001I'm at 6:00. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And I welcome everybody. Yeah, under recommended action approval of minutes of meeting held April 8th, 2026. >> [snorts] >> I have a first and a second. Any discussion? Not hearing any. All in favor, raise your right hand. Motion carried 7 to 0. Approval and order of payment of claims and payroll. I move to approve. I'll second. I have a first and a second. Any discussion? Not hearing any. All in favor, raise your right hand. Motion carried 7 to 0. Approval of attendance to field trips. I move to approve the following field trip, South Carolina Elementary, grade six, Carowinds, Kings Island, Mason,
002Ohio, Mason I move to approve. I second. I have a first and a second for the stated field trip. Any discussion? Not hearing any. All in favor, raise your right hand. >> [clears throat] >> Motion carried 7 to 0. Resignations and leaves. I move to approve the following resignations and leaves. Latoya Watson, South Carolina Elementary, part-time instructional assistant, effective at the end of the year. Betsy Watts, South Carolina Elementary, part-time instructional assistant, effective at the end of the year. And leaves, Cheyenne Narwhal, South Carolina Elementary, medical leave, August 6th to October 9th. Move to approve. I second. I have a first and a second for the resignations and leaves that are stated on attachment one. Any discussion? Not hearing any. All in favor, raise your right hand. >> [clears throat] >> Motion carried 7 to
0030. Appointments and terminations. Ask the board to approve the following hirings. Heather Paul, North Decatur Elementary, art instructional assistant for the 2026-2027 school year. Anthony Jarvis, North Decatur High School, JAG specialist work-based learning coordinator for the 2026-2027 [snorts] school year. Kristen Hicks, South Decatur High School athletic director for the 2026-2027 school year. Eric Gulf, South Decatur High School, JAG specialist work-based learning coordinator for the 2026-2027 school year. And athletics at South Decatur High School, Eric Pittman, varsity boys basketball. Dustin Traylor, volunteer assistant boys basketball. Natalie Haley, varsity assistant cheer. Carrie Denney man, junior high cheer. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. I've got a first and a second for the appointments and terminations stated on attachment one. Any discussion? Not hearing any. All in favor, raise your right hand. Motion carried 7 to
0040. Nothing under public comments or old business. Take [clears throat] this to the new business, extra effort award. Month from South End. Mrs. Evans, would you like to start? Please. Um I would like to nominate Mrs. Evans and she is our occupational therapist at our building and she came to um me a couple months ago and said, "I have I have this idea to have a sensory garden at school. Would you be willing to support it and [clears throat] let me run with it?" So, those of you that don't know what a sensory garden is, is many students have sensory needs. Um through tactile um things that they touch, they feel senses. So, putting this in place would give those students um the ability to, you know, mess with those things to a point where
005they're able to, you know, handle different senses in the world. So, she came to us with this idea on her own and she's kind of spearheaded it. It was put into place probably a couple weeks ago for the first time and it has been an absolute huge hit. Students are going out there probably daily if not multiple times a day. There are I mean, she could tell you all the different things but there's things they can check out. There's water, there is sand, there's honestly things that many of our students may have never had in their hands and played with. They some of them don't like it but that's kind of the the whole point of it but there is a swing out there. There was actually we were able to incorporate Trent Jones, Ryan
006Jones' brother and then the latest thing that she has came up with was we were able to put a bowling alley out there with some movement in honor of Trent Jones, too. So, it really it's coming to life. It's an amazing little space. If you have a second, go check it out but I wanted to read it. She had several nominations and here are just a few. Krista Evans has gone out of her way to create a sensory garden outside for students at SES. She has provided opportunities for a variety of sensory experiences and she has designed and organized checkout system so that materials can be accounted for and available to all students. She has honored Trent Jones in the process of special community member in the garden has included his family, friends, community and
007dedication. And that's the other thing the surprise for him was all orchestrated by Krista. She got a hold of friends and family members and made sure everybody was there all on her own. The sensory garden is a unique addition to SES and we were blessed that Krista was willing to put in the extra time and effort to create it and our students will benefit for years to come. So, truly I feel like extra effort in every sense these past few months putting something together that all of our students can enjoy. So, Krista Evans, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING. I DON'T KNOW HOW WE'RE DOING THIS. I DON'T KNOW EITHER. JUST STAND RIGHT HERE. WE'RE GOING TO take a picture. >> [laughter] >> My entire staff decided to do everything to tell me after my surprise. >>
008Sorry, >> [laughter] [laughter] >> This photo you have currently occupied 80% of my wardrobe. >> [laughter] >> Um so, for South High, I really want to recognize six individuals, Amanda Gold, Sydney Calway, Angie Green, and Smiley, which isn't here today cuz she's at the awards awards day, Don Gasker, and Jennifer Chastain. Threw a curveball there to everybody. >> [laughter] >> These six individuals worked tirelessly for a month, month and a half, to get everything for prom and after prom squared away. Um whether it was food and drinks to organizing it, to making sure parents were in the right places, working with community members like Juanas. It takes a lot of effort, a lot of time, a lot of pre-planning, probably some late nights with probably some bloodshed with the amount of decorations that are there.
