001To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [clears throat] >> Do we have any public request for public comments? and get started. Can I get a motion to approve the minutes of the regular meeting Jul May 11th and the executive session May 11th, 2026? >> So move. >> Second. All >> in favor say I. I. >> All same. On two claims, Mr. Day. >> Uh yes. Included in your packet this month are regular claims, payroll claims, and a construction claim for the tennis project. I am happy to answer any questions you have about items in here. Otherwise, I ask that the board approve the claim docket as presented. >> Getting a motion to approve the
002claim docket as presented. >> Move [clears throat] that we approve the claims docket as presented. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. All post. On to old and unfinished business, financial matters. >> Uh yes. Included in your packet are the final April receipts and expenditures and nearly final May receipts and expenditures waiting on due to the timing of the the meeting at the beginning of the month. >> [clears throat] >> final interest settlements from a couple of our investment accounts. Otherwise, it's in pretty good shape. Um, we continue to follow the projection as we as we thought it would happen at the beginning of the year. Um, we continue to have some of our same concerns. We'll um continue to update you particularly as we get into budget season, which we'll talk
003about under new business. Um, and just a little update there on our continued efforts to to find efficiencies particularly in our business office and and coordinating uh the financial systems between our school buildings and our business office. Now, now we're all on comp control and so that's really increased our ability for accuracy and helping out our build our building level treasurers as they run into any issues. Um I believe I spoke about this at a recent meeting and we had our our regular school corporation audit which came through very well but we came back with zero issues on our DCA audit which just happened this spring as well. So um lots of really great work happening there. [snorts] So happy to answer any questions you have. Otherwise this item is for information only. >> Yeah.
004If we have no questions move on to the instruction report. >> Dr. Dr. Marie is going to take the lead on the instruction report. Here >> we have a handful of items tonight. So, as you know, our second and third grade students tested their uh first attempt at I read the IRA assessment in March. Uh we have been remediating since the March assessment and we had several students who uh took their second attempt. Uh we had 15 third grade students uh that passed on their second attempt and 47 second grade students who passed on their second uh attempt. We [snorts] still have several students who are currently attending summer school. So there'll be another uh opportunity for those students to take the test at the end of summer school which wraps up at the end
005of this week. Uh so uh those students will test at the end of this week. Um our we have preliminary numbers. Our numbers are looking pretty good. very similar to uh how we shaped up last year. Uh so we're excited about our scores right now. The second uh item on [clears throat] the instruction report was about iLearn. So our students in grades 3 through 8 took the summitive I the first new summit of ILarn assessment uh at the end of this school year. Um, as you know, all of those most of those scores are uh will not are not going to be released until uh September. Uh the state says we do have science scores back though that's test didn't really change. So fourth grade and sixth grade science results are trending above state averages
006right now. So we're we're pleased about our science results. And as a reminder, uh, this was the first year that our schools, all schools in Indiana, actually participated in the three-year checkpoint assessment. So, we had three checkpoints and this was the summit of assessment that we took. We'll have results back in September. Uh, the next thing that we wanted to talk about was our e-learning days for next school year. We typically have three e-learning days. Uh, we've shrunk that down to two next school year. We feel that uh we typically have th those days are kind of set aside for maybe large scale curriculum adoptions but we don't have that going on next year uh right now. So we have two two e-learning days planned September 15th one one in the first semester and February
007uh February 9th one in the second [clears throat] semester. So, >> we did have quite a bit of conversation about this and of course we [snorts] enjoy having the professional development opportunities that we can get all staff in for those. That's not always the case for us over the summer months. We're also cognizant with the reality that we do have e-learning days because of inclement weather. Feel like this could be an opportunity for us to have more uh general education days uh with our students. So at least for next year, we're only going to ask for two, but don't be surprised if we do ask for a a third at following year. >> And then the last item that we had, uh this is actually new for next school year. So kindergarten, first grade, and
008second grade students are required to take a universal math screener. Uh and this screener happens three times a year. Beginning of the year, middle of the year, and at the end of the school year. Uh we were given two choices from the uh from the state board of education. There are two choices to choose from that all all schools had to choose from. Uh those were I ready in form that was the first one through curriculum associates and the second one was uh forefront education universal screeners for numbers and that's through forefront education. So, uh, we looked hard at both of those and we chose to go with I Ready Inform as our, uh, as our K2 mass screener. This will be on a year-by-year basis. We're going to see how this goes. The first
