001foredge of please Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the repblic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all call recognition thank you Mr President uh tonight we have a boisterous crowd uh uh as you know we're finishing up our winter sports uh and we have tonight our uh boys and girls swim teams uh to celebrate uh their excellent showing uh not only at the state meet but throughout the year I'd like to introduce our head coach of the uh bo programs uh Adam ker Nellis [Applause] all right well thank you drall I appreciate it um got some stuff to talk about we had a phenomenal year this year um so when you sit down and you kind of have a moment to
002breathe and kind of recap everything it's um it's been one to remember for us um it kind of starts for us at the top with our our staff um myself myself uh Austin butcher behind me who is attending um one of our other assistants Sarah Welter um who couldn't make it today um Nate quinland uh who couldn't make it today and then Bill Chapel our diving coach um and it starts with the time and dedication that they put into it uh just like anyone who cares about something that they do on a consistent basis and especially looking at the 5:30 a. practices and the uh going till 5:15 5:30 in the evening missing out on family events things like that um I couldn't be more pleased to have this group of coaches with me helping
003guide this group of uh group of young men and women here um but we're here to really kind of talk about them a little bit so I'm goingon to introduce them and have them stand up as well so we can kind of put a name with the face um for the girls eie paparonis right here she's a freshman swim for us you can just there you [Applause] go Nattie morth a junior here is her favorite part has right now Abby Lee sophomore for us and then Amaya Sparks a junior for us this group uh of four of these ladies here were state runner up in the 200 medley relay um we were fth last year uh so we really moved up just a little bit to uh to what we sometimes in this state in
004the state of swimming believe is kind of winning State when you compete against a team as dominant as as some friends down in the South that we won't talk about but uh they did a phenomenal job they dominated from the get-go all year um they actually I was going through and doing some research uh they broke their own School record record this year alone three times so I couldn't be more more pleased uh as as a coach the best thing is they're all under they're all coming back next year like right so we're really excited about about that um on the flip side introducing the boys um they're state runnerup relay team uh we have Jake Schroeder here sophore uh we have Jonah Lee a senior we have K Smith also senior and George Patterson
005who's a senior as well and as excited as I am to have the girls all coming back I'm kind of sad to have three fours of the boys uh leaving from this this relay team and um it goes beyond them um it's a special group for us uh they are kind of the last full group that remembers swimming in what was our old pool or as we called it the dungeon um you know this was this last group along with um some of their other seniors um hashan karuna Rodney uh Ian Kennedy Kate Kennedy uh Court Wallace they were all that Core group of seniors that remembers that old pool and transitioned over to our new facility which which is been been amazing so um we're definitely going to miss this group of guys um
006but beyond that we did do a little bit more than just those two relays um from a state meet perspective um for the girls Podium finishers Amaya was 11th and Ninth in the 100 free soay Williams one of our divers was 10th and then our 400 free relay of Amaya eie uh Ava Hearn and ABY Lee finished six and also medaled for us um on the girl side um same on the boys side poding finishers uh George Patterson was third in the 200 free and fifth in the 100 free um J Ro finished 14th in the 53 our 2003 relay finish 11th with court Wallace Dean pap cronis uh Caden and then Joey who I mentioned earlier um Jake schroer finished 16th in the hunter backstroke and then our for free Rel live Joey Caden
007Hasan Kar ratney and George finished six at the state meet um in [Applause] the uh so we had an amazing year and season and as as much as I'm excited to see the girls stay I'm really sad to see the guys go um it was amazing year as far as we go um from the state perspective this was on the girl side we finished 10th that was the best state finish since 1994 um on the boys side um we finished eth that was the best finish since 1996 for us um I do also want to mention the senior boys uh they are the first ones to win a sectional since myor year in 1998 um so that was 24 years ago they've actually did it back to back uh which was pretty awesome to beat
008our friends up on up in the north um and then you know also to kind of talk about something else and we have it up already but our state champs we do have two state champs here um so Maddie Moore and then Jonah Lee you guys can both stand up at this time here [Applause] they are both state champions both in the 100 breast stroke um which is awesome um not talking about the team down south but it's the first time that this has happened um the same School win eight championships in the same event um in 12 years um that's happened so that was pretty pretty awesome um for Maddie this is a first individual state champ for a since Christian Kristen Johnson in the 53 in 1992 just wa Jonah he is the
009first state champ for the boys since Brian Benedict in the 53 in [Music] 1987 so we're uh we couldn't be happier again this is kind of that um Bittersweet situation Maddie will be back next year unfortunately Jonah will not um Jonah will be attending Purdue University and swimming there so we're we're super excited for for him um both these um young student athletes are also uh MVPs of our conference so uh that would be the first time vapo has done that since 1997 so that's pretty awesome and MD you can sit down this one no you can stay stay up Jonah and then um I also want to make recognition to Jonah Lee here um he won the mental attitude award um the Herman F Keller mental attitude award at the swimming and Diving state
010meet it's a it's a big deal for all those um Jonah put on in a lot of work um to achieve that um which was awesome um going back a little bit he is the first mental attitude Award winner for swimming and Diving since Craig McCarron in 1979 and 1980 so um is Jonah gonna make a speech Jon I don't know if we really want the head um so so that's kind of the overall recap of everything we had a phenomenal year um I just want to conclude by uh thanking um all of them for their hard work and time as I mentioned earlier 5: am comes really early when you're a student athlete um and they they complain I will say that but they get in and do it and they they work hard
