001i'd like to call to order the brownsburg community school corporation board of trustees regular meeting april 14 2025 please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all now please join me for a moment of reflection thank you communications commendations zach kelly and juggling master students from crossroads elementary miss murphy thank you mrs heffernan hello juggling masters come on up with mr kelly we think that we talked to mr kelly and we think that this might be the first time he's actually had the jugglers here mr kelly has been doing juggling masters for 24 years so 22 years at white lick elementary And Mr.
002Kelly was part of the group that opened up Crossroads a couple of years ago, and now he's in his second year. He calls it Volume 2, Season 2. But Mr. Kelly, you can talk to us a little bit about who these kiddos are and what they do with you. Sure. One, thank you for the invitation, excited to be here. Like Mrs. Murphy said, we've been doing this for now 24 years, which is pretty wild. So we brought five of our jugglers to kind of demonstrate because some of our skills work great in a room like this and other skills not so much. So we don't get to show you any of our balance moves and unicycles and things like that. But I've got Everett right here in the front, Henry right over here behind him.
003a oliver again in the middle rachel hey in the back and henry number two hey over there on the other side so hey we're gonna let them go ahead and start to show you some of their different juggling moves with flower sticks diabolos hey rings bean bags and they've got some clubs laying on the floor too so hey jugglers go for it show them what you got right okay And as they start to move, think of coming to practice with about 65 other kids at the exact same time. And trying to maintain all of these different skills and learn them. So we've been able to have practices our season this year. We had over 170 third, fourth, and fifth graders. 170, that is correct. They come to practice once a week. They show up before
004school, so they show up an hour early to be able to demonstrate and work on these different skills. And then after they've learned something, well then they have to wait a week to come back because we have so many kids. We have to break them up into different practice groups and have one group come at a time. Some of my favorite things about it, as you watch the skills that they can do, has really nothing to do with the skill itself, but what they've learned and the character that they have developed and the lifelong skills that they've learned taking them from this to whatever type of perseverance and things that they will take and use it later on in their lives too. So you have some people that have helped you with this over the
005years. Talk about them. They came to see us tonight. So this program doesn't work without the extra people that have helped over the past several years. First is Mr. Dave Marty. He's sitting up here at the front. He's been helping me out for the past seven years. He's become kind of our unicycle balance guru. And it was just by chance that he happened to start volunteering at White Lake Elementary. Mrs. Wise, our principal, found out that he could ride a unicycle. Like, well, you need to talk to our PE teacher because you won't believe what he's got going on. And it's been a fantastic friendship along the way. Kaylee Ayers is over here hiding in one of the chairs as well. She is one of our teachers at Crossroads. And, scary enough, one of my
006original jugglers that was a part of the program back in the early years. So one of my former students, now a teacher I get the privilege of working with. And without their help, it'd be unreal. And I've had so much support from administrators all the way from White Lick to now, and beyond blessed to be a part of it. We also wanted to invite you here tonight because recently, and actually almost every year, these kids get an opportunity to not just show their families and their classmates what they've done. They actually got to perform at a Pacer game. And you guys won an award because you raised so much money for the school. Yeah, the Pacers do a fundraiser, and lots of schools get the chance to participate. They will bring a choir to perform
007the national anthem. And it's cool that we bring something in that the Pacers are like, you guys bring something different to the table that we don't usually see. It's not a dance group, it's not a choir thing, and all those are fantastic too, but we bring something a little bit more unique. And this past year, with the tickets that we sold for that Pacers night, We raised more than any other school that participated and got a visit from Andrew Nimhard and Boomer. And it was really cool that that visit actually happened at Crossroads before we went to perform at Pacers Night. So that was a really cool connection to be able to do that the same week. Gotcha. Anything else you want to say about juggling masters before I go over and talk to the
