001you ready okay good evening good evening thank you for coming to our regular school board meeting we're going to start with the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States americe and now a moment of silence thank you uh first up we have the preliminary hearing on our bond um so we do that when we have a proposed construction project um so I am going to turn it over to uh CFO David Hiller and Dr Hy to explain the purpose of the hearing okay thank you madam president uh really appreciate the opportunity tonight to go through uh our next bond proposal which would be issued in uh fall of this year and so uh we have a presentation tonight that will go through the the various projects that would be funded in the
002Bond as well as the the finances of course uh to to help us uh all understand you know the mechanisms behind debt financing and school bonds and so uh to actually kick off this presentation we're going to bring a familiar face up to the uh the podium to actually talk about the majority of the the funding uh that would go toward our high school air handler replacement project so Andy Steiner with kbso is is here tonight to to walk us through a little bit of an update on phase one which was approved in last year's Bond and then talk about phase two and phase three which will be included in uh this Bond everybody can you all hear me all right so Andy Steiner kbso Consulting uh early last year in 2024 we were hired
003to do what we call the discovery package so we assessed the condition of the air handlers at Noblesville High School we excluded Air Handlers that were being replaced as part of other projects or had recently been replaced but we investigated all the core Air Handlers throughout the building um can I can you enlarge that slide number two for me David thank you so as we're walking through one thing jumped out there's a lot of water damage so some of you may have seen this we did a walk through last year there's a lot of water damage in the units there's a lot of water damage around the units um we did a lot of discussion in house what is the best way to deal with this and we concluded that the best thing to do
004is to replace the entire air handler it's not the kind of scenario where we want to patch or like try to fix one little component we wanted to replace the whole air handler so once we went down that road there's a a couple benefits you get like Energy Efficiency improves when we replace new Air Handlers you know air is flowing through cleaner coils has slightly more efficient fans the other thing that we'll do at the same time is we're replacing the controls system that controls these Air Handlers so keeps the building temperatures appropriate we're also replacing that system and and we see energy improvements when we replace control systems like this the big thing we're really driving at though is to improve the maintenance burden on on Bruce games and and Roy Wallace they're doing
005a good job of keeping things going but uh with the improved controls that helps them do their jobs that helps them shut the units off manipul the the units keep everything temperature in check that really assists them and can make them more efficient in what they do so we're really looking at that the other thing that you know when we compared the expected life expectancy of these units it's about 20 years you know our professional Society lists this is about a 20 year kind of piece of equipment and we're sitting at 31 plus you know 31 in counting so it just made a lot of sense to replace them um and then so I'll show you a few examples so you can see the picture on the left that's actually looking inside one of the
006air handlers and that reflection there you can't see the in with the lighting but the reflection is water sitting at the bottom of the unit and if you go to the next slide David there's a couple more like that again on the left we're looking inside the unit and you can't quite see it but there's kind of a reddish Hue there that's more clear it's again a puddle of water and this is pretty typical throughout there was just a lot of of of water leakage and it's just because it's you know we can't fix the air handler piece by piece we need to we need a new one um and then you see it it can get into the building too so as it leaks out of the air handler it leaks down into the
007floor floors below so keep going David uh on the left you can see the control system still has a three and a half inch floppy disc so we're going to kind of replace that bring it into modern times um and then just more water dam image on the right this is this is typical of a lot of these units okay so I'm going to summarize where we've been so far so what what kbso has done so far is we've turned in the discovery deliverable last year in May uh we we did the design for what we're calling phase one so phase one consists of two bid packs bid pack one is air handlers around the main Auditorium area so includes kitchen includes cafeteria and all the spaces around the auditorium and and Auditorium bid Pack
0082 is the main gyms and the associated locker rooms so those designs are complete right now Air Handlers are being procured for those designs so uh the first air handler should be arriving any day actually uh slated to start in spring break they're going to replace a couple a handlers on each of those bit packs and then so part of our task as kbso is we're administering the construction as this goes on so we're reviewing we're hosting con you know OAC meetings reviewing pay apps um coordinating with the school we're doing a lot of talks with with Joan and Kevin at the school and making sure that they are talking with the the contractors we're making reviewing their schedules making sure that everybody knows where the other part is going to be and how to
009safely separate the students from the construction activi so that is all part of our job um that's to date so David if you could go to the next slide so you may not be able to read the individual numbers but uh looking forward so looking backwards the blue at the top and then the green the kind of lime green and yellow green at the top those are the ones that have been designed and are being constructed now so those are the air handlers that are being replaced right now in 2025 what we're in design for for the next year we're going to do a very similar process we you know we've selected the next batch of air handlers to be replaced we will Design and select the new Air Handlers and then start the con
010the bidding and construction process and do the same thing 2026 and then there's even a few that will go into 2027 so we had to we had to break it into that amount of years years that's just what contractors would be willing to bite off and actually construct we tried to slam it too much into one year the contractors wouldn't even be able to do it so that's where we are looking forward we're approximately halfway done with the airand the replacement design the construction will continue to happen this summer and that's so if there's any questions for Andy while he's up here before I get into the finances there's any technical questions for Andy on the the engine Ing and the hvbc hbac component I think now would be a good time you know Andy
011through you know Bruce and and Roy milking 31 years out of the last batch of air handlers had is do we expect because now we're new and upgraded this will last longer is this still I know this is early in the process do we get another 20 or what do we get out of this new batch for buy it I mean years wise so I think it's plausible yes to say that they can get the same amount of years right I can't guarantee that there's a lot of uncertainty in that um but I do know Roy and Bruce do a great job uh and then they're their team is definitely on it and they're very proactive in what they do in keeping care of things I think it's reasonable you expect another 20 to 30
012I think that's very reasonable yeah you know again thank you guys and David for walking us through in and out of all these things because you could see that there's no more bubble guub left to patch up leaking spots right in what we got going on right and we definitely considered you know what is the most efficient way to replace these but when we considered you know Noblesville life cycle investment it just made a lot most sense to just replace air handlers and what about air handling units for our new construction like will we have air handling units for the new academic session and will that work with you you know what I mean like correct yeah and those were all built in and included in that portion of the construction yeah so at least
013they'll all be kind of new at the same time yeah yeah right so the the new construction is not performed by us we didn't do the design for that but um the only thing that really you know need to come together is the controls so so Bruce and Roy and I have had a lot of conversations about how to bring the existing controls in with the new controls and and give it one consistent uh view to be able to see the whole building at once and control so you're going to get it so that he can stand in one position and look at you know the mechanics of what's going on everywhere it'll be a central location for our new our new construction as yeah so so he can partially do that now but it's
014it's outdated in the sense that a lot of the links are broken a lot of the functionality doesn't work just because of incompatibilities over the years so in theory he could have been able to do that but it's just not functioning right now because of because of age we'll give him an A system that actually functions where he can bring everything in yes yeah it's good the next phase is September is that correct uh so the next design phase will happen you know as soon as possible and then the bidding uh I don't actually remember the calendar off the top of my head we bid sometime early fall so do you remember David it'd be sometime in the fall then for the board to approve the bid package uh probably similar timeline as as last
015year so December January the I was wondering about the uh process of removing the old and putting the new in as sort as downtime the school yeah so what's what's happening this year is they're they're not doing any downtime where students are in the building so Spring Break and summer um well okay I'm sorry let me be more precise they are keeping all the essential units functioning while the students are in the building for example the gyms are fully redundant units so they can take one gym unit down while school is in session but they'll still have one fully operational gym unit similar concept with the other Air Handlers anything that needs to be is taken down and restored during the summer break very good thank you thank you okay thank you Andy okay moving
016on to the next slide uh I basically I'm starting off with a summary of really what Andy showed on that more detailed slide to talk about uh the actual uh amount that's going to be included in this year's Bond so uh bid package three and four uh would be constructed in 2026 uh you you see the estimated design and construction costs there on the right as well as the estimated cost for bid package five and six as well as designed for construction in 2027 so that total for the the the remainder of this project is about $9.7 million that we would include in this year's Bond next slide so this is a list of everything that's going to be included in this year's Bond and spoiler alert there's actually nothing very super glamorous in in
017this year's Bond and I have to say that this is uh a sign of of a true Capital maintenance or a multi-purpose Bond uh so no new buildings or additions like we've had in Prior year bonds uh again it's just really a sign that we are a very large property management firm or you know company organization that has a lot of properties a lot of buildings uh we have a lot of Technology we also operate a very large uh Transportation Fleet so uh with that being said I'll just go ahead and go through some of these so of course I'm I'm carrying over the $9.7 million from that that prior screen uh one of the things though I do want to talk about right away here is the fact that that uh last year we
018uh issued the dollars for the uh phase one of this project and then this year we'll actually issue the dollars for phase two and three uh so both of those will be included in this year's Bond uh and for a couple reasons so number one uh it's first of all It's Not Unusual to create uh or to include dollars for something that would go on for really about an 18 month to 20 month time frame so case in point look at our athletic academic Edition right now that's about a a 24 uh almost 25 month process where we uh issued all for those uh for that project in that single Bond um second it also helps us to to Kickstart that design that Andy talked about so we would have those funds available next year
019around or it'd be uh a year after we issue to have those funds ready for design so we can uh get kbso to to work on that design and then finally um due to a lot of the the long-term planning that we've had uh right now we uh do not plan on issuing a bond next year so a lot of the the projects that or all the projects that I'm mentioning here would really like I said have that 18 to 20 month time window to to complete so next year we would not plan on issuing a bond uh doing large part again to the long-term planning that we have on our Capital facilities and uh because of that we would ultimately save the district about $325,000 in cost of issuance so I'll show that a
020little bit later here on the next slide as it relates to the uh details at the bond but first let's let's finish off this slide uh to talk about the fact that uh we'll also be replacing some sections of roof at both hle Creek and North element or uh East Middle School for $600,000 uh both of these sections come off of a roof assessment that was done about four or five years ago so the operations team of course is always monitoring that and making sure that we include uh those Replacements to always keep up on the uh the quality of our roofs uh about $911,000 for flooring so carpet hard surfaces at Promise Road Stony Creek White River Hinkle Creek West Middle School and NHS painting always have some painting around the district hazeldell Noble
