001I call to order the Brownsburg Community School Corporation Board of Regular Board of School Trustees regular meeting of May 9th 2022 please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance I ask you to join me for a moment reflection and tonight especially thinking of the Michael family who lost their five-year-old son this past weekend who was a student at the early childhood center. So keep him in your thoughts as well, please. Thank you. Consent items, Dr. Snapp. Good evening, members of the board. You have in front of you the consent items, the approval of the business meeting on April 11th, the work session on April the 25th, the claims, and the superintendent's report. Press approval at this time, please. So moved. Second. Motion and second. Any questions? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All
002opposed? Motion passes. If we can pause there. We just approved our new principles. First, for Eagle Elementary, Kathy Langridge could please stand. Kathy has been a 17-year veteran educator. Came to Brownsburg in 2005 as a media specialist. I worked in a couple other districts before she got to us as a teacher. That was high ability teacher. Has been the instructional coach for the last eight years. And we welcome her as the new principal at Eagle Elementary, for those of you who are not aware. Dr. Ryan Hoover was recently named as the new curriculum director in Westfield Washington Schools. And so we wish Ryan the very best, but also welcome Kathy to the Eagle and Brownsburg Eagle family. She's always been a part of the Brownsburg family. And then Tim Cooper. Tim Cooper will open up
003Crossroads Elementary School. This next year he'll have to plan to work with us on staff. order chairs pencil sharpeners and all the work that comes with that but we started that model five years ago when megan thomas was named a year before we opened lincoln elementary and it was a very smooth transition tim has his work cut out for him because it's a little tighter construction timeline on crossroads than we had at lincoln but he's up to the task and so he's been the assistant principal at white lick for the last three years Prior to that, he was in Perry Township and then a teacher in Speedway for 13 years. So we're glad that Tim is here as well. So thank you. Communications. First, we have a commendation. Dr. Snap? For some reason, I forget
004what the commendation is. I don't have any. I'm excited to have Team 3176, our robotics team, here this evening. And so who's the spokesperson? All right, we'll take it away. We'll give you the go once you do your demonstration and then depending on how well it goes then we'll decide if we want to keep Whether or not do accommodation outstanding job So first I'd like to say I wish that was around 15 years ago when my kids were teenagers For to clean their room, but since it wasn't why don't you tell me a little bit about the objective the competition? And then how you guys fared because I think that's why you're here tonight Yeah, so my name is Kate Harrison. I'm the project manager on our team. I'm the leader of our SAB, our
005Student Advisory Board. I'm going to tell you a little bit about the organization we're a part of and how our team is structured. So we're a part of FIRST, which is an acronym that stands for Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. We are a part of FIRST Robotics Competition, which is the highest level of their, I guess, competition. There's three levels, FTC, FLL, FRC. We're FRC, which is only high school, and it basically means our robot is the biggest. So our team is called 3176 because we were the 3,176th first team, FRC team to be founded. And our team is structured with five different sub teams that range from everything to raising our money, creating our videos and fabricating our robot. So we just, we do everything STEM wise. In the build season, we've
006got about eight to 12 weeks to build a bot just like that one, depending on the game. and it's also in charge of us to raise all of our money. We run on about $15,000 per year, depending on the different competitions we go to, where they're at, and how much our robot costs. We also host different events. This Saturday we're doing First Day, which is the event we host for the FLO team at the middle school. That is the first LEGO League team. That's the lowest level of first for elementary and middle school. They have bots that are much smaller, they're about this big, and they're made of Legos, and each year we create a game for them in the spring, and they compete in it at our annual first day, which is held at
007West. It's a combination of that competition and a community event, so the goal is to get these kids competition experience, as well as expose other kids in the community to opportunities for STEM at the high school. Next Saturday, not this Saturday, we will be at Relay for Life. We are our annual presence at Relay for Life and it's really fun for our team because we get to show everyone that goes there our robot and we get to show them our spirit and we get to bring a lot of fun to that event. I'm gonna pass it off to Nathan Lauck, our chief engineer, and he's gonna tell you a little bit more about the robot. Yeah, so as Kate kind of said a new game is released every year and so this one it was
008called a rapid react basically the objective is as you saw there was the kind of Giant tennis balls we had to pick those up and then kind of shoot them into a hub We play it's a 3v3 game So there's three teams on each side playing against each other and then it's on probably around the size of an arena about the size of a basketball court And so the objective is to pick up the big tennis balls and then kind of shoot them into a goal. And then there's a side option, as you saw the kind of two hooks on the side go up, which is you can climb and we'll actually hook those on to kind of like a pull-up bar and our robot will do a pull-up and that's another way that we
009can get points. We went to three major competitions. We went to one in Columbus, one in Tippecanoe, and then we went to State, which was at Rose-Hallman, and we ended up being the number one alliance at State and then placing overall second in the tournament. And that is your highest placement ever? We have gotten a first place finish at State, but we've never been the first alliance, which means that we were basically the team that, up until kind of the finals matches, was doing the best out of all of the teams there. Awesome. Good deal. So your leadership will come up. I know, it's really cool. A lot of friends whose kids are... All right, are we good? Thank you. You're good. You okay? Next, we're going to move to the Brownsburg Education Foundation report.
