001foreign each um I asked to all the standings as you said the dryer with liberty and justice for all right um officers questions and do I have a lotion for this president the next question for Stephanie recipes do I have a second five seconds any discussion Carol yes sticky yes and uh yes yeah okay motion carries do I have a motion for secretary slash treasurer for the um Board of Finance I make a motion to nominate that is a second yes any discussion yeah Carol yes Vicky yes yes motion carries thank you um next we have the uh these babies school like fiscal update that is the do-ab well I didn't want to say it wrong oh it's one of those afternoons that we hear you have no idea what it means so good evening
002welcome Doug thank you you'll be seeing me every now and again um so this evening we have our um our finance board meeting this is something that legislatively we have to do one time a year we have to do it our very first meeting in January every year and I promise to not make this boring it'll be a little bit boring because it's money but it's okay we'll go through it we'll go through it so I made a PowerPoint um everyone has it in front of them and so what we're going to do is we're just going to go through and hit the highlights the things that we need to um discuss to uh review our finances of how we sit at the end of 2022. so our first item here we have our our
003fund balances um first I forgot to remind you so um the do-ab as we were speaking of distressed unit appeal board so the state of Indiana has a department within the state that um deals with government entities who are in distress they financially um cannot handle things on their own and that that department um will help and come in and kind of restructure and help things along so part of their duties is they actually look at the physical health of every entity in the whole within the whole state of Indiana so what we have done is since they have already done all this life work and done all the reporting on our fiscal Health we are going to be reviewing what they have put out um for Brown County Schools and where they get this
004information is from the various reports that we have to do we as a school have an annual financial report that we do annually it is due after our school calendar year so it is due um after June 30th annually and then there's another fiscal report that I have to do and that is every six months that's called a form nine so on all of these reports that we do we just basically give them all of our finances and they look and they decipher everything and this is kind of the outcome annually that comes from that okay so what we're looking at is at the end of 2021 so when we say that it's after calendar year 21. okay because obviously they don't have calendar year 22 information yet it just ended [Music] up so what
005we're looking at on this very first slide is slide these are our major funds that we use for all of our money um so our education fund is in the orange operations in the yellow and rainy day is in that teal color the big difference between the first half of the graph and the second half is um this state actually mandated changing kind of the fund structure of how things were to be kept in the school system and they only did it to schools we were lucky so that break is where you see that's why we don't have the education on the left hand side we only have it from 19 moving forward um so they basically kind of took the bigger bucket that they had and broke it up into other into other uses
006and they also took some smaller buckets that we had and combined those in as well into operations so that's why you only see certain things on here it's not that our balances went like a roller coaster it was the structure of the funds and how the state had things designated um so the one thing I wanted to point out on this if you do see the rainy day the rainy day was smaller years ago and my guess is maybe it wasn't as important for them to keep that balance um what the State Board of accounts recommends and I'll go through this in the next slide is they recommend that every entity every single not just schools every entity keep um sort of in our layman's term is kind of a Reserves um so instances for
007rainy day you never know when things are going to happen you never know when an emergency comes up you never know when you have an unexpected expense that either forces itself on you or you want to do so the reason that you saw this dip from 2020 to 2021 do you remember when um they had the retirement to buy out there was rainy day money that was used on that that's why the fund amount went down okay so that's about that um anyway these are just our major funds that we do have a lot of other small ones that we deal with but these are a major funds that we deal with so when I spoke about that the state um their guidance is that we keep a minimum of 30 percent of what we
008will have to spend and like a reserves an extra this graph here with all of these with the green bars this is basically kind of the reserves that they have had throughout the years going all the way back to 2014. um it has gone you can see that drastic drop down I know it doesn't look very big on the graph but when you look at the amount of where they went and that percentage that's huge so since 2017 they've been trying to struggle to come back up to hit the minimum that we are asked to have which is at least 30 percent so we are heading in the right direction now the one thing I want to say on this we all know what just failed in November to referendum that referendum has helped this
