001Becky can you hear me Vicky can you hear me Vicky can you hear us things [Music] Nikki foreign history all right before we start tonight I invite you to go to Regions um are there any modifications to the agenda an item for the recommendation to approve the resolution regarding supplemental payments for the Brown County Education Association Master contract do you have a motion to accept the recommendation to through the resolution regarding the supplemental payments for uh Master Company I still live thank you one second any discussion welcome Carol yes Amy yes definitely yes Steve yes uh motion Gary um next I have the recommendation to approve the first round of Transportation contracts for 2023 through 2027. the relationship set the recommendation should approve the first round of Transportation contracts for 23-27. also any discussion welcome
002Carol yes 80 yes Stephanie yes Steve yes thank you I have the consent agenda item for the appointment of helensburgh elementary school after school care supervisor Katrina root 14.75 per hour part-time with no benefits effective November 21st 2022 this is a replacement for Anna Bowe any discussion welcome yes Stephanie please compared next we have recognition of visitors and comments from the audience on any topic that is yeah okay with that we have presentation hello good evening everyone and I'm a director of career connective learning for Brown County Schools tonight I'm going to be sharing a little bit of information with you about the career resource center and thinking about some of our priorities of our student outcomes and what we're doing in the career center also I'll be sharing the budget for 2023 with the
003uh um I'm gonna go ahead and just one of these after all of you so for those of you that are not familiar with the resource center we have been in existence since 2002 and uh we serve mainly an adult population anywhere from age 16 and uh um our new location our new location is at the Educational Service Center so some of you may remember the old gray building right next to the Third Bank but last October we got to move to the new building I couldn't be more thankful it's beautiful it's wonderful we have space if you look at the parking lot when you go out tonight they may be gone by the time no they'll probably still be there parking lot's full it is a great sight to see when you come out
004uh we have tonight going on electrical ccma we have a women's entrepreneurship group in there called Nick's mangle and manifest uh that's coming uh to hold their meeting there tonight um and it's just it's busy so it's good to see yeah see they need certified medical assistant absolutely certified medical assistant yeah my acronyms um our mission has been the same since 2002. we have not changed um we are here to offer educational opportunities individual counseling related Services intended to improve the quality of life and our new potential through lifelong learning individual benefits provided by the CRC become a cumulative benefit for the community as a whole both economically and through intergeneration transfer so I shared with you that we host a lot of adult education classes but what's unique about our adult education so we
005also post Community classes for lifelong learning so that is fairly unique if you look at other adult education centers around this tonight I'll just share with you too that we are small team a very small team everyone on here is part-time except for me um but excuse me Debbie hillegasus part-time all right full-time with the corporation as well she's our administrative assistant at the front of the building so if you haven't been a building and you check in please buzz the system and Debbie will let you in we have an adult education teacher who is certified that's Sheila Popplewell our evening adult ed teacher who is also certified and entire teacher from Brown County Schools Brenda Krieger and our jail instructor is our former CRC director Dave Bartlett who's also a certified teacher and then
006I've just introduced myself Elaine mobile is our adult education coordinator she also is a retired teacher from Grafton Schools we love our retirees so much they do a lot for us um so that's our team and at the at the career center we have this is kind of our slogan what's your path what do you want to do where do you want to go what are your goals so a lot of our signage and things will say so um you have in front of you and I'll leave some out for tonight too this is a new back card that we had created this fall that shares with you student outcomes what have we been doing what are what are the what's the data around uh what we have been offering and so we've got that
007printed for you on the front there I'm not going to go through every piece of it but you can see that since 2016 look at that 16 965 Plus hours of certified classroom hours by our instructors again it is somewhat rare sometimes to find certified teachers who are always teaching adult education some are not and they are in our program um so you can just see the numbers as they go through there 40 plus certified clinical medical assistance and that program just started less than three years ago um and they're small classes uh but that was a new program that was brought on uh in partnership with biotech Wilmington uh phlebotomy was a new one that we held in the fall so that's why even we see five uh Master electricians though that program has
008been around for years um and those individuals are over there tonight also preparing to certify and then nursing assistance that's another big program that we offer and have for many years so I just wanted to share with you a little bit about um you know some of the numbers that we have since 20 2016 and this does not include um I can't hear they're at the meeting now but I can't hear how come so the other part I'll try to speak up little Vicky screaming so the other student outcomes um that I'm not going to share all of I we have specific student goals that we that are set for us according to our adult education grant that's written in region 8. so when we think about priorities the priorities for the district line very
