001desired I pledge allegiance of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all foreign County Schools evaluation and compensation plan for the school year 2022-2023 and the recommendation to a queer teacher appreciation grants for the school year 2022-2023 advisors any discussion welcome Carol yes baby yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes and Steve yes motion carries uh five zeros next I have the consent agenda items for the appointments of Brown County High School ACA appointment instructional technology coach Kirk ratesman in the Brown County Schools bus driver Sarah McCarty 96 per day 180 days per school year full-time with Benefits this is a replacement for capacity shipping do you have a motion to accept the modification to the United related to consent and
002the agenda items appointments second a discussion welcome era yes Amy yes Stephanie yes yes thank you at this time uh the second edition of visitors and comments from the audience you know invited to speak uh and share information or anything that's not already on the agenda okay and with that we have environment the director of student support services and I oversee multiple programs for the district one of which is early childhood education and the last time I spoke with you all as a board um I talked to you a little bit about the program overall about our sites and about our goals um and our vision story for our attended Early Education in Early Education in Broward County today I'm talking to you about something very specific having to do with the early childhood education
003center in Nashville um and so one of the uh differences between that site and the other sites is that um it has been a playground before the other school the school's homes for Van Buren and surgical where we plan to put our playground has a bit of playground before it's grass and so it's a ton of Clean Slate but at what used to be Nashville Elementary what used to be the Intermediate School it has an existing space that is behind the brick wall and so um in in turning that space into um a playground that would meet the licensure requirements or Child Care Center we found that we need to do a little work on that wall so what I have for you today are some pictures of the walls which might not have recently
004been up close and personal with the wall but I have been um and then I have a feasibility study here that we that I'll talk to you about um you're considered for your consideration because we are going to have to uh do something about the wall to bring it into compliance with what a child care center division between Highway and playground would need to be so um before we look at the study let me just foreign this kind of thing uh where the wall is flaking and there are these large chips run the whole entire night uh I had a little one out there actually Madison Miller's son our CEO foundation and the first thing she did was picked one of these up and try to put it in her back he's important that's why
005we need to do something about the wall we're going to have kids out there um even Mr Austin said that he had some issues with kids at the other end of the wall right so when we talk about the wall we're talking about this as one continuous wall that really starts at the corner of the property and then goes all the way down to the end of that place it's a pretty good experience this is kind of an overview of what kind of looks like out there so this this uh not only has kind of a failing wall here all this is going to be excavated here this is why we're going to take all this out all this concrete needs to come out right here because it's too close to the oh we're gonna
006loading up heat gravel and it's too close to this is too close here as a fall zone we have so we've got the wall That's flaking and then this fence up here is totally rusted the ends these there are prongs under here you can kind of see they're sticking up they are extremely sharp and if you touch one you can you can easily get pricked and that's a rusty you know and so we have kids that definitely would be tall enough to reach that um so and it's Extremely Loud on the paper I mean I can't this is Peaceful Valley Brown County it does not be a spawned incredible I think it's the only loud place in the entire County that I've ever stood um but it is Extremely Loud and and you know one
007of the things that that we know from the child care Licensing Laws is that this is supposed to be an extension of a learning space and we're supposed to have quiet zones and we're supposed to have active zones um it's really supposed to be for outdoor education as well as for physical activity it's not just a playground in other words it's like another warning space so um with this in mind um I mean I I looked at the wall with our director of you know maintenance and grounds with Jimmy um we decided that it was probably something that um you know we locally here aren't going to be able to fix this wall this is not a project that our our guys are going to be able to handle um we actually uh decided that
008in looking at the rules for perhaps using fund dollars to do this if the scope of the project is going to be over 150 000 you need to get an architect to look at it um it's going to be over 150 000 to do that role so um we talked with Mr Michael Chamblee uh and I say we um Madison Miller and I are kind of taking this on together she's a there's a foundation to change champion of Early Childhood in Brown County with all the scholarship support we've been kind of keeping Emily in the loop with what we've been finding um Mr Chamblee when we talked to a couple different Architects he's the one who's gave me be really really interested in fact he said he's been trying to get something done about the
