School Board Meeting - 11/22/21

001on the microphone and to get us started we'll do roll call madam secretary madam president all board members are present thank you very much next please stand and join us in the pledge of allegiance led by mrs states of browning and through the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you the first item we have on our agenda is our young artist awards and for that we turn to dr dudley thank you so this evening it is my pleasure to share with you the recipients of our young artists awards for this next six months and we have the pleasure to really enjoy the young art works of art that our students have done at all 15 of our schools and now we have a small

002powerpoint that we will share the names of our young artists as well as our teachers our art educators that work very hard to help our students to hone their skills and their talents [Music] [Applause] congratulations to our fabulous young artists thank you dr dudley i know in the past our students have had an opportunity to come in and stand by their picture on the wall what type of opportunities have we extended to our students this time sure if their parents would like to bring them in they can come in and stand next to their picture to get a photo opportunity they can certainly and if they'd like to call to make sure there's not a meeting going on here they certainly can do that great thank you very much and congratulations to our students i

003know we certainly do love having the artwork on the walls and it it certainly brightens the room and it's it's just shocking at how talented our our students are i mean even i know there's pictures of our kindergartners who have drawn up there and have painted you know all the way to the high school so thank you for bringing that next on our agenda we have mr inscape who's going to be discussing the high school boys 2021 tennis state champions thank you mrs spanenberg and dr fairsford and thank you so much for taking the time to honor a great group of greyhounds this fall the boys tennis team won their state record fifth consecutive state championship this fall it was a very special occasion as it was the first time ever that carmel high schools

004had the honor of hosting the indiana high school athletic association state finals at our own facility so that was uh definitely a special moment on a special day to set a state record um on our home courts it was also the eighth title in the last 11 seasons for this group and also the 14th overall and i might add that this uh this group of student athletes has the highest grade point average of all of our athletic programs at carmel high school as well so we're very proud of them in all sorts of different ways but certainly getting it done in the classroom and representing us very well in all areas on the tennis courts as well and um emily bauer has done a great thing for us to put together a video um commemorating

005the seasons so without further ado i will play the video and um the team has meant so much to me i've made some really close friends um i've had a great time being a part of such a great group of guys and i'm going to miss it for sure the impact that the chrome test team has had on me is i've made some of my best friends and hope to keep them for the rest of my life a bunch of hard working guys to really put the work in during the off season to win another state championship cheer was obviously winning state at our home courts it was really special it means a lot to win another state title six in a row is a huge accomplishment a state record so i'm super proud of

006all the guys it really it took a lot of sacrifice and effort and hard work and we all know dr ostrich's math is much better than mine it was six in a row and not five in a row that's athletic director human resources superintendent that's why and uh thanks to the board for uh to honoring these great greyhounds and we appreciate all that you do to support our students and their extracurricular endeavors thank you thank you mr antscave i do have a couple questions for you um i have how many of our seniors or how many are seniors or will be returning next year and are any of our seniors going to continue playing tennis yeah that's still be to be determined um because it's still in the fall a lot of those um opportunities

007to play at the collegiate level are still kind of working its way out um but we will have a handful of those varsity starters back for next year which is great it's uh it's been a terrific mix i would point out that rocky lee who played uh three singles for us was a freshman this year and uh just had a phenomenal season so uh we know we've got some great kids moving up and uh those those practices are so competitive for these kids all the time it's uh it's amazing what they do in practice sometimes a lot harder than the matches they have against other opponents well thank you and please pass along our congratulations for not only their their athletic achievements but their academic excellence as well so congratulations to you and your teams

008thank you thank you miss pandemic i might add that uh first off i'm an english journalism major so uh um carmel tennis is now inventing words like five pete to tie the state record and then six pete to uh to now be the all-time record holder for consecutive state championships but so i got a chance to watch him not in the state finals this year but and i think it was a sectional reading one of those and what an amazing group of kids and their enthusiasm and teamwork is is something special too they really pull for one another out there everybody on the team uh was was with every player all the time the other thing i want to point out was that uh slideshow was actually created by a student i can't remember which

009one was it hallie good yup and uh a lot of some of the students at the carmel high school that are in like the ctv uh group there are now doing some uh learning some marketing skills and putting together some presentations for us as well so that was a student-created program so just a lot of good things going on all around with that so thank you mr stranski for your report thank you and so when the students are helping to do that emily are they coordinating all of that through you then well please pass along our congratulations to all their fine work as well thank you and next on the agenda we've got the carmel education foundation fall grant winners and for that we'll turn to dr dudley thank you so this evening i'd also

010like to present our educators that are the caramel education foundation fall grant winners and the carmel education foundation's mission is to support the carmel clay students in academic achievement and lifelong learning this falls grants the great idea carmel education foundation grants were focused on innovative instruction wellness stem and learning recovery this fall they awarded 23 grants they awarded 13 individual grants to educators one collaborative grant and nine teen grants and here are our winners of the fall caramel education grant foundation so and i'd also like to point out last wednesday our grant recipients and their guests were honored at a reception here at esc and i know some of you had the opportunity to attend that to honor our fabulous educators and their winning of these grants so congratulations [Applause] thank you dr dudley and

011when we go back to having everybody join us um i would like to say i really enjoyed the video and i would like to see us continue with that i i like that that will live on in perpetuity online and so people can see what we've been able to do with the resources that the education foundation is so generously provided to our teachers if i if i may this was a wonderful event i attended and one of the women one of the teachers this was her sixth grant and it was really impressive to see how many people had come back for repeat grants it was really really wonderful would anybody else have any comments i'd like to share mike i mean as always i would just like to thank the carmel education foundation for being

012a true partner in our community for not only raising funds and then distributing them to teachers so that they could do these amazing projects so thank you to them and they're bored into the community because it is a great asset um to carmel clay schools great comments thanks mike luis i'll piggyback on what jennifer and michael said i have a deep appreciation for our educators who innovate and try new things um so thank you so much for that and uh those that really lean into our children who might be having challenges in an innovative way especially so thank you katie your turn i know i just have to say ditto ditto you all said good things we love our teachers we love it when people give our teachers money so keep going so and we

013yeah i guess a big thank you to the community because the the ghost and goblin run is one of the major um fundraising efforts that the education foundation does have each and every year and that does turn right back around goes right back into our school system to help support our teachers and our students so thank you to our community dr b your turn well thank you i'm always a man of more words but the i will tell you that i love the whole foundation concept of offering these great idea grants because um number one i'm just thankful for them for doing that because it does it spurs creativity it spurs innovation and uh it gets teachers you know that ability to risk something and try something different and and i like it also that

014there's individual grants but also there's collaborative and team grants where they get together and collaborate and and generate these ideas and then they're funded to give it a shot and i want you to know that that reach isn't just for those teachers that do it but then the other teachers see what they do and then it starts growing and it gets shared and collaborated and before long that one little grant can impact a lot of kids and it's just amazing so thank you also to our teachers who took the time in a pretty tough year you know to get together and to take and do that grant process so they could you know do that so uh and boy when you look through that list of all those things going through there you're going like

015oh my gosh you know if i wish that would happen when i was a kid in school so uh really amazing and i just really appreciate everybody on that on that from the all the board members of the foundation and leadership there with jen pennix and all the way to the stu the teachers who got together to make those grants happen so thank you thank you dr b next on our agenda we have consent and on consent this evening we have personnel claims payroll we have a series of minutes from various special session and workshop sessions and we also have the approval of gift applications and we have several different gifts for cherry tree elementary salesforce had a matching donation on behalf of cherry tree elementary's patient david dorkin the blackbaud giving foundation they awarded

016150 grant to cherry tree on behalf of the arthur j gallagher foundation and they also received a 52 donation from cyber grants on behalf of charities aid fund foundation of america and the education foundation because you know through the grant and goblins run they donated 250 dollars to various wellness initiatives at carmel middle school clay middle school clay center college wood prairie trace town meadow smokey row and woodbrook and with all of those items on our consent agenda may i get a motion to approve consent second second discussion all those in favor of supporting consent please signify by saying aye aye motion carries 5-0 thank you next on the agenda we have action items our first action item for this evening is our 2022 school board meeting dates and i am presenting we've had a

