001the transition. And when you walk into this building, there's three things that I really noticed. The three things that just really stood out to me. One, the reminder that we teach kids. [clears throat] We don't have to worry about curriculum. I mean, we do have to worry about curriculum, but the focus is the kids. The focus isn't meetings. The focus isn't paperwork. The focus isn't just all the things that weigh teachers down. Yes, we have to do that, but the focus is kids. Mr. Howell has said this many times, and he reminded me that music happy now used to say this, too, that we're helping them practice to be adults. And I hear that every day. I see that every day with the staff around me. The way the English department is set up, we
002can hear each other when you're teaching. They pop in and check on each other. I hear Mr. Hurd. I hear Mr. Loopy. I hear Mr. Howell say these wonderful things, helping kids be wonderful adults when they grow up. So, just such a wonderful staff here. Um the other thing I noticed is just in general, the adults are so hard working. Oh my goodness. Like, there's custodians here every morning, vacuuming, writing in every day and night and late at night working. I see like the administrators taking on the extra jobs. There's so many things that the guidance counselors are doing. Just everybody works so hard here, and it's just such a blessing to be here. So hard working, um teaching kids. And then just the the last thing is the positive atmosphere. Feel so supported. Feel
003anything that you could need. All the other staff popping in constantly to check on us. Um I don't know. I just think it's been a wonderful change. It's been so like good for me and my heart and for my soul to be here. So, thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> [applause] >> I do want to say I have less staff now. >> [laughter] >> I am more staff. I'm the school counselor at the high school, and I asked five kids to be here tonight to share some experiences with you. And I've been lucky to kind of get to know them through some individual meetings we have over the years and when I hear their stories I think it's a very different each student has a very different experience but something very worthwhile to
004hear from for our community and for our board and it's just a small glimpse of what our school is doing and what our kids are achieving. There's so many other kids that I could have asked to come I actually would have paid at one point and I was like oh that's a lot. So if there's just so many different experiences that I think we should hear about. I have these five here tonight they're all seniors all starting their next step into adulthood and it looks very different for each of them. But just an example of what of what kids are doing here what they're achieving and what we have to be proud of as a school staff and as a community. So I'll introduce them kind of all at once and then as they come
005up you guys can introduce yourself again. Jada Borders and Connor Fish, Bryce Geiger, Lucy Moore and Brandon Skaggs. >> My name is Jada Borders and I'm 18 years old. I've been a student here for 12 years and from my earliest days I remember walking into the primary building as a kid who could barely know how to organize their book bag. To now planning and organizing a life beyond high school. Social Mobile has offered me great opportunities to prepare just for that and such as the education pathway. I grew up wanting to help people wanting to make a difference. I never knew sure I never was sure how but I went through so many ideas and hobbies thinking that was just it. Unfortunately I got lost. I wasn't not who I was what I wanted to
006do, who I was going to become. Then I walked into the education pathway class. I had no clue what it was what the class was what it was to be or what it was supposed to teach me. I had no clue what I was walking into. After that time I went to the elementary for the first time. I really connected with the teachers and the kids. Specifically um Mandy Mandy um I realized this is what I wanted. This is what has pushed me and challenged me, shown me what it means to be a teacher. She has helped me to find who I am, who I want to become. The education pathway has changed everything for me. It opened so many doors and opportunities for me outside of the classroom. The field trips and hands-on experiences
007made learning feel real. Whether it was visiting colleges, exploring career opportunities, or participating in activities. That really connected with my peers. I've been fortunate enough to know a wonderful um I forgot what the word was. So I kind of scratched it out. um community It was a great experience and CN has taught me a lot and that is due to the teachers that truly care about their kids and their interests. Success does not come easy and failure is not something you avoid. CN has taught me just that. Thank you for the opportunities and experiences. Thank you. >> [applause] [snorts] >> Uh my name is Connor Fish. I'm a senior at Central Noble. I've gone to Central Noble for eight years. I transferred here in fifth and I must not walk because I will not have
008a chance to teach here. And one of my brothers didn't grow up in this community. During my time here, I've been involved in football, golf, cheer, and wrestling. Central Noble does a great job offering a lot of different classes and activities. So, there's something for all of us and everyone and what it is today. The teachers and counselors really do try to help you in high school and that makes a huge difference. Central Noble also has an amazing community that supports, encourages, and leads you to be ready after high school. If I could give younger students some advice, I'd say don't dig yourself into a hole with missing work, turn things in on time, and even if they're not perfect, also be respectful to teachers and staff. Central Noble has helped me learn how to
