001um correctly listed in the agenda for those who signed up to speak during public participation you have the option this evening to either speak during the public participation or at during the hearing I will open up the hearing on the the special hearing on those two topics for public comment so you have your choice on if you want to speak then or if you want to speak during public participation it's just it's a matter of where we record the comments and the minutes of the of the meeting so first up on the agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God and indivisible with liberty and justice for all and next up on the
002agenda this evening is recognitions and we have two Jacobs educator award adoption of the agenda oh I'm sorry I skipped adoption to the agenda did that last meeting too yeah do I have a motion Mr President I move we adopt the agenda for the April 11 2023 regular school board meeting is adopted and presented hi second thank you we have a motion in a second all those in favor signify by saying aye aye all those opposed motion passes 5-0 thank you sorry next up is recognition um we have two Jacobs educator Award winners with us this evening and I'm going to turn this over to Dr arkanov thank you sure and see who um who's our we have Aaron I thought we had our principles so I'm sorry there we go thank you Katie yes
003Katie there you are all right Katie would you come up and introduce our award winners please thank you okay so I'm initially going to introduce our award winner I'm going to introduce somebody else very important to our school district first and then she gets to introduce our fabulous Award winners so my name is Katie Brennan I'm the coordinator of connected learning and I am humbled to work alongside some of the most amazing Educators in the state and the Jacobs award is a very prestigious award for technology integration in the classroom and we have two Elementary Educators in our district that received that award we also have not many people know and existing Jacobs educator that works in our district it's Amanda Moore she's our Innovation coach and she works over at The Innovation Center and
004she supports computer science and stem K-12 throughout the district she came to us two years ago and she has been shaking things up since she showed up here and we are so grateful to have her and I believe Amanda is a big part of the reason we are starting to see so many really cool things happening in our classrooms so Amanda would you please talk a little bit about the award and then introduce our two Award winners hi I'm Amanda um I am so excited that two of our teachers get to be recognized as Jacob's Educators the Jacobs award is really focused around teachers using technology in their classroom and it is a national award so even though it's awarded by Indiana University teachers throughout the nation can be award recipients so the really cool
005thing about the Jacobs award is that teachers are not only recognized but then they're given the opportunity to create a product that can then influence other teachers and pre-service teachers also to help spread their knowledge so I'd like to talk for just a moment about our two Jacobs Educators if you guys both want to come up that'd be great so we have we have Katie Jones and Aaron Brown Katie was recognized for her use of computer science in the classroom this year she has done some really cool projects including integrating robots into her classroom to do things like creating a parade and also learning the basics of coding both with robots and through scratch and Aaron has been recognized this year for her use of technology in the classroom by using both hyperdocs and some
006other means to help her students follow along with what they're doing in class and also take ownership of their learning in order to advocate for themselves so congratulations Katie and Aaron you are so so deserving of this award [Applause] yeah oh wow congratulations ladies all right next up we have a presentation this evening from our partners at the Johnson County Public Library talk about the summer reading program hi everybody my name is Kelly Staton and County Public Library up on the screen is our 2022 year-end review for our explore summer program and I actually have some packets for the board members um you'll find that infographic in there as well as the library's year in review some upcoming programs and our current Library program guide just a couple things that we want to highlight from
0072022 at jcpl we continue to check out more than one million items that are four branches every year and all over the county jcpel is making a difference in connecting our residents with resources and learning opportunities The Early Childhood Learning Centers at the White River branch and the Franklin branch have been remodeled a little bit and we're going to also redo the area at Trafalgar to make it similar to the new Clark Pleasant Play and Learn space we also started story times for families at the Bargersville town hall to try to bring some Library services to their Community we had a huge early literacy learning festival called the read to me Jamboree and we also collaborated with Johnson County Community Foundation Aspire and did a Arts based scavenger hunt last summer called the Great Arts
