001the uh public hearing to order. If you'll rise for the pledge of allege 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. >> All right, good evening everybody. Uh to start tonight, we have public hearing uh pursuant to Senate Enrolled Act 390, the board of school trustees of the Southwest Park Community School Corporation gives notice that on Wednesday, August 13th, 2025 to 7 p.m. It will meet in public session at the Corporation Office to receive public comment regarding the subjects of collective bargaining. So, at this time, we'll open it up if there is any comment regarding that. I'm just excited we can still do it. >> Exactly. >> Okay. Seeing none, we will uh adjourn the
002uh public hearing and call to order our regular meeting. Is there any comments from anybody at this time? Okay. Consent agenda items. Entertain a motion to approve as presented. I'll make a motion to approve. >> We have a motion. Is there a second? >> Got a motion second. Are there any questions on the motion? >> Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed. Motion carries. Dr. Harrison, superintendent report. >> Beginning on page 11 of your board pack that you have my report. Facility updates, uh, they're nearly complete. Uh fence at Rosedale may still be in process of moving. Is that correct? >> Have they moved it yet? >> They have not started moving it yet. >> Okay. Yeah, they on the east side there, uh had a little
003oopsie and we gathered some land from a neighbor. So, the fence company gets to move it back, but they'll be moving that shortly. Fine-tuning of the HVAC systems at all facilities continues. Um you will see in your board package that construction invoices on page 12 uh excuse me page 13 you see one in the amount of uh 627115 and on page one excuse me page 17 you see one in the amount of 242 56727 and we're getting close to having all of that work paid off you have in your board >> pack it on page 19. Uh just kind of a running head of our bonds just to see where we are and what we have allocated so far. So at at this point again on page 19 that's our current 2023 construction bond. That
004was the 11 million plus bond. You can see um to this point we have encumbered everything uh but about $260,000 with the interest earned then if we're about $750,000 available therefore for some additional projects. Uh page 20 shows you the 2024 go bond. That's our our small bond that we led at the end of the year. Uh you can see the work that we've done there. Uh partitions and irrigation, cafeteria, all of that at the high school, fencing, fencing. And we currently have about 60,838 remaining on that one. We have the old 2022 go bond. You can see all of the work that was done out of that. And we have about 4,950 left that we can use for projects. So, at this point, we do have a sum of money that we can we
005can look at. We want to make sure we get all of these things done, all of their invoices paid before we start looking at how we're going to use the remaining the remaining bond funds. Obviously, we've got some things that we could do. We've got concrete work that could be done. We've got windows that could still be done. Um, but we also need to look at u at really what's most important because obviously with the changes in legislation, uh, referendum dollars and and bond dollars may be a little more difficult to come by in the future. So, we just need to be cautious, spend wisely as we look at at that uh at those bond numbers. Uh going back to page 11 of my report. Actually, if you look at your at your site, I've
006given you the latest enrollment numbers. And as of today, um grades prechool through six at Monzimma, 224 students. Preschool through 6 at Rosedale, 321. Grades 7 through 12 at the high school, we're showing 470 as of today. Uh, excuse me. That was the and the board report. It's changed some here recently. So 226 at Monzuma, 314 at Rosedale, 471 at the high school as of this afternoon. So a grand total of 956. I was looking just before we started the meeting at what our enrollment history has been. So last year uh for the 2425 school year, our ADM was 961. Uh 2324 was 986. 2223 was 951. 2122 was 957. 2021 was 9.88. And I could continue to go on further back, but we can just see how that trend has kind of been up
007and down. Um last year at well 2023 was our lowest number at 951. Our highest in the last 10 years was in 2016 2017 and that was uh 1 students. So obviously we've had a little bit of a decline in student population. The number that we have today it'll change probably by tomorrow and we understand that there's a lot of variation in our enrollment until people settle in. Our count day isn't until October one. So, we do our best to to hold as many folks as we can and make sure that they are physically present and accounted for. We're hoping that we stay up. That's what we want. We ended last year at 9:49. So, anything above that would be would be nice. In my board packet, we also have uh the board calendar. And
008next month we have our budget hearing. So in preparation for the budget hearing, I have presented to you a series of documents at your station today. These are the budget forms as they stand today. Having worked through the budget with Marvin, I'm not going to go through these line by line, note by note, but I will talk a little bit about the assumptions that were used to build the budget. So the assumptions were, correct me if I'm wrong, a total ADM of 945 and an assessed value of approximately 260 million. Now the first question that you may come back with is why would we use 260? Our assessed value for payable 25 was 309 million and some. But the best practices will tell you that when building your school budget, use 85% of your assessed