008kiddos real quick? Other than I could never have imagined what it's turned into, right? The idea was to give students something alternate to work on that was outside of the traditional athletic endeavors. And who did it first? You're going to make me go there because it'll make me emotional. The first juggling master would be my mom, who was an elementary PE teacher as well. And she started a juggling program and I was kind of a guinea pig for her at home. And she'd bring stuff home and say, hey, can you learn how to do this? I'm like, sure, let's try it. And then she turned it into a program at her elementary school and she taught in Pike Township for several years. And then I kind of took her idea and ran with it from
009there. So it kind of started within the family. And, yeah, I'll just leave it at that because I'll get emotional. Thank you, Mr. Kelly. Guys, I'm going to, like, brave my way in here because I want to know, what is your favorite thing about Juggling Masters? Probably learning new stuff, such as the unicycle. Are you pretty good at the unicycle? I think yeah. All right, buddy. What's your favorite part about juggling masters? Hanging out with my friends before school. Very cool. Now, if you're a fifth grader, you're not going to be able to do this next year. So how are you going to keep juggling? I have one at home. Did mom and dad get those for you? Yeah, that's always on the list of the holidays. What's your favorite? The Diabolo. Okay. What's your
010favorite part about doing juggling, Master? Learning how to do the equipment. Like when you get to do new stuff because you got. Very cool. And now fourth grader down here, Henry, you get to do it again next year. You're going to be one of the big-time fifth graders. Is there a new tool that you're wanting to learn next year? I'm wanting to learn the pedalo. It's sort of like a unicycle, but without a seat. Well, we have a feeling that you're going to be able to do it. Well, thank you guys so much for coming in here. Thank you for all the families for bringing all your kids in the mornings and all the things. And Mr. Kelly, for what you do. Mrs. Heffernan, why don't you tell us what it says here on the
011certificate? Brownsburg Community School Corporation Certificate Accommodation is hereby presented to Zach Kelly and the Juggling Masters students at Crossroads Elementary for creating a culture of perseverance and services at Crossroads Elementary School. So thank you guys very much. Thank you guys. Now if you can get together with Mr. Kelly in the middle, we're going to take a picture of you. Thank you. All right, Brownsburg Education Foundation update, Dr. Dixon. Thank you. The Rally for Our Kids Gala, presented by LeBlanc Nettles Law and Queen Anne's Lace Flower and Gifts, took place on Friday, March 14th. The event was a huge success, raising over $82,000 to benefit the students and teachers in our school corporation. $82,000. It was a great night. Chip-In for the Kids Golf Outing, presented by Summers Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling, takes place on Friday,
012June 13th at West Chase Golf Club, with the shotgun start at 830. Online signups are on the BEF website for anyone interested in participating or volunteering. BEF Pioneer Camp will be happening again this summer, the week of June 23rd through the 26th at the Log Cabin Homestead property. All exiting 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students are invited to attend. Registration is now open and closes on May 31st. Visit the BEF website to register. brick promotions bricks can still be ordered to honor the class of 2025 graduates But will not be available until the fall of 2025 order is placed The graduate walk will be in reinstalled soon around that time as well Grants and scholarships. Scholarship applications were reviewed by the BEF Scholarship Committee at the beginning of March to determine the recipients of the
013$76,000 in scholarships that BEF will award to the Class of 2025. $27,000 of these scholarships are thanks to the generosity of the BCSC staff and the Payroll Deduction Program. The Incredible Award and District Excellent Award grant applications were submitted before spring break, and announcements about them will be made sometime in May. Thank you. Operations update, Mr. Hacker. Thank you very much. This evening I have some information on just spring break maintenance as well as some construction update pictures based on all the exciting stuff, especially as the weather breaks. You'll start seeing a lot of things happening outside here with our construction. So first up again just want to not only just explain but also celebrate our entire facilities and maintenance department Ton of work that is able to get accomplished over a short two-week period
014I am happy to report that we don't have any ceiling tiles and projectors to replace after the juggling So the kids did an amazing job this evening But again, it takes a lot of work to keep a school corporation our size moving. And while some of these things continue, or stuff that can be put on hold, there's things like this that happen every single day that our staff is making sure that our facilities are up to date and well taken care of and ensuring that the students have it. great place to learn and our teachers have a great place to teach i can tell you and i believe i've said this in board meetings before that our operations staff truly care that that they don't they don't want to be the reason that our students
