001thank you very much for having us here tonight and featuring north grove i have two students do not be fooled by the red curls and the blonde hair because if you look very close at their faces they are twins i have ava and emma mcneal and to tell you a little bit about them i was kidding with someone a little bit ago they are moving on to middle school next year but they're almost going to develop a monarchy at our school because we have three officers on our student council and they make up two-thirds of them ava is our president and emma is our secretary they're involved in multiple things at north grove they both participate in robotics along beyond student council emma is also on the folk dance ensemble team and then in addition
002to that outside of school they both play volleyball together at mount pleasant ava is also an avid basketball player i think she's going to be in ohio this weekend she plays for ig igb basketball on the north side and also plays for marlin academy but no worries to our program she also plays center grove basketball and then learned a little bit about emma she is also does modeling too so it's exciting that's the one thing that was brand new to me when we were talking today i didn't know about that so i want to welcome and i also want to welcome their proud parents aaron and leah for joining us tonight so and i want to welcome them to lead us in the pledge of allegiance states of america and to the republic for which
003it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Applause] uh tonight we'd like to honor a pass school board member gene workman of greenwood indiana passed away on april 14 2022 at the age of 95. he was a center grove community school board member from 1975 to 1979 his son jim workman a center grove graduate of 1979 said that his dad always believed in the value of a good education and he tried his best to help cg provide that he believes that many of the changes that occurred during his term of 1975 through 79 set center grove up for the successes it has today gene served in the u.s army during world war ii he was a faithful servant to his church serving in many offices and capacities and to his
004community including his time on the school board at center grove community school corporation his children said if everyone had a dad like ours the world would be a different and much better place so if we could have a few moments silence for a past school board member thank you very much next thing on the agenda is to adopt the agenda mr president i move we adopt the agenda as presented second motion been made and seconded any questions okay all in favor say hi hi anyone opposed motion passes next on the agenda is the presentation for the johnson county public library thank you mr hubbard this evening uh we have a representative from the johnson county public library and she'll be providing us with some information on the goings-on at the library so thank you very
005much for being here tonight thank you for having me my name is kelly staton and i am the program manager for the johnson county public library all the board members should have some packets that were passed out to you those have our latest library program guide the new one actually comes out tomorrow so but it's for may so you'll be pretty current and then we have our 2021 year in review a lot of attention this past year was focused on the construction of the new clark pleasant building it is open and we were lucky there were no delays like a lot of other places had with construction so if you haven't been over to whiteland to check that out make sure that you get over there it's a pretty fantastic building a good resource for
006our community we also have a lot of other things to be proud of we continue to check out more than one million items every year and all over johnson county our staff have made a difference by connecting residents with resources and learning opportunities we held coven 19 and flu vaccination clinics at all of our locations we supported leadership johnson county with leadership book discussions we assisted aspire community matters by creating an online resource for students and parents to learn about skilled trades and high demand jobs in johnson county we have a seed library available we started that last year and now that it's moving towards gardening season we'll be bringing that out again and through that we were able to partner with johnson county soil and water so residents could visit a little native seed
007library at our trafalgar branch we also partnered with the johnson county parks department and all the city and town municipal parks for the great parks quest which encouraged everybody that lived in johnson county to visit all the parks so we hope that as we move towards summer that you and your students can join us in participating in our explore summer learning program we would really like for every student at center grove to participate and explore summer and by participating with the schools on our program we can help stop the summer slide and keep kids learning and reading all summer long so i'll tell you a little bit about the program it starts may 16th and it runs through july 31st students can register to participate it is completely free we have lots of programs and
008learning challenges all summer long and they can earn fun prizes just by reading and doing those in 2021 we had almost 4 000 people participate and as the years go on we are hoping to increase that and hit a goal of 3 million minutes read this summer the prizes are just a small part of the program like i mentioned we're doing lots of programming we're going to be getting a bookmobile hopefully soon like everything else those are hard to come by and not available but we're hoping that our outreach stops will grow with our bookmobile and we can actually go out to some of the people in your communities if they can't get to us we'll be partnering with aspire again doing something called the great arts quest so everybody will be encouraged to go
009out and see all of our public art including murals sculptures things on nature trails hedgehog hannah is coming to bring 12 different animals for interactive programs at each branch our author series is returning in person which i'm very excited about we have three new york times best-selling authors coming this summer and then teens can visit random fandom it's a fun cosplay geek fandom program and we'll have lots of prizes for them there the children's book character the green crayon is also coming and then sub-zero ice cream will conclude our explore summer parties with a steam presentation and then everyone gets a free ice cream so i just want to thank you for letting me come kind of give a little year in review and talk about our program and if you can encourage your students
