001which mic I have going on over here does it sound okay it sounds loud welcome to the September 26 2022 regular business meeting public hearing of school board trustees held in public with a start time right on six o'clock this evening if you may all rise we're gonna ask Mr Angel to lead us in the pledge allegiance we pledge allegiance indivisible with liberty and justice for our own maybe see it thank you Mr angel item two we have patrons comments yes sorry thank you um before moving to item two we do have Mr Smith as uh I believe at a tennis match so he'll be trying to get here as soon as possible and we do have Scott babjak online with us this evening so he'll be a part of our Quorum for moving forward
002Scott you can hear us okay correct okay thank you uh so item two patrons comments we do not have everybody registered to signed up to comment we can move forward to item threes the public hearings uh see here so request a motion to suspend the regular business meeting and open the public hearing on the budget do I have a motion to suspend the regular meeting motions suspend the regular building on the budget second moved by Mr Angel and second by Mr babjak all in favor signify by saying aye I'll do a roll call Scott babject you have an eye Scott for a vote okay he's got an angel good morning aye motion carries 3-0 will now suspend the meeting and move forward to uh public hearing and Mr Reese thank you Mr morning members of
003the board tonight we are holding the public hearing for the 2023 budgets this is the first uh official action uh to take there's no action tonight it's simply the holding of the hearing the budgets uh form 3 was advertised uh 10 days prior as required on Gateway as well as posting of the capital projects plan and bus replacement plan um Dr tariff you go to the next slide for me in the 2023 budgets you'll notice in 2022 total budget uh approved 106 million 811 000 uh for 2023 we're proposing 116 million 822 obviously with the growth the number of students and also a growth and assessed value able to take advantage of some additional dollars without raising the tax rate very much and you'll hear that a little bit late in the presentation you'll see
004all the funds up a little bit operation stays flat at 20 million we are including the rainy day at 750 000. that's the additional appropriation we did earlier this year and that revolves around the payment back where we borrowed from ourselves uh for the Chromebooks and textbook rental and we're paying ourselves back into that rainy day fund from textbook rental throughout the year we have the appropriation we have those payments we need to make in 2023 so we've gone ahead and budgeted for excuse me budgeted for it this year not having to go through the additional appropriation process next year on onto the levees uh on 2022 you'll notice you're raising 39 million we raised 39 million dollars in Levy and 2023 we're proposing 47 and a half it's important to know both in the
005budgets the levies and the tax rates as you both as veteran board members understand uh that these are all inflated for 2023. we can't these are the maximums We Set uh dlgf will only come back and reduce them to what we're legally allowed to raise so we've inflated those a little bit uh not anticipating having a levy of 47.5 million and expect that to come down uh quite substantially probably but you'll notice 8 million in referendum operating 29 million Debt Service 10 and a half million operations neither the rainy day fund or education funds have uh any Levy attached to them property tax levy for our tax rates 21 cents on the referending operandum same as 2022 Debt Service rate we're advertising 82.86 however we fully anticipate that coming down uh to the 78 census
006talked about when we did the projects uh and back in 2021 operations fund we expect to be at 30 cents we actually were advertising 30 it'll be less than that once the the AV gets adjusted and the tax rate brought down to our maximum Levy and operations but while we notice the the total tax rate going up about 15 cents fully anticipate that number not being that high it'll come down probably somewhere in the mid-120s is what we'd anticipate for our 2023 capital projects plan you can see the one Capital acquisition we have planned we do have five or six uh projects capital and nature it's important to note these are only purchases out of the operations fund obviously none of the building projects we have going on now are being paid for out of
007operations uh therefore there's no need to advertise them in the capital projects plan that's only related those expenditures over ten thousand dollars coming out of operations as far as the bus replacement plan you can see here the plan to replace uh seven buses next year also including the plan as a plan doing by four additional buses due to increased number of students and also anticipating some need for the redistricting potentially for some additional buses if that were to take place this is simply the plan again the maximum we can do if we don't need four additional buses we'll back that down to what we need but we do have these seven buses that need to be replaced and all these buses are older than 12 years as required by law that completes my portion of
008the public hearing thank you Mr Reese before we move forward any questions for uh just for clarification um Matt the uh can we go back to the first slide or that one's fine on the referending up that's the 21 cents Remains the Same that's just because of the fact we have the if that's based on assessed valuation correct wow correct the 21 cents is the rate that we requested during the referendum uh for that fund the 21 cents is the maximum we can raise and because the assessed value is going up that allows us to raise more dollars so it's AV Times rate equals your Levy there's one mixture for clarification purposes thank you I think I'll share two Cameron where we heard it recently that the AV across the city was up eight nine
009percent in the previous year it was a eight or nine percent number correct yeah um it's got babjac any questions for Mr Reese okay thank you move forward to a 3.3 or patrons comments on uh public hearing budget item but we do not have anybody signed up to comment so we can move to 3.4 look for a motion to close the public hearing on the budget and open the public hearing on the additional appropriation do we have a motion to close the public hearing on the budget motion to close that public hearing on the budget and open the regular meeting or I'm sorry public hearing and Appropriations motion by Mr Angel Second by Mr babject all's in favor signify by saying aye Scott babjak hi uh Scott Angel aye David warning aye emotion carries 3-0
