001to the flag of the United States of America to the stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all I am second, by the way next uh has everyone had the opportunity to take a look at the agenda and if so do I have any questions or comments as it relates to the agenda do I hear a motion mr m president I move that we accept the agenda as presented i second thank you Mr alexander thank you Mrs counts all those in favor please signify by saying I i opposed the eyes have it we'll move next to the reports and our first report is from uh the the JR OTC okay all right dr long members of the board I appreciate the opportunity to talk about our first year JRTC and kind of where
002we envision it for the uh next few years to come um just for point of reference here the the slides uh it's our first opportunity to actually put kids that are part of this program into the slide set before we had some pretty generic photos from other programs but this are uh everything you see in here are kids our kids doing things that we've asked them to do so first slide please all right so as far as year one um we did quite a few different types of events and when we tallied all the students that put their name on one of the rosters of one of the things we did uh throughout the course of the year we had 61 unique names on that list um which we were extremely happy with uh not
003all of those actually translated into students in our program but the official count when the army asked for the numbers uh t ended up being 48 which is good for a program that had limited uh advertisement before it went into the curriculum so we were very pleased with that number and we graduated or completed the first year with 37 remaining so we did have quite a bit of flux uh fluctuation at semester time people coming in people coming out but um we are extremely happy with the number 37 and um it there's a lot of indications that we're going to continue to grow rapidly and just for a point of comparison um with two instructors on the books the Army expect us to be at a minimum of 100 but we do have four years
004to get there so I think just based off of what we've seen so far and what we have enrolled next year we're going to have no problem making that very minimum requirements as far as the activities that we got to do this year you know this is a class so we did all the normal classroom stuff we got through all of the curriculum uh without an issue and then the extracurricular stuff we got to do um we did compete in two different competitions one of them is the JOTC leadership and academic bowl that's a national level competition uh we had two different teams we had one that was academically focused which is geared towards SAT skills and then we had one that's leadership focused which is based on the curriculum itself and both our teams
005that competed they passed the first rounds which means that they were in the top half of all JRTC programs nationally and unfortunately because of scheduling conflict they didn't get to compete in round two but had they been in the top 10 programs in the country then uh this week we would be in Washington DC competing nationally i don't think we're there yet but I am extremely proud of the kids uh that competed and were in the top half of the country um and that's particularly noteworthy because we did it in the first two months of the year so with very little instruction they uh figured out what they needed to do and with the academic team again SAT skills and that was a team composed entirely of freshmen so we were extremely proud of how
006they competed um as far as the cadet challenge that's what our physical fitness test looks like and we invited 11 other schools from the Indianapolis area to come down to Center Grove and compete in that five event challenge um we had the top male and the top female participant in those events and u we scored second out of all the schools around here and there's actually fairly good reason to believe that the scoring is wrong and I believe we probably won that but it's all right we we win with uh dignity and we lose with grace so um it it was a very strong motivator for the kids to see how their that was towards the end to see how their um hard work throughout the year paid off and how they competed against relatively
007against their peers moving down the list we did do two service learning projects um those are community service events that have a learning aspect to them um so the first one we did around Thanksgiving time where we helped support the Best Buddies Thanksgiving dinner that happens at the high school we put a bunch of our cadetses excuse me in the kitchen with Chef Greer making sure that the meal uh was prepared and that it was cleaned up afterwards and um we got a lot of praise from the kids that actually got to do it it got them a chance to be involved with other students with inside the high school and to uh feel like they gave back and then in the second semester we did a Red Cross blood drive at the high school
008and um I think we got we were shooting for about 40 pints of blood and we got 52 or something around there so that was very well attended as well so we're extremely proud of the work that the cadets put towards those two events um as far as recruiting visits and getting the message out there that we are a new program within the school we had an opportunity to go to the middle schools three separate times and talk to parents night on the eighth grade night and um we'll get into it in later slides but I think that um awareness um campaign is really starting to pay off i think more and more people are starting to realize we're here and that we're an opportunity for them to participate in uh the thing that we
009did the most that as far as uh out in the public is the color guard events we did everything from football games soccer games to even once here at the school board so we're going to continue to to get our cadets out there and to um be in the forefront of all these events to make sure one that you know we're representing the American values well but also to again continue to recruit other people into this program um we partnered with IPS to do a military ball this year um Primo South it was very well attended by all schools our kids had a blast doing that it was an opportunity to get them out and to see other programs and to interact with other people just like them just from other schools so we're going
010to sustain that effort as much as we can moving forward and then at the end of year we did a award ceremony for everybody that um participated in the program so those are the two formal events we did and then we also had a couple opportunities to get out in the public and do things around the city and around this town to again support the community so we did a flag folding ceremony at the request of Johnson County Library we were invited to participate in wreaths across America at Crown Hill Cemetery and then uh the Colts organization asked us to help them with their Colts 5K so we had an opportunity to um help with the staffing element of that and and uh again these are all things that we're going to sustain as far
