001champions for cg sound system downtowns were also named the grand champion and that is such an incredible accomplishment for these kids they work super super hard i'm sure if you've been to a show you know that and you can see that and we really believe in providing our students with an exceptional youth education experience here at finra high school and i think that these kids could all attest to the fact that the past four years they've got to they have gotten to um to do that and so we're just very happy for them and for their futures but also for the things that they've gotten to do while members of center high school so thank you to them and thank you and i want to get some big accolades to jen and jared who's not
002here and i suspect he's at grad school come on i mean jared do a fantastic job with the kids they give the kids certain chances to perform in places that most kids don't they perform with the grand old opry they've been to orlando a couple times but they finally made it over the top they'd be caramel but jared and the entire choir parent organization and everybody you know gives the opportunity these kids to go out and perform and do the things like they did in orlando and kudos to you and jared for bringing home some trophies this year one announcement before we get started uh mr russell is with us via zoom tonight so that's why i keep moving this around if you guys are wondering so um he's with us he had some family
003issues he had to take care of out of state so it's an exciting night he didn't want to miss it we do this every year around may and celebrating all the accomplishments of students at the high school and staff as well so okay next thing on the agenda is to adopt the agenda mr president i move that we adopt the agenda as presented mostly been made and seconded to drop the agenda all in favor say aye aye anyone oppose motion passes point of clarification tonight too it'll be a 4-0 vote yes mr russell won't be voting next on the agenda will be the uh for dr henderson for recognition and presentations good evening and thank you to the board and dr arkanov for inviting us here to celebrate some of the successes that we've had
004at the school this year we have a wide variety of students who have found great success in the areas that they are most passionate about and have chosen to pursue at the high school so i will name off some folks but i'll also invite some instructors that are here up this evening to tell you a little bit about the competitions that they competed in many of you are familiar with the national merit scholarship contest students take the psat nmsqt which is the psat with the national merit qualifying portion associated with that and we were fortunate to have five brilliant minds qualify as national merit scholars this year and there are a few of them that are in the audience here this evening that we want to recognize karina oza if you guys will kind of
005come up to the front once we read your names that'd be great kailyn spitler stephen reeves prakar saxena and john brooks i think john might not be here tonight so these individuals distinguish themselves by reaching a selection index on the psat nmsqt that advanced them in the competition for national merit scholarships and they have all been named as national merit scholars so we're incredibly proud of the work that they've put in lots of late nights studying lots of things that they gave up in order to be here and and be representing the school corporation in this capacity so congratulations to you all very proud you guys can go ahead and have a seat unable to be with us this evening brooks bowers is one of our business teachers and he always is very passionate about
006having students participate in bpa contests officially formed in 1966 as the office education association business professionals of america has a strong history as a student organization that contributes to the preparation of global professionals through the advancement of leadership citizenship academic and technological skills for students at the middle secondary and post-secondary levels we had two students who earned distinguished honors at the bpa contest this year and i don't believe either one of them were able to be with us this evening but dominic burke and mahindra mandala both earned distinguished honors at the bpa contest this year so very proud of those students as well next up i'm going to invite frank workman if he is here in the audience this evening frank if you'll come up and join me we have students that participate in skillsusa
007contests frank happens to be actually an instructor over at c9 and frank is in the carpentry program and he had a group of students participate in skills usa so frank if you want to introduce the kids that are here with you we certainly appreciate all the work that you do with our students over at c9 and frank did not know that he was going to be up here talking to all of you i knew i was coming but i didn't have anything prepared come on up here guys real quick sam neil was the leader of the pack and vincent schneiders was the brick and nathaniel actually competed but with a different group but he is filling in for vincent and andrew coyne was also here with them and another student from greenwood high school xander
008warden so they're going to kind of trade places in atlanta they go to atlanta for a week and they will compete in a two-day competition which will be carpentry so framing siding brick work plumbing electrical and they're under a lot of pressure to get it done they they did a good job in two-day competition at the state level and they walked away with the gold medal they did a very good job very proud of you congratulations thank you very much also competing in skillsusa contest this year chef greer is here this evening and she brought some students along who competed in culinary contests so i'll invite chef greer up to introduce those students to you as well good evening i'm very honored to recognize the three top ten bakers in the state of indiana um