010so now we will open the public hearing on additional appropriation and that goes back to Mr Reese thank you Mr President members of the board the school corporation introduced last board meeting a project uh for five million dollars to mainly uh expand the Winfield cafeteria last month along with some other projects throughout the district the school corporation is funding this project through the issuance of General obligation bonds the proceeds from this bond issue must be appropriated prior to being spent on the project notice that this hearing was advertised in the local paper foreign for patrons to comment on this public hearing additional appropriation we do not have anybody registered to comment so we can move forward to 3.7 which is resolution resolution 815 additional appropriation Mr Reese thank you Mr warney resolution 815 is additional
011appropriation of five million dollars which we've advertised and held the public hearing for before any appropriate before any bomb proceeds are spent on the project cost that money has to be appropriate or any of the bond money has to be appropriated by this board unlike the Appropriations for tax dollars like we just went through with the budget hearing this additional appropriation of bond proceeds is not required to be approved by the department of local government Finance just requires your approval this resolution approved the 5 million dollar res Bond proceeds to be spent on the projects thank you so you've heard the recommendation to approve resolution 815 for additional appropriation do we have a motion to approve ment moved by Mr Angel and second by Mr babject any further questions or comments from Mr Reese before
012vote if not all those in favor signify by saying aye Scott babjak Scott Angel aye aye David warning aye motion carries 3-0 and now 3.8 I see do we have a motion to close the public hearing on additional appropriation and resume the regular business meeting we have a motion to close in public hearing so moved by Mr babjac second and second by Mr angel all those in favor signify by saying aye we'll do a Scott abject Scott Angel aye aye David warning aye that motion carries three zero three zero will now resume the regular business meeting thank you a consent agenda Dr Terrell for your consideration this evening we have 4.1 the regular business meeting minutes 4.2 reoccurring grant for idoe leadership and Innovation Grant 4.3 reoccurring grant for secure and safe schools 4.4 recurrent
013grant for Title 1 part A and then 4.5 our Personnel agenda and 4.6 the voucher checks as listed thank you darn buttons sorry uh thank you Dr earlier for recommendation to approve the consent agenda as presented this evening do we have a motion to approve so moved it's moved by Mr Angel the second by Mr babjac questions or comments for Dr Terrell before vote just would like to say thank you to all the work behind the scenes to make sure these grants first of all filed then obviously accepted because just in this particular case you're looking at three quarters of a million dollars so yeah great appreciation to all those involved Mr Hartman I know usually is top of that along with the rest of the team that's involved so absolutely thank you foreign by
014saying aye Scott babjak Scott are you in favor of the consent agenda as presented by Dr Terrell thank you Scott Angel hi David morning aye um do a pause here we want to recognize Marty Freeman is here with us tonight who is just appointed as our director of transportation and his wife Jen so welcome to Crown Point and Marty's coming to us from Lake Central School Corporation has been there for many years so look forward to Marty jumping in and getting busy with a lot of things we've got coming up with our transportation department so learn anything you'd like to say at all put you on the spot sure it'll just take a second I'm very shy and awkward so step up here to the podium we have we have we have tens of people
015watching good deal thank you yeah thank you very much nice to meet you this evening um also in uh as far as the Personnel agenda it lumped in there again just think it's important to stress lots of new you know names and hires and the Personnel agenda was lengthy with uh whether it be assistant coaches and coaches and so again compliment everybody involved in the hiring process from all levels top to bottom and thankful that we're able to fill these spots with what we believe would be great employees so appreciate it I think we can move on to action items we have 5.1 approval to apply for and receive Grant funds from the C Crown Point City Foundation grant for Saul and Robinson robotics Club Mr Harmon thank you Mr warning the next two items
016are going to pertain to Solon Robinson and the initiation of their robotics program I think that will then be the last school in the elementary schools that will have robotics program so this first one is a request from the Crown Point foundation for funds to help support that this has been common with all of our schools that we've looked to the Crown Point foundation for initial help with funding and then we absorb the funding as we go forward with this seeking your approval this evening thank you Miss Harman for recommendation to prove to apply for and receive funding in the amount of 2 818.99 from the Crown Point Community Foundation to support the Solon robotics Club do we have a motion to approve so moved by Mr Angel and second by Mr babjak any questions
017or comments from Mr Harmon if not all those favors signify by saying aye Scott babject aye Scott Angel aye and David warney aye that motion is approved 3-0 thank you Mr Hartman 5.2 looks like we're going to be coming back to Mr Harvin with approval to apply for and receive funds from the tech Point Foundation Grant use State robotics for sale in Robinson this is another funding source that our programs have used to get it to initiate the uh their programming and it's through Tech point in this case the um we're looking at a approximately I think look at the amount it's oh that's right it's it's for a kid that's right it's for actual uh resources for the program instead of a a funding amount so this is from techpoint and they are really
018been good for us as far as getting our programs kicked off for the uh the robotics Prime robotics Grant seeking your approval this night seeking your approval tonight for uh to apply for and receive funding or receive be receive resources and I'm all confused from the tech Point Foundation thank you all right I'll try to follow it up with the you've heard the recommendation from Mr Harmon to prove to apply for and receive Tech Point foundation for youth State robotics grant for Solon Robinson Elementary to cover one robot kit team registration and Coach training and ongoing support for this season we have a motion to approve to move second move by Mr babjac and second by Mr Angel any questions or comments from Mr Hartman so all those in favor signify by saying I Scott
