July 14th School Board Meeting

001Monday, July 14th, 2025. Please stand and recite the pledge of allegiance to me. >> 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. >> Welcome everyone to our July meeting. And by the calendar, we are 30 days from the first day of school. So just hey heads up to everyone out there. It's coming quickly. Uh just a few opening comments as we start this evening. This is a meeting of the school board and public for the purpose of conducting the school corporation's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There's time for public participation uh for agenda and non-aggenda items. Uh number two and then we will also be having a

002public hearing this evening tonight where there will be opportunity for public comment during that time as well. The mission of Goskabe schools is to uh inspire innovation and to empower potential and enrich our world. And Gosh schools Elkart County School District of choice. So approval of tonight's agenda. Do we have any changes to our agenda? >> None at this time. >> All right. With that, the agenda is approved as presented. And board members, uh approval of our minutes from June 9th, 2025. Do we have any adjustments to those minutes. Seeing everyone looking down, they are approved as presented. So with that, we will start with item two, which is our public comment. We will start with Mr. Glenn Nuler. >> Is that microphone on? >> Oh, it's not. >> Is it? No. Thank you, Glenn,

003for doing that. >> All right. Uh, Glennol go. Um, no, no sugar this time around, so don't get used to it all the time. I'm going to give you a little history lesson, though. 30 years ago, I as somebody sitting in the audience had everything that a board member had except for personnel issue paperwork. And back then when we were hiring teachers or superintendent or whatever, I knew what their grade point average was, where they went to school, their social security number. I'm glad some things changed. Okay, that's that's a lot of responsibility as a basically a a volunteer to maintain. But I did have all the information that was available back then. You could actually question after each one or before the vote was taken of any item on there which was you know

004made for long meetings but the citizens knew they could ask the questions and it was done in public. It is important. I'd like to go back to that. Good example was at the last meeting when I actually lashed out at the idea of shutting doors, keeping public out and it turned out for a very valid reason which could have been handled a lot differently but wasn't. Um I have noticed that being next to West Scotian the internet is not on during the day for the public. Usually it is especially on weekends. School isn't in session now. And there I do see people actually sitting by the school and using it. So I don't know if that's something that I mean that's something that came around during CO because you know it was necessary. You're already

005killing my time. >> Minute by minute. Good. You still got one to go. >> Okay. And I want to talk about government in general and you are government. We elect you. You know, as they say, we can put you in or we can take you out. Here lately, government has been less than truthful, honest, and respectful to the taxpayers. Not to mention the voters, but the taxpayers. Doesn't matter if it's federal, state, local, as in county or city, school board. Same way. Some of you are going to get tired of always hearing it. It's time for some of you to get off. You're being disrespectful to the voters and the taxpayers of this community. So, it comes down to back 30 years ago, if there was a referendum or something, you didn't own property. you

006didn't vote. So, it was important to be a property owner. I'm just saying maybe you can turn things around starting at the local level. I I hear him that you can turn things around where people might start trusting. >> Thank you. [Applause] All right, that will conclude the uh public comment on agenda and non-aggenda items. Like I said, we'll have another opportunity during our public hearing. Um so we'll go on to item three uh which is superintendent reports. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Start out with our financial commitments and ask Dr. Evans give the board a couple updates. What you have before you uh >> he borrowed his >> um what you see is the major funds education fund. You'll see that the majority of the funds 80% of them are uh money is spent

007on those funds towards employees. We're getting uh more revenue than we budgeted for slightly. We 50.3% it should have been 50%. And we've spent slightly less out of education fund 49.76 rather than 50%. So both those are trending in the right direction for the education fund. For the operating referendum, you'll see that 90 97 98% of the money spent in the operating referendum are for employee expenses. That's what we wanted it to be. Um I see that we're getting we're getting more revenue. >> Thank you. Um you'll see that we're getting more revenue than we are expending. So that's also a good trend that's um that's helping us out. We know the end of the operating referendum is at the end of next year. So that would enable us to continue with uh those salaries

008for a little while longer after the referendum. Just from the cash balance that's in that fund. Uh the next fund would be debt service. Um it's right about where we would thought it would have been. We just paid all of the bills in June and we'll pay the remaining bills in December and we should be fully expended by the time we get there for our budget $12 million. And then the last one will be the operations fund. We're um slightly ahead on revenue and we're slightly less than what we expected on spending. So, we're getting more than we're spending and we're trending in the right direction on there. So, I guess in a nutshell, uh, as a fund report, everything's flowing just fine right now. >> Any questions for Bob from the board? >> So,

009a general question, and this is somewhat relates to this and also relates to how you're going to maybe look to do next year's budget. Do we have a confidence level with where we think our funding levels are going to be going into next year with the recent passage of new state legislation? >> I Yes. Um long story short is that Senate Bill one is going to impact every uh government entity in schools and townships across Indiana. Some more than others. uh it's progressive so that by the time we get to 2041 it'll have the most impact. Um so I don't foresee there being much of an issue in 26 probably not in 27 either. In 28 it will start to be challenging to be able to make uh there'll be more of a cuts in

010our operations because more and more people will be paying less and less taxes. So that means that the schools and the cities and libraries will be getting less money. So I have that mapped out um start getting out past three years. You wonder things going to change by then. But uh I think we'll be fine over the next couple of years and then we need to start we need to start planning now for contingencies as we get past that. And then I guess a followup or an adder is funds we are to receive from the federal government that may or may not have been received. Do we know anything about how that will will that impact this remaining fiscal year or >> Yes. An example of that would be our title one funding I believe.

011And um Tracy, you might know the exact number, but I believe it'll be a couple hundred,000 less than what we have this year. So instead of 1.2 of the first $1 million, Title One funding pays for our Title One majority of our Title One uh instructors. And so we'll have to uh make adjustments, I'm assuming, as the year goes on. we have some we have the the we have the capability of uh reacting to things in a slower manner because we have built up some cash balance. So it'll be a matter of how much do we need to adjust 30 days before school starts or we're looking at next school year where we need to make the adjustments and have possibly have some other funds to pay for these these instructors until we make those

012adjustments. That's kind of where we are with federal funds. >> Title two, three, and four, which is our professional development um migrant Yale learners. And then the the social the social emotional I forget what title four actually is called. Tracy, >> it's mostly the professional development. Okay. Coaching, so funds we've used for coaching and professional development. >> Those funds have been totally frozen. Um so we don't we don't know or anticipate when they're going to be coming back. Um that's really a fairly small amount when it uh compared to title one. Title one really would have hurt us. Uh title two through four stings, but um we can we can make it through um as we readjust some things. And you'll hear some more tonight about our general obligation bond strategy, what we're doing now,

013implications, uh our operations fund, uh our general obligation bond, uh bond strategy that we've used, uh short-term borrowing has kind of helped out our operations fund. Our operations fund is the fund that's most under duress in my mind that we have the hardest time uh making ends meet. That's our transportation and u custodials staff you know supports to the school district and so as as that fund struggles you know maybe by 2030 something like that we'll have to make some difficult decisions but I think right now it's going to be our strategy will be we have cash balances to give us a little uh we're not gonna not deal with it for the cuts we're gonna have to But we have some ability to take a measured approach and how we make our cuts. Plus,

014we've made significant cuts over the last couple years that have helped position us to where we are right now. So, uh, keep an eye on what happens to assessed valuation and then net our net AV will probably start being crimped and which means our tax rate that we have had that's been staying flat is going to be under duress a little bit over time and uh, but that probably won't hit till 28 or something like that. Carl Carl's over here, the experts right there. So, okay, any other questions board? comments from the team. Did we miss anything? Okay. >> Shall I go on to the next one, Mr. President? >> Thank you. >> Okay. So, next up, uh some good news. Um student achievement. We're going to share some of our student achievement data. We

