001to start the meeting with the pledge of >> allegiance of the republic. And now a moment of silence. Thank you. Uh the next part of the board meeting is the organization of the board and I would like to turn it over to our legal counsel from Church Hill and Antrum. Good evening board members. It's a pleasure to assist you this evening with your annual reorganization of the board as required by Indiana statute. Um the first order of business is to elect officers for the coming year. Um and that can be done either by individual nomination or by slate. Um does the board have a motion to make regarding nomination of officers? I'd like to make a a motion for a slate of officers for the year 2026 for president. Christy Crosser, vice president, Stephanie Lambert
002for secretary, Joe Forgi. >> I have a motion that Christy Crosser for president, Stephanie Lambert for vice president, Joe Forgi for secretary. Is there a second to that motion? >> Second. Have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion regarding the slate of officers? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. Raise your hand. >> All those opposed. Motion is carried. Miss Crosser, you are free to continue presiding over the meeting. >> Thank you very much. All right, moving on to um board committee appointments. So, we have several committees that the board serves on and I will read uh through the uh committee and the board members name. Um, athletic review board, Brett. Attendance Review Committee, Misty, Calendar Committee, Stephanie. High Ability Advisory Council, Stephanie. ISBA Legislative Committee, Joe Noblesville Schools Education Foundation,
003Christy Noblesville Parks Board, Joe Noblesville Redevelopment Commission, Stephanie Noblesville Youth Sports Alliance, Misty Safe Schools Committee, that will be Misty and Brett. Technology Committee Misty and Wellness Committee Brett. May I have a motion? Joe. Second. Brett. Any further discussion? Okay. All those in favor? I. >> Those opposed? Motion carried. All right. Um, next, may I have a motion to appoint the administrative appointments as listed for effective the 2026 calendar year? And those are uh the traffic committee is Rob Williamson, Hamilton County Transit is Rob Williamson, compliance coordinator Julie Thcker, Hamilton County Solid Waste Advisory Committee Roy Wallace, Noblesville Department of Planning Technical Advisory Commission Roy Wallace and Title One Coordinator Jen Townsen. May I have a motion? >> Joe, may I have a second? Second, Stephanie. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I opposed.
004Motion carried. Moving on. May I have a motion to adopt the resolution for payment of the board of school trustees with a $4,800 annual salary and perdiums as indicated in the resolution effective January 2026. May I have a motion? >> Motion. >> Brett, may I have a second? >> Second by Stephanie. Um, Dr. Mr. H, would you like to share a few thoughts on this? >> Absolutely. Thank you, board, and good evening, everyone here in the audience. So, board, this is one of the annual requirements that every school board in the state of Indiana must uh approve in January to set uh any compensation rate that the board has established for themselves for the year. And so, this uh for this evening, um historically, Noblesville Schools has always just aligned this to whatever is allowed
005by law. And so, um, this has been actually stuck kind of for, um, we figured out today over 40 years as we were looking into this. Uh, the the Indiana School Board Association believes that that the amount has been frozen at at $2,000 since 1984. So, if you calculate inflation, I don't know what it should be today, but, uh, that is what it has been up until now. But then this past session, um the the legislature acknowledged that they probably should have relaxed this years ago. And so they made a change um to allow the board um annual salary to be set at um no more than 10% of the base uh starting teacher salary on your teacher scale. And so again, just maintaining past practice board, we prepared a resolution to to align with
006that. And so that's where the $4,800 uh base salary came from this evening. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Um, I have a little concern about this increase. Um, with a financial un uncertainty right now, um, I think that I would like to keep our same pay that we've had for over 40 years, which is the $2,000 annual compensation. Is there any comments, discussion? >> Yes, I I would agree. Um, I think the current financial situation that we are in with Noblesville schools, it just doesn't feel right to take this increase right now. So, I fully support doing in keeping with the $2,000. It's probably no surprise to all of you that I could probably speak for all of the board that we didn't really take this job for the pay. So, um, happy to
007do it. And, you know, not only with SEA1, but also with our enrollment. Currently, we're we have 200 less students. It just doesn't seem like a pertinent time. So, >> and we re and we revisit it every year. So, we could revisit it again. Yep. >> Um at the beginning of next year. >> Yeah. And yeah, and I agree too. Um I mean, like to touch on what Stephanie said, I didn't even realize this was a paid position until after I was elected. So, >> right, that was a bonus. Yeah. >> Um, but I think it's important for us to essentially practice what we preach. And if we're expecting >> other staff members to, you know, freeze their pay or take, you know, whatever hits that they take, it's not right for us to give
008ourselves an increase, I honestly don't even like voting for our own raise. I mean, that just seems weird. >> Yeah. >> Um, so I think to be fiscally responsible and and be in line with our expectations, we should follow that. >> Misty, the same thing happened to me. I was on got on and I'm like, "Oh, we get paid." >> I thought this was, you know, so >> uh absolutely, we need to keep it at $2,000. >> Okay, >> I agree. And I, you know, I'm with the board and it's really a privilege to serve. It's not about the money. We don't that. So, I move that we amend the resolution to set the board compensation at $2,000 for the 2026 uh school year. and been made concurrently and it's been the same the same
009since as you said 1984 it's been at 2000. I think we stay there when we're asking the rest of the school system to look really closely how we're all spending money. I think that's the best. So I make that motion. >> You make that motion? >> A second. >> Second. Okay. Um I would like to have a vote on um the amendment. So all those in favor of this amendment say I. >> I opposed. All right. Motion carries for the vote on the amendment. Um, now I would like to vote um on um the amendment as presented, which is keeping our salary the same as we have $2,000 annually. Um, all those in favor? I >> opposed. All right, motion carried. Thank you, everyone. All right, moving on. Um last year I think in the
010winter sometime um as a board we decided that we would um have a group of shared commitments. So the board me sat in and we decided we decided some things that were important to us as a board kind of how we treat each other how we operate um how we look at this this role that that we're all privileged to have. Um, one of the things that we said we were going to do is every year we were going to in January we were going to vote um, renew our commitments and this these commitments are on the website if anybody would like to um, take a look at those. So, may I have a motion to approve the Noblesville School Board of Trustees shared commitments document? >> So, move >> Joe. >> A second. >>
011Second by Brett. Any further discussion? All right. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Uh legal counsel. May I have a motion to retain Church Church Hill and Antrram as the legal council for the 2026 calendar year at the monthly retainer of $1,800. >> Take make the motion. >> Okay. Thank you, Brett. Second by Joe. All right. Any further discussion? >> All right. >> A great job. >> They do a great job. Okay. >> No regrets. >> All right. All in favor? I >> opposed. Motion carried. >> All right. Um, may I have a motion to appoint David Hormiller as the treasurer and Susan Wilson as the deputy treasurer? >> Move. >> Joe, second by Misty. Any further discussion? >> They do a great job, too. >> I mean, hands down. There's no >>
012Yeah. >> Yep. All right. All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carried. All right. Okay, we're moving right along. Um, now we are at purchase agent. May I have a motion to appoint the superintendent, the CFO, or their design as a purchasing agent for Noblesville schools pursuant to IC5-22-4-5. You have a motion. >> Motion, >> Stephanie. >> Second by Brett. Any further discussion? >> All those in favor? I >> opposed. Motion carried. >> Um, >> that was an I. I missed that. Oh, sorry. >> I was reading my note. >> Extracurricular t um treasures. Treasurers. May I have a motion to authorize the extracurricular treasures to utilize credit cards and charge accounts with the understanding that purchases are limited to items that are perishable or miscellaneous classroom supplies which are not available at
