001foreign yes thank you for being with us for our decem December 12th board meeting combined work session and full board meeting tonight we have some special recognitions uh and we do have a fairly short agenda so let's jump right into it let's start with our Pledge of Allegiance 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 at this time we will do our above and beyond Awards Miss Johnson good evening president McGregor Dr Smith and members of the board it is our honor to bring to you our above and beyond recipients tonight with us this evening if they could come forward we have Mr Carl Blythe Steve and Bridget Brown Stacy Claussen Sandra comp eloida
002Lopez Georgina Schneider Sarah shetterly Beatrice Smith and Erica Tran so in order we'll have Mr Blythe Steve and Bridget Brown Stacy Claussen Sandra Crump eloida Lopez Georgina Schneider Sarah shetterly Stacy Claussen universities Sandra Crump eloida Lopez Georgina Schneider Beatrice Smith questions Erica Tran Lawrence Township hired several dual language teachers this year from other countries with the assistance of the Sagamore Institute the Lawrence Township family pulled together to assist with their transition from their country to the United States and Lawrence Township this exceptional Group which includes administrators teachers and parents either house the teacher and some with families until they could find their own place to live others assisted with carpools grocery store visits numerous donations and anything else that was needed to make them feel comfortable the Lawrence Township community is always generous to support
003our staff students and families I'm honored to present you all with the above and beyond award foreign [Applause] our next above and beyond award is for Mr Juan Hale Safety and Security Officer [Applause] Master detective Juan Hale will be retiring from the Indianapolis Police Department after 36 years this month he is also retiring in his position as Safety and Security Officer from msdlt after 16 years officer Hale was the first security officer at Belzer middle school he was later at Lawrence Central High School and lastly at LACC his dedication to keeping students employees and patrons safe has been exemplary he greets everyone with a smile and encouraging words the Lawrence Advanced Academy students will miss greeting him in the morning to ready themselves for learning we'd also like to recognize that Juan has an as
004an LT parent his daughter graduated from Lawrence North last year we are honored to present sir Juan with above and beyond award thank you [Applause] thank you [Applause] foreign next on our agenda is the superintendent's award Mr fregey and Mr McGregor one of the highest honors is to serve a local school board eight years ago you made that commitment to our community as an elected School Board member you have overseen student growth financial stability renovation of numerous school projects and most recently the winning of our first school referendum both of you have worked on behalf of our district building a strong relationship with our locally elected officials you are a big supporter of our Educators all of your own children have been educated in our schools and you've been a champion for the education of
005all students tonight we honor Mr Richard Fiji and Mr Reginald McGregor for their service to our school corporation as members of the msdlt school Lawrence Township Board of Education Dr Smith and members of the Board of Education will present Mr Fiji and Mr McGregor with a special recognition for their service but first we have a very special video presentation and comments from board members foreign [Music] Smith and what better way to give a tribute to two of my favorite people Mr fregey and Mr McGregor it is your day first and foremost let me congratulate you on eight years of service as a member of the board of education for our school corporation the community the schools The Faculty all should be proud of the work that you've done over the last eight years I can
006remember sitting down with both of you eight years ago to discuss your vision of excellence and your expectations as a board member and they have certainly been lived up to at the highest level I want you both to think about this during those eight years we've had an incredible success as a school corporation but both of you have brought unique leadership in your own way Mr Fiji your steady leadership your words of wisdom and your wit have allowed for us to have a lot of success as a School Corporation our meetings have been just incredible with your leadership over the years Mr McGregor as the the mayor as I call you you have certainly been everywhere and guiding Us in the right direction as our board president both of you need to be honored and
007put into the history of Lawrence Township because during your time as school board members we've had incredible success let's list a few of those things a school referendum one for the first time in the history we've had growth in our student population like you've never seen before we have built all of our buildings but here's something that's really important I want the community to understand about these two gentlemen we've had excellent Financial stability we've been able to give our teachers raises every year since these two men have been on the board of education with financial success and at the end of the day we know we've made it a better place for the students the 16 000 students that are in the school corporation gentlemen I commend you I salute you and thank you for
008your service to this great School Corporation [Music] Reginald and Dick this is very difficult to say farewell to both of you you've both had a tremendous influence on our Board of Education and the things that we have accomplished together will impact not just this generation of students but generations to come in a time that we've been working together on this board we have renovated every school we have made sure that every student has a chance to study stem there are no stem schools in Lawrence Township they are all stem schools in Lawrence Township now thanks to stem for all we've made sure that our students will all have access to music and one of the most important things we've done is a long two-year study on Equity how it affects our district what we're doing
