001all of you here tonight our mission statement here at center grove is we develop knowledgeable confident and responsive citizens through inspirational and innovative learning opportunities tonight our pledge of allegiance is going to be led by zach alexander a junior here at center grove who recently well now a senior so sorry zach i know the day after zach recently signed up for the marine corps so he will lead our pledge tonight pledge to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you zach and we have a certificate here for you [Applause] not that i'm a little experienced in age but i remember when he was about two years old okay our next order of business is
002the adoption of the agenda do i have a motion mr president i move that we adopt the agenda as presented thank you mr alexander do i have a second second let's go with joe okay public comments we do not have any this evening oh sorry all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed thank you motion passes 5-0 we do not have any public comments this evening next we'll move on to our consent items and just a reminder these are items that we have all discussed so it can be voted on in all these items can be voted do i have a motion for consent items mr president and i move that we approve the consent agenda as presented thank you mr alexander do i have a second i think thank you mrs counts
003all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion passes 5-0 we'll now move down to our action items 7.1 is to accept a bid for sale of apple equipment dr arkanov thank you mr russell um this evening thank you okay on june 10th 2011 we opened 11 bids for the purchase of surplus apple equipment after a thorough analysis of the bids i am recommending that we accept the bid from total technologies incorporated total technology provided the best and highest bid to purchase the equipment we have about 1700 ipads and 320 units of other apple equipment and the total anticipated amount resulting from this sale will be 288 150 the proceeds from this sale will be used towards future technology purchases sorry catch my breath real quick um we do this annually as you'll
004recall to keep our students in newer devices we sell back in the third year so that our kids always have a device that's three years old or less thank you thank you mr taylor are there any questions for mr taylor i just i've got one question uh mr taylor i noticed some of the bids in certain light items may have been a little higher um but we're taking the total technology i'm assuming that when they submitted bids and when we asked for them that was kind of an all or nothing you're exactly right we don't we don't want to divide up this equipment also the winning better had the best bid for the ipads which is the highest quantity and so they were probably going to get the business but we did evaluate references and
005just made sure they were the best did they get last year no last year we did a different company so this will be another new one for us but came very highly recommended well i know this uh this is a lot of work by your group but i also see that it leads to a good result so i applaud you and whoever else was involved in this it's good to see money coming back again yes i appreciate that i'll share that with the team thank you mr taylor where where do you think the total technology takes these instruments they actually are based out of california which is interesting because they have to comply with stricter recycling rules than we'd have in other states and so they'll take them there and process them and then i'm
006sure they'll be on a ship headed overseas and that's really where they're selling countries but we remove all student data um and all the devices are unlocked at that point okay any other questions is there a reason why we don't i mean i know that it's kind of like an all-or-nothing type thing yeah the state board of accounts requires that we get rid of our surplus equipment in this manner and so in order to do that we'd have to actually bring it to you on an individual basis to declare it surplus and sell it to them so honestly the labor associated just prevents that seeing there's no more questions i entertain a motion mr president i move that we accept the total technology bid and the anticipated amount of 288 150 for the sale of
007surplus apple equipment thank you mr daniels do i have a second thank you mrs counts all those in favor say hi all those opposed motion passes 5-0 thank you thank you mr taylor 7.2 we accept bids for food service dr arkanov thank you mr russell uh this evening i'm recommending the board accept west indie co-op bids for food service and dr long will provide you with some additional information thank you before i start with the board indulge me and let me introduce jason beck back in the corner jason's been coming to our meetings the last two or three months uh tonight at part of the consent agenda we promoted jason to lieutenant with our center grove police department but i just wanted to recognize jason hidden in the back there now we're really going to
008make him work hard so so tonight uh we're asking the board to approve the bids from west indie cooperative we belong to a co-op when we purchase our foods they completed their bids on march or may 1st of 2021 for the 2122 school year upon evaluation of the bids the school corporation uh food service department is recommending the bids as presented above if you'll remember last year the state board of accounts asked the board to do this even though we're part of a co-op that they ask each individual boards that are part of the co-op to approve these bids so we're asking the board to approve the bids from the west indie co-op food services thank you dr long are there any questions for dr long seen as there are none do i have a
009motion mr president thank you mrs counts do i have a second second thank you mr alexander all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion passes 5-0 thank you thank you next we have approval for the school meal prices for 2021-2022 school year dr arc thank you mr russell this evening i'm recommending that the board approve the school meal prices for the 21-22 school year and dr long will provide you with additional information thank you hopefully this will be the easiest vote the board ever has to take on any item in front of them because this year all of our students will be receiving free breakfast and lunch for their reimbursable what the the what the federal government considers a reimbursable lunch so there really is no charge for any of our students
