001could you please join us for the pledge of allegiance welcome to our monday april 18 school board meeting and we'll start off with uh our approval deletions editions dr verracco thank you mrs you do have a revised agenda before you the change is under roman numeral 7 b 1 mrs mooch's personnel recommendations have been updated and those changes are at your workstation we have a motion by dr malcolm second second by mrs kelly any discussion hearing none all in favor aye motion passes is there any correspondence there is not any correspondence it's been pretty quiet thank you and we'll move on to our liaison committee committee updates mr marshall uh under the item personnel interview committee there's nothing to report today thank you thank you mrs kelly uh cheryl redevelopment commission i don't have anything
002to report this evening cheryl parks department we do have a tentative date scheduled for the ribbon cutting for the new splash pad that we're all excited about uh june 15th at 6 pm also incidentally if anybody has any high school kids that are interested in seasonal help at the parks or public works in sherville they are hiring for the summer and that's all thank you dr malcolm i'm sorry yes thank you just to make everyone aware that the lake central education foundation in partnership with lake central school corporation is uh doing a collection to help assist with a this sounds really weird a bucket in the classrooms of lake central because of emergency needs when we were in the lockdown back in september it created a lot of problems and teachers for example didn't have
003snacks or they didn't have tissues things like that that we need to have available so if you're interested in donating that banner can be found on our home web page legislative i have nothing to report and the dyer parks department they are working on a splash pad also and that's all thank you dr madeline nothing to report tonight thank you and i have nothing for either of my committees so we'll move on to the official school board business topics consent agenda dr barack thank you again seek board approval of the minutes from our work session and regular board meetings from april the 4th and seek board approval for the claims payroll and extracurricular expenditures you received last week i will make a motion to approve those items we have a motion by mrs kelly second
004second by mr marshall any discussion hearing none all in favor aye all right motion passes thank you is there any public no there's no public comments for action items so we'll move right into our official school board business topics regular agenda dr varaka thank you we are fortunate to be able to recognize a lot of outstanding student achievement this evening and we will begin with mrs tucker from homan elementary thank you i'd first like to take just a minute and thank you for having us here and having home in here so thank you to the board and to lake central administration we had this unique opportunity um the sherwood parks department had planned to put in install the splash pad that you were speaking about just a minute ago um so they thought it'd be
005interesting that if they get some input from children since children are going to be the one using it so um one of my first grade teachers mrs geiss and then also she was assisted from the technology standpoint of it with um julie moore ms moore the students in her class took part in making some designs to present then to the um parks department and then from there they made some choices and they chose one of they had three designs to pick from and then they went ahead and chose one so i'm gonna turn it over to these two ladies and they can tell you more about what happened and we have the kids here and they will tell you about their project that they did also okay well i'll i'll begin before do you want
006to operate this there it is all right so at open house for our students and parents i met my student maddy and her father is the president of the sheriff parks department and we were talking and he asked me he said i i have a you know proposition i'm kind of walling some things around um we're in the in the beginning stages of creating a splash pad for the chervil the town of sherville would your students be interested in participating because my daughter is really excited about it and so i thought that's a great opportunity you know especially you know with the collaboration and the higher level thinking so we decided to take it and oh my goodness i at first i thought how am i gonna do this and then i didn't the kids
007did it was great um so we talked about do i hit the arrow going okay we talked about what splash pads are and i gave them a history of splash pads and actually i think it was 1920s and 1930s public polls were really big and then in the 50s people were looking more into getting pools in their homes so the public weren't being used as frequently and then they just recently splash pads are popping up all over and we talked in great detail about why the safety and the sustainability and why they're safe and i wish my students like to say why they're safe anybody grace okay okay why are splash pants safer than pools because and most people with weird chairs can sink in them people with wheelchairs can access the splash pad they
008can't go in a yes no um it's rough because they don't want you like to fall and like yeah it gives you traction right okay good job [Applause] [Music] deck of oh can you not hear my teacher voice oh okay so mr basic provided us with a deck of splash pad options and it was like this thick and so we created um like three different sets and we talked about and i showed it on a powerpoint presentation what do you want what would you like what do you think would be fun how would you like to develop it what is important in terms of where children should be and where the older children should be so i mean they were so good about differentiating that smaller children need to be in one area the larger
