001Please rise and join me a moment. A moment of silence. Oh, that's fantastic. Okay, you can get us started. I aliance 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. Thank you so much. Call a roll. I'm present. Dr. O'Neal is out of town tonight. Uh Mr. Heater, present. Dr. Washford, present. Mr. Irvin, present. Mr. Low, present. I know. I was just waiting. I was trying to let her get seated. I'm sorry. I was trying to time that. Mrs. Barnes Griffin present. So, I was trying to just time it up perfectly. Um, thank you. We are on to Mr. Shroyer. East Washington Academy. Welcome. Thank you. I am joined tonight by our star assistant principal Tory
002Hernandez. So, we will be jointly presenting just some fun things about East Washington Academy, some of the progress we've made over the past two years. We're proud. We are proud. Wildcats and we're proud to present just a little bit about our school this evening. So, thanks for having us. So, here's our goals for this school year. Uh we have everything from I learn to I read up here. Behavior attendance u school goals. We're working towards every single one of those. Uh behavior in particular is looking great so far this school year. We'll share a little bit about that. I read three 70% of students pass I read three. We we saw a big growth last year. This year we sustained that growth, but we wanted to get over that 70% mark. We fell just a
003few students shy of that. That's okay because we have an excellent intervention plan drawn up by our teachers, master teacher, Mrs. Hernandez here and myself. Um, attendance right now's low around 92 and a half% so far this school year. That's 2% higher than we were this time last year. And um, yeah, we'll continue on. Mrs. Hernandez. So the graphic that you see up here right now is the number of reoccurring offenses per from last year to this year. So something that we're super proud of as a behavior team and as the support staff team is we've kind of stabilized. So we're seeing kind of the same amount of occurrences throughout as the weeks pass. Um a lot of this has to do with we have a phenomenal behavior coach in our building. Um Mr. Collins
004is phenomenal with our students and he's very proactive rather than reactive. And um Mr. Shroyer and myself, we are constantly in the hallways. I don't know that you'll ever find us in our offices. Um so students when they do try to, you know, slide out of the room or get on the go, they instantly see Mr. Shroyer in one hallway or myself in another and then we flip-flop and switch and then they're like, "Wait, you're not Mr. Shyer." So, um I just think it's a huge testament to our support team. We have a phenomenal support team at EWA and I am super proud to work alongside them. Yeah, I mean you the blue is last year and it's lower than it was the year before. Orange is this year obviously stabilizing. These are just overall
005incidents. So, the fewer kids are outside of class, the more they're going to learn. That's the bottom line. We want them in class learning. We don't want them at home out on suspension. We don't want them in the office hanging around just writing reflective essays all day long. We want them in the classroom. This reflects that our kids are in class uh and maximizing that time. So, also kudos to our teachers as well. I mean, a lot of this starts with the preparation in and how great a lesson is. So, this graphic shows the number of absences. So, from year to year, so we're at the dark blue right now. So um as the years are coming by, we have less absences from students which is also a very huge testament to our teachers. Our
006teachers really make our kids want to come to school. Um when kids are sick, we have to like beg them to stay home because they want to be in class because we just have we have some really um fantastic teachers. And if you go to the next slide, um we've put several attendance incentives in place. So, um, Miss Boltz, our school counselor, and myself and Mr. Harris, we, um, have been raffling off prizes at the end of each month. These are actually all from the month of the end of February, none of these kids have missed one day of school this year. So, they've all been at school every single day. And then because we know March, April, and May are kind of those months where everybody starts kind of slacking out of the school
007zone, um we are raffling off bikes at the end of each month. So we've pushed that out to the parents and to the families and letting them know that if your kid can maintain perfect attendance, then there are incentives along the way that we will give them just for being at school. Um, we also have one of our spare rooms on the end of our building is turned into kind of an incentive room. There are there's coloring activities, there's art, there's games, there's board games, there's pop shot, basketball. Um, so that is also being used as an incentive for some of our high-f flyers for attendance because some students can't even maintain a fiveday week. So just saying like, hey, if you can make it Monday through Friday this week, you can take, you know,
008a shot in that room and that's being ran by our support staff. So just getting these kids to want to come to school and give them reasons to come. Yeah, he had uh Mr. Boltz gave us a great piece of data that um in the district EWA is highest in student retention. So once a student comes to EWA, they tend to stay. Um that's for the that's a trend for the past two years. It's wonderful. All right. So this year I mean literacy efforts across the board is obviously our priority. We want to improve literacy rates in our school both in i readad 3 and ilearn and those early literacy assessments to kindergarten through 2 grade and also of course in our pre-k realm. So what are we doing to ensure that we're improving literacy?