008Quest so as you can see explore summer will be starting in May it runs May 15th to July 31st and we would love for any Center Grove student to join last year we had over 5 000 people register and our goal this year is six thousand so as a community we read over three million minutes together and we're hoping to hit that goal and exceed that again in 2023 so another fun thing that we did with the program is we had a school competition and I think Creekside in Franklin won we would like for any of the elementary schools to join the school competition in the Center Grove School District and have a friendly little reading competition between the schools and the winner of that will receive a thousand dollars worth of something for your
009school so Creekside picked some equipment for their morning announcements last year so so if you could push that out to your students we'd love to see them involved and then we'll also have our regular prizes we'll have a Great Wolf Lodge getaway vacation package for our grand prize winner and then we have some Zoo tickets to give away if you hit your reading goal and want to keep reading so just a couple other programs to highlight we have two New York Times best-selling authors coming in May one is a young adults Prince award-winning author Angeline Bowie and then we also have Jack Carr who was a Navy SEAL and he writes the terminal list which is now on Amazon and stars Chris Pratt we'll have sharks from the Newport Aquarium a big teen event called
010random fandom we'll have an author panels some cosplay contests and fun things like that for the teens and then children's book character Lyle Crocodile is visiting and then we'll close out the summer with pool parties at the Franklin pool so anybody can register for explore summer even all you adults in the room so we'd love for you to join us and read with us and keep learning All Summer Long thank you for your time and allowing me to come talk about jcpl and our summer learning program [Applause] all right next on the agenda is public comments and and like I said if Mr Fox or Mr poor Mr Rodman want to speak now or at the hearing I'll give you guys you gentlemen the option okay as well please okay fantastic thank you next up
011on the agenda is the consent agenda do I have a motion thank you Mr Russell do I have a second we have a motion and a second all those in favor signify by saying aye all those opposed motion passes 5-0 thank you all right next up under action items 8.1 of approval of the 1028 determination hearing for the wellness center construction and multi-filled multi-facility construction and renovation Improvement products prod product projects Dr arcanov thank you Mr Alexander this evening I'm recommending that the board approve the 1028 determination hearing for the wellness center construction and multi-facility construction renovation and in uh renovation and Improvement projects so this this has been a a hearing that's been appropriately advertised and with that I I will turn it over to you to open up the here all right I
012now open this public hearing I'd like to turn it over to Dr long and Mr Taylor is it Mr Taylor this evening to present the project the financing on the project and the actions we're taken this evening thank you Mr Alexander um we won't go through too much on the presentation um we did do that at the February meeting again this is two projects if you want to go down to the slide with just the finances on it for me thank you it's a Wellness Center to be located just off Morgantown Road and a what a multi-use athletic space to be located off Trojan Lane is that still what it's called Dr Long at that spot um these projects both um can be constructed underneath the limit for a Geo bond that makes a little
013different than what we've done in the past some of our building projects obviously are much larger and require a full outright building lease and a separate bonding process for these though they're going to stay under that the statutory limit is 6.1 million and we're also including some other purchases Replacements upgrades soft costs loose finishing improvements and even land acquisition in these bonds some other miscellaneous projects that just our operations fund won't support and so uh Miss Howard has nicely put the kind of the break down to the two Bonds on the screen for you just a quick reminder as we scroll through go down two more slides for me this this maintains a level tax rate as it has for our other projects we were able to add this project in by other debt that's
014falling off it also keeps our tax rate we're still one cent lower than we were last year and we actually are fourth now in the county as you'll see behind Franklin Clark Pleasant and Edinburgh and the in relation to tax rate um last slide just real quick the project schedule tonight's we had the preliminary determination Hearing in February tonight's the final determination um we will follow that with an Appropriations hearing this evening and then we will look to do bids Dr long will take care of the next few steps here with taking bids and completing the workforce first Bond payments would start in 2025 and these are shorter term bonds they're not full length like a normal building project and we'll repay these back more similar to what we do in the fall when we