009right what we're doing wrong and doing our ever loving best to make sure that every student has a chance to succeed to graduate and to be the best they can be rigor has come to our classes all these things will change the lives of our students for the better not to mention the social emotional learning skills that we have given our teachers to use with our students having Communities In Schools with us those are just name a few things that we have done they're major things and I'm so proud of the work we've done but more than that you are friends uh dick I will so miss your humor and some of the pictures you share with us um Reginald I will very much miss our conversations um both the fun ones and the difficult
010ones because you always listen you always had a heart to listen to your fellow board members so I wish you well on your Journeys and do not be strangers we will miss you terribly [Music] dick I just wanted to say thank you as a fellow board member for all of your years of service to our community both on the school board and serving on the foundation you've definitely had an impact on all of the students in our district I also wanted to wish you well in your next adventure I don't want to call this retirement from the board like you said it'll be the next chapter and I wish you and Brenda the very best as you have a lot of good family events coming up and I hope that you enjoy that with your
011free Monday nights thank you for your friendship your mentorship and stay in touch especially around gardening season when we do our annual vegetable swap so I appreciate you and best wishes [Music] yes hello sorry I was engrossed in a riveting policy review my apologies well now where was I oh yes speeches Mr Fuji is typically not my policy to stand and make a speech but for your sake I will or should it be I may no no no it's shall yes that's it I shall amend my actions so without further adding deleting or revising let me proceed with this speech please know sir we appreciate greatly your diligence over the last several years concerning District policy to that and for first reading tonight be it known that your eye for the law and your heart
012for our Corporation and school Community have been evident in all you do in second reading your humor and finesse have made for a great working relationship with the administration and the board so it is with the heartfelt approval as submitted that we wish you the best in your next Endeavors certainly sir you shall be missed Mr McGregor thank you so much for your years of service and Your Excellence and for and for being a bear and a great Community remember six years as a principal of Lawrence Central I can't thank you enough for all of your support your guidance the sideline conversations anything that we had going on you always were there and always present and always willing to give your positive feedback and ways for us to improve so though you're not serving on
013our board anymore I still want to make sure that you are although you are not serving on our school board anymore I still want to make sure that you are invited to continue some of our past practices in history uh as your presence is still appreciated and wanted so thank you um happy holidays and as always go Bears Mr Fiji uh on behalf of your Lawrence North family and your Lawrence Township family I just want to thank you uh thank you for your service but also thank you for being the parent that you've been uh to your children um obviously having been Wilson and anslin go through Lawrence North and your two older children go through Lauren Central uh it's special uh you're a special man who always looked out for the betterment of all
014here in Lawrence Township and so just on behalf of who we are at Lawrence north um and what we represent here each and every time you stepped on our campus you were always wondering how we were doing and and that was just special and I know a lot of people throughout our community have always felt that way about you wish you all the best uh hope you enjoy warm weather a lot of occasions and I hope you enjoy time with family appreciate you thank you have a great day go cats foreign hi Mr McGregor on behalf of McKenzie Center for Innovation and Technology we just want to say thank you for your commitment to all of the different programs of study that we offer to all of the great students of Lawrence Township and we
015look forward to continued service working with you you have been amazing to all of our students from robotics to engineering and everything in between all of the different internship opportunities scholarships letters of recommendation throughout the years they have been absolutely nothing short of outstanding and we look forward to continuing Partnerships along the years and thank you again for all that you do for Lawrence Township students [Music] hey dick congratulations on completing eight years on the school board you have been a terrific School Board member and it was so much fun to serve with you while I was on the board as well and have lots of great memories of some fun times at pretty much everything we did on the school board and and so we were lucky to have you serving with us and
016it's been a pleasure to to know you throughout the years being friends with you and Brenda even before you joined the board just made that service a lot more fun so hope you enjoy having your Mondays back and best wishes for all that you're up to next hi Dick we just wanted to say congratulations for completing your eight years of tenure on the board and to say thank you as parents of kids coming through Lawrence and residents here we very much appreciate all you've done to improve our schools and as I will I'll miss seeing you around McKenzie in your official capacity um and I hope when we're out to dinner we'll still find things to talk about that don't just revolve around law congratulations and thank you so much for all that you've done
