001ful for a very generous uh community that uh donates monthly to what we do here at the Cal Central. >> Yes. Thank you to all of our donors. Okay. Um item H, report of the superintendent. >> All right. Um we do have the Northeast Indiana Special Education Cooperative. Uh it's the joint services agreement revision. Uh the board approved this joint service agreement last year and it was for a five-year term. Uh we did have a departure of one of the member school districts. So there were some revisions that the co-op director Katie Odor felt needed to be made um to and then taken back to all the partner corporations to make sure that everything is accurate uh in the agreement. the agreement would still be valid through June 30th of 2029. I've just asked the
002boards for consideration to approve this joint service agreement. And again, the co-op uh is a partnership um of 12 school corporations in northeast Indiana providing special educa special education services uh throughout those 12 school districts, over 4,000 uh students. if they were a standalone school district, they'd be the largest school district uh of any of the 12 in the four county area. So, we take advantage and have a partnership with the co-op and they provide a lot of different services with within our buildings. And so, I would certainly recommend the board approve of these revisions for the joint services agreement. >> At this time, I'll ask the board for a motion. >> Make a motion to approve. I'll second. >> I have a motion, a second. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying
003I. >> I oppose. >> Motion passes. Item H2, the 2025 2026 school safety specialist recommendations. >> Our district safety director, uh, Mr. Harrison has provided a memo for school safety specialist. As the district safety director, he's requesting your approval of the list of school safety specialists for Decal Central Schools for the 2526 school year. At the elementary level and at Country Meadow, we have Rosie Brandt, Colobby Kaine, and Taylor Tipton. At Watson, we have Austin Harrison and Ashley Sparkman. At McKenna Harrison, we have Justin Horde, and Carrie Bennett. At Waterlue Elementary, Amanda Rice, Michelle Vince, and Melissa Smith. At the middle school, we have Carrie Weiseart, Justin Wrenchler, Zach Wampler. And at the high school level, we have Marcus Wagner, Andrew Bigalow, Reef Gilg, uh Jake Bryley. And at the district level, myself, uh Lori
004Vaughn, Jeremy Hufflefinger, Cody Brown, and Josh Huffleinger, which would include our three SRO officers. All the members of Decalp Central Schools building administration teams and additional key support members will continue to be trained as school safety specialists. And I believe, if memory serves me uh correctly, Mr. comparison, we far exceed the best practice that the state has in alignment for uh schools and districts across the state. So, we have a large number of people that uh are trained here in our district, which is excellent for our buildings and our district as a whole. So, I would just ask for the board's consideration to approve this list. Okay. >> Do I have a motion? >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by
005saying I. >> I. >> Oppose. Motion passes. Item H3, the district safety and intervention plan for 202526. >> All right. Mr. Harrison's been very busy. Last month he presented kind of an um a review and overview of our district safety initiatives um over the past school year and things to look forward to moving into the future. And again, uh Mr. Mr. Harrison doing a great job of keeping us up to date on our safety and intervention plan. Uh he's requesting the board to consider thea safety and intervention plan for the 2526 school year. Uh the safety plan was attached for your review and to remain compliant with state law and best practices. Updates have been made and I believe he was able to highlight those updates um in yellow in the crisis plan. And of
006course, Mr. Mr. Harrison is here this evening and can answer any questions that you might have, but I certainly would appreciate the board's consideration to approve the uh plan as presented. >> Okay. I'll ask the board if they have a motion. I'll make a motion. >> A second. >> Motion and a second. Any discussion? >> Okay. Thanks, Austin, for all your hard work. And I think we had Did you guys have the active shooter training already or is that coming? Oh, okay. Good. >> Good. Well, thank you. Okay. Any other discussion? >> And Justin didn't get hurt this year, right? >> Oh, that's right. Last year. >> Hey, couldn't resist. Never gets old. >> We're here. We're just here to remind you. >> Stay with you for a long time. >> Wow. >> Okay. >>
007Sorry, Justin. Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppos. Motion passes. >> Okay. Item H4, the 2025 2026 fundraisers. >> Uh, last month I believe we brought to you for your attention um the fundraisers for Decal Middle School uh from Mrs. Weiseart. Um there's no board action to take. It's forformational purposes only. so the board is aware of the types of things uh that are you know a lot of fundraising a lot of things to support uh we do have the four elementary schools and DAB high schools list of fundraisers um for your review as well and for your information because I know out in the community I'm sure you get a lot of questions about the things happening in our district. So uh those list of fundraisers and the