015think there's a state board uh meeting uh coming up. So, next board meeting, we think we'll be able to have unimargoed data we can share with you that can go out to the public. um that that looks very positive. So that's that's exciting. Um but also I want to you know we have a couple uh things going on and I also want to uh invite uh someone to come take a picture with us too. Uh first off we received redevelopment commission $98,000 for our CT programming. So, that $98,000 is going to go to help support entrepreneurship and our some of our engineering stuff and some other things. Uh Kathy, uh I know you and John John did a presentation. So, that's wonderful. Uh so, we did get the money. So, that's exciting. So, red development

016commission, special thanks. Uh next, we also received uh the SOIP lab grant structures of the intellect uh integrated practice protocol. Uh we got a grant for $187,000 from the community foundation which is fantastic. That will support preschool and our school age students that are coming to school not ready. The whole target there is to get as many of our students that are not ready for kindergarten when they get here. We want to catch them up as fast as possible and help them attend, focus, concentrate and be ready for learning. So that's exciting. And then the next thing I want to do is uh invite uh one of our partners for our entrepreneurship program uh startup Moxy and Chris Wymer is here. So if you would stand up and I don't know if you want to

017say anything to the board just in regards to our partnership. So, the partnership is uh you'll have later in the agenda to approve a $20,000 um agreement where startup Moxy will will be partnering be go startup Moxy of Goan High School and we're really excited about that. Chris, do you want to say anything about that? >> Yeah, thank you. Thank you very much. I'm glad to be here. I took over as the director for startup Moxy Elcart County three years ago with the hope of being able to spread this program larger than just the small group of students who were able to have the transportation to get to where I'm holding class each day. And from the moment I took over, Jim and I had started talking about, you know, how could we potentially make

018this work? And you know, Jim had the excitement and the drive to say, "Let's figure out a way to provide this opportunity to more students in Gan Community Schools that maybe don't have the opportunity to drive themselves all over the county, but have that creative entrepreneurial spirit and want to do big things." And I am just really excited to be able to partner together and work together. I've worked with Kathy and some of the teachers here in the building already over the past few years and really enjoy the partnership we have and I'm really looking forward to seeing what we could do and you know set the idea for some of the other corporations in the area to maybe follow suit and be able to provide this opportunity for their students. >> It's a first

019rate program and you do a great job with our kids. I know we've had like I don't know maybe more than half some years of the kids and go kids have done very well and uh we think this is going to be a big hit. I think we have 25 students that are signed up between that and uh our engineering program. I think there's total 25 students. So real excited. >> So I'm invested in making sure it works well. So you'll probably see me around. >> And our kids will get if I'm not mistaken 18 credit hours at IvyTech. >> Correct. And that will be equivalent to >> they'll get a certificate of CT which is a certificate from IvyTech. >> Yeah. >> And it's pretty awesome that they can get that in our high

020school. So >> in one year. >> Uh any questions for Chris or I in regards to that that relationship. >> Okay. It's going to be a great partnership. Looking forward to it. But we want I want brag to come up and we want to >> do that right now. >> Press release. Yes. [Music] And if it's okay, I'll launch you into our operational excellence commit commitments and uh I think first up there Bob you have something talk to the board about >> uh yes you might remember a couple months ago when I when I mentioned u a bond for this year we had included the go junior high school track and in light of that we started to get some estimates on how much that would be uh we went through two different companies and

021they all said that they wouldn't be able to do do it till next spring anyway. So that would be a good bond project. But afterwards um working with PSI and we were able to find a contractor who was was able to do that this summer. Actually they're waiting on me to call them to tell them that they can get started. Um the thought process were is that they could get it done and possibly get it coated uh with less than coatings which has to wait 30 days after it's asphalt is laid for it to settle and then the coating has to be warm enough outside. So it's a very small window that it might get done in September but it might also get done in May. So, we're we're just uh later on today, we'll

022be asking for your permission to go ahead and uh allow this company to uh build track this fall uh starting in a week or two. Um so, that will be totally up to you. We do have some funds available through operations fund that weren't used um for transportation and uh so we could use just switch those funds to uh the track. >> Okay, thanks Bob. >> Uh any questions for Bob? >> I think the the write up I know we're going to get to it. It said it's actually cheaper than what the other ones were. >> Is that correct? >> Yes. So there's multiple benefits of doing it. >> Multiple benefits. >> Yes. >> And they are using Leslie codings on it too which is kind of the standard code. >> Yeah. So it won't

023be Leslie codings that we'll be doing it. It'll be another uh when we when we get to it and and after we have authority to do that, then we'll start working on the timeline for the codings based upon when these guys are projecting they'll finish. Uh but less the codings wouldn't be able to get to it till May. There's another vendor that may be able to get to it sooner, possibly September. So, we'll have to wait till we'll see what this vendor says with the asphalt when we get the coatings figured out. Thank you. And you you all notice that Andrew Linger over there are excellent doing a great job communications and public relations. Dr. Medcaf's got to talk a little strategy about what he and uh Andrew have been working on. So I know

024and you all know that go community school is a great place to be. It's a great place for our kids. It's a great place for our employees. How do we go about spreading that message beyond just the people in this room and the people that work for us and have a direct connection with the school? Um now that we do have a communication specialist um who can help create and define our strategy for marketing ourselves, uh we are starting to look at how do we go about marketing ourselves. And I know 10 years ago we had a we had a marketing firm and we were very unsure about what we got for our money in some ways. Um and so now that we have someone on staff who can kind of help spearhead that um

025we are going to start looking at how do we go about um getting the great things that are happening in Goan and sharing those with the public in general. Um and then uh working with uh it might be that Andrew then works directly with uh vendors such as WNDU or something like that uh for the creation of maybe a short video and then some and then some airtime throughout the course of the year as we as we think about our marketing strategy. Uh I know we've Andrew has also started to create videos for us. uh board members, if you come to the first day of school, you'll see our welcome back video um that he created, which uh we we previewed today and we're very impressed by. Um so I think it's time to for

026us to really start thinking about how do we market ourselves especially with you again open enrollment. We've done some things with uh with our transfer windows to to allow at the high school level uh a greater opportunity for people to come, but it's just getting the message out about what we have to offer. Um and so we would like to start uh planning out our how our marketing strategy might work um as we direct it internally. >> Thank any questions for Dr. Mech. I think it's exciting. I'm glad to hear it. >> A lot of good things to work on there. So, thanks. Thanks. Um, last people commitments and we're going to start with Tracy and then if you'd >> interuce a couple people. >> Um, going to call your attention to one significant contract

027change on the personnel roster. Um, pending your approval tonight, um, we are recommending that, um, Miss Jennifer Yoder be moved from industrial tech teacher to assistant principal at the high school. Um, pending that approval. Um, Jen has been a popular face around the high school, a popular face around here. She's received many accolades. um one including uh final top 10 teacher of the year for the state of Indiana plus um has brought in spearheaded bringing bringing in many um public entities to the high school as an industrial tech teacher. But our recommendation tonight is to have her approved to be the next assistant principal at the high school. So, Jen, hopefully you will get approved tonight, but I will let you stand up and introduce yourself and your family tonight. And then if you have

