001For the Brownsburg Community School Corporation Board of School Trustees a regular meeting, please join me in saying the Pledge of Allegiance Now join me in a moment of silence, thank you communications commendation as Murphy Thank you very much. We have five special guests and their special guests that we'd like to call them to stand up front. First, we have Brianna Lee. We have Bella Balmeseda, Hazel McCain, Holland Barnes, and Ben Grout. Now, guys, come right up here and face your families. Backs to the board. So these five folks are National Merit finalists. They're five of 15,000 seniors from the entire country, and that's a pretty big deal. Let's hear it for them, for National Merit finalists. So in addition to a lot of other things, that means you did really well on the PSAT. Ben,
002first tell me who's with you tonight. My parents are in the audience. And what are their names? Randy and Sadie Grout. All right, and so did you do anything special on the PSAT? Do you test well? How did that work out for you? Well, I'd been practicing for the SAT for a couple years beforehand, and that's really the most important thing. So you know that this, you know that this parent comes with some money if they choose you as one of the winners. Where are you going to spend that money? Where are you going to go to school after? I'm planning on Purdue. And what are you going to study? Engineering. Gotcha. Very, very, very cool. All right, Brianna, so tell me about your family and who's with you. My parents, Warren Lee and Becky
003Lee, are here with me. Gotcha. And what about the PSAT? Is that something that you were worried about? Is it something you do well at? I typically test well, but it was also really helpful to study as well. How do you study for the SAT? We have a lot of teachers who help us out, but then also Khan Academy was also a good help. Very cool. What are you into in the high school? What do you do as well as study hard? Well, I'm in my German club, and I'm also just interested in other cultures and things like that. And what do you want to study after school? I want to study chemistry. Do you know where? Not yet. I'm still undecided. Good deal. All right. We have Bella, and Bella was supposed to work
004tonight, and she took the night off. And so we're super excited that she's here to celebrate her accomplishment. Tell me who's with you. My mom, Mitzi Belmoseda. Mitzi, thanks for coming tonight as well. And tell us about the PSAT. Is this something that you were like, I got this, I'm going to nail this, I'm really good at this? I was working with a prep program over the summer, so I was hoping it would go well, and then it did go very well. What was your score? I got a perfect score on the PSAT. Well, that works. Goodness. That's pretty awesome. So what are you going to do after you leave Brownsburg High School? I got a full ride to IU under the Kelly program, so I'm hoping to study finance with a co-major in sustainable
005business. That's pretty cool. And what do you do when you're here in Brownsburg? What are you into? I'm president of our DECA chapter, so that takes up quite a bit of my time, two periods of my day. And you guys did really well at the state competition. How did you do? I got first place with my partners, Kiliuzang and Daniel Phillips, and then we're taking the most amount of ICDC qualifiers that we have before. Very cool. Congratulations. All right, Hazel, I know what you're into. Hazel, you're the guard one, right? Yeah, you're the band one. You're the guard one. Hazel McCain, who's with you? My parents, Megan and Glenn, and then my sister, Lisey. is also here. We had to force her out of the house. So tell me about the PSAT. Is this something
006that you were like, did it surprise you you did so well? It's going to sound a little conceited, but I didn't worry about the PSAT much. I'm a good test taker, so I just kind of took it. But you must do well in school and balance your time because you do a lot of extracurricular activities. What's your favorite part of being part of the band program? I really like the friends I've made. It's helped me a lot in high school because I struggle with making friends, so being kind of forced into making those friends really helped a lot. So what are you going to do when you leave us at Brownsburg? I'm still waiting on acceptances for most of my college applications, but my top picks are WashU or Northwestern, and I hope to double
007major in biology and psychology with hopes of becoming a genetic counselor. Very cool. Awesome. Holland Barnes here at the end, one of our National Merit finalists. Tell us about who's with you. I'm here with just my mom, Beth Barnes. My dad couldn't make it. He has a work trip, but just shout out to Andy Barnes. And he's the caboose of the Barnes family, right? The last Barnes that we have here at Brownsburg Schools. You did very well on the PSAT, yes? Yes, I got a 1470. Not too shabby. Did you surprise your parents with that or are you usually a pretty good test taker? I'm usually a pretty good test taker. I've been in high ability classes for my whole time throughout the Brownsburg schools and I'm actually taking both math and physics self-study because
008I'm out of the classes that the schools offer. You're bored is what you're saying. Basically, yeah. Well, we're glad that we can challenge you as much as possible, and then you have to challenge yourself. So where are you going to take this after you leave Brownsburg? It depends on where I get into, but I'd like to go to either UMich, Ann Arbor, or Stanford. So that would be very fun. And then I'd like to... major in applied mathematics and Hopefully put that into either physics or linguistics or some other topic that that seems fun. What do you like best about math? It just it tickles my brain in a way that like the other topics don't don't seem to it's just like that like instant gratification of Solving a big problem that you've been working
