001um yes we will go ahead and start with the Pledge of Allegiance and people will stand pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it saves one nation under God and indivisible with liberty and justice all right so we will call the meeting to order and it was officially 6 31. and um are there any modifications to the agenda tonight and um yeah and we do have a period here for recognition of visitors and comments from the audience a little piece of paper in the back if any [Music] think all right see you then we'll move on um we have a presentation tonight from Barb kelp I think and our echs coffee cart and so we're going to go ahead and turn it over to Barbara
002today I think we will yes so probably um I'm taking the opportunity and as soon as I'd like to tell you about our Student Life business we started our business by receiving the Mac right from McDonald's our teacher applied for this granted the owner of Nashville McDonald's in Nashville like how we were supporting to have a coffees and he is very supportive of the special needs it provides our coffee our filters and cups inlets the United States Representative trade Hollingsworth part about Eagle Burley and asked to come visit we stopped the car each morning um together so thank you for sure about customers we all helped clean up foreign customers can't scan this QR code tell us their feedbacks we paid for the recycling containers strings Equity one for High School we made a donation
003donation for pet supplies to the animal shelter we made a donation to a family that lost a loved one we made a gift basket for the technology department to celebrate International technology day we gave out three snacks at the homecoming block party in celebration of world kindness day in the in November people could pay for an item by signing up to do one random act of kindness two days of sales were given to the 2023 from committee we provided hot drinks for the hospitality room during the Pop Festival we give gift certificates to the recipients of the governor's work ethics certificate Tonight We Are Tonight We are giving 500 to the school board today for the school lunches for those who don't have the money to pay um as a teacher I'm responsible for Content
004that's taught to students so I'm wrapping everything around the affordability skills in the state of Indiana in a very meaningful and authentic way that all of our students on staff and students here love it and so we're very fortunate to be able to do that Emily asked us this week what things would look like if we really loved our students and this is it this is our students so um we are happy to contribute I came and visited when you guys first started out and saw what it did like what you say in the morning questions and it was very wonderful to see it then it's even more wonderful to see what you've done since then with this and um and I still like hot chocolate better the other day and gave you enough money
005and um it was interesting to try to get to understand that I didn't want the money back and you just needed individual and the cashier um I'm real proud of you guys uh as as an old person and say you've come a long way baby and it just shows what you've done with the donations and everything else um and I definitely appreciate the whole lunch thing but I also kind of partial to the ad on their shelter too but anyways um I I just think a great doing a great job and I know your family's a proud of you but I'm certainly proud of you and I'm proud of choir making this happening thank you we started um November 2021 um so we've been going for a little while and one of the things that
006we learned is you know sales go up in sales so we've been able to track that as well so there are times for to Slumber I think but over months we really saw that much so yeah okay well I had no idea I'm really really proud of you guys thank you okay thank you all for coming today I'd like to fill up our meeting space it's good too so all right next we have another presentation it is from Performance Services and they're going to talk about something I've been waiting for I'm really excited about about our the health clinic and some Renovations we're going to do at the building we currently call the CRC the old CRC we're gonna have to we're gonna have to get a new day yeah thank you nice to see
007you all again um so yeah so as you mentioned tonight we are two more percent on where we are currently with the relocation of the health clinic and renovating a portion of what was the CRC uh into that new space and uh moving out of the current location so in your packet you should have uh an improvement list along with a small floor plan [Applause] I don't know I don't want to assume that everybody knows what's happening so if you can give a little bit of background yeah background yeah so the um the current health clinic is maxed out um on its size and oh not in the best condition um and there we did some mold tests a series of different mold tests and although there was that evidence of mold to um immediately
008enforce mandatory evacuation or a cleaning we made the decision as a board to go ahead and move the health clinic in town um a it's a bigger space b it will be beneficial to the community to have it right in the town of Nashville and is space that is not being used right now so with all of those factors we made a decision to go ahead and renovate a portion of that building to to move the health clinic in and if you can introduce yourself oh I'm sorry Neil Fleck but Performance Services [Music] for those of you that aren't familiar with the CRC building right now it's currently split into two sections and so the right in space is going to remain exist existing to remain I believe uh there may be a stem program
