Other than that, I don't think anybody has presented any policies for anything and I don't think we've had any discussion about policies that anybody would want to present. So, when it comes to that, I don't disagree that we can have more conversation, but at this time I've not seen any conversation. And so um to defend myself on that as well, you know, it's this has been out there since April 13th. And very very limited conversation around it. And so, hopefully people take a look at it again. The public is expecting great things of us. We are elected officials. We are using significant amounts of the community's money and to say that one extra committee is wasted time is absurd when you're spending almost as much if not more than what the city and county are spending. so it'll be whatever it is. Thank you, Mr.
Improving our facility, strengthening strengthening instruction and planning strategically for the future of our school corporation. The work taking place across our schools reflects our commitment to ensuring every student has access to safe, modern learning environments and of course meaningful opportunities for success. But I want to take a moment to recognize our teachers and staff. Last week was teacher and staff appreciation week and I am incredibly grateful for the dedication, care, and commitment that everyone shows our students each day. I was excited to visit each building and provide every staff member with a polo that I saw some people sporting tonight. But I want to thank everyone for all that they do for our school district because truly it takes a team. In addition with your approval tonight, I'm excited for our spring newsletter to arrive in mailboxes soon. As much as we promote social media, it's important that we are getting out our newsletters to community members here in Deli and beyond to make sure that everyone knows the great things that are happening.
So like the side if you look at that sheet, the really big box on that right hand side that gives us so many more opportunities and it helps us meet many many many more students uh because of that growth and Lynn and I have been here before telling you about things we've been doing and working on this year and really a lot of the work that we've been putting in this year and digging into our data and meeting students in small groups or individually to help them because we are meeting where them where they are and helping push them forward. It's really makes this actually very exciting because the work we're doing serves this purpose, you know, before this even came out and was published. So, um, students can be successful hopefully, you know, on their island and if they're not, they can still, even if they're behind and they make growth, they can still then then be able to choose their seat.
>> Appreciate the opportunity. Thank you. Oh, nice September celebrity. >> A Jimmy Kimmel job over. >> You had to know it was coming 100%. >> At Bill's last meeting, I'm authorizing anybody that wants to come forward, just let him be on the, you know, >> agenda item, whatever. or it'll be on there. All right. Well, that one's over, I think. Oh, it's available in the superintendent's office if anybody wants to review that further talk, apparently. Um, next up is consideration of recommendation to approve changes, updates to the high ability handbook. >> In charge of that, Dr. Dr. Are there any uh >> first reading?
They didn't give me their entire lineup here, George. So I'm going to go see if I can get on their game changer. >> it was whoever was playing left field. She had to come out, but the catcher also went into the dugout. I don't know if maybe she just needed a drain, but it seems like the same catcher is back out there. Well, we we don't So no, that is a new catcher. >> a new catcher. >> So that's definitely a new catcher. Yeah, maybe it's the catcher who's moving the pitcher. So I'm going to see if I can hop on their game changer. Uh cheat a little bit and go on the Norwood Mustangs game changer app. Yeah, there she is, number two. So it looks like uh Into pitch right now is number seven. Number seven? That looks like number seven to me.
Um we're hoping to have our district property insurance and the negotiations. Um we feel like we're in a good place with negotiations. We're just waiting on our health insurance plans and that's been a lot of back and forth right now. So, um really frightened they won't even give us numbers yet. So, um kind of scary. But then we'll have a final reading on board of education policies as well. And then our casualty and women's comp insurance we'll have on there. >> There you go. >> Item number 19. I would entertain a motion to adjourn. >> Also move. >> Motion by Josh. >> Second by Allison. All those in favor say I. I. >> Any oppose? Same sign. Motion pass.
If you would have seen what they did at Del Rio with the dietitionian for four days, March 2nd to 6th of this year, to prove they met calories, carbohydrates, protein, all these standards. I just don't know if a typical person without that background could have done that. If we would have had to bring in our own dietitian, that would have been a pretty penny. So, so thank you. And so we're in a position now. We've seen how well these cash uh year ends have been. So these three annual financial reports, if you take a look at them in the 23 year, it's quite a quite a procedure. We had to call the department of education. We had to call the grants department. We had to get a help desk ticket. They say, "Oh, you want to do what with your 2023 data? You want to revise it?" Well, that's in an archive.
