001all right good evening and i welcome all of you to the regular school board meeting for the bartholomew consolidated school corporation we are here in the administration building we also welcome those of you who might be watching us on our live stream yeah this is a busy evening and i have a whole lot of people wanting me to move this meeting fast but we will be thorough in the work that we have ahead of us we start each of our meetings with reflections from one of our board colleagues and tonight i will turn to dr julie bills thank you dr shed i hope you all had a good holiday new year is always a good time for a fresh start i kind of like to think of the new year's i don't know this is
002going to age me probably but i used to have this toy called etch-a-sketch and it was red and you drew on it and then you shook it and then it was all clear again um and so the new year makes me think of that you can draw and write on it and shake it and all disappears and then you can start over so some of the words i think if i had to etch a sketch with me for this year i would it'd be very simple i'd write hope and health and happiness and that's what i wish for for 2022 and some people think that hope is kind of a passive word it's really not it's active word it's exercise to become i want to become healthy happy it can be or to travel or
003go on adventures or to excel at work or it can be a hope to excel at other aspects of our lives and our hopes can turn into goals and the new year is a perfect time for resetting our goals i don't really say resolutions anymore because i don't know i i don't know if i just have too much pressure when i give myself a resolution that i never do it or or what that is but i've kind of changed my language on that um hope is a important word is important to have and to value there's been hope can lead to better health which is one of my other goals and it can lead to happiness i want to share with you a a study there was a study of about 13 000 people researchers
004found that those with more hope and i don't know how they you know exhibited that hope throughout their lives had better physical health better health behaviors better social support and a longer life hope also led to fewer chronic health problems less depression anxiety and lower risk of cancer so one of my favorite poems i'm going to read to you is emily dickinson i may have done read this before because it is one of my favorites hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all and i love this poem because it shows how hope costs nothing at all it's miraculous it's impossible to defeat its things and adversity and gives people a reason to go on our hope perches or resides in
005our souls and hope can lead to a happy content well-being and give us a glimmer of something better so i want to end with another small poem entitled happiness and this is by a scottish poet named stuart patterson i'm going to read the whole thing because it's several stanzas long so i'm not going to read all of it i've made my own museum of happiness which isn't built of brick or stone or wood its walls the thickness of the day a flapping tongue of canvas held in place by rope and peg to stop it flying off and joyously away up into everywhere in time and space what sites what wonders see those things unseen except in meanwhiles vivid dreams smile laugh and gasp and live a lifetime somewhere in between the daily grind of minutes
006and two hours be amazed by happiness's alchemy to joyous raucous ends of impossibility happy new year to all of you get out your etch-a-sketches or magic slates and write down your own words for 2022. thank you all right thank you very much if you can if you're able if you'll stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance all right doctor i think i'll grab it from here for a few moments we do have a quorum here for tonight's board meeting and so we'll call it to order this is our reorganization meeting for the 2022 calendar year um listed on our agenda and here as we always have is our mission and vision for our school corporation also on the cars behind us as well as our objectives that we try to follow as a
007school district the first thing that we have in terms of business for a reorganization meeting is to establish the officers for the board so for this first meeting through december of 2022 and we'll then go through this again i guess a year from now so we'll start that our the officers for our school board include a president a vice president and a secretary and so i would ask the board at this time do we have any motions for a slate of officers for this 2022 calendar year dr roberts i'd like to make a motion thank you dr biltz to a point dr jill shedd is president mr cole wheeldon as vice president and mr rich stenner as secretary can i get that right yes it is so we've had the nomination that i've heard as
008president um dr vice president nicole wilden and uh secretary rich dinner okay is there a second to that slate of officers i second okay second from this is the opt wire any discussion on the slate of officers okay hearing none we'll call for a vote all those in favor say signify by saying aye those opposed same side okay that is the case you will have um we'll change those rules and doctor i'm going to pass the here we'll make sure and get your name tags updated in regards to the title that you will change too we will not change seats at this point in time this evening but we will also in further meetings reorganize your seats all right thank you very much sure thank you thank you very much for your confidence in me
009and i'm looking forward to working with both mr stenner and miss wheeldon as part of our leadership team so as we continue just because we love doing this so much it is time for our covid update so i will turn to you dr robin all right thank you so much so this is a topic that has been on our agenda now for quite some time so i'll just run through what i have been sharing in the past just updating you with information so the cdc map is i don't think it's changed this entire school year but the department of health one does and again those are just different ways of measuring and the state of indiana has the four colors with orange and red being the most cases red being the very most cases in
010our county is currently in the red locally if we get to the specific information that is kept track of by our local covid19 task force 117 new positive cases this is middle of last week again these are updated this data is updated every monday and thursday based upon the previous day's information so these are a few days old code hospitalizations at that time were 51. for bcsc so drilling all the way down to our school corporation specifically first semester we ended with 960 cases the first nine weeks had 514 you see the breakdown of 453 students and 61 staff members a little bit a fewer number of cases for the second nine weeks overall 446 ratio changed a little bit 365 students but actually more staff members than the prior nine weeks and that's that's
