001I would like to call to order our June 17th uh regular schoolboard meeting. Uh we're going to start with a pledge of allegiance. United States of America to the standy. We will have a moment of silence. Thank you. Uh first up on our agenda is our additional appropriation hearing. Um the school corporation is funding a project through the issuance of general obligation bonds and the proceeds from this bond issue must be um advertised prior to the project and it was advertised in our local paper. Um at this time we will open the public comment session or portion of our meeting for as it relates to bonds. I don't think we'll have anyone come up. So, we will close the hearing and at this time I will turn it over to Mr. Hordemiller to give us
002a few words, say a few words on this. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Madam President. So, uh tonight will be the the final uh step of approval for the board for our 2025 general obligation bond. Um the general obligation bonds have a few less uh procedural approvals than a lease uh uh debt that we've done in the past. So again, the general obligation bond is uh for this year it's going to be a principal amount of $19,725,000. Obviously you you all recall the the two presentations that we gave uh a couple months back in terms of what that goes to. So we won't review that tonight unless there's any questions, but uh like I said, tonight's the final approval and then we will go to the mark we're set to to go to the market in
003uh early September of this year to receive those proceeds. Okay. All right. Thank you. Uh, may I have a motion to approve the additional appropriation resolution? So move. Joe second. Misty. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Next piece of this is may I have a motion to approve the final bond resolution. Motion. So move. Joe. Second. Second by Stephanie. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Next up, we have recognitions. Uh, Dr. Hydocs, we need to It went out. It went out. It went back in. Yeah. We have this meeting. Okay. But I know what I'm supposed to do. So, at this time, I would love to invite We have several of our outstanding music educators here with us this evening. So, can I get you
004to come up here and stand with us for just a minute while I say just a few quick words? Absolutely. So, I'm just going to read a few things here because I want to make sure I get it exactly right. So, Noblesville Schools was recently named a 2025 best community for music education by the National Association of Music Merchants for the 11th consecutive year. And this national recognition highlights school districts for their outstanding efforts by teachers, administrators, parents, students, and community leaders in embracing music education as a part of the core school curriculum. Districts were selected based on music funding, staffing of highly qualified music teachers, commitment to standards, and access to music instruction. Um, and on a personal note, I want to say, um, for those who know me personally, you know that I
005am a former music educator myself. And I have to tell you, as someone who knows music programs pretty well, we truly have an unbelievable outstanding music program here at Noblesville Schools, and that is district-wide. Um, and you know, we offer over 30 music classes every every year. Um, and the program and the opportunities that our students receive at all levels is um exemplary to to put it mildly. And so I'm very excited. I want to steal my own thunder in a little bit of something I'm going to highlight, but I'm very excited obviously for the new opportunities that are coming at Nolesville High School with the expansion of of the performing arts rehearsal spaces there. Um, but again, just the commitment districtwide and and these are just a few of the educators that make it
006happen every single day. So again, can't be more proud of these folks and just want to say a huge thank you again for everything they do for our students. Thank you. [Applause] I'm excited. Thank you. Um, we are going to I'm gonna we're going to move on to reports. Um, Dr. Ryan Rich, assistant superintendent of learning and Dr. Jen Townsen, executive director of learning. We're will share details about the new administrator professional growth and evaluation program. All right. Good evening. Uh, really excited to present this to you um tonight. Um, one of the things I absolutely love about our district is that when we see an opportunity for something to be improved, we definitely we take that on. We want to tackle that. And um, about two or three years ago, Dr. Townsen and I
007who are responsible for evaluating school principles, um, we started talking about could there be or asking the question, could there be a better way forward with administrative professional growth and evaluation? And at about that same time, um, we started to be exposed to a new idea out of the Indiana Association of School Principles organization, a new paradigm called the school leader paradigm, which really represents a synthesis of all of the most recent research um, regarding high quality, highly effective school leadership. And so that really piqu our interests. We engaged in a partnership and um, fast forward to here we are now. Um we have collaboratively led a group of administrators from across our district and we have used that paradigm that leadership paradigm as the basis for development of a new professional growth evaluation program.