010to eat a basic reimbursable meal but we also are asking the board to approve adult meal prices and they're not changing from last year so an adult a teacher or a visitor would pay 3.25 cents for lunch and two dollars for breakfast so again this is one of those things the state board of accountants asked the board ask us to ask the board to approve these even if there's no change or if they're free so that's why we're here tonight and we recommend approving free lunch and breakfast for everybody except the adults correct me if i'm wrong dr long but we've held the prices flat at least the last we did we you know there's a formula that they use that they make us whether you have to increase the prices but we've been able
011to hold them pretty flat and you know last year we were able to provide free free breakfast and free lunch too so this is really good and i think there's talk that this may become a permanent thing which would be really good for our kids because then everybody gets to eat no matter no matter what so it yeah it might encourage kids to eat that might not think any other questions for dr long thank you dr long do i have a motion to approve school meal prices mr president i move that we approve the school meal prices for the 2021-2022 school year as presented thank you mr alexander do i have a second second i think amy got to you first thank you mrs counts all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed
012motion passes 5-0 thank you our next order of business is to reject bids for miscellaneous school improvement projects dr arkhanov thank you mr russell this evening i'm recommending that the board reject bids for the miscellaneous school improvement projects and dr long is going to give you a little more information on that thank you we had worked with engineers to develop a plan to to develop a soccer parking lot down on morgantown road near the emergency operations center due to some design changes for storm water retention that the county asked us to do ended up increasing the price way more than we had budgeted but we tried to also package that with widening pennington road so we can help improve traffic in and out of the campus so needless to say both of those i think
013that one was a victim of bad timing and the cost of materials the the parking lot was more of a change in design kind of at the last minute that that made both of those go over budget so by law we need the board to reject the bids since we opened open them in public so i'm asking the board tonight to reject all the bids thank you dr long any questions this is not something we usually do no no i know and we're going to regroup and try to work and try to come up with a different way to do this again for next year still two important projects for us to do just don't have the money to do these so we can't we can't accept these bids that's being fiduciarily responsible do i
014have a bid or a motion do i have a bid for the lowest bid mr president i move that we reject all bids for the miscellaneous school improvement projects thank you mr alexander do i have a second second thank you mr daniels all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion passes 5-0 thank you thank you dr long thank you next we will look at approved preschool and lance key service agreements dr arkanov thank you mr russell uh this evening i'm recommending that the board approve the preschool and daycare and latchkey program services agreement and dr gabriel's going to provide you with some additional information yes good evening uh in 2017 we entered into a contract with honey grove to provide for uh preschool day care and also a latchkey program and that
015was that was done four years ago it's now time for these contracts to be renewed i've been working with adam mcclure with honeygrove and he's here in the audience this evening and he can handle all the difficult questions i'll take the easy ones just just to briefly we have tried to renew these contracts with the minimal changes uh i've had discussions with principals and everybody is very happy with this service uh things have been going very well for us and as you look over the board recommendation you'll see that this includes things like changing the date changing their address updating the the school principles and and uh changing fees to reflect the changes that have occurred over a four-year period the latchkey program is a program that we provide for our students before and after
016school it's available to grades k through 12 k through eight although very few middle school t students have taken advantage of this and the the preschool day care was originally designed as a program for our to as a benefit for our staff that's provided the the cost is paid by the parents to honey grove although they do open that up for other members of the community uh and that uses our our the prc building as a facility for that so these are as i said mostly uh minor changes and at this time i'd recommend that the board approve these two contracts effective july 1 of this year thank you dr gabriel any questions for dr gabriel i noticed in this contract dr gabriel that the original contract was for four years in the terms of
017two years is there a reason uh just that um it's two years and then renewable for two years uh i think we just have been kind of taking that approach for most of our contracts like this just to give us an opportunity to review it if we if we feel necessary and the renewal is automatic if it's agreed to by both parties so either of us could say no i don't want an automatic renewal but if we both agree to it then that that would take place this is in line with our other contract yes we've started to do this with our some of our contracts okay thank you any others do you have a motion mr president i move that we approve the preschool excuse me slash daycare and last key program services agreements
