Danville Community School Corporation April 14, 2025 meeting

001If Charlie were in charge for one day and could do anything she wanted, she would have a pizza and cookie party. She would invite her friends and would set out different games for everyone to play. When I asked Charlie what kind of pizza she would have, she replied, "I would write down the I would write down the orders of all of my friends and then get them exactly what they want." If Charlie would charge her one day to do anything she wanted, she would have party. She would invite her friends and set off different games for everyone to play. When I asked Charlie what kind of pizza she would have, she replied, "I would write down I would write down the words of all my friends and then get them exactly." Okay. Well, anyway, she's

002going to get the exact pizza that everybody in her class wants. And I got to say that is one of the kindest answers I've ever heard. When Charlie grows up, she would like to be a teacher. She would teach math, science, and art to elementary students. And Charlie would also like everyone to know that she got her ears pierced over spring break. And that she loves her pink hair. Charlie's nomination had enthusiastic support from our student of the month committee. Mrs. Starks commented that Charlie is happy each day she comes to school focused and really tries her best. Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Gully both recognized how much progress Charlie has made in the area of social skills since she started with us in Little Warrior Learning Center. Miss Perry nominated Charlie and had the following

003to say about her. Even through tough days, Charlie has made so much progress in my classroom. She comes to school happy and excited to conquer the day. She is one of my leaders in my classroom and shows great strengths in academics and social social skills. Her curiosity shines bright every day and she truly has a heart of gold. My favorite thing about Charlie is the support she shows me in the classroom. She's always checking in with me to make sure I'm okay before moving on to the ne next task at hand. I am proud of how much she has grown through first grade and would love to recognize her for student of the month. Charlie, you are truly deserving of this recognition. Congratulations on being North Elementary student of the month. We are all very

004proud of [Applause] you. Congratulations, Charlie. Thank you, Mrs. Perkins. And now, Mrs. Hollingsworth is going to introduce our South Elementary student of the month. South Elementary is proud to introduce Mr. James Ley as this month's student of the month. James is a student in Miss Eastston's third grade class. James lives at home with his mom and dad and has two older sisters named Anna and Elizabeth. He also has a cat named Smokey and two dogs named Hope and Diesel. He also has chickens and goats at his house. In his spare time, James likes to play a lot of sports. Right now, he's playing baseball and soccer. He also likes to play basketball and tennis. His favorite sport is actually basketball and he loves that his grandpa was his coach this past year. James also likes

005to draw and play with animals and when he grows up he wants to be a veterinarian. According to James, South Elementary is a great place to be as all of his teachers are very nice. He especially likes Miss Eastston as she's very kind. At school, James enjoys going to gym and math class. If James could spend the day however he wanted, he would stay in his class and learn. I kept pushing him. Are you sure? Anything you want. I promise I just want to stay in class and learn. I told him I was like I buddy seriously anything. The keys are yours. And he told me matter of factly that he likes the school the way it is. So he truly just wants to stay in class and learn which shows you what a great

006kid James is. James is nominated for being a great student who embodies kindness, inclusivity, and a positive attitude. When asked who has been the best influence on his life to help him become the great student that he is, James said that his siblings and especially his older sister's boyfriend Owen or his best influence. James said that his sisters Anna and Elizabeth are so kind to him and he treats everyone with kindness just like they treat him. He also said that Owen encourages him to play sports and to do whatever he wants when he grows up. James loves the confidence that Owen has taught him to have in sports. James was nominated by his teacher, Miss Eastston. Miss Eastston had the following to say about James. James is the sweetest kid you will ever meet. He's

007an exceptional student who embodies kindness, inclusivity, and has a positive attitude in everything he does. He treats his classmates and teachers with the utmost respect, making sure everyone around him feels included and valued. He is always looking to include as many peers as he can, whether that be a helping hand, offering encouraging words, or setting a great example through his hard work and diligence. He constantly goes above and beyond to help others. and his sweet, caring nature makes our classroom a better place. His positivity is contagious, inspiring both his peers and teacher to be a better person. James is the perfect embodiment of what it means to be a Danville Warrior, and it's our honor to nominate him. Congratulations, James, on being South Student of the Month. We're very proud of you. [Applause] Congratulations, James.

008Thank you, Mrs. Hollingsworth. And Mrs. Berky will introduce our middle school student of the month. All right, it is my pleasure to introduce our student of the month for sixth grade, Evan Schaefer. At first glance, Evan might seem quiet and reserved, but as his teachers and classmates know, there's much more beneath the surface. Once he feels comfortable, his sense of humor, enthusiasm, and determination shine through. Evan lives with his parents, Nate and Cararissa, and his younger brother, Elliot, who is in third grade. When I asked him what he loves most about his brother, he told me that Elliot is an athlete and that he enjoys cheering him on at football and basketball games. He also shared something that I found particularly thoughtful. He loves that his dad is loud and his mom speaks softly. When

009I asked him which he preferred, he simply said, "I need both." That insight alone tells you a lot about Evan. He values balance, appreciates the people around him, and understands that different perspectives and personalities are important. Academically, Evan's favorite subject is math. He answered this question without hesitation. He enjoys the challenge, but more than that, he loves the feeling of knowing he found the right answer. His math teacher, Mrs. Taylor, described him as a student who works hard with enthusiasm, has a great sense of humor, and gives his best every day, whether in class or on dressup days. Apparently, he makes a great Bob Ross. Evan is also an athlete himself. He has played soccer for the past couple of years, but this year as a sixth grader, he had the opportunity to join the

010wrestling team, and he took it. He enjoyed it so much that he plans to continue, and his goal is to make varsity one day. When I asked him what skill he'd love to instantly master without hesitation, he told me wrestling. While I can't grant him that wish, I have no doubt that with his dedication and work ethic, he will get there on his own. His design and modeling teacher, Mrs. Sloan, describes him as a dedicated and hardworking student who goes above and beyond in the classroom. She says his positive attitude and determination and leadership make him a role model for his peers. She also noted that Evan's curiosity and eagerness to learn set him apart, and his respect for both teachers and classmates make him a joy to have in class. Outside of school, Evan

011enjoys playing video games. Fortnite and Brawl Stars are his favorites. Though, when I asked him about his free time, he first said, "Playing outside before he admitted that yes, video games do hold a special place in his routine." His favorite movie is Remember the Titans, and we bonded over how it makes us laugh and cry. Though maybe I'm the only one doing the crying. If he could visit anywhere, he'd go to Japan to see the Pokémon Center. And if he could switch places with anyone, he'd trade spots with Bob Ross. Apparently, that Bob Ross costume left a lasting impression. Evan's reading and social studies teacher, Mrs. Richard, summed him up beautifully. Evan is a great student who gives 100% effort on all assignments. He is kind to others, has a great sense of humor, and

012I can always count on him to do the right thing, even when no one is watching. He is a wonderful, well-rounded individual, and I am so thankful to have him in my class this year. At the end of our conversation, I asked Evan what his dream day would look like. He thought about it for a moment and then simply said, "I think I'd like to be right here. This is pretty fun." That was in my office. That tells me everything I need to know about Evan. He is present, content, and grateful to be exactly where he is. Qualities that make him not just a great student, but a great person. We are incredibly proud of you, Evan. Congratulations, Evan and family. And Dr. Hammond will introduce our high school student of the month. This month