011been a trend we've seen it is is that adults picking up a little bit more than they had been at the beginning of the school year at least during the first semester our peak week in terms of number of cases in a week was the one after thanksgiving so november 27th to december the third that was 112 cases that included 90 students and 22 staff members if we catch up with now where we are today so the cfc positive cases that is the week by week tally since the beginning of the school year the most recent week we've had uh we're actually counting from january 1st through january the 7th and though we were only in school a few days we were having information turned into us obviously as it was determined whether or not
012somebody could be at school and so you see that number of cases pretty high the only number higher than it for a week is the peak week that i just cited on the previous slide and then this is the number of students out which as actually although there's a decent number there for the week that we're just finishing um it's it's not a bad story in the sense that although we just had a week that was about as high as well as next to the highest that we've had the number of people actually out of the buildings there were many weeks nine of them i believe that had more people out of the buildings and that does go back to after fall break when we adjusted our quarantine protocols and followed the recent at that
013time recent department of health indiana department of health guideline change and that did allow us to keep students in school we did not have to quarantine if we had a mask environment and so we had maintained that and that is has helped us in terms of just the number of kids out of the building this is recent information this is the last slide on this update but this is recent information so the flow chart on the left gets into the various guidance for isolation which means a person has tested positive and how long they need to stay out of the building as well as quarantine which means a person has been identified as a close contact and how long they must stay out of the building i have taken the part about quarantined guidance for
014close contacts exposed at school and without symptoms blown that up a little bit and that's the piece on the right that bottom right hand corner of the graph on the left or flow chart on the left is just blown up zoomed in and that's what's on the right and so again this is coming from the department of health and everyone mask positive case and close contact mass if we have a close contact within three feet they do have to stay home for five days monitor for symptoms the five days is a change from ten so reminder that when we went back here and made the change after fall break we went from 14 days to 10 and we had then the situation where we could keep kids in school if we did not have or
015with the mask environment here we're now taking the 10 to five within three feet do have to be out for those five days but close contacts identified within six feet or outside of that three feet area may remain in school as long as they remain asymptomatic anyone unmasked closed contacts within six feet of the positive case must quarantine for the five days so that difference and again coming from the department of health is is that within three feet any close contact is still going to go home for five days but outside of that three feet to six feet identified as a close contact mask environment allowed to stay in school unmask environment not so it just changes the number of kids that potentially could be in the school building so that's that's the update on
016the flow chart i think that you're all aware of that recent change that was enacted as we began uh second semester so as moving forward and that again i believe is the last slide that i have i'll take any questions in regards to the information i've provided dr roberts i was wondering if bcsc is seeing a difference between the numbers from i guess 20 20 20 21 as far as quarantine and the number of days and if students are i know that we were close for you know a period of time and had online learning but when we came back i'm wondering um our students being in school more i guess is my bottom line with the with the court with the the only five day quarantine since yeah a good question dr biltz and
017and we'll see the we'll need a few days to really be able to understand the data coming out of break and and how many cases we have and the number of of close contacts able to stay in school or have to be at home to be able to compare but certainly the difference starting this semester with everybody in school impacts the numbers for both of those compared to a year ago so more cases more people out of school a reminder to all we started second semester last year we did bring back the elementary students but we were in a hybrid model for for high school so going back and forth two days at a time with our middle school and secondary students and that certainly helped in terms of just the number of cases we
018had and then a number of days any one person missed even if they had to close if they had a quarantine because of close contact because most of the week they were still at home so just just a tough apples to apples comparison because of the way that we had school last year yeah thank you you're welcome mr dr roberts i know it's only been three days but do you have any observations on the new uh guidelines any difference that you see in in in terms of moving from ten days to five yeah so uh it's i wouldn't be able to comment in terms of what changes if any that would have on contracting you know the virus and and with our nurses principles identifying people and keeping people in school versus not um that
019number's basically the same in terms of the number of people we're just getting them back in in half the time and and with five days it you're barely going to get outside of a whole week right i mean if you're identified today as a close contact and you not to be out for the next five days the worst case scenario is you're back next monday and and if you're outside if you're identified tomorrow then you're just missing maybe three or four days so it's possible to miss a whole week five days based on when you're identified as a close contact but that's gonna be the maximum number of days that a person's out because otherwise you're sandwiching a weekend around that time so oftentimes might be three days which is certainly helpful to the that