013a competitive price through another vendor. So move >> Joe. A second. >> Misty. Any further discussion? All all those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Vendor payments. Um in order to pay vendors in a more um a more efficient way and increase the efficiency of payment processing. Um the business office is seeking this approval. May I have a motion to approve the ability to pay claims on a weekly basis through December 31st, 2026? >> Motion. >> Stephanie second. >> Joe is second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I >> opposed. Motion carried. All right. May I have a motion to authorize the superintendent and the directors of special education to sign agreements for alternative services and private residential school placements? May I have a motion? >> Motion. >> Brett second. >> Joe, any further
014discussion? >> Um I actually would like to um see if you can offer some sort of explanation as to what this is and how this works. >> Absolutely. Thank you. So this is um these are for students who might need a an educational placement that is not in a standard school building or in a standard school setting. And so if you look here um it it references two different things. It talks about alternative services and private residential. And private residential is probably the most um the one that this in my brain applies to most. Um so that would be a student who maybe has specific behavioral needs or whatnot where they need to truly be placed in a residential placement. uh meaning that they would no longer live at home and that they would um
015they would go somewhere that they would live full-time to receive their education and also the care that they need. Um in case you're wondering that this does not obviously grant the school the power to just make that decision on behalf of a family. Of course not. Um that is something that would go through the the normal typical process of of working through that with families and whatnot. But if it's determined that this is what the student needs, then we do we do sometimes enter into these agreements um to help get the child placed where they where they need at that time. Um so this so this uh this item grants authority for us to sign off on that agreement if that is reached and it is is determined to be the best placement for the
016child. >> So what would happen if the agree if there is no agreement? >> The child can't go. >> So but what happens to that child though to that student? uh probably nothing good because again just for the for the sake of this without getting into like a specific example um if a student has reached that that point um we're we're talking about pretty extreme concerns. Um it it would take a lot that that everyone involved in that process would feel it's appropriate for a child to truly not live at their house anymore um and need to go to a placement like this. And so, um, I would I would say typically if you've reached that point, everyone's pretty well in agreement that that we need to do that. Um, and and for for just
017for the sake of explanation, this is very rare. Um, this does not happen often, but it does happen and it's important to to have that option to help students. And the goal is, of course, to always >> have the student return when they're >> able to. >> Do you know roughly how many we have currently? >> I don't. I can find that out for you, though. It's a very, very small number. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. All right. Any anything else? All right. All those in favor? I >> opposed. Motion carried. >> Thank you very much. We're on to recognitions. Dr. Hy. >> Sorry, I turned my mic off. Very good. Okay. So, we have um two really important recognitions this evening. So, I'm going to invite Dr. Jana Mobly up to the microphone
018because she is actually going to talk to us about both of our guests tonight. Good evening. Thanks for having us. Um, I would like Barry to come up so I can say some kind things about him. Um, so congratulations to our junior Noblesville High School student Barry Abagatti on winning the Congressional App Challenge from US Representative Victoria Sparts. uh his app focuses on improving health care communications between doctors and patients and will be displayed at the US Capitol building. Um so we got the opportunity for uh US Representative Victoria Sparts to actually come and surprise Barry at school. I think he was a little worried why I was pulling him from class. Um but his parents were in my office along with US Representative Victoria Sparts and um the look on his face was priceless.
019Um I'm sure you guys have seen the picture. Um but just to have a moment where his hard work that he does um after school hours, outside of school hours, and pours into it that's going to positively impact so many people's lives was very very special. Um and I found out a lot of fun facts about him that he even attends um like medical conferences on the weekend on his own time because this is what he wants to pour into. So, um, we have a lot of special students at Noblesville High School, as you guys know. Um, and I believe they'll all impact change in some way, but this young man is very, very special and is going to do it in big ways. So, I want to congratulate him in front of the board
020and recognize him for his effort. >> That's fantastic. >> Yes. Uhhuh. >> Great job. >> Wow. >> Yes. Another little fun fact, I asked him where he learned how to write code and he said, "Oh, I taught myself." Like it was as easy as riding a bike. Right. Um, so congratulations, Mary. >> That's amazing. >> Yes. >> Okay. At this time, I'd like to invite Eric Thornberry up to join me. So, Eric has been named the outstanding high school musical music educator of the year by Indiana Music Educators Association. Eric is a passionate educator who loves music and sets high standards for student excellence and achievements. We're thankful for his strong contributions to our school and are proud to see him recognized at this level. Thornberry is a veteran music teacher with over 30 years
021of experience and joined Noblesville High School in 2011. Under his leadership, Noblesville High School Music Program has earned state and/or national honors in jazz, marching band, color guard, orchestra, choir, and winter percussion. Noblesville has also been named a best community for music education for the past 11 consecutive years. He holds a bachelor degree in music education from Indiana State University and a master's in education from Indiana Wesleyan University. Um, and I know we highlight music all the time at board meetings, so you know how special our music programs are. But we want to formally and publicly congratulate Eric on this outstanding award. >> Good job. Good job. Long overdue. >> It was time. It was time. >> We did. >> Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. >> Congrats, Eric. >> Okay, so real quick, um, we have
022three teachers for our hair teacher spotlight. Um, and I want to go ahead and ask Chris and Allison who are here tonight to come up and join me. And I'll just read a couple of words about them. So Chris is a math teacher for us and has been a teacher for 31 years and loves helping students who have historically struggled in math. His goal for students are for them to realize that education is not just a requirement, but a pathway to life's journey. Outside of the classroom, he enjoys music, watching sports, playing golf, and spending time with friends and family. And we are so grateful to have Chris as a part of our Miller family. Congratulations, Chris. Allison Crossley is an English teacher who has been a teacher for three years. And she became a
023teacher because she knew she wanted to make a difference in students lives. She wants her kids to become critical thinkers and feel confident in their ability to analyze improve and improve the world around them. Outside of the classroom, she enjoys playing with her two dogs and support Mr. Crosley who's also supporting her tonight in his band events. So, congratulations. And then Miss Lisa Griffin, who couldn't be here tonight, but she is a resource teacher for us who has been a teacher for 30 years and became a teacher to help students fulfill their potential. Her advice to parents would be to hug their child at least once a day. And her hope for her students is that they all find their purpose. Outside of school, she likes to spend time with friends, family, travel, and read
