001our mission statement we develop knowledgeable competent responsible citizens through inspirational and innovative learning opportunities we all rise and mrs toomey would you like to lead us in the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you similar to other meetings where we've had a board member not able to attend and they've been uh here by zoom we have mr hubbard today by zoom so when we call the votes i'll call votes for first for everyone in the room and then after that we'll uh we'll call a separate vote for for mr hubbard so let's start off with the agenda has everybody had the opportunity to take a look at the
002agenda and as anybody have any questions hearing none do i hear a motion mr daniels i move that we approve the agenda as presented thank you do i hear a second a second thank you mr alexander mr russell all those in favor of approving the agenda please signify by saying i i mr hubbard if you're muted mr albert we can't hear you are you losing pam i sorry not a problem opposed hearing five eyes and no opposed the agenda is hereby adopted next we have a special presentation from one of our favorite groups the red alert robotics team so we'll turn the floor over lisa uh thorad i think you have a statement to make on the behalf i'm gonna let our student leaders here make that statement for us if that's okay nothing personal
003but we always love to hear from the students we thank you uh hi i'm jacob coleman and i'm the executive captain of our robotics team i'm joined with uh isabella baxter she's our operations captain and i've got bruno foreign we basically just want to thank you guys for your support we were able to achieve a lot last season even though our season got tough short it was not to the degree we expected it would be obviously but we achieved a lot because we want to thank even though we our competitions actually got cancelled you're able to go along with the judging crash list through zoom and we actually won tournaments which is the highest award that we interviewed [Music] mug and uh just some things about our team and if you have any questions or
004want to give a shot our website is right alert1741.org that's awesome who what's the what's the prognosis on the upcoming season we just got an email about an hour ago that it's a little up in the air okay um the big challenge is signing babies because most schools don't want to say sure you can cover gym without a thousand people here as we can understand so that's there we're they're looking at doing some modifications looking at different kinds of competitions that we might be able to do virtually science competitions outreach competitions so we're being creative they're being created on a national level um but it hadn't had it not been for coded we would have been to worlds this year in august due to chairman so we're real proud of all them you could not
005do without your support so thank you for that so we don't know exactly to be honest right no it's okay there's a lot of that right now i didn't know if you guys have gotten any anything until last week it was going to be fairly normal for us the other teams were going to be virtual now we're carrying maybe not just because they can't find facilities is our biggest challenge that sounds like right now that could change and things could change at the school student they're like oh okay we're good you can have it in april now so right now we're just planning all kinds of virtual things we're meeting still every week you [Music] so in 16 years yeah so cameras are still going to happen this year with room calls updated live it
006was pretty much equivalent to what it was in person it's pretty professional and it's utter stance they had all of the judges zooming in and building them from our own homes and we were able to share all of our like they had all of our fundraising so from i guess a cup half hole no one wants to but you've got a new skill yeah zoom now yeah definitely good lighting and all you got [Music] some people agree something will go wrong just plan these guys are just playing about this season yeah well what happened right so if something breaks and something goes wrong and once it's not too bad it's a good story exactly that's right absolutely but we're very proud they've all stepped up nobody wants to do really um so we weren't able
007to get into facility obviously for about four or five months so then a spirit was in the refrigerator um i do not mr hubbard do you have any other questions i know your remote mr hubbard's always a supporter he always comes i have no questions all right thank you all right we just wanted to share it and so we ordered extra medals for you all oh well thank you thank you very much very nice thank you so much thank you so much well photoshop put the tall guy in front of rob yeah there you go everybody smile all right thank you so much thank you very much thank you guys that's great um next is our time for public comments no one has signed up for public comments so we'll move to the next agenda
008item next on the agenda are consent items everyone's received their consent packets does anybody have any questions on any of the items in the consent package hearing no questions do i hear a motion mr president i know that we accept the consent agenda as presented do i hear a second second thank you mr alexander mrs toomey all those in favor of the consent items please signify by saying i mr hubbard i all those opposed signify by saying aye hearing no no opposed 5-0 the consent items are adopted now we go to our action items our first action item is to uh i'll turn over to dr bill long to consider the student behavioral health services agreement thank you dr long thank you good evening tonight we're asking the board to approve an agreement with community
