001Call the meeting to order. Start with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Welcome everybody to the school board meeting. Just as a reminder, we are live streaming the meeting this evening. Um so um welcome those who are joining us via the web as well. Um we'll start the meeting tonight with a motion to accept consent agenda items. Have a motion by Chelsea. Do I have a second? Second by Cheryl. Any discussion? All those in favor? 6. Um, next we'll um look ask if there's anyone present who would like to speak to any item um that's on the agenda or any other item. Hearing none. Um
002we'll go down under old business. We have some policies. >> Yes. Asking for approval of dispatch of the policies as presented. >> Have a motion by Travis. Do I have a second? Second by Mary Lynn. Any discussion? All those in favor 6. Next we have um down under programs we have certified staff evaluations. >> Yes. I'm asking for approval. We've worked with JCCCCTA on some um improvements and editing edits for this year and I'm just asking for approval that I shared with you last time. >> Entertain a motion to approve. >> I have a motion by Kurt. Do I have a second? >> Second by Travis. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> Six. Um, next we have a an enrollment update. >> Yes. Just wanted to update you on enrollment. I'll do this standardly
003for a while. As of last Friday, our enrollment was 3,66 students. That's actually 18 students more than where we ended the year at in May. Um, but it is 103 students less than the beginning of the year of the school year of 2425. And in some positive news, I want to share that our kindergarten cohort is actually almost 20 students more than what we had last year in kindergarten. So, we're seeing 260 in that group. Our largest two cohorts of kids are sixth grade and 10th grade. Those are both um above 320. >> That item wasn't informed. Does anyone have questions for Nikki? >> Are those uh those numbers that are up or is that pretty much across the board? Do you see any outliers on school as far as >> That's a great question.
004So, I know that by overall I would need I'll need to pull kindergarten for it to come back on that. But, Cypio's enrollment's up overall. Um, high school's holding very steady and most of the others are holding um steady. I think Hayden might be up a couple kids, but kindergarten specifically. Let me pull that for you. Bring it back. >> Next, we'll move down to finance. Um, we have the 2026 JCSC budget. Is that >> Yes, this is our second uh version as it gets it on the screen there. All right, next slide. Second slide is the calendar that has not changed since last time. So those still on pace to meet all those um parameters. Next, next one. You'll see a change from version one. It is the uh education fund is up 180,000
005from the last time we met due to fine-tuning all of the like extra parameters when it comes to the basic grant. You know, a variety of things between the honors diploma, sped, CTE courses, and things like that. It's up 180 from the last time we met two weeks ago. >> That's it for that one. The with that being said, there's no changes to this because that slight increase, we're not going to advertise the education any higher. It should stay steady. Next slide. No changes in this either. This basically outlines everything that's out of the education fund. Next slide and indicates everything in the ops fund. Next slide indicates what happens in the debt service fund. And the cash balance history hasn't changed obviously since this is all historical data. And the next slide shows how
006that has shifted around in the last couple years. That hasn't changed either. Rainy day still, this slide is still the same as the first one. And the next slide of debt service, again, this hasn't changed yet. Um, this may change in the third shot on it two weeks from now, but this is just staying steady with what our with what we're currently sitting at. The next one, uh, this slide changed again by the increase in the 180,000 taken up to three 32,528, uh, based on our updated basic grant information. Next slide didn't change. And this slide did change. What I've tried to done with this one is to make it a little easier to read. So, I just rounded all the numbers to the nearest million or and 100 thousands when it comes to the
007change. So basically what this is trying to say is our current AV is 1.167 million or 1 1.167 billion is what our current AV is. Our levy operations uh revenue is at 8342. So that takes us around 9.7. What this is saying is if we had a drop in our AE of 167 million, which is take it down to an even billion, we would see it drop to 8.3 million, which would be a $1.4 million drop with the rate staying the same. So that's all this is trying to relay is how what would effect be if it happens to drop. We're not sure where this is going to end up just yet. We'll know that by next meeting most likely. So that's all for that slide. I've updated this slide to basically is a slight
008increase. It was at 1.068. Now it's at 1.075. That is based on our our initial understanding two weeks ago was that we're going to see a drop in our AV. What similar people in our situation, their AVs are already out at about 40 other school districts. What we're seeing from a state standpoint is and policy analytics is helping us with this obviously they're not seeing that drop happen. They're seeing a potential slight increase. So last meeting I had a 1.1% drop. This meeting has a 6% increase. Not huge but basically staying flat going up very slightly is what this slide shows. I added this slide to the mix that wasn't here last time. And what this does, it basically explains that correlation between the tax rate and the tax levy. So if the tax rates