013we are excited to celebrate the awesomeness of Janice Kamani. Janice is currently in 10th grade and she has earned a 3.920 GPA. Janice indicated that her favorite subject is math and enjoys having Mrs. Quant as her teacher. She stated Mrs. Quant makes learning math an experience. Mrs. Young had the following to say about Janice. Janice is an excellent student. She is very polite and respectful to her peers and her teachers. Janice comes to class prepared to learn every day. She asks questions because she wants to understand the material on a deeper level. Janice is more than willing to help others and often stops her work so she can help a peer. She works hard and wants to do well in the classroom. The future for Janice at this point is a bit unclear. She definitely

014wants to attend college. However, where she wants to go is undecided, and she's also unclear about what she wants to study. She indicated that she might want to study psychology. And the beauty about being a sophomore is that you really don't need to know what you want to do. When asked who she had most admired, Janice did not hesitate and she stated it was her mom. She said her mom was a hardworking woman who inspired her to do more. Jen said, "It is quite possible that you are doing a lot of things right now and you are doing them well. As you get closer to graduation, I want you to remember this quote from Albert Schweitzer." Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you're doing,

015you will be successful. Congratulations. [Applause] Congratulations, Janice. And to all of our students of the month, thank you parents and grandparents for bringing us such special young people. And uh I also want to thank our administrators and our teachers for recognizing these uh these young people. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is student commendations. Dr. Schaefer. Well, speaking of great young people, we have one more to recognize this evening. And Mrs. Harvey, Coach Comr, if you want to join me up here, please. You're going to bring up something full wire. right here. Put your face. And Sutton is being recognized tonight um and receiving a special commendation because Sutton was named as a defensive back for the Indiana Football Coaches Association to the 2025 South All-Star roster. And in the world of sports, that's

016that's a pretty big honor. So, we wanted to congratulate you on behalf of the board and thank coach comr and Mrs. Harvey also for their support of you. And uh coach, I don't know if you had a couple words you want to you want to mention about Sutton. Yeah. Uh absolutely. Um really just want to congratulate Sutton on this honor. When it comes to think about our program and who represents us, Sutton is a prime example uh of what it means to be a Danville football player. on the field. He's highly successful in the classroom and community. This past season, he led our team as a team captain. He's the only person ever to beat Tri West in overtime on a two-point conversion. So, it's a huge accomplishment. Um, and he was the only two-way

017player that we had on our team and started all season. He's going to go on to W Bash next year and be highly successful with whatever he chooses to do academically and on the football field. But, uh, Sutton Fer is a kid that we're truly going to miss, but excited to watch him July 11th in the All-Star game. And, uh, he's the 21st kid in school history to make this team. And five straight years we've had a guy. So, super proud of S. [Applause] [Music] All right. Thank you, Dr. Schaefer. The next item on our agenda is community input. Um, first person, actually the only person, but if you'd still like to speak, that's fine. The one person on the list is Matt Stewart. If you could step to the podium and state your name

018and address. My name is Matt Stewart. My address is 609 Brookline Drive. I'm not good at that. So, uh, good evening and thank you for your time tonight. Thank you for your time tonight. Uh, obviously my name is Matt Stewart. I also have, uh, Todd Haney and Mark Kston back in the back uh, supporting me as well. We are all assistant coaches for the boys b varsity basketball team here at the high school. Uh last Wednesday was the end of an era for Davville boys basketball with the resignation of coach Brian Barber. Um he felt like it after 26 years of teaching and coaching. He has felt the time to move on to the next phase of his life. In the 26 years at Danville, Coach Barber and his staff were able to win 14

019conference championships, three Hendricks County tournament titles, 12 sectional titles, the first being since 1964, and four regional titles, the first in school history. Prior to his arrival, Danville had only seen one winning season in the past 13 seasons. Since then, 25 out of the 26 years we have seen winning seasons for Danville basketball. Obviously, we know high school athletics is not all about winning and losing is about impacting young men and women in a positive manner. The three of us in front of you here tonight uh can all attest to his hard-nosed coaching approach as we all played for him. The fact that all three of us came back to coach alongside him should be a testament to what kind of impact he had, not just on us, but the hundreds of other players that

020have passed through the program. He is someone who didn't always tell you what you wanted to hear, but what you needed to hear in order to push you to become the best possible version of yourself as a person or player. He is has always had the best interest in mind of players, team, school, and community. Coach Barbara was quoted as saying, "Our main goal was to leave the program better than we found it." He no doubt did that. I have also a quote from Coach Adam Bot Botriger, middle school assistant principal and athletic director and former head coach of Tri West. Quote, "When I think of Danville basketball, there is one person I think of more than any other, and that is coach Brian Barber. Brian is the picture of consistency and winning. He is

021a nononsense old school coach that simply would get the best out of all of his teams. In 26 years, he only had one losing season, and even in that year, it was close. I would be shocked if Danville will ever see the likes of a coach like Coach Barber again. I could not think of anyone more deserving of the honor of naming a court after than Brian Barber. Tonight, we would like to propose to you, the school board, that the high school's main floor be named in honor of Coach Brian Barber. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anybody else that would like to step to the podium and speak this evening? All right. Thank you, Mr. Stewart and Mr. Haney and Mr. Kreston for coming to support him this evening. We appreciate that. All right.

022We're going to take a short break. For those of you who would like to exit the building, now would be the time. Although, I would love to have you stay. I say that every month. All right, moving right along. Next item on the agenda, consider approval of minutes from the March 10th, 2025 regular schoolboard meeting. I need a motion to approve the March 10th, 2025 regular school board meeting minutes as submitted. So moved. Thank you, Mrs. Ward second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Brown. All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, consider approval of treasures report. Mr. Herbert. Thank you, Mrs. Cherry. Uh, for the month of March, we had a fund balance in our property and state tax supported funds of 8,178,614. We had educational fund actual expenditures of

023$1,670,660. We had no expenditures in the month of March for our debt service fund and our operations fund had expenditures of $610,320. We transferred $175,000 from the education fund to the operations fund. And that brings our total transfer for the corporation this year to 10.29% of the total education funds revenue or 11.03% of the total state tuition support. Uh so that is the claim or the uh can't even get my words out. The treasures report for the month of March. So I would be more than happy to answer any questions and I ask for the board's approval. Motion to approve financial reports as presented. So moved. Thank you Mr. Bryant. Second. Second. Thank you Mr. Himsil. Any comments or questions? All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, quarterly

024reports. Mr. Herbert. Thank you, Mrs. Cherry. Uh, at the end of the first quarter here for the school corporation, we have spent or encumbered 27.13% of our education fund. And at the end of the first quarter, we have the school corporation has spent or encumbered 25.09% of our operations fund. Uh, these would be in line uh with the first quarter projections. Uh, sometimes they're off just a little bit. Uh, like for example, the education fund here. uh because the way that I set those targets is just taking the total annual number and then dividing it by uh 12. But sometimes our expenses are not necessarily that consistent like in this case where we had a three payroll month back in January. Uh and also we've had some additional costs in some of our sped areas

025uh which has pushed that up a little bit. Uh but we also do include a little bit of a buffer in there so when we do overrun our budget slightly we are prepared to handle that. uh it's not on this part here, but it's on some of your other reports. You'll see that the revenue number is actually up uh compared to what our projections should be. Uh so I think we're trending in in a good spot for uh being through the first quarter here. So that is the quarterly report here for the board. Again, more than happy to answer any questions and would ask for the board's approval. I need a motion to approve the quarterly report as presented. So moved. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Bryant. comments or questions. Uh

