001e e e thank you Pastor Marlo uh I'll go ahead and call the meeting to order and under item A4 ask for Mr wall here Mrs Heim here all right moving on to item A5 Mr trout are there any revisions to the agenda this evening we do not have any revisions this evening Mr Ro if anyone would like to come forward there's a purple sheet here that I'll bring over there but there is one person signed up right now Briana bford and if Banna would like to come to the mic and if it's not on with the green uh please push that so that it can get picked up in the live stream okay good evening um I'm just coming representing wintergard um Winter Guard is starting back up and they are lacking transportation and
002storage this is a group that works in the off seon and helps with marching band as well they have kids from Crest viw riverv viiew and the high school and they need the ability to get to competitions their fundraising they have been doing for years in attempts to so cure a trailer so I'm asking for support from the board um I know that they've reached out to you guys just if that could get pushed along a little quicker or further so that they can get to the places that they need to be um they have large tarps and they cannot perform without doing so it is a considered a club and not a sport but they have given up their trailer to or they share with the winter percussion and so they've sacrificed and I
003was hoping that the board could take into consideration that they've sacrificed and now they need a little bit of help so that's all I'm here for thank you thank you uh would anyone like anyone else like to speak uh during the public comment section of the meeting go ahead you're fine I think most of you might know who I am but just in case you don't my name is Jackie cancellor and I am a teacher here at the high school and I teach American Sign Language so I want to do a public comment on a couple things but the first thing I want to actually say to all of you right here is how much I appreciate you you guys have no idea like the appreciation is not for just the what you do upfront
004but what you guys do behind the scenes so your support your professionalism remarkable and I really appreciate that I really appreciate the open door policy that you have for people that want to come with ideas and concerns I can tell you two weeks ago it was great because Mr triout Mr bberry came to the high school where all the teachers and staff are more than welcome to to come in and ask anything we want to ask we can go over any concern we throw stuff out on the table um and just have a really good conversation I do wish more teachers would take advantage of it though um maybe we can kind of get that out there a little bit more but and I and I want to thank you for acknowledging that teachers have
005the right to conscience on all matters and boy do I want to thank you for that American Sign Language curriculum so uh this is I think our seventh year in Sign Language it's a phenomenal program that's been built um over the years I had 351 students request sign language last year and I begged for this new curriculum and I want to thank all of you for passing the funding for me to able to have it so and I couldn't I couldn't be remiss about thanking you for the jotc program and the fact that archery is now up under it I love archery I love the competition of archery I think it really helps our students be able to set up a time for them to build confidence be part of a team last year we
006have two students now shooting and in collegate archery they got $117,000 scholarships to be able to compete so I just I want to thank you for that and I also want to thank you for being the type of administration that illustrates the willingness to acknowledge that our country and our state and our school is founded on biblical principles and the importance of standing on what is true and this is very evident because our board opened with prayer and we said plance the pledge of allegiance to the flag unreal I don't know if a lot of schools do that and I just want to publicly thank you for that I will tell you though I have a second purpose for addressing you tonight I'm this is just very very near and dear to my heart and
007I want to thank you for the taking the time to listen to me because I know I'm not on the agenda for a long period of time and I promise not to take a long period of time but the purpose of me addressing the board tonight is actually twofold one is the Hat of a teacher and one is a hat of we the people in the state of Indiana and I think both are super super important so I'm going to be taking on those two hats as a teacher of Huntington County Community Schools I am humbled and I consider it a privilege to teach in this school system the programs we offer surpass so many around us and the evidence is very true and that our enrollment has increased and that to me says a
008lot for what you guys are doing you guys are behind the scenes and you're just putting out the programs for students to come and be able to take and I want to thank you for that um there are a ton of advantages to that and I'm very humbled about how open you are when it comes to listening to the concerns of students parents and staff again remarkable it's your willingness to have ears to hear and eyes to see that I feel comfortable coming to you right now with a serious with an attention into a serious issue that I think we need to look at so I come to you as a teacher and as one of the people of the state of Indiana and I want to let you know that I want to that
009I can share with you that the people myself and several others throughout this state and the nation have been Consulting for our common good and studying the fundamentals of law in the Indiana Constitution as well as the maxims of law my colleagues and I are concerned about a policy in the employee handbook under the section called called report child abuse in my studies I have realized that this particular policy is based upon an unconstitutional code this code infringes upon the rights of parents their rights to the liberty interest of their child is being abrogated along with not following constitutional due process the Indiana Constitution guarantees that all people have the inherent right to life to Liberty property and the pursuit of happiness in fact according to the law Miranda versus Arizona 1966 it says where
010rights secured by the Constitution are involved there can be no rulemaking or legislation which would abrogate them and abrogate means to not go against the Constitution the Indiana Constitution Article 1 Section one says we declare that all people are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these rights are life liberty the pursuit of happiness that all powers in in the people and that all free governments are and right ought to be founded on their Authority instituted for their peace their safety their well-being for the advancement of these ends the people have at all times an indivisible right to alter and reform their government and this is what I'm doing now assembling and asking for a policy to be reformed or altered that is unconstitutional it is my
011duty as one of the people to inform and instruct our servants that's all of you regarding the Indiana Constitution and help preserve the blessings of liberty there's a maximum of law 51p the main object of government is the protection and preservation of personal rights private property public Liberties and upholding the law of God one of the rights in our Bill of Rights sorry one of the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights is the right to Liberty do you even really know what the meaning of Liberty is many of us do not but I can tell you that it's defined in Black laws dictionary fourth edition Liberty can be defined as the power of the will to follow the dictates of its unrestricted choice to direct the external acts of the individual without restraint coercion
012or control from other persons it Embraces freedom from duress freedom from governmental interference and exercise of intellect and the formation of opinions the expression of them and the action and inaction dictated by judgment the word Liberty includes and comprehends all personal rights and their enjoyment so the right of Liberty encompasses every area of our life and the situation that I'm adding directly goes at DCS Department of Child uh services this agency takes kids away from their parents without the consent of the parent and with without constitutional due process of law every parent has the right to the Liberty interests of their children in the case Troxel versus Granville and I quote the liberty interest at the issue in this case the interest of parents in the care custody and control of their children is perhaps
013the oldest fundamental liberty interest recognized by this court and in prince versus massachusett 1944 again confirmed that there is a constitutional demention to the right of appearance to direct the upbringing of their children it is Cardinal with us that the custody care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents whose primary function Freedom include preparation for obligations to the not to the state nor can they Supply nor hinder the right of the parent and there's one other law I want to tell you about and that is the Social Security Act of 1935 11016 D and is actually called the CPS creation law and and I hope you guys are ready for this because it's not what you think it's not what we've been doing but it says in there nothing in this act