017for us and the township thank you [Music] hi Reggie congratulations on eight years serving on the school board it was such an honor and privilege to be on the school board with you um you have such great insights uh and passion around education it was just a pleasure and I have to say my favorite thing that I will always remember is standing next to you handing you diplomas at graduation and you saying to every student in your best Joey Tribbiani from Friends impression how you doing congratulations Reggie [Music] technology [Applause] and we're not going to let them go without uh well I I'm not even going to say it because I know Mr McGregor has something to say in Mr Fuji both so gentlemen we'll take your Awards Mr free G you first all right
018very good well thank you all I appreciate everyone coming and uh I want to recognize my family there in the fourth row row my wife Brenda and then uh four of my kids although one you know I won't officially be a kid until June 3rd when uh she and Ben get married but Wilson and Ben and Natalie solaret and then Tom on the end there thanks for being here very special to have you here and I just like to say that it's been an honor uh personal uh honor professionally and personally to serve for the last eight years on the board and frankly um people all the time say gosh this must be hard eight years being on a school board particularly what you see the last several years going around politically but even before
019the pandemic you would go to school board National Association meetings all of us and you'd hear what goes on in some other districts around the country and we'd be just so appreciative of the circumstances we have in Lawrence Township because we have a great superintendent and it's been an honor to serve with you being superintendent uh we have great cabinet you guys did such a great job other cabinet staff out uh Dr harshbarger policy that was I I need to get a copy of those comments you made that that that that that that was I I appreciate that particularly since one of our agenda items later tonight is uh proving the last policy and so I'm not sure which of my fellow board members are going to take that role going forward but uh you
020guys can uh draw straws yeah um and you know I just wanted to say that the greatest pleasure well there's two great Pleasures number one is just serving and all running for election when it was a contested election eight plus years ago was kind of exhilarating to do because it was kind of a check the box or something I had always been interested in doing um but really what I found was the service part has been much more fulfilling than the running for election is because of the great students we have the great teachers we have great administrators we have and then um I would be remiss not to talk about my fellow board members um some that you know no longer are on the board like Carol helmus you saw on the screen but
021getting to serve with Crystal and Wendy and Amy and I'm gonna say something about you in a second but um it's it's such a good group of people to work with and that makes when you have a great superintendent great administrators great teachers great students and great fellow board members it just makes it a pleasure so I definitely will miss it um but it's definitely time for someone else finally my brother here Reggie and we did not coordinate together but we did end up and it's only appropriate that when I walked into the reception room and I saw that we had both shows in the same colors I was like oh this is just perfect because we came in this to this together we were both recruited to you know become school board members me
022for District Two and uh Reggie for uh at large seed but we coordinated together on those first um campaigns we uh struck up a great friendship together along the way we uh you know we're both fortunate to win that now we we got to serve together for eight years and uh so anyway I really enjoyed every minute of that along the way and uh um uh you know you um are certainly going to always be uh welcome uh at our household and all but anyway thanks again for everything thank you Mr crazy so it's kind of like uh a season run of a TV show in this final finale tonight right new cast members cast members go off Newcastle has come on we're in good shape uh it's been an honor to serve with you
023and for you wow so uh is easy when you work with people to care for all people it's easy when you work with people directly and it's easy when you work with people that you consider a brother a brother and sisters and my Lauren's wife who keeps me together right it's not much that a person can say other than I just hope that we left it better than we found it I think we get there's no doubt in my mind that we are in good shape we're in good hands because of you there's no doubt in my mind that we continue to sort and be a district destination again because of you we really have an easy job as the board in terms of what we need to do maybe ease is not the right
024word but you make it rewarding and when you do something that's rewarding it doesn't become tiresome to you we put in some additional hours sometime on some issues and and and and we don't always see how to out of everything but we always make a decision that's best for the families and the students in this community it's been truly an honor to not only have you as colleagues but friends family I think I've been at the Freeze's house probably more so that should be thank you for opening your house to me thank you for just being a loving family thank you my brother so tonight we celebrate the wonderful things that we have accomplished and in our celebration we look forward to the things that was that's better is to come we will build on
