001welcome to our school board meeting if you'll please join us in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all welcome to our monday july 11th school board meeting we just want to remind everyone there will be two opportunities for you to address the board this evening if you so wish the first will be in a few minutes where you can address this in regards to anything that'll be taking place in regards to our action items and the second opportunity will be at the end of our meeting where you'll be able to comment on anything you wish the board to hear during the public comments portion of the meeting
002to address the board we ask that you please sign up at the sign up sheets located at the back table only those that have filled out all the required information will be called up to speak so with that we'll move to our agenda approval deletions additions dr morocco thank you mrs seuss you do have an agenda before you i seek approval of the original agenda motion to approve a motion by mrs kelly second second by dr medlin any discussion hearing none all in favor hang on hang on hang on i just looked at what's underneath my thing and there are a couple revisions to the personnel packet including the the new teacher hire sheet and then there's also an addition to dr bracy's professional leave requests for teachers for this summer and so my agenda
003wasn't highlighted but the other pieces are so there are a couple amendments you should check really quick before you vote is there an amendment okay move to approve the agendas as amended we have a motion by dr medlin second second by mr marshall any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you miss kelly is there any correspondence nothing to report on this evening thank you we'll move right into liaison committee updates mr marshall uh no activity at this point thank you miss kelly our sheriff redevelopment i don't have anything to comment on tonight cheryl parks we're anxiously awaiting our splash pad construction to conclude stay tuned thank you dr medlin nothing to report thank you dr malco for lake central education foundation they are meeting tonight and um they are looking
004forward to doing a fundraiser in february so hopefully you'll be wanting to join us and don't forget we'll be having the 5k race in november and i think that falls so cross-country guys can compete although i don't know but maybe we'll figure it out but anyway we had a lot of students that joined us last year and that was a lot of fun so that 5k is in november the first saturday in november the let me go ahead with dire parks sure okay dyer parks are just now planning their splash pad so they have rented some issues i believe their parks director has been reassigned and has taken a different job so but they are working on it and um they are also putting in a sidewalk which somehow connects into um protzman and the
005use of the running track by the cross country team and there's a little bit of difference of opinion on how that should be and i'm not sure what that means other than i'm just sharing it with you guys so you can figure it out but mr ledger you were made aware of a safety issue at the door of protzman dorell i believe at protzman and i heard that you already have a stop sign put in there for us yes awesome really appreciate that you're so quick on that bill it's very important thank you um and that's it then all right and i have nothing for the saint john redevelopment commission and for dollars for scholars we had our first homecoming meeting and we're we're gearing and prepping and getting ready so if you'd like to
006join the meeting please reach out to the committee please reach out to me and i'll get you on that list so we'll move on to our official school board business topics consent agenda dr veraca thank you again seek board approval for the minutes from our special meeting on june 20th our regular meeting on june 20th and our executive session on june 20th 2022 also need you to approve the claims and payroll expenditures added move to approval thank you sir we have a motion by mr marshall second second by miss kelly any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye all right motion passes thank you there are no public comments regarding action items so with that we'll move right into our official school board business topics regular agenda dr veraco thank you we're going to
007recognize the success of our boys and girls track teams this year i'd like to invite mr quasney our business teacher and boys head track coach down as well as mr smelinski high school assistant principal to help with this process okay uh well thank you first and foremost in the board for inviting us here this evening to acknowledge and recognize our athletes that are here we had a pretty successful campaign this spring we were co-conference champions with maribel yeah and then we finished third of the regional but we were pretty proud to say that we had uh 12 boys that qualified for the state track meet down in bloomington we were in nine events that we represented the school and uh we didn't do as well as we had hoped and he had an injury part
008of our athletes that was here cameron our athletes or at least uh acknowledge maybe they're in attendance online uh cameron uh [Applause] relay team that qualified our 4x400 relay team and uh he was an individual qualifier in the hundred and twenty year dashes where he finished ninth in both uh we're looking forward to some big things is [Applause] dash and as he was a phenomenal anchor to that team as far as the senior leadership that he brought i think the poise that he also brought to the boys we had some some new guys to the sport one of our other athletes alex wada was a senior a first year runner for us and matteo was certainly i think that calmness in the wake of some of those more stressful meets so it was great to