008So that's what we're here to present to you tonight just to give you a highlevel overview. In your packet you did receive the full uh document as well and we'll be happy to answer any questions. Um so wanted to start first by just clearly articulating the purpose of this new program. It is to both develop and assess annual performance for all school leaders except for one Dr. Hy. He gets an extra special evaluation as superintendent. Um so this will apply to everyone cabinet on down through to principles, assistant principles and our deans of students as well. Um so growth is the emphasis. It's always about growth first. We want to grow professionally, but also there is that evaluation component that also is important. Also, this is pretty comprehensive comprehensive as you have seen in your
009packet. Um, in terms of really empowering our administrators to lead with purpose, drive meaningful sustainable change in our schools and in our organization and also cultivate a culture of sustained learning and growth over time. We can always grow, we can always get better. And then finally to promote a commitment to growing administrators who are learning leaders successfully leading learning organizations. So what does that mean? I'm going to break that down for you. That is a key component of the school leader paradigm which serves as the basis of this plan. The concept of learning leaders is first is that if you are in Noblesville schools an educational leader, you should be learning constantly learning and growing. If we are not learning and growing, then our schools are not growing and improving. That's key. And so that
010leads to that learning organization piece. You've heard us talk so much over the past few years about our professional learning communities that every educator is a member of a collaborative team. We are consistently learning and growing our practices in the classroom. We're improving our curriculum. So they're mutually reinforcing by having administrators who are committed to growing their leadership capacity. They are in turn improving our opportunity for our schools as organizations as well as our district to evolve and grow over time. So learning leaders leading learning organizations. So in Noblesville schools, there are some pretty clear expectations that are established through this new program. number one that all administrators will engage in ongoing reflection to assess and improve their leadership intelligences. We'll talk more about that here in a minute. And then number two, improve the
011culture, learning, and systems within the school and district context. In other words, as an individual, you are always applying what you are learning and how you are growing to improve the school and the district within those key contexts. culture, learning and systems. All right, Dr. Townsen. So, as Ryan said, it's constantly thinking through that when you look up here on the school leader paradigm when you're looking at it to the left is really that becoming side. So, that's that personal intelligences that piece that you're constantly growing and thinking about how what are the areas within um these areas that I could could grow and then what are the things that I'm also really strong at. And then on the other side is really thinking through um that systems approach and really thinking through the doing
012part. So it's the action. And so Ryan talked about that how they marry together. They're both um important. As you look, you'll see that infinity loop, which means we're constantly thinking through that reflect, plan, implement, and assess. When we first started this journey, we met with Todd Vess who is the executive director of IASP and then he also connected us with Tiffany Barrett who is the assistant director to really have conversations around the school leader paradigm. Um Tiffany came out and talked with our administrators for a little bit to talk through the aspects of that paradigm. But then what we noticed is that we needed something that was going to be efficient, doable, actionable, and that we could jump on right away. And so the team that got together of just brilliant administrators to really
013unpack everything in that it's like a 100page document and if you notice it's down to like 34 pages. So we were excited about that. Um but the essence of the research behind the paradigm is what held true because we knew that these best practices in leadership were important. So we're still surrounding everything around that. It was more thinking through the process piece. So here you'll see the leadership intelligence side, that becoming side. We're really focusing in on how are you growing as a learning leader, how you growing those personal intelligences, those social intelligences, and those systems intelligences. When you look on the other side, you'll see the domains of culture, systems, and learning. Those are the three main domains that we focus on when we're thinking about the improvement of the school and what's happening
014at the school. And then also as a district and then you have um from those domains you have dimensions which are those pieces underneath race relationships, student centerness, wellness and then there are essential behaviors and you can see that in your packet what those essential behaviors are that we also can look at and think about. So as we are continuously our leaders are continuously trying to outgrow them bestel their best selves as leaders. This is an area these are the areas we'll be looking at and then it's the fun part. you do this work together. A really great piece of all of this is really thinking about how are we growing and how are we doing that growing together and that is what I love about our teacher evaluation system and also about this is
015it really puts growth first and so we've already started some of this work in the reflect and plan you'll see it's May through July so really just started looking at some data digging into that data and thinking about when we come together in July what are some of those problems of practice so when you think about a problem of practice it's what are we going to investigate that is going to help us do better as a school. So, we're thinking about continuous improvement and how does this help with the school improvement and district improvement and then they'll create a plan, the administrator will based off of that. All the way up until the plan, they're doing it as a school building. So, you'll have your high school is working um your high school principal Jana
