001I was just like that. >> All right, everybody, please stand for the pledge of >> allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic, for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Heavenly Father, we come today to do the uh business of the school, Lord, and just help us to provide the good decisions to help out our students, our community, Lord, and to help keep the school running as smoothly as possible. Lord, I just pray for a safe and blessed school year for these students, Lord, and that they'll do the best they can to learn. In Jesus name we pray. >> Amen. Okay, I call the meeting to order at 6:31 p.m. >> Okay, we're going to start it off with
002the students of the month. Who'd like to go first? You would, Mr. Kendall? Then by all means, go for it. >> Okay, I will because I know he will not be here. I'll just go ahead and read read his real quick. Our first student of the month is Hayden Scott. Uh Hayden and his family wanted to be here tonight, but they are in Seymour as Hayden is a member of our soccer team. Uh Hayden was recognized for being respectful towards others and striving for academic excellence. He engages with the content, produces some great projects, and is a benefit to his peers in the classroom. Teachers say that he goes above and beyond what is expected of him every day. Uh he is one of the students teachers turn to to help others in class. Hayden
003has also achieved the rare feat of earning college credit via AP coursework as a freshman. Um so we wanted to recognize Hayden SC. [Applause] All right. Our next one's no stranger. Izzy, come on up. Our next student of the month is Izzy Forester. Uh Izzy is recognized for many contributions to our school, including her positive attitude, contributions to class discussions, helping her group during labs and group activities, and completing her work on time. She is also a regular volunteer for fundraisers, fundraising, and is a valued member of the prom committee. Teachers admire the way she jumps into class discussions and honestly makes teaching way easier than it should be as a result. Uh Izzy has also shown incredible initiative and talent in her engineering class. She has a positive attitude that is infectious and is
004one and as a wonderful role model for her peers. So congratulations. [Applause] >> All right. >> You can go ahead and head out at All right, our first uh student of the month for the middle school. Both of them come from the fifth grade. The first one I have here is also the birthday girl. So, Grace Martell, come on up here. >> Did she bring cake? >> We have cookies for her. >> She says, "No, >> you're supposed to pro provide that for her." Oh, okay. Oh, that's how it goes. >> Yeah. >> Grace was picked for student of the month for several reasons such as her positive attitude, work ethic, organization skills, willingness to help others, participates in classroom discussions, follows directions, procedures, respectful, trustworthy, and kind. Is there anything you don't do? >>
005She is extremely dedicated to her classwork and always does her best. She's a great role model for her peers on how to act inside and outside the classroom. Grace Grace is a great example of Thunderbird pride and we're super proud of her. Keep up the great work. [Applause] Next on the list, Nathaniel Spence. Come on down. [Applause] Nathaniel was chosen as student of the month for several reasons as well. Being kind to his peers, always doing his best, following directions, turning in assignments on time, and being someone his teachers and classmates can count on. He asks questions when needed, and volunteers in class. He is a great student, friend, and role model for his peers. So, awesome job. Good job. [Applause] All right. My first studio here. It's exciting. >> Pressure's on. Thank you. >>
006I would like to invite Wyatt Love to come on down. Wyatt, [Applause] congratulations. Thank you. Wyatt was nominated as student of the month because is a shining star in our school community. He consistently practices safety throughout the building, maintains a thoughtful voice level during classroom activities, whether working in groups or independently. Wyatt gets along well with everyone, showing kindness and respect to both his peers and adults. He is accountable, takes pride in his work, and always puts forth his best effort. Wyatt is truly a friend to all and a wonderful example for others to follow. Thank you, Wyatt. [Applause] And our second student of the month, I don't think made it. I think her family might be watching online though. Um, but that is Khloe Plameumber. We're very excited for Khloe. Khloe is a dedicated
007and dependable student who leads by example every day. She is always on task, responsible with her work, and shows a strong commitment to learning through her excellent attendance. Khloe is not only hardworking, but also kind and helpful, always willing to lend a hand to others. Her positive attitude and reliability make her a valued member of the classroom and a wonderful role model for her peers. So, congratulations to Chloe. [Applause] >> All right. Thank you all. And as riveting as these meetings can be, uh, wink wink. Um for the any families that want to um get their um students home to do all their homework and such prepare for tomorrow. You're more than welcome to. We will not take it personally. >> And if you want to get pictures with the principles, you can get some
008quick pictures outside there. And if then you can feel free to leave. You're more than welcome to stay. But >> congratulations to the students and the parents in here. Well done. always does. >> Okay, I'm going to skip the participation because I don't see anybody here to participate. So, let's move on with the adoption of the agenda. Recommend the agenda for the September 8, 2025 meeting be approved as presented with additions, corrections, or deletions as recommended by the board. I have a motion. Yes. Second, Natalie. All those four 70. Um, okay. It's recommended that the meetings from the August 11th, 2025 meeting be approved as presented. Kim, Dennis, all those four. You're all going to have right now. Okay. It's recommended that the claims number um 20 746 through >> 2090 >> be approved as