009children need to be in the other and they were really adamant about having a private section for parents so that they could sit and relax and have lunch while they're watching their children so i thought that was really smart so i showed them a bunch of layouts and then we narrowed it down to three um different um different ideas so the first one was a lily pad idea and they worked so hard like they we got butcher paper and we cut it out and then they they are analyzing all the parts that they wanted and then they drew them on their splash pad and then i had them present now i don't know how good the noise is or how the volume is do you think i can play that video we'll try okay anyway
010we're gonna move on to the butterfly all right so that another group thought a butterfly would be great and the idea behind that was the middle section of the butterfly would be a picnic area for the parents so one section of the butterflies for the little kids one's for the big kids one's for um children that need you know accessibility to wheelchairs or crutches or things like that so that was their idea and they were just so engaged in this in this activity and it was so much fun and then the last one the last group just wanted a big rectangle um and they really did a good job of designing and putting things where they thought it should be and they had walls with water coming out of them so um they just did
011an excellent eye they did a great job like they took it above and beyond what i even thought we could do with it so we did brainstorming activities so what do you think of when you think of splash pads what equipment what people what feelings colors things do you think of so they were talking about frogs that spit out water they were keeping toddlers and babies in mind they thought the greens blues and whites would be fun definitely the picnic tables and umbrellas and then what are you thinking what is your favorite part of a splash pad and why so we discussed that um somebody one of them said well that's a great place to have summer birthday parties which it is and then what's your least favorite part and then why do people like
012to visit splash pads instead of pools so um they did an excellent job but mr basic is here and he is going to give us an update on the construction of it and the location and see we're on the cutting edge because dyer's next so first of all i i just want to say uh mrs geiss is totally undercutting her involvement in this i when i reach out to her i was expecting like oh they're going to spend like 30 minutes drawing a picture you know and then we'll collect the pictures and maybe we can pull something out of it no this was a whole curriculum the whole history lesson the kids had to do public speaking they had to present like she's just such a testament to like how amazing our schools are and
013our teachers are because my daughter learned so much going through this process and she's been bugging me to be a part of the park board for a long time and like this was perfect and everyone in the class did absolutely phenomenal and what we did as a board was we tallied up the water features that were used on the different designs and we said okay we're going to use this as essentially a voting system the water features that were used the most those are the ones that are going to be included in the splash pad so your kids literally designed the pad that we had we had to go with the set shape for what it's going to look like so it's an oval it's going to be at the chevrolet community center in the
014back kind of behind where the community center is where that log cabin is it should be done by the end of may and we're going to do a ribbon cutting uh as you guys said uh june 15th i just want to invite all the parents to come we're going to be doing a ceremony to honor all your kids um we're going to try to get a plaster on our mrs geiss's class and all the kids that can sit permanently at the splash pad so that you guys get recognition for all your hard work and that's where it's at if you go to the community center right now they're already tearing up the ground to lay the pipe so yeah we're really excited and thank you guys for being involved really appreciate it okay so now
015we're going to recognize each of the students all right ben ashe come on down buddy come on sweetie a special thank you to miss moore because without her technology skills she was a very integral part of us creating this she was there helping me with ideas how are we going to put this all together so she deserves just as much recognition she was amazing [Music] grace and blackbridge [Applause] paisley banal [Applause] brooklyn dupin and jensen dupin [Applause] grady eleven oh you look so nice ariel gearheart [Applause] matthew hell cars [Applause] ava heisie [Applause] charlotte keaton [Applause] sam kim [Applause] brooklyn [Applause] enzo mendes raja [Applause] caden stiff [Applause] layla sashu [Applause] thank you everyone [Applause] not ready there you go [Applause] it's always good to see the excitement yeah okay i'm not leaving yet i
016have one more thing for tonight so um we are very proud to be here tonight with our home and spell bowl team we'd like to recognize them so at this time i'd like to call the two coaches down mrs lin mala tested nick and mrs melissa cummins on november 15th holmen participated in the elementary spell bowl competition that was held virtually through the state the team of eleven students of fourth graders was led by our two coaches mrs mello tessa nick and mrs cummins and holman plays second in the state out of 65 teams we're so proud of them and now i'm going to turn the mic over to them and they'll call the students down all of the parents and students just like any sport spellbill requires commitment by both the students and the
