001mike mr hoffman would you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance or may rise for the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice thank you mr hoffman seated item two we have patrons comments we do not have anybody registered to comment tonight is that correct no comments we move to item three the consent agenda dr terrell so for your consideration this evening for your consideration this evening we have the minutes from the executive session may 24th and also the minutes from our regular board meeting on may 24th and also the appointments by the board and accompanying bond amounts that you'll see listed the personnel agenda and then the voucher registered checks
002as listed thank you dr terrell we have a motion to prove to approve the consent agenda as presented second moved by mr hoffman and second by mr angel any questions or comments for dr terrell dr trail i did have one question it's not in front of me right now when i was looking at the agenda i was going to ask um there are a few new central office can you give us a little bit of a i don't think we know what that position may be i think there's a elementary curriculum secondary curriculum yes i'll ask uh mr hardiman if he can talk to that at some of the new support positions that we have in place for this coming school year yes mr hartman like i i just saw when we were looking through
003the agenda and thought we'd you know ask for a little bit of information on what those positions may be yeah thank you we have added some instructional support personnel in the curriculum instruction office we added four instructional specialists two at the elementary one math and one language arts whose focus will be on instruction and curriculum working with teachers developing of a curriculum selecting materials we also added uh the same at the secondary level so we have a math and language arts to to focus on on those concepts there also we also added a third blended learning specialist if you're familiar jeremy walker and susan valentine have been the blended uh instructional specialist for a number of years now and that's a it's been an overwhelming position so we've added a third one uh in that
004in that area and really it's about focus um if you you're trying to do a lot in curriculum and instruction and without the focus of of someone really targeting uh these areas you really don't get the maximum growth and impact that we want to have in the classroom and with our students and our teachers so that's the the rationale behind the edition um we've been uh very fortunate with uh um you know katie and uh dr terrell and your support to be able to have the money and and identify these positions uh to help support the curriculum instruction of our students thank you as part of the reason that i wanted to ask is that i was excited to see it and i'm sure the rest of the board members would agree it's something that
005we've discussed and it's been overwhelming to i believe for some of our uh directors to try to get everybody on the same page it was just it was it was exciting to see and glad we were able to move forward that way so it was actually the next step with our reorganization that we did here with at the cabinet level trying to get intentionally more supports to our schools to our administrators to our teachers and this is that follow-up piece of this to really evaluate what was needed and what we could do to provide that additional level layer of support if you will thank you we'd also be remiss if a part of that is the resignation of katie dowling our cfo so we'd like to uh congratulate katie and thank her for her time
006served here at crowdpoint as she moves on to things with another school corporation but as uh we're all aware of we uh we're able to do a 203 million dollar project with no tax increase and katie was a big part of that so we'd like to wish her a while in her next endeavor and thank her for her time here at ground point thank you anybody else questions or comments on the consent agenda if not all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed emotion carries five zero now we get to move to action items 4.01 is the wearing of masks dr terrell so our first action item for you this evening and we hope to have a very open conversation with board members and cabinet members here this evening but it is my
007recommendation that when it comes to the wearing of mask that we make those optional for all crown point community school corporation buildings and at all crown point community school corporation functions immediately through the month of july the only excess exception to this will be on our buses and that is per federal guidelines one of the questions that i think will probably come out of this recommendation is why are we looking at it only for the month of july let me state that our intention is that as we go into the school year that mass will be optional in all buildings and all facilities there are a couple of things though that we're still waiting on clarifying information to come to us and that is in regards to the requirement for mask on transportation on public
008buses and because we are a public school system our buses are considered public transportation and we think that there may be information coming to us in the middle of july from the federal guidelines that could change or maybe make some adjustments to that so we're going to wait on that piece of it and we will have that for you at the july meeting the other part of that is the close contact tracing we're still expecting to hear some more guidance on that actually there's a call scheduled with the superintendents here in lake county tomorrow actually where we'll be discussing that further and looking at what that is right now it appears that that has been included in the governor's turn over of that policy making or procedure making step to the board and if that's
009the case we'll we'll move forward with that i think it's really important to note that we had almost 4 000 people impacted by close contact tracing and we have absolutely none or no cases that have transmission within our buildings that we can trace back definitely and say this is from being a close contact within our buildings so when we look at that we we take that very seriously and that's going to be something that we'll take into a consideration when we make that recommendation in july for what the school year looks like so again highlights right now moving forward as of immediately we'll go with the mask or optional in our buildings on our transportation they have to be worn simply because of the federal guidelines still and then our intention will be in july