017couple different months to take a look at our meeting date so before you i have a maggie on the table to approve the school board meeting dates for 2022 so moved second second thank you jennifer discussion see no discussion let's take a vote all those in favor of supporting the 2022 school board meeting dates please signify by saying aye aye motion carries 5-0 thank you next on the agenda we have the resolution and form of lease for renovations and miscellaneous facility improvements at carmel high school and to that we turn to mr mcmichael thank you this has to do with the 21 or 2021-2023 facility projects uh which we uh introduced and recommended to the board probably a year ago and and you adopted an ident virtually identical resolution to this for the performing arts

018project which as you know we have awarded bids and that project's under construction this resolution is for the natatorium which is a part of the project and so this is kind of the first step of getting financing for that project and the financing in this case will as it was for performing arts will be a um a lease lease rental bonds uh i can explain more about that but it's through a building corporation the same as it was for the performing arts projects and and just briefly in indiana a school board a school district is limited to debt of two percent of the assessed valuation so when large projects like this are done that would exceed that and so the the mechanism for providing funding for large school projects is through this concept of a

019school building corporation and and that corporation is is of course a legal entity separate legal entity and their sole purpose is to in this case to to build the facility and and then they lease it back um this is all very legalese but they essentially lease back the building um and the lease amount is exactly the bond payments and um and then provisions in the the agreement are that once the bonds are are paid off then the title to the property goes to the school corporation so that's that's all predetermined and there is that's the sole purpose of of a building corporation and so that's kind of the background of why this is is necessary so with that um i've asked bill payne uh ceo and partner at fanning the howie to do a quick

020what we refer to as a fly-through of the facility i thought you might it'd be interesting for you to uh of course you're aware of the project but this will give you more insight as to what it will look like when it's finished and this includes when we started um we we presented it as building a second natatorium and the project really has evolved and then renovating the existing netatorium and so the project has evolved into we're seeing it as one project and so as we we build a new part we're also renovating the current natatorium not at the same time because we'll certainly maintain a pool all the way through this project but we'll basically build the new the new part and then when that's completely finished then the last six months of the

021effort will be to renovate the existing editorial but i think i thought it would be nice for you to see how this will all fit together and be one very nice complex for for the community thank you thank you mr michael madam president members dr beresford it's our pleasure to be here tonight to present to you the design that is almost complete for the new natatorium complex uh i'm pleased to have two of my key team members that are really doing all the heavy lifting here and will be participating in our presentation cyril sidjic to my left is our project manager project design architect and has really led our entire team and we have a big team because a complex project like this requires a lot of specialty player specialty design professionals we've been working

022closely both with central office administration as well as administration and leadership at carmel high school i'm disappointed mr inskeep left he said something about getting a frozen turkey into the refrigerator this evening he's seen his presentation a few times before but we've been working very closely with him throughout the pro without the project uh kate talkington our project coordinator who is remote will be doing the driving and she is responsible for much of the drawing development that you're going to see here this evening and by the way what you're seeing actually is a manifest manifestation of very detailed orthogonal drawings that architects love but for the purposes of explaining the building design it's much more fun to fly around and fly through so with that i'll turn the floor over to sarah sid to talk

023about the exterior of the building the addition you know this this has gone from a natatorium addition to an athletic complex and when we started the process we started meeting with staff and collaborating with staff not only on the floor plans and the spaces and size of spaces but as well we talked a lot about the exterior and we wanted to be the first thing that we were told is we need to be thoughtful about the rest of the building so that we pull in details things of that nature that are elsewhere so that it's a unified design so as you can see at the main entrance we've pulled the similar details as the administrative area and the canopies in that soft r canopy which is just so cool to see at the end of

024the axes of the main entrance drive and that will literally be a new door 21 so the usage and circulation is going to be very similar for students as they've they've worked through learning the building from freshmen on to seniors now but i think as bill gets into the floor plan you'll see how the circulation has changed and it's a little more directional so it'll help with some of the flow early in mornings at high entrance times so to the west which is all glass brick and glass we're required codewise to have three well four stairs actually so we've got our three main stairs that get you from the spectator area down to the first floor so that you can exit the building but it was really important to make that a light and lacy

025space and i mean to the point where we've looked at details we've we've pulled the mullion grid off of other areas of the building and incorporated that um the two entrances doors there are actually not entrances they're emergency egress doors so you won't have students going in there but it's very light and lacy it's going to be a really energized space at that spectator concourse and you'll be able to see it from the exterior with and the other thing that we incorporated at the main entrance was a large plaza area and that that can be used for pep rallies team events student get-togethers freshmen events before school starts things of that nature so we've been thoughtful about how that space works the pedestrian versus bus versus cars and how we get kids safely to and

026from the parking areas to the main entrance so okay let's go to the north of the pool this area the brick portion is actually in the spectator concourse then where you see the white that's actually metal panel and that is the mass of the competition pool the diving tank as well as the therapy pool and again we've united sort of the brick with the metal panel which you see in other areas of your building as you go along to the east side this is really the hard connection of the existing pool to the new natatorium and what we've done is really focused on a lot of the details on the east elevation of the existing pool and united those into the east elevation of the new pool we've got a gentle arcing slope it's just

027really soft and it does a lot of great things for the interior of the competition pool space it lends itself to acoustics which bill will get into and then we've got almost nearly all glazing in the competition pool area on the north end so it's a really dynamic space and as i said this was generated with not only staff and administration but our team our engineers and it's been a huge collaborative effort okay bill yeah why don't we move on in okay so kate let's go on to door 21 or as i affectionately call it area 21. it is a it is a much larger entrance than what you currently have at door 21. just to the right is the sro office for visual control and security as visitors are coming into the doors of

028course most of the students i think are coming down the trail and coming in these doors in the morning and so one of the things that was adjusted the very beginning was the orientation of this much larger stair that takes you up to the main level so students are literally coming in and moving right into the main high school there's lots of lobby space here so really this this area 21 is serving the varsity gym the existing pool as well as the new pool and it's appropriately sized to accommodate all those functions your students are throughout the building throughout the day and so these are not just for competition a lot of these spaces will be actively used for active learning collaborate collaboration or even relaxation during the school day so i think we provided

029for that let's swing around to the opposite side of the staircase and we'll show where the interface of the existing building occurs thanks so as you maneuver around the stair we have multiple options underneath the stair where we're going to display state championship trophies and other branding items right to your left and this actually is the existing exterior and then you would move in and of course that's the existing office going into the existing natatorium as well as the glass over there you can see let's go back and enter into the natatorium at the lower level then cape so this is secure it can be secured for either during the day zoned off for exclusive use or during spectator events you'll notice that we're stepping down here slightly from the existing floor level this actually

030is a more economical approach because the building sits up rather high you may be aware that the grade slopes off as it goes to the north what we're doing here is providing casual seating and clear glass now that provides views into the existing natatorium so again there's a lot of visual connection between new and existing it's an entire complex you can imagine that you might have events where both are actively being used for competition and movement this concourse takes you down then to concessions immediately to the left and then moving down let's go north cape along the conch along the concourse so the stairs that cheryl mentioned that gets you immediate egress exiting come down from the upper level to your right where you see blue these are locker rooms for athletes we also have

031what we call a hospitality room we'll enter that from the pool side let's go on up to the top here to the upper concourse via the stair we will have 1200 seats exclusive of standing room so we have a big spectator load one of our favorite architectural terms vomitories feathers are exclusive from this you bring your own let's go on through the vomitory into the seating area yeah it's a roman term roman architectural term for uh spectator events okay so here we have just entered into the natatorium into the seating area we're actually standing where disabled persons or handicapped seating is available you can see the main 50 meter competition pool so what we've done with the complex has made each one of these provide a different type of opportunity this is a two meter