009health network to provide mental health services to our students in the school system and part of this agreement requires or says community health will provide two master's prepared therapists and one lifestyle life skills clinician by having master's prepared therapists they can work with kids with on medicaid or with private insurance and just so far since we've been back to school we've had um about 169 kids referred already and they're in the process of doing the intake for them all and to start working with them so that part's gone really well this agreement is just for one year starting july 1st of 2020 and ending on june 30th of 2021 and the reason for that is i think mr taylor is working on a a master agreement between the school corporation and community health that would
010incorporate this into that master agreement the reason we're bringing this to the board tonight is because of the dollar amount that we're paying to get the program started is over fifty thousand dollars and we're required uh to have the board approve those agreements um i'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have i would it's interesting to note that the one therapist that started with us actually lived in the center grove district so she was right across the street from pleasant grove so she was really excited to to start working with us and we've been really happy i know heather's been really happy and we've had lots of conversations about how this will work in our schools and our counselors are making referrals our parents are making referrals so really think especially in
011the year with covet and after last year how important this is for us to have a licensed therapist to to work with our students well the one thing i'm glad we're doing this ahead and not waiting on getting the rest of the agreement in place i know we were trying to get that done but i'll be able to pull this piece out and go ahead and move forward yeah thank you okay and i think your point's well taken when kids these ages have enough challenges let alone an issue with are they going to be learning are they going to be hybrid are they going to be traditional you know the fact that we've got a 169 referrals i think you know is a is a victory because those are 169 kids that some of them
012wouldn't have otherwise gotten any kind of help right so thank your groups that community health and everybody else trying to fill this gap that was out there and hopefully you know come next year we need the full agreement sure for consideration but thanks do i hear any other comments with respect to the community health and mental health proposal hearing no other questions and comments do i hear a motion i move that we approve the letter agreement with community health network for the behavioral health services do i hear a second second thank you mr alexander mrs tooby all those in favor of the behavioral health um agreement with community health services for 2020 to 2021 from july 1 2014 to july 31 2021 please signify by saying i mr halbert for sure opposed to hearing no
013one opposed the eyes out at 5-0 thank you dr thank you thank you next we're going to the school improvement plans and mrs nora hoover will be presenting tonight so mrs hoover the walk didn't used to be as long and we all could sit up here today though thank you speaker i'll turn the microphone over to you thank you i'm per indiana code you see me standing here over here in front of you because all public schools must annually submit a school improvement plan i'm also per indiana state board of education rules the plans must be submitted to and approved by the governing body prior to that submission the applicable legal standard requires that each school submit their full revised three-year school improvement plan and all of our schools will need to do that no
014later than october 2nd the indiana school improvement plan process is part of a the striving for continual improvement in our schools to be effective the plan should be reviewed as a living document evolving as circumstances change during a three-year period covered by that year's submission each of our school has reviewed and considered any available assessment data and revise their school plan to reflect the building needs of the students there this year and the student achievement goals for each building is the basis for their strategies professional development throughout the year and so our schools um these updated versions you have um they used the best data they had because of course we didn't have standardized testing last spring um they did fall back to you know what they what they did know but we also likely
015have nwea and also we could use our essential learning data from our professional learning communities from those grade level teams and with all of that knowledge um they plan all their professional development and staff development for the year based on that to meet these goals thank you mr you're welcome do i have any comments or questions from any board members i think just uh as i was looking through and there was a lot of information there um the one thing that really jumped out at me and it was actually i didn't read all 31 pages but it was the very first it was on page one the sat scores have increased on the map steadily every year and we started at 5 24 in 2014-15 up to 5.85 and 19-20 and that's in my mind
016that's a pretty significant increase in a in a five-year time span that's that's true and i i like the goal again to get the 597 there by the end of this year so obviously we're doing something right in the area of math when it comes to our sap scores and and seem to be on a steady improvement right there and that's that's where i like to see those those improvements on those types of tasks with the kids working on getting to college or whatever their choices are like the diploma and sat scores those are two of our big gateways to what comes next i appreciate that you the work that obviously our high school does but we all know that it starts with that kindergarten class and we are so fortunate um how well our