010to bring back the recommendation regarding close contact tracing and also if there's any changes that we can bring to you regarding the requirement for mask on buses as well all right thank you dr terry you've heard the recommendation i'll read it to prove that the wearing a mask is optional in all cpcsc buildings and at the crown point city school corporation functions immediately through the month of july the only exception to this will be on the crown point city school corporation's buses for the federal guidelines do we have a motion to approve is that an action item it is an action second third i think it was i believe it was moved by mr angel on second by mr we had a fifth out in the audience mr hoffman um do you have any questions
011or comments or discussion regarding this topic for dr terrell or the cabinet administrators at this time just yes yep correct you know i think one of the other things that i failed to mention that i should have mentioned earlier as well and my explanation is we will not be asking anybody for proof or verification of vaccinations i know there's been a lot of talk about if students then you know if they've been vaccinated if they haven't should they be separated what's going on with that we're leaving that whole vaccination conversation up to families to have parents to have with their kids if they want to move in that direction same with our teachers we will not be pressing that issue at all trying to find out who is or who is not vaccinated we're leaving
012that up to personal decisions and family decisions do you have any other do you have any other questions or comments see them now let's uh vote to approve this recommendation all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries 5-0 thank you dr terrell now 4.02 is tech textbook and resource adoption mr hartman this evening okay thank you mr harvey your recommendation to prove the textbook or resource adoption for the use beginning in 2021 2022 do we have a motion to approve so moved second moved by mr babjack a second by mr hoffman any questions or comments from mr hartman mr hartman any issue with the prior way we were approaching that or just so this uh this program is uh will lend itself to a more explicit and systematic uh differentiated uh
013programming uh that we think we needed to uh enhance the reading instruction of our students thank you any questions if not all those in favor signify by saying hi all right opposed motion carries 5-0 if i pause for one second i wanted to go back to mr hoffman made a comment i think it's worth noting that this um the mass were given the board responsibility to make a decision on that as well as that could did you say that the contact racing will also be part of a board action or with that i believe that's how it will end up right now that's there's kind of differing opinions but that's how it reads is that that will be a board's decision as well so i think that i just want to highlight mr hoffman saying
014that made perfect sense because that typically would not be something i believe that we would take vote on you would just pass along the information as an item and move forward yes okay good point all right thank you and move to 4.03 is the purchase of the k-5 learning agency license mr hartman yes thank you again uh this is a renewal we've been we've had learning a to z for a few years and our our term had had run out so this is a three year we have replaced though we did remove one aspect because we were bringing in the amplify um resource so we're not we're not doing a full-scale renewal we are renewing the raz kids which is an individual differentiated reading supplement for our students as well as the vocabulary a to
015z that we've had the cost of this is approximately ninety thousand dollars and there is a discount uh being in a three year term uh as far as uh with this renewal uh this person's purchase would be made from the education fund seeking your approval tonight to make that purchase since it is in excess of the amount of seventy five thousand dollars hey ms hartman you for the recommendation to prove the purchase of a three-year digital license for the k-5 resource learning a disease ras kids and vocabulary a to z for eighty nine thousand two hundred forty eight dollars and forty six cents do we have a motion to approve so a second uh moved by mr angel in second by mr hoffman the uh any questions or comments from mr harvey i want to
016make one comment for people to note that we're able to negotiate a 50 000 discount on that purchase so that's a substantial savings thank you mr harding for that as well any other question or comment if not all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed that motion carries five zero and then we're on to 4.04 purchase amp flight core knowledge language arts skills mr hartman yes thank you as you adopted the approved the adoption of the resource this item is to purchase the ckla this is for a six-year six-year term uh and the uh the total cost as you can see there's approximately 536 thousand dollars from the education fund it currently the terms are currently under review by legal uh and um asking you to approve this tonight pending uh the legal
017approval of the terms of the contract with amplify thank you mr hartman here's the recommendation to approve the purchase of amplified core knowledge language arts skills resource for gates grades cage or two at five hundred thirty six thousand two hundred seven dollars and 44 cents do we have a motion to approve remove to approve subject to review by legal second motion by mr hoffman and second by mr smith questions or comments on this topic from mr harmon this item not all those in favor signify by saying aye all right a post motion carries five zero we have 4.05 the nwea northwest assessment association back to mr harvard um we have been using renaissance learning star reading star math star early literacy for as long as i can i've been here in recent years the state
018of indiana has been approving interim assessments such as what star is and progress monitoring in the last two years a renaissance was not approved we were under contract with renaissance during that period of time so we did stay with uh with renaissance during that time renaissance learning did decrease their cost to match what you would receive from the additional funding that comes from the formative assessment grant so we we ended that contract this this year so that allowed us to look beyond that to formative assessment opportunities that the state did approve and what does that mean it means that the money that is going to be used to purchase this 100 almost 100 thousand dollars that will be reimbursed by the formative assessment grant in approximately that same amount so we would pay for it
