001We almost said it. They were in a different shirt. Okay. All right. We will call this meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. If everyone would like to join us in the pledge, please stand now. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Are there any amendments to the agenda this evening? Uh, Mrs. Chair, we have none to request. Thank you. All right. Moving right along. Next item on the agenda is community input. And I do not see anyone in our audience for community input. So, we'll move right along to quarterly report on the schoolboard goals. Dr. Schaefer. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, uh, we'll update the board, uh, tonight, uh, on
002the quarterly goals, which include district operations, district finance, and district, um, educational goals. I I incorrectly put in there operations goals twice, but are it is our educational goals. Um, the operations goal, uh, just a reminder, was to implement our FMX software. Um, and that's now at about 95% complete. We've made really good progress here uh through the springtime. Um, the FMX team came in and they completed their on-site work which included tagging all of our equipment with QR codes. They scanned those into our software, uploaded the inventory into the software that way. Uh, the building mapping is also operational uh with north most of south a little bit left due to construction. middle school and the new classrooms at the high school are now loaded in as far as mapping. Uh the remaining work
003uh to do then is to add obviously the remaining mapping from South Elementary and the high school due to construction and they they've made really great progress uh spring and summer on that. Uh the other part of the operations goal was to conduct an updated demographic study. uh that is underway uh with our enrollment data already sent to McKibben uh dem uh demography who's doing the study. Uh that study will be completed in late October uh after we finish our membership report uh which is taken in October at the first but then there's a couple week cleanup period after that. So it'll be mid to late October when they can uh finalize it and we are planning to have a board presentation then on the updated study uh at the November regular school board meeting.
004uh some uh probably Jerry McKibben from McKibben uh demography will be here to present that on the finance goal. Uh that is still ongoing uh with our current building projects and master campus plan making good progress. Uh the projects are within scope and budget uh as we heard at the June board meeting. Uh the debt service rate adjustment which is another part of the goal to 80 cents uh was on track until uh recent legislation changed uh that which affect affected our assessed valuation uh and that changed the trajectory of how we'll need to manage the debt service uh and our operations rates and levies moving forward. So uh we met this past week uh with the professionals at policy analytics uh to learn more about this impact. they're developing models and and learning and
005and putting that out as as they get uh their heads around it. Um so beginning in 2026, uh taxpayers will begin to receive uh increased tax deductions. Uh the standard flat dollar amount deduction will go away, which is our our basic deduction that we get on on mortgage uh mortgages um or on your taxes, I should say. Um, and the supplemental percentagebased deduction will begin to increase over a 6-year period to a full rate of a 66% deduction. So, that's quite a bit more deduction over time than what we currently receive. So, additionally, taxpayers will receive a tax credit in the amount of the lesser of 10% uh or $300 of their tax bill. And I don't know that through the legislative session that's been maybe conveyed always accurately. So if for example, let's say
006you had a 200,000 or a $2,000 tax bill after deductions and everything, you're going to get 10% of that. So you get a $200 tax credit, not a $300 because most the way that was uh um communicated was it would be a $300 tax credit. Well, it's the lesser of 10% or $300. So, if you have a $4,000 tax bill, you're going to get a $300 credit. You'll max it out, but it doesn't go above that. Is that percel or just on your house? Um, no. Is that I think that's probably just on your house. I believe. Yeah. I'd have to check to make sure to confirm that though because your your other other parcels would fall into the 33% I would think. Yeah, I think it's just for your residential properties. Um, additionally, there's
007a 2% circuit breaker properties, as I just mentioned, will now receive a 33% deduction, which those have received no deduction before. So, they'll get a 33% deduction moving forward. And uh, personal property tax will be reduced beginning in 2028. That that piece is a couple years down the road. Um but you put all those together that's quite a bit of tax deduction which means quite a bit of reduced revenue then for the for the municipalities. Um the full effect of those changes then are going to result in lower assessed valuations of property which going to make it very difficult if not impossible um to meet levy demand necessary to make debt service obligation payments while also working to lower tax rates. Uh, in other words, when those when AV is going down, it's hard to
008also decrease tax rates with that and still bring in the money you need to to bring in to pay your um pay your obligations, particularly in debt service. Um, so even but even without lowering the tax rates, taxpayers will begin to see property tax relief. So, if we're not able to lower our tax rate as we had hoped to do, taxpayers are still going to see a deduction in what they're paying because either AV is going to, you know, grow much more slowly than it's been growing because of those deductions or it's going to drop. It's going to depend on the community a little bit and on the year um but we're going to see a difference in that AV. So, but until the new AV is calculated by the county for 2026 using a
009new system, and they're they're learning, too, because I'm sure it's a lot of changes for them, it will not be entirely clear how those rates will be fully affected. Uh, and this will likely be sometime in September um as we receive 2026 AV numbers, but in the meantime, we're studying the effects of the operations to the operations fund levy and budget. Uh, and I can tell you this will lead to reduced budgets for operations and we're beginning to work through potential budget reduction areas within the operations fund. Uh, proportionately there's not much in the operations fund that we would consider to be discretionary. Uh, the reason is is you're paying transportation out of there. You're paying uh any of your your maintenance costs, your utilities, your insurance, um custodial. you're you're paying all those things
010out which takes a significant portion of the operations to pay that. There is some left probably in the I'll say in a range of $2 to $300,000 that we would consider to be somewhat discretionary. Um so we're working through all that and then also looking at what it will take to you know make that budget because we'll we'll have to do that. Um as I said much of the fund is dedicated to salaries, insurance, utilities, transportation costs. Uh so we're working all through all those with a fine tooth comb uh to figure out how we reduce the discretionary funding. Um we'll have a better idea I think within the next month and be able to have a more informed discussion with the board while we wait for the fall AV values for 2026 to come
011in. Again statutoil supposed to be in in August. Last couple years we haven't gotten them until at least September. We think with the changes it'll probably be at least that before we can really see what will those assessed valuation numbers do in 2026. If they remain a little higher than the state average, which they typically have, that will help us from a revenue standpoint uh for 2026, but we'll have to wait and see. Um the education goal is also coming along on pace. Uh the career coaching model is being implemented and the and the career coaching team uh will meet again this fall to finalize activities at each grade level that will occur to promote career awareness for our students. And the portrait of a learner skills have been identified. We saw those at the
