001foreign all right thank you so good evening it's wonderful to see all of you here at the board meeting of the bartholomew consolidated school corporation i appreciate everyone that's here in attendance and we have some lovely things to focus on this evening so we're going to go straight to the pledge of allegiance this evening and if you would and are able please stand and join of the me discipline one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all so thank you very much there are five of our board members in attendance and that calls it as a quorum so i'll call this meeting to order we always start and remind everyone of our mission and vision those things which direct each decision that we make this evening and along with the mission envision we
002have our high expectation objectives that ensure a very balanced intentional and forward-looking approach to the decisions that we have before us tonight so with that i'm going to turn to miss heine and we will honor our honorees this evening thank you dr shedd um this evening the last board meeting of of may we typically recognize our retirees for the school year and this year we have 20 seven retirees we have seven certified staff and we have 20 support staff so i'd like to recognize them individually robin campbell robin is a teaching assistant with the restart program at mcdowell and has been here 34 years kenny cave is trades and a plumber for us and has been here 35 years heda jordan works as a bus driver a bus monitor and has been with us for
00317 years jane carriger at smith a teacher assistant in the title one program has been with us for five years pam meschino from rock creek was a custodian for 34 years beverly asbury also from rock creek again a custodian for 26 years bob bell from east a custodian he was the lead day custodian for 16 years randy surface was our project manager at t m and had been with us for five years guy nintrip also in trades he worked for grounds for 39 years talara henry at rock creek was the media tech specialist has been with us for 19 years rita bradford at faudria was a media tech specialist and had been with us for 27 years sandra carr at southside food service she worked in the cafeteria with us for 16 years bruce daly
004again t m bus driver for nine years patricia daly t m as a bus driver for nine years sheri grimes at south side was a special ed teacher assistant for nine years deborah harmon parkside was the media tech specialist in the library for 23 years hartley was at clifty creek in the cafeteria as a food service employee for four years carol heitmann at north food service in the cafeteria for 25 years virginia huntsman also a bus driver for two years david parker at mount healthy as a custodian he was the elementary lead custodian of mount healthy for 36 years so that's all of our support staff and they total up to 390 years our certified staff we have seven certified staff robin kane was at north he was a c4 industrial tech teacher and had
005been with bcsc for 33 years jan schultz was south side or still as grade 2 with vcsc for 31 years jeff friedgood at north p e and health teacher 37 years with bcsc michelle kreitzer parkside kindergarten had been with bcsc for 26 years tony romanski was special ed teacher split his time between parkside and lincoln 22 years with bcsc myself been with bcsc for 32 years and susan scott at north as the assistant principal for 42 years so their bcsc years totaled 223 years add that to the support staff and we have 613 years total so congratulations to all those folks do [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] [Applause] so [Music] yes thank you very very much i yes i cannot get over all those
006years and that true commitment to the school corporation to our community to our students especially to our students so we cannot thank them all enough and i hope they are planning to have a blast now that they have retired and our favorite next topic is an update on covid19 dr robinson not nearly as fun as celebrating the accomplishments of our retirees congratulations to those from the school corporation choosing to retire at this time like you hope that they have great plans set aside to enjoy that that time uh i i hope that tonight's copa 19 plan of action update review is short so it's kind of based on how what you bring to the table here uh this slide has been the same we've been five days of in-person learning since monday march the 22nd
007and maintaining those mitigation strategies we did at the last meeting change the distance from a social distancing standpoint for identifying close contact with six feet to three feet that was a change made at the last meeting prom and graduation we shared this information with you at the last meeting too uh at that point in time we had not yet yet held prom we have done that now it was on may 1st at northside middle school it went extremely well we were blessed with outstanding weather temperature sun all those kinds of things we're hoping that that's the same it will be the same right guys it will be the same for graduation coming up and you see the schedule there new tech has been moved up from friday to thursday just to give us a little
008wiggle room uh seven o'clock on east football field a rain date would be the 28th i really should just get rid of those rain dates it's not gonna rain so we can we should just drop those from the slide but columbus is scheduled for saturday may 29th at nine reminder that's just bumping it up an hour it was originally supposed to be at 10 o'clock again just giving us some space some opportunities in case it's needed and columbus north moves up from 1 p.m to 11 o'clock am to give us some opportunities so that is the schedule for graduation here in just a few weeks three weeks or so yeah gosh amazing all right so in terms of updated information from a per capita standpoint we are now at 6.3 it was a 6.1 a