032depth full so there is no shallow end in here it will be an extremely fast pool the gutter will be similar in design to iupui's natatorium it does have movable bulkheads in it it's 25 meters wide so this pool provides much more bather square footage and that's the first thing that we learned was as a carmel has active swimmers more than 700 students 700 athletes so all of these pool tanks together will help to provide those students from having to come in at five or six in the morning there'll be much more water surface area available for them on the far wall you can see both acoustical treatment a large scoreboard and also natural light coming in from translucent panels up above swinging over here to the south then we have a diving tank so

033that's exclusive from the 50 meter competition pool it's a different water temperature and obviously a different depth by providing this we will then have the opportunity to use the existing pool almost exclusively for swimming activities in pe we will not need to interrupt for diving use in that pool we also have a physical therapy pool which is immediately adjacent to the diving tank that you can see there it has a higher water temperature level it can be used for physical therapy for warm up and cool down and a number of different functions and staff is really excited about how that's going to serve both educational programs as well as athletes i'd mentioned the hospitality room this is immediately adjacent to the main start finish blocks which are seen right there in the foreground that will

034be used both for coaches but then during the day it can be classroom space instructional meeting space and it has light food service capabilities let's go back up to the seating deck okay as we swing back out here you'll notice on the north wall all of this glass it's just going to be a fantastic space to be in both for competitors and for visitors alike and spectators of course in working with mr insceep so you'll notice that we have both a combination of stadium seats as well as bench seats one of the things that we've learned in designing pools particularly when you have those long age level competitions that go throughout the weekend is people need some relief and so we have both casual seating where you can still be part of the activity and

035yet not be at a bench seat or we also have up at the very top a cross aisle that serves for countertop seating high top seating so again there's a variety of types of seats that will accommodate all types of uses for spectators we'll probably also have some press locations as well as camera positions up there as we swing back to the south end again you'll notice that we have a strong visual connection to the existing pool so here we are in the main level of the high school more casual seating and again introducing now clear glass where the green semi-translucent glasses presently so whether you have competitions going in the existing pool or the new pool you'll have immediate visual connection i sort of skipped ahead a little bit but on the lower level

036there is also access directly from one pool room to the other so swimmers can move coaches uh and so forth officials can move quickly yes there's the ramping system that takes you between each pool so we're wrapping up what we call construction documents we're fine-tuning our drawings at the end of construction documents those drawings will be suitable for contractors to bid on those will be wrapped up in the month of december so cheryl and i would be glad to answer any questions you might have oh sorry this is the second level of 21. and again ample space concessions movement from the stairs below and obviously access to the scene as well as into the varsity gym or continuing to greyhound station to the south i might add a couple things one is is that we

037are you know staying within the budget that was presented to the school board and you may recall that um we're in a very enviable position uh we we still anticipate that this will be an eight-year bond and um which is kind of unheard of that this will be entirely paid for in eight years uh you'll see in the resolution two things that i'll point out because you might otherwise have questions one is is that it it gives latitude for 15 years and that's all because you can you can reduce it but you can't increase it and so much like our budget process you've heard me say many times that you know we'll advertise high intentionally so just to be to have the flexibility um but we can again we still anticipate that that it will

038be an eight-year payoff um and likewise the amount that's in this resolution is is about about 11 percent more than than our current estimates again particularly in these times as you probably are aware um it's very uncertain times with with materials and contractors and all of that but if there were any you certainly would you know will prove everything along the way so if if something unforeseen happened and and the pricing was just way higher than what we thought we'd of course reconsider what we're doing and the timing and so forth but we're not anticipating that at this point in time and this project is scheduled for bid award in early february with construction starting in may being finished in july of 24. um and then the existing natatorium would be renovated in between july

039and december of 24 so it will be the end of 2024 before this is entirely finished thank you roger um thank you bill sarah and kate um i think what we're going to do first is get a motion on the table and then we'll open up for questions because i know everybody has a few so may i get a motion on the table to approve the resolution and form a lisa for renovations and miscellaneous facility improvements at karma high school second second thank you questions i have a couple questions one is will this renovation impede classroom availability i'm hesitating but i don't believe so um because the majority of this is is not there now so um which in some ways is easier performing arts for example where we're we are occupying but having to

040you know renovate while we're occupied this in some ways from our construction project standpoint all the new part we're not disrupting anything that's existing and we won't disrupt what's existing until the new parts finished we'll kind of trade so no i would i don't see how it will impede anything that's existing second question is for you um do you have a process in place to solicit bids from diverse suppliers the architects aren't don't that's not the process that that that is uh handled by our construction management firm okay so yes and they do have a process in place where they work with major contractors and and and provide information and and some you know some resources to support that effort sometimes that depending on the work and so forth that may be in the form

041of subcontractors or not it just depends um but they but we do make an effort to be as inclusive as we can with minority contractors okay other questions and if not i have a couple um first i wanted it looked as though the road that goes around the school comes back um so that will be opened up once this is complete we will have yeah in some form the the last meeting that we had we it was noted that um as you're familiar with the current arrangement the circle if you will has to be large enough to accommodate buses and it also has to be large enough to accommodate two lanes because otherwise we would have swim parents if it was a single line it would be backed up to the stadium they need to

042be able to have the second in fact we modified what's there from what was originally built for that reason and so we had quite a discussion about that and even considering is is is this the best place for it basically where it's at now except farther out and uh i don't know that we've we have an answer um but we we definitely are looking at that so there but there will for sure be some type of a bus pickup arrangement and turn around to be able to get back out and then how about the road that is currently closed that goes around the back of the school or the east side the east side yes that'll eventually be open again okay um now the the the flow of the traffic may be different right probably

043will be actually but um but eventually that road will be there'll still be a road there in other words okay prior to covid we have and i haven't really been into door 21 to look to see if we're even utilizing the the drop-off area i know there was a place that parents could drop things off for students we had some bookstore type of sale so people weren't circulating through the school but it was really confined to one area um well we still have that i didn't see that type of uh yes that touched on it but it the answer is yes and it'll be on the uh as you walk up to what's now door 20 want to be on the right flip-flop it's just flip-flopping instead of being on the left it's all shifted

044to the right okay okay those were my big questions for now are there other questions katie and then mike mine's more curious and i know this is a rendering but is there going to be a high dive because the ones in the picture were like little ones there's very limited competition for a three meter stand so we have three one meter stands also they're sitting up on a plinth and that can be used for learning to dive off of just a fixed platform however it's designed so that if in the future you chose to add a three meter stand in the middle you can do that so we build in that flexibility in the future if that should happen okay thank you i i would just like to thank you know roger and the whole

045team for this presentation i mean it i think goes without saying that we are very proud of our facilities here um and the fact that we have this new state of the art which i'm sure is going to be a beautiful facility um you know is appreciated i'm sure by the whole community and even people like myself who've limited access to swim meets but um just to know that we have the facilities and to support our great program that we have um you know we we talked about five p six petes we've got some other pizzas that make that look small in comparison so but thank you to the team and for all the detail that has gone into this we truly appreciate it go ahead katie oh i just wanted to say that i

046love the rendering like i know this is very fancy but as a board this is very helpful for us to see what we're signing off on sometimes so keep that in mind i just wanted to i was looking at that therapy pool and am i correct that there's a wheelchair ramp that goes down into that pool and that can be really a good thing for some of our kids with special with disabilities that we'll have now an opportunity to go into the pool and that warm water and therapy part of that is really really good the other thing i noticed was um did i see olympic uh circles on the wall there on the way in and uh you know with our two olympians uh this past uh those past games uh i thought that

047was pretty cool and nicely done i know that's a rendering thing but very nice to see those circles up there and of course we're proud of those two swimmers but uh really very inspiring and uh and i like the uh the idea that we can use that space for educational and meeting room which is always a need at carmel high school so there'll be some really nice spaces that can be used by all the students in and out of the swimming program so well done i have an additional question it's more construction related i'm noticing the large amount of surface area for the roof and on the other project that we had we had a like a water gardener we somehow collected or we collect the all over the fitness yes the the fitness center