009e vallejo grayson roberts and emily boyer i'm a big fan of skills usa i've been a cte educator for over five years i've seen growth arcs and students and i'm i've had first place winners i'm going to atlanta to judge a high school coach at the college level as well and my post-secondary people are competing but i have to say it's great to have top finishers but i believe in integrity and integrity of the human spirit and these three girls saw a fellow competitor from another school breakdown and it was our kids that came around and lifted this student up to continue to finish i don't care that we didn't get a first place finish but in my heart these three showed integrity respect and honor to another human being to finish out the competition
010so we're ready for next year right very good thank you congratulations and following the national anthem you already heard mrs dice describe the the success that our choir program has had and we have five of our uh wonderful students here this evening representing the choir program we're incredibly proud of the hard work that they did and what they accomplished this year as well um next up jackie fowler is here this evening on behalf of the art department to talk about a couple of students that won some gold key and silver key awards so jackie turn it over to you are you moving this over to this hello i'm jackie fowler i'm one of the teachers at the high school i want to say though for rick jones he is not with us here tonight but
011we should be proud and honor him too rick is retiring this year he has been an educator at center grove for 36 years he was my teacher too and i wouldn't be standing here if it wasn't for him so i just want to say thank you to rick and all he's done for our department i also want to thank the board and our school for just the support of the visual arts it just isn't seen at other schools quite like it is and we are building an amazing art wing and i just want to thank the school board for their support and that and it's just going to be a beautiful beautiful place of course when we do something we do it well at center grove and that isn't going to stop with what we're
012doing with the art wing so it'll be up and running hopefully for next year but we're very excited and so thank you for your support tonight we have two artists that are with us but in scholastics we have a competition that we compete regionally with and so we have three winners um two of them are here tonight so we were going to show their artwork up on to the screen um we have sam landreth here are you here sam and we have steven reeves come on up all right um up on the screen right now this is stephen's drawing that he was able to win a key with and advancing forward this is a photo student of mine who's unable to be with us tonight but this is cole heiser and we have also our
013winner here with sam landreth so we have some scholastic winners so thank you for your support again [Applause] thank you congratulations up next lisa paratus here this evening as a representative of our red alert robotics club to talk a little bit about the success that they had this year and to introduce some students that she brought along lisa sir good evening i am very proud of our team this year and i won't get through this without crying so i'm just telling y'all that right now if you know me that just that's the way it goes um we had a great year we we did win the most awards we've ever won as a team with how many medals kids five medals this year um we advanced we won at state we won locally we went
014to worlds we made world finalists which has never been done uh by red alerts we're the only team in indiana that made it toward finalists i'm competing the kids will tell you who we all competed against um but i i could not be more proud of this team and what they've accomplished and we had 50 kids who i almost brought them all tonight and put them in the back but i thought that might overwhelm me a little um we might get trouble the fire marshal or something so we didn't but i do have our captains with us tonight so i'd like to introduce them and have them come up you guys want to come on up and believe it or not they you know for robot nerds they're good at talking too so i'm going
015to let them do most of the talking because the red alert is all about the kids all of our programs are student-led even our camps hopefully some of you are coming to our camps this summer all student-led so um everything we do is student-focused and student-led the kids are giving we're bribing no i mean we're giving the school board and yours is coming to school next week um they're each getting worlds medals as well as state medals the same medals that the team got as well as some goodies so i'm gonna start um you want to introduce yourself your role in the team and just go for it go ahead my name is going to talk a little bit about our season so like she mentioned we have gotten five awards this season so it's
016been a really great season for us so uh we started off at columbus where we won that event with the robot and we also won chairman's which is the most prestigious and the highest you can win it's about your community outreach and all that fun stuff um the second event we won engineering inspiration award which is the second highest award that you can win um you can only win one award in tournament once so that was the best that we had done and um we won chairmans for the entire state as well which advanced us to worlds and uh there we also got finalists in our division which there are over 450 teams there from lots of different countries and it was a really amazing experience we also had some really good community outreach this
