001Grayson Roberts Grayson is one of our students at Center Grove High School she's a junior this year she plays first in the in the baking portion of skillsusa contest and is actually going to be representing enough competition we invited her to meet us [Applause] it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you we'll be doing the national third week [Music] what so proudly we held at the twilight's last gleaming who's brush rights and bright stars fight for the ramparts we wash were so gallantly streaming and the rock is [Music] [Applause] gave proof through the through the night that our flag was still there yet [Music] thank you again more high school students that's the men's acapella group Shaboom under the direction of Jared Norman you can all right next
002up from Jeff are they available every month to come back all right next up is the adoption of the agenda do I have a motion Mr President I move who we adopt the agenda Mr Daniels we have a motion and a second that Mr Robinson of those in favor signify but saying aye aye motion passes four zero uh one item to note this evening Mr Russell is in California attending some family business so he I believe he is watching the live stream but unable to participate this evening so you sure want to do something wrong they're going to shoot me a text message all right next up is recognition and presentations um looks like Dr long has a shining star award he's going to discuss thank you about would you and Caleb come up front
003please so Caleb Hartford is a bus driver and a cafeteria monitor who has worked for Center Grove for the last two years on April 25th of 2023 Caleb was performing his normal monitoring duties in the cafeteria when he heard someone say are you choking and a student at Pleasant Grove Elementary was choking on a muffin Caleb jumped right in to help and administered the Heimlich maneuver and after three attempts the muffin was successfully dislodged from the student's Airway we're so grateful for employees like Caleb who put student Safety First and do not hesitate to jump right in and help Caleb you're a shining star and we're lucky to have you and I understand you have guests tonight do you want to introduce who your guests are awesome thanks so much so in addition to the
004certificate you were just you just received your name will be added to the plaque near the entrance to the boardroom along with the other Shining Star Award winners so thank you foreign thank you Dr Long uh next up I believe I am turning this over to Dr Henderson tonight is is one of our favorite meetings of the Year where we get to recognize our high school students for all the exceptional work they do throughout the year and I know Dr Henderson's got quite a long list it's been a great year at the high school well thank you I certainly appreciate the opportunity to be in front of the board this evening and celebrate some outstanding achievements of our students we have a number of adult Representatives here this evening that are we're going to invite
005up just to say a couple brief words I know we have a long program and a lot of kids to recognize so we'll ask them to come up and say a few brief words about the groups that they represent and um after that I think each group is going to come up and get a group picture before your before you leave right perfect okay starting off this evening I want to and do introduce a couple of the adult mentors of the cghs Red Alert robotics team Rachel Miller and Nathan column are here to tell you a little bit about the successes that red alert robotics had this year through here thank you for this opportunity to come in talk to the school board and to the public about our achievements this year with red alert
006robotics so I'm Nathan coolum I'm the the lead Mentor for the robotics program and then I have have with me Rachel Miller who runs kind of our operations side this team is encompasses kind of a whole business aspect so while Robotics and Engineering is kind of our head Focus we run a whole business and it wouldn't be able to be possible without all the hard work and dedication of the students bring this season we built a robot to compete in several events down in Princeton where we won the Chairman's award which is the highest award you can win in first robotics it just really speaks to the accomplishments and the the caliber of the students that we have on our team we won the engineering inspiration award in the Lafayette competition which is essentially the
007second highest award you can um and then at the center Grove event that we actually were able to host um within the Student Activity Center in the Vander Virginia gymnasium um thank you for having allowing us to have that opportunity to host the competition here um we were finalists and one was called the imagery award which kind of uh encompasses the holistic approach to the team image um and so those first two Awards I talked about the Chairman's award and the engineering inspiration award qualify us to compete at the state championship we did compete there we came away from the state championship with the creativity award which is a design award for the robot Mrs Miller so like Mr colon mentioned we did host a tournament which was a great success this was the first
008season really full back into swing for first robotics um being fully back in person and competing so it was a great tournament the only hiccup was the tornadoes which did not really affect us which was great um and then we're continuing on throughout the year uh we meet year-round and we will be hosting two different summer camps hosting about 80 students first through fifth grade in our Innovation Center one in June and one in July and continuing with other Outreach like our Trunk or Treat we'll host in the fall we're also getting an expansion in our Innovation Center that we're really excited for and thank the school board for all their support and seeing the growth in our program really is awesome and they're seeing that growth too and supporting us through that thank you
009[Applause] some of our kids are at the High School academic night so not all of them are here but we do have a group of students here so as I call you you guys can come up first we have gorov panty then we have Kyle Upchurch I'll just read them all often we can hold pause to the end Patel Adam Abby Fame rayon arfi Natalie holverson Jillian Stars Barnett Jed Robertson Hunter peckovich and Owen Rumple and then we also have another Mentor here tonight Mr Stars Barnett [Applause] how's that perfect great thank you congratulations up next this evening I'd like to introduce the art department chair Jackie Fowler who's going to be talking to you a little bit about Scholastic Art Award winners Mrs Fowler greetings I have some artists in the audience and if
