001player that looks nice. >> All right. Sorry for the delay. If you stand, we'll get the meeting going. >> To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right, we're going to continue with our spotlight school. How you doing? >> Hi everyone. How are you? >> Thanks for having me back. Appreciate it. So, uh, last year we finished the year with the oldest school or school with the oldest students in the district. So, uh, this year we get to go first. So going in reverse order, since we shared at the end of last year, we shared an extracurricular activity with our student leadership academy, uh we thought it would be better this year to share
002something from a curricular standpoint. So uh really thrilled tonight to have with us Mr. Hudson, Mr. Holtzclaw, and three talented students from our radio TV program. Here they go. >> Good evening. Thank you for having us. Super excited to be the spotlight. Uh I'm Mr. Hudson. >> I'm Mr. Schles club. >> We're going to start with a video because that's what we teach. So, we're going to kill the lights for dramatic reasons. Okay. Uh so, here's a little recap kind of like what we've been working on the past year or so. So, just various clips, but we push our students to use their imagination. So, hopefully you enjoy this. [Music] [Applause] Okay, we have a little keynote. I'm going to go ahead and let Max kind of get going on who he is while I
003get it all called up. >> So, a little introduction about us. Um, I'm Max Holtzclaw. I'm the department chair here. I took over that relatively recently, but I this is my fourth year here at the high school teaching here. Um before then was working at Who's Your Park, doing that kind of stuff, doing some TV work and radio work there. Um I'm the lead instructor for the principal classes. So the first year classes, as well as our AP and mass media, so that's our second and third years. Uh we have a fourth year class which would be capstone and that's where he does a lot of the bulk lifting for the capstone classes but we both help out there. Alongside that a lot of my free time is taken up with uh the tennis team.
004So I do help out with both tennis teams. So if you see me out there that's why I'm doing a lot too. Uh I'm Jonathan Hudson. I'm in my 13th year here to put that in perspective. He was my coworker. Uh Dr. Olen was a principal. Mr. Kerry was not here. and trying to make him offside now. >> Was it your student? >> He was my student. Yeah. I always forget that. So, he came back and now we work together. So, I've been here quite a while. So, I help out with the advanced classes. Uh we're doing some cool stuff with Capstone now, which we're going to talk about. And I serve on the CLT at the high school. So, that is a picture of us when we took some of our kids to Ball
005State. They gave Charlie Cardinal muscles since the last time I graduated. Fun fact there. So, classes. >> Yeah. a little bit of what we offer here at the program. So, principles is a great introduction. Um, usually aimed for the like freshman sophomore level, although we have expanded at times to include juniors and seniors depending on whoever else is interested in joining our program, but definitely introduction into the radio and TV world. Um, and our goal is to get them up to speed so that we are ready to push them kind of what you're seeing up there to start doing these higher level interviews into the ABP level, which is second year, and it's much more hands-on. We're trying to get them really involved into um the real world kind of experience with that. >> Uh,
006once you hit our third year class being mass media, that is where they are doing nothing but producing content for us. Whether that is on the sports side of things, which is our let's talk sports programming. You see our coach interviews. Uh they tend to go live on YouTube and our radio station that we have active or they're creating our crew creations weekly um content on YouTube as well, which is our show that we have at the highest level, 30 minutes usually. We're kind of reducing that down to 15-inute show content wise for social media platforms. And then if they're still in the program for that fourth year senior capstone year, they're helping out by doing a lot of placement with um programs within our area. So a lot of the people and Mr. a
007little bit later talking about what some of our people are kind of working with. We have a couple of them here today that are in Capstone and I can mention who they're associated with that they're taking on a lot of leadership roles doing that. But it's almost as if they are having clients and they're working with them full-time to create the content for them as well. >> Yeah. So our aim with Capstone because it's new was to give them field experience. So we've assigned them each a client. So Brady and I are actually in the process now of making a video for Nameless Creek for fundraising. We're going to be in production there on Wednesdays and Fridays. Haley, we're hoping to get a placement at Harris with Miss Grow and a teacher there to start
008doing morning announcements with the kids. And then we have one other student that currently goes once a week to God's Open Arms nonprofit and he produces a weekly Facebook video for them. Uh, one other girl is working with the water utility, which is really cool because they're getting ready to replace the towers. So, Capstone is definitely meant to get the kids out. It's more individual, but at the same time, it's a great learning experience, and they're also doing some networking. Uh, and then they also assist me when I'm doing marketing projects for the district. So, most of these guys have been very helpful in producing Cougar Chat, which has been a really great show, which we'll talk about, uh, kind of further. So, program goals. Yeah, I mean a lot of this is we want
009to build our students up. Um whether or not they keep up with our program, too. I mean, I mentioned this just today. All of our kids come in, they have to do some kind of interviews within day or the first month or two. So, even if they're not continuing on in our program, which obviously we hope they do, but they're getting great experience in order to communicate with not only us, but also adult individuals in the world, being able to create a professional environment within that. Um, and we're also trying to keep up to date with the new equipment techniques that kind of come along with random TV. I'm sure you guys remember that 10 years ago, the stuff that we have has been outdated to what we do nowadays. So, >> it still turns
010on with >> a VCR. So, if anyone needs a VCR, we have like five of them laying around. We actually gave one to Mike Foster and he gave it back and I'm disappointed he gave it back. We don't want it. Uh, repetition and mastery, like you said. So, the basics never change. Shot composition never change. Video editing is very similar, but there's new technology you have to keep up with. So, you have to be able to know the basics and master them to be able to apply it on the new equipment. And that's one of the things that, you know, our school is excellent at. Mr. Walwam has been great at it. Mr. Thompson is getting us the latest technology to keep our program moving forward. Uh, and then we have the network expectations and
011leadership. We have high expectations for our students. Uh, and part of that is if I'm going to be asking my students and getting upset when they aren't doing the best work, I've got to be putting in that time. So, we regularly freelance outside of school hours. And with that comes strong relationships. You get to meet people in the industry, which then provides opportunities for additional learning for our students, which we'll talk about. And then Mr. Mr. Holtzclaw also alluded to it, but for post-graduate success, kids that have us in radio TV for four years when they come into a college environment, they are very skilled and ready to go. We see it all the time. We check in with our kids that graduate. If you've had four years of Greenfield Central Radio TV, you're in
012good shape coming into a college introductory course. We feel that strongly about our facilities, our instruction, and the equipment that we have, and the projects that we're doing. If you don't go into this industry, you're going to have to have a job interview at some point. That's a reality. You're going to have to learn how to present yourself. You're going to have to learn how to speak in front of people. All that stuff is extremely important. You're going to have to learn how to work at a team. So, the beauty is if you want to go into this industry, you're well prepared technically. If you don't want to go into it, your communication skills are going to be great. That's our goal. >> A little bit about our partnership. So, we're um we're pretty well
013connected within the community. So, I'm sure you've seen us kind of different locations, things like that. Our biggest partner is Ninstar. They helped fund our program. I remember when I was graduating high school, they helped save our program by putting some money into the program. Um so, we owe them a lot. So, in doing so, we partner with them. uh myself and actually these two back here help produce content for them all the time with going on to uh video or excuse me sports games in order to produce video content for them. So we're running live productions weekly. Uh and you can see Brady over there directing the game. So whether that's football, basketball, softball, baseball, we're out there doing that kind of stuff. We also have other guys who have gone to the Ninstar
