In previous years, I think it was two years ago, the number was um much smaller was maybe 800,000. our third party administrator Gallagher renegotiated us for get to get a 100% of that pharmacy rebate. So last year we saw it shot up from 8 million up to o over a million. Um and again this year and then next year they're projecting it to be about uh 2.8. Um that's something that we we think eventually they're going to try to get away from. So insurance companies instead of giving us the rebate are going to the the employees will realize the rebate at the cash register. Um we're still about two or three years I think away from that because the infrastructure that's needed uh with the insurance company and all theies isn't in place yet. Um but we do anticipate that going away and it's um I I will be happy when it goes away because it's something that's put into the budget as an estimate.
There's a motion to approve the meeting's agenda that we have. And there's a motion on the floor from President Teddy Terrabokia and I second the agenda this evening. We're now going to vote on approving the agenda. Mrs. DeBruin? Yes. Mr. Alfano? Yes. Yes, except no on the policy on the coaching policy. That was no on the coaching policy, Mr. Alfano? Yes. Thank you for that. Mrs. DeBruin? Yes. Yep. Dr. Papaleano? Yes. Mr. Russo? Yes. Mr. Terrabokia? Yes. And Mr. Genucci is not here. So we'll I'll make a motion to close. So moved. That was Mr. Terrabokia and that was Mr. Alfano. Vote.
Um the pilots are at Gateway and Loma Linda school and I think those two commencements are coming up on the 28th and 30th of this month. Obviously, the the board's invited and parents and families involved with the students are invited as well. So, we're pretty excited to have been able to be sort of the pilot district for that program. >> realize that we were doing that and one of my best friends' mom, who's an alum of the district, does the We Grad instruction and I've been a guest speaker for her before and it's a really great program. And I'm so That's great that we got chosen for the pilot. Yeah. Yeah, it's really really pretty pretty excited about that. And then I know also coming up on May 6th, we're going to have our staff award ceremony. So, excited for the board's participation in that and the opportunity to recognize some of the great people in our district, which we have a lot of great people in our district, and also some of the great things that are happening in our district.
Senior sunset is coming up. Um the ACT is tomorrow. I don't see any juniors in but if I'm missing you, good luck. Um and then NHS had a Cal's Angels fundraiser at Panera a few weeks ago. A few It was last week. Okay. Music. Um the spring play took place last week. It was called Ghost Light. I went to see it. It was pretty funny, if I say so myself. Choir concert coming up in I think 2 weeks. Band field trip on Friday. They're going to ISU. One acts are next week, which is senior directed one act shows. There's five of them. I'm directing one. It's very sad. I would say come see it, but don't if you don't want to cry. Um show choir auditions are coming up. There's another band concert. Choir actually took a field trip um two of the choirs, not all of the choirs.
Carr, you have done a tremendous job in bringing communities together. Again, I've worked with a lot of superintendents, a lot. And one of the things I can personally say about you is you come above and beyond to make sure that you're part of the community. So for me and Mr. Franklin, thank you so much. Excellent. Would you guys like to say anything? I thank you all for all you all do for the community. I really I really really appreciate what you all do for the community. It is has me smiling. I know that you all work hard. I know that you all care. I see it every day just in the community. I hear about it. I even hear when Dr. Coglinese talks. Uh nothing but good good things to say. And if I can ever help in any way, please reach out. You've done a tremendous job.
Any questions regarding the caps that Andrea spoke of? No. I'll make a motion to accept the capped the cap numbers that we I'll I'll get with Amy and make sure we can Make sure we have the Is that We've got part of the road down there. Uh entertain a second. I'll I'll second. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Next on the agenda would be the approval of the Constellation of pricing agreement. This is one of the ones that is not in a textbook anywhere and you get to learn on the job. So, we have a third-party company called Constellation and they do our gas purchasing for us for our heating and they can usually get us a better deal. What they do is they watch the market, they buy and sell on a continuous basis. However, this past winter we did have a winter storm come through that put a shortage across the entire nation.
Any questions, comment. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose the same. Motion carries. Thank you. micro school exploration. >> Uh the administration's been been engaged in um early discussions uh with the Indiana Micro Schools Collaborative regarding the potential development of a collaborative micro school model uh to expand educational opportunities for students um in the area. So this agenda item is asking for the board's approval to move forward in principle with continued exploration of this partnership. Uh approval would would authorize me to work uh jointly with the collaborative and our legal council CCHA uh to further evaluate the structure, feasibility, governance and potential benefits of the micro school model. Uh this vote would not constitute any sort of final agreement or financial commitment. Any formal proposal or agreement resulting from this would be brought back to the board for their consideration for review.