009few days ago so we are at our lowest numbers since prior to fall break coming out of fall break they started to inch back up and of course it was november and updates cited on an earlier slide that we went to e-learning uh so those numbers are at least starting to look better uh the per capita uh the percent positive test rate down to 11.6 percent uh the the test turnaround time staying at 1.7 and covet hospitalizations are at six so numbers are in green for the most part with with the two yellows that we see so again at least at the time being heading in the right direction uh with those numbers from a comparison to the state standpoint our county remains at a 0.5 so in the blue but you do see that
010over the last changes over the last few weeks there are some orange counties starting to pop up so that always makes us a little anxious when we see other places start to increase in their rates whether it be the actual per capita rates or their positive test rate we are still at a 0.5 in terms of other pieces of information this slide we share with you each time too just keeping count on the positive test cases we have had we are at 662. um in the corporation that's 20 more than the last time we we met 428 students 162 support staff members and 72 teachers that break down again just represents the population so 4 percent of our student population 14 of our nearly 1200 support staff members and nine percent of our around nearly
011800 certified staff members and again mentioning that 20 cases we've had 20 since the last meeting on monday april 19th 19 of those were students so that is the positive cases for the most part we are seeing now our students within our system i think that is it i'll take any questions you have all right other questions colleagues have [Laughter] all right next is the opportunity for individuals to sign in and offer us public comments and i don't have anyone who has signed in this evening so we'll go on to what into our board commendations so i'll turn to my colleagues if they have commendations to share sure mr grimes yeah i'd like to share some good news about the middle school academic teams from central and north side we'll just i'll start by acknowledging
012the coaches from both schools the math teachers from north side amy dixon also the principal and from central beth flamion science from north side deb gaffe science from central katie slabosky english north side amy rosenberg and central mindy summers and social studies danielle bonham from northside and carla yudy from central and the results from the teams at the state competition central and north side both placed in the top 10 in interdisciplinary central and north side both placed in the top 10 in math central the top 10 in science north side also top 10 in english and central english team happened to be the state champs and i will go ahead and introdu well acknowledge those kids from central the english state champs kirthi deva rugudi anushka damlay nevin justin joshita neely samaksh gupta atar of
013pawar and harshith deva guptapu so congratulations to those kids for winning the state at english competition absolutely thank you very much the other accommodations yes mister i'd like to send the board's commendations to everyone that was part of the prom this year it is just amazing that we were able to carry that off safely wonderful for the students and we thank all the volunteers that made that happen great great thank you volunteers yes i have a few to share and just to follow up on what you uh shared mr stenner really to thank our prom sponsors tanya cruiser at north stephanie meyer at east and veronica butler at csa new tech as well as some key support workers brett bozeman john green bridget van horn and kelly thompson so thanks for that extra effort to
014make it such an exceptional night for everyone and if i may here i go i wanted to commend both charles edward and kimberly easton they'll be presenting in a statewide workshop a webinar entitled child psychological maltreatment training of trainers and that will be tomorrow and wednesday may 11th and 12th they'll be talking about the topic of racism and its impact on psychological maltreatment of indiana youth and lastly though it would be lovely that i might read all these names but i shall not i want to offer commendations to the individuals at c4 that were a part of our future health care professional state leadership conference in total individuals at c4 earned 52 medals that are either first second or third place and the number must be so large i was told it was just thousands
015in scholarships so that is most impressive and very exciting that we offer that additional opportunity to students here at bartholomew consolidated all right commendation school board member report anyone yes this is i was not able to attend but the districting and facilities committee meeting had a meeting last week kind of went through the same visioning process that we did as a board during our strategic planning meeting recently so nice great any others thank you dr shed i attended the health trust committee meeting and mj insurance and i'm sure that mr phillips is going to talk a little bit about that tonight i think maybe i'm not sure but i mean i couldn't talk as intelligently as he does about it anyway so you know um so yes we discuss some of the options we have