014shall be construed as authorizing any federal agent Federal Officer or representative and carrying out any of the provisions in this act to take charge of any child over the objection of either parent or such child CPS creation of law was created for the sole purpose to protect protect children who are truly abused and I think everybody in this room wants to protect every child that is truly abused however I can say without a shadow of a doubt government is using this administrative agency CPS for financial gain and I would be more than willing to show you how this is accomplished at a future date child trafficking this is a connection to this agency and that's where my heart that's my heart is just telling you it is a true connection to this agency Child Protective
015Services have become the number one trafficking system and according to the ncmec report 88% of children found in trafficking come from the the DCS and Foster Care please do your best to imagine what this means you have 100 children and they are found to be either missing or something else has been going on maybe in the foster care home out of those 100 children 88 of them come from DCS or foster care and those were the ones that were found think of all the ones that weren't found we need to ask ourselves how does this happen why why and or what is the connection how are children taken from their parents how are the rights of parents infringed upon I can tell you you it is the lack of due process there is a common
016law 77f that says no free man shall be be deprived of life liberty property but by lawful Judgment of his peers or by the law of the land that is the common law also known as the Constitution I am sure this is the first time many of you if not all of you have heard this information for the very first time in saying that I would like to ask you this question can you show me in the Constitution where it is written that Authority has been granted to you any agency or government official to infringe upon the parents right to the liberty interest of their children without due process of law many of you are sitting here right now asking yourselves how does this relate to Huntington County Community Schools in the hccs handbook when
017teachers and staff are required to call an agency which has not been given lawful authority to investigate or to remove children from a home teachers in turn become an agent an extended arm of DCs so I want you to think about this if you were given information about a family that you reported to DCS and realized that the alleged abuse was false and the child no longer is with that family be it in foster care or lost in the DCS system how would it make you feel take it one step further how would you make how would it make you feel if that child was one of that 88% trafficked do we as a school want to have any connection to an unconstitutional code which has a direct connection to an agency who has a
018direct connection to child trafficking which has a direct connection to infringing upon the parents rights to the liberty interest of their children as the board Administration do you want to become an agent for such an agency me and my colleagues are being told we must be an agent or an extension to CPS by doing so we are participating in the infringement of parental rights to the liberty interest of their children and their lack of due process of law do we as Huntington County Community School Corp want to continue participating in this and please remember no code no statute no case law no policy can infringe upon or abgate the rights of parents so in conclusion it is the people's wish that you as school board members and administrator reconsider the language of the written policies
019seen in an employee handbook under report child abuse on page four and look at various options to assign the responsibility of reporting alleged child abuse to the proper lawful Authority and that this reporting fall upon the administrative staff of Huntington County Community School Court the people look forward to continuing open dialogue to resolve this matter in Peace and Love Of Christ I have envelopes for you and inside the envelope is documentation of everything that I just told you um there's also a notice in there that has been recently given to the Arizona Supreme Court that is also been distributed Nationwide and in that you will find major nuggets of wisdom and knowledge there are links that you can click on that will bring up Supreme Court Justices Pretty much telling you everything that I just
020told you for me I love this school system I want to retire from this school system I want our students to know that they are safe I want them to be in safe homes I am 100% on board with that I'm not 100% Bor on parents losing the Liberty to their children based off of maybe hearsay and I think that anything that is Criminal needs to actually be reported to the authorities that have been granted granted permission granted by us we the people to look into that and that would be our law enforcement that would be our sheriff in this County because we're a county school so having all said all that I just want to leave you with this Psalm 1273 says lo children are the heritage of the Lord and the fruit of
021the womb is his reward may the Lord bless thee and keep thee may the Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee may the Lord Lord lift up his continence unto thee and give you peace thank you for your time signing the purple sheet just so there's a record that you address the board we'd appreciate that uh now move on to item C1 special presentation Community Gardens project hello hi I am Aaron didan I'm the executive director at United with love um and I'm here tonight to talk to you about our community gardens project but real quick before I do that I would be remiss if I did not touch on something Mrs cancer said um I literally just three hours ago came back from I flew back from the Citadel
022uh Military College in South Carolina where my son is a freshman and he is a freshman down there because of the four years he spent in jotc um last year he was a battalion commander and learned how to be a leader and he is growing those skills so I just want to thank you for that program it is amazing but enough about that Community Gardens yay um we are this year starting we're bringing back the community garden we have five locations around the city Elward Park Lori Park eie Park the boys and girls club and New Life Church um you guys are familiar with this community those are all on the south end of town and we would love to bring one up to the north end of town um I am unfortunately my partner
023in crime Christy kette could not be here tonight she has been working with with um Chief Blair and we've identified and got his okay to um put use some of the land over at Craig bomb field close to the Learning Center um to put in a community garden we've talked to Mr mlin he has signed off on it thinks it's a great idea uh Not only would that bring you know fresh fruit produce to this into town for individuals who may need it but everything we do we're about meeting those material needs but beyond that building Community it's so important and we feel Community Gardens are a great opportunity to do that and just look at you know what this the school corporation has done the last few years with the football field Friday nights
024that's Community what you guys had going on in the parking lot this weekend with the Trunk or Treat that's Community what these amazing people at the Family Care Center are going to share that's community community garden more community so I'm here tonight to ask if we could use some of that land um I have received funding for the six Gardens so there would be no cost to the school communicate to the school corporation we would be able to have a shed if that would be okay to installed um with gutters rain barrels so um we wouldn't need any kind of rain or any kind of water use or anything like that the plants will all be provided for um and then of course we would have uh volunteers who would be under United with love
025running the garden um and they would fall under our volunteers so all liability we would have uh covered under our own insurance so so School Board what I'm looking for this evening is your approval of this relationship that we would have um with the Huntington uh County Gardens project like uh she said she's uh worked with GRTC with Mr McGloin I believe that all uh all we need this evening is your approval and we're going to be ready to move forward then absolutely all right thank you well would anyone like to make a motion regarding the proposed arrangements with Huntington Community Gardens project I'd make a motion to approve the Huntington Community Gardens project on the CRA cbom Field property is there a second second any questions comments or discussion how much room um you
026know I'm a big believer in under promise and overd deliver so I'm kind of let's start small I'm thinking you know 15 by 30 and we'll see how that goes um and I'm also kind of thinking let's the first year is hard you know it's going to be getting people involved feel like the second year will be really great and that's when we'll be able to say this is what we're doing this is what it's going to look like um but yeah we're thinking about 15 by 30 maybe a 20 by 40 plot because we there previously was a community garden yes and the softball field is yes it was in it was incredibly popular up here it was well utilized we do have a lot of room up there yes any other questions or