009held constant, we don't change anything with the tax rate. As assessment goes up, the levy goes up. As assessment goes down, the levy goes down. But we're going to be in probably an in between area here. What we're going to what could potentially happen here is if the assessed value increases less than the growth quotient, which is the 4% where we we have that built into the budget. If it comes where less than the growth quotient which right now I'm projecting it to be about 0 65 we will see if we did nothing with the actual uh rate itself we would not be maximizing our um budget. In essence we wouldn't be maximizing the levy that we would need to run the place. On the other side of the screen, you're going to see if
010the levy is held constant, then as the as the assessed value increases, the tax rate would drop. And as the assessed value drops, the tax levy inc the tax rate increases. So again, we're going to be in a in between area. So in our case, if the assessed value increases less than the growth quotient, the tax rate would still increase. So currently at 6 being less than four, we would see a slight increase in the tax rate to try to keep our levy constant. Any questions on this slide? This is since this is a new one in particular. All right, next up is a slide update to this one. And what I did to this one is tried to put a very high level Senate bill effect. So, Senate Bill one will affect the tax
011collected in 2026, mainly because of the deduction changes and the supplemental credit that the state built into. Typically, on a tax change, you wouldn't see that take effect for another year. Like an assessed value change, you don't see it take effect the next year. It's always a year after. In this case though, because of the Senate bill, there will be amount collected in 2026 will be less currently because of the deduction change and the supplemental credit. I just want to bring awareness to that. Uh, no change in this slide from last time. The next slide, you're going to see a slight change here. When I brought this to you last time, it was 1.2 432. You're see it's down to 1.22. This is a reflection of that AV changing from potentially going down 1.1 to
012now potentially increasing one point or 65. But you'll see even though it went up 65 since it's below the growth quotient, that's why you see the slight increase from last year's of one 1.18 to 1.22. So a four-point change there. Next slide didn't change. And the next slide is basically what we're going to we're currently set to advertise and there's no change in that slide either. Any questions on the changes from last week or last meeting to this meeting? >> All right. With that being said, we'll move on to the capital project plan. capital project plan the detail. None of the details have changed uh from the last detail you have there is some a slight change to this one because I had some dates wrong last meeting. So there's the adopted calendar and it
013is actually correct this time. And the next slide there is no change in those all just match the detail of what's on our current list. Any questions for the capital project plan? All right. Next up is the best replacement plan and no change to the second slide which is the calendar. We're still on pace for that. A slight change on this one. I had the dates wrong. Last meeting on the it said 25th through 29th. It's actually 26th through the 30th and then the last year it showed it going down or the first year showed it going down and it's actually 377 for all five years. Any questions on the bus replacement plan? >> So, hearing no additional questions. Again, under finance, um I think you're asking for permission. >> I'd like to ask permission
014to advertise the budget, capital project plan, and the bus replacement plan on September 4th. Basically, so I can get it in the paper on the 5th is what we're trying to do here to stay on the calendar. So, I'm asking permission this meeting to advertise the budgets. So we'll entertain a motion. Motion by Travis. Do I have a second? Second by Mary Lynn. Any discussion? All those in favor? Six. Um next we'll move down under new business. We have some Neola policies. >> Another set of Nola for first reading. Please reach out if you have any questions or would like any further details. >> This item isn't informed. So again, just make sure you review those policies. Um, under programs, we have um a summer meal program. >> I just wanted to share some good
015news. This summer, we had a pilot summer meal program. We were able to um hand out free meals to students, children. We served 2,387 students through that program. Um, it was very successful. We hope to offer it again in the future. We actually had open enrollment which meant um children from uh other communities even other states could come get the meals if they would like to. Uh that was very successful. We were able to operate it in a fiscally responsible manner. Um and it was a wonderful resource and I want to particularly say thanks to Stacy Green for bringing this to our community and then to Nola Hostetler, Autumn Fishbot and our food service employees for making it so successful. We actually already had an audit. They passed that flying colors. So, across the board,