026Mr. Herbert, just for reminder everybody, the appropriations that you have presented to us, the budget, those appropriations follow calendar year, correct? Correct. School year. Correct. January 1 to December 31st. That is correct. Appropriations. Thank you. Any other questions? All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, approval of claims. Mr. Herbert. Thank you, Mrs. Cherry. Uh, for the month of March, we have pre-written claims of 1,368,633.95. We had our traditional claims of1,4,118.76, bringing total claims for the month to $2,372,752.71. Uh, again, these are the claims for the month of March. more than happy to answer any questions that the board might have and would ask for your approval. Motion to approve claims as presented. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Bryant. Second. Second. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Comments or questions with

027the purchase of these four buses? Um, how old is our oldest bus in operation in the fleet? Now, I don't know that off the top of my head. I would guess in the 12 to 15 year range. Uh, and the reason we did purchase those four buses, we actually had a grant for those. So, we did receive a $25,000 grant per bus. Uh, so we were able to actually discount the cost of that down a h 100,000. Uh, that's why we did four. If you've typically in the past, you know, we've done two or three. Uh, but we wanted to try to take advantages of that grant as much as we could. So, where did those grants come from? Uh, those came from the EPA because they were propane buses. Uh and so yeah, we

028were able to trade in uh four of our older buses that had been, you know, we've gotten everything out of them that we can, uh including parts and everything else. So being able to upgrade those four while using the grant helped us out for this year. So that should cover our uh bus replacement for this year. Uh and we'll continue to look at that moving forward. What percentage of our fleet is now propane? We're about half. I could get you the exact number, but we're about half. Uh, I would say we're getting uh we're about where we want to be. Uh, there's going to come a point where we don't really need any more propane buses because we still do have the function that we need for diesels. Um, one for the longevity or as

029far as distance traveling if we do have a a longer trip. Uh, sometimes the propane again, they don't hold as much gas and get as much uh mileage, but it's just the cost of the fuel is so much cheaper, which is what makes them more efficient to run. Uh and also the uh the buses, the transit buses. So if you think of a school bus with a front end that's flat, uh those are all diesel buses and that allows us to use those in the city here. Uh that uh gives us a little bit better turning radius to get through some of those roads. Uh whereas the propane or your traditional kind of more of a a longer nose bus. Uh it makes it a little bit more difficult to travel through the city. So

030like I said, we're about half and that's about where we feel comfortable with. Uh and so we will we'll have to start kind of looking at our diesel fleet uh and seeing about replacing those in the future. Thank you. Is the 100,000 grant money shown in here? It's not that. So that is with the grant money. Yeah. So it would have been 100,000 more than that. It would have been 100,000 more for correct. Yes. So they're about 150. They're not cheap. They get they got more expensive. Yeah. They they're they're pushing 160,000 now uh for the propane buses and I think you know even 3 4 years ago we were probably 130ish. So that's what I was thinking they were. Yeah. Yeah. They uh they're not going the direction we like them to go. Where's

031Mallister Machinery out of? They're out of Indianapolis here. Uh and so we purchase them from there. Uh that's the supplier for those buses that we get. Thank you. When do we take possession of those buses? We have them currently. We have them. Okay. All right. Yep. Right. Any other question? I've got one more on the the the turf grass that we're replacing at the high school. What are you doing with the old Uh we've had several interested parties in that uh including our own baseball and softball teams. Uh they have different areas that they think they can use that turf for. Uh so we're going to obviously let uh our own internal folks keep it around for a while and then Yeah, it is 12 years old. Um, and so it's not of the best

032quality. Uh, but we do, some of our, uh, coaches do think that they have some use for it. And so we'll obviously try to cut it down to an appropriate size and be able to let them use it. Uh, because essentially it's it's all going to be trashed. When you roll it up, what size what's when they're taking it out, how big sections does that come in? There. We had that conversation today, and we didn't get an exact amount, but they do have to be cut in strips. There's a maximum width they can cut those, and it's super heavy when you roll it up. So, you just have to get it managed. 8 foot or 15 foot or honestly, I I think there's I know some people that would could use some of that. I'm

033going to guess it's between 8 and 12 ft if I were guessing. Um I know we're going to use some out around the batting cages. Boys and girls have talked about that maybe on the deck. Uh challenge you have with that is a lot of the fibers are broken off of this and it's still full of the old pelletized rubber material. So, it's a little messy to to mess with, particularly inside, but we'll try to clean that up and let them use it where they can. There may be some pieces left, too. So, uh we told um our construction team um they basically need to go out and sort of mark out areas if if people want the section, they're going to mark it off. That way, it can be cut by the company where

034it needs to be cut and we'll dispose of whatever's left over that's not useful. Yeah. When is the new turf going on? Uh I believe they're going to start work here in about midmay as far as work out there. They have some digging to do first in the south end zone because that will be turfed and then the rest of it strictly replacement. But they'll start in miday and then work out into the summer uh to try to get that done first and then they'll start the bleacher replacement press box replacement then on the home side and everything you know everything should be done prior to the start of school. weather in the fall. We have moved that that where will the football team practice this summer? They will have some ability to practice the

035tur excuse me on the turf because it will be in place by 1 of July. Uh it'll just be the press box and the bleachers and that section that we're still going to be working on probably right up until end of July, 1st of August. So they practice in June. We will uh we'll have to investigate the night. We we've talked about some various places where there's a an opportunity to practice, but it Yeah, they've had conversation and we appreciate Coach Comr is pretty flexible with that. So, he'll he'll find a good spot for the guys, I think. I guess you have the middle school. Yeah, could be. Any other questions? When did we take possession of seven Westview Drive? We we have taken possession of it and uh in fact uh uh Richard Land

036and his team have started taking down some trees there uh just to begin to clear that property a bit. And uh I would say well I know he's already started checking with some quotes. Uh we have a couple vendors on site that might be able to um work on taking the home down um while they're here. Uh if not, we'll defer that to winter to try to get better pricing. Thank you. Anything else? All right. All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, approval of payroll claims. Mr. Herbert. Thank you, Mr. Cherry. Uh, we actually have four claims here this evening. Uh, we have our March 14th claim for $820,9918. We have our March 28th claim of $867,728.3. We have a March 31st claim of $500 and we have

037our April 11th claim of $7483 $748,3944. That brings our total claims for the month to 2,436,72165. So I would ask for the board's approval for our claims for the month of March and April. Uh and more than happy to answer any questions. Motion to approve payroll claims as presented. So moved. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Brown. Comments or questions? All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda under old business is quarterly update of board goals. Dr. Schaefer. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh just a verbal update tonight. We are still working on making adjustments to the strategic plan and and building out uh new dashboards to have these specific goals in. But wanted to give the board an update on the progress of our three uh

038board goals. Uh the first is that the education goal which is two parts to complete our career coaching model and to complete our portrait of a learner model. Both of those pieces um both efforts are are well underway. Uh the career coaching leadership team um that Dr. uh Walker is leading. Uh they're working through a process to identify the teaching strategies at each grade level to support those career aspirations and opportunities for our students. We've been through a series of meetings and workshop work to to get this moving and they're making good progress. uh on the portrait of a learner uh leadership team. Uh we've identified the skills and dispositions uh and there are six of those that have been identified by our large uh focus group including community members and business leaders. And we're

039going to uh work with another large focus group tomorrow actually to determine the performance and goals that we want students to exhibit upon graduation that are based off of those skills and dispositions. Um, and we're looking at when they graduate, uh, what should they be able to do in those skill areas to be ready for work or military service or be college ready right out of high school. On our district finance goals, that's our second area of goals. Uh, that was to achieve an 80 cent debt service rate by January 1 of 2027. Uh, with some flexibility there that the board talked about and seeing how that goes in terms of the legislature. uh and to also maintain building projects and our master campus plan within scope and budget. Uh we are currently on track