018with let penny grove educational center thank you mr alexander do i have a second thank you mr counts all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion passes 5-0 our next whoo did you have any language no that was it our next order of business approved commitment to central nine building project dr arkanov thank you mr russell uh this evening i'm recommending that the board approve the central nine proposed facility project and dr gabriel will provide you with some more additional information yes we had a presentation last month month before from the central line director this is the third time in the last 15 years that they've instituted a project like this and from a financial standpoint we've known about this for about a year and as a result we've built this money
019into our long-term projections of of the money that's going to be necessary the c9 presented a number of different proposals of which the most expensive was just under a million dollars so we have planned for a million dollars with a payback of of 10 years a level payback of 10 years so from a financial standpoint this is uh it's not going to be a problem and as with the other projects that we've recently uh presented this will not uh cause an increase in the tax rate because of other decreases that are taking place and of course dr or joe hubbard is on the on their board i don't know if you want to make any comments about this project it's uh i think where the first school is going to vote on it i mean
020it's a great project it's going to create a lot more classrooms for our schools as you guys know like the welding program a lot of our automotive programs fill up really quick so it's uh kind of adds additional classrooms and boost space for those for those kiddos so it allows us to get more kids in and get them out into the world and learn trade so i'm excited do we do we have a sense i mean i know we're probably gonna be the first ones and i think we well kind of came to an agreement last month we're waiting on you to bring this back but yeah the other 11 schools now but we just all we need is eight six six of the eight yeah do we anticipate six of the eight yes we
021do we do now okay okay there will be futures there will be some future steps in which the board would have to officially approve the financing after they get the aid approval and get their bond counsel receive the bids all of that stuff done this will be brought back again to officially approve the financing and this was built into the budget the department the payments not this year of course but for starting next year yeah right yes it's been it's been anticipated for quite some time any other questions thank you dr gabriel although do i have a motion or we already have to nope do i have a motion i'll be honored to make it mr president i make a motion we approve the commit the commitment to the center central nine building project as
022presented thank you mr bird do i have a second second thank you mr alexander all those in favor say aye all those opposed great motion passes 5-0 thank you our last order of business under action items authorize additional appropriations hearing and resolutions doctor thank you man this will be a hearing so oh where's my yeah so you'll have some things to say yeah pam can you bring that up here so this evening i'm recommending um that the board approved the additional appropriations and um i'll turn over this uh meeting so the this even this evening's board meeting has been appropriately advertised as additional appropriations hearing and dr gabriel will present some additional information i will turn over this meeting to mr russell to run the hearing thank you dr arkanov this evening's board meeting has
023been appropriately advertised as a hearing on additional appropriations i will now open this public hearing [Applause] i would like to call on dr gabriel excuse me to provide information about the additional appropriations thank you in order to spend money a school district has to have the money but they also have to have the budget and the legal term for that is the appropriation so this action this evening is to appropriate some of the cash that we have for additional expenses these expenses are being proposed at this time be either because they were approved after the budget was adopted primarily or because they are one-time expenses uh that aren't reoccurring and you you can see a list of what they are um this is this is a summary that follows the format that the state proposes
024that we use for an additional appropriation in the education fund you can see some money appropriated for salaries some 143 000 for supplies uh primarily textbooks uh and then in this the service category includes a variety of things that are that are primarily one-time expenses the operations fund we're appropriating the money to provide for the stipend that we gave to employees on the 28th of may and under the supply category we have furnishings for the emergency operations center and for the portables at sugar grove and middle school central and again a variety of things under the services category that includes the lease payments for the high school bleachers and again um installation of the portables in middle school central and uh under equipment uh an additional vehicle so this uh these are the items that
025we are asking the board to approve this evening this is a hearing and after that we would ask the board to approve the appropriate resolution thank you dr gabriel now this is the appropriate time for members of the public to comment on this subject matter on the additional appropriations or the information presented this evening are there members of the public present who would like to comment you can come up to the podium sir sure just uh state your name for us um second state your name first please oh dennis baker thank you none of you guys were principals back 35 years ago were you no oh i'm safe um uh personal services seventy six thousand pay salary and benefits an additional social worker that was added last fall um was that in preparation for an