009Just a lot of effort. The six of them also do a ton outside of prom and and after prom for both buildings. Um Um but this was just the the latest thing that they've been involved with. So, I really want to uh um celebrate them for their Thank you. Thank you VERY MUCH. >> [laughter] [laughter] >> OH, HOLD ON. JEREMY'S GOT THEM. IT'S EVERYONE. >> [laughter] [laughter] >> I promise you, you really want to leave now. >> [laughter] >> So, please don't feel offended. Make a run for it. Or stay and listen to the presentation. I think some of it's pretty good. Twice. So, >> [laughter] >> I think Eric and Jennifer you guys can stay. >> [laughter] [clears throat] >> All right. Here we go. Project hearing presentation. Thank you. The next item on
010the agenda tonight is project hearing and for the additional appropriation hearing for the Swan project. Uh after a presentation by the administration and their advisors, anybody uh here can then comment uh on the project and uh feel free to do so. Uh, the notices for this hearing were published in both the Greensburg and the Shelbyville newspapers, as required by law. And pursuant to the Indiana code, uh, before a school corporation may spend more than $1 million to build or repair school buildings, uh, that will be financed by a lease or by bonds, uh, we must hold a public hearing. And, uh, at that hearing we'll [snorts] explain to you the value of the project to the school and the community. And so, that is what we're doing this evening. Uh, similarly, uh, pursuant to the
011Indiana code, before a school corporation can appropriate dollars that may raise, uh, from bond proceeds, we must have a hearing on that as well. So, that also is part of this, uh, hearing tonight. So, the first thing we're going to do is I'm going to ask Dr. Burns if you will, uh, tell us about the need for the project. Thank you. The We have several presentations due to the financial constraints, not only here at Shelbyville Schools, but as far as the corporation in the state. The main purpose for our this particular project is the massive cuts that we have, um, undertaken with our operations fund, losing a roughly $1.1 million over the next 3 years. It's going to leave significant gaps and holes in everything we do on the operations side, which is basically everything
012outside of classrooms. And so, the bigger ticket items, uh, that we're looking at are probably buses, vehicles, I mean, anything related to the maintenance of buildings, anything that are boilers, anything you can think of that is substantial as far as the operations of the four five buildings go, could fall under that. Also with that is buses, as well, anything needed for transportation center and the buses, but all of those things, um, it's going to be difficult to pull this off over the next 3 to 5 years. So, this will provide us the revenue going make sure we can get those things done because as great as things are in the classroom, if you can't get kids in the building, if the building's falling apart, things like that, then it really doesn't do us a whole
013lot of good. So, this is to help us offset a lot of those losses with the household back one. Thank you. Uh next, I'm going to ask Jeff Hamill, who's from Baker Tilly, our municipal advisor, to talk about how we're going to finance this and the how it'll affect the property tax. Thank you, Jim. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. I'm Jeff Hamill with Baker Tilly. We serve as your municipal advisor, so help you through the bond issuance process um and help you navigate that to make it as smooth as possible. Um I've got a few slides that I will go through today. Um these are I'm going to hit on the financial parameters that we'll see in the bond resolutions to be considered this evening. [laughter] Um I'll also note that these are maximums, so
014they are intentionally conservative. Um within that, we overestimate interest expense, interest costs. Um that's all done to give you flexibility as you move forward and navigate this project, ultimately deciding how how best to issue these bonds. It also protects you since you're adopting resolutions this evening, bonds wouldn't be issued for a few months. It helps protect against any kind of fluctuations that we may see in the bond market. So, I'm going to highlight these here this evening for you. I want to start just with a chart of your existing bonds. The school has eight bonds currently outstanding. Um payments are at about $4.1 million for all eight combined on an annual basis from about 2027 through 2032. You'll notice there's a step down in your payments starting in 2033. And then as we get out
