001All right. Thank you. Uh and then at this time I'll turn it over to Dr. Shoemaker. So um we laid John the rest on Saturday and we gave this to a copy of this to his wife and it says in recognition of John's lifelong commitment to education and service to our school community and as a devoted teacher athletic growth and valued member of school board inspired generations with unwavering integrity compassion and dedication for privilege. So just really want to thank John for his service for the leader that he was. So I will give this one to as well. And uh I would also add you know Mr. Griffin was someone who uh um for me as a as a student and as an adult getting to serve with him he was always about what he
002believed was best for our students and our community. um he had his ideas, he had his his beliefs on things and and you knew where he stood with him and that was something that was very easy to respect with him. Um all decisions, all opinions came from a place of what he truly believed was in the best interest of our community and our school. So I just thought that would be I mean I didn't know him on a level that Mrs. Hassel and Mrs. B got to know him. So, um, but just in my experience as a as a kid and, uh, as a a fellow board member, that was that was what I picked up from them. So, so at this time, uh, we will move on to item B, and this where the,
003uh, public can, uh, comment on agenda items. So, there was a list of agenda items, and you're uh, if you have comments or questions about that agenda, now would be the time to ask that. And then at the end um what we do is if you have uh statements or uh questions that you'd like to address that are broad that don't cover agenda items, you you'll be given three minutes to address those. Uh you'll just have to uh state your name and your address and then we can we can go from there. So if anybody has any public comments on agenda items, we can take those down. All right, we'll move on to letter C and that'll be the approval of the agenda. Do we have any changes or changes? The agenda is presented. All
004in favor? Second. I'm sorry. Thanks, Josh, for the second. All in favor? Yeah, we rattle that. Uh the other thing we have is letter D, the approval of the amendments uh from our special special session on May 2nd, regular session on May 12th, and our special uh session on May 30th. I move that we approve the minutes that were provided to us. Have a second. I'll second. All in favor? I uh next we have the uh communications routine consent items. Um, we have these provided to us in our uh, monthly packets, our board packets. Does anybody have any questions or comments on those? I actually do. Um, on the field trip that was requested by Mrs. Harvey or focus, but it also included others and I just wondered who all was included. Did I read
005that right? There was two teachers names. I believe Thomas was the other one. But I read it that it was open to other students other than focus unless I miss I don't think so. I misunderstood. I just curious right if they had opened it up. Is that the one they submitted for next September? September. So that would be just focus. They do an overnight and there will be a different teacher in the students from all five elementary schools join program participate out to come see but it's the focus classes I will write. It says they're all from the from the Oh, that's okay. I missed. Okay. All right. I just wonder that was Yes. Perfect. No problem. All right. So, does anyone else have any questions? All right. We are ready to see a motion.
006Um second and then all in favor the letter B uh is submission of the corporation extracurricular receipts and dispersements and the funds report. This isn't something we vote on but it's just something that's provided to us for us to be able to review and ask questions have those. So is there anything on that? All right, we'll move on to number three here with new business. Letter A is our retiree recognition. We don't have any this month. Took care of them last time. Uh next we have letter B and that is uh the tiny Trojans and elementary handbooks and all that. Right. So we put in the packet um just the basic outline of what we would like to propose for next year. Um only changes really for the elementary is I wanted to add some
007further guidance and explanation on teleaalth. We want to try to ramp that back up in our schools. Uh honestly COVID set us back a little bit because any kind of you know symptom had to go home and with staff turnover and different corporate RN that type of thing. So I actually met with community health and our corporate RN Adam will last week. So, we have some plans on how to get that back going a little bit stronger. And the goal is obviously so that we can keep kids in school or we can also get them treatment they need and get them back to school quicker. So, it's all about our attendance piece, too. So, we have some ideas how to do that and I thought I would just add a little bit more in the
008handbook this year about that. And then I also added um a little bit more on the employability skills just so our families can understand that those start in kindergarten and we live those every day in the elementary but how we're kind of intentionally incorporating them and why into our our daily life in the elementary. Other than that just some logistical things and thanks to Jackie back and forth other eyes today we were kind of finding just some basic typos that will I think already have been I went from Jackie's email to Gail so I think we've addressed most of those. Um, if not, we'll clean up the rest of the typos. Obviously, we'll be having to replace a couple of staff names that are in the handbook when that happens. So, this won't get dispersed
009until it for sure, but you do have the shell of what everything that's going to be there. Um, I was wondering I was just wondering how much how much PE and art do the kids get? They have one each a week and we've now up those special signs. It used to be 30 and now they're 40. Okay. 40 minutes. Okay. Um, and this isn't exactly with this, but I was just um had talked a little bit in the handbook about uh lunches, and it made me think that I had talked to other school districts, and none of the maybe it's just who I talked to, but none of the other school districts were able to provide any kind of a summer lunch program and we are. And I just am always amazed at what Death
010I don't ask. I'm just thankful. I know. Right. It's it's like she's she performs that you could pick up today. I saw and um even some some extra food and I um I know at least two other districts I talked to and they said they they weren't providing summer summer meals and I just I well anytime I ask like we you know we have the beginning the before school opportunity at the YMCA and she provides a morning snack out there for me. delivered out there and you know if we have round up for kindergarten or prepay she provides little I mean she never really says no to be honest and sometimes you have to say no but she really makes it work and I also I I should contact this but had a couple of
011friends say if she ever needed help oh I don't know if she's still I know they did that some yes remember assembly lines She's a miracle worker. Really appreciate that. Um, so yeah, nothing else really. Any drastic changes, just some logistical things and like I said, a few typo things that we'll clean up before we actually give it out to parents. Um, the all the attendance things were in place last year because of legislation in 2024. So that's nothing new. We've now just lived it for a year. All right. So, at this time, uh, just need a motion to approve the Tiny Trojans and elementary books. I'll make a motion to approve the Tiny Trojans and handbooks as presented. Second. All in favor? Uh, next, we'll move on to the uh, approve the standards uh,