010I could have you come line up right here we're going to show a video and when you see your artwork you can step forward I know there's some of you out there Hannah I see you there's some of you artists okay that's oh Hannah and Hannah oh look at all look at these artists I'm so glad to be here with them um it's been a great year in the Arts um if you haven't seen our new facility at the high school it's very impressive and we thank the board for supporting us in that we've had other visitors from universities who have visited us and have said this is better than our facilities and we're like yeah it's pretty nice so we're very fortunate to work with some awesome students so that was one thing to
011celebrate we also have the Scholastics to celebrate but we also had our Festival of the Arts which was a wonderful turnout with all of the buildings coming together Elementary's middle school and high school I'm going to show a brief video it's two minutes but that's a chance for you to see some of our Scholastic art winners we did really well this year we had quite some features our artwork that was featured and at the we kind of go through some honorable mentions then you'll see some silver keys some gold keys and then we were fortunate enough to have some national winners National winners mean that you're on the top one percent of the country to place now nationally so that's pretty impressive so we got a two minute about two minute 30 minute second video
012to show you [Music] foreign [Music] interesting [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Applause] next week foreign up next I think we have Teresa Ferris here to speak on behalf of the business Professionals of America students um and the success that they had this year so Theresa coming up riding our club business Professionals of America I would like to recognize our students for the hard work that they've put in this year they competed in regionals in Bloomington they participated and competed in events in Indianapolis and many of them qualify for top ten and would have gone on to compete at Nationals so we would like to recognize them for their hard work their events range from entrepreneurship to computer programming and just it's just a large wide range of business topics so I along with Mrs Debbie
013Nolan who's a co-advisor for our club is very proud of them so I would like to call you up if you would please foreign Dominic Burke Nolan Canfield Chelsea Chandler Sid chetery Jackson Dills Kyla Dunagan Alex fan taku Reed Gable Madison Harrigan minachi Johnson blessing a new Bob Manju dare sorry I'm I know I butchered that I practiced it all year I promise Mahindra mandala are of Nair Finnegan nowofski Landon overall Reya Patel Benjamin Peters Ava rossen Aiden Ryan and do the thing [Applause] yes yes so all of these students placed within the top ten in their in their respective categories of their competitions There's Stacy right there make two rows Maybe [Applause] up next I'd like to invite Chef uh Susan abeker Greer up to this the podium to uh speak to you about
014students who participated and competed in skills USA so Chef Greer okay thank you good evening my day started with a call from a chef in Saint Croix asking me what are you doing with your students it's incredible what we have done at is what is considered a traditional high school that is now comprehensive I am grateful for an amazing admin team and a school board that believes in what we're doing this is my third year at Center Grove and our second year competing so it's pretty tremendous I'm going to mention the names and then I'll talk about the accolades Izzy falke Devin McCormick Grayson Roberts Hayden Brooks Jesus hello Perez Rowan Cavalier and Brady Richards if I called your name come on up the rest you could probably find at our table Chipotle p l
015tax man and upseller I'm going to first say about Izzy felkey she is one of only four students to receive a full-ride academic scholarship to Johnson Wales University worth 160 thousand dollars for those of you who are like what's Johnson and Wales well it's essentially the Yale of culinary schools or the Harvard it is number one in the nation for Hospitality programs and top five in the world uh Devin McCormick he is our state representative with skillsusa he will be representing our whole state down at uh Atlanta and he will go on to talk about the benefits of keeping money in Perkins grant funding and speaking to our state and National representatives and why Career Tech education is so important so I'm so proud of him Grayson Roberts she and I are heading to hotlanta
016I can't tell you I've been a Career Tech educator for six years and I have been a college level baking a pastry educator for 11. I have in all my history not have had a banner year like this it is quite incredible um he's Graydon Grayson scored first place in baking and pastry out of the best 26 Bakers in the state of Indiana which is incredible which is going to be really exciting [Music] Hayden Brooks who's at our table right now if you want to go see her placed second in culinary I mean she plays third in culinary because our second place finisher is right here Jesus Tello Perez so I congratulations I'm reading the names in order that's why I flipped but Jesus received 82 000 in scholarship money from Johnson Wales University Hayden
017Brooks received 92 000 in scholarship money to Johnston Wales University so when you add this up I mean our program's only been around really for two years our students this year have received close to 350 000 in scholarship money to one of the Primos Premier culinary and Hospitality programs the United States so it just gives me chills to even think about where we are uh Rowan Cavalier uh she scored a second place in public speaking with skills USA skillsusa has a multitude of different programs where students can compete in and it gives everyone an opportunity and not last but not least freshman Brady Richards he is on the leadership team for skillsusa at the state level so truly a banner year for our students my educator heart is so full but I won't cry I
018promise guys I won't cry bad picture but thank you to you guys for your dedication thank you to the school board thank you Dr Henderson and your team for constantly supporting us and believing in what we're doing [Applause] foreign and up next I'd like to introduce Andrea t-van Andrea will come up and speak with you about the successes of our students who competed in HOSA events Andrea good evening thank you my teacher heart has been incredibly proud of all my students this year the things that we accomplished this year through our coursework and Beyond has just been incredible from our Project Lead the Way course we started a club known as hosts a couple years ago and it was really to develop leadership skills in Future Health Care Professionals and I undertook that task and