009presented. Do any Wait a minute. Do we have any discussion about any of the claims? >> Okay. Dennis second for 70. >> Would you like to take over or Mr. >> Um it is >> sound like they're having a lot more fun than we are. Uh it's recommended that the board uh that that we get approval of a public hearing on the 2026 budget, the capital uh projects plan and the school bus replacement plan. Um we just uh by law we have to uh have a hearing. So if you want we can approve that. I'll go through the hearing and then I'll close the meeting. Okay. >> Hearing after that. >> All right. Do I have a motion to open the hearing? Kim second Sharon all those four 70 the hearing is now open >>
010okay so I've prepared some stuff here so just bear with me as I read through it here each year the state of Indiana and the department of local government also referred to as the DLGF requires that we hold a budget hearing in September and then a formal budget adoption in October we are required to have all the budget items the capital projects fund plan and the bus replacement plan uploaded into the DLGF a minimum of 10 days prior to this meeting. We have met that legal requirement and today will serve as our budget hearing. I do want to thank TVA Lukans, our corporation treasurer, for all of her assistance as we work together to prepare our annual budget. In preparing our annual budget, we must make several assumptions and we could still see several changes
011from now until the end of this budget cycle um which is 2026. Um these assumptions include but are not limited to that we what what revenue will we receive for all of our funds? We we won't necessarily get what we ask for. So we wait until we get our 1782 in late November, early December, and that will tell us exactly what we get based on the numbers that we've submitted. So that's an unknown that we go into it with. Uh there are expenditures that will uh we don't know that our expenditures will remain consistent andor only rise minimally at this point. We don't even know what inflation will be by December of 2026. So we have to try to guess what that will be. We do not know what our final student enrollment will be
012at this point as well. So each year we do have to predict these types of of um reasons when we when we establish our budget and this year we did predict uh our enrollment I predicted that to be at 1068 and we are currently sitting just above that at 1,075 students. That's what we have currently right now enrolled. It is best practice to put together a defensive budget, one that is based on some very conservative assumptions to produce our budget estimates. And we have done just that. As is done every year, we are building a budget that covers 18 months, July 2025 through December 2026. And it has to be completed prior to having some vital information like I just shared. Two primary variables that helped determine our budget that we are missing or unsure
013that that we were missing or unsure of during the time of planning our budget was our assessed value of property in the district and a conclusive information of our student enrollment for the 2526 and the first part of the 2627 school year. One of those numbers, the assessed value, we were unsure what to expect at the time that we completed the proposed budget, but fortunately the our assessed value did increase some this year, which will be helpful to our budget. There were concerns with the new property tax relief bill that the AV would not increase this year, but fortunately, we did have an increase for the 2025 year. It went up by over 10% actually for this current uh school year, which will help us. And it's it's important for our taxpayers to remember when
014the assessed value goes up, the tax rate should go down based on how those numbers are calculated. Um we will benefit from that, but we are adding the two lease bonds and the general obligation bond into the debt service. So that will have an impact on the tax rate as well. Our district's assessed valuation of property will determine what our actual levies could be and what actual revenue we can or will receive from local resources. If that number changes significantly, that would most definitely impact our tax rate on individuals in our school district. Um, our assessed value has stabilized and has been increasing the past four years, but please remember that there are now many safeguards in place to protect local taxpayers. So any adverse impact to the assessed value will most likely negatively impact
015our ability to raise funds and not hurt our taxpayers. The fact that we know what the actual AV makes me rest a little easier, especially um with the always possible drop in student enrollment. We also need to understand that the structure of the property tax relief bill will most likely cause a decrease in our assessed value for 2026 as those additional um tax credits go into place for the various property owners in our district and each year subs u following that they will decrease even more. So that will have a negative impact on the school on the funds that we can raise and on what the taxes that we can raise as well. Um our final enrollment numbers and the actual dollar figure we will receive over the next 12 months will not be officially
016determined until count day which is approximately August 1st. If our student numbers change drastically, this could heavily impact our state revenue and our 2526 state revenue numbers. October. >> Oh, what did I say? >> You said August 1st. >> Oh, excuse me. October 1st. I apologize. I misspoke there. Uh, when we build the budget, we are attempting to answer some primary questions. How much revenue might we receive and from where? How much will we spend and what will we spend it on? What does our budget mean to our taxpayers? And what is our long-term fiscal outlook? So, we're asking those questions when we don't have all the answers when we're trying to estimate those. Um the primary source of our 2026 budget revenue are state funding and our education fund and local property taxes for