020accumulated number of time that people are going to miss school i do appreciate that you didn't ask this question necessarily mr stenner but in in terms of the impact and i mentioned that the number of kids is still going to be basically the same as identified because it didn't change that we have re-emphasized that as we've gotten started in the second semester about the physical distancing and a reminder that that three feet is really key here to somebody not being identified as a close contact and having to go home so with every possibility where it's feasible practicable practical outside of three feet is going to help our kids because they can stay in school so you know we might gather on the floor do some things we may be just at least measuring off that
021that distance to try to maintain um spacing so that when we go back to the flow chart that's been put in place more kids are in school thank you you're welcome dr roberts one more question on this topic have you seen an increase in the number of cases contracted on site since we went to the policy of not identifying use of close contact that's a good going into fall break we have not seen that percentage change significantly all right thank you you're welcome thank you it's better news we'll get there now's the opportunity on our agenda for public comment and we have two individuals who've signed up so i'll call you all in order so mr grow i'll turn to you all right so i've been coming to these meetings for a little while now
022i'm an attempt to communicate with you basically my strategy has been to kind of lower the threshold to bring up more agreeable topics dial back my intensity on some topics and and points that maybe deserve a lot of intensity but that's all in an attempt to kind of find the table where we can at least start an attempt to make some progress somewhere and hopefully build off of that and tonight i'm going to continue with that strategy well i'm going to continue with that strategy and until i can find that table basically so every one of you has the opportunity at the end of the school board meetings to speak freely so tonight i just have two simple straightforward asks on topics that i think are important enough on their own but probably more importantly
023your constituents their concerns for your constituents and um they deserve to know your stances on these issues so first could each of you take a moment to publicly comment on your stance regarding the removal of the books brought up at the november 15th meeting maybe someone can comment on what hazard hasn't been done but please everyone let us know you know what your your stance is on on that issue and then two will each of you take a few seconds to let your constituents know if it were proposed would you support code vaccine mandates for our students or would you oppose them thank you for your time and i look forward to answers thank you mr grow so next on our list is mike is it zekes thank you i apologize um i wanted to
024you can hit the timer i want to have a moment to talk about the information you disclosed about the covid data that you're taking one it i want to say one of the key things to all this is to critically think seen that said about several universities and other establishments that have to do with education one of the key things is to that is a lot with religion which is you know hey faith that has to do with your ability to come to think about what is true and right you don't have any hope unless you have that working first i happen to think that that's in order otherwise you tend to do things that are emotionally done and a lot of times we get caught up in doing the same thing over and over
025again not realizing that we're just following a process without thinking about it and he collected data and a lot of that was really interesting i saw something underneath the whole thing was is that we're collecting this but we're not asking any questions can we really control this we went from six feet to three feet um the data for testing for pcr has that changed in your graphs do you mark that anywhere to even know whether it had any effect on it and when did you mark those on your graphs when you did that these kids go outside of school and get possibly get this you really think you can control this all from school um it really seems focused on something like we can control it we are people we have strong beliefs and well
026we should and we should think about them and i would hope your answer if there was a question about vaccine mandates it should tell you a lot about it now if you're really looking at data not just from single sources in the mainstream media because this is a new variant you're not you can jab up all you want but it's not for those proteins on that particular virus no one's talking about it looking at it but we'll just follow the leader and keep doing the same thing over and over again and as an educational source i think that's kind of disheartening and these kids are probably hurt the most you know there are other control groups out there in the world that didn't lock down and do all this if you ask anyone what's to
027sweden you can look at the overall death rates for that nation it's not as bad as here they didn't do the lockdowns i think they only had a mask up maybe once in their travels around once during the beginning of this yes vaccines if you really think that that's going to work for you but [Applause] i think that's a key thing is that you allow people the time to decide for themselves and to force a mandate quite honestly in history class you should have taught people about the nuremberg trials and the nuremberg code that happened which was done after that medical experimentation and these vaccines are still experimental i know that someone will say well not pfizer but to be quite honestly you didn't look at the fine print because commerci is actually released they
028have to do a bunch of data and studies to find out what it is and quite honestly when you saw the cdc director say well or the fda approval say well we're just going to have to test it on our kids to find out that's i don't know how it's not that i'm disgusted anyone here but overall i can see why a lot of people are disgusted by this should give you something to think about thank you very much i appreciate your comments so we only have the two individuals that have signed up so i will continue continue what it is all about that we have our reorganization meeting so there i'll i'll go through this series i'm not going to read absolutely every single one but first we have a reorganization of our business
029services and you'll see that we have four important appointments and approvals to offer related to our business services and they are listed here i will accept a motion to approve them as they are presented to us thank you mr bryant is there a second second thank you miss day hof dwyer are there any particular questions individuals have of mr phillips uh regarding these four all right all of those who approve these appointments the authorization and the approval regarding school treasurer bonds if you'd signify by saying i i those opposed all right mr phillips we've got business services reorganized next that we are required to do has to do with establishing our board meetings our remuneration as well as required notices the details are listed here so i'll accept a motion to approve these three items