009have him kayle be a part of that team not present tonight but also state qualifiers [Applause] you just mentioned before alex came out as a senior first year runner for us he was on the 4x100 relay team uh he was on the hundred year late theme and he also qualified in the 100 and the 200 meter dash and it was just like watching the dynamic duo between he and cameron uh as great teammates together kind of just duking it out [Applause] josh mary was a sophomore that qualified in the long jump in the 400 meter dash uh independently and he was also a member of our 4x4 relay team not president but also members of our four by 100 meter relay was is norris toussaint alex wada like we said and julian page who was
010also a second-hand law enforcement first second runner that he stepped in in a pretty bright stage after cameron was injured in that hardwood final to have his eyes popping and saying everybody knows we had it like i said a pretty successful campaign a pretty successful season and um [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] thank you [Applause] thank you for having us job so coach frederick couldn't be here for uh the girls track and field so uh i'll fill in and just kind of go through our successes for the girls on the state side and i apologize if i uh mess up anyone's name but if you could come down um riley kleitz in the 100 meter dash in the long jump anastasia thompson in the 100 meter hurdles [Applause] no a relay third place finish the state
011uh four by 100 meter relay we've got christian delosa [Applause] thompson [Applause] kelly crockey [Applause] riley clinch [Applause] amelia hecht [Applause] abigail reddick [Applause] sophia palmer [Applause] jade smedley [Applause] we also have a ann carmichael in the 300-meter hurdle she took ninth place [Applause] yeah i'll read all the names for the 4 by 400 meter relay we have kai delosa anastasia thompson and carmichael anastasia rosa luna samukovic kelly kroenke amelia hecht and noel delosa [Applause] she's been her dad we're not done they did very well we have uh essence johnson the high jump i don't think she's here sarah schoonmaker our state runner-up and discus [Applause] gwen schilling or third place in pole vault [Applause] congratulations ladies is changes [Applause] could we have the parents and relatives friends of these athletes stand and be recognized
012at this time thank you for supporting your children and thank you for coming out tonight uh we are going to continue with the business portion of our meeting if you want to stay you're welcome to if you have other things to get on to we understand thank you okay for my second item this evening i just wanted to make the board aware that we will be hosting a mckinney vento and foster student workshop for northwest indiana on august 4th here in the lgi as the mckinney-vento liaison for the school corporation i serve on a committee of regional liaisons the main purpose of our of our workshop is to refamiliarize ourselves because it's been three or four years since we've had a training our building level folks support staff registrars the first people who see folks
013when they come to register when they may not have the appropriate paperwork when they are in a situation where they are in crisis and so we want to talk through the appropriate way to register students and families and what to require of them and what to work with those families to register them first and then work to get the rest of those documents in place as time goes by the morning is going to be mainly for support staff mckinney vento 101 and the title of our program is serving students and families in transition and so we try to get away from using the word homeless as much as we can it's become a bit of a pejorative word although when you don't have regular place to stay every night it is an appropriate word to
014use so it's not like a taboo word but we just try to talk about how do we serve students and how do we make sure that all students have the same academic opportunity regardless of where they're staying and so we're going to talk about some transportation issues we're going to talk about obligations of schools and then in the afternoon there's going to be a section on trauma and the brain and that's going to be delivered by a member of the indiana department of education and then after noon we'll have something that's probably more appropriate for administrators building level folks and then again the mckinney-venti mckinney-vento liaisons to talk about attendance and truancy issues related to homelessness and so we're hosting that so we're hoping that we can get a really high percentage of our folks
015involved at least for part of the workshop and so i just wanted the board to be aware of it i'm glad that we get to host it i think it helps us in terms of travel and i think that the the agenda should be strong and worth worthy of people's time so if you want to stop by anytime that day to listen in you're certainly welcome to and then we'll report back out after the workshop how it went and so that would be the second meeting in august i am going to now move on to mrs mooch's personnel recommendations so i ask the board to approve the personnel recommendations in their entirety we have a motion by dr malcolm second second by ms kelly any discussion hearing none all in favor any opposed same sign
