001regional competition and fifth place in the research division at the 2022 world championship 2.4 is our 2021-22 colonel wheeler robotics team x for receiving first first place in the teamwork challenge at the regional competition qualifying for both the 2022 state and the world championships and team g for receiving the jack klein award at the state competition and calling qualifying for the world championship 2.5 michael early for receiving the indiana mentor of the year award at the 2022 indiana robotics state competition and 2.6 2021 22 cphs vex robotics teams one two three three g and one 1233w for receiving third place at the state competition and qualifying buying for the world championships do we have a motion to approve these accommodations this evening so moved i was moved by mr hoffman second by mr babjack any
002questions or comments before voting all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed that motion carries 4-0 and uh before we get into that mr president uh dr terrell can you tell us what it the qualification for the world championships is what what that entails and where it is and how many groups are involved or i'm sure one of our sponsors can fill in the blanks yeah i think we it's really complicated because of the different qualifying factors that come with it so i think as we go through this i would recommend that as we bring in for instance lake street that we asked their coach to kind of describe to us what had to take place in order for us to be able to to get to this point today okay so that's
003that's a good point also um dr terrell so we'll start with lakeshore i'm gonna come forward and present the accommodation so we want to make sure that if there's all of our lake street individuals and any parents have an opportunity to come into the room i'll give them a chance to come in and i'll come forward and give you that accommodation while he's doing that for all the parents we we make sure you get an opportunity to take all the pictures you want to take so feel free to move to the front of the room at that time the dolphins huh [Music] the lake street element robotics team won first place excellence award at the regional competition qualifying for the state competition we had a team eight nine three b and let me read your
004accommodation resolution accommodation the crown point border school trustee is honored to commend the 2021 222 lake tree box team for notorious achievement we hereby resolve the board of school trustees for cromwell community school corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 22-20-21-2222 for receiving the first place texas work at the 2022 indiana elementary iq robotics regional competition and qualifying for the state competition the board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it to permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity 22nd day august 2022 congratulations [Applause] come on over here great job [Applause] evelyn congratulations [Applause] there [Applause] grab a picture of you guys if you'd like to step forward as well to get pictures mrs woodhill i think we'll ask each of the sponsors coaches to like what mr hopkins
005asked me give us a little description of what the students how they achieved this award yeah sure um so what we received was the excellence award which basically meant that um the kids did an awesome job in their interview they had a really awesome notebook they worked really well as a team and they just impressed the judges with how well they spoke and how they talked about the process of making their robot so we were really excited to go to state [Applause] most exciting memory best memory from your competition anybody have something that sticks out think about that was a lot very well appreciate all your work very much what grade are these students in uh fifth grade now and sixth grade now we got some repeats coming back for next year we hope so
006yeah very good congratulations [Applause] yes as lake street moves out we'll see if we could uh bring in mcarthur it may be a bit repetitive but since everyone's not able to be in a room i'll probably read the proper accommodation for each of them as they come through follow me up here all right thanks for joining us now we have the mcarthur elementary robotics teams for exemplary performance at the indiana state robotics competition world championships we have the team 102-77a received the build award in the science division at the 22 world championship and team 107 7b received third place in the teamwork challenge at the indiana elementary robotics competition and receiving third place in the engineering division and the build award at the 2022 world championships let me read your accommodation and then we will
007go through each individual so resolution accommodation the convoy school board trustees is honored to command the 2021-22 macarthur elementary box both team a and team b for their achievements we hereby resolve that the school board of trustees for the crown point community school corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2122 macarthur robotics teams for receiving their awards at prospective world championships as we read before each of you will have your specific uh award but we'll pump them all together here for the reading the board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to us ministers reserved for public posterity day this 22nd day of august 2022 congratulations to all of you a great job [Applause] i'm sorry coach sarah yeah okay would you like to come up first and help me
008with uh in case i mess up any we have a good list here congratulations [Applause] victoria head [Applause] emma get [Applause] [Music] jameson blackline [Applause] robert [Applause] coaches would like to uh give us a little background on your adventure yeah so uh these two teams have been working hard it's a super long season so we start in september and we go all the way till may most of these students were brand new into robotics because we didn't have the program the year before due to copen except robert he brought a lot of great knowledge um but they worked super hard they performed well regionally in local competitions they went to the indiana state competition in indianapolis at lucas oil and they performed very well there which got them their bid to the world championship in
009austin texas and from there my b team got third place in their division austin texas texas tyler's texas thank you robert we went to dallas which the pool they had a great time um but they performed very well they got third in their division and then they also got the build award which is for creating a well-crafted sturdy robot and then my a team they also performed well and they earned the build award two uh which is for a well-crafted sturdy robot so they represented indiana well at the world championship [Applause] yeah um so in their division they were around 50 teams so to get third place out of that 50 and so very very big accomplishments thank you very much [Applause] oh all right next we have our 2021-22 taft robotics team e for