017season we have our special education and fine motor sensory kind of motor boards that we have implemented into the development of the schools here at um sugar grove elementary um we also have um several books that we've written and illustrated and we have um that uh business rocket service and the perfect playground which was new this year so um we're really proud of our outreach and our success this season and we really want to thank our community and the school board for their support [Applause] i may or may not be sending stacey and dr arkanoff like 1am waitress what yeah they might have heard that and we we do appreciate everybody's support and doctor your patience bless you um everybody in in numerous i know several of you came to see us off came to
018state um the police department gave us a police escort which the kids that was probably the coolest thing they did because they had a police escort onto 37 life was really good for the 50 teenagers but thank you all for your support we appreciate it so and we've already started our new season so we're rocking and rolling thank you you can put a lot into it and we really appreciate it without you thank you absolutely okay last uh but certainly not least i'm going to invite andrea t van up andrea is one of the instructors at the high school in our engineering and biomedical biomedical biomedical program and um her students participated in the samsung solve for tomorrow contest and so she's going to introduce some kids and talk to you a little bit about
019that okay good evening i'm andrea teagan i run the biomedical science program at summer grove high school and i always throw out a challenge to my kiddos and this year i have six young ladies i call them the girls of stem that came to meet that challenge um the competition is to essentially identify a need in the community that needs to be solved um and using stem to solve that problem um so these kiddos took it head on um in one state and then they went on to nationals and they were in the top 10 of the national competition they actually went out to new york city and competed on a gigantic stage which i would have had the stage fight for these kids and like a champ so i would like to introduce you
020to anonymou olaji hope mander paige merrill maddie sims shirley zing and shelby walker who could not be with us tonight and the girls are going to tell you just a little bit about their project okay so our project was to help with distracted driving and so we came up with the device that fits on your dashboard it has a camera that has output sound and bluetooth so it connects to an app on your phone that will track your eye movement and detect when you are looking outside of the given parameters and then when it detects that it'll send a signal to the camera to be to bring the driver's eyes back up to the road so yeah i'm very glad that i have a unique group of kiddos uh they all presented last night at
021a white coat ceremony um and beyond that project they had additional projects and an internship so these kids earned it all um and i can't wait to see what they accomplish next as they move off to their collegiate years will this be something they can continue to pursue like in college and those kinds of things or um um [Laughter] what was really cool is the first year we made it to nationals we were about a week from going to new york city and the world shutdown what was really cool is once you get to the national level you become an alumni of samsung so one of our alumni mentors was actually there the one of the young ladies that never got to get to new york got to be with us and she got some
022mentors through that program they are now all part of the alumni network and three of those girls are working the same time some are doing some summer internships one's a purdue ambassador so a lot of good things happening so as you can see a wide array of accomplishments in lots of different programming that we offer and we are fortunate to live in a community and and live in a district and our students are fortunate to attend schools in a district that is able to provide these kinds of opportunities for our students to pursue their passions and and be rewarded for their hard work and their perseverance so we're really proud of everything that they've all done so and you guys don't have to stay for the rest of the board thank you come on i
023would i would like just to thank lisa thank you very much um and i also want to point out frank warman from c9 i don't know if he left yet no he uh he he does a lot of great things at c9 for these kids um he dedicates a lot of time and he comes all over our board meetings and he just does a wonderful job mentoring these young young men and women that kind of do his carpentry thing and last but not least i i want to give a special shout out to chef greer um i i've never met you before but i've heard your name through from administrators from teachers from students and most importantly my own daughter um she loves you to death everybody talks so highly of you and i don't
024even know how you got my daughter to come to this board meeting because she's never come to a board meeting um so please plant your roots in center grove and we love you here and uh we love all of you but i just i i can't praise you guys enough so thank you very much every one of you [Applause] we'll give just a minute for the room to clear okay next on the agenda would be public comments and i think we had one sign up right that's correct yep mr collins and you signed up to discuss [Applause] 2022 2023 textbook rental fees unfortunately jack russell's not here so you guys will i guess just have to afford it too so just um when you get up to talk just share your name and address and