008dates in which they'll take place are there for your review. >> Thank you Steve. All right, that brings us to item H5, the 2025 2026 student handbook updates, referencing the documents that I sent to you um early last week. This is the time of the year when we take a look at our handbooks and they're kind of a work in progress for a couple of months. And we take a look at them um for several reasons. number one to revise, reflect and and see what we need to to uh add or delete from our handbooks, but we do it this time of year also because the new laws come into effect on July 1. And so we need to make sure that our handbooks reflect new laws and the way that the laws are to
009be administered and and this year there were um there were a couple that that changed for us just a little bit. Um, you probably noticed and and maybe not, but we um we just plugged in the brand new language. For us, it wasn't brand new because we were doing a lot of it from last year, but the attendance guidelines that the state put forth, there was there was a change there that we will fall in line with. And that's the same in all three handbooks. Um, that's another thing that we tried to do this year. uh working with ISBA coming up with some consistent language across all three elementary, middle, high school buildings so that some of our policies are exactly the same as they move forward. We'll continue to look at that as we
010can. I think, you know, when I ask the principles to take good looks at their handbooks, those handbooks are kind of their Bibles and they want to be able to open those handbooks and reference them and and you get a little nervous if you don't maybe have something in your handbook that maybe you came across last year and it's kind of my dress code theory. You know, it changes every time a new fashion comes out. So, we have to make sure that those handbooks serve their purpose for our administration and I believe they do. principles worked very hard on getting those revised and cleaning up and and I think they're a little bit smaller than they were last year, but we're going to keep working on that as we move forward. There is one change
011I would like to mention that will take effect in all three handbooks and now principles, I'll send you the verbiage so that you can update your draft and then we can move forward with publishing. Um it's under the attendance um guidelines and it's under the excused absences. So, it'll be on different pages in all the books or I give you page numbers. We added the word uh a licensed Indiana physician, MD or DO and then also a bullet point that says an advanced practice provider, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant under a physician's supervision. This falls under the guidelines of who we will accept excuse notes from. And that was an important addition and Valerie, I thank you for noticing that. And this is actually the same language that's provided by the Indiana Department of Health
012under the vaccinations and immunizations. So, um, clearly, you know, we get information from all different sources. It'd be nice if it aligned, but it didn't, but now this particular language does. >> So, there um, like I said, the changes reflect laws that came into being and things that are required to be in handbooks. we were missing a couple of things, not major, but things that the government says we should have in our handbooks. So, I feel good about them and um ready to move forward if the Lord is. >> Okay. At this time, do I have a motion? >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion over it tonight. >> And a second. Any discussion? >> Yeah. I remember in the middle school when they used to pass out those
013Bibles. >> Yes. Paper >> and paper. And then there students passes were in the back. If you didn't have your handbook, you couldn't >> agendas and >> couldn't leave. >> Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, thankfully we we we've uh progressed with the times and the handbooks are online and available for anybody online. They're also on our district web page. So, >> yes, >> cost savings. >> That's right. >> I'm sure that was a lot of reading, a lot of work, a lot of time, a lot of headaches and scanning word for word and looking for any modern things that we needed to adjust. So, thanks for your time. >> Well, I thank the principles because they put the time and energy in at the building levels to send it my way and take a look at
014them all. So, and I thank you for your review. >> I appreciated the reading material over the weekend. >> Yeah. But it was good and there were some things that I found that I thought like that I thought we could align a little bit better just the wording. But that's good. So, thank you for your time and everyone's effort. All right. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I >> oppose. Motion passes. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Item H6, the athletic training teacher stipen. >> Yes. Bringing for Marcus Wagner at the high school. Uh Rick Williams is our one of our athletic trainers with OPS and he is going to be teaching an athletic training course. We would like to compensate him again with a $4,000