009on for quite a while. Very cool. I think mr. Dallar is pretty proud of you He's back in the back your assistant principal for team 2026 and your family's proud of you and we're proud of you, too So mrs. Dixon, what do you have? Brownsburg Community School Corporation Certificate of Commendation is hereby presented to Holland and Hazel and Bella and Brianna and Benjamin for being named a Commendant Scholar in the National Merit Scholarship Program. This distinction is awarded to high scorers on the PSAT and MSQT. Congratulations. To our National Merit finalists, we'll give you these certificates. And families, you can get them to take a picture because I'm going to do the same thing. Next up, we have the Brownsburg Education Foundation Report. The Rally for Our Kids Gala, presented by LeBlanc Nettles Law and
010Queen Anne's Lace Flower and Gifts, takes place this Friday, Friday, March 13th, in the Cardinal Room at the Golf Club of Indiana in Whitestown. Reservations are no longer for sale, but thank you to all individuals and businesses who are supporting this important fundraiser for BEF and the educational community of Brownsburg. The Graduate Walk Brick Special. Through March 20th, order a Graduate Walk Brick and receive $10 off a current student brick. Bricks must be ordered by March 20th to be installed by commencement. Jessica, heads up. You only have a few days left. Thank you. BEF Pioneer Camp takes place June 22nd through the 25th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Log Cabin Homestead property. All exiting 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students are invited to attend. Registration is currently open. Chip in for the
011kids golf outing presented by summers plumbing heating and cooling is June 12th 2026 at West Chase Golf Club. Individual reservations and sponsorship opportunities are available soon. For more information about all of these events, visit the BEF website or check in with Renee in the office. Thank you. Next up litigation and insurance. Doctor Joseph. Thank you. We've had some questions come up about litigation and. When there is a settlement and the cost associated with that so I wanted to share some information Excuse me so When a staff member, a parent on behalf of a student or community member files a complaint or lawsuit against a school district, the school district notifies their insurance carrier to make them aware of the situation. Some complaints are settled without mediation. Others require mediation. And still others require a fair
012amount of litigation before resolution occurs. And in rare situations, all resolution efforts are unsuccessful and the case goes to trial. So that kind of gives you the... those are the possibilities from the outset from there we work with the insurance carrier and legal counsel to determine next steps throughout this process when settlement discussions take place the insurance carrier often takes the lead on this because they're the people who are responsible for paying the settlement with the exception of the deductible that's paid by the school district. So if the case does not settle, it is responsible, the insurance company, for paying ongoing attorney fees and litigation expenses. So the deductible is based on when the policy was in effect, when the terms were in effect, at the time of the complaint or the lawsuit was filed,
013or at the time of the alleged wrongful incident occurred. So the insurance carrier's responsibility for paying the settlement amount serves as an important protection against risk. So when we think about we have homeowners insurance so that if there's a hailstorm and we have to replace our roof, we pay the deductible and our insurance company pays the balance of our roof replacement. So in a school district, we also have insurance so that we do not have to assume all of the risk. This is an important protection against risk. And then finally, When settlement negotiations result in an agreement, the school district also collaborates on other components of an agreement, such as staff training, confidentiality provisions, and additional procedural steps. And I just felt that it was important to share this at this time. Thank you. Operations
014update. Mr. Hecker. Thank you, I have a few slides here for you this evening a myriad of topics So the first we'll start out here kind of I think this is a celebration but also some information we shared this with you in Friday notes but the IHSAA came out with the reclassification as they look at sectional pairings and things which is kind of an interesting data point because you begin to list by size kind of a ranking of the high schools within the state of Indiana from the public standpoint and so I believe even as most recent community meeting, we've been talking about the Brownsburg as being the 10th largest high school in the state of Indiana. And with this most recent reclassification, we have moved up to the 8th largest high school in the
015state of Indiana. And really, when you look at those numbers, We are at 3464. There's a substantial drop-off after 1 and 2. And then 3660, we're 200 students less from being the third largest high school in the state of Indiana. So we are not a very small school any longer, which is another credit to the importance of the teen concept, I believe, that we have at the high school to make that very large school feel... shrink that down with a group of people that know your students and know what their post-secondary goals are. And so in reference, in the 2013-14 school year, we were the 18th largest high school. So we'd just barely been on the 6A list. So again, just some information for you. And that kind of leads into the next portion because