017buildings prepare our kids for each the next level and not not to discount the verbal uh we've increased so just uh i caught that as well but we've seen steady increases in both but i think it's a testament to what we put in you know all the way through i've got a question i guess i know with standardized testing as you said we didn't have a lot of it last year because of the challenges we're not sure this year what's going to happen unless something's happened in the last week and i'm not aware um i don't expect it to go to for to not have tests this year right so how do we how are we going to measure ourselves i know we have sats which are wonderful but what other ways have we found
018trying to think outside the box and get creative to measure the impact we're having can you give us some more examples of how we we've worked through this to yes absolutely so the probably the most important piece of data we have for the k through the first grade through um eighth grade is our nwea and actually we started that with kindergartners too it just looks a little different but that score is correlated starting in third grade to our standardized assessment in indiana so we can get a projection of how we think kids will do on that test but because the scores are in a continuum you can start to see where kids are at because it puts everything in quartiles so we can see if kids where they're at on the box and whiskers chart
019we use that not only to find out who needs enrichment but also who needs remediation or who's on the bubble we get to compare ourselves not only nationally but also against our own students because we typically are our average line falls above the national average so that's a great piece of data and we have been using nwea i think this is the sixth year um that we've we've been able to do that with our formative assessment grant money and you made the comment too about the plc's working together absolutely can you give us just a few more examples of that of how they're able to i mean they don't have to be across the school which is a couple of examples of sure so um for example in a 7th grade math class our teachers
020have selected from all of the long lists of standards there are some that are more important than others usually because they have endurance they're necessary not only to learn now but if you don't get it now um the next thing you're not going to get either so they've picked these standards based on on a few different categories and those are called essential learnings and those are the top priority things kids need to learn in each grade level that's the only thing but they're the top priorities and we need kids to reach high levels of learning to be proficient in all of those and that's always our goal everything on top of that's great but but that's our kind of our our basement what we want kids to reach um our plc's in each grade level
021are tracking those and how kids are doing in each one of those essential learnings and those things we keep going back to they spill that curriculum so they're catching those kids that aren't there all year long it's not like we did that and we moved on and we're done teaching that now those they teach continually because it also helps the kids that got it at that point not forget it so thank you you're welcome i bet jeff dr henderson will probably tell you all with your high school but but especially in math needs to be there for the elementary for the basics before you can move to that next level before they get into school yes and our elementary teachers um actually k through eight have gotten really good at at um managing their curriculum
022that way and they're really doing it together and you know we're all better together right and and the plc process is really improved and made us more effective does anyone else have any questions or comments from mrs hoover hearing no additional questions or comments can i hear a motion mr president i move that we approve the 20 20 20 21 school improvement plan for all the schools that's presented do i hear a second i'll second thank you mr alexander mr russell all those in favor of approving the 20-20-21 school improvement plan as presented please signify by saying aye aye mr harbor aye all those opposed the eyes have it five zero thank you mr stewart thank you i just want to share i'm presenting the cumulative work of not only our principals but their leadership
023teams um and so i want to thank them for all their hard work because not only do they do this they make this a priority all year and so i want to thank all of them because this is their their job and i'm assuming what we submit the 31 page document not just the summary that's here yes yes they have to go into uh and submit theirs into their school yep yep yes next on the agenda is dr paul gabriel the cfo who's going to speak about the resolution for financing of the sugar growth elementary building project thank you this is uh the third time we've taken formal action on this this particular project and probably other times we've talked about it so there's nothing really new here none of the details about the financing
024have changed any i just wanted to highlight what the schedule is for this as this project proceeds we had our first 1028 hearing on june 18th our second one on july 23rd this evening the board's approving a financing resolution and then in november we will have an additional appropriation hearing and that will be the end of the formal approval processes we expect to have the money available in december um then the board will actually approve the bids for this work hopefully sometime in the spring of 2021 and dr long anticipates that this would be completed by the summer of 2023 so that's a quick review of where we've been and where we're going and as i said there's no other new information so i would uh ask the board this evening to approve the resolution
025that's been presented to them thank you dr gabriel do i hear any questions or comments with respect to the proposed sugar financing for the sugar rave elementary building project here are no questions or comments i'm sorry did you have okay hearing no questions or comments do i hear a motion i know that we adopt a resolution approving the form of the lease of the center grove multi-facility building corporation second thank you mr alexander mrs toomey all those in favor please signify by saying hi [Music] thank you dr gabriel now we move to a motion to consider the approval of a resolution regarding the possible sale of the sugar growth property and again this is something that has been in front of the board in uh in past years dr gabriel let me back you up