009wall for a couple years because it is the first thing you see on 46 when you come in when you come in um and enter Brown County and you look to the right you see beautiful buildings but the first thing you see is rested fence and a just a dilapidated so um he has developed a proposal here um and so these are the services that he would provide and they're pretty extensive actually it's not just about drawing what he would do with the wall in fact he has to do it you know um really deciding what the best action for remedying the law situation is um and so basically leaving it and and covering the material might be possible replacing it entirely might be necessary replacing the fencing with new materials or maybe a solid
010or slated material and then we talked about considering how local artists might contribute to the beauty of this entrance as well so it might serve multiple multiple purposes um um of course I'm concerned primarily about the safety and the sound because we have you know a couple of years to become licensed and um we we need to get this figured out within that amount of time so um Carol just real quick the western part is just fence isn't it the part behind the gas station it's just sense of stuff that part and we and that needs to be remedy as well because the problem is that you can you can see into the place exactly right so when we're talking about building the wall we would actually take it around the corner because if you
011sit at Speedway in your car you can look in and watch the kids but so and then but and just in your presentation my other concern and and I get with the safety doctor that you're talking about my state detector is about cars potentially running off the road or truck coming off road and having to be a stop Gap you know into playground or into the building so I mean that would be one thing I want under to speak with me yeah this guy too so yeah so yeah we have had one um just because I wasn't sure we had I had to have an amazing with the wall and he said you know this is a project that you you're going to have to he's also said you really nervative test so again this
012is uh I'm used to doing materials like fixing walls so but anyways I'm learning a lot it's fine it's fun um and and but I'm but I'm very anxious for Mr Chamblee who seems to have a lot of interest and vision for what this could be as an entrance to the community and as a safety um feature you know a necessary safety feature for our playground um and um so yeah this this is a proposal that um it's about a ten thousand dollar proposal well I would assume that this wall was built when we built the school we wanted this this wall is is original is repaired never been touched if this is original to the to the building of that the building it's up I'm excited I really love both you're talking about the
013sound because it's going to be so loud I love the safety and I also really love working on our entrance so you know we're doing the application of the entrance to our community you know I love all of that so great what was funny is last last word being um uh Melanie was here talking about you know beautifying different parts of the wall That's entrance to the to the middle school and I was thinking you know this is kind of a thing but I think having local artists thinking maybe you know some kind of iron work on the outside the outside doesn't have to look like the inside the inside just has to be safe nothing sharp you know the the outside can be you know something that really and a barrier and a barrier
014yeah absolutely taller wall actually affects you know I've I have actually done a little Googling on sound barrier stuff and you know it's it's interesting I've said something that's up to Michael and some of that stuff he's gonna I mean that's really his area but you know you know it's possible along a highway there's there's barriers but you also don't want to put a 20-foot structure and it doesn't need to be that but there's got to be some way well that's why because just you you have an open space which actually we as adults have have had a hard time hearing each other I mean the amount of traffic so there's no way that you're a multi-year-old or a four-year-old's voice Daddy can you can you clarify this um proposal is just for the architect
015to come on to pay for that and then the architect is going to make a presentation yes was that ten thousand dollars is for the feasibility study yes is that what grant money is that or how many like that that is money that is allowable to be extended on and I have to do that with the Capital Improvements bond that we have right now that is a very I mean it's Extremely Loud expenses it's on the chart of what you're supposed to do before you start a project yes absolutely so yeah only for capital projects Mr Shepley is waiting on this on your approval of the contract I told him that I'd be presenting it tonight and that you would have it for your consideration and the next meeting would be difficulty on that um
016let's get started to do yeah and then he will get started right away um looking at you know he's got in here he talks about he's got subconsultants and he's going to be working with obviously he's not an expert on sound barrier he knows the priorities um I've met with him to that level um and he's uh he understands the timeline that we have for me to get this done um sorry right away okay any questions about that any other questions the only other thing I wanted to say is uh when when we talk the next time also probably the next board meeting I may have that time we're seeking three three proposals for the other playgrounds I mean we have to do that when we're using federal funds to play for pay for anything
017above a threshold of costs um we have to so I've got two proposals on reading a third one for the helm supports vernica ending here Brian so they'll probably have I'll have um those to share the next time over here is that renovation or so those playgrounds are the ones that are for the preschools that that are yeah okay so creating separate playgrounds yeah that's what we talked about the last time so um but good um the question for you with regards since this wall is going before stating around as far as an easement are you Consulting with the state department yes but one of the things that um he's going to do in fact number two it says here help determine where the self-property line is relative to the highway and then um if
