001the agenda is the pledge and we'd like to bring up mr proctor would you like me to introduce him please yeah absolutely so we have a gentleman that has moved to middle school but obviously in august it's hard to pick out of 700 kids who would be a star student but we wanted to recognize tyler houston this morning today so tyler come on up we'll do the pledge and then i'll continue on real quick i told him i would do the pledge with him i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty so while he's standing up here um in may we created our first jason mueller perseverance encourage award tyler was our first recipient so i'm
002just going to read through the words of what we identified our perseverance and courage award winner he did receive a nice little trophy his parents are here in attendance as well nathan and angie and he has a brother who looks just like him still in my school so brother has to fall in some big steps so this award i obviously also misses uh mueller's here mom barb and jason's dad mike are also in attendance and following this we also have susan miles from riley because it kind of connects as well so this award is in memory of our good friend mr jason mueller who lost his hard fat fart hard-fought battle with cancer at the beginning of the school year as i sat with him many times during his journey i always remember him saying
003that life is way too short but just because it is hard you never give up today i see and hear these words more than ever when we stop and think about what life throws at us in the blink of an eye perseverance it's defined as being persistent and doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success what is the true meaning of courage mental or moral strength to venture persevere and withstand danger fear or difficulty mr mueller was an incredible dad husband friend teacher and inspiration he demonstrated perseverance and courage throughout his entire journey in life as a as basketball hall of famer michael jordan once said obstacles don't have to stop you if you run into a wall don't turn around and give up figure out how to climb it get through it or
004work around it when thinking about students in the school perseverance is a necessary trait of all successful students successful students refuse to give up on achieving a goal despite obstacles or difficulties they value hard work and take responsibility for their academic success one who perseveres don't give up don't ever give up the phrase i can't do it is not part of their vocabulary you try to do the best in everything you do even if it doesn't come easy you give your absolute best tyler knows how to connect with everyone around them whether they are an adult or peer he's a he's not only a strong student but most of all he is genuinely kind if something needs to be done in the classroom whether helping out another student or running an errand tyler would rise
005to the top he is a positive role model in and out of the classroom he is a respected leader in the classroom and works hard to always treat others fairly our recipient of the jason mueller perseverance and courage award is an all-around great candidate for this award tyler truly encompasses the wildcat way he is a trustworthy and kind young man he looks out for others and helps those in need he is not afraid to speak up against what is wrong and do what is right even when it is tough he has shown leadership by giving up recess throughout the year to assist in the art room you could tell the impact that he has on the kindergarten students that he mentors he took a break from helping for a few weeks and when he returned
006the classroom erupted but with joy because the young students really look up to him i'm very proud of him and will truly miss him when he goes to middle school he exhibits all of our monthly character traits and is a consistent and all of them he he's a continual role model to his peers and shows maturity beyond his years he is an all-around good kid he is smart kind and athletic these are just a few of the words and phrases that our staff had for him it was with great honor that i had the chance to recognize our 2022 jay simular perseverance and courage award winner this past may tyler houston [Applause] well i just want to say i'm very honored for this award and um for the little time that i spent with jason
007mueller he was a very good coach and i liked all the traits about him and i yeah i'm proud of myself and i'm glad that i did the things i did and i hope my brother gets this award right up here up here and just uh since we have since i haven't been on this microphone with you guys in probably six years um we also we also have susan miles here um she would like to present something as well between north or i'm sorry i almost said well north grove but walnut grove and sugar grove so susan miles would you please come up thank you i'm honored to be here this evening i had an opportunity to work with jason mueller for many many years through his work with student councils and bringing hits to
008riley and really teaching them to think outside themselves and work on behalf of others so it's quite an honor for me to show you this wonderful license plate the schools came together to sponsor a red wagon in jason's honor they will be traveling the halls at riley hospital for children so this is wonderful people throughout the the building this is the main method of transportation um at riley so this is quite an honor and i have a plate for um walnut girl this evening and i also have one for you as well so that's all thank you very much thank you thank you susan brown next one the agenda is to adopt the agenda [Music] has been made seconded to adopt the adopted judges president excuse me all in favor say aye aye anyone opposed