015to 2043, um any of these bonds that are currently outstanding would be fully matured and paid off at that point. So, we'll kind of circle back to this slide here in a little bit, but I want to start just with uh a chart showing your existing bond payments and bonds outstanding. I'm going to skip over this. That's just the data that populates the chart. So, if you want to go back and if you want to take a look at how each bond repays and what each payment is, you can do that on this slide. >> [clears throat] >> This slide shows the school's general obligation or you may hear it called GO bond capacity. I want to make clear this doesn't represent your total bonding capacity. You could do the first mortgage bond mechanism, which
016is what you've done for all your existing bonds currently. Uh but these bonds that we would be considering would likely be general obligation bonds because you have the capacity to do that. The capacity is determined by this kind of funny formula here. Um it start It applies to all municipalities in the state of Indiana. And you start with your net assessed value. Think about that as your collective tax base. [cough and clears throat] In 2026, that was um 1 billion 228,964,352. Uh that number does change every year, but that's where it is most recently in 2026. Kind of working through the formula, you divide by three, take 2% of that. That gives you your GO debt limit, which is 8,193,096. The final step will be to subtract out any principal on current general obligation bonds
017that you may have outstanding. Since the school does not have any, there's nothing to subtract. So, that approximately $8.2 million becomes your capacity to do a general obligation bonds. So, this slide shows kind of the maximum parameters that you'll see in the resolution. Uh we again were intentionally conservative here. We've also built some flexibility in. So, as you think through um the ultimate amount to issue, uh the repayment term, all of those things can be worked out as we kind of go through this process. But I have shown two um illustrative repayment scenarios to give you an idea of how this could look. Uh the important parameter is we're setting the maximum borrowing amount at $4 million, so we cannot exceed $4 million. We can always issue less than $4 million, uh but we cannot
018exceed the maximum approved amount of $4 million. That translates to about $3,830,000 in proceeds that you can apply towards the project. The difference between those two numbers is because of issuance costs. Every time you issue bonds, there are costs associated with doing so. Similar to if you were to take out a mortgage or a loan, you have those closing costs. Bonds are obviously much higher amounts, there's a lot more involved, so those amounts are a little larger. We are again intentionally conservative with these numbers, would expect that you would have more available for the project after the bonds are issued, but we don't want you to plan on a certain amount of dollars and not get those. So, intentionally conservative with that $3,830,000, that's about what you would have to then spend on projects. Um
019we've looked at two different repayment terms in here. We have flexibility to go anywhere in between these, uh but I've shown a 10-year repayment and a 20-year repayment on the bonds. The trade-off with that, again kind of similar to a mortgage, the shorter you take to repay the bonds, the less you pay in interest over the life of the borrowing, the higher your annual payments. So, those are kind of the trade-offs here. With the With the 10-year scenario, total interest expense would be a little over $1.4 million over the life of that borrowing. The 20-year scenario would be about $2.7 million, and we've used uh what we think is a quite conservative 5.5% interest rate as we amortize these. So, I would expect after the bonds are sold for your total interest expense to be
020much less than what we're showing here. Um the maximum annual payment associated with each of these, the shorter the 10-year repayment would be about $545,000 in an annual payment associated with that $4 million borrowing. The 20-year repayment is about 355,000 on an annual basis. And then how that max payment translates to a tax rate standpoint on the 10-year scenario is about 4.43 cents. And on the 20-year scenario it's about 2.81 cents. So again, maximums here, we can figure out a lot and have discussions as we go in terms of what makes the most sense, but we've given you flexibility within these resolutions to do [clears throat] either of these or somewhere in between. These are just some I won't spend a lot of time on these, but this is kind of an illustrative repayment term.
