001foreign thank you madam president annually the Indiana code requires that we have a board of Finance meeting in January and we're going to do that here first thing tonight and at that time one of the uh informational pieces or or points of action would be election of officers uh by the current Board of Education typically we we would see that being a mirror of what the Board of Education officers are so miss Mustin you as president and Miss Puckett as secretary another point of action would be to an appoint a investment officer for the organization and that would be typically recommended as our current CFO or Treasurer myself Matt miles so at this time as the first item of action I would recommend that the board proceed with those officers and the investment officer questions
002we'll have an action item there are some secretary and Crystal Puckett and investment officer Matt miles all in favor aye any opposed and that being the only item on our Board of Finance meeting correct I do have some reports I'd like to share please um the second part of this requirement of code is that we present on our investments uh from the past year and those should be included and on the screens at this time you'll see uh annual interest from 2000 or 2022 was 279 000 uh a little uh we've seen an increase over the last year which is great and our interest has moved over onto the general fund as opposed to the bonds and other uh funds which has been a trend over the last several years so we're continuing that Trend
003in all very favorable next we would go to our financial indicators from duab and these are all public information that we share with the board at this time as part of our requirements so we can go ahead and go to the next slide the first slide is our ADM and as we've reviewed this in the past our ADM is trending positively with an upward Trend over the last last couple of years foreign of fund balances which includes all funds and it is very complicated as you can see so we're going to break this down a little bit more on the next slide but that's kind of a snapshot of our funds these being our big funds the education fund which replaced the general fund which is why you see the change in colors from green
004to Orange they're from 2018 to 2019 as well as our operational funds again with a increasing balance which would mirror the increase of expense expenses that we've had as well so a good trend this is a quick look at our annual expenses versus revenue and you can see in 2021 which is the most recent year we have data from to share our Revenue exceeded expenses which is what we want to see again another positive trend here our fund balance versus a percentage of operational expenses so as our expenses are going up our balances are following and also a positive trend foreign next chart you see is our revenue and where our revenues come from so a breakdown of that again you can also see the variance year to year as we've changed going back to
005you know 2014 to start the graph and trending upward over the last few years and this exciting graph here at the end is um is a good thing because it just reflects that we have no operational referendum we do don't spend any Opera we don't have an operating referendum fund so very positive data point and that's what we have to share tonight well thank I don't have any particular questions do any of you have any questions I just have one um thank you Mr miles on the slide Revenue by type just to make sure I'm understanding it correctly the blue shows that the biggest chunk of our Revenue comes from the state is that correct that is correct okay thank you yes well if there are no further questions or comments I we can close
006our Board of Finance meeting as the evolution to adjourn it okay we're closed all right it's my first Board of Finance committing down yeah that's right so we'll call our regularly scheduled school board meeting to order would you all stand with me and we'll repeat the Pledge of Allegiance for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay we're about to get back up now this is my favorite part of every meeting we have our superintendents award and we have a lot of Performing artists to recognize tonight so the board will meet in front and we will recognize our artists foreign president Dr Smith and members of the board we present our superintendent's award by the assistant superintendent of secondary education Mr kuznick thank you Miss Johnson Madam president
007Dr Smith members of the board pleased to bring you tonight several students with outstanding performance no no pun intended by our Performing Arts students at the secondary level we're going to start off first with Falkreath Valley recognizing several students for All Region Orchestra All Region honor band and Indiana middle school Honor Choir here on behalf of Valkyrie Valley this evening is Miss Shannon Jones thank you first we have Alisa ample for all uh for Middle School Honor Choir in Soprano Elisa ample also got all region honor Orchestra for viola next we have Ava Berkey Middle School Honor Choir for alto Haley Dean All Region honor Orchestra on violin Andrea Delgado I'll reach an honorary honor Orchestra on viola Noah Gaither Middle School Honor Choir on base Brooklyn Henderson Middle School Honor Choir Alto Maxwell Johnson