017other major budget funds. Those other funds also receive some additional monies from various miscellaneous resources or excuse me miscellaneous sources included but not limited to income interest income rental of school facilities. All of those dollars go back into our education fund. Those are a very small amount of our operating budget. Remember our operation fund is a combination of the old transportation cap capital projects and bus replacement fund. Eastern Green Schools will estimate and transfer funds from the education fund to the operation fund under the state identified limit of 15%. This can be done monthly, quarterly or annually. If we go over that 15% mark, then we will be identified as a distressed unit. There is no concern that we will be a distressed unit as we will not go over that 15%. The education fund
018is our revenue from the state and is based on the bienial state budget. The state budget estimate estimations had us gaining approximately 2% new money in 2526 school year across the state for all schools. Anything positive is good. However, Governor Braun touted this budget as providing new money to schools, but this money is not necessarily going to public education, and we need to account for the removal of a separate line item that we were reimbursed from the state for textbooks and other materials. Last year, we received that separate money from the state to cover those expenses. This year, we have to pay those costs with the money we receive in the education fund. we do not get extra dollars to offset the cost of the textbooks and other materials. Um, and there's still a state
019statute that we cannot charge families for those fees. We also have to understand that school choice and charters have have expanded again and a a bulk of that 2% additional funding will go to charter and private schools even though 92% of the students in the state of Indiana attend public schools. And finally, we we have to figure in inflation. Um, so when you figure in all of those factors, we actually are looking at a little bit less funding in our education fund. Additionally, we are taking cuts in the title one federal funding. Uh, this year we lost $24,000 for the 2526 school year, and we are down $37,000 in the past two years combined. Uh this is the fourth consecutive year we've had a reduction in title one funding. So while we have done an
020adequate job of building reserves, those reserves can be depleted quickly if not managed effectively. We have built this budget with the conserviveness in mind. Are there any questions about the 2026 proposed school budget? If not, this ends our budget hearing. >> All right. Thank you very much. Um, I got a question. >> Yes. >> Uh, on the school bus thing, did we have a fund set aside at one point? >> Yeah, we do have a we have a we still have to upload and it's on the DLGF. We have to upload a separate bus replacement plan. We also have to put up a separate capital project. >> We had something in place prior to you. >> Uh, we do we we that's on our bus replacement plan. >> Has money going into it to buy
021buses? >> Oh, I'm not aware of any. We were just setting aside money for that where it should have been. >> Yeah. I'm not aware of any I mean >> I think at one point at one point sometime back we had something. >> Yeah. >> That that might have been but I'm not aware of any accounts that are marked just for that. Now that money would come out of operations. >> That's that's where our >> Well, that's back when there used to be a separate transportation. >> Oh, there there did used to be a long time ago there used to be. Yes. And they they've jump they've lumped all those together. They taken all those silos and basically we have education fund, we have the debt services fund and we have the operations fund. Those
022are the three funds that we have and and rainy day. Those are the four places where we can get money. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> All right. Next, um I a motion I I see advertise bids here. A motion to approve the advertising of bid for the low sloped roof membrane improvements. Uh just to clarify for everyone, this will be part of our central campus lease bond project is what these bids will be for. >> Okay. Any discussion? >> Okay, we have a motion. Dennis second. Natalie for 70. >> Uh next we have another advertised bid. A motion to approve the advertising of bid for the shingle roof replacement and exterior rock wall fascia improvements. Again, this will be part of the central campus lease bond project which I will talk more about that at
023the uh during the discussion portion of the meeting. >> Okay. Do I any discussion on this? Okay. Do we have a motion? Yes. Second. Jim hold this four >> and I have a third advertised bid. A motion to approve the advertising of the bid for the early learning renovations. This will be part of the general obligation bond that we will be selling in October. >> Okay. Any discussion? Okay. Not Ken. I'll take second. Dennis all those four. I don't know. >> Okay. Next, um I have a recommendation to approve a resolution that would give uh me uh permiss permission to act as the agent for the school to purchase a track of land if we determine that we want to purchase it. >> Okay. Any discussion on this? >> So, this makes you the representative
024agent. >> It would just give this this gives the >> board gives him permission. you give me permission to act on that once the board and I have discussed what we want to do with that. Um it's a legal criteria that we have to go through in the state of Indiana for a school to purchase land. Okay. >> Okay. Any other discussion? If not, Kim, I'll take your motion. Second, Natalie. All those for 70. >> Okay. Hey. Uh, I seek a motion to approve the scrap disposable of a 2012 bus that is not usable. Uh, transportation has removed all usable parts and it's basically a shell sitting there. So, um, yes, we just we need to uh scrap that out. So, I need that motion. >> Too bad we can't do it. Where is it?