016who's in the room who also served on the committee um is if board approved pending board approval. I guess I should say that um um but she was on the committee but she would work with assistant principles and deans and really think about what's that problem of practice and then individually you make a plan with your own individual goals to help you grow as a leader. From there is the implementation phase. This is really the phase where you get together with your evaluator. So Ryan or I um Dan will sit down, talk and have a conversation around that plan and then what's that implementation look like and what does support look like? Coaching is a huge part of this work in the idea. I strongly believe and it's gandi he's a surgeon and he says
017everybody needs a coach. We all need someone that's going to push us, nudge us, help us think. And that's what happens during this implementation time. Having one-on-one meetings, having observations, both formal, informal, and having conversations around what's working, what's not working, how do we move forward in this action plan. And then it ends with that assess and reflect. So let's look at the problem in practice. Let's look at your goals. How are we meeting those goals? And then from there, what does that mean? our next steps are. And so constantly working through that infinity loop that you saw a few slides back. So, uh, just about a week or so ago, we had our last admin team meeting, um, with over 50 administrators across the district here in this room. And it was it was
018really great. for two hours um administrators met in their either school teams or district administrators were meeting in their district teams and we were digging into data and that was really really great. Um, we were also talking about there's a personal intelligence selfassessment that is completed. So, you can talk about strengths and opportunities for growth with your team members. Talking about how you complement one another, talking collectively about what our data is telling us about student performance, student outcomes, teacher retention. We looked at lots of different data points um to start identifying those those problems of practice. um we didn't have a crystal ball um to know that the state was actually going to eliminate the requirement to develop and submit um annually um a school improvement plan. However, um this process really is not
019just a process for personal professional growth and evaluation. It is also baked into it a continuous school improvement planning process as well. So, we were really excited about how the stars align for us in that way. Um, and it actually really allows us to engage in school improvement continuously in a more locally relevant way as opposed to putting something together that is mandated to us um from the state. So, that was a little bit of a lucky aside uh that we were able to experience that. So, we're really excited about that aspect as well. So after the cycle of inquiry, the evaluation, the event that occurs at the end of the school year, this is how the summit of evaluation rating will be calculated. 60% of the rating will be based upon um how your
020evaluator rates your performance within each of the domains, the culture, the systems, learning domains, and the dimensions within those domains. And 30% of that rating will also be based upon your evaluator's assessment of your performance on best practices for professionalism. That is a fourth domain that is not a part of the school leader paradigm, but we added it in locally because that's something that we feel like is very important that we want to establish as an expectation. And then lastly, 10% of the rating will be based upon how engaged the administrator was in the cycle of inquiry process because that is important. Wanted to leave you with the final quote here from John Maxwell. The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the
021potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders, and continually develops them. I feel like that really really uh nicely summarizes where we're at as an admin team here in Noblesville. So questions. Anyone? I have one question. Go ahead. Of course. One um comments. Great. Great job. Well done. I mean this obviously you've put a lot of time and effort into this with multiple people. Um but my one question is is is that evaluation based on a 4.0 grading scale? Very funny. It is based on a four-point rating scale. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, just a couple questions. Um, is this evaluation process a lot different than what you had in place before? And I guess big picture, what's the biggest difference of what you used to do and I guess
022what this new plan is going to do? That's an excellent question and it is very, very different. The current plan that we have really just establishes a what I would almost call a laundry list of isolated disconnected standards of professional practice for administrators in very general terms. It's not really grounded in anything that connects what administrators should be doing to how they should be doing it. and within the context of modern school organization challenges issues it also does not include that piece of reflection on personal leadership intelligences. So um the paradigm has been developed by a consortium of principles associations from across the country and it has been widely implemented in a neighboring state Illinois. Uh the ISP has aspirations to see its use grow in Indiana and right now we are the district the
023one district in the state who has taken that on. So um we are really excited to kind of be out in front uh because it is truly so modern relevant and grounded like I said in really really robust uh research regarding principal leadership, school leadership. So, a lot of the admins then were very open to this because it sounds like it's a lot easier to understand how you're being evaluated compared to how it was in the past. I think yes, I think people are very open to the admins just in the case of like we're working on this together and learning it together. So, there's still a lot to take in, but we've had a year to really dig into the actual paradigm and then thinking through each piece together. We're chunking it out as