028anything special you would like to say, we'd welcome those words tonight. So, so I'm here with my husband Jerry and Cole, which I think everybody knows in the room, and our youngest Clay. Um, yeah, I just I mean, it's no secret I love Ocean High School. I did my student teaching there 28 years ago and never left. So high school is all I know. It's what I love and I'm excited to start this next part of my career. >> So hopefully you will have that approval here in a little bit. So um the second thing is we are just about finished with recruiting season. Um, as it sits now, um, as of today, we will be welcoming 27 new teachers to new teacher orientation. This is a quite a bit lower than what we've seen

029in the past, which is a good thing. Um, means less turnover, means more people staying in the seats or maybe making internal moves, but not external moves, which is always a good thing. Um, we are almost fully staffed. you will see some postings out there, but they're postings that um we may be able to fill even internally yet as we look at student numbers and and look at some internal movements ourselves. So, um, we're pretty excited to see some some things kind of filling up and, um, changes being happening within and just being very strategic in how we're placing teachers and and what we're doing with the teachers we have and and keeping the teachers we have, keeping the expertise here in our district so that we can continue to grow within. And >> I

030think to put a plug, we have a very good compensation package for educators. We do. So, >> it's made up, you know, with the work we've done with the GA and and with the administrators and with you all, it's Yeah. >> for any prospective teachers, come on in. We can do very well for you. >> Really well compared to other districts. >> It's a good selling point, too. >> Thank you, Tracy. Anything else, Tracy? >> I think that's it. >> Okay. Um, Lori, do you want to introduce Sunonny and her team? >> Sure. So, you know, we've been working a lot with our parent engagement efforts. Um, and you bring your team up. >> Um, and Sonia has some experience in a recent district with there is a certification award recognition you can get from

031the state about um, being a parent friendly school, familyfriendly school, that correction is more of an expert than I am. Uh, and we're just excited that she went through that process because it's pretty rigorous and it does take time to do. uh and and so we just appreciate the time that you took to do that and I'll let you introduce your team and tell us a little bit more about um that so this is Michelle Wells she's our registar secretary Donna Shank grade one teacher Jen Gretch three Aaron Bhan Mario our new counselor this school year so um and you guys can chime in any time but what we had to do for um this specific recognition was we had to fill out surveys and students had to do surveys and parents had to do

032surveys and then we were interviewed by the state of Indiana. So it was uh quite rigorous and um one thing I want to point out is out of a scale of four our score was a 3.72 which the state of Indiana said we had a lot of participation and so that was exciting. So, we were evaluated on communication and how well we communicate effectively and um we were evaluated on um how we welcome our families into the building and um how well we work with the community. So, um you doing great things and I couldn't do it without great teachers. So, they deserve all the recognition. So, we're just really proud of what we're doing. Anything any of you would like to add? working at Curry. Great place to be. >> Good. Well, we know

033that the more we engage our families and make them feel welcome, the better that come. >> Come on. There you go. >> I would sit in the back because, you know, kind of happens. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you for We appreciate it very much. You come to >> Mr. President that concludes our reports. >> All right. Well, thank you. Uh so next we will move on to reports from the committee or the board members that committees the board members sit on excuse me. So board members uh anything to highlight this evening? We haven't met as this sports committee meeting but I do want to highlight the work of the baseball team, the high school baseball team. They went to semi-finals. They played an awesome game in South Ben. um two games. They

034represented Ocean very very well. Uh and it was great to see a lot of people from the community. The stadium on our side anyway. >> It was very full. >> Was very full and it was great to see and I hope to see the trophies. >> Yeah. >> Next time we're going to celebrate the the great run. We also had a I don't know if this time to say it, but we had a state champion or the state uh all state team first team all state shorts stop. Uh >> Braxton Diaz >> Klein excuse me I should know this. >> It's okay. >> Diaz Diaz was the pitcher. >> Yes. >> So yeah, great team, great team effort, great competition. So, uh, building trades, I believe, are are meeting tomorrow evening. I say I believe

035because it hasn't 100% been firmed up, but I'm pretty sure we are. Uh, uh, so, uh, we're still anticipating, uh, instructional leader Todd Line to be back in the fall. Um, and, uh, just for the community, this will be our 50th house. No. >> Okay. >> Not quite. All right. >> We're getting close. Uh and uh unfortunately uh we did lose a past president a few weeks ago. Uh several years several years back uh uh but uh it was sad to hear that but uh but he he uh he served the go high school trades well. So >> 18 years he was on >> Yeah. >> Um and then so so Jim said a little bit about redevelopment. So last Tuesday, uh the redevelop commission did uh pass uh the funding of for the seventh

036year a grant to uh go high school um into our CTE program for $98,500. Um there was a little more discussion this year than in previous years about the approval, not because they didn't want to support it, but because they are beginning to feel the the the tightening of the belt from the state as well. So, um, they have budgeted for it to continue. Um, but I think as gracious as they have been over the last seven years, we also need to be prepared that it may not be a a neverending uh gift that they're they're will they're able to give us. So, I think they can see the benefits of of what their investment has done to our high school. Um, and which is fantastic. they've allowed us to move forward with a lot

037of expansion that would have taken us maybe longer to do through our funding challenges, but um you know it's very uh gracious of them to do that and it's something that you know I want to make sure we as board members and we as the community realize that it it is a partnership between our school system and our city. So >> awesome. The community foundation did meet on Tuesday and probably the biggest item was that they approved grants of $40 per student for model west ocean and Chamberlain to go to shed aquarium. So that was totaling $10,080. [Applause] >> All right, perfect. So that concludes board committee reports. Now we will move on to item five which is in our consent agenda items. And so we will start with item 5.1 approval of accounts payable

038dated July 14th 2025. Payrolls dated May 30th 2025 June 13 2025 June 17 2025 June 18th 2025 and June 27th 2025. 5.2 2 is 2026 technology student association nationals overnight field trip 5.3 2026 French club trip to France 5.4 obsolete curricular materials 5.5 2025 2026 Oaklan memorandum of understanding and 5.6 six personnel. Anything to highlight on the consent agenda items? >> I do have one. >> You said Tim Bal uh assistant facility director for 27 years is retiring and uh skill set where that he has has been fantastic. He's helped the district out dramatically over the years saving us money right and left. So we'll miss him. So and he's not here. So >> he is not. No. >> All right. So with that and with the changes and positions, the consent agenda items are

039approved as presented. You now are officially an assistant principal. >> Wow. >> All right. Is that upstairs? That sound >> drums. That's the drums. >> Okay. I was wondering if it was feedback through the mic, so that's why I was asking. So, all right. >> All right. So, next is item six, which is our public hearing and the first preliminary determination hearing. So, the next item on the agenda is for the board to hold a preliminary hearing on the proposed construction project. If you are interested in speaking at the hearing, please make sure you have signed in. Uh, I will call people up. If you haven't signed in, that's not a big deal. Which should have included your name and your address. After a presentation by the administration and its adviserss, there will be an

040opportunity for the public to make comments about the project. At the hearing, we'll ask that each person please limit their comments to three minutes and that the topic be limited to the proposed project under consideration. At this time, I would like to please uh ask Mr. Carl Cinder to uh please step up and share a little bit about uh this hearing, the purpose of this hearing. >> All right. Good evening board members and members of the public um as we've been doing on quite frequent basis at least annually is um a way to fund some of your capital needs is through either a general obligation bond or through a lease rental bond. And tonight we are proposing to issue $8.4 million of general obligation bonds to fund a variety of capital needs that you have

