001okay we'd like to call the meeting to order with the pledge of allegiance good evening and welcome to the regular august meeting of the green castle school board um i'm sure there are several people here that would like to address the board and make a comment um we have laid two stacks of papers here at the end of the aisle up on the stage which are our board policies for public comment if we're going to have several today we will probably adhere to our rules pretty closely so i would suggest anyone wanting to make a comment tonight would come up now and probably get one of these papers and review the uh the policy um like i said we know we're going to adhere pretty closely to these policies tonight um first item on the
002agenda is adjustments to the agenda mr gibbeney yeah so we have one adjustment tonight it's to permission to advertise the 2022 budget as well as the cpf uh plan and bus replacement plans to advertise 21 22 budget 22 2022 budget 21 22. well just just the 2022. okay budget and this flush replacement yep bus replacement plan and the cpf plan okay okay can i get a motion to approve the adjustments to the agenda so move second okay i have a motion and a second any discussion or questions excuse me hearing none all in favor all right all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is um actually a public hearing uh just basically taking comments on the 2012 before we open the collective bargaining with the teachers union on the 20 21 22 excuse
003me contract we have to have a hearing that allows for public comments on that hearing so at this time we will open the hearing to anyone wanting to make a comment solely on the collective bargaining for 2021. what's the song yeah i'm kristen hamilton president of gcta i'd like to begin by addressing the elephant in the room why i'm not wearing a mask i'm not wearing a mask because i have a medical issue with the appropriate documentation on file i'd like to be very clear that i'm in no way massless because i'm attempting to protest the mass mandate now to the issue at hand with respect to the pre-collective bargaining hearing i would like to request the continued support of the community the school board and administration gcta and administration have a good working relationship
004where communication is a two-way street and i'm very appreciative of that i'm not going to stand here and ask for the moon but i would like to remind everyone that green castle teachers are standing on the front lines and as usual we are doing what's best for students covet has certainly changed the world we live in and education is not exempt from those changes the district has a comprehensive plan with protocols in place to keep everyone safe we are thankful that gcta was an active participant in forming that plan last year educators come to school each day to mold the minds of our future generations we understand and accept that doing so however does put us at a greater risk of getting illnesses or whatever else may be going around such as colds blue and
005even covet we are thankful that last year there was an extension of the coveted relief days to account for absences when required to quarantine or god forbid one of us having coveted ourselves with the pandemic still active and the delta variant picking up speed we would like to advocate for the reinstatement of covet relief days for all staff we understand this comes with a price tag and may may have to result in some trade-offs but we feel strongly that this reinstatement is necessary for the health and well-being of not only staff but also students families and the community in closing i would be remiss if i didn't mention that our salaries have been frozen for some time it is our hopes that many of the changes implemented over the last year will have positively impacted
006our bottom line which would give us actual dollars to negotiate this year thank you thank you anyone else with a comment on the or for the collective bargaining hearing yes one more he wants to know if you have comments on negotiations is that correct sir yes okay so i'm sorry it's sometimes hard to hear through the mask um and they said they didn't know what the comments were about i just want to say thank you um i'm starting my 20th year working here at greencastle and i know that this is an extra step that the state has put on us i feel like our board has always come to us with negotiations and been fair and we've been able to work things out apparently some schools didn't play fair and so the legislators came in
007and put a law so there's one more thing on all of our plate that you guys have to do here tonight so i want to say thank you as a teacher as a mom i want to say thank you for always my kids graduated in 14 and a 10 for always hiring and retaining excellent teachers okay my one son has a master's degree he has an mba and he helps people with their finances right now and that is needed in this time of cobit and people not knowing about the future my other son went on from this great education he got in this town to get a phd and he's a pharmacist and he has been working night and day since this started giving out the coveted shots he's in a wildfire area and so
008when people had to evacuate their home he would get you know new medicine for them and and as a community member i want to say thank you for hiring and retaining great teachers i see it every day when i'm out in the community i'm sure you guys too too there's there's seth at the barber shop there's emily who i saw catering lunches the other day there's alexa who just graduated last year who's training my dog you know there's johnny at the fire department um thank you for hiring and retaining great teachers so we could have a great community here well thank you for being one of thank you anyone else with a comment regarding the collective bargaining hearing so hearing none we will close that hearing um and just a little side here i apologize
009for the temperature in here um mr giving he said one of the chillers is down in macanally right now so it's as everyone notices it's probably a little more uncomfortably hot than we would like it i don't have one i'm not a teacher okay let's just do like let's go this way um i was saying essentially that um the reason it's so hot in here we have a chiller down in macanally right now so it's why you're noticing that it's uncomfortably hot okay what we are going to do now is deviate from our normal meeting a little bit typically we reserve public comments for items that are actually on the agenda there is nothing on the agenda tonight about our back-to-school plan or a mass mandate however we know it's a relatively emotional topic in
010town so we're going to deviate from that a little bit and allow public comments for anyone who wants to address the board concerning those items i asked people to pick up one of the board or the policies here on public comments it looks like we maybe have a few so we're going to stick pretty close to these um for those who did not pick up one or didn't know or didn't hear me [Music] gonna try to keep it to three minutes um [Music] if you have spoken then you don't speak again on the same topic until everyone has um you'll need to stand up to the microphone down here state your name your address not your street address just you live in green castle you live in coatesville fillmore um and what your affiliation is
011whether you're a parent it's just a taxpayer employee what have you um just so we know that you know knowing that we're not doing questions and answers we're not having a dialogue we're just going to accept comments like we did last month so this is kind of a one-time deal outside of last month this will be the last month we do this next month we'll be back at the board room with comments on the agenda items uh the other thing that we require here is that we are respectful respectful to the board respectful to people with opposing viewpoints once the medium becomes abusive or is personally directed or we're out of line comments are over i know everyone has probably seen youtube videos of meetings in clay county avon carmel clay school systems it's not
012what we're doing here tonight you want to make a comment you will respectfully make a comment um again once we're disrespectful comments are over and we're moving on with the meeting so microphone is open for whoever would like to come up and address the board first i would like to say thank you to everyone who came out tonight um i know that uh everyone here is feels very passionately and um and i'm thankful that we have so many people that care about their children uh whether you're on the mask side or against masks thank you for caring enough to come to this meeting tonight and i also like to say thank you gentlemen up there because uh i know the decision for masks was not what you had originally thought of and i'm sure that
013none of you were like hey let's really stick it to all the parents and the students and decide to change and change and make more masks at the last minute i'm sure you lost a lot of sleep over this and it was a tough decision and you understand that there's going to be a lot of people angry with you and that there's going to be a lot of people very thankful about it um i know it was not an easy decision for you there's gonna be con there's gonna be consequences either way so regardless of how anyone feels about it thank you and thank you for being the ones to make that decision either way and uh i know it could have been easy just for the regular could you please name an affiliation my
014apologies my name is logan kuhn i teach math here at green castle high school and i live here i live here in green castle and yes my daughter goes to green castle schools thank you logan anyone else will they comment some people on this sorry my name is anthony fenwick my kids go to green castle i live here some people on the school board have decided that our children should be masked every day without exception and without presenting any facts so i will provide some facts for you 4.2 million kids have been diagnosed with cover 19. out of that 4.2 million 0.008 percent have died that means point zero zero zero four percent of the child population has died of coping 19. you may ask yourself what does that mean well it means children's are