024books, preferably by the beach. So, congratulations to Lisa. I know she couldn't be here this evening. Oh, that's nice. >> Okay, we're going to transition into uh the high school building spotlight. And I was thinking a lot about what to highlight um this evening and I realized that I feel like we we highlight the high school a lot when it comes to uh performing arts, music, our athletes and I really just wanted to take time uh to highlight all the things that really make Noblesville High School special. Um, obviously it's our students, our teachers, but some of those things that make Noblesville High School very, very special and unique, um, are the unspoken traditions that we have that exist in our building and that a lot of people actually wouldn't know unless they were there
025every day. So, to jump in, one of those things uh, that happens on game day Fridays are the marching millers and the drum line that go through the halls. And probably my favorite day of the year is the first time this happens and the look on all the freshman faces of what's that sound. So, we have a little clip for you guys just to give you a glimpse. So, I'm sure you guys have seen clips of that before, but um that is one of those really special things that I believe that exists at Noblesville High School. Um to see staff coming out of their classrooms to get videos and pictures of the kids as they walk through the halls. Um and we even have some kids that just follow them through the halls because they
026like it so much. Um, one of the other ones is our guitar class that goes around and does carolling the week before finals and they have signups and teachers can sign up for a quick twominute uh the whole guitar class comes down and and does a little number for them um just to bring some holiday cheer and kind of break up the routine before finals week. Another one uh that some of our teachers love um are our admin holiday delivery to teachers where um the admins kind of make a fool of themselves and dress up in these inflatable holiday costumes and try to deliver chocolate or hot chocolate and coffee in those costumes is pretty entertaining for them. Um but we started this several years ago and it's something that our staff just kind of
027looks forward to. Um and it breaks up it celebrates them. >> Which one are you in? Uh, I in that bottom one I think I'm the reindeer. I can't remember. I switch it up every year which one I'm in. This year I was the Nutcracker. The other admins picked it for me. So, and then um another one that you guys I'm sure have heard of is Faculty Night Live. Uh, this is every other year and it raises money for a scholarship that we give out at honors night from our school climate committee. Um, and it it's hard to capture what faculty night live means to our staff. Um, it's in that we do that in that stretch between January and March where sometimes it school feels long. Um, but it helps them laugh and come
028together and get outside of their departments and and spend some time together. So, we've got a couple really short clips for you. There's probably some familiar faces in here um for you guys to see. This one, if you can't see it, the This is the newlywed game and it is the Giardanos that are being introduced right now. The next one is Mr. Wilkins and his wife that used to teach math at our building. And then the next one are I believe the wringles. And Mark Slane is doing the introductions with a wig on. And then the last one is Devon Joe Markham being introduced by Mark. And he you you probably can't hear it, but he says that they were introduced and met back when George Washington introduced them. and Deb Markham gives quite a
029look. But um so just to give you a glimpse, that's what faculty night life kind of looks like. Um and our staff really enjoys the time together. Um our kids come out and and watch and it all goes towards a scholarship towards the end of the year for them. Skip that one quick. Um the next one is uh the always a Miller award and we do this every year. Um and we started this after M sir Kevin Cole passed away. Um so for those of you that don't know, Kevin Cole was a Spanish teacher for us for 28 years before he lost his battle to cancer. Um he did a lot of announcing at our sporting events. Um and he was a staple teacher in that building. Um so to carry on his legacy, every
030year we send out an Always a Miller um nomination form where students can nominate any teacher who represents being a Miller and has made a difference in their life. Um and then they get a certificate and a Noblesville pen um as that recognition to carry on his legacy. Uh and this last one that not very many even people on the admin team knew about when I was planning this. Uh so we have something called plank owners in our building and this was started when the high school opened in 1996. Uh the principal at the time issued uh he called it the USS Noblesville and it's a staple in the Navy that when a new ship opens, everybody becomes a plank owner. So all of the original staff that helped open that building have a wooden
031plank that they all display in their classroom. Um and so here are is a list of the original people that still exist at Noblesville High School that are plank owners that helped open Noblesville High School. So, uh, David Hartman, music teacher, Greg Richards, English teacher, John Smith, art. Bruce Games, which is our lead maintenance. John Clevenger, custodian. Aaron Chastain, science teacher. Jeff Franciosci, wellness. Nicole May, who's an English teacher at MSA. David Ferris, math teacher. Stephanie Fodiottis, instructional coach. Kurt Gassin Smith, resource teacher. Bill Kinley, English teacher. Eric Gunderson, social studies. John Noiki, science. Mark Slain, world language and department chair, and then Butch Robbins, who is retired and is now a substitute teacher almost every day for us. So, I did ask them to come down and get a picture. Um, I want to
032share one quote from them. I actually I have a handout for all of you guys. Um, but I asked them, "What does it mean to you to be a plank owner?" And I thought this really captured it. Um, so one of them says, "I was fortunate to walk into NHS the year it opened and she has obviously been a large part of my life. I have seen relationships become lifelong friendships, have watched Miller teams win state championships and excel on stages. And one of the greatest joys of my life was to share the hallways with my own two children. There have been so many changes over 30 years. The building has changed in many ways. Our community and school have grown. Education has changed in many ways. People have come and gone. But what it
033means to be a Miller has not. I have been so blessed to call this my home. So, I'm gonna kind of pass this around for you guys, but that's the building spot. Thank you. Yes. So much so many fun things. >> Yeah, I love it. >> Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. >> This was such a neat idea. I love that you covered this. >> Yes, I do, too. >> Such a positive, great, happy thing. Great. >> Thank you for the tour today. >> Of course. Of course. Thank you guys. So fun. >> Thank you. >> Love this. You gave us a copy of all of their quotes. I love it. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. >> Great job. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um, every month we have a brief update on
034a strategic plan goal. Um, we rotate those. And this month we have uh capital and resource management. All right. Capital and resource management. Thank you madam president. Thank you members of the board. Um as uh the president said uh tonight we will be talking about uh one measure of success within capital and resource management. So that measure success on the next slide is going to be related to our cash balance reserves and the rainy day funds uh to make sure that they are maintained at levels consistent with board policy. Uh it's u I think important that actually that this measurement is listed first because in my opinion this is one of the this probably is the most important measurement to not only uh always be tracking how much but where or how is that amount
035trending over time. So that's what we're going to look into tonight uh over the next few slides. So, just to remind you what the board policy says as it relates to the reserve and liquidity policy, we are to uh maintain a combined minimum target goal of between eight and uh 15%. In addition to that, we're also to maintain a cash balance in the rainy day fund with a goal to maintain a balance of $4 million. Now, the policy doesn't say this explicitly, but anytime we're talking about those percentages, just to remind uh you guys and anyone else that may be listening, when we talk about a percentage of our cash balance, what we're talking about is actually a percentage of the budget. So, for example, if we were to have a $100 budget, the uh