030regarding our meetings remuneration and required notices so moved thank you dr bills is there a second second thank you mr bryant are there any particular questions individuals have about these three elements i might just mention dr shedd that the remuneration is set by state law so those those numbers are coming from statute and then the newspaper is the republic that's the designation so didn't have that typed up there but it's just additional information for everybody saying thank you all right i'll um all of those who are in favor of our established board remuneration the republic has our designated newspaper and the date of our school board meetings and locations if you would signify by saying i i i opposed all right we got that one thank you up next there are two sets of board
031appointments and approvals that we have first is the board appointments to these four organizations committees which serve our school corporation and which has always had a school board member on them the proposed members are listed here and i'd be more than happy to have a motion to approve these four proposed memberships on these committees as they're presented to you move approval thank you mr stenner is there a second second thank you miss dayhoftwire there any particular questions about these four i would just remind the board doctor shed that these are internal committees that uh serve the school corporation and meet at least quarterly um i think the business advisory council actually meets monthly but they're routine groups that from a continuous improvement standpoint are helping us on a routine basis absolutely thank you very much
032so all those who approve these four proposed board appointments if you signify by saying i i those opposed all right thank you very much those who pass unanimously oh goody so this is this is a two-page screen correct i think it's three actually okay so we have um a number of internal committees and councils that serve the work of our school corporation as well as you will see listed [Music] also commissions here in our city and county that have requested having a school board representation so there is a list here of a through n and we can go through those so everyone can see them it the first group there so and these are appointments of board members as liaisons and in that role that they might respond to questions that individuals have as to
033a perspective from the school board as well as having a responsibility to share the discussion that happens in each of these committees with colleagues because we all can't be there so i'll entertain a motion to approve the board members as liaisons on our committees a through n so moo thank you miss day hofdwyer is there a second thank you dr bills any particular questions about these awesome all of those in favor of these liaison appointments if you would signify by saying i i those opposed yay we have those down for the year next is we are annually asked about recommendations for public disco disclosures of conflict of interest we have received all of those in our packets and i'll entertain a motion for approval of those recommendations thank you mr bryant is there a second
034second thank you miss dayhof dwyer are there questions that individuals have about those all right so all those in favor of the public disclosures of conflict of interest that were presented to us if you would signify by saying i those opposed all right those have been approved unanimously as presented to us next is the request for approvals of items that we typically see as well as appointments that we have to make so i'll turn to dr roberts thank you dr shed so typically we have at least a through e on here and then other items and we have just a handful of additional ones this time so we have minutes of the regular school board meeting from december the 13th supplemental contracts the field trips and professional leaves lists as well as school fundraisers i
035think there are two in this times packet claims in payroll we had a claims for january 10th that today's date that totaled just over sixty nine thousand dollars in pre-run which covered the month of december was actually a little over 32 million dollars in claims and then we have uh payroll two different sets of payroll that total a little over 6.3 million dollars the december 17th one covered the work dates of november 22 through december 5th and was a normal one with the addition of some stipends specifically the teacher appreciation grant which is another statutory piece dollars that we receive and then have to provide it out distributed out in a specific way and then the december 31st payroll covered the work dates of the 6th through the 19th that was normal for nine-month support
036staff but for bus drivers certified staff members and 260-day employees year-round staff members this payroll only had deductions for taxes 403 b hsas and perfect turf with no deductions for health and dental so just we always have some variations it seems like in just about every payroll so giving you that information and then we do going back to the appointments and reorganizations each year we add these we do use dr roy good as a school physician for consultations on specific circumstances or situations we also have mr monroe as the interim school attorney i'll return to that in just a second and then we do have a service the information services center which is our technology building located over by columbus north schmidt elementary school just off home avenue used to be the administration building we're
037doing a roofing replacement at that building so we have a contract for you i think that is at your places but additionally at your places you have because that was just updated you have that roofing replacement contract as well as the letter from mr monroe so chris has been with us for a little over five years now his position is going to to step aside when he has the opportunity but we're not letting him yet we're going to keep him on his interim until we get that position posted and and uh have the opportunity to to bring in another school board attorney but chris has agreed to stay on as an interest so thank you for that agreed to do that chris so those are my items a through h number seven on the agenda
038all right thank you very much so first i'll ask for a motion to prove items seven a through h as they've been presented to us so moved thank you miss wielding is there a second a second our second from miss day hofdwyer are there any particular questions that individuals have about these items all right with none i'll ask for approval of items 7 a through h as they're presented to us those in favor if you'd signify by saying i i and those opposed all right dr roberts those were passed unanimously thank you it is dr pleek's turn i request approval of the hr recommendations as presented this evening all right thank you do i have a motion for approval of the human resources recommendations we received so move thank you miss day hofdwyer is there
