001[laughter] Okay. Today is Monday, November 17th, and welcome to a meeting at the Concord School Board of Trustees. This meeting is a meeting of the school board in public for the purposes of conducting the school corporation's business and is not considered a public community meeting. There will be time for public participation about agenda items as listed on the agenda. If you'd like to address the board, fill out a yellow card just like this, which can be found on the table over there, and get that into Mrs. Warren and then you can speak. Okay. Pledge of allegiance. [clears throat] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Hey, and one of my favorite
002things which is also called good things is from East Side and Mr. Teles and his small students are going to do that. small students. I could say cute cute students. Okay, that's great. Yes. Um, good evening. Thank you school board for having East Side. Um, at Eastside we have a lot of awesome afterchool activities. So, we wanted to highlight one this evening. So, we have Mrs. Lane who is in charge of our drama club and she's going to take it away. Awesome. Hello everybody. So, yeah, I'm here to talk to you about East Side's drama club. Um, I just kind of wanted to talk to you first about where it began. So, I actually um am fortunate enough to also get to work with our high school students with our musical each year. And one
003year I had students from East Side come and say, "I wish we could do something like that." Which kind of began this journey to create our East Side drama club. So, we started the spring of 2024. Uh, students performed a reader theater for the book The Day the Crayons Quit. uh we had 25 third and fourth graders and we actually ended up having a wait list of 20 [clears throat] kids who were also still interested. So it was cool to see that there was such an interest for that. Um we performed two shows. One was during the day for our K through two students and then we did another one after school in our gym for families which I know they really appreciated getting to see. Then um the next year which was um this
004previous year we actually ended up doing two drama clubs. one in the fall for third and then another one for fourth grade in the spring. Um we had about 20 to 22 for both clubs. Our third graders performed once again the day the crayons quit. Our fourth graders performed a two-part show uh Cinderelli and then the real story of the three little pigs. Once again, we got to perform that for our parents as well as the kids at the school. Um and what I've loved most about this is we've gotten to watch kids who might be shy get to become confident. students who might struggle with reading get to practice their literacy skills in a real setting, which has been really cool to watch. Um, which brings me to this year. This year we're partnering
005with our music teacher, Mrs. Janice. So, she puts on our Christmas program each year, and this year our drama club is actually the parts in between the songs. So, they're acting out uh different scenes and then getting the opportunity to also perform songs in between, which brings me to my next part. I actually brought three students here, three boys that I'm going to call up here. Um, this is Oliver, Kevin, and Austin. If you want to come on over, boys. And they're actually gonna present for you guys one of their skits as well as a song. Do you want to go grab your props, sir? [clears throat] And then, gentlemen, once you're ready, you guys can take it away. Guys, I think I know my secret sense. Definitely. Mr. Till or Mrs. News? I I
006can you imagine what those give us? Maybe no homework or extra recess. Or maybe both. That would be the best Santa ever. Wait, what's going on? What's secret Santa? Okay, here's a deal. Everyone gets person gives them a gift. Keep it a big deal. I still don't know if I understand. Here, let us explain. Everybody [music] write your name. This is how we're going to start the game. Hold it up and put your name into the Santa Claus hat. Whether I have you or you have me, we're going to put a Christmas present underneath the Christmas tree. Secret Santa, here is what it's all about. Secret Santa hat and draw one out. Secret Santa, you can't tell anyone. Secret Santa is part of the fun. Whether I have you or you have me for Christmas
007tree not to spoil the surprise. Don't want to give it away until that very special day. All of us have guess the part that is the best secret. You tell me and I tell you if the guesses were false or true wheath [singing] Don't want to give it away. Here's what you do. Give a gift and give one, too. In the end, you will come to believe. It's better to give than it is your receipt. Whether I have you or you have me, we're going to lock the secret up and throw away the key. Whe you have me, we're going to put a Christmas present underneath the Christmas tree. [applause] These students have worked really hard memorizing lines, working on um different parts, choreography, things like that. that we've been working on every single week.