010receiving the first place excellence award at the regional robotics competition and fifth place in the research division at the 2022 world championships crown point of crown point board of school trustees is honored to commend the 2021-22 taft middle school robotics team e for meritorious achievement we hereby resolve that the board of school trustees for the crown point community school corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2021-22 taft robotics team e for receiving the first place excellence award at the regional robotics competition and fifth place in the research division at the 2022 world championship board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity be this 22nd day of august 2022. i'll do my best on these names this one i think i can
011get noah chapco [Applause] josh gorny [Applause] jackson pew [Applause] jacob nurik aaron grady [Applause] coaches mary jones and rachel walker [Applause] oh boy all right um so team e is kind of a specialty for taft they've actually um four of these guys have been together since their sixth grade year they actually made it to virtual worlds in sixth grade uh and then last year added kuba to their team and uh made it to worlds again so uh they're excited they're hoping you know after applications go through this year hopefully they can make the team this year and keep the the good times going and um you know they struggled a little bit at state and placed 33rd but they were able to qualify for worlds on skills competition and um just really did super well
012and finished in the top one percent in the world so they did a really great job and brought home a lot of stuff for us so yeah could you even explain what the like ideal number numbers and kind of like the trial what's expected maybe in the trial process yeah absolutely so ideally on a team per robot we have six teams at taft we end up with uh 30 students uh we try to keep it between four and five students per robot and each of the teams is responsible for building programming coding everything for that robot based on what the year's challenge is so the challenge changes every single year last year was pitching in so their goal was to gather up these little yellow squishy balls and throw them into um basically a basket
013goal and then also to hang the robot from a place as well this year's challenge is going to be a lot different a lot more challenging it kind of reminds us of shuffleboard a little bit um and then they also have the challenge of building a reaching portion of the robot as well so it'll be uh definitely something that they are looking forward to accomplishing giving you're given a specific time frame within which yep they compete for one minute total um typically they compete in what's called an alliance so it's not like battle bots what you would think of um they're actually competing along with another team and they get randomly paired for qualifications rounds and then for the finals rounds it's the top teams get placed together uh and then it's the top alliance
014that wins the first prize so it's actually whoever wins first place is actually two teams that win first place but also in building building the machine you have a specific time frame within which um we typically start like in september and then our competitions usually start um like late september or like october yep it's a long season i think we have a board member that wants to be on the team i love it that's great absolutely that would sink the ship uh [Applause] this is mrs green if there are parents out there from wheeler there's additional seats in here as well mrs green there are additional seats in here as well if there's parents still out there waiting our next is our 2021-2022 colonel wheeler robotics team x for receiving first place in the teamwork
015challenge at the regional competition qualifying for both the 2022 state and world championships and team g for receiving the jack klein award at the state competition and qualifying for the world championships i feel that we need an explanation on the jack klein award coaches uh jackson award is one award that shows jack klein was a kid that had autism that um his passion is robotics and unfortunately love to survive too early his parents come and choose around the best representation of robotics in indiana and what team best represents their kid's dream and that was jack sorry not jack jackson gabe and jp so i'm gonna send this up there and they best represent our school at the state competition that year well that deserves a round of applause [Applause] all right resolution accommodation the crown
016point board of school trustees is honored to commend the 2021-2022 colonel john wheeler middle school's robotics team colonel wheeler middle school being hereby resolved at the board of school trustees for the crown point community school corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2021-22 colonel wheeler robotics team x for receiving first place in the teamwork challenge at the regional competitions qualifying for both the 2022 state and world championships and team g for receiving the jack klein award the state competition and qualifying for the world championship the board of school trustees publicly recognized this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity by this 22nd day of august 2022. zachary calbreezy i say that right audrey dexter kiter ethan kashewski petoskey all right thank you caleb terry okay i'll give
017you that one coach oh jackson colin close enough good jp police died no not close gabriel ballard [Applause] we'll mention it doesn't look like anybody else is here but michael early oh coach sorry [Applause] you speak regarding the qualifications for this group um i know the staff just explained a lot of the technical stuff that we do year-round we start is basically year-round last year we moved from may to may for some of these kids i have known for basically the last three years and some of these parents have been a godsend and some of them don't always wear that black ox jersey once they have truly had come together i can talk about how we did last year we got jack final war we went to tournaments we won we lost we did our
018best at each time but i can promise you i can swear that you guys always were best representatives of crown point no matter where we went and honestly it kind of makes me have a chair united see some of you guys leave to the high school i'm glad i want to see you with coach leblanc for some of you um to the parents thank you so much last three years for some of you and some of you guys still see this year has been a great help i could not do this without coach pd on my side as well so i do appreciate it and thank you guys [Applause] okay let's push together check's not front dexter thanks thank you again [Applause] team members you might want to stick around for this as high well
019gave me a lot of responsibility one one certificate was a pretty simple name this is resolution accommodation the crown point board of school trustees is honored to commend michael earley for meritorious achievement being hereby resolved at the board of school trustees for the crown point community school corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to michael earley coach of the 2021-22 colonel wheeler robotics team for receiving the indiana mentor of the year award at the 2022 indiana robotics state competition board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently and it's to its minutes to preserve for public posterity this 22nd day of august 2022. [Applause] tell us how the team got what they got tell us a little bit about the award that you receive um every year uh through a nomination process honestly