048i don't know maybe eight nine ten years ago when we built that do we have enough i was just i didn't notice that many gutters going down the side on the east side and um there's just a lot of surface area so what are we is there anything we're doing with that water well so actually uh we're not we're not increasing the surface area because that's currently all pavement so we're simply replacing pavement with roof area so it's like almost 100 100 of an increase in the overall hard surface area so we're basically distributing the water storm water in a similar fashion of what we're doing now oh okay well thank you well i i just fought up on the question i mean i don't think her question was water runoff but more environmental right

049use of it as opposed to it now it's running off the parking lot and going into the storm sewer system is there some way that and maybe we're still early in the project that we can capture some of the water and do something let us let us report back on that we're not presently cr collecting gray water right but uh let us investigate and report back i'm not exactly sure i just know we have that water collection sort of garden area at the other fitness center so if there was a way to i guess repurpose and capture some of that water yes louise thanks um so what's the plan for accommodating parking um during the renovation and after so will it be the same capacity and the closeness you know i'm sensitive to the fact

050that students have to walk a really long way right to park and so some people uh occasionally get a little bit of a closer space but also um our educators having access to parking like how is this renovation going to impede or impact that so we've been working very closely with mr toby steele on that and on the numbers in fact in fact the numbers have been believe it or not have been dropping so number of student parking permits are down pretty substantially from what they have been in the past and of course with enrollment sort of leveling off they don't anticipate a significant increase there yeah we're going to lose a few spaces on the main campus site but again the predominant use there is for staff there are some limited senior parking spaces

051on campus and they may have to be diminished to accommodate or offset the loss there but we've already we've built a new parking lot across from the soccer field in anticipation of this project it roughly replaces most the parking most are all the parking that will be lost to this building and then we also also recognize some loss in the front of the building because of the performing arts project going during the renovation though that new parking will it still all be available or will the trailer be there and all of that yeah well the new parking will be available yes the one we just built right that will not be impeded by the renovation yeah okay any other questions okay i would just like to reiterate though that uh for the 700 swimmers out

052there there will be a pool available for you to train in for the next four years and and then when we get through that time then it's going to be something pretty special but one thing we want to make sure that we communicate out is that the pool will be there and the laps will be done right thank you and then all of this is being recorded so our community can come back and watch this video and see the run the rendition as we move along okay so all right any other questions no okay see no other questions your hand is up is it a question i was going to change orders okay well we still have to vote on this one okay thank you um seeing that there are no other questions at the

053time we'll take a vote all those in favor of the resolution of a resolution and form of lease for renovations and miscellaneous facility improvements at carmel high school please signify by saying i i motion carries 5-0 thank you very much thanks kate see you katie you had your hand up yeah i'd like to make a motion to take all the change orders together 4.3 to 4.7 do we have a second on that thank you mike all those in favor of taking our change orders together signify by saying aye hi motion carries 5-0 so we will do just that so next on the agenda we have change orders 4.3 to 4.7 those change orders include creekside middle school finishes and renovations the carmel high school performing arts building addition and renovations clay center elementary school the

0542021 renovations and that would be the parking lot edition at the high school that we just spoke of and then the hvac replacement at carmel high school and for each of those we turn to mr mcmichael mr mcmichael um i won't go into the specifics of these as you have the detail to report i would note however the so a couple of them the first one on creekside is is essentially closing out that project um the performing arts center is is a significant amount of a change order it's about 250 thousand dollars but i would point out that that's for the the sprinkler system and so it was a part of the original bid request but um we did not get any response and so so the cost it wasn't is anticipated uh it just

055didn't go through the normal um initial bidding process but we did get pricing in quotes so it's very similar to actually bidding it um but it's not it's not an additional 250 thousand dollars that we didn't anticipate what i'd want to emphasize and then uh the other ones are much smaller than that as you can see from the report and beyond that i i would respond to questions if you haven't okay well thank you mr mcmichael okay first let me get emotion on the table to approve change orders 4.3 to 4.7 so moved thank you katie second second thank you louise discussion well mr mcmichael it doesn't look like we have any questions at this time thank you very much for providing such detailed analysis in our agenda seeing that there are no questions we

056will go ahead and take a vote all those in favor of supporting change orders 4.3 through 4.7 please signify by saying i i motion carries 5-0 thank you everyone next on the agenda we have the adoption of policy 50 to 40 controversial issues for that we turn to dr dudley and the the team of mike and katie thank you so last month i brought to you for discussion policy 5240 controversial issues and our policy committee reviewed this policy and are recommending some changes in the wording to the policy thank you making a motion on the table to approve the adoption of changes to policy 50 to 40 controversial issues thank you katie second second thank you mike discussion seeing none we'll move ahead with a vote all those in favor of supporting the adoption of

057policy 50 to 40 controversial issues please signify by saying aye aye motion carries 5-0 next on the agenda 4.9 adoption of policy 55-21 selection of instructional materials and equipment to that we turn to dr dudley thank you so this policy we are recommending that we take information from one of our other policies that i have on the agenda further down that we add the challenged instructional materials to policy 5521 where we're talking about the selection of those instructional materials and so we're taking the wording from policy 9130 and putting the part the instructional materials part in this policy so those are the changes we're recommending thank you dr dudley may i get a motion on the table to approve changes and adoption of new language to policy 5521 second thank you louise discussion katie i

058just want to make note we're not actually changing the policy at all we're just moving it from one to another so the policy in of itself is not changing it's just where it is where the language is it's moving under what appropriate topic correct okay but we're not actually changing what the policy says makes sense thank you any other questions or comments seeing none we'll move ahead with a vote all those in favor of supporting the adoption of policy 5521 selection of instructional materials and equipment please signify by saying aye aye motion carries 5-0 next on the agenda 410 adoption of policy 9130 public complaints and concerns yes and this policy um has the challenged instructional materials that we just moved to policy 5521 and so the parts on the instructional materials in this policy

059we're recommending that they're deleted from 9130 as we move them to 55-21 thank you dr dudley making a motion on the table to approve policy 9130 second thank you jennifer discussion seeing none we'll move ahead with the vote all those in favor of supporting the changes to adoption or changes to policy 9130 public complaints and concerns please signify by saying aye aye motion carries 5-0 thank you next on the agenda adoption of policy 7540 computer technology and networks yes this policy we requested that our attorneys review this policy um based on the ever-changing world of technology and also a change in this policy is the use of filtering currently we filter all of our students on devices on campus and off campus but new legislation requires us to also filter that for corporation-owned devices for

060staff as well so that's included in this policy as well thank you dr dudley make it a motion to approve changes to policy 7540 second second thank you louise discussion mike um i just want to confirm that this has been discussed with staff before this policy has been and then it will be communicated again once the policy passes yes correct thank you and i just want to confirm that the filtering is only for our developer our school owned devices that is correct okay but it is a blanket for everybody students and staff currently we filter all devices on campus the only change is if it's a corporation-owned device off of campus for staff that's where it would be filtered okay thank you very much any other questions okay see no additional questions maybe let's take

061a vote all those in favor of the adoption of policy 7540 computer technology networks please signify by say 9. motion carries 5-0 thank you next on the agenda um adoption of policy 7542 which is actually a deletion of policy 7542 correct dr dudley the recommendation is to delete policy 7542 because the information that is contained in this policy is now in policy 7540 thank you dr dudley may i get a motion on the table to adopt the deletion of policy 7542 second second thank you mike discussion see none we'll take a vote all those in favor of deleting policy 7542 please signify by saying aye aye motion carries 5-0 thank you and we have one other the adoption of bylaw zero one six seven point one voting dr dudley yes thank you and this bylaw