011to achieve their their goals and um they definitely demonstrate the student athlete part of what what we do here here um I also want to thank the parents for all their support obviously as Dr McCall mentioned we have a big crowd and I'm sure they're not here to see you talk they're here to see them talk so um so I couldn't do it without them um and I also personally want to thank um you guys as school board as well as our upper admin with Dr McCall um we couldn't do what we do without your guys' support um from getting us out of the dungeon building the new pool uh to um showing up and being part of it specifically want to thank Dr McCall as well as Dr Allison uh for their support I
012I have no doubt some superintendents may not know where the pool is in their schools but Dr McCall definitely does and that means means a lot and I try to let them know that that it's not every day your superintendent comes to all your meets and goes to the state swim meet and things like that so um the support means means a lot so thank you guys for all you do for our student athletes and us coaches um couldn't be more proud let's try to do this again right so thank you uh Boomer thank you for your leadership uh I know coaching a team as one whole team has its challenges but I think you've uh taken it as opportunity to build excellent staff uh that can support the students on both an individual and
013team basis see the growth uh that those opportunities present iron sharing iron boys and girls swimming uh alongside and against each other every day it's a healthy competition one that that raises all boats raises all swimmers uh and lowers all times right um just could not be more proud uh I know Jonah is the one with the award but up and down the roster great kids working hard doing great things uh really making the school and Community proud good job guys you can't love to take kind of a group picture uh up here in front come on up bring your Hardware as well if you brought it excellent they show nicely against the black not a couple RS here all K you might have to stand Dr [Applause] everybody did have the uh food service
014department took up special cookies to commemorate it so they're out in the lobby take everyone take at least one take as many as you want home for yourselves your siblings or anybody else you got all right thank you [Music] than perfect bracket out ahead read this quick statement before you start as a reminder to patrons of au of Community Schools you'll be given three minutes to give the board comments on educational issues you're reminded a forum is expected and discussions charges complaints involving Personnel litigation student discipline will not be permitted we expect you to address your comments to to the audience patrons and attendance are asked not to provide any comments during the speaker's address or afterwards ining any Clause was an opportunity for you to provide information to the board not to enter into
015uh actually uh this pertains to the uh item up for public hearing so doing the public hearing okay so see is there no public comment we can move on to consent agenda that requires approval of the consent agenda board a motion a second thank you have any discussion regarding the consent seeing as there is no discussion all those in favor please signify by saying I I next item recommendation for employment of candidate pursuant to section IC 20-26 d5- 111.2 Dr Mcall the information is your packet is a matter of Statute a separate agenda item end approval classified this item does require action board um I have a motion for recommendation for employment of candidate move I have a second we have any discussion regarding employment of candidate pursuant to the statute see as there is
016no discussion all those in favor please signify by saying I I all those opposed uh Financial reports performance of budget funds Mr hfield thank you Mr President uh each month we present our financial report comparing year-to dat Revenue year-to dat expenditures for our tax supported funds our year-to dat performance of funds report for February 28th 2025 shows the following the education fund year toate revenue of 8,979 647 year-to dat expenditures of 9,8 5 3,192 expenditures have exceeded Revenue uh the revenue I'm sorry the expenditures do include the monthly $645,000 transfer to the operation fund and also just reminder that January was a prepaid month in The Debt Service fund uh no Revenue today the expenditures were the payments of 1,975 781 uh all Debt Service payments due to date have been made for the fisal
017year and there's next tax draw is in June the pension debt fund year-to dat revenue is 150,000 that's a temporary loan from Randy day fund for cash flow purposes uh the year-to date expenditures for the pension debt is $6,890 um all the uh pension debt funds have been made today and there will be a tax draw in June in the operations fund a year-to DAT revenue of 1, 530,000 $ 74040 and year-to dat expenditures of $4,595 353 the revenue does include the $645,000 transfer from the education fund and this fund will also have a tax draw in June in the operating referendum year-to dat Revenue $880 year-to dat expenditures of $1 1, 39,2 43 and and this fund will also have the tax draw in June the capital referendum has no ear- to-day Revenue nor
018expenditures and the rainy day fund has no Revenue today but the expenditure is the for mentioned $150,000 temporary loan to pension debt fund that'll be paid back in December we believe a review of the fund shows a positive financial position so if there are no questions we ask approval for the financial reports for February of 2025 thank you um we have any discussion item does require action do I have a motion thank you um see as there is no discussion all those in favor please signify by saying I I all those oppos thank you thank you next item contract considerations Dr Mall thank you Mr President we have two both dealing with the our arts department uh specifically drama one with play scripts for the licensing agreement for the yet to be named we know