012based report card for grade one for the 2025 2026. I know. Um yeah, so this actually this journey started need to say it again, but actually started before COVID and uh we had to take a step back and I changed our priorities a little bit, but I I got the band back together this year. Three, four of them are here today and I appreciate that. Um really feeling an um a sense of need for this. Um our kindergarten has been standardsbased. Um, and our plan is with this presentation I put in the packet with you for you is to take this to first grade next year and then second grade the year after that. Dr. Schumanker requested that we do a phase in which totally made sense to us as well. Um, just so parents
013wouldn't know any different. They wouldn't be going from standardsbased to traditional grading. Um, a lot of what you see in your presentation I think is the um, research that we have found with using standardsbased. It's much more you know measurable of standards. it's more parent friendly to understand exactly the growth of their student, what they can do and what they still can't do. Um, and it provides that um growth mindset. So, we just really feel strongly and like I said in the presentation there's also a list of who all was on the committee for us. Um, we actually asked kindergarten to be represented too since they had lived it to really kind of be that expert. Uh what this committee has decided is on a format that will take the essential standards that we have
014um each of our grading period and there will be some repeating assessments um thanks to Emily Baker who um learned great from her father I think the technology world she took on the technology piece for us and it's actually really I hate to use the word neat but it's it's pretty neat. So, what we've been able to create is spreadsheets that teachers will be able to collect all their data throughout the year. Um, and then it it connects right to an individualized um report for parents each quarter. So, they'll get their standardsbased report card and then the evidence piece also that'll help the parents understand the reason for the the score on the standards base. What this group has decided for first grade is a rubric of a one to four um to explain where
015their the spectrum of where their child is sitting right now on that standard. Um kindergarten does that a little bit differently but I think that's fine because it's going to metriculate up with the students. So we also had second grade on the committee and they're ready to go as well and I think some of the second grade teachers will pilot to give us feedback this year but they actually won't implement for second grade. I'll come back to you next year with requesting to take it to second grade next year. Is there any way um for I mean this would be a quarterly thing but um you know some parents especially younger children they really want to be hands-on and is there any way through powers school or anything any kind of a technology site that
016they can see say midway [Music] So, it's not going to be in power school yet. Um, Matthew Hurst is going to work on that for us. But, to be honest, I told him to wait because we want to live this for a year to make sure. That's a heavy lift to develop that in Power School. Um, he can do it. He can build it. I know he can. And he was willing to jump in, but I want to live this for a year to make sure it's exactly how we want it. Um, can you guys speak to how you might communicate with parents in between? I think that like since we've done traditional grading, we'll probably send home a midterm and just send home what we have so far from midway through the night. This
017will be printed by the teacher. This won't be like we print the regular standard report card, standardized report card. And I think it'll be important like at back to school night, we tell the grown-ups like what is going to be expected at each point and what's coming home that's going to show them where they're at at that point. Um so that'll take some accountability on them to go through the folder look at stuff because we could put a stamp like says this met standard or something like that. We talked about um kind of grading like everyday work on that one through four scale like so this that they did in class was only one work instead of and the nice thing is these kindergarten it's what they had in kindergarten so it's not like they're
018going to an ABC and now we're taking back so they really don't know different. Yeah. So thanks that's a good point. Those are good points. This is the first grade team and past kindergarten teacher at Parker but also this on this committee. They were very active participants. Is there a just different protocol testing to to implement this? No, the nice thing is what Emily and and the team has created is this spreadsheet that and with the input from teachers what assessments and what you want on there. We're already doing them, but this is where they can just track them all in one place which is the really neat part. And then what she really has done amazing is those data points for all the teach all the students transfer to an individual report at the
019bottom. So then she can directly anytime parent conference if she just is going to meet with the parents because there's an issue or there's a problem she can print that at any time and it can show the progress they're making toward those standards. So it's a collection of data and um then being able to use and it's homework, it's assessments, it's foundations, it's CLA. We can put it all on the same and then that'll just roll keep rolling all year long. And then the nice thing we decided was too for each nine weeks we can filter down the report so it's more parent friendly to read. So they're not seeing like this huge spreadsheet of their kids data that they haven't even done yet. They'll just see what's relevant to that nine weeks. Somebody suggested
020that. I thought I really appreciate you saying you aren't going to really Yeah, we want to live it. I think I mean like I said that's going to be a heavy build. I know Matt can do it but I just I said let's just live this for a year and that's what kindergarten does. So we have to put in something into powers school for state reports but I think basically you put in what ess's Rachel's satisfactory yeah and then that's just the report that goes to state but they print their own standard space that's what we'll do this year I would love down the road for it to be able to go in power school that's going to be a big deal I want to make sure we got the right I think that's your
021wisely appreciate all would you like to add anything else because you guys were the big we kind of fed off kindergarten and I think they kind of decided to revise theirs a little bit too based on our conversations. I think I mean from what we've done so far, we've never had questions from any parents and they've always enjoyed what we sent home. Um they've never complained about not having it on power school or anything like that. It's what they learn what they know. So I think if any grade levels tend to communicate with parents, it seems younger that there's lots of ways with their parents. When you say standard based, these are state standards. Yes. So, we've taken the essential. What we'll do is we have the essential standards the state has deemed essential and
022those are the ones that we will prioritize on this report card through assessments and homework and observations and all that kind of data to track their process and they've chosen to do a one to four rubric. So, pretty excited actually. It was kind of fun. I don't know if they would say that but I thought to make fun of me anyway. Okay. So, at this point, um, we just need a motion to stand base report for grade one. I will. So, move second. All in favor? You're welcome to stay, but you I know you came to help. I'm going to do like I do the retirees if you don't want to stay, but you're welcome to. Next, we have letter G, and that's the Head Start lease agreement. And I'll turn that over to Dr.