021Crossing Stony Creek and NHS or $286,000 Paving uh again another thing that we always have around the district about $1.4 million uh so this includes three lots at the high school uh one of which of course uh is is on tonight's uh approval for a lot on the East but there's three more Lots at the high school that would also be uh done over the next 18 to 20 month uh time frame here at NHS uh we also have a playground so of course all elementaries have a playground the one at Noble Crossing is due for replacement which of course we know the kids will be excited about it but I can also tell you that so will uh the maintenance team because this is one that's outdated so when Parts break it is almost
022near impossible to get get parts for that so we're absolutely excited to get this one replaced and have uh parts that aren't discontinued anymore so we can keep that at a good condition also intercom systems at all of our schools so a couple schools actually have intercoms nibble Crossing one of them West Middle School I believe as well original to the uh the the school itself a lot of the other ones are over 15 years old and uh I'm uh told by technology that the uh a lot of them are also run on a floppy disc and when that floppy disc goes bad uh it turns scratchy and the only way to to get a new one is actually a refurbished one so one that's used refurbished because these intercom systems are also outdated so
023about and we actually had the quote on that for $564,000 for uh intercoms uh for all the school buildings uh $375,000 for other miscellaneous items such as concrete so we always have some concrete with the sidewalk curb gym floors rescreening some gym floors landscape Etc so again some some smaller miscellaneous items that we have included in this Bond over the next uh uh 18 to 20 months iPads and staff devices last year uh we we talked about uh putting Bond or into our bonds the iPads and staff devices the the four-year replacement plan that we talked about so in this in last year's Bond of course we had uh the NHS and then for this year so since we're including two years worth it'd be grade 6 and8 for 2026 which is about 3,90 devices
024and then grades four and five in 2027 for about 1,935 devices and then finally uh buses for $ 1.4 million so this is uh including buses to relieve our operations fund about $700,000 for the next two years years due uh again to the the pressures uh that are that are incurring occurring in our operations fund uh especially with the price of buses itself just how much those are increasing so this will help to relieve our operations fund based on the pressures uh on that fund how many buses does that get us uh so the the bus replacement plan is of course is in the budget every year and uh about uh 7 to eight buses is replaced at about $1.2 million and that is a mix between our uh um our 78 passenger our activity
025buses and then um one other one that I can't remember off the top of my head and so the 78 passenger ranges there's two different models one's that is just looking at the replacement plan about 222,000 and another one about 180 the one that was at $180,000 increased from $165,000 the year before so just an indication of the price increases that that we're seeing in buses and why it's helpful to be able to to relieve our operations fund and pay for those out of the bond slide okay so when looking at the uh the legal parameters of this proposed General obligation Bond the total amount uh total par amount of the bonds would be $1,725 th000 earlier I talked about that the savings of cost of issuance by being able to plan ahead and include
026all these projects in in this year's bond to not have a bond next year you see that's the $325,000 right there that uh with every Bond we're going to have that because it it does cost money to have an underwriter it it costs money to have legal counsel and so on and so forth so the fact that we're able to include that all these items in this year's Bond not have a bond next year we're able to save the district the the $325,000 getting us the estimated proceeds of about 19.4 million which is the sum total of those items that were on that previous Slide the other things that we're required to review here are the estimated interest rates uh so we of course just these are parameters so we put an estimate on here
027uh between two and 6% I fully anticipate it'll be close to three in fact I'll show you historical rates here in just a second but ultimately around three hopefully a little bit less than 3% for our final rate the estimated final maturity uh again being a parameter we put 10-year repayment but uh you'll see on future slides as well that we fully anticipate a four-year repayment foure repayment on this year's bond for a total estimated interest cost of $2.9 million a maximum tax rate impact of 01 Z or excuse me1 1916 and a net tax rate increase over to the 25 uh tax rate of zero and in fact I fully anticipate that next year we'll we will once again be able to decrease our tax rate for the seventh year in a row all
028right so I I mentioned I talked a little bit about interest rates and so I I love this graph that stea put together to to show you that really what I would say is the benefit of us being able to have uh in our Tool uh tool box the ability to go to the municipal bond market and and issue debt at such low rates and so uh you can see the historical rates uh of our bonds and where the the rates were at when we issued these bonds over the last um you know five plus years current market rate shown there on the far right of 2.87 uh so again I fully anticipate that that we we never have a crystal ball but we can sure hope that uh it would be around the 2.8
029uh less than 3% by the time we would issue these bonds come September so in addition to rates I think it's also very important to also take a look at our outstanding debt because uh you know debt like I mentioned earlier is is certainly a tool that we have in our toolbox to to maintain these Capital facilities we we certainly couldn't do with our operation dollars alone and so with these large Capital facilities having the ability to issue debt is is Cly certainly wonderful but I think it's also make sure it's good that we make sure we look at that in context of the bigger picture and and also be able to to share perspective of of what levels of debt are are are healthy and so uh with that being said I always want
030to make sure that we show our total outstanding debt on a year-to-year basis uh this is the schedule of our repayment by Bond going through 2042 and you see there in the the orange color there what our proposed 2025 Geo bonds would look like from a repayment standpoint so I mentioned the the fouryear repayment so that's the the four years of repayment stacked on top of years 26 27 28 and 29 uh getting us to um a total if you add that in um of a little over $275 million in total so the district's total outstanding debt right now is about $255 million adding that in again gets that a little bit with interest a little bit uh over $275 million so I mentioned uh before I started this slide about perspective on debt and
031so I think uh there's a couple things that to share and number one is that as you look at other districts uh that like I did and and just looking on on Gateway which is you know public information to see uh to to show perspective from our $255 million outstanding um Brownsburg has $813 million of of debt Avon uh shows $537 million of debt and Westfield schools has $686 million of debt so um again I I only share that for a perspective in terms of you know where we are but um also just to remind folks too that uh when it when it comes to debt um you know it's also a question of well who's who's buying your debt and what is their willingness to to to purchase your debt and that's where as
032I think everyone knows that you know we we do we're very fortunate and blessed to have a very high credit rating and and that is to suggest that when we do take our bonds through the market we um actually for the last few years have had uh over orders on our bonds which again drives down that that rate why do we have an abundance of orders well because we areen attractive we have a healthy credit a high credit worthiness and so um again that is in large part to just our total amount of debt as well just our our fiscal management practices in general next to outstanding debt uh it's important to talk about our total tax rate so this is our projection of our total tax rate of course in 2025 we have our
033certified tax rate at the $1 and and uh 25 cents for um 2025 certified and um what what we show here again is just a projection long term uh of our debt rate and this really correlates very closely to the the prior graph that you saw with total debt outstanding how the tax rate tracks with our total outstanding debt and on the next slide you'll see that when we go ahead and issue this bond in 2025 we we show the uh the orange section there uh being added to the existing rate to maintain the uh the flat rate for 2026 and then in 27 28 29 of course that rate is projected to decrease as we pay that off but also as we see growth in our tax base uh so again a four-year payoff
034leaving um plenty PL capacity in the future but then also decreasing our tax rate next year as well one of the things before I guess I get into this slide it's important to I think talk about um the overlapping taxing units tax rates because I think one question that one could easily ask about issuing this debt is well David what if we would actually defer these Capital Investments and let us not issue the debt could we actually have a significant rate decrease and the answer is well certainly we could decrease our rate um and and have a significant decrease but then it's important to know in the world of property tax caps what that actually means for the property tax payer does that actually mean that if we would if we were to defer all
035this investment and decrease the rates would that actually bring property tax relief and so um because that's a good policy question to ask I want to make sure that we address that um in these next few slides talking about you know the tax rate management uh strategy that we employ as well as all the other overlapping taxing units and so that's why I show on this slide uh the historical tax rates from 2020 uh moving forward for again the overlapping taxing units which are the city the county the library and the the township and so uh you see on the top in the yellow that's our uh tax rate decreasing like I mentioned uh for multiple years in a row and uh it's a very slight decrease but that's again our commitment to the taxpayers
036to show year-over-year we can do uh more with less and so um that's why we show a very slight decrease year-over-year you see in the red the city uh so the city of Noblesville they've maintained a flat $110 rate for the last 6 years which is which is wonderful uh along with our other uh Partners here in Hamilton County that overlap Us in the library the county and the uh the township uh you see a slight increase in the township I did actually looked that up so their their fire and EMS rate had just a slight increase going from 24 to 25 but otherwise uh when you look at that graph those rates are all relatively flat right and um I can tell you that in a lot of other taxing districts throughout the state
037that's not the case you see a lot of ups and downs and that's due to how units are really just kind of operating in their own silos and issuing debt how they want to and structuring their debt how they want to but here where we're at we're we're very fortunate that um our units are are cooperating well in the sandbox as we say as it relates to the property tax caps because as we all have uh stable rates then that means we also have stable proportionate share of circuit breaker loss year-over-year which is very helpful when when we craft our budgets uh because a lot of the properties in our taxing unit uh are at the cap and because they're at the cap we are guaranteed to have losses in that respect so with this
038in mind um again answering that question well what if we would just decrease our rate um and and just and let that be relief well like I just said there's a lot of folks that are at the cap here in Noblesville and so with that being said here's a very basic example of what would happen then if we were just to go ahead and decrease our rate uh and how that would impact folks that are at the cap and so looking at a homestead uh assessed at $100,000 and uh as of course we know in Indiana they're capped at paying 1% so uh at $100,000 assess value their property tax liability would be $11,000 um cap and so if we look here in the red and we see that the city the county and the
039school have a tax rate all of 40 cents uh that means that the total rate is a120 if you calculate that out then each of those units would receive $400 from this taxpayer uh because that's $200 over the cap of $11,000 uh the County Auditor has to divvy out that $200 loss because they can only collect $1,000 from the property so how do they do that well as I mentioned earlier they look at that percent your percent of the overall rate and that is your percent of loss so it's very easy here we're all a third of the rate so we all share a third of the $200 so that's that's the loss allocation the $67 uh the 67 from the uh the 400 Nets everyone a levy of $333 so you see there on
040the bottom right of that red chart that's the taxpayer paying only $1,000 as they're capped now if we move over to the blue and this is where the school if we were to reduce our rate what would happen then if uh we play out this scenario and show that now the taxpayer only has A110 set rate so their total um uh Levy would be calculated at 1,100 meaning that they would have a loss of $100 how do we look at this loss allocation well you see the loss allocation there uh that's how it's calculated out per unit and then once again on the bottom right you see how the the taxpayer pays the $1,000 the difference here between the the right column and the blue and the red is that now the the city and
041the county have actually netted additional Revenue so again Bor I know you're kind of familiar this concept but but BR being being uh new to this presentation this year want to make sure that uh we we really share this once again to to say this is why it's it's really uh prudent that all of our overlapping taxing units do the best that we can to keep our rates level and how do we do that by uh being um strategic in our in our debt year-over-year and then making sure that our circuit breaker losses can maintain consistency year-over-year as well all right on the final slide uh this is just a quick uh review of the bond schedule so in February uh of this year you recall we we went ahead and posted the authorization to