020i was coughed as far as when they said my name and we were joking around the stairs at the time and they called said my brother was like what happened then i found out my parents got involved and nominated me for a coach of the mentor of the year and i was dumbfounded i just i love working with these kids every day i love seeing them come after school and wanting to be there during the summer i want to be there till 4 30. i lost all my hair with them but it was a good choice and i said i truly mean it i work with all these kids every day with robotics i wouldn't want anything in the way and i love working with the parents and i wouldn't want it any other way
021how many how many teams involved in your competition um i coached last year coached 10 teams took over coach about six teams and how many did you compete against all right in their categories in our category at royals there's about two thousand teams we have rules when we say worlds we literally mean worlds we had countries like mexico from guatemala all the way from taiwan to bed was there the whole vex iq would represent about 10 000 teams across the world all locals local competitions and indiana is the third biggest state that hosts these competitions so saying that we did well at state or even worlds in the way that we did it i couldn't be proud of those kids very good we're very proud of you thank you no you come over here [Applause]
022demonstration what do we got here this is uh they're they both that's two weeks worth of work so they will shoot the goals right now but they don't drive around again so that's awesome yeah i mean two weeks of two days after school so only really eight hours of work all right i think that one little shout out don't hit diana have you guys signed a winner because then the meeting's over there you go i was just telling uh mr hoffman how we were giving out all these robotics we haven't seen a robot yet we all went in awesome the other ones does the same thing uh yes but we don't have it wired currently because of we've been working on other things yeah that's pretty cool we wanted to test it before we uh
023set everything in stone so we put on flash and light design so did any of you have anything to do with the robot that shoots the t-shirts at the football games no so we're actually only one of five school districts in the state that i'm aware of that have both a vex and the first which are two totally separate leads oh gosh so we support both leagues at crown point high school so that's our first tee so they have the t-shirt robot that they converted to be a candy shooting robot or uh very cool all right well i'm here to give out the final robotics or final award for the evening this one is going to the 2021 2021-2022 cphs vex robotics team for receiving third place at the indiana state robotics competition and qualifying
024for the world championships congratulations on your finish [Applause] all right the name challenge here we go macy oxide [Applause] johnson [Applause] yeah lexi pride [Applause] abigail tien danny crime crap say your last name for the crowd caleb cooper [Applause] i've heard this lucas pritz [Applause] where's ethanol [Applause] and matthews let you guys get your pictures congratulations [Applause] tilt your head so yes anybody want to claim the phone that's on the floor [Music] uh g team ladies which is an all-girls girl power team at worlds they won the inspire horde in their division which uh we're very proud of that and then our w team made it as quarter finalists in their division at worlds so they also did very well at worlds and we're excited they're all coming back this year so we're excited to
025have a really really good year this year we got 54 kids on the team which is a testament to all the you know elementary middle schools and programs that they do and feed into us so it's just we're really excited this year to see and what they can do yeah [Applause] [Music] take your time take your time it's only multiple thousand dollars okay okay i think we can look at item three patrons comments we do not have any patrons registered to comment this evening so we can move to item fours the public hearing i have a motion to suspend the regular business meeting and open public hearing so moved second moved by mr hoffman second by mr angels who will now suspend the regular meeting and open the public hearing so next item on the
026agenda is for the board to hold a project hearing on the proposed project if you are interested in speaking at the hearing please make sure you have signed up the sheet in the back room which should include your name and address do we have anybody that would like to okay i'm sorry oh it was uh we got motions we didn't know thank you diana all in favor of suspending the regular meeting and moving to the public hearing so move i'm sorry yes all in favor say aye all right opposed much carries 4-0 thank you miss green okay so let's start over the next item in the generous board to hold a project hearing on the proposed project if you're interested in speaking at the hearing please make sure you have signed the sign in sheet
027the back of the room which should include your name and address do we have anybody in the audience that missed that opportunity to sign the sheet that would like to speak okay after presentation by the administration as advisors there will be an opportunity for the public made comments about the project at that hearing we will ask that each person limit their comments to three minutes and let the topic be limited to the proposed project under consideration the notice of this hearing was published as legally required at this time i'll ask dr terrell to explain the purpose of this hearing thank you pursuant of indiana code 20-26-7-37 before a school corporation may spend more than one million dollars to build repair or alter a school building that will be fi financed by a lease or bonds
028it must hold a public hearing at which explanations of the potential value of the project to the school corporation in the community are given these public hearings and the adoption of the resolution is the very beginning of the legal process these resolutions establish the financial terms for the proposed project we will now hear from dr terrell about the process of determining and communicating the projects to the community and the need for the project as you know we are in the process of building adding on to our current schools and updating all of our facilities and with this work we've identified some additional areas that we need to address and these funds will be used to address those areas thank you dr we'll now hear from dr terrell about how the proposed project meets the needs
029the proposed projects will include the renovation and improvements to school board school buildings throughout the district including winfield elementary school cafeteria expansion site improvements and purchase of equipment and technology for our buildings thank you again dr terrell we now hear from matt reese the financial consultant with raymond james about how the proposed project will be financed as well as information about the effect of the typical property taxpayer they're working on getting his presentation up technically technical difficulties is it because i moved it yes um yes no i need the the presentation i uh it's up in the uh four point two hit go button right there and if you just go to the next next page please this chart you're seeing up on the screen now shows the outstanding payments by year the school corporation