011as getting the program off the ground we got a significant amount of Army equipment out of the Army um we're going to continue to do that we are a very expensive program to get off the ground but the Army is um the supply chain is slowly working but working so we're going to continue to ask for more stuff until we're fully funded uh we had a couple donors choose projects that worked well for us and then we had a grant um from the National Rifle Association to get our air rifle team off the ground as far as our summer activities we do something that's called the JRTC Cadet Leadership Challenge it's five days down in Greenville Kentucky it is attended by um cadet programs across three different states uh we're the only program from the
012Indiana that gets invited so it was an opportunity for us to take nine cadetses down uh to give them an immersive experience on an army post to get to do things that they nor never get to do um as a school we support 12 days of that but our our cadets get to go for five of them and about 900 cadets from the surrounding states get to go to that so we're honored to have our cadets go down there um and they had a amazing time they competed well and we're really proud of their efforts they came back sore and bruised but they really appreciated the opportunity to do the things that um that experience affords them so we're going to continue to go to Kentucky and then we're also going to build out the
013ability for Camp Adterbury to host a a similar event and then for the last couple weeks we've had an opportunity for individuals to come in the morning times during the weekday and work out with Sergeant Major Garver and I so uh we've had about 10 cadets a day Monday through Friday come in just to get a head start on next year uh unfortunately we didn't advertise it as well we did as we did last year so most of these are the returning cadetses but we did have a few that are joining the program for the first time to just get their bearings to get to know us as individuals and get a head start on the school year so that's something that we continue to sustain in the years to come as well slide please
014as far as next year we have as of this morning we have 84 total students enrolled uh 64 of them are in the first year of the program predominantly freshmen uh which is good news for us and then we have 23 students that are coming back for year two which we're super excited about um all those kids understand the culture we're trying to build and they're going to be a big part in getting the year 1 students off to a good start and uh competitive as soon as possible um it also helps that we are now part of this freshman class will be part of the the diploma seals program so we will have a opportunity to assist them getting that enlistment seal if they do at least a year with us and as far
015as the activities next year we intend to increase our competition load again we competed twice but uh we need to ramp those numbers up so we're going to do more activities with more schools throughout the course of the school year and a big part of that is to get the air rifle team running and um to establish what's called a Raider team and for those that uh don't quite understand the Raiders is a team-based obstacle course challenge so we're going to work on that u in the coming fall we also need to increase the hours that we support the school through various activities and we've been spending a lot of time refining what we did in year one uh from the lessons learned that we had going through the curriculum we're going to roll out
016lesson or year two and prepare for year three and then there's also a unique opportunity with the army unlocking its uh cyber pilot program to all schools um across the nation we can partner with AP and do cyber security training using both AP and the Army curriculum and I'm already certified to teach that so we are going to apply for that program this year in hopes to get it in place next year so that would not only buy us some AP AP credentiing cyber security but we would also get to count additional students into our program that we might not otherwise attract and if they're in the program under the army um enrollment mechanism then they could do the act after school activities with us if they choose if they want to just be AP
017cyber uh security students they're more than welcome to do that as well as far as some of the requests that um we have with the corporation we understand everything takes time so we're not um trying to push the ball further than it needs to be pushed but we would ask for continued consideration with a Raiders course it's an obstacle course that would be set up somewhere on this campus you know having an opportunity to talk to cadets from a a variety of different uh schools in a variety of different states the number one thing that drives participation in JRTC is that Raiders teams put together but it's really hard to do if you don't have obstacles to work on and there is no school around here that has a fully built out obstacle course so
018if we were able to get that done however many years that takes we would be unique and we would be able to host a whole bunch of activities that the local programs around here just don't get to do uh another request that we have is uh and I know it's being worked but just to keep it on everybody's mind is the ability to use the indoor pool during the day going down to the summer program getting them in the pool that was probably the biggest deficiency that when you compare our cadets to other programs they just don't have the familiarity with the task that we have them do in the pool and if we could just get them in there once or twice a year I think we would put them back on par with
019everybody else in the final request and this is new we've not asked for this yet nor are we in a position to do it but I just want to put it into space so there's thought about it is the army does have a minimum enrollment of a hundred and then um if there is a desire to continue to grow this program at some point of time we're going to have to add additional instructors into the program and that magic number from the standpoint of the army is 151 cadetses um we're supposed to maintain that for multiple years but the army just from conversations we've had with them they recognize the size of the school and the potential that we have they would open up that consideration the first year we hit that of course the
020school would have to agree to it because it is a cost share issue so if there is and again I'm not asking for a decision i'm just letting you know kind of the mechanics be uh mechanisms behind it if there was a desire to continue to grow this program we would continue to push till we get to 151 so we can open up the possibility of hiring a third instructor if there is not an appetite for that then we need to start cutting it off at 126 so we just need not there yet but we just need to know at some point in time um what the desires of the the program holistically are so we can plan accordingly and also for reference there is a possibility given the school population that we could exceed
021250 which would unlock the opportunity to get yet another person on board so that's just food for thought for outyear consideration one more slide um this is hard to read and I apologize but this is just kind of a a holistic curriculum map um there's things that we do with the cadetses every single year and there's things that we do on singular years um we do work on their personal growth and their development we also work on their um team building and their decision- making all years that they're here uh the year two kids will start working on more leadership development and first aid which will be exciting for them but uh I know that there was a request to see kind of what we do so people have a better understanding of what we