039a second thank you dr bills any particular questions for dr pleek as to the recommendations she set before us all right i'll ask all of those in favor of the human resources recommendations we've received if you'd signify by saying i i and those opposed all right dr bleak those pass unanimously so now to our what which is a great way to talk about policy reviews yes it is and we have quite quite a number of them for you so um move it past t okay there we go um several items there that you see 9 10 11 and 12 we're going to hit number nine with a with a group of slides and then return to board accommodations couple member reports and the cabinet reports so as you know we work with neola closely to
040to make sure we understand the changes that are necessary with policies and on the heels of different court cases or federal law changes or legislative sessions there are things will change and sometimes it's just a citation indiana code or something like that other times it's additional wording but these recommendations most of them are actually on the heels of last year's legislative session so we will rush to the degree necessary to get things implemented as quickly as we can but policy does does take a while to get ironed out sometimes so there are a variety of things in here and i'll just go through each of them and then take any questions that you have but in your set of bylaws which in our policy manual the very first chapter i guess would be even though
041it starts with a zero um is just your organization and we've spent a lot of time tonight on reorganizing the board but also looking at just the public participation making sure it's clear as to the policy and the practice that we have going on now doesn't change but just been revised to reflect that that process of public participation at a school board meeting the employment of the superintendent um and the employment administrators in addition to the superintendent are listed here this was a senate enrolled act regarding in regards to school referendums from last year that indicated you could not issue bonuses or other incentives to administrators as a result of a favorable outcome on a referendum so we have some policies revised on employment of those positions and we've made sure to update 1520 with
042all the list of administrators we have in our corporation the state of indiana defines administrators maybe one way pretty narrow we we have additional positions we see in that light so we've added them to 15 20. policy 2262 is latchkey programs it's just new options available through hea during declared emergencies and so these options are available to corporations when you're providing school-age child care and we do have before and after school care through our eye care program the indiana course access program is pursuant to state statute and the ido and this is in regards to students who are pursuing a diploma or maybe maybe industry certification their ability to take advantage of the state board's indiana course access program and the nursing changes in terms of the student requested participation the school decided that that
043didn't really fit that student's needs or schedule or whatever how they had to respond to that so we've included that information from hea 1438 last year policy 2603 is school performance internet dashboard this is a new policy still to be tweaked but we wanted to go ahead and get something in as that work continues but going back to house bill 1514 of last year and then worked through the state board of education dashboards are going to change and there will be a combination of required items on the dashboard from the state of indiana and then indicators that can be chosen locally so language was built into policy 2603 to indicate how that could work these three policies oftentimes will have wording changed and we'll just stack that up so here you'll see wording for personnel
044who would be certified and then personnel who would be support staff and then coaches and with these policies it's referring to changes about what areas or sponsors need to be trained in recognizing increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest and participate in training around that so marching band leader has been added specifically to that and then any other activity sponsor where there might be that sudden risk have to go through some additional training so not just coaches of sports maybe as it was worded previously so just clarification those three this we've been doing but just getting into policy because it's already statute but a public hearing before commencement of collective bargaining so prior to starting bargaining you have to have a public hearing about that we have a public notice have the hearing and then start
045the bargaining process so that was through hca 1549 staff gifts it's frowned upon in terms of receiving gifts but but there's just some wording to reflect that sometimes teachers might get gifts for example around christmas time or something like that so it tries to just separate that from getting a gift because somebody's trying to benefit from giving you that gift with a contract for example for roof versus a child in a classroom so just revising that to reflect all the holidays for which gifts might be offered to staff members in a very benign way versus how people sometimes might think about a staff gift and again you'll see there's two policies that reflects the various kinds of staff members we have certified and then support staff staff evaluation policy 3220 revisions made there regarding the
046components because of just stuff over the last couple of years we are not allowed to include the objective measures from statewide assessments on the certificate employees performance evaluation so just with the challenges of the standardized assessments that were given in the last couple of years and then the legislators decision to then hold schools harmless for any results from that because we were held harmless from our letter grade we also have to hold teachers harmless and their performance evaluation for that specific piece that score from the standardized tests so that's been built into policy 3220. school transfer options just making sure to comply with the provisions of the elementary and secondary schools act there was a slight amendment with essa and then any current ideal procedures so just ensuring that schools have safe schools to choose
