001call this meeting the order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge 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 all please be seated and let the record reflect that all uh board members are present today for our March 2025 regular meeting of the rbbc um and are there any visitors to make visitors comments nope DR Sanders you want to introduce the Mustang moment uh yes uh this is uh as you could tell if you walked in and look down the hallway uh you could see uh some of the projects that uh are uh being made and have been made in the uh ilc design and we we have Lisa Wilson
002and some of our amazing high school students who are here and going to talk about that so uh I'll just introduce Lisa good evening a few years ago uh rbb school board and administrators had the vision to create an Innovative Learning Center here at Edgewood High School it's a dream come true for us all in the few years since your students have launched amazing initiatives and projects to serve our classroom rooms campus and Community I hope you saw some of them out there we've been able to combine the resources generously provided by our school and Community to create build innovate recycle reuse repair projects far too many to mention here and in addition our Edgewood print shop and Retail Center have opened to serve our staff teams clubs and local businesses in incredible and affordable
003ways to further meet our mission to be self-funded to support our interns and the ilc staff and learning more about future careers in architecture engineering interior design mechanical engineering design robotics along with retail sales and Manufacturing we brought over just a few things that we had lots of them are gone but we brought over a few things and I've asked a few of our amazing interns to be here today I've provided a partial list in your stakeholders report and the highlights for this year so far include Opening Our retail shop to full service embroidery engraving and direct to film t-shirts and sweatshirts designing and Manufacturing cook medal medical International Awards as well as our own Eis trophies and Color Run trophies we repaired the gym kayak that had a hole in it with melted recycled
004plastic and yes I did make the interns put on swimsuits and try those try that out and they did great and it floated um blueprint and model designs of several local commercial new constructions and remodels we took collected recycled plastic Lids that you see here and some donations from cook polymer and you see that we've already are starting to build with those a stick chair that you can sit in we trust you to sit in I sat in myself I was a little nervous at first but it it's amazing and they've done a great job a from scratch design of an eem style chair that you saw in progress out there we repair things we repaired things from broken glasses to teacher piano benches to the jour's classroom exercise bike we do the digital promotions
005for the commons TV we are reholstering the junior high weight room benches numerous club and Team poster designs and t-shirt printing I can show you all these things but I cannot show you the behind the scenes how much time and energy these students have put in to make this program Thrive the hours at home the plustime schedule the after school hours to build create laugh at failures attempts the wins and the try agains I cannot show you that nothing you see here is from a kit or purchase plan I cannot show you that the results you see here are true Innovation I cannot show you how they work to get new machines up and running unboxed ready to go repairs and maintenance I cannot show you how they spend time with clients assessing their needs
006and collaborating on Solutions but I can show you the results of this those kids and you have helped raise and support amazing kids in chasing their dreams thank you for this opportunity to serve rbb schools and Community your support encouragement and your purchases from ilc designs online have meant the world to us and we are forever grateful today I have three that are going to be speaking Ren milck is our design lead uh Ellie Lewis is our retail manager lead just for there just I as him say just a few words of what they've been doing and Gabby Buckley our engineering lead hello everyone I am Ren milck as uh Miss Wilson said I'm a senior here at Edward high school and I'm also the head designer of the ilc so a lot of what
007she just talked about has went through me at one point another uh I've worked with tons of clubs around Edgewood uh I can name like the unified bot ball team that we designed their shirts for and in the ilc it's really helpful because we can design the shirt get responses back and forth really quickly and then deliver the shirt in school to the teacher and get their response in person which is really cool I've also worked with a lot of clubs like the environmental club last year we worked on a project together and we were able able to fund raise for the club it was really cool and they really got all the proceeds out of it um we've also worked with lots of uh outside of school uh like cook we've worked with uh
008Lemonade Day recently we've helped design shirts for the lemon Council and like Miss Wilson said we've helped with the cook International trophies which was a huge project and I think we stayed after school like like two hours or three hours after it was a very long time of just working on trophies not even talking it was very nerve-wracking but we got them done by the deadline and it was really exciting um through my time I've also just gotten to work on communication with lots of people uh specifically different companies and how to interact uh professionally and just it's really helped a lot of my skills that I know will help me in the future in whatever job I hope to go in and I've also helped work on the retail enter some but Ellie can
009tell you a little bit more about that so my name is Ellie Lewis I'm also a senior um and I am the retail lead so um I want to talk a little bit about like past present and future of the retail Center um so this is my first year uh as an intern with the ilc so I think both of them had the opportunity to intern last year so I I kind of jumped in in the middle of things um and so within my first month uh Mrs Wilson approached me about um helping her get the retail Center up and running and so um I believe it was the old um Edge space um is where we now inhabit um and so we took all of our equipment um from our uh like workspace in
010the ilc um and transported it over to that room and it was a little slow to start we were hoping to get it up and running before winter break um but there were some complications some things that slowed us down and um especially with all the construction going on it it made things a little complicated but we came back from winter break um and I'm happy to say that our retail Center is now up and running um we do take orders um our website is fully functioning and has been now for uh quite some time um but it's it's really exciting um we do things like embroidery um this thing called DTF which I think is direct to film um we print and press t-shirts um sweatshirts shirts hoodies we can embroider um hats um
011it's been really exciting to have this up and running um and to get the experience of of kind of starting that up and what all needs to go into that and and what needs to happen in order for things to work um we've had a lot of Kinks that have uh uh gotten in our way especially on uh some of our larger orders that we've had um I think our largest order was the t-shirts that we did um that were the team horic shirts um which I think really meant a lot to a lot of people um but that order was very large and it it was great to see but there were a lot of things that had to happen and a lot of people that had to work very very hard um to
012make sure that we we could complete that and make sure that um what needed to happen uh was done um and in the future we are hoping to open up that uh retail space um to students and staff to be able to order from during school day during um sporting events other things that may be happening um at the school or on campus um so the goal is to have uh specific items just generic Edgewood apparel stocked um in the retail Center um and then people can also see the process of how we make the shirts so that's a little bit about that um and Gabby I think is going to talk a little bit about the engineering side of things hi good evening uh my name's Gabrielle Buckley and I'm head of the engineering
013team over at the ilc and I just want to start by saying we have just done so many incredible things this year we've done so many project where we've all worked with each other we've had a clutch model that was completely designed um by 3D print by Audrey Graham and it's her first year she actually switched to engineering halfway through the year and then made that which is quite incredible we've had Cameron young who's turned uh the old digital clocks at the school into a scoreboard that's being used for a coffee Corral project and again it's his first year as well and we've had a dust collector system that's being used on the cad machine created by jayen ludman Cohen Bell and Isaiah cherry and I mean these three boys they barely knew each other