040to meet both of those goal areas. Uh the outcome of the 2025 legislative session may cause us to revisit the debt service rate as we move into, you know, later in the year. We'll have to kind of see what that outcome is and we should know much more about that here in probably the next week. And area number three uh is our district operations goal focus and that is to complete implementation of our maintenance software which is FMX and then also to complete a renewed demographic study for the district. Uh the demographic study is not underway yet and that will be targeted for later this fall. Uh FMX is making good progress. our mechanical, electrical, plumbing, uh, equipment and our Hback equipment is now tagged. It's all tagged with QR codes. Uh, and those have

041been all entered into the software as is our existing building maps and schematics. And that progress has taken place here just over the last couple of months. Uh, we got the FMX team back in. They've done that work for us as part of our contract with them. Uh, entered all that data. Um the only thing uh that we don't have in yet are our camera systems. Uh but that is it will come here shortly. Uh the work is scheduled for the next couple of months and should make the the system fully operational uh in about that amount of time. We're giving ourselves a little bit more time here to make sure everything's in that we can possibly have in uh so we are on course to be completed uh well by the end of the

042year. So what happens is once they get with the QR codes in and all that equipment mapped and the and the building maps and footprints in uh Mr. Lan's team will soon be able to start pulling that data out and actually utilizing the software in that component. We're already using the calendaring or we're doing the um building tickets and those types of things out of there already. This would be sort of the last segment of this which is an important part. Uh but progress on this the last couple of months has been uh been excellent. So that's a a quick overview of those three goal areas, education, district finance, and district operations. I have a question. I thought that within the finance area talked about including within the goal given the pending reductions that we

043may see in operations due to the fire territory and state legislation that we wanted to see something in there related to going ahead and being proactive with how we were going to address the shortfalls, how we could address shortfalls in the operations fund as part of this year's goal related into finance. Am I not recalling that conversation correctly? I'd have to go back and remember I don't remember it that way. I remembered we were going to take a look at it again in right maybe June once we figured out what the fire territory was doing and what the state legislature were doing. So we're going to look at it but then we would update a goal based upon the final numbers we knew from the effect of the territory. The problem with that becomes I

044don't know that in June we're going to know. I mean the fire territory was passed but now the total impact is going to be due to whatever the town whatever the town sets as the budget approves as the budget and I don't think you're going to know that till closer to the end of the year. Yeah, there's they do that. There's a there's a great question. There's a lot of facets there. I didn't have anything in my notes related to operations. I I do uh recall distinctly talking about the debt service piece and and possibly needing to revisit that because between House Bill 101 and Senate Bill one, I'll talk about both those a little bit later, but there are things in there that will certainly affect uh debt service and that was a piece

045because we had a little change in that this last year. We talked about we may need to revisit that. Not discounting the things you're talking about. We will have to uh internally figure out what those effects are going to be from both of those bills on operations. Uh I think some of that information is going to happen in pieces though. Uh in fact in I believe Senate Bill one were some changes made here at least in committee a week ago that may impact even the fire territory rate. Uh, I think theirs was set at 53 cents, but there was a a provision entered into the bill here recently that would cap those, even those are already passed for 2026 at 40 cents. Um, so there's a lot of those pieces to see how that all

046pans out yet. I think we I think we will know quite a bit more by June 1, but we're being told by some of our financial consultants is we're probably looking okay through 26, but there'll be some things we'll be needing to figure out in 25 and 26 will impact us more in 27. Again, all that subject to a little bit of change. legislature is not done meeting yet and there could be some last minute changes or amendments too that could could happen because what'll happen is Senate leaders and House leaders are going to have to have some conferencing to make those two bills match up. Um so we'll we'll know more here in a couple weeks and then probably as these pieces roll out we'll know even more by the early part of June

047I would think. Okay. But your your point is well taken and those are things that we are going to have to spend some time and attention on. members and some of those bits and pieces of that conversation in our work session. Yeah. And did we know much about the fire territory then? Well, we knew that it was 50/50. We also knew that, you know, the state had put out their document of what potential impact could be given that version at the time in terms of the impact in 26 25 26 26 27 28 or those three years. Yeah. Um I don't think at that time we'd seen our policy analytics report yet that I don't think so either pre that. Yeah. Yeah. But there was discussion where we have to we knew it wasn't I

048guess I guess I'm just I you know we know that there is going to be a shortfall right of some number. I guess I guess I felt like we' kind of left the meeting that we were still going to be doing some pre-planning. So it wasn't all of a sudden just a bigger shock in terms of of I knew that that we were going to revisit. We were in a revisit in June sometime and see once we knew what the legislature had actually passed. Okay. Have a better idea then. There's a whole lot of unknowns. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other questions? All right. Moving right along. Consider approval of personnel recommendations. Dr. Schaefer. Thank you, Mr. Cherry. Uh, the personnel report is before you uh without any amendments. So, I would ask

049that the personnel report be approved as presented. All right. Motion to approve personnel report as presented. So, moved. Thank you, Mr. Bryant. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Hempil. Comments or questions? All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, consider approval of the 2026 27 2027 proposed school calendar. Dr. Schaefer. Yes, thank you. Um, as as we're aware, we do have an approved calendar for next year. Uh, so this is the the following year out, 2627. We typically bring these a year out, uh, about this time in the spring. Um, this calendar is is really consistent with our current calendar and the 25 26 calendars, the same type of calendar we've been on for for several years now. Uh the school year on this calendar uh begins in early August

050and it ends prior to Memorial Day. Um it does maintain the one week fall break still, a 3-day break at Thanksgiving, which is Wednesday, Thursday, Friday there. Uh a two week winter/ch Christmas break and a oneweek spring break. Um one change that's important to understand on this one, um the the calendar kind of changed on us last year. So this calendar re begins to reflect that because if you don't push your start date back every every few years, you'll start going to school in July and be getting out in April because it keeps sliding forward. So this is that roll back calendar. So this would push the uh start of the school year. Next year we start like the I think the 4th of August. This will kick it to that next week like the

05110th. Okay. Um which is a that's a good thing. Um, so that's the biggest difference. Um, Wayne Township is also shifting their calendar that year, which helps us maintain better alignment. Uh, in fact, I was talking with one of the other county superintendents today, just kind of checking on their calendar, too. Um, uh, Planefield has a oneweek spring break like we do. Um, and they have a a oneweek fall break. Uh, Avon has two weeks at spring break, two weeks at fall break. So, a little bit of difference, but we we do try to usually line up our our one week and Planefield does this too. And I I believe that uh um Northwest Hendricks does too. We try to keep at least our one week, one of those two weeks that the other districts

052are doing. It's the same thing with Wayne Township. Wayne has two weeks and two weeks because we have so many kids going there for either special education services or career and teched services. We try to keep our one week fall break or spring break on one of their two weeks. just helps to minimize any more any more conflicts or loss of days and it's been been the same with the other uh calendars here in the last few years. So the only thing I noticed here with this calendar recommendation is that our fall break for this calendar is proposed to be on the second full week of October. Currently the last couple of years and maybe last three years I think our fall break has been on the third week of October. Okay. So, it's like

053it it moved up. It moved a week earlier, which I personally don't care. That's fine because what I know is of the two weeks that Avon, Brownsburg, Wayne, they all have this proposal on week two of October is the first week of their spring break. So, we're still fitting in that slot. And we could if we really wanted to be as consistent as possible, we could put it on that next week and keep it on that third week. Uh but I did find that our proposed week here is the first week of all those other schools with two week breaks. It is on their first week. So it does line up that way. Um I spoke with Mrs. Harvey and she had good good logic for why that is proposed on that second week. Our