027comments um so where I mean I know on the property close to the Learning Center but I'm where by the Learning Center um and then if something happened and we did expand the Learning Center Center I mean will this disrupt it uh or we just move the garden further out well what we would do if if in the near future if we're going to expand the Learning Center what we would do is we would work with you and we would have to move the garden because that would obviously the Learning Center would take precedent over everything else that we're doing there um what we're hoping for is in conjunction that's why I made sure that Mr McGloin and jrtc were firmly on board with this because in the future we may have to move it
028somewhat uh around in Craig bomb on that near that end down there i' call it the um the East End uh there just so we make sure we have ample space for our parties involved but when I was out there the other day um we have a lot of options out there currently um I think it's pretty crystal clear that the Learning Center would take precedent jrct takes precedent um I hope we have a problem where the gardens are growing and we have to come back to all of you and say hey we have to make some adjustments along the way but until that I think we're we're okay um we're talking predominantly if you go out the South End Of The Learning Center there off that parking lot out in that general area there
029it's much larger than what you think when until you get out there um that's where we would begin at that point in time okay I think I'm saying that correctly when you work absolutely and the crew so thank you um couple questions first of all I think that this is a wonderful idea and a great use of that property um is will this be like a yearly contract that we will do yeah I think that what we'll have to look at is if we're going to expand we have to come back here I think every intention is for it to expand um each time we do expand um we'll come back to you and say um you now see where it's at we're going to have to grow by X number of feet each Direction
030um I hope that's a problem I really do um if you remember when I was over here on Viking Lane um it was great um it was a great Community uh event to have that and I think this will be also but again just like with Matt's question if we have to adjust we'll adjust I mean um and and I'm anticipating that we'll have to quite frankly okay um and then my second question does this will the ground be affected At All by the removal of the track like is that soil yeah I mean yes because we're trying to be we're trying to be very mindful of where that's at okay we're trying to be uh incredibly mindful of that's what just two years plus in the making so far um I just want to
031make sure that it's G to actually grow yeah well yes and and I think that's why she was been out there with jotc and with Mr McGlothlin because if you look at the oval shape out there you have to be mindful of where that's all it's all at just when I first came I think this even happened when I was the interim business manager here is that if you remember we um adjusted how much of that track we actually took out we took out more than initially planned um Pat I I don't know or Chuck I don't know what the hands gestures are I I think there were three tracks down as it kept going yes so that's correct so what happened was we thought when we first started in there that we were only
032going to take the track out what we didn't realize is that there were three layers of track there so there was the original track back in who knows what years was there and then there was another layer on top of that and then the layer that our community saw off of Jefferson was the third layer so when they went in there um and they started u they brought me over there and said John there's two other layers underneath here because we did soil borings and we didn't know in certain aspects of that track there were actually three layers and so all that to say yes we have to be very mindful of where that's all at so that people are not upset when they go out there to plant their garden and it wouldn't happen
033to grow like they wanted it to so yes and then my question would be who's overseeing this all summer long so um we do have we do have school buses parked there and school equipment parked there right absolutely so United with love would oversee the general project um we have one employee who this is 50% of his job is this community garden project he's overseeing all the leads all the volunteers making sure that you know everything it looks like a great community space things are being done and it's being utilized well okay thank you uh the only other thing I would say is if we do have a shed put up there that we work with the city to get a shed permit so we don't go a foul with our city Brethren yes um
034no good deed goes unpunished as I say um we'll have to make sure we're following all the ordinances um I'm sure that United with love will go through all those processes too um and that's just part of everything we would have to do here because I think there's going to be easements with the fence line over there there's going to be a variety of things we have to take into account when we're putting this together so all right any other questions or comments all right hearing none we'll vote on the motion to approve all right motion passes 6-0 and happy gardening thank you so much I hope you all come out and get a tomato next summer okay okay good all right we now move on to C2 special presentation Indiana Care Center hello uh
035my name is Pastor Ashlin kippert and I am one of the pastors at The Awakening Church um alongside of my husband Chad and um and then we also have Indiana Family Care Center which many of you know as downtown we were formerly Indiana Dream Center and we uh in the last couple of years have transitioned to Indiana Family Care Center as we started to see needs shift in the community to more family needs as many other organizations were taking care of people with life controlling issues so well um we started to see gaps and so that's what we have started to fill um many of you have seen over the last 14 to 15 years that we have done an event um it started out calling steps for Success um it was a Back toschool
036event where we provided new tennis shoes to students um we started that in a very small location so if you know where um Teresa kaylor's building and property is uh where her office is it is a tiny little um lot parking lot on the south end of town and um we served about 35 students and it was amazing and then we moved it over um to drover park and that was amazing as well um but what we found was that there were so many different families that needed so many things and so we started to add Partnerships within that and we started to have other organizations as well as other um churches get involved in providing back to school items well this has continued to grow um as inflation continues to grow so does the
037needs of families continue to grow and uh many of us probably know that and understand that even in our own pocketbooks and so um as we look at these different things we really shifted our our thought process to having an event for this community where we would kick off school in such a positive manner uh where we would kick off school and both families would come that would be excited just to start school and and they would have bounce houses and food trucks and it would be awesome but we would also serve the needs of those that um that are in need what we found over at drover Park was that there were actually actually families um unfortunately that uh would would sleep on the pavement would sleep on the sidewalk um just to get
038a new pair of tennis shoes and um we ended up serving breakfast those sorts of things and so having said all of that um we really started to see just such a great need and we started having conversations with the families instead of just serving them um and just going through a line because we believe in serving people with dignity and um and not everybody is a number people want to be known as a name regardless of the situation that we're in and that's how we serve people and so moving on to where we are today we've had the back to school bash thank you so much um to all of you because we've been able to have the back to school bash for year two here on um this campus and it has been
039quite amazing this past year we had over 65 vendors um including some from Indianapolis and so we've got vendors coming in from every everywhere not just our community we served over 900 students and there were over 3,000 people total that were served that day um and in a very short amount of time quite frankly um this was a CommunityWide event both for those in need like I said and those that just wanted to have an amazing Kickstart to an event uh we we really want to break the stigma of saying well you're in need and you're not um and it was an amazing thing to be able to see students just as they would on a playground at the school um they were out together families were out together and there was not a stigma