021So the the blue color represents those payments we looked at on the first slide. The yellow would represent potential repayments on a borrowing associated with this project. If we issue in 2026, the first payment would be due in 2027. That gives you time to establish the levy and levy for those dollars before making the final payments. The second, the 20-year scenario, gives you a little more flexibility, a slightly less increase in your payments from where you would be otherwise in 2027 with the trade-off being just taking longer to repay those and incurring more interest over the life of the borrowing. And then lastly, I wanted to show this um I mentioned 4.43 cents, 2.89 cents. What does that actually mean in terms of an individual property taxpayer? What we've done on this slide is we've
022shown a variety of different home values ranging from 100,000 to 400,000. Um we've also shown an [clears throat] acre of agricultural land as well as a rental property and a 100,000 dollar commercial property. Um we go the market value is your assessed value, your gross assessed value determined by the county. Should be relatively close to what the market value of your home is. We move to the net assessed value which allows residential properties to take the deductions available in the state of Indiana. That net value is what the tax rate is applied to, which ultimately determines your tax bill each year. So, that's the difference between these two. We applied the deductions beginning in 2027, and if we focus on a $200,000 home, under scenario one, that 4.43 cents would be about $38.28 a year
023for a home at that value. And the scenario two, the longer repayment, 2.89 cents, would be about $25 a year for a $200,000 property. And that is my final slide. Are there any questions that I can answer for you? Do you want any? Thank you, sir. Thank you, Jeff. Okay, at this time, we'll open the public hearing. Would anybody that would like to make any comments? Please state it. Tell us your name and what your comments are. Okay, hearing none. Then, ladies and gentlemen of the board, we have three resolutions that are to be presented to you. Um first of all is the uh project resolution. This is again required anytime we spend more than $1 million on any given facility or type of work. It contains the estimated hard and soft construction costs and
024the cost of issuance uh as were just laid out by Jeff. So, at this time, Mr. President, we would need action on this resolution. Move to approve. I second. First and second for the project resolution. Any discussion? Not hearing any, all in favor, raise your right hand. Motion carries 7 to 0. The second resolution is the additional appropriation resolution. >> [clears throat] >> Again, as I mentioned earlier, uh once you have these funds that you generate through the sale of the bonds, uh you have to appropriate those funds. Uh upon the closing and receipt of those proceeds. So, we need action on that resolution. I move to approve. I second. First and second for the fiscal appropriation resolution. Any discussion? Not hearing any, all in favor, raise your right hand. Motion carries 7 to 0.
025Final resolution is the final bond resolution. Uh last uh month or Yes, at the April meeting, you passed a preliminary bond resolution. It was just like this one. Uh and that contains, again, the project costs, the maximum interest rate, and the financial terms, all of which Jeff just went over. So, we need action on the final bond resolution. I move to approve the consideration of the final bond resolution. I second. I have a first and second for the final bond resolution. Any discussion? Not hearing any, all in favor, raise your right hand. Motion carries 7 to 0. Thank you, Todd, for clearing this part of the meeting. Thanks, Todd. Next up. >> [clears throat] >> Approved memorandum of understanding and agreement with the Association of Indiana Counties [cough] for the tax refund exchange and compliance
026this fall. I'll move to approve this, please. >> Yes. Thank you. We have um been looking into different ways um for collecting for our balances we have in lunch mostly in lunch payments. Um looking at different things from small claims courts to collect. I know previously we used to collect through an agency and everything. Um and we um were told about a program called TRECS, and um met with a couple of other schools and talked to them about it. And basically it's a program that offsets any tax return that any of our parents would be receiving if they don't pay within the same parameters that we ask them to now. We'll still send the notifications. They'll still they'll get In fact, they'll get a final chance before it's finally turned over. But again, this allows
027us to collect debt that we are from individuals that we are not receiving. I'll move to approve. I'll second. We have a first and a second for the approval of a memorandum of understanding agreement with the Association of Indiana Counties for the Tax Refund Exchange and Compliance System. Any discussion? Not hearing any. All in favor raise your right hand. Motion carried 7-0. All right. Approve ECINGC interlocal agreement with the natural gas moratorium. So, back for guidance is in January this year with the the nasty snowstorm um that triggered events, you know, throughout the Midwest, United States, that our gas bill went up. What was the magic number? What percent? Oh, it was 4.5. It was the amount of days that we did not have natural gas for a month. Yes. Yes, it was >> [clears
028throat] >> blew us away. We started calling, trying to file grievances. How in the world do you make I mean, it was just absurd. And really, we found out we had no recourse. We've been with Constellation and we haven't had really any significant issues over the past couple of decades. And they were very nice and told us that you have to pay this. We're sorry about your bad luck. Have a great day. So, knowing we had options, the East Central I'm not sure if I get the correct one. The E Central Indiana Natural Gas Cooperative sends out notifications every two or three months. Hey, Governor, gas consortium. We've never needed to. I just regarded it literally for the better part of the last nine years. After this had happened, I think a week later I