016typically we go over claims and look at those and that's what we did this time as a as bcsc and we looked at some of our vendors and just discussed getting the best and most effective health care in our district that is at the lowest cost for not only for bcsc but also for our employees and so we discussed that at the health trust fund this time and then we had and that was on april 28th i believe and then the diversity council on uh april 24 first again kimberly presented on diversity equity inclusion just to keep this in your minds there are four subcommittees of the diversity council and that was our diverse curriculum restorative justice underrepresented teachers and the family academic achievement network um we're going to be talking about some strategic planning
017in the diversity council i think on may 19th i believe is the except it's all right anybody's okay thank you dr roberts and what the direction what is our direction on the diversity council are we an advisory board are we action committee um what are we so we're going to i think we're going to do some activities that day maybe a chop talk or some other things to determine where should we go from here we've done a lot of great work the diversity council charles and kimberly and everybody else on that committee done a tremendous amount of work and and we have i believe that the corporation has made some great steps in trying to be equitable in this corporation regarding students regarding teachers regarding staff and we just need to keep that keep that
018going so that is my update on both the trust fund and diversity council thank you thank you very much mr grimes um wednesday evening i will be attending the spring seminar the indiana school boards association to get all the most current up-to-date information coming out of this this last legislative session so i would say i'm looking forward to it but i'm not sure that's right i am yeah i'm looking forward to it yes thank you thank you for i enjoy those i'm just sorry i'll be out of town all right cabinet member reports good evening thank you dr shedd our 403 b a benefit is probably one of the things we least talk about we haven't visited in 12 or 13 years but it is an incredibly valuable benefit that we offer to all our
019benefits eligible employees um and you know can can lead to you know multiple thousands of dollars per year going towards someone's retirement account so um we decided that it was appropriate for us to take a look at our 403 b and 401a vendors for the first time since 2007 2008 and dr roberts you might have to hit it i turned it on and off and on and it's still not thank you um and so so our why behind why visiting this at this point in time you know mainly because there have been enormous changes in the market in that time frame so really fees have just come way down as index funds have taken over the world but you know cost was not our primary nor our only reason for looking at this we wanted
020to improve the employee experience make sure it was less confusing especially for new employees coming in and trying to explain something so simplify the process and remove barriers so that more teachers more employees would participate in the benefit and get those matching dollars because as you may or may not know you know we match up to five hundred dollars for every support staff member every year that puts in money and up to three percent of a teacher's salary every year if they put it in the 403 b so it's it's free money that's left on the table if employees pass it up and so anything we can do to make it easier and improve participation that was one of our goals and then we also um did not have a fiduciary that looked out just
021for bcse's best interest and our employees pl um best interest in the marketplace and so we wanted to add that layer of protection and so we put together a committee um those folks are i think several of them are on zoom i can't see the who's on the screen but um tess bannister in in the off in the payroll office who does a lot of the work with the vendor so she's on the committee for that reason judy brown at mount healthy also supporting support staff and kirsten loftis is here tonight and scott sivers both appointments from the cea and then myself and we also hired a consultant who's familiar with and has done rfps for this with other school districts in the past chris casares and so thank you to all those folks who
022helped with us because it was a lot of work over the last few months that went into the process not knowing if we would change but really just revisiting it making sure we were getting the best option possible so throughout the course of february we had initial meetings met with our consultant and established the criteria for the process not criteria for the selection but what kind of process did we want to run we wanted to make sure we were rigorous looking at everything we possibly could focus on outcomes for all of the employees of the district not just the people on the committee and be ethical and confidential and then also have a consultant engaged again to make sure we had some knowledge of the industry and then we established criteria for vendor selection so
023these are the five things after the committee met talked to other employees that they work with in their buildings these were the five things we were looking for when we evaluated all the vendors that were out there again fees are there but not the most important thing employee experience strong options and and having good a firm that has the right appropriate size and experience to serve a district of our complexity in size and so the dr roberts hit that one there we go in march we issued an rfp i left it out there for a couple of weeks and got i believe 11 responses to the rfp to the rp's that was a lot of reading there was there was a lot of materials there they all wanted our business there there was a lot