015stipen. Uh he'll be teaching a seventh hour class, right? Seventh hour is Mark. Seventh hour first semester just one semester class. So $4,000 we'd like to compensate him for if the board would approve. >> This time I'll turn to the board and ask for a motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? >> Yeah. Do don't we have kids that help in the training room all year long? Even though the class is over, don't they kind of roll over into this winter spring? We used it weather delays. First semester, >> right? Okay. Thank you. >> It's a valuable class. So, I appreciate his effort in teaching and training our students. Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. I >> oppose. Motion passes. >>
016Um, item H7, the DMS requests for authorization to dispose of outdated, unusable uniforms. >> Clearly, all of our building principles, this seems to becoming a pattern, >> trying to free up some storage space. Middle school has gone through and found a bunch of surplus or outdated, uncserviceable athletic uniforms, warm-ups, etc. uh they are requesting that they be allowed by the board to dispose of these responsibly either by donations to charitable organizations and possibly recycling or throwing in the dumpster if they're that bad. We have attempted to sell them I believe through fundraisers and things like that and not having a lot of luck. So Mrs. Weissart would love to free up some closet space and things like that at the middle school. So I would ask the board to approve the disposal of these unused
017uniforms. Okay, >> this time I'll ask the board if anyone has a motion. >> Motion to approve. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion in a second. Any discussion? >> Sure. >> Maybe put them out on U back to school night and say donation or free. >> So, we did that last year and year previous and we plan to do that again. We just wanted to make sure >> Oh, yeah. It was >> purge. >> Come on over. >> You heard that. I'm coming. >> Some Weber still run the football league. >> Rockets. Yeah. >> Yeah. Want to ask them if they want them for practice jerseys or anything? >> We do. I know we are working with >> Unfortunately, the middle school jerseys don't hold the same as the high school jersey. >>
018Yeah. >> Mean they don't fit us anymore. >> That's one that part not there. >> Okay. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I oppose. >> Motion passes. Okay. Item H8, transportation au auction recommendation. >> Bringing this from Matt Vince, our director of facilities. Also, Nick Kmiller um over at the bus garage and Danielle Mezer, the transportation director. We have a number of buses that are outdated that are just sitting in our lot um through the years. Some we have we have obviously keep them insured. Uh some of the things with these seven buses, you know, they have the older lap belts, they don't have the newer shoulder restraint. um obviously taking up a lot of space over in the bus garage. So, we're looking to
019possibly start auctioning these school buses. Matt and I discussed it. I think it's a good idea if we do do auction, we're going to try one bus at a time. I've also asked Nick maybe to reach out to some of his cohorts. Are there any school districts around that possibly would have an interest in taking seven school buses off of our hands that we are not using? But, uh we did have pretty good luck on our last auction with a school bus. I'm not Matt has warned me, don't get your hopes up that we'll get that much money again because these are all propane buses and those are a tougher sell for people to have to fill up with propane as opposed to the the diesel. Um, but we're going to use gov deals again
020and just try one and keep going. So, I just asked >> How much did the last one go for? >> Uh, I knew you were going to ask that. G. Did you? I want to say 5,000 or right at that. >> It was a lot older though, right? Matt, I think, is listening, so maybe he'll text me and I'll be able to tell you that next few >> six or seven thousand. So, I I can find that. I apologize for not having that. I should have had that. But it was more than I remember we were happy that it was a lot more than we thought we were going to get. And it was the bus that we had auctioned once, didn't get a high enough bid. We we reran it and the better bid
021came in. >> So, you got some low mileage items on here. What's the other what's the age of the rest of the fleet that we're keeping look like? I guess that's where I'm having a a gap in and and just making a decision here >> in terms of like what year >> year and mileage. I mean, there's some there's one's only got 30,000 miles on it. >> Yeah, I saw the same thing. And >> if we get five grand out of that, I don't know. I mean, >> yeah, and obviously we do have the auction set up to where we don't have to accept a bid if we don't want to. But I'm with you when I saw the list. I'm not obviously predates me into how we accumulated >> seven buses not being used.
