001and this is just sorry good afternoon president McGregor Dr Smith and members of the board stand proudly with you this evening to bring before you our collective bargaining agreement with Mr Justin Brown our president of the Lea as we get started our first thing that we'd like to present is the one-time loyalty stipend which has been agreed upon with the Lea and our administrative team that teachers who are returning from the 2021-22 school year and worked the last day of school and are here through September 30th we'll receive a one-time stipend in the amount of two thousand dollars and as well as participating in professional development foreign is the new money as we look at our ADM there is a total of three million 296 926. our total compensation for that package is a 4.75
002percent and it's distributed as follows all new hires move to the proposed new higher schedule a 4.65 percent base increase salary to all returning teachers and all teachers who have a total of two years of experience all of which was at Lawrence Township will receive an additional five hundred dollars to their base salary increase a 0.25 percent increase match to our ADM if we have 75 students or more and all requested ECA changes have been accepted Mrs Johnson before you go ahead just clarification ECA stands for what extracurricular activities thank you foreign the potential stipend if we have a cash balance of 14 million on the last day of the year December 31st teachers hired by November 1st will receive a two thousand dollar stipend and the cost is listed the next potential stipend if
003there is a cash balance of 15 million on December 31st teachers hired by November 1st will receive an additional 500 and the cost is listed Ms Johnson is the um 4.75 total pool that you referred to that doesn't include these um contingent potential stipends does it this is separate yes that would be over and above the 4.75 overall pool thank you continuing um teachers who complete their master's degree will have an increase in accordance to the I herb guidelines a documented Master shall receive an increase of 50 of their base salary increase for their Master's increase and we're really excited about our new hires and we think about Equity within this collective bargaining agreement that they'll have the choice of 27 or 28 pays and sick days payout from a 50 a day which is
004currently to a hundred dollars a day upon retirement this will be transferred from the education fund to a sick day fund and the cost is as listed some of our language that has been agreed upon our ancillary duties from 2122 will continue through this school year which includes the fifty dollars for teachers for jump start 50 for tutoring and then our class coverage compensation for teachers that began last year is continuing some new language that we've put in is for our rehires if we have a teacher who is resigning on the last and they've worked through the last day of the school year and they return for this school year we wanted to have some language about just Clarity on what does that mean for their sick days if they've not signed a contract with
005any other District they can recover their accumulated sick days as follows they will get their normal amount for a new school year they'll receive up to six days accumulated and if they remain with us through the school year and through the following first check in in the following year if they'll receive the remainder the balance of their accumulated sick days and then the last area our ancillary Special Ed Case coverage all special ed ancillary pay will be approved by the director of exceptional learners are there any questions you go back two slides please okay um I just want want to clarify that um the new hires the choice of 27 or 28 pays means their pay schedule can start uh a month earlier or two weeks earlier two weeks earlier um so that those who
006come to join our team don't have to wait until they're already into the school year to get their first check correct um and um can you just go over what what if a teacher's salary increases um 500 dollars this year um what does that mean for their and they get their masters so their salary this year the increase to their base let's say is 500 then they would get an additional 250 dollars added onto their base for the rest of their time with us yes checking with my CFO math correct there I just wanted to clarify those things because it it can it can be a little confusing why are we doing that what what are the reasons thanks thank you thank you foreign just like to thank everyone for their hard work and effort
007and their tireless hours in making this um tentative agreement happen in record time so um just thank everyone and that's all I have to say that we've come to a tentative Collective bargain agreement I'd like to thank the Lea leadership and let's start teaching kids and start supporting families and let's get started here so thank everybody for this again Justin what record it's record time speaks volume of our dedication to our family so thank you so much yeah may I say that um I do recall um coming to meetings with negotiations um over a dozen years ago and those negotiations took a year or longer to to come to agreement and the agreement was this thick literally was this literally was this thick so I again Justin you and your team Carla you and your
008team Michael shreve's superintendent thank you for your hard work your understanding of our finances and willingness to do this I appreciate it so much no Mr President I just say thank you to the Lea as we're Partners in education uh this is part of the law and our Lea works very hard we know that and they understand the importance of having a sound collective bargaining agreement and so thank you Justin thank you this will close our public hearing oh this will call our meeting to order please stand with me for our Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you first order of business Mr Smith our Blue