041throughout school district. I don't know Bob, do you have any you want to elaborate of individual projects? Um >> yes, I can do that whenever you like. I can come up after you. >> Okay. All right. We'll have Bob come up later. We're going to go through just a brief summary of SI slides here to show kind of um the financing and overview of what we're proposing here. The first slide is an overview of our school's debt service payments. As you can see, uh on the very far bottom lists the various bond issues. Uh starting with clear to the left is the 2013 refunding bonds. Those are in the light blue. And so our goal has been um as some of these bonds have been expiring that uh we come back before you to authorize

042new bonds coming up to fund a lot of these improvements that are needed to your facilities and replacements such as roofs and boilers and all kinds of things that uh wear out over time. You'll see we have a big drop being proposed in 2026 as um as some of our U bonds are are being paid off. And so what we propose to do is fill in the gap so that again we keep our tax rate consistent. And um we won't know exactly those amounts until later this year. We're if all goes well at these hearings, um we'll sell bonds later this year after we know what the net assessed value is and then we can kind of size uh the amount of the debt service levy. And we'll get into the specific terms here in

043just a moment. The next page shows our current tax rates. As you'll see, from 2022 through 2025, our total rate has been uh $15654. And coming down to 2026, um if the operating referendum retires after 2026, you'll see a big drop even in 2027. So, as the tax rates start going down, we have room to fill in for new debt service uh with these bonds. And so these are initial tax projections with the proposed 2025 GEO bonds. And you'll see that again we're proposing to keep the tax rate the same for 2026. And then in 2027 as another group of bonds are are retired and the operating um referendum goes away that you'll see a drop in the tax rate. And that'll allow for opportunities then next year to again issue some additional debt to

044cover some of these capital needs especially um as Bob has mentioned previously that we're using some of the bonds here to cover some of the costs that your operations fund uh was covering. So uh by 2027 that would go down to $130 and then 2028 $116 if nothing else happens. So this next slide is the legal parameters the financing parameters of the bonds. Uh want to just kind of go through these so we have this information on the public record. The par amount of the bonds will be $8,400,000. Estimated cost of issuance and underwriters discount total approximately 200,000. So that leaves proceeds available for hard and soft project costs 8.2 million. Estimated interest rates are range somewhere between 2 and 6%. Um more than likely they'll be uh priced um at a coupon probably around

045a 5% coupon, but we will have premium that will actually lower the interest rate over those over the term. We have a maximum term of eight years. We don't think it'll be eight years, only probably three years, but that's the legal um authorization we're seeking. Estimated interest cost would be just under a million dollars over the three years, 988,000. And the total annual pay maximum payment 6.5. Again, we don't think it's going to be that high, but we wanted to give ourselves flexibility so that we could again keep the tax rate where we have it targeted. The maximum tax rate would be at 32.5 cents. However, because of the declining uh debt service as bonds retire, there will be no impact to the tax rate as our as our goal. Additional information, schools maximum annual

046payments as a percentage of your net assessed value is less than 1% 94% and then direct and overlapping debt as a percentage your net assessed value 6.05. So, that's kind of where we're at in a nutshell for tonight. Uh, we're going to go through a hearing shortly. Um, and then we'll have the same hearing at your August meeting to basically go through the same information again. And then, um, following that hearing, um, it'll be up to the board if you want to consider the resolution to proceed with the financing. So, I guess at this time, I'll turn it over to Dr. Dr. Evans if he wants to give an update on projects. >> Go ahead, Dr. Evans. >> Sure. At the educational needs of the project, we'd like to uh re sorry reinvest in our

047schools. Uh this bond would help cover project two, which would complete the HVAC, Gan Junior High School, carpet at Goan Junior High School, and some elementary schools. Asphalt again go Junior High School and a model. And uh as far as roof repairs and other smaller projects. So the group prepares are going to be predominantly at goan junior high school. So this is really a there's a lot of focus on go junior high with this this endeavor. These projects would meet the educational needs of students because they would be facilitating effective and safe learning environments. It's estimated this project will cost uh as we were saying $8.4 million and will be completed within two years. as the intent that this project will not result in increasing our current tax rate. >> Thank you, Dr. Evans. Back

048to you, Carl. >> Okay. Um, I'll open it up if the board has any questions uh before we open it up to the public. Otherwise, I think we have gone through all the legal parameters that we need to for tonight's meeting. I have so I guess the question I have and with the recent passage of legislation what is now the parameters with once it's been paid off with how additional future bonds can be proposed do we have to is there a cooling off period where I there's a lot of confusion I think within the law how this is now written >> the law was very comprehensive Senate Bill one and we're all trying to wrap our heads around this as as we understand it today. This will not impact our ability to issue bonds in

049the future. Um but I will say this, we did talk to Mr. Deo and Dr. Evans recently and Mr. Medcaf about um it probably wouldn't hurt to have maybe another time, maybe not now or next month while you're going through your budget, but maybe in the fall, we'd come back and maybe talk a little bit further about impacts of Senate Bill One and how we can maybe tailor our strategy with these bonds to help cover some of the costs that we're foreseeing maybe cut out of your operations fund. And so I don't think that's maybe necessarily what we want to get into all the nuts and bolts tonight. Uh but it is definitely something we're looking at and we'll have to monitor you know future legislation changes how that will impact as we go down

050the road as well. >> Some districts are not going to be able to do general obligation but I think 30% of the districts cannot do that if I understand correctly but we still have the ability to do that. >> Yeah because I knew there was >> but we do. >> Yeah. We could always come back and >> correct >> change that legislation, but uh we'll just have to wait and see. But as it stands now, we can still continue to do that. >> So the thought for the board would at some point we have a either work session or executive session to learn about Senate Bill one just like what's it all about? Um there's some interesting things that uh can, you know, great things save money for the taxpayer, but on the other side,

051it's going to impact our our budgets. But I I believe as long as we're conservative and doing what we're doing, we'll be in good shape. But it will it will uh lay itself out over time and the impact will be not felt right away. 28 29 30 it'll become increasingly more impactful and more important for us to manage towards that. So this uh uh if AV is going down what we can actually get you know and we manage typically to a tax rate which is the 56 cents that you see up there um as the AV goes down to get the same amount of levy to spend to take care of our facilities our tax rate is going to go up and then there's a cap on the tax rate. So that's just the long

052and short of it. It's it's more detailed and much better explained by uh stifle coming in and giving us kind of an overview. Uh but Carl, I think you'd be part of that conversation with us. >> We'd be happy to do that. >> Okay. Uh and there's so in some ways this bond I feel like is well suited for where we're at. Conservative. We're not going to get ourselves into trouble. Um, but what we need to do is between now and maybe next spring, I would hope the board really has a really good understanding. Uh, and we'll see how it's playing out and see what's going on because again, we we're we're well suited because of our cash balances and some great work done here by the team uh before me and since I've been

053here on managing the the budget and so we have uh some decent cash balances. We've been doing this general obligation bond that we're trying to take care of our facilities. I feel like the biggest concern is we will feel this kind of crunching and having to manage a little tighter, maybe not have as much money for a geo bond to do some work, but that's to be we'll we'll find out how it all goes. There's a lot of ifands between now and 2030 or something like that before we really know. So, >> with the bonds falling off, does that make it easier in respect to like keeping bonds at the same level? But even if if the AV goes down, we're not trying to be up here because that drops off. Does that help it?

054Well, the AV will go down, >> right? >> And then when if and when as the AV goes down, assuming it will go down, >> uh then our tax rate to get the same amount of levy to spend is going to have to go up. >> But as some of these drop off, we won't need to get the same amount of levy to support our buildings. >> That's what I meant. As it drops off, we'll be able to I don't know if you can go back, but maybe >> part of the problem will be is that they've also lowered the threshold for when you have to go ask the the general public for a referendum. So that threshold now was 80 cents, it's now lowered to 70 cents if your debt service is above that.