009that uses a portion of that space now from robotics I'm not sure so we're gonna we're trying to maximize the space that you have there and create and it's going to be an adequate amount of space for them so a few of the changes we're going to create that receptionist desk with the laminate casework as you walk in to do the double borders and so and then this will create a seating area here we're going to create a new office for the nurse up front and then so this will be a new wall and we'll add the required outlets New upper and lower in the case work for that office space then these are two existing rooms now we're going to turn into the exam rooms we're going to reuse doors but we are going
010to black out the existing windows uh we since the exam room there needs to be a sync in each of those rooms so we're going to add upper and lower laminate case work for storage in those exam rooms the the small closet just down the hall will become the medical storage room so we're going to add uh upper and lower cabinets there as well and then the next room down the hall will become the lab again adding a sink and laminate casework and So currently this is one open space so you're gonna we're gonna create an office on the in the back and then we're going to replace the fixtures in the restrooms at this time uh and then in addition we're going to replace the flooring in this highlighted space with new uh vinyl
011tile something that will hold up better to traffic right now it's uh this carpet it doesn't doesn't do well in that environment so all the this entire space that's renovated with that new luxury vinyl tile a new ceiling grid obviously the new walls the patch and paint new base trim and so it will look it will look great with that would be a great space for the clinic and as Emily eventually Focus on the bathrooms yes so right currently the I'm sorry So currently they are somewhat somewhat accessible now we didn't go to the extent of making them fully ADA Compliant at this time to the uh trying to be uh not just understanding that that we wanted to make the most of the budget and very maximize the space that's there and uh what
012they need so that's something to do both of them correct yeah one is one is the the I guess I would call it the East but when you're looking at the two doors we want the restroom on the right is Aviation Point currently but the other one and just because of the approach to the department essentially both of those are our large restrooms but [Laughter] that is not a very safe thing for anybody would part back hip and all kinds of other problems and that's not just for aging people with all kinds of people not just an old facility so and that's okay says this people always put it at the lower level is it is also you know this this project is being funded by a current Bond money so um it is important
013to know this is a new money or affecting our built into that same Bond money which has allowed us because we have the guaranteed Energy savings contract to be able to to add it as an additional scope tell me about the entryway here I don't I don't know is is it going to be a wall or Windows well that is just going to be a counter height so that there's a desk space there okay just correct um so that could serve it could it could honestly it could change depending on how you'd like to use the space so we're planning on creating a window in this existing wall and then we could use this this reference yeah our only concern was that in the wintertime it may be a little a little cold we're not
014the HVAC system that's in there now is in good condition and so the only as we create these rooms and modify the floor plate a little bit we're only going to modify the depth work we weren't going to address the HVAC at this time because it was a condition it wouldn't be a good use I don't think so I think there is some electric um it's almost like a three Season room yeah and so I don't know that would be a good seating space in the wintertime we also wanted to be able to we don't quite know for sure have made the decision on what to do with the other space of the building so we want to be able to do as minimal work as possible that starts with the clinic um so that
015whole front entrance you know whatever that space becomes it will have to be a separate entity with a separate insurance um so we just have to keep that in mind that when those decisions are made on what that's going to be it will affect what that entrance is so that's my question is is it I didn't know if you know you need to be able to then have a separate ball and door and lock on a health facility where you have confidentiality and medication and all those types of things so at this time we're trying to limit opportunities to use that space or something else and so whatever that may be we're trying to limit the amount of work that we would have to review we don't want to touch a place yes and so
016I think so yes um you know we discussed whatever happens there this we could rearrange the reception desk later and where the window is we can create a doorway or there's a couple of different options as that that's the use of that building involves but you're not as I said we're going to limit the amount of report in the area that we're finishing in that's that was my question if you're gonna have two different purposes yeah we want to go far enough but we don't want to go too far at this point absolutely phase and you are using the basement at all correct the only thing we'll do in the basement is we'll run new sanitary and the best supported lines to the new sinks and the exam rooms in the lab so we'll take
017down put back ceilings I think the intent would be to use the basement as a break room space because there's a kitchenette down there now okay so there's a table I think it was it was used as a classroom at one time potentially but it doesn't make sense it's going to be a great great level space for the staff and this radar area on the right hand side is that stairs downstairs yes that's the stair to the basement I know I'm aware of the front stance [Music] foreign yeah we recommend a few dollars that are just to set aside for those things those those changes would be tracked separately so if you don't use those funds they'll go back to Brown County Schools and what's your timeline um so I spoke with contractors today and