019and then we would reimburse based on the on the grant nwa is a nationally known uh assessment system on we're excited about uh moving forward with nwa it's going to give us much much and maybe even more of what we had with renaissance so this evening we're seeking your approval since it is over 75 000 to uh to purchase uh the nwea uh system and this is a one year this is a one year purchase uh and again the formative assessment grant uh will offset the most of the cost of this and anticipate that as long as the state continues to fund it that way it would continue in that in that way every year seeking your approval tonight to purchase nwa thank you miss harvey for the recommendation approved the purchase of nwea for
020a one hundred thousand dollar one hundred thousand one hundred dollars for k-10 screening and progress monitoring and do we have motion to approve so move second moved by mr babjack in second by mr hoffman of any questions or comments on this item now we'll take vote all those in favor signify by saying i i opposed that motion carries 5-0 and 4.06 is the purchase of inspire science mcgraw-hill education mr hartman yes again thank you this is a purchase of a science program it's been about seven years since we actually did renew our science programming uh so this is inspire science published by mcgraw-hill total cost over the course of six years is 515 000. this would be paid for from the rainy day fund and then reimbursed through textbook rental and supply fees over the
021course of the next four years to to recover that that cost seeking your approval tonight to to purchase this you did adopt it at the last meeting as a resource for k-5 science thank you mr hartman you heard the recommendation to prove the purchase of the k-5 resource inspired science published by mcgraw-hill education for 732.52 we have a motion to approve second moved by mr angel and second by mr hoffman questions or comments from mr hartman on this item mr hartman i see that to 515 and it adds a little thing in there that free materials at 211 dollars yes that's part of the deal agreeing with that that's correct yes they can throw that in kind of yeah okay right thank you yes any questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying
022aye aye opposed motion carries 5-0 we have 4.07 the textbook rental and supplies fees for the 2021 2022 school year mr hartman i think you broke a record with seven straight yeah i think so uh last meeting uh you approved a kind of a partial tbr textbook rental supply fee so that we could begin the purchase at our schools of materials so this is going to complete the tbr as you can see presented to you tonight you have the elementary school textbook rental supply fees because of the opportunities that we have to purchase outright materials we work hard to maintain a tbr at the elementary school that's under 200 as you can see here that we have if you look at the his history where actually this was a pretty good year based on a
023textbook rental supply fees at the middle level you can see that there was a little bit of an increase and uh overall for the textbook rental supply fees but not exorbitant and then at the high school it's very challenging to try to predict what a textbook rental and supply fee would be for a student because it's based on the courses that they take but we do scrutinize and we do monitor the costs of each course that students might be taking also you have the exceptional education we try to align that with what a student would pay at a grade level so that the special education costs and the uh the the the cost to uh to to other students would be a comparable so seeking your approval tonight for the one twenty 2021-22 textbook rental
024and supply fees mr hartman heard the recommendation for the administration to approve the textbook rental supply fees for 2021-22 at the elementary middle school and high school and exceptional education we have a motion to approve move to approve those fees as presented second by mr hoffman and second by mr babjack any questions or comments on tbr just a comment we always have a stock department mr hart and has recommended that we try to keep that at 200 some cases just can't quite with costs and expenses but we do keep parents and taxpayers in mind trying to keep those fees as limited as possible we'd like to thank mr hartman our financial staff and team behind the scenes trying to keep those as limited as possible when we get into that procedure of costs and associated
025costs enrolling for schools i'd comment also that because of the our our abilities as far as maintaining expenditures to be able to make purchases to help do that and pay it outright is really a blessing to the corporation and to our parents but that's because of planning that's because of things that have happened over the course of the last few years and so i think it's good to to know that uh because we're we budget well we're able to do some of these things that uh benefit our parents yeah we just don't throw it out there's a fee we try to make sure it's manageable and what it should be based on the cost that we absorb through state funding and budget cost question awareness absolutely thank you thank you any other questions or comments
026mr hartman if not all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye opposed motion carries 5-0 thank you for all your items mr hartman then we'll move to 4.08 the new middle school bid package number one miss dolly thank you now it's my turn to go one over one after another this is the first bid package for the new taft middle school that we planned to locate within winfield essentially if you read the within the recommendation it became a need identified to split up the site work from the actual physical construction of the site in order to address supply structural steel i know has been a challenge mr kutzeros if you want to add you certainly can come up to the microphone as well if you want to add on essentially this is the
027first bit as part of that project we have a hearing forthcoming with the town of winfield so we're doing things sort of parallel in order to maintain that timeline that we have internally to open this school in august of 2023 so this particular part is the the site work as i as i mentioned and this includes the sorry the site work utilities the concrete and foundations as well as the structural steel so the total amount on this was three 17.331 four forty the administration would recommend approval of contracts for the new school new middle school bid package one for site work utilities to grimmer construction in the amount of 7.56 million dollars for concrete foundations to larson danielson and the amount of two point eight six three million dollars and for structural steel to scott
028steele services and the amount of six million nine hundred and eight thousand two hundred dollars these were all bid uh and opened in accordance with the public works purchasing law thank you miss donnie for that recommendation i i feel as if on this one i should repeat it back to the board you've heard the recommendation administration to approval of contracts for the new middle school bid package number one for site work utilities to grimmer construction the amount of seven million five hundred sixty thousand for concrete foundations to larson danielson amount of two million eight hundred sixty three thousand and for structural steel to scott steel services amount of six million nine hundred eight thousand two hundred dollars now do we have a motion to approve so is it 200 or 400 400 even right there