016motion passes thank you thank you and i want to ask mr gindel tom gindel 37 years at the transportation department to stand up and be recognized tom [Applause] [Music] tom is not leaving today but he is uh his his days are limited and so since he won't be around in may when the next time we get to call people out and say thank you for in his case keeping our buses safe and on the road and um going above and beyond to do things after hours when a bus gets stranded or whatever tom will have big shoes to fill but we did want to give him a little recognition in light of all he's done for us so thank you tom thank you could i say something about tom also i mean he's been here
01737 years wow that's quite quite a history and if you are familiar at all with the buses and the way transportation runs you know that that's one heck of a responsibility to keep those buses in good shape so they they have to be plugged in at night when they were diesels that's the thing of the past i guess now you know that they have to have the buses ready whether it's rain snow ice flooding conditions i remember sometimes the buses had to come out and take some of our children home because we were flooded you know tom i know his he and his guys would go out as the larry mentioned to repair broken down buses right there on the on the roads or to replace them and i know that mechanics also had to
018serve some time as a bus driver because of their shortage of bus drivers state police infections all those things that you have to go through and and and tom i just it's just a great responsibility and you've done a wonderful job we always knew we could depend on you and the transportation department and we were never a doubt about that so we were afraid we wouldn't see you again at may in may so thanks for coming out tonight and congratulations you're welcome [Applause] and would you like to introduce your friends with your wife [Applause] and if you remember jean was one of our nurses for many many years yeah 30 years yeah and ruth you've done a good job keeping them going so thank you again and we're just doing our meeting now i mean
019if you want to go ahead and slip out feel free it's up to you if you have more important things to do [Laughter] thank you we'll move on to our director of primary education dr bracey good evening i'm coming before you tonight seeking your approval for the professional leave requests you have received in your packets motion to approve a motion by mrs kelly second second by mr marshall any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you thank you um i also would like to share with you um each year we have to submit several applications for different grants and recently we have submitted the applications for our early intervention grant and for our high ability grant and i just wanted to let you know what we're focusing on in those areas and we're
020just awaiting approval so for our high ability grant we are focusing on differentiated curriculum and instruction and also professional development and our goal is to strengthen our current curriculum and or identify curriculum that will be used to differentiate within the high ability classroom because sometimes we think that students are high ability and they're all at the same level and they're not so we want to make sure we're pushing them even in those classes also our professional development goal focuses on improving the effectiveness of our high ability program by addressing the social academic and emotional needs of the students and then our second grant our early intervention grant was also submitted and that grant focuses on the early intervention interventions for students in grades k one and two and our schools are working on identifying the
021interventions that align with the science of reading and some of those will include decoding sight words phonics phonemic awareness we've talked about that before and so we are working on focusing on those goals for that grant and i will keep you all posted so i had a question then on the i noticed you're doing a lot of training with the wilson with classroom teachers yes so is that part of the early intervention grad then to have that alternate approach to reading the grant from 2021 or 21-22 a lot of our reading interventionists have purchased more wilson products so yes and then we're working with the principals to purchase products for next year are they having success with the wilson program yes they are but they really just purchase those products closer to the end of
022the school year so we'll see how it goes this year okay but we are working on working on the science of reading absolutely good move on that i think it seems to be a very effective program from my experience thank you thank you thank you next is our director of secondary education mrs castaneda thank you for my first item i am seeking your approval for the professional leave request that you received in your package so moved i have a motion by dr malcolm second second by dr medlin any discussion all in favor aye motion passes thank you thank you and for my second item i am seeking your approval for the field trip request motion to approve motion by ms kelly and i will i will second that any discussion all in favor motion passes
