I think each of those starts at 6:30. Uh Miss Lloyd? Congratulations to Council for Youth Development. They had their annual Youth Summit last Friday at the Learning Uh over 150 students uh in attendance along with youth service providers and even Mayor Ferdon uh to focus on leadership, confidence, and connection among local youth. So, it's a great day and thanks to Freddy King and the youth ambassadors that work so hard on this event. Um regarding the School Foundation, uh we're focused on next week's Mayoral Gala which helps support STEM activities here in BCSC. So, if you are interested in attending, you can visit southasiangala.com for more information and to purchase a ticket. Um and the Good Better Best 5K is set for April 25th at Southside. Uh this event helps support the foundation, but it also supports the Out of the Box Innovation in Teaching Award uh in honor of Russ Wallace and Chuck Grimes.
However, that's part of the local bylaw that was waved by the ZBA for this and would not apply. Um, I believe Jean's comment is to clude in to keep the language at the bottom of that condition uh for the commission to determine if the proposed change warrant submission of a new notice of intent which had been originally proposed for removal by the applicant. >> Could we add um or conditions? >> Yeah, that's what I was thinking too is when we were reading that you've got a comment. >> I do. So um just a point I I think this is a u an important correction. Uh my understanding is that the minor modification policy sits outside of the storm water management bylaw has nothing to so the fact that the bylaw was the local bylaw was waved would not preclude the commission from allowing the minor modification policy to apply.
I she had a free position shot in Hopkinton just like that. Sidearm slinger those are tough to stop. I'm thrilled to see an upperclassman like Ashley taking control of the game and actually bring pressure and making things happen cuz you can see I think last game some people or some of our classmen were quiet last game and it kind of it was got to you got to be aggressive especially as it cuz you know these freshmen aren't going to be the ones coming in here and making plays as much as or at least making smart plays like the upperclassmen should be. The tide had certainly turned in the favor of Norwood so to to stop that with that goal is really critical. Payton Tripp battle cover probably. Yeah, unfortunately cover. Lilly on the ride that is questionable call. Number six with the ball here. That's a nice check by again not a good check I guess by Leah Early.
Senator Hashimoto, do you have further questions? >> I have others, but go ahead. So, so I'm I'm a little bit confused because, you know, just for context for the audience, um, you know, we I I I had a private meeting with with the chair and some of the other leadership of HTSB. Um, you know, I think it was a a pretty heated meeting because I think, you know, at the end of the day, my my district has the highest number of um emergency hires and we we have about, you know, a good chunk of J1 program members. um you did follow up with a letter, right? A lot of the letter I will say you you you complained about my delivery and my tone. Um but I will first I would like to acknowledge that you know my district it's we're facing regulatory cliff and you know I think you explicitly also wrote in that letter putting us on the spot because I asked you what are what are solutions to to really help with some of the teacher shortages that you have and you wrote in your letter putting us on the spot to produce a counter proposal for filling teacher shortages was inappropriate and then you stated this responsibility belongs to the department of education and not to the HTSB.
I'm not going through all these things, but you know, a lot of those things that you see here where the difference is, the increase from last year to this year is 6.7 million dollars. Okay? And that includes the SDA assessment that we get, our capital outlay, charter school payments, everything that we need. Okay? And just to make this very clear to everyone, if something breaks, we don't get to call up the SDA and say, "Hey, we need it fixed." That's not how it works. Okay? They give us a certain amount of money every year as an allotment and that we can use. It's usually a million dollars. We already approved that for next year. The board then approves what they think they need it for. And we can attenuate it, we can amend amend it if we have to. But, it's not pick up the phone, "Hi, SDA, our boiler just went." That's not how it goes.
All right, thank you. All right, hearing no further questions, I go to item G, action discussion. Financial and compliance audit for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025. Yep. Thank you, Mr. President. Tonight we have our our audit report um and Ms. Bedell will introduce this topic. Thank you, Dr. Cotto, President Guevara, members of the board, cabinet community. I'm pleased to be presenting um and introducing our two uh our our stellar auditor and our director of finance. We know this is an ongoing process. Um really the audit process lasts for pretty much an entire year. The for this related to this June 30th of '25, the auditors were out here last May, um and then they came back out again in October for final fieldwork. And it's really gathering a lot of the compliance requirements, questions, going out to school sites, doing a lot of standard test work, interviews with various staff members.