009closely with our adult education goals that we receive from our grant the next Pro one of the other priorities here in the district is school family community engagement so just thought I'd share you a picture with you last night we had career night for ccmas you're just seeing the back row here of our ccmas and one of our instructors there the best Sharon but we had Jessica Smith the Director of Human Resources for Columbus Regional Health that was with us last night and iD Tech along with Jessica from crh we had our our career night so they were sharing opportunities with our students one of which is an externship for two weeks 20 hours at crh where students can go in and they can watch and be part of a a doctor's office and they
010can choose which facility they want to go into and observe for those 20 hours before deciding to apply and determining where they want to be for their job so I thought that was a really nice partnership that Columbus Regional is offering um also just wanted to share with you that Family School family community engagement really is all about also various Partnerships we are partnered with Vincennes University as well they were the ones that provided our phlebotomy class um and so we're always looking for those types of Partnerships Partnerships provide this is our CNA Community right we talk about Community it's our certified nursing assistant Community these are pictures um from the clinical site Brown County Health and Living and our current students right there in the middle and then some of our students working on
011blood pressure this time they went to the facility for the first time this week and they'll be there for six weeks now before they complete their surgery foreign and then when we think about Recruitment and Retention I'm not sure if any of you are seeing this around or not but every day we have a daily Facebook post uh that goes out I just cut a couple of them out to show you and share with you so if you're not following us on Facebook uh we ask that you check that out we want to make sure that we're sharing information about adult education in Indiana and what we're doing come in maybe something fun like our new t-shirts that we have that we're utilizing for all of our orientations every student goes through an orientation now
012when they come in for a class or a course um regardless of the fluency or certification and I have shirts for all of them as well before you go um well if you're not seeing an article written by me then you're seeing um some sort of ad uh that's sharing information about what we're doing our slogan last year was we're here for you uh we're about to change that to a new slogan coming up uh in 2023 uh but that gives you an example of what we're putting out every month so part of uh retention Recruitment and Retention is making people aware that we exist and what we do so through ads through Facebook posts through newsletters um some of you probably received the emails from me that come out monthly I also put the
013not the appearance Square for our school Community we're trying to send the message about what we do okay and then um this is another priority and whoever thought I'd be taking a picture of a bunch of crock pots like as I stood up taking them alive I do it as well I'm doing this because it makes people happy right we had today our Crock-Pot friendsgiving and we just you know it's gonna cover up tomorrow too so what we didn't eat today goes into tomorrow but happy staff happy students we know that when our staff is enjoying their work and what's happening um our our students are too and that doesn't matter if you're in kindergarten fifth grade or you're an adult um so we we had friendsgiving today and then you see another picture there
014of one of our CNA students she came over today from her clinical experience because she's finishing up her when essential soft skills um certification so they take an online certification test and she'll come out of our program with her CNA and her women's soft skills certification um and really that just brings me to our financials that I always share with the board yearly um just so you're aware of what's happening I love our CRC steering committee is looking at I met with the committee last week and they uh approved the the budget and I'm bringing to you tonight so I'll just uh click on here I think we will share with you um our total revenue for um this coming year in 2023 we anticipate will be 360 300 um if you see a note
015next to one of the descriptions it's there for purpose and that's to describe to you a little bit of work about what each of those descriptions is about um so you'll see that under endowments that figure varies from year to year um under grants that varies from year to year um grants are not always they're usually not guaranteed um and they fluctuate um that particular Grant is that way the adult education grant same way not guaranteed at this level every year we had an incredible year last year and our adult education grant was 101 000 Grant that has never been that good um and I'm happy and proud of that however um the sustaining of that over time and whether or not we'll still get those same friends funds from the state in the region
016is always kind of up in the air um so something to point out and then show you that since 2022 we have uh okay our expenses are listed below and I think you'll be happy to see that for this year for this year our expenses do not exceed our Revenue but I need to explain a little bit um under CRC salary and benefits that is the lowest salary benefits you have ever seen come out of the career resource center and may ever see unless um staff is directly impacted with tests um and the reason is that we have part-time people we have three part-time people some of them are working as low as four hours a week the maximum is 28 hours a week and you will also see that my salary is not included
017in here I am currently I am currently serving The District in two capacities and um that um that salary and benefit does not include mine as director so um I just wanted to point that piece out because that is a notable difference from uh perhaps years past um contracted services not only different there if you go on down all those contracted Services those are our occupational teachers who pay them by contract um and then HSC contracted service we've had some wonderful volunteers over the years but testing has changed a bit and the training has changed a bit we are paying for someone to come in and administer those tests so that's a cost um materials you'll see there and then we are purchasing our own technology um that's set aside there and then professional development
