001Board of Education meeting and combined work session. Today we have student leaders from Sky Test Elementary and their principal, Mrs. Franklin, with us to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. >> Good evening. I have here Joel Gammons, Austin Morris, and Kaylee Banwell Diaz. These are my student council officers. 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. >> Thank you very much, pilots. To continue on, we will move over to our superintendence awards and recognitions. Miss Carla Johnson. Greetings, Madame President, Dr. Smith, and members of the school board. Tonight, we are honored to present the above and beyond award to Jose and Carnosan. Congratulations to Jose Ancarnos, facilities manager at Lawrence North,
002for being selected to receive the above and beyond award. Jose has demonstrated exceptional dedication by going above and beyond to support the Fall Creek Valley and Cresview Elementary productions of The Lion King and Shrek Jr. His expertise with the newly renovated auditorium's lighting and sound systems were invaluable, ensuring both performances ran smoothly and professionally. Jose's willingness to share his knowledge, troubleshoot challenges, and provide hands-on assistance greatly enhanced the experience for students and staff. His commitment, teamwork, and positive attitude made a lasting impact and exemplified outstanding service and support. We're honored to present Jose Anarasion with the Above and Beyond award. Congratulations. with Jose tonight. He has a couple of family members and Mr. Floyd. His family members just want to say hi. And next we have our assistant superintendent, Dr. Emily Hos Brown, to present
003some special awards this evening. Thank you, Miss Johnson, President Norman, Dr. Smith, members of the board. I'm so pleased to bring to you tonight three different sets of elementary awards. And we're going to begin with our district science fair. Tonight, three different principles will come up to introduce their students. Mr. Pennington will be introducing the student who uh received third place. Mrs. Sheets from Oaklandon will introduce the student who received second place. And the proud principal of Harrison Hill, Mrs. Stewart will introduce our first place winners. >> Thank you. >> Good evening. Thank you, Dr. Smith, Madame President, members of the board. It is with great pleasure I announce the third place finisher in the MSDLT science fair, Malia Senitson. Good evening. I have the pleasure and the honor to announce the second place science
004fair winner, Eli Murphy. >> Good evening. I am so excited to announce our first place winners, Samuel Dubon Lopez and Jonathan Totles. All right. Well done. Our next award is a new award for us. We have four students who have qualified for the national math star award. National math stars earn have earned the top 2% of third grade math in iLearn in the nation. So top 2% of third grade math. We're very pleased to have four of those students and introducing those students are their principal principles again from Amy Beverland. Mr. Pennington will come up and introduce his students and Dr. Carl Ble will introduce a student from Mary Castle. And finally, Mr. Yearwood will introduce a student from Forest Glenn, our national math stars. >> Thank you, Dr. Hos Brown. Congratulations for being in
005the top 2% in the state of Indiana on your math I learn. Not present Eden Marky, but present Sawyer Rexroth. Eden's here. Eden and Sawyer, come on down. >> All right, from Mary Castle, we have Daniel Slifer. Good evening everyone. From Forest Glenn we have Nolan Kloffenstein. Congratulations to our math stars. Now, our final awards come from the VEX Robotics State Championship. Oh, they're so eager. You can see why they were winners. We We have three teams who placed at the state VEX Robotics Championship. to introduce those teams. I'll bring up their principles to introduce uh the team that won third place in teamwork, Mr. Yearwood from Forest Glenn. And then we had two teams who worked together to earn second place in the teamwork award. We have a team from Amy Beverlin and from
006Sky Test. Mr. Yearwood, if you'll come up with the Forest Glenn team and introduce your students. >> Thank you very much. Tonight from Forest Glenn, we have Aaron Nunees, Medina, plus Kyler Wheander Christ, and Connor Christ. They are joined by our fabulous coach and Clo, our STEM teacher. and placing second in the state of Indiana in teamwork. Congratulations to Grant Keys, Brian Jenkins, Leo Lozano, and Ariana Johnson. Good evening. Also placing second, we have Sebastian Kendall from Scout Test, Harrison Miller, and Nicholas Gudro. Oh, and our coach, amazing coach, Mr. Dave Schaefer. We are in the same And now to bring you some secondary award winners, Dr. Thorp, our chief of secondary education. >> Good evening, President Norman, Dr. Smith, and members of the board. Tonight, we are celebrating Lawrence Township excellence in robotics, esports,
007and career and technical education. First up, we will have Mr. Cory Mcerrell, principal of Fall Creek Valley Middle School, honor our robotics and esports state champions. And then followed by that, we'll have Mr. Shante Smith, director of the Mackenzie Career for Innovation and Technology, honor our states runners up in robotics and our outstanding CTE student. Good evening, Dr. Smith, Madame President, and school board members. It's my great honor to present the 2026 Indiana VEX Robotics Middle School State Champions, the Fall Creek Valley Gearcats, Team 1024 Generals. We have Sergy Cuan, Ryland Singh, Luke Stratton, Tucker Caster, Then we also want to recognize Noah Short who couldn't be here this evening. The Gearcats are coached by their head coach Adriana McCulla and assistant coach Alex Tol. ACTUALLY, COACH, if you want to come. Next, we are
008proud to uh celebrate our Indiana Esports Network Middle School Super Smash Brothers Ultimate State Champions for the state of Indiana in 2026. We have Aiden Pearson, Gavin Graham, Joshua Cervantes, Deas, Kaden Edwards, who couldn't be here tonight, Parker Cannon, Samuel Sigru, Simon Reynolds, and our Super Smash Brothers state champions were coached by coach Annie Moore, and assistant coach Samuel Moore, who is coaching golf tonight. We are also proud to recognize iz that we had a fall state champion in esports as well. Uh we had the middle school Mario Kart state champions this year. We will recognize Kaden Edwards who's couldn't be here tonight, Aiden Pearson, Joshua Cervantes Deus, Colt Earl, and Satie Hoffman, who also couldn't be here Tonight, our Mario Kart cart state champions were also coached by Miss Annie Moore and assisted by