023thank you thank you over all right moving right along to our director of student services mrs gramala my only item tonight is to seek your approval for the revised professional leave requests that were stationed tonight move to approve the professional leave request as revised we have a motion by dr medlin second second by ms kelly any discussion all in favor aye aye aye motion passes thank you mr ledger at our director of facilities ah thank you mr seuss uh tonight i have three items just updates uh the first one is the babbage project uh last week we received the full state plan released from the in uh state of indiana for the entire project and wednesday we will be bidding the remainder of the project uh here at the central office on 10 a.m um
024grammar project uh going right along uh the big push i guess we'll call this fate we got face one kind of this summer phase two during the school year in phase three next summer but the big push for phase one this summer was to get the 11 classrooms there going to be affected complete as well as the hallways outside those 11 classrooms and uh we've got six of them totally roughed in completely done and the other five the only thing left is pipe insulation which started today which should be done wednesday and the good news is we finally got our lights they came in the last week uh we ordered those clear back in april and they finally came in um and we're waiting on ceiling grid and i'm told that's supposed to be here
025wednesday so if that comes we should start putting rooms back together as a wednesday and i'm hoping the week of the 25th at the or the first week of august we'll start cleaning those rooms so we're if as long as the grid comes in wednesday we're in great shape we got full inspections for all the above ceiling work on friday from the town of sherville so as long as the grid comes in wednesday we're right on schedule so so that's all good news with that any questions on those two items you say those room updates are happening at grammar part of the hvac project well there's 11 rooms that have to be affected with the entire hvac update that's they they have they have like universes in them so we have to take those out
026right oh those old universes yeah yeah um and then this happened to occur to me the other day of course with all this stuff going on at the schools and i know we talked for several years about a safe entrance into clark do you know where the status is with that well that wasn't on the agenda for this summer um it's complicated because the layout of the existing layout clark we've kind of kicked around a little almost a little i'll almost call it like a security office right at the door but there's some design issues that we gotta work through well the few times i've been over there it seems like it is pretty well controlled they have to be they have a great view they and they and and if the kids are in
027the hallway they just don't let you in so it seems to be sufficient at this time but i just hadn't heard about it and wanted to ask about that so all right thanks bill thank you uh final update is just the summer project which i've left at your stations um we're six we're six weeks into the ten week summer um we've got four to go we're about 68 completed with all the projects you see a lot more gray on there this time around we've completed a lot of major projects since my last visit uh all of our paving is done with the exception of clark we will be paving the entry in the exit roads at clark that's all milled last week we'll we'll start paving that tomorrow and weather permitting will be done with
028that thursday um so that will finish up all the paving all the schools are striped with the exception of um clark because we won't do that until we're done paving as well as transportation because uh they have their state inspections uh today and yes and tomorrow so we'll wait until that's done we'll start that also speaking of transportation and mr gindel's retirement uh we finished the fuel tank project last week we are going to fill the tanks tomorrow on wednesday they have to come back out to do the testing the above ground pipe testing all the underground pipe tests passed so once the testing is done this week we'll probably start filling the buses out of the above ground tanks next week which is a couple weeks ahead of schedule so we're really excited about
029that and then as you can see the projects continue and i'll give you an update the next coordinate cool any questions yeah mister well what mr ledger you know the the comment that i made that came up at the uh dyer parks board meeting about the walkway the runway the sidewalk um i i hate to know that information and not follow through on it so i guess you're the man that i would say could you call over and talk to mr dave hein and see what all that is about he's the um yeah i know dave but no you don't what's their problem that's their they're not doing anything on our property oh so it's their property and we run cross-country on it yeah okay no we don't yeah that's not ours okay all right
030very good thank you thank you move on to our director of business services mr james good evening uh the first thing we're gonna on my agenda is to go over our quarterly financials and so you'll have two big sheets in front of your workstation and so um since it's the end of june well now july but um this is also the end of our fiscal year so it's a it's an important date and so um we're going to go over two spreadsheets here kind of briefly um the first one if you look in the top left-hand corner it says fiscal year cash flow for the education fund and um so there we started july 1 with about if you look in the top left-hand corner about 6.6 million dollars in the education fund and then