042to adverti for public hearing so that's why we're here tonight uh this is the first preliminary determination hearing of two uh tonight there is no action this is just uh the board hearing all the information behind the bond uh the financials the projects Etc and then in April uh 15th the regular school board meeting we'll actually have um another hearing just like this so you'll get the the pleasure of hearing this presentation twice and then we will uh from there actually have some action items and so those are listed there to adopt the project resolution the preliminary determination resolution the U project resolution as well as the bond resolution so uh those resolutions would be uh approved then in April and then uh moving into June we would then have the uh action to adopt
043the additional appropriation resolution and the final Bond Bond resolution with an expected sale of the bond assuming everything would get approved in September of 2025 and so with that board I'd be happy to answer any questions I just have a few question um and Christy was maybe gonna ask this um the paving from our last Bond we had like $1.2 million and actually miss daning asked about you we had about like $ 1.2 million left over and that is going to be used for some Paving right projects that we're going to be yeah that's correct so the the paving that would be approved tonight would be part of what was in the bond last year uh well for for you know that that we're spending this year and that is is going to be like
044we said um it's going to be um Stony Creek and hazell as well as one of the parking lots at the high school for an action item tonight okay so some of that that we got more for we're actually going to be using that for Paving in a future so that's good yes correct um and then so we knew about the air handling units when were we initially having that conversation and what was it was like $15 million that we had the initial conversation about right because when I saw this new Bond I was like 20 more million but i' kind of not I'd forgotten that this was all in different bonds and different bid packages so this was discussed last year yeah in fact so we would have had our same hearings around this
045exact time last year so I believe we probably took you guys on the tour around maybe February of last year yeah and the discussion was that the total cost was going to be $155,000 we've already gotten F or 15 million sorry we've already gotten five million and now this is is for the additional 10 for the rest of the area yeah the remainder yeah yeah okay um and then I also know that we've talked about potentially having a work session about do like you guys talking about our 10year long-term maintenance plan like you're going to show the board what the plan is for 10 years for Bonds in the future and projects that you guys are anticipating so we'll kind of had an idea of what's coming up yeah absolutely yeah we'd be happy to
046go through our our long-term plan that operations puts together to you go through all the details from the from the paint the carpet to the uh the p Etc that's scheduled for May 13th and that's going to be a work session that's yep open to the public anybody can come okay great we're going to talk about technology that day also yes so and then um so yeah so the 3% bond rate so why you know like I hear about interest rates being 7% being so high so Bond rates in general are just lower or why are I mean that's a really good interest rate why why do we get such a low interest rate yeah because of the municipal bond market and the way that there's tax incentives for investors to to go to that
047market so it's it's really that uh like I said that tool in our toolbox that uh is is probably a tool because of like I said the the tax benefits given by the federal government to the bond buyers to then help Municipal uh units be able to borrow such low rates to be able to stim create development right uh allow us to borrow affordably okay thank you that's great thanks go no I I just want to say I appreciate your presentation I you your financial management I always enjoy listening to how we manage to operate within our budget and and go things at lower Bond rates and do that but equally I appreciate your operations how we run operations here so we end up not having interruptions with our students here which I know puts
048a whole burden on your whole staff to figure out how we do this in certain amounts of times and how we can plug pieces there so I appreciate both finances and operations thank you AG greate thank you uh great presentation thank you for all the information um I think it's also important just to reiterate um and point out that if we were like you said in your side if we were to reduce our tax rate it doesn't mean that the taxpayers will pay less it just means other taxing entities will receive more that's that's right yeah for those who are at the cab that's yeah that would be the scenario all right all right thank you um with part of this process now we have a public comment um portion of the board meeting so
049if anyone would like to speak specific specifically on this topic you are welcome to come to the front no something else okay seeing no one I will turn over to Dr H for recognitions all right before we do that I want to say two quick things number one I want to give uh Mr hoer Miller a a big praise once again because the thing he didn't say so I'm going to say it for him is part of why we get those competitive rates is because we are one of four of the highest rated um by credit rating School Corporation in the state of Indiana and that is 100% because of the work and Leadership from Mr hor Miller so a big thank you to him for his work on that that saves that saves every
050taxpayer money and that helps our bond rating that absolutely helps our bond rating that gets us the cheapest interest rates possible and which at the at the end of the day saves taxpayers money and that's always a win and the second thing I just have to know kids how many of you actually know what a floppy disc is wow okay I'm impressed all right what the save icon is on all of your all of your apps you use for those who don't know cuz I was watching moms and dads laugh and eyes light up every time they said that word tonight so very good all right on to some recognitions we have a lot of a lot of guests here with us tonight so I want to start by asking uh Mr Joe acres to
051please come to the front as we recognize some outstanding journalism students [Applause] hi everyone I'm Joe Acres as he said I'm one of the journalism advisers at the high school and uh we're here tonight to recognize and congratulate several of our award-winning student journalists uh our NHS student journalist had a terrific showing at this year's Indiana High School press association's Harvey Awards uh our mstream newspaper and our NHS news broadcast individuals uh when I call your name up can you just head up to the front please I'm not sure how many people are here um so so our individual winners um we had a third place win in the broadcast and multimedia category uh that's Max Arnold Aiden cadell and Aiden colart so head on up uh we had a second sorry we had a
052second place second place award uh in the broadcast multimedia to Andy MC Andy Addy McMillan and Andy Zia and we had another second place award in the feature writing category to Morgan Trowbridge um we had a second place award for editorial writing went to brinsley Johnson and we had a first place award uh in the spot news photo that to Lily [Applause] ferazzi and we had a first place award in the broadcast multimedia uh category that went to jenville and Jacob Tracy the Harvey awards are the uh highest individual awards that uh Indian High School journalism gives out so we're super uh proud of these guys and we also have some of our editors from our newspaper and broadcast staffs here um can you guys come forward I'm not sure entirely who else here I
053see mattye Smith and Anna egleson and Gabby jalis um we have uh so we picked up some coverage Awards which are staff Awards um and uh in the coverage awards are mstream staff um and NHS new staff picked up uh third place in the clubs and organization coverage that went to our broadcast staff um our broadcast staff picked up a second place in sports coverage and the Millstream newspaper staff picked up a second place in news and current events coverage and they won the opinions coverage category and the features and student life coverage category and in our biggest news um the Indiana High School pre Association every year they award hooer Stars which are kind of like our state championships I guess is the best analogy I could give uh they hand these out to
054programs who exemplify um the highest qualities of whichever program uh genre they're in yearbook newspaper um broadcast and online the um there's no set number given out they give out they're kind of like um awards that are given to whoever's earned one and the yearbooks um have not been named yet but U both are stream newspaper staff and our NHS news staff were who your star winners this year um it's the highest recognition you can get and we're incredibly proud of the work that they're doing so um thank you very much for coming out and recognizing them [Applause] appreciate your work thank you good work man good work we appreciate make it look good right all right congratulations again to all of our journalism students at this time um I'm going to ask Mr Thornberry
055to come up because we have quite a variety of Music Awards to talk about music recognitions to talk about tonight good evening this is the season of individual awards for our Music uh program um and then it's a great time because you know as the individuals get better then you will see here in the next couple weeks our ensembles will start getting better um at this time I'm actually going to call up um several of our other directors and we're going to start with Nathan Simpson and Raina Campbell from East Middle [Applause] School we might as well bring up Stacy white and Leslie Wales from West Middle School as [Applause] well could we have emit dodridge come on up this 8th grade East Middle School student imit is an eighth grade tuba player at East
056Middle School who received a gold rating at the isma state school Solon non Ensemble competition he also received with distinction uh EMT is involved in our Jazz Band concert band pep band and Middle School drum line so congratulations to EMT [Applause] and from West Middle School also receiving gold with distinctions at State soul and Ensemble we have Oliver Conrad on flute receiving a perfect score congratulations as a seventh grader we have Julia hin on flu and piano receiv receiving both state um Golds for both flute and piano congratulations Juliet [Applause] we also have Aiden shamoo on alto sax receiving a state recognition and we have Annie Draven on flute as well congratulations all West [Applause] students and now we're going to call up Mr David Hartman Noblesville High School orchestra director and yeah move on
057down to the right okay at the high school level uh we had Kylie lysc on a violin solo with gold Enrique kamacho also violin solo gold with distinction Eric Hedland cello solo [Applause] gold Haley Gibbons violin solo gold with distinction [Applause] Phoebe pay cello solo [Applause] gold the Phoebe pay cello quartet which you saw in the lobby gold with distinction part of that cello quartet is Becket Fitch and Carolina sneaker and Sydney Harrison [Applause] also cydney Harrison got a cello solo gold we also have Isabelle dos on viola solo gold with distinction Olivia Smith viola solo gold Clark Larson base solo gold Liam Bachelor cello solo gold with distinction also a double threat Liam Bachelor base solo gold with [Applause] distinction and a person I know who's playing volleyball tonight Eric chin or shenwan cello
058solo gold [Applause] so confusing right good work congratulations [Music] congratul I'm gonna call up all of our uh band students and then we will hold our Applause to the end um way that there's a bunch of them um I do want to distinguish you heard um uh some perfect scores gold withth distinction so our state uh first of all all of these students had to qualify for State soul and Ensemble by attending a district contest and receiving um u a gold rating at District so um which is not easy to do so we have a lot of students that attempt uh to make state finals at District that do not attend that do not move on um and so we're so proud to have so many that do that and then when they go to
059state if they score basically um they can miss three things from the judge's rubric it's a nine-point rubric and if they miss four things they do not get gold withth distinction but if they do three like call them little mistakes they're they say minor flaws they can get gold withth distinction so we're going to recognize first our uh ensembles uh gold rating flute quartet of bell Garwood Madison cable Maya Albertson Hayden Scott uh a brass quintet of Natalie scha Nolan scha Patrick Cooper and Braden Greenley oh an Skyler Butler a low brass Trio of Maddox Hill Jack height and Cayenne S the sax Trio of Vincent Tyson Ethan Baker and Kaden Ranken and the bassoon Trio of Kylie Fagan that Vince vanat and Isabelle rener that you heard out front and then we have uh
060soloists Patrick Cooper on euphonium Isabelle Renard on bassoon Katon ORF on horn Gretchen Malik on flute some of these student many of these students are at winter percussion practice right now Ryan altiser on clarinet Alex Perry on tuba Quinn Melton on tenor Sachs B Garwood on flute Isabelle Renard on clarinet ier eer Salazar on Horn uh Elio Mangano on Bas clarinet Samuel Diaz Munos on tenor saxophone Hunter do on trombone Eve Lindor on flute Skyler Butler on tuba Ellie gelfo on flute Lauren Thompson on clarinet Nathan fundenberger on flute and Piccolo Tyler D on horn Shan shaie Conway on clarinet and Tyler Rivera on tenor saxophone and I believe that is it with several of these students uh we had three of these students that qualified for the All State band so we will get
061that recognition for them as well and we had four students that were representing Noblesville at the music for all um honor jazz band it's a national jazz band so students from all over the nation they were playing with students from California and Montana this weekend it was a big weekend in Indianapolis for uh music uh with the music for all and our orchestra playing at the padium so congratulations to that and let's have a round of applause for our states so Ensemble golds [Applause] while they're shaking T I do just want to say um a a huge thank you to our community and School Board I'll wait till they're done actually with all this talk of money I did just want to say thank you for supporting music it is not a a cheap Endeavor