009manage my time, balance school and my life, and be responsible. It also gave me a chance to try IMPACT. My freshman year, I was able to tour the IMPACT facilities and I fell in love with the program. I like how much responsibility I was given and how I started to be treated more like an adult, doing real real real world tasks, and to get me ready for the workforce. I was able to finish my school work and shop work at IMPACT. So, I'm able to work there two or three days a week two days out of the week and my plan is to work there full time as soon as school gets out. Central Noble and IMPACT has given me that opportunity to do that. IMPACT has been nothing but positive since Central Noble and
010the instructors and teachers are very understanding, willing to share everything, >> [applause] >> Uh hi, my name is Bryce Guyer and I've attended Central my entire life. After graduation, I plan to attend the Indiana University of Bloomington to double major in accounting and finance through the Kelly School of Business. Uh one of the biggest impacts that Central has had on me is the way it has supported me in getting a real head start on college courses specifically. Uh while a lot of schools do offer dual credit, what has made the difference here is the support that has been the highest through multiple different opportunities to go to different colleges through field trips with Mrs. Scott and specifically the help that I've gotten from Mrs. Scott with uh combining all sorts of different schools club credits
011into my high school transcript and fully applying them all the way through. Um and with that, I'm two classes away from my associate's degree and I cannot even graduate from high school yet. Uh that experience has given me a lot of exposure to real college classes that are not just higher level high school classes. I've had a lot of teachers who pushed me through here as well from um really early with Mrs. Seeber. Uh I would specifically thank Mr. Spellman as well. Uh through band, he has taught me a lot of discipline of course cuz it's the class and a lot of real life lessons that I wouldn't have gotten without uh teachers in this place. Um I would like Mr. Blessey as well. I've gotten a lot of real life experience talking to him
012about a couple of problems that I've had and he really made me think deeper in math. Um and Mr. Graydon, his finance class is one of the most rigorous classes I've ever taken in school and it's really pushed myself and others to apply concepts at a higher level that I wouldn't even imagine would be a high school class. Uh and outside of academics, I've been involved in the chess club, the math club and of course the jazz and pep band. I have almost two years of work experience um and that's gave me a lot of real experience, social skills, and time management. Another thing I do outside of school is I have a lot of work in meteorology. I collaborate with the National Weather Service and I'm certified spotter. I also want to run a
013weather platform >> [snorts] >> that's a part of the weather weather ready nation ambassador program. My platform has over 8,000 unique viewers on multiple platforms and that's something that I built independently but it's been supported through by the foundation of skills and discipline that I developed here and the help of teachers that I had. Something Central does well that has provided these opportunities but more importantly allowing students to take those opportunities and push them as far as they want. So that goes into my advice for any incoming students or something that is to apply yourself. Central can only take you so far. You have to push yourself beyond that. A lot of what I've accomplished has come from taking initiative and using my own time to go further than what was required. Overall, Central has
014helped me by giving me both a strong academic and a foundation and the ability to take initiative on my own. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Hi everyone. My name's Lucy Moore. I'm a senior at Central High School. I've been going here since I was 5 years old in kindergarten and I will probably know most of the faces that as teachers and the ex-senior I'm going to be. Really gotten me where I am today so just want to shout out to Um but I am the first Central High School student ever to achieve what's called the Indiana College Board. If you're not familiar with that, it is a set of 30 college credits which will let me skip my entire freshman year of college. They are courses that in Central are subjects I've taken that I
015was taking and done all different kinds of math. I've done science, I've done English, I've done everything and I have done basically all my career represents. And that's going to save me over $10,000 in tuition costs and housing and food and transportation all of that. And that's been made possible by Central Grove specifically through the partnership with Ivy Tech and Ivy Tech W. I've taken classes both in a like high school classroom setting as a full day first round talk my high school teacher that's certified to take those dual credit classes. Those are dual credit classes like English classes, a couple of science classes, a Spanish class. And I've also had support system from Central Grove as well as a partnership with Ivy Tech and taking online classes. I took public speaking, high school sociology,
016psychology, things like that that we don't offer at the college over here, but then I was able to take because of the Ivy Tech Central Grove's partnership with Ivy Tech and they, once a quarter or once or twice a quarter, I would get emails from Mrs. Scott saying, "Hey, our representative is going to be here. Do you need any help? Do you need any support with any of this?" And Mrs. Scott actually gave me the opportunity to have two study halls. So, I had an hour and a half every single day just to work on those online classes and to make sure that I wasn't failing anything. It's It's been great, honestly. I I'm so grateful. Another thing that I kind of wanted to talk about was field trips. I've gone on so many field