015far more likely to choke to death while eating hot dogs or drown in the bathtub than to die of covid they're also far more likely to be killed on the way to school either walking or riding in a vehicle our kids don't need mass to stay safe and adults can get vaccinated so what are you protecting i think you're protecting yourself from political backlash from the people that you've deemed important give us a choice to mask our kids and stop making them live in a george orwell novel i believe the two greatest things that we have here in the united states is freedom and liberty and i see you trying to chip away at those things and that reminds me of frederick douglass frederick douglass one of the finest americans ever lived he said there
016are three boxes to freedom the ballot box the jury box and the cartridge box thank you for your time thank you [Applause] hi my name is kay janat i live here in green castle and my my oldest son currently is in elementary school here um i want to start off with mirroring mirroring just what he said thank you guys for making that hard decision i'm sure i'm sure it had to be hard like no matter where you are on the fence um just thank you guys for sitting up here and taking this for us okay however i do have some concerns about the masks one of the biggest ones is what we just saw earlier with the voice projecting how are our kids supposed to hear the teacher when it's muzzled um also i know
017a lot of our kids who have trouble with ish like with with hearing with speech they need to see the mouth movement for my child in particular i know that's important okay also people who are asthmatics i don't know if any of you guys are asthmatics in here but if you've ever had an asthmatic attack that's a scary feeling that's a really scary feeling um when you have that cloth over your face over your face especially in a warmer area it feels like that it feels like your your bronchial tubes are closing up just like an asthma attack i don't like that i don't want my children to have to deal with that um i do want to say that when um when you guys were elected and i'm not trying to like address you
018personally so please don't think that when you were elected you said the school board really is to make sure that the beliefs visions and priorities of the community are communicated to the school administration to make sure that that school is really abiding by the community's wishes i'm just asking you to abide by our wishes okay thanks guys hi i'm holly hill i'm a teacher at dear meadow sorry i might get a little emotional um i kind of just wanted to piggyback a little bit well first of all i want to say thank you for your guys time and effort and all the hard work you guys are putting in because i know this is not an easy school year last year was not an easy school year and i don't really see much end in
019sight for when it's going to become easier on you guys or on us as teachers but one thing i would like to point out as well as a teacher of tiny humans in first grade so six and seven-year-olds it is really really hard for us to teach them how to manipulate sounds it is hard for us to see how they um use the sounds that i'm saying how to write down the sounds that i'm saying how to copy the sounds i'm saying today i try to spell the word cap app and those letters that don't have a voiced sound to them they really had a hard time understanding what i'm saying versus being able to at least read my lips a little bit for that um so i think what i would just be asking
020is just a little bit of concession like there was last year of six feet apart versus the three feet or if there was some way to also help give some of that to so that we can get feedback from each other from me as a teacher to see them and for them to see me as well um so i just would hope that as you guys kind of work through the plans and work through everything that you kind of take that into consideration as well um we're going outside as much as you know as much as possible doing reading books outside today i did writing outside just to try to give them a break and to be able to let them be kids and have you know and not have something on their face that
021it's just really hard at their age um for me as individual with anxiety it's also hard but i'm an adult i can i can do it um but i'm worried too what happens when it's a rainy day their only time without it is for their 30-minute lunch that's a really really long day for them if we don't have the ability to try and space out even if it's a little bit even if it's just for five minutes here and there so again just as you're working through your plans if you guys would just kind of take that into consideration as well thank you thank you [Applause] hi my name is jess featherston and i'm a mom of two very frustrated students one at dear meadow and when it's easy both of my children are artistic
022and from a very young age my oldest son has been taught to recognize emotions and faces and he cannot do that with a mask i have a six-year-old with a severe speech impediment who also cannot be understood now at all last year during speech therapy he gained nothing because he couldn't see their mouths couldn't see their faces it's conor missed the social cues when faces are covered his behavior is especially negative and it's directly related to frustration from his mask and his his excuse me his inability to communicate charlie is now refusing to go to school he will not he wants to be homeschooled now because children make fun of him because of the way he speaks and it's worse when he is wearing a mask if those were your children what would you do
023that's all i have to say thank you [Applause] uh my name is david keen i have two kids at red path so one of my concerns is facial expressions picking up on them uh how's the teacher to how easy is it for a teacher to look at a child from across from me to you and only seeing their eyes and know if they're frustrated concerned upset angry can you do that i don't think so another thing is uh redpath was trying to push on some individual teachers were trying to push on masks prior to your requirement and my concern was is that's my choice at that time so why why is this why am i getting emails about it well i spoke to my children about it and i said hey i took care of
024it you don't have to wear masks tomorrow they feel it's a punishment they thought that if they went to school without a mask that they were going to get in trouble that to me that's concerning because whether it's a requirement or not they shouldn't be afraid to take it off and then also i worked nine and a half years every day i had to wear some kind of respirator and it's the ones that you guys got on right now forced air oxygen whole nine yards i got mold spores growing in my lungs because i was wearing a 94 okay which is better suited than what you have right there it's sealed to your face and it did not protect me that mask is not going to protect you from a airborne pathogen okay and another
025thing if this was really about covid why isn't there sanitizer right here on this mic [Applause] good evening paul jadel mcdonald's owner operator got two kids in school and i've got a wife who's a teacher i appreciate everyone's time here a lot of great comments um i don't like mask i know no one else here does that i think anyone wearing a mask is like this is dumb we don't like doing it the reality is is we're at this place where i challenge the school board is where's the threshold on when when we get to take the mass off in the school um at what level do we change and maybe have to instill more protocol like more daily cleanings i've just not seen much on based upon cases per 100 000 positivity rates you
026name it i think it would help all of us here if we kind of had a better gauge of where the threshold would be i do the same for my employees they were not happy even though they're vaccinated when they had to wear masks again is like this is just i'm following the science and trying to do the right thing but when i gave them a threshold they're a lot more encouraged at least to know that when things got back to a lower level they could take the mass back off and i think that could be something that would be a win for all of us our kids um and hearing some of these sad stories i mean it is tough and i applaud any parent who has a child with a speech impediment or
027having any of those struggles i mean this is it's not easy so i just i just encourage you to be more forthcoming with where thresholds are so that way we can have a better idea thank you guys sorry it's a little um a little short hi my name is michaela stonebreaker i'm actually a senior at ghs um i play tennis and i live in green castle obviously and i do cheer and as an actual student who has to wear a mask every day in green castle high school i don't support it i don't wear a mask in school and i get told every day wear your mask wear your mask my teachers but my fellow students look at me and they say wow that's really great michaela because nobody likes wearing a mask i mean
028every day i mean we have to wear a mask but most of the students don't even wear it right they'll have it down here they'll have it so their nose is uncovered so there's no point in wearing a mask anyway and the only i mean people in my school wear masks just because they want to have a football season or because they want to their senior year they don't want it to be ruined not because they actually believe in masks or because they believe in covid because they all know that they'll get coveted and they'll bounce back because that's what humans always do we bounce back that is what we are genetically engineered to do but i think it'd be nice to actually see someone who is actually in the school and seeing all this
029happen all the time i have students being like yeah that's great you shouldn't wear a mask this is stupid we don't believe in this and as somebody said earlier people look at it as a punishment because it is most kids i mean of the kids that do get covered they bounce back fast thank you [Applause] hello my name is jody gooch i'm a dad of four in green castle schools i live here in green castle and first off i'd like to thank the board for opening up for comments and to be able to exercise free speech i respect all views and that's why i'm here i'm not i'm here to stand up for liberty so that's some of the things i have to say okay i want to get right to it i know time