031if you jump down to the bottom right hand corner where everyone usually does um our expenditures exceeded our revenues by about a little over five hundred thousand dollars this year that was not unintended um as we know we were able to give a nice salary increase to our uh staff this past year and so we knew we were going to get into our reserves here a little bit but as you can see uh from the top all this data is accurate through june and as our real numbers and so we came in under our advertised budget and we operated we operated well um there really hasn't been too many odd things here in the education fund because again most of this is salaries and benefits where there's not too many unknowns what's gonna what's going
032to occur and so it is it is pretty stable and so um do you have any questions about this fund before i move on to the next sheet okay so the next sheet is a combination of all of our operating funds and when i say that after the laws changed in 2019 there's a lot more moving money back and forth between our education fund and our operations fund so really to get a more accurate reflection of how the district is operating i combine our education fund our operations fund our referenda money and our rainy day fund all together because those four funds together really is what s p looks at for our bond rating what our reserves are and how we're operating and again when you combine those four funds together and again we jump
033to the bottom right hand corner um throughout this fiscal period of july through june we operated approximately 1.7 million dollars to the good um that is a hundred percent accurate but it doesn't necessarily tell the whole story because um yes this is a snapshot of 12 months but when we give when we gave raises to our teaching staff those contracts go september through august so july and august on this sheet are a little less more expenditures than what july and august will be for this upcoming year so if you're looking at a pure school year basis we will have our expenditures more and in that july column the first one there for example with higher salaries means if you look in the expenditures where it shows uh the ongoing contributions to our 41am viba last
034july that was about a 1.4 million dollar expenditure given that that is a percentage of salaries when the salaries go up that also goes up so for july of this year um that is going up a couple hundred thousand dollars to probably about 1.7 1.8 so uh yes the 1.7 million is a is a good number um but in reality when we look at things for a more school year it's slightly lower than that we continue to oper um update this every month and i will be starting a new sheet for this new 22 23 year uh starting well at the end of about a month from now so um any questions on this you know where this is a little bit more reflective of things that are we are susceptible to with you know
035we talked about transportation well you know back a year ago gas wasn't 459 let alone 549. we have insurance costs increase you know bills talked about how the cost of summer projects have been and how they've related to what we were planning last august you saw from his sheet that we still plowed forward and did so many different projects a year even though they may have ended up costing more than we originally established so um those since those costs are ongoing now those will be more reflective in expenditures in july and august because those bills are just coming in now so um we have lots of things on we're always watching and just to make sure we don't overspend and we contain a healthy balance if you recall in may s p increased our bond
036rating because they like the way we're operating and they like those cash reserves so we make it a point to make sure we don't get ourselves into a financial situation so do you have any questions i know it's a lot of numbers and small print here while we're sitting here so anything jump out at you it's appreciated i know very much that's one million seven hundred twenty six thousand by fifty four yeah once you subtract the outstanding that's forthcoming what what do you do you have an estimate as to what your balance might be well it it wouldn't say it's outstanding because you also have also some outstanding revenue as well we paid um well i'm not going to say that okay you know there's there's a lot of expenditures we might make in may
037in june in preparation for the upcoming school year but our revenue is more consistent so um i would say that if i looked at it more of a true knowing you know the the higher expenditures that we have in july and august this year on the on the education side we probably operated more in about a one three one four is more of a true number but this is our actual cash in cash out we pay bills timely we don't hold anything just to make the numbers look good you know i'm not all i'm not about that so we're um it is pretty straightforward right and you said the four accounts were rainy day the education uh operations and then our referendum operating all right thank you yeah i can't read that all right no