009Some of the things just some of this is not an exhaustive list. we'd be here all night. But total participation techniques, that's something our teachers are doing in in droves this year. I mean, our master teacher, Angie Butler, is doing a great job rolling that out. It's basically just a way to get keep students engaged during our our reading blocks. One thing that CKLA, our new curriculum, that can be challenging sometimes is that you're you're talking a little too much as a teacher. You're reading a lot. A lot of the passages they have you to read are long. And we know that the one who's doing all the talking is doing all the learning. So we want to make sure we reverse that. So we have seen a a huge increase. And I think that
010also affects the way our behavior has improved as well because more students are engaged less likely they are to behave in an inappropriate manner. Um I mean learning walks, data discussions, teacherled professional development during two-hour early release. I mean we have experts in our building. So, just like this last two-hour early release, we set up a b we had a miniature summit, EWA learning summit in our building. We had different classes for teachers to go to and our our teachers in our building presented to their their peers and that's a great learning opportunity. I and I will just say I think we have the best staff around. They're they're phenomenal. I read three intervention plan. I mentioned earlier that we fell just a few students short of our I read three growth goal this year.
011So, our intervention plan is extensive. We're going to be triple dipping those students into three different reading cohorts a day to get them through the finish line and passing I read three. Um, where did you end up at the end of last year on I read three? Uh, 78%. At the very after the second administration. Okay. So, and your goal for the first administration was 70. Is that Yes. Yeah. So, what's your goal for the second? I And I actually we have three potentially three administrations this year. Yeah. 75. That that was our goal. So, and we that that goal is based off of we use Dr. Cassid's prediction from Ball State based off of the I Ready scores. He he and his team of researchers put together a pretty close correlative study that shows
012students do well on this test and they will do this well on this other test. So, that 75% kind of came from that. I'm like wrong. Yeah. Yeah. Totally understand. I think uh with actually just boiling down the math, the students that we have that we know we're going to get over the finish line by May will be over 75%. We'll be up upper 78%. Okay. So, numerically, that's how the math will add up. So, we're excited for that. So, this has been a big thing for us this year and last year, just improving our community outreach. you know, Scholastic came in and they provided some feedback for us at the end of the school year last year, um, and just said, "Here are some things that you can do, very specific things to improve
013the way that you connect with your community." Um, I mean, there's a lot of things that we've done this year. One of the things is when we brought back family prom, which is our first time doing it last year. It was a huge event, very successful. We just know that the more families are in our school, the more families and our school are connected, the better kids will perform, better attendance will be. Um, we started a YouTube channel this year. So, for those weekly principles announcements, it's usually me delivering a quick YouTube short, which I think is effective because people don't want to listen to a 5-minute message at this point. They want 40 seconds, 50 seconds in and out. What information do I need to know? And, uh, that's how we deliver weekly announcements
014most of the time. And, and Mrs. Hernandez does an awesome newsletter as well. So, uh, Veterans Day programming, uh, Tori, what else? We We've Awards programs, house nights. Um, I mean, the whole gamut. Families are constantly in our buildings. We're very, we try to welcome them in. Um, and not just for to bring them in for the fun things, but also bringing them in to help us to bridge that I'm a firm believer of bridging that gap between the school and the home life. Um, and letting parents know we're not scary and if you had a bad experience as a parent, we want to make it a fun experience for you and your child. So, just getting them on board to help us out because it takes a village to get our students to succeed.