029there is a discrepancy between what's typed in the recommendation and the spreadsheet it should be 400. thank you on the scott steel services yes six million nine nine hundred eight thousand four hundred dollars not two hundred thank you so much uh change to the 400 not the 200 as listed second moved by mr angel and second by mr babjack and then uh do we have any questions or comments for maybe ms dowling or let's say dion is here to diaz smith measures would like to thank skillman for their help in this but go ahead well can i answer any questions first off the only name i don't the name i don't recognize here is scott steel services and i'm sure you've had plenty of experience with them in the past i have they typically bid
030some of the larger projects but what i'll say is and that's a great example um okay two things if you look at the bid tab if you look at the number two structural steel contractor the difference between scott steel and the number two is 20 approximately 25 000 which is just incredible on 6.9 million dollars worth of work i'll also say if you look at the site work package on seven and a half little over seven and a half million dollars worth of work the difference between the one and two was ten thousand dollars so that's just a great understanding of the documents and the scope of work required um scott steele we actually worked with them when we did the crown point library when steel's being fabricated it's not uncommon for a structural steel
031contractor especially in these times to try to lock in the pricing for them to start you know requesting payment sooner as long as we can verify that fabrication is taking place nice thing is as soon as i leave mr malaski's office i can go a few blocks down the road to scott steel services who's located on summit and verify that their materials are in place so they are a crown point contractor very big qualified to do the project so we're excited to have them and just knowing it without any prior knowledge they attend conflict schools so correct just happens to work out that way but to be the fact that we're using a local company with ties in the community just even adds more to the fact that we're able to do that and having
032conversations with their owner they did indicate that there are several iron workers that live within the community too that will be working on the project so that's exciting i will point out that um you know assuming this moves forward then we're originally going to like tomorrow we'll go ahead and issue notice to proceed in corresponding contracts we intended on originally starting the week of the 12th we adjusted the schedule by two weeks mainly because we know we have to meet with the town on july for the public hearing not knowing what some of their requests or requirements are going to be we just need to create a little cushion in there now that doesn't mean that construction is not happening behind the scenes what i mean by that is although they're not may not be
033equipment on the site it still gives us time to submit submittals so we could start procuring structural steel structural steel is a great example it used to take eight to twelve weeks to get now in some cases it's up to 36 weeks in this case we're anticipating approximately 20 weeks we'll see structural sites so sometime in december i just i'm sitting here talking about the structural steel and i have to remind everyone that when we built the elementary school in winfield jerry ross the steel was ordered before we knew we were going to build the school because of that timeline so very similar to the learning center back in 2014. so we anticipate the middle to end of july having a great photo op for the turning the first shovels over of dirt and doing
034all that good stuff right i certainly hope so depending on how the meeting goes july 8th as long as we have some cooperation from the town that's certainly the goal we schedule that day let it dry out a little bit absolutely just i will say that the next package associated which is basically the rest of the building that will come out in the end of august and then we'll receive bids and then come to you come to the board in late september in an effort to start that portion of work in october so this is one great milestone of several to come dion do you do you see any benefit in having uh attendance of one or more board members at that meeting with the town of winfield may not hurt especially if some especially
035if someone happens to live in the town of winfield glad to attack we have sort of a re reset plan i don't know what we want to call it tomorrow meeting to discuss preparation for that july 8th so i imagine dr terrell will have a lot more information after tomorrow afternoon when we consult as we plan for this july 8th hearing it'll be a thursday correct yes it's a thursday where do we stand with permit fees with the town of winfield that's a great question that's part of the meeting that's part of the meeting we don't want to show our hand yet some of the there are some tbds some unknowns that kind of continue to get added to the conversation from the top thank you for the information being available to ask questions and
036answer questions this evening do we have any other questions before we move forward okay thank you i'll see something at the baseball fields this weekend see you there so all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed that motion carries 5-0 and 4.09 transportation software renewal ms dowling thank you mr president um our transportation department at the recommendation of mrs uh ms karentoth we currently use utilize synovia solutions and we use this for the time and attendance of our drivers uh gives us our ability to track buses analyze routes student ridership um so on and so forth so ms toad has recommended that we re-up if you will with synovia solutions that cost is 32.50 per unit per month currently 84 buses in our fleet generally we add about two buses per year to
037accommodate growth in our routes and expansion of our extracurricular activities some so that we have enough buses to for all of our students this expense is budgeted does come out of the operations fund with that the administration would recommend ratification and approval of the five-year agreement with synovia solutions for our transportation software at a per unit cost of 32.50 per month thank you miss dowling you've heard the recommendation as presented we have a motion to approve so moved second moved by mr smick at smith and second by mr babjack any questions or comments from ms dowling on this synovial solutions for transportation the only good time i'm sorry there's there's a paragraph here that talks about the challenges with their software and not uh implementing that until those issues have been resolved can you explain