017parents our team committed to learning 750 new words and their parents supported them every step of their way their dedication and hard work really paid off and we'd like to now recognize those students jason abell isaac alvarez lauren broon victoria bustos emily zado [Applause] zoe hemphill paul hooper [Applause] johnny jordan aiden natsinger [Applause] kyler richards and addison skiff thank you very much [Applause] next i'd like to invite mrs beach from clark middle school forward good evening i'm here to congratulate miss arroyo mike sorry about that oh there we go um good evening i'm here to congratulate miss arroyo and the sixth and 8th grade clark choirs as well as mr walton and the 7th and 8th grade clark bands for earning gold medal ratings at the isma jme organizational event that took place at munster
018high school on march 12th congratulations and thank you for everything that you do now i'd like to invite mr newton from keller middle school good evening i am privileged to congratulate two of our groups that have done very well recently the first one is our eighth grade band also at the state contest back in march our 8th grade band earned a gold rating with distinction which is the highest honor that a band can achieve so i would like to bring up mrs lita cena lopez um the killer director of band [Applause] one thing i would like to share with the with the band um the group that won they've gone through most of their time through a pandemic and they've have really had to improvise i know mrs lopez has spent you know time researching
019the best way and safest way to be able to conduct band and she has done a great job with that and with with the virtual learning um she had some great things put in place that really helped the band achieve at a high level so of all years real special um recognition for eighth grade band for the job that they did under you know pretty adverse conditions so thank you i will actually say it's probably one of the strongest bands i've had come through um the program in a long time actually which is kind of remarkable with the situation so i'm really proud of the kids glad to be able to receive the award for them thanks ken next up i would like to congratulate the kaler grimmer dance team at their state competition back
020in march this team were crowned state champs and junior high hip-hop um so very i'm proud of this group so at this time if i could please have coach kelly and coach kaelin come on up [Applause] hello my name is coach kelly i'm the kaler coach grimmer's coach cannot be here tonight so i'll be talking for the both of us and introducing both teams of the girls that we have here um the girls had a great season overall winning junior high double-a hip-hop at state third place in palm and sixth in jazz they work up to eight hours a week just with our dance team that doesn't count school and their own extracurricular dance classes so for them to juggle all of it and stay on top of their grades and be great students is
021something we also really are proud of them for so great job girls okay oh yeah okay so if i call your name come down if not they'll get it bren burwanger emma chalos irish sharon jessica cleghorn michelle dilbeck elise hernandez gabriella hernandez [Applause] casey kalaczynski marina kotzeitis anyakolis anaya manna ava reece [Applause] sydney rippy [Applause] lily trinkle [Applause] emily vanderwood and tessa wilson's [Applause] i'll be over thank here [Applause] good evening grimmer has multiple award recipients tonight i asked mrs martian mr lewis who wanted to go first mrs marsh scares me a little bit she's staring at me right now so she's gonna go first so mrs marsha's choir seventh and eighth grade earned gold with distinction this year at isma [Applause] thank you i combined the seventh and eighth grade choir we went in
022at group three and the kids just did a phenomenal job to get with distinction that means you have three judges you have to get a score of the combined three scores of lower than 31.5 and our kids got a 30. so they did fantastic so thank you [Applause] no my kids were here we'd be here for a long time she really does scare me you're gonna miss me and next we have band mr lewis has multiple awards tonight the 7th and 8th grade bands got gold with distinction at isma the jazz band also got gold with distinction at isma and then i'm not going to steal his thunder he has a special recognition for a special young lady who got allstate banned this year thanks i would just like to say this is the first
023time the jazz band has ever gotten the gold with distinction award in school history so that's good [Applause] um so next i'd like to uh recognize jillian reardon uh 7th grade travel player jillian reardon was selected to be a member of the indiana band masters association junior allstate band in march she submitted a recording to a panel of judges who selected her to be one of 100 7th grade through 9th graders across the state not only was jillian selected but she was placed at the top trombone player in the ensemble above everyone else's intersection is actually high school students so she's it's pretty awesome uh this ensemble will perform on sunday may 15th at 4 pm eastern time on the campus of butler university in the shrot center for the arts i hope i said
024that right the iba junior allstate band will be under the direction of dr linda morehouse from the university of illinois at urbana-champaign so come on up jill [Applause] okay parents and students we are going to proceed with the rest of our meeting which is a business meeting of the board if you would like to head out this is a good time to do so thank you for coming appearance we thank you very much for your dedication to the music program and the dance teams it takes a lot of energy and effort we appreciate it i know may 5th is going to be the jazz concert for all the middle schools in high school in case you're available it's at the auditorium on may 5th right am i right on that oh very good very good