019babjak Scott Angel aye and David warney hi so that motion carries 3-0 thank you again Mr Hartman and now we got 5.4 the I'm sorry 5.3 Crown Point High School participation in the igcl out of country field trip to Italy Mr Hartman thank you very much this evening we're seeking your approval for Crown Point High School Latin students to uh to go to Italy in uh 2023 June 13th to the 22nd they do go as part of the Indiana junior classical League uh in the state of Indiana and uh they they have participated in this uh before I believe this is the first time they'll be going since uh the situations that happened with the pandemic uh seeking your approval uh this evening for our students to uh to go to Italy thank you Mr
020Harmon for the recommendation to prove that out of country field trip for crumpwell high school students to travel with the Indiana junior classical League to Italy June 13th through 22nd 2023 to a motion to approve so moved moved by Mr Angel and second by Mr babjak any questions from Mr Harman if not all in favor signify by saying aye Scott babjag Scott Angel aye and David warning aye that motion carries 3-0 thank you Mr Hartman it would go 5.4 out of country field trip to Germany and Austria thank you very much uh this trip uh going to Germany and Austria is uh sponsored by uh Candace Carey she's a teacher German teacher at Crown Point High School I think what's unique about this uh this trip that I'm asking you to read to approve this
021evening is Mrs Kerry is the in a sense the uh the trip advisor she's also the one that designs the trip with the with the students she does not go through a uh a company and she has done this numerous times and I think I alluded to that in the attachment that I gave to you she actually did this just recently in 2022 this past summer and took a group to to Germany so this evening we're seeking uh your your approval uh for a out of country field trip to Germany and Austria for high school students June the 8th to the 21st of 2023. you heard recommendation for Mr Herman approve the out of country field trip for Crumpler high school students to travel to Germany and Austria June 8th through 11th excuse me June
0228th through 20th 1st 2023. a motion to approve D second moved by Mr babjac and second by Mr angel any other questions for Mr Harmon not all those in favor signify by saying aye Scott babjak hi Scott Angel aye David warney aye that motion carries 3-0 thank you thank you 5.5 update policy 7540.2 the web content services and apps Mr akiwa thank you Mr President uh board members we'd like to present to you this evening um policy 7450.02 is this a policy in uh with our school corporation that limits what content apps Etc can be uh you know held on our server and actually it forces everything to be held on our server however as our curriculum has expanded over the years in particular in journalism uh we're requesting that that we add um an
023exception uh to this policy for curricular matters to have content sit outside our server uh where curricular man's demands uh would require us to do so I think this really is truly driven from some of our journalism classes and how our journalism classes and and opportunities and softwares are interacting with our server I'll pause and see if Brook Allen wants to chime in Brooke you want to add how am I doing right now doing great okay so Brook is fine not speaking what we are asking to get this underway right away is you can see the phrase that we would like to add in each of the particular areas of this policy to allow for exceptions to be made we'd like to add the phrase exceptions may be made with approval from the building principle
024for curricular needs we think this needs to be done in a rapid fashion here to kind of unlock this for our students so this evening what we are requesting is that we weigh the readings for this policy and get this approved tonight so that we can move forward with these exceptions as I've described sir Cuba before I take your recommendation I just want to make sure we didn't I um for the policy I see 70 75 40.02 and then uh in the recommendation it's a 40.92 we have a was there a title in there yes yes I just want to make sure I read the proper one yeah so it would be 7540.02.02 yes sir okay so you've heard the recommendation from Mr akiwa to prove to waive the reading of the suggestion update to
02575 to 40 dot O2 correct and approve the exception as presented so moved with approving the waiving of the reading by Mr angel second second by Mr babjak and all those in favor or first of all first do we have any questions or comments on recommendation from Mr akiwa not all in favor signify by saying aye Scott babjak hi uh Brian since you just got here welcome uh we'll finish this one off with Scott Angel hi and David warney aye is that motion carries 3-0 um we can move to 5.6 and say uh welcome Mr Smith to me good luck on the uh and good luck on the match or playing the month playing the monster Mustangs right last regular season match yeah the struggle right now well for we do have to take a
026just a second we do have some young observers this evening anybody else or in the in the audience they're walking we receive a packet of these agendas so Mr Smith has plenty of time to review everything that we've gone through already and it would have definitely spoke up if he had any issues before getting here but just uh uh we only are allowed to vote with those in present we just approved last fall I believe to allow our members who need to for whatever reason join through Zoom or remotely to be part of our Quorum so that's where we're picking up where we left off here now Brian will be involved and Miss Smith be involved in the rest of the meeting foreign looks like 5.6 the final Bond resolution 816 Mr Reese thank you
027Mr President members of the board this is your last action regarding the five million issuance of the bond which we held the additional appropriation hearing for tonight and also last month you heard the project uh being introduced this resolution approves the amount to be borrowed the maximum term of the repayment and the maximum interest rate it also contains the details about the bonds on the form of the bond the resolution also approves the form of the fifth supplement to master continuing disclosure undertaking and the registrar and paying agent agreements the Securities Exchange Commission requires that a school corporation enter into a master continuing disclosure undertaking before it issues the bonds the school corporation has entered into this type of agreement previously for the other Bond issues you've done in the past it basically requires a
028corporation to agree to annually provide certain types of financial information to the sec's Emma database and provide notice of certain material events on a timely basis with that we recommend approval resolution 816 in the final form of the bond thank you Mr Easter recommendation to approve final Bond resolution 816. do we have motion to approve [Music] second a move by Mr Smith and second by Mr Angel any questions or comments for Mr Reese and bond resolution 816. if not all's in favor signify by saying aye I do not believe we need to do roll call anymore I think that was something I'd heard in the past when we were when we were just making a quorum to include the a member on Zoom but I think with the three of us here plus Mr babjak