019I am blown away with where it's where it is today it is really a student-led club and introducing tonight with me is Gotham mandala Gotham was our first state representative vice president so he served he planned all the leadership events he trained other schools he got on the stage in front of what 1400 people he did the whole conference with his team so it was incredible um I brought Gotham up here so he can talk a little bit about HOSA himself because he is my resident expert so hello everyone uh good evening so many of you must be wondering what is a HOSA while HOSA is a Career and Technical student organization like a skills USA like a BPA and uh but hosha specifically focuses on the healthcare industry hosta serves as a pipeline for
020future health professionals into the healthcare industry so students that are interested in healthcare like me and everyone that's lined up back there and throughout the room it helps them get into the healthcare industry or if they're already in it it helps them get ahead in the healthcare industry now as a state vice president I was elected last April and my duties officially end this June the June 2nd so it's a little sad but I'm extremely proud of what we did at the state level but even more proud of what we did here at CG HOSA having a special View and a unique view of the behind the scenes I can tell without a shadow of doubt that CG HOSA is one of the best chapters in all of Indiana HOSA uh we've had over 60
021top 10 finalists and top three finishers two years in a row and that's like pretty much impossible that we're actually the first chapter to ever do that and you have chapters like J ever like career center that Focus heavily on Jose and always bring in hundreds of students that haven't achieved this task and that mostly comes down to the students in CG hosta that are putting in the hard work we start at the start of the Year all in preparation towards the state leadership conference our big event in April and the students work from the beginning of their year not only to balance their course load but to also take on these challenges and learn all of this content that they need for their specific events but I also have to thank Mrs tevan and
022our other advisors that play an instrumental role in helping us achieve the achieve these achievements and giving us a resources necessary to do such amazing things at the state level and I'm really excited for next year because as I've heard we've have an even more motivated and even more members joining house in next year so I think it's not too much of a wild shout to say that we'll have more hosts of people here at bacteria sport meeting so thank you and that was just a little bit about hotel I'll let Mrs Steven Ann announce everyone that did a tremendous job at CG HOSA this year and so they get the recognition that they truly deserve thank you yes so um this year um like I said I couldn't have asked for a better group
023um my chapter officers were simply amazing this year will Eberhart as my president this year and he did such an amazing job for us he planned Service events he brought in guest speakers he led our chapter with every single meeting along with our future president to be Sharia Jain we did a service learning where we made Valentines for the local nursing home and we took them to them and it was such a special special day that I will never forget um through the course so of the event um about 1400 participants we had 65 top 10 finishers a newly elected State historian Sophia crawl which will serve on the council next year we had a Barbara James award a winner for completing 175 Plus hours of community service we had three bronze medalists six State
024runner-ups and six Indiana State Champions um and so I will bring will up first will is my chapter president and like I said he did such amazing job will place second in forensics along with Alec Gardner okay and Ella can come up and do I'd like to bring up Lena tesaveris Elena was our Barbara James service award winner Elena killed it at State she also received two gold medals with Family Medicine physician and job seeking skills um Gotham was received two first place medals and Health Care issues and medical terminology Megna pillai received a medal in medical assisting I should have had them wear their medals or big old state championship medals um Second Place winners were Mary Wang in career development and cultural diversity and disparities Mary placed in the top last year as
025well and she got to attend the National Conference that was in Nashville Tennessee um we have a Zoe Carpenter in research pursuit of writing and speaking and Ava Martis Jalen Coffey Eliza La favors and Ali dieterle in medical innovation placing in third was Mary Wang who's already up here in Allied Health statistics Magna Pella and dental terminology and Elise Armstrong in Clinical Laboratory science placing in fourth was Lexi Krauss in biotechnology and Macy Pascal in extempreneurious writing and placing fifth Sean Liu in Family Medicine physician Zoe Carpenter and veterinarian science NASA are saying wary and epidemiology Natalie Sanders and extemporaneous writing Leah Murray in job seeking skills and Ava Martis and Ali diederly in health career display so as you can see I'm extremely proud of these members and can't wait to see what we'll
026do in the future [Applause] you guys are probably going to have to make two rows to get your photo in also short people in the front as always okay great thank you bear with us we just have two more um unable to be in attendance this evening but definitely worth a mention we have a seventh grade student who takes high school math classes who participated in the moo Alpha Theta IUPUI math competition and won the spirit award as a seventh grader in a high school math competition so incredibly impressive and that is Jackie Sutton Jackie Sutton who is a seventh grader but was unable to be here this evening and our last award this evening um Madam McClellan could not be here this evening so I get the pleasure of introducing to you the only
027two students in the last six years that we have attempted to do this with our students to receive the Indiana Department of Education certificate in multilingual proficiency which requires that they demonstrate proficiency on an external assessment not given at CG in their language of choice so I'd like to introduce to you this evening Maxwell Barton and Aminata diagona [Applause] okay I just wondered one is Spanish and the other is French guys which two languages French and Spanish okay that's what I thought but I want to make sure okay and last but not least I'd like to invite Mrs Norman or Mr Norman and Mrs dice they're not married I do that too frequently and it happens all the time Mr Mr Norman and Mrs Dice and the members of Shaboom back in just to talk