025thank you again all right my second item this evening is to seek board approval to head down to indy for the spring seminar this is my final meeting as the district one director for our superintendents association so someone else will be taking over organizing the local meetings but i'll still go down to indy to most of the meetings but i was under more pressure to go this year since i was on the executive board so this will be my final one that i have to go to we have a motion by mr marshall second it's second by dr medlin any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes and my final item is to seek board approval for our summer administrative professional development activity uh that you received in your packets last week
026motion to approve a motion by mrs kelly and i will second that any discussion hearing none all in favor motion passes and now we'll move on to our director of human resources personnel mrs mucho thank you very much i'm asking for approval for the personnel that was in your packet and just bring to your attention mr tom clark is retiring 38 years here with lake central and 42 years all together so quite an accomplishment move to approve that professional second we have a motion by dr medlin and the second by mr marshall any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you and i have chris enyart here our high school athletic director to give a report i find it quicker to not put it up there and clip so ladies and
027gentlemen the board when you arrived i had the packet that i'm going to go over at your station so the first page just talks about our participants this year we had 262 winter student athletes it's up by almost 30 student athletes 35 of those student athletes were were earned student athletes of for academics of a 366 gpa or higher so they were they were given that award at our winter banquets on the next page i noticed an error no matter how many times i look at it i missed on the box to your right it should say 20 20 21 not 20 19 20. but just a perspective last year was very difficult year for two years for athletics as far as fundraising money coming in and gay receipts just because of the restrictions last
028winter so in 20 20 21 winter we we only brought in about what's that 55 56 000 in total and as you can see our we're kind of back to normal this year where we raised almost that much in gate receipts alone so gay receipts made up fifty thousand dollars uh fundraising and fees that's all the fundraising the winner programs do as far in all the fees that they collect for gear and team needs was it 86 000 concessions we was 23 000 ihsa we get money back for profit sharing and as we make it through the state tournament from them just to help some of the costs obviously fifteen hundred dollars doesn't pay for a whole lot when we're traveling and staying overnight but it anything's welcome so this year's income and this winter
029was a 100 164 320 and 66 cents on the next page i highlight our expenses um in total we made up for a lot for two years we kind of put a lot of things on pause and we just had to take care of some of that equipment now that we had our funds coming back in and everything picking back up so our expense is a little higher than normal so we in total we spent 186 333 and 14 cents this winter game workers and security 14 000 officials almost 18 000 golf course rental i know it's kind of weird to be in the winter board report but they like us to pay our fee in january one when they are shut down so we pay six thousand dollars every the first of january every
030year to cover for our spring and fall seasons for our golf teams chris where is that located palmyra golf course equipment and team gear 90 000. training room and weight room four hundred eleven and ninety nine cents um miscellaneous that's awards certificates we had to we ran out of a bunch because we had an order in a couple years and so we just had to reorder a bunch of our certificates and the lcs that they get on the letterman's jacket and like everything else costs went up so so did the bill and then concessions just expenses of that were about 15 000 results for the boys our boys basketball team lost in the sectional championship game that we hosted this year boys swimming finished second in the dac they were the sectional champions knocking off
031munster i think they had won 28 years in a row or something like that so we had multiple individuals and relays make it to the state finals and which was highlighted by zac ramache and diving who finished fourth in the state of indiana boys wrestling finished second and sectionals and 30 regionals we had three individuals qualify for the state finals um that's a two-day event they go down friday they wrestle hoping to qualify for saturday and again highlighted by johnny cortez who finished fourth in the state in his weight class girls basketball i'm sure you read about them in the paper they had a very tremendous year this year they finished second in dac behind crown point they won the sectional championships and lost in regional championship game to crown point as well girls swimming
032finished second in the dac and again had many individuals and relays qualify for the state finals and they ended on the first day girls gymnastics we finished fourth at the ihsa state meet for the third year in a row so um three or four four years ago we finished third and we finished fourth the last three years haley delgado placed sixth on the uneven bars and chloe amanda titus placed third on the floor cheer they won nationals in the non-building division dance won their 27th consecutive state championship and were announced the nba grand national champions when they went to florida congratulations to them in the last page dr malcolm had asked for a list of our signees this is the current list as of today of what coaches have given us and there may be