055>> And so we may% we have to do a referendum to get any money up. >> And so we may have to manage projects and the bond size with some of these new thresholds. So, but I think that we can have that those conversations later, but it doesn't impact what we're doing here today. >> Right. Other things from the board questions initially for Carl. >> All right. So, now with that, we will officially open our public hearing and uh we will invite members for the public. If you would uh like to speak on it, we would just ask that you please Give us your name, sir. >> Like you don't know it. Glenn, do you need the address for it to be official or not? Okay, everybody knows where I live. >> Anyways, couple things.

056I'm I'm Can we put that back up the last Sorry. Shim >> slide, please. >> Three minutes. >> The U It talked about, you know, uh the interest would be about a million dollars for three years. It says there that this bond could run up to uh eight years. That is the number we should be looking at for total interest, estimated interest because don't underell it. That's the thing. if if if if it's just simple math that it's going to be at least $2 million if we run out past, you know, the uh if if we get close to uh eight years. The other thing is maximum annual payment of 600 6.5 million uh out of an eight. We'll call it a nine really generous $10 million. That's a that's pretty steep. I don't understand

057that one. So, um, some of the stuff that's being is being done at the junior high, which used to be the middle school 27 years ago, all that stuff was rebuilt. I was on the board when that happened. Yes, that hurt. cost. You know, it was a big expenditure, but we had to update it because obviously previous administrations had neglected it. Um, what I don't understand is we're we're losing money. You know, when your paycheck is cut, you don't run out and buy things with your credit card and try to figure it out how to do it later. I understand this stuff. Don't don't write me off as somebody doesn't understand it. Four years of underl u definitely taught me how to look at numbers and seeing if we're being tattooed or not. So, as

058a taxpayer, I kind of have a problem with this because as we losing money, I mean, as our debt goes down, I don't like the idea of running out and getting, you know, let's buy a new car because we got it paid off. That's not the way I do business. That's not the way a lot of big people don't do business, including business, don't do business that way. So, I I have a concern about just because the bond's going off, we don't have to fill it back up with something else. That's just ridiculous. >> Thank you, Glenn. >> Would anyone else from the public like to speak on the matter? All right. So, with that, we'd like to thank everyone that was uh participating in the hearing. We appreciate your time and interest in the

059project and the future of our community. Please note that this is the first step in the legal process. The board will continue to work with the administration and its professionals to look for efficiencies to conserve tax dollars while meeting our educational needs. All right. So, with that, we will now move on to item seven, which are our action items. And we will start with item 7.1 approval of teacher evaluation. Dr. Metaf. >> So each year the state requires that the board approve the teacher evaluation plan. Uh the real the only real changes that are happening uh I introduced at the last board meeting which is the working with the uh GA the ocean education association um developed a core professionalism section. So that has been added to the plan. It's it's redlined in the total

060plan. And then the removal of the performance-based compensation, otherwise known as the teacher appreciation grant, has been removed because uh the legislature during this last um session changed how that is distributed and will be uh and will be distributed and we still do not have details about that at the time, but it will be independent of the teacher evaluation. So I would ask that uh you uh approve the evaluation plan. >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Math. Uh, so board members, can we have a motion and a second for item 7.1 to open up for discussion and ultimate voting? >> I'll move for the passage of item 7.1, approval of teacher evaluation. >> Second. >> Moved by Mr. Glick, seconded by Mr. Goodman. Board members questions talked about this last meeting. Anything recent more to

061look at? Shaking heads. No. So with that, we have a motion and a second on the floor. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Passes 6. Thank you. Item 7.2 supplemental fees. Dr. MAF. >> So in the last legislative session, uh the legislature has reenact reenabled um our abilities to collect some supplemental fees. Uh, one of the fees that um, one of the expenses that is a is a continual expense and and the music department has brought to our attention is the maintenance and replacement of instruments that are used by students. Um, and so we are asking that we reinstate the $50 per semester charge that or fee that we had previously um, be before the state um, eliminated our ability to collect that fee. uh talking with the um with

062the the music department um they understand the need for for doing this and uh will help us to maintain the instruments we have and and possibly hopefully develop a fund that we can start maybe even replacing some um they get very expensive. Uh I also asked the department to talk about what other school districts are doing which was part of the um memo that I presented to you. Uh what we are recommending is very similar to one of our neighboring districts and then there are different different um districts around this around the area and around the state have done different amounts. Um some that haven't charged are now starting to consider it just because of the uh with some of the changes that are going to be coming with the ability to pass uh you

063know uh general obligation bonds. Some people paid for some some equipment out of that. Um, and so, uh, we're just asking that we reinstate our previous charge. >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Metaf. Can I have a motion and a second for item 7.2 to open up for discussion and voting? >> I'll move for the passage of item 7.2, supplemental fees. >> Second. >> Moved by Mr. Glick, seconded by Mr. Garber. >> Comments, questions from the board. Is there a so there will be an account that these go to that are directly go to the band? >> Yes, it's it will be just like it used to be is there is currently a maintenance and and um replacement account at the high school then the ECA is over there. Uh these would be then deposited

064there. >> Okay. I know uh Jose asked a question last meeting about uh individuals that may not be able to afford this. Is there mechanisms for that? >> There there we we would still look at the uh used to be how we did uh TDR uh students who qualify for uh free or reduced or would have qualified for free and reduced uh will will either um the fee will then either be waved or reduced. Anything else from board members? Okay, we have a motion and a second on the floor. All those in favor of item 7.2, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed? It passes 6. Thank you. Item 7.3, discontinuation of transportation for title one prek program. Dr. Mike, >> so we we currently uh uh prek is not a is not mandated or

065funded throughout through the state. Uh we currently do it through our title one grant with reduction in the grants and possible reductions in the future. Uh we still want to continue to be able to offer that preschool. Uh one of the ways we can do that and still service the um schools because the rest of that title one fund goes to the elementary schools to pay for uh title one instructors and programming um for students who are struggling with uh reading and math at the elementary schools. So the preschool money gets pulled off off the top. Um and so by reducing this uh looking at the um reductions that we had in our title one uh funding for this year and the anticipated reductions possibly in the future uh this we felt was a way

066to uh recoup that but still be able to at this point offer our title one preschool. Um this is very similar to what Head Start has done. Head Start discontinued transportation about four years ago. Um, and so it has not necess it has not impacted their ability to find students. Uh, and we still have a waiting list for our title one or our our Head Start programs in Goa. So, um, we feel this is reasonable. It would, to be honest with you, it will also free up a a driver and a half. Um, that we would then no one will lose their job over this. They would be then rotate moved into the rotation of uh our three- tier busing system because right now they operate independently because they're going just for preschool during that

067time also. >> Okay. Thank you, Dr. Metave. I have a motion and a second for item 7.3. >> I'll move for the passage of item 7.3, discontinuation of transportation for title one prek program. >> Second. >> Moved by Mr. Glick, seconded by Mr. Goodman. Questions, comments from the board >> in relation to the transportation. I know last board meeting there was discussion about trouble finding bus drivers. Is this going to help that as well? Free that up a little bit with the transfer of the bus. >> It will uh title one u the preschool takes one and a half drivers. Uh one driver for one driver is that's their full-time position. Then we have to have another half a driver that drives um during the during the change in the mid in midday from preschool