054first nine week of school ends right before fall break in that format. So we go nine weeks and have that week off. If we kept it in that third week, we would go nine weeks, start the second nine weeks for a week, then have a week off. So that was the thinking behind go ahead and put it in that second week of October slot. Again, it lines up with the other districts. Um, and look looks fine to me. But I just wanted to point that out. I guess I have a question thinking back that I recall a time that that switched in there somewhere and it might have been probably when Tom was the interim. Does it does that scheduling of those weeks change affect budgetary hearings, meetings, uh, advertising, getting all the things in

055that we need to do? So that again I think that back when Tom was interrum I think we then had to make some adjustments to some board meetings and so forth that it it could have happened a couple times. I do know it shifted once since I've been here. I want to say that was maybe five or six years ago which would be about right and I think we may at that time we either went it might have been on the second week then and went to the third week or it could have been I forget it could have been on the fourth week went to the third week but it did change a week and that's been like I said maybe six years ago. Okay. I think we've been doing our budget hearings in

056September. I'm just last couple weeks of September. Make sure that we're not either actual for the we typically run about a month before the actual hard cut off is that's that date's not until November. So looking at that calendar that week that second week of October where our spring break would land that would obviously be the second Monday of the month which is when we typically have a board meeting. I do know in the past when that has occurred we've either shifted that to the Wednesday before or the Wednesday after and so it would still fit within the calendaring of when we would need to get our budget hearings done when the board meeting would fall during fall break but we that's happened the last couple years through a Wednesday or something we would probably

057move it to the 7th of the previous Wednesday be my guess or the 19th so I I propose that I'm happy to present that and recommend that as as proposed. We approve this tonight and then next month we would make an amendment to when we're going to do the October meeting. No, this is this is not this that's not next year. It's the following year. This is 26 27. So, yeah. In January, we'll catch this when we do that. All right. I need a motion to approve the proposed 2025 2026 school calendar as presented. So moved. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. Oops. Thank you, Mr. Brown. All in favor, you said 2526. 2627 is what this is, right? You said 25. I think just because down here I'm reading what's written for me. So, motion

058to approve the proposed 2627 school calendar as presented. So, moved. Thank you. Second. Thank you. Thank you for pointing that out. shouldn't just read what's given to me. That's okay. Up here, but I'm looking at it. Yeah. All right. All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Thank you for pointing that out, Mr. Himl. Next item on the agenda, consider approval for the new textbook adoption. Dr. Walker. Thank you. So the uh K through 5 reading textbook adoption committee is recommending that we adopt amplify core knowledge language arts beginning in the 202526 school year. Uh this recommendation comes after more than a year of review of all of the reading programs that were approved and vetted at the state level. I've included more information in the attached memo, but I do feel like the

059process was thorough and has led us to an excellent product for students. It's aligned to the science of reading research as well as our Indiana assessments. I want to thank the science of reading team for the time they spent participating in professional development, reviewing materials, collecting information to support the choice. So I am recommending that we adopt amplify CKLA for the 2526 school year for grades K through 5. Motion to approve the new textbook adoption as presented. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Hemsel. Second. Second. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Once we adopt this, how long will this reading curriculum How long is that contract for? Six years. Six years. Yes. Did you say that? I'm sorry. No, I did not. Okay. No. Is that a standard term? It is. Yeah. So, all of our textbooks are

060on a six-year cycle. The state used to have a required six-year cycle. Um, a few years back, they took away the requirement that you had to look and adopt in that six-year cycle, but I would say, you know, 80 to 90% of schools have just stayed on that same six-year cycle. Um, so that's that's customary given the expectations for I read three. I read three. um if something doesn't follow through and then we're stuck with this for six years and do we are we backpedaling or do we have an out that if we wanted to end this somewhere within those six years because the team felt like in ultimately although they betted it very well maybe it still wasn't going to get there. Do we just wait till the end of six years and deal

061with the scores as they are or do we have an ability to make an adjustment? I will say financially there's not really the ability unless we purchased something new on top of it we pay on the front end. Um if there were any changes needed I mean obviously we've been really good on our side about um making the changes needed outside of a textbook whether that would be to add in some supplemental materials. Um, I will say that this is a program that um made the approved list because of the alignment with the science of reading research. Um, and the current textbook we are utilizing, which I think we've gotten pretty good results on, is was not one that was approved at the state level. So, I feel like this um is is an even

062better option than what we have been utilizing here for the past six years and we've gotten great results with that textbook. So hearing that, you're confident that the state isn't going to make too many adjustments to the alignment of things. I am never confident that the state is not going to make adjustments to things. But for, you know, for the information that we have right now and for the test, um, I I feel confident that this is a this is going to be a great product for us. Um, and I also feel confident that if something's not meeting the mark at some point, you know, our teachers are really good about making adjustments and, you know, and adding supplemental materials where they need to. So, I mean, I I feel confident that, you know, that

063we'll continue to be successful on that read. Thank you. Yeah. Any other questions? All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, school board policy review. Dr. Schaefer. Yes. It's a short list this month. Um, this is just part of the board's ongoing commitment to policy review. Uh, tonight we're looking at the following policies on schoolboard policies. 2240 controversial issues. 2250 district provided access to electronic information, 2251 electronic publication, and 2252 record retention policy of electronic mail. And uh, doing a read through of those four policies, things look to be in good order. And these are some that can can get dated sometimes, but um we've been through these not not too long ago, and I think things are still in good order in those four particular policies, comments, questions.

064All right. Next item on the agenda, consider approval of surplus obsolete equipment. Mr. Herbert, thank you, Mr. Cherry. Uh before you have two separate lists, uh one would be the equipment from Mr. greater that he has recommended as uh no longer had any value for the district that we need to dispose of. Uh and then that is technology equipment. Uh then we also have equipment and furniture uh that's coming from South Elementary. We're going through and replacing that through our construction project uh that Mrs. um almost forgot Jenny's last name. Hollingsworth uh recommended that we dispose of as well as we no longer need that furniture. So, I would ask for the board's approval uh for our lists here of our surplus items. Motion to approve obsolete and surplus items as presented. So, move. Thank

065you, Mrs. Ward. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Himsil. Comments or questions? Is the recommendation to dispose of these items at South Elementary because they're in poor shape or they just don't fit the new configuration of classrooms and design there? Yeah, I would say for they're they're more towards poor shape. Uh again, that was part of the project was to replace the furniture there because it was all the original furniture. Uh and so yeah, it's it's conditionwise. So, yeah. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, superintendence report. Dr. Schaefer. Thank you. Um, and I I put a few comments too under the legislative update. We'll get to that. Um, okay. The um construction project, just to give you a little little update,

066I know we've talked about a few things tonight here already, but the construction is is moving along well. Um, the south classroom wing at South Elementary, so the classes on the south west side of the building, uh, that is the wing that's been under construction here for the last couple of months. Um, it is getting its final carpet, tile around the restroom areas, and the case work, all the cabinets installed, uh, as we speak. Um, we got just some updated pictures today. Uh, looks very nice. It's coming along nearing nearing completion. Um, at the end of the school year, the work uh, the work from there that will be done by the end of the school year. Then they're going to move down to the very west end of the building. uh those classrooms along

067there and work up through the center of the building which will include some restrooms. Uh the library will get its renovation and then finishing up really with the um gym. Uh they'll be finishing replacing the floor, take down the construction wall, uh install the bleachers, do all that kind of work. Then there is a wall in the cafeteria that's going to get a full replacement this summer as well. When that work is done, that will complete the project at South will be all done there. Uh we are anticipating being done by the start of school year with all of that and even having the um layown yard, the gravel area east of there, have that cleaned up and then they'll be moving that construction trailer over here just west of the middle school to begin