019what it is but it's not yet there'll be a grand reveal later uh in the season we honor that uh for their performance in November for 88.8 3 and then uh theater World backdrop for a theater backr rental package for April for 54681 and both we have a second all those in favor please signify by saying I I all those opposed um grants active we have none this evening very much uh for Hein El Elementary $1,164 from B schools Foundation to be used at principal discretion the PTO donated $35 for the first grade field trip to the Challenger Learning Center and apple be donated 600 achievement awards for free kids meals uh for student sen Thomas Jefferson Elementary received $596 from B schools Foundation to be used principal supression BF Middle School uh received $1,000
020for their Viking Pride Behavior program from lean and Dave Brown in honor of #bl Keegan opo high school student council received $1,500 from the friends of soliday for their state house field trip and Inman bowling Mike P uh donated the use of the bowling center for 5 days of practice sectional competition lasting 1 hour 10 lanes and 30 pairs of shoes valued at $579 89 for our unified bowling team District W Mar and Ray uh donated $25 to the backpacks and snacks program which also received $125 from Jeffrey and Diane the not over 2800 shelf stable food items for B Parks $250 Anonymous donations and a $25 donation from Mary Willis School nutrition program also received $25 from Mary Willis and $1,592 67 from the First United Methodist Church of noon Kanas Club donated 30
021tickets for the annual pancake breakfast valued at $240 for students in need Salvation Army donated 14 gift bags contain tissues candy pen and a fidget item for the school social working think it's for student use not social wasting [Music] maybe okay this item does require action do I have motion have second have any discussion for Dr Mall regarding the donations and Gifts see is there is no discussion Al those in favor please signify by saying I I all those opposed thank you board old business um preliminary determination for public hearing number two on two facility Improvement and equipping projects Dr Mall uh thank you Mr President at this time uh you're able to open up the public hearing foration on the two facility Improvement and impr projects that be and going over at the last
022four board meetings so this will be the second hearing that determination action pause this meeting and open up public hearing uh anyone on the board do the presentation that we've gone over mon then move straight to public comment open up for public comment state your name and address my name is Joseph locally dveo I'm the Scholastic director for and as board member of that organization we just wanted to present we not we have a small concern because we our program in the fall houses well over 200 athletes plus parents and coaches that need parking and other facility access and our approval process goes beyond the school board also goes to a parent organization Northern Indiana pop Corner little Scholars so our process is not quick or as easy when it comes to relocating fields we
023have an understanding that the veil field is Le field is going to be under construction starting next year sometime and that will decrease the the fields that are available for us to use so we were asking if we could receive more information as to the board's plan for relocating our program because we are a theer program for both the middle schools and high schools when it comes to football in year so we that's what we're asking for just is updated information so that we can start the process and getting all of our ducks in a row and our eyes bted and our te's cross so so you work as we value your partnership and continue this program thank you uh I I will tell you that uh the Val Pop Warner president uh Kirsten cus
024reached out to me uh and the board um late last month and she voicing the same concerns and uh I wrote to her told her we are 100% committed to Our Community Partners about B Pap Warner included my own son uh went through uh tackle football with B Pap Warner he graduated couple years ago uh know the commitment to more than just football the character development Plastics well uh and that as I told uh president Kus uh we are committed to uh taking a look at our complete inventory and working with uh B Pop Warner and our other Community Partners sure that we don't have any gaps obviously the field size at Veil that is conducive to multiple teams being on there uh at once uh so there might be some concession on your part
025as far as staggered uh or you know more multiple sites than what you're used to but uh we're going to find room for everybody during your spring season good news is we do have a lot of lead in time before uh we even get to that point certainly won't be this fall fall of 26 any impact have plan working together with you make sure we can accommodate thank you thank you anyone else they don't they didn't have to sign in anyone else present would like to speak on projects have been wel um uh yeah and I'll just say any comments that do come up questions that come up followups uh you're welcome to reach out to me by email j. k12.in.us website uh and I'm happy to answer any questions comments concerns or welcome any
026ideas that you have as Business board consideration to approve 2025 2026 bail preliminary deter reimbursement resolution the resolution is in your packets this one as well as the next one taken as two separate action items uh give us the permission to move forward in the process through the statutory filing period the design phases uh this is not give ultimate approval for issu bonds that will come uh no earlier than julye process no this item does require action do you have any discussion for um I don't know if this is the place to ask this but when we're talking about the financial impact of not only the bond but the cuts in the legislation that are coming down um I know we don't completely know how that's going to turn out but I also know that
027we've been as a board and you as a superintendent and administrators have been trying to work on how we would make up for the deficit and I don't know if this is the place to ask a question about okay okay well I know we would have to look at places where we can counteract those cuts from the legislature one thing that you had explained to me was about the pension debt fund expiration would you explain that sure uh so this would be in regard to um our limits on the maxim 11 next year there will be 0% grow quo 1% 2% so when we're thinking about our lby our operations what what it's going to do it puts a limit on how much you so what we're talking about is unrealized not necessarily Cuts but