016it was just a wonderful program. And >> and as a side note to that, the the auditor that came today was just about as excited as Stacy was to be able to do it. They were so glad that Stacy was willing to. And they I mean, they pulled me aside basically told me that not everybody does this even though it's available. And they were just super excited that she was willing to take on that task. >> We have a lot of kids come from other communities or do we have any track? >> She didn't She didn't tell me the numbers. I know being Stacy, she's very detailed that she did, but she shared some anecdotal um stories. One was a family that the kids were in a um they were with their dad over the
017summer and so they live somewhere else during the year, so they took advantage. Another was a family that was on vacation and they had mapped the places across the state that had the sites for while they were traveling to still be able to get um that option for their family. So, those were two stories she shared, but she did mention there were a handful. >> And that equated about 24,000 meals since it was 10 per >> Yeah, that's pretty cool. >> That's pretty cool. >> That's newspaper. I could just share. >> You pick what you want, but that's newspaper. Um, annual school improvement plans. This is just to inform I've shared with you um our school improvement plans. School teams um got together this summer to review their goals and their plans for this school
018year. So um if you have any questions, please reach out. >> Great. Again, that feels more any questions for Carrie. Next, we have an assessment update. This assessment update is for 2425 school year. So these would be for assessments that were taken last school year. All that data f becomes finalized and is released over the summer and in August. So and this data only reflects K through eight. So we'll share a separate high school presentation another time. Um and I'll try not to jump in too much, but we are just so proud of our students and our their our staff for all their hard work. They have made a lot of uh strategic improvements driven through individual building school improvement plans in the last three years and you can really see those highlighted in some
019of the data. So super proud of our our students and our staff. So as a district we saw ELA, math, science and biology rates and pass rates increase across the district. Um, we also saw um performance in special ed and poverty groups, showed growth in ELA and math. Um, super excited. We had two additional schools apply and receive STEM certification, Brush Creek and Sopio. Um, so that brings four out of our six elementaryaries so far have received that um with hopes of the other two applying this year. And then all um six of or six elementaryaries exceeded state average. We're super super excited of that. >> Something something I'll mention about those subgroups. If you remember back in the pandemic, they released research that said the groups that had would have the biggest impact from
020COVID would be students in poverty and special education and it would have an impact for many years to come. And so the fact that we're seeing those subgroups increase performance and that come back around um that's a lot of effort and a lot of hard work, but that's exciting because it means we're getting past that. um deficit that was created during co >> uh this chart shows the last three years of iLearn um for the district ELA math science and we did throw um a nonk through eight biology in there because we're super excited about it but as you can see every year um the rates have increased and I I' like to point out in a two years time science rates went from 32% to 42% and biology went from a 14 to 54%
021So a 40% increase. Um and just like our I read scores on the previous um score, we've just put a lot of time and effort and professional development into reading and science and STEM. So um we do see that paying off. And this chart is just a breakdown for the grade levels. Um the light green shows increases from the previous year. Um and the stars show where we are above state average. I will would point out we do see fifth and seventh grade um as two of our grade levels that have a little bit more of a struggle and we do have some focus um intervention and we've talked about it in principal meetings. Um it's known that we are attacking those grades um to try to help those students. Seventh grade particularly that transition
022to middle school is always tricky and something they have put in place um going forward. They have teaming which is a smaller close-knit um experience for students at middle school. They stay with the same group of teachers um who work closely with them and track their data and can work closely with parents with a team of teachers. And we are hoping that that will be a supportive transition to middle school and that will help make a difference. On this chart, you'll see um the breakdown between the schools um ELA and math percent proficient. Um if you look, Brush Creek, Graham Creek, and Cypio all are above state averages for ELA math proficiency. ELA just by itself, and then math by itself. Um and then the stars are all the schools who increase from last year.