062um the changes to this bylaw are precipitated from new legislation that allows individual board members to participate and vote in meetings through electronic means so the changes in this bylaw reflect that legislation and when i brought it to you for discussion i did check the indiana codes and the correct codes are on here the first one is repealed and the new code has been added to that thank you dr dudley making a motion on the table to approve changes to bylaw 0167.1 voting second thank you louise discussion katie um i just wanted to read out loud for um the final paragraph of this policy i think is good a member of the school board may not participate by electronic communication if the school board is attempting to take final action or do one of the

063following so these are things that we're not allowed to do electronically and i just thought that would be good for the audience adopt a budget make a reduction in personnel initiate a referendum establish or increase a fee establish or increase a penalty use the school board's imminent domain authority or establish raise or renew a tax so those are ways that we cannot do it virtually to do a vote for those specific reasons so i just wanted to like i thought that would be good to kind of share thank you katie other discussion mike you're looking yup i and i know that dr dudley has already said that this was initiated because of a change in the statute basically we are mirroring what indiana code permits us to do so that we have that flexibility if

064the board so determines that we want to take advantage of these not being physically present but being able to participate in the meetings thank you i will add though that a majority of the board needs to be present for to have a meeting okay thank you any discussion or other comments see none let's take a vote all those in favor of language changes in the adoption of bylaw zero 167.1 please signify by saying i motion carries 5-0 thank you everybody we had several votes this evening next on the agenda we have a discussion item and to that we turn to mr mcmichael the carmel dads club management agreement thank you carmel schools and the dad's club has had a very positive relationship for over 55 years this is essentially an updating of the agreement first

065as a result of um the new play center elementary and and the new construction at carmel elementary we needed to change some reference to orchard park for example uh and and being able to reference the new clay center elementary school secondly the amount that the dads club pays the school district for use of school facilities has been reduced slightly to recognize the fact that carmel high school in particular but carmel schools will be having access to the new dance club facility so they're very very proud that they're of their new facility that will be available soon and and i know jim minsky is very uh excited about the ability to be able to use that facility and then thirdly there's been [Music] some adjustment in terms of the way they the dance club provides about

06635 000 a year to the school district and so um and so we're proposing to distribute that money more to the schools and less just to the school district in part primarily to number one the schools of course interact with the dad's club and and the students that participate in their programming and as you might imagine that can be challenging from time to time and so so they very much appreciate um some recognition financially with that and and but what's really driving the change then in terms of the distribution is the schools are receiving less than half from a revenue that they used to receive from the exclusive beverage provider in this case it's from pepsi previously it was coca-cola and so there's a there is an attempt here to offset that a little bit

067that money is very important to the schools it provides them with some some discretionary funds uh to use and so uh it's frankly not particularly meaningful to the in the context of the entire school district but it's very meaningful for the school so um that said and there will be a few uh editing changes um mr kirschner for example noted that there's like this is has been around for years so so it refers to the use by carmel the city of carmel and clay township well as you know the entire township is is a part of the school district now so it's just taking out the word carmel and then a couple of other things um when this agreement was written by church church in hitler we weren't focused on on safety and security like

068we are now and and so there will be some additional language that that will note that basically the dads club will be required they already do this but it'll state it in this agreement that they'll be required to uh have their employees have background checks and background checks as approved by the school district so they and they do that now but it'll just be put in as a part of the agreement and so i think there's that maybe a couple other minor edits that you'll see before we actually ask you to approve this thank you very much i guess we'll open it up for discussion and first i'd like to say thank you to mike for looking at this so closely and identifying some different areas for us that um we might need a little

069more clarification um mike do you want to start off with comments i mean i just you know thank you roger and church churchill and then of course thank you to carmel dad's club i mean the the relationship and the ability that um they provide us is you know again goes to the strength of our community um not only do we support schools but athletics you know that i guess the only question i have at this point is well is there a change from the use of the softball facilities at prairie trace no it's not it wasn't contemplated in anything here okay because i mean it's just marked out on the exhibit a that oh i think that's because um as i'm remembering now uh when this was drafted we had anticipated building this new what

070was then the new softball complex at prairie trace and and moving it basically from cherry trees and at the end obviously that didn't happen and so that's the reason thank you any other questions or comments louise will this agreement be amended at all with the new facilities i know they with the new facility at the high school being updated upgraded all of that um i know that carmel dad's club leverages the high school for a lot of the swimming activities so i didn't know if that would be no that's that's for the swim club not the dad's club so i'm trying to think that the work that we're doing at the high school doesn't really have an impact uh to the dad's club other than you know they'll they'll enjoy the any renovated facilities like

071like up at the stadium eventually the swim club is separate but the swim club is a different entity yes gotcha thank you sorry about that any other questions or comments at this time thank you roger should we have any additional questions or comments we will certainly reach out to you good and then moving along we have the first reading of policy 9161 audio video and digital recordings on school district property dr dudley yes thank you so we recently updated our student records policy and at that time our attorneys recommended that we also develop a policy on audio video and digital recordings to protect our student information so this policy outlines for our our stakeholders our parents our staff as well as our students when video audio and digital recordings are allowed and when they are

072not allowed on school property and obviously in this policy as it states in here we obvious you know parents want to go to the football game and videotape their child playing or they want they want to go to a performance and as long as it's not a copyrighted one they want to videotape their child playing in the orchestra and obviously that's still allowed but we do talk about videotaping within the classroom within our school buildings for purposes that are not educational purposes outlined in this policy so this policy was reviewed by our attorneys and our policy committee developed this policy in order to make sure that our student information is protected thank you dr dudley open up the florida questions anybody from katie i'm just peggy backing on what she said um it was very

073intentional that we talk about you know that parents coming you know recording like you know first day of school meet the teacher night you want to take a photo of your kid and the teacher or famous hoosiers projects like definitely absolutely we want parents to take photos and celebrate all those things this is really kind of the areas outside of that thank you katie any other questions comments great should we have additional ones we will send those along the way and then we will anticipate on having a final vote on this at the december 13th meeting thank you thank you dr dudley and dr dudley we have more for you jumping onto reports 6.1 our student data report which is our graduation pathways you are in leading that yes thank you so this evening we

074have a report for you on graduation pathways and we actually have miss valerie peel one of our assistant principals at carmel high school that's going to share information and several years ago we shared information on the graduation pathways this will become a requirement for our class of 2023 so this year's juniors will be required to use the graduation pathways in order to graduate and miss peel is going to share all of that information with you and we'll be able to answer questions that you might have so i'll turn it over to mrs peel well madam president school board dr b thank you very much for having us for having me here and giving an opportunity to talk a little bit about this um i think it's important just because as we are moving into believe

075it or not we are starting to schedule our students for next school year already at this time and so we've been having a lot of conversations with our students um our current ninth and tenth grade students and then we will be scheduling our current eighth grade students uh in january and so this has been a big topic of conversation already within our school and so to kind of update you so that if you are having any questions or hearing things from parents or in the community just making sure we have all of that information as dr dudley mentioned the indiana graduation pathways are the new graduation requirements that begin with the class of 2023 so our current seniors are the last group that will graduate using a graduation qualifying exam which is the istep exam

076that is a pass fail and students were required to pass that test in order to meet the graduation requirement beginning with the class of that requirement does not exist and so one of the things that we really are happy about philosophically with the graduation pathways is instead of this one-size-fits-all exam that every student had to pass in order to graduate and they had to keep taking over and over and over again if they weren't successful on the first attempt the graduation pathways framework really does give multiple different ways for students to demonstrate they're prepared for college and career readiness and so depending on what a student's particular path is and depending on what a student's strengths are we have lots of different ways that we can meet those requirements for students so that's something that

077we're really excited about that opportunity because it is going to allow us to do a lot more the counter side to that is it's a little more confusing to explain it's not a two sentence you have to meet these requirements and you have to pass istep it is a little bit more involved and it's a lot more nuanced and so again as we're starting to talk through scheduling and looking at students plans for four-year plans there's a lot more to think through as part of that planning process so to kind of go through what the different things are that are required and basically the way we look at it is there are three parts to it and sometimes these parts are affectionately referred to as the three buckets for a few of you that have

