001with liberty and justice for all right I'm going to call the meeting to order and 6 32. hey um are there any modifications to the agenda yeah yes we have two of them the first one uh is the recommendation to approve the eject permit for Cheyenne Dinsmore it is to teach at a rate of twenty dollars per hour for 7.6 hours a day not per week and then the second recommendation is to prove an out-of-state field trip request for Chris Townsend to attend solar automation days open house and in August 9th and 10. last second any discussion let's do a call a yes Carol yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes yes all right unless Cindy wants to talk I don't see other visitors we see recognition of visitors of comments from the audience tonight so we'll
002move on to our presentation from Performance Services and uh we have a couple gentlemen here who are gonna tell us what they've been up to and what they've been researching for us let me go introduce yourselves because I don't know your names okay I'm Neil Flack project development engineer or all the projects here at randstown schools student business development manager with Performance Services we've been involved since the original facility assessment back in 2018 . so what we've been up to so we've been we've met with all the principals most of the administrative staff are all the administrative staff we're in the process of compiling all that information we've put together individual reports for each facility and reviewed those with each principle and the administrative groups separately so we're in the process now of sharing that
003with Emily and but it is clear so back in 2018 during the original study the middle school was that the top priority at the time what number one being the the really had a secure entry right so that needs to be addressed there's also some Ada issues that we do enter the secure entry that has been created you have to climb those standard students in the main office and the main offices it was just great challenges that uh you don't have a relative facilities right now so it was clear that that was at the top of the priority list and so we've we've been driving that forward kind of in parallel with the rest of the study to uh to help you all make some decisions also part of the priority list at the time
004at the middle school the HVAC has not been addressed there for quite some time so it's due for a complete replacement and so that's what you'll see here we have to two different Scopes here one being addressing the main office so this proposed plan we reviewed with Emily and uh steal them principal at the middle school um talking about originally back in 2018 we were looking at relocating the office to what is now the art room and we were going to move the main entry to that to that second door rather than where it is now talking to Gavin you know the challenge with that solution is all the kids are on the other end of the building 90 of the day there's a few classes on this on the same closest to the high
005school so this particular budget looks at capturing three classrooms across the hall from the current office we would create a new entry above the retaining wall so there's a retaining wall and then you have that green space between uh between the retaining wall and the fire station right um you also have the the only handicap part who is out on the street right there and so you park and you have to back out into the city street to leave so the current plan and it's very it's preliminary at this point but the current plan is that we would create a small visitor parking lot in that green space provide the adequate number of handicap spots for the school as I said create a new entry door that would have a secure entry Arrangement similar to
006the high school here where you're directed through the office we would also move all the administrative staff in the clinic all to the front in those three classrooms and then we would uh so we'll be losing three classrooms so we create two general classrooms in the current office and athletic space and then we would also create another class for them on the south and next to the stem uh there's a couple of there's a couple of classrooms there and then the old memories I believe so yeah so we're going to capture some of that space created that third classroom so you won't be losing a number of classrooms so that that's the uh that's the correct plan and that's a plan I'm sorry so where's the office I do oh and I was going to
007say do you have this uh on paper thank you because it's hard to read up there so much better yeah so this is the classroom so this is um two three and four right or a year current rooms where you're putting me on whatever and then move five is still there perfect okay okay yeah so two three and four and then five it would remain um we can create a new entry probably on this end we talked uh with staff about creating public space in the office and then having them internal space for you know just keep that separation because right now visitors come in into the office and students are in the same space and it's very congested so we talked about creating two different entrances uh into the into the school one being
008on the North End or Administration and that students can enter and then the nearest upstairs for me the stairs there's no way to because as soon as we touch them the ramp has to be a certain yeah there's just not enough space there to halfway down the hallway exactly well you know how long the Rams are on this end of the building that you have to take down maybe around so I think just for every one inch exactly we will do the best we can here okay so originally you know we were going to capture the art room here that's gonna stay now and this entrance will remain the same and then we were actually going to have the principal assistant principal in the conference room back here in this space but I think this
009will now become the third classroom and then we we also discussed potentially creating a break room and you know there's some other options again it's very it's preliminary at this point but that's the current plan that we're moving towards it is but you would just redo it yeah it's still set up for home yeah there's some question about whether this wall is in the right location we might have to shift the separation wall between the two spaces so we'll have to investigate that further and the big space to the left then is correct now that it's a secure vest up there that was carryover oh I just I grabbed the floor plan from the last project so this would actually it would remain as kids and that was just a carry over right what's playing
010for my last our previous claims yeah I think originally they had talked about 2018 of moving the principal's office those offices down in that area so they wanted that to be a secure entrance but it makes much more sense for the office to be up in the heart of the building well I agree with that but I guess I'm questioning what what you do with that door like how do you make that floor secure because currently that's the question yes so if you think about drop kids off I mean they're going to have the doors unlocked or that door is going to be landed arrive on this muscle only then it serves as the purpose of any other door around the building at any other time it doesn't need that second um protective area okay