025the things that we've done here regards who comes in these seats the culture that we have established in this community is one of professionalism want to respect and one of ethical behavior and I'm proud to be part of that as I hand off the Baton I am sad in one regard but like Mr freezer said it is time for somebody else to do the job thank you for just your wonderful personalities your attitudes and most of all for caring and loving for our families it's been truly uh honor to serve thank you I have one more thing I just have one more thing I need to say and that is I was remiss not too point you out Sheila because you're an outstanding executive assistant and you do so much more than even that term
026captures and you make our lives uh very easy now Dr Smith you're not going to like this next thing because ever since I came to my Law Firm I've had the same Administrative Assistant for 38 plus years she is retiring in a few months so so Sheila was probably not right now we shouldn't be talking but let's talk soon okay all right there you go the answer is no dig they're tampering uh let's sign a bonding degree we got something legal we can take care of all right this is beautiful Dana did we get our picture weary we'll get another picture we'll take care of that and then I'll turn it back to the Board of Education we can do one more picture board and then we'll turn it back over um Miss Puckett did
027you want to say anything I know you're out there in cyberland there she is yeah well there you go we'd be in trouble we didn't let you speak go ahead yes I'm sad and I'm not able to be there right now um because this is a sweet evening I will ABS absolutely say um it has been an honor to serve with both Mr Fuji I'm Mr McGregor um Mr parigi I appreciate you are a man of few words but I will tell you what your words are impactful and intentional and I learned a lot on my leadership through you from that because y'all know I can talk and so Mr Fuji I appreciate that um I you're just awesome and so uh Mr McGregor um where to begin I appreciate that you are a Leader's
028leader I too again learn so much from you just being able to engage in some of the conversations that we have had to have as a board together you allow for space that's vulnerable and transparent and again it's just lessons that you don't just take with you just in the worst space with just in life overall and so with both of you there are definitely this is time that has been appreciated I will take with me and I look forward to um um serving and I just thank you both I just thank you so I'll just leave that there and I will talk to you both soon thank you [Applause] sorry I had a video for Mr McGregor too um but to summarize it and it's hard to summarize a great leader but um and
029what I was saying was thank you for your mentorship your leadership and most importantly your friendship you care about the kids in our community and it really shows through you have a passion for our district and for everyone out there I I believe you'll see the ripple effect of his leadership and mentorship on our board in our district for years to come so thank you both [Applause] foreign again thank you for to all our above and beyond candidates tonight thank their families for supporting them and what they do to help our district now we'll jump into why we are sitting here tonight's business Blue Ribbon update Mrs Smith Mr President and members of the board Dr Smith again projects are going well and moving forward west side of LC and then Senior Cafe and also
030inside just on the other side of that wall is the family consumer science and also the media center being renovated as as we speak so I work and it continues especially uh with the weather uh likewise the LC Plaza continues on foundations are going in and hopefully walls soon three-story at Ln continues on finished work uh second third floor almost done and moving down to the first floor as you can see there in the stairwell phase one C continues on uh pool a lot of progress there with the walls going up in the pool a lot of equipment in there a lot of trucks still going in and out for that concrete pour and of course the rest of the pool area the locker rooms and offices continue as normal as well middle schools continue
031on with HVAC and also getting ready to do some renovation questions comments Crystal can you hear me okay yes I can hear you okay questions or comments regarding our Blue Ribbon update um I think the last time we spoke um Lawrence North was getting ready to move into the three-story over the break and now that's been pushed back a bit um yes we have pushed that back uh we've had some material delays as over the course uh we knew it was coming and it did affect us at Lawrence North so we're going to shove that back a little bit uh finish it up and get them all in all three stories as well as one see at the same time and and when do we expect to have them in there uh we're going to
032do part of it in January and then we have a long weekend in February thank you and that's going to be an excellent opportunity for them to make that move thank you any other questions or comments Mr Smith thank you request for approval of the plans specification and bid documents for the middle school facilities renovation expansion update and lecc transformation Mr President Dr Smith members of the board um approval of the plans and specifications and bid documents by the board will allow powers and Sons or CMC who will be overseeing that project to send out those plan specifications and bids and kind of uh actually they'll be sending that out January 6. so we do have a kind of a staggered bid dates this is to leverage our competition on these projects and you'll see