018is required in adult education and so we attend our state Association conferences each year myself uh our teacher and other mayor and then told expenses are listed there at 214 200. so that's just an overview of our financials for 2023 um and I think it's important to make sure that you all see that um 148 000 comes from the referendum so with that I'll make sure you all get t-shirts tonight I'll leave some of the rack cards on the back and if you have any questions foreign ERS our preschoolers so um a couple weeks ago I came to you with um some information about Playgrounds and we have money from the state grant money from the state that we are going to be purposing toward preschool specific playgrounds at helmsford Elementary Spring Elementary Van Buren
019Elementary and at the Educational Service Center it's really necessary that we have playgrounds that are specific for specific age groups so right now our kids that are playing on playgrounds that are meant for kids five years and older really have to have very few things they can actually play on and they have to play on a lot of you know temporary kind of equipment um I'm laptop adjacent to the playground so um through uh State pandemic relief funds we have had the opportunity to upgrade our playground facility so what you see in front of you actually had three proposals from three different companies um the criteria for proposal um the criteria for even me showing you those proposals it was only met by one of the the vendors so um that's the one that we
020have in front of you there are very few folks that really know how to do outdoor education spaces and that's really what we what we wanted to see is an outdoor educational space um if you remember me just a minute ago this is pandemic relief money one of the things that I think you want to be prepared for is being able to go outside and do productive educational work outside um in science Area art area you know motor area all those kind of literacy gazebo is going to be one of the things that you might still see on the the itemized list of what will be that outside so that we can actually do productive education outside if we need to do that we we just want to be prepared and so this this opportunity
021is is kind of a unique opportunity and taking advantage of it is uh is really a gift so um you have all the proposals I am getting out here just to answer questions about them um I can walk you through each one um if you want me to um we'll just you'll see that each area of the playground is listed out with itemized equipment and areas for clinic and learning next to them each one is priced out the nice thing about that is if we start into the project kind of when we have a spin um and I will if we need to take out an area because something costs more than we thought we can literally just extract one cost so this this uh company um is is incredible um and so uh I
022adventurous child only does playgrounds for kids start to finish in terms of what timeline yeah okay yeah that's a good question yeah so um I'm you know presenting this proposal to you this evening and then um the procurement of the equipment that they would need to be able to break ground on these playgrounds uh begins now so we would make an advanced payment to them so they can start preparing equipment and literally building things um we're going to have something called cord in place rubber which is safe and um you know wheelchair accessible so there's just a a leading time that a company needs in order to be able to prepare so the idea would be that um this this spring all the sites now are actually ready for playground um as of this past
023week um Wagner took care of Excavating the site behind the Early Education Center so there is no more equipment our rotarians um improv County paid for that project completely the excavation of that so the equipment's been removed um that the land has been flattened you know and prepared strawed so it's ready for um it's ready for actually now the wall to be looked at because we have that failing wall that you know which is not acceptable for that part so but that all the sites are prepared helmsburg's Furniture van Aaron the next step for them um through the same grant funding will be homeserver does not have uh fencing yet around the playground there so that actually is going to be happening over the next few weeks um Jimmy and I connect with the gentleman
024that does our playgrounds and his companies that are does our fencing um already has it since that's been installed this past summer because it was a little more extensive um Van Buren fencing will also be a few months and then played around next spring summer hopefully be everything will be finished time next fall there is an expend by date on this funding so what is that thing uh this is Esser money for for specifically The Early Childhood that came through fssa um and that final day I think is uh December of 2023 so we have about a year but we started this process also it takes a while to get and the estimates you've given us for each of the playgrounds is already been within your budget from the episode yes yes yes yeah each
025site received originally about eighty thousand dollars for each site um so we have completely done work on the inside that's why there's been um new furniture uh safe Furniture no sharp edges all preschool size um yeah all that's been done this year and then subtracted as soon as I started getting estimates in and I saw like the quality of this estimate and how much I just started setting the money is completely and it I know you talked about this but it's set aside from the bigger kid playground right yes yes does it have like a closing fence so that yeah so so at helmsburg this site is actually and there's a drawing I think they're in your package it's actually tucked behind the building itself um the kids will have access to the butterfly garden
026that's there um the pond is there but of course there's fencing there already so we'll be connecting to that fencing that fencing Project's about seven thousand dollars um there'll be a gate that enters from around the sidewalk around the front of the building so they'll have an entry um and then at vertica it's actually on the complete opposite side of the playground the the K5 kids play on right now that side of the building used to be where our kindergarten playground was so some of the areas already Blacktop expensed so that wants to go behind the building and then at Van Buren it will be adjacent to that space but it'll be fenced off there's all the regulations required fun stuff and they'll be a gate wide enough for our mowers to do their own