028we're going to be working with less money than what we would have pret without the so when we're looking at that in assuming positive growth in our Val uh what you're going to find is that our operations Levy won't grow right now it's 1225 million as the total Levy now .95 of that is made up by Our obligation debt fund which is neutral to the total Levy so if we have a $12.5 million total Levy 95 is the uh is the pension Bond then we have around 11.5 million operations next year uh we're going to realize $250,000 of buying power in the op ation fun because that's going to be the reduction our pension so as a result Although our Levy stases are buying power slightly because of the Lesser offset by the so in
029year one under the proposal we would be shorted about $500,000 of potential Revenue we could have but won't realize as but we're g000 of buying power through our same L that getting now so we're really uh unrealized $250,000 so taking together in year two uh where it's uh by the Legislative service out to be about million unrealized uh Revenue uh the pension offset will be about $700,000 250 700 is that5 off so that 700,000 is going to offset million leave about, would we be better off with his absolutely do more with more um but we're also going to be able to calibrate our Revenue given that that plan that that's that's going to be our charge just like in your own household if you have your annual budget based off of your current income and
030you're planning for next year and you're thinking about well looking it may be RA in our our income uh and so you're plotting out your budget if you don't get that 2% raise what do you do pre- calibrate that's your revenues exp of that may be um trading out your cash balance account borrowing a do so and in effect that's kind of what we're doing when we're having our F offset also calibrate our have to Landing we don't want any staring movements uh especially what's out of the operations and these are these are two very different funds think about the education fund and allow people classroom operations that we're talking about which areation your maintenance Insurance some of these are controllable some of those are unol that cation to that this this is I I
031hope that was in depth analysis of it I have a couple just a couple they one about the $250,000 offset I understand that that is from teachers who were hired many years ago who had speaker perks or Seance of some sort that expires is that where that money comes from absolutely uh way back in the day um early part of my teach were SE packes of different formulas really that what was unfunded liability because you didn't know when they were going to retire and how many rolling the dice on having enough money in hand be able to pay those so the state came in unity a bad spot so uh what happened was you had to bond it out and so in stud went through ma outlay given all parameters in the room right now
032what is that outlay going to be and then you bonded it so that it was a fun that's also when it stop being a benefit qualifi at time in many school districts in the state had to do a similar thing as us so this is was very common when the state stepped in and said you can't funded liability we maybe bring up slide Chris y I just think sometimes it helps to understanding out all these terms well that's why I asked for an explanation it's hard to understand some of and the best thing about scaming and arching access and listen as many times and again email with questions about so uh great slide to illustrate uh the different color codes of debt that we have that would be bonds operations fund and gray the Deb
033service fund operating reference F and then the orange F dropping off completely that's when those bonds are totally paid off and with this fond correct we wouldn't have until we it will start also in 26 okay and what the whole idea is we're trying to keep the de service tax rate the same so that it's not an increase we keeping our you can kind of see that with the graph there pretty low again project what future years um assess values will be this is based on projections that Municipal advisers and and underwriter the audience understands when he talks about the levy he's talking about your local property taxes local property this isn't the state state sales tax that funds the education fund this is the local property tax levy or de service service correct on
034the bond if the interest rate changes we if interest rates change we have ability to refinance is that or that just yes or no okay yes you can but you have to wait a certain time you have to wait a number of years usually somewhere between seven and 10 years I don't know that that's been determined yet determin there'll be a call feature but on the day that we do sell bonds there'll be a fixed rate for the 20 year per I know K touched on some of the shiing but like enrollment declines do we have any concerns there with no those are totally different FS likewise moment increases separate is so my other question was if we have to use the rainy day funds we have those and this could be a rainy day
035that's coming um is there a maximum that we would allow ourselves to take out so that we keep balance in that rainy day fund and if we have to take some out how will we replay well great question grey day funds rainy days um we got some arrows in fire off um Good Financial strength you want to be careful uh I liveed through those days in didn't want to protect it but it um you know it's there to use but if you're asking L that you really don't want to go that is not zero uh I would tell you 6% trying to maintain Flor um but I would not recomend um you're not going to be able toover well that recovery is important you were at seven you would have a different but I'm saying
036we should be hitting that coming back up how are we going to the we've been doing um which ising our expenditures our revenue and utilizing our miscellaneous Revenue we budgeting toed Revenue what we count oning and something like our interest revenue is nice to have but that would be over and Beyond what bud that up next okay I have one more thing it's just kind of along the same line but something that was worrying me and then I talked to you and it cleared it up for me so I thought maybe it would clear it up for others but with um s Bill 518 which could shift funding away from public school schools new charter schools that was a bit of a scary thought to me because I didn't understand it very well um but
037a lot of it is based on the eligibility of those schools so what you explained to me which maybe you'd like to explain and having our minutes is that we don't have eligible charter schools in our district at this time so at this time that would not affect as currently written um we're obviously very mindful [Music] engage our law right now live in C Township Reas are right for um no one charter uh we don't have a brick in morar so as of right now doesn't affect us nor does it affect the bond project and if I understand it right if there is a charter school that one school has to have at least 100 students depend again the version of the bill is and it's not really in its final version yet question anybody