008You can see them at our Christmas program in just a couple weeks. Thank you guys so much. Awesome. Thank you guys. [applause] So, we'll take a pause if if the if the students and their families would like to leave if you but if you want to stay for the rest of the meeting, it'll be very riveting. But yeah, so we'll take a few minutes in case you guys want to leave. Thank you for coming. It was great. Thank you guys. Good job. Hello. I love entertainment. Okay. I would be willing to do it. She said we need more people singing. I mean, let's say we can have Jim sing funny. [laughter] Okay. Courtney or [laughter] Okay, next up hearing of visitors. Do we have any any additional yellow cards? Okay, so we have one card
009this evening from Kristen Edson. Yes. Hello. Good evening. Um I'm the new executive director of the Alcart Public Library. So I wanted to come and introduce myself and say I'm I'm finally here. Um, we have been without a director since the beginning of January. Um, and so just wanted to put a face with the name in case you didn't see my one page spread in our explorer this past month. Um, but I'm here. I hope that um, you know, we will continue our great partnerships. I was able to attend the Mac Barnett um, evening. I believe your technology guy back there. I think I met you that night. So, um, you know, it's, uh, just great that we have such a good working relationship and it will continue. And, um, I also brought with me
010Janet Fernell, who is the, uh, member of my board that you all have appointed. And, um, I've gotten to know her a little bit, and I know that she was a a previous employee of Concord uh, Community Schools. So, she brings some knowledge with her on how you all work, and um, just looking forward to to getting to know you all. And please don't hesitate to reach out and get some time with me if you would like. That's also okay. If you don't, that's fine. Things [laughter] are are working very well and that's all. So, Thank you. Thank you for introducing yourself, which is wonderful. Thank you. Appreciate it. [laughter] Speaker. Okay. Let's see. [clears throat] Next up, consent agenda minutes from 11 11:3 executive minutes from 11:3 special meeting from 1 1111 counts payable
011claims payroll claims and distribution summary donations human resources report and conference requests. Motion to approve. I'll second. Motion by Mrs. Towner, second by Mr. Mali. All those in favor of the motion say I. I. I. The same. Okay. Item 4.1. Oh, Dr. Kendall talk about reservation requirements. All right. So, um there will be other people coming up um to join me for this. We will not be singing, but um anyh [laughter] who. All right. So, um I am here today to present. Looks like they're coming now. um the Concord learning experience and this is quite exciting especially when you see um the children up here because you know that this is going to be something that they'll be able to engage with during their academic careers. So as we've shared quite a bit at length
012um both this summer and this fall we are on you know moving forward with our strategic plan. So we've done quite a bit of work with academic mastery and literacy and now we're transitioning to the portrait of a graduate dispositions and their integration um that we've talked about and all of you um adopted our skills for the future um future ready skills. So thank you for that. So when we talk about the Concord learning experience, we are wholeheartedly committed to making the high school learning experience different. We want to walk through what that will look like for the future here this evening. and um basically give you um an opportunity to ponder that uniqueness that we um would like to offer um provide you an opportunity to ask questions around um three specific requirements. Now,
013I know I gave you a packet. This is a terrible teacher and me put the packet away. You don't need the packet yet. I promise I'll tell you when you need the packet. So, for right now, your focus is up here, friends. So, um just want to reiterate we're having this in a public meeting so you can ask questions. you can really grapple with this because we would ask for your consideration um when we come back in December. Oh, look at her. Just the mic just saying just joking. Okay, so anywh who um you have seen this before, this isn't new, but this is going to be at the heart of our work as we move forward and this is the heart of the high school redesign. So the first point being having a broader
014set of goals. So looking at um what our students are gaining within our schooling experience beyond academics. So not saying academics aren't important but making sure they have a multi-dimensional learning experience. So focusing on critical thinking, focusing on collaboration, communication, those future ready skills. So the next step then being a rigorous um and relevant and engaging learning experiences. So making sure that our students while they're engaging with academics have an opportunity to um in I guess I would say um integrate those um dispositions within real world learning experiences. So making sure you know that we're touching on what's happening in um life outside of school so that they can apply those dispositions fruitfully. And then finally having um meaningful and actionable signal signaling systems. So this part is really important because we want our students
015to gain the content knowledge that they need have um the dis the future ready skills um integrate those together so that students can recognize okay I am growing in collaboration I am growing in um critical thinking so when we're thinking about all this like I said before this is the back the backbone of all of this work all right so any questions thus far just painting a little bit of um perspective here All right. And before we jump into this and before you can look at your packet, just want you guys to know that this is grounded in our mission. So making sure that students have academic success in a safe and connected learning environment. So you ready for the uniqueness? Here we go. So the first um facet of this is um having the
016expectation that all Concord students will earn a readiness seal either in employment um enrollment or enlistment. So now is the opportunity here shortly to look at your packet, but I want to say this as we get started is we want to make sure that we have rigorous expectations for our students and the state created these um as an indicator for success. So when students earn these, all students at Concord earn these essentially it's saying they have opportunities open to them once they leave high school because oftentimes the high school experience is focused on we want to get you to graduation. and how do we get those credits? But we want to empower our students to have credentials of value. We want them to have access to technical certificates. We want them to have access to
017two-year and four-year um university experiences and not just stop at graduation. And I know, you know, having been um the high school principal um so often, you know, they were so excited at graduation and you don't want to take that from them, but then you might see them three months later and that was like the height of their academic career. So we want to get them more prepared for post-secary life um once they get to graduation. So what that looks like are these um enrollment seal Oh, we'll start with the enrollment seal. So what this looks like with the enrollment seal now you can look at your back. Thank you for listening student Mali. All right. So there is quite a bit of content here to um digest. So I'm not going to go through
018it all in detail. I've highlighted the parts that I want you to pay um close attention to as we work through this. So for those students that want to dive into the enrollment seal, you'll notice at the top part um in yellow where it says, "How do I know if I should um pursue the enrollment seal?" And these are people that are looking, these are your um students that are your academic honor students or students that wholeheartedly want um to take challenging coursework that would be those students that definitely want to enter into some type of post-secary um university experience, but at the same time having access to work-based learning. So we're not pigeon holing them like it's only academics are bust that they have opportunities um to again do that rigorous relevant learning experience.