015are unable to learn because they are just as proud of the academic success that our kiddos have as much as our teachers are. And so it's just great to be surrounded by a group of folks that are just committed to the vision of our district. And so, again, just things here. I'm not going to go through all these individually, but you can see lots of different buildings covered throughout the entire corporation. We did some chiller work, some cooling towers and pits, kind of the dirty stuff that sometimes we can't get to when students are in the building. And so we try to get that stuff done over the couple week breaks. We have some some pesticide and some critter control stuff that was ongoing. Some LED lighting continued through the district, some core installations with
016keys to just ensure that our safety and security measures are top notch. Did have some floor replacements in the Reagan Clinic and just a few, you know, sometimes also just include some painting and such. But again, lots of items that were completed over the last two weeks of spring break and just very, very thankful for our staff that we're here working hard to accomplish those. Moving into some construction updates, we'll kind of start outside and work our way in. So what you'll see here is the work going on the football stadium expansion project. Again, kind of on the right side. Our laser out here. What you'll see right in this area, that is all the expansion of the bleachers. Again, this will now go, if we think about the yardage on the football field, to
017the five-yard line. Each section here gives us about another 300 seats. So that means overall we'll have about 600 additional seating on the home side. We'll have far more seating on the visitor side. That is yet to go up. I believe that will start sometime next week. That you'll see the stands on the visiting side begin to go up. Again, it will also match five-yard line to five-yard line. will be one continuous set of bleachers, just like what we have here on the home side, but just not as high. Obviously, Odell Street gets in the way. We can't go that high. I think it'll be somewhere between 11 and 12 rows tall from 5-yard line to 5-yard line. Also here you can see the beginning to get some of the sidewalk poured. This is what
018we'll call the north locker room here. You'll house freshman football as well as all of our visiting. We'll also use this for lacrosse as we think about the multi-purpose field that will go here. So where the workers are, this actually will be turf moving forward. Spin turf will be out here, I believe, tomorrow. They're beginning to start to lay stuff down. Hopefully we'll get that carpet. You'll start to see some work there here soon. But this will be, again, as a reminder, a turf. field that will be utilized not only for practice football we think about the old practice football fields there that were turf is now all parking lot but also for lacrosse which is an emerging sport the ihsa more than likely become a full-time sport as well as be lined for soccer
019and we can do things like unified football and such so again in our band so lots of mpe as well so lots of folks will be on this so we can kind of keep the stadium like all most of our varsity areas and separate for those contests I saw, not that I watch Brownsburg Chatter very often, but Mr. Haywood, I thought you would enjoy this one. Somebody thought we were building a pickleball stadium. And so no truth to that rumor, unfortunately. I know probably something you would enjoy. However, this is just going to be just about 1,000 seat bleachers that will... That way when we host contests here, have contests on that multipurpose field, we'll have a spot for patrons to sit. We'll have what I'd call like a manufactured press box, much like a
020middle school you would see to ensure that we can run a full game. We'll have a scoreboard there as well and perimeter fencing around there. So again, all this is going. We're really excited to see some warm, dry weather. That way progress can continue. This is a picture from under the home stands of the varsity field. You'll notice here this is the press box and as mentioned in here this is the press box kind of getting what we'll call a facelift. The split block is getting resurfaced. Again, we're not tearing anything down, but essentially it's almost like putting tile on it and the tile, which is a thin set brick, will match the brick of the rest of the high school building. Again, as that building has come quite a bit far north and right
021next to it that This press box really stands out really needs a refresh as well as we're replacing the windows They just really weren't useful at all once we were in there. So but that's really all that's taking place. They're just re brick You will notice that we had to pull some bleachers off, but that's just so we can get all that scaffolding there, as you can see, to ensure that we can complete the progress. This will all be finished by the time that graduation is here. So we think graduation June 7th. This will be done in time for June 7th graduation so that we can utilize not only the visitors but the home side to increase the capacity there and enjoy a wonderful ceremony on the field. Moving inside the... Field house looks quite