009value just so that you could start to balance your numbers and try to figure out what works. If you have a little bit less here, a little bit more there. So that was the assumption on this budget. 945 students, an assessed value of 260 million. What is our assessed value for pay 26? Nothing has been officially released to my knowledge, but I did go and poke around the CNAB site today. U if my calculations based on what I did for last year and what we looked like this year is that we've seen a decline in our set value that we lost about 2.3%. So this year it's looking right now like about 302 million as opposed to 309 million. So, we don't like to see any loss of assessed value, but we're not surprised by
010that with some of the uh changes in and calculations and we're starting to see some projections based on Senate Bill one and how that's going to change our property tax revenue coming toward us as it is. So u in reality by the time our budget is fully approved and set we'll have our ADM which we hope is beyond 9:45 and we should have our true assessed value which we hope will probably be about 302 and then this will balance out accordingly. But you have plenty of time between now and our September budget hearing to examine these. And if you have questions, certainly bring them back to us and bring them to Martin as well. You also have um a legal size page attached to that document. I just I like to ask a lot of
011questions and the questions that I asked were what's our fund balance and our fund history actually been and what are we projecting? So you see a fund balance history all the way back to June 30 of 2019 and you see it projected out to um December 31 of 2026 with some with some notes attached there to it. So you can see we've had some years where we've been up. We've had some years where we've been down, but if you start to look at the trends in the actual in the last couple of years, we're starting to see our ED fund and our operations fund see see some pretty consistent decline. And again, you know, the the projection is based upon assumptions of 945 260 million. So they're not super reliable, but we understand that our
012approach for all things budget related, at least for this year, for the next couple of years. I think our fiscal approach should be very conservative. We should hold very tightly to what we have planned for. We should try to do our best to eliminate the oh by the ways that pop up. And then the other piece of this that I'm encouraging people is let's let's not be gloom and doom. Yes, there are a lot of budget changes. There are a lot of things that are changing here on a daily basis in terms of enrollments, in terms of what we can do, but schools by and large have been very good at figuring out how to make things work. Um I was I was reading some wisdom literature early and and there's a lot of wisdom
013literature out there that reminds you of seasons, right? Life's about seasons. For the last several years, we've had some pretty good financial seasons. We've had some additional federal dollars flowing in. We've had some good enrollment numbers. We've had some changes from the state budgets that have been favorable to us. So, we've had some pretty good seasons. All that has been presented to us through Senate Bill 1, House Bill 101, through our enrollments, through what we're looking at now looks like we may have some challenging seasons. The challenging seasons are just that. They're they're just challenges. We don't have to try to get all gloom and doom and and the the sky is falling. We just have to say take a breath, be super conservative and what we're doing, try to shave off where we can
014shave off. And we may have to make some hard decisions to stay within our rails, but again, it's a season. So try to try to bear that in mind. That's that's been that was actually the the message I gave to our our office staff here in this office this morning. You know, let's let's try to avoid gloom and doom. It's just a change. We've had some good good runs. Now, we got to look at some things differently and that's okay. Uh the last couple of pieces for your information on the financial side. Uh again, this these were questions I had about okay, what have our ED fund expenditures been and our operations expenditures been by building. And so you can kind of see a breakdown of of how things line up with our ADM. So
015just for example on the ed fund last year um Rosedale Elementary on the ed fund side was about 24% of our ed fund spend. They have 32% of our ADM. So that was really pretty good. We came through pretty lean there. Uh Riverton had 40% of our ED fund spend um and had 48% of our ADM. So again came in pretty lean there. Uh Monizuma last year was about 20% of our ED fund spend and they were right at 20% of our ADM. I like to look at it in terms of that way. It's like okay, so we're, you know, if we have big swings where we're spending a lot more money and we're not seeing that match up with our ADM, should we look at that and have some questions about that? And again,
016I would have you look at the operations fund. Um it's also very interesting to look at that. Look at last year, you know, Rosedale was about 10% of our operations fund. Again, they're 32% of our ADM. So, really, we're moving on operations side. We're we're running really lean. Um, Riverton was 18% of our operations spend and 48% of our ADM. So, again, super lean on operations. Monizuma was 10% of our operational spend and 20% of our ADM. So again running very very lean and historically we have been running lean. Um we we'll certainly let Marvin explain some of his perceptions but that was one of the things he did note about operation side is that we have we have run very lean in terms of the spend that we've run out of operations which is