018they'd be willing to mobilize online so we know that it's a priority at Brown County high school so we could start how long our goal is to be some substantially complete by the beginning of summer so depending on how many times some materials we may go into summer zone is into June but he's certainly one of the complete please partially because contractors are busy get busy busy in the summer and so this is this is a great time to give us work I was hoping that since there's we don't have to worry about students being out of the building um I will often do here so you could get it done by summer they need to move yeah that was our thoughts that was that we could get in there and get this done and
019be ready as soon as possible um and I guess I would just have Emily address um proactive is our is the medical group that will be here that roads are and we have an agreement then about what we do for facilities and what they do do you just want to address that briefly um well there those are in big contracts are being all right so we're in negotiating what parts that we're responsible for what parts of their responsible well I'm excited so uh both for getting it done uh as soon as possible uh and thanking a I'm really excited to have it on campus um right here I think that's going to make a big difference to our employees particularly the ones here in main campus to just be able to go across the street
020to get a blood test or to have it and as a teacher who used to have a prep period that was 48 minutes um you know to be able to be able to actually like go do you know some Medical Care in that period of time would just it's really great 100 or 150 of our County employees who are also almost and also to use this it's really a real value to us so thank you thank you so much the gray space is not going to be used for clinic is this time okay right so those are to be determined at a later date and so that's why he hasn't given us an estimate exactly in that space it's not the square footage is necessary for the clinic and so it really it makes sense
021to incorporate that into clinic now so is this just is this larger than the existing facility yeah I believe so I think we met with them utilize space we met with the folks from the clinic last February or March and went through the space and this is so this was a it was a team effort we didn't create confidence and do we have any ideas [Music] is this just a County government and school or is this open to if anybody can subscribe we had a presentation a month or two ago that was exactly on that topic and they did give us the numbers but it is a subscription service actually you can pay a monthly fee and uh services so it is essentially another medical office here in our community folks without having to have
022other conventions so and is there and what's going to be happening with the facilities I'm not sure yet it's on the back for brainstorming so it is public yes we get it so that's a little bit more than 10 percent well really I mean it's it's that's a judgment Paul on again that those dollars are tracked separately and so there are items that come up that they would like to the school and confess but as far as the the base did the show that it's not like oh we missed something and that's the school to approve a change order about this every thousand thirty thousand is completely Brown County Schools money that we will track any additional scope that is Mr Patrick Mr Patrick you talk to the board yeah so my question is anything
023that gets covered under the bed is for example Plumbing that may have been copper but you're planning to use that that 30 000 would be if I came to Performance service system said oh I I want to be able to install this technology or want to be able to add shelving or I want to be able to add some that I didn't put in the original scope it would be me coming to Performance Services and requesting something additional if I don't come and request anything additional then that 30 000 thank you all right any other questions for the board all right very good thank you for your time tonight I appreciate it thank you and that it's it's very tiny but it is very clear All Right Moving On under discussion we have none number
024six is approval of the public session minutes from March 23rd 2023. is there a motion to approve this second is there any discussion let's do Gold Club yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes Doug yes all right moving which needed items number one is a recommendation to approve the donation of 800 from Gregory Taggart to purchase Brown County High School boys basketball uniforms is there a motion to approve that donation right in a discussion they look terrible terrible this way to be able to play games and who knows why that happened but he we hired him as our assistant Jason he told me some given happen right so I knew that was coming because I great asset to the team well that's too great right in the other discussion all right let's do roll calls
025maybe yes Carol yes Vicky yes yes yes yes number two is a recommendation to approve the out of country field trip to Costa Rica March 19 16 2024 for Spanish students we had a presentation from Mr Austin on this last month approve d is there any discussion yeah they checked because yeah I'm I'm looking at a trip there so I'm looking at their attitude take a look at that anything else but I'm just excited anytime our kids get to go someplace I'm very excited thanks to everybody me like dashboards and stuff that's okay yep yeah that's why it takes a year to get ready and then I think they'll do some fundraisers probably so to make sure they have to have sexual thoughts and stuff depends on the country so right well each country is