029we could just do as we usually do so all his favor signify by saying aye aye aye opposed I think Scott that motion carries four zero 5.7 construction management and Design Services Bulldog park building Mr Reese thank you Mr President members of the board and our partnership with the city for the locker rooms that would be in the second story of the building for the Bulldog Park and our concession storage building which will be on the first floor and face uh the current Colonel wheeler football field track um the city started working with PBS for design of that building PBS is a local architect and construction management firm the agreement calls for the same percentage fee that built Gibraltar and Skillman agreed to for the larger building program we have moving forward so with that
030we recommend approval of the architect and construction management agreements with PBS for the shared building with the city of Crown Point thank you Mr Richard recommendation approved architect construction management agreements with PBS for the shared building with the city of Crown Point we have motion to approve so moved by Mr Smith moved by Mr Smith and second by Mr babjak any questions or comments for Mr Reese on this uh on recommendation would just like to add our thank you to the city for the work on this project along with everything else that's been done to make this project eventually work it's been a discussion for at least two years I want to say and took some time but I'm glad everything and is finally coming to the Forefront to get the project moving forward yeah
031thank you thank you all those in favor signify signify by saying aye aye aye opposed motion carries 4-0 thank you Mr Reese and uh looks like back to you Mr Reese for 5.8 donation thank you as part of uh one of the bid packages coming up later on the agenda the school corporation received interest in donating some dollars to the project the donation is is done through the Crown Point Athletic booster club they are therefore re-donating that to the school corporation for part of that project so we recommend approval a donation totaling three million dollars from the Crown Point High School athletic boosters Federal recommendation to prove the donation totaling of 3 million in the complex High School athletic boosters they have a motion to approve so moved moved by Mr Angel and second by
032Mr Smith any questions or comments from Mr Reese all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed that motion carries 4-0 and uh I guess I could have interjected with a question or comments but obviously we're all very grateful and excited for a donation and uh it's gonna be exciting to see what's what's able to be done with uh you know one opportunity what an opportunity for everybody so thank you 5.9 Eisenhower Elementary School the bid package in additions Renovations and related work work project Mr Reese thank you Mr warning members of the board on September 15th we received 31 bids for eight bid categories this is for the expansion work at Eisenhower Elementary with that I'm not going to go through each of the bids and I'll give you the total dollar amount
033the total amount for the bids is 6 million three hundred and eighteen thousand eight hundred and three dollars we have either worked with every uh contractor on this or Skillman our CM has I feel very comfortable with the ability to complete the work as requested I will also note that Mr casaurus is here from the Skillman Corporation if you have any specific questions on this or the next two other next agenda items thank you Mr Reese all right I'll do I'll I'll get through the details thank you thank you uh thank you Miss Reese for recommendation to prove the contracts for Eisenhower Elementary School additions Renovations related work project as follows we have site work and general trades to Gary up in construction amount of 2 million seven or four thousand five hundred dollars for
034masonry to kwikowski masonry Incorporated in the amount of 458 500 it's Roofing to EC babilla in the amount of 335 406. for the metal studs drywall ceilings to golf Incorporated in the amount of 609 000 for a casework to Lee company an amount of 182 850 for plumbing to Reichel Plumbing in amount of 270 900 mechanical to Gatlin Plumbing and Heating in the amount of one million three hundred and twelve thousand four hundred forty dollars and for electrical to Sergeant electric and amount of 446 207 446 207 for a total of six million three hundred eighteen thousand eight hundred and three dollars we have motion to approve that's been uh recommendation move by Mr Smith second second by Mr badger any questions for uh Mr Reese or Mr caceres representing Skillman in the audience this
035evening um Dion what's the target date for completion of this project so for Eisenhower with the exception of the chiller so the lead time for the chillers right now are around 48 to 52 weeks plus you're not going to take the chiller which provides your air conditioning offline until October of next year so between October 15th through end of December that's when we'll make the chiller change but the remaining portion of the project will be complete by end of July next year great thank you and just general for the public what four classroom additions to the South really it would be the South West corner of the building and then six classrooms out to the east where the Gaga pits at and then we're also um I mentioned the chiller and then we're adding a
036stage you know goal being to make all the buildings fair and Equitable across the district you were in that if you've ever been in that building between the cafeteria and the gymnasium there's a space there that we're going to convert into a stage good question when you mentioned the fair enough well we were at a coffee conversation with Dr Terrell a few weeks back and some of the questions came up about even to the detail of most many of the entryways or all the entryways there I mean are trying to be um to represent Crown Point and that that view of Crown Point whether you're entering MacArthur Timothy ball or whatever and uh um I think that was the first time I had heard that I mean you know we've had a lot of information
037passed around about that but that's the level of detail that's taken place to uh brickwork and just representing Crown Point across from east to west there so I thought it was interesting we're sharing it's really exciting any other questions yet close a few more months so yeah the question was is tap finish yet yeah it's a few months he says all right cool well while we still have you up here uh well let's make make vote and then we'll move to the next item but uh at this point uh all in favor of recommendation as presented signify by saying aye aye all right most carries 4-0 and then we'll go to 5.10 the Crown Point Community School Corporation bid package athletic Turf Improvement project Mr Reese thank you Mr warning members of the board on