028a little bit about their organization and to get their photos so okay great thank you I'm gonna let these guys introduce themselves real quickly and they are most of the members of Shaboom we have a couple who are over at the awards program this evening Ryan is the group's leader and you got to hear them sing earlier and what you should know is that they are completely student-run so everything that you see them perform they are rehearsing on their own we try to give them the skills that they need to be able to do that and then they go out and they do all sorts of performances and gigs throughout the community so we're super proud of all these guys and especially to Ryan who's been running the organ or this group for the last
029two years and I'm gonna let Mr Norman talk a little bit about Choir in general sure our season capped off at Nationals in Nashville Tennessee where we competed at the heart of America competition where all three of our Varsity groups debtoned sound system and CG singers received Grand Champions so we were very excited about that it was the second year in a row that debton's and sound system had received Grand Champions at a heart of America competition and just kind of like your knowledge of show choir in general there are four Heart of America competitions that happen and this year at three of those Four competitions an Indiana school one um so it's a hotbed for show choir and we enjoy being very competitive and very successful in the state of Indiana and then also
030at National competitions thank you for having us this evening so as you can see this is just a small sampling of all the kinds of great things that are happening at Center Grove High School we are incredibly fortunate to live in a community that supports education and to have parent support organizations for all of the extracurricular and co-curricular activities that we run and we obviously have incredibly talented students but none of these things happened by accident and they all happen under the watchful eye and direction of very dedicated staff members so we thank you for the opportunity to be here this evening just to share a small sampling of the kinds of positive things that are happening at Center Grove High School and I'm going to duck out to go back to senior scholarship night
031across the street at the high school so thank you very much thank you [Applause] that's okay and as everybody can tell we we have a lot going on at the high school Dr Henderson is one busy guy in the month of May I've probably seen more the month of May than I do the other remaining months of the year all right next up on the agenda is public comments and Mrs Howard we have no public comments this evening all right next up is the consent agenda do I have a motion Mr President I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented thank you Mr Daniels do I have a second thank you Mrs Kemps we have a motion in a second any questions about the consent agenda all right all those in favor signify
032by saying aye all those opposed motion passes 4-0 thank you next up under action items is approved resolution for purchase of property Dr arkanov thank you Mr Alexander this evening I'm recommending that the board approved a resolution purchase property and Dr long will provide you with some additional details thank you um to purchase land we have to follow the following procedures number one is the school board has to adopt a resolution indicating the corporation's interest in purchasing this specific land or structure the district should then appoint two appraisers to appraise a fair market value of the land or structure and the appraisers must be professionally engaged in making appraisals or be trained as an appraiser and licensed as an appraiser under Indiana code the appraiser shall turn in their separate appraisals to the district and
033we need to keep those on file for five years and attached tonight is the resolution that indicates we're interested in purchasing property on South Honey Creek Road in Greenwood it permits the corporation to appoint two appraisers and allows the corporation's purchasing agent to enter into a purchasing agreement for an amount not to exceed the average of two appraisals and it authorizes a school district officials to execute the necessary documents to complete the sale as many of you know we've been looking for land for a future Elementary School maybe land for two future elementary schools so this is the first step in in finding some land that we're going to be able to build on so tonight we're asking the board to approve the resolution for purchase of property thank you Dr Long any questions for
034Dr long and this is land attendant for elementary seven yes correct yes sir all right any questions for Dr Holman do you have a motion a motion that we approved Revolution for purchase of the property thank you we have a motion by Mr Robinson a second by Mrs counts all those in favor signify by saying aye all those opposed motion passes four zero thank you next action on 7.2 accept biz for the Wellness Center Dr arkanov I think Mr Alexander this evening I'm recommending the board accept the bids for the wellness center and Dr information thank you tonight we're fortunate to have Jim goley the project executive and Chad Peters senior project manager from Acom hunt with us um wanted to tell you that we're very pleased with the turnout for bidders for this project
035and I think most of that credit goes to hunt for drumming up business and making the phone calls and getting the interest out there all together we received a total of 21 bids for the six bid packages so we are very happy with with that so on May 18th of 2023 we received bids for the Center Grove Wellness Center project we received bids for bid packet one General trades and site work bid packet two structural steel bid packet three for roofing bid packet four mechanical and plumbing bid packet five electrical and general lighting and bid pack at six access control and Communications on May 19th and the 22nd a com hunt held d-scope meetings with the lowest bidder person based on their review of the bids the d-scope meetings and the budget they're recommending we
036accept the following bids so no the bid pack one did Domin Contracting Corporation the amount of 2 691 366 dollars bid packet two to all met Incorporated in the amount of 328 800 bid packet three to Foster Contracting in the amount of 163 thousand dollars ran out of breath bid back at four Greiner Brothers in the amount of 607 thousand dollars bid packet five to All-Star Contracting in the amount of four hundred and six thousand dollars and bid pack at six to Central Security and Communications in the amount of one hundred and twenty one thousand one one hundred ninety dollars the award of these six uh bid packets totals four million 317 356. that's right at what we had budgeted for the project we're expected to to start uh in the next month or so