022a bit different since the last time you a went through it and and be that we had some pictures up here So quite honestly, it looks like it could almost be done tomorrow the Mondo flooring surface is in we continue to have some painting going on here So with the lines we have the numbers in those are actually all carved into that Mondo surface But there are a few painted lines here those dashed so that we can have the lines for the straightaway as well as see Around the curve so my this is an eight lane track We have four courts here in the center, three of which are on the wood court, still to be sanded and lines painted. That's to come. This area here is also a basketball court, also lined for volleyball,
023and will also be where high jump is during our indoor track meet. And that's what that little arc is there. And the box will be where the high jump pit is, and that arc is the markings for that particular sport. The bleachers are in on this. Again, all of our bleachers are on the second floor here, just under 1,000, just a little over 900, for patrons that can attend not only an indoor track meet but also the basketball game. We will have to play varsity volleyball in here in the fall of 2026 as the varsity gym goes through renovation. So, again, this is going to be an outstanding spot to watch a game. Very, very excited. Again, the goal here is... follow our indoor track season. Our indoor track season on the road every time
024they're going somewhere, they're in Lafayette, they're on the north side, they're downtown. The goal here is that long range that we are hosting those events so that patrons are eating in our restaurants and if we have long range travelers are staying here in Brownsburg, just really more of a community center and we're excited to provide that opportunity. We can't really see it obviously in this picture, but on this far side we'll have the pole vault pit. And the next slide here, this is the long jump pits. You can see the middle one there for pole vault. We've got two pits. Those will be filled with sand. We've got to just pull these covers off the grates here just to ensure that any sand spillover kind of goes right back into the pit so we can
025easily brush that back in there and keep this area looking nice and neat. We've got scoreboards that will be marked with numbers on the court. And around the wall you'll see those are just acoustic panels to ensure that, you know, obviously the sound, it's a very large space to ensure that the viewing and the sound system works good. Again, just additional pictures here around the, this is the finish line of the track. Just really looks nice. It's nice and clean. We love the white ceilings all the LED lighting And so just an outstanding spot for our kids again as a reminder all PE classes will be in here next year So this really is the largest classroom that we have in Brownsburg High School Just another example here of the bleachers again. This is the
026second floor terrazzo still being poured here still needs to be polished up but the second floor is where all of our patrons will enter the Bleachers in order to watch the contests going on here. So and again, we do have the glass you can see here kind of separating the The athletic contests from the senior academy common cafeteria area that is there On the right is the baseball softball area. This is where we'll have four different batting cages in there. That is really on the second floor just north of the field house. The turf is in there. We'll have the place, almost like a weight room flooring surface right here in the front as well. Again, a nice space that we're not utilizing the gyms up on the north and south. We can keep those
027separate for our baseball and softball. And again, this is actually the back hallway here. This leads to concessions and restrooms on the second floor of the Field House. Field House will be here on the left. It's just the terrazzo floor. Again, it's polished down here, not quite polished there. And if you turn right, you would actually go into the second floor of the senior academy. So everything you see here, as well as all classrooms in the senior academy, everything here will be ready for the start of the 25-26 school year. And that is exciting, very, very exciting for us because the original scope and sequence of this did not have the senior academy finished until fall break. And so the fact that we are, again, on time and, most importantly, on budget, and we're going
028to have these spaces for our staff and students to come start a 25-26 school year, it should all be done. So we're thankful to Meijer and AGM to push in our contractors to get good work done, and it's going to be an absolute beautiful space, and we're excited to open it up. Happy to answer any questions you might have. What was our seating capacity for the high school before construction, and what is it going to be? That's a really good question. And I'm going to give estimates here, but I'll give you the exact numbers after I look at the scope sequence. And so I believe somewhere we were just about 3,800 on the home side, and on the visitor side I believe was another 1,100 or so, so close to that 5,000 mark, which should