030is of the essence we've been propagandized uh that we live in a democracy and we don't we live in a constitutional republic with written inalienable rights democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner there's a living breathing history lesson being played out right before us right now and i'd like to challenge the history and civics teachers that we unbelievable lessons right now with the civil liberties that have just been crushed and ignored stamped on and we're moving on and just the rules keep changing okay a couple of lessons i'd like to challenge those teachers to investigate with their students something called the nuremberg code hipaa laws stockholm syndrome just to name a few and again my words tonight are not to be derogatory to people that are pro-mass pro-vaccine that is not
031why i'm here so but i will say i think the mandates need to go away mass mandates the contact tracing quarantine i think i'm also speaking for the silent majority as when i attend events just a week ago monday night a varsity event right here nice crowd you'd have to you'd be hard-pressed to find someone wearing a mask okay so when i think people have the choice they they make that choice and they make they usually get it right especially when their kids are involved and i've seen it multiple events okay so good products typically don't have to have mandates or have marketing plans okay people will do it if it's working and they feel the need to and i'm totally open people that want their children masked by all means the policy you started
032with being the schooler i thought was great it's open if you want to social if you want to uh uh e-learn the schools work with these kids if they want to stay home if they are afraid if they believe that they're in a genuine harm's way there's there's other options but i don't want to be a part of the masking with my kids i i think the masking does not work against transmittable or transmitting viruses in fact the boxes that it comes on half of them will tell you it does not provide protection okay in my career i handle death and trauma every day every day i wear personal protective equipment every day okay i believe in it when it is it when it's needed um and if anything with handling what i see in
033my career i know not a glamorous career but it's taught me the fragility of life okay and what life because death is real okay and it tells me that to on the flip side to get busy living and living living freely okay uh the masking just i'm gonna go quick i know i'm taking a lot of time uh a little experiment put an o2 monitor underneath a mouse wear your mask normal put an o2 monitor on it goes into alarm falls below osha standards for a safe workplace i mean it's not that's not rocket science it's actual do it uh the eca activities that have been canceled over the last year and a half and that my kids have missed out on from uh little o i mean what the tradition that people from green
034castle i think it's most special thing going since what 1932 gone and i hear that it's gone for good and they're just going to go to a class field day and that's some of the biggest best stuff that kids get to experience while they're here at schools please be brief we have people waiting pardon time please be brief we have people gotcha gotcha uh so in closing uh challenge you to do the right thing and and if the board does not want to move on this and remove the mandate put a referendum out send out all parents that have kids get a vote per kid in school uh it's time to resist this and stand up to the tyranny i want to encourage all people to step forward with their beliefs and be strong because
035we'll get exactly what we accept okay and so i'd like to close with using the great dr martin luther king's words it's time for peaceful civil disobedience thank you and god bless you all [Applause] good evening my name is elisa isaacs bailey and i'm known as mrs isaacs at the middle school i am also a parent of two children who are in green castle schools and a parent of a child who has graduated and gone on to productive life i am i want to agree with a couple of the things that i have heard i want to agree and show my support for extracurricular activities i could not agree with both mr gooch and with michaela that all of the extracurricular activities that we want to have do make the school experience valuable they're ways
036that kids can plug in who don't necessarily feel a part of things during the regular school day and i want to point out what a great argument that is for wearing masks i have one class of 20 students that for the past two weeks 11 of them have been absent due to covid i think it's important to go back to why the decision was made we didn't start the school year in masks people like me who are vaccinated were very excited to not have to have a piece of fabric in front of my face and there are times when i pull it down to make sure that students can see my face or hear what it is that i'm saying but the reality is the covid began to spread like wildfire through our school one
037day at greencastle middle school we had over 80 students gone and when i would open my book in skyward the code for covet absences filled my page i don't like wearing a mask but i do it and i do it because to me being patriotic to me loving my country means loving the people who live in it i'm vaccinated there's a good chance i could go to school without wearing a mask and never get sick at all i'm wearing it to keep your kids from getting sick from me because the studies have shown that even vaccinated people can possibly carry covet and could spread it in all likelihood not to someone who's vaccinated but to someone who isn't so i am in favor of football games i'm the director of the drama club at the
038middle school i didn't get to have a real play last year i'm looking forward to doing that this year and if that means wearing a mask being vaccinated doing everything that i'm able to do to try and stop the spread i will do it to be honest if there were enough studies if the fda approved like they did the pfizer vaccine today that if i shaved my head people wouldn't get coven i would gladly do it well maybe not gladly but i would do it because we care about your kids it's not possible for us to care about your kids as much as you do because you're their parents and i know that all too well myself as a parent but through everything that's happened since this started in 2020 i think there are a
039few of us who can question how devoted the educators in this community are to your children to suggest that there's something insidious at play here is itself a kind of evil and i want to see this be a community where we all love our kids enough that we will do whatever it takes to keep them safe even if it means discomfort thank you thank you good evening my name is morgan shootman i have lived in greencastle for about five years three of those years right up until this past school year i worked for deer meadow primary and i can tell you and i also have two children that were in this school system during last year we saw so many children having a hard time keeping their masks on the point that other people have
040made about not being able to see their teachers clearly or hear especially when you're working in the special education area like i was is extremely true there the masks get filthy they are really disgusting the kids dropped them on the playground i can't tell you how many times i've seen just masks laying all over the playground um they get food on them they chew on them um and you know that's probably not a problem in high school but in elementary kids that's a major deal for them and how good is that for them to be having that on their face all day long like that so i do want you to be aware i mean those things are definitely happening at the elementary level for me personally i do think that you as the board
041should know that i said i had two children in this school corporation and as of last week i pulled my children out which nobody has said that here tonight so i'm letting you know that if you do see a drop in enrollment it could be because parents are sick and tired and they're pulling their children out and i will now be homeschooling my children so thank you [Applause] thanks my name is matt cummings i speak loud i get a mask on we'll have fun um i'm a parent of two kids in tz and now in middle school and from green castle indiana last seven years so i wanted to commend the board this is a difficult decision i personally been through with the school that i work at in indy shifting from a physical presence
042to an online presence and so when we were sitting down making a decision we looked at three things one what's the data say about the issue two how does this impact my customers three what risk does it have on my staff when we looked at the data around mass we saw overwhelming scientific peer-reviewed research not google memes that said mass reduce don't prevent the spread of covet so i can continue to urge you to support a mass mandate in your school as you can see it's difficult to talk with a microphone and a mask on and as other people said masks are hard they get dirty and that's part of the problem is that we have to learn how to wear our masks better have massive fit in order to continue to reduce the spread
043of covet so i want to commend you all for taking time to hear the issue on science i'm excited to see i have friends on all sides of the aisles here we'll see after this how long we're facebook friends afterwards but i do want to commend you all for taking time to listen to the public hear from different folks and also tread on this issue very carefully and finally it brings me great excitement when i hear people quote frederick douglass martin luther king jr and george orwell all when the under the guise of liberty and individual freedom but yet all three of those people were also radical leftists so thank you for bringing them to the attention of this place thank you bye thank you evening my name is joan billman i've lived in green
044castle for 45 years i have three daughters that graduate the school system and and i love it and i thank you for the uh listening to our responses today i am against the mask i don't wear a mask anywhere except when i travel to my visit my daughter's on airplane because they won't let me fly then but my daughters live in utah and texas and last year my grandchildren ages from 6 to they all had to wear masks and they hated it my daughters hated it they couldn't see their friends they couldn't they had dirty masks on for one thing they weren't on right my daughters fought it i mean they just were just one daughter said well just wear the mask because i want them to be in school but she hated it this