038September 20th we've seen two bids from one bid category uh the one big category is site work and athletic fields uh the low apparent bidder is golf Incorporated at 5 million 215 000 we recommend approval a contract for the Crown Point Community School Corporation athletic Turf improvements project for the site work and athletic fields of the golf in the amount of five million 215 000. thank you Miss Reese you've heard recommendation prove the work to golf for 5 million two hundred fifteen thousand dollars do we have a motion to approve so moved moved by Mr angel second second by Mr babjac any questions or comments for Mr Reese or Deanne from Skillman before we move forward with the vote has anything changed as far as warranty now on being that turfs have improved over the
039years are we still around the 20-year you're it's 10 years but the the length of the turf actually lasts closer to 12 years now as long as you groom it and just having conversations with your athletic director they do that on a regular basis your ground screw does that thank you any other questions is golf the same contractor we use for the football fields as anybody know yes they are same contractor all right thanks any other questions not all in favor sing Five By saying aye aye aye opposed motion carries four zero and we go to 5.11 5.11 the Crown Point High School bid package athletic fields and site Improvement project Mr Reese thank you Mr warning members of the board on September 13th we received 15 bids over five bid categories uh part of
040this bid is part of the three million dollar donation that you just approved earlier in this meeting um there are four bid categories I'll be happy to read through these we recommend approval of the contracts for the Crown Point Community Schools projects uh see here for the High School athletic fields and site Improvement projects site work in general trades the golf the amount of seven million 335 000. mesarita Adams masonry in the amount of one million eight hundred and sixty thousand for plumbing mechanical the Key West mechanical 323 300 and for electrical the M core higher electric and the amount of one million one hundred eighty nine thousand five hundred for a total package of 10 million 707 800 dollars thank you Mr Reese you've heard that recommendation to prove these contracts and the total
041amount as stated to the individuals is 10 million seven hundred seven thousand eight hundred dollars we have a motion to approve moved by Mr Smith and second by Mr babjak any questions or comments on the bid package for athletic fields and site Improvement project if not thank you for joining uh joining us for any questions that may have come up soon we always appreciate it appreciate thank you for having me all those in favor signify by saying aye post motion carries 4-0 thank you all right move on to information items got uh superintendent discussion groups and Mr Hoffman usually gives us updates if anything taken place in the city with him not being here this evening we'll just wait for the next meeting to catch up on anything unless uh I will mention that if
042anybody didn't get a chance to watch Dr tarot and the lay of the land podcast we had got a little bit of a review of what's going on so thank you and from me as a board member appreciate you going on there and sharing with the community what was you know taking place with us and you know kind of kicking back and forth that was good nice opportunity to kind of get to get to know new mayor a little bit too through this podcast um any but anybody like to offer anything that they're aware of taking place uh the Crown Point and if not Mr Smith anything happening in Cedar Lake okay let's move forward to the direct director of Elementary education Miss Ramirez thank you Mr President and board members I would just like
043to take this opportunity to thank our Specialists who are working to support our elementary teacher staff and administrators they really work in Partnership and these roles have been Paramount they've been added over the past two years and really are driving the work that we're doing and it's exciting to think about the future that they will have had a hand in and so I'd like to thank Amy McAllister Joe bisic Annie Vassar Susan Valentine and Anna retzlaff for their roles they truly are a collaborative team as well and so it really has just been a great enhancement to our elementary structure thank you Mr Ramirez I I'd also like to share something that came away from the coffee and conversation with Dr Terrell was uh I thought it was rewarding sitting there as a board member
044and hearing that there was some conversations taking place amongst possibly teachers I don't remember the detail of it but essentially what they were saying is that they're being asked to be a little bit more uniform across our seven elementaries um and I you know that's sitting there I think that's something that it's a big task that all of you are trying to tackle it was kind of like I said rewarding to sit there as a board member and hear you know some comments about maybe it's not easy but the work is taking place to try to get there so thank you something that we've all talked about thank you very much for sharing that feedback it has been a lot of hard work and I think that there have been some uncomfortable conversations right not
045all the conversations not all the comments might be perfect right but it's the it's the the idea of accomplishing a goal yes and I do believe everybody is very committed to a common curricular experience for our students and that's what we want to be able to provide that regardless of the school that the student is going to that they have a common curriculum and that their teachers are working together we have re-established our district-wide plcs by grade level so that teachers are meeting together and again these Specialists really work in all of our buildings and so they are able to help Drive the alignment that the administration is seeking so thank you for that feedback thank you Mr warnings I've been in buildings the last few days it's really neat to go from a first
046grade classroom to a first grade classroom to a first grade classroom and see how they all put their own individual spin on it but they're at the same place with the same type of lesson and what they're covering it's been really good so again that ckla curriculum is is hard work by our teachers and support staff but they're doing a great job with it so so thanks again thank you director of secondary education for me thank you Mr President board members I have a couple items let me start with the Crown Point High School graduation rate every year we celebrate our graduation ceremony and we kind of think that's the end but really the calculation of the graduation rate goes on all the way till October beginning of October every year this year our Crown