022work with them in the classroom and then on the bottom again I apologize for it's hard to read but uh given the block schedule nature of this program the first time we see the cadets we do something academic the last time of the week we see them we do something physical in that alternating Wednesday we work on those cadet specific skills um and that probably is the day they enjoy the most but that's kind of what our daytoday looks like given the buckets of um the training categories that we go through based on the year that they're in the program and subject to your questions thank you do we have any questions from Dor just curious how much land do you need for the Raiders drill course um there is excuse me there's no set
023amount that like there's no standardized Raiders course you have a lot of opportunities to put different types of obstacles in there and that's probably why the the cadets enjoy Raider so much is every single event they go to is a different type of challenge at least in a group i I couldn't answer that i I don't know um I think we sketched out at some point in time but I don't know if we actually calculated the square footage of it does Adberry have something they do um there is it's hard to train daily down in Adabberry and uh there are additional wickets to unlock those services as far as annual training requirements scheduling they look fairly far out with that stuff so we would have to get on their calendar probably for next year your
024need is so that you can do it during class time um you know there's a part of us that we'd like to do it during class time but as a co-curricular after school activity would probably be more in line of what we're asking for colonel Marath actually and Major Gardner and I talked a little bit about this we actually identified maybe this campus we're sitting on now a lot of their elements could also be used for leadership and team building and it would be a great opportunity i think it'd be a really good leadership Johnson County project at some point even so we might pitch that next year to one of their groups and see if we could team together and put something together we got some great going there and the same with the
025uh the use of the natiatorum we've we've we just didn't get that started early enough in in the spring for it to work out but we're ready to go I think for the fall okay perfect you're not going to require us to go through that course are you you're more than welcome to we'll drag it through anybody just don't have us don't have a stopwatch no but but on on a serious note we're we're pleased to have you guys here i appreciate it i mean with with a burgeoning program it's fun to see programs grow we've seen other programs grow you're going in the right direction we love to see that and I also like with the presentation you come to us with requests i mean we have limited funds so we have to make
026decisions but at least now we know what you're thinking and what your needs are so when the funds are available we we at least know that so I do I do thank you for the presentation and for being here and keep up the good work yeah and uh just one final thing if we do end up hiring more staff I've had 15 20 requests to let them know when the position opens up we're going to be we're not going to have problem getting talent and uh great you know spending time down in Kentucky i had two people from Tennessee actually asked to let them know one is a center graduate and the other one spent some time in the area so people recognize the value of a program being in a school like this and
027they want to be a part of it great awesome thank you so much thank you so before we we move to the next agenda item I forgot it it wasn't on our agenda we we had an unfortunate passing so I I want to I want to read a a statement and then ask for a moment of silence tonight the Synagro community is mourning the loss of longtime educator who is also um a treasured colleague and trusted friend of many mrs sally Hacker passed away on Tuesday night following a brief battle with an illness mrs tacker retired from Center Grove in 2016 after serving 35 years as a teacher assistant principal middle school principal human resources director and assistant superintendent of curriculum she leaves behind her devoted husband Steve and cherished sons Gregory and Thomas and
028daughter-in-law Lesie we'd like to ask for everyone to join us now in a moment of silence in her honor thank you everyone mrs hacker will be missed so next on the agenda we have the teacher evaluation and rubric and I believe that is going to be presented tonight by Kaylee Brown yes thank you so much crash on yours all right so back in March we started the process for updating our teacher evaluation rubric and process and on May 7th at our work session I was able to provide you guys with an update and tonight I'm excited to share with you guys the finalization details of our new teacher evaluation rubric and process that we'll begin implementing next school year so I wanted to start by go to the next slide thank you i wanted to
029start by um reminding you of our why uh we are changing our teacher evaluation tool to better support student achievement and strengthen a collective teacher efficacy ensuring that every educator is empowered with meaningful feedback aligned goals and collaborative growth opportunities that directly impact student success uh we knew that to do this work we had to make sure that it was a collaborative effort with all of our stakeholders so that we so we developed a committee our committee um consisted of 25 teachers and 10 administrators from across the district we met seven different times to work through our process to make sure that again we were coming up with that collaborative tool and our overall goal of that committee was to be able to produce a teacher evaluation process and tool that prioritized growth development and
030support of our teachers supported student growth and achievement and not just looking at uh standardized assessments but really looking at multiple data points across what's taking place within the classroom and the school recognizing and affirming our teacher strengths because we know they have so many uh promoting teacher efficacy and fostering accountability in all of our teachers um I also want to share with you guys the last time our teacher evaluation tool was updated was in 2017 i don't know if I had shared that before so what did that work look like um we only had seven opportunities to meet and we knew we wanted to be able to roll this out next year so we really had to work fast and furiously and we knew that we needed a good foundation to start with so
031we took our current tool in rubric but then um I also did some work along with some of our other collaborative members of our administration team to look at some of our other um peer schools who are high performing um and look what they do with their current teacher evaluation system so we looked at Brownsburg Westfield Washington and then the RISE model which is um the states model for the evaluation system and we tried to kind of merge all of those pieces together the things that we really liked from each of those um to create a good foundation for our committee to start with so we restructured the domains going into that committee and we restructured our process going into that committee again just to give a good foundation so we didn't feel like we
