we've got left to do from a building walk standpoint is the transportation building and the farmstead that we just talked about a couple weeks ago so we're going to get out there in the next couple weeks and and wrap up those last two buildings and wrap Wold into this as well.
Black History Month at Creek Monese School District 2011U is more than a celebration. It's a commitment to learning, honoring voices, and building connections that strengthen our community. Again, these are shared on our social media so our families can get an idea of some of the things that we're doing. But I thought you would enjoy seeing that since you probably don't get the schools all the time, but there's just a lot going on in our building. So, and >> are those two those two videos are obviously on our website, but have you pushed them out on social media so that people in the community can see? >> Yes, they would be. I'm not sure if Kella pushed those out yet cuz I think I was trying to share them with you first. But, uh, that is why we do these videos. We are pushing these out to the community so people can see what's going on in our classrooms firsthand.
We've got a lot done already. We finished our I learn benchmark testing last week. Um all of our juniors took the SAT test. Um Laura Mrs. Scott has already completed the majority of the scheduling for next year. He's created the master schedule and has already meeting with individual students. Um Mr. Mannon and Mrs. Vice coordinate a March Madness Um here at the junior senior high where our Cooper youth compete there for three free throw contest and then we also do an attendance competition by grade level. So the grade levels with the highest attendance during those weeks also compete for prizes. So and referral tracking. So we do not just free throws but attendance and referral tracking. So that's good and then this has been so far other than planning for the spring the best two weeks in athletics I've had was we had no events.
They've extended that another year. So, now that expires after 2028. So, that does give us a little bit more ramp on that that piece there. Just some action steps things that were current things that are have been done and then things that are in process. So, we'll continue to look at every little thing. One of them was a $500 maintenance contract on the lifts that are that were new and have warranties and so obviously we canceled that contract. So, little things like that big things like revising a bus replacement plan that was 330ish 50,000 dollars. So, you know, it's again there's not like a magical just do this one thing. So, um that would be it on the budget report. The other item that would be in your packets would be affidavits number 67 and 68. Those are from the lease bond. Again, those are because of their lease bond anytime we spend out of that account we have to do affidavits.
[clears throat] >> Any questions or comments? >> Hearing none. Roll call, please. >> Start with Secretary Dere. >> I, Vice President Moore, >> I. >> President Duckworth, >> I. >> Trusty Kefir. >> Hi, >> Trusty Hollingsworth. >> Hi, >> Trusty Bradley. >> I >> and Trusty Gablin. >> Hi. >> That uh is enough votes to pass. Thank you very much. Next, we will move to 6.0. 04. I'm trying to get there quick for you, Dr. Underwood. You've got 6.04 and 6.05. Uh 6.04 is a public hearing on projects and preliminary determination for the general obligation bond and 6.05 consideration to adopt the project preliminary determination and reimbursement resolutions. Uh so I'm going to let you take over from there. >> Thank you, President Duckworth, members of the board, and Dr. Hoover. [clears throat] Uh, tonight's uh, preliminary determination hearing was published in accordance with all legal requirements.
So, with that, I'm going to turn it back over to you, Mr. President for a vote. >> Very good. >> All right. Is there a motion from the board with respect to the findings of fact and conclusions of law that have been prepared by board counsel in this matter? >> I move that the board approve the findings of fact and conclusions of law that have been prepared by the board counsel. >> I have a motion on the floor. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second.
Um based on the interview committee, we do have two recommendations. In fact, we'd like to recommend two providers to support the school school mental health initiative. Um first one, Jane Pauley, and we did divide out the schools, uh the ELCs, as well as their campus partners, Amy Beverland, Brook Park, Mary Castle, Winding Ridge, as well as the Diagnostic Day Treatment Program in LAA. The other recommendation we have is Adult & Child and we broke those schools down into Crestview, Forest Glen, Harrison Hill, Indian Creek, Oakland, and Skiles Test and Sunnyside, our two middle schools, Belzer and Fall Creek Valley, our two high schools, Lawrence Central and Lawrence North, as well as McKenzie. Um we did select specific schools for each provider and this was based on their presentation as well as their strengths, which we noted within the interview process. I can't stress to you enough that both of these exemplified the urgency and energy that we need in order to support our schools, family, and our community as a whole.
>> Yeah, we've had uh a lot of discussion of that in earlier uh hearings. They brought in their geo uh um hydraologist. Uh they've done a lot of uh work in the makeup of that site. the bedrock. We raised the issue of of concern of what happened uh the flooding over at the public safety building when the blasting went on over there. So, the applicant is well aware of that. It's a different situation with much much less potential blasting there. And what we've asked this evening is if um once this project starts, if it's outside the scope of what they are uh giving to um the police and fire as a plan that they come back to the conservation commission as well to make sure that there's no negative impact from blasting and and flooding. So um let's see the I the peer uh information counselors that's that is here you get other that information also >> does and we have to be careful here Mark because we really don't have jurisdiction over blasting per se we only have jurisdiction over the impact that blasting may have on uh storm water and groundwater.
>> I don't believe so. >> Okay. Yes, member Deniv. And then >> one last question. Um, the Medicaid reimbursement, did we get that last year and are we getting it this year? And who chases that down? Is that a mayor question? >> We >> Okay. >> Yes, we do. the there's the claims we we end up filing through Lower Pine Valley Collaborative. Um but it is a general fund receipt that goes to the city >> and then does it come back to us? >> It goes to it's a general fund revenue. So I mean the argument could be made that part of the money that comes to the schools is part of the Medicaid money, you know. So >> but is it a specifically earmark? You don't specifically earmark general fund revenues, but yeah. >> Okay. Well, maybe that's maybe that's a chatty moment with with you, mayor, later after you go through everything.