015What's the house? Great question. So, our our school has four houses. House courage, house compassion, house integrity, and house perseverance. So, the students are are broken up into these different core values that we have. And all throughout the school year, we have house meetings where we teach intentionally those character, those core values. We do fun activities. And every quarter, we have a big reward. So on Friday, we'll have the glow party, which DJ Chris is coming back. Um we have the lights down low in the gym and have glow-in-the-darks fun stuff. And those are for students that demonstrated compassion throughout quarter 3. They earn points which go on a spreadsheet. Then they earn this reward as a house. Um, at the end of the school year, we have a house night which we invite families
016and parents to to celebrate and we hand out awards for per each house that evening. So, a lot of fun. Yeah. Thank you. Student involvement. Uh, I made an obnoxiously long list so that you could see and this isn't even exhaustive, but our teachers really step up. The these are the clubs, the activities, the extra things that students can do. I'm a firm believer and the research backs up that if kids are involved in extracurricular activities within the school environment, they will they will perform better. They will be their attendance will be better. They have an investment. They have a buyin other than just coming to school and just knowing that you're going to be seated and working. I mean, they have things to look forward to. Cheerleading, boys and girls basketball. We'll hear from
017the girls here in just a minute. Academic bowls that compete with other schools around the county and around the state. um student council, uh school news, the word on Washington that Mrs. Bilby started this year, a Lego club. I mean, the list goes on and on and on. And and just this week, we had I had two more ideas for extracurriculars pitched by teachers. And I will just say that they're uh they do this willingly. They're not coming to me saying, "Can I get a stipen for this or that?" They want to put these clubs on for the kids because they're passionate about what they do. So, anything else to add for this? just that Miss Savannah Wilus, she's our family navigator. She's phenomenal and um at their last city connects meeting. Yeah, City Connects
018meeting. Um she received an award because of how many programs and activities and extracurriculars we have at EWA to offer to our students. So, I think that's a huge testament to her. She is constantly contacting parents and saying, "What is your kid interested in? What can we get them involved in?" I mean, there's not a day that goes by that she doesn't come by me in the hallway and say, "Hey, I got so and so in second grade into an activity. What else do you like?" She's just constantly making sure kids are getting into something or getting Is Miss Wilas here tonight? She is not. Not that I know of. A lot of other people are though. All right. And here are just some more fun pictures. You have the dance club who performs. You
019know, we take that path to purple thing seriously. So we our dance club which started up we they perform at the halftime show at a football game at Central High and then they performed at a basketball game for one of the boys teams here recently. So I mean it's it's been wonderful to see just these organic natural passionate projects spring up in our school and for kids to really be invested. It's not just the fourth and fifth graders. It's it's clubs from I think second grade is probably the youngest. Second and third grade getting involved too. So, it's it's been wonderful. All right, for the main attraction, we have uh the girls basketball team. I wanted to invite them here tonight. Uh we did this last year, but I figured these girls haven't lost a
020game in two years. Let's do it one more time. Okay, so I want to invite our girls basketball team to come on up here with me and Mrs. Hernandez. Come on up, ladies. Come on up here, ladies. Come on up here. They might ask you a question or two, and that's totally fine. But what I wanted to say real quick while while they're up here is this this team and coach Harris, they really these girls exemplified our school character, values. And um I just loved on the announcements we shout out their integrity on and off the court. They're always good sportsmen. uh they were competitive and fierce, but they but they did it with with class and integrity. So, I just wanted to shout that out for you guys. And I have some certificates for
021you. Mrs. Fernandez does as well. Um so, ladies, congratulations. Thank you for all your hard work and always representing East Washington Academy with excellence in class. I'll get out of the way now. Do you have any questions or anything? Ladies, why don't you introduce yourselves to us? First, somebody has to go first. Jeriah. Jeriah, what position do you play? Guard. Forward. Center. Guard. Do you like to shoot the ball? Yes. Did you score this year? Yes. A lot of points kind of. Well, are what what grade are you? Fourth. Fourth. So, you've got another year, right? Well, that's fantastic. Do you do anything else besides basketball? Uh, volleyball. Volleyball. What's your favorite subject in school? Um, math. Math. That's fantastic. Thank you for coming tonight. You're welcome. Who's next? Scarlet. Scarlet, how are you? Good.
022What position do you play? Point guard. Point guard. So, you dribble a lot? Yeah. Do you dribble off your feet the way I used to? I don't think so. That's a good thing. Yeah. Um, do you shoot the ball a lot? Yeah. Oh, yep. Yep. And you score some? Good. What's your favorite subject? Reading. Reading. Fantastic. What do you do besides uh basketball for extracurriculars? Anything else? Well, volleyball and dance. Volleyball and dance. So, you're really busy, aren't you? Well, we're What? And are you fourth grade, too? Fifth grade. Fifth grade. So, you'll be at the middle school next year at North Side. Well, we'll look forward to seeing you over there playing basketball. Okay. Arya. Arya. And what position do you play? Guard. Guard. And so do you guys fight to who gets who