025Alaska where they drive car old cars off the cliff. >> Okay. Do I have a motion? Dennis second. Sharon. All those four. >> Okay. Uh, next I seek for an old bus sale a motion to approve the sale of two 2003 out of service buses. They are junk where we'll sell them for $500 each to an individual. >> And we >> I'm assuming they're getting scrapped. We just have to >> Oh, okay. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Did we remove all these? >> Everything's been Yeah, there's nothing left on them. >> Yes. >> All right. Do I have a motion? Dennis second. Heather, all those four. >> I know you live in the country. >> All right, we have several personnel items here. First, I have a motion to approve the maternity leave for Danielle
026Martin from November approximately November 10th through December 22nd, 2025. >> Do I have a motion? Sharon second Natalie. All those four. >> I guess if we don't Yes. >> Um, next a motion to approve Sandy Brazzle as a night shift custodian on the central campus effective September 8th, 2025. >> Heather, second by Dennis. All those four. >> So, next I seek a motion to approve Jessica Brown as a fourth grade elementary teacher. Uh that would be effective August 25th, 2025. >> Yes. >> Second Heather. All those four seven. Welcome to Eastern Green. I think she's already started. >> She has and she's done a I've actually met with her. I've started my one-on-one meetings with the >> I guess we're officially well. >> We're Yeah. making it official here. Um, next, uh, I seek a
027motion to approve Jason Childris as the middle school PE facilitator effective August 25th, 2025. >> Okay, guess second. Heather all those four seven. He's official. He's been here all nonsense. >> It's always nice to see former students come back and contribute and Jason is a former student, so it's nice to see that. Uh, next I seek a motion to approve Grace Deckard as a kid zone assistant effective August 25th, 2025. >> We have a motion. >> Second Sharon. All those four >> and Grace is a high school student getting some of that experience helping us out there. Okay. Next, I seek a motion to approve the hiring of Christina Arms as a one-on-one in the middle school effective 92 2025. >> Do I have a motion? >> I don't really think I want to approve
028it knowing the next item. >> Yeah. Second Mike. All those four. >> Oh, yeah. 70. >> Okay. Now, uh because she worked one day, we had to do the formal approval. Now, we have to do the resignation. I seek a motion to accept the resignation of Christine Arms as a one-on-one in the middle school effective September 3rd. >> Yeah. >> Natalie >> second Sharon. All those four >> seven. >> Um I seek another resignation here. A motion to accept the resignation of Todd Enman as a maintenance technician. Um it was effective on 8:25 2025. We want to thank John for absolutely work. >> Okay. Do I have a motion, Dennis? Second, Kim. All those four. >> Have we got somebody hired? >> We do not. We have uh we've accepted applications and resumes and we've
029got scheduled some interviews later this week. >> So, when do you think they'll be hired? >> Um depends on how the interviews go. So, but but relatively soon. Yes. probably before the board next board meeting >> if pending. >> Yeah, pending. Yeah, pending approval. >> Okay. Okay. >> Next, I see a seek a motion to approve the following team leads in the elementary. For kindergarten, Stacy Deckard. For first grade, Shanda Brown. Second grade, Haley Irwin. Third grade, Danielle Martin. Fourth grade, Valerie Alt of the Elementary student council, Jamie Robbins. And also for elementary math club, Jamie Robbins. >> Have a motion. second Sharon. All those four coming up. Uh next we have some uh coaching positions. I seek a motion to approve Olivia Blackhatter as the high school girls junior varsity coach assistant coach for
030the 25 26 season. >> We have a motion. Sure. Second. Bennis. All those four 70. >> Um, we'll stay with the girls basketball here. I seek a motion to approve Michaela schooling as the high school girls assistant coach for the 2526 varsity assistant coach. >> Have a motion. Heather second Mike. All those four 70. >> Okay. Um, now we have some middle school. A motion to approve Josh Cunningham as the seventh and eighth grade girls basketball coach for the 2526 season. >> Have a motion. >> Natalie second for seven. >> Okay. I seek a motion to approve Sierra Redmond as the seventh and eighth grade girls basketball assistant coach for the 2526 season. >> Have a motion. Natalie second. Heather's four. >> Um, I seek a motion to approve Jared Bar as the seventh and