012June meeting and we'll also be ongoing this fall to identify the learning opportunities to promote and assess those skills as kids move through time here over the next couple of years. So that's a a quick update on the quarterly goals and be happy to answer any questions that you might have. Any questions or comments? So regarding our goal to reduce the debt service rate, are you anticipating that we're going to abandon that goal? Well, it'll be up to the board what you want to do, whether you want to abandon it or not. I I do see there's going to be a need to adjust how we approach that. Um because I think as a district you really just can't lower we could lower our tax rate as AV was going up. When AV stops going
013up because the legislature has made it stop going up. You cannot also lower your tax rate then or you won't bring in enough money to pay your debt service obligations and your operations including future debt. Right. Good. Yes. I guess that's where having read this, I get a little concerned of what we approved at the June board meeting and then hearing this this month that hearing that we could potentially be at risk of not meeting our debt service obligations. Um, and then hearing that there's so little discretionary spending within the operations budget, but yet spending seems to be spend spend spent. And it just seems like during such a challenging time, you would certainly want to be making every effort to conserve and rather than continue to spend it just seems to be a little
014um contradicting to each other. Sure. Uh, and we are we are looking at those discretionary pieces now. And you really you really have um a year as we work through to respond to it because our first payments of the new plan won't come until June of 2026. We have some time to work through that. Um, and that's why as we work through the fall here, want to make sure we have a good plan in place. We have some ideas and we think we we can achieve it. Uh what makes this a much more difficult for us um beyond the legislative changes are the fire territory impact as well. And as we met with policy analytics, we took that into account as well. And they just have started to get some numbers for us what that
015begins to look like with all of that put together. Um but remember too, our goal for a long time was to hold our tax rates steady. And if we just do that, if we just hold those tax rates steady, um even if with AV slowing down, and then we think in our communities, you're going to see AV slow down, it it won't be rising like this. Will it drop? We don't know that for sure. I think what we see in the foreseeable future is a slowdown of those AV rates, uh which will allow us to meet our debt service obligations. I think what you can't do though is you can't drop your rate a lot and have AV go down a lot cuz then you don't bring in the funds that you need. So we
016see a strategy that looks probably more like keeping your rates level, you know, not increasing them but keeping those rates level I think can keep us in a good place. But we will still have to make some adjustments and operations which can have some effect too on the education fund as you have transfer back and forth. as we look pull the different levers to try to manage that. We we see a way to do it. Uh but we need to refine that a little bit here over the next month or two. So is there a way for you to give us a a 35,000 foot overview of what that option is at this point? a little early to wait until, you know, I guess it would be nice to hear it more in a fluid
017process as opposed to getting to a point where kind of like when we put the debt service right down to where it is, it was brought to us as either this option or this option, we're the ones that had to ask for the middle in between. And to have again what I would say is better communication along the way about how we're getting there would be helpful in my opinion. Mhm. I would say give us a month. Uh I think it might be helpful too if we have someone like from Stifel come in to kind of help walk everybody through that too to kind of better understand options. Uh cuz they are or steif or policy analytics um to help walk us through that. Um again we're getting some ideas. I think that reducing spending
018is going to be part of that strategy. Um looking at our transfer amounts and things like that will be part of those strategies. uh we'll also then have to begin to look out into 27 and 28 as we because the the incremental reductions on the deductions will increase a little bit in each of those years. Right now on paper there is the um thought of losing our lit revenues in 2028. Um, I I still think there'll be some legislative changes that will happen here in 206 and maybe 27 because I think what's going to happen, I don't think so much in our specific case. But I think there are some districts that this um legislative policy change is going to affect very negatively, maybe more so that was anticipated. So I I could see the
019legislature coming back and making some changes to this in the next year or two as well. But thinking ahead right now, you're thinking we can keep things level and keep our rate the same or not raise the rate. But that's Yeah, I think that's a general strategy. Mhm. I'm glad to hear that rather than going the other way. Yeah. Uh again, we'll, you know, we're going to have Steve will work through a little bit more and do some modeling for us. Um the information we've gotten thus far has been mostly from policy analytics. Um, and again, they're on the forefront of this right now and doing a nice job of of working it all through. Um, but they also won't make decisions for us locally. We'll have to take that information and then think about
020here are some different options and ways to manage uh that change in revenue. And again, I I think I felt better I think after talking with them. Uh, we met I forget what day that was uh maybe Thursday last week. Uh, felt a little bit better after talking with them thinking, okay, we can manage this over time. um you just can't you just may have to we'll have to adjust a little bit how we look at that rate and levy that whole piece and I think everybody in the state's going to have to do the same thing uh because where we've been so focused on rate in the past uh what's going to happen as we move into the future because this whole game has changed people will be a little bit more focused on
021what the actual levy is which is it is a paradigm shift for how we think about that but we didn't none of us created that that change so We'll have to adjust to it and make sure that it works for us locally. But yeah, Mr. Bryant, to answer your question, I think give us a month and I think it might be a a good timing then maybe here and I'm guess around early August to get the board together can have a work session and kind of work through that, look at some options and just kind of as we get a better understanding of it too, begin to lay that out and say here here's some directions we think we can go and get your input and and see what we think is going to work
022best over the next couple of years. That'd be better than I like that alternative, you know, being in the conversation. Yeah, absolutely. Instead of just waiting till the end and we're coming to us. Thanks. Yeah. Sure. Any other questions? Thank you. All right. Next item on the agenda, approval of the June 9, 2025 regular meeting minutes. So, I need a motion to approve the June 9th, 2025 regular board meeting minutes as presented. So moved. Thank you, Mrs. Ward second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Hempil. Any questions or comments? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Oh, sorry, Austin. I'm have to remember that you're You were an I as well. All right. And we'll we'll have about about a second delay, I think, just because of the audio, but we we can't hear you. Okay. All right.
023I will remember that you're not in the room. I apologize. Next item on the agenda, consider approval of financial reports. Mr. Herbert. Thank you, Mr. Cherry. Uh, our June fund balance in property and state tax supported funds uh came to 9,582,696. Education fund had actual expenditures of $1,575,78. Our debt service fund had actual expenditures of $6,556,944. Our operations fund had expenditures of 1,137,674. We transferred 275,000 from the education fund to the operations fund and this brings our transfer for the year uh totaling to 11.22% of the total education fund revenue and 12.16% of the total state tuition support. Uh so I would ask for the board's approval of our June financial reports and happy to answer any questions. So moved. Well, how about you let me ask first motion to approve financial reports as submitted?