014and all of a sudden they were thrown into a project together and I mean they're creating some pretty incredible things and so I think that's one of the biggest goals in the ilc is to really just let students open up to all the their possibilities and all the things that they're able to do uh I completely changed my major after going into the ilc and now I'm never been so sure about something in my life and I'm so excited to go to college knowing exactly what I want to do and I mean our goals are to really promote Outreach to the community and create things for people all across the community but more importantly it's to really show what students can do before they're being sent off to college and just show all the opportunities
015that they're able to give the school and I mean I've learned so many things that I never thought I'd be able to do and it's just incredible having such a good Mentor Mrs Wilson she's one of the greatest people I've ever met truly and honestly and it's just really it's a great feeling to be thrown into something so new but to be able to thrive in a way you never thought possible and I can say that about any other intern in there we are all thriving in so many different ways I mean we have Ren creating furniture and we have Ellie being lead of a retail Center and I'm sure that they went into it not thinking that they could do that and so again that's just one of our biggest goals in there is
016it's not just producing products but it's really showing what students are able to do and again just getting them more set up for college cuz I mean it's a completely different thing getting to really do things with your own hands and really getting to create things and we have so many different types of engineering specifically just in our program I mean there's mechanical engineering uh we've had kind of construction woodworking we had it with this chair right here that was created from uh bottle caps and we've also been able to do a lot of Outreach with other companies cook has been giving us plastic and we've been figuring out ways to utilize that plastic to make more products so we're not just using the bottle caps from the school but we're also trying to work
017with another company that's you know you they don't need all of this extra plastic right now but we're really trying to use it to promote uh you know going green in Edgewood and once again just showing all the things that we're really capable of doing and so again I think one of the most important things about the ilc is really just outreaching to the community but also really promoting the imagination and creativity that students are able to use without you know restricting them to Super strict guidelines or anything like that and so yeah I think that's probably everything I can say specifically mention cam has been into you want to describe that project just a little bit oh my goodness this poor kid um he he has been thrown into I mean I can't he
018has spent so much time working on this he has gone he's brought it home and he's worked on it at his house he's worked in it over the weekends he's been you took down to replace with new ones you guys so they're stacking up there and he completely dismantled and figured out how to turn it into a scoreboard the wires and the program it's am so congratulations on that work especially it's I mean it's truly an accomplishment if you saw a picture of all the wires that are in that's it is it is just crazy he sent a picture earlier to me today and I was like this is insane I can never but I mean again that's just one of the greatest things you go in they're thinking I can never do this and
019then you walk out and you get to look around the school and say hey I did that or hey I created that or hey I had a part in that and it's again it's one of the greatest feelings I think a kid can have so yeah do you guys have any questions at all anything you like ask and J also is here another intern who was uh introduced to wood turning recently I brought my leg from home I'm like every kid should do this and they all made their own we had some Walnut scraps left over from the trophies um that we made for cook and they were tiny little and all of them made their own bowls um there was a little bit of a a wrestling match of who was going to get
020through the LA next um so that on our purchase list of things we hope we can get but Joselyn made the last two days this happens to be lot Cherry he's a sophomore um what you see here when I say we have not we don't use kits uh this kid created this delivery Droid completely with Arduino um if if we had were on Wi-Fi he would be able to drive that not even present uh delivery drones and droids are our future um so I'm happy to show that lton has completely programmed this we're still in Prototype um but this is not a kit as a reminder this is completely all kinds of wires inside and I do believe Dr sers you may have a delivery in that you might want to open up the top
021and check that out this is from our joint effort from the coffee [Laughter] Corral great job so we hope to uh bring you more ideas more Innovations of how we can make this campus one we want to serve the campus and again we do believe that the uh future is in delivery and we have lots of kids excited about seeing that today it was revealed when Jennifer was busy in an interview and her face was couldn't quite believe it and we were super excited um all that is from scratch there the 3D print the design we all did in AutoCAD um he learned all the Arduino himself um there's a camera hookup that we can remote and communicate independently again it's not just say I'm right behind it this was completely designed that it can
022be ran from a completely different office um in one building to another so we're super excited to for the big reveal today so great job L thank you ladies you were amazing thank you before they get away I can't can't wait just to go home and tell Mrs Damas about your presentation tonight because she's going to be thrilled and not surprised in the least but she's going to be thrilled to hear about [Music] this oh looks like I've got [Laughter] a yes thank you well just so exciting because you know you don't know what all is going on over there and I mean I had no clue of how vast uh the the projects you guys are doing are and how advanced in your presentations tonight were like they're professionals I wonder where their degrees
023are now they play practice I asked them earlier what they what what they do with their free time and ran to play practice and they come here to serve you and then they're headed back to play practice had he's been busy so you're raising amazing kids and thank you for your support of thec we are thank you all because you know that amazing feeling you have in life when you uh realize that a dream that you've had comes true as as these girls were talking that's I mean my I Goosebumps because especially when Gabby said that uh about changing her major and she never felt more sure about what she wants to do in life that's what this is all about and um and these guys work so hard if you ever walk over to
024the ilc during the day it's a it's a bustling happening place it's you know have you ever seen a a downtown you know City where just people are working and moving everywhere and that's the ilc and uh this is where the these students are um they're creating they're they're practicing their what they want to do in life um and these are all students that are very active uh obviously being in the in the play and show choir uh Ren were you last night up singing at the Pacers game and I don't know who else was there I was up in nose bed seats uh but uh and it all comes you know uh comes down to having the right people I tell this story all the time uh 200 um 19 uh 20 that was
025kind of our planning year for ready schools and so we visited um a student run businesses from Tennessee to Wisconsin and uh I remember uh going to when we were in Wisconsin and we got to sit down at lunch and talk to some of the seniors and they had a machining shop where they uh you know I don't know really I don't know why they call it Machining but it's it's working with metal and creating products uh equipment for businesses and the young gentleman that I spoke to that that day uh was going into nursing and uh so I said okay um I don't get it how's a student student who wants to be in the nursing field someday working in a like a metal Machining shop and he said well uh he goes I'm
026learning uh skills of how to talk uh to a customer uh how to uh problem solve um how to uh collaborate with others and all these uh skills I'm learning in this student run business I can apply to being a nurse and that's what this is all about I don't know what these young gentlemen want to do for their career someday but um it's these are all skills that they can apply to whatever dreams they chase and uh so that was a vision back in 2019 2020 and to hear uh these uh students talk about what they're doing and going over there and and watching them and uh it's just it truly is a a dream come true also Inc great work for us so I apologize go I did not see you over there