029get my every other month email from them. I pulled over to make phone calls. So, listen, I called. We found out that by joining this consortium and it's exactly what you think it is. It's buying power. There's this particular one has 80 school corporations, I believe, in it and they took all of our numbers, went through and had we been with them the last five years, we would have saved roughly $151,000. And so, for the exact same service all the way across the board. And so, what this will allow us to do is our contract is automatically renewed with Constellation. It expired on December 1, 2026. So, we're in that position with them until December 1, 2026. This allows us to engage the E Central Indiana Natural Gas Cooperative to then basically become our spokesperson
030in this. They're going to start work with Constellation on the separation agreement, make their own paperwork up until December 1, and then effective December 1, we will switch over to them and start getting their pricing. And in there there's some years that it doesn't always pan out, but over the long haul it is significantly cheaper and it gives us a lot more a lot less variability with the market. So, what we need is you to approve the resolution so that we can engage with them officially and they can start the process of disengaging with Constellation. Move to approve. I'll second. I have a first and a second for the interlocal agreement with the natural gas consortium. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor raise your right hand. Motion carries seven to zero. Approve elementary student
031handbook for 2026-2027. Ask the board to approve the elementary student handbooks. I'll I'll What? I I thought I thought you had something to say. No, the code didn't much change. That's what I was From somebody that was on the committee, >> [laughter] >> these people that were there, I want them to be able to speak to you. Nothing really has changed. A few typos over the last couple of years. Pretty simple process. The one thing that people are going to ask about is the cell phone policy, all of that. And because that's going to take another 2 months, it's better nothing in the handbook because if you get anything, they're going to possibly give them a reason to think something different. So, we just we've left that out as we navigate through this. So, the
032elementary ones are ready. The big thing for the elementary ones is by passing it today, they can then start the process of getting their handbooks for their kiddos. So, if you would please hurry. I move to approve the handbooks. Second. I have a first and a second. We're going to approve the elementary student handbooks for 2026-2027. Any discussion? All in favor, raise your right All in favor, raise your right Vote of the chair is 7-0. Approve teacher evaluation handbook. I move that the board approve the teacher evaluation handbook. I believe this year there was no significant changes as far as the the actual evaluation itself. I think there were some structural items. And again, I'm going to defer to Mrs. Harper. >> Yes. Because she's chairing that committee. I did do this one. >> [laughter]
033>> Yeah, it was formatting. Almost all of it was formatting. The content really didn't change. It's just more user-friendly for the administrators and easier for the teachers to understand and read. So. So. And they have said the same thing about the last couple of years. Just bring it up a little bit. Move to approve. I second. I have a first and a second. All in favor, raise your right hand. Just a note, Elizabeth [clears throat] abstained on that vote. So, it passes 6-0. Approved student fundraisers. Ask the board to approve the following fundraisers. North Decatur High football, 6th annual car wash, and an amount to be determined. Free will donations offset the cost of the practice package for players, June 20th of this year. And life skills of North Decatur High School, asset sellers, yard
034sale parking lot parking lot spots for community members. Cash for parking spot and free will donations. Funds going towards the life skills program on July 30th. Move to approve. Second. I have a first and second for the student fundraisers. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor raise your right hand. Motion carried 7-0. Approved donations. Ask the board to approve the following donations. Um to North Decatur Elementary School, this is on behalf of Arthur J. Gallagher the Black Belt Giving Fund has donated $97.21 to go towards the class of 2032's send off party. Um North Decatur Elementary, $600 donation from Silas Design, uh $200 split between art and music and library. Uh North Decatur Elementary, these donations all went toward the archery program for nationals. Elwood Staffing $250, REMC $250, Doings Transport $250, Moore $250, Hometown
035Tanning $250, Lake Murray Enterprises $250, North Decatur Archery Boosters $250, Reidsburg Locker Meat Market $250, WTRE $175, Lane Trucking $175, Four Corners Automotive $175, the Bruner family $175, Russ Hubler $175, YMCA $175, Dial Dino Tuning and Service $175, and The House of Ink $125. To South Decatur Elementary, this is from Brian Jones and I remember his brother for the Century Garden, $2,000 donation. Uh this is South Decatur Elementary as well, $250 cash donation from Kayla and Mitchell Harold to go toward teacher appreciation. And lastly at South High School, ECMH $500 to student council student essentials, Steel Technologies $500 to HOSA, Columbus Regional Health $200 to HOSA, Morning Breeze $500 to HOSA, Klein King and King PC $100 to HOSA, and Benjamin and Devin Zimmer $100 to the athletic department. I move to approve the donations.