038that so there is a an addition for global positioning with the school buses that is advanced beyond the regular routing and the and the mapping that goes with it um miss toth is not there's some bugs uh and so this isn't something we're using currently i make that notation because she wants it to be utilized when it's operating which is why she asks for a term clause if they don't work it out but it's a new feature to the software this would get into being able to automatically bill for medicaid for students with special needs that utilize transportation it's a whole new advancement and they are the only one that has it on the market right now at all but miss toth wanted to work through those things beforehand but that's why it's included in
039the 3250 it is okay i was just going to note the same thing that um thankful for ms stove to pay attention to those details those contractual obligations and i think it's important for all of our department heads and individuals to push on those issues to give the corporation flexibility so grateful for that any other comments if not all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye opposed motion carries five 5-0 and uh 4.10 school-based therapy services contract milestone therapy is ms dowling thank you mr president uh school corporation has worked with milestone therapies the last several years to provide physical therapy services to our students in the district who have special needs and physical therapy service requirements as part of their ip this agreement is similar to what we have had in prior
040years the essential two changes our we are are we are asking for an additional number of hours per month to accommodate additional needs within our our student population here as well as a dollar fifty per hour increase for the physical therapist and or the physical therapy assistant um notation i would make generally eighty percent of the services are done by a physical therapy assistant 20 are the oversight of that physical therapist but we need approval because we have to budget it on a little worst case scenario if you will so that is why you see the maximum that would be if it was 100 percent of a physical therapist and the anticipation is based on the 80 20 that i just shared with you so this contract we believe will fulfill our requirements through the
041end of the 21 22 school year the administration would recommend approval of the school-based therapy services contract with milestone therapies for a physical therapist and an hourly rate of 76.50 a physical therapy assistant at an hourly rate of 66.50 not to exceed 127 hours monthly thank you mr for the recommendation to approve the school-based therapy service contract with milestone as presented by ms dowling we have a motion to approve second moved by mr hoffman and second by mr smith any questions or comments on this school-based therapy item if not all those in favor signify by saying aye hi opposed that motion carries 5-0 then we have uh 4.11 property settlement agreement ms dowling thank you mr president this is associated with the site of a new taft middle school attorney zick worked with ej farms
042on this essentially ej farms had already begun their prep prep fertilization etc of the 98-acre site attorney zick worked with the gentleman from ej farms to come up and identify his costs she also has someone in her attorney bag of tricks as i refer to it as to consult that that sounds like reasonable and customary fees associated with getting your land prep to farm and essentially ej farms is requesting 14 031.55 cents essentially to make themselves whole for work they did on the land before they were aware that we were going to be building if you'll recall this land was part of a non-written agreement for farming that predated i think most of us and so this is uh sort of the result of not having some of that reduced to writing this is reimbursable
043as part of the bond issue so we would settle this uh ej farms would have no further claim and essentially we would reimburse the rainy day fund once we sell the bonds this will be part of that initial five million dollar appropriation we did to offset when we issue bonds um so this has all been prepared and reviewed by attorney zick we would recommend approval of the waiver and release agreement with ej farms an authorized payment of a settlement fee in the amount of fourteen thousand thirty one dollars and fifty five cents uh thank you mr you've heard the recommendation to prove the waiver and release agreement with dj farms and authorizes payment of a settlement fee in the amount of fourteen thousand thirty one dollars and fifty five cents do we have a motion
044to approve this uh agreement moved by mr angel and second by mr hoffman about any questions or comments miss downing before we vote having a little bit of farming experience and reviewing the itemized listing of the expenses it doesn't take much to start incurring significant costs in farming thank you mr hoffman and i i i when i when i read this myself i i just thought that there's a lot going on with when we could formally approve things that take place for anyone that would question how this may you know potentially slip through the cracks and um yes it'll make one of the comments a lot of times if you if you anticipate farming this except the following year this work could have been some of this could have been done in the fall it
045was oh good yeah if you'll recall when we had those conversations late last year about the different sites no matter which site it was going to be both of them had significant work that was already in place from the farmer to prepare so at that time one of the things that we noted was we wanted to make sure that the farmer whichever plot we went with was not going to be out anything and we wanted to make sure that we did what we what we should do to help that relationship be positive as we move forward i wouldn't be abstaining from this vote due to potential conflict i understand all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye opposed motion carries 4-0 and mr smith will abstain vote on this item 4.12 underwriting agreement
046for the 2021 bond sale ms dowling thank you mr president um as you all know we've gone through the lengthy process of petition referendum uh you've signed a zillion bond uh resolutions nothing associated with that and so now we're getting to the point where we are ready to issue bonds in response to an increase in the interest rate in the market we're also ready to wait wait it out as long as we can from a cash flow perspective to save that capitalized interest if you remember dr terrell mentioned 750 000 every 30 days we wait we defray an interest cost so this essentially is the next step uh did some research in collaboration with baker tilly uh who is our financial advan finance advisors also speaking to raymond james having a negotiated sale is to