037and be finished by June of 2024 before school starts next year this is a project that we're really excited about I know we've talked with the board lots of times it's a new Wellness Center for our staff we've through the HR department's work we know that that's a critical piece to attract and and retain teachers and it's time to move out of the old house that we on the corner and move into something that's really nice so we appreciate that opportunity to present this tonight thank you Dr Long any questions for Dr long I'm excited about this too Dr long I know the starting at the house was good training wheels sure to figure out is this going to work and is it going to be well received and now moving it to a more
038permanent facility I think is fabulous you said it'll be completed when uh by June of 2024 so the goal is to have it ready for before 2025 yes so not next year with the year after I'm already my head's already in the next school year so you said it was gonna be ready next school year right yeah yeah so that's where my head is that'd be amazing if you guys doing that he'll be all over this uh thank you I'm excited about it thank you yeah I am too any other questions for Dr Long do I have a motion for the Wellness Center thank you Mrs council do I have a second second thank you Mr Daniels we have a motion in a second all those in favor signify by saying aye aye all those
039opposed motion passes four zero thank you thank you all right uh next up this evening 7.3 accept bids for the 2023-2024 Food Service Dr arkanov thank you Mr Alexander this evening I'm recommending that the board accept the bids for the 2023-2024 food services and Dr long will provide you with some additional detail thank you um I know we have tonight with us Val Miller our assistant director and I think she thought everybody was here to listen to this part of the presentation so she's probably a little disappointed that people are have left before she got to present this so um but as you know we the corporation belongs to k-12's Leading Indiana Co-op called klic formerly known as the West Indy Co-op the State Board of accounts requires member schools to accept the bids from
040the co-op and I'd like to turn it over to to Val our assistant director to present the information decided to be back with klic this year as you see on the screen we'll be moving back to U.S foods from GFS Piazza will still be our produce vendor Dairy would be Deans Dairy Farmers of America Alpha will be our Bakery commercial food systems will be our commercial food items all the cart items Velvet Ice Cream will be our Novelties and then smart mouth pizza will be our new vendor this year which would take me to our next point of our next school year pricing if you want me to move on let them vote I'm sorry sweets we got to do them in order yep any questions about the bids for food service for 23 24
041school year all right no questions I do I have a motion thank you Mrs counts do I have a second thank you Mr Robinson we have a motion in a second all those in favor signify by saying aye aye all those opposed motion passes 4-0 thank you thank you well now we can move on to meal prices for a quirk by the State Board of accounts requires our board to approve meal prices for the 23-24 school year even though they have did not change from last year so tonight we're asking the board to approve those but Val will explain something new it's called some tier pricing that we're going to try at the secondary level and then a slight change to our unpaid meal charge procedure so Val do you want to talk about the
042tiered pricing first and the meal any I guess any questions shouldn't be very many questions that we're leaving the prices the same we're really fortunate to be able to do that again and um so okay go ahead all right so under lunch you'll see a premium uh secondary lunch uh which is a reimbursable lunch that would be at 350. uh we'll be introducing smart mouth pizza at the middle schools this coming year with the new Renovations we're going to take that as an opportunity to elevate our menu options and with elevated menu options comes increase labor and increase Supply costs so we did feel the need to introduce a second tier there for a reimbursable meal at 350 and then the a la carte pricing at a premium secondary entree cost would be 270. I
043just started 275. so Val the smart mouth Pizza it's you want to explain that a little bit yes so um it is like what you would say a personal pan Pizza it we assemble it the day of um we proof the dough we topped the pizza and we bake it on the line throughout meal service so the kids are getting a Super Fresh product almost made entirely in-house and almost completely from scratch nice yeah we're super excited about it so do you want to talk then a little bit then about the uh the change to our unpaid meal charge procedures um yes so do you have that I'll be honest I don't have that oh I do I just may not be able to explain it but I have it anyway you've got the resident
044expert here yeah that's why I brought her I'm sorry okay okay okay um so we just have to make sure that we have a written policy in place um that lays out how we will deal with unpaid meal charges left on a student's account um and how we kind of deal with students throughout the line we try we never um refuse a student a meal but they are charged on account so then as those balances rack up for lack of a better term um we do have to have a policy in place to charge the parents accordingly have for parental responsibility so um what's the change change from I guess the real changes we've never had a written policy before is that correct yeah so you know one of the requirements when we get audited
045by um everybody is that we have have a policy in place it doesn't change anything you know like Val said we will always give a kid a meal we'll never take food off their plate never deny them a meal we just have to have our policy in writing that says that we won't do that and that will continue to feed students but we'll also continue to to charge their charge their account as well so it doesn't really change anything from what we were doing other than we now have the policy in writing do we still have an issue at the end of the year with a number of unpaid balances ten thousand dollars I was about to look at Dr Taylor and put him on the spot where I think it's 10 or roughly ten
046thousand dollars roughly 10K yeah so about ten thousand dollars of unpaid meals is that before the foreign money to help pay off unpaid balances for students um we've had you know fairly decent um uh success with that we've been able to pay those off but kind of at the end of the year it just tends to grow like this about how much usually gets donated a year to the angel fund this year we had a anywhere from six thousand to seven thousand donated and I would say pre-covered that was fairly similar um that was my first year and we had at least one donation of five thousand dollars and then some smaller donations to the usual Fund in addition to that right yep I knew that was there I'm glad you said it publicly because