036I second. I have a first and a second to approve all the donations. Any discussion? Once HOSA gets up. Thanks a lot. Uh you're welcome. I had something more elaborate than that, but Just be a huge thank you to everybody for the donations. Very nice. With no other discussion, all in favor raise your right hand. Motion carries 7 to 0. Approve obsolete equipment. I move the board approve the following items as obsolete. The old reading series K through 5 both elementary schools. Um once it's labeled obsolete, we're going to allow principals to find a way to get them away to kids if they want to try to donate in a safe place if they can to some place where they're not selling them and making money off of it if we can. So, getting rid
037of them till we label them obsolete. And then secondly, we have six very old VEX robotics games that need to be labeled obsolete so they can be uh removed from Move to approve. Second. I have a first and a second to approve all the obsolete equipment. Any discussion? Not hearing any, all in favor raise your right hand. Motion carries 7 to 0. Information communications report. Mrs. Statham. All right, so a lot going on. May is a whirlwind. So, a few things that have already happened that I wanted to make sure to note. Our start your engines event, at both North and South elementary put that on where local and then not always local, but we have equipment coming from helicopters to tractors and it is a huge success. And I know North elementary is too.
038Our social worker and counselor at North elementary puts this on. It gets bigger every year almost to the point where she's like, do we do this every year? Do we go every few years just because of the amount of work and also the people that come. But it's a great day. Last week we had our grandparents night and art show. We call it the spring fling and the choir and band concert that night. It's always nice to have the whole family there and then they get to see their students art, the classroom and then if they have a student in band or choir they get to see them perform that evening. Our fourth grade had their wax museum and fourth grade concert. Teacher appreciation week last week. There was a carnival theme. I think everyone
039enjoyed the week and felt the love. We have field trips every day I feel like happening. So sixth grade believes for their overnight field trip tomorrow and and Thursday and Friday. We have Monday is our staff against elementary Hoosier Hysteria is what we're calling it. What used to be the honor roll basketball games, but we've included some other students that give it their all that maybe don't make that honor roll. So they're getting to play this year. So we've renamed it to instead Hoosier Hysteria SCS Hysteria. Students or staff will compete Monday afternoon and we lost to sixth grade last year. So we're hoping to redeem ourselves. The talent show is on Wednesday. PTO academic awards night on Wednesday night and we're changing up our end of year a little bit after feedback the last
040few years. Our awards day needed refreshed. So we're going to give it a go. Thursday every grade level will have a designated awards time and every student will be recognized and we're pretty excited about this. It has taken a lot of work, but every student has a folder. They have been able to write down their favorite memory from this year, their favorite subject and then the new awards will be in the folder and I will list. So, some students may still walk away with 20, someone may just be up there and I'm going to talk about their favorite memory from this year and have a great summer. So, we're going to see how it goes and then that evening is sixth grade graduation. Um, another change is field day will be the last day of
041school this year. So, we're going to have field day the last day. That way the stress and everything is done so everybody can enjoy the last day and it's a busy week, but it's an exciting week and I wanted to end with thanking um, the board for a great year for and then for the donuts and the cookout. So, that. You're welcome. >> [clears throat] >> Um, like Nicole said, April and May are pretty busy at the high school. I'm just kind of highlighting some of the things we've had. Top 10 dinner was April 15th. Both North and South were able to gather and recognize those top 10 seniors from each school. It's a nice event to be able to showcase those kids, the hard work they put in and the families associated with them.