008Middle School Honor Choir Alto foreign Lawrence All Region honor band trumpet Lucy Phelps Kelleher All Region honor band flute Sage Phelps Kelleher All Region honor band oboe Abram sheets I'll read an honor band trombone and Madeline Williams All Region honor Orchestra cello you know Dr Smith when they're not much taller than me all right all right there you go come on down here you go um congratulations again Wildcats [Applause] dude up next we have three students from Lawrence Central that received Junior Allstate called the microphone deshmr Marshall okay all three students are actually freshmen um so Bailey Workman um on bassoon was I believe third chair uh junior Allstate [Applause] Oliver Hyman also a uh well I already said they're all freshmen but on French horn as well [Applause] and Mr Abe Greenfield on trumpet
009[Applause] all three of you tomorrow congratulations [Applause] thank you congratulations and last but not least we want to recognize our joint venture between Lawrence Central and Lawrence North our Lawrence Township marching pride and to present present the names of our directors instructors and our three drum Majors I'd like to introduce Stephen Devon jobson from Lawrence North all right thank you so I'll start actually with uh drum Majors to start so we have our three drum Majors uh drum major Christopher Chong [Applause] drum major yimely Cruz [Applause] and drum major Abby DeSanto [Applause] and next I'll introduce our directors uh we have assistant director at Lawrence Central Emily Batley assistant director at Lawrence North Quarry burrow I'm the director banza uh Lawrence North High School Devin jobson [Applause] and the director bands at Lawrence Central diazmar
010Marshall [Applause] and lastly we also have some names of our staff that are not present with us and could not be here but I thought I'd read them uh our Drumline instructor and Lawrence northper Hutson director Tim Henderson our Front Ensemble Ranger and Belzer uh progression instructor Jesse Mack our sound engineer and instructor and Belzer Middle School director of bands Eric Park our Color Guard director Julie Reed and lastly our Drumline arranger and instructor and Lawrence Central percussion director Steve Yoder [Applause] upon the record s congratulations [Applause] and I see I don't have to announce it but I've taken the helm from Miss Mustin any parents or community members who've come for the awards you're welcome to stay for our wonderful board meeting but if not now is a great time for you if you'd
011like to leave thank you mm-hmm that was wonderful so proud of our kiddos the next item on the agenda is our Blue Ribbon update Mr Smith Madam president members of War Dr Smith as soon as we get that up there construction has been progressing we've had some good weather with some rain but uh warmth of the weather has helped us on the outside work site work continues on the west side of LC new entry and also that's a new entrance going in from the outside and also the New Media Center and the family and consumer science labs as well as Art Labs Elsie pool continues on with foundation work and hopefully uh end of February the north walls will start to be set there at LC Ln continues we're pushing hard uh for February 13th
012the week up for the move and we continue to make progress new three-story again this is first floor so a lot of progress there as we continue on a new family consumer science areas actually there's two rooms there will also be turned over at the same time Paul continues on the floor of the pool is in and they'll continue to do the deck work and hopefully here in the next month or so before spring breaks we'll button up the outside wall I believe that's it and we do uh this week we have interviews for the lecc building for the architect and in first of February we'll be moving forward with the CMC for that project as well questions I I do have a question um I know that our teachers um some of whom have
013been teaching with us for 35 years and if I'm um thinking correctly may have a few things in their rooms um what are we how are we managing that how are we helping our teachers with a move we don't have a two-week time period to move it's not it's not over a long holiday it's three day weekend so how are we helping our teachers with them we started uh last fall and we have provided all the boxes tape markers stick them notes whatever for the teachers to pack their belongings of their room we are bringing in commercial movers that will transport all of that to the new facility and one good thing we don't have to transport a lot of the furniture because they have all new furniture fabulous thank you so much I'm glad
014we're not putting that on the backs of our custodials we take care of them thank you so much I appreciate that good well um Vaughn to 4.2 which is the resolution preliminarily approving the lease or a public hearing and approving the issuance of bonds and related matters and that would be you Mr miles thank you madam president Dr Smith members of the board um as stated tonight we've got a resolution for preliminary approval of a lease for public hearing and approving the issuance of bonds and with us tonight to explain that a little more and how that relates to our upcoming projects is Hannah clendinning who's at the podium now from Barnes and Thornburg so Hannah good evening um but tonight this is pretty straightforward resolution regarding um of the existing Builder Middle School Valley
015Middle School and then to approve this is gone by the way these renovations lecc transformation new education so I'm sure if many of these in First Mortgage Finance this is very very similar um most recently I believe now this is just the next Cathedral step proving just the if that goes through tonight the next step would that need to advertise ment late February which would put us on track yes and then just as far as the bonds themselves go the resolution here and these aggregate principles thank you Miss Clendening that at this time it's informational item and then later this evening we will be coming bring this back to you for a vote thank you very much and I do believe we have a Community member my friend JD mazur who would like to speak