019So then if you go down to the middle of the page and what constitutes an enrollment seal, these are again like I said before, your academic honors courses, having four years of world language, having eight years of math, upper level math at that. Um you'll notice that you get midway through you have to earn a C or higher and you have to have a certain grade point average. So again, having that high expectation and then you'll note as you um progress towards the bottom, you also have to have access to AP courses or college credits. So um again, having that high expectation, but then you'll notice at the very bottom, the last thing that is highlighted where it says demonstrate skill development and communication, collaboration, and work ethic. These are those future ready dispositions that
020we often talk about. However, the state has delineated three that they want to make sure that students in the enrollment seal are able to master. For Concord, we're going to have more, but the minimum for the state are these three. So, you um adopted those 11, and we'll sprinkle those out through the K12 experience, but for the enrollment seal, they have to demonstrate um these three dispositions. So, I'm going to pause here in a second, but I want you to turn to the back of that page. And so what you see in front of you is a potential for your schedule. So if a student is taking the enrollment track, they don't necessarily, this is not, you know, their schedule set in stone, but it shows you um potentially what those classes will be. And
021I highlighted a few things that I wanted you to take note of. You'll notice at the top where it says elective um personal financial responsibility and computing foundations. Those are two new graduation requirements that are um the same for any student no matter what seal they have. So that's something new um that the states adopted. And then one thing I also wanted to point out to you towards the bottom is no longer is work-based learning um exclusive to 12th grade. Now it's the focus is getting students out for those real world experiences sooner so they can have access to that in 11th grade. All right, questions about the enrollment seal. [cough] [clears throat] So, one thing I would encourage you to do is between now and our next meeting, if you want to mark this
022up and ask additional questions, please do. Again, I'm just highlighting what I think are the most significant parts at this point. So, let's say it starts down this road and uh they get like a cumulative C average or whatever. So what what do we do at that point? Like I mean obviously I don't know that we would just give him the enlistment or appointment seal. What happens? So at that point we'd have the conversation. We still want them to graduate with the seal but we'd have to look at what are the other options that would play whe whether it be employment or enlistment. Any other questions about enrollments? All right, let's jump to employment. So, you notice at the top, the part that I've highlighted is um a differentiation between the enrollment and the employment.
023The employment seal is more so our um career and technical education pathways. So, we offer quite a bit um here at Concord, whether it be business, construction, advanced manufacturing, um what will soon be community um human and community service. So, a variety um of pathways that students can explore, but then also giving them access to the industry certifications that will get their foot in the door following graduation. So, again, it's not we stop at graduation, you have access to credentials of value that will support um you following graduation. So then when you go to the middle of the page and you look what I've highlighted for you, you'll notice that um there's different requirements whether it be that credential of value. When I say credential value, that can be um a technical certificate through IvyTech
024that leads you to a possible associate associates or a possible four-year degree. It can also be um some type of we have um the construction pathway for example has a credential value that's tied to it. So again that gets them that that tangible um credential that they can take with them when they enter into the workforce. You will notice what's different between this one and the enrollment seal is that um work-based learning is a requirement um as well as the communication collaboration and work ethic um future ready dispositions. And if you're um very good at paying attention to the details, you'll notice that there's an attendance goal tied with this [clears throat] um seal that is not tied to the enrollment seal. And then um one thing I wanted you to note when you turn
025the page to the back again, it's very similar when it comes to the enrollment seal and the sequence of courses including um access to work-based learning uh starting your junior year getting kids out in the field. Questions about this one? Let's say I start on this in this employment honors or you know whatever may is this the is there another employment one or is this the employ this is the employment okay um and you know I get about halfway through grade 10 and I say you know I I'm really good at you know these math things and I think I want to try for you know like a four-year degree or something. How easy is it to kind of maneuver my way into that that enrollment track? So, we'll set students up to be able
026to do that. I will say that if you want to go in that direction, we're going to have to hustle. It's not one of those things um where we we'd have to integrate some classes. There might be summer school that's required as a part of it, but it is possible. We would just need to make sure to make the use of our time effectively. So is there a point of no return somewhere or I I would say the point of no return return is closer to the end of the junior start of the senior year but again anything's possible. So so my guess going from employment honors to to enrollment what about the reverse? So going from enrollment to employment yes is that just as is that just as tricky? I will say one thing
027we would have to do is make sure you can fit in your CTE classes or your pathway classes would be the biggest hurdle because those are year-long courses and we want to make sure that students have time to finish those. And one thing we don't want to do is take away from the time that they would dedicate to work-based learning too. So we'd have to find a creative way to do that because that's the most essential part of this whole process. Okay. So if a student is like a C average student and they have like five absences a year, what happens? Unexcused. Yeah. I mean it's really a lot of kids into that category. Well, the one thing is the caveat is is that they have to they have to be unexcused. We'd want really
028want to preach, you know, um calling in those absences, but um knowing that you have a C average that really um hampers you with the enrollment seal. So, um, just but just in the other fields, there's no grade point average, but it says you have to have at least one year of school and no more than three unexcused, right? So, it's something we'd have to reiterate with kids. You've got to have your parents call you in. Yeah. So, is this is this basically the academic honors diploma? Is that So, the enrollment field mirrors that. I wouldn't say they're essentially the same, but they mirror one another. All right. And so the last seal then as we jump to enlistment, I know that we've talked about this with um the JROTC programming um that we're looking
