001we develop knowledgeable competent and responsible citizens through inspirational and innovative learning and to the opportunities for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all next order of business is the adoption of the agenda mr president i move we adopt the agenda as presented thank you mr alexander and thank you mr daniels any questions all those in favor say aye aye all those posed motion passes 5-0 thank you public comments we do have someone speaking tonight uh mr spradlin who is our executive director of the indiana school board associations just step up to mike here yes hey good evening everyone terry spradlin executive director of the indiana school boards association it's great to be with you great to see a crowd here tonight following your work so it's appropriate let
002me start off by saying thank you i want to say thank you for your leadership for the educators that are in the room thank you public safety officers thank you it's been a herculean effort this school year to conduct school and uh you know despite all the odds and the the uh challenges of covet you guys have been tremendous heroes and so we thank you for all you're doing to you know conclude this school year so good luck in the next couple of months so really really appreciate you know what you guys are doing and uh i have a i have a senior um at the high school so i can attest to the hard work and dedication of your staff of your faculty of your students so we really really appreciate that i think
003you have on your agenda tonight i don't know do you have the resolution on your job yes yes sir so we want to thank you you're one of about 150 or more school boards that are taking action to adopt a resolution in opposition to a couple bills that the legislature is considering uh central 413 house bill 1005 those bills divert more than 140 million dollars away from public education for what we call school choice and included in the school choice programs are the indiana choice scholarship voucher program and uh a new new program called education scholarship accounts you know those programs only serve about three percent of our kids in indiana but they'll consume you know nearly 40 of the new money that the general assembly allocates so we're trying to send a strong message
004through board resolutions so your action tonight if you'll please share it with your area legislators after you adopt it tonight share with your local media we want to drive as much dollars to the classroom as possible for public education we educate more than 90 percent of all kids in the state of indiana and the budget that the general assembly is considering is only allocating about one and a quarter to two and a half percent and new monies for public education so when they you know put 144 million dollars into the budget to serve only three percent of the kids you know we feel that's detrimental for public education it diverts essential resources that we can drive to the classroom in fact if there's any teachers here we'd like to see more of those monies going
005to teacher pay and raising teacher compensation in the state of indiana so as as parents as educators and school board members you know we just ask you to join us in this fight speak up and speak out speak with your legislators about this so thank you for your leadership tonight and taking action on the resolution we greatly appreciate it if i may close by sharing we have some upcoming events we want to invite you guys our board members to some upcoming isbn events our annual fall conference october 11th to 12th if you'll not note that we normally have spring regional meetings across the state we're usually here on the south side for dinner in may but we're canceling that event due to covet but we all have a live spring meeting webinar on may 12th
006at 6 pm so we need to invite you to join us for that so again thank you for all you do thank you for taking action on the resolution tonight it's very meaningful uh to the students of the state of indiana so thank you happy to answer any questions actually terry it's more of a comment than it is a question i i want to thank you and your team for the leadership you guys have been providing at the state house i know you guys have been working hard and i appreciate the daily news updates that you send by the way we are trying not to inundate your inbox with too much information just the right information and keep you guys informed so we'll have another update out tomorrow about the session but the other thing
007we're doing is our coronavirus resource guide updates so as again as the state department of health and the center for disease control continue to change rules and regulations and guidance on health and safety uh we are issuing those updates for all of our board members uh so that you can comply with whatever those rule changes are and so we're getting a lot of additional federal monies that are coming our way in cares act one and two in the new round of stimulus dollars so we'll be giving you updates soon about how those dollars can be spent of course the department of education will as well so uh again heroic efforts herculean efforts thanks for your leadership thank you public safety officers teachers and parents um just a fantastic job well done so i really appreciate
008the opportunity to be here so thank you thank you mr spradling you're welcome thanks sir thank you knowing any other questions for mr bradley let's move on to consent items do i have a motion mr president i move that we accept the consent agenda as presented thank you mr alexander do i have a second mrs counts any questions all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion passes 5-0 we do have some things to do yes thank you um this evening we'd like to do a few things there we go okay um we'd like to uh first of all uh have uh mr um scott knapp would you uh introduce our our new assistant a.d right absolutely oh it's with great pleasure to introduce this is katie fisher and her husband kyle fisher