023So, we have a ongoing partnership with Pip and Head Start. They've got seven buses at Green Street. Uh we did increase the the lease amount by $100 a month. Um we haven't done that since I've been here. So, that's the only change. Um and we look forward to continue. Some of these I will say a lot of these are annuals of agreements that we've got. So every June is the season. I move to approve the head start lease agreement. Second. All in favor? I uh next we have letter E and that is the after the bell agreement. So we do have after the bell and that is hosted by four story the church. They do a fantastic job with us and once again one of our valuable partners. Um those classes are at lower right
024east Parker and then we do have busing for students that attend bus right those locations we do have um before this which is right and east parker that's best through YMCA partnership so this is only the after school school program make a motion to approve second sorry Sorry. Well, it's not We can approve this and then I pass my question. Okay. All right. So, we have a motion to approve it by Josh. Do I have a second? Second by Jackie Hassel. And all in favor? Um the before school he said was conf I know that they're not getting funding to enlarge. Will that affect their ability to provide services? Keep it at the level we're doing it now with those three schools. I think they I won't speak for that, but I think their plan
025is to expand because we've never had program until about All right. Next we'll move on to letter F and that is the govern of understanding for community health. Right. So another one of our valuable partners want to thank Joel Harvey for putting this together. It's really their ongoing support from community health is couldn't do what we do without them. So whether it's tell health or you know supporting our mental health and needs of our students. make a motion to approve. Second. All in favor? Uh we'll move on to letter G now and that is the final reading of uh new school board policy batch number four which we all had copies on. Right. Right. So this is the the final read. Last month was the the first read for batch four. Um, and so just
026need to have these approved. We have a motion. Oh, wait a minute. I'm sorry. Um, yeah. I will say one. Um, I pulled um the original um I believe it was three from batch three. I'll see the next one which is H. So that's why that one stands independent because I told it it took a little bit more um organizing because got to make sure the project handbook students and this board policy are all consistent. So that's why I tell Yes, thank you. One of the things uh was drug testing on that or that batch for that. That's what I pulled it. It was actually originally part of Did you just say that while I was Well, since I wasn't paying attention, what did you say? Well, I I said that that one had some
027nuances to it because we've got the Trojan code which deals with drug testing. We've got the student handbook which deals with drug testing and we wanted to make sure that this policy meshed with both of them and there was no contributions. So that's that's what that's why I pulled that one out. It just took a little bit more time to um reconcile they all work together. Um the other thing that I was going to say was was on this part of this dashboard was employee discipline. and it's largely at the discretion of superintendent. Um, and I have never seen you, in my opinion, that's what mishandle that and that's pretty amazing. So, I just appreciate your um your expertise and your um it's not just expertise, it's compassion. Thank you. Yeah. All right. So, do
028we have a motion for the final reading of the schoolboard policies batch number four? So, move. Second. All in favor? I. Next, we'll move on to H. And that's the final reading of schoolboard policy C450-R, drug testing policy. [Music] I think we covered that one. So, I have no comment on that. You did include saliva. Yes. Saliva slusher. Yes. Make a motion to approve. Second. It is just the first. Thanks. Okay. All in favor? I I uh next is the first reading of the uh new school board policies batch number five. Yeah. So just in sequence we've got the next batch of policies from church church and um as some people may wonder why are we approving you know policies matches um the reason is is because um we currently have supplies us with global
029board policies as a national provider of policies so they they do the same kind of work for California New York is Florida whatever church church church hit Antrum is where all of these originate and we've got so much legislation that is has nuances in policy that we make sure that um uh we are adhering to legislative requirements and it's it's harder and harder for a national company to get that done and be responsive to us. Um, so I I will say, you know, we from time to time, I don't know that there's probably since I've been here, there's probably been three or so uh policies that um the board has requested and I will reach out to Joel and we'll we'll draft one specific to us, but generally um these are helping us adhere to
030Indiana code and Indiana legislation. That's why we're we're going through this. Every policy needs to be have first reading and then second reading instead of the approval and we make adjustments according there's been a lot of adjustments but a lot of them are um just specific. Okay. So there's no action for us to take on this. It's just a update on where we are with those that batch. Uh, next we have letter J as our project hearing. And has you on here to talk about this? Sure. Um, so when you have a bond issue of more than million dollars, go read your stuff. I don't mind reading your stuff. No, no, no. That's okay. Um, so um, let let me let me go backtrack a little bit. So the next item, this this item is
031called the public hearing or project hearing on the proposed bonds. Um and so you know for the public if you're interested in speaking uh please make sure you have uh signed in the signin sheet which includes your name and address and after presentation by us um then we'll you'll have an opportunity to ask questions or make public comments. Um at the hearing we'll uh ask that each person is limit to the comments to three minutes um on the topic and um this notice was the hearing was uh published legally as required um and at this point I'll read the next section for just a sec. Sure. Let her enter the publication. Okay. Um All right. So, percent pursuant to Indiana code before school corporation may spend more than a million dollars to build, repair, or