029to bring, but I want to make sure that our community understands that this is a leadership course. You're not tied to enlist once you complete um your graduation requirements and it's also serviceoriented. You could go into law enforcement, anything in public service. It's not um limited um to military. And so, um, you'll notice then in the middle there though, we will have access, all students will have access to, um, JOTC programming, um, during their high school careers. And that fits every year except their freshman year into their schedules. And then when you look at the ASBA, that is, um, a requirement because um, the coursework they would be doing would been be preparing them to take that test. Then um you'll notice towards the bottom there that's highlighted again they have to do the commu
030the communication collaboration work ethic. They have to prove that they've mastered those skills and we'll be building systems for them to do that. But um what's unique about this is this will be verified through military personnel, veterans or other public safety professionals. So it wouldn't necessarily be in house. So we get to connect the students with um folks in our community. And then when you turn the paper over, um the biggest difference here is that you'll notice they'll take their um enlistment programming each year except their freshman year, but they too will have access to work-based learning. And while it's not highlighted in the junior year, again, this is just a suggested um course of study, there is the potential for them to be out in the workforce during that junior year. And then really
031quick, because I know I'm taking um a long time here, we did want to show you there's two handouts at the back. There's one for for performing arts and athletics. And the biggest thing that we want you to see here are these are the expectations for the enrollment seal. And that even if you're in performing arts, even if you're in athletics, you still have room if you turn to the back to fit in your music or your athletic weight. So no matter what type of student and what your interests are, you still have access to that programming. So one seal doesn't shut you out from that. So okay, a majority I don't even want to say majority, but a large number of kids that are going to be interested in JOTC are going to be
032kids that also want to go to a service academy. Is that a fair statement? Um my how would we address those kids when they come in their freshman year saying I want to go to West Point? Um are we planning to push them into the enlistment track or are we going to do what really needs to be done and make sure they're going into that enrollment track because that's what they need to be doing. If a kid truly if that's the angle they want to go, I would say that you need to do enrollment and enlistment. You can do more than one seal. Um, we'd have to make sure they're ready to buckle down and do that, but yes, we a West Point student, we would say you're doing both. Good point. All right. Any
033other questions over this portion? Are the [clears throat] are the requirements are those state driven or or ours or combination? They're the requirements are state driven. The expectation that you will leave with um a seal is Concord. So you do not have to graduate with a seal in the state of Indiana. That is an expectation that we're going to have for our students. So that's what's unique. [laughter] Secret Santa. No, I'm just kidding. That song stuck in my head though. I know you can dance. I know it man. So the other thing that we're we're asking for consideration on is students and parents will participate in college and career pathway planning meeting with a college and career advisor or school counselor. So this would be a required meeting that would be for all students. Um
034we had thought about the idea of like maybe eth 8th grade, nth grade and 10th grade um where they would sit down and be part of our CCL experience. So over there on the far right um we talk about discovery, exploration and navigation because parents are the number one influence on on a students um behavior, their choices, all those things when it comes to education. And so we want to make sure that we include them in because people who are outside of the building, they don't understand all all the questions and all the choices that students have at their hand and what they have to the decisions they have to make. And so these meetings will allow us to fill the gaps of missing information to help the student make the best choice um for
035them and for their future and so the parent understands what decisions that they're making. Um and then we'll have to have some flexibility with that because not everybody can meet during the school day. And so part of this plan we would be finding um all of our people that be able to help us with this initiative. And so maybe bring in some teachers, some other people in the district to meet after school with parents who can't meet during the school day. There be a virtual option. Yeah. And I think uh virtual or phone call, those are all things that um could be discussed. Um I mean it's no different than some of our IEP meetings. We have those over the phones or we have those virtual. But I think just getting in front of um
036our families to explain, you know, what happens here at at Concord High School and what decisions students are making. Um we feel that's the best way for a student to be successful. So, are these one-on-one meetings or is it like a mass like a mass meeting like we It would be one-on-one. So like you would bring you bring your student in and they would meet with a adviser or a school counselor to talk about um their schedule, what are their goals. So like you know you would have a meeting in eighth grade and you know someone says I want to go to West Point, they meet with the adviser, here's what you got to do to make that happen. And then they go again ninth grade I want to go to West Point. Okay, here's
037what we got to do to make that happen. They meet again 10th grade. I don't want to go to West Point. Here are your options. Right? instead of just having a student because right now the student meets with the school counselor and sometimes the parents aren't aware of the decisions that are made or they don't understand them. Um and so we're trying to fill that gap. Um especially with all the flexibility this new diploma requirement gives us will be because we're talking about what 400 kids per grade. Do we have enough counseling stuff to get those done in a timely manner? We're we're looking at adding some college and career advisors. Um, and I think that depending on like the roles that we give, there'll be some things taken off the plates of advisors that
038are typically on school counselors to allow them for more time. Um, and as we as we look at looking at all of our people um for meeting families outside of school, um, I think we get the job done. When's the goal to have this roll out? This would be starting for next year. Starting next year. Yep. For our sophomores and freshmen cuz that's the the freshman class right now is what the new diploma um is required. Okay. All righty. Good evening everyone. I'm going to present to you four points tonight about an update and what we're thinking and we would like you to consider and then ask questions about that all deal with our portrait of a graduate. So the first one is as you know the portrait of a graduate dispositions were updated with
039the skills for the future and that there are 11 of them. We're not going to start with all 11 however we're going to focus on the three that the state is really focusing on at the high school level. They are collaboration and communication. The third one from the state, as you've heard, is work ethic, but we're going to be using the concept of perseverance and tying it in with the state's requirements for work ethic at the same time. So, those are the three specific ones that we're going to focus on. As we're focusing on them, we know that academics are very important and so are future ready skills. That is what each kid needs in order to be able to be successful with whatever it is they want to be successful with after high school.