062uh we were talking about the bassoon Trio out there that's about $118,000 worth of bassoons uh they're about $6,000 a piece I know that one of the bonds several years ago um was we were able to use to purchase more instruments and still keep under the tax rate and so we wouldn't be able to have this quality of a music program if if it wasn't for the funding uh that you guys provide through these bonds so to you guys in our community we thank you for that um we we are going to have to do a special bond for a contra bassoon uh Mr Hartman says we can't play the planets without one it's one instrument it's $27,000 just for that okay well thank you for every you're amazing thank you for everything you do
063yes thanks for the HS up yeah yeah keep moving all right congratulations again to all of our students I know they're all out by out and out in the lobby but thanks again for being here so this time I'd like to invite Mr Hoy up to the microphone um as he recognizes uh West Middle School um both as our hair teacher Spotlight and also our building Spotlight so as he's making his way up I do want to share that the hair Chevrolet teacher Spotlight program highlights three teachers every month and provides $1,000 to their school for student academic and extracurricular achievement so with that Mr Hoy thank you very much good evening everybody so I'd like to thank har Chevrolet for this awesome opportunity to recognize three uh of our just great Dynamic uh teachers
064uh first one this is going to be the first of many recognitions uh for this teacher uh so I'm really happy to do this one um and it is a Bittersweet to do it um unfortunately for us but we're very happy for Mrs boxburger that she will be retiring at the end of the school year uh so Mrs boxburger has been just an incredible asset to our school Community inspiring countless students uh love of reading and writing over the years Amy's dedication passion and commitment to Student Success have left a lasting impact in the classroom and throughout our entire School her kindness empathy and calming personality will be Irreplaceable as she prepares for retirement we celebrate her years of service to Noble schools her unwavering support for students and the positive influence Amy has had
065on so many lives Miss boxburger thank you for your hard work kindness and the difference you've made we wish you all the best in this next chapter some of her students have said and and she didn't know that we would do this but uh students have said thank you for all the hard work you've done at nwms you're an amazing teacher I'm so glad I got to have you I will miss you as my La teacher thank you you always help others with patience understanding and kindness you are an awesome teacher we will miss you thank you Mrs Boxberger for being a supportive teacher for me you are truly one of a kind and finally Mrs boxburger is nice and kind and always know knows how to solve a problem which is very helpful as
066a teacher you're so welcoming and have a big smile on your face we will miss you thank you very much Amy next up is JJ Cooper JJ's one of our bit teachers uh chances are if you have ever been to an event at West you will run into him at some point in fashion either as a coach just sitting there watching supporting his his students uh could be sponsoring a club uh to help students connect uh with their school Community he is a part of that next generation of teachers that's really becoming a pillar of of West and He will carry West uh you know far into into the future uh at one time he was a three uh sport coach and then he decided he was going to take a season off to be
067uh with his family a little bit and then I asked to meet with him and I said hey you're not doing anything this winter how about sponsoring our Esports club and so he's uh he's done a great job getting that off the ground which is really allowing us to kind of tap into uh a community of kids and really tie them back to school so I really appreciate all he has done there and a couple things that uh uh we have some eighth graders a couple things that they had said about uh Mr coer you always brought joy to my mornings with your check-in questions and those that is must C TV when you reach here is a check-in questions uh you made the start of my days better and you're always in a good
068mood I loved your class and didn't want to leave I feel like I learned a lot you will help me in the future and then finally you're a great teacher and you've all made me laugh so much so I know I've had two kids that were lucky enough to have Mr Cooper uh some of you you know your kids have been lucky enough grandkids and uh you know he he's one of those teachers that had a lasting impact on my kids uh my daughter you know when when she had them she uh her first Babys singing job first thing she did with that money is Dad we got to start a custodial Roth IRA so we've message message received Mr Cooper nicely done thank you Mr Cooper and uh last up will be Mrs Natalie
069Parish Natalie is a really foundational piece of our math department our seventh grade and our seventh grade math PLC uh she creates a classroom environment where all students feel supported challenged and inspired to succeed a lot of what we're going to talk about a little bit about our math instruction and even a video a little bit comes from from Mrs parish's classroom uh she was doing math this way uh long before you know we implemented these new instructional practices uh so she's just a leading force uh within our building within our department when Natalie speaks people listen because they know it's coming from a place of true concern uh for kids her ability to break down complex mathematical Concepts Foster critical thinking and engage students through real world applications is just second to none and
070she has the results to back it up and her kids just absolutely love her a few kids said Mrs Parish you're always kind to everyone and when school stress is on you find fun ways to make math fun and exciting for everyone there's no day that goes by that you're not positive and kind to all your students it is a blessing to have you at this amazing guide that will help us grow and become older and wiser she's funny and I love the jokes she makes in math sometimes she always puts a smile on my face and I love when she says good morning and goodbye to everyone in the class just encapsulates what Mrs Parish means to our building so thank you Mrs [Applause] Parish all right come on up bu okay thank you
071all right and now on for our board Spotlight where we're going to talk a little bit about how West is transforming math uh instruction from memorization to Mastery so I'd like to welcome Stephanie Barry at to she's our instructional Co coach and has been just instrumental uh for the last couple years of help our our math department uh Implement these these changes so first we're going to start we're just going to take a little scroll down memory lane talk a little bit about how math instruction was probably when we when we took it uh you know it was it's also called drill and kill math um plug and chug and it's really about the pursuit to to answers and the pursuit to answers quickly how many of you can remember those board races back in
072the day now to a fault I don't get stressed out about too much but I'd be lying to you if I said when the teacher uh did that there wasn't a little sweat forming uh on my on my brow so kind of visualize your own classrooms those desks and stra straight rows and you know every day you know look very similar you'd come in you'd get out your homework you'd grade the homework and if you're lucky the Red Pins would come out and you got to grade your own uh but then uh you know you'd go on to the lesson of the day where the teacher would show you how to do it You' work a few problems together and then you'd be assigned homework uh that's really changed for us in the last uh
073last two years uh struggle in in math was a was a bad word and life is all about struggle um and but in in math we we kind of had two polls you're the good at math and you're bad at math there's really no in between and a lot of times some of those feelings would be generational uh I know I've been guilty a few times over the years of of letting my own you know maybe something I wasn't good at way back when in math kind of leak down uh to my kids so you know I've really had to to catch myself uh do that but what we're trying to do is we're trying to let kids know that just like in other subjects social studies math science uh and language arts you know
074struggle is is an accepted practice that's okay struggle is a part of of life and we want to teach kids how to do it we want to teach kids how to how to manage it so the big thing I want to to get across is you know I've heard a lot of talk over the last couple years that we're teaching new math and and the fact is math is still math we're not teaching new math we have new instructional practices for for how we engage kids in math we want kids to think about math it's no longer an isolated sport where only the teacher has the the correct answer um and we want to move kids away from kind of that surface level knowledge of being able to go a mile wide but only an
075inch deep we want them to go an inch wide and a mile deep and be able to apply math uh in their everyday lives you know the best way I can I can think to equate this would be to an old homework assignment that we did or worksheet where you'd get through it and then down at the bottom you'd have word problems if you can remember those those were always the frustrating ones because that was your tie to real life or that was where you know the teacher was asking you to to you know apply something that you would learn to a to a new and authentic situation uh but that was always kind of done at the end if you had time to do it what we're trying to do is we're trying to
076flip the script and we're actually trying to paint a picture and we're trying to teach through that word problem and still get down to procedures and all those things that that we learn we're just doing it differently so math is so much more than just the pursuit of answers you know we we've been talking with kids forever about you know thinking like scientists thinking and talking like a historian we want kids to think and talk like mathematicians as well and the big thing that we would like to do is to create a generation if you saw in the last Slide the picture of the mug where it says you know another day where I haven't you know applied that algebra algebra is in our everyday lives unfortunately the way we've been instructing math in the
077past was it was just this isolated event where where you solve problems but you know we're really trying to bring kids out of their shell and let them know that algebra and math is everywhere so one of the big ways that we do that is through this concept of conceptual understanding conceptual understanding is in math is just basically getting to the why mathematical procedures not just the how and the what to get to an answer so instead of memorizing rules we teach kids to develop a deep flexible understanding of how numbers and operations work so you can see on the right side of the column there uh of conceptual understanding we're explaining the reasoning behind the mathematical process not just how to you know not just that 2 plus 2 equals 4 but why 2
078plus 2 equals 4 we focus on different ways to approach and solve problems which can be really tough for us as adults because we were all taught math the way that Ms Mrs or Mr Fillin the blank with the grade taught us how to do it we're trying trying to meet kids where they are and we're trying to to help them uh Express their own mathematical thinking and then we want to really work with kids on applying knowledge to new and unfamiliar situations that's where we see a lot of kids uh and myself s- included um when we're just you know going through procedural understanding is you know anytime we ask them to do something that gets them off those tracks that's when that's when people kind of fall apart I myself have had more
079learning in the last year to year and a half uh uh just about math and how we instruct math that's really kind of opened my eyes um to to you know give me a new understanding of kids and the way kids think and here's some examples again uh math is math it hasn't changed these are some of our seventh grade standards that Mrs Parish teaches every single day so you can see on the procedural side if you look at solving equations memorizing the steps to undo an equation that's the way we were taught how to do algebra and how to do math but it's so much more and conceptual understanding is you know we take that that problem and we we try to find a number that makes the equation true and we use balance
080models we we you know we we are able to tap into so many different intelligences of kids that use you know models and manipulatives and they can actually show uh a lot of times if you go into our classrooms you're not going to hear teachers say what did you get for number two uh Mrs Parish does an excellent job of this it's what were you thinking show me your thinking uh which goes far beyond you know what we've ever asked kids before and I think the best example uh would be on the third bullet point of ratios and percents what better way to teach kids about ratios and percents than applying it to their real lives of teaching it through sales tax discounts interest rates things like that so we're taking that big picture and
081and we're we're able to paint a picture to kids that drives them to just a deeper level of understanding that that shows them that math is is everywhere and it's what they do every single day so what we're trying to do is we're trying to make them confident adaptable problem solvers and then they can do math outside of a test setting again every everywhere that they go and then the big thing is why struggle matters you know if you think back to that first slide struggle was always seen as a bad word math and but it isn't anywhere else and so that quote from Michael Jordan uh is something that I'm sure hung was was in my classroom way back when uh but you know success comes from struggle it comes from failure and so