015do our maintenance and Technology bonds I think that's all I had to share Mr Alexander thank you Mr Taylor this is the appropriate time for members of the public to comment on the Wellness Center con Wellness Center construction the multi-fility multi-facility construction renovation Improvement projects and the information presented this evening are the members of the public president who would like to comment start you should come up to the come up to the microphone and name and address please hi I'm Bart Fox and I live at 5087 Center Brook Trace right across the street I I border the entire western edge of of the wellness project and I sent the board members an email we worked together with the the building committee on the an issue with the maintenance facility next door a much much smaller
016project and you know I was a little disappointed with how that went so um you know but I sent them those details and you know I I'd have to give that a d-minus I don't know if any of you read that email if you would give it a little higher grade or not um so my concern is you know if you're going to send if we're going to spend 6 million and I know we've got that limit but what we need to do to build this Wellness Center correctly you know I have a lot of friends and family that are teachers and and I hope they use the facility and you know Center Grove has a lot of great students and I mean I hope that we can build this and build it right and
017you know if it's six million's enough I don't know you know cost inflation cost overruns and that type of thing yeah but there were there were some Corners that were cut you know and I won't I don't want to dwell on the history but you know one of the things that you know we we were concerned so we showed up when when they had to go before the board of uh zoning appeals to get a variance and uh and one of the ideas was you know well there was a pledge made that that Landscaping would be done at 20-foot border and uh you know the the Landscaping is you know it looks more like a roll-off dumpster than than Landscaping so um that's why I felt like I needed to come here you know we
018got this big project I you know I don't know it 2 000 feet of Border along here and and the the project started you know you have to go and get drainage approval and we get a lot of drainage runoff naturally across the property already and we had a two inch rain March 3rd and I don't know where the rain is going to go because of all the the volume of the impervious surface area that that this Project's going to create so my concern is that you know we want to make sure we spend enough money that it that we can do proper drainage and and I have other environmental concerns you know lights you know the LED lights are as bright as ever and sometimes you know lights shine like this and you know
019proper lighting I know Greenwood you know the Johnson County is very relaxed and we don't have proper modern lighting restrictions but you know I would hope as a school community that we could do proper lighting you know on proper lighting it all points down you know lighting pollution it all goes up and and I I object to the design of the building you know they're putting 50 cars and half of those are 20 feet from my property line so um you know there's concern that you know and if they don't do any Landscaping which they have history of skipping you know cutting some corn or so so I'm concerned there and uh you know but I you know I I would hope that we can get this project and give it an A and or
020B plus or B when we're done you know that that's all I ask I you know whatever my taxes are going up 36 percent so you know as far as I'm concerned let's let's throw more money at it and I know you know you got that six million dollar limit but you get cost overruns and that type of thing so I I just wanted to say a few words that you know we can do better and I'm sure with the bigger project it'll get watched more closely and and a better job will be done so thank you thank you Mr Fox um one one comment I might encourage you to get time with Dr long to get into the specific concerns you have about the maintenance facility in this project I do know that when
021I reviewed the plans there's a retention Bond in the plan in the southwest corner of the property I I'm not exactly right I'm sure that came from drink drink uh the drain was born yeah sorry um which I sent and you know you have a professional engineer and they send this map in the regular and it's going to be real hard to see but you've got this fancy drainage area here but the runoff runs right into it so when the engineer in charge of the project it's important drainage is important doesn't consider existing water the pathway that that's a concern so you know just kind of we just need to kind of check on who we hire and make sure that they're on site I it appeared that the engineering and the drainage was done
022without an on-site visit you know you can see the where the grass is leaning over in the natural pathway of the water and it seems like they've got to overlooked part part of that's not on our property part of that's on the uh the Kensington Grove side but our engineer is a licensed engineer took the plan through the drainage board and and got it approved and he said we would try to capture that water that's not on our property but we'd try to capture that and hold that in the retain each Pond that that we're going to construct and you know maybe the board knows but you know when we build a project our requirement is to to to to have runoff be less than it is normally and to to capture that at a