009year, we're going to see how many more, uh, options are available to us next school year, and then we'll re-evaluate. So, uh, for next school year, we'll be implementing I Ready and form at K2. This was really a big push from our general assembly that they feel like they have made well they recognize throughout the state of Indiana I read scores have gone up quite a bit. So that was something that was mandated to us in terms of having practices aligned with the science of reading. >> The state is now uh not very happy with not content might be a better term to use with where math uh achievement has been. They feel like this is an opportunity for us to catch it a little bit earlier. Students who are struggling with that so that
010we can intervene. This isn't an indictment against Greenfield Central or any other school that we're not doing that. Just that they feel like there are a few tools that we can use that might better assist us in identifying students who are struggling with those foundations. So, next year will be be all new for us on that front with the screener. >> Move right along. Then, if we don't have anything else, it will be construction project update. >> This is a little lighter than what you're accustomed to seeing. Certainly you've been seeing the Greenfield Central High School tennis courts project that we've been doing with Barton Coilma and McDougall Pierce. What I'm happy to tell you is we are really close to to being done. We have temporary certificate of occupancy and we expect to receive
011the regular certificate of occupancy here very soon. There are a few punch list items that still need to be taken care of in the the building itself. The tennis courts are in great shape. the concrete that we had some concerns about between the two sets of the the six courts. There were a number of those pads that were replaced. Mr. Day and I have both set eyes on those to see that those do meet the the specifications generally what people in the construction industry would would say meets that at this point. So, we're pleased with that. Obviously, the parking lots in good shape and lots or the parking lot lights are in place. You probably noticed a van there here in the last couple days. We are putting the security cameras as the final touches
012there. So, we're getting really close is what I'm saying. So, if you have no questions about that, I'll move on to the second item. And that would be the construction project for our prek6 restructuring. We are doing a little bit of light renovation here in the next two months. And that's as we start to prepare some of those classrooms for um kindergarten in the future. We'll be doing a little bit of um perhaps some saw cutting, some of that plumbing, but most of the work we'll be do we will do over the next two months will be pretty light and you won't see us moving the construction crew up to Maxwell until August. Mr. T, you want to add anything to that? >> Uh it really worked out to our advantage when it came to
013bidding. You know, as we talked about last month, our bids came in low to mobilize after the summer. Um and so we we have a contractor who's going to be ready to go after they get done with some summer work a couple other places and we're looking forward to breaking ground there. There also is some light renovation going on um primarily in Maxwell right now. Um just you know swapping around some rooms um adding some space for study carols you know adding a dedicated SRO space uh you know a police space uh with a lockable door. So, if you have a chance to be up there, you'll see a few things going on, but the summer is uh is relatively quiet in terms of renovation. Um we we do have a good summer crew put
014together who's working um on painting. In the past, we had you had utilized outside vendors for that. Uh this year, we had a number of people who were interested in earning a little bit of extra money over the summer, and it it's a cheaper way to uh paint um using our our in-house employees for that. And I I believe we have a preschool teacher and a couple of food service folks and a couple of IAS who are moving through the buildings and doing a great job um getting some spaces painted that we necessarily [snorts] weren't planning on because we, you know, the cost of doing that with an outside vendor is a little high. A lot of kudos to Randy Max and putting that crew together and getting them up to speed and they're knocking
015a number of things out. >> Yeah, if you happen to drive by Maxwell today, you would have seen a number of cars in the parking lot. We do have office staff that has moved in there. Uh Mr. Curtis, Mr. Crouch, some of the secretarial support moving in there. Uh Similar has moved into her office up at Eden. But back to Maxwell specifically, not only do we have the painting crew there, our staff, we also have some of our student clubs. >> Yes. >> Activities are up there moving teachers from Greenfield Intermediate School to Maxwell. So, there is a lot more activity there than you might expect. And that'll go on for the next couple weeks. >> We'll have three weeks of moving between buildings and internal buildings. >> Lots of thanks to the swim team
016and the and band for getting that done. >> Last thing I have in your construction report would be back here at the high school at the existing >> for the restructuring >> and I want to touch on the [snorts] playground bid for Weston. >> We should. We did tell you that the bids for the project came in substantially lower than we expected, which was a great surprise to us. There was one thing that had been omitted, and that was the preschool playground equipment. The concrete area uh would be poured, as would the soft poured surface, but we needed the actual uh playground equipment. So, we got a couple bids on that. And uh good news there. Those came in a little bit lower than we had expected as well. >> Yeah. And so, um, Skillman
017went out and invited four vendors to bid on this. We received two quotes. We've attached the quote from Clay Pros. Um, this has been vetted by Skillman Corporation. They recommend approval. They they've met with the um, uh, vendor already and and ironed out any issues that they had and they said that this uh, this quote is good to go. So, we would ask that the board approve the quote for playros to provide the Westland playground equipment. He said that was play pro. It's on the the very last page there. Very last page. >> Yeah. Can I get a motion to approve uh Blake pros [snorts] um bid for playground equipment? >> I move that we approve the playro bid for the Weston playground equipment. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> All in favor say I.