025group if you're affiliated with one try to stay on the topic of textbook rental fees and just try to limit it to three minutes if you would and just address all your comments to the board president thank you my name is william collins i live 3865 new battle lane and uh sorry for the deception i'm not going to speak about uh textbooks and according to todd rokita and the parent bill of rights i don't have to the only reason i put textbook rental fees is because if i didn't i would have never been recognized this has been a problem we've had all year and it started with uh jack russell and it's been continued with the current school board president what i'm actually going to speak about is earlier this school year a male center
026grove student in the segment all in favor say hi hi anyone opposed motion passes next on the agenda is action items uh 7.1 dr arkanov thank you this evening there we go thanks this evening i'm recommending that the board approve the preliminary approval of the of a 10 28 hearing for the high school and sugar grove am i in the right one yeah sure grow face too thank you um and dr gabriel will provide you with some additional information a little bit out of order on me sorry thank you and i just want to comment that um as normal if you have any difficult questions we have jeff clock and bush from barnes and thornburg who's our bond council here to answer those and i'll take the easy ones this this item is um a
027request to have the board uh do a an approval for us to call a 1028 hearing in july so there's a long resolution there um a lot of whereases i just want to point out a couple of the of the critical things that are included on page three section one basically says that a need exists for this project to expand the high school and to complete the renovation of sugar grove i'm just going to kind of jump through the important points on page 4 at the top section 5 says that you are authorizing the building corporation to sell and deliver bonds totaling 30 million 350 000 for these two projects together and then section nine at the bottom of page four uh the key part of that section is that president of the board is
028hereby authorized to call hearing on july 21st 2022 that's our regular board meeting for that evening so that is those are the the key points in in this resolution and we're asking the board for approval of this resolution this evening any questions or anything no need to motion mr president and i move that we approve the motion for the preliminary approval of the 1028 hearing for the high school in sugar grove elementary motion has been made a segment all in favor say aye aye aye anyone opposed motion passes thank you 7.2 thank you mr edward this evening i'm making a recommendation that the board approved the sale of refunding bonds and dr gabriel will provide you with some additional information so this is an item that we haven't done anything like this in quite a
029long time refunding is just another word for refinancing so just like if you refinance your home and expect to lower the payments that's what we're trying to do here the bonds involved in this request were for the building of maple grove elementary school they were sold in 2004 and in fact they were refinanced once before in 2013. our bond council and financial advisor have talked about this for quite some time we're in an interesting interest rate market of course when we first began this discussion about six months ago we were looking at some really significant savings uh and it really depends at this point uh what the interest rates what happens to interest rates in the future but we felt it was a prudent thing to do to have the board approve the necessary steps
030to get this process started and one of the things that mentions is that if we can't save at least three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in net savings we won't proceed with this the earliest we can do this based on the current bond agreements is march of next year but we wanted to get this these initial approvals done so again i would say there's a long resolution lots of whereases i want to just mention the key points in this resolution um on page four section six says that that you're approving the issuance and sale on delivery of uh 2023 because this wouldn't happen until next year refunding bonds an amount not to exceed 13 million five hundred thousand dollars and as as it says there uh it's approved so long as the savings can be
031at least three percent and then at the bottom of the page uh section 10 you are approving the use of barnes and thornburg as our bond council stiefel as our municipal advisor and bearden company as our underwriter for this this project so this is just an initial approval and if if the interest rates are favorable next spring we will be bringing this back to you at that at that time so we're asking this evening for the board to approve this resolution are we anticipating in 14 months the interest rates are going to be more favorable or how does this work when the when the feds raise the interest rates and i know it works differently on bonds and stuff i guess that's why we have you here for all the hard questions because in part
032there's a real big fear of inflation and so that's driving interest in the bond market i think what you're seeing though is on if the station starts to come down by the end of the year then you'll start to see industries start to go back down a little bit so this will be very much of a thing that just you'll have to wait to see but there's no cost to adopt the resolution right now and then just put it on the shelf and then if interest rates come back and we're able to hit the target then we'll put everything together okay i remember doing it a few years ago i think we did in 13 is when we did it yes in almost 10 years jeff i guess i have more of a process question
033why do we have to approve it almost a year in advance to take advantage of it in march of 2023 i think the thought was first of all that if starts to improve by the end of this year we would start to get the documents in place we have to go to the radiation to get that done in january february as dr gabriel said the earliest we could sell the bond would be in march and close in april um and so just because of having him here to be able to explain it to you number one and number two just to be able to hit the market if it makes sense in addition we had to have the building corporation here for the high school sugar ground the same people have both corporations so rather