047it's good that people know that that's something that's available and I appreciate that you all make that available I know that's the fun that I know that's where Hubbard used to yeah it is Gorge stipend towards so very nice thank you any other questions all right do I have a motion make a motion that we approve the school meal prices for 2023 2024. thank you Mr Robinson do I have a second second thank you Mr Daniels we have a motion in a second all those in favor signify by saying aye aye all those opposed motion passes four zero thank you all right next up 7.5 my most favorite motion of the Year absolutely I might not get to say it too many more times right this evening this evening I'm recommending that you approve the
0482023-2024 secondary textbook and supplemental materials for adoption uh is it Shannon or Dr Hoover will provide you with some additional information yeah um I know this is your second favorite and Shannon feels even worse because even more people left but um I will let you know you don't have to totally think we're not having this night because we will always have to officially adopt okay textbooks and resources so that's the good news um I did want to note before Shannon and Marcy share the details with you that for our elementary and second very secondary textbook adoption and fees there is new legislation that impacts how school districts will support textbook and fee expensive and this goes into effect July 1st without definitive guidelines however we're adopting materials and fees as per our normal process all
049the things we did all year are the same including tonight what we will do differently is we will adjust the final processes the financial pieces um following all the interpretive guidance from the state which we expect to come sometime in June before July 1st and we'll figure all that out work with Mr Taylor in the business department so with that I'm going to leave Shannon give you the details on our secondary so thank you for the opportunity to talk about secondary which is middle school and high school materials adoptions all of the things that you saw celebrated tonight are in some way supported by the things that we've adopted in terms of supporting our teachers and being able to implement high quality curriculum so thank you for your attention and your um your support of
050our opportunities to look at materials on the cyclical basis and then to update as needed so this evening at the secondary level the main departments that you're going to see represented are math and health and across our middle school math courses you're going to see a lot of Indiana reveal with Alex which is a comprehensive program and we're very excited to have the opportunity to have Alex partner with that program because it allows our teachers to both extend and remediate from our core program I'm at the middle level and all of our courses at the middle school math are going to be using the same publisher which means we have continuity across our teachers being able to use those resources and saying hey where did you get that or how do you use that and
051that will be true for honors as well as for our regular section so we're very excited to recommend that for middle school math uh we also um for math at the high school and um while that actually I'll just go ahead and talk about middle school because that's what you have up in front of you oh no it's fine well we have plenty so um with the uh health for Middle School we're recommending McGraw-Hill you'll see when we get to the high school we're making we're making the same publisher recommendation you'll also see that we have our novel selected for our Middle School author visit that's an annual tradition here in Center Grove and in the Johnson County area we'll be having Margaret Peterson Haddix join us this year in the two choices of novels
052that go along with her presentation when she visits are listed for you Uprising and double identity and then our employability skill standards are also going to be supported with really bill if we can switch to the high school at the high school as I started to talk about with middle school or with math you're going to see that our Middle School I'm sure it'll pop up there eventually we've got a a not our Middle School excuse me our high school algebra one Algebra 2 and geometry are recommending that we use our own canvas courses to support our courses this year I was waiting for you to look at me and say why aren't we moving to our canvas courses and now's the day so our camp you are because actually you know one of the
053positives of our opportunity with covid was that we spent a lot of time in canvas and the math department has invested a lot of time not just this last few three years since the pandemic but actually in the last adoption they were starting to ask questions about do we need to look to an outside resource or do we have the our courses built out enough and we're at the point now where we felt that we could bring that as our product for algebra one Algebra 2 and geometry now our higher level courses that tend to be very um college-based are still feeling the need to recommend a variety of Publishers in those specific areas like our calc courses and things like that so you'll see those in there as well um we are also I
054already said for health we're recommending the same publisher for our health which is glancoma craw Hill and then there are a few smatterings across High School departments for the business department and the facts department they have a few courses recommending materials that need to expand offerings you saw Chef Greer here tonight we have um some career pathway materials that support carpeting carpet carpentry easy for me to say today I need to take the speech course that our friend Gotham was using earlier so um there are a variety of programs if you have any questions I'm happy to answer them but we feel very confident in what we have recommended to you tonight for secondary materials for course curriculum any questions not this year either all right do I have a motion Mr presidents and supplemental
055materials represented for adoption thank you Mrs Scouts do I have a second I second thank you Mr Robinson we have a motion and a second all those in favor signify by saying aye all those opposed motion carries four zero all right next up is to approve the textbook rental fees thank you Dr arkanov thank you Mr Alexander this evening I'm recommending that the board approved the 2023-2024 secondary textbook rental fees and this is Carol Frye are you going to be or yeah he'll be provided I think so unless Dr Hoover wants to say anything again I think she said her yeah [Laughter] by the legislation will not be passed on yes we will be reimbursed for partial from the state again lots of details to come and how how that'll all work for this year