026i apologize this is an advertisement i'm sorry you're right so i i apologize thank you mr alexander yep sorry this evening's board meeting has been appropriately advertised as a public hearing for the possible sale of the sugar grove property and just so everyone knows it's not the sugar grove school itself it's the property just south of the school yeah so this evening is the hearing for the possible sale of sugar property and i'll turn over the cleaning to mr daniels to run we're talking about the sale of potentially 37 acres of land adjacent to sugar dave elementary that we've determined is no longer useful for school purposes i now open this public hearing and turn it over to dr gabriel to provide some more information about the potential sales of the property okay so we
027went through the same process and in 2017 and 18 and we're talking about previously we held an auction for this property as mr daniel said 37 acres just south of the sugar grove building the highest bid at the time was one million two hundred thousand dollars the sale uh however never was closed because of problems obtaining the sewer permits so we are going to do the same thing again we've had contact from the vendors that bid at that time saying that they believe the sewer situation has been resolved to the point where uh they would like to to buy the property and obtaining the sewers is not our problem at all it's theirs so that's between them and the various agencies but this is the uh the schedule that we're following as we go through
028this again uh in on september 11th we put a notice in the paper about this this evening is a board hearing which declares the board's intent to sell this property then tomorrow we will put a notice in the paper of advertising the auction and a week later a second notice advertising the auction then we will have the auction will receive seal bids on the 14th of of october and and bidders will have opportunities and we control that process to up their bids if they so choose and our intention is then the the auction time period closes on the 16th of october and and hopefully at that point we will pick the highest bidder if we can get the purchase agreement prepared and approved we would bring it to the board in october which would be
029ideal if it takes more time to work through that then it would be brought to the board in november so that's the process that we're going through uh in in brief and uh at this point i turn it back over to mr daniels to conclude the hearing thank you dr gabriel this is the appropriate time if any member of the public would like to comment on the possible sale of a portion of the sugar grove property or the information presented this evening in this public hearing are the members of the public who would like to who are present who would like to comment mr poor can you please come up the microphone so we can hear you i believe we have three minutes correct this report will give you three minutes and thank you for
030being here tonight thank you just to go back a few years we were going to build another grade school at this property just like the same style and thing it was just another grade school so i guess i don't know what the board has been thinking because we got to build a new grade school in the northern part of our township so what's the thinking of the board are we going to go buy more land to build a new school you know i don't know but i think since we've already got a piece of property here that is paid for and we can build on that selling it because that's to me looks like a ideal situation to put another school right there to help us out that's about all i have to say i
031don't know what you guys have been talking about as far as looking ahead where you're going to build this new school but uh if you have to buy property now we got it already there and stuff so i don't know where where we're gonna build it thank you thank you is there anyone else from the public who would like to comment on the public hearing about the proposed sale of a portion of the sugar growth property hearing no other public comment i close this public hearing are there any members of the board who would like to comment or have any questions for dr gabriel relating to uh the potential sales property i guess they have two comments so mr core i'll answer your your question and i may not get them in the same order
032while i think all of us up here agree and part of our planning process is in the elementary school it's not on the north side of the district it's it's truly going to have to be to the south because that's where all the building is occurring the second piece of that is we've had a lot of conversation about traffic congestion and those types of things and dropping another elementary school in that same space i think dr long would attest and i think the sheriff's department would attest is going to create a logistical traffic problem in that area because there's really not a whole lot of room to improve the infrastructure there back to the sewer issue and and i want to make sure everybody's clear it was it was not a school problem it was
033a city of greenwood problem because they had run out of their capacity to allow any additional permits to be issued until they upgraded the sewer system and that problem on the north end of our district has been resolved now so this which is why we can now come up with a resolution to sell the property so just a couple of insights there that maybe everybody forgot about from a couple years ago and i think it's not very well stated and i'll add a little bit on top of that too that data is coming back showing us that yet growth in the next school needs to be south and we're hoping to use this property that once was thought a good location for another elementary school and now the new thinking organic administration is it would