038else for got a few more um so with the economic conditions this might be more for you um you know are there contingencies for cost overruns or have we already kind of for inflation long longterm so operation is great job of planning on to use that money but also wiing off of it way yes in the short term and also one of the things I think that question all of this would be our investment Sol one of those operational that's hard to control by investing in Solara our able more savings and in the first phase we should save a million is that correct no the first and the second should have 4 million if it's not right but even even without the rebate is over 25 4% with um you know we're doing closing building
039new buildings overhauls toing and have we factored in if there's going to Ono maintenance costs associated to or to that point one the Retro commissioning and calibration of units process Partners uh and remember that not only to Quality also we have Randy from and thorberg is there anything you need to share with us St the one thing I guess I would point out looking at this chart and looking at the the bonds that been proposed and structured the The Debt Service um not knowing what the legislature May ultimately end up doing you will have further approvals as Dr Mall mentioned earlier this is just one step in the process so that the financings move forward there would be opportunities after the end of the session to sort of revisit all of this so to the
040extent there is anything even more Draconian than what's currently pending you would have the ability to sort of relook at all of this the financial advisor steo and others will be able to do that so you'll have another F at the just review to make sure that nothing dramatic Happ answer question this item does require action tonight for I have a motion second second all those in favor please signify saying I first there's a second one word consideration for 2025 2026 Middle School preliminary determination reimbursement same further questions I have a motion second there's no further discussion all those in favor please signify by saying I I all those opposed okay uh word consideration for permission to advertise bus bids thank you Mr President each year the bus replacement plan is approve and Appropriations are
041provided to purchase new school buses uh it's time to advertise B to replace four of our typc 66 passenger buses and one of our 15 passenger buses these buses will be replaced with two 78 passenger buses 1 72 passenger bus and three 15 passenger activity many buses the budget approved for The Bu purchase of these buses is $795,000 uh propane powered buses we still have needs for gasoline powered buses so these buses will all be gasoline we have longer trip trips out town we refilling prop wouldn't be realistic so um these will be gasoline power but we will be visiting propane buses in here the administration request that the board approve the advertisement of bus bids for25 this second yes there is no discussion um all those in favor please signify by saying I I
042all those oppos okay board consideration for the permission to apply for advancement from the common School fund thank you Mr President uh we are requesting permission to apply for an advancement from the common School fund through the Indiana Department of Education in the amount of 63556 in order to purchase the following technology items 400 Chromebook for the third grade 550 Chromebooks for fourth grade 200 teer laptop 35 uh unit classro TVs projectors and the connectivity hardw with that 16 iPads for Math and Science teachers and 152 document C we currently have two common school loans um B 0493 and B 0256 the final payment on the 256 we be made this July uh if approved we'll be expending funds from this new advancement uh by the start of the 2526 school year and payment will
043begin in January of 2026 the expected payments will be similar to the uh bond that we're paying off in July so it would be a minimal impact on our future Debt Service rate the repayment term is for five years at 1% pretty good bank won't do that for you uh so again we're just requesting permission to apply for the common School uh loan advancement to purchase you technology amount these Che down the items in the amount of 6355 you have any questions move that we get permission to apply action so all those in favor please signify by saying I all those opposed word consideration for approving elementary math curriculum materials thank you I have um our math curricular materials for your consideration this evening I thought I'd take just a minute and walk through the
044process that we've used to get us here tonight so uh last school year our teachers uh at the elementary LEL worked on evaluating and updating our curricular maps for math um including aligning them and updating them with the new state standards uh and also aligning them with the iar checkpoints for grades three to five um our current curricular tool Envision by the publisher publisher SAS is now out of circulation so we have an inability to replenish um the tool that we use with our students and that our teachers rely on to be able to do their instruction the Indiana Department of Education creates uh annually and or creates an annually revises something called the high quality curricular materials advisory list this supports schools in implementing literacy instruction aligned with s of reading and also curriculum
045for science technology engineering and math um this is in accordance with Indiana code so they created a list for us for Math and Elementary there were five approved resources that are on the list so we took those five resources and in February our elementary teachers were given an opportunity uh to use a resource evaluation tool to go through all of those materials um and give their opinions on um how those materials align with our instruction our curriculum Ming there also were parent volunteers um that reviewed and evaluated the material uh all those results were then collected and summarized by our instructional leadership team um which is a cross representation of elementary teachers from all our elementary schools including a couple of um our coaches as well the instructional leadership team then took those results and