082we're we're introducing this this idea of productive struggle uh to kids we've been talking for years about mindset and about having a growth mindset but we never did in math it was always that fixed mindset of good or bad there was no in between and we're trying to meet kids where they are and so what this does this just uh Fosters a deeper level of of learning understanding and retention for our kids and then our shifting assessments traditional assessments just focus on answers it focused on speed what you could do when that teacher put that piece of paper in in front of you so before it would be just solve a simple equ uh equation but now we're asking kids to explain two different ways to solve 2x+ 3al 11 and why it works because
083not every kid's going to solve that that equation in the same way and again we're trying to meet kids where they are and we're trying to to assess um not just right answers but but their reasoning their processes and their multiple approaches all right Mrs bar is kind to talk a little bit about another area where we've tried to uh broaden our kids Horizons and that's being able to talk about math hi there um as Mr Hoy shared we've been deeply committed to enhancing math instruction and student learning at West and a key component of this effort is fostering student discourse where students actively construct their understanding through discussion um there's extensive research that supports the benefit of student discourse in math classrooms Studies have shown that it increases student engagement improves con conceptual understanding
084and enhances problem solving skills by encouraging students to explain their reasoning we are helping helping them to develop the ability to justify their answers and think critically about about mathematical Concepts while also supporting language acquisition and comprehension our teachers have been actively implementing various strategies to promote student discourse these include things like think PA share where students get to think individually pair with a partner for discussion and then share out ideas whole class number talks where we provide a structured opport Unity for students to share their mental math strategies um and learn from one another and then vertical spaces and collaborative groups which allow students to explore different problemsolving approaches and engage in peer feedback our teachers are also working really hard to develop their ability to facilitate mathematical conversations this means asking openend questions
085encouraging students to explain their thinking and creating a safe and supportive environment for discussion we are seeing a lot of positive results from these efforts and are confident that our students are developing a deeper and more meaningful understanding of mathematics this is evidenced an increased student participation and in confidence in verbalizing mathematical reasoning and many teachers are reporting a positive shift in student engagement and collaboration um as we move forward we're going to continue to um refine questioning strategies analyze discourse Rich lessons and provide coaching support to deepen instructional practice and ensure that all students have opportunities to engage in rigorous math discussions and develop a positive math identity seeing this in action is is just awesome you know uh and I credit to all of our teachers credit to to Ryan Jen Walton and
086the our department of learning uh because our Math teachers weren't taught this way they weren't taught to teach this way and the way they've been able to to jump on board quickly and make these dramatic impacts with our kids has just been um amazing so I won't read through uh all this but um you know our our teachers aren't just you know talking The Talk walking the walk and um you know when when Stephanie talked about the the discourse the discussions around math uh I've seen that so such Rich discussions within their their PLC meetings where you know they're really talking about how to paint a a picture tell a story to their class uh to get to to help get our kids to this conceptual level of of understanding um again it's it's those
087meetings aren't just hey what are we what are we doing today what's coming up for the next week but they're having meaningful discussions uh and debates back and forth about the best way to instruct their kids and that's been one of the biggest takeaways I've had uh really from the last couple years uh Andy can youit play on this so this is just a short video actually from Mrs parish's class oh okay okay well we had a quick two-minute video um and what it was the the biggest thing was uh it was set to music but Mrs Parish has really done uh an excellent job of show your thinking show your thinking tell me what you're thinking and you would have seen uh you would have seen a a math classroom that just looked unlike
088um you know anything that we've done uh in the past group work kids moving around um it's really uh a dramatic thing to see yes we that's okay and so you know the last thing is you know basically basically our results um you know we we just uh took winter NWA again um in December and we got our fall to to Winter growth and you know for the first time since you know proba probably 2017 2018 around there before covid all three of our grades uh uh experienced above typical growth on NWA all in the mid 60s to high 60s uh which typical for NWA is just 50% if you can get 50% uh you've had a good year and uh you can just see all three of our grades have really just done a
089dynamic and job so uh you know again the benefits improved problem solving skills increased engagement and confidence and uh we're hoping to see better return attention from our students and we're just really excited about taking I learn actually when we get back literally from spring break so we're really uh optimistic about what's what's to come next so thank you thank you thank you very much you know right comment on your your school board uh participated out today at hazeldell we this is a smart look a bunch of Schoolboard members that judg the science fair out there and realized how sharp a kids you guys deal with uh I happen to have fifth graders which all than I am but but a point I wanted to make and and Brett and I talked about this a
090long time today uh about how we set in straight rows and only the answer is the only thing you counted no collaboration and we both commented on the number of children that passed us this morning that our future is in good hands with the kids were educating the noble these kids were incredible in their collaborative efforts and we commented this so much different because that wasn't something we participated in so to get to see what nolesville schools have done as we visited all these different levels of schools the collaboration that takes place from kindergarten to middle school and how that works in their processing and things so we see that part and again back to math it's just we were all commenting how we were taught is nothing like what we see in schools today
091uh kids are amazing it it is amazing so so we appreciate you guys tackling through our you know through our academic programs new ways of doing things because there's better ways to do it than the way some of us learned along the way and I would think the students like math better right they just like it better to learn this way compared to how they they get up they get to move around they get to collaborate um it's just it's it's it's a lot of movement uh which you know is just an unfamiliar Concept in math so yeah the students are amazing but they also have amazing leaders and and you know teachers in their lives that are that are leading them and teaching them so thank you for everything you guys do thank you
092thank you all very much my youngest daughter had Natalie many years ago and she knocked it out of the park I really appreciate that she she's absolutely one of our best so thank you all very much thank you thank [Applause] you okay our next report is an annual report uh from the uh director at the Hamilton East Public Library all right thank you for allowing me to be here hello all um so thank you for letting me speak with you this evening uh my name is Melissa lyel and I'm the director at the Hamilton East public library and last time I spoke with you um I was here as one of two interim directors and uh just to let you know that the board did vote to make me the director last spring um and
093we do have one of our board member here that is appointed by the uh Noblesville School Board um Michelle Payne um and the other one is Bill Kenley and he's not able to be here this evening so thank you okay so our library is comprised of the four townships that make up Noblesville and fisers and that includes Noblesville Wayne Delaware and Fall Creek Township um our most recent census population had us at 18 3,617 people and we have 87,4 registered card holders so as a measure of total population served we are the largest library system in Hamilton County and the fourth largest library system in the state um we did report a slight dip in library traffic however when we were pulling these numbers for our state report um we realized that we were having
094an error with one of our sensors so we're missing some data so we did have them come out and they've repaired it so hopefully our numbers will go back up next year so this year we had to do an estimate and we wanted to be cautious so we estimated um a little low um this is a breakdown of our expenditures um you'll see that like most organizations salaries and benefits comprises most of our um our biggest expenditure um so that includes our salaries in health insurance premiums and pension payments we spent 21% of our budget on services and charges and that includes a variety of things like cleaning Information Technology utilities repairs and maintenance um but it's also the category that we um spend on um ebooks downloadable audio and databases the majority of our
095Capital outlays category is spent on Library materials um including physical books DVD and audio books um but we increased our um expenditures in this category in 2024 a large portion of that was um upgrading computers a a total overhaul of our security system and replacing some 20-year-old Furniture um we do work with Mike reer as our financial adviser and we have a really great CFO Kim ller so if you have any more in-depth questions we would be happy to schedule a meeting with all of them okay so our circulation um looking at our circulation you could see our most popular books there's our top five and um three of the top five are youth material or youth materials which is not surprising at all to any of us um we we circulated 2,294 67 items
096in 202 for roughly a third of that are electronic materials although the vast majority of our circulation is still from books CDs and movies um we'll Contin continue to evaluate the best way to allocate the funds in that category if we see more people moving over to digital materials um but children always choose physical books over digital books um so and they the children children's materials um are what Drive most of our circulation anyway so I don't anticipate this number being too wildly different as long as those things hold true um library programs so we're pleased to share that our program numbers are up from 2023 in pretty much every age category we offered more programs and had better attendance um when we looked at the data more granularly we found that the average attendance
097per program also increased we did eliminate some program s in 2024 that had sort of repeatedly B low attendance um and asked our staff to try some new things um so this paid off um and we'll continue to make sure that we're offering programs that the we always say that the public votes with their feet right like if if it if they if they want to leave their house in the evening or um on the weekends it's because it's something that's really enticed them so um we're not entirely satisfied with these numbers we have we think we can do a little bit better so we hope to be up in this next year right um our Outreach team continues to do a really great job um representing the library at a variety of events um
098they now have a new van and it's custom designed for our Outreach team um and it has a custom wrap on it that the Wilkinson Brothers designed so they've done a lot of the murals around here um our Outreach team reached 20 over 25,000 people last year at um 100 over a 100 events and so that's in 2023 I was shocked at their numbers but this is even 20% more than they did last year so we were um just blown away by that and so they go to a lot of events um you'll see them at things like the P Festival the spark Fishers um bash um to name a few but they also go to soup kitchens um they're at a lot of the literacy nights at the schools and they're at the local
099farmers market and go to senior citizens and then just a wide variety of other things are there books in that vehicle like can library card if they show up or how does that yeah so they do have they can transport books but and then they also has things like um it has that will will pop out and it has like a canopy that comes out it's got built-in um Wi-Fi so that they can do they can and it has I think they can like project things as well so it's so they can do a lot of really just cool programming with with that vanand so um we do a patron experience survey every year and this is our sixth year offering the survey uh most of our ratings are fairly steady with some slight drops
100in library materials and Technology um if anybody here is familiar with the hoopla collection uh that that is pretty much the reason that our library materials category went down um we we did have to reduce our um spending on hoopla last year because it a lot of people discovered hoopla at the beginning of 2023 and it's a um an e- material like digital books and audio that we pay for as people check things out so the more people who used it the more expensive it became and so just a quick quick synopsis it went from about $25,000 a month up to $50,000 a month and we were and it was increasing every month so we had to reain it in before we like ran out of money for the rest of the year for all
101materials so but we have reached a a a fairly steady level so it has evened out so hopefully this number comes up and if anybody has any issues specifically with hoopla we are happy to talk about that so um we did have some lower numbers in our technology and we that's we're pretty sure this is because we've been having some issues with our printing um but we're working with a new vendor to get those get that improved so as we reflect back on 20124 and move into 2025 um we're committed to being Community focused in our planning and operations we want to be sure that we're offering programs that appeal to community members of all ages and that the materials we purchase meet the de demands of our community we're also almost finished with overhauling