017trips in the years since I've been at Central Grove. I've learned so many whether it's just little field trips down the road from Woolery to Mary Lee to just, you know, walk around the trails and see the nature of that. Um, or to the zoo. We went to Science Central, all these things. They've like sponsored my love for learning. I truly just love to learn. I'm going to Indiana University Bloomington this fall for biology on a pre-medical track because I want to become a pediatric doctor. Um and that's truly like through the teachers and the staff here at Noble. I wanted to be like them, but I wanted to further that and make my love for science. Um >> [snorts] >> and yeah, I I go on field trips in high school. So, I went
018actually to Indiana University on a college field trip and that was what made me decide I wanted to go there. I fell in love with it and I wouldn't have had that opportunity if it wasn't for Noble. Um I It wasn't even a Noble field trip. I was doing it on my own through the school. Honestly, I went because I wanted to get out of school for the day and I thought I really didn't expect it. Um >> [clears throat] >> I also, just a few weeks ago, um I went on a field trip to Saint Francis and this is kind of, I'm going to say, [snorts] but medical school, a big part of it is thinking personally and to do that you have to have the ambulance experience of cadaver labs and seeing the
019human body. I That was the part that I was most scared of. That was one of the main reasons I was still tentative about what my major was going to be and what I wanted to do with my life was because I was so nervous that I wouldn't be able to do it. I wouldn't be able to do get through those classes. So, I went to I went on a field trip to Saint Francis [snorts] and we went to their cadaver lab and we got to see all of those things we talked about and then they also have like these um they're called anatomy virtual students where you get to like It's basically just a virtual cadaver lab computer and they're like real people's bodies that you just get to like see and find everything
020on. It was really cool. Um we also got to kind of play around in their microbiology lab and like observe equal eye on like slides and everything. Um we got to see their kinesiology lab, learn about exercise science and I mean, obviously a lot of my peers are getting the other stuff this year with our field trip, but everybody else in that field trip, they were just they loved it. It was great. It was >> [snorts] >> they I don't know how to tell you that, but >> [clears throat] >> they were all very inspired by that. So, yeah, I'm I'm very very grateful for all the opportunities that you guys have given me and when I was hired at Old Town I was 18. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> [applause] >> My name
021is Braden Skaggs. I've been coming here since freshman year. I've uh moved around everywhere up in I still always tell people I grew up in Fairfield all through school. I played in Michigan and school up there, but this is best group of people I've ever met. And I mean that. You know, it's takes a lot for me to say that because uh I I really look at people and try to get to know them and try to see who they really are. And you these are a good group of teachers. They really will, you know, they're not scared to ask you what's going on and try to help you out the best they can, you know. I uh grew up without All right. Had the best guidance, but as soon as I came here I
022changed. I I've been in work-based learning. Did that for about a year and a year and a half. And I ended up That really gave me some responsibility. You know, how to balance everything in life. The schedule. I like to get my hands dirty, you know. I like to work on cars. And uh work-based learning I I got to do a lot of that. Especially. >> [clears throat] >> Also, the teachers here you're With Mr. Earnhardt up there, her class was welding and and [snorts] that is what really got me started in my freshman year of high school. It was really a pleasure to be with you and I did work with and I really got a lot of All the teachers here have really inspired me to take my step forward and do all
023the projects. >> [snorts] >> I'll tell you right now that I would have overcome you. I thank you all. You're very welcome. >> [applause] >> That's it, Brooke. Well, thanks, everybody, for sharing. I'm sure that was a little nerve-wracking for some of you. >> Thank [clears throat] you, kids, for taking the time. It really uh makes me change up the road with us, talk to the community because uh it sure makes me feel good about the school administration and what's going on. It really does. I think you kids are all honest. That's pretty special. It really is. Thank you. There's nothing better than your kids talk about the experience they have. That's That's That's all good. Thanks, you guys. Appreciate [clears throat] it. >> We'll move on to consent items. It was quite the list,
024so bear with me. Approval of minutes from the March 16th regular session board meeting and March 30th public work session, excuse me. Approval of the March 10th and March 25th payroll and claims for March 17th through April 20th. Personnel, acceptance of resignation of Luke Leffers, sub bus driver. Allison Morris, junior senior high paraprofessional. Tiffany March, [clears throat] varsity cheer coach. Acceptance of termination of Andy Price, bus mechanic. Recommendation to hire Charles Aikman, junior high language arts teacher. Kelsey Sloan, part-time child care worker. Spring coaches. Caleb Mooney, junior high golf coach. Whitney Byerly, JV softball coach. Abby Hile, JV softball coach. Kendall Ruefer, junior high boys track coach. Kylie Zimbra, junior high boys assistant track coach. Nathan Spellman, assistant baseball coach. And the uh following volunteer coaches were also approved. Aleah Zobrist, softball. May I have
025a motion? >> I'll make a motion. >> Second? >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> Aye. >> Opposed? Passes 4-0. Action items. Um >> [clears throat] >> recommendation to approve proceeding with Central Noble Early Learning Center classroom move and Apple Tree School renovations. Jenny? >> Okay. Can everybody hear me? Okay. Um so first off, I think we need to recognize Jenny Hicks. She is the director of the daycare um and her expertise with the daycare has really brought us to where we are today with asking for this move to be approved. Um she's had countless hours reviewing requirements, consulting with the licensing officials, visiting other facilities, and so much more um just to make sure that this can be the best possible environment for our students that we have in there. Um this request