024So moved. Thank you, Mr. Bryant. Second. Second. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Comments or questions? I have a couple questions here. um was looking at the appropriations report um given to us this month and went back and looked at the appropriations report from the end of the first quarter that was um printed 47 and then went back and looked at the one that was given to us in January dated 1 nine and on this month's appropriation report on page one of seven underneath the Office of Superintendent. I find two find I think it's two items that weren't there from the January 9th approval of the appropriations report. Um, one is down towards the bottom of page seven has a net appropriation of zero month to date and expenditure of just over 31,000. And then again, that
025line is showing a negative 31,000. Kind of wondering what that is that was spent that wasn't originally appropriated for. I think I know what you're talking about, but I'm trying to find it on because I know there are three different attachments. Is that the next agenda item? Is he talking about the recorderly reports? I believe if the next one that's the appropriations. Okay. Okay. Uh, I will wait for the quarterly reports. You know what's coming? I think I do know the answer to that, but I I just want to see it to make sure. All right. Any other questions on the financial reports? No. All in favor? I. That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, quarterly reports. Mr. Herbert. Thank you, Mrs. Cherry. Uh here as we are halfway through the year uh if
026you just look at dividing the year in half we would have the expectation that our our expenses would be roughly 50%. Uh as we look here at the end of the second quarter we have the education fund either spent or encumbered at 52.46%. And we have the operations fund spent or encumbered at 55.26%. Uh obviously this has to do with uh some timing issues there. Uh and the other part is again I like to mention that uh these are targets that we're shooting for. Uh again these these were budgets that were set back in October. So we don't necessarily have the exact idea of what type of growth we're going to see coming through February. Uh I would also point out if you did look at the June quarterly report attachment uh for a revenue
027side we should be at 49.73% through this time of the year and we're actually at 54.41%. 41%. So even though we do see the expenses up just a tick, the the um the revenue is following right in line with it. Uh so again, this is nothing that we've seen as being unusual. Uh and have no concerns over this uh right now. Uh but that is again the monthly or sorry the quarterly report. Uh be more than happy to answer Mr. Brian's question here in a second or any other questions that the board might have. Motion to approve quarterly report as presented. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Bryant. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Hel. So, as I was getting ahead of us, Mr. Herbert, can I ask a question real quick on our in the documents
028that we can see there's one, two, three. Which do you know which of those? Well, in what order you're looking at? I can't speak to that. I think it's the first one. This is Jerry because I've noticed that it appears that during the first quarter or at the beginning of the year and at this time of year, the appropriations report is presented differently than it is in the April having gone back and looked at the last couple years. You'd have to ask Mr. Herbert why that is. Uh yeah, I know it looks like what they did, they just broke it out. So prior it looks like they had just put it all into Who's they treasurer? She's who runs these reports. So when she no when she prints those reports in the past, I think
029she's done it as one PDF file. As I look through here, it looks like you have one that is just the education fund. You have one that is just the operations fund. And I'm going to assume I'm going to look here real quick. Yeah, the third one is just the uh debt service fund. So that's why you have three separate attachments. They just weren't merged into one file this time. Uh and so I believe you're referencing the operations fund. That appears to be the document with seven pages, correct? And then what what page number did you say? I'm sorry. It's on page says page one of seven. Okay. First page. And it's towards the bottom. Um it has appropriation and it has an expenditure of 31,345.76 near the operation. I can look in this to
030confirm, but I believe what that is is that was our SBOA audit. We had to pay uh the accounting firm to come in and do that. And how they do that is they essentially just take it out of our month out of our payment that they reimbur us. So the tax payment um it would just have I would have to check to make sure that it's in and it could be just it was put into the wrong account number. Not saying that that is the likelihood, but that's why it would be in there like that and that's why it would have shown up because it's not it's a unusual not an unusual I mean it's an expected expense but it's it changes from year to year on how they want us to account for that
031but I will but I will confirm but I'm 95% sure that that was our SBOA audit. That is the same amount that's listed in the next agenda item for the SBA audit. Oh, it is say that's That would be another question I had was um on that same page few lines above that office of superintendent asterric 401 parentheses a and I think that means certified the last part because it was cut off. Um year to date that had a zero appropriation and year to date that's been had an expenditure of $12,190 and change. Again, my question is, is the expenditure being there without it having been on the original appropriation that we approved back in January? And then I don't recall getting an update that again in both those instances, I guess what I'm looking
032at and wondering about is we're asked to approve an appropriations report in January. And then I understand appropriations you move some things around, but it seems like there doesn't seem to be a continuity communication sometimes when large amounts are starting to get moved. Sure. And now what that particular line is for. Yeah, it is exactly what you had said. So what we do is I appropriate uh kind of whole dollar amounts for certain sections and then as we actually make those payments. So that would have been a 401A payment. as we make those payments, we can specifically line those out to the exact line item that they're supposed to go to and then we will adjust the the appropriation. Uh so for that one, I would have to go back and dig and try to
033find exactly where it's coming from, but essentially it would be just moved from one line to the other line. So it's not additional expenses that are outside of what would be expected. It's just where it is appropriated um that we try to keep it a little more condensed. What's I'm sorry. What positions does that cover in the corporation? That would typically be myself, Dr. Schaefer, and Dr. Walker. Um, another question, and again, taking the time that I did to kind of look through this, having to kind of dig through it to get my questions because things caught my eye. Some of the account titles have asterisks and some don't. What's the difference between an a line item that has an asterct and that doesn't? What's that mean to you? Honestly, it's there's no significance to
034the asterk. Uh it could be just the way that it is formatted in our accounting system. Um but there is no there's no rhyme or reason to if there is an asterct, it doesn't mean anything for that specific account. Okay, those are my questions. I guess my last comment would be is that um in my mind it would be no nicer in the past you've had some things notables in the executive content area that uh I think it would be helpful at least to this board member to see an explanation of something that had a zero appropriation and then be such a you know if it's $10,000 more I guess it'd be nice to see an explanation okay of what happened so because the other question I had is that had zero appropriation in um
035from the beginning of the year. Two of those total $4ome,000. Mhm. Where did the money move? What line items did the money move from to get to those items? Sure. Yeah. I mean, and I will I can get that answer for you, but I don't have that off the top of my head. Yeah. Some of that was a little bit of what we talked about back on uh April 14th of April. um called you on the phone and talked to you, but then I never really got an answer to my questions and a followup. So um part of that is in here tonight as follow followup, but um again, if I'm being asked to approve in a a report, then again, I'm going to do my due diligence, make sure I understand. Yep. All right.