014studios in order to create NinStar news networks, things like that. But Ninstar is a huge partner with us. they help come up with ideas and we both collaborate together um in order to create the best content as well. Uh we're really expanding more into the athletics and we're trying to get more involved with that. Mr. Jared Manning is here. We like to kind of reach out to him to kind of make sure we're doing that kind of stuff too. So, anything that he has ideas for as well as what we have ideas for, we try and promote our uh athletics as best as we can. So that's why we have our athletic shows with our let's talk sports content uh where we're trying to highlight a lot of the county sports as well as anything
015that we do promoting our coaches um doing the interviews and kind of going off of any kinds of things like that in order to get our athletics the best kind of notoriety they can get um to create more of a brand and to hopefully get more people there in the stadiums as well. um some more local partners. So, Mr. Tra can kind of test this a little bit more, but we do a lot of work within the nonprofits here around um you want to go through the list? I mean, >> sure. I mean, we have produced nonprofit videos for the Hope House, Soup Kitchen, I said, God's Open Arms, Changing Footprints, Women's Resource Center. So, part of our philosophy is if you have skills and you're from Greenfield, you need to be putting those skills
016back out into the community. So, it's a way for us just to be connected to the community. It's a way for organizations to receive content that they can use that's high quality. It's student made, so it's obviously not perfect, but it comes from the heart and they appreciate the effort and it's just good relationships. You know, Greenfield's a great community, so if you're from here, you got to be pouring back into it. You know, you have to use your gifts for good reasons. So, that's what we try to teach our kids. It also gets them out of the classroom and really test those skills. So more so now this year now that we're on a weekly basis with some of these organizations. Absolutely fantastic partnership there. And then City of Greenfield, they've been great. We
017have a great mayor. He allows us to do interviews with him. That's what you can see on the screen there. And then we're working with multiple city departments as well. So there's always things to film, always things to catch happening. Just up to us to keep our guess ears to the ground and make sure we're keeping up with what's going on. And then lastly, WRGF. obviously a staple of our radio TV program. Founded by Mr. Tim Renshaw, who I replaced in 2013, still near and dear to our heart. We still love radio. We still love doing live shows. We still love broadcasting games. The kids have a blast. So hopefully it never goes away. You know, radio and audio has changed as we know it, but it's still special to be able to have a
018radio station, and we appreciate all the upkeep from maintenance at our tower to, you know, outside help that we get from engineers to keep that live and running. So, it's an incredible operation and we're blessed to have these things and these partnerships. A few more things we want to touch on. Um, we don't have a lot of competitions in radio TV because it's kind of unique. It's not like band or cheer. Uh, but we did take our students up to Ball State for their journalism day and we did win best short film. So, we're super excited about that. We beat over a hundred schools uh to win that. A lot of these guys worked on that. and Kaylee and um Brady worked on it and then we were runners up in the show introduction category.
019So, we're super excited about that. That was a great experience. And then as far as professional opportunities, we've had a few things. So, we've talked about local. So, sort of talking about outside of I guess our normal realm. Um really within the past six months, we've had three big projects produced at the high school. Uh starting in January, top left, that's a short film. That's actually our cougar meeting room that a crew of about 20 or 30 professionals came in and transformed it into a full set. So we had two students work as a production assistant on that. Uh in May we had an independent feature film filmed on the football field a few scenes and obviously last week as most of you know would have been three weeks ago we had a Doritos commercial
020filmed on our football field. So, the networking and the connections are so huge in this industry and we're so blessed that we know these people and and you know, I'm a pick up the phone, come on in. I I agreed to the Doritos commercial before I had permission, but thanks to Mr. Wall, I'm just not going to say no and have them call Mount Vernon. That's not going to happen. So, we're super happy about that and just great experience and networking for the students. Uh, so that's that's that's that's our aim. Let's see. >> Okay. Yeah. Facilities and gear. So, a little bit about what we have to offer. Um, we're lucky enough that we have actually two television studios. Um, our main studio A has been there since >> Moses >> before. Yeah. Before
021I was there. Um, and so it's had some updates to go along with it, but it's still a very professional environment. It's where we have a lot of our guest interviews. It's where we go live for our sports show. We've kind of revamped it to be a little bit more of a sports studio. What you can see in that top left is our updated studio B. Uh we were lucky enough to kind of build that um more or less ourselves. I mean we had some great help again for some of the funding of course with some of our cameras and everything else. But our tech crew, our wood working class helped build the stage. We looked up a lot of things to try and get different things from there. We painted it ourselves. It looked
022terrible at first, but it's gotten better. Um, but we have two live television studios that we do a lot of things from. Our studio B up there is a much more modern format. It's where we do our podcast format at as well as a lot of our first year projects kind of work in there. Um, we have two audio production studios. So, we talked about WGF, our live radio station, uh, live 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So, we are making sure that's always up and running. However, there are times that it goes down. whatever else. We have a backup studio in our classroom back behind our classroom area. Uh it has a sister setup, so the exact same way. And it's great to see that. We also go uh with our own
023audio podcast or recorded back there, too. So, it's great to have all that stuff right there on standby for us. The mics, the soundboards, all that is a mirror setup to our radio station. So, it's great if we need to, we can go live back there um in case emergencies or things like that. Alongside that, our equipment's always updating. I mean I mean like we mentioned we can go off of just how cameras looked 10 years ago to 20 years ago whatever else and now we're trying to get lighter more kind of freer behind it. We're ditching a lot of wires and then doing so we have a lot more lightweight equipment um more portable and adding some more cinematic qualities behind it. So our cameras have been updated. You see a little bit of
024them right there. Uh we're trying to adjust the way we shoot things as well, but in doing so, they've become a lot more portable and a lot lighter, as well as our tripods in general, too. Uh we have two working drones. Yeah, two of them. Um so that's great to have. And they're small, lightweight ones. These guys can easily use them. Brady's done great work doing our drone shots before. We have multiple stabilizers for phones, our great equipment, great video equipment that we use at times, but also we're getting more and more away from that. And we're using um some mini Osmos that are kind of like GoPro cameras on the fly, things like that. As well as uh stabilizers, so they help stable our cameras, which you can see, you still have the camera
025or right there >> right over here. So what we have to kind of go along with that, we have a stabilizer that'll help keep things still with that if we're using that on the fly. As well as our light kits. So you can even see we using ring lights from time to time. um that's just lighter and freer to use, but it's all great equipment. All adds that kind of cinematic quality that we're looking for. And we have editing stations. Again, Mr. Thompson has been a big help with that, getting us hooked up with different editing Macs around our entire facility for our kids to get into cinematic style editing format because the software we use is stuff that's used in the real world as well, not just in classroom environments. >> Yeah. Say all
026that to say, it's a keep up or get swept up industry. So, if you don't keep up with the tech and you're trying to run around with a VHS camera that weighs 50 pounds, you're not going to get a lot done. Even news cameras, they still go with those old big ones. And I I don't understand it. They're just too hard to move around. Uh, enough from us. We've talked a lot. Let's hear from our kiddos. I don't know. How do you want me to introduce you, Brady? They're brothers in case you guys couldn't figure that out. I think they're going to be a package deal, but they're going to talk about their experience. They have been fantastic on the Ninstar crew. Uh we've had both of them since freshman year. Brady's now a senior,