016to this we have a three-minute period [Laughter] Mr mazur to make sure we do this correctly Miss uh Blankenship can you guide him because we know you personally but we want to make sure we do it for the record correctly Sheila will you give him Direction state your name and your address and then as soon as that's completed I'll start the time thank you very much and uh I guess my concern isn't exactly what uh the council from Barnes and tornberg was talking about but over the weekend I read in uh Geist magazine that for some reason the um the the board was considering a joint construction project for some administration building with the city that was to be financed through the referendum that was passed a few years ago and I was surprised by
017that I don't know if the mayor was speaking out of school so to speak or quoted uh improperly but there's a lot of bicker festing that goes on and Lawrence City politics between the Republicans and Democrats that you can probably read about on occasion from time to time in the city which has some negative attributes to it and I'm uh just wanting to express a degree of concern that the board would enmesh itself in City politics in a way that might not benefit the schools as a whole so that's all I had to say I appreciate that very much discussion okay so yes that brings us to information item 4.3 the transfer funds update Mr miles thank you madam president Dr Smith members of the board um our next informational item tonight is a transfer
018of funds at this time between it's a report back from what you um approved for our December transfers for our year end at that time we did not know what those amounts would be and we said we would report back and so at this time this is basically a reporting back of what those year-end transfers look like and the amounts that they came out to be statutorily we have to follow per state board of accounts having certain funds pay for certain expenses and then we reimburse at the end of the year so that we can get those those funds back to whole it also allows us to compare to historical funds that have changed over the years so the report back is in front of you and again those took place year end and I
019just want to present them as an informational item tonight okay questions no questions we'll move on to permission to transfer funds to the rainy day fund thank you madam president Dr Smith members of the board the next item for us to to review as an informational item I will bring this back to you again later this evening for a vote but this is a transfer of funds to our rainy day fund which is a very positive thing for us to be able to do we upon calculating our finances at the end of the year are recommending a 1.5 million transfer into the rainy day fund which will just uh they're great even greater uh improve our financial standing um and our financial portfolio at the end of the year so at this time it's an
020informational item I welcome any questions or comments so ever our stipends to our teachers yes thank you for bringing that up it will not um in short we are set for that stipend to be paid out in February thank you Matt is board members they don't they usually ask this so I'll ask it for them what is our balance and our rainy day fund and why is it prudent for us to have a rainy day fund sir the importance I'll speak to that first the importance of the rainy day fund is to um when when we go out to borrow money for bonds and other things it it improves our abilities to borrow money at a better rate it gives us also that that piggy bank fund that if something does happen that we're able
021to to turn to it um and currently we are around uh 15 million dollars in that fund uh yes I'm sorry about 11. uh in that fund then that would uh again this this is the same transfer that we made last year at this time as well so we have been able to grow that um over the last few years especially the last five years and that percentage of our of our operating funds is roughly we're um total total spending as a district annually through all funds is about 250 million 258 million so all right can I please add also since we have mentioned the um teacher stipend I would wonder well where does that one come from so for the record could you please let us know where the teacher stipend comes from sure
022that's coming out of our age education fund thank you and that fund is is one that we try to keep at about one month's worth of payroll so that if we do come into any issues with a payment from the state there's any delay for any reason we're able to make payroll thank you so much you're welcome Mr miles can you also remind us all what our bond rating is here in Lawrence Township thank you for that question it's a double A Plus rating I just want to comment that I know how very difficult in these times when the complexity index is really not working towards our Urban schools that a district like Lawrence Township is able to make such a move and just want to applaud the superintendent as well as his cabinet for