024we go along, but it definitely will highlight those expectations. And I think that's one of the things when Ryan said earlier, we've been having a lot of conversations around this is really every time we come around and we're doing those evaluations, there always seems to be something that's lacking and this gives that clear picture. We always say clear is kind, clarity is good, you know. So, this helps with that. and having administrator voices help with unpacking and putting it back together I think was huge because Ryan and I can get up there and talk about it but having people who are doing that work every day you know on the ground doing the work a part of it super important right did you did you mention that there would be goals established that um the
025administrators would would they establish those goals or would you guys all work together to establish the goals and then at the end it's something we do with actually Dr. and he always gives us goals and I really like the practicality of that of saying oh here are two things that you could work on and then what happened at the end of the year were you successful in completing those goals? Yes, that so the school teams or district teams will work together on data analysis. They will work together on identifying key problems of practice. But then individually relative to your own role and responsibilities, you will develop your own cycle of inquiry plan and that will be a goal that you will have and it is that is included in the appendices of the overview. So
026it really lays out exactly um what kinds of questions they will be required to answer to substantiate the identification of that goal. Some measurable desired outcomes will be included as well. So that will all then be a part of what the evaluator discusses with the administrator. And there are observations both formal and informal then that are conducted to gather evidence throughout the school year that then will inform the overall rating once you give the evaluative rating at the end of the year. Okay, great. Thank you. Great. Yes. So, is there a um a rubric so to speak that will be followed with this? Yeah, the the domains and those dimensions and the essential behaviors that are associated with those dimensions do serve as the rubric. And that is also it's broken out in more detail
027within the overview document. It really does a nice job of laying out each domain, each dimension, how they're defined, and the essential behaviors that you would likely see from an administrator through their practice if they were really doing a nice job of addressing that dimension of school leadership. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Anything else? All right. I just do want to give a shout out to our committee has been absolutely phenomenal. Dr. Mobly has served on that committee. I don't know if anybody else is in here. I don't think to tonight, but um we have a great great committee of administrators, real highf flyers, and um it's been a lot of fun this last semester to meet with them and put this together. So, good. Great. Thank you. It's very exciting. Yes. All right. Um
028we have a strategic plan presentation. Dr. Hy. All right. Thank you, board. And thank you those uh our guests here with us tonight. So, as I shared in my uh updates board, as I as I sent you your materials for tonight, I am the last of the of the initial round of updates. I actually won't normally be last, but you might remember we flip-flopped five and six this month um to work out some other challenges. So, but I am the last one. And so, um want to start exploring that tonight. So, just as a review, if we can move forward a slide here, I am not going to stand at the podium because everybody can already see me now. I can see everybody if I sit here. I could, but I'm not going to. So
029the uh so just as a refresher for our friends in the audience who maybe haven't been here for any of these and and maybe any public uh who will watch this on video later. Um just as a quick recap you know we established all this work through the board establishing six goals which then we took all that feedback we got from our community over the last year used that to refine down into our strategic plan that was then built out and is on the website for everyone to see. And so tonight again we're going to zero in on number six which is celebrated school culture right down in the bottom right corner. Um, so if we move on another slide here, the commitment statement that we put in place, uh, the board I should say
030you put in place when you voted on this last fall was that Noval Schools is committed to nurturing a welcoming and innovative school community that honors our timeless traditions and school spirit. So if we look forward, um, I want to show that these were the measures of success on the next slide here that we that we kind of set in place again when you voted on this plan. And I won't read all those to you because these are available there on the website for folks to review. But these were the things that we said, you know, these are the important big big ticket items that we feel like if we're doing this, we are really doing well at celebrating our our traditions and our culture here at Noblesville Schools. And then if we look forward
031again um again here with the strategies board that you put into place as part of that plan that once again said these are some of the the actual um things that people should observe going on as Noblesville schools that again indicate that we are living up to our commitment commitment in this area. And so, um, tonight though, a little bit different than we've done in the previous, uh, previous presentations, I'm going to zero in on just three of those and kind of highlight a few specific things that we're working on right now, um, that I feel are really living out these. So, the first one I want to talk about tonight is adopting a forward-thinking um, best practices and educational leadership. And as I reflected on this a little bit, I thought, you know what?