009move in the right direction so if we end up to where we do not have a referendum after 2023 is closed if we go for another referendum and it fails again that balance is going to start dropping right back down so we have the reserves right now to keep us fiscally sound for this year if we do not have that referendum to keep things sustained we will start going down so that's kind of a big consideration on that okay um the next item I have on here so we have two Banks if you will where our money sips the majority of it is a 50 local local Brands uh Representatives that we deal with every day so that is where the majority of our money sits we also have um some other funds that part
010of that reserve the extra that's helping us keep along we actually have that in an institution called trust Indiana so there is an organization that the state of Indiana actually helped to develop it is used specifically by governmental units if you have some extra reserves it's a way to help kind of grow a little bit through reserves kind of like if you think about like an interest varying accounts things like that um so the income that we earned in 2022 was about six to two thousand seven hundred because we have that um that the some of it split up and over at trust Indiana so the reason we go with trust Indiana is because it is uh the money is available at a fingertips it's not like having like a bond where you have a
011certain timeline that you can't touch it for and you have to wait for it to return things like that trust Indiana actually is a very good organization the school has been with it since 2015 I believe it's done very well for us to help us to be able to grow our money a little bit more um and we also if we need it if something comes up we can grab it right away just as if it's sitting down the PNC okay so the next two slides are actually copies of our current uh investment policy if you guys would like to go ahead and just review that and see if you see anything that needs changed I didn't see anything on here but this is currently what we have in Enola Florida yeah and we wouldn't
012make changes tonight this is just something for them so you can take your time to look at it yeah no yeah no timeline yeah all right I know there's kind of a lot of information in a short amount of time nice little overview do you guys have any questions for me thank you very much thank you any discussion care yes yes thank you all right at this time at 6 45 I call it a regular meeting to honor um yeah there are a few modifications to the agenda I apologize up front um we added a presentation um about from Centerstone for the basis Grant you want me to read through all of them individually or do you want to leave we have the reorganization of the board we have a change in a board committee
013Representatives that Carol Bowden will be on the Brown County Planning Commission Becky hardened to be on the Brown County schools for the five committee we also have the consent agenda items for the separations the dates change from Van Buren Elementary School teacher Tina Robinson effective January 20th at Brown County High School teacher Sarah Cochran effective January 19th and then we have a transfer Van Buren Elementary School Preschool Terra professional Leah Hyatt to the Early Childhood Center of paraprofessional affected January 9 2023. motion to accept the modifications to the agenda as presented foreign Elementary School um few people here yes we do we have four of our fifth grade students and Mrs kernsville our fifth grade teacher and they are going to help um of course when they said they were going to do this I
014was like you're going to wear [Music] um and we were trying to do something that would be a little bit different um and plus we wouldn't have to travel very far I went to a Twist thumb I went to escape rooms of Fort my family and I thought you know this would be really cool I thought it was a great opportunity for students to um work as a team to also do some analytical and critical thinking as they were there and it was very as as via um chaperones that we had went with the kids we realized that um they needed a little help when they first got into the rooms they were a little confused and what to do because I don't think any of them really went to an escape room before plus
015it was difficult to find an escape room where fifth graders had appropriate stuff in there when you went to a few Escape we called several Escape rooms and some of them were a little iffy but this one the Twisted room escapes was really really cool um and actually we had a list of some of the rooms the kids were divided into six groups there was one called the Christmas caper one was Alice's White Rabbit rescue another another room was the Sweet Shop another was the cabin and the missing Maestro and the collection and each room they had an adult with them in the room as they were working they had to go through all different kinds of locks and and Go in different rooms and think things out but I think the best way for
016you to really experience it is for you to hear what the kids felt when they were in there um Miss Higgins and I were very pleased at the you know we are again we're looking at the analytical thinking and the critical thinking and all that um but I mean the kids really got a lot out of it so we had a few pictures that we took in the Escape rooms um you'll notice that they are working together at the team at the beginning not everybody wanted to work as a team um and again you'll see that that as time went on um they definitely their their strength started showing okay you know you always had somebody guiding them or or saying no no not that we gotta go here I mean it was really really