040where um families that were in need were embarrassed to have to come um so it was an amazing thing the amount of needs continue though year round and so we've been serving students and families through our thrift store for quite some time working with the counselors already with Huntington school corporation that is actively happening um and has continued to happen in our community we have many um teachers nurses and counselors that we've heard from and we continue to hear from their needs we continue to hear that um many of them are seeing needs within their classrooms or in the hallways and they're often filling those needs out of their own pocketbook um when we continued to hear that we were like okay we love our teachers we love our Administration and that's not something that
041they should have to do on a regular basis we can come alongside as both the church as well as the um the Indiana Family Care Center alongside of places like United with love we are in partnership with them um and other different organizations to really look at these needs and be able to provide them for the students the needs are even greater um as we continue to see families continue to say um I'm I'm able to to meet these things I'm able to pay rent and those sorts of things but I didn't really adjust to my child growing four to five inches I got everything and my child grew if you have children you know that you don't really anticipate those things you just have to prepare and then they um they continue to grow
042so um Here Comes Beyond The Bash so why did we do this uh because the back to school bash has been amazing but there are needs Beyond The Bash um and that is what we have called this project is beyond the bash you can flip to the next one if you don't mind the purpose of this is to address the physical needs of students year round um it's to create a Community Partnership opportunity as well the goals and objectives are really to work with all of you guys alongside of our teachers counselors all of our Administration to identify the needs of the students um and then to provide a dignified shopping experience for the students during the school day um that has been that's something that's very very critical to us is to make sure
043that these students do not feel like um they are less than because they they have holes in their shoes or their jeans don't fit or their clothing doesn't fit um that is embarrassing um and these are pivotal years and so it also um there's so many different things and I didn't bring all of that today tonight but um there's so many different things in studies where it's been shown even out in California where they have been doing community projects like this in school corporations and even test scores are going up because students feel better about themselves um because there is a confidence issue because I if I am not confident I can't focus um and that is something that is so key and so important to us so the community is coming together to meet
044these needs we have talked to several different you're going to hear about that here in just a second we really want to provide this not only to our students but also to relieve the burdens somewhat from our teachers and our Administration and our counselors that are putting money out of their own Pockets um to fulfill these needs you can go thank you we are excited because we've shared with this uh we've shared this presentation with several different people and some of you have seen that I know Mr bomberry Mr Peters Mr trout um we were able to knock off many of those things and so we are so excited uh the project scope the interior is completely done the trailer is outfitted um it is here tonight so um they were able to there was
045a few that were able to go and look at that which was amazing um the climate control is still in the works and so we will get that before winter comes and make sure that there's heat in there because we know that that's going to be something that's going to be critical and now it's going to be time to stock the trailer so um you can go on to the next one thank you so how is this going to work within the school corporation we want to make this as easy as possible we do not want to add one more thing to our teachers our counselors um and we understand that these this process needs to be as simple as possible so number one the students needs going to be identified very simply um so
046whether it is clothing whether it is shoes whether it is hygiene products whatever that may look like um that student need is going to be identified depending on how the school um that particular school is going to work uh right now this process is actually in process with salamony schools and they actually have um what would be in our trailer they have a store downstairs in their location um that Warren all the churches in Warren come together and they meet those needs um and so it's going to be very similar it's just ours is on Wheels and so we can take it from school to school uh which makes it a lot simpler for um all of the school corporation so as these students needs are identified what happens is the teacher at salamony what
047happens is the teacher identifies the needs they get sent to the counselor the counselor contacts um the the people with u all the Warren churches those needs are fulfilled if they don't have them downstairs and then the student is able to come and Shop um it is a very dignified process um if you've never been downstairs at salamony it's beautiful it's amazing they have fitting rooms it is an amazing thing um number two once the students need is identify that request get submitted to us um on a portal and you're going to see that here in just a second it's very simple it is an online portal where the counselors will be trained to literally just fill out a very quick Google form within that form it gets sent to us we then fulfill that
048need and so the request is received and filled the items are loaded onto the the trailer we will have a scheduled time with every school working with every school administrator um to ensure that that works for them that time frame works for them and then the big give which is going to be amazing um to have these students be able to come and receive their items you can this is the portal so again it's very simple um this form is very very simple that I think that there's two different um slides on that so you can kind of see that perfect yep so very simp simple form um we don't have to get overly complicated anything like that um so it's we just want to meet basic needs to ensure that our students um have
049what they need and it relieves burdens of teachers it also relieves burdens of families um that are really struggling so okay this is the progress so this is how it started um there on the left and you can see on the right uh what that looks like there are shelving units within that uh within those shelving units will be things like hygiene kits will be things like female hygiene kits which is a huge need um and there's if you go into the next one perfect uh right there he built a um a little bench so we can try on shoes all those sorts of things um so it's just going to be um an incredible thing the there's been so many different people that have been a part of this um Bendix is the one
050that was able to give us the the trailer um so we're super grateful for them um there's been different people such as Duke Energy Layman floring um that have offered and and provided funding for us to be able to do what we've done so far um and then other organizations that have come alongside of us such as United with love and providing so many different things such as Central Christian College Park church Faith Community Church The Awakening Church um and many many more we're still having conversations with churches and businesses alike to continue to uh fill those trailers what we're doing is we're asking them to find the one thing that they want to give really well and uh right now we have a three-year commitment from four different churches um to continue uh this
051and it's just going to be amazing so what's next what's next is we're ready to fill the trailer which is so exciting uh the trailer will be accepting donations starting now from churches and businesses in the community so we can start fulfilling the needs um we are entering in a time of giving Which is perfect um so we're excited about that we're excited about taking the trailer around the community in places that are going to allow us and then literally filling this trailer one thing that I want to make sure that everybody understands is within this trailer we want to make sure that everything is new this is not a thrift store this is not donated items these will be tagged new items um there's so many different places that we can go as nonprofits
052and even receive pallets of clothing and things like that for um a lump sum of money and so there's so many different resources out there that that we're going to tap into from that per perspective as well um but new clothing people that like to uh shop the clearance racks and all of that that's what we're encouraging them to do um so that we can fill this grant funding is continuing to come in for the HVAC and the purchase of new items that are being donated the second thing that needs to happen is training so training our counselors our administrators to make sure that they understand the portal that they understand the ins and outs of the process so it can be very very clear to everybody and it's very simple the schedule will also