032alter a school facility that will be financed by a lease bond. It must behold a public hearing which explains the potential value of the project to the corporation. This public hearing and consideration of resolutions represents the beginning of the legal process. this resolution presented as being establishes the maximum financial terms. I I'll go ahead and go. It just says Yeah. Um so uh what I'll do is I would like to go over um uh the information on the projects and so and and this is does the community have this because they're welcome to ask what okay so that way you can kind of follow along. So, what I'm going to go with is this is the overview of projects and how it meets the educational needs, cost, and timing. So, the first and and I
033will say the board's well aware of the majority of of all of this that we we've already previously talked about. There may be just a slight change and I'll get to one in just a second, but um so the first one is ERS Hammer Project and if you'll recall that was about a $1.1 million security upgrade. Um and it was endorsed by not only uh Dustin Hugh because we we have actually a system right now that he's maging. Is that would that be accurate? Okay. That's why I went to college for Okay. So maggyvering means I don't I don't like the um uh the servers um are I would say on their last leg and they don't hold the information long enough. uh they don't uh keep it for us and the capacity to store
034it is not sufficient. Um in addition to that when they break down it's hard to get parts and they're they're out of what would you what's the terminology that's they're out of the the software that we've been using for a while just is not maintained anymore by the developer. So it's it's time to move on. So, um, in addition to that, we've got a lot of a lot of our cameras are not, so you got the servers and you got the cameras. I won't go into, you know, specific detail like this on all of them, but this was a big project for us. Uh, and so there's some safety significant safety enhancements on our cameras. A lot of our cameras are very bold and grainy and things that we could capture even, uh, it doesn't
035give us the information that we want. So, um, that's a big piece to it. Um, I think that there's I think the board's aware of some of the significant safety features to the new camera system that is going to be valuable. Um, the second one on on there and and the cost you can see is 550,000. You may wonder why, you know, it was a $1.1 million. Well, um, we paid for the first part of that out of the 2024 G. So, we took half of it out of the 2024 Gond. So we're at the rest of this year the fieldhouse floor um we we already approved that um but that is they're starting that this week. So when I say the potential timeline um that's the could be u begin momentarily. So, um, instead
036of the fall of 2025, uh, but that was an amount of $154,000 for the new floor. Um, but I I've included a little bit more in that to account for your goal posts or goals, whatever you want to call them. Uh, because if we're if we're redoing it, now's the time to do this. The career center roof. Um, and most of you know that, but I'll say this for the public. Since I've been here, I believe this would uh take us over $9 million project. So, we we've invested it heavily into our buildings. It's not cheap to do to So, if you'll if you'll you know, pretend you're standing over at the tennis courts, the the the roofs that are kind of like the accordion um up and down um the sawtooth. Yeah, those are
037those are expensive to do, but that's we estimate that's going to be $1.2 $2 million and we take our our queue from moisture management but really we don't need a queue there because if you look at Mackenzie's on poor Mackenzie I I think there's six buckets in her office every time it rains. It's not good. Uh and what happens is you get freezing and you get freezing and falling and it just makes the roof all that much worse. So it's time for this. So we're hoping that we can accomplish this in the fall of 2025. Bus replacements. Um that's a kind of a tricky one. And if you look, you know, this the the timeline of this uh finance is for the next five years. So that if you look at the potential timeline at
038the bottom, the bus replacement, that's from 2025 to 2030. Um and uh a bus right now because of the tariffs, um I've seen search charges as much as $30,000 on bus. So we we haven't bought a bus in about a year and a half. Um and so uh we're asking for an allocation of $500,000 to account for bus needs for the next five years. Concrete and asphalt asphalt projects um that's actually probably fairly low and I know that sounds like a lot of money but when you look at the square footage that we cover um concrete work is not cheap and maybe asphalt has gone up quite a bit. So, um, if there's an area that we're probably a little bit low on, that would be it. Just from past experience, current Westwood, uh, elementary
039partial roof, that's $250,000. And you'll know that, you know, some of these are partial roof projects, Sunnyside Education Center, that's another one that has a partial roof needed because, um, many times when we go in there in the past, we've not had sufficient funds um to accomplish the whole roof. So, we'll do as much as we can. So that's why some of these are are peace meal. And then the high school partial relief uh roof that's at $400,000. Finally, Green Street um roof is $100,000. That brings the the total to about $4.5 million, a little bit more than that. So if you were to ask me, you know, this this project and it won't be finally approved until July 14th. If you ask me what are the the pressing needs uh in going on in
040the future and what might come up between the next now the next five years that would account for the next $2 million. I would say HBC we spend a lot of money on HBAC systems and it's all good until we can't heat a school or cool a school and then it's it's not a good it's not a good scenario. Um, one of the challenges that we've got, much like the the servers, is um, our HVAC systems are antiquated. We've been told that by people that Seammens and other people that that service our our equipment and it's expensive to to replace whether it's boiler or an air conditioner or a chiller. Um eventually we'll need to go to an automated system because we've got pneumatics and they don't make pneumatic um uh equipment anymore. So uh