032were starting from zero so the committee work was really for collaboration and reflection so we took time to reflect on what was being proposed and drafted we took feedback and then we made appropriate changes from there so the teacher evaluation process as a whole um our former or what our current process is is very summitative so you have classroom observations um your teachers are then given um feedback based upon how they are scored and rated within a rubric and then they don't sit down and talk with their administrator until the end of the year to receive kind of that overall summit of feedback um and if you go back to our why we really wanted to be more formative so if we're going to grow our teachers we need to have those active ongoing conversations
033about what we're seeing that's working well and what are those areas of growth so our new process is more formative um it consists of an individual goal setting process so every teacher creates a smart goal that they can track and and and monitor their progress and get feedback on and have specific intentional support that's provided to them to meet those we will continue to have classroom observations but the frequency of those have changed we are now integrating pre and post observation conferences with their evaluators so they can have conversations before their observation and directly after their observations to talk through what was taking place during that observation time and give give forward again give formative feedback to then allow them to put those things in place the next time their evaluator is in the classroom
034uh we still have a rubric but we've made a lot of changes to that rubric and they still have that opportunity for that end ofear summitive um feedback that gives them that overall rating for the school year the next slide is going to break down the domain areas so our current evaluation tool had four domains which were in the areas of purposeful designing effective instruction teacher leadership and professionalism our new tool has five domains uh professional responsibility planning and preparation for instruction classroom environment and then objective measures of student achievement and growth so um I'm going to actually have Kristen pull up the rubric that we've linked in you guys have access to that um gosh it looks so small up there but I just wanted to reiterate what the different components are so we
035have domains and domains are broad groupings of skills knowledge and performance that is expected of a teacher they represent those big major areas of a teacher's responsibility um and then directly below that domain you can see where it says 1.1 that's an example of a competency a competency is a specific um skill or knowledge that's needed to be effective within that certain domain and then um those columns that you see where you see highly effective effective needs improvement and ineffective those are what are considered indicators and so indicators are those specific behaviors and actions that are associated with each of those competencies that provide concrete examples of what a teacher should be doing to demonstrate the performance that we would want to see in each of those indicators so if I'm walking in and I
036see a highly effective teacher those are the things that I'm looking for as an evaluator so I won't go through each of those um domains and competencies but I just wanted you to see kind of what that layout looks like two new components to this R rubric is the last column that says look fors our teachers and our administrators work together to come up with examples of what they feel like should be seen within the classroom and I think this was really good to get consist consistent language and feedback directly from those evaluators and directly from those teachers so they're having those good productive conversations out after those observations and if you want to click back to the presentation I'm going to go through those five domain areas um so in Yep go to the
037next slide please thank you uh so in domain one professional responsibilities i will not read through all of those but you'll see there are seven competencies within that domain domain two is instruction you'll see we have eight competencies within that domain domain three is classroom environment we have three competencies within those that domain domain four planning and preparation for learning you can see those five competencies within that domain and then domain five there's only one competency and this really directly aligns to that individual goal setting process so it has to be data driven and we're using that to evaluate um how that teacher is rated in terms of highly effective effective um needs improvement or ineffective i also wanted to share with you guys our staff evaluation handbook and uh Miss Lassley if you want
038to pull that up and kind of scroll through I'll just give you an overview we did have to make some changes to that handbook because the purpose of a handbook is to make sure that we outline that um teacher evaluation process as a whole so it really specifies and provides details as to what the evaluation system process looks like you know we had a great committee of people who really understand it because they were there at the table we needed to put something on paper that for those you know individuals that weren't in that committee how do they know how to use that tool what does that look like and what are the details behind it uh it also serves as a reference tool to help teachers peers mentors and administrators understand the corporation's processes
039for what observing documenting and evaluating classroom practices looks like and then really just helps better understand the components of the teacher process um the app the observation process and then the framework for what an effective teacher looks like and I know we talked about the committee we got a lot of feedback through this so they had an opportunity to look through all of the components of the handbook everyone had commenting access so they gave a lot of good feedback and then we used that to go in and make changes and then the last thing I wanted to share with you if we go back to the presentation is just next steps and what that looks like so as I mentioned we will be implementing this at the start of next school year but we know
040with any change can come angst and so we wanted to tell our teachers that while we are asking you to try something new we are going to um do a year of hold harmless so that means that their endofear evaluation rating can be no lower next year than it was this year so it really gives them the opportunity to learn the new tool without feeling that pressure of going down in a rating uh the new rubric and process uh we will have a tutorial for the new rubric and process it'll be a voiceover i'm going to be working with Miss Conrad on that so that on those opening days our teachers have the opportunity to learn more about that tool again for those people who weren't a part of the committee our teacher evaluation committee
041we're going to continue to meet one time a quarter next year because we realize again with change they're going to be um kinks that we have to work out and so we want to be able to get that feedback from people out in the buildings and make those changes along the way and then we will uh hold monthly norming opportunities for our administrators so as we're using that new tool we want to make sure that all of our administrators are working together and that norming component is going to be really important for what we're looking for and what we see an effective teacher or a highly effective teacher to be the last thing I wanted to share with you while today we're talking about the teacher evaluation tool process rubric we also changed our administrator