033some others that are out there that coaches haven't told us but that's the list of who signed for our sports that we're aware of it as of right now ask some questions so mr uh in your just some questions um do i thought we did away with the corporation transportation fee no i see it's on here so okay i'm wrong on that and um so with the um gymnastic girls that placed at state what you mean by that is that team goes as a that's a team ranking and not enough so the team plays fourth at state the team so our team qualified for the state finals and then but you also perform as an individual and you based on your individual performance you also garner awards as an individual okay and um this is
034very nice that you provided this i i had no idea there were all these students that have received scholarships do you expect there will be more that will be coming in or how does that recruiting go there's always late signees that that happened throughout we have a couple that that are on that list that we haven't recognized at school that just signed in the last couple weeks so okay and can you tell me the difference between um because i read it in the paper and i don't understand it if somebody's committed to a university does that mean that they've signed the papers and everything or what's what's that term being committed i don't know it depends how the newspaper is referring to that term committed can be a verbal commitment where where you haven't signed
035a national letter of intent usually when you use the word commit it means that they've verbaled and given a oral agreement that they would attend that school but have not signed whether they're you can't do that until after your junior year it's concluded you can't sign a national letter until you're going into your senior year for any support okay so so that would explain why the gal from crown point changed her commitment and moved it to butler from wherever she was well no that's because her coach left and when a coach leaves the university after you've signed a national letter from ted you can move to another school oh right oh okay okay so chris there's a lot of scenarios out there i see on here there's a familiar name yeah your son congratulations excellent
036choice wabash college he's pretty excited that is very good and at one point in time we had athletic boosters that came and presented a check to uh to to the department really but they came to a school board meeting and did that do you remember yeah we do the support the tribe event every year by the booster club which was done on good friday and they usually don't come until after they've closed their books which is usually in june or july when they've when they've gotten every all their bills paid and know how much of a check they're going to write all right i just want to make sure we recognize them for all their hard work so that'll be happening in the summer when they're ready got it okay thank you you're welcome thanks
037chris thank you mr nerd thank you i also am asking for approval for the lc athletic summer camps that were in your packet move to peru we have a motion by mr marshall second second by mrs kelly any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you very much and we'll move on to our director of primary education dr bracey good evening i don't have any little people with me today but i am coming before you seeking approval for the professional leads you have in front of you move to approve the professional leave requests we have a motion by dr medlin second second by mr marshall any discussion all in favor aye aye aye motion passes thank you thank you thank you went to director of secondary education mrs castaneda good evening
038for my first item i am seeking your approval for the professional leave requests motion to approve a motion by mrs kelly second second by dr medlin any discussion in favor aye okay motion passes thank you and for my next item i am seeking your approval for the field trip requests motion to approve we have a motion by mrs kelly second second by mr marshall any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you our director of student services mrs gramala my only item is to seek your approval for the professional leave requests that were included in the board packet so moved motion by mr marshall and i will second that any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you director of facilities mr legend thank you mr seuss um tonight i have
039two items on my agenda the first one is to seek your approval toward and execute the circular mechanical contract for the hvac renovation project at grimmer middle school on march 29th we we accepted bids for this project we've been designing it since early fall we had five bidders which we're very excited for in this environment and the uh below responsible bidder was circle our mechanical uh with a base bid of three million one hundred ten thousand four hundred fifty dollars um we also want to take alternate 1b for the controls for automated logic that'd be 735 390 dollars also would be alternate 2b would be the carrier haus for 264 five thousand and alternate 3a the tempsec vuvs for 139 300 and then alternate four we're going to do some sealing and lighting renovation in
040the kitchen area for a total bid package award of four million three hundred nine thousand five hundred seventy five dollars uh we broke this out in the alternates because the environment we're in we're trying to get the best price for equipment as well as the price as well as lead times so that's where we kind of broke out some of this equipment for our alternates and again if you remember this is coming from the ursa money from the federal government so that's how this project's being funded as well any questions do we have a motion motion to approve a motion by mrs kelly second second by dr medlin any discussion or questions hearing none all in favor aye aye aye motion passes thank you my last item is just at your stations tonight i put