018we need on the second page it talks about if we if we do need to have a survey but is there I guess the question is going to take in because I don't know because there's always because you've got a boundary between County property and state property right yeah so the question that comes is are there any restrictions that the state may have with regards to the road as far as those times yeah that's why we're gonna you know hopefully they'll have to agree to have Michael do that because that's just that's what he's gonna do he's going to figure that out that's out of my Transportation so in going through and limiting the resources did you happen to have any conversations or contact the County offices to see what engineering firms that that nature
019they might be using so that there might be an overlap of you know resources and reach out because I know they do have Contract Services sure and they may be and since they'll be familiar with the area Michael is a resident here we're probably reaching out locally he also mentioned that that's what kind of what he would do for us because you know we we know that that um that work needs to be done it's just that this is what he's this is what he does all the time so yeah definitely that we need to be done okay and then the last thing is for as you mentioned that there's going to be a wall that's going to be shared between now School School boundaries and private Parkway so normally when you have projects of
020this nature as I've seen and I don't know if that's the case here in the state of Indiana but they're a possible to be associated with that and then there is also um if I'm not mistaken they may have a sense of ordering and put on the property line I don't know how outlooks it's going to be there may be some influences with regards to their rights as what can and can be done well we have the the fence there now that's the chain link fence yeah but as soon as you start making the change that it takes big different Behavior well until we have a plan yeah and that's that's what you know feasibility study is that's part of that yeah yep yeah I'm pretty confident that he'll come back to us with everything
021we need to do to be able to then go through that secure bid process because I'm sure it'll be a project the architectural part of it that includes engineering activities it only includes what's what's on this what's on the stage so I expect that you're going to actually then have to approach someone else after you've got that information that shows up the requirements that's going to be to an engineering okay someone's going to have to decide you know whoever an Architects work with engineers design and design the wall this isn't it this is this is what's feasible to do I mean right now we don't know whether we should replace it we don't know whether we should cover it we don't know whether we just don't know to achieve the goals of safety and sound
022we just don't really know which direction because we're talking about sound barriers and they have regulations and specifications yeah to what that buried and even just um even you you know there's things you can do to wrap uh offense that can help with that too there's all kinds of kind of low-tech versus you know high tech support barrier something that looks so simple can become quite complex that I've noticed that brick wall when I drive just about every time I think we need to do something about that I don't know what we need to do and that's exactly what Mr Chevrolet says I drive by it every day and I look at I think the grounds are so beautiful then that one was so awful and I could definitely see little kids out there for
023five minutes and she had a piece of that that brick in her hand all right I'm excited thank you thanks really thank you yeah I'm familiar with uh Michael's work and he's good he's a good yeah he's a wonderful person yep well he responded really well and he had responded right away that's motivated hey what's that discussion items here um [Music] do I have a motion oh awesome one second any discussion welcome Carol yes Amy yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes thank you yes OSHA Karen thanks I know we're not approving what Debbie just said that was just yeah so we don't need to approve anything for her to go to the next step don't ever want to bring something to you as a presentation and then help you vote so I just wanted to make
024sure I understood that executed items and the recommendation to improve the overnight field trip requests from Robert Abraham to the former military academy on September 23rd and 24th 2022. and I do believe this is for a cross country oh yeah on a regular basis and with that do I have a motion to accept the uh approved the overnight field trip uh to the Cobra Military Academy with the cross country it's always been a fun sharing with these guys to go so thank you they do well that's good yeah I I would like to look at those proposal for the educational purposes I'd love to check I think it's great it's on a Friday and Saturday so are you saying yeah no I'm just saying for the future okay I just I again I think we're
025all familiar with it but you mean you would like if it's athletic then it needs to represent and supporting the business on an academic trip it's just that terrible yes yes thank you and the recommendationship with a 1 000 donation from an anonymous donor to the Brown County High School band there are emotions who set the uh one thousand donation dollar donation from an amount of standard to the high school band any discussion thank you thank you thank you very much and with that broke off Carol yes Amy yes and the recommendation to approve the rainy day fund resolution do I have a motion to improve the rainy day fund resolution a discussion yeah the rainy day fund resolution is something that is um required that the school district have on how we are permitted