078been on the board you may remember when we talked about this the first time so basically what students need to do is they need to complete each one of the three buckets successfully so the first part is earning an indiana high school diploma and i'll talk a little bit about that in just a minute but that's their credits that they earn in high school the second piece is that they have to learn and demonstrate employability skills in one of the areas of project-based learning service-based learning and based learning and then the third one is they have to demonstrate one post-secondary ready competency and so again we'll talk a little more detail about what all the different ways are that they can do that so the first part is bucket one as we refer to it

079is earn an indiana high school diploma and this requirement should look familiar because and i'm knocking on what as i say it that requirement has not changed at this point so what students need to complete in order to earn a core 40 a core 40 with academic honors or a core 40 with technical honors is continuing those same requirements the the state has not changed what those credits look like and how many credits in which areas they need to complete so our students will continue to have the plans to do that the second requirement is learn and demonstrate employability skills in one area and it's important to note again that students only need to complete one of these options in order to meet their graduation requirements we know we have many students at carmel high

080school they're going to complete multiple different ones of these but in order to meet their graduation requirements they just need to do one one of the options is a project-based learning unit and we have developed project-based learning units in two of our courses biology and health specifically so that students can meet this requirement those are two classes that are required for graduation all students take them they're great units they're great things that allow students to really take that project-based approach and go more in depth with their thinking and so that is an area that students who are completing those courses will take that unit as a part of the course and meet that requirement then by doing a little reflection at the end of the unit that we then document we do also have service-based

081learning opportunities that is a requirement that could include any number of different community service projects either through the school or through an outside organization um athletics performing arts we have many service-based clubs or clubs that do service opportunities as a part of that so they could do that and then also a work-based learning option so if they work a minimum of 50 hours either paid or unpaid at a part-time job or an internship or anything like that they could meet that requirement so again the goal is that students have to complete at least one of those in order to meet their their employability skills requirement the third bucket is the post-secondary ready competencies and this is the one that i will say is the the biggest meat of what we are really working through that's

082new to us for the students and so what students have to do again is demonstrate competency in one of the following we again know we have many students that will probably meet multiple of these but they must demonstrate post-secondary ready competencies in any one of these one option is to earn an honors diploma either the academic honors or the technical honors diploma also meets in addition to meeting their first requirement it meets the third requirement as well the thing that's a little bit challenging about that is that we don't know until the end of their eighth semester completely if they have met that requirement because one of the things included in the requirements for academic honors diploma is that they have to earn a c minus or higher in all of the courses that count

083and so we do occasionally have students that in that a semester might earn a grade that they were not we were not anticipating and they could miss that academic honors diploma in the past what happened was then they earned a core 40 and they were able to go on but if that is the only thing they have met in their bucket three now that would put them at risk of not being able to graduate unless they went back and retook that course so we really don't want to count on that as the only way to meet this third bucket because it could end up very late in the game having some tough conversations with students and we really want to try to avoid that there is a minimum a ct score that's listed there and

084then i do want to talk a little bit about the sat because there is an existing sat score that will meet the requirements as you are aware replacing istep for our federal accountability in the state of indiana is going to be the sat and so we will be giving the sat to all of our juniors and students will take it in their junior year in march during the school day and so that will be one opportunity that students will have to take the sat if they meet the requirements from that attempt at the s.a.t that would meet their bucket three requirement the one thing that's important to note is the cut score listed here is the existing score the state has said once they give the sat to all of the juniors across the state

085they are going to re-look at that score and determine so that score may change for the class of 2023. this is the one we're using for the class of 2022 if students are pursuing this option but for 2023 that score may be adjusted the state will rating for information from the state after we give that we also have have the asvab as an option which is the military entrance exam we've given that for a number of years to some students and students have been able to meet that score through that option so that's been a opportunity there are some state and industry recognized credentials a microsoft office credentialing that we give through some of our classes in our business department the certified nursing assistant and the emergency medical technician which if you recall are two

086programs that we brought in house and actually teach in our building now to our students so if they complete those and pass the certification exam at the end that would count um and so those are some other opportunities i'm going to talk a little bit more about the career and technical education concentrator here in just a minute um and what that looks like but students have to complete a state-approved career pathway the other option is apib or dual credit classes and students earning a c average or higher in at least three of those courses can meet that requirement that way as well if it's an ap or ib course they do have to sit for the exam the corresponding exam for ap or ib although it does not require a minimum score earned for that

087exam so again as we look at all of these one of the things that we've talked about is that there's lots of different ways to do this and lots of different opportunities for our students which is a great thing but we also really want to start talking with students about what they can start planning for early on because again we don't want to wait until their junior or senior year and then realizing maybe they haven't met one of those score requirements and now we're trying to figure out how are you going to meet that bucket three so one of the things we're really looking at is those career and technical education concentrators and what i think is great about this is first of all it's a great opportunity for students to start career exploration early

088on in high school which i think is great for all students regardless of which diploma path they're on or what they're pursuing to give them some opportunities so we have we are very very fortunate at chs we have lots of different career technical education pathways and i'm going to show you those here in just a second available at the high school on site we also have some additional ones that are available through our partnership with j everett light our career center so if students are are traveling to the career center there are some additional options that are available to them there the way the career and technical education concentrator works and i know that the board has been involved a little bit in this process because we've had to make some adjustments to some of

089our course titles and some of our course offerings and we greatly appreciate your support as we've had to work the last year or two we've had some additional changes maybe more than usual to try to get this aligned is that students have to take in a career pathway three courses in sequence in order to meet the career technical education concentrator so they have to take a principles course a concentrator a course and a concentrator b course and all of these are year-long courses so there are full two semester courses there are no one-semester options in the concentrators and so what we want our students to do is really start thinking early on about which concentrator might be a good fit for them and encouraging them to maybe start one of those concentrators as early as

090their freshman year or their sophomore year because again a number of these concentrators are three-year pathways and so if they're going to need three years to take all three of the courses if they wait until their junior year they're not going to have time to get that in and meet the requirement that way so we really want to start looking at and we're already starting to talk with we're going to be talking with our 8th graders we're talking with our 9th graders and our 10th graders to say which of these pathways might be of interest to you and then go ahead and take maybe at least take that principles course in your freshman year or sophomore year for one thing we've also talked about the idea that not only does it give students to an

091opportunity to explore a career they are interested in it it may also help them figure out what they don't want to do and if they take a principles course in their freshman year and they think gosh i don't want to go into this area now it would still give them time to potentially shift to another one of the concentrators and pursue that option so that's something that we're really trying to encourage conversations you can see and i gave you a copy of this document as well some of the courses in some cases will allow for concentrator a and concentrator b to be taught concurrently so depending on the particular pathway and it varies by pathway there are some cases where they can take concentrator a and b concurrently we also have a couple of the

092options the emergency medical services and the certified nursing assistant that can actually be completed in one year with all three of them taught concurrently together same thing with the courses that are offered the pathways that are offered at j everett light again that's a program that takes multiple periods in their schedule for the whole year but they will complete the requirements for all three courses in that concentrator potentially in one year so there will be options available for students if they don't start a pathway until the junior or senior year but as you saw from the great list we feel like the sooner they can start that the more options it provides them first of all and just a great opportunity to continue that career exploration and then if they complete all three courses with

093a c average or higher they have earned that bucket three requirement and they don't ever have to complete a test a minimum test score on any sort of standardized test assessment so we know for some of our students that can be a really good option as well so as far as things go we do have all of our course offerings our program of studies is available online i know we have students that are already looking at that looking at the offerings exploring what they might be interested in as i said we are currently scheduling our ninth and tenth graders for next year so we're already having those conversations with students um and starting to look at what they might be most interested in um and we would encourage uh students and their parents to have