045year they're not wearing the mask oh they're so happy they're back in school and they're so happy and especially in texas where it's 95 degrees like it is here and here in green castle the kids have to wear a mask they don't have to wear it at north platinum i guess it's cooler there or south platinum but they have to wear it in green castle why first of all they don't do anything i have researched this code thing it's coming out of my ears the masks do not work i call those little blue things that you're wearing now paper diapers they do nothing on the box it says they do nothing and uh they also are from china and they have chemicals in them that are polluting your system so i you may look into
046something else but the but the thing is what i'm so concerned about is our freedoms i can't believe that the school board could take away the freedoms of every child in this school system would go against at least half of the parents that don't want their child masked and it's just not right if a child wants to wear a mask to school okay they can wear it the teacher wants to wear a mask to school if they feel better go ahead but don't mandate it this is supposed to be a free country god said it god said we have rights over our own body the constitution says it that we are free people and the nuremberg code says that we should not be experimented upon and with mask that's an experiment see how well you
047do the kids have poisons in their system they get skinny okay and uh and vaccine i'm against the vaccine the copa vaccine if you force the kids to take the copa vaccine you have blood on your hands so i think you better consider that but thank you [Applause] hi thank you all again for all your comments i think there have been a lot of great points my name is stephanie garnen i have a master's in medical genetics i'm a former employee of riley children's hospital for seven years and i worked in maternal fetal medicine for seven years prior to that in indianapolis and i'm in regular contact with my colleagues i currently work for a pharmaceutical company that has me in the field going from children's hospital to children's hospital every week and talking to
048them virtually and what i can tell you is that this is harmful to kids right now one percent one out of a hundred which when i work in genetics i had patients that had conditions i considered common if it was one in ten thousand so one in a hundred kids is being hospitalized with delta variant of covid there have been hundreds of deaths over the summer that is not a gamble i think we should mess with if it is your child it will matter to you i promise i have been in the room with many a parent whose child has died of something rare and it hurts not less it hurts a lot and you don't want to have that kind of blood on your hands i think that we can solve together by working
049as a community some of your concerns children with delays are and mental handicaps and autism are a group that i've worked with quite a bit there's a my company has a treatment for pediatric dementia which yes is a thing and we have masks for those kids that are clear or we at least will work with a care provider to provide a clear hood or something along that line we could also have a community i would be the first to donate masks for children who are showing up with dirty baths or dropping them on the playground and need another backup pair i think that these are things that are solvable no one loves the masks i was also very disappointed to hear that we had data coming out that the full vaccination did not prevent spread
050at the level we were hoping but the vaccines do what they're supposed to do they're not supposed to completely reduce spread that is known in many other disease states so these are things we can get around it will help in the community for adults and children 12 and up to get vaccinated but in the meantime we have to deal with this issue and our kids are unprotected if they're under 12 and don't have a choice to have that vaccine yet the earliest that's likely to happen is december of this year assuming that that pfizer trials move forward and get fda approval they're filing next month i follow it really closely um i just think that this is something that we can work together on we also need to think about our teachers who are not
051getting paid currently when they have to be quarantined our kids are doing better in school you know i talked to my friend who works she's the head of developmental peds at riley and she wants her her children her patient population to be in school and the way to do that is unfortunately right now to wear masks and have as many people vaccinating as possible these are things that we can do as a community to help support our kids and keep them healthy we also need to think about our time please okay um i also talked to her an hour before i came here and riley has the highest rate of children in the emergency department right now than they have ever had in the entire hospital's history it is not only coveted but the majority
052of the cases are covered and i you know that's just data that i can't make up um she said they're having emergency protocols trying to make sure they have enough icu beds and enough staff to take care of these kids not only our kids who are getting sick with covid but also the kids who have cancer and have to have their heart repaired for a birth defect and or in a car accident so this is not just about covid we have to protect our hospitals for other things too thank you so much [Applause] hi my name is maggie rogers i have lived here basically my whole life i have two kids in the school system now and i just i i homeschooled last year because of the mass mandate our son chose to go to
053school this year so while i understand i don't think anybody in here wants to wear masks i'm fully vaccinated and had the delta variant and i'm wearing a mask because i'm respecting the wishes of the establishment i'm in but anyways i just have something to read really quick um we are in a time in our community that we need to put others needs before our desires we need to keep people safe and healthy it is incredibly frustrating to see people behave selfishly and make decisions based largely on what i see as ignorance because i've seen no empirical evidence at all and propaganda like i said i don't want to wear masks i know the teachers don't want to wear masks surprisingly my son has no problem because i think he sees us reacting healthily to
054this in front of him my husband i actually have opposing views on this so i feel like i've heard a lot of you know both sides of things um the first is that people say masks don't work i've read 14 studies that say that they do and have not found studies otherwise so i'd love to see those if anybody wants to see mine you can ask um and i just can't really wrap my head around the idea that since we can't do something perfectly we shouldn't try at all obviously younger kids are going to have issues wearing masks properly but i don't think that that should mean that we don't try at all to protect not just the kids but the amino suppressed the parents at home the grandparents the families of these kids that
055if something happens to them it will affect the kids in my opinion worse than wearing a mask you know the government control and indoctrination is um i don't really know how to how to address that it's um not happening and i think that it's not very a valid argument for this board to consider because we make our kids stand and pledge their allegiance to a flag in a country every day i don't have a problem with that but i feel like that's indoctrination maybe we should focus on other things um and i understand that there are kids that are going to be made fun of i always made fun of growing up we never had to wear a mask i think that's just something that comes with childhood and good parenting and a good support
056system can get them through any of that i think that the people who are against masks and vaccines are placing a huge burden on the rest of the community like many people have said adults can get vaccinated and while it's your choice to get vaccinated you have consequences that come with that choice and that is we don't have enough adults in this community fully vaccinated therefore our children are more at risk as the rest of the community um as a i mean we've lost more people to cover than all of our wars combined i don't know if people know that um also you know we've been dealing with this things like this in history for hundreds of years 1777 george washington forced his troops to get the small tax vaccine 1905 jacob jacobson versus massachusetts
057scotus ruled the mass mandates and vaccine mandates are constitutional um and i just i just think it's time you know that we individuals must um give up their rights for the better good of the community and i just think that's where we should all focus we should i agree with mr janelle or we will be done holly hill all of these things are great ideas anything we can do to get the masks off my kids who by the way had the delta variant so they're immune but they're still wearing masks because they're asked to um i think that's great i would love six feet i would love anything we can do to get but until then i appreciate you guys making the hard decision i know it's hard and i know you get a lot
058of flack for it so i appreciate it thank you thank you my name is evan jones your name evan jones okay live here in green castle all my life got a daughter in tz and i think it should be everybody's option nobody should be able to mandate anything we all live in america we're free we're getting ready to fight communism with who we have in office but these masks don't help anything they're thin they're not going to help an airborne pathogen your underwear are thicker than those masks and when you fart through that and denim you still smell it you're going to get it good evening my name is randy parker and my affiliate here is well started out as a taxpayer and a tax-paying parent now i'm a taxpayer three grandsons two of them
059which go to greencastle schools those of you who wear the mask that's your priority okay that's what you want to do you can do it okay our children are allowed that option they are forced upon them all day long in school okay and we have heard the stories about our children are scared to pull their masks down to take a water bottle and take a drink out of that setting at their desk okay that's what the water bottle is for is to take a drink out of it okay then my second thing okay kids are forced to wear these masks all day long while they're sitting at their desk okay then they're allowed to go outside of recess for 30 minutes without these masks okay what are they doing out there while they're recessed they're