023hundred year flood rate and so you know the the plans that we developed are that our Engineers developed for us and had approved by the County engineer and by the the planning are by the the the drainage board meet all those requirements that Johnson County has and we should see an improvement over there thank you Mr Buck I think that's all uh Mr poor thank you my name is Keith poor I'm a taxpayer I live at 5186 Cave Court Greenwood uh I want you to know that I met with the Administration and School Board this week earlier and they assured me that the Wellness Center was a valuable need for the teachers and the administrative staff for this thing I had concerns in the February meeting that uh the teachers and staff wouldn't use this
024facility in that greater numbers they assured me that there is plenty of use for this so I have to believe what they are telling me one thing for clarification here I noticed that we have two two things here on the agenda are we voting are you voting are these separate deals I thought that one deal was for the wellness center and the other was for the uh Sports field yeah that's the current action that is do the Appropriations for spending that money okay yeah all right so so after listening to them what they had to say and tell me I sort of have to agree that maybe this is a good project for uh and it will help retention of teachers and they will move forward so that we can have a good school system
025here then going on to the second item on the agenda here that is the sports package I still have a few thoughts about that do we build more Sports or do we build more academics I I think the it's nice to play golf it's nice to play softball I enjoy watching it on TV I enjoy it immensely but now when it comes down to putting the money where you really need to put the money let's build an academic situation such as the robotics place get that done and then look at doing a softball and golf hitting range uh I don't uh I'm I'm just a taxpayer out here I just want to see the taxes that all of us pay teachers principles everybody else pay goes to getting a quality education for these students thank
026you thank you Mr pork Mr Rodman yeah yeah okay we're a united front today Matt Rodman I live at 2549 Baywood Court here in Greenwood with me kale Hoover 3489 Streamside Drive Alyssa Coleman Speedway okay um I uh this isn't even so I'm a teacher here as well I teach Middle School over at Skinner Center of Middle School Central I'm here mostly to speak uh we I'm the high school boys golf coach High School varsity girls golf coach and High School girls softball coach so originally I was here to speak totally to that project but I do feel the need to address the wellness center as well and I I know from the constant fluctuation in turnover rate that we are experiencing just in my building alone at Middle School Central uh that the ways
027to the new teachers are looking for ways to be attracted to a school system and a project like a Wellness Center that has an exercise area and an ability for physical therapy is something that they are actually coming in because I've set in those interviews and things that they are asking for during those interviews so not just from a personal I have my own son we struggle to get into the Wellness Center here because the hours and the timing is crazy so to have some something like that is something we will use but I guarantee you it is something that will attract new teachers and New Quality staff members so that we don't have that constant turnover that we are experiencing at the moment but anyways the point I was really here for was to
028talk about the the indoor hitting facility so I have been the head boys golf coach now for seven years and during that seven year time we have seen an exponential growth in the amount of athletes that are participating in our program both at the middle school and the high school level and we have currently run out of the the space that we have available to use we are the one unique Athletic non-athletic program that we have no physical space on schools campus to do what we need to do we have attempted to use the indoor practice facility the Student Activity Center to hit to hit balls into the Nets are not made for impact resistant we left giant welts on them the one time we did it so we stopped because we didn't want to
029to ruin the the the nature of the building we have attempted to use the upper balconies to set up and pull out Nets and put them away every time but the 45 minutes that that takes takes away from the two hour limit that we're allowed to practice with them so we lose quality practice time when we're just setting up and taking down equipment because we have to take it down every time because they do need the academic space at the high school so just those simple things first of all we are lucky enough that now we have a great great relationship with the local golf courses that we have however golf is getting more and more popular it's one of the very few things that boomed during covet Golf and it just takes the snap
030for the golf courses to say hey we have to limit your space your time your ability to practice here so that all and we would have to say yes because we are at their beck and call every time we do what they tell us to do and we're the only sport that has to do and deal with that kind of a situation it doesn't even take into account some of the the more simple things golf is a sport that last week we were practicing Well we'd had tryouts and it was about 35 degrees and snowing so we needed an indoor space to try and use we have a lot of meetings in his room and but you run out of times for meetings to talk about the golf rules and then we will get to