031eighth grade girls basketball volunteer assistant coach for the 2526 season. >> I have a motion second. All those four 70. Next, I seek a motion to approve Karen Valentine as the middle school girls basketball volunteer assistant coach for the 25 26 season. >> I'm assuming that seventh and eighth as well. >> It just says middle school, so I'm guessing she's helping all of them maybe. I don't know. >> I'm just curious. >> Have a motion. Second all those four. Next, I seek a motion to approve uh Kristen Childris as the sixth grade girls basketball coach for the 2526 season. >> Have a motion. >> Sure. Second. >> Heather close four. >> I seek a motion to approve Sydney Basy as the fifth grade girls basketball coach for the 2526 season. >> Have a motion. Natalie
032second. All those four 70. >> Um, next I seek a motion to approve Lexi Bruff as the fifth and sixth grade girls basketball volunteer assistant coach for the 2526 season. >> Okay. Dennis second Heather lose four 70. And next, I seek a motion to approve Mike Conklin as the eighth grade boys basketball coach for the 25 26 season. >> That's a familiar face. >> I have a motion. Sure. Second, Heather. All those four 70. >> Nice to have Mike back on the ground. Uh, next I seek a seventh grade boys basketball coach. A motion to approve Skyler Butcher as the seventh grade boys basketball coach for the 2526 season. >> Natalie. Second. >> I'll do it. I'll do it. >> Oh, yeah. I think that confuses me. >> All those four. >> We're just going
033through them. I'm just count. >> All right. Next, a motion to approve John Crow as the sixth grade boys basketball coach for the 2526 season. Mr. Crow is volunteering his time. >> Have a motion. Heather second. Sharon. All those four. Are you are you >> I'm staining? I guess I >> Whatever I need to do. >> You tell me. Get your vote. >> I'm against it, you know. >> All right. 61 610 is the official move. >> Next, a motion to approve Brandon Deckard as the fifth grade boys basketball coach for the 25 26 season. >> Actually, technically that has to be an absention. >> Just make it abstain. Just that's fine. Yeah, it it'd be 601. Sorry, she just can't be locked down. >> She can't even lock it. So, >> even with just
034she can't >> now we'll go for Brandon. Motion for Brandon. >> Give me whatever he wants. >> Second. >> Natalie. All those four 70. >> Okay. Next, I have a motion to approve Nate Higgins as the fifth grade boys basketball assistant coach for the 2526 season. >> Okay. Dennis second Heather close four 70. >> I seek a motion to approve Marissa Feifer as the fifth and sixth grade cheer coach for the 2526 season. >> Okay. Natalie second Heather. All those four >> and a motion to approve S Sandy Fig as the fifth and sixth grade volunteer assistant coach for the 2526 season. >> All right, Natalie second chair. All those four 70. >> Okay, next we have some donations. Um, uh, seek a motion to approve the following donations. We have a $250 donation from
035ELR Construction to the middle and high school bowling club. A $250 donation from the auto body specialist of Bloomington to the middle school middle the middle and high school bowling club. $250 donation from Buyer Home Furnishings to the middle and high school bowling club. We also have a $300 donation from Gibralar Design. Uh that's directly to Eastern Green Schools. And we also have a huge donation of school supplies donated from the Farmers and Mechanics Bank, the Eastern Heights branch. So, we want to thank all of those that donated and we seek a motion to accept those. >> How much was it >> for the school supplies? I I don't have a value. Just it was a lot of school supplies. So several hundred worth of school supplies. Yeah. >> Awesome. >> Okay. Do I have
036a motion? >> Sharon second. Dennis. All those four 70. As always, we always appreciate our donations. >> We do have um a couple late items. Um one of them is on your board packet on the next page there. Um, if you remember, I've shared with the board, I I was contacted by the uh Eastern Green Area Library Board and the uh local person. Uh, they needed a a nomination and um we've talked about that a few times and we I I seek a motion to approve the nomination of Jill Weamer um as a board member to the Green County Public Library Board. Have >> a motion, Heather. >> Second. Sharon all those >> four seven. >> We appreciate Jill stepping up and doing that and I will share some paperwork with her. The next step
037is she just has to go to the courthouse and get sworn in and she'll start serving as that. Um I do have one more additional item. Um I seek a motion to approve theou between Eastern Green Schools and Youth First We have also Dylan Able on there. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry, I didn't have that on my printed off copy. Sorry. >> Um, yeah. So, I guess the next one is I seek a motion to accept the resignation of Dylan Ael as the high school girls track coach for this for this school year. >> All right. Do I have a motion, Natalie? Second, Dennis. All those four. >> We do appreciate. >> Sorry, I just >> No, no, I'm glad that you caught that. I just I printed mine off a little earlier, I guess.