027Dylan is a sophomore. Uh so wonderful kids uh that can talk about the program and their experience. And then we'll have Kaylee come up after. Brothers, you guys are up first. >> Thank you, Mr. Hudson. Um I kind of want to talk about Ninstar, which Mr. Holtzclaw mentioned earlier. um we we have been partners with them for a really long time and they have given us a lot of great experience to be able to uh get behind the scenes and get our hands on equipment that we might not be able to in our classroom. So having that partnership with them and being able to get the hands-on experience you saw me up there earlier directing a game uh you know getting that experience for my future you know going into college or professional career uh
028recording live sporting events is there anything you want to add on that? Um, yeah, it's a great experience. You know, we do go to a lot of the schools around like Pendleton, Mount Vernon, Greenfield, Shannondoa, and also Nightstown. Um, it's a great experience if you're trying to, you know, maybe work for ESPN in the future. You know, you can maybe get like a boost in like, you know, you might know a little bit more than the average person or if you're like going into college for this, then you might know be a little better than the average student. I am not someone who can speak on the fly, so I did write down what I was going to say. Um, I am a senior and a four-year member of this class. Um, this was my
029very first class, my first day of freshman year, and I was obviously very nervous, not because of this class, but because I was in high school, and high school is a big scary place when you're 14 years old. Um, but now I'm a senior, and I can say that this class has definitely helped me become a confident young adult. Um, it has taught me how to channel my passion of creating content for people, helping them promote the things that they love and pouring their passion into our projects. Um, it's given me several opportunities like speaking with you guys today. Um, I'm in charge of uh posting the Tik Toks for our Tik Tok account. I do the school announcements every morning and those are just a couple of the things that this class has brought
030me. Um, it's also taught me some time management skills. I am a heavy procrastinator, but this class has definitely helped me break that habit. um you have to plan things and film them and edit them and get them out in a timely manner. So, this class has definitely helped me with that. It's taught me how to collaborate with people. I'm a pretty independent person, so having the skill of being able to work with other people and having an idea and bringing that to life is a skill that I will definitely use for the rest of my life. Um it's also given me some of my lifelong friends. Uh people are also passionate about the same thing. They're now currently at Ball State studying this, so I hope to do that one day. Um, but these
031are things that I will definitely carry with me for the rest of my life. Um, so I very much appreciate that. Um, a lot of people think, you know, especially high schoolers, they go in the classes, they're boring, they're, uh, pointless, but this class has never been like that for me. Um, I've loved coming here every day. I looked forward to it. I looked forward to sharing my ideas and hearing other people's ideas and coming up with an idea for what we were doing this week. Um, this program is truly a blessing to have. and it uh it was very hard to put into words how much I uh appreciate it and am grateful for it, but I hope that this helped you learn how I felt. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, kiddos.
032Last thing before we get out of here and you guys get to more important business, uh keep up with us. So, if you scan that, then it'll take us to basically our social media. And did anyone have any questions before we get out of here? Because obviously we don't come around a lot, but we're working, I promise. Does anyone have any questions about our radio TV? >> My son came to your summer program and absolutely loved it and wants to know when you're coming to every school. >> Thank you. We appreciate it. >> Yeah. And we did have a summer program. I'm sorry. We forgot to mention that. We had one of those pictures in there that I think Brady was in, but that the picture up here is from our first ever summer camp.
033Grades five, incoming grades five through nine. So, that was a lot of fun that we were able to to have that for the first time this past summer. Anyone else have any questions? Radio TV. >> Thanks, sir. >> All right. Thank you guys so much. [Applause] >> All right, we'll move right along. Do we have any uh public comments this evening? There were no requests in advance. >> At this time, I'm going to suspend the regular board meeting and call to order the public hearing. >> Dr. budget piece first. >> We'll do the budget portion of the public hearing first. Um so last month we reviewed the budget uh as it was constructed at that time. Um in that meeting we talked about how we did not have an SS value from the county and
034so we were being very conservative on that. Still don't have that but we we were able to meet with policy analytics and our um adviserss from from steeple who who kind of walk through what's happening around us in similar counties. And so we did a slight revision of the AV up from two billion to 2.3. That's still maybe a little bit on the conservative side, but not nearly as low as we were predicting last month. Um so that's really the the one difference that went ended up on uh being part of the the publication on Gateway and our our website. Um we we worked on um our debt service um projecting that out um with the potential borrowing this this fall. Um and so I'm happy to answer any questions. I included all of those
035items in the packet for you. Um you know, as we've talked about in the past, it's very similar to our past budgets. We've built in some inflationary growth. We've taken advantage of the the operations levy growth quotient that's available to us. Um as always our our tax rate predictions in here are going to be high for what they said happened every year but in order to comply with the DGF in a world where you can always lower from what you advertise but never go up from what you advertise. We are protecting ourselves. we make sure that we have the money available and maximize our revenue. Um, you know, again, a lot of this we saw last month, form one, form two have not changed the form 4B, the tweak of the of the AV and
036making sure we have those right debt service payments in there. I included the debt worksheet so you can see what's coming there. Again, happy to answer any questions if there aren't any. And I just backed all the way out. Um, I would suggest we open the floor to public comment. As per our past practice, we ask that the speaker state their name and address. The speakers will the comments to the matter at hand, which is the 2026 budget. And there will be a threeminut time. >> Yeah. At this time, I'll open the floor of uh for public comment. If there is none, I'll end the budget hearing and we'll proceed to the collective meeting. So, uh, we we need to do a public hearing concerning collective bargaining, and this was instituted a number of years
037ago. I, uh, included the code sites for you. Um, and it's all pursuant to SEA 390. Um, Dr. Roland can talk about the purpose of the exact purpose of the meeting and who our co-host is this evening. >> I will first of all introduce our co-host, which should be in the back row, Heather Tony. Tony is one of the officers of the Greenville Central Teachers Association that we do bargain with. The purpose of this meeting is simply to give the community an opportunity to share their input and anything they would like you to know about the priorities that they might have or anything related to collective bargaining. So in following with Senate and ruled Act 390, we would need to open the floor to the public and similar to what Mr. Day just mentioned, speakers
038would be limited to three minutes and they need to keep their comments focused on that matter at hand, which is collective bargaining. So I would recommend that you open up the floor. >> You got to the floor to any public comments? If not, we'll close that and continue on to the 2020 28 school corporation bus replacement plan. >> Oh, so yeah, we covered that in that was included in the u >> in the budget hearing. So all those items were available through DGF and all. >> All right. So we're good with everything else. >> We are. >> All right. But we'll close this meeting, continue with the regular school board meeting. Uh can I have a motion to approve the minutes regular meeting August 11th, 2025, the executive session August 11th, 2025? I move that
039we approve the minutes from the regular meeting in the executive session of August 11th, 2025. >> Second. >> All fair say I. >> I oppose. >> Other claims, Mr. Day? >> Yes. Included in your packet are regular payroll claims and the first claim on the tennis and parking project on the west property, Frost property across from High School. I'm happy to answer any questions you have about specific items. Otherwise, I ask the board approve the claims as presented. >> Yeah. Can I get a motion to approve the claims as presented? >> I move we approve the claims as presented. >> A second. >> Second. >> Saying on to old and unfinished business, financial matters. >> Um, Greg, I do not have the video wall as a choice. came. Sorry about that. Uh, as I discussed