031now our wonderful spring rainy season where we will miss on average eight to ten practices a season because of the weather the lightning can't really hold a golf club out in lightning but we just we're losing it the the quality time to practice with I I'm a person that I have always made every decision in my field teaching and coaching that what is uh student centered that's my Mantra in philosophy and I feel like doing things like that is being a student-centered decision selfishly currently all of my golf equipment is housed in my garage because I also have no place to put anything all of our practice training equipment the extra golf bags all the golf balls I know my wife would really appreciate it if I could have a place an actual coach's office
032to put those things but that's just selfishly and that's not a student-centered thing so that's not the big driving Factor here there are some members of the boys program and parents that are here as well I just asked them to come out and support because they feel just as passionately about that as we do that this really will we have a golf program that in seven years has had two state titles two State Runners up and we're just trying to continue to compete with all of the groups that are having the same access to these kinds of facilities that we need to to continue our our competitive nature and to give the kids the access they deserve I'll finish just by saying because there is a financial component our program spends thousands of dollars on
033a yearly basis to try and find access to an indoor facility and that is coming out of fundraising that we're doing ourselves but also from the parents Pockets because we can't adequately provide them a space to do it on campus thank you um the only thing I have to add is it's going to help every program the space is limited and as band and everything that's coming including the robotics everyone's fighting for space so our program goes in the morning and off season just to get the adequate space so it's truly not just helping our programs but every student athlete and and academic student there to get the means that they need and want um because we are expanding we're exploding it's it's great but the space is is needed for everyone's sake so that
034they can get the quality time that he mentioned that they need thank you thank you are there any other members of the public who like to speak come up to the microphone and name and address please name is Jamie beats 3270 greensview Drive I didn't prepare anything I didn't know I was going to come up here actually today but uh I just want to say as a parent they've already done a really good job the coaches have of speaking about the programs and what what their needs are and I think they've done a really good job of thinking this through and put a lot of time and effort into it and I've been a part of it in terms of just listening to what coach Rodman and Coach Hoover have told me about this and
035I think it's a great opportunity the time is now to do it speaking as a parent the fact that they're able to coordinate this between Golf and softball I think is a really big win not only for for these programs and the fact that the coaches work together like that and came up with this is a is a great great credit to them so I appreciate what they do I appreciate what the board does as well and just speaking as a parent the taxpayer had two kids graduate from Center Grove one played volleyball one played golf and he's playing at Marion University right now and if it wasn't for golf I don't know if he would be at Marion in that situation and it's doing well in school and I think coach Rodman coachever and
036the other coaches here really push the academic along with the athletic piece of this so you from a parent standpoint I think they do a great job and I think they've thought this through so I'm just here to support them and support the kids and just say I think this is uh is the right time to do this if we wait it's just going to get more expensive so yeah that's that's all I have to say thank you thank you yes sir hi my name is Chris Herrmann I live at 236 Runyan Court here in Greenwood and I am here to talk in support of the facility I am also the president of the Center Grove Lassie Lake just down the street in Morgantown so um I'm going to speak specifically to to why I
037think this is important for for young women I know as the president we're a non-profit we get no City money it's tough to get sponsors it's tough to get things and for women young women and and to to empower young women to to look at the same types of facilities maybe that that other people have that men that young men have uh and so building this facility um and Coach Coleman and the other coaches coach who were taught they spoke about um you know why it's important about space but but I believe it's it's a lot about equality and showing our young women specifically in the softball Arena girls golf that this the school the corporation that the community cares about women's sports and and are willing to put in the money and the time
038and the effort into supporting those types of things and I'm all for academics I'm all for for you know band and before whatever but I think this is the time and you know Center Grove's got a great tradition we we literally have the largest uh Rec program in the state right down the street we continually put through um Quality kids into the into this program that bring five state championships five five runner-ups we've got an amazing New Field and facility that a lot of colleges would be very very proud of uh and and so what I want to just kind of finish with is is that I think it's just important that the community support the women the young women and show them that we're behind them thank you thank you any other members of