So, this is a really special event um that also supports teachers. So, you can visit the BCSF Facebook page for the registration link. And probably most importantly, uh the deadline for the spring grant applications uh is this week actually. So, if you are looking for a grant to support your classroom, uh you can visit the website and still get that application in. Thank you, Miss Lloyd. Mr. Lloyd? Nothing much to add to the districting and facilities. Uh Mr. Stiner hit pretty much every point on that one. Uh if you didn't hear those dates or times, I know I've posted them on my uh personal and uh representative campaign pages on Facebook and throughout other media outlets. And then the Republic also just uh published an article yesterday or the day before outlining those as well. Um and then I didn't have a wellness meeting. Um that meeting will be April 14th, but just a reminder coming up in the next week or two, uh BCSC is participating in the Indiana Youth Survey uh and that is for grades 6 through 12, and that is an opt-out survey.
Uh and I do think that having that policy in place provides that it doesn't give us anything. It simply just provides a very clear avenue that we have to follow even if there are any changes uh that essentially we get back to the same place. It's just through the uh minor modification policy. So this is just really making it >> in favor of keeping the minor modification policy >> in effect for this order condition. >> Correct. Yes. >> And we pull it back in whether it was waved or not as part of condition 49. >> Correct. >> By citing it. I will scroll down to condition 49 real quick just to make sure that we have the same language in mind. >> And there's actually uh if I may just one well I'll let you get through that. I have another I think there's just a duplicative comment in 49.
I guess we got a little too close to her face. Wide open number number eight there in the middle. Norwood going to set up their offense here see what happens. Gabby Eng on chase in chase there. Number five switch over to Ashley Forrester. ISO oof. Good defense by Ashley Forrester keeping the the ball outside of the eight. She's got her arms extended her her uh Oh, big stop by Duffy. Fuego. That was point blank shot that Sammy Siaya with the with that Julia Freeze with the wheels. Let's go Julia see what you got kid. She's going to be gassed. Yeah, good job. Nice little shake and bake there to get around her defender. Ryan Adorno standing next to her in the break in. Nice pass by Payton to Lilly. Nothing there we're going to It was Leah Early around the net. She's going to go for it again I bet.
So, it's number one, it's really confusing that you then did this, you know, apprenticeship program because you're you're saying that it's not HTSB, it's the DOE, right? And so, I don't know why you're getting into the middle of this if that's going to be your take. Um and and number two, you know, how can we trust your role at HTSB when it sounds like there's a pattern of collaboration issues, not only on the apprenticeship program, but we're hearing about the Kaipuni program, right? We talked about the J1 visa program. So, I'm I'm just really concerned about what is your solution? If you're saying, okay, you're going to try something, but then it's not your responsibility. What what what is your take on what is your responsibility and what is not? So when we talk about um what our mission and goal is when we're talking about quality educators um definitely that's important to us as well and that's why when we um do and we hear um things that we can put in place to to build up our profession and to bring people on board.
But, uh they'll help with emergent needs, meaning things that are happening, not emergencies. Okay? So, they'll give us a million dollars and say, "Here, main maintain this now or main you know, do some kind of maintenance on this work." Not, "Oh my god, it broke down and fix it." That that's if if if I can just put that to rest cuz everybody just thinks, "Oh yeah, call the SDA." It's not how it works, okay? They build buildings and give them to you. They give you the keys and they say, "Here you go." Right? That's how it works. Um which again brings me to the new building opening up next year, hopefully, okay? And some of the funding that's going to have to happen to open that up. It's not it's not as easy as take this building and squeeze it into that building. That's not how that goes.
Um and then when they come back in October, they review all of our financials to ensure that those are um booked properly and according to financial statement standards. So tonight um I do have with us Ms. Jennifer Shields, she's our partner with Heinfeld and Meech, and Francie Wolf Bauman, our director of finance, and I will have them take it away. Good evening, uh President Guevara, Governing Board, Dr. Cotto, cabinet, and community members. I'm going to go ahead and turn over the first part of the presentation to Jennifer Shields to review the audit test work and their process. Thank you, Francie. Uh good evening. Um thank you for allowing us a few minutes of time. Hopefully um I hopefully I can make them um useful minutes and make good use of my time. Um In terms of >> [sighs] >> So we come we come before you guys every year to do what we call required communications to governance.
So, you should have got a notification from your schools on whether or not you wanted your student to take those or not. So, that is it for me. Thank you, Miss Lloyd. Mr. Shaw? No meetings with my uh committees in the past month. Mr. As you know, our first strategic focused area is making sure that every student uh has mastered foundational reading skills. It'll probably be 3 4 months from now before we have final IREAD results, but the first administration is complete and Dr. Hack and her team have an update uh on that first administration. Good evening, Mr. Stiner. This is Jeannie Law, an instructional coach for the district and an instrumental part of the work that we do in BCSC. So, presenting is Dr. Jenny Detmer, principal at Taylorsville Elementary, whose leadership and knowledge around early literacy is invaluable to us as well. I'd also like to recognize the principals who are here still and a few instructional coaches that will be on your evaluation for those that did not show up tonight.