027work but other than that it will disappeared maybe I'll thank you Mr all right next is discussion items we have none next to the studio any discussion um foreign yes I have the recommendation to approve the 2022-2023 let the bargaining agreement between the Brown County Educators Association and Brown County Schools Board of school trustees you have a motion to accept the recommendation to approve the 222 okay Educators Association school board and school trust you thank you any discussion thank you for giving us yes yes yes thank you I have the recommendation to approve a total donation of Thirteen thousand dollars 27 13 000 27.40 Bond donors to vernica Elementary do you have a motion to accept the recommendations [Music] absolutely what a great Community activity and very successful yes I had the recommendation to approve
028the donation of 110.59 from Kroger to swertica Elementary yes thank you I had the recommendation to approve the four proposals from The Adventurous child for the design and installation of Early Childhood playgrounds at Ellensburg Square cup Van Buren Elementary and the Early Education Center each playground is funded for grant funding foreign of the early childhood any discussion I'm just excited about it thank you for any work I I can't even imagine the level of detail that you've gotten into as far as those pieces that I mean I think I have actually in other projects looked at like purchasing playground equipment and it is a very difficult same thing so for you to do or playgrounds all at once um and looking at you know all the cost pieces and the things that you need and
029making sure thank you for all your hard work on that Debbie I know that's it's just one of those jobs that somebody's got to do so we appreciate having them on the grants yes it was awesome absolutely anyway yes yes I have the recommendation to approve the appointment of Cassie Stratton of Stratton Educational Services multilingual education built into Brown County schools for the submitted statement of work for the 2022-2023 school year disappointment is made pending the receipt of a background check services rendered will not happening for student Educational Services second a second discussion welcome Cheryl yes Amy yes yes Wednesday yes thank you and the recommendation to approve Brown County Early Education Center toddler care fees at 37 per day 8 AM to 3 P.M and with an additional fee of 37 per week for
030extended hours Education Center have a Therapies and on a second okay any discussion once again I'm excited to be offering daycare I mean I'm always sorry that daycare costs as much as it does but um I know having been a parent here at the community would carry the midday care options how important it is and I am just very excited that this is something you can grow and offer and really excited another discussion Carol yes baby yes Stephanie yes and Steve yes motion carries I have the recommendation to declare the following inactive Vehicles as Surplus property and advertised for sale you can see the bus vehicle number and description is listed do you have a recommendations as Surplus property and advertised for sale so moving discussion thank you Mr Dennis appreciate that and with that
031we'll follow Carol yes Amy yes yes yes thank you I have the recommendation to approve the resolution regarding supplemental payments for the Brown County Educators Association information [Music] yeah these um I just want to reiterate these these resolution regarding the supplemental maintained their master's degree so this supplemental payment is allowed them to change lanes and jump from The Bachelor scale to the master scale so in that legally has to be separate recommended item for approval Amy yes yes thank you and the recommendation to approve the first round of Transportation contracts for 2023 to 2027. 7 you have a motion to accept the recommendations absolutely discussion thank you for all your work thank you for all your words yes yes yes I have starting with the separation for holmesburg elementary school after school care supervisor in
032a Vogue effective November 18 2022 through the transfer of the Early Education Center paraprofessional at eating Center to the Early Education Center toddler teacher effectively 2022. foreign yes yeah I don't have a long report tonight um first I just want to congratulate congrats early finalists um we have Joey Dennison Hadley great off Chase Austin Lindsay Roush and London Custer all um announced as the league finalists and I believe that we get to um hear who who was very excited for them and wanted to congratulate them for all of their Hardware I want to thank the Brown County Educators Association uh for their hard work and in collaborations to be able to reach a contract for our teachers across the entire District it takes a lot of work to do that and we are grateful so
033thank you for that collaboration um and then this evening I want to thank Misty reichsman for an incredible presentation about the CRC and adult education and all the work that goes into it we as a district as you know have set five specific priorities um to to help guide us and Christina has seamlessly taken those five priorities and apply them to adult education and it's commendable so thank you I also want to thank Debbie Harmon um again reiterate your diligent process to get these playgrounds underway um as I think everybody has already stated um it is a process and you pay the detail it's possible to ensure that you do it great to do we do as well so thank you and then Dennis Mills again thank you for your help with Trey the the
034excess vehicles and guiding us and what to do with that to um helping lead us through a new round of Transportation contracts um I appreciate your leadership thank you so much I just want to wish everybody Happy can I say that we also welcome Doug Payne into our polls and welcoming arms and you're going to put your phone number right on up and add in the Democrats I lost my phone yesterday [Music] they'll give you a chair when I leave foreign interesting discussions so far so we welcome him and we're going to give Steve a little something yeah Amy yes yes was you married motion to return one second any question say um