011and then what happens with where we currently have to enter happens to that in it yeah so that would that's a good question because there is some extra space there now we've created that vestibule it would become a general entrance that would be locked during the day and then you can discuss whether that becomes the bus entrance [Music] essentially would not be used as a public interest but we're not we wouldn't change the bus arrangement buses would still come down below in the loop yes you're not going to bring the loop up to that other entrance right no no no no with the retaining wall it would really be challenged to do that okay just because the site is the slope of the site is to change it's so serious it's uh yeah some challenges
012so this is just a general schematic of what that would look like so right now you can see that we just overlaid this over a good old photo and the handicap spots out here on the stream we would just create an entrance here and move those handicap spots and then create an entry into classroom too I believe so that everything on this loop on the current limit would remain the same but it would free up some spots potentially with visitors coming in so I envisioned that when you made that little parking space area that might actually be a loop up into the upper parking lot um I yeah I don't I don't know where the property line is here um and there are some elevation changes but that's something we could investigate that but this
013was this is a concept that yeah you wanted to present but we certainly could investigate tying these two together and making this a bit of a pull through is that what you were thinking that's what I was thinking that if you could it's very right here there's an elevation change we did we met yeah I mean we've had several meetings and looked at a lot of different scenarios of what to do and this is what we propose to perform ance of the best meet the needs of the middle school we talked about changing the um the car rider liner making changes to the and where the buses come in we talked about if we did use that lot then we traffic would build up on Main Street we don't want traffic to build up on
014Main Street um I think this way leaves us with the most opportunity um fix this part but also leave an opportunity where the buses drop off right now we decided to do something yeah I'm here to address that situation further face but this eliminates the need for Visible parking in your current law which is a long way from the door it is yes that's a steep rate that's right I know it also needs to anything so that's the current plan is that you have any other questions and then of course the second part is the HKC which was at the top of the list in 2018 you did that's good that's right it's a lot of big stuff any questions the um going back to the classrooms on the interior um um is there a
015way to provide some kind of light in the interior rooms because the current interior rooms are I mean they feel I don't know I'm just thinking is there a way to even have put those out hallway or something that that allows them like so as you think about it on some daylighting because I I taught I taught everyone a lot and it's just it I didn't I didn't teach there all day but I had so I had taught other other hours in the in a room with Windows and it has a different feeling it does Department and there's also a bathroom there where you actually several bathrooms staff restrooms that make money yes we're planning on moving though we would move those to the front to the new office space all right thank you thank
016you so much thank you you're more than welcome to take the entire board meeting but I also understand if you have other pressing matters I will capture any other questions or anything that comes up thank you for your time thank you so much I appreciate your time thank you all right next is discussion and number six is approval of the public session minutes from July 17 2023 is clear a motion for a second oh all second discussion on the minutes right here all right let's do real quick yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes Doug yes thanks the next thing is I actually needed items we have a recommendation to approve the donation of two checks from the community band one for the Brown County High School band for thirteen hundred and one dollars and
017a second check to the high school theater department for 1627 community band would also like to donate their equipment as the high school is currently storing them in is there a motion to improve I'll say thank you very much yeah I'm terribly sad that the community they are well equipment very sad but I really really appreciate your donations um Amy yes Carol yes Vicky and Stephanie yes all right number two is your recommendation with retirement notice of effective July 17 2023 yeah so move [Music] just like to thank Darlene for her service and yes we're very appreciative of that any other discussions yes three is recommendation to improve the retirement notice of Cindy Keller affected July 27 2023 is there a regulations Doug yes oh great number four is recommendation to approve Brown County Middle
018School handbook um is there a motion to improve to me is there any discussion thank you for the lovely reading material it did put me to sleep how much I needed I know we asked Trent when we did the high school book are there any major changes you want to highlight for us no um issues citations for tobacco infractions at middle school we started that through the year last year Jones High School very good uh any other discussion question let's do roll call maybe yes Carol yes Vicky and Stephanie yes yes all right number five recommendation to amid the higher date for Diane Smith who is from Kenny High School business teacher to July 10 2023 motion to approve I still moved a second and any discussion yeah I just I just want to reiterate
019on this item and the next item diet Smith we hired at the end of the school year and she replaced evening full business teacher at the high school and there was a incubator edu trip that was in Chicago in July so with the transition between Diane and Amy it got missed to approve the out-of-state field trip not field trip professional development for Diane um because she just replaced Amy and then when that came when we figured that piece out we figured out that we can't technically pay Diane if her hired date wasn't until August 7th so that's why we're amending the higher date and then we are cleaning up um the paperwork so that because she attended the Chicago um any discussion on that yes let's see number six recommendation to approve that out of
020state professional lead request for Diane Smith to attend the Uncharted learning National Summit in Chicago July 9-12 promotion to approve D any discussion I don't know we'll call maybe yes Carol yes Vicky yes Steph Yes Doug yes number seven is a recommendation to improve the disclosure of free and reduced lunch price information excuse me to the Brown County weekend backpack School liaison who is currently Sandy Higgins and that is uh she seriously is a between the organization is there a motion to approve ment is there any discussions I would like to propose we have Rewritten this this agenda item we have this every year um I I would like for it to be understood that as long as Sandy Higgins and is our partner with um the backpack program that until there's a change no