046made the recommendation that we go with Envision the tool that we were already using but the updated version of um it fit our needs best uh so that we could continue with our high quality instruction with this particular tool um Vision provides um lots of options uh in the way of alignment with Indiana standards skills um the new is assessment uh intervention options they provide a whole entire kit for our use um there's extras with high ability um higher order thinking uh there's a digital resource lots of manipulative so it's a very uh usable resource um we feel that it's from milar allows us to have a smooth transition but that was not the reason why this tool chosen it was selected because it fit our needs so moving forward tonight that allows us an
047opportunity to start professional development with our teachers before the end of the school year potentially um and then provide a comprehensive plan for summer collaborative work um and you know developing a plan for into the next year as well which is pretty typical of this this point so I'm happy to answer any questions but if you don't have any um I would your approval of this that particular tooless don't just you know um I guess I do not necessarily about this just my own capity is this do you know what how nationally this is utilized this and Indiana it's one of five but yeah just it is definitely one that is used nationally they have a national version it as well as far as numbers I don't have that but I can get that I
048mean no worries I was just curious this does require action board there's no further questions all those we have a motion see as there's no further discussion this require action all those in favor please signify I say all those opposed thank you very much [Music] I want to share some concerns I had on Dr Baron stating before the city council the that the board has an Unwritten rule against responding to questions comments and concerns presented in public participation during board meetings what what Unwritten rule if there is such a thing it needs to be struck from the unwritten rule book immediately yes these are public business meetings for conducting the business of the of the board although recent state law has said boards must include public comment periods and board meetings nowhere are boards legally
049required to respond to the public practically you must respond when you don't respond to speakers questions you come off looking like a stonewaller or my apologies adult students who are hurting have gotten up before you and told you I am hurting and you have said nothing no reply not even a good night and thank you whoever that's not part of our job and nothing good can come from it must be your thinking I guess how do you think speakers feel after being to all appearances ignored I'll tell you a lot of ill will has come from your silence a lot of ill will I hear this from ignored I myself have asked questions to the board in the past and been ignored not always but guess which times I remember uh the recent discussion of
050board member residency was a perfect case in point Dr Baron if you had simply said to that to the woman to the woman's concerns but I do live in valo I have a second home in in Wisconsin that would have done so much to explain and to nip much of the hoopla in the butt the number of times I have driven home from these meetings laughing to myself at how the board has once again shot itself in the foot by not respecting the public enough to answer a question God forbid you should all take off your shoes for all the holes we' seen and you're even missing a whole foot by this point now I have said this before and I know each and every one of you and I know you all have the
051best you are I know all of you to be good engaged people with the best interests with the best interests of this this school community in mind and at heart but the people out there in TV land in the audience do not necessarily know that so why on Earth would you allow yourselves to appear to the general public to be a stone wall or adult when you're not directly to this Cruz as the Newbie on the board there is no such rule that you don't speak to the public in meetings do not listen to anyone who tells you that and make clear to Future members who follow you and join you on the board there is not and must not be any notion that you don't respond to your constituents so please speak acknowledge each
052and every speaker and each and every concern answer all questions demonstrate you have listened and understood don't just sit there your foot just isn't big enough for any more holes thank you Brian thank you Brian Brian I want to correct you on something thank you for sending the email out earlier I appreciate the preparation um you I did not say there was an Unwritten rule I went back and listened to my city council speech I said that Corum of a school board meeting is to not have a back and forth never said the word un watch the video and the other thing is um uh you claim that I never told anybody that I had a second home in in Wisconsin that is simply not true I have text messages emails plenty of it you
053did you said that I didn't answer the question from that lady okay I had answered it before that already to people that matter the city council and people like that the newspaper and other people and every board member here so the question was answered so when you said that I didn't answer that lady I'd answered about six or seven times already okay just want to be clear may I comment I would just comment this goes to my point here you did not say that in the public meeting to the public you did not say school board meeting I did not because my belief is that the cor of the school board meeting is to not have a back and forth like we're currently doing okay that's my that doesn't mean the other four board members
054can't do that they're welcome to do whatever they want there is no Unwritten rule that's my point that's how I believe I'm pretty sure it was my impression that you Ed the word the word if I didn't I apologize um but in any case um that also goes to the point that if you had said to the board yes you may have talked with others about it but if you said to the if you said to the public who were listening to this for the first time life what's going on if you had said that I think that would have helped a lot and just in general if you respond to the public the public appreciates that and goes away not feeling or IGN thanks okay I have response right I mean this is just
055my person so this is not for anybody else either I think the school board is one school board meetings are one place out of several where we should hear the public we should explain things to the public as well I think um sometimes there are times when we should respond and sometimes when we need to step back a little bit and I'll explain that I have the right information to respond I would do that but sometimes I don't have all the information yet and I want to make sure that I'm not giving out false information that could start rumors or problems or discontent in the community so I would want to V sometimes we do for those reasons need to do a little bit more research or we need to have a discussion so we