026to spend those funds um this has been brought up because as we enter or prepare to enter for collective bargaining season um we are the Brown County Education Association can ask for your ready day resolution um and to see what funds may be available for bargaining um I have scoured the basement of the central office um I have contacted the last three superintendents and we've been unable to locate any rainy day fund resolution therefore you have that resolution in front of you to approve this evening any further discussion or questions I I just know in my memory we did something uh some time ago but I I can't remember what year was probably the teens 2000 choices to 2010 or afterwards so but that roll call Carol yes Amy yes Vicky and Stephanie yes yes
027thank you I also have a recommendation to approve the resolution defining District boundaries District boundaries for School Board elections do I have a motion to uh a good resolution for defining District Governors for the School Board elections any discussion this resolution has come about because there have been a lot of questions coming from the election board from the clerk's office from community members wanting definitive clarification on where the school board yes so um we did not there there is a lot of unofficial um information in files from previous School Board elections um that say that we followed the boundaries for district one two and three but nothing was was ever approved or in any policy or in any um School Organization plan um and we can say that we follow County Commissioner Lyons even if
028they change their lines but Brown County schools had nothing on record saying that so this resolution defines that today and anything moving forward Brown County schools has defined their boundary lines to be the same as counting commissioner rights here and moving forward and one clarification on that voting district is not the same as where the kids are physically located which school particular school they get into because uh favorite because sometimes like up north are you saying that other kids that are in District One there aren't some kids in District Two that go to smyrnica or vice versa do you understand what I'm saying the dividing line between where kiddos live and where they actually go to versus it's not devoted yeah it's different yeah okay and at the end of the day it's school choice
029so there is there are no really hard lines of you live on this side then you have to go to start a car you can't go to helmsburg now some questions can come into play with Transportation but when they're that close we will find a yes forever and family and you can figure it out um so they can attend school that they would like to the the issue arose when someone I I got a copy of it from the clerk's office I don't know where it came from before then but it had the districts where the kids the elementary kids went to school and they took that as the board districts and it's not the same because we changed that depending on enrollment and so that changes but sticking with the districts with the Commissioners
030it outlines that up so yeah man I thought that one well now the district tests has a resolution it defines that so any other questions or discussion I guess the other clarification I had someone to make but is that you have to live in a district and and run in a district however everyone in the County votes for all of the districts so it's only about residency in it's not about vote and which which is more complicated for the clerk's office to be in precincts but in this case since everybody in the County votes for all districts it's really just about the residency of the person and that's just that's exactly the same as Commissioners right exactly so so everybody in the County votes regardless of what district you live in so I think that's
031a confusing thing for everybody to learn and to understand and we certainly try to educate folks on that but so I'm really glad to clarify it yeah and I'm glad that we had a situation this year where the commissioner districts because of other reasons changed but so long as we just are following whatever the commissioner districts are then we don't have to go back and we don't want to be in the position of doing that correct anything else Carol yes maybe yes Vicki yes Steve yes okay here I'm going to here is five zero next I have the recommendation to amend the start date of preschool paraprofessional Anna Dent from September 14th 2022 to September 7 2022. to have a motion to amend the start date of the preschool Fair professional power professionals and again
032uh from this week to last week it looks like a second yeah you two played it out any discussion well I'm glad she started earlier obviously food engineer and with that girl yes yes Steph Stephanie yes yes question carries five zero I had the recommendation to approve the 2022-2023 administrator handbook you have a motion to approve the 2223 administrator handbook any discussion this is just the opportunity for us the the main thing that we changed in here was it's a local decision on what the district defines a certified administrator versus a non-certified administrator so um we believe it is best to include everybody as an administrator and instead when we have separate categories for vacation time or certain benefits that we reference them as you know who works 260 days a year versus 20 30
033days a year or a building level administrator whatever it may be and then it was an opportunity to just clean up this document and include in our practice to have administrator sign off on it each year any other questions yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes Steve yes 5-0 as a recommendation to approve the Brown County Schools evaluation and compensation plan for the school year 2022-2023 so I have a motion to accept the Brown County Schools evaluation Compensation Plan as presented for 22-23. I still moved second any discussion this appears that it personally bricks and those types of things yeah because we don't we still do not have the information back from niet on the no-cost extension for this year it was um unfair to expect teachers to continue into September not knowing what the evaluation process