017fun to watch them come across Clues as they came so afterwards once we got out of each room the place took pictures of each group and they marked the time that it took us to escape we did tell the kids that you are not locked in the room you know you can leave anytime you want um usually they do it for about an hour and they write the time but here you know because we had a younger kids they actually let us stay in until we actually figured our way out so these are just some of the groups that we had um you know and the things that they were kind of dealing with when they were in there um I think there's a couple more pictures afterwards afterwards we took a trip that was
018just maybe about six minutes away to Pizza Hut this is a couple more oh is that the time yes that's the time that they they had to get it they took to get out of the room and again this is what one of them they had to fight a rabbit and in the room I was in a light had to go on and what happened in your guy's room uh we were at Pizza Hut we had the buffet there they had a wonderful uh set up for us um very cheap too you know for as much as the kids wanted to eat um it was like five five bucks and that included um drinks endless drinks and and and the entire bar that they had there um and then these are some of the things
019we did ask the students these four students to tell us what they they got from this experience and so Sloane wanted to go ahead and tell us what you so when you were in there you guys had to all work together so no one got left out and so you could like make a good team and um when you solved something you kind of felt proud of yourself because you like did something and um there were a bunch of jump scares in ours like one time like the chandelier like fell down and so it kind of made me go get over like some beers because yeah sometimes I get scared and then there were multiple Clues set up like when you got to London you have to find something in the second room and you
020had to go back to the first room to get it and so that was hey it hated um the rooms weren't like hard but they weren't easy like not like little kids like second when you get out in time um and then like there was this guy paper and they're like yeah exact spot to make this thing fall down and it fell and like none of us are built because we were all putting these bottles on this thing and um um the girl that was um giving us the hints and stuff um there was just one thing we had to put these wooden things on this table and um we didn't get it at all so so she came in there and helped us go and figure out how to get it out yeah the
021people each room had somebody that watched over what we were doing and if they saw us struggling as long as we agreed they would give us a clue um and help us along so we needed some foods along the way there were a few things that we had to do like uh on the trade but we didn't have to because there were some owners that had like a different uh people on them and they have a certain color and like we had it didn't matter the ornament sometimes with the people on the ones at the cap when all the words out of the P equal on the colors and then you had to count how many cups or how many people there were had that that color to find somebody color combination uh and like
022like we had to work as a team on that one because there may even think we had to do it once because like oh she told us that there's certain things that some of us could do and like like Aiden and I believe it's usually working on that table uh yeah well me you know me to play Word uh working on the Christmas tree one uh because there was another walk there and that you know with a Christmas tree it was a Christmas tree it was the it was the uh safe yeah we're looking at that safe because uh but uh because I had to stay a grand Christmas tree that's why I like that but I just thinking and we have to find our code down three times like five minutes three times stop
023at 10 minutes and I just keep adding on yeah and they've got all different kinds of locks so some of them were numbers some of them were color-coded some of them were letters some of them were combination and so they had to to figure out which ones workers definitely try on the mirror on them he liked it so much what did you do oh my well my mom she paid 200 dinner The Collection was the collection room was the hardest room and that's the room that that Sloan was in and Tanner heard about it in I guess convinced mom over Christmas breaks closer and trying to work with other people that I haven't worked with before and it helps me find out how other people were solve problems and talked about things um it depends
024whenever we unlocked a mirror we walked through another land and that was where we escaped and um oh the White Rabbit fell and that's how you knew that you saw the practice I think it was a scream yeah when it fell um but that's how they that was their the goal of their their room was to find the white rabbit so anyway anything else you guys want to add oh we have question yes basically this sounds like a big clue yeah yeah definitely um with involving a lot more people you could get played yep definitely what I do about it is thank you parents and kids but if you want to believe now you alsoever [Music] foreign a really awesome grant that we were able to work with some other Community Partners to get and