023gets the ball the most? All you guards. Yeah. What grade are you in? Fifth. So are you going to play at North Side? Yeah. Okay. What's your favorite subject? Math. Math. Okay, great. What do you do besides basketball? I don't know. That's okay. You play volleyball? No. You run track? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And who's next? Cameron. Hi, Cameron. What position do you play? Guard. Guard. Do we have a center or forward on this team? Okay. Grabbing rebounds. And do you did you score this year some? Yeah. And are you in fifth grade? You looking forward to playing at North Side? Yeah. What's your favorite subject? Math. Math. Very proud of you guys and your math. Uh who's next? Mra, how are you this evening? Good. What position do you play? Guard. Guard. Oh, we start
024five guards. Yeah. Hey, you're efficient that way. Uh, quick. And what grade are you in? Fifth. Fifth. Are you going to play at North Side? Yes. Okay. What's your favorite subject? Math. Math. Fantastic. Um, and what do you do besides basketball? I just signed up for track. Great. Fantastic. Love track. Who's next? Ellie. Hi Ellie. What do you What position do you play? Guard. Guard. Um, what's your favorite subject? Uh, also math. Also math. I love it. That's fantastic. Dr. Washburn's a math and science person. Great. And what do you do besides basketball? Um, I do theater outside of school. Wow. Have you acted in some plays? Uh, yeah. I'm on my 12th right now. On your 12th play, what are you in? Um, I'm in Frozen Junior at Muny Civic Theater. Frozen Junior. So,
025when does that come out? I completely forget. Okay. The beginning of May. Well, that's fantastic. So, you're really busy, too. And are you fifth grade? I'm fourth. Fourth. So, back at EWA next year to keep the tradition going, right? Okay. Who's next? I'm Molly. Emily, how are you? Molly. Molly. I'm old and I can't hear. Um, what position do you play? [Music] Um, guard. You guys press. Uh, what grade are you in? Fifth. Fifth grade. So, will you play at North Side? Uh, I'll try out, but I don't know. Okay. What What's your favorite subject? Um, reading. Reading. Okay. Fantastic. You do anything? [Laughter] Is that your father over there? Yes. Good guy. He's good. He's good at data. Um, anything besides basketball? Um, a lot of things. I have choir. Um, I'm doing the
026media club and I'm doing theater. Um, great. Well, I'm just very pleased that you guys are also involved. Who else? We have one more here. One more. Yes. Kaya. Kaya, how are you? Good. And what position do you play? Center. Yay. Thank goodness we have a center. What's your favorite subject? Math. Math. Okay. Anything besides basketball? Volleyball. Um, are you fourth grade, fifth grade? Fifth grade. And you going to play at North Side? Yes. Fantastic. Anybody else have any questions for the team? Is the coach here? No. Congratulations. Congratulations. That's a lot of work. Two years. Yeah. So, good job. Uh I think we're going to get a we're going to get a photograph of you guys. Mr. Clattz is gonna hold your certificates up. Mr. class. Make sure you identify all the guards. Thank
027you. Thank you again. That is our presentation unless you have questions. Any questions for Mr. Troyer? Good work. Yes. Thank you. Let us know as you work through the next several weeks with IED 3. Yes. Obviously, the stakes are incredibly high this year. Let us know if there's additional support that needs to be, you know, you by the border administration. Shoot the flare up early, not late. No kidding. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Kevin. Okay, Dr. Reynolds. Yep. Absolutely. Thanks, guys. Hey, I I do we just have one board meeting this month, so I' I've got a few things to talk through. I'll I'll I'll make it as quick as I can. Um we start our listening and learning tours. We start those this week. We um tomorrow we'll be at Minatrista for a lunch
028lesson and learn where we have uh we've have 40 I think about 45 folks that have RSVPd. So, we're very excited to um to have our first session um March the 20th um from 6:00 to 7:00 at Southside Middle School and then April 15th from 5 to 6 at North Side. And again, those sessions are intended to talk about some of the progress we've made over the last 5 years of our innovation and strategic plan and then just to get input on the the continued direction. Want to make sure that we're still reflective of the values and and the um dreams and desires of our community, of our students. So, we hope to to solicit some of that feedback over those three days. Uh, we we ended our nine nine weeks, our third nine weeks
029last Friday. We've kicked off our new our last nine weeks. So, again, just an important time for our for our students to stay engaged and and finish strong as we wrap up this school year. Probably one of the more important dates is spring break is next week. I know many kids are looking forward for a little time off and and our adults probably a little bit too. Um but uh that's next week. So we hope our hope our uh students and families and and staff have a have a wonderful spring break and stay safe. Um got to give a shout out to to Muny Central and the entire leadership team over there and especially Jeff Holloway on on hosting basketball sectionals. That was good old-fashioned who's your hysteria and the fieldhouse. just a you know
030there there's not too many places like that left and uh it was it was a tremendous three days of basketball terrific crowds terrific games and uh just a showcase for my so um again special thanks to Jeff and his and his team for making that happen. Um our winter guard will be competing at state finals this weekend at at Center Grove High School. So they'll compete at uh 204 in class A state finals. Um again just an honor for them to continue their success that they um have such a rich tradition of doing. Um a new tradition of success is our winter percussion ensemble. They um they started up last year as a as a kind of like some of our clubs at EWA where they just got together and and wanted to create this