042evaluation process and rubric and so um for next year that's just for our principles assistant principles and our deans but we hope that we can then take those changes and apply them appropriately across different administrator evaluation tools and rubrics too so if we're asking our teachers to change we're trying to look through that um same lens or look in that mirror and realize opportunities for growth in us as well so new rubric new process and we're really excited to incorporate that or implement that next school year and that is the conclusion of my report do you guys have any questions for me any questions comments from the board i was concerned about what's the consistency of the evaluators yeah how are we training them yep so that it is across the board yep we're going
043to tap shoulders of our awesome teachers and and ask to um record them in action and we're going to use that in our norming opportunities so to put up a 10-minute op or a five minute um video of a teacher teaching in the classroom and have our uh evaluators our administrators be able to work individually right and be able to evaluate what that would look like but then also be able to work collaboratively to share like what did that look like for you what did this look like for me so hopefully again after time we become much more equitable right or normed in our responses to what we're seeing in the classroom any other questions thank you for your efforts i know this has been a lot of work and I know we've we're not
044asking a lot of questions because we've been involved in this process in a work session too so I I applaud you know anything to provide a better product for the student and then ultimately students coming out even better than they already are so thank you for for all your efforts and and the efforts of the teachers and the administrators and committee that that all Yep yep thank you any other comments can we get a followup report about this time next year on Yeah how year one and I like the hold harmless but it might also be good to know how many hold no names but how many hold harmless kind of absolutely applied yeah I'd be happy to and I did ask members from the committee to join me today nobody wanted to give up
045their summer evening i totally understand but there is a Pacers game i know i know and there was sunshine today right like first day in a long time there was sunshine so thank you guys for your support thank you the for the teachers or to the teachers for their support too again we know change is hard but we appreciate them being on this journey and we look forward to seeing the successes from it so thank you very much thank you next we'll uh turn it over to Christy Burger finally get to hear from Hopper and I'm gonna have Jaci and Jamie Brown m let us borrow her sweet daughters to be our volunteers and I probably would love a person or two from the board and I could talk them into it um so you
046girls sit at the chair and you guys pick who wants to go you two are closest yeah I said the closest who's the most stressed so this is hopper for those of you I know the board has met but those of you in the audience and Dr long feel free to chime in as well i'm not going to go through all of the stuff I have up there Kristen this is just what I use when I go and talk into different classrooms hopper is a facility dog and so he was trained as a service dog but he works for a facility versus a person um if you scroll a little just some fun facts about him is that he turned three in March we had a little birthday celebration for him um dogs can only
047see blue and yellow i did not know that that was something I learned during training um Hopper right now knows 56 which are tricks when we think about that and he went through a ton of training and he is a part of um I can program so I can is a nonprofit and that's one of the many reasons we love them but um they train the dogs with the men and women who are incarcerated in several three different prisons within Indiana so Dr long and I spent six days of training for in the prison with the men that raised Hopper to learn his um ways to basically handle him why they call handlers so Dr long and I are handlers for Hopper um so we did the six days in person but we also did
048of online training um one of the wonderful thing I think about the program is the men and women who become handlers in the prisons have to be there for three years without any discipline before they can apply um then they have to do a 10e course of their own they have to do a selfwork course and then they become an alternate so they're very dedicated it's a really job you can ask Dr long but when we when Hopper went from his green vest to his blue vest um the men shared really just all that he had done for them and really taught them empathy these are men that are there for some tough reasons right um my social work heart was a little emotional so Dr long had to speak for us but um it's
049just such a wonderful program and we just love the way that I continually gives back but we love even more what Hopper's brought to us in the short few months that we've had him so in my role I support all 10 buildings with crisis discipline mental health all of those things so Hopper goes with me to all of those things um but really the purpose behind jobs in school can help motivate our students especially with attendance stress and anxiety and really that positive school climate which is something we're always working toward so we're really excited to like I shared we got them in November the staff that I have next um it's just what we've been able to do since December so we've gone 185 times to our schools um for either just hang out
050with students things like that we have 21 individual students that we go twice a month kind of do some counseling support with those students myself and We've done 23 classroom visits just to teach the kids really about what is a facility dog how the facility dog should be approached how you can support them um and then we have done uh some rewards so middle school central has um champ tickets and the kids can turn in their 75 champ so we've done that 12 times with 36 students um and then we've gone to support six teachers who have been in need as well so a picture of that for reasons but our next steps and then we'll get to our pool volunteers um middle school North put in their application for an IP and we did
051so we're hopeful that they'll get one in the fall and then you'll see middle school central and pleasant elementary are the next buildings to get that so we've asked the school um to pay the application fee just to kind of show their support and their dedication for the actual purchase of the dog we use title funding which is federal funding for whole child support kind of fits perfectly with that for safety and then the other expenses are the handler purchases that we have wonderful people in our community that write a really great kind of a little bit about copper where we've been since December and where we hope to go super excited to see us get schools so we're going to show you some of the things you can do i'm going to talk to