068the transportation project and they'll actually do that in July. Um because that crew that's been helping uh running the south renovation will be starting off with the transportation facility and they they've been great to work with. They've done a really nice job. Things have run right on schedule, maybe a little bit ahead of schedule. Um, so we're pleased to see that work coming to to an end. Um, it looks very nice. We just have basically one more wing and up through the middle of the building to complete and uh we should have that finished. Um, you may have seen if you've been around through there, we did a little addition to the uh parking lot on the north side of South Elementary. So, where you cut through and go around the back of the building

069on the east side, we just expanded that a little bit to give us about 20 more parking spaces. Those are just striped out the other day. Um, it's a little little little narrow through there, but there's enough room to get 20 more cars in, which will help us a lot. And thinking ahead when the when the new softball facility opens up, that'll be some closeby parking, too, for patrons to park at and walk across to the to the softball games in the future. Uh, the high school is also making good progress. Um the new classroom wing there on the uh northeast side of the building is again nearing completion. Uh they're finalizing carpeting, technology, cabinetry in there as well. Um 13 new classrooms there. There will be some terazzo work that's going to begin soon

070in the new main entry. Uh starting to work on the flooring in there and also terazzo work in the pool area will be beginning as well. Um tile work on the pool will begin soon and we are targeting early November for completion of the pool again. Technically that that could run out further by contract but the teams are working hard. They've been made some really good progress here in the last couple months starting to get back on track with our intended finish date. Um they were going to do a test fill of the pool just to make sure you know look for leaks and things like that. That's just a test fill that that water has to be put in taken back out. Um, but it's good to see that kind of progress coming along.

071Um, uh, renovation of the east academic wing. So, think about where the English classrooms are. Um, foreign language, math, business or not business, but, um, just math and social studies is what I was trying to say. Uh, that whole area down there, uh, that will be under renovation starting this summer. So, what's going to happen is going to pretty much demolish that entire wing. Inside the English classrooms that run along the more western side of that wing, those will actually be renovated from beginning to end this summer and teachers will go back into those classrooms. Teachers are in those other classrooms such as math and social studies, they will be moved out into the new wing. Then the rest of that renovation of that area will continue then on into the school year and then

072we'll continue to as time moves to move through the building pretty much from the northeast to the southwest if you want to think of it that way. Um so that's that's getting ready to turn over here this summer. Um work we mentioned this a little bit uh work will begin in miday on the football stadium. There's been demolition work already going on, but as far as replacing the turf, uh the bleachers, press box, those areas. Uh next year, not this summer, but next summer, we'll come back and resurface the track. But it was too much to try to squeeze that in to get the track resurfaced and the bleachers done and the turf done because you got to stage equipment in one of those areas. So rather than trying to rush that, not being able

073to get things done, uh we're going to do turf and bleachers, come back, finish out the track, uh next summer, so that'll be all nice new uh surface stadium area. Um and just a note here on the maintenance building, uh over on the maintenance property. Uh that building is is getting shelled in uh nearing nearing completion, I think, on the roof. And um we'll begin work interiorly then because the office areas have been reframed. So be drywalling those out once the roof is finally finally done and they should be finishing that as we speak. Um they'll start working on shelving finishing out the office areas inside and getting getting um all the detailed work inside completed. Uh and then the the drive the main drive has been cut out. We had we need to finish

074out the drive and the the apron area as you approach the building as you come up to that site and that will get done this uh late spring, early summer as well. Again, quick update. Be happy to answer any questions that you might have. Have a question for you. Uh in your update, you mentioned the renovations we're going to be doing to the gymnasium. Yes. The court. Um is there a reason why we wouldn't be able to follow through on tonight's public comment to make that happen? Uh well that would be I mean independent of the work we're doing that the the I'll answer it in two parts. Uh the work we will be doing in the gym right now what we see as a complete floor replacement including underllayment and the boards when you

075when you work on the the floor boards we think of as the court. Uh those every so many years have to be sanded down and every year every time you do that not every year but every few years you do that you're taking about an eighth of an inch off of those. They're at the point where we could only sand them one more time. So, it makes sense just to do the full court replacement. And the underllayment in there is like a stack of three boards. It's kind of one by material. So, we see replacing all that and the new court. We also see painting the gym. Uh we'll see how our budget comes. We would like to replace some of the upper bleachers in there, which are the older bleachers. We'd like to potentially

076replace those, but we'll need to see what how our budget uh comes out here at the end of the project. If there's some dollars remaining to allow us to do that, we may consider replacing those upper bleaches in the balcony. So, painting, new scoreboards will go in uh new floor. Uh that will be the type of work that's done in there. Um as far as request tonight, totally understand that. Nice request and uh Mr. Barber's done an outstanding job with the program. Uh the board you might recall the board did uh adopt a policy let's say that was in 2021 here on naming of facilities or partial facilities. So we do have some policy there to guide us on that. Uh that policy right now does prohibit uh naming school facilities after people right but

077we're not naming the facility. It's like you look at like Mackie Arena, but Katie Court, that's not naming the court. Having Brian's name on there, I think I kind of glanced through it to study it a little harder, but I think that would still be doable. Yeah, I mean it would certainly up be up to the board. I think that and I'm not remembering all of it word for word. I know parts of the policy talk about facilities or parts of facilities, right? What number is that? 752 7520 7520 If we decided we wanted to do that, worst case scenario, we just have to amend the policy. You would have to first amend the policy. Yes. Yeah. There is a process in the policy. I read the policy the other day. I mean, I think

078there's a way that we probably all agree we need to honor Barber in some way, shape, or form. Yes. Inside the gym, outside the gym, or whatever. Um, a lot of times there are you go to Matthew Arena and you see big banners that are hanging down. I think there is a way to honor him. It may not be exactly being able to put a name on a court, but I think that we could probably come to a consensus on honoring him there. I think who's it? Tony the Tiger. Tony our tell me who he is. Tony who does stats for the basketball team. Mayors. Mayers. Thank you. So he's honored in there like you know in the glass area over there. We we do recognize and honor people, right? But I think in this

079situation, we're going to have a future Indiana high school basketball hall of famer that that we probably ought to get ahead of it and do something pretty darn nice. I'm not disagreeing. You know what I mean? I'm not disagreeing. I don't want to open a can of worms either. We wrote this policy because people were coming to us with similar things. I thought that was kind of more of a financial piece as opposed to a staff member who achieved such a honorary benchmark in their staff career while here. I would recommend that we make sure it gets added to the May board as an agenda item and come to fruition with a vote as to what we're going to do. Well, it seems like in the policy I feel like there has to be a

080request written. There has to be a committee formed. It has to go through the superintendent. it has to be vet like there's there's steps in the policy. So I don't know if you want an agenda item to change the policy or come to a decision that's where we need to start. I mean I don't know. I'm just saying if that's where we need to start let's start there. But I I don't know if we would have a be able to make a decision in May. But I think that we can start a discussion about whatever that looks like to honor Brian Barber. How about everyone go home and read the policy? Because I'm going to say now what I said that first year I was on the board. I'm not a fan of this and

081I think Brian has had a great career here. But you have just as many people that love a coach as hate a coach and that is in every sport be it swimming or baseball or football. Given what you just said, is that why the administration has been so lack on communicating through school newsletters and so forth? I recently saw an article in the Republican about what we were doing to support ESL students um coordinated between somebody at the Republican and our communications coordinator. To me, as Mr. Hemsel said, you have a Hall of Fame coach that's coming up down the line. Not too many coaches in basketball in the state of Indiana, as far as my research goes, have achieved that number of wins in a career. And as I understand, of his 500 and