026addition of a component to the school as far as see if i say this right um psychology is there a title given to that individual that was here are they just added to a team of people here is that person the salary that they added to that is that person added for a specific entity or are they part of a group of uh psychologists sociologists whoever you guys have to talk to people so that that individ that cost is a total cost that's not just the salary so that's total cost fringe benefits the whole nine yards their insurance and all of that stuff uh that individual is a social worker i'm not sure um would that be mrs hoover um that you could address where that person is at or mr uh taylor which individual
027that that is i believe it is at one of the one of the elementary is that correct oh okay i'm sorry mid-year extra support counseling social work at the high school okay so it's not an outside individual that is geared towards something that is coming no it's it's it's additional support to the number of school employees cool yeah it's a school employee okay thank you very much thank you thank you any other question any other public comments thank you hi yeah yeah mike can just say your name please hi i'm jay hart i just want i was wondering if if if we could clarify um miss counts a question about the sale of the of the old ipads that's that's something that happens at the state level the state says the school can't open that
028up for students or for people locally for those bids and i'll be happy to answer that that's a different than this hearing because this hearing is about this topic but we can answer that question okay um just if you could restate it what what exactly was the questioning of this so there was a question and miscounts had a question about about the the resale of the old ipads i believe am i yeah right okay and and it's it sounded like you weren't able to open up that bidding to the stu to the students or to uh correct yes correct and that was that is a decision that's made at the state level state board of accounts yes yes okay yeah absolutely that was it so yeah great thank you thank you so i now close
029this public hearing are there any board members who have any comments or questions concerning appropriations i got something else um turn on your mic joe so i was going to come tonight and talk to you guys about the crt and sel stuff because that's why you guys are all here what we're still hearing on that oh we're still on appropriations hold on to it okay so are there any board members who have any comments or questions do on the appropriations just chomping at the bit seeing as there are none i am going to close this hearing and okay i now need a motion right yeah that's correct so do i have a motion to authorize additional appropriations yes we approve the resolution authorizing the additional appropriations as presented very well done mr alexander do i
030have a second thank you mrs counts all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion passes five to zero i would like to announce and remind everyone that we will be reconvening the executive meeting in this room after the board meeting is closed so we will need to clear the room at that time we will move on to other business at this time mrs counts do you have anything to say this evening thank you mr hubbard do you have anything to say this evening yes mr president i do um obviously i know why you guys are all here you guys will talk about the crt and seo um i kind of had a big speech prepared um i've kind of cut it down after we just left our executive session um we did
031talk to the administrators and and the whole team here about this so crt i'll talk about that first i have never been approached by anybody in the school district about wanting to implement anything related to crt never heard those three letters besides any you know besides what i see on the internet and facebook and things like that so um i definitely would oppose anything like that but the the scl role that we just filled last month um after talking to the superintendent at our last executive session he has so generously offered to invite her to the next board meeting is that correct rich so you guys could ask the questions that you would like to ask to that seo because i know there's a lot of questions on that and kind of how that role
032is filled and you know how that may be a lot of people there's interpretations that roll springboards into maybe some crt things and things like that so um rich is going to make himself available and make that individual available to you guys to answer those kind of questions that you may have i know you guys are all here because you saw this beers and windows presentation that was given to some fifth graders i'm not as i'm just as upset about it as you guys are to be honest with you um i know that you know we need to as parents we need to trust our school corporations and who we uh we need to entrust the schools with our kids and we need to trust them and i know that this might have jeopardized that
033with some of you guys all i ask is you be patient and let rich and the scl and his team next month talk to you guys and maybe answer any questions or kind of creating fix any doubts you guys may have with center grove maybe we can repair those bridges we do have a lot of wonderful teachers here we really do you know a lot of kids idolize their their teachers and and my personal opinion is i don't think there's really a place in the schools for teachers to really talk about their political beliefs or secular sexual orientations or their religion i don't really think that belongs in schools and if if a teacher if a student knows that of a teacher i really think that that uh that teacher has failed that student in
034my opinion um you know like i said i understand you guys are upset i know why you're here um personally you know it's one of the five voices on this board i'll pose any curriculum that it tells tells children that tells children they're either at an advantage or disadvantage based on their age or where they're born or their sex or their race i don't agree with any of that um i hear you i hear you're saying no and uh if you guys ask me if you want me to fight for you i will without hesitation and that'll be my voice in that so that's all i got to say thank you mr hubbard [Applause] mr daniels do you have anything on a lighter note golf team thank you mr daniels mr alexander um mr hubbard
