Um I think that the world of demographic studies has really changed post-COVID. Everybody was really in pretty good shape before that, but there's really an art to really predicting the future here and and we feel he's among the best. So, that new data will be plugged into here, which will be incredibly valuable. >> [clears throat] >> I think one of the key things it'll do is it'll allow us the ability to align capacity with time. To be able to predict when that growth is coming, to create those thresholds for decision making. So, once again, we don't want to be surprised. We want We want to anticipate. Uh it's a very challenging thing to do, but I have confidence in his ability to generate those numbers. Currently, we've analyzed all the building sites. Um you know, there's certainly the obvious things of, you know, classrooms relating to capacity, but there's often many other things.
>> Is this Can I ask a question? >> I'm sorry. >> When we if we say no and we decide to keep the money in the district, is it just a general operating >> line item that gets the circle? >> Jason Jason, >> uh, Miss Wolf, it'll go to that that 10 fund, the ED fund. >> I'm sorry. It'll go to the TED fund which is our the 10 fund which is our ED fund which is our biggest fund. >> Okay. All right. Any other questions, concerns? >> Madam Secretary, roll call, please. >> Mr. Salish, >> nay. Miss Veneggas >> nay. >> Dr. Hall >> nay. >> Miss Wolf >> nay. >> Zit stumbris is a nay. Mr. Gagos >> nay. >> Mr. Brown. >> Hi. No. Nay. >> I'm sorry. One more time. >> I'm going to record that as a nay. >> Thank you, Madam Secretary.
Um and so if they don't You know, the other thing is in in 2 years if they have a new budget comes and they address some of that issue, maybe that but I'm not willing to say it has not shown much um taste for uh increasing spending on schools. That's been kind of a downhill trend for the last at least three budgets. >> Have you heard anything in 2029 that they would take more money? >> No. No. No. I've not heard that. I I know I can tell you that I'm in a superintendents' call on Friday mornings and I know that I There's probably 60 or 70 superintendents in that call and I know this is an ongoing conversation every week. People are trying to figure out what to do. There's [clears throat] a school not in our area but not too far away, certainly north of Indy, [clears throat] which is dealing with transportation.
Motion passes 7-0. We leave. Very good. Items from the superintendent? >> Yep. Just want to thank everybody, our directors, our administrative team, board members, a lot of community, county folks, for coming to our school safety summit last week, certainly appreciate everybody taking time out. Important conversations to have. Had a lot of teachers there as well, and so I'll be sure to thank the teachers, administrators. Um SBOA, um State Board of Accounts, we had our ECA audit exit interview just last week. Um so, that's still kind of in the embargo process. They send us um We had that exit interview, they give us kind of their report and then they'll release their their public findings. We'll have those posted on the website when we get them, just like we have um our other State Board of Accounts audit earlier in the year. So, legislative update, obviously the short session has ended with a myriad of all kinds of things going on.
So, >> awesome. Now, you mentioned conferences. I'll be attending the National School Board Association conference in San Antonio, April 8th, I think it is, and I'll be bringing some information back in regards to maybe some national trends and things that maybe we need to to look towards. So, uh, in addition to that, uh, I did talk to Steve Sheller earlier tonight and ask him to put some pictures together of the progress that's being made at, uh, Enlow and at Writes Bowl, uh, for us to maybe don't have the time to go out and walk it. It is a construction site, so we don't they don't need us nosing around right now, but at least uh, give us some pictures and some thoughts. I I did I have a relative that lives close to Rice, and I did go over and take a peek, and it looks awesome.
>> Hearing none. Can I get a motion? >> Motion second. >> Have a motion and a second on the floor. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? >> I.
So, just recently, the state released that application window and later this evening, we'll ask your permission to apply for that loan as we've done in years past. Thank you, Mr. Miles.
All right. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. I think right now um we're in between our two hearings and we would like to take a short recess if you all don't mind. Yeah. Welcome everyone. We're back from our our break from the Ashlin Conservation Commission meeting. We just concluded one hearing and now we're going to move on to our second agenda item. We have notice of intent 10 to 60 Main Street, map 14, parcel 128, SLV Ashland LLC, Care of Lucas Environmental LLC, DP file number 95-1018. And as previously done, I'm going to turn the microphone over to the vice chair. Thanks, Greg. Um, again, as a 40B, uh, this is the second hearing for, um, 10 to 60 Main Street. Uh, previously after introductions, we agreed to stipulated facts which included, and correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Lucas. Um, we agreed that uh the majority of the site was in uh within a wet uh a flood plane, I'm sorry.
>> Correct. And the balance is title one. >> Okay. >> Down to the sped out of district tuition, the 2,647. >> Yes. 820,000 is the IDEIDA 240 grant. >> Say that again. >> 820,000 is the SPED 240 grant. >> Yeah. >> 1,527,398 is circuit breaker. >> Yep. >> $300,000 is sped tuition revolving. Then we get down to transportation and $400,000 is a transportation revolving. >> And that's it. >> Thank you. >> Yes, member. >> Um, I feel like I'm putting AL on the spot here and I apologize. When was the last time we had a tuition increase? >> I don't know. I don't know the history. And if you don't know, we'll get you the answer. >> We'll look it up. >> Yeah. >> Two years ago, right? >> Two years ago. Thank you, member D. Right. Do you have a question >> or comment?
Okay. Well, I think it's it's a good dis- discussion point, and hopefully this piece of legislation gives us the impetus to to take a look at what compromise that we can figure out if you're totally opposed to to this piece right now, then maybe we got to figure out, okay, what what Why does the board think they need this? And what what is some middle ground that we can potentially introduce in future pieces of legislation? But I think we are certainly open and open to input. I will note that, you know, approximately 40 to 45 states have similar public disclosure requirements, and we're right now doing a review of other universities. I've identified the University of Washington, the University of California all have very similar standards. So, I think this is sort of a national standard, to be clear. Um and the only thing maybe why it's in such a high context here is specifically for the UH Board of Regents that 12 years ago, 2013, we had that switch.