I hear that a lot in residential, and the reason I hear it in residential is because your roof at home can only handle a couple panels. They have to be facing south, and if you don't have a perfect roof that fits enough panels, you're not going to offset that much. Plus, how big is your bill at home? A few hundred dollars? Maybe if it's crazy, it's four or five hundred. So, you're offsetting a very small piece. In this case, you guys are spending 1.4 million, and every dollar you can offset becomes a large asset to the district. So, um again, we've we've done a lot of solar, and it's been very successful. A lot of districts in the area have it. So, I haven't heard that from the school district perspective. I do hear it from from the um residential more, but yes, I am definitely biased because um solar is something that we have uh we've really enjoyed doing.
Um from there of course is the practical implications of what does that look like and the high school team is really doing a lot of work um with a collaborative group to help them uh piece together the specifics of implementation for that. Then there are four uh suggested revised policies. Um one of those is in the student discipline rules 4300 that is to basically reflect that wireless devices uh prohibition. So those two are kind of linked together. Uh I am often critical of our state legislature but I will give them credit of policy 1700 the public records uh policy. Um we have seen a significant increase in public records requests from outofstate companies uh that are really seeking to use the data for commercial purposes. And so uh that's happening across Indiana. And so the legislature passed some some changes to that public records law that would allow us to um have some additional restrictions for those outofstate um requests that seem to be more commercial in nature.
Mayor. Ms. Weeldon. Um I'll reiterate my my aversion to another committee is just I think there's strength in seven people from the board weighing in on things rather than just two. It's not less, it's actually more that I'm after. So, including the full board in things like reports and and all of the things, I think that's a better outcome than creating another committee. That's why my position is where it is. And then just in the internal audit process, another thought, um I mentioned having a trigger, like what might trigger an internal audit. I've also seen it done where you build a competency for performing those by extra training for individuals who are capable of of doing that level of depth in questioning. And and you have a certain number of them that you feel like with the resources you've got trained up, you can perform.
Construction and facility improvements. We had a wonderful presentation tonight and hearing about the upcoming and construction projects that we're seeking approval for. These projects are important investments in the future of our schools and community. I think it's important that our community knows that we do not receive enough operations funding from the state to complete these major facility projects. As you heard, our facility assessment, you know, totaling $50 million as assessed through the facility assessment that was completed through performance services. So, these needs we hope to address through bonds over the next 10 years. even though as you saw the presentation that was given covers three years and 12.9 million. So these include the safety improvements, HVAC upgrades and other major major capital projects necessary to maintain our safe and modern learning environments. But at the same time, we remain focused on protecting classroom funding, prioritizing instruction.
And that's something that's very exciting with things we're already starting to do. And then it just helps you know that motivation to push forward for next year as well. >> Mrs. Gray, if you don't mind going to the next one. This is one of the points that the Department of Education and the General Assembly has really really emphasized and that is the idea that the N size is one meaning they literally want to look at this granularly at the individual student level. Um so previous accountability models a lot of time took into account averages. So, what was your iLearn percentage um pass rate for a school or what's your attendance rate at the high school? It literally breaks it down by student now. So, it's no longer, hey, we feel great. We have a 97% attendance rate at Huntington North High School. Well, that's great.
Are there any questions that >> I do have a couple legit >> legitimate questions. You don't have to go to the voting. >> Okay. Well, I wrote this for you. >> Um for one thing, I either didn't know or I've forgotten that we even had a separate handbook for high ability, >> you know. So, I'm assuming this is the first update. Were there a lot of changes that you had to go through to get this? I don't know the last time. >> And I've been on since 2010. I don't know >> and I've forgotten that there was even a separate handbook. >> Yeah, the last version was that I have is from 2013. And so the >> were you in 2013? I said I probably don't remember. >> And so the idea they have a lot of suggestions that you need to follow and it aligns with the grant.