040So we are not going to just stick to the high school but move on down through grade bands. So like 9 through 12, 5 through eight for a middle school and a K through 4 to some degree. This is already happening K through four through the school counselors. So this is kind of a 5 through 12 initiative right now. And we're going to do this slowly over time in chunks so that it is meaningful to the student and the staff because our overall goal is to integrate this into the curriculum and the classroom expectations. And so as we are moving in that direction, we are wondering how this works best for Concord. So we have several pilots that we're going to be working through second semester. That way we can figure out different ways to
041approach it, different ways to utilize it in the classroom, but also communicate that home to the parent. So if I'm a fifth or sixth grade parent and I find out that this is where my student is has strengths in and interest in, what does that tell me about my child? but also then how can I help support them as they go to middle school and they're starting to pick classes or they're starting to talk about career clusters and then how does that help me support my student as they're going through high school and picking their classes their seal and so on. So it's an overall view of the portrait of a graduate being future ready and full of academic mastery at the same time. As we're going through those pilots, we're really going to gather
042feedback and figure out what are the best systems and how to track it. So, the state is going to ask us to track communication, collaboration, and work ethic, but we know that there will be 11 total. And we want a system to be seamless. We don't want just a whole bunch of different software pieces everyone logs into. So, we want it to be seamless. We want it to be meaningful to the student. We don't want it to be cumbersome to the teacher. And we also want it to be able to communicate back to the student and the parent. So we have a bunch of different things that we'll be looking at next semester in a variety of classrooms in order to figure out the best way to facilitate that. So as we are working to
043align those systems and track them, the next steps are up there. In case you're wondering about this, we're going to be looking at a portfolio or capstone process. So what that means is some schools around uh the nation which we've learned through the Carnegie is they'll have students upload things throughout their time. So what it looks like in K through 4 would be different 9 through 12 and you can see progression and growth over time. Another thing is to do a capstone or some form of a presentation or a project at the end where you are having to verbalize and communicate how you have seen your growth over time. So you're you're thinking about your thinking and you're thinking about your growth. And then not only were we looking at that, but we were looking
044at um especially at the secondary level as we are working the dispositions into the units that are created. What's the best way to do that? So for example, social studies is a perfect one to work in. maybe collaboration on projects or civic engagement or use of digital literacy to show that you've actually researched well and you've you've looked through everything. So, how does that look? But asking the teachers for their input so it's meaningful and in their curriculum that was a whole lot questions. Okay. All right. So can you do the thing? Thank you. So as we wrap up here, um just again circling back to these three expectations that are unique to Concord graduates and that's what we would like you to consider. So the um requirement of the seal attainment um the mandatory
045parent and student meeting um to go over the academic planning and then also mastery of the portrait of a graduate dispositions and um knowing what comes with that is the expectation of a portfolio or some type of capstone project as we build that system. I want to say that this is um I can say probably with certainty um that this is unique to Concord. I don't know of um other schools they might require the seals, but the combination of the three together are certainly unique to our district. And so um yeah, exciting for our children. Yeah. What questions do you have as we wrap up? It's a lot. I got nothing. I You got them all. [snorts] Well, like I said, we'll be back in December to ask um for your formal consideration. If you
046have questions before them or if you want an independent tutoring session over all of this material, just call me. Okay. Questions, special education. Yes. I did want to share um when it comes to this, we have locally created pathways that will support student attainment, especially um when it comes to the um yeah, the different seals. I do want to share with you similar to what we do with students that need to go from maybe a core 40 diploma like we have now to a general diploma. We have like a parent meeting. We sit down. I Jenna or um Joel could attest to this, but if a student truly isn't able to meet that mark, we will have systems to um make sure they cross the finish line. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, next
047up 5.1 facility construction update. Aaron. Hi. Hi. I'm Aaron Holy, director of operations with Whiteand Construction. I'm here today to give everyone an update on the work we've had the the privilege of doing at uh two of your elementary schools and over at Wakefield. Um so I figured a picture is worth [laughter] thousand words. So, we'll run through some pictures. I'll just give some quick updates. So, we'll start with Southside Elementary. So, at Southside Elementary, we took on uh 10 classrooms, the offices, um the gymnasium, uh all of the bathrooms, a whole lot of work. Parking lot, uh parking lot, complete parking lot, uh site overhaul, uh and playground. So, what you're looking at here, um, with Southside, I gave some some before and some afters to give you a flavor for what they looked