047our benefit and is more common in large-scale bond issues such as this this essentially is an underwriting agreement with raymond james for them to be the underwriter for the bond sale that will happen at some point in the future i would say we're looking now fall to early 2022 depending on the market and cash flow so this has been reviewed uh by attorney zick i did speak with her today about it she didn't have concerns it's also been approved by our bond finance bond finance advisors at baker tilley as well as ice miller who handles our bond finance so the administration would recommend approval of the underwriting agreement with raymond james for underwriting services for the upcoming renovation bonds and i do have in there subject to attorney review and revision which it doesn't appear
048there's any at this time thank you mr for the recommendation to approve the underwriting agreement with raymond james for underwriting services for the upcoming renovation bonds subject to attorney review and revision we have motion to approve so move moved by mr hoffman have a second second uh second by mr babjack any questions or comments from miss dowling on the underwriting agreement i would just make the comment that the person working with us through raymond james has a significant contact with this school corporation as a resident of crown point and i i think that it's probably in everybody's best interest any other questions or comments if not all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries 5-0 thank you thank you ms dowling we go to item five discussion report items 5.01 policy
049revisions additions and deletions the first reading mr g and fermi uh thank you mr president in your board packets mr akiwa has provided you with the annual neola board policy updates and revisions updates include new state and federal law as well as revisions to existing board policy in addition to neola resource we utilize the policy advisor from isba and the policies presented in the summary before you are from volume 33 number two of that resource this policy information has been provided to you for mr akiwa for a first reading to prepare for further discussion any questions or concerns thank you mr g and fermi does anybody have any questions or that they'd like to ask before moving forward thank you item six information either we have superintendent discussion groups oh i'm sorry uh yeah mr
050angel do you have something that you really do oh just uh i know there was some late arrivals to the meeting and the open comment section has passed but i don't know if any of you individuals had anything to speak about regarding some of the agenda items tonight oh i just want to make sure because we don't want people attending and not an opportunity to speak if it's regarding something on the agenda thank you okay and mr angel thank you for bringing that to our attention thank not the first you uh no no just information there this evening then moving to uh the superintendent discussion groups um you know any information i guess you know brian cedar lake when cedar there's some development going on down around the plaza area which doesn't affect our school
051corporation um that's centrally where it's focused and so no there's there's nothing going on that impacts us a great deal and uh how about winfield or crown point mr hoffman nothing really happening with winfield crown point is getting ready there association board of directors indiana school boards has a program called oh thank you exemplary governance awards and this used to be what was the old name that another it's basically it's it's continuing education for school board members and you accumulate points or credits for the different conferences that you attend and crown point community school corporation was presented a an exemplary governance award we've got a nice plaque here and it lists the names of each of the current school board members on the plaque and we will continue to do our follow-up to try and
052maintain our status as reasonably well-informed school board members so that we can adequately represent our community thank you i'll give this back to dr terrell and he can find a location appreciate all of your display uh let's move on to chief academic officer mr heart would you like to go first this evening yeah i will thank you thank you mr warren you don't get any more time tonight okay uh back to your uh question at the beginning of the meeting when we were with personnel uh when you asked about this uh specialist positions that we've added we know that uh for crown point schools this is new so mark and sabrina and heather and i have been working to kind of bring these people into the curriculum instruction department we have a kickoff scheduled on
053july the 8th and uh we want this to we want to work with our specialists we have some experience in that group as well as of course new ones that are coming on and we think it's uh vitally important for uh for for them to have training so we are also exploring training as far as coaching training for our uh instructional specialists we're looking at uh opportunities for them to continue to develop their instructional strategies the content area that they that they'll be supporting teachers in because we really want to help them to be successful but it does take planning it does take additional training on their parts because they need to be a step ahead of those that they are coaching those that are they are working with within our within our classrooms so
054this is again it's an exciting time uh to add these uh these uh this staff to our corporation uh but at the same time we want to really help them to be successful and we begin that kick that we kick that off because their contract technically kind of begins july 1. so july 8th we'll have them coming in and uh and initiating uh that work that they'll be doing so thank you thank you mr chairman director of elementary education mr ramirez thank you mr president and school board members i would just like to thank our teachers and building principals and staff in terms of their completion of a successful summer session one where we had students coming in and engaging in both academic as well as social kind of opportunities as we will transition back