033February 20 or February 7th for Belzer 23rd for Fall Creek Valley and then March 23rd for lecc approval will allow us to move forward with those renovations questions or comments on our middle school facilities or lecc transformation thank you Mr Smith request to transfer funds Mr miles thank you Mr McGregor Dr Smith members of the board tonight you will have in front of you a resolution uh for request to transfer funds between our our education funds and our operations funds and this is something that we do statutorily at the end of each year to allow us to make sure our budgets and our funds are in the right place at the end of the year and so um you should have that in front of you later tonight I'll bring that back for uh for
034your approval thank you any questions or comments on the requested transfer funds thank you enrollment and demographic updates Mr kuznick and Dr Brown good evening Mr President Dr Smith members of the board each year around this time and bring to you the district enrollment and demographic data uh to all this data together we take a snapshot of our system on October 1st each year as you will see over the last decade we have a rising trend of enrollment a little bit of a dip in 2020 no doubt due to coven but all those students return as well some more and ends of October 1st we were up at 16 414. Mr President Dr Smith and board members our next slide shows you specifically our ELC and Elementary enrollment data by cohort and you'll notice in
035the far lower right hand corner a total for pre-k through sixth grade at 8703 students you can look at the bottom to see each cohorts total and then across for each School the next slide is our secondary schools which make up about approximately the other half of the districts or two middle schools and our two high schools it's important to note you don't see McKenzie or La listed there because those students are listed in their home schools in our data system as Lawrence or Lawrence North students the next two slides show you diagonally by cohort just like you look at student achievement and you want to monitor a cohort over several years diagonally you follow the different colors for example our current 12th grade class of 1230 students saw a negative 44 change over the
036last five years that's a five-year change however our current sophomore class of 1288 has seen an increase of 52 students over the last five years that expands onto the next slide as well that orange color it's a little deceiving when you look at the last one there that says 669 that's a little skewed because of the rise and increase of enrollment from pre-k to kindergarten obviously that would be a big jump in our enrollment our next few slides will detail take a deep dive into demographic data and if you look at this slide you'll see from the year 2012 to now and you can look at each year and see our total enrollment and look at each ethnicity breakdown as well as free and reduced and you can see that trend from 2012 to 2022
037and you can also see it across so across up and down and if we'll go to the next slide and this details the demographic data by school and you can see not only our ethnicity demographics that also are free and reduced by school our English language Learners and our exceptional Learners in their far right hand column if you look to the very bottom you can see our total as a district and then each school and of course our four elcs are together at the top thank you and then now we'll look and you can see each School specifically of course our four Early Learning Centers began together and then you can see our individual Trends and so this first slide we have Amy Beverly and Brook Park and we continue through our elementaries and you
038can notice at Forest Glen the increase if you go back thank you as we have expanded access at Forest Glen for immersion which has led to some other expansion of immersion in other schools our next slide and you can notice the oaklandon there's a change as we moved our virtual students back to home schools and then our next slide and you can see at Sunnyside as we added immersion kindergarten the increase there and we'll continue to see that as we've seen an increase at styles with the immersion access our two middle schools have stayed relatively stable in terms of overall enrollment the last five years there is a shifting demographic there within that enrollment but their overall enrollments have remained steadily the same Lawrence Central has remained steady over the last five years however Lawrence
039North has seen an increase of about 200 250 students over the last five years all right now we're throwing a lot of data at you so now we're going to look at District ins and outs so what that refers to is our students that are enrolling in our district versus leaving our district and we look at the last year so from October 2nd 2021 which is the day after our last snapshot to this year's snapshot on October 1st 2022. to help explain that a little bit better this first lie within Marion County we look at our ins and outs I'll give you an example of beach girl over there on the top we had five students join us enroll in our district from Beech Grove well we had 23 students withdrawal and and go to
040Beech Grove so that was a net loss of 18 students in contrast to that you see in IPS for example we had 237 students enroll in our district that came from IPS versus left our district to go to IPS was 215 so we had we had a net gain there of 22 students overall within Marion County the other Township districts we saw a net loss of 73 students next we look at the nearby districts or what some people refer to as the donut District districts around Marion County a net loss of 217 students to our nearby districts and the next we'll look at our Charter Schools we've seen a net gain of 105 students from charter schools so we've got 375 students join us that came from a charter school versus 270 students that left
041us to go to a charter school so again a net gain of 105 students there foreign on with our ins and outs now we'll look at private and parochial schools and if you look at the bottom you can see that we have a net gain of six students when you look at local private and parochial schools next looking at our local virtual schools and you can see at the bottom a net loss of 53 students to Virtual schools the next slide has both our ins and outs from other states and then also ins and outs from other countries I think it's important to note that at the bottom of our students coming from other countries the net gain of 119 students it's very interesting information to see where our kids are coming from and the