030is currently obligated to make you'll notice we start in 2021 and run all around to 2039 with that you'll notice most of our debt obligations fall off in 2024 25 and 26 and all we have left after that is a bond you issued in 2021. now if you go to the next slide you'll notice listed by by issuance uh what those are the common school fund loan is done in 2023 and you then have a series of first mortgage bonds which also were our old debt that are being retired in the next two to three four years and then we started in some general obligations bond this districts that had had a history of issuing general obligation bonds going back at least to where we're issuing smaller issuances one two or three year pay cycles
031to to repay those we did not issue any general obligation bonds in 2021 because we had the large projects you were going through at that point and you see that next in that column over is the large issuance in 2021 and then the total of payments there on the right if you go to the next slide general obligation bonds are limited and and how many uh how much you can issue in general obligation bonds that's simply a calculation of your certified net assessed valuation uh two percent of that number then divided by three and that becomes the amount that you can issue in our case it's about 21 almost 22 million given the av from current year 2022 we don't know what the av yet is for 2023. uh but you do have to subtract
032off the remaining debt that's outstanding we do have one issuance in the bonds of 2020 general obligation for just under 5 million remaining that leaves us with a room of 16.8 million that we could potentially issue in general obligation bonds the issuance that you have before you if you go to the next page shows you the issuance we're talking about tonight to fund the projects that dr carroll discussed that would be approximately a five million dollar issuance on the repayment cycle we're actually going to pay this back in about nine months so we intend to close on this issuance towards the end of october with the full repayment uh by july 15th of 2023 so all five million would be paid off in le in one year in the 2023 budget there's room to do
033that based upon the significant increase in assessed valuation we've experienced over the last two years that will allow us in this case you'll notice in 2021 if you go back and compare what we think the tax rate we're going to need to pay off these bonds be no increase in the tax rate uh from the 2021. it will be a slight increase from the 2022 tax rate for debt service that's because of the significant increase we didn't need as much cash so one year reprieve we're going back now and back filling that in with this issuance to get us back up to the tax rate that we had in 2021 for our debt service rate if you go to the last page then this simply shows you that one year repayment of five million dollars
034being placed in there um and how it looks like with the tax rate with the rest of our debt that we have outstanding i will just make a quick note that in 2024 we will be using some cash in there and that was planned we will be raising just the the 78 cents that we had talked about however we're using some cash we do have on hand out of debt service that will have to reduce our balance anyways uh so that's why you see a little spike in 2024 that was planned as part of the large issuance in 2021 this does not in any way impact your ability in the future to issue any additional debt obviously paying it off in less than in nine months but then also you see the ability uh to
035pay off around approximately 26 27 million dollars each year with the tax rate that you have still gives you the flexibility in case anything else needs to be done into the next few years as we look past 2025. this presentation was provided by baker tilly who is your municipal advisor for this transaction thank you mr reese we'll now open the public hearing remember if you'd like to speak we did not have anybody signed up earlier but we'll ask once again would anyone else like to speak or sign uh sign up to the sheet no well then thank you all who participate in this hearing we appreciate your time and interest in the projects of the and the future of our community please note that it's just the first step in the legal process the board
036will continue to work with the administration and its professionals to look for efficiencies to conserve tax dollars while meeting our educational needs ms reese could you please summarize the project project resolution sure the project resolution is resolution number for your school board to consider uh the resolution as required when a school is planning to spend more than a million dollars per building it contains the estimated hard and soft construction cost the cost of issuance and establishes the total project costs it also contains the estimated tax impact thank you uh board we have a motion to adopt the project resolution so moved second moved by mr angel on segment by mr babjack any questions or comments for mr reese do we need a resolution for both of those uh uh one at a time yeah we'll
037do one of them yes so this is the here we're looking for motion for the project resolution then uh we'll shortly be looking for the preliminary bond resolution any other questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying hi hi opposed motion carries 4-0 and uh uh let's see here i'll move to approve preliminary bond resolution 8 14. second there questions or comments not all those in favor since i was saying aye opposed that motion also carries 4-0 and that was now moved to close the public hearing i just want to make sure i completed everything one minute okay we're good yeah so we have a motion to close the public hearing by mr hoffman and second by mr babjack all's in favor signify by saying aye aye aye opposed motion carries 4-0 the
038public hearing is now closed we'll reopen the regular meeting consent agenda dr terrell thank you for your consideration this evening we have 5.1 the regular business meeting minutes 5.2 our recurrent grant for the non-english speaking program and then 5.3 the recurrent grant for the title iii language instruction for limited english proficient and immigrant students grant 5.4 our personnel agenda and then 5.5 with the voucher registered checks as listed on your board documentation thank you dr child we have a motion to approve the extent that jenna has presented so moved second i'm moved by mr angel in second by mr hoffman any questions or comments for dr terrell on the consent agenda as far as current personnel agenda with paraprofessional recent hires all that or almost ruined tv you're all good i don't know that we're