053need to be created within the School Corp and so we want to make sure that it works and aligns with their time frame that they would want us to come out the goal is that we would be in every school we would be at every school every week now if there's not a need at that particular school we wouldn't go there that week um and so it would be based upon needs um it's not like we're just going to show up um it would be based upon needs as that happens and so I just want to say thank you for the support that we've had so far thank you for allowing us to um to do what we're doing thank you for um continuing to serve our families and we just want to walk alongside
054of you you know this doesn't happen without you um you've been very humble uh within this but I just want to say publicly thank you um it's this is probably the third or so much time and energy into this and um to do this at our schools means the world uh to all of us uh setting up here that you would do this this and to show the love for these kids and it just means it means everything to us but um um your passion for this is the driver and um that's that's quite evident uh every time I have seen you with this and I am grateful for our partnership with you so thank you I and I mean that thank you very much thank you any questions from the board I don't really
055think this takes any formal um approval or anything it's just something that Jay Chuck and I wanted to share with with you um this thing is coming together uh quickly and so we just wanted to make you aware of it and see if you had any questions with that but both to both of you I say thank you it's been incredible partnership thank you than you all right we'll now thank you for that presentation we'll now move on to the consent agenda items D1 through six yes I'm going to highlight for you the request to accept donations in a total of $ 4,860 uh Flint Springs is requesting permission to accept two donations the first is 90 reings of paper valued at approximately $360 from Jim and Cindy Emily uh to be used by the
056staff for school Printing and projects the second donation is nine boxes of molding clay valued appr proximately $1,000 from the Kellogg family to be using the art department for future art projects uh cresview Middle School is requesting permission to accept a donation of $500 from gal to be used for the robotics program and then Riverview is a accept is requesting to accept permission uh for a donation of around $3,000 R views of learning again to be used for the robotics program and so I'm asking for your approval of consent agenda D1 through6 for this evening all right thank you Mr trout would anyone like to make a motion regarding the consent agenda make a motion or approve the consent agenda uh items D1 through D6 is there a second second all right any questions comments
057or discussion would anyone like to pull a particular numbered item out and vote on it separate from the rest all right hearing none we will vote on the motion to approve the consent agenda motion passes six to zero we'll now go to E1 Financial reports good evening president members of the board um Mr trout uh we bring to you this evening the September financials we're getting caught up from after um our software conversion so wanted to make sure that um we brought these to you this evening excuse my I think it was a little Frozen earlier but my voice it's thawing out first we have this evening the education fund and um for September and you'll see the information here reminder on the Le hand side is the budget the certified budget of the revenues
058and expenditures in the middle um with the yellow highlight is the um current month amounts for revenue and expenditures and then the second uh yellowed highlight is the year-to date for both the revenues and expenditures and you'll see here um we have the graphs on the right hand side that support the data on the left and then right down at the bottom you'll see that little um Square uh rectangle for uh right underneath the graphs that talk about um it shows the percent of the budget year expended which were approximately 75% into the year and then um you'll see the percent of Revenue that we received um a little over um 72% so right under 73 and then um percent of the budget expended 63% so look looking at this and comparing to um last
059year at this time we're right on schedule um as designed and as um projected for the education funds budget with a um fund balance of a little over $14 million and that has been um customary this time of year so we're right on cheack next we have our next fund that we um go through is it called our debt service fund and um also with The Debt Service fund you'll see no um activity for the month of September and that is a normal for this fund as this fund has two months out of the Year where it has the majority of the activity for revenues and expenditures and that is June and December and that is because this is a property taxed fund for our revenue and um as we receive that Revenue in then
060we have our amortization schedules that we um do uh and we pay those two times a year and that would be um reflected under our expenditures so you'll see some of the year to date there and that is from our June uh settlement for our property taxes and other taxes and then our expenditures that were spent in June so this uh cash balance is a little over 1.7 million and is just um as projected for this time of year and then next we have our other major fund which is our operations fund our two um major funds our education fund and our operations fund and this follows the same format that we were talking about with the other two it has our budget and then our um month and then our year-to date and you'll
061see there with our uh expended uh part of the year in our Revenue you'll see uh 54% of our Revenue received and a little over um 55% expended and that is common this time of year uh mostly because of this being also a property tax fund so our Revenue comes um mainly June and December so you'll see the expenditures going up a little bit for the months of September October November and then you'll see the revenue that supports that um that will balance everything out in December so we're right on track for this fund also just a question because I think I'm reading it right but I want you to correct me if I'm not uh I see the revised fund balance of a negative number but that's only because of some incumbrances we don't
062actually have a negative absolutely thank you for that clarification that is true and that's what you'll see um going on for the next couple months until that Revenue comes in so thank you for that clarification and then um next you'll see our rainy day fund and you'll see uh a little bit of uh action in this fund for the month of September and that was from our um previous uh obligations from our budget order of 1.5 million for our main office renovation so this too um shows that we have approximately um $700,000 left of um appropriation that we plan on continuing with those expenditures for the remaining of this calendar year we did not budget anything in this fund next for next year no we did not budget for anything in this fund the project
063won't be over until next year so we will We encumber those funds out of this year's funds so we don't exactly so we um what we do uh is we we have the actual appropriation that was approved in 2024 and then um anything at the end of 2025 for that appropriation rolls into next year so you would not need additional appropriation you'll use the appropriation that was set for 2024 so we're right on target for for this fund also and then we have um two more funds for you this evening and that is the Food Service fund and wanted to make a note that um with the software conversion and also to go in line with what the state has for this fund this is actually a fiscal year fund so you'll see in your
064board financials that um we switched that over to be a fiscal year Fund in your financials and a fiscal year fund instead of the other um being like the other funds that are January through December this one is July 1st to June 30th to goes in line with what is required with the state so we want wanted to make sure that this went in line with whatever reports you might see on the state sites because all the information on the state um websites for this fund are all fiscal year so then that um they would go in conjunction together so you'll see here where um we've revised the 2024 fiscal year-to-date uh amounts on there for you along with uh the fund balance and such so this is Right On Target and meets the requirements
065of maintaining the the cash balance and not having um too much in the cash balance as we have in the past that were right on um target with being able to um have the cash balance that we have on hand and meet our uh expenditures and with our Revenue coming in so we're able to balance those out in this fund and then last but not least is the curricular materials fund and um this fund also is um very solvent for the cash balance that's in this fund and a reminder that in 2025 this fund will roll over into our education fund according to um requirements of the law that changed so um we will make sure that those revenues are identified and um able to be split out for reporting purposes and also the expenditures