010to sign up starting may 16th that would really help us get towards our reading goal three million minutes so thank you thank you kelly [Applause] will we send something out on parent square we'll send it out pete shark okay i didn't know the bookmobile was still a thing i think that's awesome yeah yeah excuse me that started when i was in elementary because we didn't have libraries here so the bookmobile came in it was the great day have no public comments tonight no public comments consent agenda items mr president i mean we accept the consent agenda as presented most of them made the segment any questions or comments all in favor say aye aye aye anyone opposed motion passes thank you this evening you just passed in the personnel report in the consent agenda item
011our newest principal for center grove elementary mr craig buckler craig would you please stand up please he also has with him today his daughter charlotte and craig would you like to say anything this evening just thank you so much for the opportunity it's been 22 so years well we're super excited to have you and i have to say that craig went through a grueling process that we do about three different interview steps and he he did a fabulous job and comes highly recommended and i feel really blessed that we've got you here so um thank you so much for for coming and interested in center grove i don't know how you walked into a room full of 30 women male 1 i would have turned around well jason was there too oh yeah there was
012two males yeah i worked in an elementary building [Music] same here you get used to it how old is your daughter she will be four in august i would like to thank mrs counsel mr hubbard for sitting in on those interviews i've done that in the past and i know that's a that's a time commitment that falls outside of our normal normal board duties but thank you it was a great evening and i know that the other three candidates were just i mean they were wonderful and i know that uh rich's team jason and all them and i don't know was there put a lot of effort into it and uh i'm sure it was a hard decision but once again greg congratulations and uh we're looking forward to having you and you definitely have
013some big shoes to fill yes you do she's sitting right she's sitting right next do we have a commitment that we have a future trojan here now um i heard you were from franklin [Laughter] we will encourage you to do what's best for her that's right we have our opinion but it's your buddies yourselves matters welcome yes welcome welcome and of course you don't have to stay for the whole meeting go get a treat looks like she's having fun go get a treat i think it's a celebration for sure congratulations once again welcome to the family action item next on the agenda is action items 7.1 let's see okay thank you very much this evening i'm recommending that the board approve the 2022 and 2023 school calendar and this evening i believe is it bill
014will you be given that so bill will be giving additional information in mr taylor's absence thank you tonight we're recommending one one change to the 2022-23 school calendar we'd like to begin the school year with a a performance qualified waiver day that would change the first day to wednesday august 3rd we anticipate adding an additional waiver day in the spring semester but we're still discussing the appropriate date for that waiver day when we make that determination we'll bring that recommendation back to the board for consideration so uh and also if you'll notice there's a new format tonight uh for the first time in like 116 years uh mrs conrad has worked on trying to find a more readable format and we think this one might be the the winner i i kind of liked the
015format when i reviewed it so yeah it does yeah and and to whomever the team was we've managed to hit the benchmarks i've always said that's mr taylor starting in august and being out before memorial day so if only we can come up with something like this the little league does where you put it out into a calendar where people could just save the calendar to their calendar on their phone oh that'd be nice so now we just need a tutorial and i would like to also add the new calendar also aligns with c9 and their breaks as well oh it does 2023 school calendar as presented one second must have been made in a second all in favor say aye aye anyone opposed motion passes 7.2 thank you um 7.2 this evening i'm recommending
016that the board reject bids from miscellaneous school improvement projects and dr long will provide you with that additional information i i know this looks very odd because 7.3 says we're going to ask you to approve bids for miscellaneous improvement projects but we put out for bid work on saddle club road down by the maintenance for an additional drive there to widen pennington road and improve that and to build a soccer parking lot we opened those bids on we only had one bed on march 29th and that bid was significantly over our budget so we after consulting with our attorney we re-advertise the bid and and then we have more so that's what 7.3 is but by law the board is required to reject any bids especially when they come in over budget so tonight we're
017asking the board to reject the bids for the miscellaneous school improvement project i want to make sure i understood because that's not how i read it okay um so seven two and seven three are related yes seven two or you're asking us to reject right and then we re-advertise and and did we break them up into different projects in seven threes that way or did you just lump them all together how did we get better bids i think timing was just a little bit of it we had several people pull the plans and then didn't get numbers from their subcontractors and so they just decided not to bid and then we made a conscious effort between hunt and crossroads engineers of calling a lot of people and to make sure that we got some interest
018in this and so we we got more bids including a bid from the the first person and because if i'm doing the math right the one you're asking us to rejects about two million and the ones you're asking us to agree to are about 1.35 um yeah because they didn't bid on everything so this is a little bit different so it's not apples to apples right that's correct i was gonna say if that's that created a savings wonderful job yeah thanks for the explanation i appreciate it dr warm any other questions i'll move that we reject the bids for the miscellaneous school improvement project one second motion has been made and seconded all in favor say aye aye anyone opposed motion passes thank you 7.3 thank you next on the agendas i'm recommending that you