042last piece of information we want to share with you this evening is our non-resident students so our current non-resident students 1976. these are the districts that they currently physically reside in but they go to one of our schools here in Lawrence Township many different reasons for that among them would be some of our our staff bring their students with them to our district as well as you see the largest number up there in Indianapolis Public Schools 1255 students attend our schools and then of that number 489 of them are new to us this year uh these two charts here are comparing the same group of students 489 students in both charts the left side shows you their previous school that they came from and then the right side shows you where they currently reside in
043conclusion that was a lot of data we have an increase in enrollment we're very proud of that that we continue to increase and bounce back from our pandemic numbers and specifically we're very proud of our Pre-K and K enrollment that has rebounded because we know that's the foundation for Student Success and you'll of note as you look through the numbers that there have been some different demographic shifts that Mr kuznick mentioned and but overall we've been holding at the 10 percent free and reduced difference between the Middle and High School feeder systems which we track and that ladies and gentlemen is our demographic information questions and comments regarding our enrollment and demographics I had a question it's a slide 20. the ins and outs so um on other schools would that include I know there's
044been an increase in homeschooling over the last several years would that include like some of the co-ops that have formulated around Indy or is that just other schools that aren't tracked on this list so we tried to come up with the groups that we see the most of so Charter Schools private schools Marion County schools nearby districts we do have some students here correct that do leave us to go to homeschooling as well that was my other question is that even a significant enough number to track or is it it's probably not even required to be tracked by the Department of Education is that right because of uh graduation cohort oh okay for that reason okay thank you okay thank you have I'm fewer students so significantly fewer students in preschool and kindergarten Here than
045we will have in first grade second grade um how are we marketing to those families and do we have the capacity for a lot more preschoolers a lot more kindergartners we continue to Market um Dr altemeyer and I work closely together and currently we're getting ready to push out our year-round preschool which was just approved at our last meeting we do have the capacity to take more students right now Staffing is our biggest issue we currently have a wait list for preschool students because we are working to get more staff if we were able to get some funding from the state level to support families we could look at being able to take all of our four-year-olds we have the capacity to do so good Miss Puckett I can't see you do you have questions
046or comments on the enormous not not at this time okay okay so as we grow as a district and yet a teacher so students This Way teachers are going this way and I know this uh this is not just a Lawrence problem what's the solution then because we would probably continue to grow and projections are that we're going to continue to see a decrease in students pursuing education I know that's probably long-term strategies got to be in place but it's something to be thinking about like yesterday right so as we look at those numbers though as a parent though I would be concerned with so what's the ratio my teacher the student especially my elementary schools so that'll be good for us to make sure we had those numbers so any other questions or comments
047that's good data thank you we are yeah Neola policy update second reading Dr harsh Barger and now it's hard to take me serious at this point Mr President members of board Dr Smith at the November 28th board meeting I presented Neola volume 35 number one uh revision package for first reading tonight I bring that back and present those policies for second reading um and I recommend the board receive this as information questions or comments on the second read of the Neola policies Mr Fiji another comments uh no nothing except for just one quick question there were no changes right in any of these policies from the first reading to this one yeah correct and just for the record I didn't get any comments or questions from anyone so I think they're ready to go good
048absolutely thank you sir thank you work miniature reports Parks and Recreation thank you Mr President the only report I have today is Winterfest is continuing at Civic Plaza through December 23rd with many activities you can visit the schedule online at visit Lawrence indiana.com thank you any questions or comments for thank you Ms Norman Foundation mini grants will open on January 4th which are just in time grants staff can apply for to extend education program for students and the foundation is currently sharing their 12 days of impact on Facebook and Instagram so you are invited to follow them so you can remind yourself today the kick off the 40th anniversary of the foundation and the location we're changed hmm thank you for those reports Mr Freeze anything you want to add on policy are we good