009motion passes next on the agenda is reports thank you mr hubbard this evening we have a report from community health and behavioral health services and let's see who we have coming up thank you yes becky okay becky thank you yes good evening my name is becky mills i am a program manager for community health network school-based services and i'm here to just report on how things have been going since our partnership which went into effect july 1 of 2020. um and i am um goodness maybe you might have to oh thank you i am happy to report that while we started services or our partnership with community two years ago um we started with one therapist and one life skills clinician and uh it was really exciting the other day we were sitting at our
010team meeting and we were like a crowd sitting around a large table which was really nice compared to where we were two years ago but just to speak to where we've how far we've come in the last year we started out the last school year the 2021-2022 school year with five therapists and four life skills clinicians and we have grown to have seven therapists and four life skills clinicians at the end of the school year but even since then which is really exciting to me we've actually added a couple more life skills clinicians so we are currently starting out this school year with seven therapists um six of them are full-time one of them is part-time um five of them are clinically licensed which that's huge if um if you guys um if everyone understands
011the difference between a clinically licensed therapist and a licensed therapist what that means is they can work with any payer and so that means that more students are served more students have the ability to be served which is really exciting for us so five of them five of our therapists are clinically licensed um and then two of them are licensed it's not clinically licensed all of our staff are working towards clinical licensure that's an expectation of our job it does take two years of supervision to obtain that licensure so um our staff who are not clinically licensed are working towards that and then we have seven life skills clinicians right now so we do have one open therapist position so that would put us at eight therapists which is really exciting for me almost at
012the point where we have one per building um so we're really excited about that within the last year we served a total of 361 students which is an increase from the year before where we had served 276. our current active list of students is at 293 students right now this is a big time our staff are as you know teachers are getting to know their students um and so referrals are flowing in for sure right now we are accepting referrals at all of our schools right now there were times when we didn't have as many therapists and therefore had to put a pause on accepting new referrals so we're not at that place right now which is really exciting so that speaks to our numbers right now in terms of diagnosis served i shared this
013information last year it's actually almost exactly the same as where we were last year but just to speak to a little bit of it where we're at anxiety and depression and um the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnoses are the primary diagnoses that we're we're working with um we also have trauma related disorders do make up a number of the um students on our caseload and then other would fall under maybe some oppositional defiant disorder conduct disorder those types of disorders um so obviously the range of mental health diagnoses that we serve ace scores so ace stands for adverse childhood experiences and as you can see from this graph the green portion 17 are those individuals that we serve who have had zero um traumatic experiences that's what um the aces is measuring um and that
014scale is done at intake um the average american has four aces that they've experienced in their lifetime um and it's obviously a matter of um you know how well we're able to deal with those aces um that dictates really how resilient we we are um so we're trying to work with the students on on helping them to build that resilience have hope pathway is what community refers to as that extra level of care for those individuals who are at risk so um throughout the course of the past year well let me back up every student that we see we do a risk assessment on every single time that's community's way um we will ask them those hard questions are you having thoughts of wanting to die of wishing you weren't here 22 students throughout the
015course of the past year have been assigned to the pathway which means that they are at elevated risk and therefore need that additional support or arms wrapped around them so it might mean it might mean different things for different students but in general what it means is they're going to have more touches from our staff breakdown of pairs i mentioned earlier that we have those five clinically licensed therapists so um currently our breakdown of our caseload is 61 medicaid clients 39 private insurance that's all i have in terms of updates do you guys have any questions for me have your from when we started to now is a massive increase in numbers or a steady growth um that's a hard question to answer only because we did put a pause at one point in time
016in terms of uh being able to accept more referrals um i would say the referrals continue to fly in i mean they're con the schools are constantly asking us can you take more referrals can you take more referrals and there are times when we've said can we please prioritize maybe the most at-risk ones um and and can we look elsewhere for maybe some of those other services the problem right now is that there is no elsewhere or if there isn't elsewhere it's a wait to get in so it's difficult to answer that question in terms of numbers the other thing i will say is something that i'm continually working with my staff on is what it's not necessarily quantity and we want to be able to provide the quality care and you reach a point