026is brought forward now so that the district can begin the necessary planning and approval steps in a timely manner as several requirements must be completed before a move can occur. After extensive extensive discussion, we believe utilizing four classrooms at the junior senior high is going to be the best place um for a permanent location for CNALC at this time, and this is regardless of any future building consolidation considerations. This is what we we feel is best regardless of what happens. The proposed renovations for those classrooms are focused on maintaining the program's LLEP certified status and meeting required standards, which include emergency exits, restroom access, security, and effective classroom design. Uh before occupancy, they will have to go through um some certification with both the fire marshal and state licensing um or inspections, I should say,
027to approve those spaces. Um so approving that now, um that will give them plenty of time to get moved over, uh renovations done so that they can be ready to go and accept students again. Um most importantly, um it's important to note that no corporation funds are a part of this renovation. This is all from our ELI grant that we were awarded. Uh currently, we have roughly around $490,000 remaining. Um and with the list that we have, we're well within that, um to also be able to speak with them about amendments to reallocate some of those funds for the operation of the daycare. >> We will get this done before next school >> That's the hope, that by August they could be approved and in those classrooms. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >>
028[snorts] >> Second. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Passes 4-0. Recommendation to approve Kimberly Bomb Gardner as an authorized signer for CNCS and INDOT land for easement acquisition documents. Kim? >> Okay, so INDOT is going to be starting a project next summer um that will affect State Road 8 between Kuer Court and High School Drive, the bridge kind of culvert project that's going to be there. Well, when Parks on the other side, the town has already done their paperwork side of it. Um so we're the last piece of the puzzle here. Uh that project again isn't scheduled to be completed until summer 2027. There are two parcels of land that will be affected for the school. One is in the school district's name, one is in the building [snorts and clears throat]
029corporation's name. So, I'm also working with the building corporation to get their authorization to sign documents. Your motion tonight just gives me the authority to sign this paperwork on behalf of Central Noble. Parcel one, which is in the school's name, they have they did all of their surveying and they are willing to give us $3,475 for that parcel. Parcel two is in the building corp's name and they are willing to give us $3,100 for that parcel. Movement will have to move one wooden sign saying that says like auditorium, fields, things like this. That'll be a simple move. The other side, closer to where we have our digital sign, will have to move about one foot of fencing. So, >> The sign is good. >> The The sign's good, yes. >> So, you're just shortening that
030piece of the fence. >> correct, correct. >> May I have a motion? >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Brian. >> All in favor? [snorts] >> I. >> Opposed? Passes [clears throat] 4-0. Recommendation to rescind approval of a lease agreement. >> Okay. >> After further discussion, it is recommended that Central Noble rescind the lease agreement that was approved at the March 2026 board meeting. Nothing went forward with that. We just had board approval, but pretty shortly after that, we got some other quotes. So, a new quote from Decktronics has been obtained that will save the corporation/athletics a total of $44,170 taking the total lease amount, which was over 90,000, to um to that savings. It's about 46,184 for just new scoreboards, not a video board. >> May I have a motion? >> So moved.
031>> Jason, second? >> I'll second. >> All in favor? I. Opposed? [snorts] Passes 4-0. Recommendation to approve first reading of ISBA policy updates, Jamie. >> Um so, this is just updates to standard standard policy revisions and some new policies from ISBA um in their quarterly release. Um we are about two behind, um but that's where we're at. Um this is just serving as the first reading of two. This cycle contained 17 total policies um for the initial review. Um all of those, the links were provided to you guys in the board packet. Um of the 17, two are required. Um Both are already adopted and contain revisions needed to align with changes in state law, and those are the school wellness and habitual truancy policies. There are also 10 that are essential. Um all are
032currently active with four new ones available for adoption. And then lastly, five that are discretionary that include three new options. Um between now and the May meeting, I just need feedback regarding the new and new essential and discretionary policies. Um unless otherwise directed, all recommended updates will go forward with a second reading. >> Okay. May I have a motion? >> I'll make a motion. >> Second? >> I'll second. >> All in favor? I. Opposed? Passes 4-0. We move to superintendent comments. >> Yes, so thank you. We'll start real real quickly. Uh you you people have asked uh many times for transparency. It's our hope that we can get more financial information out to everyone. So, Kim is going to give us an update tonight on our finances, kind of where we are in a couple