018>> I oppose saying. >> Thank you. [clears throat] >> Thank you. So now if I can go back to the very last piece there, that would be the existing tennis courts at the high school. And as we've talked to you over the last few months, it's always been our plan to increase parking at the high school. When we added the auditorium, we knew we lost some parking there. The city asked us to consider adding parking. [snorts] It'd be a little bit hard to see the detail there with the overlay of the parking spots over the existing 10 tennis courts, but it gives you an idea of what that would look like for [snorts] us. We have run this through uh the engineers from the Veritus Group as well as city employees making sure that it
019meets the expectations they have. I I do want to say thank you to the city. They did allow us to uh in the past with our parking lots, we've had to have green space in the middle of those parking lots. uh they allowed us to move that green space to the outside here so we can maximize that footprint. So we should well exceed that 150 parking spaces we were trying to get. >> The the current sketch that you see there, we we actually had 181 parking spaces in total. We're adding one ADA space. And if you note the we're moving ADA spaces from kind of south of the tennis courts to the northeast corner of the tennis courts. and actually at a a really good access point for um our visiting football fans or or
020visitors to softball and and other activities there. >> That'll make it nice for sure. >> Be very helpful [snorts] to us. >> No action required on that. If you don't have any other questions, that's all [snorts] we had in the construction report. >> Anything else for that? Can we go ahead and move on to board policy second reading? These would be the same four policies that I presented to you last month. Again, these come from our partners at church church hit on Nantrum based on changes in in legislation. For the most part, that's A200 firearms, weapons, and destructive devices. A275 school wellness, A300 responsible use of technology and internet use proto use policy, and then A301 wireless communication device policy. We have no question or comments. Going to give approval of the four policies as
021presented. Can >> move that we approve the board policies as presented. Okay. >> A second. Second. All in favor say I. All >> oppose. Same. >> Thank you. >> Can we move on to business move or >> Yep. >> Post my page here. >> Business information. >> Yeah. Business information. Yeah. >> Two items of business information this evening. The first are grants and donations. Harris Elementary School received a donation of $875 from an anonymous donor for each student have a snow cone on the last day of school. Harris Elementary also received a donation of a bounce house rental from Giant Slayer for their field day on the last day of school. That rental is $500. Greenfield Central High School received a donation of $1,000 from the National Guard for use by our GC radio and
022TV program. I ask that the board approves the grants and donations as presented. The amount of these opportunities is $2,375. >> Get a motion to approve the grants of donations as presented. >> I move we approve the grants and donations as presented. >> Second. All in favor say I. I. >> Oppose say. >> Second item under business information is a memo from Amanda Stouter, director of food services talking about the annual review of paid lunch equity and our prices, our meal prices. She is recommending a 10-cent increase for our meal prices again going into next year. That's the minimum allowed by the federal government and will keep us compliant with the paid lunch equity, but also help us um keep that fund healthy. You know, as you can imagine, food costs have gotten up um
023you know, pretty extensively over the last year. She's done a great job to manage that program this year and bring us in just a tick below budget. Um so, we're going to end the year with a slight positive. Um, and we're also going to continue doing our summer meals as we talked about last month. So, um, but for the, uh, for the lunch prices, we're asking for a 10-cent increase in lunch prices for next year. Um, I asked the board to approve those prices as presented. >> Did we Did we bump that up 10 cents next year, too? >> We did. So, when you do paid lunch equity, you either have to do what paid lunch equity spits out, right, >> or a minimum of 10 cents. Um I I will tell you we we
024do continue to be below our peers in the county and you know South Madison we we are on the lower end of lunch prices in our area. >> If no other questions can I get a motion to approve the meal pricing for 2026 2027. >> I move that we approve the meal pricing for 2026 27. I take all in favor say I. All >> oppose say. >> On to budget 2027. >> Uh yes. Um this month uh I want to talk about the draft budget calendar. Um at the July that's attached. Um we're at the 68 meeting where we're talking about the draft budget calendar. In July we'll we'll start talking about our overview of our taxing funds and the budget strategy. Um, in July we we're moving to a new [clears throat] budgeting system
025with DLGF. So, I'll be meeting with the state um and our representative um to get a feel for how that's going to work. Um, we've seen a preview of it. It looks to be very slick. Um, as somebody who has a little bit of ADHD when it comes to building the budget, it's going to make me do it in order, so it's going to be a little bit adjustment for me. I kind of like to bounce around a little bit, but it's going to be a good system. um you know following our usual cadence of an advertisement in August, a public hearing in September, which is well above the last the last hearing date. Um and then having our adoption in October, which I will mention I bumped that meeting back because of fall break