041Richie does a great job in terms of getting old stuff for us, old new stock, but old new stock is hard to get for our equipment. So if you ask where's, you know, do I do I do I want to? No. But I think that just I'm just putting it out there. We haven't had that conversation. Um and and then there there's a few other things I I'll leave that. Any questions on what we what we presented? I could add real quick. Yeah, the costs for these pieces are as we go through they are a little bit more inflated or time. So keeping in mind that the costs of these projects are probably going to go up. from up from what the estimate we origin. Yeah, that sounds good. Okay. Um at your thoughts are
042this um packet provided by our financial advisor people. It shows the impact of the building lease um and it's it's a good visual as to what our current on the first page will show our current outstanding debt uh broken down between the the 2020 um building lease the 22 go and then the 2024 go that we issued last year colorcoded. So, as you see, our payments go down in 2026. That's where um the first um issuance would start. We would start making payments on those. Even though we're we're presenting a 6.6 total package, um the thought process is that we would um only issue a portion of that. And the second edge shows $3 million of that first uh that first wave of dollars coming in and then the repayment of that. submit. So the
043gray would be the the payments we have currently that's already been approved. And then that that dark blue then shows where the $3 million if we could issue that in 2025 how those payments will be paid off in 2020 I'm sorry 2033. And then if you go one more page that would be the balance of the of the 3.6 um um and showing the dollars being issued in 2028 and the payment um repayment starting in 2029. So there are two waves of of funding for this. Um obviously we have projects to um to back those as well. But we wanted to show that the amount of debt or debt payments stays um neutral over the years. We're not increasing our payments. We're not increasing the levy of tax dollars and so forth. So uh we
044intentionally did this when we did the 2020 20 year um building lease. that we knew we had over buildings, we knew we'd have needs that we couldn't fund through the operating um fund. Um so with the intent of the larger project of um borrowing are there any questions on repayment or repay or the borrowing structure from what we are kind of proposing here? I don't see anything though asking if we should in the future 33 close an elementary would that affect structure at all it wouldn't I I didn't really see anything that was out so at this time uh we will have the public comment section for this hearing that we're having these projects. Any comments or questions on those public next would be the uh for us as a board be able to ask
045questions take this under consideration for the project resolution. I think just so I can comment, I just want to reate what said about the it was a $6.6 million lease finance, but the first phase of it would be the $3 million and then we reevaluate what the needs are at that point. Um 2028. Um so it's it's not that we're spending all the money now. It's that we have these now. We'll go for those projects first and then we'll reevaluate and this is a totally separate entity from the geo bonds that we It's a good question. This takes place of so we won't have 2025 geo bonds because we won't have takes place yet. So what steeple's job is is to see what we need and how we can allocate it without having any impact
046on tax. And so that's that's why you see those that all they all only go so high because we don't ever want to negatively impact tax. I say that okay right because we have to balance between um our operations fund and our debt service. So we've kind of got a level as of right now based on you know assess value and so forth where we feel it's a good a good balance between the two where we're not taking this your circuit breaker hits only operations fun. So we don't want to raise our so high that our operations you know that all impacts the tax. So right now I think we got to be a balance as to what we're what we're doing in no way, shape or form what a smaller school corporation near us
047did uh at the last these payments will replace other you know the payments that are coming off. That's the point we're trying to make is we're staying under a level which would cause problem. We're not effective operational. without asking operational. Yeah. I mean that that was what we told steel to start with. We want to stay within stay in our lane here. not trying to change the tax impact any I don't want to confuse the two but any any increases tax would be from our operational um piece and that has to do with the assessed value and currently we don't have to do that um but as Senate bill one and I think we talked about that people can presentation on that so you know this is this is our debt service not very related
048in terms of the operation in in time there may be um well there will likely be just like the city will need to evaluate raising that that's the operational that information basically takes care of the resolution project as well so at this time we'll move on to the important consideration of resolution We did. Yep. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I started to go there. Sorry. No, we're good. We're good. So, at this time, we're on number nine here and uh consideration of resolution approve form of group. Uh well the first the first first one is project resolution. You have to vote on that and that just sets the general parameters of the bond issue. Right. Well it's exhibit A resolution on the I don't have I'll move to adopt the project and I'll second. Yep. That's
049it. Yeah, I got two different. So, all in favor of adopting the project resolution. And then next we'll move to adopt the resolution determining the need for the project which essentially just says we have determined that there's a need for the project which is exactly what the superintendent was explaining. I move that there is a need for the project. Second. All in favor? I. Then we'll move on to letter M where we adopt the resolution by approving the form of the which I don't know. Does anybody have these besides me? the uh the building corporation just met and uh they uh adopted the they approved the form of the lease as well and I have a copy. I'll get it to you later. We we have you got you've got a copy that's all the