034be better to locate one further south and two not in a heavy congested area like right next to two schools when they both have events nobody can find parking we run into that with three schools next to each other here with center grove elementary center grove middle and centerville high if they all have an event the same night good luck you got to get there early so the new thinking is to spread them out more a lot more people drop their kids off in the morning so we have to pack cars in all the elementary schools to try to accommodate for that so yes we are thinking ahead yes we're hoping to use this money for those type issues and instead of having a piece of property sit there that is in essence just not
035generating income and if we could ultimately use that money for something else for the school we think being good stewards we need to consider that but i do appreciate your questions and i agree with you 100 the old plan was to have two next to each other and that's been reconsidered so the new elementary needs to be somewhere else if i could just kind of fill in on that too if you look at vision 10 000 you'll see that sugar grow was never a flipped concept that was maple grove so i think you're getting a little confused on that sugar growth sugar never had an expansion on that sugar problem only maple grove did sugar grow has been pretty much contained by smith valley road and peterborough it's really hard to get any kind of
036traffic around in and then when we have the demographic study and the growth study all of the growth is down south as you pointed out and we are looking at property down that way um and just no matter where we would build the building and open it it is going to create the ever dreaded redistricting situation um so that will happen as well but dr long will will uh he promised that he's not going to let that happen right in his tenure his remaining tenure so thanks for clarifying i misunderstood too mr ford i thought yeah no it was set for yeah yeah you can see that on the vision 10 000 website um so if you dig down in there stacy's done a really good job of kind of laying that out and how
037we put that together any other comments uh relating to the potential sale of the sugarville property mr daniels excuse me one thing i meant to mention i didn't and that is uh i did say when we did this the last time the winning bid was a million two and in the documents that we'll provide to any potential bidders we're allowed to specify minimum bid our intent and those documents specified that the minimum bid is a million two so won't be any worse off than we were a year and a half ago hopefully we'll be better off if there's more competition we'll just have to wait and see dr gabriel you took my last question oh okay i meant to say that and forgot well you know i think that's a good point because we're not
038desperate to sell this land we're going to sell this land for what it's worth in order to use it for other school needs right and if it doesn't garner that now we'll hold on to it we'll sell it in a few years for what it's worth then yeah i appreciate you pointing out the the minimum bid of 1.2 million yeah any other comments or questions mr hubbard i know you're remote so i'll ask you if you have comments or questions no i don't have any comments i'm not just thanks mr ford for getting up there asking those questions i'm glad scott was able to answer them do i hear a motion mr president i move that we approve the resolution regarding the possible sale of the trigger growth property do i hear a second i'll
039segment this one hearing uh thank you mr alexander and thank myself too he's hearing a motion and a second on the sale of the access property of sugar grove all those in favor please signify by saying i all those mr hubbard all those opposed you guys have it 5-0 thank you i didn't mean to break protocol but that's when i think if we can generate money to use elsewhere let's do it okay yes our next item is the budget this evening is the hearing for the 2021 budget and i'll turn it over to mr daniels to run the hearing thank you dr arkanov this evening's board meeting has been appropriately advertised as a hearing on the 2021 budget the bus replacement plan and the capital projects fund i now open this public hearing and turn
040it over to dr gabriel thank you i think this is the 14th time i've gotten up in front of this board to make a presentation never with a mask on so we'll see i can get through it without too much stumbling this is a public hearing on the budget this shows you the overall schedule for the budget um we advertise it no longer in the paper but on the gateway state website and it also it also shows our the our own website where uh the full budget presentation about about a hundred pages is is available for the public to view right now this evening is a is a budget hearing and then at our next regular scheduled board meeting on october 27th we will be adopting the budget and the two replacement plans this is
041kind of an agenda of the topics to be discussed this evening i'm going to go very quickly i think the intention here is to not take a lot of time but to let the public know that it's available for them to look at in more detail first thing i want to talk about is the impact of code 19 on our finances and this slide summarizes the expenses that we have incurred to date with respect to covid it has continued to grow and this is not the end of this list this is a a summary of what we have turned in to fema and that situation is a little bit fluid right now we will probably turn in more later we have until the end of the year to complete that process and we really don't