029be over 6,000 with this renovation. Other questions? Awesome. Thank you very much. I was just going to say, since I missed the first tour, when's the next tour? We can set it up any time you like. So we're happy to show that off, and I can tell you that Dr. DeGay here loves talking to people and walking through. He's very, very proud of that as the former high school principal. So happy to get that set up any time that is convenient for you. Comments from patrons. Just a reminder, you have three minutes to share, and please state your name and address as approaching or before speaking. We have one patron, Nancy Stinson. My daughter attends Brownsburg East Middle School. For the initiatives for which our federal funds were approved and still are. I support DEI
030and free speech, those being our civil rights in public schools. I support Title I funding, providing additional resources to schools with high concentrations of low-income students. I support our children and our students, our local and state employees. We have all benefited by government spend in our schools by empowering all children to succeed with equal minimum standards. Children are ought to be knowledgeable and productive, benefiting not just themselves and their families, but all of us. DEI does not advantage one's race over another. As President Trump has said, it simply says that we will include you and your diversity as equal to all others. Equal, not different. President Trump is canceling programs and canceling our children by shuffling, shuttering, and or silencing the departments of education and our state employees that help them succeed. Though DEI is
031a broad term not defined in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII does prohibit discrimination regardless of race and sex. Title I was signed by President Johnson on April 12, 1965, 60 years ago this past weekend. They are both the law. One cannot pick one over the other. Politicians cannot legally withhold previously approved funds due to one person's whim. We the people voted via our Congress people and approved such funding 60 years ago Congress holds the power of the purse Funds cannot be cancelled by one person with a black marker funds can only be abolished by congressional vote or found unconstitutional by the courts and I tell you I am really broken up That I now understand about an hour ago that the school board made a decision without holding an
032open forum on this topic Thank you for your time Thank You miss it's a consent items Thank you Ask for approval of the March 10th business meeting an executive session as well as claims and superintendents report All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Thank you. Old business. Third reading and recommendation to approve 2526 school student handbooks. Ms. Lippe. Yes, so just asking for approval of the 2526 student handbooks with a reminder that we'll probably have a couple of revisions that we'll bring back early summer. As the legislative session wraps up, they're considering some language changes for bullying with the definition and reporting timelines. So that is something that will, once the legislative session ends, bring that back to you just as a revision. But currently asking for approval
033of and third reading of the 2526 student handbooks. Do we have a motion? Second. All the questions, comments? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Thank you. Second reading and recommendation to approve 26-27 school calendar. Dr. Jessup. Yes, thank you. So second reading and recommendation, I'm asking for your approval of the 26-27 calendar. It is in line with what our calendar was this past year, and we certainly work with our colleagues. Then Davis school districts just because our area 31 students go between both programs. I'm so asked for approval at this time Questions comments all those in favor signify by saying aye. I have the same sign Motion passes. Thank you new business recommendation to approve various secondary textbooks for 2526 school year. Dr. Jessup Thank you. It
034has been a minute since we've approved any textbooks because of the change in the state's allowing us to charge textbook dollars. However, we have gotten to the point where we need to get some new books. So I'm asking for approval of a dual credit biology book and high school health book. Those were selected by our teachers and reviewed by parents. So for every teacher that we have, evaluate a book we have that many parents evaluate. So if it's five teachers, it's five parents. So that process happened. So ask for approval at this time. I second. Second. Questions, comments? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposing sign. Motion passes. Thank you. Recommendation to approve out-of-district student transfers. Dr. Jessup. Thank you. So for the last several years we have approved limited out-of-district transfer.