023the amazing work that you're doing to ensure that we're able to be so financially sound thank you thank you all right um Mr miles again our one day loan retirement fund Bond thank you madam president once again Dr Smith members of the board of our next point of a point of order is an inner uh enter fund loan uh that that must take place at the end of the school or into the calendar year excuse me to make sure we don't have any negative balances um this is a 16 1600 I'm sorry 1800 transfer that we make to cover the pension pension bond fund so that that doesn't run into the negative and that's required by state code and we do that as a one-day transfer uh of a loan December 31st and then pay
024it back right the next day on January 1st so this is an informational item and again we'll be brought back for for approval later I have to be honest that doesn't make any sense to me but I I know I know we do it uh we have to do it by Statute so absolutely good for us thank you for keeping us I would never catch that one let's move it here and move it back again okay thank you very much um uh the resolution to approve transfer of funds to Sick Bay sick day buyout fund Madam president thank you Dr Smith once again members of the board this is another year-end transfer that that we will make or uh asking for approval later this evening this is to fund our sick day increase on the
025buyout when an employee retires um at the end of their career this was approved as part of the collective bargaining agreement earlier uh last fall and again approved by the board this step would actually fund it so those dollars are there and ready to go when needed and again this is an informational item at this time and and we'll ask for approval later tonight great and on to Mr miles with the financial update I'm gonna need a cane and a hat thank you thank you madam president Dr Smith members of the board we've had we've had a lot of financial reporting and we're we're seeing the end here but uh the next two reports are our end of November and end of December 2022 reports um both of our general fund and our transportation fund
026um you may recall in in December we met early in the month and therefore did not have the November reports prepared at that time just due to the timing of the calendar when the board report fell so you're seeing both both month and at this time and as we like to do the green check marks are always something that we see is very positive and the red is just something we're always going to look at and just make sure everything's okay and everything is very favorable um on both on both month end but I would welcome any any comments or questions Mr Mouse for the board uh there was a part of the collective bargaining agreement that we approved that would give our staff additional money if our cash balance was at a certain level
027so Ms Blankenship if you go back to December for the board to remind them that if our cash balance was at 15 million dollars and as it reads now it's at 17 million dollars that the staff would receive additional dollars is that correct Mr miles that is correct both classified and certified staff okay so we just want to put that on the record so that our staff which we're going to sit in communication don't worry about that but we want the public to know that that we meet we met those standards and that it's from that fund we transfer into the rainy day but we don't transfer into the rainy day any funds that could possibly be used for our stipends absolutely thank you we are now at our board committee chair report sorry I
028had a quick uh oh I'm sorry go ahead thank you for presenting this you've had a very busy night at the day off Mr miles um when we're out talking to our communities for the non-financial people myself somewhat included um all right I'm proud of our district because all of this shows what a good Financial Outlook and situation our district is in what what would you say to the public when you're just out talking I mean what are the best indicators to really relate to people obviously we have a cash balance we're not in an operational referendum are there any other numbers or anything you feel like we should highlight when we are talking to our neighbors absolutely thank you for the question Miss Norman um you touched on a couple of them that I
029would that would come to mind top of mind the last chart that we saw earlier with the do-ab indicators that there's zero operating referendum that's huge um it shows that you know we're not going out to our taxpayers to ask for additional funds to pay operating expenses the fact that you know you can say we have a growing cash balance in our rainy day fund and our education fund we've been able to do extra Financial incentives to all staff such as the stipends that Dr Smith just just mentioned um and and really our bond rating they may not know what that is but um you might relate it to someone's mortgage if they get a they've got a a great strong bank account they may get a better interest rate on their mortgage and less
030expenses for them we're very very much the same way Lord I think there's another one major that we've got to remember and that is our revenue streams and that we don't get to dictate the amount of money that comes into our call First our number one Revenue stream as Matt pointed out early is state revenue so for our patrons that are out there it's very important to understand that we operate based on our enrollment and based on what our legislators are able to give us so we must pay close attention that what happens downtown on Capitol street okay it's imperative that they understand that we receive money based on a per-pupil expenditure and that if that is lowered or drop it will impact our overall budget we also are impacted because the Money Follows the