068because we have morning preschool, afternoon preschool. So while one's great picking up, the other's dropping off at that point. Uh we did have five retirements. Um we have been able to get a couple drivers. Um so yes, this would this would help us out when it comes to uh to that three- tier programming >> because you needed those before the start of the school year. Is that correct? >> We did. We did. Um, and we weren't sure to be honest with you, we just received our title one, um, allocation or our planning grant just last week. And so, um, you know, as once once that was delivered, we kind of looked at the funds, looked at what we could do with what we had and felt like this was a an unfortunate but a reasonable

069um way to possibly save some money within the title one budget. >> I I'll intervene here. A year ago, >> your microphone, please. >> A year ago, when we did preschool registrations, we asked parents if we were to take away transportation, could they get their children here? Um, and we had two parents at that time say they would have difficulty getting their children here of all the students that registered for preschool. Um, we did not ask that question this year. We weren't anticipating that we would be in this situation. Um, but we did do it a year ago when we received that we would have possible cuts last year. Um, so I don't know what that tells us this year, what that would bring this year, but out of all of them, it was just

070two that had said they would have difficulty. >> I I did talk to Mr. Graves before we proposed this and asked what the impact would be. last year. Um we currently have uh 34 student preschool students in each section morning section and afternoon divided into two classes. Uh students who actually were routed for the bus in the morning we had 20 23 of the 34. So a little over half of those students uh were using our transportation. Um in the afternoon going home we only had 17 which was pretty much exactly half of those students were were using our transportation. Um when we have uh when we have had trouble um finding u bus drivers either because illness, planned vacations, whatever. Uh we have um we have um discontinued preschool transportation like for a day

071or two until until we have enough drivers to be able to do that because one of the we do even though preschool is not required getting those getting our getting our students to school is. And so well it's a privilege to be able to do that and but so we've had to discontinue um transportation for preschool when we've just been really short on drivers. And I uh this is an assumption, but because the preschool student body could be across the entire district, there wouldn't be a way to even in an AM and a PM be able to put them on an elementary bus. Correct. >> Because they go everywhere. >> They go they started we have one bus that starts in the north and just um circles around and then comes to Chandler. So they

072cover the entire district. >> They also have to have car seats. >> Yes. So it makes it difficult to >> So we also have a bus aid on there which would help us with that with we also have monitoring position that are we have bus monitoring positions that would be open for her. Also >> the car seat thing I would have never even thought of. >> We we did build we did we have like two buses that have integrated car seats and so they can be used. That was always a thing beforehand we had to we had to use bus we had to take all the car seats out and that was just a very difficult for our maintenance department to do. So we we have two buses with integrated car seats. So they fold

073up they just like a normal seat. So those buses could also then be used um in normal routing also. Other questions from the board? All right. We have a second or a motion and a second the floor. All those in favor please say I. I opposed. That passes 6. Thank you. All right. We're moving on to item 7.4 which is approval to submit federal waiverss. Dr. Metaf. >> Yes. So within the within the title grants even though some of them are frozen in order to um we're we're allowed to ask for waiverss u for certain aspects of it. The first one really is about paraprofessionals. Um, currently the federal government said the IDOE says there's, you know, that that u a a parah has to pass what they their parapro test um which um is

074a a test of um kind of reminds me a little bit of a of a kind of a watered down SAT. Um, but we've had we have had people in the past that would serve as good a good paras not be able to pass that test or they'd be able to pass one part of it and then they would struggle either with the math part or or sometimes when we had English language learners they would struggle with the the language. So the federal government did say that you can you can wave this if you have another mechanism for training them and getting them along the way. So, we currently have a Canvas course um that has been approved uh that we can allow our our uh our prospective employees to take and that then replaces

075the parapro on the on the on the first on waiver two. So, they would not have to take the parapro, they would just have to complete our class in order to be considered highly qualified. So, we're asking for permission for that. The second one really goes to title four. Title four um requires districts to allocate funds in into three different areas. Well-rounded educational opportunities, safe and healthy students, and then effective use of technology. Um and you have to um designate that funding along certain percentages among them. What we're asking for is the the flexibility depending on what our students need to not have to distribute that evenly among the three. So, if we need um if we find that there's an effective use of technology that might take up more than a third of the

076budget, we would like the ability to say this is what we want to do with our our our with our funding. And so that that waiver um would allow us to determine the percentages of the if we if we receive the D fund, which we're not sure we will, um we would allocate across those three funds how much we would place instead of just uh a third on each one. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Metave. And with that, can we have a motion and a second for item 7.4? >> I move to approval to submit federal waiverss. >> Second. >> Moved by Mr. Garver, seconded by Mr. Glick. Comments, questions from the board on the two waivers uh being proposed. I'd asked you earlier, Jim, about the uh staffing levels that we had and how the

077waiver impacted that. Like what was driving maybe the necessity of that waiver if we're mostly full? I I don't know if you could. >> Yeah, I think most of our we have most of our pair of professionals >> uh hired. >> We have Yes, we have. We have a number. We have we have a number of them. We're always looking for some that that position has in the past been one that has turned over. Um partially because it is a school year position, so they only get paid for the 180 days that students are here. And so some people start out with that and then they move into other positions. Um, where this is, to be honest, where this has really helped us out is getting a pair of professionals who are who are bilingual,

078uh, especially those that might not that are second language learners where that uh, being able to pass that parapro. Uh, because of the um the the reading part and the and the reading part of that um, it really has increased our ability to hire um, some bilingual paras. How long does it take to like we can hire them, they can start working, they don't have to pass that parapro first before they can work kids? >> No, they do. You can't even hire them unless they pass the parapro. So that has that has limited our pool to some extent in the past of people even wanting to to apply. >> So to answer your question, it is it really maybe a little harder for us to find people and sometimes the best people we have struggle

079with one of those test or candidates that we have. >> So maybe it's not trying to hire somebody tomorrow, but opening up the door down the road if that position turns over. Yeah. The options. >> Correct. Um that the parapro does have some basic algebra to it. um does have some uh deeper um deeper uh language and and reading and comprehension pieces that some of our employees or some of our previous employ our employees or some of our those prospective employees have had difficulty and then each time they take it they have to pay to take that test. Um so that is also a a burden on on some of our employees but they are responsible for paying that. And I'll add to that, a lot of them are have been stay-at-home moms. And so

080it's been a long time since they've had some of those math skills like algebra and some of those things. And so they're taking that parapro with it's just that time of I haven't seen this type of math in quite a while. And so then they have to brush up on it and get some help and support and then turn around and have to pay for it again. And it's this course allows them to to get that support they need to be able to >> and we have done we have actually done some tutoring classes uh to that but we also have some that have some um some of our employees previous or prospective employees have had a little test anxiety um and they it's just not necessarily worth it to them to put themselves through

081that. Uh so this would by taking our our our course um taking our our our Canvas course talks about it really goes through the responsibilities of a parah u does have does have some of the basic um academic pieces um but they are not required to pass a test in order to be to be hired. >> Mr. Metaf would these when's the sunset on these two waiverss? Is it like a is it just this school year? Would it go to >> I think talking to talking to to Miss Dixon, I believe we would probably have to do this each year. >> Stole my question. >> Yeah. >> If that were to change, we would go back and say that, you know, I do know that they do require to be uh acted upon by the

082board. So once a teacher gets or somebody gets hired for that with the waiver how long do they have to >> they do not have to take it again that this replaces the para pro once they are hired under this and have taken our course that is recorded and then they can be our employee for as long as they would like. >> So I don't know if that's what you you were getting at Mr. There there are some other trainings they have to do but not not the pair pro or the >> in order to maintain employment they do not have to take that course on a yearly basis. >> Other questions, comments from the board ready to vote. See most heads shaking in the right direction. Okay, we have a motion and a second