033different accounts. >> Okay. For this evening, we want to just kind of quickly review. We did this at our public work session, but we want to have it in a board meeting, too. Um, you guys might get sick of me, but we are going to run with this bucket uh visual because we had some really good feedback, and I think we do public finance is very hard to understand. A visual makes [clears throat] it a lot easier. So, I actually do have plastic buckets. They're not here tonight, but we I will be bringing them at some point. Um, so just kind of reminders, how do public schools get their funding? Indiana public schools use fund accounting, which means there's buckets for different types of money. We have our education fund, which that is funding from
034the state based primarily on our enrollment, our operations fund, and our debt service fund. Those are funded by property taxes and local taxes. The debt service fund specifically goes to pay for bond debt. And then, schools can have referendums. The Central Office does not have a referendum, but that is a funding stream. Senate Bill 1, we're going to keep talking about this, too. Um, so Senate Bill 1 is estimated to save Indiana home- homeowners 1.3 billion over 3 years. While this is designed to help Indiana residents, this bill reduces funding for public entities, such as local governments, public schools, libraries, etc. You can see over the 3 years, um, and then with 2029, with our LIT funding also, um, in question there, our total potential financial impact due to Senate Bill 1 is just over
035$1 million in funding cuts. Um, primarily affecting our operations budget. So, let's talk about We're going to do just a quarter one review now that we've made it, um, through the first quarter of 2026. Our education fund spending, we are at 25.29%. We're pretty much right on track. We'd like to see it right around that 25%. Um our debt service fund spending, we've had 0% spending in there, but payments are not due until June or December, so we haven't had the opportunity to make payments. Our operations fund spending is running high at this point at 38.03. It's high due to some encumbrances brought forward from the prior year's budget. So, to maximize our 2025 budget funds, we encumbered as many projects into that year as possible. So, we still have like our buses on there.
036Um we had a radio project on there and some other things that we haven't yet paid for, but they're on they're in the books. They're encumbered um into this year's budget. So, if we look at our actual spending for 2026, we are at 25.26%. So, we're we're still on track there, but keeping an eye on that. Our rainy day fund spending so far is also at 0%. I am personally trying to keep this as low as possible. Rainy day funds, we always appropriate 400,000 um that we can use if we have some things that we weren't expecting. And if we have things like um teacher retirements, they have a lot of sick days. It's hard to budget for those larger amounts. We can use our rainy day funds for things like that. Um I'm I
037would like to wean us off of using rainy day um as much as we had been, so that is one of my goals for this year. That is all I have in terms of budget update. >> So, I I just want to go on record as saying that the the financial situation for public schools and for public entities in general is quite complicated. And I know people who have done it for 20 25 years, and they still learn stuff when they when they do this. So, when people say I think one of the things that I want to make clear is that when people ask for transparency, it's hard to be transparent in a system that is literally extremely complicated. So, we'll continue to try to give information to you in a way that makes
038sense. If you have other ideas, please let us know. Second topic for us is the public work session. I put this on just for a couple things. Board comments or thoughts on anything that was brought up in the notes or anything that's published on the website regarding the questions from the public work session. And then I wanted to give you all some things that I've heard. Just asking. Okay, so so on Thursday of last week, is that right? Yeah, Thursday last week, I was able to take a group of 20 plus, maybe 25 20 25 staff members around the elementary. We basically just looked at the rooms that were available. I made it abundantly clear that no decision had been made, but I wanted to try plan accordingly to make sure that folks knew what
039was what what potential rooms and things were available, spaces were available. I made no bones about there are rooms that look just like a regular classroom, there are rooms that look a little bit different than that, but they could be used for other purposes. And so we walked through there. I felt like that was useful time. I think that people saw and had a chance to talk to me. But I again, you know, it it wasn't open for the whole world, it was open for teachers and staff. And so I wanted to make sure that that went about that we had that opportunity. I I went back through the the minutes again from the notes from the public work session and I heard repeatedly comments about transparency about the project process, making sure we are
040listening. I wanted to make sure that people know that we're hearing that and we're trying and that and that we are trying to figure out ways to do this. Whatever the decision is, we want to make it in a logical manner. And then the last thing I want to talk about was just a little bit about the referendum. In the notes, it did not appear that there was a overwhelming push to to look at referendum, although it was not ruled out. I feel like we need to do some more investigating of that and I am sitting Kim, what day is that? Thursday? >> Wednesday. Kim and I are in a meeting on Wednesday with superintendents around the state who are considering referendums and basically I'm going to listen and see what I can learn to
041to gather more information from that. I think that is all that I have on that except for I would encourage the board to think really long and hard about process to this. So, if I if I was left to my own devices, I would look at a at a meeting another public work session a week from today or somewhere around there and then shortly after that, whether it be a week or three days after that, an agenda item to simply just be a single item meeting to just talk about whether to close that. Now, closing or condensing consolidating the building. The reason I'm pushing for that is because that's would be the last week of April. That would give us the month of May no matter what decision is made to communicate that with the