So that looks like Liliana Cordani, who was catching. So Cordani moves from behind the plate to the circle. >> Okay. That makes sense. And we're not quite sure who the catcher is just yet. Uh but we will get you that, folks, when it comes. Going to give you a quick line here on Randall. Uh if you want to Maybe you can take a look at at Randall's line and let the folks know what she did for the day. Uh let's see. Yeah. Yeah, Randall um she you know, pitched for just over two innings. They uh gave up eight hits. Um and 12 runs. 10 of those were earned runs. She had six walks and no strikeouts. Um I don't know how long she was uh you know, feeling whatever injury that she does have may have been lingering a little bit earlier in the game um or maybe it was something that just happened on that last play.
Uh, sorry, Joe. He left a year or two ago. We don't have a key to the archives anymore. Sorry. Uh, so they have to approve us going in there. We have to sit here for about five hours and go through all of our journal entries on the annual financial report, but we can't touch them in our live financial data, but we have to make sure our live financial data reflects the changes we made in the three-year-old report. So, I've got a bunch of amazing employees in our department and our office and I work with two different ones to do these three reports. The 23 years been redone, the 24 year's been redone, the 25 years has been redone. We were able to move those indirect costs out of 510 fund reducing the cash move over to 570. Each one took about five hours of data analysis.
>> And then, the other part of it is it used to be there was a significant startup cost to be able to install solar. But, with the rebate and the tax credit as big as they are right now, it goes instead of looking at maybe a 10-to-12-year payback period. Now, you're looking at 6 on the app payback period. So, you actually get the your investment back quickly. And then, what happens is in the out years, it's just gravy. The savings that you normally would be given to ComEd. >> Uh are we is ComEd buying energy from us, or would the energy only be used for on-site? >> So, because you're not really getting to that 100% offset level, you there is very little time where ComEd you're going to be pushing power back. You will. You will in the summer in the peak, and and we've modeled how that works, but most of the time what happens is if you are overproducing, the meter will spin backwards and it immediately catch back up in the in the shoulder months when you're not producing as much.
And then um the other piece of uh revisions policies specifically 4410 seclusion and restraint is really consistent with some of the other policy work that we have done of making sure the policy contains what the state says has to be in policy and then developing uh administrative guidelines or a plan outside of that that also addresses what needs to be included and the state is very prescriptive specifically in that policy of what needs to be in the plan. Uh and so our team is working on that as well uh to make sure that any information that was previously in the policy will be reflected in that plan to meet the state requirements for that.
And so, it could be, you know, if you have enough people to do 50 or 100 internal audits a year, that you hold yourself to a standard of doing 50 or 100 internal audits a year. Um as we've said, the process of preparing for an audit often highlights things. That's kind of the whole point of it. So, um I've just found that having that strong internal audit process really does build a ton of competency um within your organization to and it just strengthens you overall, so. Good process. Thank you, Ms. Weeldon. Uh we do have uh an executive session coming up this evening I'm on item number three on the agenda. Our next regular board meeting is set for Columbus North High School cafeteria next Monday, May 18th, although the board meeting starts at 6:30, I think we have uh reception for retirees that starts at 6:00.
You know, our goal is to of course keep as much funding as possible directed toward teachers, curriculum, student supports, and instructional programming. I think it's important to note that school districts are allowed to transfer up to 15% of education dollars to the operations fund. In the past, we have transferred between 10% 5% and now only 3%. So again, prioritizing classroom and education. So the bond projects ensure that we can continue to support the ongoing repairs, the maintenance, transportation, utilities, and the bond projects are used specifically for the larger facility improvements. So construction timelines for our 2025 bond, we'll have work beginning. As much as we say goodbye to students, we have work that will be beginning will be beginning at Camden on the 22nd and then at our elementary school, our middle school and the corporate office beginning on the 26th of May. Our June and July board meetings will take place at Deli Community High School comments due to the construction that will be taking place here in this building.
Thanks for participating, but that means nothing in this particular model. Now, it's about each individual student. So you can have a 97% attendance rate, but it's now going to be the number raw number of students that have 10 or more absences. The state has identified that as kind of the magic number because after that it starts to negatively impact learning and their academic mastery. And so we have to really look at each individual student. Mr. Peters, Mr. Brimberry has trumpeted the the district motto, the district saying every student every day. It's at the state level now. Um, and we really have to walk that walk as it relates to knowing our students and knowing what they can do. Mrs. Gray, the next one, this one was interesting. Um, so if you followed Miss Brown's timeline earlier, she said, "We thought we this was going to pass in December.