036the balance that we were to have in our cash reserves would be between $8 and $15. um that of course um is is what's in policy, but if you would if you were to ask me, hey, what what do you think, you know, because obviously we've maintained a balance higher than that in the past. Um I would say that my comfortable zone is to hover around 20%. I know colleagues of mine would actually prefer to have about 25% in their fund balance because 25%, you know, a quarter of the year, it's easy to say three months worth of fund balance in in cash reserves. Uh so I think it's important to put that into context tonight as we as we go through the the history of our cash reserves and of course the future that
037we're looking at in our cash reserves when when talking about these fiscal indicators uh with with with cash reserves. Of course uh later tonight we had the board of finance meeting and uh you guys recall that that report that is put out by the um the um state of Indiana distress unit appeals board is over a year old. So, it does have fiscal indicators in there related to cash balance, but as we we'll talk about later in the meeting tonight or the next meeting, uh the fact that they're over a year old and the numbers I'm going to show you tonight are right are representative of year end 2025. So, so that's important because of course it's more relevant but also sort of the funds that we're going to be looking at tonight. So, uh
038tonight we're going to be looking uh specifically at the education fund, the operations fund, and the referendum fund. So, those are our three what I would call operational funds within the budget. what that um other report looks at is actually all funds and so it's kind of messy. Again, it's a state prescribed report. There's also an error based on how it pulls data. So that's why tonight we're actually able to look at 2025 results for really the first time in January because if you recall last year in prior years, we would have this meeting earlier and that was before the books were closed. And so now that the books are closed, we're actually able to to look back and talk about the the budget performance for 2025. We'll do that by talking about the expenditures
039and revenue trending. Of course, we'll talk about the fund balances and then um um I I guess I'll go ahead and tell you now uh as it relates to the rainy day fund u because that uh is related to the second portion of the the policy itself is to say that we ended 2025 with uh about $7.4 million in the rainy day fund which is up about $2.4 million due to the fact that we finally closed on the the promised road property uh in first part of 2025 like I said added about $2.4 million as it relates to the rainy day fund. Just again a kind of a side comment on that. Um how much should we have in the rain day fund? Like is that an appropriate amount? I I would say that uh
040certainly that is an appropriate amount and the way I view the rainy day fund is is a way of um um um kind of really selling our fiscal stability particularly when we talk about rating agencies, bond holders, you know, they they obviously are looking at reserves, but I like to think of the rainy day fund as our fiscal stability fund because uh number one, it uh certainly would provide interest income back into the budget. Number two, um it helps with cash flow overall. Um but but finally, um you know, it shouldn't necessarily be considered part of a way to plug operational reserves. That's what the 8 to 15% is is for. So the rainy day fund is something that since we have the balance in there, I like to talk about that as a fiscal
041stability um preserve for us over the long term. On this slide, uh we we'll go ahead and dive right into the revenues and expenditures. And so of course this is the historical uh look at our actuals from 21 to 25 and then budget the projected budget for 2026. Uh this is going to be the comparison of our revenues to our expenditures which then equals what I call our budget performance or our surplus deficit in the yellow bar. So if we look right away at 2025, we see that we actually had a pull down in our fund balance or a deficit of about $4 million. um that $4 million. Uh you know, of course, we've talked about over time that that we have had a planned spendown in our reserves because our reserves were were certainly
042high. Uh but of course, we've had a plan to to spend those down. Uh but in 2025, uh when we talked about the budget, not fall of 2025, but fall of 2023, we talked about that point in time that yes, we do have a plan spend down in the budget. Um and at that point in time, it was we were thinking maybe around $4 million. Did I think it would be less? I did. Uh but things happened uh particularly in legislation that that caused that to to to increase to to $4 million. Looking ahead then to 2026, you see that uh uh we're looking at a projected $7 million. And again, if you think back to the fall of 24 when or excuse me, last fall of 2025 when I gave the budget presentation at
043that point in time, I said I don't think it'll be seven. I think it'll be closer to four to five, maybe four and a half million dollars. There's that extra appropriation in there in case revenues were to come in strong. Of course, next year we we will be back at the bing table. Um but ultimately that is to give flexibility especially to move appropriation uh within these uh the three funds because these um graphs right here only represent the operations fund, the education fund and the operating referendum fund. Uh so keeping that in mind that's why some extra appropriation is built in there in case we need to move that around. But should the uh um the trends hold true, like I said, we we can expect another draw down of about four to five
044million dollars uh in 2026, that of course is is based off of budgeting uh just three months ago. What I can also tell you already uh right now as we're tracking legislation, uh there is there's a component that is is kind of a complex thing. You've heard me talk about the protected taxes waiver before. Uh but essentially what that would do, and that's what they're calling cleanup to Senate Bill One, uh would actually hurt us if they were to uh impose that upon the debt service fund because that uh it's the 300 or the 10% credit that was all part of Senate Bill one. It's essentially split that impact between our debt service fund and our operations fund. And that's how it was when I budgeted last fall. Now they're talking about making it protected
045and only impacting the operations fund and retroing that back to the start of this calendar year, so 2026. meaning that about $1.2 million should that pass uh come out of our operations fund this year. So, so right away again just trying to always track legislation that's that's out there and just make sure that we're on top and always tracking the trends because it's the long-term uh goal that we're always keeping in mind. In addition to that, uh just I think it's also worth mentioning that uh yes, there's that legislation and yes, there's Senate Bill one, but also enrollment like we'd already someone already mentioned tonight. uh just realizing that yes, we're pulling down fund balance and and so with that in mind, we're we're obviously tracking our major budget indicators, enrollment and tax base. Tax
046bases impacted by Senate Bill one with that new deduction schedule. All right. So, if we go ahead now to the next slide, if we uh take the results of our budget and we apply that to our fund balances. So combining these three balances, our education fund on the bottom, operations fund in gray, and then our operating referendum fund in the light blue. Uh once again, we see we see the trend over time. And so that yellow bar is essentially from the prior graph is essentially now that deficit being imposed upon our year-end fund balances in 2024. Uh obviously we we hit a peak um and I mentioned the fact that we we talked about having a sp a planned spend down in our fund balances. Well, that really started in 22 23 24. That's when
047we had what I would call another kind of in unfavorable legislative session where in total even before Senate Bill one uh I estimate about $10 million lost uh just in the property tax reforms that happened before Senate Bill one happened. So that's to say that um um before uh finishing uh calendar year 2024 that was an effort already to start pulling back and start u preserving some of our cash. In other words, 2024 could have very well easily ended uh with a lower balance, but we already started pulling back some cash then holding back some expenditures uh to start preserving for what we knew was going to be a an increased deficit looking ahead. Um and then of course like I said um in 2026 that uh it goes from 36 to 29. Uh but
048I don't think it would be that high. Uh so um4 to5 million and then again pending legislation, pending enrollment, all those major factors still kind of unknown but we're just giving it the best guess best estimation at this point in time. And then finally the the last graph. So really we're taking the the first two graphs and combining them and then giving you the all in the context of the the policy. Right? So in in the way that I started this presentation, this graph right here shows our total budget which is the gray bar from the first graph and then it takes the percentage which is the amount that was in the second graph and it graphs that in the line graph. So you see in 2025 that we ended approximately 25 27% so just