042have any um idea when we'll get paid or how much they've said that 75 percent is the maximum they would pay us back but we don't know what will be approved for payment and what won't and that has changed over the past few weeks so it's kind of a fluid situation the second item is a little bit about enrollment this does it shows you a summary of where we are right now uh our enrollment uh when we on 8 31 when we closed the budget for all the changes was 8 856 an increase of 106 over last year it um has fluctuated by a student or two since then but but that's about where we will land we think so just in general the official enrollment date is september the 18th our preliminary enrollment is
04388.56 but that certainly will change a little bit before the final numbers are produced we have until sometime in october to get any any errors resolved so it's not final yet the the enrollment that was the basis of our advertised budget was 88.65 because that's where we were on the first of september and so we're a little bit short because we're not going to get we're probably not going to get back up to that and for every student we miss that goal by we lose seven hundred dollars and that ends up being some out of cash balance um then the the next issue i wanna talk about is the capital projects fund that's part of this hearing this evening and there's a capital asset plan available on our website that lists projects that are assets
044to be purchased over ten thousand dollars since 2010 we've supplemented the cpf revenue with go bonds and we intend to do the same thing again for next year's budget this year for next year the bonds will total 5.17 million dollars these bonds support maintenance projects and technology projects and we have financed them over two years so that every year of one bond falls off and gets replaced with a new bond i'm not going to go into the details but this is the list of maintenance projects and it shows you what is in what used to be the cpf now the operations fund and what's in the bonds for the maintenance department and then the next slide is the same thing for the technology department i'm sure if you had any questions dr long and mr
045taylor could answer those for you about the specifics we also have a bus replacement plan that is the being considered this evening in this hearing for 2021 we intend to replace 10 buses at a total cost of about a million dollars we're replacing uh most of those are large 78 passenger buses that cost more than 100 000 and we're also replacing a couple of the activity buses that cost less than that so that's where you get to the total of a million dollars normally i go through a list of some of the major changes in the education fund and the operations fund to just talk about big things that impact the budget over the you know the really big items and i want to mention a few things here first of all we have take
046we have taken 450 000 in our revenue for next year and assigned it to the emergency account in the operations fund we've done this because we anticipate uh some significant expenses next year for kobit just like we've had this year don't know what that'll be but we anticipate a couple of years here in which money is going to be very tight and this sets that money aside in case we need it we've added new positions in the budget for next year one administrator that's the director of mental health and school counseling uh 13.5 teachers in the bargaining unit and that includes nine and a half classroom teachers three social workers and one seo specialist we've added six support staff two that's that's two bus drivers a bus monitor and then six times halftime custodians which
047we put in the elementary schools to assist in the cleaning process in the elementary schools and we've also put into the budget one police officer that's not a new position but it was originally paid from the grant and so to keep that police officer where we're going to be paying them out of the out of the operations fund next year for health insurance we've done we've uh in increased our expenses in that area 8.1 percent on the corporation side of the of paying for premiums and for employees it will be 1.4 percent of their premium so that's a fairly small amount for employees we've had to increase various maintenance accounts by totals 200 000 as we look at next year's budget because they've had some um some significant increases and expenses and we've been very
048very tight for the last couple years on their budgets and we had to increase utility accounts by 125 thousand dollars and that's about 4.4 percent of the utility account so those are some of the big changes that we made i i typically prepare um a comparison like this that compare that that looks at the the revenue versus the expense and for the education fund and the operations fund those are balanced budget budgets revenues equal expenses for the debt service fund they're slightly different because the state provides a formula for cash balance and based on that formula we need to decrease and spend a little cash balance next year that every year there's a slight adjustment because of the way that formula works in terms of the impact and the tax rate for the of this
049budget our current tax rate is a dollar 067 it's going to be a dollar 0264 at least that's our estimate that's up 1.93 cents uh and um we we always when we advertise our budgets and prepare the official forms we always estimate high because in case we've made any mistakes uh historically we are very very close to that advertised to the um the expected rate but we always cover ourselves a little bit by advertising a higher rate in in terms of that overall tax rate which is which we anticipate will be uh just under a dollar three for next year you can see we've we have since 2009 maintained a very level tax rate uh our our goal has always been to keep it less than that dollar four that it was in 2009 and
050we've been able to meet that goal i'm sure we will be able to do that for 2021 and just to do a comparison this shows the the different school districts in johnson county and where we are and this chart hasn't changed much i like to say if you stood away from it and just kind of got the overall picture and ignore the numbers the shape hasn't changed you can't you have clark pleasant franklin at the top and kind of leading and and then center grove and edinburgh kind of in the middle and then two others that are a little smaller that overall structure of those hasn't changed much in terms of the impact of this of this uh of budget on the on a taxpayer we have in the past use a home uh valued