024of people that submitted an rfp and so that was terrific um and then we we narrowed it down to five finalists and in this room back a few weeks ago interviewed each of them they came most of them came in person some in zoom and gave us gave us their best pitch we then contacted references narrowed it down to two even more finalists and did a follow-up call with those folks and finally it was it was terrific was when we got down to the finalists in those five and we did a presentation in this room after the very first presentation we said we'd be incredibly happy with them and then the next one we'd be happy with them as well they were every one of them was a win for us and for our employees
025and so the unanimous recommendation of the committee is that we select csi advisory services to serve as the fiduciary for the plan basically this group will be looking out for us so that we never go 13 years again without revisiting in the market and saying are our employees getting the best deal possible are they paying the lowest fees getting the best fund line up and so that group will do that we did not plan this going in but that committee will now become a standing committee only meeting once or twice per year but again to look at the options that employees have look at our fund lineup say is it performing the way it should and rfe is competitive in the market the second part of that and this is the that's kind of an
026inward facing entity there uh csi will serve the committee in the district and our plan our four through b and 401 plan from an employee standpoint equitable is the platform and the advisors the advisor advisory services that we're recommending the fee i'm sorry for csi the fee is a flat dollar amount per year ongoing with an additional amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars in year one so thirty thousand a year and ten thousand uh for the first year knowing that there's a lot of work coming this fall uh as we transition our employees to the new platform the fee for equitable is um 31 basis points but we're still working on that and and think we're going to probably end up landing on some place a little lower than that that is about a
027third of what we're paying for our three vendor options that we have now depends on the option that you look at but our three different options that we have for employees now for the 403 b average about three times what that fee is there and so all 401a accounts will go over to this platform to the equitable platform and then all future contributions to the 403 b accounts employees will be allowed if they wish to do so to leave any 403 b dollars they have with their current vendor only but all new contributions will only go to equitable for both the 403b and the 401a so throughout this is the implementation timeline so we're seeking your approval tonight to move forward over the summer we'll get everything planned and ready we'll start with enrolling only
028the new teachers um you know at the end of july and beginning of august on the new platform and basically they'll be our practice and then throughout the entire fall transition all other employee groups one at a time to the to the new platform and so as a result of the process we're confident that our employees are going to get better and simple more simplified employee experience i'll have an integrated platform right now everyone in the district if you work here you know this i mean you have two different logins to two different platforms two different websites to go to and two different logins and passwords to go see your 403b and 401a account this puts everything in one place we also added the fiduciary services again to make sure that we're getting the best
029deal ongoing and then of course a more competitive fee structure these next few i'm not going to go through them but there are a few examples that are in your board packet that actually csi put together for us based on the new fee structure estimates of what employees at different places in their career distance away from retirement basically how much they would save and each of the next three sides shows that these these three employees will all have at least ten thousand dollars more in their 403b 401a account at the end of uh when they go to retire as a result of the lower fee structure and the total cost savings again it all varies and it all depends on how much moves over but the annual savings is going to be somewhere in the
030neighborhood of nine hundred thousand dollars per year that our our employees will not pay in in fees um and then of course there's some examples there of what alice bill and susie could do with that that money that they save in lower fees and then what this means for employees this is important and i've already put together a video to send out employees to tomorrow pending your approval but the the 401 a vendor changes to equitable as does the 403 b and they'll have one login one password with lower fees and then those all employees will have to sign up with equitable and create an account advisors from equitable will come and meet with employees in every building this fall or employees that want to do it on their own can just do it and
031log in create there'll be instructions for them to complete the process online and then there's another important step for employees to decide what they want to do with their existing 403b assets if they've been putting money in there for 20 years with a current vendor that we work with and they want to leave it there they're certainly welcome to do so they'll just have the knowledge that they're doing so at a higher fee structure than what we asked through equitable mr phillips on that bullet point there what's the default if if the employee does nothing and doesn't respond to your emails or memos what what happens to the 403b assets the 403b assets will stay where they are all new contributions will go to they'll map what the employee is currently putting so if they're