016of that growth, right? We've seen a lot of... addition and the renovation at the high school and that continues to move forward but we are coming up on some deadlines here as we approach this this end of this week March 14th Bulldog spectacular will be the last event in the main gym prior to shutting that down We're actually the north and south gyms today. We actually had crews in there beginning to disassemble some of the baskets and things in those areas. So that way we are ready to go to shut it down. I believe, again, that actually the north bleachers will be completely removed out of the gym prior to Saturday's Bulldog Spectacular, which is our show choir event. So once that closes on Monday, March 16th, the renovation begins. And included in that renovation
017will just be a brand new floor. Again, if you think about a floor only has a certain number of sandings that we can do as we repaint it before we actually lose the integrity of that particular wood floor and have to replace it. You might ask, why does that happen so quickly? Well, at Brownsburg, since that has been our only surface, that's where all of our PE kit is at. PE kiddos have been since the opening of that in 01. And so that, I promise you, makes a gym floor not last quite as long when we have all the PE kids and baseballs and all the sports that we're essentially using that surface. So that, and while, since we have to move the floor and take that out, we have to redo the bleachers and
018then it'll get a fresh coat of paint. We'll look at HVAC and things like that. But for the most part, it is kind of just a refresh of the space. We're not adding any square footage or things like that. but looking forward to having that back for us at the fall break of next school year. So really about October of 2026 is when that varsity gym will be back to us in time for girls basketball season. Another large milestone April 6th. That is when the other side of the renovation really comes back to us So we have the second floor connector hallway that opens up and that will connect the second floor from the main building to the senior academy very very excited from Getting moving those 3,400 students from north to south We're able
019to do that in a much more effective and efficient way The locker rooms just south of the gym those that renovation is complete We have the second floor art classrooms that renovation will be complete The BHS TV studio and classroom will be complete. And the Vanguard room, in addition, music classroom, that will be available for use. But we had a delay in some of the product, some of the sound product in the ceiling. And because we have to have the lift back in there to put that equipment back in, we're not installing the floor now because we don't want to ruin the floor. So it'll be available for use, but we'll have to come back in the summer and finish the space up. we will have that space back. It'll be used to just won't
020quite sound as nice as what it will once we have the percussion stuff all set. So that is really what we're doing there at the high school. Again, the second floor art classrooms and the TV studio, we won't move back into those until the summer, but we needed to have those rooms done and those spaces back to us so that way we could open up or, excuse me, close down the varsity gym and get kids back to where they need to go. You might ask yourself, what are we doing with the old TV studio? Well, that'll become part of the project lead the way area. We've had robotics kind of sharing the Vanguard space. And so now we have the robotics team kind of back in towards the project lead the way area where they
021belong because they share a lot of equipment and such. So again, we are utilizing every bit of square foot in that high school. to the best of our ability. So that's just kind of the upcoming milestones. Some updated pictures. So this again not very exciting however this is the second floor connector. We are very excited about this and so this would kind of be standing where the new the art room is looking north towards the south gymnasium. So this is a brand new spot. Terrazzo's done. We just got to get the ceiling tiles in there and we're pretty much Could be open for business today, but we are just going to go through, make a final clean, and then we will have that spot open as the students return back from spring break. This is
022pictures from inside the new TV studio. So the corner there, that'll be where the green screen will be hung. You've got the control room here where we can look out into the studio as we're doing the production. Again, and we've got some classrooms, some computer labs, some offices and things that are also off of that space. Very much, very similar to what we have on the south end. Just now, towards the north end of the building, again, we have really increased the number of live broadcasts and such. 2015 when this initial high school renovation began so moving this more to the north closer to all the athletic facilities certainly going to help with those live broadcasts and keep kids on this side of the building that way we can also secure the south side and
023not have kids and even go back and forth we can secure that area from and and chief dunning will be very very pleased at that as well We also, like I said, the locker room south, we did some more like visiting locker rooms there as well as volleyball locker rooms. Again, just a nice tidy up with new lockers. We really have kind of shrunk some of the space, especially in the visitor area, and just to make sure that it's more of a changing space, not necessarily a full locker room. That way we can host larger events and things. So we've got a couple of those. And then our boys and girls volleyball lockers will also be on the south side as well. And this is just a quick picture of inside the band guardroom. Again,