038it's small that's for sure thank you anything else okay uh my second item is to seek your approval to transfer our portion of our textbook rental fees uh we do this twice a year when a family pays their textbook fees all that money gets received into our textbook rental fund but a handful of those costs for general fees like agendas and ids and technology stuff those expenditures get paid out of our education fund and so in order to follow the money uh we take the uh revenue that came in that is associated with those fees and for january through june uh 361.78 of general fees were collected so i'm requesting transfer to move that money from the textbook rental fund to the education fund to follow the appropriate expenditures move to approve motion by mr
039marshall second second by miss kelly any discussion all in favor aye aye any opposed same sign motion passes thank you then i speak your approval for the 2022-22 course 23 course fees for all three developmental levels that were included in your course packet board packet you know i had a question and i forgot to send it to you i was curious as to why there was i i think it was a ten dollar fee for um oh the gentleman that does math khan academy i was curious as to why there was the charge for khan academy services for the psat which is a district license where the teachers can actually look at the data from their classes so you're adding something okay as a tool for teachers okay thank you all right do we have
040a motion motion to approve motion by mrs kelly second second by dr medlin any other discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you thank you my next item is to seek your approval for the meal charging policy for our school lunch and breakfast program that was included in your board packing move to approve the meal charging policy we have a motion by dr meddling and i will second that any discussion hearing none all in favor oh hi any opposed same sign motion passes thank you thank you my next item is to seek your approval for the 2223 meal prices for breakfast and lunch that were also included in your board packet so moved motion by dr malcolm second second by dr meddling any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye
041motion passes and my last time was to seek your approval for the donation that was listed in your board packet motion to approve mushed by miss kelly second second by mr marshall any discussion all in favor aye aye aye motion passes thank you thank you so there are no public comments so we'll move right into board comments and consideration of future agenda items mr marshall i failed to ask dr bracey a question if i could revisit your area in terms and this is a generalization i'm not asking for specific numbers in terms of high ability and early intervention grants how are they being made available in light of the economic conditions that we're facing with the inflation et cetera et etcetera are they still out there for us to apply for so i don't have
042the exact number for that no i'm not that's okay but the early intervention grant you receive ten dollars and one cent per k-2 student so just depends on how many students we have in those grade levels okay well i guess my question was more in terms of availability i mean they're not curtailing them or cutting cutting them short or anything they're out there correct they're still out there that's good to hear yes thank you very much you're welcome howard i can add that both of those grants are state grants okay and so that answers my question now there could be years that if the state was having money issues things in the middle of um biennium but there's no signs of that and so i guess those grants are still available for very good thank
043you both anything else that's all right this is kelly no comments this evening dr madeline no coming thank you dr malcolm of course no i i'm just thinking um it seems like everything is going well you're getting organized you're ready to get schools up and running and the children will be here before we know it not very well yeah it's like coming really fast buildings are looking nice i love always walk love to walk in and see those wax floors um i hope you're taking some time to rest all of you because i know it's been a brutal couple of years and i'm looking forward to it to being a real smooth sailing year and it's going to be good yes so that's all and i have nothing so with that we'll move on to
044our wait wait wait wait wait wait we had our athletic director or um mr hall didn't he receive an award i'm sorry i don't know the answer mr hall didn't he receive a recognition by the state association for his work did you mr hall chris hall bruce hall right okay yeah i i think i saw something too i can't speak directly to it though maybe you could find that out for us thank you so we'll move on to our board calendar future activities dr veraco thank you we have another three week break before we reconvene that'll be on august 1st here and i also want to get it on your schedule august 2nd is our new teacher induction and we'll be getting you the schedule for that but if you want to come out in
045the morning when we have breakfast for all of our new teachers we do introduce all of our administrators we don't expect them to remember all the names but we want them to see some faces and you're certainly welcome to join us at that gathering that's at breakfast on august 2nd am thank you and then is there a second board meeting in august would that be the 15th okay yes there are two board meetings in august all right with that do we have a motion for adjournment motion to adjourn i have a motion by miss kelly a second by dr malco all in favor hi