056and going forward and as we learned earlier tonight there's as with all things passed by the State House details to be determined by July 1st and it's May 25th that is very accurate plenty of time we like laughs so in preparing for today sorry okay so in preparing for today we use the same as Dr Hoover mentioned we use the same process that we have um built in the past we at the secondary level reviewed all of the middle school and high school bills to determine whether they were still falling within the ranges that were approved by the board I'm very pleased to say that our curricular costs for the Middle School 93 of our bills and 98 excuse me 98 of our Middle School bills and 93 percent of our high school bills were
057lower than or within the expected range and any other ranges that were above that were due to the Early College expenses or students taking very Advanced courses in Middle School the changes that you'll see in the Middle School are nominal between three and five dollars across the grade levels and when you see the high schools sheet you will see that we are not recommending a change at all our our average was within the same and the um and so we were able to leave our high school fees the same and you saw the resources that were being recommended the technical courses are things that are a little bit for our math adoption materials because there are new those are the reasons the for are any increases that you saw on the high school TBR sheet
058that was also provided to you if you have any questions about the changes being recommended I'm happy to answer I just have a why are we approving rental fees that are not being charged so what I would say is that we [Music] um I will say I am projecting and I think others are projecting that there's the potential that our guidance may come back that we may be able or may want to be able to if a student damages a book or there's a lost book we may need to have a set price that we can go to in that situation so rather than charging up front which is really what we've been establishing in the past when we took this board action we're now really looking at if we have an issue in which
059we need to have a set cost so that it's not something we're determining later we can continue to get your approval for basically what would be a charge for potential future issues and then I'm assuming too if the guidance comes back where some of this may be able to be charged yes you'll let us know and then we wouldn't have to come back to you because these costs are based off of the same process that we've been using so they should and oh I don't want to say it out loud well now but with that being said I guess do you believe this gives you the flexibility you need I do and I believe it makes a transparent process for the board and for our community and if it doesn't come back to us and
060let us know because with guidance coming just in a few days yeah and I implemented a few days after that don't hesitate to you know get back on the agenda and let us know if there's something else but but I appreciate the clarity that makes 100 sense why you're doing it and I applaud that but don't hesitate because with just a few days absolutely let us know if there's something else we need to do to help absolutely we want to do that for the board and also for the community oh absolutely absolutely thanks any other questions great question I was thinking the same thing I move that we approve I'm sorry no go ahead do I have a motion I move that we approve the 2023-2024 secondary textbook rental fees as presented thank you Mr
061Daniels do I have a second a second thank you Mr Robinson all those in favor signify by saying aye aye all those opposed motion carries four zero thank you next up is 7.7 adoption of textbook and materials for the elementary thank you Mr Alexander this evening I'm recommending the same that the board approved the 2023-2024 elementary textbooks and supplemental materials for adoption and Dr Hoover do you want to say your piece again everything everything thanks thank you Dr Hoover and the board thanks for having us this evening this evening in the elementary realm we are recommending textbooks and materials we adopted in a couple different areas and the first is actually a teacher only resource that we're bringing to you this evening from the University of Florida literacy Institute it is called you fly and
062it is not listed on this document because it is a teacher only resource and not a student forward-facing material but we wanted to make sure um like Mrs Carol fry mentioned being transparent with board and Community a resource that we are purchasing for all teachers moving forward with an assistance in phonics instructions so the youfly foundations manual is a teacher only resource which is science of reading aligned you may have heard a lot about science of reading research and this resource for teachers will be very helpful in implementing their phonics and word study in their classrooms in kindergarten Garden first second and third grade first semester so that is the first material another material that I'm recommending oh it is listed on there I see it now it says K2 reading I was looking for
063you fly um the next material is Sabbath my world and that is our social studies recommended adoption and we will be recommending the Blended version which is both a consumable and digital in grades one through three and a digital only version in grades four and five if there are any questions about the materials I guess one question I ask I'm making the Assumption these were on display and for the community to come and View and they were I usually ask that question and like sorry I feel too yeah no it was advertised and through daily we sent it to Daily Journal and I know and we usually put it on the Rotator graphic for advertising to our parents and for the first time I think in six years that I presented we had a viewer
064and we had someone set in view from public come in and so I'm happy to report that we had someone review the materials and leave some some feedback that you're welcome to see downstairs on the table with positive feedback so celebration glad we had some Community we are happy to have Community input all right well thank you any other questions about the materials do I have a motion I make a motion for adoption of textbook and materials for elementary thank you Mr Robinson and the second by Mrs counts saw those in favor signify by saying aye all those opposed motion passes 4-0 thank you next up we get to approve the fees for the Elementary yes all right great that's um let's see we've celebrated our all of our students and we fed our students