031for our kids and now it's a a full-blown blown competition season. Um and they're very very successful. They'll have state qualifications this weekend and and state finals the following weekend. So, they they probably won't have much of a spring break, but um they'll be working really hard. Um last few things here, May 15th, put it on your calendar early. That's going to be our celebrate excellence um and art show uh where we showcase uh some of the the most outstanding work from our students on on May on that day in May. Um, April 10th is our official kindergarten roundup day at our elementary school. So, we'll have an evening event. We'll do some kickoff. Our signs will start going up. Andy's working on some billboards and a new radio ad to talk about our enrollment
032kickoff for everybody to to make sure that um that we have all the vital information for students that return and and most importantly our new kindergarten students will will be um kickoff night on April 10th at your home elementary school. And then one last thing um next next meet uh next meeting um in April I'm going to bring an action item to um to have a schedule change. So, right now we're scheduled to have a snow makeup day on May the 9th. That's a Friday in May. Um, we have discovered that that is a big AP testing day. That is going to be US history and macro econ is testing on that day. So, we're going to um officially ask the board to vote next um to vote in our meeting in April, but um
033we want to start to get that communication out that we're going to move that to April 18th. So, we'll take off um April 18th as a snow makeup day um embedded snow makeup day that thankfully we didn't have to use. So, we'll um move the already scheduled snow makeup day from May the 9th to April 18th. Um um and it'll be official action item next next month, but we would like to start communicating that out just in case there's any any arrangements that need to be made for families. So with regard to that change, um unless somebody boards has any objection to it, I would suggest that we go ahead and communicate with our parents and families. We'll retroactively ratify it. Okay, perfect. Let's go ahead and get official commun or Yeah, communication out to
034our families so that they can plan us with as much notice as possible. That's good Friday, right? Uh yeah. Yeah, good call. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, and we don't want to mess with the AP test for students. US history, that's a that's a big one. Lots of students in that. Okay. Any questions for Dr. [Music] Any additional questions? Dr. I want to take a moment and recognize Dr. Clark. Uh she's a a good friend for many years and one of the premier educators in the nation. Um are are you enjoying retirement? Well, welcome welcome. And if you if you want to come to work, let us let us know. She's too much. I was going to say she seems to be pretty good at retirement. Yeah. Yeah. Um and then Jamar, um I haven't seen
035you work in a few days. Where you been? Oh, so they said that. Okay. I forgot what you said. Okay. So, they're looking Okay. Okay. Well, the door that's fine. I just I if you got tired of us, that's fine. Okay. Well, I just have I've missed you these past few days. So, um are you here getting credit tonight or you just are you here for credit? Yeah, probably. Okay. Who do you have with you? I have. [Music] Okay. Well, welcome. Are you all students at uh central and government enjoying this meeting? You Oh, the lie. We welcome. And do some of your other classmates have to come over at some point? Yeah, eventually. It's either a school board meeting or city council. And we board city council. Yeah. And they're not near as much
036fun as us. Right. Okay. Well, welcome. Thank you. Um, Mr. Derome, I was giving you a chance to get your paperwork together. Thank you. Are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready. Um, just just some remarks from the the the CFO and the business office here. I just want to report to the school board. A couple years ago, if you remember, we did order uh two school buses, two white activity buses. Uh, believe it or not, the first one came in uh after two years. Uh, one of the white activity buses did make it across the border from Canada. Um, so we beat the tariff. Uh, we have one more that will come in April. So, just want to report that. That's a positive note to the school board. The one that we received was an eight
037passenger lift bus and we'll receive a 14 passenger bus. Uh, we expect 2021 model. These are two these are 2024 models. Okay. And, uh, the rep was was happy to tell me he's got eight more across the border that in his uh, location there in Indianapolis. They cross like Montana someplace. I don't know. I'm not sure. I They That was a That was a a bit of information I hadn't expected. I didn't realize that's where the manufacturing facility was for the Ford Microbird uh chassis, but they're very nice buses. We're glad to be able to get them and receive those. Well, I'm take pink. Yeah, I'm we're glad to get them. Um that really helps our our white activity bus fleet at the various schools. Uh a couple other things to note. uh for the
038school board just talk about some future projects we would like to uh uh try to roll out and do over the next uh few weeks and months and and just for some planning purposes for the next year. Uh we have some capital project items in the district that we need to address such as our boiler uh our boiler at the fieldhouse. Uh we've been using a rental boiler the last two years. We're ready to roll that out with a project to get a full replacement for that. Um, and that would uh be a a project needs to be um we need to have a permanent solution there. We have about 50,000 square feet of roof sections that need to be replaced throughout the district in five different buildings we have identified at Muny Central High