025this way you have an overview of what we are hoping to bring to the community and how you can access services and education and if you have questions along the way feel free to stop being asking um so our grant is called the paces initiative and paces is positive and adverse childhood experiences and the grant came down through the department religion and it's a community Catalyst grant that we developed through the Brown family recovery and wellness Coalition and Southern stone is the manager of it so um it was a really amazing process to work with our County Partners we had Community Corrections involved and folks from the recovery community and foreign staff to develop this grant and the goal of the grant is to increase the community awareness of what cases are the closet in
026that first childhood experiences and how that affects a person from childhood well into adulthood and so we're going to do that by providing training and workshops to engage at least 500 Grand Country citizens um this is not one of those workshops this is just a introduction um so we're hoping to do more and more presentations I'll talk to you about that in just a minute so one of the other really great things that we're already seeing the benefit of those this grant allows us to provide services at no charge to people who are in need of life skills or mentoring it's it doesn't cover um their counselor or therapist but if they don't have the resources for any Mental Health it at least helps us get in touch with them and get them connected to
027this so um to qualify for the grant panel I'll talk about a little more later basically just had to have had adversely in your life and at first becomes in many shapes and sizes um so with that we're going to provide 5 000 Direct Services two members from Brown County who are in need of services that don't have the finances for it whether that's no insurance or insurance that just doesn't have a mental health pretty common so the grant is a total of five hundred thousand dollars and we have 30 months to meet our goals we also kind of in conjunction with this grant received another grant that allowed us to put a full-time mental health person in the jail she is trained as a community corrections officer but her entire focus is meeting up
028inmates and connecting resources so a little bit about the grant team our grant managers she's the also the manager of the Centerstone office here at Grove County so I'm sure some of you have seen her but she's just going to keep us on track for goals make sure that we're making meaningful connections within the community and that we're using the money responsibly um Dr Sandy Washburn is an awesome part of this Grant and which is also the sbl coordinator I think for the schools um so some of you may know her already but she brings a lot of the science with her to her presentations and helping us understand kind of the inner workings of how trauma and adversity affect us and also how we can come back better increase it in our community so
029she's the one that will do most of our of those 500 contact presentations I'm part of the child and family team as this case is silver and we are providing the brand services to children and their families and we are doing that for mentoring through connecting them to other resources life skills we're hoping to eventually start up some support groups peer support groups and um other learning opportunities big parents as well just how to handle the stress and parenting in a way that's healthy for parent engagement and then our adults who is currently supported by the other Grant but she will this grant will pick up her position after that Grant collapses um so she is currently working every day in the jail and she meets with inmates does an intake with them to find
030out what their needs are and um what their story is how they got here what's missing what can make things to really be more productive so she has already been able to connect a few people with Recovery Services with the acting services and patient treatment and she's working with a larger criminal justice system as well to see what options are out there and she also is connecting them to Services have been released and we're making more and more connections with her help and the child and family team to meet up with kids of parents who are incarcerated trying to start breaking some of those cycles that happen sometimes um so part of that also is Melanie tub now and she is not housed in the jail but she meets with inmates frequently and does the
031services with them Mental Health Services life skills connections and resources and she's also doing a lot of work to understand how our community approaches um those that are involved in crime in some way and just seeing how we can coordinate better and have it so that people are not returning to jail frequently and they're giving the support that they need to become the productivity we all want something so Dr Allison Halland is also an IU professor and she's going to be doing our evaluation of data management so she is going to just help us make sure that we're tracking in a good way what we're doing and the impact it's having on the community because we're hoping to continue this beyond the 30 minutes we're already having a lot of success with this we started
032in September and just the amount of people we've been able to see and serve that we weren't able to because of their financial barriers and amazing so and then we had some interns right now we have Evan and he just kind of helps us with meetings and clients so to put that all and I need that inch what are we who are we serving different children we're focusing on children that have had it at first and again at first he was very very their parents have divorced or their parents are addicted it's just a wide range diversity runs the game and for adults we're focusing on those that are either incarcerated at this kind of incarceration or frustrated and again there is to help try to try to reduce recidivism and break some of the