017good because our operations pretty small but it's just food for thought. So take all of that, digest it over the next 30 days. Whenever we see Marvin at our September 10 hearing, you'll have opportunities to ask him some questions. Obviously, if you have questions between now and then, Mr. Dicki and I are available to to provide you with responses as best we're able. And that is the end of my report. That was a lot. Thank you for listening. >> Any questions for Dr. Thank you, Dr. Harrison. Uh, is there any old business come before the board? >> None. >> Moving on to new business. Uh, first item is the natural gas contract. You have at your location the end of day pricing number. You have the email on top from Mr. Kinlow, our rep, and
018then starts his presentation thereafter. Page two is probably the one you want to look at. Uh we are at the point where we do need to make a decision regarding our contract renewal. Notice our current basis price is 762 cents. U based upon the current strips which he provided all the current strips. He provided all of the current indicators everything that goes into current pricing. Um a 12 month renewal would be 737. 24 months would be 736. If we were willing to go up to 36 months, it actually kicks back up just a little bit at 747. Um, you know, trying to be mindful of operations and and expenditures there. I I don't know that 24 months is too long to look. I think that would bring our our price down, you know, a few
019cents. 7 73.6 cents. That would be I would think that would be my recommendation is we look at a 24-month pricing. Since I've been here, I think we've done 136 and we've done a bunch of 12elves. I think a 24-month pricing is really not a bad risk for us at this point. Questions or comments from the board? All right. We have a recommendation to pursue the 24month um pricing for natural gas. Is there a motion to approve? >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> We have a motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Motion second. Are there any questions on the motion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed. Motion carries. Next item is EL services contract with Erica Crane for the academic year
020of 2025 through 2026. Okay. Page uh 22 of your board packet. You have the actual service contract, the EL services. That's for our English language learners and our English as a new language new language learners. That requires a special certification from the state. there are no teachers within our district that have that certification. So we then look for somebody close who can do the work that's necessary. So what the the e service provider does is in essence takes the assessment of the student puts together a service plan and then hands it back to our teachers says this is how we make sure that we meet their needs. All of this is funded through u federal grant dollars and it's something that we we have to provide. But again, we don't have anybody on our staff
021that holds the current EL license, which is why we seek somebody from a neighboring district. And that is not uncommon practice. By the way, many small districts throughout the state do not have an EL person on staff and they do service contracts. Is there a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> Have a motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Motion second. Are there any questions on the motion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying. >> I. >> Those opposed. Motion carries. Adult lunch pricing for 2025 through 2026. >> Page 23 of your board packet. You have the recommendation recommendation from Janelle Mcccleintoch, our food service director. $3 for the adult breakfast, 525 for the adult lunch. We just need to approve that on annual school year basis. Is there
022a motion to approve? >> I'll make that a motion. >> Have a motion. Is there a second? Well, >> a motion second. Are there any questions? >> Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. uh KBM transportation shuttle agreement. >> For the past several years, uh we've had overloads at the end of the day on from the high school heading to the north on our buses. And so Keith McIntyre, KBM Transportation has provided us with an additional shuttle outside of his regular contract. The $75 per day is the same price that he he charged us last year. And essentially what they do is they take a bus load of kids to Mecca. They drop them off and then they turn around and come back for a second
023run and pick up kids and take them up from there. >> All right. Is there a motion to approve? >> Make a motion to approve. >> We have motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Motion second. Are there any questions on the motion? >> Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed. Motion carries. Final item uh addition to bus driver list Mona Norman KBM transportation. >> This requires board approval for insurance purposes and to get her on the drug test. >> Motion to approve. I'll make a motion. >> Motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Motion is second. Are there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed. Motion carries. Moving on to personnel. First item