031kids so we lose students we lose Revenue if we gain students we gain revenue it's really that simple so it's really an important imperative for our local taxpayers to understand the importance of their local Revenue you what Matt is reporting for the Board of Education to the community is our monthly financial statement and so it's important for the public to know that we are financially stable we're not in deficit spending nor are we financially broke and that's important to understand because if for some reason the state of Indiana is unable to grant us money for the month we get money every month from the state then the cash balance you see here is what we're going to use to pay our staff members and keep our operations going that's simple does that make sense folks
032and we want to make sure that we're in a position where we're able to pay our people we wouldn't have to go out and borrow money initially but we could make it and the rainy day fund is also on there also okay great any more questions for Mr miles there's a lot of information okay we will move on to our board committee chair reports now we have just switched committees so I'm not sure miss Norman are you ready to give the report for the foundation I am Madam president and if any of you ladies would also like to add anything I I miss seeing as a rookie um but yeah so the foundation the biggest event was the robotics um they were the foundation was at the elementary robotics championships um they're present thankful for
033their support the next two big events is night with the Stars next Friday night you can go on msdltf.org to register and for details and then also the gala that is coming up March 10th thank you very much Miss Norman if I could add as someone who's been a member of the foundation board for many years this is our 40th anniversary year supporting our students here in Lawrence Township and the gala is a really great time so I highly encourage everyone to register and help celebrate the great work we do here in Lawrence Township um Lawrence Parks and Recreation Miss Puckett be me and I know you all were waiting um to follow up as Amy used to always tell us about the pickle boards yes they are almost completed got to start off with
034that they are almost completed and they are waiting on warmer weather for the top court go pickle boards um I still need to figure out how to even play that you guys so if anybody's down to teach me okay uh butterfly and pollinator Gardens are um moving along Amy correct me if I'm wrong and make sure that I'm saying this right first year you sleep that means that the plants grow Deep Roots second year they peep meaning they start to flourish third year they leap meaning they are coming along and blooming and so we are in the creeps uh the creep stage and so there is a ribbon cutting in April so that is the parks I mean am I missing something no um did she do well Miss Missouri did I do well I
035tried all right well that's it we remind that's not our lane that's the parks where is that going to be located yes um I don't have the exact address Liz where is that going to be located which Park okay all right it will be located in one of the Lawrence Parks we're gonna put that on the record you can look up City of Lawrence and go on to their parks and look that up and because that might just be a lovely day in April and a fun fun way to spend that yeah because there are four Parks yeah I'm very animated can you tell I'm animated I'm animated all right that's all I have fabulous Miss Dunn do we have any policy committee information I am going to defer to my co-chair I don't know
036if it's going to be as exciting as well if you could make it real animated for us I'd really appreciate it I was elementary so I I definitely could if it could include bees and butterflies um I'm sure there's policy for that somewhere yes yeah I can dig that up you do um no I did I would say that we're excited that we've moved through one of the biggest packages and policy packages in December um did publish that just a couple weeks ago and so we're just working back through the administrative guidelines sometimes those change a bit with the revisions so we'll clean those up over the next month or so and I think we're going to do some training Miss Dunn very excited I'll tell you what Dr harshbarger so that the public will
037know there's something magical happening downtown on Capitol Street that's our Indiana General Assembly so as they do their work we just sit back patiently and of course that will impact our policy so we could expect for plenty of policies to take place during the month of May after the Indiana Journal assembly does their dance in April is that correct that's correct and with the long session we won't see probably the revisions until May right so so coming soon Dr Smith I I don't like to disagree with with you very often or almost ever but I don't think we'll be sitting back patiently while they do their work maybe on oh I the policy committee will vice president you can speak your mind related to the general system you know I I'm very nice to them
038but you as an elected official you could say what you want to ma'am all right we do meet with our legislators and we do advocate for our children okay anything else just thank you I appreciate your willingness building I'm excited about tomorrow and we also talked about that you know obviously all of these policies at least we hope there will be there we hope so fabulous board um committees being reported we'll move on to our action items action item 5.1 the approval of resolution of preliminarily approving the lease Etc Mr miles thank you madam president Dr Smith members of the board uh once again we bring back to you the um at this time for an action item uh the approval of the resolution of preliminary approval of the lease for public hearing and approving