034than having them so it's more just the formality of putting it putting it in place that if bond market gets more favorable then we can jump on it if not we just ignore it any other questions no we need a motion shoot my laptop went to sleep uh mr president i moved that we approved the motion to approve building corporation building or board of directors i think it's uh your one before no i think it's written it's a mystery yeah sorry oh it is yeah i sorry yeah it's approved the sale of refunds yeah yeah that's what i get for reading i um i i motion that we approve the sale i'll just read it from here oh thank you oh sorry refund bonding oh my gosh refund refund bonds yes i approve that prove
035the sale of the of the refunding bonds oh my gosh is my face right right now now you're good we'll need a second i'll second motion has been made as seconded all in favor say aye aye anyone opposed motion passes 7.3 thank you it's okay i've done that thank you mr everett this evening i'm recommending that the board approve the 2022 2023 textbooks and supplemental materials for adoption and this evening you'll have some additional information presented by shannon carol so shannon's first so good evening and i have a detailed list of textbooks and materials to be adopted has been provided for your review and approval these include combinations of textbooks and online resources from a variety of publishers the majority of the courses in the business list are the result of ipl revising career and
036technical education courses to align with new state next level programs of study otherwise known as nlps you'll see that out of us a lot as a result of state changes some of our high schools of semester courses are changing to year-long courses and new courses are appearing as options in selecting resources that best supported the specific needs of their course teachers were mindful of being good stewards of resources and providing the support that students need to learn please also note that in our practice is to make a public notice of the availability of the resources that are being recommended this evening for public to be able to come in and review those resources i am kind of appreciative of i did get one the highlights of the recommendations by department were provided to you rather
037than reading all of the items i'll just list the departments and if you have questions about any of those i'll be happy to answer them we have body safety 6-12 business family consumer science music science social studies and special education courses are all a variety of them all are recommending resources so if you have any questions about the weekend what you see on the board is the specific list of items with their isbns and this will become a part of no questions are you going to do the other material at the same time i don't know i think you have to do a motion on that yeah they're two different knives yeah there's no questions i move that we approve the 2022-2023 textbook and supplement supplemental materials presented for adoption second motion has been made
038and seconded all in favor say aye aye is anyone opposed motion passes four to one seven point four thank you this evening i'm recommending that the board approved the textbook rental and fees for 2022-2023 school year and again shanna will provide you with some additional information so what you see displayed is information about the middle school level textbook rental and fees that we're recommending you can see the changes over time displayed on there the far right is where you'll see the most recent the courses with the courses for middle school have increased only slightly in sixth seventh and eighth grade and that's due to the addition of body safety materials and increases in costs of materials for our tech ed just like we've talked about those with our building projects our tech ed courses also
039we're seeing that fees for middle school bridges you will see which is the bottom set of boxes that you can see have dropped from last year to this year we've been able to take advantage of using our devices and rather than purchasing a paper planner for students we're able to not charge for that and have students use electronic services instead for middle school for high school fees see when it comes up it looks very similar for high school again teachers and administrators are diligent to consider ways to avoid raising student fees while some courses thought decreases other visa increases often due to newly adapted material with increased prices from publishers or digital program costs we work to make financially prudent choices seeking to provide curriculum at the lowest possible cost in the the 2022-23 range
040so what you see for the high school is a range and that range actually did not change on the average um has been updated however from 400 to 425 and the way that we came to that was by actually taking all of the high school bills from this year and looking to see where the bills actually fell because the iterations of courses that students can have make it very difficult for me to give you an exact number but what we found was that 94 of the bills were within that range that we had provided to you and it's been steady for us however when i did the average it was slightly higher so we have made that represent what we're actually finding to be the case for our high school bills and in general please