094those conversations and take a look at those options and then as we go into january we'll begin working with our eighth graders um and we'll have more information for them and we'll be having some of those very similar conversations so we're excited about it but it is definitely a lot more involved than maybe what we've had in the past as far as those graduation requirements so we just want to share as much information as we can and make sure we are are presenting all of the different options to everybody so they know what's available so that's all i have i'd be happy to answer any questions well thank you very much valerie that was very thorough and um it's it's nice to see this come full circle because we have sat here several years ago

095just touching on this and learning that at one point all of our eighth graders had to have a pathway and we weren't even sure what pathways are but first and foremost we're pretty excited that karma high school has so many different pathways and are so far beyond the the level that several high schools are at this point in time um i do have a couple questions and my first one the language on the four once you get to the fourth um your senior year for several of the pathways it says capstone yes is this part of the capstone diploma or no the capstone is throwing me so i just wanted to better understand that so that's separate from the ap capstone diplomas the same word but two two okay what this would be and what

096the capstones are designed to be is definitely much more of that when we start talking about like an internship um or at something like that and experiential learning where students those would probably be courses that would not be necessarily taught full-time in the high school where students would get opportunities to go out into the community into businesses um to actually be working in that career area as at least part of the requirements for that course it might not be the entire thing but it would the idea is that fourth year and again if a student begins in their freshman year and has taken three courses that then by their senior year they really have that opportunity to go out into that field and get some experiences through whether like i said it's an internship or

097an apprenticeship or anything like that okay that's what the goal is for those fourth year courses um i do want to applaud carmel high school for looking further in making things even more exciting for our students my son is in the biomedical principles of biomedical um and he found out this year that that fourth year class is actually going they he get college credit for that so that was a new exciting turn of events for us and i am sure several of the other fourth year courses are you working with ivy tech to develop a a way for students to capture college credit for some of these classes yes absolutely so as you mentioned the biomedical that is one that we actually have all four years of already and so that biomedical innovations course is

098the fourth year and it does include already some opportunities where students actually go out and do some work in the community with local businesses and things so that's great yes that is absolutely part of that again there's some of these already have some partnerships set up you can see in some of the cases some of our even principals and the concentrator a and concentrator b already have dual credit options available to students so they can already start building that dual credit even earlier than that senior year they don't necessarily have to wait for that capstone and then depending on the particular program there may be opportunities for additional credits in that senior year in those tied to those capstone courses so yes that could happen as well for sure and we are continuing to have

099meetings with ivy tech and with other dual credit providers to see what more we can continue to align okay my second question for you has everything to do with communication okay so if we have a student who they're you know in their that we've determined their junior year that they're they've not done well enough on their sat or their a ct um what communication goes out to parents because my child wouldn't have come home to say oh by the way i'm not doing well right and i i got a problem so that's not happening in my house and i imagine that doesn't you know that doesn't happen in several homes so what type of communication do we have with parents so they can be part of this process and that they recognize that perhaps they

100want some tutoring or they wanted to do an online class or something that would really help promote um some institutional knowledge on how to take the test that perhaps they'll do better sure i think there's a there's a couple of different pieces to answer that question one thing i would say is that our hope is to really start that communication much much earlier than even the junior year with families again starting to look at some of these career concentrators as early as freshman year sophomore year so that when it gets to that junior year and we do get those scores back if they've met that bucket through their sat score that's great but we hope we have students that are also already in the third year of a career pathway and can meet the score

101that way as well certainly if we get to that point when they're in their junior year and once we know those official scores just like we would do with istep if a student has not met that concentrator has not yet met that third bucket somehow through any one of the opportunities already definitely then that counselor is going to be reaching out to those parents and saying let's take a look at that senior schedule let's take a look at what options are available we do give asvab to the students in their senior year and so they would have a couple of opportunities to take that so again communicating that i think with the s.a.t the great news with sat is it is actually much there's much more available for preparation for s.a.t than there ever was

102for istep if you are interested in doing preparation for sat there are so many different resources that are available of all different kinds and levels and now that students know that sat is going to be given at school to everyone in the spring of their junior year that kind of gives a timeline to that i know our math and english teachers have already started talking about that in their classes and doing kind of practice questions because even just familiarity with the kinds of questions that are on the test can be helpful so i think that's something that we're going to continue to encourage and promote because this can be an sat that students can use to apply for college and use as their scores if they choose to submit them to the university so it

103can count as an official s.a.t for them as part of their college experience as well which i also think is nice because as we know many of our students are involved in lots of the other activities and so to not have a saturday necessarily taken up by the s.a.t because they're going to take it at school during the school day i think is also a nice thing for our students so do our students will they have to register for that independently or will that happen through the school and how do they pay for that do we pay for that so the state of indiana pays for the one at school yes so there's no charge to parents and then the school will register them all through the system but it is as valerie said the

104sat is not a graduating qualifying exam but all 11th grade students do have to take it for the state accountability measure but it's not they don't have to retake it if they don't get those qualifying scores thank you other additional questions katie um couple first of all i'm a parent of an eighth grader so all this is like oh my goodness but i know you'll take care of us but it is a lot to decide what my child's going to be tomorrow um with i love the career pathways um i'm assuming the answer is yes but do these um different like connectors and principal levels account toward the core 40 for other things yes they do they do so they would count if i can go back to the whoops one too far yeah they

105would count in the directed electives because career and technical education counts and direct electives they would also count in just the overall electives so they could count for either one of those categories so yes they will count toward their overall required credits for their diploma yes and what about like the um medical stuff would that count towards science at all the that one the it depends which one you're talking about so the biomedical sciences that does count toward their science credit the certified nursing assistant and the emergency medical technician do not count as science credits but the the biomedical sciences one does count for science credits and then my last question is can you do more than one of these absolutely so in order to meet the requirement for the graduation pathways you have to

106complete all three courses of one of them but you could also do um another course or two in a different one of the pathways if you wanted to explore further or again as i said if you take that first principles course and then realize gosh i'm not sure this is the pathway i want to stay on you could certainly change and try another pathway absolutely okay good that's i was just curious with that well personal example so my own daughter is interested in going to med school so she wants to do the emt course but then i noticed on here you have to be 17 by may 1st and she's a very young person so she wouldn't be able to do that till senior year but then you have the one the biomedical sciences and

107technology which is really cool too so i think it's just like and i love it that and i'm sure it is that these parents will be presented with all this information yes of like talking with their children and stuff and i like that you can change because yes heaven knows what i wanted to be in ninth grade so thank you thank you other questions yes couple questions so do we coach the kids to consider a pathway or like when we have our schedule selection do we actually pull those up and say let's figure out what's for you or do we expect the kids to come to us with that so there's i i think we do a lot of diff a couple of different things one we did through naviance with our ninth and tenth

108graders we actually gave them a short uh questionnaire that asked them which of it was a drop-down menu but they could select as many as they wanted which of these did they think they might be interested in just to give us a little bit of kind of that foundation of you know if if your daughter's interested in possibly the medical field then we we don't want to talk through the options in culinary arts necessarily if that's something she's definitely not interested in at this point so just to give us a little foundation so we did that with our current ninth and tenth graders already and we're going to be doing that with our eighth graders as well um and then as part of those conversations then that kind of leads us to be able to

109say you know have you taken a look at this all the counselors have that same document of all of the different pathways and concentrators so and then at our academic transition night which is for our parents of our current eighth graders we will talk about this we talk about this there as well and what that looks like and having having a lot more detail again as we've gotten this all aligned just within the last year and getting those principles and concentrator in a and b i think it's a lot easier now to visually show it and explain what that looks like than it was even two or three years ago so we'll be able to get a lot of that information out but so we do a little bit of both we want the students

110to give us a little bit of an idea what they are interested in or what they think they might be interested in as a jumping off point but then we also want to say have you looked at all the different options that we have have you consider all these do you are you familiar with all the different things that we have to offer okay thank you and then how often do we reach out to colleges about building new pathways looking at where we're going in industry and how we can prepare students for that how often do we do that um i would say that we are in we have several direct partnerships we have a partnership with indiana university with the advanced college project for dual credit and with ivy tech and so we're in