047and not turning kids away if they're coming from an environment that may be deemed unsafe 5340.01 is student concussions in sudden cardiac arrest some of the language here is similar to what was reported earlier with the marching band leader for example or other sponsors of activities in which a student has an increased risk of cardiac arrest having to have some additional work done in this particular policy it gets into the forms the acknowledgment forms that students have to fill out to be able to participate in those activities you may notice with each of these changes oftentimes there's increased responsibility to somebody to now make sure those forms are available and out collected and checked off graduation requirements is policy 5460 pursuant to sca 101 this policy is revised for the graduation plan it's just making
048sure that we're not withholding a diploma for failure to have a graduation plan but we each child is supposed to have one as per statute as they roll through their middle and secondary school years but it's not to be withheld from a student for failure to somehow some way to not have a graduation plan in place policy 5540 the schools and governmental agency revised to also account for this this is a situation where if dcsc comes to the school and wishes to interview a student there's a process involved there and that was a pretty lengthy conversation last year's legislative session about how that process should be and how administrators should respond to that but that does build that into policy 6105 is authorization to accept and distribute electronic records and to use electronic signatures there's
049really just a technical correction there where statutory citation is being added cost principles spending federal funds this is just updating our policy to make sure it reflects federal requirements with in particular given all the federal funds that schools have received over the last 18 months and so it's bringing that policy up to par with with federal guidelines and specifically we reference their esser which is the elementary and secondary school emergency relief funds budget preparation 6220 this is just a strikethrough of content that refers to things that are no longer required part of budget preparation so it goes back to the changes and accounts that we've had over the last couple of years and some things that could be struck from the requirements of that budget hearing this one just gets into if a referendum levy
050is included in the budget the spending plan must also be included so from a policy standpoint mr phillips make sure to do that and we would be doing that anyway we committed to that from a transparency standpoint when we rolled out that referendum this position of real property is policy 7300 so pursuant again to a change in statute revisions being made to the cell or least of unused or vacant property there's just a lot of language that was added last couple of years to make sure that unused or vacant buildings were made available to the public we do not have any unused or vacant property necessarily at this point in time but they're we're making sure that our policy is in line in case somehow sometime that would become a need uh disposition of surplus
051property it is the obligation of the board to develop a plan related to preservation of certain things it must be then posted the website for public inspection if we're going to allow for surplus property to be gathered by others property inventory this is just a drafting note to note the federal threshold of five thousand dollars for differentiating between supplies materials and capital expenditures for equipment purposes equipment purchases then a couple of more regards to student technology acceptable use and then staff technology acceptable use so a couple of sub policies under 7540 revised to include language reflecting state law requirements that specifically prohibit the sending receiving viewing or downloading of materials harmful to minors and it mandates that the content must be posted on the corporation website so that's from a technology standpoint information security gets
052into the cyber security and to make sure to revise that language that we're working to protect data from attack vectors and the categories have been identified and then we need to outline a method for maintaining a repository of any incidents and then those we're required to submit that information if we have an incident to the state transportation revised in terms of our ability if we would choose to enter to a fleet contract or permit contractors drivers to be eligible for life and health insurance benefits so this just gives us flexibility it's not necessarily the way we approach our transportation at this moment but the latest last legislative session did that provide that flexibility and that is a pretty exhaustive list of policies for you to to gather you have these strikethrough versions editions subtractions at
053your or in your electronic package so you should have those in detail i'd be glad to entertain any questions at this time mr stenner i i did have a question about the disposition of real property and the certification that's going to come from the attorney general okay um i can't remember the number yeah i'm just going to go back to the thousands there it is 73. um does it so i think we're required and our policy will say that we need to ask for the certification from the attorney general's office it doesn't seem to matter whether or not we actually ever get that certification it's our request that is important am i reading that right that's my understanding mr phillips do you have any additional and i am pulling up that policy as you speak
054mr senator so i can get to the exact language i don't dr roberts i'd have to look at it okay yeah i'm pulling that up here it just it just seems curious dr roberts or mr phillips are you aware of any other instances in which we've got to ask for certification no there's no other language in the policy mr stenner except required to request certification okay there are other questions that individuals have so to provide a context i think we read about 70 pages of changes and they were clearly delineated for us as to the language that was being changed and then how it aligned with various either acts or changes to indiana code and it did reflect in my mind that we were certainly just up to date with current code rather than um
055significant changes to the way we do things that is true dr said there were no policies that internally we said from a continuous improvement standpoint or some some recent happening that that indicated we needed to revise a policy this is a the standard six m every six months we are updating our policies based upon changes we've seen statutorily just to ensure that our policies are as up to speed up to date as possible and reflects the proper citations uh legally so that that drove this list of policies that you that you have all right thank you and i'll remind us all that we always go through two readings of our policy so this was our first and to read it all to hear dr roberts elaboration and summary of it and again as we might