042Um, Kelly Fox brought some South Carey students to participate in the Boiler Tech Challenge. It's an engineering challenge that's hosted at Columbus Purdue Polytechnic and it was a wasteland theme. And the kids kind of go over different STEM projects. They're broken up into teams. We had a third place team for the infrastructure design. It was composed of Alex Crawford, Evan Carlin, Kennedy Sundell, and Joel Coons for their 3D drawing of a water filtration system using Fusion 360. The kids always enjoy it. It really is a a fun time for them. And they participated against some schools like Round Valley, Clay County, Columbus East, Columbus North, Columbus Signature Academy, uh Academy, Shelbyville. And so, there's quite a bit of competition and our kids all performed performed pretty well. Um on April 28th, we had the FFA
043banquet. Um it is was held at the US Community Center. Um I always love seeing that. It's completely out of my comfort zone. I'm not an FFA human. Um but it's really nice to see the kids kind of shine in something that they really lead the whole thing. Um we're here for the ride and and they they really do a wonderful job at it. They they take it seriously. Um they worked their tails off. The food was delicious also. So, that that's always a fun event. Um SAD had a successful campaign pre-prom. Um and the campaign was "Please Return From Prom." Um and there were 83 students that signed up for the pledge to buckle up and phone down while driving. 72 students were the uh quick click challenge. Um they also had a drunk
044goggles um thing where it kind of scares the brakes off of everything. Um and there were some other fun things that they did there. So, that was with SAD. Our high school academic math team placed seventh in the state, um which is a considerable improvement from our last couple of years. And we have two juniors and one freshman compose the team or compose the team. so fairly young team with some room to grow there. So, we're really proud of them. The junior high academic teams competed also. Our English team placed seventh in the state, first in the region, and then our science team placed 12th in the state and first in the region. So, they they're putting in the work, too, so I'm really happy with them. Um Uh Donnie Barber brought our eighth graders
045to the St. Louis field trip. Um it's a really nice trip that is not only fun, but they get to learn about the region's historical importance. Um and what we found is there are a lot of kids that never Some of them never made it out of Indiana, let alone uh made it beyond the Mississippi River, so it's a a nice time for them to be able to experience something new. Um also, once again, had a really good time. Uh high school band um and choir, they um competed at ISMA. Um for the ISMA um I'm going to butcher this adjudication festival. Um and students who uh were with the band um uh received a silver rating for that. Um they were one point away from a gold. Um so, right there, just one one
046one point short. Um also, our marching band will be moving back to the summer circuit. Um in June last year, they did the fall circuit um and didn't like it as much, so the marching band will be going to that. Um like I mentioned earlier, the prom and after-prom um had a nice second. Um that was a really fun event. Uh it was casino royale. Um once again, it's nice seeing the kids and uh just dressed up, really feeling proud of themselves, um getting to experience something. Um like I said, the the ladies did a great job of putting that together and giving them a a time to be able to create a memory that will last a lifetime there. So, really good there. Today we had our sixth grade I'm going to call it
047the introduction meeting. So, our sixth graders come over and they're introduced to the building. They get to walk the building. They're shown where the offices are, guidance, that sort of thing. They work on opening lockers. We had a Q&A session in the library. Mr. Cole and I um we get to names and faces, they get to put some names and faces together. Just is a a nice moment for them to be able to do. Um page. Uh tomorrow we have the senior picnic. Um and hopefully that will be a fun event for our seniors kind of celebrate toward the end of that their senior year. Just kind of taking these last moments before graduation. Um last week we had uh uh teacher appreciation. Um and that was nice and we had something planned each day.
048Table bar and some other stuff. Um I gained a little bit of weight but not as much as I planned. Um Tomorrow we are presenting at the Bread of Life for the Optimist Youth of the Month. Um Betty Jo Hamman is going to be presenting um for HOSA. Um kind of like just build on that. Uh for our biomed and uh the and to answer what is HOSA, HOSA is like the FFA for Very good. That's the way I explain it to them. Um and then graduation is May 30th at 9:00 a.m. That's all that. Thank you. You're sure. Thanks, sir. With that being said, future business regular board meeting will be Wednesday, June 20th, 2026 here at Central Office 6:00 p.m. I will look for a motion to adjourn. So, that's All those in
049favor, say Aye. All those The motion carries. >> [cough and clears throat]