036Any other comments or questions? All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, approval of claims. Mr. Herbert. Thank you, Mr. Jerry. Uh, our claims here for the month, we have pre-written claims of 7,30,910.87 and we had traditional claims of 1,242,318.74. Uh that brings our total claims for the month to 8,273,22961. Obviously with this being June, that number is significantly higher than we typically would see in a normal month. Uh because of the debt payments that we make in June and December. Uh so that was roughly the 6.4 million of that total number. Uh which explains why this number is obviously significantly higher than we typically would see. Uh so again would ask for the board's approval of our claims here for the month of June and happy to answer
037any questions. Motion to approve claims is presented. So moved. Thank you Mrs. Ward. Second. Second. Thank you Mr. Bryant. Any comments or questions? I've got a question. I've noticed on this on the accounts payable there's almost three pages worth of Amazon purchases. Who I got two questions go with that. Who who who gets the okay? who who all has the okay to purchase those. Yeah. So, we obviously we buy everything with Amazon. Majority of that is going to be office supplies or different supplies that are needed throughout the district. Uh so really it's going to depend on who it is that is ordering that type that order at that time. Uh so typically for a school one of our buildings what would happen is the treasurers are typically the ones who place those orders. Mhm.
038Uh they are they have u it's run through spinbridge which is our procurement software. Uh so they would place the order uh before they would enter the order and before the order is placed it would then go to the principal for their approval. Uh if it is set and we have it also set that if it's over $500 then it actually has to come to myself for an additional approval as well. But for typically uh and again I didn't I I saw that last month and I added everything together and it was roughly $17,000. I didn't add this month together, but I would assume it's going to be rough about that same amount. So, not that it's a minimal amount, uh, but it is a lot of smaller dollar amount items. And so, typically anything
039on there that's under $500 would require the building approval or it could be a director if you're thinking like operations. So, there is some oversight on that, which I assume there was. My leads in my next question because I mean, Amazon's at my house every day, too. Um, there's times that we get the wrong stuff. I don't know that I've ever really noticed. Maybe there is some stuff that that was ordered wrong. Or do you guys have do you guys ever send anything back? Uh, we have I mean, the way our system is set up is it's pretty good to track on what's been delivered, what's been sent. Uh, if we do receive something that we weren't supposed to, we can reach back out to Amazon. Yeah. Free, right? So, I just want to make
040you just wonder. I mean, sure there's stuff that's not right that needs to get sent back. Is it getting sent back? I mean, it's all run through and it's all automated. And so, it does a a really good job of tracking what has been delivered and what's been received. Uh, and then making sure that we have all that information. And yes, we have Amazon Business, so we get the free delivery. We get everything that you would typically get with a an Amazon business account, which is fairly similar to what you have for your own personal Amazon accounts. I guess building off of this, even if it's under $500 and the principal signs off on it, when you and the business office see that there was an expenditure with Amazon from the high school, does it
041simply say Amazon purchase or does it say what it is? It'll say what it is. Yeah, I can go in and pull the actual invoices and see line item by line item every single item that was ordered. So, you can see everything. Yes. Okay. That's that's kind of what I was getting at. So, all right. Thanks. I have one other question on the uh noteworthies that you put in the executive content of the board packet. Town of Danville, the transportation building permit, that is just the cost for them to look at our plans of what we're going to do on that piece of property. I thought that was outrageous. How many hours did they spend on that? that I can't that I can't I sorry I'm not I'm laughing at the dog but Austin was
042that your response on the answer to that question if you do please speak up that was outrageous he clearly is not happy either um bugs out I don't know the time that was put into that I just know that is that was the cost of the building permit for them to issue it um I do agree that's that seems rather significant And that the cost of the occupancy permit. Uh I would have to go back and confirm, but I believe that is that should be all the permits that we need for that project. Okay. Is that their discretion on what they charge for I mean they charge a school that mathematical equation that they use to get to that number. Is it the same mathemat mathematics they're using when they need to purchase new fire
043equipment? It's based on an estimated number of hours and whatever that hourly rate is. I know that, but I I don't recall specifically beyond that how that works. Whose hours? Our hours or their hours? Theirs. But we don't know how hours they put in. We We No, we wouldn't have any way of knowing that. Wow. It's a chunk, that's for sure. All right. Any other questions? All in favor? I Thumbs up. That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, approval of payroll claims. Mr. Herbert. Uh, thank you, Mrs. Cherry. We have two claims here for payroll for the uh month of June moving into July. Uh, we had a June 17th payroll of $736,43312. And we had a July 3rd payroll of $717,785. uh bringing total payroll claims for the month to 1,454,21821. Uh obviously
044we had talked about in the quarterly that expenses are uh slightly elevated uh but not anything out of the ordinary. This is the time where we start to catch up a little bit uh typically here through June and July uh because we don't have as many staff who are working that we're paying. Uh so we'll start to see that come back a little bit. Uh that's also hence why you're seeing these payrolls obviously have been a little bit less than what we would expect as well. So again more than happy to answer any questions and would ask for the board's approval of our payroll claims here for the month. Motion to approve payroll claims as presented. So moved. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Bryant. Comments or questions? All in favor? I.
045That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, consider approval of personnel recommendations. Dr. Schaefer. Thank you, Mr. Cherry. Um I recommend approval of the personnel report. Um and this includes um just a quick summary uh renewal of our returning fall lay coaches. Uh it adds an additional uh special education teaching position. Uh it adds summer days to the contracts of Mrs. Stem Key and Mrs. Jackson. Uh it adds a dollar per hour increase to our returning general education instructional assistance uh to bring them in line with our classroom special education instructional assistance. Since as we move into next year, all of our general IAS will serve all general classroom students next year, whether they're special education or general education. We still do have specialized areas in specialized preschool in our life skills classrooms and our
046behavioral support rooms that receive will continue to receive the additional aotment work for working in those specialized special education areas. Um but with that would recommend approval of the personnel report. Motion to approve personnel report as submitted. So moved. Thank you Mrs. Ward. Second. Second. Thank you Mr. Helil. Comments or questions? All in favor? I. That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda. Consider approval of 2025 2026 DCSC handbooks. Dr. Schaefer. Thank you. Um, student handbooks have been updated, I say, as much as we can complete at this point in the year. Uh due to the timing of some of the uh legislation that passed here, um we still are looking for more guidance on some of the attendance changes. Um you will see attendance changes in the handbooks. If you look at those, those
047are still coming out of last year and the series of changes that were made. Those are in practice and but we just want to get them updated in the handbooks. We'll have some adjustments to those moving forward. Uh the legislature has compelled the department of education to do a lot of things and one of those is to give us guidance on the uh further um attendance changes. So you'll see a few more of those here later this fall once we get all of that guidance and have a chance to look at over here locally. Um but for now um for each of the handbooks which is Little Warrior Learning Center, the elementary handbook which is north and south combined, middle school, and then high school um they're really some typical annual updating. Uh we did
048update our acceptable um use agreement for technology and make that a responsible uh user agreement. Um but the the changes are very similar between elementary, middle, and high school. Uh, I did make just for transparency purposes. You may have noticed if you looked earlier and looked again the elementary handbook with the edits in it. Um, there were two different versions of that earlier in the week. I had the the wrong one in there. Put the right one in there today. The changes are the same and and the the summary page had all those changes. There's nothing changed to it. I just want to make sure you could see those changes in the correct version of that handbook. So, um, everything else is as it has been and would recommend approval of those handbook changes so
049we can get those updated uh for the beginning of the year. All right. Motion to approve the 2025 2026 DCSSE handbooks as presented. So move. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Hemsel. Comments or questions? So, I noticed a big change in the um excused unexcused absences at the high school. Is that going to be clearly communicated to parents? Because I'm going to tell you, parents aren't going to read this, but they're going to be really frustrated because I mean, there's times where your kids wake up, they have a fever, they don't feel good. You don't want them at school. I call say Carter's not going to be at school today, but not sick enough to go to the doctor. But that's going to be now unexcused for this. Is that correct? Yes.