024right now it doesn't seem like it's going to be finished, but you can see there that we've got some of the acoustic panels up on the wall. There's been a lot done. We've taken this large space and divided it into two. Really on the south end of this will be an additional music classroom that the band orchestra can use, again, as we continue to expand that program. But this is ultimately what that room is supposed to then look like when it's all said and done. So we've got the mirrors on the wall for color guard so they can kind of watch themselves. We've got curtains that go across there so that way if we don't need the mirrors, we can cover those. We've got the acoustic panels and acoustic fixtures up in the ceiling as
025well as instrument storage and stuff. And it'll be carpet on the floors instead of the concrete floor, again, to ensure that we can use a lot for our percussion and, like I said, guard. So very very excited to have the space on the other side I believe of this wall wrong side of this wall would be the additional classroom space that we will use for orchestra and band So that's the high school update before I move on to east of Odell project any questions on the high school Yeah for the most once this is wrapped up and the varsity gym is wrapped up I believe then every square foot of that high school will have been renovated since since 2015 With the exception of the gym. With the exception of the gym, like I said,
026it'll come back for us in October of 2026. There is a small section of roof that we're hoping to capture in this next project that we'll get it done. It's actually right over top of the performing arts area. It's not a huge project, but that would really be the last thing we can say. We have to come back to the high school for a long period of time. Yeah. That's a huge goal to say that high school, it's a big place. Part of the high school essentially because it includes the facilities is the east of Odell project So tonight you will find a new business our recommendation to award contracts Wanted to kind of go through what the timeline of that just just quick quick dates, but essentially if we prove tonight We would look
027to mobilize on the site in June of 2026 while we are our construction trailer is currently over there We would kind of start the fence off the track as soon as track season is Finished as we begin to put the perimeter fencing up July 15th I believe is the last date that the Brownsburg girls softball Association will have on their fields and so July 15th is ultimately when it becomes ours And I July 16th. We will be out there finishing up the perimeter fence and really begin to demolish um both the track and softball fields with a completion date around august 2027 give or take a few weeks so it's not something that we can get back for the end of the school corporation for 26-27 so softball um the fields will not be finished
028but we're not doing anything with the current field so they can still have a normal season but track will have to practice and be on the road for all of their events in the spring of 2027. So we'll have that back for almost the start of school, may just be just past the start of school in 27-28 school year. Here's what that overall site looks like. This rendering is not quite the finalized version, but it's the most recent that we had prior to making the final decisions with context landscape design. So you can see here, if we feel like it needs some, where are we at? The current softball fields of this approximately 10 or so acres is in this area. And then our track goes east and west this direction with very limited parking
029in the middle. So what we are doing is utilizing the space. We're going to do more of the regulation track of north and south. So that's a new track. We'll have 10 lanes on that track. I believe our current track only has eight lanes. We think about that track. It's about 20 years old now. the number of students that have increased in the track team. We're up to about 350 on the boys alone. So when we talk about number of lanes, that is limiting the amount of time that our kids spend at a track meet because we can have more kids running per heat. And also when we talk about adding the additional runoff lanes on both sides, that helps us with practice and getting more kids reps and things. So the track will be
030a little bit bigger. In the middle, we will have the turf area, and that is going to be the line for unified and flag football. So unified football is already an IHSA sport. We believe that flag football is an emerging sport and will be upon us here soon so that we don't have to worry about, you know, quite honestly, the... Inside of that being turf is not that much more expensive than natural grass if we're going to build it from the ground up and is way less expensive than the concrete that the rest of the track is. So this is a cost-saving measure as well as an opportunity for us to have additional track space for kids that utilize it. That way we're not stepping on each other's toes. We already have enough with band
031and football and IEFA and youth football trying to use our stadium and multi-purpose field as well as the students in PE class. So we really want to have a spot that our unified track and flag football can also go and this could be used for multiple things. But you'll have the field events like long jump that will be located inside. We have high jump. There is a different iteration that I will show you in just a bit. And then we've got the two softball fields that we will construct. The one here will be all synthetic surface like turf. This will be a natural grass field like a normal softball field. On the east side of the property, we will have the shot put and disc area. That will be for the track and field spot.