039the public I now close this public hearing are there board members who have any comments or questions Mr President let me just add some curriculum wise we are building um numerous new rooms at both middle schools you will see this uh summer the elementary that was my elementary and all my siblings went through is going to be coming down to make room for a multi-level curriculum Rooms To Go in for the high school there and we are in search already for another place for a new Elementary so we are trying our best and taking care of and I will add to that also within the high school that you may not see when you drive by but each hallway has gotten upgrades or we've rearranged things there if you've never been in there and seen
040our art Department you really ought to ought to see that it's it's better in most colleges that we are working on our curriculum things because that is our first thing that we do here at Center Grove but also uh as a community and as a board we have to look at what is that well-rounded situation to have for the students who come through here they all have different interests and likes and things so we do our best to provide for all those different things and I will tell you as far as our sporting things you know at my age I have a lot of friends at other schools and when they come over with their grandkids uh they're they're just they're I wouldn't say they're in awe but they just really appreciate all our sporting
041facilities and how well they're put together for the kids to play on because they don't have that at their schools a lot of them so I'm very proud of that but I would remind everybody that that is our job is the well-roundedness that we can do for kids and the most opportunities we can do for those kids because we just have many many situations for the kids that come here at Center Grove thank you Mr Russell I just have a couple things to add I guess I I like what I hear Lassie League come up and talk about opportunities for young women I had two daughters that played volleyball and basketball and I was on volleyball you know Dad in the stands and basketball board and coached way too many games but loved every minute
042of it so I'm glad to hear that and you know we it's important the board is important to the community to educate the entire child we talk about that a lot and educating the entire child is providing additional opportunities and just because we're building going to vote on building a couple of facilities here one being a heavy facility one being a Wellness Center Mr Russell makes a wonderful point we're also looking to expand academics we rejected a robotics proposal that came to us not because we don't want to build it but because it came in over budget so we're looking for a way to still build it within our means another thing that's important in here is school buses we're going to be moving school buses from a from our operations fund and funding it
043a different way to try to free up some additional money for operations funds that hopefully we can use in a very positive way to help to help our our many our our staff and our our others that are employees of the school so I appreciate everybody's comment I also want to build it right I appreciate your comments and I appreciate the warnings from what you said happen with the last facility and I I also want to get an A minus B plus heck I want to get an A on everything we build but don't think just because we approve one building doesn't mean we're not looking at the next don't think because as a growing District we've got to put the kids somewhere we've got to put the people somewhere and I think we do
044a pretty darn good job of that so I thank everybody for speaking tonight but I don't want to lose focus on educating the entire child any other comments yes so I I raised um 2018 my son graduated and he was baseball so he had a great facility I have a seventh grader who's travel softball so I'm also raising softball and um so I'm excited to see the same you know opportunity that my son had given to my daughters as well so but I would really I know Dr long is going to kill me but I would love for you two to stick around because I have a question for you after the board meeting sorry but you know what I'm going to talk to her about so anyway that's awesome it's going to create work
045for you Dr long I suspect that's what's about to happen all right any additional comments all right seeing none do I have a motion a movie do what it says Mr President I move we approve the 1028 determination hearing for wellness center construction and multi-facility construction renovation Improvement projects second thank you we have a motion and the second all those in favor signify by saying aye all those opposed the motion passes 5-0 we did not close the hearing yes I did you did I'm sorry I missed that I closed it okay I didn't hear you say it okay okay just as long as you did it I did hearings always cause a wrinkle in the in the meeting says we don't do them at every meeting so all right 8.2 additional appropriation hearing and resolutions