056have the opportunity to review them again for our next meeting we would be voting on them for those changes at our next meeting on january 24th yes so thank you for all of that you're welcome thank you now's an opportunity for board commendations that individuals might have so mr grimes isn't here okay i did a little homework to make sure that i was representing appropriately for the board okay so one thing i did and you're the right board member to do i am the right board member well good thank you for that so i did um i did read there was a an email communication this week about four bcsc students who earn honors in the bicentennial essay contest so i will list those students names um samantha sparks valeria cortez lilly wells and mugatti
057lily wells used the word contra distincted in her essay i read them today and i had to look it up because i wasn't sure it was a word it is a word i've never used it before but this little girl knew it was word so she taught me something today i really appreciated reading those and the perspectives they're very diverse perspectives from those four children great job now you're gonna put me on the spot okay that was it right thank you so much for that are there others yes mr sten uh i actually got an email from mr grimes [Laughter] i would like to give several commendations tonight commendations to the hr department and dr pleek doing everything they can to fill our empty slots for substitute teachers we've noticed radio ads encouraging folks that
058may be interested in that position to explore the opportunity mr grimes and i would like to congratulate the boys and girls varsity bowling teams at north high school for recent success and advancing on to regional competitions to congratulate east senior corinne greewey for four years of hard work she recently became the leading girls scorer in the history of east high school surpassing a record that happens to have been said by former indiana miss basketball maria stack back in 1980 so 31 years ago that record was set this year it was broken congratulations to miss greeweek east wrestling team and their coach chris cooper for all their hard work of course but especially for recently winning their first class 3a state duels team championship congratulations to the 10 finalists but especially to the north high school
059seniors megan allman and ashley lara for becoming lilly scholars this year which if anybody's not familiar with the lilly scholarship it's four years everything paid for at any indiana college or university i'd also like to give commendations to mr grimes who i think we noted earlier is absent because he is participating in the national anthem and the holding of the american flag and the college football championships up at lucas oil stadium tonight that's pretty cool is that happening tonight yes it is mr bryan yeah is that why you keep looking at your watch and in addition there are a number of teachers participating in ceremonies at the college championships tonight who have been named teachers of the year at a variety of districts including our own mindy summers who was our bcsc teacher of the
060year i hope i didn't steal any thunder from anybody else those are the commendations that mr grimes and i came up with i would just add to mr stenner's remarks there with the last two that on so on the field tonight bcsc has two individuals todd teaches at greenfield but is our school board member lives in our community and and there to hold the american flag i think there are 56 individuals that are holding the american flag as they stretch it across the field for the national anthem tonight and then mindy's one of 18 so bcs he can claim two of the 74 teachers from around the state of indiana that are on the field that's kind of exciting so good stuff thanks for sharing that mr it is exciting so can i just take
061commendations to really thank you mr monroe for being our school attorney for the past five years it's been most helpful to us and to the rest of us in the school corporation so we've valued all of your guidance it's been great to have you at each of our meetings and thank you for hanging in there for a little bit longer until we name a new school attorney but we really truly have appreciated all of your service to us so thank you very much are there school board member reports yeah i've got a couple um i would let school board members know as well as members of the public that the council for youth development and its latest incarnation is celebrating five years with its executive director heather carson they are celebrating by helping the public
062understand their progress against their master plan for youth and what they've accomplished in the last five years this is also a time for input from all stakeholders on a survey on the website that will allow them to help set direction for the future so council for youth development and then mr grimes noted that the school foundation has two big events coming up first is a trivia contest called share the love it's a opportunity for remote or virtual participation in a trigger contest that will help them raise funds for the work of the foundation that's set for saturday february 12th and you can register on the school foundation website and then in the next one are you participating this year and march 6th when the harlem wizards will be playing here in columbus dr roberts i
063will probably have some role in that activity that sounds exciting sunday march 6th the harlem wizards will be here for a fundraiser for the school foundation those are the reports from cyd and the school foundation all right thank you so very much others all right cabinet reports i believe i get to turn to you mr phillips we do have a slide or two for mr phillips for this thank you dr shed just a couple of annual reports we do this one is actually semi-annual this is the extracurricular balance report nothing of significance from a change standpoint i did look just to go back to pre-covert days and look at the fall of 2019 to make a comparison the balances are pretty consistent with that time frame but receipts are down about 40 percent and expenditure
064is about 35 compared to the fall of 2019 so we're still not seeing the level of activity basically from extracurriculars and kids doing things from fundraisers uh all the way to field trips and those kinds of things i'll pause there just ask if there are any brief questions on the extracurricular account report that we do at the end of each semester i appreciate the thoroughness of reporting four cents at johnson center that's right and it hasn't changed in two years so the the next is the annual board of finance report i apologize for the heir there the secretary would be mr stinner and we the board of finance just authorizes us to it's a technicality that we report each year on our investments but we use the same officers as the board for the officers