010Mrs. Dierman. Okay, so chip in for the kids golf outing presented by Summers Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling scheduled for Friday, June 10th at West Chase Golf Club. Contact BEF office for sponsorship opportunities or individual team registrations because you can register online. And then scholarships, seniors will be presented with their scholarships tomorrow, May 10th. BEF will award 44 $1,000 scholarships. two $2,000 scholarships and one $4,000 scholarship to be BHS graduates in the class of 2022 for a total of $52,000 in scholarships. 21 of these scholarships are on behalf of the BCSC employees because of payroll deduction contributions. So thank you very much for that. And grants. The District Excellence Award Grant notification went out two weeks ago. BEF awarded over $52,000. During this grant cycle, all grade levels and departments benefited from the grant cycle. The
011incredible award grant application is available within the next few weeks, and that's due August 15, 2022. And I'm not sure which organizations will be awarded how much this year, but I can say that BEF in the past has been able to support robotics quite a bit. And so you can see the benefit of the contributions we've been able to give to that organization too. Thank you. Thank you. Mrs. Nehrman operations update. Mr. Boyd Good evening. I am just happy that somewhere along the line my position in the agenda has been moved away from Commendations. Usually I was the first one to follow something like that. It's a hard act to follow Two quick things this evening first on crossroads If you have driven by the site, we are making progress The building pad is starting
012to come up and this is a map last time there were some questions about exactly where things were falling on the site And so you can see East Middle School in the lower left, and then Crossroads is in that open field to the east side of Northfield Drive. It extends all the way down to Airport Road. And if I take that map and overlay where the building will sit, the purple area is Crossroads Elementary, and then the dashed line that's below it, it's kind of where the construction trailer and the construction parking lot is located now, is where Elementary Number 9 will be built at some point in the future. One of the other things that I've... put on this diagram is where our walking paths will be. The green lines represent the pathways connecting
013the two buildings to the walking paths along Northfield and Airport Road. The one to the north will actually connect up into Creekside Commons, and the one to the south will connect to Beacon Point. So that's where we are with crossroads. So far, we're remaining on schedule. The rain over the last several weeks has really kind of slowed us down, but hopefully we'll be able to gain some traction here and move forward. Right now, we are still on schedule. So that's crossroads. The other thing I wanted to share, and you'll hear more about this later on in the agenda from Mr. Hacker, is looking at a general obligation bond project. I'm going to spend a few minutes here tonight talking about what's included in that, and then Mr. Hacker will share how we're actually paying for
014this. The items are listed there, replacement school buses. This is something that we've been doing through a bond issue of one type or another for several years now to keep our fleet current. There are a number of items that... Mr. Starkweather needs in order to make sure that our network remains current, not only on the devices that students and staff are using, but also on the network side. There are some items, such as boilers. This evening you approved a boiler replacement project at East Middle School. That kind of work more and more is moving to this kind of a bond project rather than the operations fund. And then the part that is really a construction project of sorts is some site work, which is located primarily at the high school. And the diagram on the
015right-hand side here is of Brownsburg High School. The high school itself is down here in the lower right-hand corner, the pool, the gym, and then the senior academy. And if you've noticed, through the middle of that area, this is the blue line representing the ditch that flows through it. It's a regulated drain. It's controlled by the county surveyor's office. It drains a whole part of Brownsburg up towards Brownsburg Muffler 136, that whole area by Dairy Clean. And that is really, has always been a constriction to us developing our property. And one of the interesting things that we're running into is that we're running out of parking on the Brownsburg High School site. In fact, in the lower left, it shows What our parking counts, the number of students that are parking in student parking across
016the high school campus has been. And we were expected to go to 100% capacity next year. I will tell you that I think two Fridays ago, we actually went into an oversold situation. It's kind of like running an airline. We're selling more parking spaces than we actually have available. The reason why that works is because out of 1,000 kids that are driving, there's always someone who's sick or out of... off campus for whatever reason. And so we'll be fine for the remainder of this current school year. But you can see those numbers start to get very tight. And as we move beyond next school year, we will start out probably over capacity. And there's a number of things that we can do to solve that. But one of them is to actually relocate the drain.