111frequent communication with those two universities in particular because we're already offering dual credit through them as far as reaching out beyond that to specific universities i don't know that we're doing that just more feedback that we get from them yeah and i would say we're not um just partnering with the universities but when we go through our program evaluation we also work with our businesses our community for example when we looked at reinventing our stem offerings at the middle school in that program evaluation committee we brought in business partners from the outside and really looked at what does the um you know the future hold for our students what types of careers might they have and what types of experiences might they need in middle school and then also as in high school as well

112okay yeah that's really great that's great um and then just looking at how sometimes our colleges they evolve with their requirements for classes and um what they'll count and so i just wondered how our schools stay aligned with that those changes i don't know in in like for example the requirements um for the acp those are direct indiana university credits however the ap what students can earn um as far as credits at the different universities that's up to the different universities and that may and that also may be up to the different colleges within the university like at purdue you may be able to earn it in one college but you may you may not be able to earn those credits in another and so that's all individual for the different universities and colleges that

113what they'll accept awesome love the pathways thank you i have an additional question uh well a few um i thought we had 38 different pathways is that correct because it i didn't see 38 on here that was under perkins four okay since perkins four we've also had perkins five and now we are on the next level program of studies the next despite the fact that we have not yet officially graduated students under one of these the full class under this that the requirements have changed three times on us okay so perkins four that is already done okay that was where they had to just take two different courses in a sequence yes and that those students we've already moved on from that perkins five we do have a few seniors that could still graduate under

114using the perkins five which again was two different courses they had to have a minimum of um i think they had six credits in a particular area okay so now they've realigned everything again to the next level program of studies and so in doing that with the three courses in sequence it has changed a little bit what those offerings look okay so what you showed us those are what our cl our offerings are right now at the high school that is correct okay those are what we have right now at the high school and i do think there are a few more that exist and we are continuing to look at opportunities to add additional ones i will mention we have there is a hamilton county career center association that we are part of and

115we're starting to have some conversations and one of the things with that is would there be through that program maybe some additional pathways that we could explore for students using all of the resources of all of our hamilton county schools so too early yet we're just in preliminary discussions with that but that might be something so we will continue to look at some of the other existing pathways that we don't currently have and say are there any others that we can find ways to add those in because as many of them as we can offer we definitely want to okay when you were discussing the biology course you had said that there is a project-based learning opportunity within that biology course are you discuss was this specifically freshman biology so everybody will have this covered

116regardless correct that's that's the goal is that yeah so both freshman biology and honors biology okay they have one unit within that course that is a project-based learning unit so that will touch every freshman that will take care of every freshman and then we also did one in health because again that's another course that is required for graduation that students take so even if we get a student that moves in after their freshman year and maybe they haven't completed that in their biology course at whatever school they came from they would have another course potentially um that they could meet that requirement and then if they've already let's say completed biology and health then that's where we could look at some of the other options in service based learning or work based learning for them

117to do that but yes the vast majority of our students will complete that requirement right away their freshman year so for the service based learning kids who are in key club which the focus is service correct so that qualifies as long as they have documentation on how many hours that's correct okay that is correct well thank you any additional questions i know i could go on okay valerie thank you very much dr dudley i appreciate all that you've brought to us this evening next on the agenda we have our monthly financial report mr mcmichael there we go okay so uh this takes us through october and um as you can see um in for 2020 in our education and i'm sorry i think i've got the wrong i want to get 21 first there we

118go for 21 takes us through october and and you'll see as anticipated that our cash balance continues to decline it's one just under 1.7 million dollars which is about what we would expect it to be at this time of year the next time you see the report because we will have collected a property tax which is coming in this case from for our uh referendum and the rainy day fund i'm sorry referendum not the rainy day fund that will bring that balance back up and so it will be considerably higher than this um by the end of the year as you look at that compared to 2020 you can see that same thing happens every year and so then with regard to our operations fund where this fund is is supported uh with local uh

119primarily property tax but local revenue and as you can see our expenditures are rather uh consistent month to month but we don't really receive revenue except primarily twice a year and so the same thing's happened here to the point that um that by the end of october the uh the balance is actually in a negative uh which again is is typical you see the same thing last year in 2020 and and then our rainy day fund currently has a slight negative balance we'll bring that back up you might remember at the last meeting i believe you approved a one and a half million dollar transfer from from the operations fund to the rainy day fund and so that that will build that balance back up we depleted this fund primarily when we gave the stipend

120for what we call the covet stipend uh earlier in the year and but this fund will be um we'll be in the black by the time we get to the end of the year so with that i'd respond to any questions that you have thank you mr mcmichael any comments or questions with regards to the financial report this evening mr mcmichael thank you very much for your time thank you next we jump to board member report and the first would be a legislative update and i don't have an update to share so we'll just move right along louise small parks yes for parks just a couple updates one is the communications director who also helps with diversity equity accessibility and inclusion shared with us an update to their site where they have deployed or actually

121implemented a new widget that helps people who may have a disability have easier access to services and so i just want to promote that if you leverage the monon center or any of these supportive services that carmel parks and recreation provides you might have more ease of use for the website and then another thing that i was really excited about was my son came home and said that he wanted to go to bear creek that is a new park that we are in the process of hosting focus groups for and getting input from the community and so i was excited that he came home and told me about it so it turns out that the carmel parks recreation team went to the middle school to do a presentation to the children to tell them kind

122of how we go about renovating or creating new parks for our city and so the students were really engaged really excited especially for my son to walk in the door and be like can you take me like bear creek i'm like son i had a whole day of work no not going to do that today but maybe in the future so it was a really impactful presentation so i'm just excited when organizations in the community can come in and really spark a light in our children and so um i saw that so just wanted to share that thank you louise well dr bearsford what a great what a great night um you know when you look through our agenda for tonight we start out with our artists and uh and some amazing artwork there i

123actually have student art that uh is sent to me uh regularly that i put in frames in my office and uh i got a new batch just this week too so uh and then we went from there to athletics with our state championship six pete and uh and then we go to our teachers with earning those grant awards and then we look at some of the exciting things on the horizon as we get our capital projects completed and to think about the the big swings that are going around the district to you know to update our facilities and that the tax rate won't go up and that these will be paid off in eight years it's just mind-boggling and and of course you know that final report with career pathways and you remember when the

124deca marketing students did their marketing of what's our new brand going to be and what's our tagline uh one of the top three taglines was find your future karma play schools find your future and we were doing that and uh and um you know if you were at expedition the last round they showed a video of different kids saying uh what their you know college and career pathway is going to be and that they're ready for that so just pretty inspiring uh you know night which leads me to my bell ringer which is um thanksgiving and uh you know tomorrow will be our last uh full day of instruction uh before we take thanksgiving break and i gotta tell you i've got an attitude of gratitude um from our uh our students and uh meeting

125with their and their teachers meeting in that space where the point of contact is and the magic happens and and then all the support services from there all the way up to this board uh you know everybody does what they can to make our kids have a you know a special education our schools are a special place to learn and grow and i am just grateful to be part of this team and and as you can see from even just tonight's meeting that team works very very hard to make that happen and so i appreciate your dedication and leadership and uh and support and and my team here on the left and all the other players we have around the room and i just have an attitude of gratitude and i'm thankful for carmel clay

126schools and i'm wishing everybody a wonderful break and that everybody just takes a minute to count their blessings and enjoy that that time to be thankful and with that the bell ringer is over well thank you very much dr beresford and and the board does would like to echo the attitude of gratitude and we'd also like to wish everyone a very safe and happy thanksgiving to you and your family and friends um we do have a couple upcoming meetings there's only one left for this academic year very excited that our next meeting is going to be december 13th that is a regular session for the school board this meeting will be held in public and that will be at clay middle school so i just like to remind the board that'll be over resuming public

127meetings and that'll be at clay middle school and with that may i get a motion to adjourn our meeting second everybody yes all those in favor aye meeting adjourned