033cycles that when there's um so the flexibility of the grant allows us to address gaps in accounting and then we don't have to bill an insurance company or where they have kind of stipulations on how often where do you consider them and all those things so with this grant we're able to move about more in the community and of people um and everything is assessed by an individual basis which is great so there was a study in the late 90s um it actually kind of started with someone looking at obesity and it grew into a study where they really get this picture of like a shift of thinking about what causes a lot of the mental and societal health and well-being issues that prevent us from being productive or good Learners or um citizens and
034they found that the roots had occurred that the roots could be traced back to Childhood in many cases when kids are exposed to stress a lot that actually changes the brain development of the brain chemistry and that carries through without intervention without understanding without support that can carry through to problems happens so this just shows kind of the realm of the thirsty in the tree branches up here we have things that happen more so thank addiction mental health issues in the community you know if we have lack of affordable housing or substandard scarcity and things like that and then there's also environmental factors that bring about adversity through natural disasters and foreign experiences are common um most people experience some adversity um and there is a difference I'll just touch on real quick there is
035a difference between Shadow and adversity and adult adversity because of that brain development that's happening education know very well how important that is so we know that it increased risks of multiple health and societal problems it can be intergenerational can be passed down there's been a lot of good studies coming out lately that show you know even changes so and you know if parents are scared of dogs you might be scared of dogs it's not all in the Bible in those things and they're finding more and more connections between the childhood adversity and public Health experience all right so again Sandy Washburn is the contact for if you want a larger presentation on this topic for understanding of what bases are and how that applies we are hoping to touch every sector of the community
036um because it just what we hope to do is change the frame of looking at people as you know what's wrong with you and instead ask what happened to you or what's your story what preceded this event for these behavior issues so the p is just as important and that's the positive and that's what those of us working on the grant are really trying to build in the individuals to work with and with the community so things like their their abilities belonging you know you don't feel like they belong here are they supportive do they have an adult or a peer group that they feel like it really belongs to um we know in our community that spirituality and church is a huge factor in a lot of people's lives and a huge support in
037any way and so that's why we just want to touch so much of the community so there's a better and to leave you with a couple of things that like you can think about and how you can interact with others um is just making sure somebody feels that's important hope you see someone who doesn't seem connected or whatever you know you might reach out of hand um because one thing that helps with the protection even with adversity and they will help you um Community reciprocity so you know kind of like the old can I borrow a couple sugar thing but in a more Modern Way and then social riches so reaching out out of your comfort zone and bringing others in our ways now because the adversity versus the positive is kind of like a
038scale you can have a lot of adversity as a kid but if you also have a lot of supports then you're on a better trajectory that if you have more adversity than so forth so we're hoping to see an increase in community understand root causes of many of the struggles that I could the kids and the adults you know in our community and also what we can do as a community to support families and support individuals and Recovery support individuals who are coming out of jail for whatever um increasing Community Care and capital we're trying to build that now with connections between partners and thinking of ways that we can still catch the SE elaboration on the systems increased belonging so we're hoping that all of that will reduce the effects of that experiences and
039in a couple Generations Maybe reduce adversity as a whole you know foreign each other um so again for workshops you can contact Sandy and then if you have a kid or a family that you think could benefit from some services understanding then you can send that through our um manager Amanda Canard I will also leave some business cards and you can contact me as well so um I did delete a slide because I saw some kids in here some things that the original Ace of study looked at was like like physical view of sexual abuse addiction separation from parents things of that nature mental health struggles within the family so any questions again sorry to follow up with the cute kids but congratulations yeah it's really um it's really exciting my background of course really