032putting their money into a an s p index fund currently all their new contributions to the 403 b and for away on the equitable platform will also go to a similar fund so that they map the funds from one to the other gotcha is there a way for the default to be that the assets move um supervendor that's a good question i don't know if kelly kelly with csi is on on zoom i don't know if she could answer it but i have a feeling that because it's we control because we have the contract with the 401a bcsc because we're putting the money in we have the contract with the 401a so we can mandate that that money moves but i don't think without employee um permission i don't think we can move the 403
033b assets and i'll follow up i'll i'll find out from chad oh hi kelly hi um i can answer that question right now so um with the 403b assets the way they're currently positioned with um either valik or metlife or aspire the three vendors that are currently being utilized for the 403 b those are considered individual contracts and because they're considered individual contracts the employee controls where the money goes so that's why we can't default those employees and force them to move their funds into the new program because it's considered an individual contract the irs won't allow for the employer to come in and say you have to move we can come in and say all new money starting the state forward will go into the new provider but the the account that you currently
034have as long as it's a 403 b account we can't force them to move that thank you kelly you're welcome thank you the kind of question we'll have answered now because we can we can talk to kelly when we need to any other questions that is the end of the presentation mr phillips i'm just out of curiosity about what percent of certified employees participate in the match plan good question um about 600 out of 700 teachers and almost all administrators so about certified employees and about 600 a little more than 600 of them and i i send them once a year i pull up everyone who's not participating and i send them an email and i'll change the title uh the subject line every once a while to be creative and say something like twelve
035thousand dollars in your retirement account that you're not getting and then give them the instructions and i get a few every year but there's just there's just some i we do and this is something that will come down the road eventually but there are a lot of employers that are now going to default enrollment so all employees are enrolled automatically unless they opt out in writing and we'll probably visit that at some point in the future too because it's shown to be much more effective way of getting folks to participate just to eliminate the barriers for them so at some point we may go that direction that's a great idea i've got one more quick i'm sorry would you anticipate a um a fairly smooth transition from metlife to equitable on the 401 side of
036things or is that going to be are you going to meet with a lot of resistance from metlife do you suppose i i don't anticipate it from metlife we have a good relationship with them i've had conversations with them after we we selected equitable and and they were told that that they weren't chosen and very cooperative there are always going to be some bureaucratic problems that come with giant systems trying to work with one another but i don't think it'll be because they don't want to work with us but you know we're moving uh hundreds more than a thousand people from one platform to another so um the good part is i did call during the reference process i called at least three school corporations that had transitioned from their current vendor to equitable and
037all of them had good things to say mr phillips as far as the process this process you set up a few slides back will that be the same process you use from now on and did you say how often we would look at the look at this again like how often and once every few years or i can't remember you may have said that so we will look at our fund lineup and the performance and the fees every year with csi we just um met the committee met the other evening actually via zoom to look at what kelly had put together at csi for us to consider for a fun lineup if we moved to equitable and it was a it was a healthy conversation one we've never had as a district before we just
038had the lineup that was recommended we did use morningstar to review them and make sure they were quality and but this is a more personalized service they meet with our employees our employees looked at it and we made some changes based on feedback from the the committee so we'll do that every year but looking at the whole picture of who our our vendor is we will basically rely on csi and and that and that group to always come back to us maybe as part of our annual review are we still getting the best deal that's out there in the market should we negotiate better fees or um you know look at a better service so that may end up being part of our annual review but we've we've not yet done it okay thank you
039you're welcome great that was my question thank you all right other questions well thank i don't know who initiated it but thank you very much and thank you for all the committee members it sounds like you did an enormous amount of work uh to the benefit of all your colleagues so thank you just remind the board that uh thank you mr phillips for the presentation remind the board with chad's presentation there that this information to use as we go into this next piece which is my recommendations for approval and and the 403 b 401a vendor change is a part of that approval so i will run through if it's okay doctor shed the items that i have not as lengthy a list as as sometimes but a few definitely some important items on here so