009Ribbon update Mr President members aboard Dr Smith as we continue on site work on the west side of LC continues along with the phase 1C on the west side you'll see there a new entry and also the senior Cafe and the Westfall wall continue goes up uh phase again the West Wall um phase three site improvements has actually started on the ground just North they are stump grinding and silt fence going in and excavation which should start soon LC pool Foundation is going to be underway this month so you're going to see some digging and footings going in in October Ln uh the majority of that walk is asphalt right now so it continues on and again a safe place for students to walk uh to and from Elena McKenzie three-story continues on third floor
010working their way down Ln phase 1C that again the art and family consumer science area continues on and the new pool of course the inside is really going well painting and utilities still going in plumbing fixtures uh in the locker room and the ready room there uh as well as the digging of the pool so it has started this week new roof continues we're almost wrapping that up and that facility be fully enclosed per the roof Belzer and Fall Creek continue with HVAC controls and working around our students well questions or comments regarding our Blue Ribbon update uh just a quick question with the HVAC going on at the middle schools how are we handling the fact that there will be Renovations how will how how do they plan the HVAC for the future Renovations
011yeah we've been talking about that there'll be some modifications in some areas where we're going to move some walls and ceilings but the current system will accommodate those areas great the new uh area at Belzer Middle School of course we'll have its own separate unit as well Roger Michael just so the board as we get close on the finances for the middle school we should soon see some renderings and some possible design work for the middle school is that correct correct all right any other questions or comments regarding the Blue Ribbon update I have one um just for just to put on the record so that parents know um picking up Robert from Lawrence Central through door one how the um can you explain how like if a parent is picking up a child um
012what that process is for pickup because I had to pick up pick them up and it was a little different than what I was used to so I think maybe people hearing yes it is different we're still coming in on the rich art area you can park in that Southeast uh parking lot there is a little bit of a walk difference there due to the fact we have to have a 50-foot ball Zone from the new building going up which keeps us from driving all the way up so there is a little bit of a walk for uh any visitors that come in and out of door one so Roger wants to pull us down yeah that whole parking lot will change uh and also it'll increase in size and then also the round kind
013of the Circle Drive you'd be able to drive all the way up to Door one and drop off and pick up I will add to Security in the front was very helpful and letting me know how things move move forward so thank you for them for filling them in and them being knowledgeable as well too it was thank you any other questions or comments thank you Mr Smith our Management Service update Mr Smith Mr President members of War Dr Smith as we continue with our manage services as you well know um rjb has started with Ln Belzer middle school and Amy beverlyn and in those buildings all uh positions have been filled as we have resignations in our retirements we have holes in other schools we would like to help or use rjb to help
014fill those positions and as a custodial head position becomes open we would like to turn that building over to rjb as a whole and as if there's any MSD LT employees still in the building at that time they would be offered the same benefits that we offered all of our employees from Ln Belzer and Amy Beverly this opportunity is available to us at Crestview and Forest Glenn as both of those heads have retired and we do have some additional uh people who either resigned or retired from those two buildings and also to potential at LACC McKinsey as of October these buildings will move over to rjb per the board approval per the retirement or resignations of those heads the heads in these uh buildings have already retired I I just covered that all of our
015maintenance staff district-wide is with rjb they are still in the process of reconfiguring and hiring maintenance staff we just hired one electrician last week so again we would like to see that progress moving forward and they are also working together with us working very hard for this transition to be successful and raise the support level in our district questions or comments regarding our main Management Services I had a question Mr Smith the people who are resigning and retiring are you seeing that some of them are then coming back on board through rjb right now most of them are resigning and leaving or retiring for the most part especially with these four buildings we have some people that are simply saying I've put in my 40 years and I would like to retire so we have
016that we kind of expected that as we talked about the experience of our heads in our buildings so we thought maybe that would happen thank you what feedback have we had from the administrators at our trial schools and from the custodial staff at those trial schools from the buildings we've been hearing some positives uh we also had some concerns so as we have those concerns we're working with RJ vid real closely to make sure we work together as we move forward and also includes a conversation with the building so but overall it is going well are the concerns similar to the concerns they would have had before our Jeep rjb took over a lot of it is just management who does what and who do we communicate with so the work we've got a new