017All this area in green is associated with the drain. And it's about 26%, if I recall, of all the area that we have on the north end of campus available for parking. And by moving that drain out of the way, we'll be able to expand our parking. There's a basin that's kind of a shrubby-looking kind of area. At the north end, it's right behind the football stadium. That will be able to be removed, and we'll put all of that underground, which is something that you've been hearing us talk about more and more often on our projects. we're looking to start moving this forward because we do know that we're starting to run out of parking we will be as we lay this out we will be taking into consideration those things that we've thought of
018for future years so we don't wind up moving it only to find out that it's not in the right spot but really the driver on this project is really on this part of the project at least is parking at the high school so i think Here's the schedule. We're looking to start planning here in May. We would like to start to get some things into the pipeline, which is kind of a funny comment when you're moving a ditch underground. I'm not here all week. We do need to get that material on order because we are again running into more and more long lead time items the piping that is needed to move this ditch will take eight months from the time that we release the contracts the time that the material actually show up on
019site and so while this seems like we're kind of pushing this through a lot of that is driven by the fact that in order to meet some time frames we've got to get things on order. Another example of this would be West Middle School where air handling units that were scheduled to arrive in November showed up this past weekend. And so we're having to think out further and further in order to make sure that things show up in the time that we need them on our campus. So more finance information later in the agenda. Be happy to answer any questions that the board might have. Any questions for Mr. Boyd? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Boyd. First reading of staff handbooks, Dr. Jessup and Mr. Boyd. So we bring to you the first reading of the
020staff handbook staff handbooks include BCSC PD health services nutrition services transportation the teacher handbook and support staff handbook Those were provided to you in Friday notes on April 29th And this is the first reading and we'll have a second reading next month if you have any questions or concerns So no action is needed at this time any questions thank you on that now we have the second reading of board policies dr jessup so this is the second reading of the board policies as we discussed last month at the first reading these are straight from neola with the recommendations to approve these some of them are new to us and one of them actually replaces an old an old policy this will go for approval next month so we do with policies a first reading a
021second reading and then approval in the third month Questions about the second reading board policies? I did have one question. The thing that I noticed from the previous policy to the new policy was just a language. It seemed like in the old policy, the governing body or authority that's referred to as BCSC, and in this one it's the board a lot. Which seemed interesting to me. I don't know if that was a NEOLA thing, but I just thought. That's how they came to us from NEOLA with changing it to that. Okay. It seemed like in some of them it made sense, but in some of those areas where we are not overseeing, you know, the daily implementation or oversight, that maybe it should revert back to BCSC. Okay. Yeah. Any more questions or comments for
022Dr. Jessup? Thank you, Dr. Jessup. Next we have comments from patrons. I think we just have two tonight. I won't go through all the rules. I think one person has made comment before and the other one we're basically just try to limit it to two minutes if we can. We first have Aiden. Is it Chapin? Whenever you're ready. All right. My name is Aiden Chapin and then my address is 53 South Grant Street and tonight I will be speaking about mental health. My name is Aiden Chapin and I am a senior from Brownsburg High School and today I would like to talk about a topic that is really important to me which is mental health especially teen mental health. This is a subject that is really important to me because mental health could look like
023anything. It could look like anxiety, depression, ADHD, etc. But sometimes it can be hard to identify who is struggling with mental health. For me, I struggled with anxiety. I struggled with how to manage and cope with it and every day felt like it was a constant battle. In and out of nurse's office, in and out of my counselor's office, going back and forth and not feeling like I had students who related to me. It was a lonely and exhausting feeling, and I felt constantly stuck. And a huge part of that was just me missing out on my classes, missing out on my schoolwork, and even events with friends. I truly believe that a mental health coordinator is something that is really important and would be really impactful for students like me, just because of those
024feelings that I had. After COVID-19, I felt my mental health slightly improved because I really had time for myself to like sit down and find different ways to cope with my anxiety. But that wasn't the case for most students. Most students, they felt that their mental health spiraled downward. I actually decided to do a survey and ask some students around BHS what they thought about mental health. If you refer to the third page in the packet, there is some data from students. One of the surprising statistics was that 90% of students thought that having a group or even mental health coordinator would be really important. Some other data on the fourth page is some data from members of Brownsburg community and I took that on Brownsburg Chatter. And then on the third page there is