027um also an engineering intern going to Purdue um it really solidified what he wanted to do and uh he's just done amazing design work and uh it's just it's exciting to see these kids I've known them also since they were little and uh and seeing them find paths and things that they love or don't love um is just a pathway that we are so grateful for and uh thank you for making that happen thank you so much thank you thanks guys appreciate it great job great job good job everybody you guys thank you so much well you're welcome to stay for the whole meeting we won't mind if you do and thanks for the bubble drink where's m there was room for four boy wow oh one more thing uh Mr President be sure to
028uh check out the stockholders uh report it's very informative and uh you also received a gift of a keychain made over there too very nice very nice aome okay now we got to get to business yeah so um the first item up is our consent agenda and it includes the minutes for February 17th 2025 the regular board meeting um the treasurers report for February of 2025 and Mr derold the claims please thank you sir submit for for approval gross wages on February the 14th 202 for 28 $221,200 6474 for a total there of 1,631 1866.666656 2025 for 500 8,587 for a total there of 2,597 3764 for a grant total of 3,691 6414 I submit for approval thank you sir appr we also have person resignations retirements non renewals leaves and terminations C1 through 21
029and and Personnel uh appointments and transfers D1 to 10 we're excited about having four donations um trippa is uh trappa Epsilon is avishv is always a a big sponsor and they are doing $100 to each the student assistant funds the junior high spring uh Student Art Show and the junior high robotics for supplies um there's also a donation from Boston Scientific uh to robotics of $600 and there are two out of state and overnight field trips and uh would you go over those two for us uh DR Sanders the Trips Trips yeah yeah so uh we have uh a group of students at the high school uh called uh it's called elots Uh Edgewood leaders uh uh for of tomorrow's students and uh the these uh students go to Bradford Woods uh when the fifth
030graders go and uh they uh just interact with the fifth graders uh Mentor them provide them some leadership and uh just provide a good example uh for them and they're a big help to the uh classroom teachers to have them there so so that's the elots and uh the other one is uh our Junior High robotics team going to the Nationals and I'm going to ask Kelly Grimes to come up and uh she has some students here and talk about that a little bit and that that uh Phil trip request form I emailed to you it wasn't in the board packet but you have a copy there at your desk there so I'm Kelly Grimes I'm the uh junior High robotics coach um have been for the last seven years and we are requesting your
031permission to take five of our students from the junior high to Council Bluffs Iowa For and they've actually changed the name of the tournament it was Nationals now it's World Championship so um they've upgraded it this last over the last year um we would be leaving it would be a driving day for April 2nd and then we'd have the tournament third fourth and fifth and return by that Monday for class um I wanted to introduce to you Liam Kirsten and Garrison olet uh we are here to answer any questions you have and um these I'll let them answer the questions first and if they need a little help I'll I'll step up and help them come on up can you describe the task that you have this year I know it changes every year so
032this year it's played with with the same field but with four go walls and a loading zone it's three balls but only two on the field you have two robots alliancing your goal is to pass the ball which is getting one robot touching the ball and the next robot touching the ball and then scoring it clearing switches and the ball can be dropped through the ball loader and you also have an extra person this year called loaders on either side passing the ball from the goal to the ball loader which gets it back into the field I've been in it for three years all all of Edwood and one year in E I believe I've been in ROK for like four years two years in Eis and the others in Junior so they are part
033of that pathway that we were discussing earlier um we're kind of the middle in the middle part make it to well we won a competition like of this T of the competing in this task and then we got invited from Iowa to compete at this tournament many competitions were you in this year Well we only won one but I believe w we WN three four maybe yeah three four at least four I think your team was in five yeah and you were in four what's the biggest obstacle that you had to overcome this year passing in the game cuz it depends on the robot that you're with if how easy it is to score points so they are teamed up with another team and each time they uh go up for a match it's a
034new team and so they have to communicate and collaborate and strategize and all of those things together and then while they're playing this year this is kind of new while they were playing they had to communicate um amongst themselves or else you know the loader wouldn't know what to do or the drivers wouldn't know what was going on so it was really exciting this year to see the game kind of up that communication and collaboration part during the competition do you have to step away and the kids do it or can you help out as well I'm not even allowed to yell anything to them except yay yeah we're not allowed to say anything and we're not allowed to argue anything either so if something goes wrong which it did at State and they had
035to argue um something it has to be the students who do it once they walk away it's over and the interesting part about robotics is you're you have have to work with the other team mhm now the world's is this the same did you say this is the same as worlds but it's called Nationals they've changed it to say worlds now it used to be Nationals and then worlds was in Dallas now evidently there are two worlds okay will there be teams from uh other countries uh Hong Kong in this one um the last time we went there were teams from South Korea also so but this time it looks like Hong Kong and then a lot of Western and Midwestern states that's the other cool aspect is you have to sometimes you have to
036communicate with uh but you don't speak the same language well and what I have seen is that the the design of robots can be so varied everybody has their own approach and and so figuring out how to how to work with the different many times at our tournaments yeah you you've seen a lot yeah team has a every team from all these other places have the same initial kit right they have the same access to everything everything and then that's when they all right so here's the harder question what's super mega Alliance that sounds like the fun part it will be fun where normally it's two teams working together and then they're bringing in a four Team Challenge also but the super mega is I don't even remember how many teams and they all have
037to talk and communicate you're working with other school corporations yeah from States and everything yeah all right pretty neat that's pretty neat yeah and it will be online so we'll send you the okay cool cool yeah that'll be fun we'll have fun with that thank you thank you enjoy Iowa too yes hopefully it'll be warmer yeah yeah true thanks for coming yes thank you very much thank you good luck thank you good luck second Jacob's motion to approve agenda all right that's all right moved in second uh any further discussion is that is that I did if I read right this is the school is not providing Transportation it's the parents correct okay yeah for yours okay so you got enough parent chaperon and all that okay good good good deal all right thank you
038all those fa say I I oppose motion carries DR Sanders would you like to talk about a few of these items uh yes I would like to talk about um four individuals um uh we have two resignations that I just wanted to to make special mention of these folks um uh Marcy Jones who's taught sixth grade social studies and has been at the junior high for uh 17 years and uh her and her husband are going uh on a what how she describes a New Journey uh they're moving out of state and uh and appreciate uh all that Marcy's done for students at Junior High and then uh Becky uh Meyers um who has turned in a resignation she's uh has been a spe sped teacher at uh Edgewood High School for 25 years uh
039she accepted a position at Bloomfield and more for family reasons uh and uh so uh we're going to miss uh Becky very much she's just been a key part of of uh the um the excellent way that that we provide services uh to our special education students uh and then uh also Gary Sims who's uh uh retiring from he's retired from from teaching but he continued coaching and so Gary is going to retire uh from being our girls basketball coach and I just love to watch Gary on the sidelines uh coaching our girls and uh he really cares about his players uh you could tell he does a good job relating to them and a good job coaching and we're going to miss him and then of course uh Brenda Whitaker who uh has been