102our security system so that our space is as safe as it possibly can be we are completing a feasibility study for a potential third branch that would serve the rapidly growing portions of Wayne and Fall Creek townships um and we launched a new website a new app to help improve our users experience we also started a new library foundation so that we can continue to provide amazing experiences that improve the quality of life in Hamilton County and it has been an honor to lead this library system and and it happens to be my local library um and with that I thank you for your time and I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have thank you very much I know that we all um appreciate the monthly um emails that you send us
103the kind of the updates the we we all enjoy reading those so thanks for sending y thank you some of us visited with you last summer and I was very impressed with the interactivity at the library it was great one of the things you talked about was the ability to um lease out or or check out um possible things like shovels or rakes or I thought that was very interesting is that something yes so our library of things is a new collection um right now we have yard yard games that people can check out we just finished a survey asking people what other things they would like us to add so we are going to be adding things like some um you know tools and things um gardening equipment as well so there that's coming
104soon thank you thank you all right we have one more report um starting this calendar year um we're getting a brief update on each goal contained in the Strategic plan um on a rotating basis and this month March we have Compassionate Care and support hello thank you for allowing me to present tonight I just I know you've seen the packet and you've had an opportunity to review it so I'm just going to bring it together and put it into context for you tonight so here is our strategic plan I'm covering Compassionate Care and support Noblesville schools is committed to the well-being and safety of our diverse population and so I want you to imagine a school dedicated a district dedicated to Compassionate Care and support where no student falls through the cracks and each student
105has a strong sense of belonging in and you don't have to imagine that because we are that reality Noblesville schools is committed to taking care of each one of our children and so tonight I'm going to talk about a couple of our strategies and um then our measures of success excuse me I'm going to hit two of those and then I'm going to talk about our strategies that are kind of woven in within those measures of success so before I do that I'd like to just touch base if you remember last year year I shared a little bit about our project aware and I'd like to provide an update so we were awarded the 5year $2.8 million Grant and I'd like to just touch on a couple of highlights so we had goals one and
106two but after the Strategic plan was implemented in October we updated the third goal to support the Strategic plan so we are committed to an environment of Compassionate Care and support by improving a sense of belonging and and emotional regulation trainings and professional learning nearly 40 different project aare funded trainings have been attended by over 250 different Noblesville employees and this has just been implemented within the last year and so we're really proud of the work that uh and the training that we are providing folks in our district it's important to note that um project aware is grounded in our state standards with employability skills our school board Compassionate Care and support and our measures of success and strategies for reaching our goal found in the Strategic plan so we are not just um creating
107things that will be temporary we are really creating an infrastructure that is sustainable beyond the life of the grant by providing training and um updating policies and practices so that we are creating a really strong comprehensive mental health program in Noblesville schools so like I said I would like to talk about two of our goals or our measures of success um students benefit from a strong positive relationships built on trust respect and support among students teachers staff and families so one of the things I'm really proud of is that we started last September um with nearly 50 attendees and you can see here represented that we had um District folks Behavior Specialists learning specialists administrators teachers and counselors all working together to create a sustainable Behavior support system so we had the workshop I would
108say is just very affirming that we do a lot of things really well in Noblesville schools and we're getting better and better we wanted to break down any barriers to student learning by looking at our reaction our responses to student behaviors and helping students to identify what our standards of behaviors because we know that effective behavior management plus positive learning environments equals higher student achievement and so one of the things that you'll often hear Educators talk about and we love our triangles is year one tier one well what is tier one and tier one is for all students and so part of the work that we did is providing opportunities to really work at how we can help students be successful so essential Behavior standards are skills that we teach and retach students so just
109like academic skills for adults um and for adults uh we want to develop those specific skills so I guess what I'm trying to say is imagine if you came to work every day and you weren't sure of the standards that you were supposed to be maintaining or what the expectations are and then you got rubbered for not meeting those standards and you were wondering why am I not doing well what's happening why am I not getting successful in this job and then imagine if you were eight years old and so that's our point is that we are working to make sure that students understand what the expectations are and how we can um support them by teaching and reteaching those so if you'll take a look I'm going to highlight a lot of the work
110that different schools are doing so this is Noble Crossing and they are the paws and this is their standards of be um behavior and you will see that they have been specifically teaching students how um you know how a tiger behaves and uh stands in line for example and how a tiger um is not supposed to stand in line you'll look um we have have highlighted here this is um East I'm sorry West Middle School and they created a matrix to highlight and identify those academic and social behavior standards schoolwide for every classroom you will see that they highlight student of the month but I also wanted to point out the Merit system at the bottom so they have blue tickets that every student can earn kind of like a catch you being good so
111just like in the real world you're rewarded for a job well done they're rewarded for a job well done and they can go to the store and get um a you know a purchase or a prize and the students in the applied program are running that store which I think is really unique and special um for West I also wanted to highlight White River because they um they're soaring and that's their standards of behavior but they also have Incorporated their Matrix in Spanish as well and so again it's trying to build that relationship and meet students where they are and help teach and retach those skills and then I wanted to highlight um Promise Road because they have done a great job of and everyone is in the process of working on a flowchart to
112really outline those classroom managed behaviors and those um administrative man managed behaviors and what that looks like so that everyone knows their role um sometimes as a new teacher it's very overwhelming because a student will maybe demonstrate a behavior but you're not sure how you're supposed to react to it it causes a lot of stress and anxiety and the main thing that I wanted to point out is that promise Road presented yesterday to our um Behavior team our and they did a really great job and one of the things the teacher said was I love this work it's not adding another thing to my plate it's really helping me support students and it's helping me know how to manage and and how to do that and so it's really making me able to uh address
113the behavior react appr properly and then get on to the teaching part which is why we're here right so I also wanted to highlight another thing that we done through the project aware Grant and just at the district level is we've hired a um bilingual social worker and she rotates between all 10 schools she has a case load of 75 students and she works closely with social workers at each school and I just wanted to highlight that this is really important when you talk about building relationships and kids feeling like they belong and can identify with a person she becomes that person for them she teaches lessons on resilience and one of the things I like to highlight this is just one example of a class CL room lesson is that you know moving to
114a new country and learning a new language is really challenging and and gives them a sense of Pride like oh I am being resilient I'm learning this life skill uh and you heard uh Mr Hoy talk about resilience as well and just um that struggle here I just wanted to highlight here's social workers and counselors leading professional Learning Classroom lessons promoting kindness College and Career Readiness and um I you can see in the bottom right here in corner we even have community members come in and present lessons with our high school team so another example that I wanted to share about how we are connecting with our families is through the project aware Advisory Board we meet once per semester through the lifetime of the grant our first meeting was in October and our next
115meeting is in April and it's really a great group anywhere from um you know from administrators to former parents to current parents we had represent from the Indiana Department of Education and it's really a great opportunity to talk about the work and how we're working together as a team um to support students and their um and their learning so the next area I wanted to focus on for a measure of success is attendance which is another area that is um something we talk about quite a bit and a Hot Topic so uh I wanted you to know that the work that we're doing with attendance is rooted in research this is an organization called attendance works and they are a very well-known National Organization to Pro promote um positive ways to reduce chronic absenteeism I
116was on a webinar with them today they're excellent in terms um the focus today was on homeless children and um attendance and the impact that that can have this work is also grounded in Indiana code so this isn't just something I made up but it is actually grounded in the work and our practices and procedures are um you know laid out very clearly and um follow followed by our administrators and so I want to give a shout out to our um Deans social workers counselors and assistant principles of course teachers providing engaging lessons but they work really hard on attendance and so a guiding principle for attendance so I wanted to just highlight the two bullet points that it's crucial to approach chronic absenteeism with curiosity and persistent seeking to understand the underlying reasons behind
117frequent absences so learning isn't negatively impact so we work together to improve attendance and support Student Success by actively engaging with families and intim implementing personalized strategies so we do this not to be punitive but a way to help with Compassion Care and understand what are the reasons and supports that may be needed so students can come to school the last bullet point is just basically understanding that elementary and secondary approaches may look different in terms of attendance and um we work through those foundational learning skills and Elementary and how they you know what are the reasons they're not coming to school may look a little different than a secondary student who has more um choice in that matter and so I just wanted to highlight our current attendance rate so um Noble schools has
118excellent attendance a lot of people would be thrilled to have um this is our our 23 24 data we hover around the 95th percentile with attendance and then our current rate in uh through February is again hovering around 95 94 95% even with the flu we're still coming to school so I just wanted to highlight that we do have really good attendance however that 5% is 500 students so different students different times you know we want to actively work and understand why um or what's keeping students from coming to school um so what's in place so we have District committees subcommittees we have procedures in uh for attendance that I highlighted earlier through Indiana code um we have plans to improve attendance school leaders hold regular meetings we all have shared access to the idoe
119database we have counted meetings with prosecutors I met with our County Prosecutors in my counterparts last week and we talk about strategies for getting students to come to school and then we have incentives for students attendance and we honor and support staff who um we recognize staff who are doing a great job with attendant so just want to highlight North Elementary did um a fun activity where um they charted at the beginning of the year in September to see um who had the best attendance and then they they were able to slime their administrators and their SRO um I think it's important to highlight the first month of attendance rate is a strong predictor of future absenteeism so that's really interesting we hit it pretty hard at the beginning of the year and then I
120also wanted to highlight East Middle School created a recognition system for their staff where they um at the end of the week if a teacher has taken attendance for every period for the entire week they honor and reward them um just in a small way but I think it's important to point out because with everything going on in a middle school you know that is a lot on a teacher to be able to stop pause take attendance but it's so important and then Noblesville youth assistants a lot of times when we've kind of um exhausted our resources we will reach out and they are very helpful in supporting student attendance and helping to connect with families in a way that we actually can't at school so here's just a few pictures of Selenas that was