046for the wellness center Construction multi-facility Construction renovation Improvement projects Mr Quackenbush can we figure out how to condense those names then Dr arcanov thank you Mr Alexander this evening I'm recommending that the board approved the resolution confirming lease approving Insurance of the bonds and resolution approving additional Appropriations and Mr Taylor will provide you with some additional information yes as Mr Alexander reported Out Mr welcome bush is with us as well he has prepared these documents for us this is the step the second step to this process so all the work up until this what I need to open the public I'm so sorry I'll now open this public hearing and turn it over to to Mr Taylor to present the financing Jeff's over there now just prepare these documents for us this is a two-step
047process everything up at this point has just been a conceptual are we okay with building these facilities with this money now is it really given the school corporation the authority and the administration to spend this money and this will be put on record with State Board of accounts as Appropriations for these projects um the documents have been prepared for the board they're they're in this very similar format to what we've signed in the past any questions you may have thank you Mr Taylor this is the appropriate time for members of the public to comment on the bonding for the project are there any comments about the financing or the bonding okay um I now close this public hearing to catch up you closed it right yeah I did are there any oh I'm sorry are
048there any board members who have questions or comments can I still comment after you yes yeah that's the last bullet point yes you know you're the attorney so I the only comment I would make is one of the things we did prior to the meeting tonight we met with the building Corporation and we actually um assigned the documents to refinance some of our older bonds because the interest has uh gotten much better than when we signed those bonds 10 years ago yeah 15 years ago definitely so Mr qualcombush and his team along with Mr Taylor always looking at opportunities even on some of the older bonds that we have out there to refinance those and I'm sure they've got some kind of review cycle that that they do these on but as we as we
049look at Future projects and those types of things those are always those types of activities are always going on in the background and I'd like to thank Mr qualcombush for keeping tabs on all that for us so every Bond we sell has a call date this one happened to be 15. we would have loved to have sold it last year at this time when interest rates were lower but we still were able to save some money in the upcoming years for for any future projects we may have or in our debt service account and we are looking at current bonds that we sell to keep that call day to 10 years or less if we can so that in hopes that interest rate would be lower at that time than it is currently all right
050do I have a motion Mr President I moved to approve the resolution confirming lease approving the issuance of the bonds and resolution approving additional appropriation thank you Mr Robinson we have a motion and a second all those in favor signify by saying aye all those opposed motion passes five zero thank you all right announcements April 24th 2023 we have a special board meeting at 7 A.M here in the boardroom May 25th we have an extended executive session that begins at 2 p.m and on May 25th we have our regular board meeting that begins at 7 pm are there any board member reports this evening Mr Russell just to figure out how I'm going to be here okay no scouts [Music] I know that our Education Foundation um I'm sure she's maybe still has tickets left
051for us to join her at the gala so um and I'll be there as well I know a lot of our everybody will be here so join us please support our teachers and and that's going to be a great time April 22nd thank you I forgot that yeah Mr Robinson anything Steven nothing to save me um one other thing for me it's not your turn yet okay okay um the Johnson County Redevelopment commission um at our at our last meeting there was continued conversation about um the projects at Smith Valley and I guess I got to call it 69 now I gotta get out of the habit of using 37. at 69 and 37. um there's there's still the Johnson County Redevelopment commission is still moving forward with the project for the gas station the
052Cracker Barrel in the hotel at that interchange once that interchange is done and it's in that tiffed area through there I mean that whole area is tough so I think Bargersville is continuing to Tiff areas too yes so yes so more to come the good news is I haven't heard anything about apartments yeah so I think we're going to hold off on those for a little while anyway yeah that's not dark enough one thing I have is Dr Nelson if you could are you still in here yeah would you share a little bit about our signing ceremony coming up I just think that's really fun so um on Tuesday May 9th we are going to have a future Educators by me ceremony we have 19 Summer Grove High School seniors that that going on to
053college sure and so just like we do with our athletes we're going to be signing our future Educators and their contract is giving them an option trying to do our own grow our own program it will be here at ESC starting at 4 30 and you welcome anybody to show up to um that would be supporting our students and community thank you anything else Dr arkanov that's it sir thank you all right well you're adjourned