040a a principal at Edwood Primary School uh for 18 years she's been in education for 28 and uh she is uh going to be retiring and uh she will be uh just really hard to to fill that position um uh I uh when she announced it to her staff it wasn't 10 minutes later that my daughter who's a teacher at Edwood primary school called and was really upset uh about that and uh so uh we're we're going to do something special to recognize Brenda uh she's actually headed I think to St Louis tonight uh for a family event so she couldn't be here but we will definitely do something to recognize her uh and make sure she's present when we do that but most interactions with Brenda though uh Gary Sims uh when he was
041teaching um I guess my daughter didn't think that he was seeing her wanting help so she held up this big sign I need help and he he he had it and he brought it to her graduation party and so um that was he was he definitely had a wonderful sense of humor and really really connected and you know I always love when I see teachers or principles uh show up at uh graduation and other High School events um and I've seen Brenda do that too that you know they understand that even though they're at the primary level that what they do is so foundational to the success of our students uh all through their grades and and uh in life yeah and I always want to recognize Brenda's work at the new eecc building was
042her dream um she passed that on to to to us and um and she uh one time I met with her in her office early on uh being a board member and she pointed to that field and she said that's what uh needed to be needed to go there well it's going there and to me it's because she had that dream that Vision so I'm just so so happy for her uh her retirement but you know we are going to miss her but again I think she needs to receive the credit for that Vision CU that was hers so and then the donation did you want oh yes um well I was going to mention about the donation to Boston Scientific uh from Boston Scientific and in my superintendent report I'm going to talk a
043little bit about um uh our visit to Boston Scientific um and they are one of our partners in the biomed training uh project and uh uh they surprised us uh in presenting a check to us uh upon that visit uh to our robotics team and uh so they're a big reason why they're getting to go uh and they funding that that trip so thank you um we'll move on to the assistant superintendent report Mr Irwin um education fund uh expenses and payroll and U with benefits and everything came in really close to expected uh the claims have started out a little higher this year and they asked to do with mostly the timing of curricular material costs and renewals um remember we had the 900 fund dissolve move those costs into the education fund so
044those have continued to to roll in and then just getting into the timing of some of those things as we continue to make adjustments to what it is that we need or don't need or the timing of those renewals trying to get them on a cycle so that it makes things more productive at the start of the school year or there's not a loss of services in between there's a lot to manage there and uh Jen Barrett and Rick have done a great job with helping to organize that so those things have been rolling in and then as well as just um you know more absences or filling absence Kelly Services as far as those cost too contributed to a little B higher and they've done a great job with fill rates um as it
045as it relates to this school year um investment income was right about in line with projections it's it's stayed pretty stable it's not quite as high as what it was last year that was expected but again it stayed in a in a um very good place for us one of the biggest changes was the change in tuition support they finally reconciled our December one count which is our special education student count um and so um we I put that in there in the the email to you guys with some of this in there but they reconcile that and so they have to back fund all of that to what would have been the beginning of of the the fiscal year so they backf fund that and then it changes the the formula moving forward we
046had about 19 more students this year than what we had the year before which with the changes in what the current funding formula is for this budget year it was a change of about $61,000 in total revenue that comes into the fund um that was one of the bigger changes again we're we're in great shape um there's a lot left up in the air for the remainder of the year as you guys know with legislative changes to see you know where things land obviously in a budget year and we'll continue to monitor that I've I've kept a a very stable small you know 2% increase which might quite frankly end up being too high and so I might need to even reduce that down depending on what they end up approving legislatively but believe it
047or not we're about 5 weeks away from from from that concluding so some of that information will start to roll in um and we'll start to fine-tune some of those projections and variables as we know what's uh more concrete uh all in all we're in a good good place we have great cash balances still showing us eating into cash I don't foresee that to be an issue with with our level of cash balance at this point we just need to be uh cognizant of it and continue to manage it um moving over to The Debt Service fund no activity in that fund at all during the month of February that's normal you guys know that there's very little uh activity in that fund throughout the year except for when it's you know receiving in funds
048and then paying out uh uh Bond payments and Debt Service payments so um moving over into the operations fund again things continue to flow around uh nicely um costs continue to come in on on track still have a a great handle on those things we did make our our payment on our uh yearly premium for property liability casuality insurance so that landed in in last month's claims um the timing of buses and when they come in this year will affect when you what you see as far as the claims numbers and operations through the year as they e and flow that's you know a big predictor when you're talking about a bus that's excess of $100,000 and showing up and when that hits we'll most likely end up paying for about three buses out of
049the operations because you remember there was one of the buses that we ordered for 20124 that never showed up so that you know moves forward into the new budget year so we'll we'll uh look to do that right now uh one of the buses has shown up um we've got word that the two other buses we should expect probably this coming month and maybe the next one even the month after that so you know that's obviously a lot different than what we've experienced but it doesn't really matter for us at this point whether or not they showed up in April or they showed up in November from a standpoint of cash more so helps us operationally the sooner we get them the better so that's a good thing that's a that's a good thing overall
050um so again sitting in a good place there um continues to be very consistent and then again just monitoring what the the impact of legislative changes are as far as how it affects decisions that we make down the road but again we're in a great place we're in a lot better place than a lot of other school corporations that will allow us to adapt to some of those things as that as they become material and we understand what they're going to be so with that I'll I'll take any questions so we've already we've already appropriated from previous years for the two two of the three buses all three bus will fit within the appropriation that we have we carried those funds for we encumbered whatever yeah we encumbered funds we we encumbered those funds and
051those buses yeah yeah yeah one of them I think was uh close to 18 months so then we the three buses that that are being replaced are we going to sell those three one of them one of them was one that was a tradein but then we'll have a couple of buses that we end up Serling okay okay we just auction them off yeah so can we do the so can we get rid of those trailers down or two then you will be so those are surplused one of them didn't uh we didn't have anybody uh sell on those uh the one uh the one trailer uh we've got someone that's interested in it and it quite frankly we probably be one of those situations where it' be better off because of the cost it
052would take to salvage it scrap it get it moved have someone move it to to find someone that will do that for themselves for a minimal cost for just taking the trailer because there's not much value to it at all um the other trailer we're working um with Mr Wells to see if there's any bands that he know that maybe have interest in it for using it for intermediary period so he's reaching out to different people uh we didn't have any takers on it on the surplus auction site so we're kind of looking into other places as far as who might be a good fit that would have interest in it but that that white one does have value that we want to make sure that we sell it to the right person the last