052all of you like kids so we Start with the easy kind of build our confidence just like we build our confidence when we're at school right we're learning too so we start with the easy ones he knows and he gives all of his strict situ the other side this is the one that I think is really cute good boy all the kids always ask one of the ones if we're feeling if Dr and I are feeling kind of lazy and we're gonna take her outside that's a fun one okay and you guys remember what I was teaching you before we got started so Hopper knows how to play rock paper scissors and so Jamie rockissve working on um this is a one that we do with our students it's called just there hat um one
053of the really cool things which I'll show on the adults who are over 50b and when they told us they're like "Oh he won't get on anyone's lap that is underb." tried earlier we do this for our younger kids he's always looking for treat okay okay sorry okay I'm gonna have you guys put your chairs back together remember the last one we're going to He's gonna crawl oh gosh no i forgot my really cool trick hopper's also been working on his reading so our kindergarten and first grade students really love that so these are all the things Hopper can do so we've been really practicing hard and so we're not gonna say this word out loud good boy our second word of letters but we're still proud of his name so we're gonna He likes
054to get a little tight we've been able to get up to eight this is a good thing we teach the kids perseverance we We don't get it right the first time oh you want to pick a card and we'll see what Oh this is perfect so He knows it's coming that is what that we wanted just to share the work that he's been doing since he's been in our building we call him what we decided to change his name people in our building here that's it that's uh Mrs counts would like to say something here real quick mr president due to a um family commitment I need to leave today at 8:00 PM so I don't want anybody to think that I am just angry and I'm leaving i need I need to leave today
055at 8 p.m next comments count eta next on the public comments items comments by saying Dr jason Taylor thank you Mr daniels um we're bringing this back for second review by the board um as required by state law uh we held our first hearing on May 15th and as you mentioned this hearing has been advertised as our second hearing for June 12th um this is a project that will span from 2026 to 2028 it will include multiple district-wide long-term capital projects um we have a few summary slides I'll review um we also did review every slide in detail at the last meeting so I will just hit the high notes um the first part of this project is to continue with uh supporting our operations fund and this is through purchase and maintenance of equipment
056security upgrades site development improvements technology equipment and to purchase school buses and vehicles this allows us to continue to operate with those limited funds the second part of this package are some improvements throughout the corporation including the high school south campus um HVAC and energy savings the phase two so a new phase of that project um setting aside capital and be and in preparation for multiple capacity need or capacity needs in multiple schools and then some extracurricular and co-curricular facility improvements again with the spanning so long we wanted to keep this project flexible we do have some idea of some of these projects and we will be sharing those and bringing those back to the board as separate action items once we've landed on these are officially what we're going to do um the other
057required part lastly if you'll go to the required information slide for us it's down just a little bit you're almost there yep we need to get rid of that extra heading slide um is that uh the maximum and estimated the maximum amount of money for these bonds is 49,500 that's the scope of this project um we did write a lot of these terms in broad um in broad ways to give us the most flexibility um with the changes that with Senate Bill one we do understand that our assess valuation will change as a growing community we're uncertain of what that exact change will be and so we wrote these to accommodate as it fluctuates in the upcoming years um the plan is to pay this debt back as soon as possible at the lowest interest
058rate possible um again we are anticipating this project will not impact our debt service tax rate um because of this project it will it we have worked that out to spread out this cost so it will not impact that rate um and you can see some of the other key financial information on there if interested um and just the last slide that I'll hit is uh the tax rate for central schools again we project that because of these projects it will remain level um in our debt service fund and that we'll try to keep that total tax rate level um you'll see it's a it's a very good um it's right at the statewide average at a$16 and it's well below what we actually compare ourselves to which is more the central Indiana average which
059is actually $118 per $100 um that's the information I needed to share this evening um if successful we will return back with the projects um in the upcoming months and get to work on this thank you thank you are the members of the public response public hearing members comments I just want to clarify this is for flexibility and then second expenditures are made you will return to the board that is correct that is correct just like we're about to do on the next action item it will return for you to issue the bonds on a project and there will be another chance for public input as we return with those items thank you i'll move to approve the preliminary approval of the 1028 2026 through 2028 districtwide long-term capital maint thank you and we have
060a summary of this project up on the screen in front of you this was brought to the board in February and again in March for for the determination hearing and we are now returning um not only to approve the resolution for this project but then we will advertise as we bring it back in July for the additional appropriations for this project um and a hearing will be set and held in July for that um at Middle School Central the the majority of this $17 million will be spent on HVAC renovations um a brand new HVAC plant and um new distribution units throughout the classrooms we'll renovate the floor and finish coverings throughout the building and the classrooms um we will put some time into the west gym the east gym is very very very nice
061and has been fixed and touched up the west gym needs some attention add an additional restroom in the lower level um and that's a big need for our sixth grade students um we are reworking the offices some already um this summer and would continue to do that and then some exterior paint um just to keep that ephus looking nice so that the mold doesn't overtake it so those are the parts of the project um that we're asking for the board to consider and this is a building lease and so it's an amendment to an existing lease to do some more work on the middle school central project that's why it's the fifth amendment to that lease um and that's the information I needed to share tonight questions or comments from the board so long preliminary