040during the budget hearing, um, we had an opportunity to speak with policy analytics, uh, who is currently doing personal bypersonal studies about the impact of Senate and Roll Act One across the state. Um as we talk about the report um it's it's you know just a quick background on how AV is built. So there's a gross assessed valuation u put forth by the sorry I'm watching the screen come back on sorry about that. Um there's a gross assess valuation that that that happens before all deductions and credits and then that that becomes the net and the net is certified to the state and the net is what we use to calculate our property tax rates and our property tax levies. The deduction process is changing starting in 2026 and it will reach the its final
041status in 2031. Um SEA1 also insuted a set a set of credits for homestead properties. Um, and that credit is applied after the homeowners tax bill is calculated. As we've talked in past uh, meetings, the Senate enroll kind of changes the math on how property tax bills are created. Now, in the past, you know, once you got the net AV, except for circuit breaker, which was very easily identifiable as a percentage of your gross AV of your house or or your property. Um there we kind of go through and figure out the net AV, figure out your property tax bill is going to be and then we apply extra credits on top of that and and that could be anything from a um disabled veterans credit or homeowner over 65 credit or there's a supplement
042supplemental credit now for a homeowner where it's $300 or 10% of the value of or 10% of your property tax bill whichever is low. Um, so that's that's really kind of complicating this process and it really has to be done down to the parcel level. Once we start applying that to the parcel level, this is what policy analytics predicts is going to happen to the the net both both the gross assessed value but the net assessed value of our school corporation. And as you can see the green line gross assessed value grows. I mean it's based upon market trending as we know except for you know a few years in the past you know AV tends to go up the value of your house tends to go up the value of your your property your
043farm ground any of those things tends to go up and as we talked about there's always a gap between that gross assessed value and your net assessed value. And so the blue line kind of shows historically what's happened up through um going forward 26 and beyond is is a projection of what it is and that's applying the you know the process that we have today between home state credits and supplemental deductions and items. The orange line changes the trajectory that is after you start applying these new deductions and ultimately when we get to 2031 the deduction for a homeowner is basically going to be twothirds of their their gross assessed value is going to be deducted off. So if you have a house that's valued at $600,000, your net assessed value is now going to
044be $200,000. In the past, it would be much higher than that. And as you can see, our net assessed value, what we use to determine our tax rates and thus what our tax rates produce in levy is going to drop and it's going to bottom out about in in 2031 once all of those are fully implemented. And then it's going to start growing back on a slower growth curve than the past. But but following that gross assessed value line if we change nothing and they've given us two different uh projections on this and we're really going to to focus in on the levy projection. So the red on the screen the the red line here and and what they're saying is if you hold your levies even to what they are today particularly in your
045debt service this is what's going to happen to your tax rate. So we could ask for no more money and our tax rate in 2025 was 93 cents. We're going to ask for no more money and our tax rate is going to go up. Our total tax rate debt service operations together is going to go up to 1.1713. We have no control over that unless we were to voluntarily decrease the amount of money that we asked for in taxes. If we if we had stated what we're asking for today, you can see that our property tax levy would drop about 14 cents. U what they're doing on the rate is they're basically saying if you would have just kind of kept your rate equal in the same mix, that's what would have happened. And you
046can see we went 9386 9314 9373 on that blue line um the blue dotted line. If we had kept that same tax rate moving forward, you know, you can see it's even higher increase. Um I I think the tax rate is the tax rate process is a little bit convoluted to go through. I think levy is really where we look at where we take advantage of the growth that is available to us and have a conversation about keeping our debt service tax levy the same. But the ultimate piece of this chart is really to talk about there's the changes in net assessed value are going to drive everybody's tax rates up no matter what we do. That's that's kind of out of our control now. And then we see that again in that debt service
047property tax rate. We're at 60 cents right now. Just t over 60 cents. And if we hold our levies the same in 2031, we'd reach a high point of around 69 cents and it'd come back down to about where we are today at 61 cents. Um the other lines again talking about keeping that rate the same within the mix and that would increase that those debt service tax rates even more. Um the gold lines, those boxes. So as part of SEA1, it kind of boxes us into a couple of areas. If you're over 40 cents, you No matter what project you do, it's going to be um eligible for petition remmonstrance. And if you remember, that's where you have the two the two uh affidavit that people sign. I either support the project or I
048don't support the project. Um in the past, if you were below if you were below 40 cents or even further back, if the project was less than $5 million roughly, kind of went up every year, but let's just say $5 million at any one site. There was no it wasn't a controlled project. There was no position or monstrance. So where we are at today, which is above 40 cents but below 70 cents, if we borrow $1, we have to we would we would be eligible for petition or monstrance. Don't have to do it, but somebody could force it on on the process. They added a 70 cent cap. Used to be 80 cents, but now it's 70 cents. And if you go above 70 cents in your current debt service tax rate, you have to
049run a referendum. you don't have a choice. So, as we look projecting out, I would like to stay below 70 cents because we wouldn't have a choice otherwise. Then you're opening yourself up to a vote and you are looking at it from the standpoint that um you can only they changed the rules on when you can have a vote. It can only happen in in major general elections. So, no more no more May elections basically November elections. We couldn't do it in a municipal election. Here in our county, those happen in odd years. We have to continue to do it every every two years in a in a general election. It kind of makes it difficult to time out your projects and it also is is a major expense of time and money for a
050school to run a political campaign like that. So the good news is is if we keep our levy the same today based upon the projections of our 88, we are going to stay under that 70 cents. We'll keep an eye on Oops, I went back. Talk a lot about property tax rates. We talked a lot about the AB. And so another piece of this is is what does that do to your net less? So this piece here is about our operations fund. And that's that's probably the most concerning piece. The operations fund, it has a maximum levy quotient. They give you a maximum levy every year and no matter what's happening in our community, it can't exceed that >> 4%. >> Well, here the last few years, the growth has been about 4%. Um, our
051max levy for this year did go up to 4% and it is going to be $8.4 million. Remember I talked about how there's that gross AB, that net AV, and then this new factor that we don't know about, which is these these tax credits for different things. So, this is trying to capture what we think's going to happen from the tax credits. So, I'll be allowed to levy $8.4 million next year. I will not collect $8.4 million because there will be more credits being given. And you can see how that changes the trajectory. And again, focusing on the red about LE, there's also a couple other things. Hancock County is a PTRC county. It's a property tax replacement credit. So, if you look at your your your tax bill today, you'll see that there's some
052money collected by the by the county that is then handed over to taxpayers in a credit and that's part of lit local income tax. That's part of where our local income tax goes. that's going to go away. It's going to be eliminated. So, everybody's tax bills are going to go up a little bit, which means our credits are going to go up a little bit. So, we're going to You can see how that tilts down a little bit on the property tax replacement credit line. Then, we start talking about local income income tax that that goes away in in 2027 2028 unless the county decides to start it earlier. Crossing our fingers that's not going to happen here. But you can see now instead of that red line kind of flattening out but continuing to
053go up, it flattens out and then it drops big in 2028 when local income tax goes away. And then we start talking about circuit breaker layered on top of that. So PSEA1 is the dotted line. Post SEA1 is with the elimination of local income tax and the maroon post SEA1 plus debt postCB credit circuit breaker credit is another drop. Circuit breaker is based upon your AV is your AV drops and your tax rates go up, your tax bill goes up and so you have more people reaching the circuit breaker. So that means you get higher circuit breaker credits. They're projecting for us it it's going to be about a million dollars a year. Historically, we've been under $200,000 a year. So this is a new loss of revenue that's going to happen because the calculation