053one that we used before the that's correct and so yeah he's reaching out to his contacts because quite frankly he's going to have better connections to some of those schools that you know whether they're close by or not that might have a need for something like that that may be interested in making that purchase which if that's the case then you know we could we can run through that with you guys as well iiz again that we did grow slightly in our uh in our number of students and that's that's big anymore because the birth rat's dropping there's a lot of things going on uh that uh uh the our most schools uh our school corporations are losing students and we're growing so you all are doing something very right so and that's representative of
054what you see on those two is I I I don't overestimate as far as trying to be aggressive with saying hey we think we're going to have this many students we have that information we paid for the for the demographic study but in sake of being conservative with some of the numbers we flatlined to say hey it's going to be 2675 again where we where we you know we're certified at fall ADM when in reality right now we're continuing to look like we're going to grow steadily over the next 10 years and again we're one of the very few School corporations in the state that has that type of enrollment projection so again like you said I think that speaks the type of uh School Corporation we have and and the quality of Education that
055we're providing kids so sure does okay um no you going to give us an update on the construction projects yeah so I'm going to take part of this what we'll end up having skilman do is they'll come back next month um and do more of an update but I I had them uh provide me some brief updates you guys have access to the auto desk that has all like they take like daily pictures almost of like updates of some of the stuff that's going on on site and if if you guys ever wanted to stop by and take a tour or do whatever you want to do let us know always happy to do that we have one of our bi-weekly construction progress meetings uh tomorrow um that's at 9:30 um which again is always
056uh they're great meetings great conversations we do walks of of of the progress of the projects afterwards and and make sure that we solve up any of the issues that are that are present uh or that need to be talked through with that whole group of people there so couple of quick things of note across the projects um High School Renovations phase six is nearly complete the auxiliary gym wood floor was removed and the concrete demo was underway remember that's the area where the new cafeteria is going so that's you know starting to become more and more real um the Student Activity Center the concrete floors were poured the roof was completed and the sprinkler piping is is being installed it was pretty uh interesting to see the equipment that was used to float out
057that entire concrete floor um I saw some of the pictures of it it was that's pretty pretty wild stuff um and that continues to be on track the E Phase 5 renovation was completed the restroom tile and flooring were completed toilets and partitions are ongoing if you haven't gotten a chance to see some of the pictures of the of the restroom Renovations they look phenomenal um and so very excited about that change as well and then EPS phase four Renovations were uh completed phase five casew work is um complete and and the drinking fountain tile um begins this week and then the preschool project the exterior brick uh began on 310 and will can be completed this week the windows begin on 3:31 so next week interior drywall is well underway in area B framing
058is complete and the rooftop air handlers were set in place the drywall finishing begins tomorrow um and so that that building is taking shape quick it is changing by the day and so um you blink and something looks different and so that one's really exciting as well um and just at the different points as you walk through it you're you're envisioning those spaces you come back the next time and everything is continuing to you know the layers of the onion keep going on and it's it's it's pretty amazing so um they're really excited to to continue to see those come to fruition and what that means for our kids in our schools so if you have any questions let me know um and we'll go from there the one teacher I saw that was looking
059and said they're not leaving the front of that pink are they so there yeah there was some questions people like is the building going to be pink and no and at one point you know is the building going to be purple no as as you put some of the different building materials on as it relates to moisture control and and all those different things like that and um yeah so it's it's it's really exciting and and looking forward to it being finished i' just like to commend the contractors that are working up I I stopped in a couple weeks ago on a Saturday and just snuck in the door and walked around trying to figure out which room was where they were doing all the pipes electrical stuff going and I said you sure this
060is going to be ready by the end of May and they said that's not what we were told so they they do they will they said they that's why they were in there on Saturday they were busting it pretty hard so yeah they're they're pushing it good so that's exciting yeah for sure I saw the hbac units went up this week too they're on the roof I don't know if they're hooked up they got set on the roof yep y cool Mr Ron and I went through this past weekend and I'll just say that I was very impressed with the quality of War right right I really was um and it you know I was looking at the walls and seeing if they were straight and I mean it was you know uh checking door
061frames with my phone with a little Lev on it and it was D even got his his phone out and double check made sure everything was exact so so but I I was I was really impressed with with the quality of workmanship so that was which building the the e CC just continue to be impressed with the contractors and with Skillman skilman has done a great job of being very responsive it's construction and things come up and questions come up and issues arise and and they are so responsive to solving those issues and working through things the contractors have been terrific about that as well um so far it's been an amazing experience and so hopefully it continues that way and they've been a great partner so far Lancer as well Lancer has been has
062been a great partner as well and so you know hopefully this you know continues to be the trend through the the fruition of the end of these these projects so remind me afterwards I do have a question about that something on that sure but okay um um any more questions for all right next will be uh consideration to approve uh the Lee company Furniture quotes yeah so um this is for the furniture that we need to outfit the new preschool um this is a large amount of the loose furniture that is budgeted in the bond to pay for those things uh we worked with uh the Lee company um as a representative as far as source in Furniture through cooperatives so stuff that's already been competitively bid high quality Furniture suppliers that have already been
063competitively bid and to bring that together so that we could work through and choose what is going to work best in that space so uh darus came and met with Heather and myself and at times Vicky and DR Sanders and and talking about um what type of furniture was going to work best in the building Heather was taking that back to her staff getting feedback about what they liked what they didn't like what you know needed to be different um this doesn't Encompass all the different supplies and a couple of odds and ends but this is a large piece of the puzzle with outfitting offices and classrooms and and those sorts of things for for what we need to be functioning trying to get ahead of the curve to make sure we've already set the
064install date you know giving that to say hey the install dat's going to happen during this week in July it's turn key they're coming in setting stuff up taking away all the trash everything should be you know ready to go so that's not that burden's not on maintenance and custodial as we transition because in the summertime they're deep cleaning buildings and doing the things that they're you know across campus so to add that burden to them would not be feasible so that piece is already included in this as well um but um we're excited about um getting all this in the space the total of the furniture selection that you guys see are in approving is $179,600 Bond as a part of this project for the new preschool furniture Bond second any discussion this is