049thank you board onto our action items approval of the plan specifications and bid documents for the middle school facilities renovation expansion update and lecc transformation Mr President members aboard Dr Smith we recommend the board approved the plan specifications and bid documents as presented summer second boom is when the Mustang second Miss Amy Norman because we have Miss Crystal in our virtual space I call one by one any questions or comments Miss Norman yes Mr Freeze yes it's mustard yes Miss Crystal yes I'm a yes motion carries thank you oh thank you thank you for bringing that to my attention thank you motion carries thank you so in our next item this Puckett and to the community because it deals with money in a person the virtual space can't vote on that particular action item but
050we do we do have a quorum so we will move forward seeking approval of this item approval request to transfer funds thank you Mr McGregor members of the board Dr Smith tonight I recommend the board approve the request to transfer funds as submitted so moved second ooh Mr Dick freezie's second Miss windy mustard questions or comments because we all live I'll just call the group uh approval questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye and it pose the same motion carries and for the record Miss Crystal Puckett because she was in the virtual space with an opportunity not participate in this particular approval but the motion carries thank you approval of Neola policies updates yeah members of the board a few minutes ago I presented to you updated Neola policies for
051second reading I recommend the board approved in the old policies I submitted so moved second movements Amy Norman second Mr Dick fregey questions or comments because it is a non-budgetary item Miss bucket can boat and I'll call it individual roll call no question comments Ms Norman yes Mr freezy yes Miss Mustin yes Miss Puckett yes and I am a yes motion carries thank you Mr President I move that we trade agenda items 4.4 through 4.8 as a consent agenda for the board's consideration second it has been moved by Mr Dick freezing to consent to move Mr Freeze and second by Miss Norman to consider item 4.4 to 4.8 as consent agenda items questions or comments Miss Norman yes Mr Freeze yes Ms mustard yes Miss Puckett yes and I am a yes motion carries thank
052you I move approval of the consent agenda second it has been moved by Mr friesians talk about Miss Norman to approve the consent agenda items questions or comments it's Norman yes Mr Breezy yes Ms mustard yes and Miss Puckett yes and I am yes motion carries thank you thank you thank you all right thank you for that board on to our war comments Miss Norman uh just really short I hope everyone has a great holiday season with their loved ones and get some time to rest and rejuvenate and um I'll just close with once again thank you both of you gentlemen for your service on the board I just um words can't express my gratitude towards you both and I know that we'll be in touch and I wish you well thank you so much
053thank you Miss Mustin of course wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday seasons but I I will I will end my comments tonight the words of Garrison Keeler Mr Fiji Mr McGregor stay well do good work keep in touch well said thank you Mr Puckett I share the sentiments of my fellow board members I thank Mr Fiji and Mr McGregor for your service and again we will be in touch so I'm not going to say goodbye but I will see you later and I also wish everyone a great holiday season with family a reflective season and thank you for um allowing me to serve and a great holiday time to everybody sure what to say but because everyone wanted to know what I was going to do with my Monday nights later on out I
054I guess I hope it's not too early to disclose this Mr McGregor but we have been talking and we thank the last eight years the board meetings have been way too calm and collected and professional and so we're committed to start showing up and trying to change that Dynamic for y'all I don't know how you feel about that but uh you can reflect on that one yeah no it's truly been an honor and thank you all and hope you all have a great holiday season you know wishing all a very safe and peaceful joyful refreshing holiday season I know we still have a few days left I'm not sure the kids know we have a few days so and again thank you for a wonderful eighth season of this show that's been fun thank you
055for allowing me to serve thank you board members thank you my sisters and my brothers thank you Knoxville Mr McGregor Mr Fiji I I think I speak on behalf of the entire faculty uh we thank you for all that you've done we've we've done a lot of these last eight years I think that uh uh your impact will be lasting for many many years and we appreciate all that you do and all the other board members during a difficult time of leadership public service we have to commend all five of you for stepping up and serving a local school district you are members of the local community you live here you serve as the trustees oversee this massive Corporation and it and think about the spiritual work that we're doing helping young people and educating
056what that means so let's not take that lightly we've been very blessed to have stable leadership from this board and I say to the new members coming in you guys have certainly set a great example for them of how to serve this great School Corporation so I thank everyone we do want to remind the students and family school is not out until next week and uh and my staff also we still need everyone so thank you just a reminder Ms Norman Ms Musta Miss Puckett the next meeting will be on Monday January 9th that would be a it'll be a reorganization and a work session and meeting will begin at 5 30 pm because I guess we'll just be chilling on that one again you know your number they can call you all agendas have
057been covered if there's nothing else I will take a motion for the final tap of the Gap so moved second food and probably second we are adjourned thank you leaving us with money in the bank that's always good to keep pointing that out oh perfect thank you for you guys yeah you sent that to my uh Law Firm yeah we got it so what what is our out