065of the board of finance a review of our investment policy is part of this required annual report we have three allowed investment tools us treasury bills or notes the two years two years or less same thing for cds and then the sweep accounts in the money market that happen every evening at first financial bank uh in 2021 we did not invest in any cds or treasuries as their rates were worse than the 0.15 we were getting at the sweep account at first financial bank and that those low rates are reflected here in the income earned from investment so interest earned was lower than it has been since 2014 as that was the last time that rates were or as low as they've been since that was the the recovery after the great recession and then
066uh the additional report that they've asked us to do each each year to the board of finance is just a review of the distressed unit appeals board again this is a reaction to two specific districts in the state of indiana that had some financial difficulties a few years ago and the legislature created a regulatory tool called the distressed unit appeals board actually that that unit already existed but they created some school indicators some fiscal indicators and qualitative indicators these when they took place in 2019 they've revised them at least once if not twice and they're very lagging the indicators that came out last month were all the way from 2020 so they just released the indicators if we were ever to be identified there is a long process and it's confidential before the public would
067find out about it the board would be notified if we were ever identified as being in danger of being a distressed unit we have no concerns any questions on the board of finance or do ab report any questions it's just the bottom line is very important that we have no concerns in our school corporation so thank you all right this is opportunity for our members to offer their input or their comments turn to you mr bryant all right thank you dr bills pass mr stenner thank you dr should i echo your comments and nice words about mr monroe it's been a pleasure to work with him for the last five years and uh you will be missed thank you you stay off twitter well congratulations to our new four board officers once well partially once
068we rotate the chairs and um i ditto about mr monroe he will be missed but he'll still be around i'm sure so thank you all right thank you miss wilton um the only thing i'll say and and and i do appreciate our speakers and mr grove you're still here i'm i'm not going to exactly do what you asked me to okay but i'm going to say a couple of things just i i'm really sick of coping like my personal opinion i don't like to wear masks i don't like that our kids wear masks and and i am vaccinated and my family is vaccinated but we had a lot of conversations about that but i think more importantly it's important to note that my personal views and how i weigh in sometimes here may be different
069you know so i do think it's good for us to have conversations and i'd be happy to do that with you or anyone else here but no it's different what i may do at home versus what i think is the best thing for the school district and our kids in schools you know there's there's a distinct a distinction there that i take pretty seriously but i appreciate the questions being asked and the positions and the information being shared so thank you very much for participating tonight and i'd also like to say in catching up on some late emails as mr brian pointed out i didn't know there was a game tonight guys until i saw a picture of a flag and mr grimes was like i'm going to be holding the flag right here and
070i thought that looks like lucas oil stadium what's going on in lucas oil stadium oh my gosh people did not know so i'm a little embarrassed about this so then i said i have a lot of catching up to do and so it started catching up one point that you came across over 3 500 schools are closed right now across our country there are 3 500 school districts that had to close across the united states and we didn't like our kids are in school so i do i do appreciate that we're doing enough that our kids get to go to school every day that's the most important thing and i will watch the game tonight mr bryant okay i can't promise you i'll stay up until it's over but i'll watch what i can i'm
071just curious which one he's going to be cheering for the georgia roll tide [Laughter] well thank you for that i also want to thank dr bills and mr bryant and pat for serving with me last year you guys were awesome as you might imagine pat always kept us honest so i appreciate both of y'all's service and i look forward to working with you nikki and rich so thank you very much and i appreciate your confidence that you would have me do this again even though i don't like this thing to your questions mr grow i want to say we do have a policy about removing books from our library and that is initiated by anyone in our community so i would encourage you to do that if you have concerns about particular books that's not
072something that i as a board member would particularly initiate given particular books but you do have the opportunity to initiate that review process and as far as vaccine mandates at some level i agree with miss wilden my personal views are are not what i have been elected to bring to this board i've been elected to take care of over 11 000 students and all the staff that we have in our buildings and to be sure they're all safe and we have i have before me the guidance that we have federally and locally and here within our state so i can't say that i would do one thing and never another i have assumed the responsibility to take care of the health and safety of everyone in bcsc so as we would get any guidance that
073would be what i would consider as extreme as vaccine mandates i would have to take that advice and make the best decision for the health of our school corporation i appreciate you always bringing it up it is important that we be mindful as to what's best for the health and safety and the learning of all the students in our school corporation so thank you i think i have one more assignment our next school board meeting will be monday january 24th we'll be here again at 6 30 before please and because it was brought up as a commendation we did capture corrin hitting this shot that broke the record over columbus josh was able to squeeze it into our presentation so just highlighted that because it was brought up as a as a combination earlier so
074congratulations will you be sure that mr mr grimes sees sure yeah yeah well he will get he'll get the copy after tonight's meeting soon as we'll all staff yes awesome wonderful well thank you all very much i appreciate those who are here with us personally and those who have been watching us on live stream so with that i'll call this meeting adjourned you