017where your caseload is so high that you cannot provide that quality care so we're continually talking about are the students meeting their goals how are they working towards achieving those goals can we look at other options for discontinuing services or weaning them from services so that we can then open up space for some of those other individuals who have been referred other questions any other questions thank you very much thank you next on the agenda is public comments we got one signed up tonight william collins first yeah just try to keep it to three minutes stay on topic and direct your comments just to the board president please i'll give you a one minute warning all right okay so i've got a couple different policy revisions i would like to suggest first is the policy
018on public comments itself last year under board president then board president jack russell the board bylaws were changed to censor the rightful free speech of the public and concerned parents of center grove students this year under the now board president joe hubbard who last year stood up in this very room and made what appeared to be a very sincere speech about how this building belonged to us the public and the seat board members sit in also belonged to us and that his job as he saw it was not to parent our children or to make decisions for us but mr uh hubbard had no problem voting for mr russell's bylaw change to censor the parents of center grove in fact he's not made any efforts to end the censorship in the censorship sorry but he's
019actually increased the censorship by conveniently manipulating the verbiage required to make public comments for example agenda items like even our agenda tonight reads to only allowing public comments on action items so my proposal is uh simple roll back the unconstitutional censorship passed under jack russell's presidency voted yay by scott alexander and joe hubbard and allow the free speech of the members of the public in doing so the board would be taking a big big step towards mending fences and restoring trust and communication within the community second special interest flags last year i met with dr arkanov and then president jack russell i believe he joined the the meeting through skype or some other form of telecommunication and the school corporation's attorney where we discuss the presidents of pride presence of pride flags and sure it
020was mentioned that they were present to identify classes that were safe spaces for students being bullied what one minute that were being bullied [Music] uh by members or students who were members of the lgbtq community while i do advocate for children having safe spaces and think that bullying for any reason is abhorrent and has no place in center grove my question is why is a flag of any special interest necessary to identify specific classrooms as safe spaces why aren't all classrooms a safe space for all students why aren't all staff members an advocate for all students of any identity whether they're lgbtq christian conservative muslim indian whatever all spaces within our school district should be a safe space all staff members should be advocates for all students and lastly it's been brought to my attention
021and i've brought it to the administration's attention several classrooms have had the american flags taken down and have been replaced by tired flags if you'll indulge me just a couple more seconds that's actually against indiana law i brought that to the attention indiana code 20-30-5-0.5 states the united states flag shall be displayed in each classroom of every school in a school corporation mr president i move that we approve the consent agenda as presented motion been made and executed to approve the consent agenda items that's presented all in favor say aye aye anyone opposed motion passes thank you next on the agenda is action items 8.1 thank you this evening so this evening i'm recommending that ford approved a resolution confirming lease approving insurance of the insurance of the bonds and resolution of proving additional appropriations
022so this evening's board meeting has been appropriately advertised as an additional appropriations hearing and this evening so just call the media the hearing open you just call the hearing open we'll go ahead and call the hearing open and i think the first thing we do is provide information yes thank you dr arkanov as you shared we've appropriately advertised this hearing this is a three-step process it's a procedural step in february of 2022 the board did advertise through a 1028 hearing a construction project for sugar grove elementary school and the high school expansion and these three steps tonight one was a lease with the building corp on the corporation for the construction of these facilities the other one the other item of action will be approving issuance of bonds or bans as appropriate to fund these
023projects and at a resolution approving the additional appropriation which actually allows us to spend that money on these projects we're joined tonight by jeff quackenbush with barnes and thornburg if we have any other questions or if we made any procedural mistakes that jeff would like to correct and uh our treasurer also kathy statzer was here they both held a building court meeting prior to this meeting this evening to get some signatures are we good jeff that's why i saw the building yep so that's all i'll entertain any questions great um thank you mr taylor so uh the next thing that we do is we would open this up for any public comment on this hearing that's correct on this topic on this topic and if there's none we'll go ahead and then close the hearing
024so you'll close the hearing joe and then ask the board if they have any comments okay comments before we close the meeting now you close it and then have a pass okay so we'll close the meeting on that and then does any board members have any comments related to that now this is just part of the process after the 1028 hearing although i gotta remember it's a three-step process no not that's right okay so we'll need a um a motion this evening mr president i move that we approve the resolution confirming the least approving issuance of bonds and resolution approving additional appropriations second most been made motion been made and seconded all in favor say aye aye anyone opposed motion passes thank you thank you thank you mr hubbard this evening item 8.2 accept request