049above 25% of of appropriation or of the budget whereas the policy says between 8 to 15% I said you know it'd be great to be between uh 20 and 25%. So again, a little bit above that, but ultimately it's the trend that we're talking about. And if we were to spend down again in 2026, which is absolutely, you know, expected to be the case, you see that that trend just continues to go down. And we and there is that's where the the need for adjustments come into play. Now, while the the downward trend looks um um kind of scary a little bit, right? Um um you know it it's to say that um it's what is most important is the fact that we're talking about this here tonight right that the fact that um um
050we're we're not trying to um to to recover from zero dollars in the bank or you know very minimal which I know that there are districts out there that are doing this uh we're we're planning ahead and we're we're conveying the the trend right now to say that um adjustments need to be made and um I there's you know complete confidence that the the leadership exists and is absolutely there. Dr. Hy is doing a tremendous job obviously is through expenditure analysis to to make sure that we are making these adjustments so that way we are prepared for uh what I would call soft landing. Right? So you see the the plane going down now and uh I'll call that a technical term from Jerome Pal um that that we need to land this plane softly
051as well uh to to really get back into an equilibrium where u we're hovering right around the 20%. Um because all throughout this our expenditures will continue to go up, right? We will continue to invest. we're going to be back at the bargaining table uh this fall already. And with with that being said, you know, the we'll be back in a state uh the state will reconvene for budget um well a year over a year from now. So again, as we think long term in this three-year window, we need to start making some adjustments now, which I'm confident that we'll be making in order to to to land the plane softly and get us back into a position where um and hopefully again at the end of the day the legislation. That's always kind of
052an unknown, but um assuming that uh they finish up their cleanup with Senate Bill one this this cycle, we know at least what is what is happening and and that's what we need is we need some certainty as it relates to our property tax forecasting and then of course our enrollment as well. Uh so if our enrollment can can stabilize or if we can begin projecting that then uh those factors are what really come into play to make sure that we can uh do what we want to achieve there. Um and so so with that board, um like I said, it was just kind of meant to be a quick update as it relates to to 2025 where we ended, where we're looking at uh the trend and fund balance and and how that relates
053to the the policy and the strategic plan. So um we just like to uh as always, thank you for your support and uh really appreciate all that you do. >> Thank you. >> Any any questions, comments? Anyone? >> Um just thank you for all of this. Um I mean it thanks for your effort and trying to dumb some of it down for me too. I mean, hopefully I'm not the only one that appreciates that, but um yeah, and your efforts to essentially land the plane on the Hudson River instead of the farm field, right? >> Thank you. >> And I appreciate too, David and Dan. You know, as I follow the state legislature, it's we get a plan made out and then they they change Yeah. they have >> rags and new resolutions coming. So,
054I appreciate that you guys are always jumping the hoops and trying to keep up with what's coming. That's hard to follow. >> It's hard to follow and and I know we like to plan five t years out, but uh you guys have to really jump it when when state legislature meets every year. And there's I'll comment on this later, but thank you. >> Yeah. >> For being in tuned and watching and trying to project as best you can what's coming. Get that plane. >> A lot of pivoting going on. >> Thank you. So it looks like in 2025 um we are expected to have about a $4 million shortcoming. Is that what I'm seeing on that chart? >> Yeah. And that's those are actual results. So that is uh the books closed. It was it
055was like 3.8 change. >> Okay. And and that money came from rainy day like is that what you're or from our >> uh and then so that's on the the next slide. Um back to the So those are the balances ending in 2025. So um I I don't have how well yeah it's right there. So like you can see that the um the operate the referendum fund went from 10 to 8. >> Yeah. >> 12 to1 18 to 17 equates to the four. >> Okay. Okay. And so then there's going to be from 36 to 29. So a $7 million cut will be needed in order to fund 2026. >> That's the budget as adopted. And that's where, like I said, like there's >> there's there's actually there's a buffer of appropriation in there. So
056that way should one fund um like the operations fund for example, particularly if this the unknown property at the time budgeting unknown >> legislation comes through then I would have extra appropriation and other fund to shift those expenditures to there. So what I would say is that while you're seeing a seven, I really think it would be, you know, four and a half to five. >> So to use Misty's term of dumbing down, because I'm going to dumb this down for myself, which will help you because it took me several years when I first started superintendent understand how this works. >> You have to understand the difference between budget and what's actually being spent and what's coming. So if you look there, David has cooly labeled at the bottom that 26 is still a budget
057number. The rest are actuals. Like he knows what happened now. He knows exactly how much was spent, where things ended, and whatnot. But for 26, he's budgeting. And when you go through the process, just because of the way the state works, David has to I I always think of it as you have to um inflate the numbers somewhat because it gives you room because if he hasn't budgeted extra and we have to spend extra, he can't he won't be allowed to spend more than what the budget allowed. So that's what you hear saying when you talk about appropriation. He he intentionally makes a little bigger on the budget, but then it will all clean itself up as the year goes on and when they close the books, then we'll know exactly what happened. So what
058he's saying is he has budgeted for a $7 million deficit. In reality it will unless we get more bad news it should be significantly less than that. Um right now the budgeted so if so if we would go back a year in time the budgeted deficit between 24 and 25 would be bigger than four if that makes sense. But then actual was four because we did all sorts of things and things fell into place. Does that make sense? >> So at the end of 2026 it might not be 29. We anticipate it will be it'll be significantly less, but it will but it will still very likely be a deficit just because of all the factors right now that we know are happening. >> Out of curiosity, how far out do you project like do
059you do you think about okay well what about in five years or what or how or can you not just because of the legislation and what our enrollment is or can you project any further than >> so yeah there's I have a multi-year plan. Uh, of course we talked about the capital plan and that's more for replacement. But when it comes to budget, um, I do show and present to rating agencies what a five-year plan would look like, particularly as it relates to our tax rate, tax tax rate management, which of course a whole another conversation and levy growth, but um, it's like the more and more that um, you know, you're in roles like this, right? We we realize that um, if I were to tell you like I have an accurate five-year plan,
060like you're going to laugh at me. Like it's it's not the case, right? because you know just six months ago um you know made an assumption and now legislation is going to change that again um and a year and a half ago we talked about enrollment projections with you know a professional demographer who's done this his entire career and you know then we had the largest decrease in Noblesville school history so like um you know to to I think none of us are naive to think that you can have a very accurate you know over over three-year plan right and so to I guess answer your question you know my thought is to make sure that we zero in on the 365day outlook And if we're zeroing in on the 365day outlook and then aligning