009as the next assistant athletic director of center grove high school katie has been a girls head basketball coach for the last eight years the last six of which were at bishop chatard where she also taught pe and health prior to that she was at manuel as the athletic director there and before that she was working in athletic administration at the collegiate level so i'm just thrilled to have someone with her background and knowledge for enthusiasm professionalism and just energy i think i think it's a home run higher not only for me but for center grove so i just can't wait until july 1. [Applause] this evening we are going to um i can't remember is it is going to be you mr taylor yeah okay you're going to go yeah you go ahead yes thank
010you come on up here real quick and grab the mic i'm also pleased to introduce a new administrator with our corporation ms robin lawrence is joining our team as the assistant coordinator of special education she's joined tonight by her husband andy and robin comes to us from pike township with a strong background in special education and we are excited i think this will be the first administrative opportunity for you um she's going to replace mr mr long at bridges taking over the academy and then at some point in the future our preschool as well so exciting opportunity we're glad to have her on our team so welcome here thank you and finally we have dr long we're going to be swearing in some of our new news me and you and jeff yeah hey good
011evening everybody uh my name is jason back sergeant at center grove police department um if i could have next stop beau and jay smallwood come on up you guys can stand actually these two are joining our department uh jay actually started on monday uh he's been riding around with us getting to know getting to know the team getting the layout of the buildings and uh nick's number will start tomorrow and do the same thing i know it's the day right before spring break but we wanted to get him in at least introduce it introduce him to some of the key people in the school buildings and then once we come back from spring break we'll be full swing we'll be ready to go uh during spring break nick stumpo is actually going to be attending
012a nazro class so he'll learn the basics of what what it means to be a school resource officer and fortunately enough jay smallwood has already attended a class of that nature so he is actually already a school resource officer so he's able to come right in and get started and uh we just got to train this guy up a little bit more so tonight they're going to be sworn in by some members of the board so i appreciate your time for being here and welcome these guys they're going to be awesome okay hi jay smallwood do you soundly swear that i will support and supply do solemnly swear that i will support and comply with the constitution of the united states of america with the constitution of the united states of america the constitution and
013laws of the state of indiana the constitution and laws in the state of indiana the rules regulations and policies of the center grove community school corporation the rules regulations and policies of the center grove community school corporation and the law enforcement code of ethics and that i will thankfully discharge the duties of my office as a police officer to the best of my ability and the law enforcement code of ethics and i will thankfully discharge the duties of my office as a police officer the best of my [Applause] mr ability the constitution of the united states of america with the constitution of the united states of america with the constitutional laws of the state of indiana with the constitutional laws of the state of indiana the rules regulations and policies of the center grove community
014school corporation the rules regulations and policies of the center grove community school corporation and the law enforcement photographics and i will officially discharge the news of my office as a police officer okay thank you foreign she wants to do it um this is please don't count is okay thank you for your patience we now move on to the action items and our first uh point on the action items is what mr spradlin was talking about to adopt a resolution opposing school choice expansion bills thank you mr russell this evening i'm recommending that the board adopt a resolution to oppose the school choice expansion bills before the legislation today uh this year which is house bill 1005 and senate bill 413. and the resolution is attached to oppose this uh bill and so this evening i'm
015uh recommending that the board sign this resolution thank you dr arkanov are there any questions once we vote on this and sign it this evening and does it go back to the school board association do we press it forward with the legislator or what's the plan there so we'll share it out with with isba and the superintendents association so that they can put it with their collection but we will also i will also then reach out to the legislators and make direct contact and put to send that email and also i will talk with them that this is coming and that we did this as a school corporation very good and i just want to recommend recommend commend mr spradlin um i was lucky enough to be on the board to hire mr spradlin at
016isba and uh i can tell you icba just rocketed forward after that and this is one of the things we're seeing more involvement uh fighting for public schools okay um do i have a motion mr president i move that we adopt the resolution in opposition to the school of choice expansion bills before the legislator house bill 1005 and senate bill 413 thank you mr alexander do i have a second i'll second thank you mr hubbard all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion passes 5-0 thank you thank you mr spradling our next uh action item is the second reading of proposed policy revisions and we are turning it over to me dr arkansas thank you this evening i'm recommending that the board approve the second reading of the policy changes and uh