035i don't disagree with anything you just said um the one thing i would encourage everyone to do is to reach out and directly to rich as opposed to taking the social media or whatever other platform i think i think it's only fair to rich and his team that he understands what the concerns are and he hears directly from you i've never known this man to turn down a meeting with any parent and sometimes he meets way too often with the five of us so i would encourage you all to do that meet with rich directly not just necessarily via email thank you mr alexander well a lot of you did send emails and lots of times you don't get the answer you think you should get that happens on a lot of different subjects we
036have a responsibility to all students here at center grove and we take that responsibility seriously i can tell you every decision we make is always with the kids in mind first now keep in mind we have kids from this point to this point and everything in between and we have to take care of all those kids i would hope you would feel secure that you see five people up here and the administrators who are going to do that sometimes it agrees with what you're thinking sometimes it doesn't that's the way that things work there are no crt plans in the curriculum or in the state i understand it's on facebook i understand it's on all the news channels it's the new buzzword they are talking how it is connected to sel so it is hard
037to disseminate where is the truth where is it being pushed politically we get that and we're working with that i would like to sit here and tell you that at a hundred percent our staff will never do that but when you have over 400 employees something can happen something did happen okay and we are talking about that but don't take silence as we don't care don't take silence as we're not concerned it takes a little bit to figure all that out you wouldn't want decisions made for you in an overnight manner so bear with us we are here for the best interest in the kids just as you are i have always told parents when i was teaching and i still tell these people whenever i have kids they're my kids i love them like
038my kids and i discipline them like my kids and that's the way a lot of staff members are they love their kids so let's work together instead of at each other let's work together but we do appreciate you coming here showing your strength showing your support silence is deafening so we do appreciate it yeah maybe but i did want you to know we are concerned and and work with us because working at each other won't get anything done we all know that so let's work together i'm going to turn over dr arkanov now thanks mr russell um i also want to thank everyone for being here this evening i think it's great i would love to see people here more often as you can see these meetings are super exciting and we would we really
039seriously would love to have parent involvement at this magnitude all the time with that being said we have strategic planning we do that on basically about a three to four year process and we are coming up with the next round so i challenge each and every one of you to reach out to be a part of that process that formulates curriculum that formulates and informs everything we do in this organization every action item you've seen tonight has gone through that process now if you remember if you've been in the district long enough we've had the cg 100 call out where we had 300 parents step up to be a part of that process and they informed strategic planning 2.0 which i have to brag about because when we put that plan together five years ago
040almost heavy heavy involvement in online learning and we were ahead of the game as if we knew covid was coming and we were ahead by by light years and i have to also brag that we finished this year if you weren't if you were not aware of being the first high school in the state of indiana to be able to offer that simultaneous global campus program so students can get a high school diploma in our district at online at the same time as being in person those are huge things that we were able to do through our strategic planning process that many many parents and impacted we we did much other work as well through that process so you'll be hearing about that and a call out for that this year and that will drive
041a lot of the work that we do and in particularly into the curriculum we follow state standards do we have people that sometimes maybe go outside their lanes yes we do do we deal with them yes we do do we do it publicly absolutely not that's not appropriate we would never do that but we take care of it and you have to respect that we have an outstanding district and we take care of our people and we take care of our students and we do things by the book so i want you all to know that that we do those things and we take appropriate actions as we see fit and you have elected these folks to do that and they've hired me and i've hired all the people that work for us to take
042those steps those appropriate steps and to make sure that we do things appropriately legally and respectfully and we will continue to do that but i am so glad you're here i want you here and i want you to be on the lookout for the strategic planning process because there's an opportunity to really get involved and then i want to also just echo scott alexander's uh comments on social media if you want to inform change pick up the phone and call me pam my secretary will make sure i return every voicemail i talk to people i will talk to you on the phone i will sit and visit with you i will bring you in we will sit down and talk and i will get you involved and sometimes i get you involved more than you
043want to be and i'm eager to do that with all of you yeah amy is actually an example of getting probably involved more than she wants to be so with that i just say i am completely honored to continue to serve this district um we we really just appreciate your support and we'll continue to work hard to do what you expect for our kids and with that i'll just turn it back over to you thank you and with that i will adjourn this meeting