040we'll start with the minutes of the regular school board meeting we did have a relatively lengthy school board meeting last time so there are a few pages of minutes for you to read supplemental contracts included in your packet field trips and professional leaves school fundraisers we have claims and payroll so we had a set of claims dated today may 10th that's about 1.4 million payroll for march 29 through april the 11th about 2.6 million dollars and actually second set of plans uh claimed plans for pre-run from april 1st through april the 30th that totaled over 7 million dollars additionally we have the english and language arts adoptions for both the elementary and secondary resources those presentations were given to you at the last school board meeting we have student handbooks for you to approve some
041pretty typical changes that were in there all these additional edits and so forth to make but you should have the student handbooks for each of the school buildings you have the 403 b 401a vendor selection to approve and then we have the teacher and support staff second semester stipends an additional half day pay for teachers there was a resolution for that and just a reminder on that resolution the teacher support staff second semester stipends aligns aligns with how we did that first semester recognize the result an awful lot of hard work second semester two then the additional half day pay comes if you recall we had to move some um teacher work days as we tried to finagle some time at the beginning of the school year so we utilized the end of the first
042semester as well as the end of the school year move those up well now we have no paid time at the end of the year but we know there's still a lot of work to be done so we're just restoring that half day pay opportunity and then those who choose to work that time will get their that additional half day pay so we're asking for that in that resolution and those are my requests for approval this evening all right thank you very much so i'll um ask for a motion to approve items for a through j as they are presented to us so moved thank you mr grimes is there a second second thank you dr bills any particular questions individuals have i do have a question about the school handbooks just out of curiosity
043are those updated every year yes okay and are they made available to the students and parents just at the beginning of the year i mean how are they made available like year-round and they or how does that work and they're on the website yes so a combination of things probably and we do have some principles that are here but i'll throw this out there and then either dr agnestra jensen or one of the principals can correct me but um we have printed versions that are provided in not all cases but but most of many if not most in the electronic versions and then on the website of each of the buildings would be an electronic version that can be accessed at any point in time so please add or subtract from that commentary good doctor
044heck i've lost mr jensen whereas where's bill there he is okay behind mine charles back there okay in different languages too are they provided in spanish sure question i am not sure that that is the case do we have spanish versions of the handbooks no i don't know if this is ignorance of my part nick with with those that are on the website whether they are adjustable based upon our website piece or based on how it's entered as a document it may not be okay yeah okay but that would have to access that tool to be able to do that so thank you dr wilson for mentioning that we can certainly work on on that item okay all right and just a shout out for the work that goes into those school handbooks i think
045i don't know who got the prize for 62 pages but one of them was that long any other questions all right i'll call for a vote those who approve items for a through j as they've been presented to us if you'd signify by saying i i any opposed there you go dr famously sure it's your turn miss heine this isn't the last time no okay just check dr roberts thank you uh the signing so a couple of things here tonight we do have for the request for approval of the human resources recommendations we have i don't know five pages or so teresa in there but um additionally we just wanted to to bring to light as a part of the recommendation that charles edwards is being recommended for our for a cabinet level position as
046director of title services uh we've recognized teresa a little bit we still have more recognition for teresa and she does have one more meeting still left we have that countdown going um but with teresa's announced retirement that left a vacancy and so at the last meeting dr gina pleak was requested or recommended to to fill that you did that but by approving dr fleet you left a vacancy in our director of title services position an extremely important position for our corporation handles millions of dollars that go to benefit our students and provide resources whether it's its materials or staff for whatever the case might be so that we can can assist our kids as well as we possibly can and so with that vacancy we went through an interviewing process and have uh we are
047recommending charles edwards which is the current assistant principal columbus cease recognizing if you approve mr edwards and he's here so he's hoping you do that um that we'll have a vacancy mr news may be hoping not uh i'll do that we'll have a vacancy as assistant principal at columbus east uh to fill so that is a part of your recommendations and miss heine you can add anything to that okay excuse me so i am at your place this evening i'm sorry we'll start with that at your place this evening is an additional request for recommendation we continue to get those in throughout the summer we will probably continue to do that so the list that we presented tonight for retirement was just up until last week so there may be some more additions across the