065part of soft cost right this what they called the soft cost yeah soft cost that was a big soft cost number back in the day so it's already budgeted through it's something that was when we looked at what the cost of the project that is obviously something that gets encompassed and can't build a building and not put anything in it so it's all part of it it's all in there that was all part of the plan from the GetGo and all that's in good order Perfect all right yeah thought the best analogy was is if you take the building and turn over and shake it real hard everything that falls out is soft so okay any further questions all those in favor say I I oppose motion carries now the consideration to approve the Stanger
066high school practice field quotes yeah so uh this is has another connection to some of the construction that's going on so the new um Student ativity Center the field house we had to replace the parking we put that up in the area which was serving as a practice field area that also was where we were doing shot put and discus out as well so we had to move that there's the space that has been something that that the high school and Athletics has been after a while which is trying to get that connected to the track and field area so they're not Crossing AC across the the Edgewood Drive there to get over to the field and so we worked with uh blo rigert and James to put together the plans for uh doing the
067dirt work out there to get that get that done the drainage that's there all that stuff and then that will become the permanent home of the discus shot put and throw and then also a practice area for um football for athletics whether it's baseball or any other group that might need an open Green Space to go out there um we had worked through this just uh we were looking to do it within the project as we went through some of the pricing we felt like we needed to continue to try to bid it out more so we went through that process skilman helped us put that together we sourced out specific quotes from uh reputable companies and Stanger was the low quote at due diligence on that it took a little longer than what we
068wanted it to I think it's worth it based on what you guys were able to see in the board packet as far as the savings that that brought so um we're excited about them they do great work they met all the requirements of of what were in the specifications and they've done work for us in the past and I think we'll be we'll be happy so asking for your approval again it's a second so is this is this trying to is this behind the practice or behind the football field over by the softball diamonds yeah it's that open grass area so if you think about that that all open grass area that's back there behind the football field and behind softball it's essentially about about half of that area out there it's not going to
069go all the way out there it's about half and so there's some storm drainage that will need to go in uh to make that area a little safer as far as kids being out there moving around and so there's some of that that work we have to provide site access there's a thorough road that the town has to access things uh back there in the wooded area correct um as well and then um it you know the dirt moving everything out seed and straw providing all those things so that it's leveled and and it drains correctly is that so could that be coordinated if down the road I know one of the goals is to have a pathway between the jun9 high school a safe path if we did if that was there it came
070in would that has that been thought about uh we didn't specifically do this with that in mind but I think that's a part of I think the you know as the board continues to look at what are possible options for that you know looking at you know the different Alternatives of what that route could be and and what are the pros and cons to that route so that we can continue to improve that I just don't want to spend money after this if we're going to have to redo it later for a safe path yeah it wasn't that was not part of the that's a big that's a that' be a safe way to get the kids over here yeah but we need a replacement of that practice area which will be um highly used
071by Athletics and and probably some of the youth sports teams as well in the community that that has to use our facilities the grass the grass area that's been saved where we had to take out for par for parking lot they'll still be able to use that'll be a temporary home for uh shop put and discus that could be that could be parking down the road over there too it could be I guess depending on some of the decisions that you know that need to be made down the road or how as grow but that'll be a temporary home we have to allow that grass and seed and straw to take before there starts to be a bunch of traffic on it otherwise we're going to take a bunch of the money that that we
072would spend on that and essentially throw it into the wind if we let people on it too early okay all right so no further discussion all those in favor say I I oppose move carries okay now consideration to revise the schedule for the 2025 school board meetings DR Sanders yeah so uh basically uh as a board uh you have the opportunity to set the schedule um of uh Schoolboard meetings and we usually do that uh in December for the next year uh but as we went into 2025 we've just discovered that we have uh many more conflicts on a Monday night and a lot of other organizations have their meetings on Monday night and uh so uh we feel like uh uh Tuesday evening uh will be better less conflicts for us and so we
073are moving to the uh third Tuesday of every month and the calendar reflects that and uh everything else should be the same just moving to the third Tuesday revising the schedule for the 2025 school board meetings any discussion that hasn't taken effect on our calendar yet has it uh no uh after you approve it tonight we will make sure this gets on the website uh and gets communicated to to the school Community uh and uh we definitely uh appreciate uh the public uh uh either showing uh coming to the meetings or visiting on on cats and uh so we definitely want to get that information out okay think it need to go the media too for the annual thank you okay all right anything further all those in favor say I I oppose motion carries
074and now consideration to approve the 2025 summer school program DR Sanders sure and this really U uh is pretty much the same as we did last year uh except for the dates uh and so we'll have a summer school uh June 2nd through the 19th at EPs and Eis and uh at and then also in uh end in May through June will be summer school at the Edgewood High School and uh then the junior high they have more of a jump start uh summer school and that'll be July 21st through the 31st uh I included uh for you the hours for both students uh uh and teachers uh we will be providing transportation again for anybody that wants that and also free breakfast and lunch and then on the back side of that uh the
075next page anyways uh is the estimated uh number of staff that we we would need and so we are required to uh submit to the state an estimated cost report uh it's very much estimated because we really don't know how many students we're going to have yet uh but that's just an annual requirement that we have to do for summer school uh so I recommend approval second any questions discussion all those in favor say I I opposed motion carries now consideration to approve the Centerstone agreement yes so H as the board uh uh knows we uh had uh a an agreement a partnership with adult and child to provide Mental Health Services and uh they were bought out and uh the uh new company uh decided to focus uh more on uh Maran I think
076and Johnson counties and uh so we were at a loss uh very worried about uh what we were going to do uh because these Mental Health Services are are very very important uh to our students and our families and U uh I honestly believe and I think back over the last several years um uh before we re we had such a strong mental health team that uh watching our school corporation grow and improve I think a lot of it has to do with uh the mental health services that we've provided so we were very nervous what we were going to do with adult and child uh not working with us anymore well uh Jennifer Anderson did an awesome job uh uh contacting Centerstone and working out an agreement and basically it's the same agreement we
077had with adult and child so they will provide the mental health services uh they will build Medicade and insurance and uh I don't think we're going to miss a beat so I recommend your approval approval I'll second M seconded any discussion all those in favor say I I oppose motion carries and now another agreement with IU year three smart uh yes so this is a uh something you're familiar with uh it's a smart Grant it's a Federal grant that we receive uh also for mental health a $3.4 million Grant uh and this is just an annual uh requirement that we have to approve uh an amendment every year so we could uh pay our partners uh IU for the services they provide and uh we're we're a little nervous about this grant too because uh