Um, so your time is up. >> All right. Thank you so much. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you everybody for coming to speak tonight. Very much appreciated. Thank you. All right. Uh consent agenda. According to our board policy, we designate a portion of the action items on the agenda as a consent agenda for those items that do not usually require extensive discussion before board action. These items are generally are routine, recurring, and can be grouped together for efficiency. Steve, if you like to take us through the event, if you would like to pause for a minute, sir. >> Absolutely. >> That's fine, too. >> Thanks again for coming, guys. Tony Tony Tony. Okay. didn't want to make us sweat over here the whole time. Like I don't care. >> Go ahead. >> You ready? All right. Here we go. >> Thank you. >> 7.1 is the approval of our board meeting minutes from February 17, 2026.
>> [applause] >> I have been serving on a board since my daughter my daughter's turning 30. When she was three, I was the president of the daycares parent board. So, I've been serving for a long time. I know I will I will truly miss you. I know I'm not going >> [laughter] >> And so, um unfortunately with that announcement, we have to set a date for um interviews for April 20th. I'm thinking it's the next right before the next board meeting. I imagine we would have the deadline for applications be sorry, close my calendar everybody. Um right before that. The meeting is the 20th. If we have the deadline for applications be the 17th. Um does that Yeah, accept to sign by May's meeting. But then it's like 30 days, right? I have the I have a time limit. Yeah. It's it's like 60 60 days.
At this point I'll take any questions that are emanating out of the final agreement. If not it'll come back. Of course you can ask questions between now and next month but otherwise it'll be on the agenda next month for approval.
It's kind of interesting to see how the pinch points really pop up in unexpected ways. Sometimes the cafeteria is the issue. Sometimes the gym's the issue. Parking, a classic example. Um and I think there's other issues too that relate to the site. Storm water, and to use uh an easy example, Lily Lake. You know, we know there's issues in terms of traffic flow and and pick up there, but we also know it's right on 47, which is a state road. And they have a right of way, and you can't build within that. So, really to put all that information in one place will really help determine what options are easy to achieve, which ones are more difficult to achieve, and which ones really aren't possible. So, just touching a little bit on some of the next steps, um you guys have already started um doing some of the things that we had asked of you well, and also for Matt's team to get the facility conditions assessment rolling and started.
I had something in my throat. Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. Motion carries. Motion passed. Moving on to number eight under action report. No, I'm sorry. Yeah. >> Eight under action reports. Bravo personnel and culture number one. Can I have a motion to approve the superintendent evaluation for the fiscal year 2025 2026? >> Moved by second. >> Elizabeth, second by Dr. Hall. Questions or comments? Oh, that was you, Jenny. >> I was I hit my robotic staffing. So, moved by Janine and second by Dr. Hall. Questions or comments?
They can't fund it. You have other questions for me on that? >> We need to keep in mind that local income tax is not just us, that's anybody in our county, right? >> It's uh I was at West Noble today and I was meeting with him. I I think it costs him Please don't quote me on this cuz I don't know. He he threw out a number. It's it's depending on size. I think his number was like 300,000. So he's going to They're going to lose money. I don't know how much uh East Noble loses but it is county wide. >> [clears throat] >> Any other questions? >> So leading from that, goes to one next step. Um there's there's something that I guess Again, I don't necessarily know that I even want to approach this subject but I know we're going to run out of time very quick.
Um there wasn't anything super super crazy thrown in at the last minute um sometimes like there is, um but uh we'll be digesting those over the next uh coming weeks and there will certainly be more tweaks and changes that we'll have to make to policies and just different things um finance-wise. Um There was there was an entire bill called Education Matters. Uh so, digging into that one to see what was in it um and and what might have been thrown in at the last minute. So, also thanks um to all our staff, our students. Um hope you guys have a great spring break. Uh if anybody wants to go walk with a fire marshal with me next Monday, feel free to come to work. Uh we'll be touring everything. So, uh but hope you all have a great spring break um and hopefully get some warmer weather.
So um in addition to that uh I did participate in the visits to our schools and I will just say this, it does my heart good and any parent will walk to our schools and see the engagement of our teachers and our administrators and our staff with the kids in these schools. If you take your kids somewhere else, it's it's your choice, but you're missing out because our EBSC schools are just awesome. and I appreciate everything that our staff does and it's to make our students and and our community a better place and we appreciate all they do. Uh tonight uh is there any other comments from the board at this time? Tonight we have our artwork from the New Tech Institute. Take tell you to take a look at that. Very talented. Uh they got past stickmen and that's what I'm most that is putting the the stickmen together.
>> Any opposed? That motion will carry. All right. I have approval request for some projects coming up here. So, looks like I got to read a little script here real fast.
Board, any questions or comments? All right. We'll stay with Mr. Miles for 3.6 cancellation of outstanding checks. Thank you, Madam President. Again, a procedural item that we do at this time once a year and that is to cancel any checks that are need to be done as old outstanding checks more than two years old as of December 31st and the lists have been shared and really in light of the number and the volume of checks and transactions that that the department processes, it's really a pretty small number of checks and and those can happen over a variety of reasons. Maybe maybe they were reissued. It could have been a duplicate invoice. A number of reasons could cause cause those, but we clean those up every year and we'll be asking for your permission to to do so later this evening. Thank you. Ms. Lawrence. So, I believe that I've asked this every year on the dais.