054works. And so we can talk about where that median homeowner is in Indiana or sorry not Indiana. This is in the Greenfield City taxing district which makes up 72% of our tax base and our the tax rate was $2 basically 204 in 2025. And as you can see where that credit kicks in and where PTRC is eliminated and lit's going to come out, you can see how that that curve the gap between what we what that rate would have raised in the future and what it's going to raise starts to widen. >> It's also interesting. Oh, down here at the bottom it says that the the school corporation median AV is $246,000 for a homestead. So that's all of our houses altogether. The median is $247,000. So you can see we're kind of flirting right
055there with that circuit breaker limit on our median household. Um here's the interesting thing. If you live in center township, which I do, we're farther away from the from the circuit breaker kicking in. So as stuff shifts around, people who live here will start paying higher taxes. Um, it's very convoluted. It's very there's there's there's obviously assumptions going on. We we have tried to be conservative and not paint the worst picture possible. We've also not tried to put the best, you know, the best version of it out there. You know, hopefully hopefully this is this is somewhere in the middle. Hopefully it's not much worse than this. Hopefully it's a little bit better than this. But we you know the assumptions that policy analytics are working with tries to keep this to be realistic. We
056don't want to fear monitor. We also don't want to we don't want to be untruthful. This this is going to hurt us. This is going to cause some problems um in our in our in our revenue moving forward. You know we we are not a city or a county. They were given tools to do some revenue generation that we statewide. We're talking about a billion dollars of tax revenue going away for schools and cities and tax. Big chunk of that happening to schools. It's going to be it's going to be pretty bad. >> Um we're going to continue to do the things we've done. Um we're going to continue to be as efficient as we can. We're educate kids later, but we we do have some stuff coming out. So, I think it was important
057to try to put at least some pictures of what that revenue change, that AV change may look like um on it because we've talked about it now three or four months that this is coming and it's going to be hard for us to figure out and and this won't be this won't be perfect. The good news is is is with policy analytics, they're going to give us three more studies on this. Once we have 2026 AVs and 2026 budgets, they're going to analyze that and start to try to predict that. As we start getting our tax collections in during 2026, they're going to give us another look at it. As we get to our 2027 AB, they're going to give us another picture of it. Um, so we're going to keep you updated and and
058hopefully have some better news moving forward. But, you know, we want to give you kind of a realistic view of what might be coming at us from these changes. >> This is an incredible amount of detail. We understand that we spent an hour with policy analytics going through this. I think just at a a high level just understanding that we're going to have less money coming in on the operations fund side of things, which is going to complicate force, which means we're going to be shifting more funds from the education fund. And the other side of that when it comes to borrowing money as we have needs it's going to become more and more difficult to do that. There are many things that we cannot do out of the operations fund blowers chillers roofs parking
059lots in particular let alone if we want to add on to a facility that's going to become more and more difficult to stay within that that the two gold lines he was showing you earlier. So I know it's a lot of detail. We've been telling you this was was coming in some fashion since Senator World Act One passed at the end of the general assembly. This was very helpful to us. We hope it was helpful to you to see that as well. But those two takeaways I would want you to I just want to reinforce that it's going to be more and more difficult to borrow money and the operations fund is going to be more and more bleak as we move toward 2031. get past 2031, it should start to to increase again. But
060that's five years. >> I I think the other difficult thing that that local taxing units are going to have to grapple with is we are going to see this. We're going to see some of something happening along these these lines. But as we look here at these projected net liabilities for um for homeowners, there's not a lot of property tax relief coming for the average homeowner. It's it's really I mean there is relief from a theoretical what could have happened but we're just projecting off what could have happened. As as you know here we we've shed 30 cents off our debt service tax rate in the last seven or eight years. We've managed that. We've tried to be cognizant of what it costs our community to do projects. We've tried to balance that with meeting
061our needs and but not being greedy and and you know having a super high tax rate. So, so we will have some people who who have questions as their tax bill maybe flattens a little bit but maybe still continues to go up. You know, how bad can it be for you when I'm still paying higher taxes than I did in 2021? be a balancing. >> I included the whole report for you. You got any questions? Pretty pretty meaty. Thanks. >> I appreciate that. Anybody have any questions or comments? >> I promise someday in the future this report will be fine. >> 2031 just bleding you. Bad news. I feel terrible. >> We'll continue to battle through >> the messenger. >> Yeah, exactly. >> All right, we'll move on to a structural program report. >> Got
062a hodgepodge of items to share with you this evening. Mr. Kerry's actually going to take the first two. >> So, the first item we discussed in July in the instruction report, and that's the new LEAP program at Greenfield Central High School. As the high school has worked through that process of getting it approved to help with the new diploma requirements, we realize that has to be a board approved program. We brought it in July. It was strictly information only, but tonight we're just asking you to approve that course officially. Course is being taught. Mr. Turner is doing a great job and a lot of positive feedback. We're just asking to get that approved so we can tender that application and get that approved to help our students. >> Any questions or comments? Can I get
063a motion to approve the new program at Central High School? Make a motion to approve the LEAP program at Greenfield Central High School. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. Oppose. Say. >> Thank you. Second item is the school uh secured school safety grant. We got that information last week. As you are aware, the safety grant has been around uh somewhere in the neighborhood of 2013. It started out as $50,000 matching grant. It's moved up to $100,000 and we've received the full amount every year until last year. Last year the uh wants exceeded the um supply if you will and so schools that number went from 100,000 down to 81,000. Happy to report this year that number has gone up to 92,500. So we received the maximum amount that any school or
064other entity received and so hopefully that number goes up again next year but we are going to use a lot of that money for school safety as far as SRO's and the like. So, some good news on the finance front for once. The >> next item in that report is related to iid and we gave you the the 30,000 foot view and shared some success on that in the past. Mr. Marine's going to share a little bit regarding the he's broken that down a little bit more. >> So, finally we're able to publicly speak about our IRA scores. So, I know we've been talking about that the last couple months, but uh Greenfield Central ended at 93.8% 8% passing which is the highest rate passing rate that we've had in the last 10 years. So
065we are very excited about those scores. Um I also just wanted to highlight a couple uh quick facts about our IE testing that we had last uh school year. Uh we ranked Greenfield Central ranked 100 out of 360 district. So that puts us in the top 27ish% of uh schools. 90% of our third grade free introduced students uh received a passing score. So uh we're very excited about that. Only 11 school districts in Indiana tested more students than us and had a higher passing rate. So not very many ahead of us. uh 72 over 70 78% of our special education students received a passing score which is a big jump from us uh from prior years and only eight school districts in Indiana tested more students than us and had a higher passing rate. Uh
066and then lastly 80% of our uh MLL students passed the assessment. That includes third grade testers and then the prior year second grade testers in there as well. Uh so we're extremely happy about our I read our I read results from last school year. Uh this will roll into the next piece on the instruction report. Uh our second grade students uh last school year that passed I read as second graders was 70 over 75% of our second graders passed. So that means this school year only 25% of our third graders have to pass I read. So uh we are well ahead of the game. Uh uh in that regard for comparison state average is 48% of second grade students passing. So we are well positioned to move into the school year. So certainly want you