022I'm not sure of the history there. Um I just know that they're telling me they don't use the buses and they're sitting there. I may I want to make sure we keep a few um on hand in case buses break down. But these we have that without these seven. We have not put these buses through bus inspection in a couple of years. So >> how does this fold into the the lease plan and and for the bus? >> These are owned. These are not leased. actually is not part of that >> feed the the lease. >> These were probably some of the very first propane buses that >> purchased. That's what I was going to ask too if it was part of that. >> I'm sorry. >> Do we own any other buses? No. >>
023Or is everything? >> Yeah, everything's everything's going to be on the cycle of leases at this point. >> So, this is the last of their >> should be the last of the owned buses that I know of. I will verify that. And >> there were a couple of >> Yeah, please do. >> There were a couple gas ones, too, though. Are those were those owned or were those part of the lease? said >> I believe the gas ones are are part of a lease, but I will verify everything. >> There's no >> and I think we've kept those for longer trips. >> Yeah. Right. >> Because make sure because propane's not available everywhere >> and there's no rush on this. I mean, we can gather that additional information on the entire fleet so you can
024compare the >> We can push this off to August if you want. >> Yeah, I'm in I mean, I'm okay either way. I just wanted to understand the total fleet. Kind of might be a good time to re rehash that next bring that next month so we understand. >> Absolutely. We'll bring that. >> Be a good educational spirit so people don't understand how many buses we do have in the fleet. >> Sure. >> You'll have to sell them to a school corporation. They'll be sell person. >> Anybody can buy them. >> Are you bus? >> I might be. >> There you go. >> There's some people that make the smaller buses into party buses, >> right? >> I got a lot of friends so I might need a bigger bus. >> Call them up. on
025the bid. >> All right, we'll cut you a deal. >> All right. Do we want to go ahead and vote on this now then or >> Yeah, we can vote. >> Yeah. Okay. >> All right. I'll ask for a motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Second. >> Okay. A motion, a second. Any other discussion? >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppose. Motion passes. >> And Gina was correct. It was over Matt did say it was over 6K. So, right at that. >> Okay. Well, that was really speedy. That brings us to item I, which is miscellaneous. So, I'll turn it to the board first. >> Yeah, I brought my uh hard hat here for my prop for my miscellaneous pieces. Um, for those of you who
026are out there in Decal County and don't know that we've got construction going on, maybe you should drive out. Don't wait till Labor Day when things are all done. You need to come by. Drive slow. I'm recommending you go to your favorite ice cream place, wherever that is. Uh drive slowly around the school. You need to go around the backside by the bus garage. I know the bleachers aren't there. It's a little lonely out there because there's nothing there, but it's kind of cool knowing what's coming. So, you can use your imagination as to what the new bleachers are going to look like. Then that block building, that's concession. So, if you're not sure, please take a look at the press box in the bleachers or the softball field. If you haven't been out to
027the high school since January, it's nice. And then please go around, go through the old band parking lot and then drive to the southeast corner where there's a nice white hill. That's where the new band marching area is. Um there's no manhole cover for them to march around, which is I hear was a hazard at the time, but things are moving along. I still want to know when that tower gets moved. >> I want to see that. >> You'll hear. >> Thank you. >> You'll hear. So, I brought my construction hat. Thanks to these guys, things are moving on pretty quickly. So, don't be surprised when you come out Labor Day weekend and go, "Wow, when did all this happen?" Well, it happened all summer long. Uh, back to school. Wow. Part of the construction
028we're building for the future with the kids. So, back to school. They're on the agenda. There's there different times and different dates. So, building the minds of tomorrow. So, be ready. And the kids are going to be out on the streets like crazy. So, they're going to be getting their last few weeks of playing, but once early August comes, hopefully they'll all be in buses and all excited, ready to go. So, it's all I have. >> Things are happening. >> Along with that, I think too, can we give the community an update on where we're at financially with the 23 and 24 bond? Just roughly where we at on the spending process and project completion. and Matt put together a real nice letter on all the activities. There's a lot going on, which is is
029fantastic. It's exactly what we hired that position for. So, um, but again, I think I think the community would like to hear where we at on the project lists. We had two bonds open right now. Where where are we at in completing the activities? >> 50% of the way. Where are we at? >> Yeah, financially we're with 2023 bond more than 50% of the way. Um we we made some big payments on water which is getting ready to get buttoned up which is the biggest portion of that bond project. We have about $5 million a little more than $5 million left to spend on that one of the 10 11 million 2024 bond. Um we're still in the early phases because obviously we're still doing early work. I have gotten a couple big ones from
030FCI and and Dan Clayton for the bleachers themselves. So we made a few payments there but we're still sitting at a balance of about 13 million. I would also add that we still do have our project list update on the website along with the bond registers that I give the board. I keep those updated on the website as well so they can see real time what's being spent and where we're at. >> Okay. And then uh update on the um solar field. your letter in said that the lease was for >> 723,000 for the solar panels and then LED lighting was another two something >> um >> 200 something for LED >> right and I and I fine-tuned that and I did put in the board updates folder um as I said I would I