050building corporation has already met. They've already approved the form of as well. So you're just doing now what the building corporation is doing. Do you have any questions about I mean this stuff's crazy. It's that's artificial. You know, it's a construct. If you have any questions, I'll give you my best answer. Not like just leave it at that. Prove the point. Yeah. I'll just say that a lot of us uh we have one to ones with Dr. Shoemaker and these are these are things that we're familiar with. So feel like there's not a whole lot of discussion taking place. uh nothing is ever decided but they it gives us a heads up on like okay this is what this is what we have going what are your thoughts you know what are your ideas around
051it so we have a pretty good understanding uh when we go into this of of what's going to be presented we're presented with the information to do what we this was also presented in some detail by Steve I move that we approve the form of the loose Second. All in favor? I. So, next we'll move on to item N, and that is the uh co-op special education agreement. I'll turn it over to Dr. So, um I don't know when this was last amended, but it's been quite some time. I think it was about the time uh once upon a time at that point that was before. So that was years ago. So what this is is um for you know I know you know but um the public so we have a special ed co-op
052that we provide services education services to life school students and so um students are bust in from other corporations um and so in order to pay the bills and to establish um what our needs are what our goals are etc we have a quarterly meeting with the with the governor board so we went through this um and we made some modifications. One of the modifications was at one point and and this was actually during my tenure, we provided behavior um support for all of the other corporations. We we no longer provide that. So that was taken out. Um and there are some other things that I covered with the board that were that were put in some of the things that was important to us. And I'll give you one of them and that is
053um you know any anytime a corporation would want to join um our special ed co in the past it was just a straight vote and if um and we're the ones that service all of the students so Newcastle services all of the students but um we wanted to make sure that it was appropriate for Newcastle when it was good for Newcastle. So, we put in there in that language that as long as the the hosting school or the administrative school corporation agreed to it, the other corporations could um they could make a vote and if it was in favor that we would accept that corporation. So, just some some small subtle changes like that. All right. So, at this time, do I have a motion? So, move. All in favor? I Uh next we'll move
054into the uh building ground transportation and support services uh second. So we have a quite a few projects uh going on right now especially as we get to summer. A lot of things going on at buildings with custodians and and maintenance crew getting things wrapped up from the end of the year, but then also think about preparing for next year. So, a lot of deep cleaning going on, waxing floors, a lot of work that's taking place to to do all that. Uh, high school restroom project is nearing completion. Um, they're at the point where there's a lot of pieces that are going to move pretty quickly. So, a lot of things they've already done take quite a while, but they're starting to move into pieces that are going to move pretty fast. The track project
055is moving along. They're going to be doing uh four samples uh around the track just to make sure that they have everything they need to have everything level and have all the pieces that they need to make sure we can move forward with that quickly. Um the CC roof as was mentioned we got that completed. Um and we're still waiting on paperwork but from as you can see it's done now. Uh the fieldhouse floor as was mentioned earlier as well. That is being that's that was started today. That that uh not really replacement as much as overlay is getting taken care of. And then as Jim, if you've been by there, all of the bleachers are gone. So all the bleachers have been removed and they're starting on that project with painting uh finishing that
056floor, putting bleachers in there as well. That will happen throughout this summer. And of course all of our um support services with uh the food service and transportation and everyone they're all uh preparing for next school year those who are doing uh year round work and uh we're starting right now to plan for those meetings to start the school year. So that's kind of where we're sitting. Adam and I know you said this before but I can write it down. When are we starting the building with restries in it that's so we are working we have utilized the architects and they are doing a tweaking on the design because they want to work with the students to part of that process. So we're currently they're finishing that up right now but we have enough information
057that we should be able to start excavating anytime to get that All right. So, next we'll go to the superintendent's report. So, I will start with I think what is some good news and before we get to the slides and that is um we uh it was requested how many vacancies do we currently have and we have three elementary vacancies. Uh we've got one middle school vacancy and um a school psychologist. Those are really hard to find. So at this point um our vacancies are limited and that's probably the best we since I've been here probably at least amount of dispens that's really good um on my way prek um that that there's article on the paper recently that has um result that will result in in reduced funding. Um we're committed to having the
058prek program continue. we've got, you know, we've got a weight list on every school. It's not going to affect um, you know, us in terms of having the program. Uh, it just mean that we have less people that qualify for the bachelors and we'll evaluate at the end of the year in terms of financial impact on that because we really don't know, but it came up as several times. So, um, we're committed to having the program just like it was last year and we'll we'll evaluate it. 21st CCLC. This is more of a federal one. We're we're monitoring that one and that is uh the after school programming that's free during the summer and during the after school for Parker Glober and Eastwood. Once again, that's a federal program. We don't know the extent of