065and now let's get books in the hands of our students so last but not least um this evening I would like to recommend the board approval for our curricular costs and the fees of Elementary textbooks they remain comparable to last school year on the 22-23 school year and the decrease in which is always good to hear in that the decrease in kindergarten through second grade is largely due to a non-renewal of a reading supplemental app and that was through a lot of feedback feedback and communication with teachers the increases represented in grades three through five are due to the three-year re-adoption of social studies and a slight increase to the art materials fee okay any questions about the fees do I have a motion I move that we approve the 2023-2024 elementary textbook rental and
066fees as presented thank you Mr Daniels do I have a second second thank you Mr Robinson we have a motion in a second all those in favor signify saying aye all those opposed motion passes 4-0 next up 7.9 approved the 2023-2024 school calendar thank you Mr Alexander this evening I'm recommending that the board approved the 2023-2024 school calendar that ends Before Memorial Day [Laughter] clarification it was clarification more clarification it wasn't anything else no but Mr Taylor will provide you with some additional information we're recommending the following changes to the 2023-2024 school calendar we'd like to begin the school year with one performance qualified waiver day that would be on August 2nd and this would be used for teacher and Service as well as support staff training this would now make the first student day
067August 3rd 2023 we would also like to begin the second semester with one additional performance qualified waiver day again future learning Department along with Dr Nelson are working on the content of that but it'll be focused on staff and service type material and then the last thing we'd like to do is add an early release on May 22nd 2024. that's the Wednesday before Memorial Day that week and what we'd like to do with that is give our principals a time it's not going to be dedicated to plc's can be dedicated to celebrating the school year something they brought to us as a suggestion in the in the past years we've been giving teachers flexibility at the end of the year on that final half day and the principals asked to find some time that we
068could celebrate the year because they lost that when we offered that flexibility so this is a nice way to do it it doesn't change the calendar that that dramatically and by that time of year parents are already well in the mold of what an early release is on that final week so those are the really three changes and then the change of the first student day that we're recommending for next school year any questions for Mr Taylor or Dr Taylor sorry I gotta get used to Dr Taylor I like what you did on May 22nd because I know the teaching World sometimes we celebrate things on May 15th and then have eight more days and I will I know I said it before we'll say it again uh right you know we will go to
069school we plan to go to school on the day of the eclipse so I believe that is worth repeating so yeah I'll clarify that just a little bit so there's a scheduled eclipse for central Indiana it is the Monday following our spring break we believe the eclipse is a very educational and beneficial opportunity that we do want to provide to our students and it will come at a time of day where we can accommodate it keeping student safety in mind and I I share that because there will be school districts around us who are closing some of their communities are having festivals and things like that so it makes sense but for us it just makes sense for us to go to school I appreciate that thank you Dr arkanov and Dr Taylor any other
070questions about the 20 23 2024 calendar all right do I have a motion calendar thank you Mrs council do I have a second off Mr Robinson gives us a second all those in favor signify by saying aye all those opposed motion passes 4-0 all right announcements uh tomorrow May 26 is the last day for students June 4th at 2 o'clock is that correct High School graduation uh June 9th Dr arkanov will become the president of the Indiana Association of public school superintendents that's a pretty big honor and and distinction there sir thank you I know I'll be attending the lunch as everybody else available at 10 to attend very good all for doing that yeah uh June 22nd we have an executive session at 6 p.m uh in the regular followed by the regular board
071meeting at 7 pm and then immediately following the board meeting on the 22nd we will do our second good for The Grove immediately following the board meeting and then one change we changed the November uh board meeting from the the 30th of the 28th that week I thought we were going to confirm dates what's going to move that one we we're okay it's the November 20th and correct me was that a good for the Grove yes we will move the good for the Grove as well from a Thursday to the Tuesday correct correct from the 30th to the 28th and all right next up board member superintendent comments uh Mrs couch Mr Robinson I just want to say um thanks I want uh Mr Alexander told me that I would be very busy in May
072in April and I just want to say it's been wonderful we have so many great things going on in the school corporation and I've been over here three four five times a week and just like the Simon Youth Foundation uh robotics the senior engineering presentations and then that art department when they had that art show in the uh West gym and all nine schools were together with this outstanding so I just went to General Public to know how wonderful Center Grove is in all areas thank you Mr Robinson Mr Daniels I think it's well said and you know I think it's been a successful year for the kids for the teachers for everybody else let's have a safe summer and get back at it next year ditto um I was at the Johnson County Redevelopment
073convention meeting this past week and um continued growth along I-69 as a big topic of conversation expect more to come on that um unfortunately a lot of that area has already been tiffed so we will unfortunately not be able to realize all the revenue from the things that will be going in along the I-69 Corridor but I think there's some exciting things for the county to come there and I think I mentioned it before they're moving further down the path with the project at Smith Valley and I got it called I-69 now I guess because my mapping program calls it I-69 but um a hotel a Cracker Barrel and a Casey's gas station is tend to lose a Slater to go in there so good place for breakfast meeting uh yeah I'm expecting similar types
074of developments at each of the exits so more to come Dr arkanov any comments nothing else tonight other than it was a great evening I always loved this time and I want to thank the board and the administrators for their hard work today it's kind of been a long day for the board we started at two o'clock this afternoon had a work session where we gave some input on the equity plan in the 24-25 calendar and with that we are adjourned