051at three hundred thousand dollars just as a point of comparison and for that homeowner uh this you could see the calculations but the bottom line is that they would end up in school taxes paying fifteen dollars more next year than they paid this year and again this chart it's important to understand that's just school taxes that's not the total tax rate which obviously we don't control the other parts of the tax rate in terms of cash balance that's something we talk about and i know it's important to the board right now in 2019 we pretty much had to change the way we do the computation because they the state restructure the funds uh so in we had a seven about a seven percent tax rate i went on i'm sorry tetris had about seven point
052six percent um cash balance that's equivalent to five million dollars and it's so difficult right now to predict what it will be at the end of this year with all the covet expenses in there not knowing if we're going to get any fema money this year or not just a lot of unique variables about this year but but this shows to the impact if we have the same five million dollars at the end of 2020 that we had at the end of 2019 that uh percentage would be 7.2 percent so that's where we are for now so in summary uh this is kind of goes back over the key points education and operations fund are balanced budgets current enrollment is uh 88 56 up 106 students from last year and that's going to change a
053little bit but not much i we don't think when we get our final accounts our estimated tax rate for next year is a dollar 026 and that's up one point nine three cents from from this year and on a three hundred thousand dollar home annual uh impact would be an increase of fifteen dollars annually these are the uh this is just some information that the web address at the top shows you where you can look at the the higher budget that's available to people right now to look at if they want more information so this is a public hearing i'll turn it back to mr daniels to conclude the hearing thank you dr gabriel as part of the public hearing this is an appropriate time for members of the public to comment on the budget
054that's proposed or information presented if there are members of the public who'd like to speak please raise your hand mr ford i'll turn the microphone over here thank you dr movement uh mr parking way to get the microphone that would make sure we get your comment thank you where will we be in the balancing of the budget if the state only gives us 85 percent for the for the partial or for the virtual virtual kids compared to we get 100 what you know if we get 5 000 or six thousand dollars for child regulate if we attend class and then we're only going to get 85 percent of that if we if he's home doing computer and the only the other second thing is the on the bonds the g.o bonds i believe we were
055going to finance this new uh emergency ambulance station thing algo bonds right can that be done i can respond okay thank you thank you for your questions mr poor they're very good questions and i know dr gabriel hasn't answered well the first one about what happens if we get only 85 for virtual students i would describe that as a political football right now it's in the it's in the hands of the politicians in indianapolis we've been assured that it isn't going to happen that way that they're that it that we're going to get 100 percent for for our particular situation the way they're talking right now we're going to get 100 so that's not a terribly big concern um i don't think it's written in stone yet but that's the direction everybody's saying they're going
056to go i did do the math i'm not going to quote a number off top my head i'll be happy to get it to you because i don't remember what it was but it it is a significant chunk i think uh i think as we looked at this early on we said you know if that happens it will probably be a one-year hit and we'll take that out of cash balance so for one year so i think if that were to happen uh it's not like we'd have to go back in and say okay how can we find a way to eliminate something or modify the budget i think we'd like to continue to have the budget look just the way it is and all that would be impacted would be that cash balance chart
057so and the other question was about the bond oh yes but i i know that that's we've said that before and i think you've asked that question before and the answer to your question is that involves more long-term planning but that we've been doing but yes we can finance that project and yes we can do it without increasing the tax rate however we're still in a process where we are planning for that project going through the design and we're not in a position to sell the bonds at this time so in 2021 and that's what this budget is for calendar year we will not be paying back any of those bonds so that's why you don't see it it's part of this budget but it is part of our long-term plan and and uh barring
058any crazy thing in the financial markets we if things continue as they are we shouldn't have any difficulty financing those bonds without increasing the tax rate so that's the answer to that thank you dr gabriel are there any other members of public who'd like to comment seeing no further comment from the public i hereby close the uh public comment section section of the hearing now i ask is there anyone on the board who has any questions or comments with respect to the proposed budget i i had one dr gabriel and it was you know i'm sorry the number didn't jump out at me call he was sitting here i know normally we and i think i know the answer to this question but normally we use six thousand dollars just to round number what we're