026different learning for them is to know what they need yeah and they are working with World strides though so yeah they'll make sure that they really care about they have a big timeline and everything is yep like Jessica yeah that's why we're starting a year in advance so that they know and they can get ready all right let's do roll call Amy yes Carol yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes yes number three is recommendation to approve the Declaration of the 2002 Food Service bus with a I'm not going to read the serial number or the VIN I guess it is and Salvage is there a motion to approve that just a second is there any discussion I feel like this just helps um us have accurate reporting records of the inventory that we have so okay
027anything else all right welcome maybe yes Carol yes yes yes yes right number four is a recommendation to approve the renewal of a food service management company contract for the 2324 school year with Compass Group USA Inc and through its Chartwells Division and I understand that we have Representatives here from Chartwells do you want to introduce yourselves sure I'm Sean Carey I'm from the area director all right very good um we had in our packets a section first oh yeah is there a motion to approve that I still move second all right now we'll have discussion um in our packets we do have a copy of um I don't know if it's a contract I guess it's a renewal request letter um and this can is continues our our contract is that right correct so
028um every five years you're required by the federal government if you're Outsourcing to go out to bid so you get one contract with four rooms so this is your fourth and final renewal and then next year will be um the bid process will start so this isn't anything new this is really already in our contract I said and then it actually does have an increase in fees so can you tell us we should explain that question sure so yeah no I I issue that um so it's all based on the CPI index or the consumeration so every year we always come back so let me practice if just so you understand your contract do you have a what we call a fee contract which is we basically build back all the expenses so you own
029everything all the profitability you own all the food the labor all the other expenses so on and so forth and then we Billy back our management you know fees on top of that and then anything all the profitability is left to you in the Food Service fund so I always try to make sure that school boards understand that you're just paying us to manage the program but you you know everything is property and ownership of the school corporation um and so this is pretty standard every year there's always a CPI increase it's also built into the Indiana Department of debt the RFP packet you will see that that RFP packet actually becomes the original contract so um if you look at the CPI Across the Nation obviously that's a consumer price index and as we
030all know expenses are are up due to inflation so on and so forth so I think the national average and so we did not feel that that was we didn't want to put that all on our clients so that's why we're asking for a 70 percent increase I think it says six percent right no I think it says it on it sends it on the renewal button we are proposing the following at a six percent increase in fees for 22.23 okay great I don't know I guess we're getting an even better deal um and so then these this list of fees then it says 85 cents to 90 cents um that's actually not 85 cents eight cents yeah so you're literally going from like eight cents to like eight cents and a half yeah all
031right well thank you I appreciate that explanation are there any other questions I I just want to say thank you um the amount of support that you have been able to provide our team at central office and at each of the schools has has been representable so thank you well we enjoy the partnership Brown County is a grade school corporation you guys are so I wish everybody was like the best to be honest and we love your kids and we love doing all the nutrition education done and and Paula do a great job and really all look down through but um you know it's a it's a wonderful this is a wonderful community we uh I was a teacher here when we started with chartwellsman there was a very good increase in I appreciate it
032we appreciate the support anything else all right let's do welcome Amy yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes yes all right number five so this is a recommendation to approve the scope of Brown County Health Clinic project it is funded through the current bond funds as an added project to the guaranteed Energy savings contract so this is an approval of what we just had presented to us is there a motion to improve I still move second any discussion he's already had it questions all right yes Carol yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes yes right um next under number six is recommendation to approve the first reading of our Neola board policy updates um I'm the one in volume two um we have policies and they are all listed here I'm not going to read them um
033but we have we have all reviewed those and um they'll come back again as a second is there a motion to approve d any discussion all right let's do Roblox baby yes Carol yes Vicky and Stephanie yes all right under number eight we have the consent agenda items for personnel we have a separation eighth grade volleyball coach and the Taunton fifth and sixth grade volleyball coach um in High School varsity volleyball coach Jessica Robertson and helmsberg school counselor Carrie Jones General separations and new no new appointments are transferred is there a motion to approve so move ment any discussion actually no I'm sorry anything else all right maybe yes Carol yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes yes all right uh we'll move on to superintendent's report I want to thank our help and her team and