035This year we would like to approve Out of district transfer for kindergarten through fifth grade and ninth through eleventh grade for ten students in each of the grade levels this would allow us to bring extra dollars in without causing a Pinch with our teaching and class sizes For that reason we are not open to middle schools because middle schools We are pretty tight with what our numbers currently are so asking for approval at this time do a second second questions comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed same sign motion passes thank you recommendation to approve school assignment of the estates of west branch miss lippy yes so we're seeking approval for the assignment for the estates of west branch to eagle elementary west middle school and bronzeburg high school and the
036estates of west branch There are eight homes. The price range is $677,000 to $908,000. The lots began selling on February 21st, and then once a lot is purchased, it takes about six to eight months to complete the build, and it's located at the northern boundary is Highway 136, and the western boundary is County Road 550 East. Do we have a motion? Second. Questions, comments? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Thank you. Recommendation to award construction contracts for HVAC projects. Mr. Hacker. Thank you. Including the board packet, you can see that on Thursday, April 3rd, in compliance with Indiana Public Works, that we opened up bids to replace basically the entire central plant, all HVAC equipment at White Lake Elementary School. You can see the three bids that
037came in there. The lowest bid was Irish Mechanical. It came in at just over $1.3 million. which is good news. The estimates were about 1.7 from our RE Diamond consultants, and so we're very, very pleased that this came in under estimates, and we'll get going pretty quickly here. So again, at this point in time, all the letters of recommendation from RE Diamond, our engineering consultants, are on file, and at this time just asking for your approval of these particular contracts. Do we have a motion? So moved. Do we have a second? Questions, comments? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposing sign? Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. Superintendent comments. So just a few quick things. Congratulations to our Brownsburg High School winter percussion. They competed in the WGI world class finals and
038in the world class and they made it to the finals and performed on Saturday and did an amazing job. So congratulations to them. Spring sports are off to a great start and this week we also began ILEARN. Kudos to our students who are doing a great job taking the test and being ready and certainly extra thanks to our teachers for their hard work that goes into preparing students and also proctoring which is might be one of the longest most boring jobs in education because you can't teach you have to stop put your pencils down although they're all computers so there's no putting your pencil down anymore but that's the idea so thank you. Mr. Hayward. Yeah, I just want to thank Mr. Kelly and the Juggling Masters for entertaining us tonight. I can remember that
039back when my kids were here many years ago, and it was always entertaining. I really appreciated that. I want to thank the entire Brownsburg Education Foundation for the gala they put on. It was a very enjoyable night, and raising $82,000, that's really impressive for those of us who have to raise charity funds and know how tough that is. And finally, I'm looking forward to some spring weather and some spring sports going out. Getting out on the baseball diamonds, softball diamonds, and seeing all our athletes participate. Thank you, Dr. Dixon. Super cool to see the the juggling master students. That's the first time I've had the opportunity to see them Perform so that was awesome. Appreciate that and also, mr. Hacker, mr. DeGay, dr. DeGays it has been really cool to see all of the progress
040at the All the facilities driving around town and I feel like the workers are there 24 7 know even on the weekends early in the morning there's always people working and i know that that's a huge effort by many people to make sure that things are ready to go for the start of next school year but it's noticed and appreciated so thank you for that congratulations to the juggling masters i got to tell you i was enamored watching this because it's challenging enough for me to do a yo-yo let alone toss up three things in once um mr hacker Can't wait to see the inside of that. I do need to see the golf area, too. So I'll gladly take a second tour of that place. As always, I'm echoing everything everybody else said, but
041those jugglers were amazing tonight. Welcome back to all our staff and students from spring break, and remember, summer will be here before you know it. So study and get everything done as best you can before it ends. And maybe the jugglers can work on a high school program. Just saying. They do have scholarships for that for college. I was going to challenge all you guys to go learn something by the jugglers, but I decided that we might not want to do that here in this room because we wouldn't have good tile at the ceiling anymore. So thank you to Mr. Kelly and the jugglers. I think we have one of the best maintenance and groundskeeping teams of all the districts. They are always such hardworking and willing to do anything and working ahead and have
042an eye for detail and just an amazing staff. Thank you to them. Winter percussion, thank you. And then, you know, the construction projects and staying on course. And I think it speaks volumes to the relationship you guys have built with Meijer and Aegem and how hard they work for us, too, and the partnership that we have with them. So we appreciate all your hard work there. That's all I have. Thank you. Do I have a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second. All those in favor say aye. Second. Aye. Opposing sign? Meeting adjourned.