060running they're jumping they're screaming they're hollering they're being kids working up their adrenaline everything else okay recess ends put your masks back on they're hyperventilating in their masks they're breathing hard in their mouths they're breathing that dirty toxin back in their mask inhaling it back into their little lungs exhaling the back out inhaling the back end the mask are dirty they are right they pick them up off the ground they get food in them uh this should be the parents choice if they want the child to wear the mask that should be their choice i say no to the mandates okay it does seem that we are becoming somewhat repetitive um hearing much the same from every comment or one one side of the coin from each comment or every comment um do we have
061anyone that has a different perspective something new and if so we could have a couple more comments if not we'll close comments thank you i'm greg velasquez i have two kids in the school district here uh lived in green castle about eight years now i don't believe we should be forcing the kids to have masks i know you guys have a difficult job and you have to try to figure out what's best but i think like somebody mentioned earlier it's a lot about covering your own butts from state probably from insurance lawsuits i don't know there's probably a lot of things you have to consider but i do believe it should be a parent's choice and if a kid wants to go in with them asking the parents want their kid to do that that's
062great that's fine that's the prerogative it's a free country that's what we should have they should be allowed to but where does this end where is this going to end what's next you're not going to get rid of this you're not going to get rid of it it's always going to be here for a span of time what are you going to do next how are you going to chase this thing you can't there's no way and it's a kangaroo court when you they send the kids home i have my son was off for a week because a parent had her kid masked at lunch break he sat by the kid tested positive at some point last week or the prior week so now my kid has to sit out for eight days or 14
063days because he said at the lunch table with this kid that been wearing a mask when they weren't wearing masks or weren't supposed or didn't have to so the kid with the mask got to cover now my kid's sitting out and we talked to two different nurses from two different schools everybody's got a different idea it's like going to the bmv you ask four questions for four different people you get ten different answers so you guys are just chasing your tails the nurses are chasing their tails there's no really good setup um and just yeah that one teacher talking about a stu her list of students blank everybody out 80 kids yeah you're going to get that with this kind of rhetoric you've got going on with the nurses and everything they don't know from
064one to the other what's going on and what to do so yeah you're going to have a bunch of kids out there tracing why isn't his whole lunch room out i don't know or his whole classroom that this kid was in we don't know it makes no sense you're not going to end it you're not going to flatten a curve it's just going to run its course it's going to happen people want to talk about we had to get smallpox vaccines back in the day the death rate was hundreds times more than what code is and if you follow facts you would know this that the recovery rate is better yes there are people that have underlying issues and that's where it really affects people like that and i get it they can wear a
065mask my i had a fortunate uh today i was able to go to my doctor for my yearly uh checkup and i had my son with me and of course he wouldn't ask any questions i didn't have my mask on uh he didn't ask me if i'd been vaccinated which i was surprised but i said so how do you feel you know the school just mandated this mask thing for our kids again where they started where it didn't and he's like it makes no sense these kids do not need to be masked he said i don't believe they need to be masked my job i'm fortunate to be able to talk with a lot of different people i was down at iu bloomington with a customer of mine he's a microbiologist professor at iu last
066year i talked with him when this mandate first came out with mask and he laughed he said it just drives me crazy said you'd have to spit in my mouth before i'd get it so even these people who are educators and of course you're getting it all across the board some doctors are for it all uh others aren't but where does it end and to mention that like one of the other parents did you are looking at a mass exodus of students if this keeps up teacher parents are tired of it there's no end to it i believe everybody should be like you did in the beginning everybody should have their choice their kids if you wanted to do it if not don't but you are looking at a mass exodus [Applause] okay do we
067have any comments that are have opposing viewpoints or just not because we are becoming repetitive and that's one of the things in the policy that they will stop comments once they become repetitive so we will try one more comment and if they will probably end up after this one my name is jessica connect i have a daughter at deer meadow and something that wasn't really hit on was virtual why aren't we doing the virtual option last year we did this sure we're not i don't want to send my kid in a mask i want a virtual option i don't know i don't understand why we're not asking the parents would there be enough teachers to teach an unmasked group a mass group or a virtual option have we looked into this my child if she
068rode the bus and got on the bus at seven o'clock and got home at four she'd have a mask on for nine hours do you guys want to wear a mask for nine hours i've seen all of you adjust your mask it's frustrating thank you [Applause] okay well then we're going to close the public comments for this evening thank you all for sharing your viewpoints next item on the agenda is recognitions mr gibboni yeah we don't we don't have any recognitions this month we'll start with our students a month next month okay next item on the agenda is approval of the consent agenda which includes meeting minutes from the executive session and the regular board meeting from july 26 2012 and the allowance of claims financial report and personnel reports part one and two which
069are posted on the website and on the door at central office mrs romer hello everyone in your board packet you're going to see two regular payrolls for the month of july the first was dated july 2nd 2021 for a total payroll of 586 dollars and 22 cents along with that payroll came accounts payable for payroll taxes and retirement dated july 2nd 2021 total accounts payable 97 875 69. the second payroll for july was dated july 16 2021 for a total payroll of 340 thousand nine hundred twenty one dollars and fifty two cents along with that payroll came the accounts payable for payroll taxes and uh retirement dated july 16 2021 total accounts payable ninety nine thousand seven hundred thirty three dollars and seventy nine cents next in your packet you're going to see a list
070of prepays there's some unusual items this month uh during the month of july we do make debt service payments so you're going to see that the it's substantially higher than it is other months these are dated july 1 through july 31st total prepays for the month of july 2 million 367 thousand one hundred fifty five dollars and seventy three cents did anyone have any questions about any of the prepays no i just noticed it was a very expensive month it was yes okay there's no questions we'll just go ahead and move on to uh claims dated for today august 23rd a couple of unusual items would be the lease payment for the high school and middle school laptops you'll see that on voucher 736 were there any questions about any of the regular claims dated
071for today that i can answer for you i had none okay all righty if pending no questions i'd like to submit those for approval and if you're ready to move on to the fund report we can do that sure okay next in your packet you'll see um a fund report dated july 31st 2021 balance at the last day of july in education 1 million 201 thousand 595 dollars and 18 cents operations balance the end of july 2021 1 million 791 682 97 total for all funds at the end of july 6 million 331 thousand two hundred seventy seven dollars and thirty seven cents lastly in your finance package you're going to see a depository statement and bank balances for the end of july 2021 at the top you see the balance in all banks the
072second you'll see the minus the outstanding checks and then at the bottom you'll see july 2021 fund balance for all banks minus outstanding checks is 6 million one 331. excuse me three hundred thirty one thousand two hundred and seventy seven dollars and thirty seven cents if you compare that with the last page of your fund report you'll see that those balance to the penny okay great thank you thank you okay can i get a motion to approve the consent agenda i will make a motion a second okay i have a motion in a second any questions or discussion hearing not all in favor aye all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is reports and our first is the assistant superintendent report yeah we don't have a assistant superintendent report this evening tonight next
073is superintendent report yeah so thank you first off i always enjoy hearing from patrons and hearing from passionate parents i think it's great to have everyone involved in their in their child's education um i can i think we all can see that there are many different uh viewpoints to mask to not to mask to vaccinate to not vaccinate um you know our goal this week here was to return to him as much of a uh more traditional school day as possible with some of our protocols in place unfortunately the number of student staff cases in in our school district and the complications with contact tracing and the amount of students that it's displacing from our classrooms we just weren't going to be able to continue to operate that way and you know have our students
074in person in in-person instruction which obviously we believe is philosophically and philosophically belief is best for students and that's in the physical present or excuse me in the physical classroom in the presence of their teacher um so you know it's rather obviously rather difficult you know i understand that people are passionate but really the revision was made with two goals in mind and one is obviously for the safety of our students our staff and then the second one is keeping as many students in the classroom engaged in in-person instruction as possible because when we're having quarantine 10 to 15 students from a 25 student classroom that's not ideal because we can't expect our educators to teach both in person and virtual at the same time it's obviously also important to protect our special events protect