034would look like for them so it is my recommendation to continue as they have in years past and not make changes to the plan the district can cover whatever nit will not extend to us from this year and then knowing that the teacher evaluation compensation committee will begin meeting to really determine what next year and future years will look like because it will most definitely look different about changing the Midstream right now so that's a different yeah any other questions I guess one other just piece I want to point out is that this is what we submit to the state and this is the effect of having effective ly I don't know how that process works so that but that's what the state money and then our niet Z so the teacher evaluation Compensation Plan
035is a required plan that we have to submit to the Department of Education there are certain parameters that every school district has to follow in their evaluation plan um so they review it they sign off on it and says yeah yes you meet all of these requirements um the tag or the teacher appreciation Grant which is the next thing on the agenda this is the where the Indiana Department of Education provides a state grant for teachers that earn highly effective or effective that is separate from niet compensation thank you your devices yes maybe yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes yes by zero and then I have the recommendation to prove the teacher appreciation grant for the school year 2022-2020 appreciation Grant scored 22 23. I still move D and it's just further discussion so you did
036change the ratings on this um piece of it so um last year we followed a recommendation because niet's top rubric is a five-point scale while in the department of Indiana Department of Education on their rides or modified rubric it's really a four-point scale so we're trying to break percentages and ranges up between a five and a four and last year um we had a lot of teachers because of a small percentage amount change from highly effective down to an effective so the one change we did make this year was to take those numbers to match more on what the state level did on the four-point scale versus the five um and those teachers should see those ratings go back to their highly effective anything else welcome Carol yes maybe yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes and
037Steve yes thank you I have something I'm sorry what you're ready for consent agenda yeah okay I was reading okay consent agenda items I have the separation starting with helmsbury Elementary School preschool teacher 84-year effective September 5th 2022 through the appointment of Brown County Schools bus driver Sarah McCarty 96 per day 180 days per school year full-time with Benefits this is a replacement for casting shipping with um the appointment uh the bus drivers Sarah McCarty at 96 today for 180 uh days for the school year good benefits so moved second I'll second any discussion I'm just I'm sad about a couple of these people good folks also we need to do that so it's really sad I work with understandable goes on Carol yes yes report yeah tonight I will keep it short I want
038to thank um everybody who came out last Saturday and helped make our Eagle classic um our largest event that we do here at Brown County Schools it was an incredible success we had over 1900 athletes come to to run our cross-country course um 68 teams um we were there at 6 00 a.m and um it's just really an absolutely incredible event that this little school district puts on it is heartwarming to see the amount of staff and parents and community members that come out and volunteer for that um truly is an example of a small school relationships that the lifelong impact so thank everybody for the success big Sports caramel yes here um they're across country it's incredible so yeah it's a big deal um this week has been homecoming week um tomorrow night is
039our homecoming football game we play West um Vigo County uh tomorrow there will be a pep session in the high school and then after school I believe starting at four we have the block party that will be out in the parking lot um so excited for that event this year to be even there last year I believe that each of our schools including the Elementary's all have some have some cited for that and for our kids to be able to have fun tomorrow night at the game and then lastly I am just so incredibly impressed our middle school students had to spend a week at Happy Hollow and although they you know they're they're arriving at school and going home before the end of the school day they're not spending the night or anything um
040but but I do think that um truly believe that the administrators worked really hard to find the yes so our kids could go out there and um do some team building and um kinds of things from archery to to the zap line to the rock wall to um the Nature Center um it was just really neat to see those kids today I only got to go this afternoon um but I saw so much in such a short amount of time with kiddos that have had a pretty tough last three years with the pandemic and um what school really looks like and it was just really neat to see something not traditional Edition um well I think it was Monday Tuesday so sixth graders and seventh graders got two days eighth graders go tomorrow so eighth
041graders only got only gonna get one day um I asked the question today to disrespect um like how many kiddos opted out what families talked about and things I know that it really well yeah yeah do it again next year it really was an experience again I think Debbie I think um Gavin Steele um he had the vision for this early on um and I'm sure it will evolve into something and figure it better um as years go by but it really wasn't a really great thing for our kids yeah I've got a weird question but especially with special kids out there or yeah yes even if discipline learn issue involved everyone that wanted to go with so yeah just thankful for the team um for doing that for kids so that's all I have
042today yeah I need a motion to accept the claims as presented I so hope any discussion to adjourn one second okay uh any discussion follow us in favor say aye aye motion carries thank you everybody used to take