039School, EWA, North Side Middle School, Longfellow, and then West View. We also have some lower bleachers at the fieldhouse that are now over 40 40 years old that we would like to replace. uh add bleachers again to the North Side Middle School gymnasium. We had to re uh take out the the previous ones. We also have about 18 different door sets on exterior doors at Muny Central High School uh that are really ready also to be replaced. They're also 40 plus years old. We would also like to do some resurfacing of some of the track at Southside Middle School and also resurface the tennis courts at Southside Middle School as well as tennis courts at Muny Central High School. And we'll probably have some additional paving projects to do as well. But I just wanted
040to at least uh put those things out there. Uh these are things we'd like to embark on our next uh our next project uh to put in front of the school board. Okay. And so we're going to hear more about that in April, I presume. Right. Correct. Um the boiler at the fieldhouse were uh for the benefit of those keeping track at home. Uh we're using a rented boiler. We did we it failed last year about March and then we were had to get take some emergency measures to get us through the basketball season and the basketball uh sectional and uh so we knew we were going to have the same challenge and we're just ready to roll that project out and it it takes a long time to get that equipment in and um
041we're just ready and the previous boiler it lasted 51 years and this particular one we're not um we We would put it at ground level. We put it at ground level. We're not going to put it down in the basement or anything like that. Uh we'll put it at ground level. Easier to maintain. Are you buying multiple stack units? Uh that's that's a good question to detail. I don't have that answer. Yeah. Don't have you got other you have Yeah, you have the the redundant redundant. So the list that you went through is academic space, security upgrades, and fundamental infrastructure, right? that has deferred maintenance that's not been kept up on a number of spots including particularly the roofing. That is correct and it just don't have current funds in your operation fund or you
042can't really use education fund for those types of things. But yeah, these are things that uh need to be addressed in due time. We we certainly addressed uh a lot of infrastructure and building needs over the last few years when we had the benefit of ESRE funds and we're just always ready to continue to make improvements when they need to be done. Well, and I on the note of the the boiler at the fieldhouse, I was leaving the Y the other night with my wife and heard this alarm which I was inclined to ignore. She informed me that we couldn't ignore it, but it clearly was something serious. So, I texted Dr. Reynolds and took credit for saving that side of town. Oh, okay. The the the rental boiler was apparently kicked off, right? It
043it had Yes. And then Jennifer made me text Dr. Reynolds again and and let him know that it was her who insisted, but but you did remind me it was hot at the basketball sectional if I remember right. Oh, it was terrible. It was hot. So, I mean, I thought everybody did a great job and it was place was packed, but it was that Friday night, it was extremely warm. Yeah. So, uh, thank you for doing that. It's an important part of the the shephering of of our capital plan. Um, no public comments. Uh, consent agenda. Do we have any of our new hires here tonight? Aubrey helping at EWA. David quote Rocky in quote Fuller at the area career center. U okay want to recognize Gidget Fischer who's retiring uh from central after eight
044years of service. So wish um Gidget the best. Um with that uh any questions concerning the consent agenda items 5.01 through 5.07 inclusive? If not entertain a motion. I'll count Mr. Heater as the motion. Mrs. Barnes Griffin as the second. All those in favor signify by I. I post same sign. Okay. Uh Mr. Derome financial report. Thank you. Uh we have the the in your board packet uh here for our March meeting. I believe it or not I changed something up there. I put a financial dashboard together. Um so I can I am capable of change. Um, so I tried to add some summary summary data up front in case you don't want to look at charts and graphs or if you just want to see one page of main things. That's what I did
045for you there. And I wanted to that's evolving breathing living document there. But I just thought put some main things on the the front page where our enrollment is uh from our most recent count at 4872 and obviously that was just down just a bit from the previous October. Uh the state basic grant revenue still estimated over 47.3 million. That does not yet reflect the new estimate that will be revised uh from our most recent count that we had of 4,908. Plus that can also be revised again based on what the legislature may do. Uh I don't know if they'll go back too far in for this fiscal year or not. Maybe they won't. Uh I would like to caution that for a bit. So, we're very close to last year's expected revenue or last
046year's actual revenue versus the estimate for this year. Employee headcount still still running. That's 10 under where we were a year ago. Our overall cash balance, the overall checkbook balance if you will. Uh if you can see there, a little over $34 million, 34.5 million. And obviously the last item there, just so you know, we're continuing to pay on our state loan, 180,000 a month. That's down to 7.5 million. So really some of the other uh financial statements you have are just the same kind of verbiage I just talked about. And we can just jump perhaps into one of the charts and graphs. You have number five just shows you the trend of our cash balance in the red there that's going down that just shows the state loan that we pay off each month.