075performing arts and athletics and by following the indiana state department of health guidelines for contact tracing it just wasn't going to be possible to continue down that road and so the decision was made to mandate mass k-12 and with that with that in mind according to the cdc guidelines in the indoor classroom there's an exception there to where if all students and staff are masked and you're not within three feet then you don't have to quarantine those close contacts there's a close contact exception so that close contact exception would allow us to keep more students in the classroom and not have to quarantine as many of our as many of our students as we have been that could drastically reduce the amount of kids having to be quarantined hopefully that that's the goal we still
076can't control you know what takes place outside of the classroom if there are close contacts or cases you know spread within within the community but within the classroom excuse me within the classroom setting we can hopefully uh you know help control some of that some of that spread you know just like we said at the beginning of the year and just said we like we said all throughout the school year last year the plan that we have today is not necessarily going to be the plan tomorrow we are in a 100-year pandemic you know there are additional things that we are going to look at there you know i have yet to see a real good metric to operate by but certainly there are things that we are going to continue to look at we
077are going to continue to look at the data within our own classrooms and within our own school system to see if we can make adjustments to see if we can you know you know provide some additional opportunities or potentially places where we're not requiring masks i think that's what we all want and i know that's i know that's personally what i want and you know we're going to continue to to monitor this and adjust accordingly but we just can't turn our backs on in on not follow any of the guidance you know whether it's from the cdc or the state department of health we're following state department health guidelines for contact tracing so i understand the frustrations i'm frustrated too but again the goal is just to keep as many of our students in the
078classroom in the in the physical classroom with their teachers as possible to allow athletics to continue and allow those special activities to continue as well and so we will continue to to work through this and we will continue to obviously take into consideration all the feedback received and work to make adjustments obviously moving into the future okay thank you very much next item on the agenda is old business and we have on their old business tonight gcse building project yeah so we could is it kevin are you going to be the presenter tonight so we have kevin and mike montgomery from krm architect group and they have been working with us since last september and we are really excited because this fall really october november we're going to go out to bid and then we'll
079begin uh construction here december january so they're going to provide a high level update of kind of where things where things stand yeah cory our presentation and so board members you guys have a full kind of report packet and this is a summary presentation so i'm going to reference page numbers and see you guys since we moved the auditorium you guys can't see so we're starting out here on page five which is the overall project schedule timeline you can see the red line there indicates where we're at right now we're part way through to the design development phase moving into the construction documents and then those brown bars that follow we'll enter the the bidding phase that jeff just mentioned those top five projects are mainly the scope of work surrounding the high school and
080then after those are underway we move into completing the design and bid for the middle school and elementaries and uh we'll move on to in your packet page 13. the overall site plan this should look fairly familiar for the most part there is a change there on the north um where the drive comes to below between the school and the tennis courts so we're working through how best to do that but before it had come up and around the baseball field you know eventually will be moved but we're working uh we think a a better solution to bring your support service and deliveries into the building back that way as a reminder there's kind of some rework there at the joint at the mackinally expansion we'll talk about here in a minute those are two
081kind of the major site projects as well as the what's going on right now in the track and turf move on page 17 in your packet this is an overall floor plan of the high school project we'll go into kind of each area here in more detail but you can see starting on the right there a big focus of this project is the media center it's had some issues and it's just well outdated so that space is going to be moved a little bit over and build out into the courtyard create more daylight more technology access and really become a kind of a hub within your academic core of the building there's some flexible space that happens as right as you come into the school to your right and then so that we don't lose
082any classrooms where the media center is moved from will become the replacement of those three kind of displaced classrooms in the light blue or the general you know academic areas all of the schools are going to be improved finishes and upgrades so throughout all classrooms but then in green the science area specifically uh gets additional scope so there's a new layout a new arrangement new greenhouse storage case work kind of the whole nine yards to really bring you guys up and beyond um you know current current standards for your science area the blue is your servery and cafeteria we're working with a specialist of the servery design and providing options that are coming here in the next couple weeks on that space specifically and then purple we're going to be of course connecting the macanally
083to the high school providing safer and just all year access to the facility also within that connection will allow a pretty simple and economical solution to add one more gym space so your after-school activities have more flexibility and really be a benefit to the whole area or the whole school district keep going here we'll blow it up and look a little closer so next slide takes you to page 41 in your packet and this is that media center area so you can really see how we're getting into you know again design development which starts to look at the exact furniture and how the spaces are going to be used in more detail working with staff right now on the collection size so as we transition and move over probably be you know good time to
084revisit the collection and circulation of those materials introducing again more flexible technology some after school new curriculum that you guys have in e-gaming there might be you know space within this that supports some of those ideas especially in that flex and collaboration space and then potential to improve the outdoor courtyard and seating area and connect and really make that a more usable space as well our next slide on the screen will be page 43 in your packet which zooms in on the science classrooms you can see we're getting basically how it worked out in the teacher's schedule and curriculum two labs will share one prep and storage area comes very efficient a high density storage system and again removing and replacing the greenhouse with a more modern setup so it can be well utilized and
085it connects to three of the four rooms and also we're introducing more daylight into these spaces next slide will be page 25 following along just an enlargement of the the connector what we call the connector project again a second court added and then in that kind of light green space that falls along that's going to be a glass wall with lots of seating opportunities and it also spills out from that cafeteria expansion so you know you've probably all noticed how small in comparison to your student body that the cafeteria is so kind of solve multiple problems here with one solution also you'll see here in 3d in a minute but that new main entrance to mcinally i mentioned the site work we'll be able to upgrade kind of that outdoor space and also get rid
086of the steep ramp that can be a problem in the winter next slide is these are kind of in pieces so you're on 28 or page 30 but this is the lower level of mac and alley really a nuts and bolts type project to bring the locker rooms and reconfigure them so that you have equal men and women locker rooms and this was possible by relocating the undersized wrestling and weight room two beneath that that connector so with those two spaces becoming relocated that's how we picked up the space to to improve the locker rooms and then we get into the prettier pictures here so page two of your packet will be this slide this is if if we cut a section through that connector you're seeing the weight room you know undeveloped really we're
087starting to get into the planning of the actual equipment soon but the weight room below the new gymnasium and that glass wall to the far right that i talked about that with your seating great kind of pre-function space you know as kids are you know after hours going between events and then this opportunity arrived to open up kind of the center of the the building there we had to have a stair access an elevator anyways so you can see you'll have views into the weight room and vice versa and also gets daylight into the basement so it feels more usable space introducing kind of a gathering space in that vertical two-story space which will double up as a teaching space for some of the classes that happen within the strength tank strength training space next