082some wins, with the exception of maybe 20 to 30 of them, the rest of them are all at Danville. And to me, that is a staff member accomplishment that does not happen very seldom in the state of Indiana. And I have no problem coming up with a way to recognize him. I mean, I think it's an accomplishment. Do I think fitting his name on a basketball court is the way to do that? No. But I do think we need to find a way to honor what he's given to our school. And I think did someone say 26 26 years 26 years that he's been here. Right. I just think we I'm disappointed that we as a board have to get to this point given um acknowledgements and other comments about other staff accomplishments that I've

083heard within the last 6 to 8 weeks. And I think it's just it's really disappointing in that aspect of it. So yes, I think that we need to start make sure it's on on the agenda for May as some sort of item that certainly by the end of the summer we've got this satisfied and moving forward. All right. So it doesn't miss anything with the potential plans that come up in redoing the gym floor. All right. If everyone would at least read that policy because I haven't read it for a couple years. I knew it existed, but I couldn't tell you what it I have no problem reading the policy, but I still don't understand why we can't go ahead. And if if you don't want to take my recommendation now, it's going to come

084up again as a agenda item at the beginning of the board meeting today. I'm not saying no, Jim. I'm just asking everybody to read the policy so that we're all on the same page. I'm also not hearing it said that we are going to put it on the agenda. You made a request. Have I ever made you have I ever denied a request? I just publicly I'd like to have it out there that they know it's going to be on the request. We'll put it on the agenda. Thank you. All right. Any other questions about that? I have another question about the construction project, Dr. Schaefer. And that is driving up here tonight. Tennis was playing pretty windy out there. It does not appear that tennis courts have any windcreens up. Why Why have we

085not been able to get the windcreens up yet? We're just waiting on those to be finalized to get here. Um I know we checked on that at OAC. They're on order. It's just a it's just a back order thing uh of getting because they had to be printed and is getting them printed and getting them here and they just were delayed for that reason. Okay. And then my last question about the administrative project is what is the latest on the development of renovations to the administrative offices? We have gone back to construction management and back to our architect and look for ways to lower the cost on that project. So, in fact, we just talked with Adam Weezner, our architect last week about it. Um, they are again working numbers trying to figure out how

086to get that number down and we are going to hard bid that project which will be we going to bid that out ourselves like in the we're not using Modern Asium to bid that. Is that correct? Not out there folks. Yes. Yes. And no. Um, when you hard bid you bid it all as one package. So, we're not bidding separate packages. We bid it all as one package. So basically, you're picking up a construction management firm and this one has a potential to be a little use a little smaller firm because it's a it's a smaller project. So we are going to bid that out and see if a construction firm will bid on that is one price then they have to cover the cost of their subs. Uh just a little bit different than

087how we've you know done the larger project. What we're hopeful of is using a little bit smaller firm. they'll invite uh vendors or attract vendors that may not be quite as large and maybe not have the overhead costs that we're seeing right now in the market with larger vendors. Um we can't guarantee it, but we're just trying to do our best to make that number as skinny as we possibly can to make that fit within budget. So it won't be the list of vendors that typically are allowed to bid on modern Asian big product big projects. Yeah, I mean to say from a practical standpoint, I think that's correct. Um, now it doesn't mean that any of those vendors can't bid it, but you know, because of the size of that project compared to many,

088they do uh and the markups we see u we think it lends itself to having smaller vendors bid that um who are used to doing a little bit smaller jobs and we think that may help the overall pricing when we get done. Were we a little bit disappointed in modern agent not kind of pushing to get this to do this job while they were here on the administrative building? You know, putting a putting a little pressure on the normal people that they use. Uh not no not at all. In fact, they they've been really good to work with even in this conversation cuz that's really if you want to think of that's work off of their plate, right? Um that they would be losing out on and they haven't contested us on that. uh they

089do only have in this market they only have so much control over pushing down some of those cost and numbers. I think they have done made reasonable efforts to do that. Okay. In fact, as we talked with them, they they realized, hey, we they've done pretty much what they can do and we knew that was still probably at a price point that wasn't going to fit us. So, this this is the other way we arrived at to do this. So, we've talked with them. Uh we've talked with the architect. So, uh, Bart and Coellmo will be putting together this as a package, uh, that we can hard bid out. And again, then whoever, whichever construction management firm wins that bid, they then have to make those numbers work. They bid it at with their subs

090to get that within that budget price it was approved at. Thanks. Yeah, good good question. It's been yeah it's been kind of a process here sort of backing up and taking it a different direction and again with tariffs and things like that now to have to work through we don't know what that's going to do pricing either so we're just going to have to put it out there and see what we get if speaking of which how is that going to potentially have you talked with uh my age in reference potential impact on say the transportation facility that ain't even broke around yet we have and we're looking through some options right now because everyone's kind of figuring that process out Myernium has presented us some potential options as they're talking to some other people

091too to try to say if there are inflationary pressure increases, how are those covered and how would that be written into a contract when that's bid out? So, we'll we'll come up with what we feel are the most, you know, fair but advantageous uh options to cover those costs if we should incur them. Because what we know is if you know if people think there's going to be a 25% increase, they're going to mark stuff up 25%. But they know they have to cover all that right out of the gate. If we decide to cover some of that, then we have to know there's enough money in the budget for us to do that. So at the end of the day, it's a little bit of a guessing game right now uh on those markups.

092So we're just trying to get to a point where we can agree with potential vendor biders on how to reasonably cover those costs should we incur them. And that includes where I've made comments before when you have to reduce the scope of work. It's about potentially maybe needing to reduce the scope of the project as opposed to how you're going to financially engineer quality to still get the same product done but with less quality. Correct. That's correct. Okay. Is there a number we're looking for in administrative complex down there that if if we don't hit that we would just hold off for a little bit or Yeah, I mean I think we Is it I want to say four? Yeah, I mean we're we're capped at four. Right. Right. We've you've done so minor agents

093bid on that was over over the well we just we just had an estimate. I mean they they estimate the work and yes it was over that. Okay. And so we made some just modifications to the basic plant to try to improve that because at the end of the day we have to have a certain amount of space. Um so we're trying to look at ways to mitigate that. So, it made most sense then to rather than trying to cram down to something you don't really want when you get done, let's look at a different approach to bidding that that might save some overhead cost. So, before you hard bid that, will it be shared with us as to what the footprint of the building is really going to look like? Mhm. Yes. And we've

094gone through some different iterations there just to say, hey, what how do we make this the size we have to have, but at the same time make it as efficient as possible from a cost standpoint. Thank you. Yep. Good questions. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. The next item on the agenda, legis SB1 and H. That's the next item on the agenda. Legislative updates. Dr. Schaefer. waiting for my updates to update here, but I I can speak to it anyway. Um, this past week, House Bill 1001 has been over in the Senate and Senate Bill One has been over in the House going through Ways and Means, and then through committee work. Um, and I I don't have today's outcome, but House Bill 101 we thought was going to get called up for a

095second hearing today, second reading today because it needs to get voted out tomorrow. So like it had to get voted on today to get voted out tomorrow. If it doesn't, it would go to a conference committee. And conference committee is essentially when your top three, four, five leaders in the Senate, your top three or four or five leaders in the House are going to get together behind closed doors and make make the adjustments to make these bills fit together appropriately. Because at the end of the day, the financial pieces of Senate Bill One and the financial pieces of House Bill 1001 have to marry up. So they have to go through a process to to make that happen. Um so Senate Bill one, as I mentioned, is in the House. It was passed through committee