062approving of the fifth amendment for Mr russell Taylor you're on a roll yep additional information yes thank you we have a summary of the changes that we're making to the statement of benefits up on the screen in front of you so thank you Mr daniels um we're bringing the statement of benefits to you this evening for approval as we have in prior June meetings uh the statement of benefit actually applies to uh multiple employee groups so it's level A B C and D and that represents all of our support staff members and our administration unlike last June we're not recommending an acrosstheboard raise or salary increase for all of these employee groups um as is typical in the first year of a bianium budget across the board raises would not be recommended until later in
063the year typically aligning with our teacher negotiation window that window is open from September 15th to November n November 15th so many of the changes um that we're talking about this evening apply to year- round employees and will take effect on July 1st so the first change that we made as we do in each year we update the dates for the holidays um for the upcoming year and that's for all three levels um the second change is in an effort to to better promote positive attendance we've adjusted um the maximum on the sick leave severance um because we have a limited number of retirees each year in this in these three level or four levels uh this is not an impact on the budget and we'll continue to pay this sickle severance out of cash
064balance uh currently our teachers actually have their sick leave days transferred into a sickle bank upon retirement that does not exist for these employee groups and so for a long time we've actually paid out those days upon retirement um we look forward to working with our teachers to find similar ways to promote positive attendance in the upcoming months as well um but I would like to clarify that this is the extent of any retirement severance package center offers um to earn the $40 per sick day exchanged and $100 per service an employee must complete 10 or 15 years depending on their age um and their service to the corporation to earn that and there is no larger package beyond it um we are removing the next changes we're looking to remove the matching requirement for
065the 403b this is at no additional cost to the corporation this simply gives our employees additional flexibility with their retirement planning and we've added an additional contribution for the associate superintendent position the next change we've corrected some erroneous language to ensure that our 403b and our 401A plans are both calculated off the same salary amount and so it's just a change that we discovered throughout the school year next change um we're re sorry we're recommending a change um from a mileage reimbursement to a mileage allowance and this is for some employees throughout all the levels so this will encompass some support staff members and as well as some administrators um but it's not for all um what we did is we actually identified positions that are requiring a high frequency of travel to perform their
066essential duties across all of the groups um we ran those numbers we looked at it um we also looked at the additional cost and burden of labor of our secretaries to not only track that and turn in the reimbursement forms but for approvals and then processing through our business department and so we're able to remove all that burden off of multiple positions through this change we also did identify some teaching positions um that that also do require high frequency of travel um when the appropriate time for the bargaining window opens it's something we would offer to those positions as well um as we feel like this is actually a great thing and a great change for the corporation to move forward um and really simplify that process and take away that extra burden of labor
067um the remaining changes that were we're presenting in the document tonight um are changes to positions that have either taken place over the past year or positions that need to be updated so for an example in level A it reflects the reduction in administrative positions in the central office u made in the past year it also makes some changes to names and titles in level B it's actually just name changes at this time in level C we have quite a few changes this is where the bulk of our support staff um are are are in statement of benefits and so we've we've added some consistent language and Miss Brown and I worked very closely on this and she did a great job reaching out and we're trying to just be consistent on our level steps
068and years of experience increments and so we've put in some clear language for that so it's consistent throughout the document and all of the departments we are adding a position of preschool instructors and that'll give us some flexibility as the preschool grows changes over the years um to look at the instructors in that program um this does reflect the reduction of a corporation level secretary position made in the past year um it adds food service staff um for the new academic pavilion cafe and that is paid for from the food service budget um it changes some of the special service employees to reflect our current positions and pay rates some things that we've just made changes to throughout the year and it changes our SSO position from an hourly to salaried giving us some more
069flexibility in when they they provide coverage um the last thing in level D then is some uh detail compensation for substitutes as they complete required training we want to make sure we encourage them to do that so in closing I just want to clarify because there are no across the board increases in this evening's update um the board's action tonight does not take away any funds that could be used later for bargaining um moreover the reductions made in the administrative positions and the secretarial positions at the central office um and the reallocation of additional responsibilities over the past years have actually made additional funds available as we enter that and so I just wanted to clarify that i know we've had some comments and questions on that topic i want to be real clear this
070doesn't take money away it actually is providing additional funds as we move forward and that's a very detailed summary Mr daniels and I believe it covers everything for you thank you yep but I'm happy to entertain any questions anyone any uh board members with any questions or comments just approximately what number are we at for employees total i'm going to lean on Miss Brown she probably knows that a little better than I do total employees yeah we including 132 so let's just say 1400 yep has to come out of the budget yep any other questions or comments from the board mr daniels if you don't mind um I know there was some misinformation shared to our community and even to some of our teachers and I really find that disappointing um if you look at
071the document and you listen to Dr taylor's explanation that most of the stuff that was put out on social media or or shared with our our staff is simply not true and I I I really really want to encourage people if you have a question about what we're doing to reach out and call us don't post it on social media i mean you post it on social media but but when you know it's not factually true it it creates a a sense of panic and fear with with our teachers and with our community and uh I think when you look at the the summary sheet today and if you listen to his Dr taylor's explanation that most of the stuff that was put out was simply not true and I appreciate Dr taylor taking the