047And that's obvious that's paid out of uh uh it's just a subtraction from the um the state basic grant. it's not paid out of debt service. Then we have the net cash. I just take the loan out. You can just see where the trend over the the balance of funds are. And obviously that's continuing to do well. Um the item number seven that shows you the overall checkbook balance. Again, appropriations, that particular line or that particular uh screen number eight is just showing you that we're just on target and how we're spending our money compared to our original uh budget appropriations. Um obviously we use the combination of operation fund and rainy day to pay our operational spending. So still still on target there. Um still just two months into the the the calendar year.
048So many more months left to go and that really pretty much completes my report unless you have any questions. Any questions for Mr. Anything? Entertain a motion to approve the financial report. So move second. Second. Any questions? Did you have I do um just the the the list of items that that you mentioned earlier in the meeting. Um I think we ought to point out that those we didn't dream those up. I mean those are those are part of the the the capital plan that we have we have projected out needed to be done. Um the challenge is how we pay for it. And you know despite the fact that fiscally we're managing I think really you're managing really really well um uh the operations funding uh which is is where a lot of that
049expense is going to be normally paid through is is that's where where we're really struggling. So um it's not that we we um it's a matter of where the money is and how we can spend it. I think that's an important point to make uh in trying to figure out how we can execute our capital plan uh which is very thoughtful and very well thought out. So, and it goes on the on the heels of of your good report and and the way we're managing our cash. So, absolutely. So, thank you. Thank you. So along those same lines with the operation fund where it is in terms of the pressures that are brought to bear due to property tax caps and the uncertainty generated by the current legislative session. Um many of these improvements that
050we're talking about making uh the boiler, the rose, uh those are naturally designed to provide a long-term savings to the op pressure or long-term relief or savings on the operation fund in the form of lower utility bills, not having to pay um not as much repairs rent and not periodic repairs. Yeah. So it's you don't have that death by a thousand cuts. The roofing example uh that's one of them. Uh when you can do uh when you do total repair or total roof replacement that just buys you so much more time and years on that roof and over time they they deteriorate and so that the maintenance on boilers and such very much needed. Okay. Um the um we have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by I. I oppose. Same
051sign. Okay. We're on to the permission for notice of contract termination. Uh thank you. Also included in your board packet uh a different type of item we have tonight. um asking the board uh for permission to give notice of a contract termination as of June 30, 2025 for all the services provided in our current agreement with the Southeast Service Corporation known as SSC for all duties in the MCS district related to Phil facilities maintenance and custodial. Um, Muny Community Schools, we have used uh SSC uh for the last nine years since 2016 for our whole range of facility and maintenance services and they have helped us for many projects uh when we were facing financial challenges when we got damages from the tornado and when we had a lot of our improvement projects that we
052have done uh since the p pandemic and before the pandemic, they have helped us out remarkably well with that. With that being said, um we kind of reached a point where, you know, we're much more uh steady uh operationally from the standpoint of wanting to have a little bit more control and uh being able to just try to make some impact on the operation fund as we have talked about and uh as I have shown there um you know we were facing about a 3% increase again over 300,000 uh for the next contract renewal and we just started putting the um announce houses together and thought, you know, I think we it's it's time to bring it in house. Time trying to bring it in house. And even with that being said, um we can
053still uh save money going forward for my schools in the operation fund. And um this would be um a better long-term solution than in having another contract increase. Okay. Any questions? Quick question about um we were talking earlier. You still have the ability to buy contract materials and it's Oh. Oh, absolutely. East Central Indiana uh consortium um state purchasing arrangements, those are still available to us as as now. And um so that's uh and talking about our fleet, you know, fleet equipment too. We talked about that. Uh we own all of our fleet equip and when I say fleet I'm talking trucks, pickup trucks and vans. Uh we have this exception of I I believe one van that we do not have a title for. So we we're in a position that we can make
054this particular change and not be uh have a financial burden making things worse and the reporting will maintain itself. Right. Correct. Right Mr. for the benefit of the board. We were looking at in the renewal $4,239,000. Um what do we estimate our total cost will be for 2025? Uh we we expect to save about over half a million dollars in 2025 on a calendar year basis. On an annual basis, you're looking at over a million dollar savings in a full calendar year. So the remainder of 2025, we're looking at a $500,000 savings for the full calendar year about a million all out of the operation fund savings on and that was this is the largest piece of the pie in the operation fund as we have looked at that on some of our pie charts
055when we did our budget presentation back when we did the budget um back in August and then we talked about it again in October 22nd work session where we tried to start identifying ways to make the operation fund uh have a lot less impact Any additional questions for Mr. Ro? I assume I'm sorry. Go ahead. I'm just I was as I was reading it is it the intent to work with the current people if they want to come back and work that is that is absolutely correct and um that would be the absolute intent to make sure we bring these duties in house which includes the people who are there and right now there's 64 people those choosing to come on board that would make them eligible for Perf over period of time after that
056is correct yes and that's not a benefit they currently have right that is that's that's right they do not have that with Perf and TURP. So you do have uh you have a dozen or so that were with us uh with MCS before. So they they have some accumulated time. Yes, that's correct. And perf is the the benefit of those watching public employee retirement fund. So it is um it is a benefit uh that is meaningful in terms of long-term financial planning. Any additional questions? I also assume their benefit packages with us. Yeah, pretty pretty good. Yeah, we will uh myself and Dr. Bell have worked on that and um we'll just incorporate them into our current uh benefit offerings that we have. Um any additional questions? If not, we'll entertain a motion approved. Second.