025a survey from Mrs. Thompson, the sociology teacher at Brownsburg High School who did a survey of her own and some data from the Indiana Prevention Resource Center. I hope that after tonight that looking at this data we can consider the future of mental health because a lot of students at Brownsburg community struggle with it. A lot of teachers are passionate to help those students, and I believe one option, like I said, is to have a mental health coordinator for all Brownsburg schools, and together I think we can find a way to support those students with the mental health. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Aidan. Great job. Thanks. Next we have Joe Chase. I know they're not in here, but man, that robot team was awesome, weren't they? And I second you on that,
026Jim. I wish that was around in high school. I might have done a lot better. Real quick, I wanted to cite the foundations training given to BCSC teachers. For the vision of this, it says, with conviction and courage, BCSC cultivates an environment that inspires brave and intentional actions which impact systems, promote equitable opportunities for marginalized people, and enhance the educational experience for all. There's a word there that is indicative of our current culture. It is marginalized. This word has been around a long time. It was burned into the American psyche by a woman named Kimberly Crenshaw who wrote an essay called Mapping the Margins. This essay explains the hierarchy of oppression. This was the birth of intersectionality and woke identity politics. So I would like to understand what the district means by marginalized students and
027how they will choose these students. The name Kimberly Crenshaw may sound familiar as she and Derrick Bell coined the phrase critical race theory. I think the vision for the district should be equal opportunities for all students. Also, Jim, I'd like to ask you again, what will you do to enforce equitable outcomes in the district? I'll address who I'd like, please. You will I want to address Jim wait and ask him what you will follow to our equitable I'll follow board policy and address the presiding officer, sir I have freedom of speech and I can ask the question to anybody. Okay. Yeah. Thanks, man. Wrap up You got thank you. Have a seat. I'm not going away Now I understand the mental health issues a lot of our kids in school. Oh, yeah. Thank you I
028don't care about sit down Old business, we have none. New business, recommendation to approve leases for farm property. Mr. Hacker. Thank you, Mr. Hilton. In the board packet, you would have found the included lease with Hessian Farms. Mr. Anthony Hessian, we've partnered with since 2014, which is our north property. It has about 87 acres of farmable land, something we've been doing for several years now, where we leased that land to him to farm. In return, we received, in this case, $250 an acre, a result of $21,750 of additional revenue for the school corporation. for him to plant crops on our land. And so at this time, just ask for your approval of that particular lease. Do we have a motion? Second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions for Mr. Hacker? Hearing none,
029all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Hacker. Now, recommendation for approval to publish notice of hearings related to 2022 general obligation bond. Mr. Hacker. Very good. And so you heard a lot of information tonight from Mr. Voigt regarding the potential site development of Brownsburg High School as it relates to some of the parking issues that we have. And so tonight, we really are in stage number one with the approval process, which is just to send out and get approval from you to send out the notice of of a hearing and so in in the end of may and in june we will have the preliminary determination hearing about this project where we will discuss the project in detail and financing that's associated with that and
030so tonight is really just your approval verbal approval to go ahead and authorize our notice of that hearing to take place on may 23rd at the special board meeting and on june 13th at our regular scheduled board meeting just need your approval at this time second motion and second any questions for mr hacker Hearing none, all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion passes. Thank you, Mr. Hacker. A recommendation to approve nutrition services meal prices. Mr. Boyd. Yes, this evening we're proposing meal prices for the coming school year. And what we're proposing is a 25-cent increase. This is, in large part, reflecting the increase in our costs for operation. And so these would be in effect for all the school meals served after the start of school here. And it is a
031direct result of the termination of the expanded meal waiver program that we've been operating under for the last two years. And so we're recommending approval of this. Second. Motion to second. Any questions for Mr. Boyce? Unless they average like Indiana-wise. In terms of participation? No. Oh, I'd have to find that out. I don't know that offhand. How many clubs do you think? I don't have enough information to be able to answer that question tonight. I'll ask Jordan Ryan if she has any data on that. So what you're asking is what is the average cost per meal, actual cost of meal, across the state. I'll see if I can find that. You might have had this in there, but what percentage of our students purchase lunches or meals? Well right now our participation is amazingly high
032as of last week I think we had served a million five hundred thousand plus meals breakfast and lunches It's a little over 9600 meals a day that we're currently serving right now our free and reduced population is 26% if I recall and so a very high percentage of our students are actually Receiving lunch and breakfast from us right now So for the free and reduced population, what will that look like? There actually will not be any change for the free students. The free students will still have access to those meals. That part of the program has always remained in place. Reduced students will start paying a very small amount of the total lunch, and then the paid students are the ones that have been receiving free meals for the last two school years. And so