048like before. But in the office area, we did open up some walls, open up the space a lot, and allowed for some secure access and good circulation. Am I in control? That was easy. Okay, another picture of the office. Again, just giving you a flavor. So, I'll apologize. These, as you can see, are being lived in and actively used uh when we took them, which is a good thing. So, you can see the mail room. Um, and then you have a hallway where there's the the countertop space for for students. Okay. Uh, so this would be an area A bathroom when you first walk into Southside. be on your lefthand side and you can get a flavor for what it used to look like and then the new very different um a lot of big
049upgrades there. Ceiling, lighting, flooring, [clears throat] all the above. ADA compliance. It's nice. Yeah. [clears throat] So, there's Jeff telling us how much he didn't want us to get rid of that beautiful tile and the step above the or below the urinal. Um so, this is the area B restroom. So, you walk through the doors, go straight down the hallway on your lefthand side. um that uh area B restroom is a little bit more confined. So what I uh showed was a picture of the new area C restrooms. So these would have been the old bathrooms and what would have been a locker room off of that gym. Um so a very nice usable space classroom. This would be a typical classroom space over at Southside and a new classroom. So we have new case
050work on maybe two or three maybe all the elevations. So um the architect designed kind of a mix of if the case work was in really good condition to use you know good economy of scale of saving some money um some of the casework was saved in a lot of cases a lot of casework was uh replaced new uh heating and cooling units that are ducted now to give good circulation throughout the space. So you can see through the the center of the ceiling there, there's a drywall bulkhead and that has that's encasing a duct with um with grills throwing air throughout the room. Flooring furniture, all the above. So gym before and after, new bleachers, opened up the ceiling, new lighting, um gym floor redone, new basketball hoops, pretty much you name it, it
051got touched. fresh paint, acoustical uh padding, and then some pictures of the site work. So, brand new playground. It got relocated down around to the south side of the Dolan basketball courts, new sight f uh fencing, lot of sight concrete. So, phasing. So at Southside um took some notes just highle numbers. So at Southside we have completed 41% of the total square foot of that building has been touched thus far. So by the time we're done we'll get through 100% every bit of that building will get touched. Um the the completion date is March of 2027. Um the phasing, the way we're taking on the phasing and to give you some flavor for what we've hit. So everything in red is what we took on this summer along with the green the offices. And then
052uh what we're taking on is roughly four classrooms at a time now. So while the building's being used, four classrooms at a time, rinse and repeat. So that's roughly a six week cycle on those classrooms that we're going in and doing those. Um, but it's a total of just about 32,000 square feet that we've renovated so far. Jump into Oxbow. So, again, Oxbow, secure entry, vestibule. Um, you can see kind of the main corridor thoroughfare there looking back at the main entry. Um, lighting, ceilings, paint. Um, freshened everything up. So this would be the office space case work again complete gut and renovation of the front office area. Private restroom very nice spacious uh um office there with some conference space. ADA compliant sink all the things again with the gymnasium. very similar scope to
053what we went over with Southside. Pretty much a complete overhaul. Opened up the ceiling, new lighting, fresh floor, bleachers, uh, basketball hoops, very different feel in there. And then you'll see on the left hand side would be the art room. Um, so new deep sinks, um, typical classroom spaces. So, uh, the picture on the right would be ex a good example of some case work that again to make good use of the money and the dollars. Case work was in fantastic condition. So, that case work remained as existing. In a lot of cases, we may replace flooring, new unit vents, ceiling, lighting, everything gets freshened up, paint, whiteboards, tack boards. Okay. Oxbow. So on Oxbow we have it's virtually just about the same 31,000 square foot we've done this far in Oxbow. Um our completion
054date on construction is scheduled for August of 2026. So we'll get through next summer and that's the plan to have all the work done over at Oxbow. You may well know that Southside has more scope there with big addition for cafeteria and that's the reason for the for the duration on that one. And then this phasing is very similar. We're taking on four classrooms at a time um while schools in session. We're avoiding avoiding the testing periods to allow for good testing and quiet time things like that. All right, Jake Field. So Jake Field, I did not embed any videos into this. I'm operating under the premise most of you have probably seen some of those videos. If you haven't, there's some really good drone videos that we've done. Uh you can find it on
055YouTube. You can just YouTube WAN Concord Jake Field and you'll probably see all kinds of videos that we published on that. Um some really good hype videos too, I think. Um but the turf is complete as of today. The turf is done. Um the track installations roughly 50%. Um the buildings are well underway. The buildings I'll just move through my my pictures here. That will help. Um so some [clears throat] of the site elements, uh fieldgo posts, lighting, um we've got the rock out there, the traditional rock fully intact. Um and then bleachers. So, the grandstand bleachers are going up actively. Um, they have probably another couple of weeks before they wrap those up. They'll look to move to the press box, setting the press box, and then they'll move over to the visitor bleachers.