057All those in favor signify by I. I I both same sign. Okay. So, we are within the time frame of providing contractual notice of int of our intentions. Okay. I assume we have that ready to roll. Okay. Thank you. Um we are on to let me see. I misplaced my agenda. I was so excited about those buses. Um, it's a good question about the model dialogue. That's a 25. We're on to dialogue of the board and future recommendations. I think we've done a lot of recommending any additional dialogue. Um, any other observers tonight? I see a boy scout back there. I know, right? Poor Will. Introduce yourself for us. Please stand up. Oh, I will. Okay. And why are you here today? Sounds like Thank you. I mean, the other three figured out they stayed
058long enough to get their credit. So, the fact that you stayed through, you got to write. Yeah. If you need a letter on that merit badge, I'll write it right up for you. Okay. And how many more merit badges do you need? [Music] So, will that be 21 then? And 21 makes you what? Yeah. Fantastic. So, thank you for uh playing along tonight. We appreciate it. There's a parting gift at the door. I'm just messing with you. There's not there's anything over there. Okay. I don't have anything else. Uh Mr. Cros, nobody. Okay. Um, what's that? Are you with Dr. Clark? Yeah. Oh, fantastic. Does Taylor have a newspaper? The echo. Does it echo into Delaware County? Well, it looks like you're really, you know, you're moving right along. Um, does the What's the My
059Star Press have? How many reporters do they have now? One full time. Okay. Well, um, good luck. Um, how how are things at Taylor? Yeah, I work with Taylor quite a bit. So, they're really nice people up there. Yeah, I I represent Ivan Hose occasionally in my life as a lawyer and they've not offered to give me free anything. No golden ticket. No golden ticket. So, um well, welcome and you're welcome back anytime. We we would love to have regular media coverage to help us get the word out, but uh alas, it's not the case. Um, thank you. Anybody else wish to be heard before we call the night? Yes. I'm John and I'm the driver. You guys do a tremendous job. Really do. Very important. I appreciate all the effort you guys. Well, thank
060you, John. I appreciate it. He's retired from all the science. Okay. Yeah. Thank you for Thank you for coming out this evening. Um we we really do treasure we we treasure having folks here to observe and you know you know if necessary you know get out in front and provide input. Um we think there are good things going on. It's obviously extraordinarily complex work as you all know. Um and the world's a world's a bit of a chaotic place. Maybe it's always been, but it feels a little bit more chaotic. Well, I I Yeah, I I treasure Pat. Um and she was um we've worked together for years uh through early childhood and by five and and she was at the cutting edge of all that and she managed to put together a a metric
061with her folks over at the teachers college on assessing kindergarten readiness. And I don't know if you're aware of this and probably a it's okay I'll say it. Um the state keeps promising a me a a a tool to do the same thing and so far they've not come up with anything. So um Dr. Clark your work continues to to be used. So she is she is she is uh well sure. So I they left out um some of the government students, but yesterday there were three month my central seniors that were at the state house um representing on behalf of youth and some of the NAACP work and some of the things that they've done with Miss Ward. And so just wanted to shout out Jamar Clark and um Sia Griffin and Marshelle Jefferson
062for being at the state house and representing my central well. Um and then also this past weekend there was a um college fair, so H.B.CU college fair in our community. Um, and there were lots of students that showed up um, learning about school and finances and and what it takes to to get to the next level. And so I know that Miss Ward, you had a hand in that. So, just thank you for rallying um, our students around their education. Appreciate it. Miss Ward, I didn't see you back there. I apologize. Hiding back there. Um, anything further before we move to a journ. Okay. Anybody make a motion? Move. Second. All those in favor signify by I. I. Okay. Good evening everybody. Yes.