023I don't have those numbers on here, but they represent that each one of those areas have also been an increase from last year's test scores. And then we've touched upon our literacy rate. In 2022, 2023, we were at 77%. Um, and then I am so happy to say that last year as a district, we're at 91%. So, in a three years period of time, we were at 14%. Um, and our And the next chart will show each schools. Um, everyone was above the state average. Our average as a district was 91.7%. And if you take a look at CPI and Graham Creek, that is um the goal for the state was 95% and those two schools are at 95 or above. But if you take a look, it's amazing the growth in all of our
024schools and you can see the percent and change. Um, I I will point out North and 15% in in one year is is huge. So just a lot of effort um and a lot of work for our teachers and our student um a lot of parent support. We're really proud of these numbers and what it means for our kids in the future. Um what our action steps we're continuing with our school improvement teams. We are they're they meet often and we uh really take a look at our data and what steps we can improve. um professional development and mentoring mentoring for new and certified staff members. We have um monthly meetings for any new um staff member for our new teachers. Um we still have two elementary schools that participate in the literacy cadre. Um
025the cool thing about that though, not all the schools are involved in an elementary, but those coaches share resources and they are part of our PD. And so even though not all of our schools were able to participate, they are all still receiving the benefit of those coaches and what um the resources we're able to put into that. Um professional development on the science of reading just continued um increased and focused support for our subgroups. That's been so important for us and we're seeing results for that. Um UDL and PBIS implementation strong in all the schools. continue STEM programming and certification. Um like I said, we hope two more apply this year and we're working on that. Um I learn checkpoint participation. We um we all participate in that now. So we're super excited about
026the improvements that we've seen this year and and hope just to continue on with them. >> We will continue to work forward and we're excited about this, but we're not done. We're going to keep working forward. Uh we will be ending a strategic plan this year. So over the will be gathering data to start talking about what does that next threeear cycle look like and our schools will be giving that data to us so we can look at how do we keep growing how do we keep moving forward so it'll be part of that process again that item is an informed does anyone have questions for car or hearing none we have a power school update >> yeah so uh the Indiana department of education adopted a new system to manage our IEPs. It's power
027school. The program is called Special Programs. Um, it has not been as smooth of a transition as we would like. So, some of our special ed teachers are having to upload all of their previous IEPs into the system. So, we are helping support some of our special ed teachers by giving them subs and things like that, giving them some time to do that at schools. Um, but we are uh it's an everchanging process. The state is sending out new information. Um this past weekend they sent out shell IEP. So it is there are IEPs in the system that are putting accommodations in forearn checkpoints. So um that gives a little bit of breathing room, but uh we are working to get all of our our IEPs in the system. Um so parents, if you uh
028have any notifications or anything about an IEP being created, it is just us putting in um the previous IEP, the previously accepted IEP. Just wanted to inform everyone on that. >> Perfect. And I'm assuming if parents get that notification, have questions, they can reach out to you. >> Yes. They call their their child's to their teacher record, their building principal, or myself or Andy. >> Great. Thank you. Um, next we'll go down to STEM contacts for 2025 2026. >> Yes. Asking for approval of the STEM contacts as presented. Please >> entertain a motion to approve. Motion by Cherald. Do I have a second? >> Second by Kurt. Any discussion? All those in favor? Um, next extra contractual days for 2025 2026 school year. >> Yes. And again asking for approval, please. Um, as presented for