121happening um and kids love that and just trying to make attendance fun um we also can increase uh attend through student engagement so we have college visits career day Compass mentoring I'll kind of buzz through this I know you've been sitting a while um so high schools I love this um high school counselors taking students on a college visit that whole idea that you can't be what you can't see um High School career day was a really awesome if you had an opportunity to go over there for that I like to point out that hazeldell has a shine Squad highly engaging to be a part of helping others this is really fun um where they had a bus parade to honor the bus drivers um that's run by the social worker there at hazeldell Miller
122explores before and after care family night we have amazing programs before and after care we have 52 students enrolled a shout out to Selena Smith who runs that program she also created family night which was a lot of fun in um the fall little Miller Encompass mentoring we have 96 students um match the total mentoring matches and you might recognize one of the board members has made the slideshow um and we have 185 students enrolled in our little Miller preschool program so starting really early in um getting kids engaged and wanting to be at school and so I wanted to shout out to um Nicole mlan who does a great job with compass mentoring and then Kayla Van Hook who runs our little Millers program so again we offer a lot of support for um
123mental health our student services we have 54 staff that are dedicated to mental health in our district which sounds like a lot and it is we're so blessed and it's an extraordinary District but when you think about 10,300 students that's a ratio of 1 to 200 and it's a it's a lot some kids need um more more support than than others and so I do want to highlight that um we looked at analysis of the visits that they had and um there was I think 2000 or 12,978 events supporting students and staff in the first semester so so that's pretty incredible that data is pretty astounding um when we talk about um we've talked about emotional support and um you know I'd like to an academic support I'd like to point out the nursing partnership
124that we have with Community Network we have a lot of students who are medically fragile and I think that's interesting to note as well that we have are blessed to have a lot of um nursing support I 38,9 40 treatments this is data that um Sandy Bernett collected our director of nursing including asthma diabetes feeding tube and catheters so those are a a lot of unique treatments that people don't realize happen in school and then I think this is an amazing piece of data and I think I shared it last month but it was worth making the slideshow that there were 41,5 63 visits to the clinic last semester so that's a lot of visits and we are so grateful for our nursing team here's just another outline of the Comprehensive Health program that we
125provide students and here's just to highlight some of our counsellors and social workers and our nursing team and you can't hardly have a presentation about student services without bringing up maso's hierarchy of needs and um again researchers we love vend diagrams and count and triangles and so this is another triangle which shows the Baseline of psychological needs all the way up to self actualization and the point I want to make with this slide is that learning happens in the blue so I've spent a lot of time talking through all the ways we help students get from red to blue but it's important to note that the learning does happen when they reach that goal and so again the work we do takes a team um it includes parents Community SRO teachers counselors social workers support
126staff an amazing school board and Leadership and so with all of that our ultimate goal is that students graduate so the goal of Compassionate Care and support is that we break down barriers to learning so that students can be successful and cross that Finish Line in Noblesville High School okay any question thank you thank you a great presentation um I mean we have a lot to be proud of it's just it's heartwarming for me you know my takeaway is always if people to see what we get to see behind the scenes how much Noblesville people in our school system care about students and and and the apate ism as you as you read the number I know the state legislature is on this issue for others and again opened my eyes a little bit to
127say that we're 95% but that's still 500 kids that that we that you and your team reach out to because we know if they're not here it's not good okay so we appreciate your efforts on everything but particular on keeping our our R where they are thank you well it takes a team I have a great team anything else anything their questions I feel like there are a lot of parents that rely on us to do a lot of these things for their children so I'm glad that we can provide that for them because it's not just academics all the time I mean kids are growing up kids are maturing and have health issues mental health issues so um you're do a great job so thank you well you're welcome thank you I um I
128love this job I love noville schools I've only been here a short time and it is an extraordinary place so thank you you're so happy to have you yes we are okay moving along uh public comment um this is the section of the meeting that we take an agenda topic um as a reminder we ask for respectful behavior from the speakers and the audience when you're called up to the microphone to speak State your full name group affiliation if you have one and the agenda topic you will be addressing um and we have one speaker Dave Dawson good evening everybody I hope everybody's doing all right um I wanted to speak to the my name is Dave Dawson um audio video and digital uh recording of meetings section that we procedures that we talked about
129um in the number three this section of meetings with parents and Guardians in that we've changed a lot I've seen that we've changed a lot in that that um what concerns me is says if a parent or Guardian um wishes to audio um record the meeting a meeting the corporation requests Polly asks 24 hours with um prior notice to SCH to the scheduled meeting if we're politely asking what's to say that the parent just says I politely refuse to to abide by your 24-hour notice I'm here here I've been called in for whatever reason good bad indiff um in regards to my child and I'm here prior 24 hours I've not been able to give that notice I'm not sure we really need that whole first section of that um to some degree it might
130even be considered almost a challenge to the parents um that uh that you're asking them to do to to not videotape something or audio tape something that they uh that they want to get off their chest or what they have to do with their child so anyway just wanted you guys to take a look at that one and and make sure that we're not doing something that we don't need to do in that section thank you which section is that sorry can you section three section three thank you okay thank you all right on to consent items by a single motion the board approves and adopts the following items or actions which reflect uh board policy in Indiana code and those those items are claims donations minutes from our February meeting overnight and out ofate
131trips and Personnel listings may I have a motion to approve the consent items as listed move Joe second by Misty uh any further discussion yes I'd like to thank Mr and Mrs Anonymous for giving us $350 to pay off lunch accounts at uh at uh I think it's East Middle School all right but anyway I appreciate the community supporting us both there and our Friday night event we she'll come to you later okay all right anything else Joe this uh family or person does this on a regular basis yes and you congratulate them each time I just wondered if we it's not me it's well I know it's it's a big deal though it is a regular occurrence we really appreciate that yeah yeah thank you all right anything else all right all those in
132favor I opposed motion carried before you go any further I'm jump in really quick I do want to acknowledge she's been so patiently sitting here congratulations officially to our new assistant principal of North Elementary Jessica aldrid so thank you very much us for being here tonight welcome back to Noblesville yes all right we are on to action items the first one is a bid for summer Paving um the board acknowledges the receipt of bids um Thursday February 20th 202 25 for campus Paving and repairs for the project um may I have a motion to approve the bid from Howard companies for the campus Paving repairs at Hazeldale Elementary Stony Creek Elementary and Noblesville High School for summer 2025 with a total contract amount of 1,241 18314 which is which includes alternate bids one two and
1333B may have a motion motion de second second Joe any further discussion or questions um I just want to say I mean we did have we did submit questions um but just for the benefit of everyone um I did have a question on there that I had pointed out the total estimate from the contractor includes a repair SL patch for hazeldell and Stony Creek but it's also um in there for a complete replacement so the bottom dollar includes patch replacement and a full and a full replacement so could you give some clarification yeah I'd be happy to so with um uh this Paving package what we eled to do with our engineer uh civil engineer record on the project was to um bid out uh each of the projects uh at kind of the minimal
134basis and then I'll say the maximum basis right the maximum being that that full replace job the minimum being hey what if you just come in and Patch repair those really really bad spots um of course ultimately we we we wanted to do the maximum we wanted the full replacement um and and so we were able to come in under budget by accepting the bids for the full Replacements of of each of these both hazeldell Sony Creek and the parking lot at NHS uh and and one of the reasons just to to show you perspective on this uh why again it's you never know where the bids are going to come at in at is with hazell so on this bid tabulation sheet you see that we we're accepting the bid of 357,000 well the
135highest bid was $511,000 so so quite the spread on this but again fortunate that Howard came in as a low bid across the board here and we're able to do full replacement so hopefully that answers your question ju and just to clarify on the letter um where L Raks out the four that total of 1.2 does not include that that top um uh the patch and repair if you look at the bid tab the other the other attachment it shows you the three that are actually getting highlighted I believe unless I'm unless my math my quick brain math is off is the pat because the patch and repair is not is that included in the the approval David um I'm see which one so I'm looking at the bid tab one two and 3B for
136the 1.2 on the letter it's included in the total that's on the letter so there's a patch and repair only and there's a full replacement charge and those both are included in or is the base you know what I bet the base bid is probably still a part of the bid though because it's the base amount they're saying additionally to do the full project this is what it costs to do on top I said I said that wrong but that's exactly it as Dr H said so there was um the base bid in order to allow us to do alternates you have to establish what you want to be the base Bid And so as long as we have that base bid then you can pick and choose all these alternates that we have throughout
137the good exactly okay okay Bas if you took the base bit out and said well I'm only bidding out hazeldell and Sony Creek and whatever you're going to still have to add that 158 right back into those numbers because that's how much those projects actually cost but you had to establish a base bid to break it out that's what I'm understanding so the total for the contract is how much it's going to be the one uh 1,241 83140 okay but are we going to do the full replacement yes okay so then the 158,000 is going to be for any possible overages or sorry I'm not understanding the it is yeah I I don't love how um context put this together but uh what again that base bid is going to be and I believe the
138base bid was on it was one of the sites I think it was does it say it here in the I don't want to say the wrong site I think it was hazeldell that we we selected as the base bid um yeah because the way it looks it just looks like we're paying for them to do both they're going to do repair and patches replac 158 if you think of it this way if if we had not asked them to even give us the opportunity to only do patchwor and that was a zero that 158 would be reabsorbed into those because they're assuming you're already going to pay that to do a full whatever you need to pay this additional but that includes your 158 so think of it this way if if hazeldell was
139the base the actual cost to do hazel is 158 plus 357 but they said but if you only wanted to do the patchwork this is we could do it but that's assuming you're not doing anything else but on top of that to do a full repair you got to this is how much on top of 158 you're going to do it's confusing the way it's laid out is confusing we might ask them to reformat this next time right they all did it all b b a dollar and then we'll all the bids are done that way so it's confusing and and I know um my question earlier was can you confirm again where this money is coming from please yeah this is coming from the 2024 Bond okay all right any other questions all right
140um all those in favor I I opposed motion carried all right moving on to um policy adoption may I have a motion to adopt the attached list of policies as presented for first read at our February 18th 2025 regular meeting so move Joe have a second second Stephanie uh any further discussion um I mean would it be possible to address this concern please AB absolutely so um board if you want to pull this draft up the only the only recommended change from our from our attorneys is in that section three that Mr Dawson referenced um and it actually is is to provide to kind of clean this up and and take some of the um take some of the expectations off of parents because in the way the policy was originally drafted if you read