059where that's going. But we did get the the 1.4 million. We're hopeful that we take that title one as another federal program. So far they're good reports. We're going to be able to protect that and that that's really important for us. So that's good news as well. I run and I get some good I results very happy with that. It's embargoed. So but in the future board meeting we'll we'll share that. And then lastly is is that the new grading system uh the state is going through um the um process of establishing the rubrics uh in terms of the grading system. Uh, and we really don't know. I I I had an opportunity at one of our meetings to Katie Jenner is very accessible and the one thing that I did ask her to know
060and I shared this with the board is please consider growth because um without growth uh if we're just looking at proficiency um it makes it solely not solely but but largely according to the zip code as opposed to um you know looking at other other variables such as how we done with student achievement in terms of their their growth. So hopefully that that will be a a big part of that. Um so and uh let's go forward here. Oh, it's working now. Okay. So um this is this is a a unique one. I know a lot of people knew Jackson. He was a great rambunctious uh energetic kid. Um and sadly he passed away one of our middle school students. uh but uh he was a a former student at Westwood and so they named
061um the game after him and also uh the field. So when the the seniors came back so they were you can see his jersey up there. So it's kind of neat to see something named after him. He's a great man. So, graduation 2025, uh, $471 worth of scholarships were given out. Really proud of our graduates. 400,000. Yes. Thousand. I'm sorry. I'm trying to go quickly and I left I lapped off three zeros. So, um, but you know, we can add them back. Um, 471,000 scholarships uh dollars worth of scholarships will give away. And that's not just including the great work that the the high school did with um uh saving students on their ICC, their Indiana College Bo, one year credit and then also associates degrees. Any any comments on that one? We had our
062highest totals that we've had each year. It's gone up and up. So get these kids more college credit, more relevant college credit and save more money. And I'm really proud of that. And I know some of you have done some research on on other corporations. We won't mention them, but there's some really really affluent corporations out there that don't do nearly what we do. So, I'm really proud of that. Um, speaking of being proud, uh, these four youth were um, recognized at graduation and they're all going to armed services. So, you know, thank them for their for their service. Um, the bulldog say goodbye. Looks like a fun time. And uh uh looks like Mr. Lah is pulling his weight there. He's in action. So that's that's awesome. I chuckled when I saw that. So
063um this was kind of cool. As the fifth graders from Panther Parker were preparing for their moving onset celebration or ceremony. They were treated to cosmetology. They got haircuts and whatnot. That was a kind of deal and it was a good experience for our cosmetology students as well. Uh field day saw on field light day. Um so some cool pictures there. Kids having fun getting sensed up. Um teachers at pivot. This is one of those things where we're hoping that we can have um title two. Title 2 pays for a lot and Cherry does a fantastic job with getting our people into various venues. So, um we're really hopeful that title two fun continue because we do some good work on NPD and I appreciate our teachers. Um tennis champs, uh the ladies there did
064had a great year. We did win sectional, but we we lost in regionals to Fisers. So, hold there no SW. So that's good. Um, boys basketball, they went to Mackie Arena and spent up some time there and they look sweaty. They look but it's good. It's good. Um, Camp Better Futures. Uh, that's middle school and this is I think the third year we've done this. Um, and so I want to thank Molly Bates and Katie Brown for putting that together. It is it is really really cool and the kids love it. So, my grandson's doing that. I want to thank this is this one's kind of Mr. McDaniel's baby here, the the um uh the A institute. You want to you want to say a word on that? Well, it's it's been really an exciting
065process to bring on the community partners, community industry partners that they work on this with us next year. The students you see there are going to be participating in uh receiving instruction specifically from those industry partners are going to come into the school provide instruction about their industry of their where they work to prepare those students to then be interns the following year. So it's it's pretty neat the opportunity students are going to have um and partnerships we have the community as well as it's pretty techy too. It's not just, you know, it's there's a lot of tech. They have a they'll be taking drone classes. Uh and then pick a graduation that was Saturday and um really proud of these young men and women 22 week program that was in Bundy auditorium and I
066thought it was a really nice celebration. I want to brag on Dr. Fton and I will say the year before we took over the academic responsibilities at at um they had and I won't say what the school was but they had two students graduate from the program with a high school diploma. So it and you can see the green man green right there. And a lot of students come back for they stay with it virtually and they they graduated and then they graduate. They graduated with um a Newcastle diploma. And so um so they had two the the corporation before us. This past year we had 24 students graduated with a high school diploma. So they went from two before us to 24 this year. Um and so we actually had one student that set
067a record. He had 18 high school credits going toward graduation. So, great job on him and staff. So, does everybody know who he is? Is he in the room? I didn't even see him. I was talking about you. Okay. Okay. So, next we'll move to the uh budget portion and this will just be the uh transfer from the education to the operations fund. So, we'll have um two resolutions uh this month that we're meeting. The first will be for May expenses. Um those that total came out to $335,000 and again that will be transferred from the education funds to the operations funds. We reimburse the operations because it's not allocated to student instruction. So, you can start with that. uh for your approval on the transfer of 35,000. So moved. Second. All in favor? I.