033that's 74% of our students will be moving from a... free meal to know they're gonna have to pay for it. So. But pre-COVID they paid for it? Correct. This is going back to exactly the same program that we had in place before COVID came around. I've noticed a change in terms of how many people have used the food pantry and things like that since USDA implemented this. All right. Have we noticed a change in terms of people implementing the use of the food pantry and other things for us service-wise with the USDA actually supplying the last two years? We can ask Mrs. DeMone because she tracks those numbers. The numbers have actually stayed relatively the same. We have seen a slight uptick here recently with the cost of groceries going up and that inflation, but
034we didn't see a huge increase. surge to the pantry through COVID. Okay. Any other questions for Mr. Voigt? I have any motion second all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion passes. Thank you Mr. Voigt. A recommendation to approve new textbooks for the 2022-2023 school year. Dr. Joseph. Yes, as we discussed at our last meeting I've talked through the whole adoption process We are at the approval stage for textbooks as we talked about this These are evaluated by teachers and then once we've made the our recommendation We bring parents in and have them go through and provide feedback for these materials as well the feedback that was provided there were No comments that made it seem that we should not accept the materials that were recommended by the teachers So we
035asked for approval at this time second Motion to second any questions for dr. Jessup So yeah, just a quick question. Were there any books that there were no parents that were able to like No, every book that we reviewed, we had parent participation. You know, we talked a little bit about the elementary, so we put it out to all elementary parents. It was not a very high participation, but there were parents who evaluated all the books. Okay. And are any of the textbooks, I know they're new to us, but are any of them brand new textbooks, like even to like McGraw Publishing or any of those organizations that you know of? They are what I would refer to as new releases, for instance, from McGraw-Hill. But that doesn't mean that they might not have been
036adopted in another state a year or two ago before. Okay. Any other questions for Dr. Chesed? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion passes. Thank you, Dr. Jessup. And then finally, recommendation to approve textbook rental fees for the 2022-2023 school year. Dr. Jessup. Okay, so the next step in textbook adoption is the increase of textbook fees. I will tell you one of the reasons we're seeing some of the jumps that we're seeing is because we adopted both math and social studies this year. So instead of just having one subject, it's two. Also, the cost, the increase in cost of materials that we've seen as well. So we're seeing some pretty big in the sense that typically I'm asking for $2 or $3 more, and this year we're asking
037for around $10 on average of an increase. So I ask for approval at this time. Do I have a motion? Second. Motion is second. Any questions for Dr. Jessup on this issue? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion passes. Thank you, Dr. Jessup. Superintendent comments, Dr. Snap. Real proud of our robotics team and all the extracurricular activities and co-curricular activities that we have in the school corporation. We'll probably be seeing one of our choirs here. And June, who won a state championship this past weekend. We've had other athletes and people here as well. And so I'm just and did a great job speaking about mental health today. We know that students that are connected to their school in supportive ways, whether that's in a club, a fine arts,
038or athletic program, that is very supportive. But you did a nice job. It's not easy to get up and speak in front of people tonight. really showcasing our outstanding students and people behind every great team behind every great co-curricular event are adults that are giving all kinds of time to make that happen and so we want to appreciate them as well so thank you to those groups and i also excited to have kathy and tim joining our leadership team there Great representatives of Brownsburg and excited to have them leading our two schools. Thanks. Thank you, Dr. Snapp. Board Member comments? Yes, Aiden, you did an excellent job up there. I've been in front of a camera for 20 plus years and I still get nervous getting in front of a camera. Being a senior in
039high school, being able to stand up and speak up on mental health, that takes a lot of courage. Thank you very much for doing that. Mrs. Dierman? Yeah, I would say the same. Thank you for everyone who's here. Thank you for speaking, both people who spoke. I know it's not always pleasant, but we do appreciate hearing from the public. So thank you. Dr. Frege? I second what Ms. Dierman just said. Again, welcome to our two new principals again. I wish you nothing but success and look forward to great things. And I really love your idea of the mental health coordinator. i think it needs to be explored dr bridget miss everton great job aiden and i mean this research impressive the thought that you put into this so um good job putting all that together
040and very articulate that was impressive um and thank you for everybody else who spoke and great job to the robotics team yep and i'll just say it as well as everybody else thank you And the fact that you nailed the two minutes, I could tell you rushed in there at the very end that you had practiced this to make sure to get out in there. But good job. It's not easy to come up and talk like that on such an important issue. So thank you for that. So with that, I will have a motion for adjournment. So moved. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes. We are adjourned. Thank you, everybody.