141there what's what's on red strike through it actually asked for three days notice and had a lot of other things that were kind of put on parents and it felt overburdensome and so ccha kind of Revisited this and said look you know it's not unreasonable that if a parents wants to record a meeting they can record a meeting but in the fairness of trying to be transparent and avoid surprises for either side they felt it was reasonable to do what's in blue here which is the corporation would request that parents out of courtesy to the district to say if you intend to record just give us 24 hours now you'll notice it's requests not requires so of course if a parent shows up and decides in that moment why I'm going to record they can
142they can absolutely do that um but it's also understood that the District of course is going to want to record the meeting too I mean that's pretty standard um so to me to me I I feel like this recommendation from the attorneys is just being trying to again improve transparency from both sides and avoid surprises for anyone to avoid a negative you know confrontation if if there's a meeting going on um but at the end of the day you know no one's going to deny a parent for wanting for wanting to do that and we did decrease it it was three days and now it's 244 hours and it and it actually was phrased that it was the way it was phrased prior to me that felt like a requirement because it had the word
143shall in it which shall means you will so you must um I.E basically implying that the district could say well if you didn't get me three days notice should not requ requiring this meeting and that doesn't feel good so and it said actually three instructional days so really even it could be even longer longer if there's a weekend or holiday well and I'm sure there are instances too there where there may not be 24 hours sure of course of a meeting okay yep all right um thank you for that clarification y okay all right all those in favor motion carried uh we are on to uh policies for first read um we have a policy the a300 that um is for first read and then we will vote on that at our next meeting moving
144on to public comment for non-agenda items we do not have anybody that signed up for um non agenda items public comment so we are on to committee reports and we always start with Dr H all right can I ask a quick question real um sorry I forgot to ask about the overnight trips does anyone know I I forgot to ask this over email also um where the fifth graders are going they're going to Newport Kentucky and Cincinnati for an overnight sorry the Newport Aquarium and Mr Rich knows actually excuse actually Dr Townsen approved that Elementary trip so I am actually not for sure is it all the fifth grader wait it says School uh in e oh North Elementary yeah okay nor Angie oh Angie left darn it okay no problem yeah no I was
145just I can get that answer for I think it sounds neat I just didn't know where they were going you asking CU you want to go I want to go yeah it is if if that's where they're going Newport is a very great area cool the yeah okay very cool thank you sorry we'll find for sorry sorry go ahead very good okay so board one um technical item uh that I will it's the aquarium all right so get your tickets now book your book your travel um Bard look looking ahead a couple months just want to give this I want to share this right now so in the public record and we'll we'll update our um our sheet on on board dos but we are going to flip-flop just for this one time the May
146and June strategic plan updates um we just have a a conflict here to for scheduling wise so give notice a couple months ahead a time if anyone was dying to come he my update make sure you come come to the right month for that one because we're going to flip them and then we'll get back to the rotation we've had so just want to get that in our in our minutes tonight um I a few just a few things I want to highlight quickly had an amazing time at Miller Pala Last Friday Night a huge thank you to everybody who supports our kids and our and our staff through the Ed Foundation um I don't I'm hearing some preliminary numbers all I will say is I believe we once again shattered the record for money
147raise which is just a testament to this awesome Community um and how much they come out to support support our kids um and in case you're wondering yes I had to go straight home and take a shower to get that awful whipped cream off of me after the wonderful surprise thanks to blades audio I will be sure to thank him next time I see him and my wife loved it um one of the highlights of that event though that night was that I had the pleasure of announcing our nargle class of Hall of Fame honor so I want to say again one more time a big congratulations um to our individuals named who were um dick delinger Vicky elely Julia kazii John Lan Brian Mills Tony Oiler Rick to and Kathy Williams and we will
148have um another official induction ceremony for them later this year when the Hall of Fame opens um and we'll share more information as we get plans solidified and we know for sure um when that's going to happen and then finally um we are eight school days away from spring break I can't believe I had to think about that um So for anybody that that may not see till then I hope everybody has a great break our leadership team believe it or not has already been planning for a couple months now for the start of school year um we're doing a lot of neat neat new ideas that I can't wait to tell you about soon about um recruiting and welcoming our new staff in the summer um all the work we're going to do next
149year professional development and back to school events so we're not even done with this year but we are already ready for the next one yep okay thank you very much uh cerer committee Stephanie uh the calendar committee met on 3625 to have further discussion on the 2728 school calendar um again many iterations of the calendar were proposed along with Suggestions by each member of the committee um it was really nice of Dr Henrik to go each individual person we all got which did take a while um the committee is made up of about 22 people including parents staff Administration and the school board there are many circumstances to consider so cabinet is still processing all the options while considering what is best for staff parents and students um I've been keeping the board up to
150date with all the possibilities of discussions that we are having as a committee and there should be a more solidified plan probably next month I believe so stay tuned all right thank you isba legislative committee chff yes our state legislature is in their 11th week I think they got maybe four or five to go the the isba is tracking has been track of 184 bills and that's now down to 69 uh Brett and I Brett and I had the opportunity to hear uh Senator Baldwin and representative Shaner speak last week and per Senator Baldwin all the action now starts they've Whitted down from 184 down to 69 now the real horse trading starts between the Senate the house the Committees and the lobbyists and and all of us dealing with that uh we have some
151factors that really affect us which is property taxes which we don't know where that's going to go teacher compensation Schoolboard matters uh stay tuned we'll we'll probably by our next will this be finished by our next school board meeting probably just we'll be down to know a little bit more but still you don't know until the conference committees come down so so stay tuned and we'll try to keep you updated uh on that okay you're up again Joe nolesville Parks Board all righty uh I left the uh the uh Miller paloa thing went home slept a little B and then went back to Embassy Suites and it wasn't black and gold anymore it was more shades of pink than you have ever seen for uh the princess all put on by the parks department and
152there was more pink candy than I've ever seen okay uh and one one of the takeaways as we as we looked as we finished that thing up at night it was Fab I think there was five or 600 little princesses and parents there it's a fabulous event put on by the parks department uh one of the takeaways was several dads were all watching their phones to watch NCAA games they thought they might put a couple TVs up on the side so while they're dancing they can keep track of scores uh summer employment parks department is open uh there's plenty employment there's going to be concerts movies and and spring break camps and summer camps I will give more detail on that as we move a little further in the spring this next week okay thank
153you Noblesville Redevelopment commission Stephanie Redevelopment commission met on March 13th items on the agenda were're to close offers for the lease or sale of1st nor 8th Street which is where the bowden's cleaners um is currently located therefore King jug is the only current business offer for this property RDC also approved two tiffs for the Hyde Park development which is located at Hamilton Town Center the developments include about 650 multif family units when the projects are completed along with restaurants and shops one project is slated to be completed at the end of spring while the other is approximately 18 months away these apartments are in hsse school district and should not affect enrollment of noal schools last a contract not to exceed $50,000 with possibly policy analytics was approved for financial simulations Pro fora statements and
154to maintain and prepare Tiff boundary Maps thank you Noblesville Youth Sports Alliance Misty all right uh we met on February 19th there were uh various updates provided by all of the sports League Youth Sports League members we discussed budgets scholarship funds which we still offer um and marketing and advertising initiatives um Junior Academy which is a pickle ball league for ages of around 6 to 10 years old are showing some interest in joining the nysa group to offer another program uh there was also someone um expressing an interest in starting up a curling division for Youth Sports so um yeah so that'll be fun um so as long as we have volunteers players and parents then you know we can certainly welcome any sports Youth Sports Club into the organization um nysa does not run
155the indiv ual sports program but they are they do serve as simply a One-Stop shop for information and connections to get you on your way to each sport of your choice um let's see we will have a um they're going to have a booth at the back to school bash which Marty I'm hearing is being moved to Federal Hill this year so that'll be fun uh we'll have a booth there that's in July and that'll help promote the various youth sports leagues and again we do offer scholarships so if you need help if you need financial assistance in enrolling your child in AU sports program here in Noblesville head up Noblesville sports.com that's what that's it thank you all right we've got safe schools committee Misty and Brett okay you want me to take it
156all right I'll leave one spot for you I've got yep all right so uh safe schools committee we met and uh we were given a brief overview of everything that they have done which included the student safety commission which is a group of Noblesville students representing third grade through high school they meet quarterly and visit or work with a variety of community organizations their November meeting they learned about U Mission for the mission for field for school and were also able to help assemble Food Packs and when they met in January they had a presentation from Project aware which Brett will provide more information on and uh visit from the district's three safety dogs which I'm sure they um enjoyed all the love they got um and then we learned and discussed how our sro's
157build relationships with our students and families outside the school day many of them are involved in school extracurricular activities such as coaching girls softball coaching unified track and basketball um girls track the high school football or even starting in after school Minecraft club which I thought was very cool um it it's just you one more time I want to say it it's so important as we all know to have these relationships for so many different reasons and to see um see these experiences firstand it really is unspeakable for its benefits there are so many benefits for these students um and then one more thing we did um discuss the alist drills with regards to why and when we do them steps and process esses to follow survival tactics and so on which is always great
158to revisit that so and I thank you um Heather for providing all of that you're fabulous Brett I'll continue on with that Heather thank you so much that was very informative meeting um I especially like the alril and all the safety technology items um a big part of it on February 28th was the aware program um Julie uh this is your thunder you've gone over it tonight it was wonderful I'll just uh mention a couple things that I wrote down the uh samsa uh organization which is the oh excuse me okay Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration um so that the grant uh was very interesting that we received that St directly from the federal government it didn't go through the state we're one of three or four in the state state of Indiana
159that have that um it's extremely important to us a project where uh his purpose is to develop sustainable infrastructure and support our students uh policies and practice and mental health and resiliency uh where helps our teachers social workers and staff to identify students in need of Behavioral Wellness I think your report went over that very very well so um a couple of items Maria Huber Huber is coordinator and um this is under Julie's um governance and Chris Christina standy she's the full-time multilingual and she has 75 students so this is a a program that uh is really important to our district thank you so much both of you okay uh Wellness committee uh we met on March 12th um The Wellness committee was established because it follows board policy a275 um which says that we
160have a wellness committee um the goal is to find out what we're doing as a district for wellness um for students staff and Community wellness includes Nutrition Fitness and mental health uh we are currently discussing things that we do to achieve our goal that go beyond curriculum our next step or suggestion for ideas to to promote and expand what we're currently doing and also create some subcommittees I think that's it for reports all right uh on we are on to adjourn the meeting um our next meeting will be April 15th here at 6 pm and we will be discussing academic Excellence I think in the Strategic plan so may I have a motion to adjourn Joe gosh everybody wants we'll give it to brat okay we'll give it to brat any further we have a
161great attendance that's tax day people might be at home doing their taxes I don't know any further discussion all right all those in favor I I oppose motion carried we are adjourned