056I like this before and after. So yeah, what used to be uh at the north end of the of the park and what is now going up at the north end, the concession building. In the concession building, we're currently doing plumbing roughins. There's still some block walls that are going up. Um [clears throat] yeah, inside picture you can see. So that would be a chase wall inside of a set of uh men's and women's toilet rooms or bathrooms. Um, and so you can see the get a flavor for the status on the inside of that building. And then here's a picture of the team building at the south end. So the steel framework you see here is for scoreboard. Uh, and then on the interior of the teams building, I would say that schedule is
057probably roughly say six weeks ahead of the concession building. So that that building we're well underway with putting finishes in. I actually the the picture I decided to share was actually a little bit further back than some of the new stuff, but I thought you could see the floor kind of finished out would be nice. But since then, we've got finished paint on the ceiling and a green stripe on the wall and it's it's come together. And that's all I had for photos for um construction. And we are just about 50% 58% complete on the Jake Field project is where we're at. And the completion date we are um looking to be complete end of May of 2026. And I'm convinced that our construction is the good luck term we needed. Maybe maybe we'd be
058going to play twice. under the dome. Are there any questions? Do you like how nice and centered that Minute Man logo looks? So, uh, we asked Aaron here mainly so you could ask questions. If you have any questions, we will, um, we'll take tours of the different areas, especially as weather allows. We were at Oxbow, you know, a week ago. We'll be at Southside before too long. Um, plan to have ribbon cutings on the major projects um, as well as all part of that. But um he's also here to answer any questions you might have about scheduling, timeline, anything like that. Did you talk about the scoreboard? When's the scoreboard going in? I tried to get an update on that right before I came. We've been we've been uh dogging that vendor trying to get
059a date commitment out of them. Um, so it will likely be right now they're thinking January, but what I know I know the football team can't practice on March yet. [clears throat] It's an active construction zone or whatever. How does that work March for track and I know that we're going to want to throw and stuff out on the those those areas, whatnot. Is that still not going to be anything until the end of May or is that Unfortunately, no. Yeah. So, and that was the plan, but construction unfortunately won't be done on that track. We're limited with some um temperature requirements, restraints, more I guess more so like what I was told is football can't be on the field because just the entire area is a construction zone. And so, as far as like
060throwers want to go throw shot and disc, are they going to be able to do that even though the track's not done or is that Oh, you know what I mean? Yeah. If there's areas that we can certainly make safe in terms of environment, you know, and there's no impact on a warranty for the school, you you bet we'll we'll open those up and make them available, you know, and we've communicated some of that. Um, as as everyone sees fit and feels good about. Um, so yeah, that that would be plan. And in fact, I didn't talk about but that, but some of that concrete's going down on those field events and things like that already. So good. All right. I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah. [clears throat] Okay. Next up, financial reports. Courtney, good
061evening, board. I'm here to present our financials. Um, everything cash balances are looking where we would expect them to be. Note that our October education fund balance is a little bit lower. was a three-pay month in October. Um, and we also shorted up the curricular materials. So, taking some of that money out of the education funding from July on and moving it back in over to the curricular materials fund. [clears throat] You just keep making it easy on her. Come on. Fire questions. I was just going to let it go and he's the one that's going to say yes. Uh we are going to we are going to spend some of that food service money on the kitchens at um Oxbow and Southside coming up here. So I think we said about $900,000 of that
062is is per construction. So yeah, which will also save us some construction costs that we hadn't anticipated. So thanks to food service. Motion to approve. Second motion by Mrs. Towner, second by Mr. Couns. Any more questions for court. Thank you. All those in favor of the motion say I. I. Same. Okay. Okay. Next up, we're talking about Medicaid billing. Yes, Medicaid billing. Absolutely. So, I'd like the board to um consider tonight a contract with Relay. Relay is a company that can provide us access to Medicaid reimbursement in a way that we haven't had before. It's a company we haven't worked with previously. What they tout is the ability to correct any mistakes prior to us having to submit uh reimbursement, which allows us to change mistakes that might occur ahead of that happening and then
063ensures that billing will occur the way we want it to. We're also looking at expanding how we would reimburse for Medicaid into other areas like transportation as well as nursing services and relay will help us do that. Motion to approve. Motion by Mr. Mo, second [snorts] by Mr. Curts. Any more questions for Joel? Okay. All those in favor of the motion say I. I. I. Post the same. Thank you. Okay. Handbooks. Good evening board. Here tonight for your consideration of six handbooks. The certified adjunk classified professional administrative and transportation handbooks and their associated um salary schedules. happy to answer any questions you may have. Motion approved. I second by Mrs. Lily, second by Mrs. Tanner. Question for Miss Beer. Spent a lot of time with handbooks, haven't you, lately? It's been fun. Have they all
064been touched at this point? They've all been touched again. Fantastic. It's only coming against all those in favor of the motion say I. I close the same. Okay. Okay. Now Julie's going to talk to us about Qualric. Yes. So for almost three years we've been um successfully implementing this Qualric platform not to toot our own horns, but we're pretty good at it and we've been recognized at the national conference. So that's exciting. Um, it's also been really, really powerful for us just in the data that we're able to obtain from statch surveys. We're finding different ways to embed it in our daily work. Um, we are asking you tonight to consider a three-year renewal of the Qualrix platform. We're actually bringing this to you just a little bit early because they are about to change
065their pricing structures and we wanted to lock in at a lower rate rather than wait out the rest of our contract. um that also buys us some new cool AI things that we can do and we're um hopeful that will make our work even quicker in the platform. So what you're seeing there is a new contract that will match our current costs for the first year and then will increase um for years two and three. Motion to approve second move second by Mr. Kim. So is this is this amount for the renewal in years two and three is that the is the percentage increase what you expected? That's what we expected. We heard it could be a little bit higher, but again that's why we're doing it now and not waiting until we have to
066renew. Any other questions about the qual? Okay. All those in favor of the motion say I post the same. Okay. Okay. How do you say that? Do you say CESA? CISA 6. CISA. Okay. CISA 6. CISA. This next one is for a contract with CISA 6, a third party provider that is supporting the back end of the platform. So, we are building our own surveys, our own dashboards, doing all of that work inhouse. Um, we do have a partnership with um Josh Borzik and his team, and he really just helps clean up the mess. Occasionally at this point we'll call him with questions when something doesn't work like it should. Um but you can see when we started we were using him for 45 hours. The second year we were doing a ton of building.