031have an insurance update and I have the solar update folders both in board updates for you okay >> I made a word file that listed your questions and I put my answers past it. >> Oh. >> Um, >> and then I also put the we did have our m preventative maintenance summary from PSG for solar that's in there as well. So, you can look at that. >> That was one going to be one of my questions. Do we have an outside maintenance group doing >> we PSG and and that's in the sheet. >> Um, we just signed in 2024 a five-year agreement with PSG for preventative maintenance and it's tiered obviously. So this year was $4,817 and it like the last year is 5,500. >> Does that include cleanings? >> That's everything. Yeah. Anything that
032needs done this last as you if if you do look at it came back flawless. They're very happy with the conditions of everything. I have also requested PSG. The one thing you can't you cannot pick up from the electric bills is the actual output of the kilowatts which I found strange. It's but it doesn't show. So they have to import that for me and they typically send me a spreadsheet. As soon as I get that update, I'll share it with the board. I did see your email from yesterday. I assume you took that from the website. >> Yeah. With with that. >> Yeah. Just using the general numbers. >> Correct. Yeah, there are there are updates on our website for solar as well. Um Yeah, >> because again it it be it's really a cost
033avoidance and I get that. However, and this is why the maintenance part to me is so important. >> The longer the panels last, >> then it becomes a cost savings, right? Not just a cost avoidance. >> To the point where if we can get the panels to let because typically they say 25 to 30 years, >> but if we can get 30 years out of those panels, the school overall long term should save somewhere around a half a million bucks. >> Yeah. And that's and that's where they were >> over over 30 years. 30 years, >> it's still half a million dollars. >> Correct. >> And so that's to me again, the maintenance piece is what will keep those. And I will say whatever we've done maintenance-wise the last three years, if you look at
034the chart, >> there's an uptick, >> right, >> in the amount of kilowatts being generated. So whatever PM we have been doing has been helping, >> right? >> And I'm sure the >> maybe some more sunny days >> last few weeks we've had doesn't hurt any, >> right? Hey Tony, in your analysis, did you include the interest that we're paying on that because we're it's over like%. >> Yeah, I said I I said that pretty much the interest rate that we're being charged would be offset by the change in electricity cost because if you go back to the beginning of 2019, the electric cost when you guys put it in was about 11 12 cents and the average now is about 18.2. >> Yeah. What are we? We're not getting that full amount, are we?
035But we get we get what the electric >> calculate the cost avoidance cost is >> cost avoidance of us not having to buy kilowatts >> just by what's being generated. It's about we're we're we're cost avoiding about $45,000 >> in electricity cost and our lease term without interest is about 36,000 a month. >> Right. So I'm or yeah no year I'm sure our interest rates >> $72,000 a year is what we're paying out >> as as I look at totality for question but that included the LED lights right that's the interest principle all together >> the totality of the bond well it's not bond of the of the debt is going to be right at a million57 >> okay million57 for just the solar component >> I'm I'm I did my best to break it
036found by the cost. That again was a project before me. If you remember, I think Greg and Val were both on the board at the time. It was going to be solar at Country Meadow and Waterlue and something happened with Country Meadow site that it wasn't feasible. I I don't know. But so they went they scrapped the Country Meadow portion of solar and went with LED lighting updates. So that portion of the debt is for LED. Um, so my best I mean I just took the payments and I took 75 to 76% which was what the breakdown would be for solar >> to come up with that number. We currently still owe about $678,000 on that. Um, and we have about 24 more years of useful life out of the solar field. >> Yeah, because
037we've avoided $274,000 of electric cost so far. And again, this is if electric costs don't go up then they're going to go up >> right >> um at 25 years we'll have avoided 1.145 million and at 30 years we're at 1374 so that's again that'll offset that what was a million35 >> right >> but again it's back to we got to get the life >> correct >> out of the panel >> which is why we have that got to be >> contract absolutely >> maintained so >> I did include also in the paper just to see it because it's good to See, in my opinion anyways, I I obviously do my utility breakdowns. So, I took country Meadow and Waterlue size size schools roughly the same square footage. You know, Country is at 676. Waterl
038is actually bigger at 71,000 roughly. Um, and I included the electricity bill for Country Meadow and Waterlue for each year from 19 when we started the solar project to the present. And you see sizable differences like at country meadow in 2024 embarrassing to put my glasses on 70,000. >> We spent about 70,000 and and water spent about 38,000. So you can see it right there that solar has saved. I I'm with you know I understand what Greg is saying as well. How much it's going to be over the life. Is it worth it? That's a discussion for you guys. This was before me. I don't I don't know. I know solar is a hot topic in our area. >> Well, it comes down to the life comes down to the life of the panels, right?