072time to to go through that line by line so we had that opportunity to share that thank you for for your additional comments Dr long anyone else on on the board have any comments or questions do I hear a motion mr president I move that we approve the statement of benefits as presented thank you Mr alexander do I hear a second i'll second thank you Mrs counts all those in favor signify by saying I i opposed the eyes have it thank you Mrs counts for your availability next we'll go to food service and Valerie Miller director of food service and nutrition has a presentation for us okay not necessarily a presentation but a list of information that you guys might need to look at um so Valeran building you up for this yeah I appreciate
073it i wanted laser light laser light show las your hype guy yeah I appreciate it okay um so every year we have to come to the board for approval and recommendations to what um distribu distributors we are going to use for the following school year so for school year 2526 we are recommending the following contracts with our vendors through K12's leading Indiana co-op um you can see here US foods the premier contract will be our mainline distributor piaza produce is fresh produce um DNO produce through US foods is the fresh fruits and veggie program with educational materials that is on renewal year two um DFA dairy farmers of America for dairy alpha bread um commercial food systems is our snack and beverage mostly our allocart program velvet Ice Cream ice cream um our smart mouth
074pizza contract is for our smartmouth pizza program that we operate at the secondary buildings and then Smart Systems is our wearashing and sanitizing program so that's just a contract we put together as a co-op to save funds um and so we are on our year two renewal of that and we do utilize that program here in Center Grove so just recommending the board approve these vendor contracts for school year 2526 thank you do I have any questions or comments from anyone on the board no I was just thinking I like to see year two year three year five means you're making some good choices yes yeah because you're coming back yes we're coming back but we're also still active in competition so you know we still ask for bid documents for everyone pricing so that
075we're maintaining competitive pricing throughout our programs i want to thank you for the presentation yeah do I hear a um do I hear a motion mr president I move that we accept the bids for the 2024 25 food service as presented that's incorrect it's incorrect on board there's just there's a typo so we need to make sure it trans next year yeah I was going you did this already jack I move that we accept the bids for the 202526 food service as presented thank you Mr russell do I hear a second second thank you Mrs donigan Smith i hear better out of my left ear all those all those in favor signify by saying I i opposed if Scott were on the other side I'd say I'd hear better on my right ear that's smart
076um next just want to make sure that translates correctly i changed it in four ducks great thank you thank you typos happen no big deal um Miss Miller another presentation yes um so this presentation is regarding our school meal pricing for 2526 um in reality there's no change at all we just have to vote on the proposed pricing for next school year um we will update our allocart pricing and and I do appreciate you said you know you look for competitive bids and do everything you can to keep it as low as possible and it's good when we come back and we can say things didn't change and if they do we know things happen but but good job in and picking vendors so that we can we can have a no change for next
077year yes thank you any other questions or comments i'll just comment in the high school every so often don't make the elementary like I used to but the long lines tell me they're wanting the food yes they're bringing their own so that's a good thing thank you any other questions comments do I hear a motion i move that we approve the school mail prices and charge procedures for 2025 2026 thank you Mr alexander do I hear a second second thank you Mr dunigan Smith all those in favor signify by saying I i opposed the eyes have it so a couple of uh quick announcements first um our executive our next board meeting is July 17 2025 with an executive session at 6 PM and a regular board meeting at 7 o'clock here in in this
078room um I have one more announcement that that I would like to make um and then I'll turn it over to the the board for for any other announcements i'm sorry did I say the 17 no it's I think in board dots i apologize for that we we have another typo it happens um we moved that meeting so it's the it's the 24th our next meeting is the 24th we'll advertise it but thank you for for correcting me the Center's Community School Corporation has received a final payment of $23,917.60 60s from former superintendent Rich Arinoff as outlined in our demand letter this amount includes $2,135.71 identified by the state board of accounts and $21,781.95 [Music] uncovered through the school's internal review combined with the earlier payment of $11,024.67 67 cents from Arkinoff and the credit
079against his acred time off entered by the school corporation in the amount of $36,26.95 prior to his retirement the total funds recovered amount to 71,1492028 with this final payment the school corporation has recovered the total amount determined to be owed by Mr arnoff and considers the matter closed we want to thank the Sen Grove administration and the state board of accounts for their efforts in investigating and bringing the unfortunate situation to a close we also want to thank the Sengrove community for their patience and allowing us time to investigate and ultimately collect the entire amount owed by Mr arnov thank you Mr russell do you have any other announcements tonight well yeah at the region 8 meeting this time instead award the entire board got a commendable level one award so that this evening to
080the board here and we also got a little plaque to go on I think something we have already so again committed commendable on that one um we also had alumni meeting this morning uh and we're a little more serious about the Hall of Fame just how it will look at the high school what area we might put it in but it's and we are in the second round of nominations you can find it on the foundation website under alumni thank you Mr russell and I and I know the efforts you put in in addition to being on the school board with the state organization so I thank you for for being a delegate for as many years as you have and all your efforts on that actually will be going off that but I know
081you'll still be a lot Smith do you have any announcements i did see your son's picture as I drove in congratulations thank you Mr alexander um Central 9 uh we are um continuing to investigate adding a third session that's been presented in in our public meetings um we're also working on um renewing Dr kovatch's contract for next year as well which I anticipate will pass in the July board meeting thank you Mr alexander dr taylor do you have anything dr sims Dr long I do want to point out thank you u that tonight with the approval of the personnel report that uh Dr taylor's title has changed from assistant superintendent to associate superintendent i thank the board for taking a look at that and spending the time to diligently study uh the recommendation so thank
082you thank you Dr long congratulations Dr taylor I'm sure that we'll close the regular board meeting will Take a moment