038Um the the the one I am adding here is approval. Uh I seek approval of anou between Eastern Green Schools and Youth First Incorporated. Um they are providing a school social worker for grades K through 8 for the 25 26 school year. Um there is no cost to the school for this. Uh it's part of a grant that we worked with them directly and the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute. Um, so we got that grant and I just wanted you to be aware there's really no cost to the school. We just have to provide some services. So or provide some space. >> Yay. >> You want to discuss this? >> No, I want to vote on it. >> Okay. Okay. So, Heather, are you >> I >> making the motion. >> Okay. Second. Sharon. All those
039in favor? 70. >> That is a very good thing for our school. >> So, they'll start advertising that position right away. >> Uh, yeah. They've they they are advertising. Yes. >> Wonderful. >> It's a great >> I think it's a combination. >> I believe >> it's they have a they work with school. Yeah. >> To hire the person. They'll work with the principles. >> All right. >> It's an amazing organization. >> They train them and everything. >> Go for it. >> Just we have discussion. Uh >> Oh, you want to go ahead and do yours first? >> Yep. Elementary. Do you want to? >> Sure. Just a quick update. >> Yep. Sure. >> Um, so we officially have crushed our first month of school. We celebrated with teachers on Friday with crushed sodas and snacks,
040which is a great way to end the week. >> Sorry. Next time I'll do >> Oh, you don't know. Like anytime there's food involved. >> Okay. >> She's new. Dennis, >> I'm gonna make a note. >> Yeah, Dennis likes to know when food. >> Come right. Uh while the first month has been a whirlwind, it has also been very productive. Um we are now officially fully staffed. Um everyone is settled in great. Dr. Morgan and I have been able to spend a lot of time out and about in the building. We've been working in classrooms supporting our students and our teachers. We've seen some incredible learning taking place. Our teachers are working really hard to use the LL system um that we have put in place to get some baseline data for our kids so
041we can begin working in small groups to target specific skills. Um, so far our students have shown mastery in 1,263 skills. Um, that's one month. So, they're setting bar high. Uh, we've been working with the EXL reps to offer some on-site training for our teachers, which has been really helpful, and we're looking forward to diving even deeper into this with our professional development day coming up this month. Um, safety week was a great opportunity for students and staff to practice various safety scenarios. Um, I just want to say a special thank you to officer Poy for his support throughout that week, but also just every day. A few upcoming events. Um, Tasha and I along with Allison and Leslie are headed to uh, Phoenix next week to attend the Kids at Hope Masters Institute. We
042look forward to sharing more about that when we return. Uh, Wonderlath is going to be coming to do a showcase with our students this month um with a family STEM night on the 25th, which we're really excited about. Um, I want to thank Mandy Buskerk for organizing that for me, even though she moved on to middle school. Um, and we are also really excited for parent teacher conferences next month so we can meet with families. >> Thank you. Uh, well, I think he says it all, so Ditto. Moving on. No, it's been it's been a great first month. Um, we hit the ground running. We're up and moving. Uh, we're using our academic words. We have character edwards. Everybody has just really um spent a lot of time in investing in our kiddos. Our attendance
043rate for August was 97% as a school. So um that's really well if you've been keeping up with the accountability model. You it's necessary that our kids have 94% per child. So if we keep on this track, that will help us um with our score in the spring. So that's very good. We are currently at um students. I have um one coming to enroll tomorrow and then Mr. Lewis and I spoke to another one. So hopefully by the end the the month we'll be to at least 3:40. So >> October October 1st October >> 1. >> Um our parent teacher conferences are underway. We started um last week and then continued on this week um just getting those in in the morning and the afternoon. Uh I really want to thank my teachers for spending
044the time to organize those. Staying late. Um it's hard. We've hit that end of the adrenaline month. August is you run on adrenaline until August 31st and now everybody's hit a wall but everyone is pushing through it. So I want to thank them for putting in the long hours even after that. Um I really appreciate it. Um all of the committees in the middle school have met and have started their planning for this year. So I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of really cool things headed our way. Student council um I don't know if you've heard has met. They started to organize. They're doing a fundraiser right now. It's called Tat the teacher. So they're paying a dollar to $6 to buy temporary tattoos. they can choose the teacher that they would like to
045put the tattoo on and then um there's a day where everybody wears their tattoos to school. So, um I think there even get to be a little involved in the placement of the tattoos slightly, you know, not all the way. Um Mr. Cole has even said he's willing to get a real tattoo and let them choose the design, which >> I've got the best. Let me tell you, when you're ready to donate your body up, I have the best. Um, we also have a new club that we started last year that's already been underway. It's called bring change to mind. It's trying to end the stigma with mental health. Um, and they are planning some things around the school to do as well to kind of uh bring positivity, kindness, and awareness to mental health
046issues. Um, I also want to thank Farmers and Mechanics for the school supplies. We got so many things. They're like these big packs of markers and scissors and um I think they even had big paper cutters in them. It was really they were really nice. So, thank you very much for that donation. Um, I want to thank Alex Clary. He started the ROI STEM fellowship. Um he did his first two days with that in at the end of August, beginning of September. So that's well underway. I appreciate him donating us time for that. Um I want to thank Gina Ingram for holding that place in the PE facilitator. I keep I don't know how long my luck's going to run out, but I can always count on her to come back. So I appreciate that.