040great it's been just amazing I have one years ago just to see how much the community really just need to support the Wellness Coalition and Recovery communities like it's just amazing so Brown County's got a lot of classrooms thank you for the time thank you so much questions and rested [Music] you have a second a second and good luck yes tonight so therefore motion for vice president Carol was a nice question any discussion roll call Carol yes thank you yes yes Mr Perry thanks to his secretary uh nomination for secretary okay uh I nominate Victor Garden I'll second in the session second yes okay any discussion local Carol yes maybe yes yes Deputy Treasures Joe Ray and Kristen Pruitt yes yes yes but she carries next is a motion for a corporate um treasure our
041corporate attorney sorry dominate those caps it's like a second discussion yes yes recording secretaries second any discussion yes and then I just want to make a a reference that um is starting with letter D the corporation Treasurer these are not nominations they are recommendations from the superintendent so just so you know this is their position and it's not necessarily a nomination it's it's the recommendation so it's okay gotta do it all together spread them I also have the recommendation for the meeting date and time for board meetings um as listed if an executive session is needed um it will typically be at 5 00 pm and a regular session at 6 30 pm on the first and third Thursday of the month time any discussion I thought since 5 30. it's just because tonight's session
042started at 5 PM so we don't um we don't legally have standing executive sessions they're only as needed so for example tonight was at five o'clock as that's why it's stated that way oh yeah yes Vicky yes and yes the board compensation of two thousand dollars per year and 112 per meeting 62 for special session definition to uh foreign yes [Music] for the bid opening Committee of the recommendation to appoint Jimmy Jackson director of Maintenance ground status illustrator of Transportation Don Ray Treasurer Jill Ray or Christy Brewer Deputy treasurers David Phelps director of technology and Emily Tracy superintendent as the brown hand schools do you have permission to substitute a second any discussion welcome Carol yes yes thank you and then I have the board committee Representatives the Brown County Schools Insurance committee Bill Bowden
043from County Schools finance committee Amy Huffman Oliver Brown County Schools health and wellness committee Stephanie kreitzer the Nashville Redevelopment commission Carol Bowden at Brown County Redevelopment Commission Stephanie kritzer sorry Brown County Planning Commission Carol Bowden in the Brown County Schools booked by Community Victory Hardin any discussions Carol yes Vicki yes yes thank you next we have approval of public session minutes you have a motion to table can you bring more approx session minutes from December 15 2019 to a future meeting actually a second any discussion profile Carol yes biggie yes yes and the recommendation to open the donation of 500 for me to sign into the CRC to be used in any area of need foreign County High School winter guard um next question any discussion thank you welcome Carol yes Vicky yes yes I
044had the recommendation to approve the donation of two thousand dollars from Paul Wales to the Brown County High School winter guard do you have a motion to accept the recommendation to improve the donation or Sunday any discussion and thank you welcome Carol yes Vicky yes yes thank you I had the recommendation to approve the appointment of Corey joy as Brown County High School student learning recovery Mentor 50 per hour not to exceed 225 hours this position is free and funded this appointment is made pending the receipt of a certified background check the relationship s discussion welcome Carol yes thank you yes yes the consent agenda item starting with the separation of Van Buren Elementary School teacher Tina Robertson effective January 20th 2023 through the transfer of Van Buren Elementary School Preschool paraprofessional Leah Hyatt the
045ESC paraprofessional affected January 9th 2023. do you have a motion to accept the consent agenda take a second [Music] discussion welcome Carol Yes Yes mine is short and sweet tonight I want to just start with the most importantly we've had a very successful start to the second semester um it's always exciting to to be able to welcome our kids and our staff back so I just want to thank everybody for for smooth transition to the second semester um I want to welcome Amy Oliver as his name board president president of the board and I want to thank Carol for all of your service as president as long as I have been here with you so truly thank you so much for that um I want to thank Dawn Ray for her presentation tonight she is
046always able to give us very specific intentional detailed information on our finances and I'm just very grateful for that I want to thank Shane Killinger and Mary kurzio and Becky Higgins and their work to be able to provide opportunities for our kids to do something just a little bit different so thank you for providing that opportunity so those kiddos can come and present um I want to um remind everybody that our next Ambassador meeting is January 24th and our Focus will be all about School Safety and Security and wellness across the district for our staff and our students and our entire School community so really looking forward to our ambassador meeting and then it's at Van Buren and lastly Doug I want to welcome you to board I'm very excited to have you here and
047sitting up here alongside us so excited for the service that you will be able to provide thank you any discussion