032What more obvious thing are we doing that everyone is watching happen in real time than the expansion going on at Noblesville High School? And so I know I've showed these images in some other presentations before, but I do want to show them. And I was thinking about it as I prepared for tonight. This is probably the last time I'm going to show these renderings because the next time we talk about this, it's going to be in person and we'll have real pictures to show. But for the sake of tonight and just highlighting again um board and community, it's no secret that there has been a a major investment of both time, resources, and energy into this um very impactful expansion that's happening at the high school right now. and a few specific areas that are
033going to be going to be affected by this. Um, this is just a uh one example of one of the music rooms. This this one you can actually see in person right now that's been in use for several months. This is the new jazz band space um there in the core of the building. And again, I' I've visited rehearsal a few different times. Um I think they would tell you it has been a complete change for their for their program. Um for those who remember the old jazz space, we'll just say it was small. That's the lot that's the only word I can use. This space is is so great and they're they are just maximizing use of that. The next image here that Mr. Swimer's put up is the cafe area board. You got
034to see kind of this in its skeleton work when we saw it last time. Um again, when I think forward thinking and kind of, you know, looking to the future, what a great way to to again use this new space to serve our students better. Um to give them some flexibility and to tie into kind of the the overall feel of of this whole area, which leads me to the next image. Um, one of the things that you've heard us talk about a lot and communities probably heard me mention before is that the design of of the common spaces of this new wing were intentionally um laid out in a way to provide spaces for collaboration and inquiry. That's so important for kids now um and for students as they prepare for future for future
035learning and opportunities. So again, if you think back to that cafe space, you look at this area and the next couple slides, they were designed specifically for that purpose and to maximize that and give give additional spaces for that. Again, if we look forward, this one again just just highlights another set of that collaborative space up on the second level. And then probably my favorite two images of all are the next two. Um this is this will definitely be the showcase uh space that I can't wait for our community to see when they come and visit um visit the new wing in just a couple of months. Um again, this will be where students sit if they're down there eating lunch if they're some of the students that are have the ability to do that.
036Um but also again it's a very large gathering space that can be used for faculty meetings um sta you know staff gatherings, student meetings of course community events. Um and then if we do one more slide forward, this is the view of that same area from the top of the gathering stair just looking down and you can see this image also shows that courtyard that's there also. So once again another flexible space that'll be used for collaboration and um just all sorts of great new things. So, I'm excited to say again, this has already started to go out, but just in case those haven't folks haven't heard this yet, we are officially want to share tonight that the grand opening of this will be on Thursday, August 7th, 4:30 p.m. at the high school. So,
037community, um, make sure you write that down. We we truly want everyone to come. Um, we're going to promote this many times between now and then because this was a big investment by our community and we want them to come and see what we did and get to see all the things that are going to benefit the children of Noble Soul. So, we're very excited. Um, we'll we'll share some more information as that gets closer, but again, please mark your calendars. We would love love to have you there. So, if we move on to the next slide, the next strategy that I want to talk about is highlighting school spirit, our traditions, and our community pride. And so, I'm going to go one slide and I'm going to share a story that some of you
038have heard me share before, but I can't not share it because it matters too much to me. Um, I still remember when I interviewed with the school board for the very first time and I asked them the question, which was, "What is something I have to know about Noblesville and I can't miss?" and they said the homecoming parade and I thought are you for real the homecoming parade? Really? And then I went to the homecoming parade and it is a can't miss event that I will never miss on my calendar. And so just a collage of a few of the the parades that I've had the pleasure of seeing since I've been here. Um I would assume everyone in this room knows exactly what I'm talking about about that about that parade. But what a