055into the school year just want to thank the teachers for their ongoing dedication as you approve several curricular resources today we will have upcoming professional development to support successful implementation to make sure that we have effective teaching and learning in our classrooms and so i just thank them and thank you for your support to keep our students engaged and really working in learning environments that allow them to thrive and allow them to really grow on an individual basis director of secondary education mr gene fermi uh just one item to add um last tuesday i attended mayor duran's state of the city address event in support of two of our seniors who were being recognized or graduating seniors or being recognized that night francesca hernandez and azam atief were being recognized for their outstanding community service
056and received 5 500 scholarships that night and then the kids and their parents were really excited to be at that event and just want to thank mayor anne and his staff for including us and thinking of the the kids and the school corporation for that event it was a real nice event for them thank you mr g for me thank you for attending on our behalf too chief financial officer ms dowling thank you mr president um to go back just for a minute to tbr um to mr angel's comments and to mr hardman in the secondary area just for everybody's benefits very difficult to keep it under a certain number because of the birth you know there's such a wide array of offering which i know isn't very important to us for the student experience
057but in that k-5 keeping it under 200 there's a significant number of resources that we're paying for out of the state tuition support uh and we do that and i would say it's fair to say it's probably close to 150 more per student we're offering in resources with the things we're paying for out of the education fund but we're trying to control the cost where we can instead of just passing it along so that is something that mr hardman and i work through every year on the budget we do allocate he knows which things are coming off what's coming on and how we do it and that's what works um and that's not the case in a lot of places i would just say so it's you know direct testament to what we're trying to
058save for our families especially young families where we can um the other thing i would say um to dr terrell the cabinet team the board uh it has been my pleasure to serve here for the last five years and so i thank you for all your support and wish you well in the future thank you miss dally and director of communications ms allen thank you good evening my news is short but exciting the website's finished and that's that um no it finally works on your phone so if you haven't taken a look you could even look right now it's the same address as before but significantly upgraded experience i do have a short well not really that short list of people that i need to thank which includes each person within each building that is
059in charge of the school website so first off brian gill our director of technology it literally could not have happened without his technical expertise because there are things there that i do not know i'm into ann fajman who works in his department as well brent barber and diana bowman at the high school tracy albert at eisenhower kelly tilger at jerry ross amy chollawa and jillian alonso at winfield jennifer harrow timothy ball kevin mcbride at solon angie wells at lake street kim wasserat at macarthur brandy newell at wheeler and kathy alessia at taft they all worked on their school websites brought them up to snuff for wednesday of last week we were on time with everything got to tell you guys that's amazing so i've worked in two other corporations that have tried to go through
060the process of updating their website one of them it took right at two years and the other one was two years plus to get this done and if i can remind you brooke came on board october and was given this charge in sometime in november and she thought it was kind of a joke at first and it wasn't a joke she jumped in and took after it and did a great job with it so thank you brooke i have a question for miss dowling can we afford to buy our director of communications and nameplate i think that's mrs green's it's a supply and it's budgeted sir that's all he can do so we're gonna we're gonna blame it on supplies when this certain board member tries to log on on a sunday afternoon to get
061in i see a different picture on the corporate website we start to freak out because my technological skills are very limited so i send a text to board members saying can anybody else get in they said oh yeah it worked fine but you play around just enough and you learn that you got to load it log into board docs to get the current meeting to pull up and figure it out that's trouble when you're trying to watch the eight-hole playoff that was going on in the golf match but thank you because yes it is such a difference so thank you for all you've done brooke in your short time here and i'm sure not just because from our board perspective but from a community perspective they will be uh very happy with the end result
062so thank you it just occurred to me brook doesn't have a name plate because normally there's an enough room that's just over here that's why there were people mr keyon mrs gone that's why well the other part too was that we weren't gonna have it so that she had to give a report every board meeting um as one of her prerequisites to accepting the job but then it was requested on a regular basis so i said hey you know what just i have to move on with it and make it work so now i'm stuck we'll work on that yes thank you and then uh superintendent schools dr terrell so i just want to thank all of uh those in our corporation who are working through all of our summer work projects that are typical
063the painting the carpet cleaning mics crew is doing a great job with that throughout and that's going on at the same time that we have all of these building projects going on and mr g and fermi has really worked diligently with our principals and our building leaders our teachers to get the information back to both gibraltar and skillman to help them be where they need to be to keep us on track with our building projects and the amount of work that we're getting done during this time is just amazing it when you look at how that's all coming together so i want to thank them for their continued work as we look at all the things that are happening this summer and here within our building it seems like it's even more busy at this
064time than it is with other stuff just because we're trying to get all of those things in place to be ready when the school year is ready to kick off so it's amazing it's already the fourth of july weekend coming up but it's going to be even more amazing that we'll be opening school here before you know it so as a resident of winfield and with 100 nights to be closed i have to get on i-65 every day so i tell anybody out in the community that hasn't been by woodfield elementary in the last six months if you're bored or whatever the case may be to take a drive by there because you will not recognize that facility at all it is so impressive on where it is today from where it was three months