039So, and when they put them at Waterlue, >> we weren't we weren't using that ground, >> right? >> It was just overgrowth. So not a major problem, but again it comes it comes back to we got to maintain the system we have >> to get as much life out of this as we can because if it if it it doesn't make 20 years then we really lost our shorts. But right now it looks like it's moving it way up. >> Right. >> And unfortunately for us I'm assuming that the is with go. >> Not all. >> Well yeah but I mean here in water definitely. >> Yes. >> Most expensive electricity there is in the state. >> So but no that's good. >> Then on the insurance update for your other one. Y >> I
040included I met with Brown and Brown. Melissa, myself, Gina met with Brown and Brown for like an update. They gave us a 12-month rolling um sheet to show over the last two years where we are. June is the six-month piece, which is what you were asking for. They're supposed to have that to me next week. I will share that data as well when I have the six-month breakdown. >> Do we have any idea just by looking at the financials? Are we somewhat >> close to where we were at or way lower than >> Well, one of my questions for you, one of your questions was the overall program savings. >> Yeah. >> And I'm not sure what you want there. >> Well, that would be your discount savings from >> the discount is going to
041remain the same >> from one plan to the other. >> Allied and employee plans are two TPAs. Allied purchase employee plans. Our discounts will remain the same. So, we should and I asked him to put that together for next week, >> but our discount theoretically should remain the same. over time because it's the same discount with blue cross blue shield we would >> Anthem uses Allied which the TPA determines that discount for us through Anthem. Anthem uses the same system. >> Okay. >> So the the discount should theoretically be the same but they are going to supply that for me. Um we were I would say the three of us were pretty happy with our meeting. Allied started out a little rocky. I think it was due to them, you know, they acquired employee plans
042and there was that was must have been a major learning curve for them. So, we went through, you know, kudos to Gina and Melissa because once it got past the approval process of you for making the change, it it dropped right into their laps and I was I was on the outside looking in. So, I heard a lot of the complaints um just the struggle with communications and I believe that Allied is has rided the ship, so to speak. Um you know, obviously everything comes down to how many claims you're going to have, what what our employees are doing. So, that's what makes things hard to make a true comparison, you know, but I can pull I think I put in my notes for you. I'm happy to pull a couple of things. >> Compare
043the administrative costs. >> Exactly. And then again, I've always compared discounts because like just like you said, you don't know if you're going to have 10 million in claims or four million in claims. You can't control that. So, >> right, >> I I would I would suggest that you guys get a hold of Pete Kemp. Pete Kemp now is in charge of professional services at um um Tangola. hospital >> in Cameron. Thank you. Cameron Hospital. Um they have a new program that they are trying to launch and it's associated because now they have their own pharmacy. Um and uh it's again for employers and I know they're in Angola but um they have a program where they'll actually bring your prescriptions for your employees to your employment >> and Uh they have promoted some drastic
044savings where especially diabetic medication you could go from 200 plus a month to 20 bucks a month in actual dispersements from the employees. Pete's the one that's driving it out of Cameron so he can tell you more about it. He can get more specific but he's working with a group called True Scripts which is who we use for prescription medications and those programs together. It's it's some special program that they qualified for as they put in their their new pharmacy services about two years ago. Um and they've been able to to save a lot of people a lot of money. >> So, again, I would just suggest you get a hold of PE can tell you more about >> Great. Thank you. Is anyone else have anything? >> Yeah, I got two I have two
045items. First off, just follow up on credit card usage for the last five years. Uh when do we present that data and and you know, I'd like to understand what all kinds of rewards we get. So when will we get that? >> Um I I looked into and I I assumed it would come up in this land. It's pretty simple for me to explain. I did pull our credit card costs or or what we've paid out >> expense-wise by credit card. um you know in the years like in 2022 we spent about $147,000 on credit card expenses but charging charges not expenses for the you know what I'm saying sorry >> um 2023 was about 80,000 2024 was 68,000 so we're going down we're trying to use credit cards less and less and it's it's
046my opinion as I talked to the AP girls in the back >> credit cards can be a nightmare sometimes if people don't get their receipts in things like that I mean they they get the statement and imagine I mean anybody at home getting their credit card statement having to act go through every single transaction on a credit card to find receipts and things like that. So I have really um tried to get away from credit card spending as much as I have. We are with Lake City right now. We do earn like one point they say per dollar spent. There are some better options out there. I've I've looked. Um it's just you know, I mean, we can get up to 3% on all cash back if we go with an outside entity. I'm just