047But also welcome Jason Childress into that position. He's already doing a great job. Um, he has really just dove right in and the kids seem to really really appreciate him. So, I'm excited for him. I also want to give a huge shout out to Adrienne Eids. Uh, we weren't sure what her class was going to be. We knew we were creating a class for her. We weren't sure what we were going to do. Um, and she said, "I want to do something with agriculture, with science, life science, something like that." Um and so we came up with the nature lab kind of together collectively. She is doing amazing things um with our students. They have made salsa um recently. They did flower arrangements for everyone in the school. They're cleaning up the courtyard right now
048and she's planning um her and uh Don I want to thank Don for helping her get this organized. She's working on getting a grant to do some gardening with those kids. So, she's doing some really really um very applicable lifelong skills um in class and I I told her I I think she's found her niche. So, this is it for it. Um let's see what else do I have. Uh thank you to Don for organizing the safety week. And um thank I I always feel bad. I feel like I'm leaving somebody off there. I could thank I could stand up here and thank people all day long. So, just thank you if you weren't a specific person on the list. Just thank you for getting the year off and running in a good direction. >>
049Thank you. >> All right, Mr. Lewis. >> All right, I just >> Thank you, Mrs. Quimby. >> Couple quick things from the high school. Uh, Mr. Kirkindall was not feeling well, so he shared just a few things with me. Their current enrollment is is 353. Their attendance rate is 95.57%. Um, we do have uh the football team will be on the road this week, but then homecoming will be uh the 19th, September 19th. They have powderpuff uh football scheduled for the 17th. And there is a homecoming dance on the Saturday the 20th. Um, another thing coming up for the high school is all school test day will be on October 23rd. I believe they test uh the PSAT grades nine and 10 and the SAT for grades 11. What are the 12 what do the
050seniors do? >> ASVAB. >> ASBA normally do as >> okay. Um and then he just wants to give a shout out to his staff. Many of them have kind of been battling, not feeling well. And uh I will say we we uh uh the attendance has been better across the board, but very few people are missing at the high school. So that's that is noticeable and we appreciate that. >> I think it's great he's taking one for the team and not feeling well as well. >> Yeah. Yeah. He uh it's it's going around for certain. Um Lindsay, do you have anything from special ed? Um, just a quick thank you for the administrators, building administrators understanding and general education staff. I don't know how much you all have read or heard about in the news
051that we have a new um, state IEP writing program. It has been quite a disaster. Um, anyway, it's been very challenging. So, on top of the normal start of the school year, new students with high needs. They're all also learning how to use a completely new computer system that's not working like it should. So, and not a single person is really complaining or anything. They're just getting their jobs done and helping kids. So, thank you to the special ed staff for being team players and for everyone else for understanding what they're going through. >> I have a few items as well. Um, I want to talk a little bit about the school safety grant. Um, I'm happy to announce we did receive $45,000 um from the state for the school safety grant. It is a
052matching grant, so we have to match at least 45,000. Those funds are used to uh pay the salary and benefits of our school resource officer, Officer Koy. Um, we will use it for other police department needs as well. um more and more schools are writing that grant so we're getting less and less funds each year but uh any of those funds help out and we're glad to be able to provide that service. I also want to thank uh Don Hosteder for her efforts with that grant. We have several other grants I just want to at least touch on and highlight that we've gotten um either late last spring or over the summer. We have the Excel grant from the Green County Foundation. Um, it's for 3D. It's a 3D launchpad. Um, empowering design, drafting, and
053discovery. I believe that's with Mr. Tar. And that was a $3,500 grant. Um, the IHSA um, AED grant we got to purchase a new AED that we placed um, at the high school football, track field, soccer complex. Um, that is now located there. So if we have an incident um and we even had it have it set up to where it's charged continuous charge. We had to spend a little bit of money but we we have it uh set up so it's it always going to be there ready to go. We all have the whole kids garden grant um for raised gardens at the high school level that is $3,500 grant. The RMC community grant for middle school maker space we received $900 for that. the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute in partnership with both us
054at Eastern Green Schools as well as youth first social worker. Um we will have that for a K to8 position. Um that's several thousand 30,000 plus you know to pay that salary and benefit for someone. The we have a 2425 paraprofessional grant that supplied professional development and supplies for our IAS. We've wrapped that grant up that cycle and we were able to give them some training and supplies. Uh project um aware wellness grant through life. Uh we have um a website that is available to all of our our staff. Um it provides both mental and physical wellness for them. It was a $5,000 grant that our entire wellness committee worked on to get. Um that's available to all of our staff members. and the Bloomington Board of Realators. We have a safety grant from them