061that with like I said is the most important um um part of the strategic plan and that's the fund balancing being being at around 20%. If we zero in the 20% then then you're then your financials are are perfect right you're you're hitting your metrics and so whether you're doing three years or or one year and just being more accurate in your one year I think um you know it's it's it kind of says itself right there. >> Well I appreciate you doing all that. It's really hard because you know it's kind of like a business but it's hard to make projections when things are outside of your so >> your control too. >> Yeah. Your flexibility of being able to >> do everything. >> David mentioned it but I think it's worth noting that
062part part of the frustration of this comes Yes. because when you're building your projections and when David's forecasting out he does he does the best he possibly can. Um but there are variables every year no matter what that will change. Enrollment being a big one, taxes also change, but right now we're just in an even there's even more uncertainty because they um just some of the bills that have been passed or being considered being passed go into effect very fast because it's one thing if I say well I'm going to make this change in two years. So you have time to plan and adjust. He mentioned a bill right now that we're watching very closely that if passed will be retroactive and we'll go backwards >> from right now >> to the to now which
063is a problem because he's already locked the budget for now. He planned on the rules as set last year. And so to have something swing the budget over a million dollars the wrong direction retroactively in a budget that he can't change now is very problematic. Um so what do we do about that? I know what David's been doing about that. I'm gonna give him some kudos. David has is a solution guy and a very proactive guy. We went to the state house a couple weeks ago and met with um one of the senators to talk about some different ideas financially. David has been really working closely with the school business officials association on that very bill and this very issue. Um he has gotten the attention of a few legislators and we're hoping they do
064something with it. There's no guarantees, but they are aware of the issue, have acknowledged the issue and understand, oh, maybe this is a good idea. So, we'll see if they if they can at least stall it because at least if they pushed it out till 2027, it's still not great, but at least David can account for that in the budget that next fall when he brings it to you and say, "Well, we have to make a change because this is going to happen next year." Um, but that that's the added stress right now is SEA won last year um happened very quickly and it made changes that were very unprecedented that no one was forecasting because nothing like that has ever happened in the state of Indiana. And that's that's more than schools, as you
065know. That's every municipality. That's everyone who relies on property taxes. It just changed the rules. So all your forecasts now have changed. So it does make it difficult. >> Thanks for meeting with the legislators. That's >> can't believe that we have you like working here and that you have that capability also. So that's that's pretty amazing. So thank you for doing that. >> Thank you. All right. We will move on to uh public comment um of an agenda item. and we did not have anyone sign up. So we will move to consent items. By single motion, the board approves and adopts the following items or actions um which affect application of board policy in Indiana code. And those items are claims, donation, minutes of our December meeting, overnight trips, personnel listings. May I have a
066motion to approve the consent items as listed? >> Motion. >> Stephanie, may I have a second? Misty, any further discussion? Yes. >> Okay. >> I'm looking for my notes. >> Okay. >> Uh I always like to to to thank people help our schools because our community is so wonderful. All right. Uh Calvary Baptist Church gave us uh $2,539 to be used for students in need at Noblesville schools. And Lorraine Jones and Janette Picker uh gave us $400 to use for uh negative lunch accounts. And Mark Molton also gave us uh $200 uh to help pay off uh lunch. We have a wonderful, wonderful town we live in and support our schools. >> We do. Thank you. All right. Um all those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. >> Okay. Moving on to action items. Um
067may I have a motion to approve the 2026 summer school program dates and offerings? >> Motion. second. >> Joe, Misty, Joe first, Misty second. Any further discussion? >> Um, I just have a question. Is, um, can you explain to us or tell us how we go about deciding which summer school classes we offer? Um, and I know PE has always been a really big one. That's kind of a hot topic this year, um, because it's not being offered. Um, it's from, and correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that our summer school classes are more focused on say credit recovery type situations rather than trying to work ahead. >> Yeah. At the high school specifically, every year, the administration high school works with counselors to determine what they need to offer to make
068sure students have every opportunity to earn the credits they need to graduate. And so, obviously, with the shifting diploma requirements now, is going to start to look different over the next few years as those requirements for graduation change. PE is an example of that because they reduce by one credit that would be required diploma for students who are younger current middle school students as well. So we'll continue to see that evolve. So um so really currently econ in their schedule. All the other courses in high school this year that are being offered for summer school are for credit recovery. So the students >> would it be a fair statement to say that our financial situation might also have an impact because that would alleviate a lot of expense. >> As you all know, finances are
069always consideration. >> Absolutely. And also the state changed the reimbursement the way in which they reimburse for summer school. Um we don't make money. We never have made money off of summer school. There always is a loss but we would always receive at least some in reimbursement. Um last year the state changed that reimbursement so that it first goes to reimburse foration. And so that also then of course is a consideration because the more spend on summer school program the less dollars are available for all the other important things we have to do that connects directly to David's pres always a consideration. >> Sure. >> Okay. All right. Thank you for that. I appreciate >> Thank you. All right. Um all those in favor I opposed. Motion carried. Uh, next up, uh, we have may
070I have a motion to approve the proposedou with the Hamilton County Realtime Information Center. >> Motion. Brett, may we have a second? >> Second. >> Misty, any further discussion? >> Well, yes. I didn't know if you could give a brief or could this like a description on exactly what the real time information center is. >> Absolutely. Dr. Hendrick is probably the true authority. So, actually, how about I let her do it if she's comfortable doing that? >> Sure. Yeah. So, this is a county real time information center. It is actually located at emergency management county emergency management um with um in collaboration with the sheriff's department. So, um right now the entities are um they're trying to get area schools um to seek this agreement with them. We have NPD police department as well as
071caramel police department and the sheriff's department and it's really basically giving our um some of our camera access to them so that they can help us to respond if there were any kind of act of violence here in our schools but it's also to help them just basically out the community as well. So, you know, for example, if there was some sort of accident outside one of our buildings, one of our outside cameras were to pick that up, then they would be able to help us respond and help our school resource officers, even our buildings to be able to quickly respond to any kind of >> Okay, thank you. And that doesn't require us to have additional equipment or anything. >> No, actually, his team we did a visit there. We've We've had several meetings
072with him in collaboration on this and it will take very little I don't want to speak for you'll take very little you know effort on our part to make this happen. >> So if they need information like let's say an incident does occur and they need information who do they contact can they just pull it or do they have to call the school first to pull it they can just pull it. >> This agreement allows them to readily be able to access that. >> Do they notify you if they have pulled it? I mean I don't really know if that would matter. >> I imagine they will. at that time it may be something >> that could affect us. Yeah. Okay. >> To be aware. >> Yeah. >> All right. Anything else? >> Thank you.