078we've heard that some other organizations who have the same Federal Grant have already been cut uh and uh that this funds uh six uh mental health staff for us and uh so we're hoping we don't get that uh note uh so far so good good uh but uh this is just an annual uh requirement that that we approve this amendment second M seconded discussion were those other school corporations I assume those the other school corporations got the that got the notice I don't know if they're Indiana okay making me nervous now yeah okay all right right nothing further all those in favor say I I I oppose motion carries DR Sanders your uh superintendent report yeah I'm uh I don't know if I say this every month but I truly am excited about the things
079I get to report uh to you um uh first of all I want to give congratulations to the high school color guard uh who came in uh State Runner UPS uh now we're used to state championships but uh a state runner up is pretty good too um and then as it was already mentioned um I uh got to go to to the Indiana Pacers game last night but it wasn't the game that I was interested in in fact I uh as I'm getting older I got to about halftime and I was uh tired so we left but we had our show chirs both show chirs sophisticated ladies and Music Warehouse uh to sing the national anthem and uh combining those two choirs was just amazing because they such had such a strong voice and great
080performance and it's so good to hear in Edgewood high schools show choir uh throughout the the court and the the stadium there uh and then uh this Saturday our uh winter percussion will be performing at the state competition and uh uh terot on March uh 29th that's this Saturday and uh they'll be doing a public performance uh Friday night at 6:30 uh but uh just a note there it will be held at the Junior High um and then secondly uh we uh uh at the Edgewood Early Childhood Center we have uh our enrollment is is open and so far we have have 147 students enrolled for the 2025 26 school year and that's about 75% uh capacity so we're we're getting uh pretty close uh to filling uh the spaces and uh we will have
081that facility open uh staff Child Care enrollment opens on uh next Monday March 31st and uh that uh has been communicated to the public and uh well to our school community and uh and that our uh School staff uh will be able to enroll their their children in a in the daycare uh portion of the preschool uh kindergarten welcome week is uh next week March 31st through April 4th and there'll be a so on uh welcome week uh uh our next year kindergarten ERS will come with their parents uh the kindergarteners will go and and they'll do a fun type assessment uh so the teachers get to know their start to get to know their students and then the parents uh meet with uh uh important people throughout the the school um school nurse and
082uh counselors and teachers and uh fill out papers uh and so that'll happen happen uh next week and then there there will be an openhouse April 3rd uh from 5:45 to 7:45 I thought I'd give you an update on our biomedical training facility uh project uh we are uh right now we are working on uh visiting different uh training facilities uh and getting an idea of how we should design this project uh this facility uh for our Edgewood students uh uh and so we've already visited Boston Scientific um we visited uh just this week we visited uh the Sim Center at uh uh IU Health and well if you've never had that opportunity to to tour that that's just an amazing place um and I was very proud to to be a resident of Monroe
083County realizing that we have such a facility um because of so I mean as you know it's connected to the the hospital uh but uh we were able to to see where our uh future nurses future doctors uh EMTs where they practice uh and um there were uh mannequins all over the place uh from babies uh to adults and uh what they could do with those mannequins was just truly amazing because you you could um uh do a scan and actually see uh uh simulated inside the body and and track an artery and uh we got to see a similation in progress and uh if when you walk in you walk into a smaller room and there's a a glass uh between you and the the hospital room and uh we had uh uh folks
084who were um working on a baby at the time and practicing uh uh a procedure on on that uh not a real baby but a mannequin baby and uh I think Dirk didn't we have one of our students that was in there Nurse the training and uh and so uh the places uh which look like a basically like a hospital room it where is designed just like the hospital so it looks exactly the same and uh so uh we're we're getting some pictures of that uh because when we design our facility now we know what we need to do here and we met a couple really important contacts uh one of the gentlemen who's a professor with IU and also works with IU Health um he works Nationwide with uh with designing and working with
085organizations on these Sim labs and uh so he he offered he offered we didn't have to ask I was going to ask anyways but he offered uh to help us out for free and uh definitely asked for his card at that time and uh and so uh not only were we getting some good ideas about the facility but we are making some important contacts um when we were Boston Scientific uh we were able they committed to uh working with us and taking their process for training their employees and transforming that into a high school setting and you know their their curriculum their training process is built on that they're going to have an employee there uh all day long uh several day weeks in a row and uh you know how do we take that
086kind of a trading process and replicate that into a high school setting and uh so they've already started uh meeting on March 14th we had a team uh to go down there uh I couldn't go that day I had to stay here on campus but on March 14th we had a team to go down there and they're starting that exact process of uh taking their training facility or process and and re working the scope and sequence the curriculum to make it fit here they're committed to sending their uh trainers here to work with our students and uh we're excited uh IU Health is committing the same thing uh they are organizing themselves and getting key people that's involved in their training and their professional development uh they're organizing that so they could start meeting with
087us and doing the same thing and then we're going to follow that same pattern with uh cook medical and um uh we were able to to uh meet a gentleman uh that works uh leads the SRA and uh so we've scheduled a a lunch meeting with with him and one of his colleagues uh to start the process of sharing our vision about what we're trying to do here on our campus and at the same time uh trying to determine what their needs are and uh and so we're continu to grow that that those Partnerships and it's really starting to pick up a lot of momentum it's it's just really exciting stuff um we're going to visit some other training facilities now not all these are Health uh related but we're going to go see the
088uh Andress andher fac training facility and then uh uh I think that's in Greenwood and then Toyota 4T Academy and the berry link program and these are state-of-the-art training facilities and uh so we're just going to to pick their brains on uh how do they take their training process and replicate that in the their local high schools so we'll have a group going uh this Friday and then again on April 2nd uh we have our Business Leaders uh advisory lunch in coming up uh April 18th at 11:30 and and we've talked about this before twice a year we invite our Business Leaders to come on campus and the key to that is not only to show them what we're doing but also to make connections between them and our students uh and so what we
089want to focus on this time is uh the our new Indiana diploma requirements in our career Pathways uh but from a students perspective how does the student see all this do they see these things as good things how do they think these uh initiatives will benefit them and uh so Jennifer Barrett is working with uh some of our high school students to uh prepare for that date if you would like to go let me know it's April 18th uh at 11:30 and I think we're going to have it right here in this room um and this morning we had the uh the Ellisville Chamber of Commerce has a uh Coffee Connection every once in a while to promote uh uh networking uh and uh so we hosted that in our coffee Corral this morning so
090if you were uh at the high school this morning you would you would have met a lot of of uh Business Leaders uh across the community uh and uh I I love that because uh the whole time I'm over over there they're just bragging about uh our uh coffee Corral and our students and it's a real Showcase of what we're trying to do here at Edward high school that was today also today we had the uh internship Fair uh in the high school gymnasium we had uh 55 students and 25 businesses uh to participate and uh Jennifer Barrett was telling me how uh uh uh all the businesses just were uh amazed at how well our students handled themselves uh and some of our students are going to have some tough decisions because they they