026as we typically do in October. Um, and then we will file in November and get everything adopted and hopefully have our new budget in late 26, early 27. Um, I mentioned in my narrative about this that, you know, one of the things I'm going to be doing is meeting with policy analytics, continue to talk about SEA1, but also Steve to talk about, you know, what we're what we want to do moving forward with that. And so you have a paper um exhibit at your desk or at your seat this evening about our debt. And really what this is showing is he stacks our debt out over time. And and this is debt payments. This is not principal owed, but this is this is debt payments. And you can see that, you know, we currently have
027six uh six uh uh debts outstanding. Uh we actually clear one of those off during the 2026 year school year, the 2024 go bonds. Uh we're paying, you know, roughly uh right at $16 million in debt in 25 and 26. And you can see that drops into 27 moving forward and then drops again in 33 and then in 35. Um this one of the things we're going to want to talk to Stifel about is a how does SEA1 play into that? you know, obviously we're losing credits, you know, based upon how much we ask for in a levy. And so, how do we balance, you know, the desire to keep doing some projects that we have on hand? We've talked about our our our 26 20 our 26 moving forward kind of wish list of
028projects that that cover, you know, all sorts of things that are fun and exciting and all sorts of things that are putting roofs on buildings, which nobody gets excited about, but it is important to do to keep our buildings operating and safe. Um, and so we're going to try to look at that moving forward. I would, you know, welcome the board's imp input on any of that. As we look at that moving forward and, you know, the priorities that that we have both as as a as an administration and a school board on projects that we would like to attack and and what it would cause, you know, what what we need to do to borrow a debt. Um, as you can see, we do have some opportunities, but we also have some challenges as
029we look at that moving forward. >> Appreciate that. Any questions or comments for Mr. Day? >> All right. That was information only. So, I I'm done. >> All right. Thank you. On to technology. I'm sorry. I'm glad. >> Yeah. the responsible use policy and SIPA compliant. >> Basically, we received some federal dollars, what we call -ate through the -ate program, and we use those funds to offset a number of things. We purchase it. We've used it to purchase servers and and other things along those lines. For us to continue to do that, we have to first have an acceptable use policy, which we've had in place. In fact, you just uh approved the update of that earlier in this meeting. That would be A300. The second one we have to have technology protection measures. Schools
030and libraries need to enforce the use of technology protection measures i.e filter technology that blocks or filters internet access which we have had. The third one uh having public notice which we do that in a board meeting which would allow people to um share any concerns they might have with filtering that we've done in the past. Mr. Thompson's in the back there. Is there anything you would like to add beyond what I've listed? >> Just uh the upcoming law that requires parents to be able to control internet access on any take-home devices provided by the corporation. Uh I am happy to report that linewise uh has such a module as part of our purchase and will enable us uh to turn that on this fall so that we meet the new requirements of that new
031law in Indiana where we have to turn that on. So it it would be our request to continue using uh linewise that renewal. >> Yeah. Any question or comments? If not, can I get a motion to approve the renewal of our TIPA compliant web filter? >> I move that we approve the renewal of our SIPA compliant web filter with LineWise. >> Can I get a second? >> A second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. [clears throat and cough] Thank you. On to commencement 2027 recommendation. >> Typically after we have our graduation, we like to get it on the books for the the next year. This this year was one of those years where we were able to have graduation in May. If you look at the calendar for next year, our last school
032day would be the Friday right before Memorial Day. And it has been our tradition here in Greenfield Central to not have our commencement program on on that weekend. Thus, it does move it back to that next Saturday of June 5th. That would be the recommendation for Mr. Wbomb and I would agree then that's probably our best uh time to do that. >> Any questions or comments? Can I get a motion to approve the 2027 commencement? >> I move we approve the 27 26 27 commencement dates. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. All [clears throat] >> oppose. Same. I've have had a lot of requests to try to get this back out on the football fields and outside. [laughter] I've had quite a few people ask me about that. So, I just wanted to
033mention that. So, I know we want to play it safe. >> Yeah. >> Just uh >> No, while we're talking about that, obviously, we walked into the gymnasium and it was packed. It felt great, by the way. So, thank you for the air conditioning we put in there a few years ago. We did have the good fortune of of seating some people in the the auditorium. In fact, I was told we had up to a couple hundred people in the auditorium and we had the large monitors like this in the hallway that people were able to to follow that. So, I think it was a good experience for those who were there. >> The commencement was great. You guys did a really fantastic job with that. >> Anything else, Dr. >> No, nothing else on