067to see that as we were able to officially announce that and give you a breakdown with each disagregated group. The last thing in that instructional report simply a reminder that tomorrow will be our first of three e-learning days this year. We've given you a snapshot of what will be happening with each level of our staff members. will be use that for professional development for half the day and then teachers are working with students that other half the day in a virtual environment. We appreciate the opportunity to do that. Just announcing that tomorrow will be the first of those three. Happy to take any questions about the materials in the instructional report. >> Thank you. I'll move right along to uh update. >> Would you mind throwing that up there? the second page. Very similar to
068what you would have seen last month. The the difference if you compare that I'm going to throw out there in just a minute. It's down 30 students from what it was a month ago when we shared that August 8, that's pretty normal for us. And that with high school students in particular, if you have 2% of your kids that that move, that would be that number. Uh we start school much earlier than other high schools do. So, we don't pull kids out of power school until those other schools ask for their records. So, that's really the only place you're going to see a drop. That does put the I think the number you saw was 41. Um, put it up there. >> 4167. That was sent on Thursday when we sent the board packet out.
069It's actually 4170. It grew three as principles updated those on Friday. We'll continue to monitor that each Friday, but technically that ADM date that the state bases our tuition support on is October 3rd. This chart, I I did ask Greg to put it up there just kind of reinforcing the information we've been trying to share that our cohorts are getting a little bit smaller, particularly in the K4 environment. Those cohorts do tend to grow over time, but our smallest cohorts being kindergarten and first grade cohorts that will be with us for the next 12 and 13 years respectively. So it does have an impact on what those numbers will be in intermediate schools and junior high schools in the future. So we just wanted to draw that to your attention. >> If we could slide
070over to the >> far right, there is one other component there that Mr. Day added that we have um a partial day count. it really only impacts our high school that we have some students that are only there for part of the day. So when the state pays us for that tuition support, they don't pay us the full tuition support. They pay us a fraction of that. We also have some uh families that are homeschooling their children, but their children do attend for a period or two during the day and we receive partial support there. And also with the HVAC program we have with the high school, we have some students that would be coming from from other schools. So that's why that number it has a little bit of a variation specific with high
071school >> with the HVAC students. We will get we don't we will get money from them in in another avenue. We we we are able to charge tuition here until we get the uh HC3. So we do get a little bit of money from them from other schools as we educate them part of the day. It just doesn't show up in our adm schools they come from the majority. throughout the county. We have some from the other three county schools. I don't believe we have anybody from outside that. >> No, New Mount Vernon and Eastern. >> You said Newound, right? Or did you say Dubai? Yes. >> Yes. We have 17 first year HVAC students this year. Five second year. >> Thanks. >> That's just information only for you. Uh again, it just leads up
072to that ultimate ADM count on October 3rd. >> We appreciate that. All right, we'll move right along to construction project updates. This >> is pretty boring for you this month. Um, obviously we gave you the drone footage last month. If you drive by on Franklin Street, you can see the the poles are in the ground that outline the the tennis court. We've moved a lot of dirt for the the parking lot. Things are really going to start taking a little bit more shape here. >> So, next month we'll have some some better drone footage for you. I did actually put the the minute meetings in front of you. Again, we send this out to you on Thursday. We met on Friday with that construction team. Gives you a little bit of an idea on the
073timeline. One piece I would mention to you, we will be closing down Seventh Street and Franklin, that crossroads right over here. Uh probably starting Wednesday for about five days to do some utility work. Currently, uh our transportation department is aware of that. Chad has some additional routes that our people will take. >> All right. Appreciate that. We'll move on to board policy second reading. These are the same five policies you would have seen last month without any edits. There were no recommendations for edits. So you have C225, parental access to instructional materials and surveys. C425, student suicide prevention and awareness. D200, standard of care and supervision of students. D250, the teacher appreciation grant. D325, personal background check and mandatory reporting. I will note on the D250, I told you we were expecting some guidance on
074that teacher appreciation grant. We still haven't gotten it yet, but uh we will certainly work through that. Just a reminder, it is a competitive grant. Thus, we are removing the recommendation is to remove that from our board policies. I'm happy to take any questions you might have on those. If you don't, I would certainly recommend approval. >> Yeah. No questions, comments. Can I get a motion to approve the policies as presented? >> Move that we approve the board policies as presented. Second. >> Second. >> Say I >> say food service policy. Second. >> Go ahead and take that one. Normally do the the the policies that come from church church head on Antrum. This is one that was recommended internally from Amanda Stout. two adjustments there that we go that we make that a district-wide
075or corporationwide because we are serving preschool students and rather than collecting funds that are due over $50 on a monthly basis moving that to quarterly same thing that you would have seen last month. If no questions I'd recommend approve >> no questions. Can I get a motion to approve the second reading? >> Make a motion to approve the food service policy F176 as presented. Second. >> Second. All in favor say I. I. >> To do business. >> Can we back up to item B6 on corporation restructuring that again? I'm sorry. >> Corporation restructuring. >> Oh yes. >> Go ahead. Sorry about that. >> It's okay. This is very similar to what we had talked about last month. Just a culmination of the work we've been doing over the last year and a half. taking a
076look at ways that we can be more efficient while at the same time providing what we feel like would be better programmatic opportunities for our students particularly in the middle grades and then that third goal related to creating more preschool space. Just a reminder of those the three goals as we talked about potentially combining the two intermediate schools into one. Moving the current elementary students at Weston to the Harris GIS site and then utilizing Weston as the lone preschool site rather than having it spread across three different sites. I've given you an idea or basically a summary of some of the things that we've done since that August 11th board meeting. I did meet with the Weston certified staff on August 19th. I met with the Nate and I met with bond council from ICE
077Miller and financial adviserss from STE on the 22nd. We met with the combined intermediate school staff at Maxwell on August 27th. We met with the design team from Lancer and Associates on August 28th and then met with the preschool staff on September 2nd talking about those three goals that we had had highlighted there. And again, just felt like we had a great opportunity to answer questions that came in from the staff. Fact, we had over 40 questions that came in from the intermediate school staff alone. U hope that we were able to answer the questions that they have. It is our goal to have a meeting with the classified staff at the intermediate sta at the intermediate level and Weston prior to break. We're making sure that we're hearing questions from anybody that would be
078impacted by these changes. Of course, we're continuing to look at the sites and what that design would look like and get an idea what some of those cost would be related to that. Just trying to make sure that we're thinking through all the potential benefits and uh obstacles we might overcome. I'm happy to report that we've thoroughly charged Chad Gray from the transportation department with looking at what transportation would look like uh with these changes and we've been able to run some scenarios for that. Those are things that we can definitely push through. When we had this meeting last month, it was really my recommendation that we could accomplish all three of these changes by the fall of 2027. As we've continued to look at the the pros and cons of that, I do think