039ever all good okay but i think we're in a much better position than we were before and i do think we're in a good good place right now as we start the school year thank you for all your efforts that's that's all i need yeah any other questions for dr joe comments or not all those in favor saying saying guys all right opposed motion carries 4-0 thank you dr terrell uh i'm six action items we have 6.1 the new tap middle school bid package number three athletic site improvements and related work project ms reese thank you mr president members of the board on august 16th we received 12 bids under four bid categories for the taft middle school bid package three which is the athletic site improvements and related work the estimated budget for this
040project was four million three hundred seventy five thousand the total amount of the four low bids i was three million 372 638 significantly under budget by a little over a million dollars i'm very excited about that given the current construction climate we've been facing uh both either school corporation or skillman uh has extensive experience with all the low bidders and is confident they can successfully perform the work as prescribed in the bid package with that we recommend approval the contracts for the new taft middle school bid package number three uh athletic site improvements and related work project as follows site work in general trades to golf in the amount of two million seventy five thousand for sports flooring the key for america and the amount of five hundred and sixty six thousand three hundred and
041eighty dollars for telescoping bleachers delete company in the amount of 248 248 and free electrical to sweeney electric in the amount of 483 thousand dollars for a total of 3 million 372 638 thank you mr reeds print recommendation approved contracts for the tap middle school athletic site improvements a related work project as presented by mr reese we have a motion to approve move to approve bid project package number three for athletic site improvements and related work segment moved by mr hoffman second by mr babjack any questions or comments from mr reese on good package number three did this include indoor and outdoor i'd be happy to let mr kitsaurus government get away with sitting there the whole time without having to say something thank you particularly since he was on time tonight are the ones
042i have to speak at your question specific to bleachers indoor and out or i was just curious for this overall improvement project was this both some of the indoor stuff that wasn't cleaned up by an outdoor correct the indoor portion is specifically related to the flooring in the gymnasiums and the bleachers in the gymnasiums as well the balance of the work is associated with exterior bleachers for the football field the concession building locker building at the ex-chair along with some sidewalks now we will be putting out another package related to turf athletic fields at the high school and eisenhower here this week they'll all be in september um so the last piece of uh of the project for the new middle school that still needs a bit is the actual turf field itself so we're
043putting that out and there's an entire package there's greater value in that so the turf will include half wheeler a high school so we'll be coming hopefully assuming everything comes in budget will come before you september more meeting to award those projects this is the term telescoping bleach or something new or what's the telescoping is they're not fixed they can actually retract and while we have the opportunity and our questions for mr caceres how's the rest of the things going very well i heard nothing but compliments with from the individuals i spoke with community-wide about with everything going on how as close to normal it could be so kudos to yourself and everybody involved in the projects and our own staff for all of that so appreciate the opportunity you know you saw pavement going
044in last minute on some of the projects but that's pretty typical like a timothy ball macarthur um the see the steel you saw a smaller crane at the high school if you had an opportunity to drive by today and that's uh we're installing the steel and the actual core guard so that'll be going over the next few weeks again we have to install that steel after hours so we're not lifting over students during regular class sessions things are going well thank you thank you we might also mention that deanna's flanked tonight by his celebrity son who got out of dance and whatever else it may be to come and hang out with us we appreciate you being here buddy thanks for having me wouldn't got the full effect if daddy didn't get to talk about
045something right all right i believe we already had motion correct so all in favor signify by saying aye aye aye opposed motion carries 4-0 thank you for all the information this evening and continued projects moving forward information items superintendent discussion groups anything anything to report from magnus goes looking at mr hoffman from the city maybe extraordinary with the uh rdc continue their favorite projects i'm sure mr smith will give us an update on cedar lake the next time he has the opportunity if there's anything new going on um like about out on win for the last few times we heard we're just talking crosswalks and anything else their issue is the initial funding and getting to the dollar amount that's needed to start moving forward with that project i think winfield is probably nearing the
046position where they will begin to have some limited funds thank you director of elementary education mr mearson thank you mr president and board members i would just like to take this opportunity to really say a lot of thank yous with the kickoff of our school year i'd like to thank all of our buildings that have kindergarten for offering kindergarten kickoff this was the first year that all six of our elementaries offered that so that was a great opportunity to welcome in our families and help with that transition for our youngest learners also successful open houses that have occurred over the past two weeks has been another great opportunity for our families to engage with our teachers they were able to show off some of their new technology with the clear touch panels which are installed
047as well as in the amplification system so big kudos to our technology team for making all of that happen i was in a building on friday and the teacher said that this is her first time i think in 20 years that she has not lost her voice the first week of school and so she was saying that due to the amplification system that her vocal cords were feeling strong that day so i just really thank our teachers our administrators for problem solving as we get the year started off we've had some shortages with supply um for some of our curricula so we've been getting copies sent in to us and distributed and inventoried so it's been a little bit of a heavier load than we would like but our teachers have definitely demonstrated flexibility and
048understanding and we're continuing to work with our vendors to make sure that our kids have what they need are our students teaching the teachers how to use those touch screens very much so um our students do pick up on the technology very quickly and i think our teachers like to empower our students to be able to kind of show what they know so definitely a team effort this is a little bit off the subject but i read in the past week that there's an elementary school teacher in southern indiana who celebrated her 50th first day of school she's been teaching for 50 years kudos to her thank you mister thank you about director of secondary education mr g fermi thank you mr president board members um just i had the opportunity to attend our our