056can come to a consensus on an issue that we need to vote on because we can't all be giving personal opinions on matters that we're going to need to vote on so that's when I would want to wait with a personal issue as came up with Rob's residency I think that has to be a personal uh response you know I don't think we could respond for Rob I think that was up to him or any one of us if something came up in the meeting I think it would be up to us to either respond if we are comfortable or information or but not have everybody else respond to that's just all my opinion you know for me it's I don't think it's to feel as if we aren't listening or want to respond um
057I agree with what share I I personally would not prefer back and forth I'm not sure if whatever I be um enough for every for every feel like it may be beneficial for a few that's in the crowd but there's still going to be someone In This Crowd who still is not satisfactory um won't agree with what I've said we consider that satisfactory I do appreciate though uh emails and phone calls so I can say many of us have talked to people not this public I guess we can talk about that and I'm sure there'll be conversations on Facebook or platform about what is the best way everybody has a way that they feel is the best way maybe we should say you know I try to at least say thank you people appreciative that
058um but what I have found that this board has done is if we've spoken to someone in the community we didn't have the answers we go through each other you heard this have you seen this um and we may not give a public response but we've given that individual the best I don't want to give Miss because then that'll be the next conversation um how they'll run me through Facebook there too or wherever um social media platform um but I agree that um we there are some times that I feel that we can say we may be able to say like I guess in this um maybe maybe he could have but with that had been s Factory if you just finally said that I don't I don't know I wish that we could say
059the right thing for everybody and everybody go like oh my God that was such a great meeting we all felt so feel a part of the community that's what we really want we don't want to feel as if you all are being or we want to hear you have to but I want you to really know that if we hadn't said it we're now saying it when we hear things that come from the community we will go to each other and we will ask hey have you what do you feel about and we may or may not come back and say it publicly but we have gone back and to people in find the best example of that Co had 50% of the audience that was forat and we had 50% of the audience that
060M and was no there was no win or loss in that situation so Carl and I probably speak to this the best because we were both on the board at the time and it's it's just impossible to make everybody in the room happy we had people booing each other I mean we couldn't participate but just the professionalism just it was not proper to do that at the time so as a board we did what we thought was in the best interest of the children of that's what we did and that's that's in my opinion the beauty of an appointed board we made the decisions based on what we thought was less knowledge that we had at the time like K said a lot of times we don't have the knowledge to even have answer for
061you at that time but we will certainly try to find the answer let go out and have a cup of coffee with you whether it's meet with people that agree or disagree with my thought process and we're happy to have a discussion at least you know I'm I'm I'm a big believer and we can be disagree on a subject but we don't have to be disagreeable you know what I'm saying I'm a big believer in having a conversation is always important I want people to see different perspectives I pers it's kind of hard to do that you know right at the moment sometimes Co would be the best examp like many of the questions that K has question got clarification on that and then publicly asking those same questions that she already had the answer
062to so that you know the people who are either watching or present also be able to understand that I love that um Ash took us back let's he pull up the debt and go to that page so that it's visual visual if if we can do better somewhere I'll say this please tell us what that could be how we could do that we'll do the best the just to speak just kind of say Bri okay I got it I'm do my you know we're we're reminded when we go through training we're only one however so I want to cautious that giv ER speaking on of we are learning to agree to disagree getting long all I'll say is I know I'm the greenest number but um I feel like I'm always so I don't know
063if that's what that case is but um I always try to ask questions make commentary but also say on wood I haven't been too too harsh um in my seven eight months here which thankfully you know smooth gliding and hopefully we'll continue to do so um appreciate your com yeah can can I Dr and just to be clear just happened I'm not looking for or advocating back and forth between speakers and the board um let's call this just an exception just here I do appreciate all your comments and and your comments thank you but not I'm not not looking for feedback just thank you for your comments we'll look into it like you said we'll talk among ourselves and we'll get back to you or we understand you're hurting we understand understand have a concern
064thank you we appreciate that actually say that sometimes youve actually just wrapped up appreciate that that goes a long way but no more back and forth reclaim my time so um one comment that I did want to make is I know that there's been a lot of discussion about um I know that we've shared specifically as it relates to and he was actually kind enough to take uh some time last week just to kind of understand that that we'll have on Buble Community specifically so one is Shar takeaways and okay asked her question um as it Rel bonds which I think helpful and Dr Mall touched on clarifying funding versus Revenue growth so just again recapping that it does not cut current school funding however it does limit um I think another really important thing