024is recommendation to employee Nicole Bread and Full-Time Food Service at Rosedale Elementary. >> I'll make that a motion. >> We have a motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> That motion is second. Are there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Those appro motion carries. Recommendation to employ Mackenzie Hassler full-time food service at Riverton Park. >> I'll make that motion. Have a motion. Is there a second? >> Have a motion and second. Are there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Recommendation to employee Kayla McIntyre, part-time food service at Rosedale Elementary. >> Motion. Is there a second? >> Motion second. Are there any questions on the motion? >> Hearing none. All those in favor
025signify by saying I. I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Recommendation to employee Emma Swain, teacher at Riverton Park High School. >> A motion. >> Motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> That motion is second. Are there any questions on the motion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Those opposed. Motion carries. Recommendation to employee TJ Hlip, teacher at Riverton Park High School. >> I'll make that motion. >> Have a motion. Is there a second? I'll second. I have a motion and a second. There any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Those opposed. Motion carries. >> Recommendation to establish the hourly rate for current elementary school health aid staff members at the rate of per hour. >> Just by way of explanation, page
02630 of your board packet has a letter regarding that. But the path to the current seat holders has been different. So when Carrie Pinger came in, she came out of the cafeteria and whenever Jessica came in, she came out of a TA position. So there was a discrepancy. So we are equalizing the pay for the people who sit in the seat today. If there's a change in the position, so if one of these people leaves, goes away with the new person would be hired in at the starting TA rate, not back at the 1405. All right. Further recommendation. Is there a motion to approve? >> I'll make a motion approve. >> A second. Have a motion, a second. Are there any questions? >> Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I.
027Those opposed. Motion carries. Have recommendation to employee Alicia Gupser. >> Correct. special education bus aid uh effective August 7th, 2025 at the rate of $100 per day. >> She rides the special needs bus for our functional age students. She starts about 6:45 in the morning and ends very late in the day. Very brief break in the middle of the day, but it's a very intense position, which is why it's set at $100 a day. >> Is there a motion to approve? >> We'll make a motion to approve. >> Motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second. Motion is second. Is there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed. Motion carries. Final item under personnel is the approval of resident teachers at uh Rosedale Elementary. Jennica
028Sutton and Lissa Bowers. >> These teachers come to us through the uh grant with the commissioner for higher education. And we are certainly pleased to have the resident teachers. They could spend a year with us and it's like having additional staff at essentially no cost to us. So it's a great deal. We just need to approve them so we can run the dollars. >> I'll make it a motion to approve. >> I have a motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Motion and second. Are there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Any comments at this time? Mark, >> I've got a couple questions. if you entertain those. Um, Dr. Harrison, you're going through those numbers of spending by building and such.
029And obviously those don't add to 100%. So, can you kind of quickly explain what's going on with where additional funds are going? >> Oh, talking about we also have a corporationwide line item on. >> So, if some if we have corporationwide employees that drip back and forth, they become part of that percentage as well. >> Okay. Okay. >> So that's why if you have 20% here and 48% here and that it doesn't add up. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Because operations was way low on >> correct as far as you >> correct. And then you have a large corporation fund. >> Is transportation included as a part of that? I'm not good. >> It's included as part of operations. >> Operations >> and that's a corporation corporationwide expenditure. >> That would explain a lot
030of that. >> Yeah. >> Okay. The other thing is I noticed uh nothing about the JAG. I was going to comment on that because I forgot to mention it in my board report >> whether or not that was going to be on old business or something like that. So, >> so what happened with JAG? We looked at JAG last month. We heard a we heard Sierra talk about the importance of the JAG program. We did receive anou from Department of Workforce Development. We had our attorney re review it. I provided that for you all as well. During that entire review process, Mr. Kery reached out to me and said, "Okay, here's the situation. This is going to get us potentially one year. We don't know anything about the years after that. JAG is a career