050And we're going to see a few more changes in that. Something that went through legislation again this summer. And what all schools in the state of Indiana are going to do is have to comply with for the first time in my career. The Department of Education is now saying through the legislature what excuse and unexcused is going to be. So we no longer really make that determination moving forward. It's it's state law as as it's handed down to us from the Department of Education. Mrs. Walker or Dr. Walker, you may have more info on that. Yeah, some of that will will shift slightly um with the legislative changes, but one of the things that they did do is is talk about um their um once you get to 10, whether they are excused or unexcused
051absences, there are now processes for the state. So, I agree that it's going to be a change um not only for us but for all schools. Um so, we'll put out a good amount of communication. It's going to Yeah, it's going to be a difference for sure. I mean, the state won't do anything regardless. Yeah. I mean, I had kids in my own classroom that were beyond the excuse like Yes. I mean, and nothing happened to them this last year regardless of the new law. And and one of the changes too we'll see is those meeting require conf conferencing requirements with elementary and middle school that were in there this last year. Those extend to high school they go K12 uh this year also with new legislation. I mean why do you suppose it is
052that nothing happened to those kids? What's your perspective as a teacher? Parents don't come in and have the meetings. Kids don't send home the letters. They don't care. You said nothing happened to them. Yeah. Would it be the cool school corporation responsible for making it happen to them? Well, weren't they supposed to be prosecuted? Isn't that what the law states? Yeah, you have to. Yeah, they have to be prosecutor. And again, I think that comes back to that's lawmakers making we have to hold them accountable as well. And if they're telling that they're willing us to do that for us, then as a corporation, we've got to step up and put their feet to the fire as well. You're saying you're going to do it, then say it. Don't I mean, that's, you know, you
053can't sit there and talk them to death. at some point processes for expulsion and suspension exist for a reason. That is another change is we can't expel students now for attendance reason. So why even have I know you're going to Thank you for putting that out. So again, I'm going to circle this back around. If the parents aren't going to read the handbooks and they have a problem with it, the communication needs to be put out as you release the videos to parents about the changes in the handbook is also include how they contact the representatives and senators down at the state house and they go directly there and say this is where the change came from. They do need to know where the change came from because the people that will feel the brunt
054of this is our front office workers. They're the ones that are going to get the calls of parents who are ticked off, right? Or assistant principles or whoever it may be. Our frontline workers are going to get the calls. Um, and I think you have like can't do anything. Legislators are real smart. And I think that then also come back tie around into what we plan to do that when those kids have those absences and you can't expel them for being absent from school as they miss the work. Are we going to tighten up on the amount of time that they have to get work done that they've missed from those absence days? Are we going to let it just run and run and run and then at the end of the quarter as long
055as they got the work in they get their passing grade? If we're going to do that then we're as much part of the problem as the rest of them. It also takes money to do that. Limited in our funds, where we want to spend our money to do what? To prosecute them. No, I don't. I'm just saying I don't want to spend money doing that. I think we have better things to do. Well, then again, let come back around and pull it back in as we're saying let the kid be as absent as much as the parent wants to be absent. But that means that if you miss assignment today and it's not done with backend completed within 24 hours, you get a zero and the zero doesn't go away. You can go ahead and
056complete the work so you're knowledgeable for the upcoming chapter test. But if you didn't turn your work in when it was due, you get a zero and it doesn't go away. So in the end, you got too many zeros, what happens to your grade? You failed a class. You get a chance to repeat it. All right. Well, we're going to do the best we can when the school year starts to share this because they're right. Parents don't necessarily read this book. So, we'll put that out in a manner in which they will read that so that they are current in their knowledge. Any other comments or questions? All right. All in favor? I. That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, school board policy review. Dr. Schaefer. Yes. As part of the school board's ongoing
057commitment to the review of our uh board policies, the following policies are reviewed this evening uh which is 2290 employee assistance program 2330 homework speaking of which 2430 corporation sponsored clubs and activities 2450 title one parent involvement and 2460 special education. Um I went through the policies they do appear to be in good standing. uh don't require any additional updates but certainly updates can be made if if uh the board should so choose to do so. Comments, questions, thoughts. The only thought is is depending on how the changes are tenants related, we may have to go back and adjust that when possible. All right, next item on the agenda. My comment real quick, Beth, go ahead. Sorry. Thank you. Um as I spoke to most of you guys today and to Dr. Schaefer about um
058our transportation policy for transfer students. I would just like to ask that we put that on the agenda for next month to look at potentially um accepting transfer students on the bus whose houses were already driving directly past. Um, and also if the transportation director could get us some information just so we can make a good decision around that if that makes sense, how many students that might affect and be able to help out those families? Okay. Okay. Yeah. You just want to discuss it or you want it in a actionable item based upon discussion? If the information makes sense to everybody, I wouldn't mind uh voting on changing policy. Mr. Brown, is there any particular information that you would like us to try to uh prepare here uh prior to that August meeting? Yeah,
059in my conversations with Beth and Christina today, I think they brought up some good points about just is this how many students would this if we changed the policy back to similar to how it was before where a family could uh if their bus was already traveling directly past their house. Yeah. Um, with the transportation director's permission, how many of those families are we potentially looking at opening up transportation back to? I think would be helpful information. Um, just to make sure we're not overwhelming the buses. Okay. Yeah, I think I think we can pull that before then. Thank you. I will throw out there just so the director of transportation can think about it based upon what I'm hearing. It almost sounds like it's um based upon the scan technology is can the director
060of transportation come up with a pro an application process for a non-resident student to ride the bus and then they somehow then determine that so that that person is you know right on the route or you know they're 3/4 of mile out. It almost sounds like it's an application process that's handled by the director of transportation to some degree. Um, just I want to make sure I'm understanding what you're saying. When you say application process, do you mean the the families would apply or you mean through an app? Call her and ask her. I think that would be up to the director of transportation to think about how they would want to handle it. That if the proposal Mr. Brown is making that we bring forth next month to discuss is that how is she
061going to manage that to be effective in terms of not having what we had happen before but addressing a need that if you do have a bus that's going by on the on the boundaries going by a kid that lives on the east side of the road. He's out of district but we're picking up a kid on the west side of the road that's in district. Mhm. Mhm. You know, but on the other hand, if you got a kid that lives a quarter of a mile east of that boundary last pickup, you don't want kids walking down county road. So, I think that person that direct transportation is going to need some uh leeway and some protocols in terms of how they handle the calls and why they may allow one but not another. Right.