042people. We have people now who are enrolling their kids and want to know what what what classrooms their kids where their kids are going to go to school. I want to be fair to the patrons. I want to be fair honestly to everybody involved to have some more say but also not push it back out. And again, I want to go on record as saying I'm hearing time and time again less and less no yes and more and more just make any kind of decision. And and move on so that we can plan. So, I'm getting that out there. I don't my my my original thought were my original thoughts were the 27th and the 30th. So, next Monday and next Thursday. But I'm certainly not married to those. I would just rather go faster
043rather than slower. So, that's up to you folks as to whether you set those or not. >> [snorts] [clears throat] >> I say we set them. >> Yeah. >> [snorts] >> I'm good with Monday. >> 27th, that's a week from tonight. >> Yeah. [snorts] >> We just set a date. >> Yeah. >> And then the only reason I would suggest setting a date on another week you know is cancel it, but just for advertising purposes if you pick another day and Jamie can actually advertise those together. They need to be hours. So, if you wait till next Monday to set at the earliest you can do would be Thursday and we'd have to actually advertise it Monday night. Which we could do. >> Do you want another public works session or just another meeting? >>
044Or you just want to Yeah, that's a good question. Is is Monday Do you want that to be the the public works session or do you want that to be a uh board meeting where you would just have that topic being at the top? >> Well, it sounds like we just need to have a meeting. >> I think so. >> From the feedback that I'm hearing. >> Yeah. >> Does that work for you, one of those? >> We can have a kind of meeting where we can discuss it amongst ourselves as well. >> Okay. >> We can do a meeting like that and just talk over things. Like what, you know, we didn't close, what would happen to the school. Uh you know, some things like that. I think it's it's not just voting on
045the school. >> [clears throat] >> We let that building go to somebody for a dollar or what's the what's the plan for the building if we close >> What does the new state law allow us to do? >> So the state law affects us to the best of my understanding, the state law is that if we don't use 50% of it for something uh that we have to make it available for $1 to I think the word is interested parties and interested parties are already existing charter schools or public institutions like universities and colleges. And what I um we've had a neighboring district do that. They you have to wait you have to you have to tell the state of Indiana within 30 days that you are closing it for non-educational purposes. But if you
046use it for storage and support staff and things like that and you use 50% of it, you don't have to sell it you don't have to even list it. You just tell the state it's closed. If you don't use 50% of it, then people can come in and and and make a bid on it but it has to be only those two groups of people. Neighboring school district just let us sit for 30 days and they got [clears throat] and they didn't have to sell. And I would have no intention, I want to be clear, I would have no intention, I would not direct this board to to go anywhere near selling >> So if we use the classroom for storage or the gymnasium for extracurriculars, that would meet that criteria. >> Uh the gymnasium
047does extracurriculars don't count but storage does and we have done some We have storage in a lot of different places. I don't think we'd have any trouble with the 50% of that building, I really don't. >> But we would still have access to use >> Still have access Still have access to the gym. >> It just doesn't access to go that 50%. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Yes, sorry. >> So I'm just just being clear like so we on the 27th we just have a meeting to vote. Is that just determining the uh determining Wolf Lake or is that also for the referendum? >> I I think that's up to you folks. We can have a one one item agenda, two item agenda. What I'm hearing Brian ask for is a
048is a work session. >> All right, so that or is the other question I would have is I see a few people over at the last public meeting we had. Do do the people who were here feel like it would be good to have another one of those meetings or do we need to get together and do some communicating? I mean, I think I see a few of you were here and I don't know that another one of those public meetings without us really getting into it or something like it right here. I don't know that that's going to give us the answer. >> I I think I think um if you're asking me, I I would say this. I I would say I would say allowing people to have more input is never a
049bad thing. That's never That's never a bad thing. Now, what I would say is I if I was to do that again now, we had that format before. I would not use that same format again. I would literally do 3 minutes and and give people a chance to talk and talk for 25, 30, whatever our time limit is and and move on. And that's And that's what I would say. Now, in terms of in terms of the the meeting, the only reason I'm suggesting the only reason I'm suggesting um two meetings is additional public input. If you if if we feel like you have all the information you want, I don't know that that that that's you know >> Can we do it on the same night? >> Uh I assume they could be on
050the same night. I think you'd have to close one and open the other one. You'd still have to advertise it that way. >> Correct. We would have to do split times with a gap in between. >> [snorts] >> You can do like a 5:00 5:40 public work session and then like a 6:00 to 6:30 public meeting and the the work session could could include should probably include your conversations amongst each other and questions of of us about the the facility. Kind like what you're doing now. >> I would say let's do another public work session on the 27th. >> And if that's okay >> the 29th, let's do it. >> [snorts] >> I'm good with that. I'm good with that. Do it on the same night. >> Close one. Yep. Give it to us. >>