096on third read last week. A couple things it does is it lowers, and we've talked about the 80 debt service rate. One of the provisions that was put in there at a very late date, very late being like a couple weeks ago, um was to put a 70cent debt service target for school districts. Uh now that only relates to your debt service, okay, not not operations, but it adds that that was that was a tough thing for us. The the good thing was it added a 4% increase to the max levy growth quotient which does affect operations because what was appro proposed originally in Senate Bill one back in January February was a 0% growth factor max levy growth quotient which means even if AV goes up 5 10 15 20% we would get zero

097increases in operations. Well, they came back and restored a 4% max cap on that, and that's what we've been at the last two years is a 4% max. So, they did restore that in there, which is helpful. Um, but as we talked, there's a lot more to learn about what all is in there and how those get matched up between House Bill 101 and Senate Bill 1, but a lot of that's going to happen here in the next few days. It has to because they're slated to be done, we believe. We think they're targeting April 25th to be completed. they technically have until the 29th um to complete this session. Um a little bit more uh current runs, I say runs, current estimates, we get estimate sheets for each school district uh from the Legislative

098Services Agency on the education funding for next year as would be in House Bill 101 right now. uh still includes, this is a disappointing thing, they still have the curricular materials fund in our basic tuition support that has not been in there in the past. That's been a separate pot of money to pay for textbooks that we're purchasing. This year they have put that money in our tuition support estimate which would lend the normal person to think, oh that's money you have to, you know, increase teacher pay, hire more teachers, take care of the other general things you need in your education fund. You can't. You need to spend that on your textbooks. And quite honestly, it's not enough money to cover what those textbooks are going to cost. It'll cover most of it, but

099it probably won't cover all of it. So it means any differences then have to come out of your uh remaining ed fund and that's happening across the state for every school district. If we take that money out and that's in the tune of I'm going to say $440,000 or so on a yearly basis the amount of money we would get because it's based on about $151 per child on your enrollment. So if you take 151 times 27, you know, 80 students, you're going to get somewhere between 4 and $500,000. But that money's got to be set aside to pay textbook fees. You take the remainder then of the increase right now, what they've proposed could change. It looks like about a 2% increase for 26 and about another 2% increase for 2027. uh which is

100a pretty tight increase, tighter than we've seen in the last few years, it is an increase um in your per dollar or dollars per student. Okay, that that amount of funding. Um so by the time you hire more teachers though and it doesn't give you a lot, gives you a little bit but doesn't give you a lot to increase wages. So again, we're no different than anybody else. That's just how this thing has been proposed here. the general fund re or the uh revenue state revenue report should come out Wednesday. It's targeted to come out on the 16th of April. Usually, most years on budget years, the House and Senate are waiting to finalize funding until after that April revenue forecast. If it's good, sometimes get a little bit more money. If it's bad, you

101know, they could cut it. So, it's kind of a coin flip right now. You would want to go ahead and finish this thing out before that revenue report comes out or not. I don't know. It's hard to say. Uh, still seems like inflation is there. Um, like there's an economy that's wanting wanting to go. Um but obviously some of the things we've seen here in the last few weeks um which I think are more political in nature maybe than they are economic in nature at least for a while um puts a lot of people just wondering what's going to happen. So we don't know but um that's what we're hearing right now. Some of the basic pieces out of House Bill 101 and out of Senate Bill one which are the two main funding. There's

102a lot of other pieces of language legislation, but from a financial standpoint, those are some of the things that we're hearing and seeing right now. So, hearing you say that, beyond your testimony down at the state house for the coalition of growing suburban urban schools, what else has that coalition been able to help the school members accomplish to address these concerns? Yeah, two things come right to mind. one is that that 4% back in the max levy growth potion that is that's important for schools to be able to operate. Uh very helpful. The other thing that was in Senate Bill 518 and a lot of the language from Senate Bill 518 got put into Senate Bill 1 last week. One of the things in there was revenue sharing with charter schools. That's still there, but

103one piece of it is not there. Um, and these are conversations I've had directly with with legislators and our our leadership team has had with legislators from the coalition. Um, if that passes as it's proposed, if we have more than 100 students from our district that live in our district that would attend a charter school that's in our district, and we don't have one yet, but it's probably a matter of time, then you have to revenue share. So whatever tax dollars we have coming in to take care of operations here in the district, you'd have to share those on a prorited basis with that charter school. That would include your operation fund dollars. It would include at that point is going to include also your debt service dollars. So imagine if you're trying to do

104a building project and you're saying, "Okay, that project to build whatever you need to build, let's say that's going to cost $15 million." and you have public hearings and your, you know, your community comes, gives their input, board approves that at $15 million to build X square foot, and then you sell the bonds, you're going to have to take that bond proceed and give some of it to that charter school. And our question was, how how does that work? because it's going to lead to inflationary pressures of then overestimating because you got to share dollars and where would the accountability be on the part of the charter school? They have appointed boards, not elected boards. So they're not they're not represented locally by elected officials. So the questioning of that and the thinking through resulted

105in that piece of the debt service being removed from that bill. And if that doesn't happen though and that money starts to follow against the charter schools in that fashion. Has the coalition asked the question, why wouldn't that happen with non-resident transfer students from district to district? That was that was proposed in the bill early on. Um, and it was actually removed pretty quickly u because I think it gets too uh this is my speculation. I think it gets too complicated to follow all that uh from a state accounting standpoint and from even from your local revenue standpoint because kids move around. I mean wouldn't that I mean that's the same premise though in my mind when it comes to the transfer of the charter schools because again that kid can transfer to the charter

106school. We got more than 100 of them. So all that money follows them yet in April that kid comes back after the second count date here that money doesn't revert back. Correct. So that all messiness exists and I would think that coalition would see the ability to push that more so in terms of that understanding with that aspect of making those changes to get it pulled out of there. Yeah, it wasn't a priority for the coalition. Here's why. Because this is a coalition of growing schools, but you also have some you have urban schools coalition, you have rural schools. um that that wasn't that wasn't anything that would be unique to any one of those groups. It would be common among all those groups for that type of thing to occur. So there's a lot

107on referendum and how those are being run. There's a lot on some of the budgetary pressures for growing schools which gets into operations. Those are a little bit more of our focus just because you can't when when you meet with legislators, you're going to get about 15 minutes to 30 minutes. So trying to cover the things you need to cover and meeting with them in small groups that time is precious. So you really have to focus on your top two or three things. Uh I understand your points and that you're you're not that must be the part of the premise of their slogan in terms of one voice something another. It's it's only representing the commonalities amongst all those various school corporations of sizes that it has in the corporate in the coalition. Yeah, that

108would be that the point you made would be something more you would see from the principal association or the superintendent association or the teachers association where you're kind encompassing all districts across the state. Thank you. Any other comments or questions? Next item on the agenda is announcements. Apparently I have several of them. Our next school board meeting will be here in the district training room at the middle school on May 12th at 6:30 p.m. On April 16th is the wellness committee annual meeting via Zoom for those who would like to see that if they want to go to our website and look at our um board agenda. There's a Zoom link there for that. The high school spring play will be the weekend of April 25th, 26th, and 27th. It starts at 7:00 p.m. on

109Friday and Saturday and 2:00 p.m. on Sunday. April 30th is the FFA banquet at 6:00 p.m. May 1st is the academic top 15 awards program at 6:00 p.m. And May 10th is the Danville High School Prom at the Bitwell Center from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. I need a motion to adjourn this meeting. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Brown. Second. Second. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. All in favor? I. Any opposed?