047trying to weigh and I'm happy to have a discussion of it going away from our primary bank, you know, that treats us pretty well interest rate rise and things like that. >> You know, again, the question that he asked was to to to get the numbers and present the data of that. So, when the question is when am I when are we going to see the data that you >> what data? I'm sorry. I must >> the credit card spend for the last five years. Total credit card spend for the last five years. That's what I asked for. >> Okay. >> Um, so if I get that, please. And then, um, >> I just gave you the last three, I'll get the next two. >> Oh, yeah. That's fine. Just just present it. Please. Just
048send it to us. It's not not a heavy lift. >> Um, and then again, subscriptions. I need we need to look at your subscription. See if we can leverage anything there on subscriptions. So, again, those are those are easy ways to save a lot of money. And if you have a credit card that's simply subscriptions, you know, it's coming. So, it shouldn't be a big lift for the for the team. So, those are the asks there. Uh any questions on on that? >> I just want clarify what you mean by subscriptions because that can mean a lot of things in our world. >> Yeah, I mean we have a lot of recoccurring expenses. Correct. Subscriptions, IT expenses, uh software expenses, that type, >> but just recurring payments monthly or annually or semianually. >> So you're
049you you get recurring payments and you find a credit you get a credit card that that comes out of that and you know that the only thing on that is recurring expenses. And if you have a 3% savings, then you save 3% every month on all the subscript subscriptions you process through that. That's money that's straight to your bottom line. So that's kind of what the ask is. Okay, that's clear. Uh last thing is uh on the cyber security front um and I'm sorry Mr. Jones, I know this is not you, but um do we still have passwords for emails on file at HR? If we do, we need to stop that immediately. That is a cyber security risk. Um, you're putting yourself out there. You got to treat your email passwords as service announcement.
050Email passwords like your ATM. There's over $3 billion in sales or in revenue lost every year to to email fraud. Um, and you open yourself up to risk. I mean, uh, some bad actor could create a social media account in your name and you'd have no idea. So, >> it it was a practice. Um, I'm saying if it is, I urge everybody to email the IT department, ask for a one time password and change your password. That's my public service announce announcement for security. Thank you. >> And she did, if you didn't hear, we do not save those. >> So, it's not practice at one time. I'm just validating. It's not anymore. Okay. If it is, I'm just presenting the public service announcement to our employees that have a calv central.net email. this not an
051IT guy. I'm asking a stupid question. If you don't if a school doesn't have the password, how do you eliminate the email in the future if someone leaves? >> That's that's the personal password. There's an administrative password that can activate, deactivate emails and control all that. They could also forward emails to everybody and things like that, too. >> Great. All right. How about the administration? >> I I would just share that u you know school's right around the corner. Uh we have a lot of things happening now, but next week we have uh kindergarten orientation on Monday. We have freshman orientation on Monday. Um we have uh sixth grade orientation on Tuesday. We have in-person registration that's narrowed down to one day on the 22nd uh starting at 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. to help
052hopefully accommodate for parents uh work schedule giving them some daytime but also in the evening hours as well. So it'll be here before you know it. I did uh provide a copy of my welcome back letter to staff. Our days starting the school year are a little bit different this year. We do have a guest speaker that needed accommodated for. So we are kind of switching the schedule a little bit. So Tuesday, August 5th in the morning, we'll be at the high school in the auditorium. So certainly an open invite to all board members. Uh if you want to attend and hear an inspiring message to start our school year, that would be a great opportunity for you. But a letter for you to to read through. And if you have any questions on any
053of that, please uh please let me know. >> I have just a couple things. Um referencing my board update. I I hope I don't bore you with the review of the the title grants, but until you've done them for a hundred years, sometimes you forget what they're about. But there's been a lot of talk uh in the news and publicly and in your memos about the federal grant funding being cut uh or eliminated completely. And I just wanted to let you know, I wanted to put a dollar amount if from last year's allocations. We do not have this year's allocations yet. Those usually come the end of June, no later than July one because we've already had to do the pre-applications. So, we're kind of shooting in the dark. But, but based on what our