048summer so i am recommending or requesting approval of the human resource recommendations as presented all right thank you i'll ask for a motion for approval of the human resources recommendations that we have so move thank you mr brian is there a second second thank you dr bills any questions of miss heine dr roberts all righty all of those and approving our human resources as recommended to us if you'd signify by saying i i those opposed unanimously thank you both and welcome dr fleek had been on the on the cabinet team for a few years now has it been three four gina um so with with moving and just kind of changing changing locations or offices there but adding now charles to this office so we're very excited about that and as with all the work
049that we have to do uh we're doing a lot of strategic planning work right and you guys have been a part of that and when we look at the future and we're doing the moonshot stuff when we say all right here's our moonshot well ten years from now we we land on the moon and then we have a remember wind moment we look back and and i'm thinking the rumor remember when may have been the night we hired charles and so we're very very pleased and blessed to have him joining the team and looking forward to that indeed thank you so much all right this is opportunity for input from colleagues i'll start with you mr grimes um i'd just like to congratulate all the uh all the retirees again in their 613 years of
050combined experience and dedication to the corporation all right thank you mr stenner i echo that congratulations to all our retirees and as you said i hope they are looking forward to the next chapter in their lives our thanks to mr phillips and everyone that worked on the retirement vendor selection committee i think that will add a lot of value to the corporation as an employer and congratulations to mr edwards awesome thank you dr bills i'm going to echo all that congratulations to mr edwards and um to all our retirees and to all our new employees that will be coming aboard and thank you to i know miss heine's with us a little bit longer but thank you for all the work you've done over the years we really appreciate them all right thank you mr
051bryant mr edwards thank you finally for moving us forward i think that's a great thing i want to congratulate mr grimes on pronouncing all those names very properly by the way thank you and all the retirees congratulations even though some i wish wouldn't just that you shake your head all you want but i get it i get it i'm done all right thank you thank you i just want to extend my gratitude to absolutely everyone because this is our last meeting before the end of school don't freak me out there mr williams so it has been an extraordinary and exceptional year i think everyone's job has been different everyone has done something that you never thought you could possibly do and like this can't be happening i appreciate so much people's willingness to do new
052things their resilience under all that we had to accomplish in this extraordinary school year so thanks to our leadership you have guided us through craziness but also an exceptional time and i think so many new wonderful things have grown from everything that we've learned thank you so much to teachers your jobs were just so wildly different and you did a fabulous job we cannot thank you enough those who have taken care of our facilities i'm sure you have cleaned corners and creases that you never thought we even had thank you for taking care of our facilities food service you have taking care of a community not just our children and our staff but in an entire community we cannot thank you enough for that bus drivers maintenance oh and i have no there's a bus
053driver recruitment on saturday on the fairgrounds 10 to 2 and we retired some so they have to come and join us and it must be great fun they stayed a long time we cannot thank everyone enough technology nick and your team i cannot imagine all the phone calls all the things that had to be redone i can't thank everyone enough so i think you really pushed bcsc forward i think we're going to be even better because we have learned so much in this exceptional year and we cannot thank you enough and to our students and parents and families thank you thank you thank you for putting up with things that we weren't quite sure we are doing the best that we can and we improved each time i think our students and families were amazingly
054resilient and we cannot thank them enough and we do this for you so and to our graduates have a blast it will be beautiful it will be beautiful beautiful days so thank you all so very very much dr roberts everything you said there dr thank you for for offering those thanks and we even have a nice thank you thank you up here with last year week was teacher appreciation week we kind of renamed that as we appreciate all of your week given all the positions that you referenced i do want to give one additional accommodation is actually to mr grimes for the hard work he did with with many others the school foundation and so forth with a recent 5k that was held out at south side the good better best one and roth lovins
055and rachel mcarver were celebrated for uh their innovation create creativity and so forth and in their work just outstanding teachers with an opportunity to recognize teachers then raise a little money for the foundation and and remember two quality teachers that served in our school corporation so thanks todd for putting that together yes thank you all right there's just three more weeks of school we are going to have a fabulous graduation and we will see those of you who love coming to school board meetings again on monday june 14th at 6 30 at this facility thank you all very very much