068And then next we'll move on to the education fund and operations for the June participated. Correct. So um we close out the end of June of the fiscal year and those totals are reported to DOE. Um, and so in order to close out, um, need to approve a transfer up to an amount of $320,000 to cover the June 2025 expenses. Again, a transfer from the education fund to operations. And then in July, I'll report back to the board the actual amount that's been transferred. Uh, staying within 15. So move. Second. All in favor? I. All right. So at this time uh the last part of the meeting is for public questions and comments. And if you have any of those I just ask that you know that you have three minute timer you can stand
069up state your name and your uh your address. And at that time at this time we'll turn it over to the public for any comments. I was just going to say um report he said it but I just wanted to make sure everyone was clear they reinstating you talked about grading schools that's the A through F the state does for our school district's grades he said it and is the HC working because I All right. So, if anybody has anything to say, now would be the time for I do. My name is Kylie Brown. Um I'm not Do I have to give you my address? Yeah. Okay. Um 331 North Street, New Passia. Um on some of these like So it says standard of care and supervision of students. Um how right here batch board
070sorry personal background checks and mandatory reporting. As far as like if there is somebody in the building with my child and they have a criminal record, at what point do you guys have to disclose it to our parents? They're not in the building. They're not in the They're not Yeah, they wouldn't pass the background. They shouldn't be in the building at all. Well, your new cheer coach has a background. She was impersonating a public servant on my case. So, um, my child was in cheer trial with her. So, laws, I mean, it it's a it's a problem. Yeah. dismissed cases are not um are not um you know they don't count towards you know so so if a if a case is dismissed um then it is not legally they're not they're not they've been
071charged with it perhaps but they have been adjud adjudicated it was dropped so there so therefore the state didn't have enough um and I I I can't speak toward any one case Um uh so because that wouldn't be appropriate, you know, because we don't talk about personnel here if we but we can talk about and you and I have talked at least once, probably twice. Um so um you know, we do review those. So even though it it would pass a an extended and a limited. So we run two different kind of background checks. We've got an extended background check and and a limited. Both of those would pass the background check because it would be um it would be um not um what's the legal word for you have to be either convicted by
072admission or by a trial by trial. And so dismissed prior to either of those then it's not it's not admissible I guess not admissible in in a background check. Um, so and then on here it said because a lot of things have came to light as you guys didn't recall it, but it says commercial driver's license and safety positions for like so like the coach from two years ago. This is and I told Jacob like this is my big issue with all this is that we're going to go back to when Libby was the head coach of cheer and did not have a driver's license and drove my child on a bus. the school gave her a bus license without a driver's license and nobody contacted us on this. Money was stolen. Um there was
073text sent to me personally that each kid needed to pay $125 for comp fees. 125 total to enter state and school paid for that. Nobody from higher up anywhere reached out to any of us parents and the coaches report they couldn't talk more about it. I don't know about coaches talking about it. I don't Everybody was told they couldn't talk about it. Libby wasn't even convicted of anything but told but made to pay back money to the school. I don't think it's appropriate legally to talk about because I can talk in general. I can talk general. Pardon? I said we're at a school board meeting discussing things that you have on hand. So I can but not not individuals and not their if you want to if you want to mention something you can say
074you know what should contact those parents that are kids have been on a bus with somebody that doesn't have a license. So if we're not if we're not aware of the fact it's it's hard to and I don't know that we were aware of that. Oh, you said Jacob White was completely aware. So told to talk to him. So I have talked to him and it doesn't go anywhere. Well, what what we can do is we can look into those and sometimes uh we'll do some back gathering uh to make sure that the timelines and and those things line up because uh if someone's license gets suspended, I don't think that we get notified of that. Uh the only way they would the only way that we would be able to uh avoid that is
075if um if they were to request a a lensure or certification on like one of the the small team buses at that point that would be part of our process to to validate a driver's license but we can look into that whether all all the specifics of that. We we run annual MBRS on individuals, but I think any court or jurisdiction would say it's not reasonable to run a daily or monthly NBR. So like I mean if we run an MDR on January 1 and someone gets a license suspended in February and we're not notified, it could be a few months before we discover that in our routine process. But we are doing that. like I can attest that we are doing. I believe and I will check on this but I believe that after
076this we put in policy that if you drive students you must notify based upon us on a violation suspension. I believe that we put that in there. Um, and did you question for you did you did you follow up and and you um did you follow up with him or Logan in terms of the newest request? I have reached Yes. and I did not get anything back. Um, that's why in the email I told you guys when you guys speak with Jacob or the AD or any of those that that's fine. I will um more than happy to but not when I have 100 times. But you did you did sense my response. All right. Does anybody else Oh, thank you. One, thank you for doing that. It takes a lot of courage. I've been
077in that. I've been on that side of things uh numerous times before. So, um we need to know about those things. We need to know about those opinions and those concerns so that we can we can look into it and uh whether it whether um what comes from that can be can be it can vary uh depending on the circumstances. So um like we said safety uh knowing who's in our schools is obviously paramount to us. Um we you know we just approved a 1.2 million from from just that standpoint let alone a a personnel standpoint. So, um, so yeah, appreciate that and that'll be looked in looked into and followed up on. So, does anybody else have anything? All right. this stuff in the meeting.