073>> All right. >> I love it. >> I do too. I think it's great. >> Yeah. >> Um All right. All those in favor? I opposed. >> Motion carried. Uh next we have public comment on a non-aggenda topic. We did not have anyone sign up. So, we are on to committee reports starting with Dr. Hy. >> All right, just a few quick things. Um, first of all, for the benefit of our community and and for our five elected friends sitting to my right, this is actually schoolboard appreciation month. So, I want to say a huge thank you to our board um for their leadership and all the things that they do to um to represent our community and and just make great um great decisions that that do serve our community, our staff, and of
074course, most importantly, our children. So, thank you uh board. Um a couple other quick updates. our annual connect print publication mailed out late last week. Um, and so it should be uh landing in our mailboxes any day in this now, any day now. Um, I got to see my first physical copy today in my office, but I don't know if mine has arrived at home, so I'll check when I get there. Um, but just a reminder, this is something we started a couple of years ago or so. Um, that is an annual publication we put out that goes to every single resident in Noblesville Township so that every community member and taxpayer hears from us. Um, and it covers things about our finances, academics, construction, celebrations, challenges, and other topics. So, um, if you want
075to see the digital copy because you just can't wait, I believe it's already on the website, but if you hang on, it should be in your mailbox sometime in the next couple days. So, very excited and and of course, huge thank you to Marty for her leadership. She puts a lot of time and thought and and work into that to just help keep our community informed of everything going on at Noblesville Schools. Um, also another uh praise for Marty and her team. Um, earlier this month, we put out our new heart of the community video. So, community members, if you haven't had a chance to check that out, um, please do so. It's on I sure it's on all of our social media. Um, I believe it's also probably linked on our website and various
076other places. Um, it was just a fun video to to to watch Marne put together and hear her thoughts as she as she did that. Um, and the message truly is just that, um, we are we exist to serve our community and we try to be good stewards and good partners with our community. And so it was just a great time to have several of our important community members, you know, acknowledge that and kind of speak to what Noil Schools means to them. So again, um I hope you enjoy it. Please make sure that they that you have a chance to check that out. And lastly, um next week, next Monday, I will be holding an all staff meeting with our entire district during our professional learning day um board. You are definitely welcome and
077invited to come join us for that. Um I'm going to spend that time giving kind of an update on some strategic plan things. um just some challenges that lie ahead for us this year, but also some exciting opportunities we have as we get ready to tackle uh 2026. That's it. >> All right. Thank >> add one thing to that. >> Um sorry with the no I brought it with me. The Noblesville magazine. Um Marie and David's little dollars and cents article pages 10 and 11. If y'all have it, I kept it. I think it's fantastic. It's great to have. >> Question, Mie, how long did it take to make that video? It was amazing. You had so many people in it and and >> yeah, it was a great production. >> Yeah, thank you. >>
078It was really neat. >> Yeah, that was great job. >> Thank you. >> Your videos always make me cry. >> Yeah. All right. ISBA. >> All right. Uh Brett, Christy and I uh after the late IU game last night, met here at 7 o'clock in the dark and drove to Oak Hill, Indiana to uh have a >> It was really early. >> Coffee and it was really early to to Anyway, we had coffee and and donuts with the ISBA and other schoolboard members from region five. Okay. And >> we're not the only ones in this fight with SB1. Okay. we we we all talked about what we're how we're going to navigate this and in in different kind of ways and and we're all facing the same thing. So, uh that was interesting and and
079and and just it helps to find it you're not we're all in the same boat on trying to educate children with uh with what we're given to do that with. Okay. Okay, the ISBA IRSBA report is that uh we're down to six weeks remaining in this short session and they're not getting as many things done as previous sessions because it's short. But as we talked about how they affect us, they're still uh ISBA is following 83 bills and you know they they they are also in in House Bill 10004 they're cutting bills. So they they cut about five pages worth of bills and then they give us 29 pages of new bills. So they they every year they're going to cut things. They do, but then they give us way more than they cut. Uh
080I I think the things we're looking at is is the the telephone issue. I think it's I think it's Senate Bill 78. Uh and and we're going to see I it's already got some interesting things going on down there. And the sausage is not made. So we don't know where it's going yet. So anything that's going on right now is still all iffy until we get down to what the last week of the amendments are made and things are done. So, I don't have anything specific to give you other than uh which unless you're reading about it, uh Senate Bill 248 relates to South Bend Schools. Uh there was talk of of appointing a board and doing away with elected schoolboard officials with elected schoolboard people being the closest people to the people doing education.