032So a little bit separate area there. This will be set up to ensure that we won't be throwing discus into the homes. So it is set up for a world. If somebody breaks a world record, it might hit a house. But if we're doing that, I think we'll be happy to pay for whatever damage happens to a window. But we have a nice big area for practice and the ability to host the events. The goal here is that we should be able to host a regional or semi-state track meet with the event, again, making sure that we are bringing folks here. We will have an outbuilding there in the center. That will be a concessions as well as locker room for softball. We'll have storage for softball. We will have storage for our landscape equipment,
033things like that, and then a satellite training room for when events are going on. And so a nice space there. and then about 500 parking spots. So that is what will all take place over the course of about 15 or so months as we get started over there east of Odell. The specific layout, again, this isn't quite as fancy, but you can see here just to utilize the space more effectively as we think about hosting a large meet is we've shifted the pole vault pits to, I guess, the east side, and then that way we can run, depending on the direction of the wind, we have runways we can go either way as well as have multiple kids going. during practice and things. So just a nice big space for our kids as that program
034continues to grow. So that is the East of Odell project. And again, prior to moving on to a community engagement recap, happy to answer any questions about that. Again, looking forward to asking for your approval for award those bids later this evening. Is the track going to have lights this time? Yeah, we will have lights. Yep. So we will not have to pull the cars up with headlights to finish the track meet. So we will have the LED lights very similar to what we have of all the other facilities. And we will let the neighbors know. They should be used to the softball league anyway at this point. Should be, but because we've had such high success rate as we've built close to residential areas like we did with tennis, with Thornburg and Hunter's Cove,
035we have a meeting planned, I believe, for next Monday night. We've sent letters out to all the homeowners. Country Walk, I think, is the name of that particular. Housing addition so we've sent letters to those folks and asked invited them here to this meeting so we can go through what this will look like and we will answer those questions talk about the scope and sequence of the project time frames and things that will all be in place but yes, we can put the shields up on the lights just like we have a tennis to ensure that the Light footprint will be shining where we need it and not into folks backyards again Folks might be able to see the light but their their property will not be illuminated with with the shields we can put
036up to ensure that the light is cast in the right direction yeah well the track team is still going to be doing the normal changing locker room stuff in the normal stuff that's correct so you don't have another site on there nope make sure to clarify it that's correct so the track they have um tracking cross-country share locker room space inside the field house with the most recent renovation so they will still that's not they don't have an indoor locker room and an outdoor locker room. We do have what we call a team room, so a space if there was a lightning delay, something like that, we had to get kids in shelter. We have a spot where we can move kids safely into that area if we needed to. But for the most part,
037they will change inside and walk outside. Thank you. Yep. How does the maintenance cost of the artificial turf compare to... That's a great question with the overall maintenance be cheaper on an annual basis and so the you know what comes to we would look at actually lowering the cost of our Like the bribe you contract with number of Moe's and things we would we would be able to pull that off the list So that should be cheaper And so One could say yes, varsity and JV. The second option there is we want to ensure that we are able to prepare to play on whatever surface that the team will be playing on that particular day. It is a little cheaper. It's actually, again, turf has come down in price quite a bit since the onset.
038And so we've looked at... It's a little more expensive for turf, but not that difference. But we wanted to make sure that our kiddos would be able to prepare on either surface. So it probably would be set up more as a JV in varsity, but the varsity could be practicing on the dirt field just to make sure they're prepared to whatever facility they'll be playing at. And again, very similar to, you know, to host events now. Really, it's almost down to sectional is that schools are not able to host those events unless they have turf because they can weather, you know, rain outs and things, especially in the spring. So, a lot of us have the opportunity to host those events again. Thank you, okay And then moving into community engagement number two recap we
039had about a hundred attendees for community engagement number two just a couple weeks ago and So we as far as what was on the agenda we talked about we value as a corporation got some community input and participation Kat and I look forward to sharing kind of those results back next It's already next week, right? Next Wednesday. So March 18th is our community engagement session number three. We focused a lot on the education fund and operations fund, kind of referring to that as our operating budget, all the revenue expenditures from those funds and really what we spend our money on, as well as some school comparisons. Because we've not done a lot of school comparisons here in this format of the school board meeting and it's relatively new information, I want to quickly go through
040some of that. And again, When we do comparisons to other schools, we really look at the dollars per student in those comparisons. Why? Because again, it equalizes the comparison due to the size of the district. So for instance, a Carmel obviously is going to have a lot more money at 5,000 students in their high school versus what we are. But when we talk about what it should take to educate a student, as we look at the dollar per student, then that should be somewhat consistent throughout the state. But again, because the number of buildings we have, buses, hands to wash, number of teachers and things. That's the reason why those can vary across the state. But when we look at the money divided by the number of students, ultimately the number of students determines the
041expenses in a school district. This is not our data. This is data pulled by Policy Analytics, which is from like Form 9 reporting that we've submitted to the state. So this is not information that we have just put in a chart, but this information provided to us. We work with Policy Analytics each year on our tax base information, as well as assess value projections. And this is a service they were able to provide us. And the information shared is from the 24-25 school year. As far as who we compare ourselves to, again, Avon, Brownsburg, Carmel, Hamilton Southeastern High School, Noblesville, or excuse me, Hamilton Southeastern School District, not just high school. Noblesville, Westfield, Zionsville, and state averages. Again, why do we choose those schools? It's because, for us, similar size, type, and location, meaning large,
042suburban Indianapolis. and we compete for staffing so anyone on that list would probably have an option if the teacher would to look they would be willing to drive to those spots as well as compete for families as folks are looking to move to the indianapolis area we feel like that those are the school schools that a lot are going to be looking at which is why we compare ourselves to and so when we kind of take a look at again we talked about the education operations fund really the the areas we looked at revenue and expenditures as we divide that per student what you'll find here is The state average is obviously much higher, but when we look at Brownsburg compared to those school districts, we're not too far off where everyone else is at.