066that will be able to um set aside those those dollars so it doesn't get absorbed with other EXP expenditures by accident so we will make sure that that is identified and we starting in 2025 we'll have that separated out also in our board financials for the board as such I would be happy to answer any questions the board may have at this time regarding the September financial statements as presented does anyone have a motion they'd like to make regarding the financial reports for September 2024 make a motion to approve the financial reports as presented is there a second second any questions or comments all right hearing none we'll vote on the motion to approve and thank you for moving through those with some brevity there Jay why they're voting on that uh any updates for
067the board for social studies and science because she went through the curricular uh materials one just this might be a great time to give an update on that yes thank thank you for asking um social studies is still on hold we do not have the titles from the doe but we do have uh vendor titles uh and vendors that will be um having materials for science so we're in the process of making sure that we've got our committee together working with hcta uh that we've got our science adoption committee together and we'll be looking uh at those vendors and selecting some of those vendors that we can get supplies get their materials and resources so we can begin that adoption process at least with science uh right now like I said social studies we don't
068have those titles out there yet those vendors so that is on hold but we're going to proceed um I've talked with Sydney mckenny um at Region 8 um almost once a week um and so we're going to start that process with science so great question all right motion passes 60 so so now we'll move to E2 uh additional appropriation for debt Services sure uh this this action item or hearing and then action item has to do with our current Year's Debt Service fund so uh during the budget process the board uh approved a tax rate for our debt service fund so this appropriation is just to increase that budget to be able to pay all of our amortization schedules that we currently have that does not increase the tax rate that does not increase the
069um tax property taxes it allows us to spend uh our portion of our cash balance and any tax taxes that we currently uh have approved and have been certified from the state so this is just allowing us to pay the rest of the amortization schedules for this year for um 2024 and be able to have the budgets to support that like I said in addition to um being able to pay those expenditures and those amortization schedules it does not raise the tax rate or um receive additional tax dollars from this additional appropriation that we're asking for this evening so then we would go to A3 and that is the so first for a for this second one uh the board would need to open the public Hearing in case anyone want to talk about this
070and then um we would close that public hearing and then we would go on to approving the resolution for that thank you for that reminder so we'll go ahead and uh suspend this current meeting and then open up a hearing for comment on the proposed additional Appropriations so anyone who has uh question or comment from the public that would like to address the board on that please go to the microphone and there is a sheet there for you to sign and it looks like no one is coming forward to address the board so I'll close the hearing and then reopen the regular board meeting and move on to E3 uh the proposed resolution thank you as required by law after um we hold a public hearing for that additional appropriation it does require us to
071have the board adopt the resolution that supports that um so in your board packet you'll see the the resolution for additional appropriation in the amount of $179 and um 179,180 um for the board's approval this evening as presented all right thank you Mrs Smith would anyone like to make a motion regarding the proposed U resolution make a motion that we approve the additional appropriation out of the debt service for $1 179,180 is there a second second any questions comments or discussion and again just saying it again this is coming from cash balance out of there absolutely yeah so there's no there's no raising of the tax rate there's no additional increase to property taxes I know we're repeating ourselves but I just want to make sure that's Crystal Clear there that is correct okay thank
072you all right hearing nothing further we'll vote on the motion to approve the resolution all right that motion passes six to zero so I believe I will again suspend the regular meeting of the board and now open a meeting of the board regarding project and additional appropriation hearings so the next item on the agenda is for the board to hold a project hearing and additional appropriation hearing on a proposed construction project if you are interested in speaking at the hearing please make sure you have signed the signin sheet which should include your name and address after a presentation by the administration and it advisers there will be an opportunity for the public to make comments about the project at this specific hearing we will ask that each person limit their comments to three minutes and
073that the topic be limited to the proposed project under consideration the notices of this hearing were published as legally required and at this time I will ask Mr John trout to explain the purpose of this hearing okay uh pursuant to Indiana code 20-26 d73 7 before um a school corporation may spend more than a million dollars to build repair or alter a school building that would be financed by a lease or bonds it must hold a public hearing at which explanations of the potential value of this project uh to the school corporation and Community are given uh similarly uh pursuant to Indiana code before a school corporation can appropriate any dollars it directly receives as Bond proceeds it must conduct a hearing uh on these proceeds for the additional appropriation of these funds uh this
074public these public hearings and consideration of resolutions establish the financial terms for the proposed project all right thank you Mr trout we will now hear from you further about the process of determining and communicating the project to the community and the need for the project Okay so we've had uh multiple conversations through the last couple of years if you uh go back uh when we started doing our initial uh facility audits with Mr thornsberry um you will know that we laid out a series of projects that we would like to complete uh depending upon the resources that we have available to us and so tonight what we're doing is going through this hearing as it pertains to the uh uh as we're remodeling um the bathrooms the restrooms here at Huntington North high school so
075Terry here in a couple of minutes we'll remind you of all those details of what we're going to do here uh within that but that's the purpose for tonight's hearing then all right thank you Mr trout as you said we'll now hear from Terry thornsbury about how the proposed project meets the needs as described by superintendent trout thank you Mr trouton and uh thank you board for the opportunity so um having spent four years of my life in this building back in the 80s I'm fully aware that most of the restrooms still have the original Plumbing fixtures in them um so they're definitely a need of replacement so primary focus of this project will be to uh renovate the eight main student restrooms six staff restrooms and nurse's office restrooms um two new single use
076restrooms would be added onto the building and then we' refresh the two Auditorium in Arena restrooms um the restrooms would be made ADA Compliant if we can do that and Our intention is to definitely do that to the eight main student restrooms the two new Standalone restrooms and any others that we can rearrange and and make that work uh the new fixtures will use less water than the original fixtures from three gallons per flush to about a gallon or half a gallon per flush depending on the fixtures we pick we will update all the finishes we'll update all the lighting we'll update all the ceilings try to make the restrooms more attractive definitely and more durable at the same time uh scheduled uh for the project would be to start construction in early 2025 and
077be complete by the end of 2025 all right thank you Mr thornsbury uh we're going to now hear from Tyler leol of Baker Tilly uh Tyler is our Municipal advisor and he's going to explain how the proposed project will be financed and provide information about the effect on the typical property taxpayer good evening thank you for having me as Mr Roth said I'm Tyler lff Holtz with Baker till Municipal advisers and I'll be walking through the financial implications of the proposed project uh I'll start by just showing you what your current outstanding debt uh looks like uh in this chart you can see that you've got three bonds currently outstanding your 20 23 bonds will be paid off in 2026 your 2018 bonds will be paid off in 2037 and your 2022 bonds would be
078paid off in 2041 and you do see that in 2026 you do have a drop in total annual payments for your outstanding debt on the next slide I will show the calculation of your general obligation bonding capacity so that calculation is 2% of one3 of your net assessed value um so you your limit is 15, 385,000 and after subtracting what you currently have outstanding in general obligation bonds Your Capacity is 10, 645,000 so anything under that can be issued as Geo bonds so what we've done is we have structured a $1.75 million Geo bond to be paid off in just over a year uh using conservative interest rates we are estimating an interest expense over the life of the bonds to be about 7400 ,000 and I will show this on the next page but