039special thing. And I think it's easy sometimes for folks who don't live in Noblesville or don't work here to take things like that for granted. um or excuse me, folks who do work here and live and live here, but this is not the norm in all communities and it's just such a special a special thing. So along those lines, I want to bring right up, you may have heard us mention it, but it's a huge deal this year. Our theme for this coming year at Noblesville Schools is this is, believe it or not, the 100th anniversary of the Millers. And um those who know the story know that uh the Millers were were named back in 1925 when the Noblesville Milling Company made the best deal of the century by buying uniforms for the teams
040and the only agreement was you have to call yourself the Millers. Who knew that 100 years later, long after the company didn't exist, they would still have this amazing promotion going on for their business. But the name has stuck and what a unique uh what a unique and special name. So with that said, again, it will be our district theme next year. Um the font here was intentionally picked to to um match the uniform font that was in place uh at that time. And it's designed in that in a 1920s art deco style. Um as part of our celebration of this, we have already have flagpole art on the way that'll be all over town when the time comes, ready to hang those up. Um and there's all sorts of other ideas we're working on
041to celebrate this milestone, but I'm not going to give away any other surprises because we're working on working on some other things. But we're very excited to celebrate with our community very very soon. And then the last strategy that I want to that I want to highlight quickly tonight are celebrating Noblesville schools employees and our community members. And um I think it goes without saying that we we have so many ways that we do this here. Um I'm I was as I was thinking about this I was reflecting on just a few weeks ago many of us had the opportunity to celebrate at our gratitude gala where we we celebrate our teacher of the year and so many other employees and retirees. Um but again the most new thing that is going on at Noblesville
042schools is our brand new hall of fame that we are just so excited um to induct the first class. So community and and board you may remember that just a few a few months ago we named our inaugural class. Um so here are those eight individuals. Um want to just make sure we mention them again tonight. um and and the the committee felt that these eight were the the folks that best exemplified exactly what we had in mind to to be our first inaugural class of um of Hall of Fame recipients. And so um as we're planning for this, we are excited that um we believe later this year, so the the timelines are still kind of in flux with some things, but we are very excited that the actual physical structure is is uh
043almost completely honed in now and groundbreaking should start here pretty soon so that we can celebrate. And I'm excited tonight to share the first rendering of what that space will look like. And so, um, if you to orient you, for those who don't recognize where this is, the building that you can kind of see on the right there is the community center and the fence on the left is the back side of Beaver Stadium. And so, this will be put placed right there in between those two structures. And a lot of thought went into where to put this. Um, and we finally settled on this location because it's easy to get to even when the stadium's not open. So our community can visit anytime they choose, but it's still very much a part of our
044campus and right there for everyone to see. And when people are there for events either at the community center or the stadium, it's very easy to step out and visit. So we are very very excited. Just to orient what you're seeing in the picture, you can see there's there's going to be some seating areas for folks to come and, you know, sit with their families and friends. And then the structure in the middle of course is Noblesville themed, but it will have the names of all of our inductees, obviously the inaugural class, and then each year as we add names, they will be added on. So, we are just unbelievably excited to celebrate with our community when this is ready to go. Um, so again, be on the lookout for more details soon as we
045as we get that date um established. So, with that board, that is everything that I wanted to highlight tonight. I don't know if there are any questions or any discussion on any of those items. Any questions? Great job. I mean, yes, kind kind of nostalgic seeing um you know, the the Miller recipients um because a few of them I actually had as teachers when I went to school here. Um Mr. Land was my first grade teacher. Um but his last year as principal was my daughter's kindergarten year. So, um yeah, I've had a couple of these. So, it's it's nice to see them, you know, come back into the the circle of the Millers. It's awesome. So, thank you. Thank you. All right, moving right along. Um, next up uh is public comment um on