081Uh that bill got pulled. So, we know that's going to go away where there's not going to be an appointed board for South Bend. Okay. Yeah. >> Uh, and I I I don't have we we got some bills we're following, but to say much more, we don't we just don't know yet. But it's going to get Dan and David is going to keep them hopping uh for the rest of the month and we'll have some we'll have some probably wrapping getting close to wrapping up at our next school board meeting, which we'll bring to that. Okay. >> All right. Thank you, Joe. You can just keep going. >> Keep on talking. We love, you know, we love the parks. Okay. We That's where we get our good mental health out there. Spring break camp. Okay.
082Uh there's there's going to be camps open during our spring break that the parks department are going to put on. Get there and look at it, okay? And see what we can do to uh for those kids that need a place to go. There's also uh still spring and winter programs going on through the parks department. Get to the website and look at that. We need summer employees over at the over at the uh parks department for all the summer camps that are coming up. And those are all online and and you can uh check there to see about that. My grandkids have all done some of them and they are fabulous. Okay. Uh and and we're starting a flexible drop in program for we have yoga and and line dance and everything. It's on
083the website. Uh if you just want to drop in and and see if uh you're good at yoga or or if we can all have a line dance, it's okay. Drop in. Anyway, parks departments are open. It's the place to be. >> All right. Thank you. Thank you, Joe. Um cabinet reports. Any board members like to comment or ask questions about the cabinet reports that we receive on a monthly basis? >> Um I don't really have Well, okay, never mind. Um yes. >> Yes, go right ahead. >> Um I just want to make the comment um that Julie and Maria uh looks like they presented at the National Conference on School Mental Health. So that was nice um to know. I did you learn a lot because I know you already know a lot. But
084you guys actually presented, didn't you? >> Yeah. Nice. That's fantastic. Um, and then I I do have one question. I know there's kind of a a buzz going around with one of the um bills right now with AEDs being required. Um Heather, can you kind of if I remember correctly, we did implement additional AEDs for other sports or activities or what have you. So that really doesn't impact us as as much as other districts per se because we already have we already follow that. Correct. >> And actually Sandy Bernett helps kind of lead the charge with the ads and department just helps to support her with that. But yes, we um I don't know if saturated is the right word, but I I do feel like we um our district we are very fortunate because
085we do have them throughout all of our buildings. Um she makes sure that all of our athletic trainers, we have portable AEDs. So all of our athletic teams, our performing arts, they all have access to those as well. >> Okay. >> And then what about say for example NGSA, they rent space at some of our buildings, but they're outside, >> right? Then we let them how and where they can locate the nearest that's all communicated through Lawrence with her facilities. >> Perfect. >> We appreciate have them because it's probably this generation is going to need them, not the students. Okay. And I just I thought of something because I know we have used them because we've recognized people have is is it is there a ratio of under 18 to over 65? I I just
086asking have we used it I know there those times when kids go into a AIB. I I know that. Okay. >> Do that you know of we used it on a child. >> Yeah. Thank God. >> Only on adult >> adults. Yeah. >> So thank you for doing that. >> Yep. Yep. And then Andy trying to staying on top of all the AI stuff. you attended an innovation summit and then with your ongoing stuff. I mean I it's hard to wrap my brain around all this AI stuff and how it's used and when and why and >> yes very fast and it's kind of scary but it's kind of fun depending on what you're doing with it but thank you. >> Yeah. Um I do have something speaking of AI I think I'm just fascinated
087with it. Um Ryan, you had in your report that you've established a guideline for classrooms. Um can you that's really interesting. Teachers and students alike. Can you speak on that? >> Yeah, that's specifically right now for grades 6 through 12 English language arts. >> Okay. >> Um that's been a great collaboration learning department, technology department. We also brought together all three of the English department chairs and we involved administrators, the principles at those schools as well. responsive to what we're hearing and seeing in our English classroom specifically obviously reading writing communication written communication is a critical aspect of English language arts and so uh that group that has done excellent work put together really comprehensive set of guidelines specifically for English language arts in terms of responsible use both for students and for teachers in
088teaching through language arts Um so now that that is established that's been hard work and good work but now the next step is um we have worked with those building leaders to come up with a plan to unpack all of that and do some professional learning with our teachers also providing some developing providing some uh digital some AI lessons to students in conjunction with our library media specialists our librarians. So the work will continue to unfold. Um there's already we've had some preliminary discussion around what would that look like to then expand that out to other courses to other content areas. But we're starting with English language arts first. That's where obviously because of the nature of the content, >> Right. Yeah. I think I think that's great. Obviously it's not going away, right? It's
089only um so it's good to be proactive and I'm really grateful for our team and uh just really proud of how proactive we've been. We attended a conference right >> and was there were there were talking about just policy guidelines handbook on those items foundational documents and now digging a level deeper into classroom guidance. And so I know the teachers been really appreciative of that. It's been good work. So, >> more work to do. It's like Andy said, >> it's it's always evolving. >> It's always Yeah, >> it's fast. >> Yeah. Fast. >> Thank you. All right. Anyone else? >> Stephanie? >> And I I just had one question for Dr. Townsen. Um in your report, you mentioned about MClass intervention. I didn't know if you could talk a little bit about that, like what
090it is. >> Yeah, that's um as we're looking at right now, we're including our new instruction with CLA and Part of that inclass intervention is one of the possibilities to think about additional support for kids in reading. And so what's really cool about this intervention is it has an assessment piece with it that also progress monitors um how kids are doing throughout these um intervention and it's a 10day instructional um basically instructional plan for students that really kind of keys in on what skills that they need to work on. So when we look back at like our board recommendations from our program review, we talked about looking at supplemental supports and also progress monitoring. This connects directly to that and we have teachers right now using that with students that need extra support. >> Nice.
091So is that related to the CLA boost reading or is that different? It's part of a full assa. So boost is actually a program that can be used with the court or also for tier two and tier three. Just meaning it's a way it's like an adaptable program that allows for kids to get what they need where they're at. So that's something we're just piloting right now to see what it gives us and if it's um something worth further exploring as we go into next year. That seems like it would be really nice for teachers to get that assistance and help for kids. Like here's who needs help and here's maybe here's a plan for how to help them. >> We have high figuring it out with the software I'm sure is >> Thank you
092very much. Appreciate that. >> All right. Any anything else? All right. Um our next regular school board meeting is Tuesday, February 17th, uh 6 pm here. Um, we do have a finan our annual finance meeting right after we adjourn this meeting. Um, so may I have a motion to adjourn this meeting? >> Joe, >> second everybody. Uh, Brett Brett second. Any further discussion? >> All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carried. We are adjourned. >> Misty's taking over. >> Misty, you're taking over. Yeah, you're taking over. This is why you're board president.