009Sam Moore. Here we go. Good. Good evening, Madam Board President, school board members, and Dr. Smith. It is my privilege to introduce this year's Indiana State Robotics Runnerup State Champions, the 1024 kilobytes. First, the coach, Jeff Smith. El Elizabeth Sabota, coach. Ryan Murphy, mentor. And now the real reason why we are here, our students. Liam Wetley, Samuel Harris, Byron Zuniga, Henry Allen, Cooper Clawson, Jonah Hudson, Colton Vaughn, Kiier Wright, Julian Collazo, Gavin Ces. Then once again, our mentor Ryan Murphy and coach Elizabeth Sabot. Congratulations. Now, it is my extreme honor to recognize Ele Penna Perez, a LC senior who was this year's recipient of the Indiana Commission for Higher Education's outstanding secondary CT award based on his outstanding academic record in our business entrepreneurship pathway and his involvement in future business leaders of America or
010better known as FBLA. Also joining him is Miss Walker, his entrepreneurship teacher and our sponsor club president for FBLA. Thank you and congratulations to all of our winners. We're going to take just a brief one minute transition time and then we'll move into our public hearing. Good All right, we are now going into our preliminary determination hearing um with Mr. Matt Miles. >> Thank you, Madam President. Dr. Dr. Smith, members of the board, tonight I'm joined by Mr. Jeff Quacenbush from Barnes and Thornberg. I go ahead and call Jeff uh to make his way up to the podium. We'll have a couple of different speakers throughout the presentation on our preliminary determination uh hearing tonight. And uh Mr. Quacam Bush will cover our legal requirements and the process for the uh public hearings. >> Thank
011you, Mr. Miles. Good evening, Madam President, members of the board. Dr. Smith, it is always a pleasure to be with you, but even tonight to see all the awards. My hands are actually a little sore from all the clapping we had to do, but it's great to see all the exciting things that are happening here at Lawrence Township Schools. Tonight is a very similar process to what you've gone through on very uh frequent occasions over the last several years related to anytime you're going to be be doing a large project of any size, whether it's high school, elementary school, or in this case going to be for your uh um uh career and technical arts programs and that sort of thing, as well as other projects across the district. uh we need to go through
012a couple of public hearings on that under Indiana law and then at the conclusion of the second public hearing in June we will actually have a resolution presented to you. The notice for the public hearings was published in both newspapers uh at least 10 days in advance as required by Indiana law. So we'll have the first public hearing this evening during which as Mr. Miles mentioned there will be two presentations provided. One will be on the project itself that Mr. miles will go over in some level of detail and then after the conclusion of that presentation then we'll have a presentation on the financing and the maximum finance parameters to uh fund the project and that's going to be provided by Mrs. Simon Edetto from Baker Tilly. At the conclusion of those two presentations at
013which you can ask any questions regarding those presentations, then you should open it up to the public for any public comment to be provided. At the at the conclusion of the public comment, then you'll close the public hearing and then you'll move into other uh action items on your agenda and other reports. There will be no action taken tonight on the resolution that will not take place until your June 8th meeting, which will be at 5:30 p.m. in the same uh building. So once you get through that process, then we will go through the uh financing process that's required by Indiana law and we anticipate to have all of these steps completed with at least four public hearings, public meetings of the board, uh over the next several months by the end of September. So,
014uh we'll be moving through this over the course of the summer and into the early fall. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the process or the legal requirements. Uh, but you all, as I said, you've gone through this on several occasions before and that process has not changed since we've gone through this since we did the high school projects and the middle school projects over the last several years. >> Thank you, Mr. Quacenbush. >> With that, I'll turn it back over to Mr. Miles. >> Thank you, Mr. Quacenbush. Uh, at this time, I'll give a general um scope uh estimate of of what we're looking at for this project. The total cost uh estimates of the project are $175 million. The majority of that uh is coming from our McKenzie
015uh transformation. And we're calling it a transformation because it's it's really in line uh more with the scope of what we've seen at our high school projects both over the last few years at Lawrence North and Lawrence Central. So think in terms of that size and scope. Um the balance of the the financing will cover projects districtwide uh both for HVAC, our heating, ventilation, and air conditioning projects at our ELC's and elementary schools totaling just over $12 million as well as roofing projects districtwide uh at $12,900,000 uh in estimate. And as well as uh the the numbers, we got a the slide for you here tonight to give you just kind of an idea of what we're looking at from a potential design standpoint at McKenzie. So really dramatic renovation there. I'm also joined tonight
016here by Dr. Grant Nespit uh to answer any questions on the specifics of the scope and he will introduce members of his design team. >> Sure. Thanks, Mr. Miles. I would like to welcome our members from Schmidt here, a couple Lawrence residents and and longtime partners, Ann Marie Burrell and Jen Carroll. And next to Jen there is Crestview's finest, Ben Carroll, taking in a board meeting tonight. At this time, we'd open uh to any questions regarding the scope. Uh and then uh following that, we will talk a little bit about the financing piece. >> Thank you, Mr. Miles. Board, any questions? Miss Lawrence? >> I do. And first, Ben, thanks for hanging with us tonight. It's not always super fun. We'll do our best to make it engaging. So, public who are hearing a lot
017um SB1, etc.