067We used about 70 hours. This time we're asking for 10. Um and we feel confident that's going to support our needs on the back end and we've got a great team here supporting the rest. Is that because a lot of the heavy lifting is pretty much done. It's because we're awesome and the heavy lifting is underway. Yes. Motion approve. I'll second. Motion by Mr. Mali, second by Mrs. Towner. More questions for Julie. All those in favor of the motion say I. Hi. Those the same. Okay. Thank [clears throat] you. Thank you. It's like the Dr. Lisa show. Okay. So, I'm here uh Lee apologizes that she was unable to be here tonight, but I'm asking um for your consideration on the routing efficiency proposal. Um unlike last year, um quite a bit of districts are
068seeking um bus rider routing companies services and so now they are um requiring um us to pay for those services when it comes to evaluating our routing efficiency. So, um seeking your approval on that. I will say that um we have put an expectation of a tight turnaround time as far as um them evaluating those um seeing that we're paying for it. But um I do think this is also um key because um soon the bypass is going to open and really excited how that also will improve our timeliness with our routing. So asking for your consideration. Second motion by Mr. K, second by Mr. Mali. So what kind of turn around T? So they said 7 to 10 days. Oh, I think that's very ambitious, but okay, we'll push. So one of the things
069they look at um deals with you know the number of tiers bell times is that action that will come to us if they make Yeah. So yes so they would put it on paper and then we'd bring it to you guys on what their suggestions are. Any questions? Okay. All those in favor of the motion say I. I post the same. Okay, thank you. Okay, CCS and Head Start. What? I was going to say, is that a fan or is that rain? I think it's a fan. Okay, great. Um, [laughter] yeah, so um the federal government requires that every year um Concord and Head Start um agree to anou. I'd say not uh nothing's really changing with theou. One one difference I will say about Head Start this year is in the past um it's
070really lack supervision. Um they have had a hard time finding supervisors to supervise the preschools. Um and this year we uh proposed to them as a reminder to you that Aaron Kennedy our preschool um director um also serve as supervisor for the head start room. So that helps with alignment. It just helps with a lot of things and so I'd say that's going well. Um so then Head Start is paying for half right Mr. M is paying for half of her salary um uh since she's doing that for them and it really is just a benefit to us. So that's really the only change to Head Start programming uh this year is that Aeron's doing that. Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Mrs. Tower. Second by Mr. Coats. Any questions or comments? Okay. All right.
071Um I same. Okay. Go ahead. Jump to the next item. Um I know we have fall awards um banquet at the high or uh program at the high school here 6:30. So I won't review everything. There's events listed uh on the superintendent report um there. So there's a lot going on in the next um month or so. Carla put that in there for us. So, thank you to Carla. Um, want to reiterate uh what was presented tonight and that is that um even though the state of Indiana uh is proposing new state guidelines for uh high school graduation, you as a board have to adopt local um requirements for graduation. And so, um, the presentation that was made for you tonight and that we'll ask you to consider in December is that you're you're setting
072the graduation requirements for the kids in this district. Um, we think we're proposing um rigorous expectations for our students because we think it's our job to get them off to a good, you know, get them off on the right foot. We think that a lot of things are random acts. Um what the seals do, what I think we all like about the seals the most is that it aligns those random acts into something meaningful and credentials uh for our students. Um we think that um if we provide the support and set high expect high expectations for kids that they can meet them. That support's going to come in, you know, in a lot of different ways, but advising, which is what Kendra talked about tonight, we've got to get with our students and and our
073parents early. um so that people clearly know the expectations. Um but we we didn't want to start these new diploma requirements setting a low bar. We wanted to um propose something that we think is rigorous to you which is that students earn a seal um that the the family participates in meetings with adviserss because this can't happen without a partnership uh with our families um and that our kids show some mastery of these college and career readiness skills. we call them portrait of a graduate, dispositions, whatever you call it. These are things that our kids are going to need to be successful and we want us we want them to show us somehow um that you know being developed but that that they've done that. So um it's a big task. I would encourage you
074to reach out to Lisa, Kendra, Jeff um with any questions you have about uh any of the material or anything that um we'll come back in December and ask you to consider. So that's it. Congratulations to uh football and everything that's going well. Um tons of great things happening here. Um very thankful around Thanksgiving. So I just saw a couple more questions now. I'm going to email Lisa. So couple things you said. So thank you. Okay. Turn from the board. My chatty board. Okay. I kind I'm really sorry I missed the football games. Sounds like I missed a really experience. Watch it online. Watch it. That's true. Yeah. My husband [clears throat] was kind of showing me what I missed online. I'm like, "Oh, okay." Anyway, we'll say we've become very superstitious. All of us
075uh watching uh like if anybody moved or was not in the correct spot, uh we attributed any success or failure to to that. So, um, wear the same clothes, same socks, same undergarments that you wore on Friday. I wasn't there. [laughter] I don't know. Spirit. Okay. Okay. So, do you want to go over quickly go over upcoming board meetings? Yeah. Next, uh, we have an exact session, um, on the 15th to evaluate the superintendent. Um, that's at 4, regular meeting at 5. Um we do and it's it's I think it was in the previous item there. We do have a gathering for uh employees, free coffee and treats and things happening in December um as well. So anybody else have anything else? Okay. Thank you everyone for coming. Meeting adjourned at 6:05. [clears throat] There
076we go. Back here.