034that. uh onto out of state overnight field trips. >> Just have one and this is a a new one for Greenfield Central. We have a request from the fourth grade teachers and Miss Sutton at JB Stevens to take our students to a day trip to Chicago. And this is not something that our fourth grade students have done. Uh however, I do see the merit in it. There's a lot that could be learned from that. if they're going to take such a trip, they're going to need some some time well in advance to do a little bit of fundraising or families to have that as an opportunity. Um, it is one that that I would really like to see from a pilot standpoint to see if this is something that works. Obviously, it's a really early
035morning to leave. The students will be getting back, but there there are many things that they can learn from that trip. So, it is one that I would support. >> Yeah. Hang a motion to approve the out of state field trip as presented. I move that we approve the out of state field trip as presented. >> Second. All in favor say I. I. No saying. Looks like a good >> on to board policies first reading. >> These would be just that a first reading much that same cadence that that will follow for the next couple months. You have a first reading for C1 175 which is student attendance, academic engagement and truency prevention. C525 medical needs at school. F101 budget adoption and implementation. And that fourth one, F125, purchasing procedures and capital assets. I do
036note for you with the bullet points what the the general idea for that change is, and those should be clear clear to see uh in the the PDFs that we have in there. It'd be our intention to bring those back next month for a second reading, but I'm happy to answer any questions that any of you might have this evening. >> Any questions, comments? No. >> I'll bring those back next month. >> All right, we'll go move right on to to contract recommendation resignations and leaves and returns. >> Under certified recommendations, I have Will Balden, David Banick, [clears throat] Melissa Brener, Carrie Harmon, Mark McFarland, Kevin Sailor, Jamie Stillman, and under certified resignations, I have Jason Kendall, Olivia L, Nathan Letterman, Kalista Overman, Serell, Valerie Schroeder. Under ECA recommendations, I have David Allander, Zack Archabald,
037Katie Foster, Dean Sudarth, and under summer school recommendations, Leah Underwood, Samantha Bowen, and Cassie Peg. I ask that the board approve the personnel report as presented, and it it's just for next school year. [laughter] Can I get a motion to approve personnel report as presented? >> I move that we approve the personnel report as presented. >> Can I get a second? >> Second. All in favor say I. >> I. Oppose. Same. >> Thank you. We do have a couple people with us this evening. I believe we'll start with Mr. Wall. [clears throat] >> Sure. Thanks. Good evening everyone. I'm excited to introduce two new teachers and a new dean of students at the high school. So, our two new teachers are with us tonight. Mark McFarland. Uh Mark is most recently from Perry Meridian High
038School. Former head coach will be joining our basketball staff and we'll be teaching a combination of of PE and business. And uh when you get some talented teachers with multiple licenses, you kind of mix and match and play with your schedule. But uh really really well reggarded teacher. So glad to have Mark join us here. And then also Kevin Sailor, another person who's joining a coaching staff this time with football, former head coach and a really well- reggarded teacher as well. Be teaching health and PE and um some credit recovery advancement or advisory block system there. So, um, speaking of well- reggarded teachers, really excited tonight to introduce Mr. Balden as our dean of students. U, many of you know Will already through his time at the high school, and he's just someone who's shown
039a lot of leadership and and initiative and my two years at GC. And, um, it was really obvious just he's universally respected among our faculty. And so, we had over 50 applicants for that position. We interviewed four people for uh, two folks in two different rounds. and we're really excited to keep coming back to to Will and I'm excited to have him join our our front office staff there on the administrative team. So, thank you. >> I will say having some inside prairie that I do have in that building, I've heard some phenomenal things. So, I'm thrilled that he's going to be filling that role. Very positive. >> Thank you. Congratulations everyone. Thank you. [snorts] >> We have Scott, Mr. Bill >> at Weston. We uh like to introduce David Banish. He will be our
040new um resource teacher, special ed at Weston. Uh comes from Marian and we're glad to have him there. Welcome. >> I think those are all the teachers we have with us this evening. So, yes, welcome. Thank you. >> Thank you. [snorts] All right. If we have nothing else, um I'll move on to important dates. Regular school board meeting Monday, July 13, 2026 at 7 o'clock. Um, future topics, health service annual report. If we have nothing else, I would get a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting. >> I move we second. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. All those say. Thanks everyone. Thank you. [clears throat]