051I don't know. 20 minutes of discussion >> I would think that's probably fair enough. Yeah. >> And and you you don't have to if if we post for public discussion and we say we're going to allow 30 minutes and you get 15 you you'd be done. Or 14. You just can't go beyond that. Okay, so what I'm hearing is the 27th public work session first break uh single item single agenda item just consolidation at that point. Or you want to do it that way? >> deadline for the referendum that we have to have that decision made? >> Uh it is getting >> Yeah, you have to put your petition in by August 1st, but you have There's other moves you have to be doing before that. >> And from our first public work session the
052support among the community was not There's not great support. >> I I would agree with that. I would agree with that. >> I'm okay adding the two items onto one. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> Is that correct? Say that again. >> If we don't want to pursue another referendum, we don't have to take a vote >> Oh, gosh. >> we just don't do it. >> You just don't do it. Okay. >> That that can die for lack of >> Got you. >> lack of any motion any action. >> I guess I guess this is my question just a thought. >> [clears throat] >> If for some reason we would not pursue the referendum here in 2026 does that put our back really against the wall in 2028? >> Uh I can't answer that cuz I
053think those two questions are somewhat dependent on each other. I think if the board decides to All these things are interrelated. Um if if we decide to wait a year to to consolidate the building or not to consolidate, we can survive, but then that makes all those cuts the following year that much tighter, and you're not accruing any savings in the fall of the previous year, um which I think we would probably start accruing some of those savings uh that you would then you only capture those in the fall of '27 rather than the fall of '26. Um and I don't know that it puts our back against the wall anymore than it does any other time. I think there's another thing in there. There's another biennium. There's another long legislative session in '28. '28,
054yeah, '28. So, that could also play a role in this if they address the concerns. Um I I don't know, uh Mr. Shue. I don't know that that's I don't know that I give you an honest I think I think I've given you an honest answer. I just don't know if I give you a correct answer. It's really just a question for the Yeah. No, I get it. >> I'd like to ask a question. >> Uh you really can't, but >> Okay. Well, that's fine then. >> You can ask after. >> Write it down, yeah. >> Yeah. >> Anything else? >> [clears throat] >> No. >> Okay, so I just want to make sure I'm clear. Two meetings on the 27th, public work session first, and then and then agenda item. >> I guess I
055would like to make the comment to everybody in this room, if you have somebody that has interest that they want to talk, have them here on the 27th so we can hear what they're saying. >> Yep. >> Work session for that. That's coming from me personally. So, I wasn't at the first work session. I apologize. I did read the minutes. I did watch some of the video, but if if you want to hear from them, have them here. >> And I would also add, don't don't hesitate to email people that can I mean that that's okay too. We can get information. >> You have a time for those days? >> Uh I don't know that we have those set yet. What what are you you guys thinking like >> 5:00 for the first one. >>
056We'd probably have to do 5:00 and then at 6:00 to allow enough time for the discussion and the public comment amount. >> Uh I have Can we move to next next item? >> Great. Yep. >> So I have uh just one thing I want to make public. Uh there's a new wireless device uh statute. Um Mr. Hoover and I and uh Mr. Fagan and I have been talking about that. I just want to be clear. This is a statute and for all intents and purposes what you need to know is that your children will not have access to phones or devices that they can communicate to you with that are not school owned during the school day from the time they walk in the door to the time they leave at the end of the
057day. And I'm only telling you that because we can control Sorry, this sounds like I'm talking down to parents and I don't mean to cuz I'm guilty of this. We we can't we can control your children here at school, but we can't control you trying to get a hold of your kids here at school. And I'm concerned that parents are going to be very frustrated at 2:30 in the afternoon when they got to get a message to their kid and their kid doesn't have access to their phone. So I'm only telling you that because we will have policy that we have to adopt and they'll be getting that soon. It'll come from the uh Indiana School Boards Association and I just want to make sure that everybody hears us say that that is a state
058law. It's not a central office law and kids will have to put their phones away when they come in the building uh and then we'll have access to it until they leave. We'll let you be things on that when we know more about that. Uh report cards. So one of our fund raisers or fund raisers one of our cost cutting measures is going to be to uh go to electronic report cards. So, we will still print report cards if kids want them, but generically we are going to have electronic report cards. We spend several thousand dollars a year in mailing report cards home. So, most parents can see their children's report cards. We will show them how to access them again and again and again if we have to, but that is just something that