017work order system in place so we're working with all buildings because the maintenance part of that affects all buildings and then working real close with those who have rjb because so audio to make sure that they understand a business as usual how do we do that how do we work together moving forward any other questions or comments so to be clear once a head resigns or retired that building automatically is considered to be a rjb building we would like to move once the head okay I have a question well I don't know if it's kind of like a spin-off of yours if there is a concern or a compliment on the schools that are being handed over to rjb fully if there is a complaint or a compliment would that go directly to rjb with
018Lawrence Howard's the we still have Dr Nesbitt in the loop with our operations as well as myself so we're working real close any concerns bi-directional we're trying to be in the loop uh in both cases okay thank you so just one other point of clarification then for me is I understand what happens if the head custodian resigns or retires and then that building will become fully rjb but is it is it true also these buildings that aren't fully rjb if there's just a custodian but not the head custodian that resigns or retires then we're going to look to rjb to fill that position yes and then okay that's what I understood so then how will RJ be and then the head custodian in the building all work together what's the flow of command on that
019the beauty of that is the the manager of rjb custodio was one of our heads prior to so that person knowing the process that we had prior to is able to work rjb staff and msdlc staff together and they will help with that head working with rjb any other questions regarding our Management Services thank you Mr Smith application for our common school on Mrs Freeze Mr President Dr Smith members of the board this is a request we bring to you twice a year and usually this when the state puts out their application for the common school loan it doesn't hit with our board meeting days to be able to do it in a timely fashion so we get permission ahead of time to do to apply for it it's worth about one just under 1.6
020million dollars and what we plan to use this one for is like last year we used it to purchase half of our one-to-one devices on the refresh for the students we do it in the fall so we know we have those devices in plenty of time for next school year rather than waiting for the May common School alone then the other half would be to refresh some of the interactive panels in the in the rooms the teachers rooms they are the ones we currently have are reaching their end of life and some are past end of life so this would help us do that do that process as well questions or comments on our application for a common school loan thank you Mr Freeze additional Appropriations update Street yes unfortunately we need to come to
021get some additional appropriation in our debt service fund the reason for this is last year when we did the budget and dlgf finalized the budget our common school loan for last year wasn't closed at that time but it closed before the end of December so we have payments due this year that we have to have the permission to pay for it won't raise taxes it won't raise any additional funds we have coming in it just gives us the permission to pay for those and that's in the amount of 128 593 you'll give me permission later tonight to advertise for a hearing which we'll have at the end of November at which time you'll have a hearing and then subsequent vote that evening so then we can get that sent off to dlgf the Department of
022local government Finance for approval for this year's expenditures so on this item accessories kind of talk to me like a non-finance kind of guy d-l-g-d-i-i you got to help me understand what I'm trying to do here all right sorry Department of local government Finance or the is the government entity that controls and approves our budget so when the like later on we're going to adopt the budget it will get for next year it'll get sent to them they'll do all their behind the scenes work and come to us in December or January and say Here's your budget for next year the appropriation they give us is their permission to spend that much money if we need to spend more than what they give us permission to then we have to do the additional appropriation to
023get the additional permission to spend those dollars thank you for being our CFO myself but we already own those yes we already have those dollars correct right because we knew this was coming right yeah so we already have those dollars to spend well actually they're out of the cash balance in our debt service fund which is another reason why you want some cash balance in your funds so that when things like this happen you can spend the dollars that are already there thank you Mr shree's in layman's term these are the bosses here and statutorily they have the power to do it but there's a check in order to make that happen and that's what they're doing today you have the power to do it board but you do the dogf is just that check
024agency to make sure that we're doing it the correct way in layman's term thank you any other questions or comments Layman's turn questions any other questions or comments this is good for us thank you Mr shreves application and enrollment windows for 2022 2023 2023 2024 school years assistant superintendents good evening Mr President Dr Smith members of the board each year we bring to you the application and enrollment window about this time last year we brought to you the window for our current school year which continues to be currently open to the last day of school May 25th 2023 for our next school year 2023-24 we plan to open the non-resident application window on March 1st of 2023 and then registration for all grades for next school year will begin on Thursday January 5th 2003 that's