047Point High School staff was put under the gun by the state by being audited randomly being selected to be audited for this graduation rate and after all that we still came out in 98.3 percent graduation rate and when you consider that cohort in the three years that you know they endured getting there that was really a great job by all our teachers and staff that worked with those students and and again a big thank you Mr marceneck and his staff at the high school for getting them across that finish line and doing all that hard work so really proud of that graduation rate and number two last Wednesday September 22nd our Corporation all our staff and and teachers had the opportunity to participate in a standard reunification practice standard reunification being if we ever have
048to re move a population of our students from a building and take them to an off-site location or a different school and get them back with their students because of an incident or emergency at the building we have a team of about 70 Corporation people that are on that reunification team and there's a process in which we use in which we would reunify those students with their parents so our teachers and staff graciously took the role of either parent or student and we separated them apart and we did about 400 reunifications with secondary staff in the morning and then in the afternoon the elementary folks came and we did that all over again and we got better in the afternoon so a really great experience for our teachers and staff through the lens of safety
049and I think everybody participating in that event is that much more prepared in case we ever have to do that so big thank you for all of them and their willingness to participate in that Mr Gene Fermi I think we've been told as a board before but I heard the question when you know when this was taking place you have some locations that you have a few different op options of reunification but those aren't those aren't necessarily locations that need to be shared with correct yeah so I mean it has come up with where and why it's like no they yes our own buildings and some community members but there's a reason why you all know and not everybody could be a very fluid situation where what whatever is available but it's been great working
050with the community and our First Responders as well as we all kind of continue to plan just in case we ever need it a chief academic officer Mr Harmon he has to continue on the theme that Mark just spoke on September 21st was our first asynchronous learning day meaning that the students were had lessons prepared by their teachers to accomplish while they were at home it takes a a lot of preparation for that to occur so that it works well for our for our students and that allows our our teachers our staff to participate in professional development such as safety uh PLC work is Mrs uh Ramirez spoke to where they can work together as a team it takes a time to to accomplish that and to do it well and uh we'd like to
051compliment uh Mrs Ramirez and uh Mr Gene Fermi Mrs paskus our team principals for accomplishing that so that was our first of a four that we have we have a another one coming up on November the 9th that'll be the second one this semester second thing I'd like to point out is uh as we continue to work on uh towards a unified system of instruction connecting our programming together such as special education English language Learners High ability maybe you might call it a regular curriculum and this was highlighted within the audit that took place we started another course tonight actually with a approximately 111 staff members as we lead as they their schools and our team towards including all students in the curriculum and in education and looking for a Universal Design for Learning in
052the corporation for the betterment of each and every student so that kicks off our third or fourth course I believe now that we've been in that we have engaged in through a group called lead inclusion and this uh is a international group that is coordinating and facilitating these courses and meetings that we have the last thing I wanted to point out tonight is we're looking forward to our first Learn Academy it's going to be taking place this fall that's where our teachers teach our teachers and we've sent out a survey today that went out to just kind of identify what are the key objectives that our teachers are looking for and would like to have professional development on and see how others are doing it in the classroom and we had 111 respondents so far
053out of about 500 staff so we have about 20 so I think this is pretty good data that we've got and here's I'm just going to read to you the five things that are highest on the list right now uh and there's these are not in the highest highest employees they're just in them first thing is Universal Design for Learning to meet student needs which I just talked about to have a design that every student can be able to have their needs met strategies to be positive when challenges are all around you know I'm reflecting on this because I know Dr Terrell has uh had us read books and we've talked about and we're actually reading a devotional right now it's a form of a devotional on positive leadership well as I was thinking about
054that and thinking about our staff and I had some comments uh from uh from other staff that the positivity with all the challenges are not just something about leadership it's about our staff also and it's interesting that that was one right now that's uh one of the top five that we're looking at the other next one was using engagement strategies to engage or re-engage students always trying to seek the best of our students that they're engaged in their learning fourth one would be strategies tips techniques for challenging behaviors in the classroom and then the last one that I'll read is uh we as you know we we've spent uh three million dollars on clear touch panels interactive panels so there is definitely a need to have additional they want to see how other teachers are
055using the tool and that's uh that's what will be used then as we create and hopefully we'll have some teachers in the school corporation that will say well I do this and I'd like to share what I do with others and those will be kicked off probably end of October uh November that we'll have those courses so it's exciting to see the what the teachers are wanting and now the goal is to fulfill what those needs are uh coming up this fall thanks Robert can you yeah I know you said that those are just five of the leading yeah and then how many when you look for a total when it's all said and done how many might you have sorry I might have missed that how many might we have yes we might have
056six to seven objectives and then the next level is we say these are the things we'd like to see uh people share at the Learn Academy at the Learn Academy and then teachers submit uh their requests to me as what courses they would like to to uh to provide for our teachers as a part of professional development there's been there may be a topic that has come up over the last year that I'll share with you tomorrow if you don't mind or oh sure whatever just to see if it's on on the list or what am I saying thank you thank you sounds great um Mr Harmony are you finished I'm finished thank you business office Mr Reese I'm happy to speak I don't have anything this evening you've heard enough from me um I