083uh for item 7.4. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Opposed. Passes 6. Thank you. All right. Item 7.5 202526 meal prices. Dr. Evans. >> Each year we need to reevaluate our meal prices as uh outlined by the USDA guidelines. The minimum if you do if you there is a need to raise your mail prices to meet these guidelines. The minimum that you can raise them is 10 cents and so we need to raise our meal prices by 10 cents above what they were last year. Um the price for extra milk will remain the same. every other price as listed before you would be raised 10 cents for the breakfast and for lunch. We would also um be able to continue free meals at West Ocean and Chamberland based upon the community eligibility

084provision provision of the US. >> Thank you, Dr. Evans. We have a motion and a second for item 7.5. I move for the passage of item 7.5 2025 to 26 meal prices. >> Second. Moved by Mr. Glick, seconded by Mr. Goodman. Comments, questions on meal prices. Pretty straightforward. And I think the other thing to call out there that you said approximately 70% of our students actually qualify for free and reduced lunch. >> Yes. So the Thank you. the free and reduced lunch prices would would not change from last year, I believe. >> Yeah. Second. >> Yeah. Okay. All right. I think we're good with that one. So, uh, we have a motion and a second on the floor. All those in favor of item 7.5, please say I. >> I. Opposed. Passes 6. All right.

0857.6. Consideration of Goan Junior High School track. Dr. Evans. As we discussed earlier uh in the report uh we would like to mill and resurface the go junior high track uh that is possibly starting in August. We had worked with two other vendors who said that we could possibly do it next year but we recently found a milestone who could resurface the track this year and they're working through PSI services. Um, with that in mind, uh, we could then possibly once we get the dates settled down, possibly bringing back to you in September, another recommendation for, um, resurfacing top coat tracking for the most. Your consideration of PSI be a milestone for the track. 239,379 is appreciated. >> We have a motion and a second for item 7.6. I move the approval of item 7.6,

086consideration of Gan Junior High School track. >> Moved by Mr. Glick, seconded by Mr. Goodman. I will say thank you for doing this. I would say I've been maybe more vocal on this than other items for a while because it's something that's been out there for a little bit. Um, you know, we do a lot with a lot of our facilities and we try to our best to keep them up to snuff, but sometimes things have to get shelved because of more important things. And forunately, this is one of the things that has gotten shelved a couple times. So, it's nice that we've been able to find ways to get this done and move forward. So, we're slowly getting there. We're trying. >> The junior high's been put on the back burner a lot in

087the past. It's It's >> Thank you. >> So, we I appreciate you staying on this one. >> Any other comments or questions from the board? >> You probably have to I mean, you can't lay when it's when it gets cold. We can't put anything down, >> right? So, they want to get on the asphalt right away. And then as well, there needs to be a 30-day curing period after the asphalt. So, they want to try to beat cold weather for that as well. So we got a little warmth right now. So >> it's a good thing to get going. >> Too much. >> So the coding would be on top of that 230,000 price. It's a >> This does not include the code. Correct. That would be an additional cost depending upon whether we would

088be able to get a quote yet this fall or we would have to wait till next spring. We're going to shoot for this fall, but that would not be part of this yet. This was originally going to be part of the bond and we're moving up. Uh I know when we had talked about the bonds before, I thought it was still 8.4 million that we talked about the first time around. Uh will that difference just be going towards interest payments >> or does how does that work? >> No, I honestly uh carpeting we could put a 1.5 1.6 million in carpeting. So I believe what I was talking about earlier had reduced that number to maybe like 700,000. So the very remaining part uh probably go towards other projects such as credit >> mostly at

089we're going to make it very trendy colors. Right. No, we're going to make it very school specific red colors. >> Yes. >> Exactly. All right, other comments on item 7.6. All right, we have a motion and a second floor. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Passes 6. Item 7.7 is the uh where you just move me approval of startup Moxy agreement. Mr. Boyce. >> Yeah. uh board. You've heard about uh this work that we're doing with entrepreneurship and you've heard about our uh connection and partnering with Stardomoxy and this is the agreement that solidifies that. So, it's it's a three-year agreement. As long as both sides are happy with how it's going, we'll continue each year. >> All right. I'm going to have a motion and a second for item

0907.7. I move for the passage of item 7.7 approval of startup Moxy agreement. >> Second. >> Moved by Mr. Glick, second by Mr. Goodman. Questions, comments on the proposal uh in front of us here. So the the first year is is obviously the largest investment with all the the front end uh investment but then the year-over-year will gradually decrease because it's just kind of I won't call it maintenance fees but you know just >> curriculum >> hopefully we'll be doing pitch competitions together some and some crosspollination some of the go businesses and Elcart businesses so our kids can get in and do work work together. Let's put that. >> You had said we were already sending students to their location. So, will some of that money end up being put into this as opposed to

091this all being new money because we're already spending some towards sending students there. Am I asking that right? >> Um how much money like how do you you guys did CSAs last year, right? That's how we did that. >> So, career savings account. So, they are uh able to receive $5,000 that if if a student qualifies, if everything's been filled out in time, then uh the state will give parents career savings account up to $5,000 and then that in turn gets transferred to Startup Moxy. So, each one of our kids do that. So, which means we don't get the CTE dollars for those students in that program. So, we'll be able to keep the CTE dollars for ourselves and In essence, if you think about 25 kids and you start doing the math and we're

092paying some money still to them for the first year, >> but we also get all the curriculum and the and training and it's all been uh the relationship with uh IvyTech has been worked out. So, we'll just be joining you on that. So, good question. So, >> so that's how it's also being funded. >> Oh, there's one. Okay. So, we're going to let one go over there, too. >> That was a >> Yeah, that's fine. Probably had a sibling that was in it, right? Yeah. Okay. Other questions, comments from the board on item 7.7? Ready to vote? All right. We have a motion and a second floor. All in favor, please say I. >> I. opposed. Passes 6 7.8 approval of Once Literacy Program. >> Good afternoon everybody. Uh so once literacy is a high

093dosage tutoring uh one-on-one that is an early reading intervention uh that will help support our MTSS um vision uh for supporting kids or some of our neediest kids. And so this would allow for uh 15 to 20 students at two of our elementary schools uh to pilot this for the 25 26 school year. Um in listening to some of the waivers that were petitioned, one of the things that once can provide for us as well is that they upskill some of our current staff. So they train him to teach this program. They receive weekly coaching. uh and so similar to what we would expect some of our staff when it comes to like the S soi IP. So we're training uh internal staff to help us with some of the things that we value the

094most and so literacy is a big part of what we're trying to do via our MTSS and so this will support that. >> All right, thank you for that. May I have a motion and a second for item 7.8. I'll move for the passage of item 7.8, approval of once literacy program. >> Second. >> Moved by Mr. Glick, seconded by Mr. Garber. Questions, comments uh regarding the proposal in front of the board. Since this is a a pilot for Chamberlain and Parkside only, um I'm assuming it's it's a test because you you're hoping to eventually do it and more than that, like what what uh are you using to measure to determine at the end that yes, we continue or no, we don't continue. How are you? >> Absolutely. Yeah. So they have their own

095progress monitoring that they would do but then we would have our own like whether it's uh this cadence reading that the state is mandating that we use for a um progress monitoring tool dyslexia screener. So we would have our ways to measure success as well. I mean we want to make sure that uh this is meeting our needs the needs of our students and that we are getting everything that they are promising. >> How do you decide which 20 students So part part of the MTSS process is data informed decisions. So teachers at uh at the two schools will uh nominate students based on need. Uh a target of of this will be uh some of our English language learners, >> right? >> Uh and so what we're trying to do is being proactive in

096trying to limit the number of students who fall behind, especially in that category of two or more years behind. uh because it's it's it's hard to close gaps. And so starting with something in early literacy uh whether it's in kindergarten or in first grade which first graders will be much easier to identify because we have a year of data in um whether it's you know quantitative or qualitative data so we can select our students but again it's trying to get ahead of students falling behind >> right >> once that goes if it were to go to all the schools once the pilot's done you know right now I guess That's like 1,00 1,600 or something per student. And cost. Is it does it get cheaper? Is it scales bigger? Is it how does it work?