Now our robot can grab, release objects using three brains and five motors. >> [clears throat] >> It took us four to five months to build the whole robot. The claw wouldn't go up and down. It kept [clears throat] wobble and it kept wobbling. So, we had to continue debugging. The goal was to pick up a Dixie cup, move it to a new location. Now we will like show you how our finished robot works. Notice that it takes three computers to work. That is because we are operating on three brains. What you can't see right now is that their computers are all set and ready, but that by the time that we got to this part, it had already shut it down for them. So, teamwork here, Emmett started it and then Charlie got in and and they just picked up right where what one left off to get them to the right spot so that it's ready for you.
We rely on the third uh third third party actuaries to give us that estimate. But uh this year, you know, it was a it was on a weekly basis. I was emailing Gallagher, what's the number? What's the number? When's it coming? Because we don't have the exact number and we don't have the exact day. And my fear was that we would get a a majority of it at the end of the year when it was too late to spend causing a surplus. Um so this from my understanding from Gallagher this second payment um which which totaled the 1.5 there was uh about 1.1 in December and then about 400,000 um this last month uh should be it for for this year. >> Great. Any other questions on any of this so far from committee members, non-committee members? >> Uh Mike. Yeah, Sean. >> Yeah. Quick.
So, a lot coming up, but to kind of double down on some of the earlier sentiment in the K-12 space, we often refer to May as the 100 days of May. Once once you hit the end of April rolling into May, it just there's so much with all the performances and all the commencements and all the wrapping up the year. So, keep an eye on your calendars and communications from the district. You won't want to miss. I mean, there's all sorts of amazing things happen happening with end of the year celebrations and performances and things like that. So, as a community, please be paying attention to that cuz we want to see you at these events and we want you to see the amazing things that our kids are doing. And then lastly, I know this is a long one for me, but this one was just so moving because Ms.
I didn't get to go. Um and over spring break, they went to Disney World. Um there's a senior night improv show uh in May sometime. I'm trying to cover a little bit of May, too. So, senior night improv show, music awards night is May 11th, and we had a fine arts festival, which Oh, dang it. I didn't put a picture up there, but it was so much fun. It was wonderful. Okay. And then RMS, I have no pictures, but I have a lot of things to say. Um they have basketball is done. A walk, bike, and roll, which I believe is Wednesday, May 6th. So, everyone participate in that anyway, cuz it's a lot of fun, in my opinion. Uh fun way. Sixth grade is going May 4th. Seventh and eighth grade are going May 13th, just to have a little bit of fun for the end of the year.
Thank you for Thank you. I think we appreciate the time because if you don't have someone in the district or in the program but then you're giving your time, it's that's that's a huge thing. So we appreciate everything you do because eventually those kids are coming here. Right. Right. And and even the football team when they're the younger kids are practicing they're looking at some point maybe I can play here. Exactly. >> If they're playing basketball, maybe I can play in the big gym. So yeah, thank you for all your hard work. Yeah, I and again, I you know, words cannot describe the impact that both of you have, not only on your community, your village, but the the community at large. So, Keely and and Denzel, uh you can run for president and vice president of the United States and you get my vote.
When that happens, the third-party company is forced to purchase gas during that time. It's some agreement that they have in place and they have to. So, we did see a significantly larger um cost for our gas for a period of time in the winter and so reached out to Constellation, what can we do? What are our options for this? And so, they gave us a couple of fixed renewal options that they have in place. The one that I'm recommending to the board tonight is that we do the fully fixed renewal price, and that means that we would negotiate a rate right now based on the market trends. We would accept that rate, and then whatever gas we use, that's the rate that we pay for it, regardless of what the market value of gas is at the time. The other option that they have is that we can agree upon a rate that they do on a quantity basis.
Second >> motion by Mrs. Toss, second by Mr. Fel to approve the exploration of the micro school agreement be brought back. Any questions or comments? All those in favor say I. I >> opposed the same >> motion carried 6. Thank you. >> Category update. Sir, >> uh you've seen this document a couple times each year. Uh this agenda item is asking for the board's uh consideration and updating our employment uh category document. If you'll remember correctly, this is the document that provides um pay scales uh per employee category. There are just a few minor changes this year or this time of the year for updates. Um and you can see in your board packet the spreadsheet of that document has the current compensation range and the subjective compensation. I'll move to approve the compensation recommendation changes for motion. Do I have a second? Second by Mrs.