062Right. Okay. Thanks. That's what I mean by that. I'd like to know too because I know you know the do the tax dollars follow the child but we don't get the full amount right well you're not you're not receiving local property tax dollars like the the feed the operations funer debt service for out of county student district to have transfer students right so another idea might be is there a fee associated with something like this like what would it cost to have them ride the bus I don't know if we can do that lately, but that would be another option. I agree with you. I think the difficulty becomes in is how do you apply the fee? Um because then if you have somebody that lives on the east side of Indianapolis, well, I'm not
063we're I'm saying for this these same students who are transfer students. That's why I think live on the other side of the road that yes, you could, but it comes with a transportation fee. That would be how many miles out they are from the bus route and how much fuel. you know, there's probably or even if they live there, I mean, it's still taking somebody else's seat and there's no guarantee that that bus isn't going to be full forever. Yeah. I mean, those are just things to consider. And I would like to see like costwise. What does that look like? Well, and I would like to remind everyone, we do have resident students that are in the walk radius that we cannot provide buses to. So, that's a struggle for me to want to pick
064up non-resident students when we can't get our resident students on the bus. And that's what I told Austin today. We have we have kids within a onem radius. And even this winter when it was sub below zero, I reached out to Schaefer and said, "Is there any way that we could have buses go back and pick up these kids in a couple of spots after they've ran their routes so that our kids aren't walking within a mile when it's -10 windchill. Even if they're late to school, we're helping them out." Well, I guess during this cold. So, I think we need there's a lot of things we need to think about transfer versus in district. And then who's to say that Johnny's mom isn't going to be like, "Oh, I'm just around the corner. I'm
065not on the route that I'm just going to drop off." So, I can't disagree with all that. That's why I think ultimately director of transportation terms of that what I said is application process thinks about how they would approve or disapprove of something. But hearing having you heard you remind me that we do have kids within a mile race that aren't getting a ride, then I'd like to also see a solution to that irregardless of whether or not we would make this adjustment because again I think that those people have property taxes that are going towards the transportation department transportation. So well, lots to discuss. We've given staff a list of things and Mrs. Swanson a month to get us some information. We'll see what we get because she's not going to be doing anything
066in the month of July. Well, I do think it would be beneficial like if she could get it to us before the normal board packet goes out so we can sit and think about it, chew on it, ask questions, maybe sometimes it's hard when you're looking at it on Thursday or Friday or Sunday night for Monday meeting. Yeah, we'll we'll do the best we can with that. she may may be better able to do that here in the next two weeks than the the week or two after that anyway. So, we'll see if we can get that to you as soon as possible. All right. Thanks, Austin. Next. Next item on the agenda. Consider approval of gift donations, Mr. Herbert. Thank you, Mr. Cherry. We have one gift of this evening. Uh this would be
067from two of our teachers at North Elementary. Uh Mrs. Ziggler and Mrs. Blankenship held a fundraiser. Uh they've done this in the past where they raised dollars to then help support our angel fund through our food service department. Uh happy to uh report that this year they are going to be donating $2,39245 to uh the angel fund from our Danville North Elementary students. So uh would appreciate all the hard work that they do to raise those dollars and would ask for the board's approval of this donation. All right. Motion to approve gifts donations as presented. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Bryant. Second. Thank you, Mr. Hempil. Comments or questions? So, just remind me, so we must have set the limit at $1,500. Yes, sir. Correct. We did. Yeah. Yeah. And I'd also like to say
068kudos to these teachers for teaching our young students early on how to give back. I think that's fantastic. Appreciate their efforts. All in favor? I. That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, superintendence report. Dr. Schaefer. Thank you. I just want to give a kind of a quick update here on progress of construction. Uh continues to come along well. Uh the 13 new classrooms at the high school on the northeast side of the building or they're nearly complete. There's a little bit of finishing to do in those, but they are, I would say, all but done on those. uh in the adjacent east end that we've just recently renovated into, demolished into, uh they already have the cinder block walls up, uh which it looks much different and a lot of the steel um stud
069walling is is in place. There are eight of those rooms that back up to the new classrooms that have to get fully renovated before the start of school. So, in this next month, there's a lot of finishing work in there that that'll occur in eight of those classrooms. the rest of those classrooms in the east wing uh will be working on through and up until uh Christmas time. So, the teachers in uh math, English, and foreign language, those those are the areas we're talking about. Uh they're going to get relocated into those new rooms uh by the start of school. Uh the existing humanity classroom areas that have been demolished, um those have new block walls, new steel stud walls, and most of those are already formed up, which is great to see. It was
070amazing how much work got done in I'd say the middle of June and how quickly they worked. Um, and it looks good. Um, so again, that'll be done around the end of the first semester. Uh, the new offices and guidance areas are also nearly complete and they will also be ready for the start of school. We've been through there a few times and other than just some they're working on final cabinetry and some things like that that are happening in those areas right now. Uh, the new secure front entrance is receiving flooring and finishing touches. uh Turzo work is is nearly done. Um significant work is occurring in the career and teched areas wing um to reconfigure that space. Uh a lot going on there right now. Uh the pool is currently being tiled and
071the new drain lines have been installed and yesterday they started pouring the actual uh concrete decking. Uh the the concrete bleachers are in place. Uh the drain lines around the pool are in place. are starting to pour uh the decking concrete for the main deck. And yesterday, if you looked down the shallow end of the pool as it ramped down towards the deep end, the middle 2/3 had been tiled and the walls have been tiled. So, they're basically working on finishing out the floor as far as the actual pool um tiling uh work goes on. It they're making good progress. Um uh concrete bleacher work as I mentioned that that's complete. The deck resurfacing in place um outside of entrance 17 which was our temporary main entrance last year. Um that work is going on
072to build the uh the art and alternative school areas. A lot of excavation work going on that right there. And I would assume they'll start on foundations here before too long. Um the new concrete block uh dividing walls in the old pool area uh those have been installed. That wall work I think is now complete. So if you walk in from what used to be the uh the locker rooms back there, you're coming into the back of the band and choir rooms. The dividing walls been put in place to divide choir and band. Um so that's the main structural work there is now complete in the old pool area. They'll have to, you know, obviously finish out those rooms. Um the athletic locker room building uh also making great progress. Exterior work is is nearly