017and revisions you have you reviewed them at the last board meeting so by board policy it requires two readings and so this would be the second reading and final reading for this evening and upon your approval they will become permanent in the policy manual so if there are any questions any additional questions to any of the policies we are available to take those this evening otherwise we all we need is a motion and approval since we discussed them last board meeting this is the second reading second and we do this every year we do them every time we have changes yeah sometimes twice sometimes twice a year sometimes twice a year and we just always try to follow the letter of the law the state puts out so we match up are there any other
018questions on this do i have a motion mr president i move that we adopt the proposed policy positions as presented thank you mr daniels do i have a second second thank you mrs counts all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion passes five zero thank you our next action item is to accept proposals for roof section repairs dr long thank you dr long will provide you with additional information i'm skipping over okay that's fine i know you're in that area not nearly as exciting as everything else that you've done tonight but as you know we have a company that does an assessment of all the roofs in the school corporation for all of our buildings we try to schedule that work to spread it out over a period of time so we're
019not hit with millions of dollars worth of work last year we did some work at middle school central if you remember seeing the scaffolding and everything up around that tonight based on the findings from the the roof survey we're recommending roof sections at middle school central and center grove elementary be replaced the total cost of the repairs is a hundred ninety one thousand one hundred forty four dollars and fifty cents at middle school central that's a hundred and four thousand five hundred six dollars and fifty cents and at center grove elementary eighty six thousand six hundred thirty eight dollars this keeps us on track we've been doing this probably as long as i've been here for 20 some years it keeps us on track to keep our roofs in good shape so we don't have
020any issues that require more investment from the school board and it takes care of the the buildings that we have thank you dr long are there any questions for dr long do i have a motion for except proposals for roof section repairs mr president i move that we accept the proposal from brown's roofing inc in the amount of 191 144.50 is that correct yes sir for the roof section replacements at middle school central and center grove elementary thank you mr alexander do i have a second second thank you mr hepburn danielson oh i'm sorry okay yeah all those in favor say aye aye all those posed passes five zero thank you thank you thank you sorry doc along the 50 cents threw me off usually usually we can round down around for us but we're
021down our next action item a first reading of resolution naming the high school softball field dr arkanov thank you thank you mr russell this evening this item will not require action by the board but we are direct we have drafted a resolution this evening for naming the softball field after mr russ milligan thank you oh there we go and dr long will be providing you with some additional information um thank you tonight we are presenting for the first reading a recommendation for a resolution naming the high school softball field the russ milligan field as everyone's aware mr milligan passed away i think it's you you turn the mic off and for the board's consideration to name the softball field as presented in the first reading this board policy it takes two readings so there is
022like dr arkanov said there is no action tonight but tonight is the first reading i'd be happy to read it if anybody wanted me to read it but just the highlights of it is mr milligan had 741 wins uh and with an 89 winning percentage five ihsa state softball championships three hsa state runners up and was inducted into the indiana high school softball hall of fame named the state softball coach of the year three times and the district coach of the year five times and coached two miss indiana softball players so we think it's appropriate for the board to consider this resolution tonight and hopefully next month take action to approve that thank you dr long are there any questions for dr long there is no action to be taken on this uh this evening
023and now we go to other business thank you thank you dr long mr daniels do you have anything i would uh just like to acknowledge my uh cohort here to my left he's been recently elected as president of central nine i want to thank mr hubbard for all that he's done to since he's been on the board with central nine and i believe the acknowledgement to put him in the president's role as his well-earned much deserved and we look forward to him continuing to give back over there so i want to congratulate him as a fellow board member on his selection at c9 thank you [Applause] mr hubbard do you have any other business no sir i do not okay mr alexander not not near as exciting as mr hubbard's presidency over at c9 but
024i have i actually went in and did my oath of office for to be the non-voting advisory school board member to the johnson county redevelopment commission our first meeting will be sometime in april and in case everybody missed it there was two tiff districts they formed one of them in our backyard yep they are not our friend your service center okay this counts i just don't know okay thank you i would just like to take a moment um not a moment of silence but we have a lot of challenges with our staff right now and an ongoing and family so just to send those positive thoughts for the staff here at center grove we all have been through the cove this past year and then on top of that some other things so just keep
025those positive thoughts going if there's no other business meeting a jerk remember we are going to readjourn for a second reconvene