046an agenda item and we did not have anyone um sign up tonight. So, we will move on to consent items. By single motion, the board approves and adopts the following items or actions which reflect the application of board policy in Indiana code and those are claims, donations, minutes of our last meeting, overnight and out of state trips and personnel listing and a personnel addendum. May I have a motion to approve the consent items as listed? Move. Joe second. Second by Brett. Um, any further discussions? Yes. I would like to thank our wonderful community which continues to support uh our students uh by somebody giving $5,000 to take care of lunch counts and they did that anonymously. So again, we appreciate our community so much. Thank you. Anything else? All right. All those in favor? I
047opposed. Motion carried. Dr. Hy, before we move on, I do want to acknowledge three special individuals that were on that personnel listing. I want to congratulate Dr. Jana Mobly as our new high school principal. Congratulate Mr. Jeff Harkin who's been um promoted to assistant principal at the high school. And I al also want to acknowledge didn't know she was coming but so glad that she's here. I also want to acknowledge Amanda Russo who is um here for being our teacher at Noble Crossing. Congratulations. Okay. Thank you. Sorry Bardocks is still kind of going going slow. All right. Action. Um um we heard earlier from um Dr. Rich and Dr. Townsen about the administrator PG EP um program. May I have a motion to approve the new administrator professional growth and evaluation program to be implemented
048during the 2025 2026 school year? Motion. Motion staff. Second Misty. Any further discussion? No. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. All right. Um, next up we have um we are um the administration is requesting approval of some CTE uh contracts for this upcoming school year. Those are ABC Construction Prep Academy, All Heart Nurse Aid Training Center LLC, EMT Medical Training Solutions LLC. May I have a motion to approve these three um contracts subject to final review by our council by the schools council? Joe, can I have a second? Second. Second. Uh any further discussion? Um not really discussion, but just um just to make a note that we all did have several questions that we had emailed in advance about these contracts and uh Dr. Hy has addressed them with his team and
049I think we're all good. Rocka. Yeah. Can I make a comment? You can vote. Excellent. So, I want to acknowledge publicly because he is here tonight, Dr. Schmether's work. He has um he has really led this all of this expansion very very well over the last few years. And I think you noticed I I try to acknowledge in my email as I respond to your questions. He he has definitely the the knowledge base and the one doing a lot of this behind the scenes. And I hopefully you picked up on some of those responses that he is being very strategic finding ways not just to maximize opportunities for students but also to maximize the best use of our resources and opportunities for the district as well. So I want to publicly thank him since he
050is here tonight for all his work on on this. Yeah, we appreciate that because I you would think there will be more of these with the expansion at some point. Yep. They're are great programs and we appreciate all your work and answering all of our questions. We had a lot of questions. Thank you for thanks for answering all those. Appreciate that. And very quickly at that. Uhhuh. All right. Any anything else? All right. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Um, next up on our agenda would be public comment for a non-aggenda item. And we did not have anyone register tonight. So, we will move on to committee reports. Um, starting with Dr. Hy. All right. Thank you, board. As everybody knows, our staff is hard at work preparing for next year. All right,
051I made a joke earlier to somebody that uh at a meeting I was at over lunch today, someone said, "Boy, are you just enjoying relaxing over the summer?" I just had to walk away because that's that's not real life. Um community, I'm actually going to share an update with you on a couple of things. The board and I had the chance just last Friday to attend um the ISBA summer uh school law seminar. Um I think we all found that very educational that one thing that I think folks don't always know is just how much changes so quickly in school law and and between legislation, court cases, and other legal guidance. So that was great. great learning together. Appreciated our time to do that. And actually next week, um, all of us, I believe, are
052signed up to also attend the budgeting seminar. So, looking forward to, um, doing that. Mr. Horde Miller will be with us for that. Um, and I just want to say how much I appreciate the board's commitment to professional growth, um, as individuals and of course collectively as a board. So, two quick reminders. Um, excuse me. Uh, for the sake of the community, believe it or not, it's already time to start thinking about the back to school bash, which will be on Friday, July 25th, 5:00 pm on at Federal Hill Commons. And then the NHS academic wing, I just told you, Thursday, August 7th at 4:30. I need a drink. Oh gosh. Anyone have a drink? All right. Um, thank you. I will report on the Noblesville Schools Education Foundation board. Uh, we met on uh