025our first day back second semester bring this to you as information at this time we'll seek approval later on in the meeting what any questions or comments on our applicational enrollment windows thank you now to our board committee chairs Foundation Foundation I just woke up um do you know I don't believe oh thank you Indie due day October 96th seventh seven seventh October 7th Indie due day so um you can go to the foundation website and please feel free to sign up for we'll do a several projects around LT schools um and you'll get to know some of the foundation board members and some of the your fellow community members and um you'll be a little tired at the end of the day and you'll be very happy you did something for our community and
026the I I will also say the um some of the members of our foundation board may or may not make another appearance at our celebrity reader event and um if we do I think it's worth seeing just saying what would you say yes anything else Wendy thank you Lawrence Parks and Recreation fall leagues are continuing on at the parks the main two events coming up are the dia de la Lawrence this Saturday from 11 to 3 at the Fort Bend cultural campus our district is very involved with that and also the renovations have been completed at the community park building for the E let's see the kitchen and the big area it's available now to the public for rental it's beautiful that's one of our main sporting Parks so those are the main updates that
027I have in the Parks oh and pickleball's going strong good dear thank you Miss Norman policy so Dr harshbarger apparently thinking on a Monday morning I was going to be kind of depressed and down wondering what in the world am I going to do for the last three months of my term so thankfully thankfully he sent me a happy email this morning saying that he had received 19 new policy updates from Neola and a few bylaw updates and that we're going to get right to work on them so thank you because I wasn't sure how I was gonna fill my plate so we'll be back to the entire board with uh some more policy updates for you later this quarter thank you for giving us your time Mr Freeze apologies I'll update my my glasses
028prescription thank you board thank you for your community chair reports on to our action items approval of the 2023 budget Mrs Reed Mr President Dr Smith members of the board at our September 12th meeting we held a public hearing on the budget for next year we have not received any comments from the public at this point so tonight I would ask that you adopt that budget with a total of just over 235.6 million dollars with a levy of 94 just under 95 million and a proposed tax rate of 1.65.63 now keep in mind those rates will drop as we go through the process with dlgf the apartment local government finance and as part of this you're also adopting the capital projects plan in the bus replacement plan which is encompassed in that overall total second
029ooh Crystal Puckett second Amy Norman questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye and it pulls the same motion carries thank you approval of application for upcoming school loan it's trees I would recommend the board approve the application for the common school loan as previously discussed and submitted this evening so moved second move as Wendy muston's second Mr Dick fregey questions or comments all those in favor signify and aye aye and it pose the same motion carries thank you approval of additional Appropriations Mr Street I would ask the board to approve the permission to advertise for the additional Appropriations to hold the hearing at the end of November at our regular board meeting that month so moved second move Mr Dick Frazee second Miss Crystal Puckett questions or comments all those
030in favor signify by saying aye aye and it pulls the same motion carries thank you approval of Treasurer and purchasing agent yes Mr President Dr Smith members of the board with my official retirement as of last week the Board needs to appoint a treasure and purchasing agent and that would fall under the direction of Mr Matt miles the new CFO so I would recommend that you appoint him as the new Treasurer and purchasing agent so moved second it has been moved in property second to approve our trading for the corporation and purchasing agent as Mr miles Matt miles questions or comments oh sorry go ahead I was just that awesome my bad okay all those in favor signify by saying aye aye in opposed the same motion carries let's pause right here for a moment
031so we have a changing of the guards correct that is correct Mr President so as of what 605 new CFO Mr Mr miles Mr miles and we salute Mr Freeze for job well done [Applause] gentlemen switch seats [Laughter] that's so awesome job well done Mrs trees on behalf of the Board of Education we thank you for your service we thank you for your commitment we actually thank you for your heart giving your heart in the matters of making sure that we are in good shape as a district it goes a long way sir we know that you handed off the torch to a good person so Matt jump in thank you thank you thank you foreign thank you again for your service sir approval application enrollment winners for the 2022-2023 and 2023 2024 school year
032president McGregor Dr Smith members of the board um earlier this evening we heard from Mr kuznick and I recommend to you that you approve the application enrollment windows for the 22-23 and 2324 school years as submitted so moved second boom is Wendy Mustin second Mr Dick fregey questions or comments all those in favor signify bossy and I I and it pose the same motion carries thank you approval of expanded Management Services Mr Smith Mr President Dr Smith members of the board we recommend the board approved to expand managed services to rjb as presented so moved second move Mr Dick frege's second Miss Wendy mustins question or comment on the expansion of Management Services all those in favor signify by saying aye aye and it pose the same motion carries thank you Mr President I move