057just might want to point out you miss Mr Kiwa human resource officer oh that that's yeah good nice correction there so when I said Chief human resource officer Mr Reese clearly I misspoke Mr okiwa okay thank you Mr President two things I just want to offer up this evening first is our check-ins with our new teachers we are visiting each of the school buildings to check in with all of our new staff members so we're up be out at Winfield tomorrow morning heading out to the east coast I want to thank Jeremy Walker Susan uh Valentine and Annie Vassar because they're part of my meetings as we go in the morning just to check in with our new new staff and when I say check in um it really truly is a are you okay
058how are we doing you know you know how are we feeling right now and and I I just want to congratulate our principal staff members mentors that are working with the teachers because overwhelmingly what we're hearing and this is a theme here in Europe but they feel like they're a part of a family supportive they have go-to people that they're building if they need help they've got individuals they can lean on and which is very important and these are not just rookie teachers but they're also experienced teachers that have joined us for the first time so I just want to thank all the staff members out there uh that are making our new teachers feel welcome and a part of our family here in Crown Point um I'm gonna just head over to Mr G
059and Fermi here and and just pass some Kudos uh to mark I don't quite think people understand what a big undertaking it was for him to organize this school corporation wide drill we've been talking about this drill now for the better part of seven years and training organization coordination coordination um for Mark to put together uh what he did with you know the help of Dave Coulson and our responders and whatnot and all of our folks that are part of the team there that supported that effort Mark I just want to say thank you and just an outstanding job uh buddy for for getting us to that point to actually go through that and as he said in the moment from drill one to drill two reunifying people um we improved Within two hours so
060I just want to take this moment and let everybody know that we're fortunate to have mark leading up our our safety efforts here in Crown Point Community School Corporation thank you and to confirm Mr Reese you have do not have anything okay we'll go to a director of communications Miss Allen thank you we're copying conversation events have been well attended so far this year which is really encouraging we had 40 individuals at our first one and 30 at our second our third is on October the 6th Thursday October 6th at 9 30 at the library again and because of some scheduling conflicts we had to cancel our November one but we will look ahead to second semester and schedule some more for later in the year just gets a little bit messy trying to reschedule
061around Thanksgiving and Christmas thank you superintendent schools Dr Terrell first thing this evening I'd like to bring to your attention is our ambassador program we've talked about that for a couple of years trying to get that kicked off and Ms Allen's done a great job moving that forward and we will have our first Ambassador group here Wednesday morning and we'll provide breakfast for them and then we're actually going to do a little update on our construction projects and Mr Reese is going to talk through the finances of that and then we're going to take that group out to the new Taft and actually give them a tour of the new building and again this group is really designed Our intention is for them to be able to gather information to be able to share that
062information with other people as they go through so we've had how many do we have apply we have 15 people who will be a part of this so if you guys feel free to come by uh Wednesday morning if you'd like breakfast is always good and will be served at 7 40 I believe and then we'll start our program right about eight so please feel free to be a part of that if you'd like um like to also just point out the progress on our current projects you know we live in a time where you hear about other corporations having to postpone projects because of either being way over budget or not being able to secure materials our projects are all on schedule if not a little bit ahead coming in right at budget or
063just barely over and I'm glad Dion stuck around because I put all that on Dion he does an amazing job he really does and I know he's back there going yeah whatever no he does and keeping all of those projects moving forward and it's the really cool thing and Brooke's going to highlight this in a little bit in a few weeks here so many of those people work live here in our district and are part of our community so it's just really really cool to be out um the spirit on the job sites is upbeat and it's just exciting to see what's going on there um last one just want to remind you uh before I go on last week we also were able to take all of the teachers and staff members from Taft
064out to the new Taft and walk through it and spent 45 minutes to an hour probably out there and heard a lot of oohs and eyes and it was it was a lot of fun to see their reactions as the excitement we're excited every time we go out there and see it but for their first time seeing it was really really rewarding so they're looking forward to it for sure last one just a reminder we have the School Board conference coming up look forward to all of that with you and I've got some details about some of the different things that we'll be involved with with that as well that I'll share with you guys after them too so thank you thank you drill about other business supporter School Tracy's do we have any other
065business to discuss this evening anybody I don't know if anything comes to mind I think we can move forward to board statements of appreciation recognition if anything comes to mind we could catch it there I would say one thing while we're Mr Harman you're talking about you in in your thoughts to us um one thing about the standardized test I'd heard I just heard a the other day that because I think some of the reports are now coming home um showing parents how their student may have done versus the district and nationally um somebody explained to me that and it wasn't a Crown Point teacher that when they take that test that it's now smart enough to challenge the student or to back off where they might start with two plus two and if they