073done. Interior work is ongoing. I know they've painted in there. Um they'll have to do all the finishing out work, but in that type of building, there's a little less finishing out work than you would have in classrooms and some of those spaces. Um the wait room uh will also be complete in early August and there's work going on to reallocate the existing equipment. We're trying to figure out a way to dispose of that. We've had um Lawson's come in and give us an estimate on it and that type of thing. So we kind of understand what the value is. It's probably not as much as a lot of people would think. Uh so we're working uh thinking about how to dispose of that properly. Um try to make uh revenue off of that that
074we can and reinvest it. Um we also have to think about the timing of getting new weight equipment in and old weight equipment out uh so we don't have downtime for our student athletes. So we're thinking and working through that process. Now, um the uh the replacement turf rolls on the football field have been received uh last week and installed already. Uh the football field turf work, the main turf work on the main field is, I would say, all but done. Uh they've uh installed all the the turf. They put in the center logo. Uh the last two days they've been putting in the sand and rubber infill. Uh working on that. We still have some work at the very very far end of the field uh on past the end zone. We're turfing that
075in. That that finish work is still happening, but I think the rest of the field is is pretty well pretty well complete. Um the main homestand bleachers have been erected. The new press box has been installed. Uh there'll be finishing work for power, sound, data, and lights um on the press box. All that still has to occur here through July. We'll have a new scoreboard installed. Softball field work should pick back up soon. weather's been a little little hard on on that process, but um they need to start installing the concrete curbing and uh that work for the softball field should be done should softball field should be done in very I say very late fall. Um at South Elementary, uh the new kitchen wall work is complete. We had to move that wall back.
076They did that right off the bat in June. Um central classrooms, uh those have all been demolished. They've since drywalled all that and they're working back through the building uh to finish out those central classrooms and the uh the library. Um they've already laid the new flooring in the gym. So the the gym flooring, which is now a complete floor, um that that wood has all been put in place. Uh it looks good and we're going to look forward to completion of South and ribbon cutting ceremony in conjunction with back to school night in August. I believe we're looking at August 4th. uh back to school night. They have an afternoon session for parents and an evening session. Right now, we're thinking about putting a little ribbon cutting ceremony in the middle of that kind
077of late afternoon. Um send out invitations. Board members will certainly uh receive invitations to that and uh just commemorate the time and effort that's gone into that and all the good things that will come out of it for our kids. Uh the maintenance building drive has now been paved. Hallelujah. We didn't think it was ever going to happen, but it it did happen. So, that's great. And uh final finishing of those office areas within the building is occurring. We're nearly done. Uh the salt barn has been put up out there uh using uh the jersey barriers stacked together. We'll have an awning covering that will go over that. Um our uh some of our custodians uh we're working on mortaring in between those um barriers here uh this summer. Uh the ground site work is
078underway as you probably saw on the new transportation site over here. And uh also, I know we've had this question come up a lot. We look forward to South Warrior Way uh reopening as we start school. Uh what also has to happen here yet this summer is we'll be adding that top coat of pavement to the west parking lot. So, as we come in from North Warrior Way, that gets uh top coated the entire West lot. Then we'll have to stripe it for vehicles including buses in our band practice area. All that will happen yet this summer. Uh once we start school, I'm glad to say this, we'll be able to divide traffic three ways. Uh buses will continue to exit out into the school day out to US 36 where we'll flag that. Students
079will now be able to exit out South Warrior Way back to Lincoln Street as we've done in the past. Parents will be able to pick up in front of the school at entrance one and continue on out this year out through Westview Drive in the future after we open up the Mil Street entrance. they'll they'll head out through Mil Street uh both out to Mackie. So, we're well on our way with that and glad to see it coming coming around. And I walked through all the all the high school actually all the buildings this past week. Was back in the high school through there today and they're working hard, doing a good job. Things are coming along. So, good to see. What's the moving plan for these teachers that have new rooms? Like, we're we're
080going to be getting a team together. Well, we've talked about it in general. We're going to be pulling a team together here probably in the next week to put a a very definitive plan in place. Um, we will not let's see we should get occupancy on the new part of the building up front on the 24th. We plan to get our secretaries front office staff back in on the 25th to begin to move those things into the front office. Teachers then will be allowed to come back in the building at the high school in the front there on the 28th which is the following Monday. And right now they're looking at moving the orientation for students back. Instead of that Wednesday, they're going to move it back to Friday the 1st just to give time
081for things to get put away. We have a lot of equipment right now in the cafeteria. So we're going to be pulling together, you know, Mr. Land, uh, somebody from Myer Num, um, Mr. Claudefelder, uh, us, just looking at what what can we put in place to get those things back to where they belong. We still have some things to dispose of that are in the cafeteria. We also have a lot of the old rolling carts that are filled with books. Uh we have a place to put those books in the new places, but then we need to get rid of the old rolling carts um and just really get that all put back where it's supposed to go. So, we'll be working the detail out a plan, but we don't want teachers to have
082to do all that work themselves. We're going to help support them by getting a plan in place to move that equipment and books and things back to those spaces for them. You might ask Miss Heather Jackson who does National Honor Society. See if kids need some volunteer hours would be a great sure tap in. Plus that's I think second moratorum is around there. So just an idea they might be able to help. We've had uh really good help out of the the football program and some of our other athletic programs too. So that's a great idea to reach out to them. I know some football are going away. They'll be traveling. Volunteer Carter because I'll be in school. He'll appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah. I know there's opportunity there for those National Honors Society kiddos to
083help out who need those hours, too. Good idea. Yeah. Can we schedule a walk through for the for school board members prior to school opening at the high school? Yes, that's one of my notes here. Um we'll just need to find a time that works for all of you to do that. Um yeah, high school will be interesting. Um, I mean, there's definitely some hard hat areas in there, uh, to work through, but we're happy to go into those areas, too. Whatever you'd like to do. Uh, or if you'd like to walk through south even before that, too. Um, just just let me know. Um, we can look at some dates or I can toss some dates out to you. But, um, do you have a general idea of when I know we have that