043So the number down here at the bottom, the $6,590, that is the basic grant amount that all students are provided by the state. And so when we talk about enrollment of each of our school districts, every student gets that dollar amount. After that we have complexity grant. Complexity would really be much more related to the poverty level of the school district and so as it does require more funds and resources with poverty that is the number one determining factor of student performance in schools and so there is a formula that the state uses to add, for lack of a better term, maybe a slight bonus to school corporations that are a little bit more diverse, or excuse me, a little more poverty than others. And so you can see here that as far as where
044Brownsburg ranks, they're somewhat consistent. There are some that are higher levels of poverty, some are lower level. But again, that's the main reason why Zionsville is a little less than us on the overall number because of that complexity factor. Zionsville is considered the, what's it called, richest state, or richest school in the state. And I believe that we are, shoot, maybe... 26th from the bottom I think on that so not too many schools that are between Brownsburg and Zionsville. So but overall you can see here again nine thousand six hundred sixty three dollars per student when we combine the education operations fund we talk about revenue when we divide it by our enrollment the highest number there is Hamilton Southeastern again at ten thousand two hundred fifty four dollars and so we talked about a
045community engagement meeting is while we don't seem too far off there when we talk about just money coming from the state and even local property taxes we do not play a fair game. So we are asked to do the same amount and educate students among the same standards and prepare them for the same tests and try to get them to be national merit just like every other school corporation. But here's really what we are facing. The education operations and operating referendum funds is really the total amount of operating revenue the school district would have. And so you can see that we have stayed the same amount here, this $9,663 for the total amount of revenue that we have. And the reason why that stays the same is because we are the only school on this
046list that does not have an operating referendum. And we do not plan on asking for an operating referendum in 2026. And so obviously the other school or other list here that does not have an operating referendum would be the state average. So those numbers are the same from the previous slide. What is different are all the other school corporations when we add in the operating referendum funds. There's a substantial difference in the amount of revenue that schools have to work with to provide the same services and provide the same education that we attempt to at Brownsburg schools. And so one of the things here that we talk about, all right, from $9,663 to $12,000, okay, that's about $2,500, but what does that actually mean? receive $2,500 more dollars per student, just like Carmel does, at
047our 10,000 students, that's $25 million more when we talk about our enrollment. We're not talking about that Carmel has $25 million more in revenue. They're going to have more than that than us because they're so much larger. We're talking about if we all had the same amount of students, 10,000, and we received that $12,043 per student, that would equate to about $25 million more. to do the same amount of work that we're doing now with the same amount of students. And so we really are not playing a very fair game when it comes to it. And that kind of played a part into the overall value of our education. I don't think that we've given ourself enough credit for the results that we have received with our students, with our sports teams, with all the
048things that go into that that we really truly, I don't think we've patted ourselves enough on the back because we're doing some really good things with a lot fewer dollars than a lot of our comparison schools. So that's revenue. When we look at the operating accounts, again, this would be from, as a school corporation, all of your operating budget. So no matter if that was coming from education, operations, or an operating referendum. When we look at the expenditures for a school corporation and divide those by the schools, again, you'll see that we are going to be the lowest, well, because we have the lowest amount of dollars. But you will also notice that we are spending more money than what we are bringing in. So we have been eating into some cash balance as we've
049tried to transition. Again, this is from the 24-25 school year. So we were still transitioning away from that loss of the protected taxes waiver. We really began to make some adjustments during that school year, but really haven't made the substantial cuts until this year, knowing that if legislation wasn't going to help us and we weren't going to see those changes and Senate Enrolled Act 1 was in place, we really then had to go and make those substantial cuts. Again, what you'll see here on the blue is what we're spending on general education. We're right in line. And what I would say, I've not done this comparison, but if I look at the percentages, I would say that our percentages are somewhat consistent here across the board. But again, thinking about our performance, I believe we're
050getting a lot more bang for our buck here than some of our peers. I'm not going to go through all these. We've got some special education. Again, that would probably just be more based on the population and number of students that are in that program. Again, multiple different things on here. But the last one I want to focus on is this top line, this administrative support. That administrative support line ultimately represents a lot of our central office administrators and employees. And so one of the things that I feel like sometimes is criticized when school corporations are here is we've got too many administrators of central office or you've got too many folks that aren't tied to kids. And so nobody really says we've got too many principals because it takes every principal and their assistant