025to withdraw low bid for middle school north kitchen equipment this evening i'm recommending that the board accept withdrawing the low bid for the middle school north kitchen equipment dr long is going to provide you with some additional information thank you on july 14th of 2022 we opened bids for middle school north's addition and renovation project that time we had two bids for the kitchen equipment bid packet number eight for kitchen equipment only received two bids with stafford smith being the apparent low bid during the buying process they discovered an error in their bid and have requested to withdraw with to withdraw their bid we're recommending allowing stafford smith to withdraw their bid so little we have to open this back up to the next the next agenda item will address okay if you approve this
026one okay was this an omit omission in the spec or was this an omission in their bid it was a it was a mistake they made in their bid um what a big mistake it looks like yes 111 to 110 or 12 normal normally we catch this kind of stuff well we did do a d scope with them and and went through all that they didn't notice it again until they started ordering the equipment and with the manufacturer and i'm reading dead but correct did we open this back up for everybody to rebid we don't need to i know we don't need to but should we have well we only had two bids for that and so we're going to take the second one if the board approves this did we get an explanation was
027it just a scrivener's error was it yeah they just made a mistake transcribing the numbers i believe mr goalie's here from com hunt he he talked with them maybe jim if you wanna twenty it should have been dollars so there's a typo error on their side and obviously going to the next better the differential was less i think between the bids how time sensitive is so we went through all that equipment so we're just trying to make the best of a bad situation it makes you feel better we haven't signed the contract with them yet and there's no requirement that makes me feel better and we dollars for this kitchen equipment budget yes and i know that's our next first question we'll need a motion if there's some more questions if you guys want i'll
028move that we accept the msing wrong wrong agenda item i moved ahead i move that we approve accepting the requests withdraw the little bit for the msn kitchen equipment most been made and seconded all in favor say aye aye anyone oppose motion passes thank you 8.3 so 8.3 spoiler um so i'm recommending that you accept that uh dr long provide you with some any additional information that you might have based on the action the board just took to allow stafford smith to withdraw their bid we're recommending taking the bid from the next and only bid for kitchen equipment from cnt design and equipment the bid tabs attached to it you can see there can't be any more questions i i guess i'll ask one follow-up you said these are the two that we've been getting
029the bids from so you would assume that if we put it out to bid we'd get a bid from these two again so maybe we'd save a few dollars but it could impact schedule which may cause other cost cost issues might be more or less could go up as well yeah yeah but cnt is willing to honor this yes and i think we're time-sensitive on getting equipment who knows you know so we'll have another similar i move that we accept the bid for msn kitchen equipment most has been made and seconded all in favor say aye aye is anyone opposed motion passes thank you 8.4 thank you 8.4 this evening is the first reading for proposed policy revisions yes thank you in your packet you have a summary sheet of the first reading tonight does
030not require any board action as you'll just be reviewing them most of if not all of the revisions with the exception of one policy which i'll bring up here are mostly just clerical changes policy 0167.3 was rewritten by niola and of course the school board that is public participation at board meetings the verbiage changed as you all have reviewed probably the most significant change to the policy is in the the presiding officers shall be guided by the following rules b and anyone having a legitimate interest in action items of the board may participate during public meetings that has been taken out now it is just based on board the board agenda period anything on the board agenda all the rest of it still stands the three minutes the 15 minutes total as you can see
031in the policy revision so that's that is what is at your first reading the rest of the policy revisions are on your summary sheet so just uh wanted to make sure you saw that this does this language change complies with the new law and does open up for more conversation with the community of the whole agenda as opposed to just action items and policy zero zero one six seven point three has been viewed by legal counsel that is correct it has and neola has a whole series of attorneys that puts this together for us and yeah and of course all of you have weighed in on these but this is your first reading any other questions um you you just as a reminder to the board you can go into the board docs look at
032the policies and under drafts you'll be able to see those green line and red line changes is there any questions on any of the other policy summaries i know that was the one that had probably the most significant impact nope and there's no action to take tonight that is correct next month we'll bring it back for the second reading final hopefully final reading there the board can take action these tonight will be after after that we are done with this meeting tonight they will this packet will be open for the public to see so they can see those changes that the board will vote on in september we will be bringing in september there's already more policy updates that will be coming and our hope is to have first readings on those those are a