[clears throat] >> Uh condition 49 refers to changes to plan. Any proposed changes to the plans approved under this order of conditions shall require the applicant to file a request for an amended amendment to this order of conditions, the filing of a new notice of intent or to file under the commission's minor modification policy. It then goes into further language of what that entails. >> So basically what you're saying is by referencing 49 in the sentence before that, you don't need the last sentence. >> Correct. because it's basically saying the same thing in that in condition 49. >> Correct. Correct. >> I I I see that. I don't have a problem taking it out. Then >> I'm all for limiting duplication if we could. >> Well, also uh as I heard uh town council for the ZBA say multiple times, if you say the same thing twice, courts are going to wonder what which time did you if you say it twice but differently, which one did you mean?
Nope. Nice defense good slide. Yeah, smart play to to not force that. Lilly to Julia. That wide open middle nobody wants to cut. Shoot that Julia. Oh. Good save. She's fast. That's a good wheels. Nice hesitation there at the beginning on there. Oh, wide open down the middle. Ryan Adorno with the shot in the eight. Down to 46 seconds left here in the first half. Ball down Payton in chase on the ride. Number 25 is wide open someone's got to step to her. Yeah, got her way in Nice job Sammy. Nice step up there. >> Ashlyn's going to have time to get off a a shot here if they can play it right still 25 seconds left. So hopefully they can get up the field and get an opportunity. Yeah, Sammy. Payton Tripp 18 seconds left let's see what she can do. Oh, nice step around the D.
That's when we tried to bring it up to all the different stakeholders and we said look these are things that um are going around nationwide. Why aren't we doing these things? Nobody wants to take it on though. So at that point that's when we said let's try this because nobody else is coming up with any solutions and nobody else wants to try this even if we bring in the you know like um so for example with the J1s that's fine but if DOE has um other suggestions in terms of what else can we do nobody's bringing anything to the table and we're saying we have to turn to the people in our community. Um so that's when we looked at different ways on how we can bring bring in people from our community and how can we do this? Well we know that cost is the issue.
Um so, we have to be really cautious of that when we're making any cuts with this budget because, you know, anything that's cut with this budget that the board needs to bring back needs to bring it back basically twice, right? Which would be a very big impact to you. So, the board has also been talking about that. That's why we have the transition team that's going to be ready to go once this budget is hopefully approved tonight, we'll start having those meetings as well. We didn't want to meet prior to that because we we we would really probably have to backpedal a little bit if things changed. And [clears throat] there's your total appropriations. Um again, the biggest thing here is that blue area, salary and benefits. Okay? Those are contractual agreements that are negotiated in good faith with the board. They're decided upon, okay?
So, there are certain standards that we're required to follow. Um Ms. Bidel already went through a lot of the timeline. She uh she speaks uh the truth when she says this is a year-long process because we did start the 2025 audit back last April and here it is the last almost day of March and we're um or next to the last day of March and we're just now doing the presentation to the board. A lot of work goes into um you know, the entire audit. Um we're not on-site the entire year. I'm sure you ladies are thankful for that. Um but um we they do prepare an awful lot of information for us that allow us to do procedures both remotely as well as on-site. Um in terms of other required communications just to outline the scope of our audit services. So, we're hired by the board to perform the audit in accordance with um US generally accepted auditing standards and government auditing standards and uniform guidance standards.
So, good job, team. Good job, team. Tonight, we will review our students' progress in reading, the strategies we've implemented thus far, and our next steps to ensure every child is prepared to succeed. As a reminder, IREAD is a foundational reading assessment given to every second and third grade student in the state of Indiana. It has questions regarding sounds, blends, and comprehension, and it is a digital assessment which can be challenging when given to third graders. The scores are reported back to us as soon as students finish, and teachers then take that data and start to work on next steps with that child. Jenny will now share what our data looks like for our second graders who took IREAD. In the spring of 2024, we implemented universal second grade IREAD testing for across BCSC for the first time, establishing a baseline percentage of 44% of our second graders that passed in that year of 2024.
So eliminating any ambiguity, I think, is a good thing. Um, and to that I think you can just strike just because it's duplicative beginning with on or otherwise inquire in writing whether a change is substantial enough to require a new filing. That is said in the very prior sentence that very same thing. >> I apologize. I think that language is backing condition 49. I've already scrolled back up. Oh, >> sorry. Yes. >> 49. >> Yeah. So it says I'll I'll let you read it, but essentially it's the same comment uh twice in the same sentence which gives the says or otherwise inquire in writing whether a change is substantial enough to require a new filing. That's the end of that sentence. Uh but it's also stated at the beginning of that sentence. >> We like to make sure people understand All right. Well, we we can revisit that when we get to 49.