079there are some components of that that we could consider moving up. It could be beneficial to us to make that change at the intermediate level as early as next year. That would certainly free up Greenfield Intermediate School to allow us to do some of the construction changes we would like to do to that site. Um, but again, those are things we want to continue to have conversation with staff, hear questions that are coming in from the community to make sure that we're not missing some some things that we just haven't thought about. So, we're going to continue to to work with the design team, continue to talk to staff, certainly open to some suggestions from the board as we try to make sure that we're addressing questions that are out there. >> So, the earliest
080change would be fall of 6 would be the intermediate schools combined. >> Again, I want to back up to where we were a month ago. We think about the big changes we would like to make. Again, considering where our enrollment is, considering the needs we're going to have with the education fund and the operations fund. We would like to have all three components by 2027. I've not come across an obstacle that we can't push through if we were to do that first component earlier, i.e. the intermediate schools. We're still September from August when we would start school next year. So about 11 months out. But in terms of looking at the facility, knowing the cohorts that we have going through there, we know we need 12 classrooms of fifth grade, 12 classrooms of sixth grade.
081Those cohorts are right about 300 students. With the current cohorts, that would be classes on average of a little bit over 23 next year in fifth grade, right at 26 and sixth grade. We know we have the rooms available for the related arts that we would want to have in that facility. We know we have classroom space for other things. We we have at least four other classrooms of 900 square feet that could be utilized that could take care of our functional academics programs, resource classrooms that could be utilized as well. So from a space standpoint, we know we have sufficient space. We would like to add some classrooms there that that would accomplish a couple things for us. Again, we've scaled that back with Lantern Associates to four classrooms. We would like to have
082those that are better equipped for our functional academic classroom. We can make that work on the second floor currently. I would prefer to have that on the first floor long term. And we would like to have some classrooms that would allow us to grow classrooms that would have natural light to them. So again, we could we have scaled that back from where we initially talked about that many months ago. We can certainly make it happen for next year. Going back to the question you asked, Mr. Smith, >> thanks. >> We'll continue to bring you uh design and and other uh questions that we're receiving from the community. >> I want to uh information. >> Yes, I have two items for you this evening. The first is, you know, kind of our regular recurring grants and
083donations. Um, as is typical this time of year, Terry Miller works very hard and has received a number of donations of school supplies with a value of $6,545.75. Uh, for perspective, last year we received over $5,000. So you know want to thank the generous partners our community Bradley United Methodist Church Cambria dynamic agency plans Eden Masonic Lodge 477 Eden United Methodist Church Greenfield Christian Church Greenfield Kowanas Greenfield Women's Club Otterbine Church Precode Medals St. James Lutheran Church and a private donor who chose to remain I ask that the board approve uh this donation as presented. >> Yeah. I get a motion to approve the grants and donations as presented in the amount of $6,500 $6,545.75. >> Make a motion to approve the grants and donations as presented and thank those community. >> Yeah, most definitely.
084Can I get a second? >> All in favor say I. >> Thank you. Uh my second item which is a little bit new um to be this solid in some of our conversations but it's something that we've we've talked about um in the past you know looking for efficiencies looking way for ways to save money. You know one of our big cost items in the operations fund is for our utilities. There are ways to to save money and we do a lot of those. We try to turn lights out. It's a simple one. We replace a lot of our lights with LEDs. you know, we've gone to more efficient boilers, more efficient chillers. Um, we have looked at solar in the past. It's not made a ton of sense for numerous reasons. Um, but in
085this environment, we thought it would it would be something that we board might be interested in in at least getting a little bit more solid information. Energy harness has been a longtime partner with us, done most of our lighting retrofit projects. They did the high school. They've done Max level JB Stevens. As we look at other schools moving forward, we'd like to, you know, continue to work with them. They also have an arm that does solar. And they they're looking at a project to potentially put um solar panels on the flat roof areas of the junior hot, which would primarily be the auxiliary gym we built in 2019, the main gym, and the cafeteria area. Classroom is the front of the building is is all pitched roof. These are not attached to the roof. They're
086ballasted. Um and and just kind of the the the you know broad brush, you can see that they're talking about a savings of about $49,000 a year in year one. And then with inflation and rates increases, you know, that that would go up over time. They're projecting in that out of pocket cost about $400,000. Um, this this will say this will cut the usage at the junior high that we would buy from a utility by about 35%. So, I think it's something that is worthwhile for us to pursue a little bit further. Um, they have sent me a proposal for a an engineering study. Our at risk number is under $20,000. As I as I state here, it's it's actually about $18,000. And if it if we come back something that's attractive to us. It
087would cost us about another $6,000 in permitting fees and and formalized engineering plans and stuff like that. Um, it is, like I said, it's a little bit kind of not out of left field, but it's it's something that we've been toying with and and I finally got some information that I thought was important to bring to you. Uh, I'd love to have them, you know, do that engineering study for us if the board's amendable. I ask that you approved Dr. W and I to finalize an engineering agreement with energy harness. Like I said, our our at risk number is about $18,000. If we get to the end of this and we don't like it, we walk away. I think that's a good investment of our time and energy and dollars. Um the other piece of
088this, and this is where it gets a little bit hairy, um there's a special tax credit that that happens in 2025. When we get the project started, it goes away and then they're going to phase out other federal tax credits starting in And we've seen a lot of changes on this front over the last five years. The best time to have done it was about five years ago when there was some net metering opportunities which that dried up a long time ago. This is the the next version of the incentives really going away. It's just kind of a matter of what kind of appetite we have to put an investment in up front for some long-term savings. Will the engineering study drill down on I I see these estimates here on the project pricing and
089the estimated credit? They're going to drill down a little bit more on that for the the study that we would be. >> Yes. Um I got the I I got the details of the study earlier today and I didn't have a chance to put in the board packet. U they're going to do a perform a detailed site visit. They're going to develop detailed design for interconnecting existing power systems, preliminary engineer drawings and site maps, structural analysis of the rooftop areas, pre- permitting systems, including size materials and approach. And that's really going to shape how much the project's going to cost, how much energy it can generate, and thus the tax credits available to us. Um, if we do go beyond, then it's there's some other items that happened in those in that phase, which is
090really around the permitting process and the um you know finalizing it with the utility provider and and stuff like that. But yes, the goal would be you know right now they've pulled up Google Maps and kind of measured the space and you know we think we can fit this many. Um it's really getting up there and inspecting the roof, taking some real onsite measurements, deciding what's the best product to put up there and those I hope that I hope that their estimates are are pretty strong, but that's why we would like to trust to verify actual stuff. >> Nothing else. Can I get a motion to to approve Dr. Olen and Mr. Day to finalize engineering agreement with energy? >> I move that authorize Dr. Olen and Mr. Day to finalize an engineering agreement with
091energy harness to investigate solar service. >> Can I get a second? >> All in favor say I. >> Thank you >> to the escrow agreement. >> I guess I had three items. Sorry about that. So, um, in all of our bid documents, we allow a contractor to to ask us to set up an escro account. We have not done that on any of the projects that I've been involved in in my time here at Central, but that that the Doug Beers did ask for that. Um, as part of that, they get to choose an escro bank, which they've chosen Lake City Bank, and the and Lake City Bank has asked that the board through resolution and appoint a representative and authorize said representative to open the account. I've attached the escrew agreement and the resolution.