054total allocations for last year for the four major title one, title two, three, and four. Title one, of course, is the largest, but the total amount was $632,000. And that's a lot of money. And right now, um, the general consensus down south is we're either going to lose it all or get it all. I kind of would have gambled on possibly getting at least title one funding, which is our biggest and probably most important, but this is what I'm hearing. And so, we have no news. I have no news about it, whether or not we're going to see it or if we are, how soon it's going to happen. So, we're kind of in a holding pattern with that. I wanted to let you know that because there is a lot of chatter about >>
055glory is that for the 2026 calendar year >> that's for this >> the way they break it they'll say 25 27 but this would be for this 26 27 and like title three is an 18month grant so that would take that into 28 >> oh so this is over 18 months >> it could be not title one title one is annual title two is annual title four swings I think six months and so does title three So, have we received any of the 2025 money? >> We've received everything that we're going to get >> with carryover. Yes. >> So, is that part of the 632,000 or the >> No, >> 632,000 is what we're not going to get. >> 632 would 632. I'm sorry. Yes, it was. That's what we received total. Our total allocations
056now waiting for the new ones total to 632. Our new amounts are yet to be seen. Okay, >> the formulas are in there. Again, they could touch the formulas, too. Um the poverty ratio formula that that would be that would be shocking to me if they if they touch title one like that. But we're just in a waiting wait and see pattern. And despite that, I also shared some good news that I'd like to share publicly. Um, and thanks to our elementary curriculum director, the elementary teachers, principals, we had the best scores on iAre 3 this year that we've ever had in the history of i3. And that is due to getting outside of our boxes, thinking about things a little differently, meeting kids where they are, not where we'd like to be, and really
057making a difference in the way that we prepared and administered the testing. And so it was really when they first announced it last year that they were going to retain children, you know, the vision was, "Oh my gosh, what are we going to do?" And the domino effect for that is huge. But boy, I tell you, everybody rose to the occasion. Students experienced great success. Parents were happy. Um, the kids, believe it or not, understand or understood the ramifications. And some of them scared to death that they were going to, you know, because all they heard was if you don't pass it, you're going to retain. That was the message coming from the state. So, we had a lot of happy kids and happy teachers and happy principles and very proud of of those results.
058>> Thank you for sharing that update because that was a very positive one. >> That's all I have. >> Mark, did you have anything? >> I don't want to put him on the spot, but we do have our new IT director in the house. I saw a few people go up to him. Craig Jones is is on staff now. Started the job digging in deep. Welcome to the circus. >> Thank you. I appreciate that and I'm happy to be here and excited to see what comes. >> Good. Mark, is is the title money in the budget as revenue? >> No. >> Okay. All right. And then I got one last request. It's an easy one. Somebody turn the sprinklers on to the baseball diamond so we can have the infield grass not die. Yeah, I'm
059sure Matt I'm sure Matt Vince just heard that. He'll probably on his way back right now turning him on. >> He'll be there in Well, he's at the lake now, so it'll give you 20 minutes. >> That's true. >> Even if we just water at night. >> Yeah. I mean, I'm not sure what past practice has been there, honestly. But I'll Well, I have our ad here as well, so [Laughter] >> I didn't mean for past practice. I meant >> I'm sure Matt's on. >> I'm sure Matt is Absolutely. >> Spent all that money >> like keep it nice. >> Keep it green. >> Yeah. >> Outfield not so much >> at all green. >> So, >> okay. Um I did not have anyone sign up from the audience, but if anyone would like to
060share anything or has anything to say, please feel free. >> Okay. I'd like to welcome Mrs. Woods. She's here tonight and we just approved her. So, um welcome to Decal. We're happy to have you here. Welcome back. >> Oh, welcome back. Yes, >> welcome back student. >> That's right. Okay. All right. Well, at this time, um I will read into the minutes that we will have an executive session following this meeting immediately after this meeting. And then our next um facility and operations advisory group meeting is I didn't write that down. >> I got it here. Yeah, I can do it. >> Okay. I'll move on to the special board meeting um on August 1st here at central office at 7 o'clock a.m. and then our next regular board meeting will be August 19th here
061at central office at 6 o'clock p.m. >> facilities is August 7th at 6 pm here in the boardroom. >> Okay. >> Said August 7th. >> Yes. Thursday, August 7th. 6 p.m. >> 7 a.m. Right. >> 6 p.m. >> August 7th. That's the first. Sorry. >> The first facilities. That's August 1st. >> Busy month in August. >> Yes, August is busy. >> All right. At this time, I'll ask the board motion to adjurnn. >> I'll move to second. >> I have a motion, a second. Any other discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppos. Motion passes. Thank you all for coming tonight. >> Hey, Tony. >> Me. Tony. >> Either one. You'll be interested as well. >> Either one. Matt text that the the irrigation system is broken.