021that's just explaining why it's written this way it doesn't specifically safe in between course career questions I'd like to Sandy you did a great job yes thank you all right and let's do Roblox maybe yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes Doug yes all right number eight recommendation excuse me to improve the adjunct permit for Cheyenne Dinsmore to teach the following courses for the 2023-2024 school here at a rate of twenty dollars per hour for 7.6 hours our day a week and those classes are introduction to engineering principles of engineering computer integrated manufacturing and engineering design and development promotion too any discussion these classes said something would equal Manufacturing equivalent forces this is a replacement for Cody McGill we are fortunate that Cheyenne has been a part of our not only our high school but
022Eagle manufacturing and worked as a paraprofessional in Eagle manufacturing last year she's moving towards getting her teaching license and I'm just going to be more grateful to provide this opportunity for her for our kids she's been involved since she was investment questions or all right let's do real quick maybe yes Carol yes Vicky and Stephanie yes Doug yes all right number nine is a recommendation to approve the adjunct permit for John Elmore to teach the following courses in the 2023 School year at a rate of 90 per day technical theater and active observe a motion to approve d second any discussion again just grateful that John in and um on a magic permit and continue to have the opportunity for our kids um and so this is the um during the day they'll be teaching
023two classes classes unless your periods of event plastic grades and then he'll be getting extracurricular questions or comments all right baby yes Carol yes Vicky yes yes all right number 10 is our favorite recommendation to approve the second read and adopt the wheel of policies volume 35 number two with all of those policies and really exciting reading but uh I am really grateful to make sure that we are up to date so motion to approve that's so new second okay write any comments let's um Amy yes Carol yes Vicki and Stephanie yes Doug yes all right number nine I'm sorry number recommendation to approve the out-of-state field trip request for Chris Townsend to attend the solar automation days open house in Ann Arbor Michigan August 9th and a second and is there any comment or
024position I think you've already addressed yeah Chris um has been asked to speak and so of course anytime our programs and our people get to be on a national stage I'm grateful for the support to allow them to do that terrific that's exciting all right any other questions or comments to woke up baby yes Carol yes Vicky and Stephanie yes yes all right number eight is our consent agenda items and and Personnel is that's typical um so starting with separations bcms after school supervisor Anna MPS uh so you have appointments starting with bcms cheer coach Misty Williams and transfer starting with bcms boys had track post Cassandra contest is there a motion to improve the consent agenda Personnel items I say the last one okay bcms part-time paraprofessional Amanda smooch IES any discussion or comments
025I want to thank everybody for their service they're moving on to new adventures I want to welcome all of our new staff and excited for the transfers between the district and the positions especially exciting here it looks like a lot of really great candidates comments or questions all right let's um Amy yes Carol yes thank you yes yes all right superintendent's report thank you I want to publicly thank Joyce Bailey at Baker Tilly um are always coming and being able to present training to our board um we have really really good partners that are surrounding Young County schools and in this world specifically so um I just want to say that I'm grateful for that partnership I also want to thank Department Services and Steve and Neil flat um they have been our partners for
026several years and they continue to do an incredible job for our student community we welcomed back all of our staff this morning for the officially kickoff the 2023-24 school year um there really was an exciting energy around the district it felt like it was in the middle of the school year like just one of those days right um so again I just sort of left on that and excited for our kids to come on Wednesday tomorrow we will actually celebrate the opening with breakfast for the whole Corporation at eight o'clock in the high school cafeteria followed by our celebration in the auditorium at night and then of course our kids come back to us on Wednesday um I I do want to personally welcome all of our new staff to Brown County Schools we were
027able to hold new teacher new staff orientation last week and um we got to play golf last year and I think this year was just as good and maybe not even as soon as better than last year's event so um everybody was able to come it was a really great energy our team did such a great job making people feel good and and why Brown County Schools is is really a special place so um I'm excited for our new staff um all three of our elementary schools hosted open house this evening so I'm sure that's where lots of our people are or were this evening middle school and high school has an open house Wednesday evening that starts at five and our parents and our families are welcome to come into the buildings and meet
028teachers and staff and ask questions that they may have to get tour of the building and then I looked at the calendar for event link and Athletics and like all sports is here already underway this week specifically our girls golf team travels to would tomorrow and then they host Eastern Easter day our boys tennis team and our volleyball team both have scrimmages and then our first home football game this Friday and then Saturday is hope volleyball so there are lots of events and yeah that's all I have thank you um I'll show you that I went on Friday to Indianapolis for the Indiana State Board Association legislative committee um so two people from each region in the state meet people and we help determine what the legislative priorities will be for isba um in the
029next session and we will we work on a draft for about the next month and try and get the wording right but as we're there all together as a group we've made those decisions and I'm very excited to say that my priority is now at the top of this which is changing my friends and language uh that is going to be one of our top priorities this year and everybody was on board with it um one legislator that we need to come to our side and I think it will happen so anyway that's something I've been advocating for all of the past year and I feel like it's finally gotten the moment of attention that people need um I don't know if it will help us in 2024 because of the timing but um I
030think that you know helping everybody for reference uh well I was working on it all right let's uh motion changer psychology