049secondary um open houses um parent orientations and in our student orientations which we refer to as our bulldog rushes just want to commend our administrators teachers and staff to put a lot of extra time before a bell ever rings in any schoolhouse to make sure that we not only have those events to check it off but that we do a really quality job and and kids and parents and everybody goes away with the information and feeling good about the start of school year so big thank you to all of them for what they do prior to the school year ever starting and also i just want to thank mr colson and all his work he did with our police and ema to keep the traffic moving we know that a lot of our buildings are
050in a little bit of different state than they normally are due to construction and uh they kept them moving and we get a little better every day everyone starts getting the routines and so it's very hectic to get all those people moved around in the morning so we just appreciate their efforts it's a colossal effort to move all those cars every single day and and we appreciate them getting everyone in safe so thank you mr g fermion director of exceptional education ms pascus thank you mr warney members of the board i just want to thank my staff my occupational therapy staff my physical therapy staff they have to make sure specialized equipment is ready to go as students have matriculated onto different schools and so they're running at a frantic pace those few days before
051students walk in the buildings and also i want to thank all of our teachers we've had several new students come in and they have jumped in and served them and welcomed them into crown point schools thank you mrs pascus chief human resource officer mr akiwa thank you mr president board members um just echoing what they all shared the amount of time and effort that was put into kicking the school year off all of our building leaders and you know teachers and um just to hats off and a very large thank you uh for for making our start as smooth as it's been i'd also like to you know shed some light on some of our unsung heroes i call them the big four uh technology food service uh transportation and buildings and grounds um with
052all the construction going on um i think our buildings and grounds crew have done it just a phenomenal job providing you know ready safe locations in campus sites for us this year with this unique start tech brian your crew way to go uh getting those flat panels touch screens installed in addition to you know access points and all the other things you're working on right now so thank you very much for that and our food service and transportation um it's always a challenge if you've been in a school building for the kickoff speaking of kay it's a lot of curtains of milk to open up so uh it's it's been it's been a lovely start and just thank you for all those folks out there who've been patient with us because it does take a
053little time for that school year to settle in and for things to smooth out especially in areas of in food service and transportation um i'd like to shed specific light though on a very good story to share with you because we've had to support some families here who've been displaced from their homes recently and i would like to share that um with our school year starting this did happen to a family um and they had to uh seek a temporary uh home and uh out of town uh but we're still responsible for bringing those students to school so uh with our bus routes starting on day one we didn't have uh spare buses at that time so i asked our transportation director monica do we have some of those those white buses that we use
054to transport some of our smaller sports teams available and she says yes we do i said well hold on one second let's let me let's get a hold of some of our staff members uh that have been trained these are teachers coaches and other staff members that actually are cleared to drive these buses and uh wouldn't you know we had staff members at the high school paraprofessionals step up to transport these students to and from their home and out of town for about up to a week just an amazing story just warms your heart to see every and as soon as i sent that email out to invite folks to help it wasn't 10 minutes before i started to get responses from from our staff members who really had nothing to do with these families
055other than they go to our school corporation and they're jumping to help so i just want to say these names out loud and thank them publicly for just being what we would say you know that we are cp right team players that's matt leblanc who was here this evening keith eddings also from the high school a teacher marissa dupstat also from crown point high school she's a grad coach chloe gomez is a paraprofessional uh julie bodemer she's a pbs paraprofessional we have barb merrill also chip in and logistically we had you know monaco vasquez our director of transportation we had josh gregan and thank you also for assistant principal melanie pocheck uh also working with logistics getting all this set up i've got to tell you it's one of the it's just one of the
056most amazing things i've seen uh kind of come together very effortlessly frankly uh to help a family in need so to all of you i mentioned right there from the bottom of my heart thank you and thank you mr president thank you mr cuba uh business office mr reese yeah i don't think i can adequately follow that up so i'm going to pass my time along my director of communications miss allen we know you have some stuff for us this evening it's still very hard to follow up um earlier this year right before school started we launched parent square our new communication app i really want to thank mr gill for his help in making sure rds and parent square sync together that's not an easy thing to do and i want to thank lawanda
057duvall for her help in correcting probably 200 and something phone numbers that we needed to go back and fix to make sure that that worked correctly big thank you to her thursday this week we have our first coffee and conversation of the year it will be at the crown point library at 9 30 a.m and then finally i'm excited to announce that we are beginning our ambassador program this is a hands-on six session look behind the scenes what it takes to run a school district as large as ours so there's a little bit of information on the front page of our website there's an application it needs to be filled out by labor day so that we can get moving thank you miss allen superintendent of schools doctor terrell misson you're not quite off the
058hook yet we're looking at a specific demographic that we're trying to reach with this coughing conversation is that correct that is correct so anyone could come to coffee in conversation on thursday but this week in particular we would like to invite residents who are 62 years of age and older we hand out athletic passes for those folks every year event passes actually not just athletics and it's a bit underutilized you can come here to the administration building and pick one up but if you come to coffee and conversation we'll save you a step just bring your driver's license and we'll have them there for you so more of that the 62 athletic or athletics and events and events so plays concerts sure yeah you said thursday night did not know that excuse me making make