033lot of clerical changes too little substance mostly just clerical updates based on the recent law passing so again neola put out a packet for that that'll be next month any other questions policies okay that's all i have this evening said no no actions required thank you dr next on the agenda's announcements drugstore if you want to go over those sure um so we've got uh three announcements uh from the board this evening uh first um august 23rd 2020 that's the next week the board community tour at pleasant grove elementary that will be at 7 pm in the cafeteria again the board has asked for a minimum participation of at least i think it's 20 20 folks or so and so we have rsps rsvps out for that um if for some reason we don't get
034that we have to cancel the last one because we have limited interest in attendance then the board will send out a cancellation that'll have to that'll have to happen um by the end of business tomorrow is that correct uh because we have to advertise appropriately to cancel that meeting so if you get less to the than 20 do you send those people an individual message and say we'd be glad to meet with you individually or how did you send that out stacy went out to the whole corporation that we cancelled it and that we would and of course the board's always happy to meet with folks one-on-one or or in small groups just can't meet three at one time okay so and of course administration is always happy to meet with anyone so and next
035is september 22nd is your executive session at 6 pm here in the central office and then finally the regular board meeting in september on september 22nd at 7 p.m here in this room and i think with that that's all i have do we need to adjust the exact session for the 22nd to 5 o'clock um that would probably be good if we could do that based on the information we discussed earlier today correct um is everyone able to do that five o'clock at the next meeting at the next exit september 22nd if you can look at your calendars and make sure you can come earlier joe that's good i'll make it work you sure okay all right we will adjust that at five o'clock okay yeah tracy did you get that i did all right
036well just after 5 p.m that's all i have sir uh greenwood redevelopment commission um the greenwood continues to attract new businesses they're continuing with the revitalization of downtown quite a bit of tip money was spent on that at the last meeting so things are continuing to progress forward my appointment to that redevelopment commission was up july 1. i haven't talked to the mayor about it but i got an email asking if i wanted to recommit to that i had planned to unless the board has an objection to that i was going to have a conversation with vermonters first but i guess i do have something you reminded me i have been reappointed to isba for region 8. i sent you a picture of the new flooring um which is wonderful when you see it in
037person because it's the earlier trojan head that so many decades knew about that whole lobby there mr long dr long has done a great job they have new display cases it will really come into play i guess you can explain it better but when we build the new hallways and buildings that lobby my concern was we weren't going to have much traffic there but we will yeah so we went and saved some old trophies before they hit the waste basket so anyway it'll be a good area for the kids to see history of center grove looks good the only other additional thing i had was the reason for moving the exact session i'll be sending to the board members the information for rich's review okay once they get the rules so the board is working
038on dr arkanov's annual review i i had the pleasure of attending the ed foundation uh board meeting last night thank you uh they did get some new members uh but i thought it would be um good to maybe help jen and let you guys know that she does have a purse bingo for the ladies uh october 26th um there is a new event it's a trivia night you all smile i know i know but it's because bingo are you going i know it doesn't have to be ladies if men want to go too trivia night you know you can have some nice presents for the ladies so trivia night is the new event that they're going to host january 27th and then of course the gala for the grow or gala whatever you prefer to
039call it is april 22nd so and that's back at the indiana roof so um and then they're now preparing for their fall grant cycle too for the teachers that opens up october 1st so i don't think i missed anything but they did add some great board members last night so i wish jen good luck this year because i know it's the start of it so there you go i would like to uh i would like to let you guys know that we tonight just signed with the rotc program so congress has granted us a slot a slot so starting next year we will be doing our the army rotc here out of center grove so we're been a long time coming we've been working on that a lot of hard work behind the scenes on
040that and uh i want to thank dr arkansas diligence yeah because this journey began years ago almost a decade ago i was just a young kid when i started i had more hair when i was gonna say you had hair so i think that's wonderful it's another great thing for for kids so yeah absolutely one thing yeah i have one other item um i think it's okay to say tonight stacy about the walnut grove teacher is that correct that's public knowledge yes so um congratulations to mrs rachel klein who is a second grade teacher at walnut grove she was our teacher of the year last year is and she is now in the top 25 for the state of indiana so good luck to her as she goes on to that next level so that's
041great cool there's no other comments from the board or anybody up here well meaning adjourned