029the extra extra contractual days listed. >> Do we'll entertain a motion to approve those as written? Motion by Mary Lyn. Do I have a second? Second by Travis. Any discussion? All those in favor? Six. Um administrative contracts. >> Yes. Asking for approval um for their current contracts to roll over 2526 school year. Um I would note this is not any ch changes to salaries or benefits prior to teacher negotiations. This is just extending through the school year. So we have those dates correct. >> Okay. I entertain a motion to extend those contracts as listed. >> Motion by Travis. Do I have a second? >> Second by Mary Lynn. Any discussion? All those in favor? 6. Um, now we're down to recommendations. >> I have the first one, a recommendation for Todd Hearn. Um, additional title
030as the JCSC district school safety specialist coordinator. with up to five additional days a year asking for approval. >> I have a motion by Chelsea. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Cheryl. Any discussion? All those in favor? 6. Now we're down to support staff under recommendations. >> Yes, please. Asking for approval of the following recommendations. Megan Brown as S Creek Elementary sped pair. Colobby Foring as the Jennings County High School main office student intern. Rivera as a Cypio Elementary custodian and Bradley Wagner as a Jennings County School Corporation bus a motion to accept those recommendations as read. >> I have a motion by Kurt. Do I have a second? Second by Cheryl. Any discussion? All those in favor? 60. Now we're down to finances. We have some donations. >> Yes. I'm asking board
031approval for the following donations. Brush Creek Elementary. Our donut miss school program. We've got raking berries of southern Indiana $100. Gail and bib giants $60 and Kowanas $75. Also SNS sidewalk Dustin Sanders landscaping labor material estimated value between $4 and $500 and student snacks in memory of Linda Angland. Uh Jan and Scott there for 25 and Marilyn Wickham for 100. Over at Graham, we've got the Coffee Creek Christian Church, $250 for student need. Hayden Elementary, Fidelity Charitables, $500 for student assistance. NVIC, $250 for the fourth grade class for the wax museum project. At the high school, Kowana, $75 to student PBIS fund for attendance incentives. and corporation. We've got Christ Baptist Church, $300 to the Hope Food Program and Kowanas, $50 gift cards for each of the teaching teachers at various schools, one per school.
032We've got Dylan Boswell, Angie Sloan, Bailey Kraok, Hope Ferguson, Leslie Peacock, Holly Rose, Stacy Patterson, and Joe Kelly. And lastly at Cypio, we've got Cypio United Methodist Search, $100 for student meal accounts and well Ariel Roberts Foundation, $100 for attendance incentives. Passing board for approval. >> Entertain a motion to approve those donations as read. >> So >> I have a motion by Travis. Do I have a second? Second by Cheryl. Any discussion? All those good. >> Okay. All those in favor? I have and then one from state of state. Um, next we're down to um resolutions. >> Yes, the following resolutions have to do with the bonding. So, the first one is a resolution authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds for the purpose providing funds for corporationwide long-term maintenance with a focus on the
033Brush Creek HVAC upgrade. I entertain a motion to approve that resolution. I have a motion by Kurt. Do I have a second? >> Second by Mary Lynn. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> 6. >> And in coordinating with that one, the next resolution is a resolution authorizing the additional appropriation of the 2025 general obligation bond proceeds and interest. >> Entertain a motion to approve. Motion by Chelsea. Do I have a second? Second by Cheryl. Any discussion? All those in favor? 6. Now we're down under relations. We have anou. >> Yeah, this is ourou with Head Start for us to provide services at the Head Start building. >> Motion by Travis. Do I have a second? Second by Chelsea. Any discussion? All those in favor? asking for approval for anou between southeastern Indiana workforce development
034board and river valley resources previously provided JAG program just some transition in that program asking for approval of that entertain a motion motion by Mary Lyn do I have a second >> second by Kurt any discussion all those in favors sound. No other. >> Well, hearing nothing, we'll no nothing else to be brought forward before the board. We'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. Motion by a second. Second by Chelsea. All those in favor? So meeting.