059a note to share i'm biting my tongue let me go on and say that again i want to echo what has been mentioned by our cabinet members with the start of school having been in the buildings both before school and then after the school year began multiple times heard repeated over and over this is the best start and they can't remember how long and i think part of that is because the last two years has really been crazy with how we went back to school and all the different things that went into that so people were just thrilled to be able to be back in the buildings to be able to have that great start to school having families come in having kids come in uh just so many things that went on there traffic
060control as we mentioned was uh handled well our security system the construction teams that had people ready to go our teachers seeing the way that they came together and were prepared for those kids as they came in the buildings has just been amazing we just thank everyone for the start of school secondly one of the things you know already gave a great story of how people came together last week we had a situation where we really needed to come together as a corporation and support a family in our district in a couple of three different schools in our district and i shouldn't be but again i was amazed at how our people how quickly they organized we had additional support services and buildings the level of expertise and compassion that those individuals brought with them
061was just amazing in my mind the way that they work together again just one of the things that makes crown point such a special place construction update as dion mentioned was asked how things are going we have a new one that we will send out to you and will be posted to our website tomorrow morning and then last thing just want to remind board members opportunity for a tour of the new taft this friday at 11 30. i think you'll be impressed and amazed at where we are with that building and what that building is going to look like so great opportunity if you can carve that time out of your schedule mr worthy i just want to follow up on artie's story and the the compliments to the transportation department been reading a number
062of reports articles about school districts particularly in central indiana and some of the more rural districts having a great deal of difficulty finding bus drivers and read one this morning about uh students waiting as much as an extra half hour for their bus because they're trying to run double routes and pick these kids up and do them with short-handed bus drivers so it's it's a real compliment that things are running smoothly thank you dr terrell and mr hoffman we can roll into that with those thoughts with this other business of the of the board um to piggyback what you just said i actually spoke to mr akiba before the meeting um you know starter school bus routes and we're fortunate to have the drivers in place and getting things done but still you know there's
063going to be those situations where it's not ideal for all the families you might have a quarter mile walk your bus stop you might have depending on when you're picked up or dropped off you might have a 40 minute ride on the bus and um i'm just bringing this up to mention that our leaders are well aware of any of the struggles and i think they're doing everything they can to prevent them you know if if there's a way to tweak a stop or you know help a student get off a bus as fast as possible i feel like all those rocks have been turned over and you know and we've been told in the past they are and um you know we hear we hear about a couple of the situations and i just
064had one uh conversation myself and you start to think about it and there might be a situation where you can move a stop instead of that quarter mile walk that it could be on your you know on the corner of your block instead but now it's five more minutes and then if you do that five more minutes to five more minutes now the kids that are on the bus for 35 minutes are posting for pushing to 45 and 50 and i'm just bringing it up to for those that are concerned obviously reach out if you really think you're an outlier nobody's trying to you know hide from the conversations if you're an outlier you know please reach out to us through an email or um i'm bringing that as i'm bringing this up today if
065anybody's listening please email me and i'll point you in the right direction or someone to speak to but um i really wanna as mr hoffman give our transportation department a lot of credit for you know continuously working to make sure it's all smooth uh mr key would you like to add anything to that or um yeah i'm just kind of reiterating what you're already saying a little bit but yeah we are constantly analyzing whether or not we can become more efficient as the year goes forward um everything looks decent on paper right and then you put it in play and you're starting to understand a little bit who who's riding the bus who isn't riding the bus and new enrollees and people leaving the district so um we anticipate that knock on wood and you
066know another week or so we we we should hopefully smooth out pretty nicely and once again just where there have been moments of delay uh as you do break into a new school year and start to feel those routes for the first time even with new drivers learning new routes um just thank you to all those families um that that were affected as as we do you know iron out those wrinkles it actually brings up a question that i've not even thought to ask in the past but what might be the uh percentage occupancy of our buses is that are we do do we have any idea are we yeah i can't give you an exact number right now but i can find out for you i mean assuming based on the travel times that
067we hear some of the routes you have to assume that we're pretty darn full yeah we're utilizing our you our buses yeah i would say that a big part of the first week is being out in the schools like in the mornings and the afternoons making sure what those traffic patterns look like and seeing how we're improving them intentionally sitting at the high school watching those buses come in they're full uh not all of them and obviously it changes day to day depending on who's there um but we have good ridership right now and yeah that's a good thing as far as you know management-wise right you know yeah i'm just happy that transportation is going smoothly so i don't have to come out of retirement resume driving a school bus so tom we'll take
068anybody if you can pass the course uh we can always use extra drivers we'll take them come on absolutely uh during this other business section doesn't anybody else have anything i'd like to talk her out i do have a few items they're simple but i want to mention him i can go first and see if he wants to jump in um i want to just uh mention the start of school this is the second year we were in the gymnasium and just an excellent event miss janssen your speech was excellent it was uh without coordinating it ms janssen actually spoke kind of based her speech on perspective and then here comes dr terrell with like referencing a book on perspective and they had no idea each one we're going to be talking about that but