066get that right they go to two times two and then two divided by two and it keeps working up that way or if they do get something wrong it'll work back and the other way I thought that was I thought that was really interesting is that do you believe to be true weeks yes yes not that all of us parents need to understand that but I think that I thought it was really neat to hear and understand one of the positives of taking a test electronically where it could adapt to the way you're answering questions or maybe I should have just known and I didn't but I thought that was uh I thought that was pretty interesting I don't know when they invented IQ test like that stepping up for you off the charts uh
067okay so we'll go to board savings appreciation recognition if we think of anything else please just uh go ahead um start with Mr Smith yeah my statement's probably actually are more on other business of the board now that I think about it but that's okay so just going along with the touch screens that Mr Hardman had identified and spoke of earlier this evening I had an opportunity to walk through the open houses a few weeks back when school first began both for the middle school and the high school and you know you're seeing these these enormous screens and you know I started asking the teachers how do you like it you know what's going on and of course half of them are like oh I love it I just boom boom boom here let me
068come show you I mean near this ecstatic the other half like it's a lot you know it's an adjustment the good news is my sons came home the other day and said dad all my teachers are loving this now they're all on board and and they're just like they're fully engaged so I think you're going to hear great things and of course you know there's so much more to learn but it seems like they're just adjusting with time and it's exciting so that the students love it I know my children love it it seems like the teachers are adjusting to it and really coming around so I thought I'd share that second I think we have fall break coming up before we meet again which is a full week so I know getting the year
069started was was rough with people didn't want to go back to school early but hopefully now they enjoy the full week's break that comes next month so just want to wish you guys all I hope you have a safe a safe week and then lastly um uh to Mr G for me I remember and I'm feeling old because I remember that conversation seven years ago when we talked about security when I first came on the board and how we emphasized that and really like we really want to tie down a plan in a process and so it's always I mean I can't imagine as we started there wasn't much there if I recall and and just to build it from scratch and to do it the way you've done and I mean obviously security is
070our number one priority and always has been so I too want to commend you on your work and your effort and everybody that sewed into that so great job it's it's really exciting to see that come to fruition so well done thanks commissioner and Mr babjek um over to you any board statements of appreciation or would you like to discuss anything other business thank you thank you Mr Angel uh first I'd like to acknowledge our troop that's here this evening witnessing this meeting and from pre-meeting talk they have to do a report so good luck with that but there are minutes available so in case you didn't get down some of the important notes you can go on the website and grab those minutes off their soon right Diana that's how soon are the minutes
071posted if they they just got to be approved so okay so there's your homework assignment so the next time you come so but but thank you for attending we know you probably could be doing a million other things tonight so especially with the thumbs up thumbs up from that gentleman yes so and then the other thing I have tonight is to thank St Matthias Church there's a written statement but I'd rather say this from just the heart they have been more than cordial with our building projects going on at the high school whether it be football events on Friday to where if you were there for the Lake Central game that lot filled up probably half hour before kickoff so to all those involved from Saint Matthias from their leadership the church members obviously have
072to be accommodating knowing events are going on there while some of our events are going on so we just like to say thank you for that partnership and working with us during this time we do value those and thank everybody involved from that church for their cordial agreement and helping us out in a time of need so thank you I think that's all I have other than mentioning that uh personal experience from having a new teacher in the house living with myself and my wife to what Mr Kiwa mentioned no issues of stress or anything and I would think that's vitally important knowing that he's getting exactly what he needs as a first time teacher on a daily basis and mentioning that everybody is there to help and win issues of discipline or whatever it
073may be are everybody's there to help out in whatever way they can so that just I think kind of says the kind of environment that we welcome in newbies so to speak and don't just let them fly on their own and that we're there to help them every which way so thank you on that part from a personal experience on that thank you Mr angel um for myself I'd think uh so Mr Freeman joined us this evening as a new as of November 1st director of Transportation you need you you need to know that Mr Aki will be referring to as one of his big four so when you hear that you're not one of the big four which is kind of cool that um and uh also I think it I could have mentioned
074earlier um you know we wish Miss Vasco as well in retirement so you know it's uh we have the have given notice and luckily to have filled that position but which are nothing but the best in retirement we don't get this here in person between now and then so um so I I in my head Mr Kiwa helped me out a little bit here I went back and forth if I want to say anything or not but I want to because this individual has been such I mean played such an enormous role in many Crown Point students lives and involvement and love for the school corporation and he's experiencing some bad Health that is late as last weekend um I haven't had any updates on how he might be doing but Mr caravana um I
075hope you all just you know just put them in your thoughts positive energy doesn't hurt and that's why as I debated whether or not to say anything I think it's important to share that positive energy and having your thoughts and wish him the best in his recovery so um that's all I have anybody else want to chip in before we go to a German just well set on Mr Caravan as he also served time as a board member and so I was able to get to know him on a personal level so prayers and blessings are with him and his recovery served time as a board member yes it's not prison time it's board time [Laughter] yeah okay uh if we don't have anything else I would motion to adjourn so moved moved by Mr
076Angel and said by Mr Smith all in favor signify by saying aye aye aye aye opposed most caring sport zero thank you Scott hey guys thanks for joining us Scott see ya