065is just how strong um we do have to this team credit lots of years of strong financi planning um but the bigger picture is the long-term planning and ADV advocacy around not only this bill but some of the other education bills that are up are really important so I'm trying to State this just very matter of factly sb1 is framed as providing property tax relief but the reality of that is that the average household this amounts to approximately $50 per so when we weigh that against the potential impact on school funding it raises just really important question is this limiting public school funding really worth such a minimal reduction and so I kind of ask you all that today and you know whatever your thoughts are please reach out to you know solid and you
066know share that feedback with them because it's going to have some really long-term impacts on not only our school but a lot of other schools um across the and outside of S1 a few other bills that um bills that are tracking are HB 1498 and these are two bills that are supported by isba that I just think are important to note um so House Bill 1498 just establishes new categories of school performance so no longer will schools receive an A F performance grade so um just something to kind of watch again also house buil 1500 so this creates a competitive Grant to be administrated by the Department of Education and so this is changing the way teachers receive so just an important thing to watch especially since it's replacing the designation um between highly effective
067effective Improvement necessary and not effective and shifting it more in student so another one to watch I will say um key bills that isba is opposed to we already touched on sen Bill one and that would be about 3 million for B Community Schools over years and um yeah that's about it that I have right now but another thing that I just kind of want to state is I obviously watched some of the other districts school board meetings recently and I had an opportunity to speak with a few other District school board members um and I found out kind of shame on me I didn't know this that we did not or we don't have a legislative on my understanding is that's voted on during the board president vice president roll call and so you
068know I I think that's a really important I'd like to make a motion to formalize that within help community well I know you've unofficially been acting as it that's why I said shame on me I I reached out to Erica and I was like AR you already lady she's like no I was like well who is and that's when I kind of Tred to understand kind of where where this is fitting um you know I don't know the history of why we don't have have that position or um reporting in board meetings but I think it's important with just everything that's going on if it weren't for serving in this don't know how in good deals just watching how they move house to house I don't think i' I think this position requires you to
069be that more um I'm just interested I guess I can't questions interested how how audience handles that are you aware of how well can we as a school board or Community make sure that these are conversations red they are not Ed upon but they are in conversation because of that it's the likelihood that they could be pass how does that affect honestly if it weren't for serving in this capacity before I would I enjoy those those settings because it does tell us what to um and how we as a Comm have to handle it I will say this um Dr maau has been amazing asking I think he's just like an like trapped in this young body sometimes I go like why are you thinking about that but um because the conversation is we know
070how comfortable we are now as a community I mean to have $10 million in a raing day fund um is is it's wow right um but I'm also I tell people even serving in this capacity I cannot ignore that we are surrounded by other who aren't this us who aren't able to say that hey we got a rainy day fund of $10 million they are striving they're trying to do the best that they can and I said to K earlier when we first came in I really and I I said this before I really hope V ra don't realizes how blessed this community really is that we can say we have $10 million and so and talking to Dr McCall you know I said you know have you really been thinking about if we get
071to the point where you have to some programs are cut um or positions are cut no we have social workers we have more staff we have all these these nice um positions in place and if our money changes we all know we talked about budgeting them um and having a conservative budget what is that going to do and how is it going to impact the commun so I encourage those of you sitting in the audience watching on live is to make sure that they connect um I I will tell you this I was comfortable in many of where we're going but I am just can't only just think of how well we're doing our yeah so what why don't we um table it an idea I think it's a great idea but why don't we
072table it for tonight and then we can add it to one of our nextend I think that's a great idea that's one of those examples where we can't make an un decision think about it just a little bit but I do think it's a great you better have all right you know it's been a really good third quarter rep finalized time where whether time anding break you know getting ready for that final Sprint been strong Sprint through the Finish Line guys right your eyes open yeah I'm looking at you um but it it's also just a really enjoyable time I was able to on Monday especially St Patrick's Day a great day in elementary school is high participation and so I went over walk really like being Island So Many Shades looking out all the
073kids are decked out shapes uh and the kindergarten teachers do an amazing job wonder and a the uh lucky charm Cal then you know leprechaun were able to evade it and they were mischievous knock over some things and walk through some pain and so there were leprechaun Footprints you across the countertops uh and I walk in kids are just and for a number of reasons but they're just so welcoming guy remember me from last time um and it's just it's it's great so excited the Le it's just those little things that our teachers do every day it of our thing this year make it memorable but they do that every year they have student growth also student grow wonder and it's the high school later on and Mr H our physics teacher doing a review
074making more engaging just a lot of different ouring out break that is our people what makes this speci talk a lot but it's not the renovated buildings artology specializ programing people where people want to be not just families want to move to uh students want to be here feel a part of some but our staff all across 898 be here not plac welcome new people make us better