069uh thank the thank the band thank the dance and cheerleaders and everybody and uh i think the you know the event in the gymnasium is a little different than i think we might be used to over the last 15 years and it's a good uh it's a it's a real up uplifting morning so um i think everybody did a great job i had i also want to mention that no particular order here um dr terrell is going to be joining mayor land on a podcast tomorrow no i hope not that will be coming up yeah yeah so maryland is doing a was it lay of the land podcast i think his first week was with former mayor iran um but todd is going to be joining him i think that'll be really exciting for us
070as a school corporation and for the relationship with uh with the city to they're just gonna basically just chat about what's going on in the school corp right yeah so you'll be able to you'll be able to gobble up that time with you should be a good time with them for sure um also uh the starter school thank everybody for that as well i wanna particularly dr terrell was sending us pictures of uh running the routes himself around the elementaries in middle school that would have been affected by the fair we knew that was we knew it was the first time we knew that we had to be on our toes we were asking the questions and they were providing the answers and doing the legwork to make sure that you know things went smooth
071everything was safe and that you know you sent us a message of hey here we are right now and off on the side we you know i think a message another board member said i really appreciated that you took that extra effort to get out there yourself and make sure that you know not only were you watching it but that you had the information first hand rather than relying on somebody else to do that so thank you um so sorry i had little notes here i think the oh the last thing i want to mention if i i think it's something that we want everyone to be aware of there's a new um offer to the public through if you look the answer is easy to find but it's through the blue frame technology many
072of the crown point sports will be available to watch for a small fee if you watch them uh one event at a time i believe it's eight dollars you can get a package for something like 77 and it'll at this point i believe it's going to give you basketball volleyball i think i heard swimming uh potentially track football i don't know if i heard soccer or not i think some of this is i think some of it is um due to where we have the cameras uh we have a i call a contract subscription with huddle who has teamed up with blueframe technology i'd i'm only mentioning it because i don't think a lot of people would be aware yet and also i think it's an unbelievable opportunity for the student athletes be able to
073share their experiences with extended family or you know brother goes away to school camp home for can't come home for the game and i watched the uh i watched a friday night game i wasn't able to go but i watched it uh our home football game burst lowell and it was excellent so hopefully get some more information out to the public to be able to watch when they're not able to make it to the game in person soccer is included wrestling wrestling name i'm going to that's no hopefully not other business anybody else like the conversation just add on to what you mentioned about running the routes and dr chair will be included i was informed through some of my contacts with the community that when the water main broke on the northeast side of
074the hospital last week affecting taft traffic and high school traffic that our own superintendent got involved in was directing traffic so kudos to him for people say you know uh what does he get paid to do well i promise you in our description it wasn't to direct traffic duties as a sign stepped up stepped up when needed to make sure that obviously our students were arriving safely and parents dropping those off at both locations were there so thank you to dr terrell for seeing the need to make sure that things were going okay when something like that obviously happens unexpected and no way to detour buses or traffic at that time when everybody's getting there in the next 20 to 20 minutes to half hours and i should i should have thanked the city their
075communication with us was great and they were out there one o'clock in the morning and by 7 30 had it patched up enough where we could actually let buses roll through and yeah so we appreciate the city and their work to it as well any other business to discuss now move forward to board statements of appreciation recognition how about we start with mr babrick do you have anything this evening tonight mr hoffman mr angel i would just say kudos to all involved with the not just the football team for the performance on the field friday but all those that are involved including all those that are uh working security and concession stands and everything involved based on the fact that it was just one heck of an environment on friday night and as far as
076i know no issue issues with a large crowd i just happen to know on the middle school level teachers there to supervise that group obviously we have police presence along with building administrators watching the incredible crowd that we had on the high school end of things too and it was just one nice it was good to see fans back in the stands and with the turnout we had and obviously the outcome is gravy and uh but you just continue moving forward with that but it was just a nice experience weather cooperated everything so beautiful just uh all those involved behind the scenes making sure that nothing or at least you can prevent things from happening and making sure that that moves smoothly as as all possible can be so thank you mr werner mr angel's
077comments uh reminded me of one thing i would like to extend sympathy to the jack assalam family jack was a member of the chain gang for many years at the high school football games he lost his battle with cancer thank you miss chaplin uh specifically boar safe's appreciation recognition i do not have anything this evening but i did think about when the robotics was here this morning crown point has always kind of prided themselves on student participation and extra click extracurricular activities whatever they may be football band choir orchestra theater this robotics is growing and growing and growing and what i saw while listening to all the awards be presented i was thinking about the the quantity of kids that are now it's another way to participate is another way to be involved and i
078think as as a community school corporation and board members we should all be really proud of continuing to you know push students to do more than you know the typical school day and in the opportunity not not push them but provide opportunities for them to do more and you know socialize and be competitive and whatever it may be so thank you for all the coaches and teachers and consultants that help provide those activities um anything else if not we'll look for a motion to adjourn second move by mr angel second by mr hoffman all in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed most carries 4-0