041also note that because of early college programs dual credit and other things such as that that we're offering in our comprehensive high school that's the reason why some students are actually above that 800 so these are the fees that i'm recommending for no this is this is my least favorite thing to vote on every year so that's well documented and publicized over the last 11 years so it's not your fault i i know i mean i know the time and diligence that the team that puts the textbook adoptions together and and the parent involvement i mean it's a large group of people that that does this and goes through this it's just you know i think i think as i always say i think we're one of 12 states in the united states that actually
042charge a book rental fee so maybe the guys downtown i would be focused on that said my peace well if we don't make a motion scott we're not going to have books i know i've got all right i'll i'll do it i'll do it rob maybe you shouldn't be the one that has to make this motion maybe that's the no that's all right i move that we approve the secondary textbook rental and fees for 2022-2023 all reluctantly second [Laughter] guessing the second all in favor say aye aye does anyone oppose motion passes i guess the good news is i want to pay these fees next year yeah that's true 7.5 thank you this evening i'm recommending that the board accept bids for renovation of the esc here this building and dr long will provide you
043with some additional information thank you tonight we're asking the board to approve the bids to renovate the esc on april 28th of 2020 two uh we opened bids and on april 29th 2022 hunt and fanning howie held a d scope meeting to review the bids with the low bidder both ae com hunt and fannie howie recommend accepting the bid and the alternate number one from dalman contractors llc for the amount of 452 934 dollars if approved the work will start tomorrow and we will finish before school starts how about that for a bold move mr alexander i think i heard it i think the bold move is you've already emptied the offices out well i did have i did have to move some furniture around we're just relocating some furniture i got that same email
044where everybody's at now they must they must think we approve this no i just had to get furniture relocated bill i did have a couple quick questions yes sir my when was the last time we renovated this building significantly um 2008 when we moved in been a few years yeah about 14 years um and then i noticed there was an alternate on here that wasn't selected was that a cost conscious issue yes it was just more than we wanted to pay okay so it's more than we budgeted for it well some of the improvements i saw in there are probably long overdue too yes they are it's it's time to fix stuff and we're adding a couple offices in another conference room uh for for us in here in this building because we're using every
045single space that we have so we're going to reconfigure a little bit add a couple of offices and at a conference room and for them to be done by july 5 you know for an extra 5800 i think that's my announcement that's that's what i thought we we want to get we want to do as little disruption as possible to the payroll department because everybody likes to get paid uh and so we're going to try to get their area done first and have the business department and hr because they're hiring people and paying people so we'll get them back in their side first and we'll let dr arkanov live out of his car for a few more weeks until we get his side done we're not worried about him we're worried about the rest of
046you thanks bill yeah and i do apologize the renovation has started some of it they've taken everything out so when we separated you all just now and told you to go sit somewhere wait we had to go in the basement and find a place in the basement you had to go elsewhere then stand so thank you for your patience and i do mr daniels you mentioned it but we're trying to gain a couple of days um so we don't disrupt payroll it's a good time between when payroll was was was made and then when they have to do it again so i i did try to buy a few extra days by having furniture moved before uh the renovation started so great i didn't want you to know the reason behind that i just one
047surprise i didn't get a call to help you move furniture you ready for a motion sir no other questions mr president i move that we approve the motion to accept the biz from the renovation of the educational services center motion been made is seconded all in favor say aye aye aye anyone opposed promotion passes okay next on the agenda is announcements i can run through them real quick june 14th we have an exec session at 10 a.m at the innovation center june 16th an executive session at 6 00 p.m at the it center and june 16th is our next regular board meeting right here in this room at 7 00 p.m does any board member have any comments or anything okay let her rip um [Music] sorry wait a second well what you're looking for
048i just don't want to get the number wrong sorry here it is okay so um the center grove education foundation board of directors last night approved funding for 14 teacher grants four professional development grants and one big one dream big grant totaling and fifty 53 dollars and twenty seven cents and so amazing um in her amazing fundraising efforts with her team that i think the the check presentations are tomorrow so this is exciting for the education foundation that's a tremendous amount of money raised do the recipients know yet or do you surprise them so don't tell i i would like to uh i'd like to to bring up dr long for a second dr long was uh recognized for a nasr award it's a national award for school safety leadership and a lot of you
049guys don't know but bill works really hard behind the scenes to keep our kids safe and and i can say with 100 assurance the roughly 9 100 students we have here are safer because of bill long is sitting up here at this table honestly bill we uh thank you for everything you do for my kids and everybody else's kids in the community and this this award is definitely well deserved thank you any other comments from anyone i have nothing tonight me adjourned