041um besides the grammar renovation project as well as the bevich expansion project we also have a long list of summer projects that we're going to try to tackle this summer as we always do so that's at your stations if you have any questions um please feel free to reach out and i'll update you throughout the summer like we do every summer so if there's any questions i'll have to take them now thank you nope no questions i'm just glad to see the parameter defense post being taken care of at the southbound baseball field so thank you director of business services mr james all right thank you um okay so we're in the ongoing steps for the financing for the vivid expansion project and so the next step is to have a public hearing on the
042extension of the lease as we've talked about a couple times we'll get the building corporation involved which we did this morning and the school corporation will sell a portion of the building to the building corporation and then we'll lease that back over the 20 years of the terms of the bond so the next step again is to have a public hearing or anyone in the public can make a comment about the expansion project and the extension of the lease that we already have in place so at this time i'd open it up to the floor in case anyone has any comments hearing none that concludes the public hearing okay so with that being said uh the first resolution is to seek your approval on the um a fifth amendment to the lease and um as
043executed as part of what's in your board packet so i seek your approval move to approve we have a motion by mr marshall second second by dr meddling any discussion questions hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you on the second resolution reapproves the building corporation approves the issuance of bonds and approves the transaction documents we have continuing disclosure things that will be required to report to the feds of the rating agencies through the life of the bonds and so this approves all those procedures so i seek your approval on that motion to approve a motion by mrs kelly mr marshall second any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you next i seek your approval for our application to the state's common school loan program we do
044this twice a year this is what we use these dollars to replace and update the technology in our buildings including smart smart boards chromebooks ipads desktop computers so seek your approval for that application accept the director's recommendation we have a motion by mr marshall second second by ms kelly any discussion questions all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you next i seek your approval for the professional leave requests in your packet which is for myself and our corporation treasurer kathy ramba to attend the indiana asbo annual meeting in french look the first week of may so moved i have a motion by dr malcolm i will second that any discussion all in favor motion passes okay i seek your approval for the donations that were in your board packet we have a motion by
045mr marshall second second by dr medlin any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you okay my last item is just to give the board a quarterly update on our financials we have subsequently concluded the march end of march which is the third quarter of the fiscal year so you have two spreadsheets in front of you the first one i want to talk about is the one in the top left corner says education fund and this is where we pay for everything that is education related specifically our classroom teachers where we have direct action with students and so you'll see going across the top row that these are actual receipts and expenditures from july through march with the last three months being estimated um just a couple things to bring your attention of
046course everyone likes to jump to the bottom right hand corner to see how we've operated plus or minus and as of right now we're about 150 000 to the good so we are happy with that just a couple areas of note there toward the top in the middle uh we talk about our cash balance of this fund and what percentage of our expenditures is that and we're hovering right around 11 ranges whereas right where we want to be we want to be in that 10 to 15 percent is the prudent range this money comes in every month from the state like clockwork so we don't have as much risk it's not tied to taxes and cash flows so we're right where we want to be there on the top right toward the top right you'll
047see our transfer amount that we do from the education fund to the operations fund every month this is because back in 2019 expenditures moved out of the old general fund to ops state law says they don't want you to transfer more than 15 percent of your revenue we don't flirt with that at all we're about seven and a half percent so we're trying to keep as many dollars here in this education fund and we use those dollars uh to put money into aids and teachers and so forth so before i move on to the next page um i mean i'm not going to go over all the details here but you can see that we are running well and any questions on this okay the next page is takes the our education fund our operations
048fund and our operating referendum fund and throws it all in together into one because really these funds are all now intertwined where they used to be their own buckets well that was one big happy uh play sand and so we really want to look at how we're doing here because there's so much interaction between the funds and again the the dollar amounts are higher because we're talking about four funds here and again if we go to the bottom right hand corner this year our plus minus we're looking to project around you know 775 thousand dollars to almost i wouldn't say the bad but expenditures more than revenue however you know i just want to show that we do between these funds we have a cash balance of over 25 million dollars and we don't want