059we're going to try to move to. >> And you can print them on a case-by-case basis. >> We're literally printing them on a case-by-case basis. We're just not going to run 1,100 copies and send them home. Okay. Um and then what am I missing here? Oh, uh departments department video. Sean, do you have anything else after the high school? Do you have anything you want to talk about? Thanks for having those kids come today. That was great. Um Brent, what's up with you? >> Just a couple of quick things. I want to give a shout out to Carol. We started CogAT testing last week or we were supposed to and found out that CogAT wasn't talking with iPads and our kindergarten students have iPads. So, we kind of punted real quick. Um probably more than
060we should have spoken to her doing but we had with Carol to get her blessing and swapped out Chromebooks with our first graders and kindergarten students and found out that was the solution. Uh but now today Carol's been watching things closely and it's back to working with iPads and it wasn't on our end. It was a CogAT issue for whatever some updates and things that they did. Um but I think we're back to being able to use iPads now but uh so just I want to thank you Carol for her help in looking into that and trying to figure out solutions so we can keep on testing our kindergarten students with that. We're also getting ready to do the I EAs and teachers have already started that. It's just that testing time of year for
061our building as well. Um we want to give a shout out also to Mrs. Spencer. It's administrative assistant's week. It's administrative professional week. It used to be known as secretary's week but um Um, we are blessed to have somebody like Beth in our building um because she's not just a phone answer, she's a problem solver. Um, probably sometimes brings some problems to us as well, but um she she wears a lot of hats in our building and does just a tremendous job, so I want to publicly thank her tonight. Um, and it goes beyond just day-to-day school stuff. For instance, this weekend when we have our mother-son/daddy-daughter event, that's this lady right here with a lot of support um around her, but she leads those things and um we just can't thank her enough. So,
062happy Administrative Professionals Day on Earth Day. Appreciate you. >> You said week. I thought she got a whole week. I'm super jealous. >> It's all >> got a day. >> Uh so, Central Elementary, the the positive part for me is uh Mr. Tippett was out a couple days before break and I I got to spend eight days uh back at the elementary and I had a blast. I got more hugs and more snot on my pants from hugs than I >> [laughter] >> I don't even remember, but it was a great time. So, things are progressing well. They're they're they're also doing testing. Uh I know Kayla's working hard to get that organized. She's administering professionally for us, so we'll be honoring Pam as well. Uh does any uh you guys have anything to say
063about athletics? Any updates on athletics? >> Spring athletics is by far the most fun I've ever had. Uh Austin is having a day. We have four of them on campus tonight, but he's not here, but um things are going well. The weather's sunny and 60 most days, we would be good to go, but um a lot of rescheduling happens in the spring sports because of the weather, but he's handling that as well as can be expected. >> [snorts] >> Um and we're doing well there. Um I do want to share that tonight we were going to present on the um new graduation measures and things like that, but um with the kids speaking, we'd like to have the opportunity for Laura Scott, um who has coordinated this tonight for our kids to be able to
064speak next week or next month on that issue on the that information. I think it's important um to know what we're looking at at grades um 4 through 12 going forward because um as I can attest to being in the school, the date has changed again. Um and the board has been instrumental in keeping us um you know, apprised of those things, communicating with various schools. Um right now we're just all trying to figure out how to make that work, but um it's going to be a big paradigm shift for us. Um and um so I'd like for you everyone to be aware of what that looks like so that you can see what graduating is going to look like moving forward. So, that will ask the other next board of directors. >> That will
065also be fun to work ourselves through. Uh next next Friday night is the relays. >> Yes. We had an invite for new program for genetics that went out. >> Okay, first. >> For our athletes and and Mrs. Herman. >> It's not this Friday, it's a week and Friday night. Yeah, okay. Thanks. Thanks. Uh transportation, is Lee here? >> No. >> Uh I just want to bring you up to speed. We're working to make sure the buses are safe, make make sure all the cameras are working. We're We have a couple of plans. So, we'll be going over that. Uh business, can you get anything else added? >> Um yep, just wanted to talk about uh couple more things. Um I wanted to start kind of speaking to you all about track repaving. It's on our
066capital project plan. This would not be something coming from our operations education, any of those buckets. Um this would be something coming from some old bond funds that we still have. The money needs to get used up or we start having penalties on that money. Um I'm working with Baker Tilly Ice Miller to make sure that this project would fall within the scope of those things cuz we probably will have to combine a couple, but um I would like to get an RFP out um, in our newspapers and things so that we can start getting some proposals, quotes, just seeing how much this would even cost us to do. Um, we're kind of at the level where our track is truly getting unsafe um, to have athletes out there, PE classes out there. If someone
067would get hurt, I don't even want to think about it. Um, but just so you know, if you if you see information like that to to go out, I wanted to give you all a heads up about it. Also wanted to acknowledge the receipt of our IDOE food service annual review, basically an audit. Um, we are working through some things, but we will be able to share results soon with you all and it will be posted on our website um, shortly. >> Great, Genie, anything? >> Nope, nothing new at this time. >> So, for us, >> meeting is adjourned at 6:02. >> [snorts]