097>> Yes, it it's I think that's for every two students. The the the biggest cost is the weekly training that the um the coaches, the pro the instructors would receive. And so the more coaches that we would have on site, the cheaper it would be because you know they can support our district with just one trainer for for our coaches. Uh it is it would significantly reduce that. They are working on automatizing some of the things that they have people doing now. So uh all things lead that becoming a more affordable solution for for not just for us but for every school that they serve. I guess my last question then would be so that somebody else can ask. Uh um just with other schools that are using it, what what types of results are

098they seeing? So just a little just a little background and the reason that this was something that um I I wanted to bring to towards some principles for something to consider was my experience in my previous position where uh every kindergarten student in three schools uh was part of this program and I think that looking at their data and there's a study that they did with learning experience design so they went from like the 38th percentile uh at the beginning of the year after and there they have some data there to support that the more they do it the better of course but uh they jumped 29 percentile points so they were in the in the 40th percentile per se and they moved to almost the 70th percentile of students uh so it's it's relatively

099new uh if if you if you look them up it's it's they don't have a whole lot of data because this is their about the third year of their existence and so there's a little bit of faith going into this right uh but what we were able to experience during my time there and some of the principles that would say that if if they had to give up something, they would not want to give this up because the what they see with their students when it comes to growth. Um, our principles visited a couple of schools. We had people from our office that went and visited this. Uh, this this is uh something that I'm passionate about, but I did not want my passion to be a biased towards making a decision. So, they studied

100it and they had several conversations internally, I mean just with them. And so um two of them decided that they would like to try it as a pilot and so we would like to honor that. >> How many students for one pair professional in the building? >> So this would be a full load would be about 20. Uh the goal is that it's 40. Yeah. So this is for 40 students, right? >> And so the idea is that this becomes that uh instructor's full-time job. So while we could do this amongst three or four people then when you only have three or four kids each it's easier for them to get pulled to do other things. This is their job. They received the training. We are hope hoping that they would be inspired by what

101they're doing and there's a potential connection with uh higher education where they pursue a teaching teacher lensure and so um there's opportunities with that as well. >> There'll be pair of professionals that will run >> we get this training provide the services. Yeah. And again, both both uh Chamberlain and Parkside are targeting Yale students, >> correct? >> Primarily >> that will be paid for. The funding comes out of title one. We got we had title one carryover this year. We're allowed to carry over about 15%. So, we were able to um they're able to use that title one carryover. So, um as moving forward as it expands, we would look for it to be paid for title one. I'm just curious why uh Chamberlain is kind of like a easy answer, right? It it is

102the population. It is the need. I'm wondering why not West Gian versus Parkside. Why is West Ocean go not the school choose? Uh so this was up to the principal to decide whether or not to pursue this and so uh >> actually they weren't eligible to be honest because the principal is leaving and they have a new principal coming in. >> So next year if we they're definitely on the list to do it. >> Yeah. So it was not I did not decide who >> not that they were officially not eligible. They would have been but it's just >> complicated stuff. Yeah. >> It also requires them to re to repurpose current staff. So, this is not any new staff that is hired for this program. So, if they've got something they've been working on,

103um, they would have to deem this more worthy than what they they're they're doing. So, they were given that choice. >> Very optimistic. >> Other comments, questions from the board? Ready to vote? All right, we have a motion and a second on the floor for item 7.8. Eight. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> 6. One more action item. I promise. Item 7.9 approval of Eureka Forgotan Junior High School. Mr. Trainer. >> So, last at the last board meeting, you approved to move forward with Eureka Squared at the junior high. Tonight, you are um you have a quote before you. We had um an option between a one-year and a six-year quote uh for this curriculum and we decided to go ahead with just a one-year. We have every intention

104of having this be a multi-year adoption. However, we thought six years was a pretty long time um to make that financial commitment. So, um so tonight we brought to you a one-year quote um that we'll have approved each year. All right. >> After. May I have a motion and a second for item 7.9? >> I'll move for item 7.9, approval of Eureka for Goan Junior High School. >> Moved by Mr. Glick, seconded by Mr. Goodman. Um, so I guess question I have, you know, I I completely see the point of going one year. Is there a huge cost savings by a multi-year deal? >> So we we have a lot of discussion around that. That's a great question and um there are some cost savings but we didn't feel like it was significant enough to

105warrant committing to six years. Um and I don't know Dr. White if you want to add anything to that. >> It was it was a little under $5,000 a year >> year savings. So 10% savings. >> Yeah. >> We'd like to get eventually establish a cycle where all of our math is done on one year six years later. we up for it again and then so like one year math, one year English language arts, one year social studies, one and then there's a six-year cycle. Uh we have yet to establish that. It's kind of out of everything's kind of gotten wacky a little bit. Uh that was old school way that you had to do it in the state of Indiana required kind of every six year cycles. um kind of like that. But when

106when that six-year cycle went away, people would switch every few years and do one-year contracts and things like that. So, I mean, >> of the six-year cycle allows us also to monitor how the curriculum, how we feel the curriculum is paying off and look at the data that students are per performing on iLearn or or other performances. And if we do not see what we want to do, it does allow us to go through the process having to wait for a six year and suffer through it for six years. >> How long does it typically take for a new curriculum to be adopted to be able to figure out really how well that's doing over time? >> Probably three years. >> First year you sometimes see an what they would say was an implementation dip

107because everyone's learning all the new things. Sometimes we see student scores dip and then they start to rise and then after about the third year everyone it's settled in and then you can kind of start determining what is instruction, what is curriculum when it comes to student scores. Other comments, questions from the board. Ready to vote. We have a motion to second the floor on item 7.9. All those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed. Passes 6. And that concludes our action items tonight. We have no discussion items, so we will go right to closing items. >> Mr. Device, >> couple comments. Uh July 21st, our principles and our office staff return. The buildings will be open to the public. Uh July 21st. Uh our uh summer hours uh will go through the 28th for

108this office. And then uh just want to say a special thanks to uh Terry McCrenle for the fantastic work she's been doing this summer just getting things ready again behind the scenes getting things done. Uh she's been rocking it and we also are working very hard in Yola. Dr. Metaf and Terry are just carrying a load on that as well and uh Mojave and Roy been involved in that and Tracy as well. So, we're working on getting a package to you guys, uh, close to what we have now, uh, but with some of the new language maybe. So, we're excited to get working. Hopefully have that soon. But, thank you, Terry. And then last, but certainly not least, our next board meeting will be here Monday, August 11th. First day back to teachers. >> All

109right. Any uh items from the board tonight? The board will be meeting in an executive session directly after this. So we will ask very kindly that you may stay if you want to go to the hallway though. But we are going to uh meet here in about 5 minutes. We'll adjourn for a few minutes but the board will be meeting in executive session. So uh but with that I'll take a motion for adjournment tonight. >> I move to second. >> Move to second. All those in favor please say I. All right, we are adjourned. Thank you all very much. Enjoy the county fair that starts this week. School's 30 days