039the issuance of bonds and related matters again uh Miss Clendening is here if you have any uh items that she needs to address otherwise I would recommend that the board passed this as as presented oh I do have a question I do have a question um Dr Smith we have discussed um wanting to maintain our independence as a School Corporation so how is that lease working with the city can you go into that for us a little bit well that's a good question um one of our patient patrons Mr mazur asked the question as of now we do not have a partnership with the City of Lawrence and the information concerning this project being Finance out of our school referendum Mr mazur we've already spent that money a guy over here by the name of
040Roger Smith has already got the high schools about three-fourths done so that is misinformation uh if we're going to enter into any agreement with the city uh on the future project that would have to come back before the Board of Education so as of today that is not the case it would have to come here for approval uh what this today will do is allow for us to get the proceeds so that we can move forward with a future design and a future bill but if we're going to partner with any other entity we'd have to go through some other legal step uh Jeff is not here his assistant would tell you that would require some hoops that we would have to go through if we were to arrive at that thank you so much
041um is there a motion to approve second it's been properly moved and seconded any further discussion no further discussion all in favor aye aye aye those opposed uh the eyes have it the approval of permission to transfer the funds to the rainy day fund thank you madam president Dr Smith members of the board uh in front of you and presented earlier tonight you have a recommendation to transfer 1.5 million dollars of funds from our operations fund to our rainy day fund so I just want to make that point of clarification it is from our operations it does not affect um those those funds for stipends that we were talking about earlier and at this time I would ask the board to approve as submitted is there a motion to approve so moved second properly moved
042and seconded any questions all those in favor aye any opposed it's a unanimous approval um now Mr miles on to the approval of the one day loan of retirement fund Bond thank you madam president Dr Smith members of the board once again this is our uh recommendation uh to transfer that money for a one-day loan of from to to get our debt service fund out of the negative balance and back into a positive per code and at this time I would ask that the board approve as submitted so moved second properly moved and seconded any discussion all those in favor aye aye any opposed that motion passes that that's approved um I think it's we're to the approval of the resolution to transfer the funds to a sick day buyout fund that's correct Madam president
043Dr Smith members of the board we've had several things so thank you for your patience tonight um the last one here on our agenda is for transfer of funds once again to fund that sick day buyout fund which increased our payout for retirees from fifty dollars to a hundred dollars and at this time I ask that you approve it as submitted so moved second oh gotcha oh yeah properly moved and seconded all those in favor aye aye any opposed the the motion passes Madam president I move that we treat action items 5.5 through 5.10 as consent agenda do we have a second my second it's been properly moved and seconded to treat those items as a consent agenda all those in favor aye I move approval of the consent of any opposed none opposed we
044can move forward all right I move approval of the consent agenda second properly moved and seconded all those in favor of of approving the consent agenda hi hi any opposed not but not opposed that is that is approved we're on to um that having those all having been taken care of in the consent agenda and I will just you know for for the sake of the public the items in our consent agenda our regular business items they include board minutes which are online and you can read um the approval of personnel reports the approval of our claims approval of service agreements um and the approval of pay apps and building projects payments and the approval of field trips I believe that's it so those are online you can see those online if you wish but
045those are just our standard business items that we deal with every meeting that having been accomplished I want to thank this board thank you so much for a great meeting for the work you're doing on committees the work you're doing on the foundation um seeing you in various places this week whether it be Harrison Hill for a little walk through Vex robotics tournament a basketball game we're out there ladies and I want to thank you so much um so let's start with Miss Dunn do you have any comments you'd like to make this evening I want to apologize for not being able to make the robotics competition as I was actually very fortunate enough that the district sent me to the Indiana State Board of associations onboarding conference and just want to express my gratitude