053May 22nd. Um, there have been 72 72 grants approved for this calendar year for a total of $72,000. Um, the Disney trivia night was a a success. Uh the next trivia will be holiday trivia. It will be in December at Beer Brewery. Um I'm going to mention two things that Dr. Hy already mentioned. Uh NCF will be involved in the Hundred Years of Millers. Um the kickoff coming this school year and also involved in the back to school bash on 7:25. Next up, parks. Parks. The parks are open and the programs are all full and going well. Last night, uh I don't know if else attended the Pacer game at Federal Hill on the big screen. It was everything the parks department pulled off very nicely. Everything went well except the end of the dog
054on game. Okay. All right. Uh second thing, summer concert series at Dylan Park. They're every th every Thursday night at 7 o'clock through July. And they've got all kind of fun groups. They got the Blue River Band, Dave and Ray, uh Endless Summer, and that goes through uh July 24th. And then the summer concert series at Federal Hill goes through September 27th and they're on Saturday nights and I've done two or three of those in the past and they are always fun. Uh check the check the parks website to get those dates and and times u set up. Okay. Get out to get out to Noblesville Parks. Our parks department does a wonderful job of of keeping everything fresh and nice and have great events. Thank you. Uh Noblesville Redevelopment Commission. Stephanie, uh, we met
055on Thursday, June 12th, and just had a couple orders of business. One was the purchase of real estate at Innovation Mile at 14002 East 146th Street. Um, for the approximate price of $360,000 per acre. I think the total came to maybe 2.8 or maybe 900. No, there were 2.6 acres at 360,000 per acre. Um, $360,000 per acre. It's a lot. It's a lot. Um and then the second one was for um the Barley Island property. Um that uh was presented with a third amendment to previously approved option agreement for the purchase of that real estate property. I believe it's going to be potentially going back to the city purchased through a tiff. Um so I guess stay tuned for what that property may end up becoming. It was going to be was called Project Bourbon.
056It was going to be a bourbon tasting. Not sure exactly what's going to happen moving forward with the city purchasing that for $2.8 million. So, that was it. Oh, and Christy also got a new gavel made by one of our RDC members. He made that in his wood shop. Yep. So, it's show it's pretty it's pretty calm tonight. I don't I don't think we'll have to use it, right? Yeah. It was made by the gentleman that has the lions on his front porch that he decorates on. Is it on Connor Street? On Connor Street. Yes, he's a gym. So, thank you. You're welcome. All right. Noblesville Youth Sports Alliance Misty. Um I just I want to backtrack to Joe's a little bit just for a quick second because the um if y'all know Dave and
057Ray, they're this Thursday at Dylan Park. So, they're one of my favorites. So, just FYI, if you looking for something to do this summer Thursday, Dave and Ray, it's a free concert. Um the Noblesville Youth Sports Alliance updates. Um our last meeting was May 21st and we actually we ended we held a CPR AED certification um class in May and wasn't very well attended but at least there I mean there were eight people um and they helped cover partial um expenses for that. If you want to get certified I'm sure we're going to be running another um certification soon. Um, let's see. West I'm kind of torn on mentioning this update because it involves another school district, but maybe someone in our community can benefit from it. It's the only reason I'm mentioning it, but
058Westfield Youth Sports has a paid position open for operations manager. Pays quite well. I looked it up today. It's 60 grand. Oh, wow. So, but that may or may not be filled by now, but if you're interested, westfieldports.org. um several leagues uh within our community. It's again it's youth sports um that are not school affiliated just within our community. Um it's age groups under six or up to sixth grade because I believe seventh grade is starts most of our sports. So um but most of our leagues are wrapping up or they're preparing to begin their season. Uh the pickler had their open house back on June 1st and they offered free pickle ball for this for this event. Um I was unable to attend so I'm not sure of the turnout. Um my family actually
059had sports that evening. So um our next meeting is July 16th. We are yeah July 16th. We're not having a June meeting because of just the timeliness and everything being crazy. So um and we will also hold a booth at the back to school bash. Thank you very much. All right. Our next regular school board meeting will be here July 22nd um at 6 pm. Uh may I have a motion to adjourn this meeting? Joe. Second by Misty. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Meeting is adjourned.