079we do anticipate that this will not increase the tax rate for 2025 here's how the new bonds would look alongside of the outstanding bonds that darker bar there in 2025 is the one year of repayment that you will have on these bonds uh now although your total payments would be increasing um a combination of your net assess value increasing for 2025 and your maximum operating balance will be lower in 2025 because you're allowed to carry 15% of the following Year's payments as balance and since your payments are decreasing in 2026 your max balance will be decreasing as well so you'll be spending down some balance and your assessed value growth uh will help you issue these bonds without increasing your debt service tax rate and that black dotted line there is your estimated Debt Service
080tax rate you can see that we're estimating that it will uh remain level for 2025 and that is all I have but I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has anyone have any questions all right thank you uh we will now open the public hearing portion of this meeting remember if you would like to speak please sign in on the sheet which is located on the podium as I mentioned earlier we ask that you state your name and address and please try to limit your comments to the proposed project and financing and try to keep any comments to 3 minutes uh if possible and I think the signup sheet is already over at the podium and so if anyone would like to speak during this portion of the meeting uh please go to the podium
081and sign in and then you can ask questions all right no one having come forward uh we will go ahead and I'll thank all those who have participated thus far in the hearing and I'm going to close that hearing and reopen our regular board meeting just go right down so we're now on E5 the 2024 go project resolution great thank you thank you very much as part of the requirements after um holding a hearing the board must uh adopt a resolution and this is the project resolution which is required um when we're planning to spend more than a million dollars per building it contains the estimated hard and soft construction cost and the cost of issuance and establishes the total project cost and it also um contains the estimated tax impact we would ask the
082board to approve this resolution as presented all right would anyone like to make a motion regarding the proposed 2024 go resolution motion to approve the 2024 go additional appropriation resolution exhibit B as presented no a oh sorry I was on the wrong one everything's correct except for the a yes exhibit a yes exhibit a all right would anyone like to second that motion I'll second I think Gary beat you to it kind of like the Yankees are probably gonna get beat tonight um any questions or comments before we vote back ke Tyler there's somebody in the in the in the community may be asking if we have $10 million threshold you know why why are we doing a million 7 okay so that that question has been asking me as of this past weekend I
083think it'd be important for one of you just to address that because it might be on somebody's mind absolutely as we're um looking at strategic planning and um controlling our tax rate as we um have met Administration the superintendent and the board has met and um has uh expressed that they do not want the tax rate to be raised so that is the main reason to be able to uh issue this issuance of the $ 1.75 million without raising the tax taxes and um be able to do more of the things that were on our facility study in a short amount of time and then coming back and re um relooking at the next strategy on as the tax rate uh does other uh issuance have come off over the next couple years then it
084gives the board the opportunity to see if they want to go out for another General obligation Bond or a larger lease or anything in that effect it gives time to be able to do that and address other priorities that are listed on the facility study perfect thank you yeah and before we vote uh just personally I want to thank Mrs Smith Mr trout um Tyler and all those in admin who identified I think Tyler spoke to one of the reasons we're able to do this is our increase and assessed value and um that's something that came you know up pretty quickly and we were able to jump on this opportunity to improve the facilities here and the restrooms have been something I I know anyone who has a child here at Huntington North and I've
085got two right now uh it's it's a need it's a major need and um it's great that we're going to be able to address that need in a short amount of time and we also could have um paid for this borrowing over a lengthy period of time uh but there was discussion about uh doing it in one year paying in one year and I think that was a real wise decision that we had some guidance from all of you on and so thank you for that we'll go ahead then and vote on the motion to approve this resolution all right motion passes 60 and so I will now suspend the regular meeting again and I will open the project resolution I believe I'm sorry the additional appropriation appropriation under E6 my apologies and um Mrs
086Smith would you please summarize the project resolution or am I no I'm I'm off one that's okay first the hearing and then after you close it then I go and summarize your resolution for you yep so now I am asking if anyone would again like to address the board during the hearing on the additional appropriation that is part of the 2024 General obligation Bond correct if you would please come forward to the microphone and there will be a separate sheet for you to sign to address the board this evening confus yeah that's okay and no one having come forward I will now close the additional appropriation hearing and we'll go to E7 uh the go additional appropriation appropriation resolution exhibit B thank you very much in your board packet you will see the exhibit B
087the additional appropriation here um resolution and for this resolution the reason that we um need the board to adopt this resolution is because the board just previously um finish the adoption of the 2025 budget so to be able to add this to the budget that you've already adopted then this creates um an additional appropriation that can be added when they do certify our budget at the end of this calendar year for 2025 so this will in conjunction with what you already approved this goes and it's added to that one there um the Department of local government certifies our budgets for 2025 thank you um So based upon that presentation I'll entertain a motion regarding the exhibit B additional appropriation resolution I make a motion to recommend the approval of the 2024 GB additional appropriation resolution
088exhibit B as presented is there a second second any questions or discussion clarifications yes because I think we all if we didn't have a script we'd be a I just want to make sure we're doing it so this is additional money going into the debt Services fund correct from the gos that we're going to issue correct from other ones that were falling off and to remain um the tax rate to remain stable without that's the part I want to make sure or tax dollars so we're borrowing money but everything's going to stay the same that money is going well actually that 1.75 won't go into The Debt Service it go into a separate fund but the money to pay this off will come out of debt service exactly think I close any other questions and
089don't forget it's because we've already certified the budget is why why we're doing this yeah even though we knew it was done we didn't have the money yet so we had to do it in this now this is just in sequence to make sure okay yeah this is fun and I thought I knew okay all right all right hearing nothing further we'll vote on the motion to approve exhibit B the go additional appropriation resolution motion passes 60 so we now go to E E8 the 2024 go final Bond resolution labeled Exhibit C thank you last but not least the um third and final resolution that needs to be um board approved and adopted and this final Bond resolution contains the project cost maximum interest rates and other financial terms such as first interest payment date
090and maturity dates of the bonds and we would ask the board to approve this resolution Exhibit C as presented all right would anyone like to make make a motion regarding the proposed resolution Exhibit C I'll make a motion to approve the 2024 Gob final Bond resolution Exhibit C as present thank you Mr Allen is there a second second any questions comments or discussion how will we track the the spinning of this funds will we see a separate um entry into our finances or how would we see the money as it gets spent when we do um either General obligation bonds or lease projects we have a separate uh budget that we keep track of that that has the revenue and the expenses in there okay and we would be happy to share those with the
091board okay we'll we'll discuss that later sure thank you Mr wall any other questions but the turnaround on this is so quick because it's in a year yeah I know but I I think I think it's maybe something that we as a board want to talk about is tracking these Bonds in some point so I'm just starting to starting to lay the ground work okay all right thank you all right anything else all right hearing nothing further we'll vote on the motion to approve Exhibit C uh Mr Smith Tyler thank you um I appreciate all your guidance and support through all this and all the questions that I asked throughout this process from the two of you um I am absolutely grateful for that Becky as we're doing this do you want to talk about