091received uh multiple offers and uh so that was a exciting day uh it's just really you know as I mentioned earlier with the The ilc Design Group that uh you know we're we're seeing these dreams that that we as a board have had for years uh turning into reality and just continues to grow it also challenges us because we have more and more students who want to participate in the internships and so that means we have to go out and find Opportunities uh for them uh and then coming up is a career and employment fair for our students on April 8th I wanted to make that uh um noted tonight for the board so uh if you have any questions let me know thank you um now we have rbb EA comments and we have
092Brandy AEL with us tonight good evening um I just wanted to start by saying uh it is just always wonderful to hear what's happening in the other buildings you have no idea and these products are amazing but I think what filled my soul the most was just hearing the passion in our students voices and seeing it in their faces I think I can speak for all Educators when you see that passion in your students that that's what is just what makes your job amazing like you that provided that foundation for them to do all that and there were a few that I I remember whether they remember me I don't know Mrs deas was a few years later um uh one thing I wanted to share Doug and I are trying to change a few
093things with the bargaining process we're trying to do a lot more frontloading before the end of the school year um we realized with this last session that um people some of our members felt like uh we weren't as transparent and maybe communication wasn't as strong as it could have been so we are working along with our building reps to start um having that communication with our members about things that they would like to see um at the same time continuing to educate them about what bargaining means what can be bargained what cannot be bargained um we hope to have a survey sent out to everyone so that we have a good plan before the end of the school year um I'm also planning to communicate with Nancy G she's our director she's the one that
094helps us with bargaining um in the next week or so to get some dates so that hopefully I can uh email you Mr Irwin and DR Sanders so we can get those dates on the calendar before the end of the school year so hopefully get getting that to to be an easier process so that is our plan and then finally a few months ago I stood up here and sang Vicky entrikin Praises I'm going to get emotional so sorry I'm glad she's not here um I'm sorry I knew I was going to do this but um we were there was Rumor for years that Vicki and Brenda were going to go out together and I think many of us thought oh that's not happening because we hadn't heard anything about Brenda and yeah the Thursday
095before spring break she made the announcement and I'm sorry um um and I honestly have kind of avoided her uh because I knew I was going to do this but you know Vicky and I are two of I think six people that have been there since she started and I'm not going to lie Brenda and I have gone to head head to head a few times we talk about passion we've uh had our laughs our cries our hugs um I call her my work mother and uh coincidentally she lives next to my mother and so now they can enjoy retirement together um they've known each other for a long time but you know I I can't stand here and tell you that Brenda was not what made me the teacher I am to today because
096she sure has she's been my principal for 18 years and um she's just been fabulous uh she's been so good to all of us and you know again we all have our strengths and and differences but um I just uh I hope I I'm I'm happy for her I'm happy for Bob she has a grandbaby now but um we we are going to miss her so yes so if there's any kind of interview process and you need teachers DR Sanders I don't know what that process is but um anyway so we will miss her but thanks that's all I have um I will'll go to board member comments Mr thank you sir uh I don't know if I can explain how impressed I was with the ilc kids tonight they were just so mature and
097so well artic ulate so prepared for this so it's just really it just says a lot for dirk his what you do there at the high school and then Junior High and Jennifer and ol of you you know you know just it's just great I just so proud of this so proud of this school and so honored to serve on the school board thank you sir Mr Jacob yeah I I totally agree I'm in a of everything that the students are doing um impressive is not even how I can explain um talk about Goosebumps it's it's phenomenal what these students are doing and um very appreciative that I can be on a board that supports them um thank you to the uh every everyone that's giving the donations for our students for our robotics team
098to be able to get to Worlds um I was a robotics mom for a lot of years so I I they they are in a special place in my heart heart um I'm just really really happy to be where I am and watching all the phenomenal things that our Corporation is doing it just it every time you you think or you come and sit in this chair and get to see um what the our educators are are doing for our students and what our stud students are producing is just phenomenal it makes me very happy and blessed yeah did did everything I can't say it any better what you did about Miss Whitaker I know she's made an impact on a lot of kids and congrats to to all that have done gone on well
099tonight the ilc was great I do want to leave one one quick story and this is for all the principals and teachers in this room I stood in line last night in Odin Indiana which I don't know if you guys know where that's at davies's County there was a u gentleman named Ken Hudson that passed away he was the last principal at Odin Elementary he's 91 years old and this place was packed with all the people that he impacted his whole life students parents a multitude of people and in my I was thinking this is going to be a long line to sit through to get through but the kid in front of me was 42 years old he had Mr Hudson the last year Odin was an elementary and he wanted to make sure
100he came and paid his respects because Mr Hudson didn't always get along with him and he said he got to meet Mr Hudson's paddle a few times but he but he was telling me all the things he's done as an adult now and the successes he's had and that that's that left an impact on me so you guys are all making a huge difference you don't hear it every day you hear the bad stuff sometimes but he was one of the 10 percenters this kid was he's one of those 10 perent that the principal probably remembered him and he wanted to come and let Mr Hudson's boys know how much he appreciated his father so continue your good work and don't forget how much of an impact every day you guys are making on people
101thanks well I yeah Mr Whitaker uh Marcy Jones were Miss um at the high school Becky Becky Myers Becky Murphy Becky Patterson um she was in my speech class um I will always think of her as with her yearbook picture where she's the the look of determination on her face is she's at the free throw line uh as a student and then she came to be one of my colleagues and she's we're gonna miss her a lot and then I can't Gary Sims what a guy and I'm gonna miss him I'm glad that he's finally uh going to take advantage of retirement but I still he hasn't gotten over the technical he gotten the sectional last year not and that may have been the only one he ever got um the U just beyond us
102the RDC uh they continue to assure us that of their intent to support the schools with going forward from with the Tiff and I no reason to believe that they're anything but genuine in that desire because they they're just really supportive and I'm looking forward to that um looks like we're just playing waiting game at the general assembly at this point until they get some good numbers and uh until until the the April um forecast comes out I don't think we're going to know a lot and uh so that's that I just I do appreciate all who have contacted their representatives about uh various legislation especially the partisan School Board legislation uh that's I it definitely is wavering whether that's going to go through or not it looks very iffy at that point uh and
103finally um I got to go to IU Health similat with the group yesterday and um it's exciting I I appreciate Jennifer Barrett so much in uh I think I was telling her that the vision seeing what has happened in the last couple of years uh so much is moving and building on that what we saw with the ilc this evening building on that with biomedical careers I the Goosebumps we got tonight I think that's just the beginning of of what we're seeing and it's it's so exciting it's so reassuring and uh uh so I'm I'm just so proud to be part of this so thank you very difficult to go ask because I agree with everything everybody said um but I'd like to point out how positive the meetings are at rbb um we're we
104all just work together to do what's best for kids um there's a lot of school corporations that don't have the family feel that we have here and that's because of all of you um every every person that that that steps on this campus makes a big difference for kids and so um I just appreciate all of you and uh this meeting's adjourned [Music] ch