084moratorum week, the last week of July, that may or may not be good for people because a lot of people may take advantage of being on vacation the last part of the summer that week. I'd just like to see it before the before school starts again, but also with understanding that in the last minute rush to complete a lot of stuff, we're going to have to be cognizant of what's happening construction wise. So, it might be best if you toss some dates out. And I think at this point, the 29th, the 30th, like when they're getting orientations the first, August 1st. So, maybe when do you go back to school? The 25th, the day after I get back from vacation. So we I mean to me we could either we could do a morning if
085that's easier for Corey to start his day doing something like this rather than ending his day. I couldn't do a morning. Say that again. I couldn't do morning because school starts at 710 for me. How about if I look at maybe think about an evening that the week that you mentioned the teachers come back are able to come back in on the 28th. So that's the Monday. So 28th tonight, 30th, 31st, maybe one of those evenings. I'll I'll shoot some dates out, too. I'll look at the calendar, too, just to make sure I don't have any obvious conflicts. But okay, um if that works, and if not, we'll look at maybe the week before that and see if something there works better, too. Does that sound good? Austin, do you have any updates uh on
086the plans and cost for the administration building? We're actually just got a little bit of information back from the architects today. Um, right. So, yes, we do. Um, we're planning to bring that back to the board here in August. Um, to present that information, let you look at it, see what you think. Um, so because we have it, we've still got some things to sort through and think through, but we just got, in fact, it was just, I think, late this afternoon, uh, Adam, uh, sent us some updated renderings. We had a meeting earlier today just to kind of walk and talk through some things. Um, so if if that works for you, we plan to have Adam here and and walk through that and uh present uh where we're at with that here at
087the August meeting. Okay. And regarding our 22 and 23, I think it's 22 and 23, but the geo bonds that you had in today's packet show a balance. Have those balances been spoken for in terms of what you plan on spending them for or is it still Unfortunately, yes. It's a majority of the either the uh football/athletic locker room is where a majority of some of those dollars are going for one of them. Uh one of them is to finish out Richard's building or our maintenance building. And then the final that has probably the bigger balance is for the admin building. Okay. That's 24, right? Yeah. Yeah. 24. Because if you're saying you're still spending money on the maintenance property, then we're not necessarily going to see the savings of half a million dollars over
088the original plans of building a new facility. Correct. Uh no, we'll we'll it'll still be close because again we we didn't spend the full amount. It would be Yeah. closer to three and a half and I think we were talking four originally. Okay. So there still should be about a half million dollar savings there. That would have been essentially just dollars we didn't borrow. Okay. And on the athletic building which was 2020 20 that's the 23 23. Mhm. That seemed like it had a right now has a large remaining balance as well. Say a large portion of that still yet to be spent on that project. Yeah. When will it be done? It'll be done roughly 1 of August. I didn't know if you said that already, Tracy, or not, but maybe Yeah, it's we
089talked about a little bit, but um we think between that that and the wait room are going to be around the first of August. It probably give or take a week is our guess right now. I look back in my notes on my phone and um Nick said by the by the time school starts, those two buildings would be released to the school. Like I said, we haven't had specific conversations about when that's going to be turned over to us, but we are not in any sort of a delay on that building. So, and then my last construction question is is you're having driven by the tennis courts tonight, the screens that are up, are those the new screens or the old screens or Those are the new screens. Those are the new screens. Yeah.
090Yeah. Speaking of tennis, uh we took a walk around the buildings the other night. Um I know when most team athletic teams win um conference or sectionals there is some kind of recognition or banner or board but we're a year out and the girls won um the Zagmore conference in 2024. I didn't know if there was any talks about that and putting up something. Yeah. can't say there hasn't been within the athletic department, but I I beyond that, I don't know. Yeah, it's been in all fairness to everybody, it's been so right um busy with moving things around and taking those things down, getting them out of the road. So, there probably hasn't been a lot of thought of getting those back up yet. I don't think they've ever been up cuz I think the
091girls were the first ones to ever win, right? for tennis specifically in Sagamore. Sagamore company. Yeah, that's is too is we've looked at some of our outside recognitions. You know, they've really aged. So, that's something we're going to have to think about, right? Who's responsible for the recognitions of the signs as you come in town because I noticed the the ones for football and the sign is the sign's now gone and there's two posts sticking up. They're kind of blowing the wind there. Wind got them. Yeah. I I don't know. to be those things tend to be done very sporadically as you move through the years and and um if if there's something the board wants to see replaced, we're happy to do that. I just think it'd be nice to know who's responsible for
092it. You know, put them up. I don't know who put them up. Yeah. Somebody come down and visit me and they're driving down. They know I'm on the school board and they're like, "Wow, you guys are really proud of what's going on in community, but schools, aren't you?" I thought that was pretty embarrassing. Yeah. I don't Yeah. I don't know who I it it's and it varies a lot from sign to sign and location who put those up originally. You know, was it the district? Was it the town who who did that? And honestly, I don't know if there's something you want to see specifically that we make sure we put up or take down. 39 need to be fixed, pulled out of the ground. I think either take them down or you get them
093fixed. But I think they'll be replaced. It just right there. I think again it's the corporation's name on them. No, if somebody else is doing it, then we need to know who's doing it. Yeah. Be no different than that. You know, somebody's asking for donations at a store in town on behalf of the Danville School Corporation. Where's um where's the one specifically you're you're talking about? As you come in uh to Danville, coming south on 39. Just past uh south of 236. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. They're on the west side of the road. Yeah. Okay. I didn't know they were there. So, y and that's hard telling if it was the town or the school or a very excited parent who got permission from the town or the state who it's hard telling who put those
094up. I I I can't disagree, but it's our name. So, we should know. Is it Is it south of the old Harvey the White Harvey building or is it north of North South of it? Okay. There's the Harvey building. Then there's a house that where they're at. And then just past that house, I thought it was okay. Yeah, it would be it'd be to be south of there. I hope somebody has a picture of it so we know exactly what was on there, but they just had the two state runner up. Two state runner up ones. Okay. 99 and Okay. Okay. We'll check on it. Yeah. Anything else? Austin, do you have anything? I'm good. Thank you. Okay. Announcements for the evening. First day for teachers is August 4th. The staff welcome back breakfast is
095Tuesday, August 5th at 7:30. The first day back to school for students is Wednesday, August 6th. The next regular school board meeting is August 11th at 6:30 here in the Danville Middle School training room. Need a motion to adjourn this meeting. So move. Second. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Thank you, Mr. All in favor. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Thanks, Austin. Hey, thank you. Thank you, Bill. He's giving you a thumbs up. Yep. Thanks, Austin.