065ago you had six a month months ago you had a year ago and it'll be wonderful for those students and it's just a testament to everything that's done behind the scenes here in crown point when you know a need is needed to where we need to increase the size of that facility increase the facilities themselves to make it an educational process and facility that we're willing to do that to the level we're doing it so thank you to dion and his company to mike malaski and his crew for making it work because i was in that school twice during events while they were doing construction while kids were attending school and god bless everybody involved in there because it was chaos but yet we made it work so that's just a testament to everybody involved
066in the project and timothy ball and macarthur hang on because it's coming right that's right what item seven uh other business of the board do we have any any business uh past future current they would like to discuss i don't think so be quiet i would like to just comment on uh hopefully what's going to be a future recommendation for mask utilization in our schools um going without them looking forward to hearing what the final who has the final say in that and hopefully we'll be voting on that in a month so that was good to hear as i started thinking about um you know some of the things that we were dealing with last year and the terminology and the processes we had placed we are all reminded of the red red yellow green
067is that terminology done with and will we be looking at a new perhaps a new back to school plan with different wording different categories that type of thing we'll wait and see what is needed right now our intention is that school year will be the beginning of a school year just like normal and our hope and desire is that we don't have to have any of those color codes going on but at the same time if if something were to take place we will make those adjustments as we need to and respond appropriately moving forward glad to hear it because i just assumed not ever see the the red yellow green again so excellent i think we would all concur anybody else anything that we let's move forward to board statements of appreciation we can
068start with mr smith yeah thank you david last month i think we encouraged all you to give some time away and it looks like by looking around the room that we've done a good job of that you know everybody's tan and looks like we're not lacking vitamins there's no deficiencies going on now so it's a good thing but um i just i just have katie i just want to say thank you for your service and what a joy it's been to serve with you and appreciate all your efforts and you left our school corporation in a great financial condition and um you know believe it or not you can actually develop friendships while you're a board member with your administrators and i cherish our friendship both professionally and personally so thank you for all you
069do it's hard for agencies tough hate losing you but we wish you the best and i want you to know that you always have friends here with us so thank you katy well said um i i'd like to uh just give a brief mention to coach bazia and his staff they have been running a network of summer camps for the for the kids of all ages throughout the community i think it's kindergarten all the way through what he's doing with his high school teams and um you know i show up for the last five minutes of camp and i just see the energy that all the coaches are bringing and it's it's phenomenal so a lot of positive positive um feedback from the community coming coming from the staff that has been put together uh
070perhaps a little bit of fear in some of the surrounding communities as well when it comes to football in the future so that's what i wanted to recognize tonight i don't know if it was just the day that the t-shirts were handed out but i was coming from north as in maryville i saw these new t-shirts uh unleashed dogs i had went to home depot on 30. another kid walks out i stopped at chick-fil-a and while in the line i saw another one going for food and then i came into crown point this is really stressing five different stops on my way home i saw kids wearing the uh the workout t-shirts well i got two of them in my house it was funny yeah they're doing a good job uh anything else miss your
071baby that's it mr hoffman i have nothing further mr angel uh so to all involved with putting on the high school graduation um as most know sometimes as bad as covid was it kind of gives you ideas that make things wonder why don't we do it this way before and that's high school graduation in my opinion a year ago we were able to pull it off with covet kind of in full force so to speak in june and rearrange the way we did graduation at the football field with all the students see down the football field parents on both sides that worked out really well on this year i mean what a testament to be able to pass that along to the graduates as a tribute that i'm graduating high school and every word i've
072heard on the community in the streets and everywhere i go in in the town um it's all positive and it was just a wonderful event i mean the evening played out perfectly temperatures were a little warm but not too badly just enough breeze and here's the other thing when somebody figures that you can run through 720 graduates graduates in an hour and 31 minutes which speech is included i mean that's just flat out amazing man that's like the biggest compliment you get is wow you guys didn't waste no time there was no dilly dallying around and that's my kids will tell you since day one that's my favorite word don't dilly dally and anything you do just get to it and get it done so uh tribute to russ and everybody involved to high school
073because there's so many involved in that whole entire process so uh i want to make sure all of them get mentioned by him on that but what a great night yep that's all i have tonight that's good thank you mr angel uh i had a combination for or mentioned cp golfer ray filter he finished fourth in the state out of i i believe what i heard was there are 1825 golfers that start out the state tournament and he finished fourth and i'm not mistaken and sectionals yes it's a right number it's start to start sectionals and if um from what i was told it's probably the highest state ranked golfer that we have crown point have had i'm sure that could be no i think that's accurate fourth slice finish yeah fourth place fourth place
074finish as a sophomore and a bright future ahead of himself um congratulations to ray filter uh i don't have anything else anybody just any last thoughts that we may have missed to sum up this evening not motion to adjourn so move sorry about mr angel seconded by mr hoffman all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed most carries five zero [Music]