088slide shows you an update of where we're at on the exterior and so top one is really the full east elevation and the goal here was to obviously at the the connector we have an opportunity to provide a little bit more modern innovative look but we want the building to remain as timeless as possible so working our way from you know the major new uh construction over to where we tie in it really needs to be kind of a gradient and so if you see where your existing cafeteria is it'd be just to the right of the trees with those three windows with a little bit of brick we're picking up and adding our expansion starts off with masonry it'll tie in with the architecture uses the limestone which is around your main entrance now
089as a transition point and then moves to that glass storefront and then you get this real proud element of the green cap or the green castle g before it jumps up to really kind of your new proud entrance which if we skip forward should be the next one i get i just lost my screen um so here's that new entrance where we said you know we can flatten it out and have a combination of stairs and ramp for accessibility but really provide a more covered safe and usable outdoor space right there it also is going to protect some of the sun coming in the space and again hopefully balance that you know sophisticated a little bit institutional you know more and more high schools and projects are competing at almost a collegiate level so it
090gives you a little bit of that uh with meeting mostly functional goals and uh obviously brings your branding into it next and this is basically you've walked in those doors and turned a sharp hard right so you're looking back at where that two-story space was cut so you know this is all really early and will change a few times as we start to get into the details of what finishes and graphics might go into the space but kind of gives you the ambiance and possibilities here next now we've just kind of jumped over that railing and we're outside the weight room potential here i think we saw this in the section cut but you can you know imagine this space kind of opening up during training time and kids doing you know stretching or plyometrics
091out here the wrestling group being able to you know set up inside or outside their space and really be pretty flexible and open next and then we just wanted to give an update on you know the current project that's ongoing right now um this this photo is a little out of date but we're trying to remain on schedule contractors doing a good job considering all the conditions and we're excited about that and then finally i think last slide is just a reminder you know we are working on the engineering now for the layout at the transportation lot which will house your softball and baseball the tennis being shown there is just a placeholder for a future option that's not part of the scope of work right now so this is this is in civil engineering's
092court right now questions or comments that looks great so it all can be built tomorrow it's going to be next week now obviously this is something we're really excited about there are a lot of people like faces here in this room that have helped contribute to these ideas and concepts and just really excited about just the opportunities this can bring to our students and just the way it can further support the type of teaching and learning in our classrooms today so thank you kevin thank you guys thank you okay next item on the agenda is new business and we have an approval request for a resolution eca athletics event link yeah so um per state board of accounts we just have to have the board approve the ability to pay to use online payment service
093for uh athletics okay easy enough i'll make a motion to approve second okay we have a motion in a second any discussion carrying none all in favor all right all opposed motion passes next is the an approval request for food services adult breakfast lunch price increase yep so per usda these prices are set so we're seeking approval to raise adult breakfast price to two dollars and fifty cents and adult lunches to 4.60 i'll make a motion to approve that i was just thinking whether or not mcdonald's could match that okay make a motion to approve it i'll second that okay motion to second any discussion hearing none all in favor all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval request for food services noon aid pay increase yep so uh just seeking
094an increase from eight dollars to ten dollars an hour for all of our new nades and that's paid for out of our food services account i'll make a motion oh i'll second that okay we have a motion in a second any discussion or questions carrying that all in favor all opposed motion passes next item on these is on the agenda is an approval request for teacher appreciation grant actually uh the gcse certified staff evaluation plan would come would come first and we're just seeking to make some adjustments to our plan for this school year as a result of the pandemic we want to suspend the attendance rating as a component in our certified staff evaluation plan suspend the use of slo school letter grades state assessment data as a ratings component and the staff evaluations
095we're still going to look at data we're still going to use data to help inform and drive instruction but not necessarily as a part of our staff evaluation plan and then making some adjustments for the number of required observations based on whether or not a teacher is highly effective or not and this is something that we we i have to annually submit our staff evaluation plan uh to the doe and so i'm seeking to do this with these adjustments sounds good sounds fair so can i get emotional proof so a second okay i have a motion in a second any questions or discussion hearing none all in favor all opposed now let's have the teacher appreciation grant yeah so this is just something we have to annually the board annually has to approve it's already
096actually grounded in policy so we're not changing anything so all you're doing is reapproving an already existing board policy that i have to submit to the department of education so it's my recommendation that the board approved the teacher appreciation grant policy as is already written i will make a motion to stay approved okay dale russell made a motion to you second dale right okay we have a motion in a second um all in favor all opposed motion passes okay next item on the agenda is the 20 2021 2022 safe school plan yep so our safe school specialist mrs goodpaster updated and revised our plan of which i have to certify to the doe within 60 days from the start of the school year that we have a plan and it's been updated appropriately to deal
097with crisis emergencies and such and that plan has been updated and i'm just seeking board board approval for our safe school plan some move second you have a motion in a second any discussion or questions hear you not all in favor paul opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval request for from the transportation services or center for closed bid sales of one 2003 blue bird all-american 84 passenger bus and one 2006 ford thomas minotaur 24 passenger bus does mcdonald's need any buses really not he left before we got to it so these buses are no longer of use for us so we're just seeking to dispose of them and receive a little bit of cash for selling them it's a yeah it it is painful how much we have to pay
098for them versus what they're worth after about 10 years okay can i get emotions to approve some of a second you have a motion and a second all in favor all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval request for to add an additional bus route yep so we have a student that we're transporting um to school for the blind in indianapolis that's an am and pm route and so we're just seeking approval to um add that route and compensate the driver for for that i'll make a motion for that second okay we have a motion in a second all in favor all right all opposed motion passes next is an approval request for some donations one from the indiana association of school principals to greencastle high school in the amount of
099600 won a scholarship from from scholarship america to green castle high school about one thousand dollars one from edwards royal comfort heating air and plumbing to greencastle high school athletics in the amount of fifteen hundred dollars one from green castle pediatric dentistry to green castle high school athletics in amount of fifteen hundred dollars and one from the putnam county community foundation sigmoid fund the green castle high school athletics in the amount of two thousand dollars i'll make sure make a motion we accept the money happily second okay have a best part of the evening a lot of seconds okay we have a motion and a second all in favor aye aye all opposed and thank you yes thank you to everyone and the last item under new business is permission to advertise the 2000 or
100the 2022 budget bus replacement fund and the cps fund yep the bus replacement plan in the cpf plan so corey if you pull that up and i know that everyone's really thrilled for the most exciting part of the night we saved the best for last i'll just kind of run through this run through this briefly and if anybody has questions be happy to answer them so just kind of as i as i shared last year and there should be a picture of the silos those are our primary budgeted funds we have the education fund the operations fund the debt service fund and the pension bond fund and moving on to the next slide just a little bit of background on the fund use and primary source of revenue so our education fund primary covers salaries
101and benefits deals with all things instruction related and is funded from our state tuition support based on our student enrollment our operations fund is used to pay for maintenance building related needs and anybody that helps with to take care of our facilities in our buildings as well as covers the superintendent's office and treasurer human resources and the main source of funding is local property taxes and then the education operate education to operations transfer no more 15 each year the debt service fund is just for that just to help repay district debt and that's from local property taxes and then pension bond fund that's used to repay our pension bond liabilities and actually we don't we don't actually charge a rate or levy we use our local income income tax dollars to help cover that cost
102on the next slide so when we are working to build a budget we're building it for 18 basically in 18 months of expenditures and 18 months of revenue on a lot of different variables and so on these next two slides you can see what 20 of the different variables are and there are varying count days throughout the year so we have to essentially make our best guess in order to determine what our revenue may be so that we don't develop a budget that is too costly for what we're taking in because we don't want to end the year in the red we'd like to end the year in the black moving on to the next slide you can see fy 2022 state tuition support totals so this is what we're projecting for the fiscal year