051principal because we know how hard they work. You can see that when you're in the buildings. But it's always the folks that aren't directly tied to students that I feel like are questioned the most. And so I'm very, very pleased to say that in Brownsburg schools, we are putting our money back in the classroom in our buildings. And so I think this shows a nice representation of that, that out of that $10,380, only $259 of that is going towards that administrative support. And when we look across the board here, the dollar amounts being spent, again, from our peers, as high as $862 out of that $11,000. 693 from Westfield is being spent more on the administrative support at the central office level. And so again, this is not to bash anyone else, we're focused on
052Brownsburg, but I promise you that we are putting the dollars back into our kids and our teachers and in the buildings and we're doing great things. And that really shows up here. You know, what have we done with the money we have? And this is the final comparison as we look at that same group and the passing percentage on both ILEARN math and ELA scores and where we rank. You can see here since 2019 where we are there's Brownsburg and we've either been two or one. On these two years we finished behind Paramount Community Heights and there are only 30 students that they tested. Kat, how many students did we test? 4,500. In 2022, we were again behind Paramount Cottage Home and their 80 students here. In 2025, we were behind Carmel. And so, and
053one could argue, again, as Kat mentioned, as she finished up with the slide, we're not saying that's the reason, but 24-25 school year was the first year that we, you know, really we saw the implement not having the protected taxes waiver. And so we began to have to cut back or make some different decisions or not replace folks. And so just some information we wanted to share but last but not least is comparing that same that previous slide and we talked about the amount of dollars per student that they have different if we all had the same amount of money. Avon would have we if we got the same amount at Avon has we'd have another 16 million Carmel almost 25 million HSC and almost 19 million Noblesville 22 Westfield 13 and a half and
054Zionsville 16.7 again, that's if we all had the same amount of students based on the dollar amount They're receiving per kid. And so again, we feel like the value of our education what we're doing with the dollars We receive we're doing an outstanding job. And so we're very proud of that We're very proud of our teachers. Administrators are working hard to do those things. And, again, we went through that with community engagement. Wanted to make sure that you were all aware of that as well. And, again, happy to answer any other questions you might have. Questions? Shane, how many of these schools have capital? I believe all of them, except Avon, also have capital referendum. You're not even taking. We are not taking capital referendum into consideration because ultimately that is for buildings and we
055were trying to compare Just things that could be used to educate students transport students pay staff those types of things from the operating account So we do not have an operating account or excuse me We have an operating account. We do not have a capital referendum, which if you look at our debt, you would see that our debt is a little higher because we don't have that capital referendum, and we have managed the debt appropriately. We're able to drop the tax rate and still get our projects done, but most of the folks on this list are using debt and also have the capital referendum as well as the operating referendum. So Avon is the only one on this list that only has one referendum, and they have an operating referendum. They renewed it this past
056fall. Great question. Anything else? Great. Thank you very much. Thank you. First reading of 2027-2028 school calendar. Dr. Jessup. Thank you. In your packet, there is a draft of the 2027-2028 school calendar. It is in line with what we have had in the past where we've worked to see what Area 31 is going to look like, as well as continuing our fall break and spring break of two weeks and our two weeks in winter break as well. So no action needed tonight. Just wanted to make you aware of it. We will... Move that to old business and ask for approval in April. I'm happy to answer any questions questions on the calendar First reading of board policies. Dr. Jessup as we've discussed We have are moving from policies that are done with isba two policies
057that are done through Church church hittle and antrim who is our attorney group? And so I want to talk a little bit about what they have done as we What they proposed to us and then we're proposing to you There are policies that are law most policies are laws and so unless we need to further Provide clarity we don't have to have a policy for every law that implements that's implemented in school Because you have the law but sometimes you put them in policy so that you can expand on them more than what is in legislation so One of the things that CCHA has done is to condense the policies so today I'm going to represent nine policies for you These actually consolidate 22 policies from before, which will make it easier for us to
058find them, to work with them, and to be aware of them. And so the policies that are presented today, and I'm just going to read the topics of them. I'm not going to read the numbers. Non-discrimination, anti-harassment, nepotism, conflicts of interest, gifts, and use of corporation resources, firearms, weapons, and destructive devices, no tobacco policy. functions, admission to the district legal settlement, participation of non-pub and homeschooled students, test security provisions and statewide assessments, and school library material removal request procedure. And so this is the first month that we're moving to these. I will ask for a second reading and approval next month, and then we'll also have a new set that we're going to do. This is going to take close to a year for us to get through all of the policies. So no action