046to Sheila and superintendent Smith for allowing me to attend and learn and network with my colleagues it was a wonderful experience and really appreciated that opportunity and so just want to share my gratitude for that learning experience and apologies for not being able to make the event but yes I would say no apologies necessary we all have actually regular 40-hour week jobs as well so no apologies necessary but no thank you and thanks again for the warm welcome excited to have the first official meeting under my belts there you go Miss Lawrence well I don't know if and I don't know how we normally onboard board members here Madam president Dr Smith but it is pretty special to be able to recognize your own son in your very first official board meeting for uh for
047his musicianship playing a trumpet which many of you may or may not know you do is my instrument and I will tell you that you know I've been reflecting a lot this week on the extracurricular activities that our students get to get to be a part of here in Lawrence Township just this week um we were Ms Norman and I were in Sandusky Ohio for a robotics tournament where we had a you know a bunch of parents and and staff spending a ton of time with our Middle School Fall Creek Valley robotics team we spent time this week with uh with our elementary robotics team my daughter was also on the robotics team I should shout her out too because you know um but I I just want to say that it is a it
048is it is in these sort of extracurricular activities that kids find their voice and find their passion and we are exceptionally lucky to have a district that supports all students in a way that is um that is not just singularly academic focused but it allows them to develop and engage in their passions and so I just want to thank the board and and the the teachers that spend time out of their own lives to be there for our students in these extracurricular activities thank you you well said Miss Norman yes that was very well said and be it on the record Miss Lawrence and I were in compliance because there were only two of us exactly exactly right you're like we can't have vote anymore we were officially doing our duty yes yes but no
049that was fun that was a great time to spend together and spend with the kids and I think everyone in the district who made that happen that was the first time I've ever seen middle schoolers fall asleep it's like at 11 30 on a bus so yes that was great but um we had talked a little bit about our legislative session that's going on right now and I've received mail I'm sure a lot of people out in the district have from our local representatives and Senators Now's the Time to reach out to them it's very important that they hear from us you can go to iga.in.gov backslash legislative backslash find Dash legislators to verify who your state representative and senators are and that way we can rally behind our support for the public education because
050right now through I believe is an April Dr Smith they will be working on the long budget writing session thank you um email again or the website again I would like to actually say thank you well thank you to everybody like especially to Mr miles that was a lot of info so thank you for that but I want to thank Mr uh Missouri as um as well I'm just speaking tonight and bringing your questions to us I thank you for just the engagement um we need that lens and so I thank you for that and I also want to thank those that probably aren't even able to listen now or used to do what I did back in the day because I worked evenings time is a form of equity so for the parents that
051work in the evening or or have jobs who have questions we need Community we need each other to bring those questions that we may not always have that lens from so I thank you for asking for being here and asking but also for those parents that aren't able to be here for them wanting to be present or yeah so I that's all that's it for me that's it well thank you so much for I have very little to add very little at all except to say that um we're very lucky in Lawrence Township that we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of our foundation it was one of the first Public School foundations in the state and as with Vex Robotics and opportunities for college visits and field trips and up and running and so many
052more things Bridge fund the foundation picks up where our taxes leave off um we do have issues with the complexity funding in our schools and in order to have an equitable experience to have a foundation that will pick up those costs for our students is an immeasurable gift so I would support that Foundation wherever and whenever you can even if it's just a quick day of volunteering thank you to the foundation and with that I can turn this meeting over to Dr Smith I'm going to be sure but Madam president I bring to you Dr Altmeyer we have something called our stakeholder Academy and we have a couple of our Representatives on a stakeholder Academy Dana would you have them stand up and introduce themselves to the board and I uh they've listened to your
053lesson at their first meeting very well they decided to come to a board meeting tonight is that correct Dana and one one Board of Education meeting and we met we met design last Wednesday so um these two Interactive Academy to learn more advocates at Starbucks I appreciate you Madam president I'm gonna keep my uh word short because we we're back in school so we're going to be busy yesterday always coming on Wednesday patrons just listen to the news Dr almire and I will communicate uh Roger Smith right over there will call me early in the morning we have you covered in communication we'll go out as we always do as we watch the weather forecast is that correct Roger Smith we got it okay thank you folks um do we have a motion to adjourn
054saw moved second we're adjourned