103beginning in july and carrying through june you can see the basic grant so that's based on our adm academic honors special education grant based on the differing classifications of students and disabilities and then cte grant based on the different participation counts in our cte program so we're projected to take in roughly 12.7 million dollars in fy 22 which is an increase because we know that the legislature also provided for an increase in some of those different areas moving on to the next slide just showing a little bit of a funding comparison between fiscal year 21 versus fiscal year 22. you can see the difference is that we're expecting to take in more dollars in our basic grant even with fewer students and that's because they increased the amount per student and then you can see
104under special education grant i think they increased it roughly 10 percent so you can see that we're expected to take in some additional dollars there so fy21 versus fy22 just a little over four hundred thousand dollars difference so again when we're looking at building the budget long range planning is more critical than ever we have to have to understand how the education and operations funds interact within with the transfers balances within the education operations fund because again we don't want to overspend our revenue because we've been in a difficult situation here in the past where we haven't necessarily had enough of a reserve or a cash balance to prepare for tough times or lean times when we might see fewer students so looking at whether enrollment's increasing or declining and then making staffing adjustments along
105with that you know it's kind of like the multi-credit card syndrome you know flexibility in one area can kind of create danger in another and so you just want to be mindful mindful of that in making sure that you're building a spending plan that you can afford moving on to the next page so obviously this is very different to me and this is the second year doing this but our county council actually has a large role in approving our 2022 budget and so i just have outlined kind of the process of where we go from here kind of throughout to approve our 2022 budget cpf plan and bus replacement plan next slide please um average daily membership so just kind of showing back from 2017 2018 and you can kind of see um the gradual
106decrease and you know we have a five-year net loss of roughly 43 students per year and so i for budgeting purposes actually projected only a net loss of 32 i thought that maybe we'd bounce back a little bit from covid also still hopeful that you know this number can come back much larger than what it is and that just helps to make things simple but essentially built that budget off of 16 or built this budget off of 1685 students next slide please kind of going along with that just some assumptions we'll continue to pay for five certified staff positions from the rainy day fund this year taking into account that utilities will increase by roughly 10 percent each year property casualty insurance will increase that adm will be 1685 students which is less than fall
107of 2020 and then we also know that virtual students will no longer be funded at 100 percent they're only funded at 85 percent next slide please so specifically for the education fund um 18-month revenue you can see of just over 20 million expenditures of right around 18.8 million we don't advertise a levy or a rate for education fund because we receive all those revenues from the state next slide please for debt service fund you can see revenue roughly 3.2 uh million for 18 months expenditures that for roughly 4.9 million dollars for 18 months so obviously we have to generate some revenue to cover our expenses and so we're seeking approval to advertise a levy of three million eight hundred and eleven thousand six hundred nine dollars or 0.9650 for our rate now it's important to
108understand that that rate once it's approved will actually be less than that because we also built our budget based on an assessed valuation i think it was a 393 million dollars to be conservative that's what the dlgs asks us to do however we know that our assessed valuation is actually has actually grown roughly 30 million dollars is i think right around 490 million dollars so that rate will actually come back come back less and you know again with the building project one of the things that we told our taxpayers is we can take on all this new debt without an increase to debt service rate and that's something that we are going to stand by and honor so the advertised rate isn't necessarily the the final rate the pension uh debt fund revenue of 448
109thousand five hundred and three dollars expenditures uh three hundred sixty nine thousand two hundred and seventy two dollars we don't advertise a levy or a rate because we use our local uh income tax dollars to cover pension debt and we will get to a point to where we will have satisfied that debt obligation we'll be able to allocate those dollars elsewhere operations fund roughly 6.9 million dollars in revenue expenditures roughly 10.1 million dollars in revenue for the 18 months seeking approval advertise a levy of 3.8 million dollars or a rate of 0.9620 and again that was built on and reduced assessed valuation to protect our our levy and our rate and so based on the actual assessed valuation that rate will come will come down and we're actually we have a max levy so the
110dlgf will actually cap what we're allowed to take in according to to the growth quotient the rainy day fund revenue of just over 2.2 million dollars expenditures of just over 1.1 million dollars we don't collect a levy or rate for a rainy day fund those are unused expenditure obligations that we're able to transfer into the rainy day to have it as a reserve moving on to the next next slide please so again it's just it's used to build the budget 18 months in advance the final budget is determined by the rates approved by the dlgf actual funding generate generated by adm through those various different grants excise financial institution commercial vehicle excise and local property taxes for all of the other funds federal sources additional state money transfers and then obviously the operating balance in
111each fund so the cash move on please so rate and levy history so just again you can kind of see for comparison psych in 2021 we built our budget on an estimated av of 383 million you can see that once it was certified it was 465 million in 2021 we advertised a rate of a dollar 85.82 and in 2022 we're advertising a rate of a dollar 92.70 um so obviously when these things um hold true and come back we obviously expect a rate a final rate um more in line with what we experienced in 2021 and so at this time next slide i'm just seeking permission to advertise the 2022 budget the cpf uh cpf plan and the bus replacement plan unless anybody has any questions no questions okay can i get a motion to
112approve i approve that we advertise it so i'm gonna i will second that okay there's a motion and a second any discussion or questions hearing none all in favor all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is other business does anyone have any other business this evening uh jeff i'm sure you're tired of answering this question but uh are we still on schedule for the football game yes um the moats group um has actually mobilized additional members and they covered roughly a third of the field and pad today um so they're they're here um they mobilize additional workers to do that so the padding will go down the goal post bases are up and then i believe on monday or at the end of this week they'll mobilize the asphalt crew to remove the
113existing track and to start putting down um the new asphalt so they're holding true to the september one deadline good okay great anybody else yeah i just i wanted to say real quick i think it was um i was a little unsure about you know all the comments we we'd hear tonight and everything but but i think i think it's a great thing that people showed up and and made comments i do want to say you know thanks to to just uh jeff and and just all the administrators and teachers and just just everybody that works in this corporation because i know it's been pretty difficult certainly last year and and then this year and just the uncertainty of it all and it's and um i know it's frustrating for everybody um and you know
114none of it's been been easy for us as a board i don't think it's certainly not myself i can't speak for anybody else but i know it's been it's just been a tough one so so one i appreciate uh the the work that you're doing and that everybody in the corporation's doing but i do appreciate people showing up to speak out but i wanted to say that um and maybe at this point i'm maybe preaching to the choir or whatever but um in these school board meetings we talk about a lot of you know a lot of things and wonderful building project and and all the things that's going on and budgets and and whatever and so it's cool to show up about mask and and to voice your opinion on that but most times
115there's not anybody at these meetings that really show up and so i just want to kind of put it out there in the universe there's a lot of things that that happen that affect our kids that affect our community our teachers everybody and so there's an opportunity to really be involved in a different way over things other than these cloth things that we put on our face or don't put on our face and so for anybody that's still here and made comments thank you but show up and anybody that's listening or whatever or watching are going to check it out later i mean this is this is a community meeting right and this is our schools and we say that we we care and we're you know we're fighting for everybody but i think there's
116a lot more things uh beyond these masks that we could be showing up for so i just want to put it out there just show up show up to the meetings check out the agenda and see what's going on yes i would agree there's clearly a lot of good things going on to be a part of anyone else okay can i get a motion to adjourn i'll make a motion a second okay promotion is second all in favor all right all opposed motion passes thank you all for coming and staying and be careful going home you