059needed just happy to answer any questions that you might have great questions. Thank you We'll move on to comments from patrons. Mr. Murphy Reminder that you have three minutes to speak and please share your full name and your address Oh, I thought I wrote it down, but I'd be more than glad to do that Jim Murphy 107 to 6 North State Road 267 Brownsburg, Indiana for 6 1 1 2 So short and sweet here tonight Everybody is where Senate bill 1 in the Rockets. It's caused everybody's being affected by it and This on March 17th once a month, there's a GOP chairman's breakfast and The feature speaker this month starts at 7 a.m. In the morning though is Representative Thompson, and he's going to talk about Senate Bill 1. I've sort of heard the presentation
060before, but I would suggest that the school send two people there, prominent people from the administration, just to be there. There's a chance after the... The meeting lasts officially from like 7 to 8, so everybody can go to their job. It's held at the American Legion Post at Avon. And just thought I'd pass that on to you. Another source of information. If you never heard his presentation, I hope you would do so and scratch your head like I do also. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Murphy. consent items dr. Jessup yes thank you I'm asking for approval of the minutes from the February 9th business meeting the February 23rd work session approval of claims and the superintendent's report all those in favor motion passes we have no old business this evening in new business recommendation to
061award construction contracts mr. hacker Good. Thank you so much. In the board packet, you will find all the bids that were submitted for the East of Odell project, as shared on the screen earlier. We have over 11 separate bid packages. Excuse me, not over. We had 11 separate bid packages and received 46 different bids, which was, for me, a record. I don't think it was a record overall, but it certainly took a long time to open each of those, and we were very, very excited to have that type of turnout. Because typically when you have good turnout, that means the bids come in just a little bit better. So Adam Ashoori from Iron Agem, Vice President from Iron Agem, is here tonight as well. Should we have any questions? But as you will find on
062there, highlighted are the recommendation of all the contractors we would like to go with. We have done a full review, and I think that all those folks are not only responsive but responsible. And we are ready to move forward and ask for your approval to award contracts to those individuals at this time. Is there a motion? Salute. Second. Any questions? All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. Superintendent comments doctor Jussel. Thank you. I certainly want to congratulate our National Merit finalists Exciting to hear what they're up to and I'm looking forward to some of them that are not quite sure what they're going to do next hearing from them as well This week has our first official Brownsburg lacrosse associated with the school. It's been a club before, now it's
063associated with the school. They have their first competitions this week. As Mr. Hacker mentioned, our Bulldog Spectacular, which is our giant show choir event, is this Saturday. If you have time, you should go. It is fantastic. Our students in DECA did an amazing job, and if qualified, I just signed permission for them to head to Atlanta, Georgia. next month where they will compete at the next level and then finally I want to shout out to the teachers who invite to mr. Hacker and I to do things in their classrooms most recently we were invited to be secret agents with a first grade class and we had a fantastic time over at white liquid mrs. Kreitzer's first graders so love being asked to come into classrooms and Have that time with students is super fun for
064all of us Great. That's it. Dr. Fiji. It would be fun to be a secret agent. It was. Did you have a double O number? We had secret agent shirts. And sunglasses. That's great. Thank you to the administration staff for the updates, especially about the litigation and operations funds. Very informative and needs to be known. Encouraging the community to be involved with all the... future community sessions and keep going. And have fun and be safe during the upcoming spring break. Mr. Hewitt. I do like to congratulate our National Merit Scholarship finalists. That's really impressive, perfect SAT or PSAT whichever one I would probably be a little full of myself too with those kind of results. I also want to congratulate our And individual state wrestling champions. We came up a little bit short of the
065team title, and also the DECA club for their recent success as well. Thank you, Mr. Murphy, for bringing up the American Legion meeting with our representative. I might try to make that. Appreciate you bringing that up. I hope everybody else. I was getting live updates from the DECA presentations and the awards banquet so it was pretty fun listening to how excited all the kids were. So looking forward to nationals and looking forward to spring break. Great. Mr. Hacker, I want to thank you for once again presenting all the information. I've seen the presentation at the community engagement sessions, but I know that not only is it helpful to kind of get a really clear idea of what's going on, but I also know that there are surrounding school districts that are starting to take notice
066of what Brownsburg's doing and the way that the information's being communicated because they know that they're going to be in similar situations. We had some members of other school boards at the meeting a couple weeks ago, and they were grateful for your efforts in paving the way in some of that research and data collection. I'm sure that that will help. them have positive outcomes as we hope we do. I also want to congratulate all the student success, but I was really excited to see the boys basketball team make it into the postseason, not as far as we'd like, but still worthy to be celebrated. And some of those scores were pretty close. So I think that's all I have. Have a good spring break. Thanks so much. Can I get a motion? Meeting is adjourned.