059talking about how much we get for students i know this said 5700 yeah i'm assuming well i'll let you answer my question before i call it wrong or something yeah unfortunately both answers are right is it 6 000 yes it is 6 000 is an all-inclusive number it includes things like honors grant and extra money for special ed and extra money for cte doesn't include title okay it's everything that's in these two funds okay uh but when we talk about the differential if we're going to be off by 10 students one way or the other that's probably not going to impact the number of honors kids and the number of special those 10 kids aren't going to unless we happen to hit one of those so i i try to use the number when we
060talk about the differential that might be impacted by missing an enrollment target like that uh do i just use i exclude those other things i i assume that was the answer but i didn't want to make that so is it fair to say another way to look at it is you use the conservative more conservative number the 5700 yeah is that the actual number we get from the state well we don't like taking out all the other factors we uh that's probably hard to compete i'd have to look exactly at what was left it's very close to the exact number there's a printout that we get that shows the exact number and it's very close to that okay yeah i haven't seen it yeah okay thank you any other comments or questions on the budget
061hearing i got one comment letter four great question on the 85 by the way we we i know dr arkanov and mr taylor and i think dr long and several members of his cabinet were on the phone with a couple of the state legislators when that all hit the news and there was several assurances given i think during that call that that wasn't going to be the case but it's not kings and stone yet so until the session starts and the session's over your your perception is very fun and accurate the state board did take some action to change the definition which will help you change the definition of what a virtual student is for public schools like us so that should take care of getting the full 100 percent for those students which we
062have roughly 1200 of them yeah so now instead of there being a gap with the new language you would take the legislature arguably to pass a new law in a political climate where it would be very not favorable to take money away from schools who are battling everything or battling that's not legal advice that's just an observation on that note any other board comments or questions for dr gabriel on anything relating to the budget and there's no action required tonight so i'm not going to ask for a motion but i do thank you dr gabriel and mr paul and others for uh contributing this and your team that goes into helping all of us too so thank you i'm sorry mr hubbard did you have a comment i didn't ask i haven't closed it yet
063no i don't have any comments right now thanks for the input the board will will consider and consider the budget at its next meeting on october 22nd 2020. does anyone have any other business tonight mrs toomey i'll start with you i thought i did i have nothing to bring to the board at this time but thank you for the opportunity thank you mr russell mr harvard no i have nothing mr alexander uh yeah the greenwood redevelopment commission one of my extra board responsibilities as the non-voting advisory member for the redevelopment commission um maybe they are moving ahead with their with the river you district can't see the smile under my mouth as i say the river district and the city agreement but there's a lot of the a lot of businesses that come forward [Applause]
064for some approvals and some tax abatements and liquor licenses and those types of things i think very soon you're going to start to see some new and different types of restaurants going on in downtown greenwood i'm i'm personally pretty excited by that they're they're trying to attract some new and different businesses into the downtown greenwood area so uh mary myers and his team have put a full pork press on that and um there's a company that's um milwaukee tools power tools um is making a big investment in the city of greenwood and they're going to be bringing in um i think if that's me to be eight to 1200 jobs if i consistently if i'm responding i didn't grab my rdc holder which is very exciting for the city of greenwood the other cool piece
065of that is they have a sister plant in greenwood and a sea as well so we have two cities of greenwood for milwaukee tools and it's going to be more of a repair area for tools and they were excited to be partnering with central nine that helped with some of that as well to help um see if they could use up the workforce so some pretty exciting things going on over over on thirty-five appreciate the update dr arkanov do you have anything to add yeah uh all i want to do is thank everybody for patience during coven your kids are sick keep them at home if you're a teacher and you're sick stay at home our numbers are looking better because everybody's getting it everybody's wearing their masks everybody's doing what we need to do
066so we're in this together we'll get through this together everybody please please please contribute continue to follow the guidelines if you're waiting for the test results stay home yes don't send your kids to school if you're awaiting phobic test results so that doesn't help you or if a parent is waiting please keep the kid home anybody in the home's waiting please keep your kid home because we know there will likely be another cover or two infection here and there but we don't want to quarantine 50 kids for one infection so please stay home if you're sick on that note we've got a couple of announcements um on october 22nd we're gonna have a board work session uh followed by an executive session the board work session will start at 11 30. i don't know if
067the time for the executive session's been set yet but we'll we'll get that out when it is keep their eyes open and we'll be posted and then our next regularly scheduled uh board meeting will be october 22nd right here in this room at seven o'clock so having no further questions comments i thank everybody for their time tonight and we'll attend the we're going to meeting