031pathway. We would be in a very bad shape if we put a bunch of kids into a career pathway and we only had it for a year. Am I summarizing that correct? >> Graduation pathway. >> Yeah, graduation. So, as a result of that, Mr. Curry said, "I would recommend we just drop any JAG pursuit. We'll figure out our graduation pathways without them." So I sent that information to you and that's why we moved on without Jack. >> Okay. And I had also seen information the state pulled it completely I think on July the 25th or something like that. >> Correct. >> But I hadn't seen an update on what was happening here. And they had some that were going to be continued and some speculation in an article about it would be covered for one
032year but after that everything was up in the air. >> Correct. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you for reminding me because I was just getting ready to write that down as well. And the other thing Mr. Kerszy, you had talked about some uh some loud noises at the football field. >> Oh, yeah. Uh the touchdown club is going to uh they they approached and asked >> if they could set off um I I don't even know what to write. It's not a firework because there's no display. It's just it just makes a loud boom. It's not a cannon because it actually comes from a tube and and you know goes into the air projectile or whatever, but if there's no display, there's no not a fire hazard or whatnot. They approached me. Uh they're
033going to put something in writing in terms of a safety plan. They've also contacted um some some local fire I think it was Mecca Fire Department and was trying to get uh some clarification there as well. And so we're going to approve that. It's going to be uh completely roped off uh away from all uh you know public attending our football games, then removed immediately after the game. Um, some very trustworthy people are going to be in charge of that and I've asked to put it get in writing and that way we'll have it uh up at the corporation office and ready to go start that one will start this week at the jamberee that's two weeks out still. So >> I know it's pretty common practice some of the others. So >> it is
034and we want to make you aware of that. Mr. Kurs approached me and I I didn't think it required board approval since it's really not a shooting off weapons or anything of that nature. Hope we don't irritate any vultures nearby, but if we do, so be it. >> Yeah. >> Biggest concern is just the safety of it. So, they're going to get that all wrapped up for me and they should be good to go. Okay. >> I want to share a couple things. Uh we partnered with the WRCTE construction vocational last year and they built an outdoor shelter for us which created an outdoor classroom space. We've not utilized it super well yet because we still need to get furniture to put in there, but they did finish that project as we wrapped up last
035school year. So, I just want to give them a shout out. They were great to deal with. If you are by Rosedale, please stop by and see it because it looks great. Um, it's in our Finston area, so we will utilize it a lot once we get it all set up. Um, another thing that I want to draw attention to is the Florida Township Civic Center out of Rosedale is taking on the effort to try to revitalize our tennis court area. So, they want to raise funds and take in donations to be able to raise I think their goal is about $28,000 to resurface that area and make it kind of a multi-use court. So, it' be pickle ball and tennis courts. So, um the baseball softball has done a fantastic job of revamping and
036making our campus look very great in the back. Um, and that would just be something else that would draw some community um, partnerships and members in to to our space. So, I just wanted you guys to see that because it's definitely out on social media at this point. Um, and we're we're excited that that they're wanting to do something like that in our community. >> Outstanding. >> Okay. I'd like to share today I attended a regional cohort meeting uh, for Anali. That's the Indiana new administrative leadership leadership institute um which you guys approved last spring. Um so I met with 14 other uh principles and assistant principles um over in Banebridge. Um I just like again to thank the board for that opportunity and a lot of good ideas passed around. Mr. Kery and myself
037have already talked about some things um that we might be able to kind of pursue and tweak and improve. So just really like to thank you guys again for that opportunity and you know it's good things being put to use um for our buildings all all together. >> Yeah, networking like that's vital to career development seeing what others are doing and and uh bouncing ideas off everybody. So that's that's outstanding. All right. Any other items come before the board? >> None. >> Correspondence? >> None. >> Always a lot of claims. >> Correct. I would have you look at page 368 of your board packet. You should have received these by email yesterday for review, but nothing has changed. What about our health insurance? >> Health insurance, our premium increased 1%. >> Okay. >> And then
038property casualty will get those rates in December for 26. Okay. And if I'm not mistaken, the president of our healthc care trust is now, Miss Jack. >> Our prior our prior uh president uh she left the trust. and uh Miss Jack stepped up. So all healthc care questions are now directed to her. >> Great learning. >> She seems very excited about it today. >> All right. Is there a motion to approve the monthly claims? >> Motion motion. Is there a second? >> Second. Second. Are there any questions? >> Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I those opposed. Motion carries. There it is. There's 15. Is there a motion to adjourn? Motion is there for a second. Second motion a second. Hearing no objection. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you.