092what we're doing tomorrow uh with that the board may find out of Interest with the rating call um what we're doing tomorrow too which is part of this process sure as part of a a general obligation Bond or a lease process uh we actually sell those bonds and to do that we do um a financial uh Q&A type thing with standard and pores who then give us our credit rating which makes us um marketable when we sell those um bonds so that is um where we get to tout about our wonderful district and give all the um everything from statistics to uh financial information Financial sovereignty transparency all those good things that we present to standard and pores and then they close that and then give us our credit rating to be able to sell
093those those bonds so Becky and Tyler and I will all be back together again tomorrow morning uh going through that process too then all right thank you and the motion passes six to zero so thank you very much uh we'll now move on to item F1 salamony HVAC bid all right uh board here tonight to present to you uh bids for the s HVAC replacement project we received two bids on Monday October 14th um one bid from current mechanical and one bid from shinkle construction current Mechanicals bid came in at $5 million for the base bid and we also recommend this evening um add alternate five which would be the replacement of the HVAC on the gymnasium of salamony school the existing HVAC for the gymnasium is original to the building like most of the
094HVAC but it's enclosed in a mezzanine inside the building that you cannot get to except for a little ladder that goes up and you can't get the equipment in or out it was installed and the building was built around it so this alternate five would put new rooftop equipment on top of the gym HVAC for heating and cooling so it would be easier to get to easier to work on easier to replace in the future um this project would address the majority of the HVAC for the entire building there are a few areas that uh the hvc will not be addressed and that would be the natatorium which is no longer used that would include the locker rooms that were added on on the parking lot side of the building on the back and also
095the classroom addition that was added on at some point that currently admin uses um those spaces that HVAC still works um and the intent would be to leave that in place and replace everything else uh and if you're familiar with that building it does have a penthouse on top of it similar to this building this building has two that one has one there's 13 pieces of equipment in there and all 13 pieces of that equipment would be replaced as part of this project so tonight my recommendation is to accept current Mechanicals bid base bid of $5 million and also add alternate five in the amount of $410,000 for a total bid of $ 5,410 th000 all right thank you Terry would anyone like to make a motion regarding the recommendation for the salamony bids I
096make a motion to award the salamony HVAC bid as presented is there a with alternate with alternate five added all right is there a second any questions comments or discussion is that where you thought the bid come in high L we right there um we had a total budget for the overall project um Gary and yes it current mechanical was very aggressive with their bid um they just wrapped up the various Mechanicals projects with us a few months ago which was six different buildings they did a great job so we're happy to see them on board and and back at it it's the same group that uh did that project thank you for the alternate five um what happens to the equipment that we are abandoning that has one ladder going to it unfortunately it
097stays there okay we're going to everything off and just leave it mball it and leave it there got it schedule schedule timeline schedule we're planning to start construction on this one beginning of uh 2025 um hope we're shooting for December it's all going to be about timing of the equipment right now lead times are much better than they used to be um so we're optimistic we're going to get everything we'll see if not it might trickle over into uh 26 once and and right now the way this is set up is um multiple phases and multiple areas of the building can be addressed at different times based on occupancy so it won't have to all be done during the suar summer similar to this building because there's portions of it uh once admin renovation is
098finished they could move out and then that portion of the building could be addressed as far as hbac since that part will be vacant any other questions or comments question for Becky this is being paid for out of the geob bond we issued last year s money yes three okay so last year yeah no that's right that I just3 okay this has a longer repayment schedule again I think we as a board and you need to come up a way of tracking this as well at some point I don't G leave it in your hands because you probably already have a way to do it our plan is is come back with you with all these balances in the very near future um because right now it it can be difficult to track it can
099be difficult to keep track of but what we're doing is with the balances we currently have in in place it would be my intention over the next few months that we would come back to you with all these balances show you where we're at because we've actually closed out even two a couple so it's time for us to get that back out in front of you again as a board so sorry I have one more question can you talk about the price like why it is so why it is so much because i' I've I've been asked that from the people from the community why is it $5 million to replace the HVAC in one building right so I've had this discussion with a lot of school boards over the years um and the best
100opportunity would be for you to come with me and we go look at the equipment either in this building or that building and the difference is at your house that unit is a little bigger than that chair and in the case of this building or the other buildings it can be half the size of this room for one unit there's 13 pieces of equipment up on top of the building so we have to take the penthouse apart take that equipment out with a crane put all the new equipment in and tie everything back together and in the case of salamony unlike this just through that wall here is the main um mechanical room for this building and the renovation for this building we're not addressing much over there at all in the case of salamony
101it's completely coming out and everything's being replaced in that except for a few things um and at salamony there's also a lot of asbest and things that has to be dealt with so the students have to be out that has to be done in a safe environment so it all just adds up and um and a lot of it has to do with size more than anything just the just the air conditioner part that sits out like outside your house uh the one for Salon is the size of a school bus and just that unit alone is around $350,000 just that I was going to say when I was really en enjoyed watching the equipment that was in the parking lot here before they put it up there I was surprised at how big it
102was because I swear it's bigger than my vehicle right and two as just a reminder to we're switching the heating from Steam to something that's not steam too correct correct yeah hot water so I think it's worth I think it's worth mentioning that the other bid was almost 7 million it was yeah I I didn't mention it but it was considerably higher the difference here is Kurt mechanical is a mechanical contractor um and majority of the work will be mechanical in the case of shinkle construction they're a general contractor which they added their cost on top of mechanical so that's why their bid was higher I'm still not sure why they were as high as they were but I talk to current mechanical they are confident in their bid they are comfortable with their number
103they have no issues whatsoever we're really excited for this to happen any further questions or comments uh I just want to say thank you again for all the work you've done for the community I don't I don't I know it was said in the prior conversation but you're the best hire we've had in a long time so I appreciate you appreciate it appreciate it all right hearing nothing further we'll vote on the motion to accept this bid from current mechanical and thank you Mr trout for putting in your in the flyer that we're investing in salamony school all right motion passes 60 move on to G1 items of discussion by board members Monday night I know it's too late to register but I bet we can figure out a way to make it happen but
104we have the fall uh isba banquet up in Fort Wayne come usually it's good good food and you get to see me be leading it for the first time at least to start so I've got some bad jokes already set up so more than welome welcome to come and and see all right anything further come to the home football game Friday let's have a good crowd for that game two of sectional so uh hearing nothing further we'll go to H1 I'll entertain a motion to adjourn so moved is there a second all those in favor say I I opposed the eyes have it we are adjourned thank you