055for $1,000. We've used that to help purchase I would like to say radios, but it's a radio for $1,000. Um, but we are seeing more and more grant opportunities are starting to dry up. So, um, you know, other schools have said the same. So, we're fortunate and I appreciate, uh, you know, all of Dawn's work with our grants, but the other teachers that are involved and everyone that's involved with those as well. Um, I also want to echo a great start to the school year. I want to thank all of our faculty, staff, bus drivers for everything they do each and every day. I'm also excited to share that I have started my one-on-one meetings. Um, I've met with the almost all the elementary faculty and staff and I will start the middle school this
056week and move on to the high school next week. Um, it's just nice to have those meetings. Uh, they are incredibly informative for me. I learn about our staff as individuals. Um, I learn about what they're excited about in their classrooms, some of the contributions they're making each and every day. Uh, they they are quick to talk about their colleagues and their contributions, but it's it gives me some valuable insights into our school climate and culture. Um, we just have great people that work for us and it's it's nice to get and spend 10 or 15 minutes talking to them and and uh some of them are a little uncomfortable when they first come and sit and talk to me, but uh u I I like to think I make it fairly welcoming and they,
057you know, we have a good conversation. I do want to update briefly. We've we've had a couple we had a work session today and then we had a couple of u motions to approve um advertising of the bids. Uh, so I do want to talk a little bit about our bond project. Just an update on the high school and the central campus bonds. They have both been formally sold and we do have the funds. Um, the funds do set outside of our regular budget. They don't even set in our regular bank. So, there's a a a lengthy process we have to go through when we start to um pay some of the bills involved with the bond. Uh, TVA will be the the point on that. And of course, we have legal counsel that that
058assists with that. Um along the way um and Steph Nogle Group will be helping us as well. Um we did also talk we also will be wrapping up a formal sale of the general obligation bond. Uh those dollars will be used for the early learning center. Um earlier this evening we did approve the resolution to approve the bid for the central campus roof project and the early learning center project. Um uh we will now wait until the formal bids come in. We will review those bids in late October. Um and then we will come back to the board and get approval to accept those bids and that process will begin. Um at that point I will give updates on a fairly regular basis at this part of the meeting if if that's the way the
059board would like me to do that. I do want to thank the board uh for having faith in me to work through this. Um, I also want to thank Ta Lucans, um, our corporation treasurer and all of the players that have worked behind the scenes, um, to help us get to this point in the process. It was a a big learning curve for me uh, to be on this side of it. U, I am very excited about the upgrades that these bond dollars will allow us to bring to Eastern Green Schools. Um, over the course of the school year, I'll continue to share updates. So that's all I have is discussion items. Turn it over to you. >> All right. You got anything to say? Say >> just it's it's feels like a wonderful start
060to the year. Um I am a eighth grader and a senior and they're they're both happy girls. So I that makes me happy. >> That's good to hear. >> So thank you. >> Grandma's happy. Grandma's happy. Yeah, I u got an opportunity this last week to visit um a couple of our upskill students here on campus uh both in the maintenance area along with um education student and our social media student in the high school. And um these kiddos are doing some great stuff. They really are just amazing and real excited to see their growth over the next couple years. So, um, we're going to be looking for some opportunities for training for them, some additional training that we'll talk about later, but great great stuff. The mention of the STEM fellowship and career coaching
061started last month and we have Alex and we also have Clinton is in the career coaching piece and I'm real excited about him and his workbased learning activities we've been talking about. We met with him also when we were here. So, um, they're going to be great great moves towards that career and towards that work employment piece that our diploma is asking us about. And then the last thing I want to ask you all to put on your calendar, September 29th, and later in the afternoon that day, there'll be an open house down at the new Micro Electronics High School Academy, which is down at Westgate, the old SIC building. I'll send you all personal invite, but just for the general public to know, it's also an open house in the afternoon. So, pretty exciting.
062Uh, Eastern will be invited next year to participate after this first cohort gets through for our pilot year. So, >> um, my sixth graders are just great to middle school, so thanks for everyone that's making that work. Um, and my other two kids are happy and I haven't got calls from the school yet. So, um, I also wanted to say that I all three of them participated in the mobile dentist and at first when I first used to see those forms come home, I would think, what kind of parent doesn't have time to take their child to the dentist? >> And we missed and we missed our appointments when we were like my husband had scheduled it. And I got the reminder when we were standing in a line at Disney World this summer and
063I was like, "Our dentist is backed up like nine months to get in." So I was like, "We're going to try this." And they all had a good experience. So if you're if you're one of those people that's trying to find more time at home and get all the things done and not have to take more PTO from your day job, send your kids to the mobile dentist. >> About your kids, Miss [Laughter] >> I forgot to tell you. >> You forgot to tell me. That's what happened. >> She's got she got a shot collar. >> I can send them to school if you need to use them. >> Dennis >> Mike >> I think it's illegal shot collar. I don't >> know. This is live. >> No, I don't have anything. >> I don't
064either. Um, anybody else? I think we'll go ahead and adjourn the meeting at 7:26 p.m. Do I have a motion? Dennis second.