092has been reviewed by BCB is legal. Barco bill is legal. They're agreeable to it. Just ask that the board approve uh approve it and appoint me a day as the representative to open an escro account on behalf of the school corporation. >> Yeah. Can I get a motion appoint Mr. Day as a representative to open an escro account? >> Make a motion to approve day as our representative. account for the project. >> Second. >> Say I >> say >> policy is first read. >> Can we go? >> Yeah. >> And you've seen this in past years. In fact, it was a requirement by the in Indiana code for all schools to have a strategic and continuous improvement plan. They took that away last year. Uh it is still a good practice to ask schools to
093have an improvement plan. It gives you an idea of some things that we're focusing on to improve in each of our schools. So, you do see a plan there from each of our eight schools. I'm actually going to ask Mr. Cleveland to share some highlights of the the junior high plan. It's the allwin has to follow a specific script so to speak. Obviously, Mr. Quigman is new to the helm as the the principal, but he's been in the building for the last three years. He's going to share some highlights. >> So, um, as we've gone over, just looking at what we've done over the past few years, really four to five years. One of the biggest things we're concentrating on is really working on our math scores, improving those, especially for our special education population.
094We're partnering this year with the new teacher project and glad to say that they were just in last week doing some observations of math classrooms with me. Um very great just starting the conversation with our teachers, our special ed teachers and math teachers alike uh to see what we can do to support them. So as we go through um that process over the next two years, we're very excited to see how we can help our teachers and our students kind of bump the curve uh and do do better in those areas. We're going to continue to look at how we can continue to be a just very positive school for our our community and over the past few years and some of our survey results of just really making sure that we are meeting every
095kid where they are and those kids know they have good people to support them and all of our staff and also peers alike. And then also too, uh, one thing we're going to be looking at obviously is still pushing through our language arts math or language arts I learn scores too, trying to raise those across the board within about 5% from previous years to just keep that curve up. Any questions for you? >> Thank you. technically would be requesting permission or the board to approve the the plans. >> Get a motion to approve the improvement plans as presented. >> I move that we approve the approve the improvement plan. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I say okay to board policies first reading. So this will be the first time you see
096these and and the good news is this is the last set of policies for for a while. Obviously want to bring these back to you next next month in October. But you have five in front of you. E200 religious release time and credit for religious education. F125 purchasing procedure and capital assets. G350 audio video and digital recordings on school property. G360 data breach and protection and H100 school visitors and parent family engagement. These were all recommendations came from our partners at church church and anram based on changes in law. Be happy to take any questions you have about them. >> The u the purchasing procedures and capital assets this could be fielded by either of you. Is that going to materially change what we've been doing? It didn't appear that it would but >> no.
097In fact, there are some, oddly enough, positives about some of the changes that are >> actually increased threshold a few. >> Yeah. So, so you know, see, I told you I'd come back with something. I appreciate that. But, but no, no, it's it's we we we have followed the policy. We we continue to follow policy. Doesn't impact us. In fact, like I said, there's a couple things that make it a little bit easier. >> Any other questions? I'll bring those back to you next month. >> All right. On to overnight out of state field trips. >> It's just one and one that's common to you. This would be the Washington DC trip for our eighth grade students. We're already thinking about May. Uh but you do have the the letter in there asking for permission
098to do that. As you know, our students do a lot of fundraising to make that an affordable more affordable trip for them. And they understand the expectations you have for overnight field trips out of state. I get a motion to approve the overnight road trips as >> I move that we approve the Washington DC trip for our eighth graders. Second say I say I'll do contract recommendations resations and leaves and retirements. >> Okay. Leave of absence. Shannon Flynn, Becca Rogers. Certified recommendations, Michelle Good, Jenna Lyens, Alicia Martin, Elizabeth Macintosh, Valerie Schroeder, Joey Johnson. Certified resignations, Joe Bowman, Jo Jane Miller, Sierra Judy. Administrative leave, Joe Bowman. ECA recommendations, Carolyn Gibson, Joseph Harris, Katie Helgerson, Brooklyn Harold, and the last one, the ECA resignation from Michael Foster. I would ask that the board approve the personnel
099report as presented. Of course, we would bring any other hires to at the next regular schedule board meeting. >> Make a motion to approve the person as presented. >> Make a motion to approve the personnel report as presented as well as give permission to hire as needed for the 26 school year. >> Second. All in favor say I. >> I. If I might just add, obviously something a little unusual there that making a a principal change mid year has chosen to to step out of the principal ship and putting Mr. Joey Johnson in place as the interim welcome site back at at Eden Elementary School. Be happy to bring Mr. Johnson back to a board meeting in the future for you in October. to supplement. >> Supplemental payment. Yes, this is one that we actually
100have done in the past, but it's one that must be approved on an annual basis. It's not something we do very often. Uh it's something that the general assembly gave us the the authority to do for some hard to fill positions. School psychologists are definitely that. As you look at the case load that we have uh for students that are are tested for special education or students that we're just trying to figure out why they're not learning at the rate that we would like them to. We we do keep our school psychologists very busy. There's quite a shortage in the state and so we're asking for a supplemental payment for we actually have three school psychologists. >> Can I get a motion to approve the resolution for supplemental payment? that we approve the resolution for
101supplemental payment to the school psychologist as presented. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> If uh nothing else um go on to important dates red light a gala will be September the 27th beginning at 6:30 fall break 6th to 17th real schoolboard meeting the 20th of October. Future agenda will be average daily membership report and the budget for 2026 adoption. If nothing else, can I get a motion to approve or agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. Say I. Thanks everyone. It was kind of a long one. Thanks for sticking in with us. [Music] Mr. Jack, >> it goes on throughout.