033that we treat agenda items 4.7 through 4.11 as a consent agenda for the board's consideration second moved by Mr Dick freeze second by Mr Miss Wendy Mustin to consider items 4.7 to 4.11 as consent agenda items questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye any opposed the same motion carries and move approval of the consent agenda second move to move in second move to approve the consent agenda item by Mr Dick freeze second by Miss Wendy mustard questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye aye and it pulls the same motion carries thank you board Administration will complete our action items tonight more comments Mr Freeze I'm gonna start with you sir okay I use stuff all in my ammunition you know talking about Dr harshbach
034all right Ms Norman well um I wanted to Second you on uh thanking Mr shreves again for his work um just being in a financially well-off District like how we're doing financially is really important and um Welcome Matt all right Mr miles on continuing that and it's I know it's a collective team effort so enjoy your retirement and don't be a stranger but um I also wanted to say it was also very good timing that I was volunteering with first through third graders last week before we voted on raises it really yes it really yes yes it is a gift to work with the children and everybody too because it was gardening club and they dumped dirt everywhere and our custodians were on it but yes so thank you again to all of our staff
035on that and then finally community so we I was at the North Shadeland Alliance Fall Festival on Saturday and our district was so well represented we had the McKinsey kids there with their robots we had several athletes there volunteering with the kids Lawrence The Swim Team it was just it was such a great representation so just makes me proud of how interconnected we are with the community awesome I will just take Liberty if I might because thanking Mr shreves for his service which I certainly share in but I want you to know Michael that um your ears should have been burning Saturday night because um my wife and I were out to dinner with the helmuses and former former board member Carol helmus and I were reminiscing of that your service over the years and
036she sends her regards and uh how highly she uh appreciated your service also so thank you Ms Norman to Mr shreves I Echo what has already been said this evening you will be greatly missed but I would also like to congratulate Dr Smith and the leadership of this organization for always having a plan in motion when we know people are going to be leaving or retiring and for having someone as wonderful as Matt to to fill in and the feeling of comp the level of comfort we have in that is is great so thank you Dr Smith to you and your staff for always having Plan B ready for us I agree you're here yeah I second everything everyone has said and Mr shreves thank you so much your knowledge is immense you are so
037knowledgeable but the one thing that stands out the most about you to me is your love for your family you have a love that stands out and actually showed me a greater amount of balance that you can do well in your field but you can also love well like you like going home I've spoken to people that don't always like going home so not in here not in here you guys but I just want to just say thank you for just just thank you for loving well and thank you for your knowledge so well said Thank you for eign thank you for those comments Wendy in terms of Dr Smith and the team having a backup plan well said what about let's see eight years ago you know eight years ago I had the opportunity
038to attend a board meeting as a candidate for the school board learned a lot glad somebody invited me to do that in fact we encourage that so you can just have some idea what it means to serve in this capacity so tonight we are honored to have a candidate Miss Patty brennaman uh just as a reminder we don't campaign on school grounds we don't talk about anything on school ground but we do recognize and thank you for being here with us tonight so thank you for that this past week we had the first robot just want to give a shout out to Mackenzie Ln NLC we had the first robotics team out at our Rolls Royce stem day and those students were absolutely remarkable in their enthusiasm inspiration and just working with the fourth graders
039from Wayne Township but they was working with fourth graders and we just thanked them I just want to go on record that I thank them for being more than just a robotic scene but being ambassadors for education and stem education so I thank them for that great Friday night Dr Nashville for Lawrence Township uh wonderful just a shout out to recognizing some outstanding alumni of Lawrence Township uh both from Ln and LC I don't think I don't think we should take that for granted because it because it is the product that we produce it really speaks to being the destination so thank you for that shout out to you Dr Dana for the wonderful articles we've been seeing the background store has been being told to everybody across the state thank you for your leadership
040in that as well we do recognize that effort so thank you Dr Smith Mr President I'm going to keep it short just to remind the board that you'll be called to duty next week as uh the collective bargaining agreement requires a 72-hour period until we approve it so we're going to be back here for a special board meeting on Monday October the 10th at 5 30. so just remember that and we need your presence that we'll approve that as well as our other staff members salary increases so that's all I have today thank you board our next meeting will be on Monday November 14th we will begin at 5 30 P.M if there are no other items I'll take a motion to adjourn so second mood in property second we are adjourned thank you for
041your being here with us tonight thank you