019accept all bids for the miscellaneous school improvement projects at center grove i'm sorry these are actually two different projects dr arkanov i i kind of made that a little confusing yeah you did again so um wow yeah so that for middle school north and uh the release of steel and roof i'll present them with all three okay dr long will obviously provide you with the digital thank you so um of the said the miscellaneous school improvement projects we re-bid those and opened those bids on april 19th after a thorough analysis by crossroad engineers and a com hunt and and darrell thompson they found monroe llc to be the lowest bidder for the parking lot uh the soccer parking lot the pennington road roundabout and then it says the honey grove reconfiguration project that's where the
020apparent drop-off goes back by the um by where honeygrove is so we need to reconfigure that as part of the the pennington road improvements we found that the bid submitted to be within the typical construction cost and recommend uh that the center grove corporation the board approved those contracts as submitted and then as part of that we had a different a separate vendor bid for the transportation center uh cut in there at saddle club road uh the low bid was asphalt solutions for three hundred and eighty four thousand eight hundred sixty three dollars and we they were the low bid and they were submitted within the typical construction costs we expected so 73a and 73b are the miscellaneous school improvement projects that we the same project that you rejected the bids for now now i'm
021asking you to approve these bids we re-advertised this is really confusing i'm really sorry we re-advertised for the exact same projects receive multiple bids these are the low bids and we're asking the board to accept those low bids so it's monroe llc and um and asphalt solutions are the two low bids for the miscellaneous school improvement projects so 738 and 73b are the replacement for seven two seven point yes yes sir exactly right and then 7.3 c is in addition to it's a separate project i should have listed it separately right so don't don't throw anything at me i don't know this question just okay enter um honey grove and we're redoing part of that as part of this bid just the building could be there long enough it's just the access to that parking
022lot that the you know the the parking lot that's by the parent drop off but by the football field the gated access and so it's just to reconfigure the entrance and exit there that's okay that's why it's misleading by calling it the honey grove drop off it's got it it's really for that parking lot that's up above the student activity center yes sir sorry no it's a great question i'm still confused all right um are we still dealing with uh bids going to be a little higher just because they're they're busy you know what these um these bids were pretty good they came in under our estimates uh so i think they were right where we needed to and that's why we were real adamant about rejecting those first bids instead of taking them and
023trying to find the money this way by law don't worry right and then then you'll here with the middle school north uh early release for steel and roof those both came in under our estimates as well too so it's a little bit about timing it's a little bit about aecom hunt and and the the the architects kind of calling people and drumming up business too is the early release due to we expect materials to take a while it's a long time uh for for steel um we're we're finding some of the things that were we need now now have a 50-week lead time um so we're trying to get anything that we can get out early uh as early as possible wow so i'm assuming then those that are bidding on this are responsible for
024storing this stuff we're not going to have to find a home well the structural steel won't come in for a long time so it'll come in about when we think we're going to need it at middle school north okay so they're they're guaranteeing this price for us yeah you're saying just so that we don't have a fluctuation right this gets us our place in line and and gets us in the manufacturing part of this so we'll get it when when they can make it so do you want me to cover 73c just while we're at this then yeah i thought you just did i thought you just okay i didn't know if there are any questions i we're recommending that geiger and peter's uh bid for 555 000 for the structural steel and uh steve's
025roofing and sheet metal for 203 400 for the early release roofing bid we're recommending accepting both of those any questions i'm out okay thank you dr long you need a motion mr president i move that we accept the bids from monroe llc for 949 five hundred seventy eight dollars asphalt solutions for three hundred and eighty four thousand eight hundred and sixty three dollars structural steel from that geiger and peters yes sir for 555 000 and roofing from steve's roofing and sheet metal for two hundred and three thousand four hundred dollars yes thank you i'll second motion has been made and seconded all in favor say aye aye aye anyone opposed motion passes thank you thank you sorry for the confusion all good no really makes sense next on the uh on the agenda's announcements may
02617th we are going to have a board community tour this is the scheduled third one uh the last two we've kind of had a low attendance uh unfortunately um the board thought it would be something we could interact with the community about um it was pretty low attendance so uh to keep from wasting everyone's time we'd like for people to that are interested in that sign up early and if well i think we're trying to shoot for maybe 20 people out of 9 000 students i think with you know 18 000 parents 20 people isn't asking a lot so if we can get 20 people we'll have it if not we'll we'll probably just postpone that and then just uh default to dr arkanov's going back to coffee chats and things like that just uh
027just so we don't waste the board members times and their evenings from their family to go to this to have one or two people there that we could probably handle with phone calls so yeah anyway and then uh two days after that on may 19th we're gonna have a regular board meeting at 7 pm right here in this room so we have a work session today is that correct begins at 2 pm that is correct on the 19th yes sorry that yeah that's correct any board members comments getting back on the wagon here from recovering and we'll begin attending there to see meetings again i'm sure they didn't want me in attendance at those well i'm glad everybody's here and healthy and i'm glad we're all sitting up here again that's a nice thing to
028see so jennifer i'll need your help the alumni and friends hall of fame if you see what's the last date possible to get in a application april 30th and you can find those applications on the foundation website and we also have the gala oh that's right yeah we have tickets available right so we everybody needs to go out buy gala tickets if you have not i'll be there rob will be there i'll be here i will not be there i will be there more importantly elise will be there so please join us yes anything else like dark enough i think that's it okay we need