034her incredible kids for their presentation this evening um it's it's just amazing awesome to to see everything that they strive to do and the money that they're raising the skills that they're learning um I could not be more proud of that entire team um and Barb helped is um said in the families and I think just last week we were able to to go out there and visit them they got to go to the state park and um at stakes and and do some really cool things and so I'm just very very proud of her and that team um I wanted to add tonight that we are excited to welcome her Eagleman to the high school um he is is filling in through the remainder of the year for um Auntie Bartels and the art
035program again just fortunate to have Kurt here to be able to inspire our kiddos with his incredible talents I wanted to congratulate Chris Townsend and his team for securing a thirteen thousand dollar student-based Enterprise Grant from Connexus those funds will go directly towards screen printing equipment so um that's that's awesome I know that that Grant comes around every year and we always get a little nervous every time we applied for it because we've gotten it every year um so I just want to congratulate Chris and his team for that and then our theater department has also been working really really hard for the performance of Shrek that's coming up next week we don't want to miss it hope to have everybody there you can reserve tickets online reserve seating is ten dollars general admission for
036an adult to seven dollars students are are five dollars and we have four different shows the first one is Friday evening at seven pm and then we have two shows on that Saturday one at two and one at seven and then we have a Sunday show at two o'clock as well so that will be next week we look forward to to seeing the kids and their performance on that and then just a reminder that we are not in session tomorrow Friday April 7th it was a scheduled makeup weather makeup day that was not needed yay so that's amazing I didn't think you get through the week actually over on Tuesday nights one of the cheerleaders and they said if they call off school tomorrow for their office when we go to school Friday and I
037said well we're supposed to but it's a close day you know we hope to go to school tomorrow we made it right now we just we have to take it to the end of the year so within us the ribbon cutting for the next week it's next Wednesday at work that's one officially um yeah we have a everybody's cutting at Eagle manufacturing and our new facility that's when it's Wednesday right now okay well I was excited about that um okay and Publix advice yeah did I just do that so anyway I think it's exciting it is so excited to get the show I want to show that all right you said it that's all I have thank you all right thank you and everybody's got home safe from San Diego so you want to talk
038about that just for a minute of what you guys did yeah um we were able to attend the world of work conference that was in San Diego um again we got to go visit uh different schools from preschool to through high school and you know there are some of the most Innovative schools I've ever been able to visit so I was fortunate you know Indiana had a really big crowd that was there at this conference um and I think Brown County was the only District that actually brought teachers so to be able to bring people Beyond just administrators to be able to see this work firsthand was to me a game changer our team came back and have already debriefed a couple times and um have some ideas moving forward and I think it was
039exciting and energizing for our team to be able to go out there it sounds like it was they were really inspired so I'm excited but anytime we get again our folks get to go do those types of things you know one of our priorities is having staff having students and um to help kids be as happy as possible while they're in school and everything we can do for them that was one of the things that I love so much about these schools five years ago is that kids they're engaged it's obvious it's evident there's no questioning it and um when we were on the bus right back from the single schools I had asked one of our teachers what they thought and her response was everybody just seems so happy and so to me like
040that that validated everything for us for them to be able to pick up all right well thank you I'm glad you all had the opportunity to do that um board updates um I have on their legislative update I haven't prepared anything uh but the legislative session is coming to an end here in the next couple weeks so there's going to be a lot of Education bills that are either going to pass and they're not so I don't know where they're where they're at but um I do encourage everybody if you have an interest in education to be paying attention to those and talking to legislators so uh other board updates anybody else have things you want to share Doug anything yeah guess what come in check out this food process things going on that's about
041it yeah okay sounds good don't worry all right uh with that is our move to a motion to adjourn any chance that we can talk about Claire let me let me speak to your boy lyrics I am the board president this is not the time you had an opportunity at the beginning for three minutes and you didn't do that so at this moment we're going to adjourn and if you want to talk to us individually and we do that but it's not going to be part of the public meeting well I think this is all reported and I just really want to ask you why is school board existing when the person attending here cannot express of course that of three minutes but if something is that's what you need you need to call again
042I understand it but I would like to ask them to carry more respect better for people of participating because school board is for the state of school and children and also parents are part of it okay so do not treat us right yeah thank you um welcome hey yes yes