I don't know. Oh no, technology. >> [clears throat] >> So, how about those cups? >> [laughter] >> Hey, here we go. That's all it took. Hey, here it is. Hit it. All right. Wow. Oh. Stuck. >> [laughter] >> Did you hear it mixing it? Yes. Uh-oh. Oh. >> [laughter] >> So close. Lori, you're making me nervous. >> [laughter] >> There. Oh. Backwards. >> [laughter] >> Oh, so close. The [clears throat] camera's in the back. It's so much easier. Ah. Downwards. Oh. If there weren't so many eyes on it, you know, it would have gone down already. We need the pom-poms now. Yeah, man. Yep, I know. Okay. While they're finishing this up, I just want to say thank you so much, members of the board and Superintendent Teeters, for for giving us this opportunity to share what computer science is doing at McKinney and the impact it's having on our students there.
Um, after what you just said to Luis, um, when when Angela said you're going to be aggressive with the benefits reporting, is that what she was talking about or what what does that exactly mean? >> Yeah. So, the way that Sigma works for us is we get hit with two different types of expense from them. Uh, on a monthly basis, they send us an invoice. Um and that's to cover the administrative fees uh the stop loss and uh as I say it's we pay them we pay Sigma for the privilege of being Sigma and adjudicating our claims for us. Um that comes on a a monthly basis it's uh somewhat the administrative fee is somewhat based on uh headcount. So while I know approximately what it is I don't know the exact amount. So, what I do is on a separate spreadsheet, um, every time we pay that invoice, I'll enter that amount and I kind of annualize it out as we go to project out for the rest of the year.
Ayers mentioned, you know, that we got to see Pendergast program in action >> [snorts] >> at the conference, but when we were looking to stand up our own Creighton Kids Congress, that program was already underway and our former Assistant Superintendent, Dr. Doppen, who at the time was looking for some information on how people do programs, actually went and visited with the Pendergast School District. And so, our program's a little different than theirs, but we really did benefit from their experience as we built our program. And very excited to say that we had our final meeting with the Creighton Kids Congress students, got input and feedback, some of which you may hear about tonight related to our student outcomes focus governance goals. We learned a lot about kids' experiences in math class and some of the pilot programs that we've been doing with inputs and how they feel about those and the impact that it's had on them.
The eighth graders have their dinner dance on the 19th. Um there's a like extracurricular music concert on Friday, which I believe is all of the jazz band things, uh vocal gold show choir, and their um oh, I forgot what their orchestra is called. But it's very cute. I think I'm going to that. And track, this is very exciting. Um Colin Gray, who's an eighth grader, I don't know if any of you know him, but he set a new school record for the high jump and I was told it was 5 ft 8. Which is Good job, Colin. And that is all I have to say. I feel like I just talked forever. Thank you guys so much. I'll miss you all. Go away. We're going to get a picture with you after. Okay. Time for picture. I'll see you when I see you. Which I'm sure will happen.
Uh hello. I I got to sneak in there. And his wife is one of my volunteers. I'm not sure that this is going to show that much. Cuz it's going to be too small. All right. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, Denzel. Thank you. Well, Denzel was the senior athlete, male athlete of the year. And my daughter was the female athlete of the year the same year. So, and you talk about 30 years, I remember you as a little 14-year-old. And and Keely, you have not aged one bit. You had my little 6-year-old son who's over He's 36 now. And you taught him a lot of dos and don'ts, how to carry himself on the basketball court when he can barely pick up a basketball. So, nothing but good things to say about both of you. Thank you so much, okay, for all you do.
And so, they estimate how much we're going to use. They purchase it ahead of time for us. If we use that amount, we pay the rate we agreed on. If we use more, we have to pay whatever the market rate is. Chances are, if we're using more, it's cold. It's the the rate could be up. If we don't use that amount, they will sell it back at market rate, and we could potentially get a credit. I had them run the past 14 months for us both ways, kind of a comparison for us. Both ways would be a savings for us. The fixed rate was a little bit more of a savings. So, I would like to see us enter into a 12-month agreement with them to try that rate for a year. Re-evaluate at the end of the year, see what we think once we've kind of lived in that world for a minute, and then we could always go with the other option at that time if we wanted to.