049that amount to get high we take pride of spending the dollars we're getting from the state and from our taxpayers and pushing that into into our classrooms and our staff so we planned on having expenditures more than our revenue to help bring some of that balance down additionally if you haven't heard there's a little thing called inflation going on where our expenditures that we had projected last summer for this fiscal year have dramatically increased being on the utility side projects that bill's doing even just regular classroom supplies everything has gone up seven eight percent so um the fact that we're still relatively close we still have three more months hopefully that month that that number may come down a little bit but it is not to a point where um we feel like we're in
050any financial crisis or mode here so um going good here so i just would offer up to any questions that you may have at this time or later after diving into it yeah mr james something just came to my mind and i haven't followed it and i should but what type of increase has inflation increase has there been in propane do you know not much it's still cheaper than gasoline regular gasoline and diesel so it's fluid just like those things are but it is still a cheaper cost than those fuel sources so it's been very pretty good for us about half we're almost at half of our fleet being propane buses at this point and actually i was in indianapolis with a little group of other cfos from across the state we get together periodically
051and we did a whole morning talking about propane buses how some districts have gone this route and just the maintenance costs alone is less let alone the fuel itself has been less as well so um we probably won't be buying we still buy a few gasoline buses because the propane can only go so far their tanks are smaller so for those longer trips we're always going to need some regular gas so to speak however we are transitioning away from diesel because they're just really hard on the mechanics and so forth where up until the last few years you couldn't your buses were all diesel or now these alternative fuels now they've started to make available quote unquote regular gas for buses so we're also going down that road so we don't have the additional cost
052with on the diesel side so we're happy with them drivers like them mechanics like them easy to start in the winter so yeah we're really happy so then the volatility has been there in the propane gas crisis but not as extreme as yeah that's that's correct yeah okay thank you thank you thank you for the spreadsheet and keeping it all together for us are there any there are no public comments this evening so with that we'll move on to our board comments in consideration of future agenda items mr marshall i just have one very short comment here for the board's consideration since it was just placed in front of us maybe not all of you have had the opportunity to read the letter from our former graduate and phd from halbert oklahoma i just wondered
053how that particular letter may be addressed and who's going to do the addressing are we just going to shun it aside at the appropriate time you can get back to me thank you this is kelly i'd just like to congratulate mr clark on his retirement and all of his service to the school thank you very much okay thank you dr madeline no comments this evening thanks dr malcolm so this letter is addressed to the editor-in-chief of the comment correct right i haven't been able to read it janice i would appreciate uh no discussion on it at this point until everybody's had an opportunity to read it no i'm just asking you is that what your shows is we each have a copy for our perusal i'm sure okay it's an issue from my perspective that
054is never going to go away um and i think we should address it appropriately okay all right i'm gonna say something for the benefit of our listeners at home this is a letter someone requesting us to change our school nickname from the indians and we've visited this topic in the past several times and i won't go on this evening but i think it's important for people at home to know what the letter is about so that's what it's referencing thank you thank you so that was going to be my next question then this was brought to us you brought this to us from the um editor-in-chief of the comment then the letter was sent to the editor-in-chief of the comment and then you brought it to us right larry he didn't bring it to us
055no that gentleman uh sent copies for each board member oh oh but the letter is addressed to our publications people not the board got it okay thank you i appreciate that clarity um i wanted to first of all mention that lake central high school hosted the isma state music association large organization choir and banned competitions on april 8th and 9th that was a friday into saturday night it was so smooth i i was able to come and attend and hear a lot of the bands perform including our own band and we had so many positive comments because it was so well organized and a lot of that is because of the excellent facility we have but um i wanted to share that on behalf of those individuals who put together all the hosting terri miuccia
056wanted to thank you for staying with the pictures on the display board out there they're so nice to look at it's so much more effective than that blank board that was there before and school board members i think that you're going to a regional meeting wednesday night at tables with isba and i just realized that wednesday night is the high school band spring concert so if i'm in town i may be at the spring concert and not at the banquet with you at t-bell so if somebody would pick up a brochure for me at the meeting that would be great sure okay thank you that's all and i have nothing this evening so we'll move on to uh dr rocco board calendar of future activities thank you our next meeting is may the 2nd and
057i just want to call everybody's attention to may the 16th our second meeting in may we will recognize our teacher of the year and our retirees dr brock do you know if they're going to do the um art display this year in may could you find out for us so uh it's usually done before a school board meeting isn't it uh it has sometimes yeah okay okay all right do we have a motion for our adjournment i have a motion by dr malcolm all in favor