001we serve this community with joy and with a sense of purpose and we serve sometimes on special days and sometimes not so special days but today is a very special day for our own miss amy norman happy birthday amy norman thank you yes yeah she's been busy all day with school board activities and what a way to spend a birthday huh on such a gorgeous gorgeous day couldn't think of anything else to do with good people okay well i believe now we're going to start mr smith you're going to lead us in the blue ribbon update madam vice president dr smith members of the board can we continue on as uh lc you'll see the west side as it continues to come down and that will again will be expanded parking lot this fall the
002west end you'll see the new sidewalk going in and also there will be a roundabout turn around there on the south west door entrance and the new gym renovation and also the new entrance on the east side lc new addition new science rooms we actually uh did a uh completion of second and third floor and hopefully here in a week and a half we will do first floor and we have already started moving new furniture into the second and third floors ln new addition is coming along quite well again windows siding roofing windows all that going in as you can see here as you drive by uh the new facility site work uh there on the south east corner uh the new drive we ran into a little bit of problems there but they should
003be finishing up that this week and getting some binder on and of course the west end this huge hole you see here is an aqua swirl that's for the new pool uh in case we do have to drain the pool there's a place there for the water to slowly dissipate through our lake at ln uh ln field house upgrades continue on uh new pool is going quite well roof siding interior work concrete going down uh really moving forward and the pool itself will be start to be dug here in the next couple weeks fabulous any questions good it it was lovely to visit the lc new building about a month ago so impressive and i really want to go back to high school that's all i'm saying okay uh next on the agenda requests to
004transfer funds mr shreves madam vice president dr smith members of the board this is a request that we bring to you two times a year as you know a few years ago they separated the education fund and the op out of the general fund and the operations fund they combined bus replacement transportation and capital projects but they give us the ability to transfer funds between the two and so at the end of june we transfer we will ask once we get these next three days done and bring back to you in august but we need permission ahead of time to do that the transfer to make those two funds whole so we can take what we normally spend out of the general fund and transfer from the operations education to cover in the operations fund
005and vice versa so later on i'll get your permission to approve this resolution then in august i'll give you a breakdown of what that was any questions i guess my my question is um we move those funds but they they were all they all used to be part of what we called our general fund and now they have special silos and we're free to move them within those few silos is that correct yes and the general fund when they broke it into education they took part of what was spent out of the general fund and moved it over to the operations fund but the funding store source is still in the education fund so we have to move get permission to transfer those funds to cover those costs thank you i just wanted to make
006sure i was remembering that correctly um okay the next up is the request for an rfp for uninterrupted power supply upgrades mr butter and briefly uh happy june birthday to mr butter and mr shreves as well thank you madam vice president dr smith members of the board as you all are aware we are eligible for federal e-rate funding to reimburse network infrastructure purchases and upgrade and so we are bringing back to you a second portion to utilize our available e-rate reimbursement funding the first request here is to advertise a request for proposals for uninterrupted power supplies or battery backups is more commonly known this will allow all of our networking equipment throughout the district which also now supports our phone security cameras pa systems wireless access and a number of other systems uh to maintain
007power in the case of an outage uh they also protect the equipment from uh unwanted power surges and other things and so at the next meeting i will bring this back to you for a final approval to advertise a request for proposals thank you again any questions from the board no okay next item you're up again request for rfp for network upgrades mr butter madam vice president dr smith members of the board um this request also comes out of the same e-rate funds uh we felt it most appropriate to bid them separately since the uninterrupted power supply battery backups is a specialty item that wouldn't have the same bidders as for our networking equipment so aside from that this is the same request to publish or advertise an rfp for network switch and wireless access
008point upgrades and again i'll bring this back to you at a subsequent meeting for approval thank you next up this will be presented by myself uh in lieu of mr mcgregor who wishes he could be here this evening with us but president mcgregor is otherwise engaged um so this is the proposed board of education meetings for the 22-23 school year and as you can see in august september and october this year we have one meeting it will be a combined work session school board meeting due to various obligations of the faculty the administration and the school board and we always have one meeting in december january and february back to two and frequently the march meeting and the july meeting are single meetings that month so we just this sessions will be a little bit
009longer and i think that's just basically for information we can vote on that later so that we can get that published board do you have any issues with this calendar nope um i um and my spouse will be in belfast for the august meeting but they don't need me to be here to run a successful meeting so um and i don't think i'll call i won't i won't call in probably at one in the morning i probably won't call in but um i will stay informed okay all right next item i i think they can get by without me i think so uh again uh mr shaves our financial update please yes madam vice president dr smith and members of the board we'll start with the general fund report as you can see there's a
010lot of green check marks on there which is good but you might say why do we have so many in some places well the salaries was an estimate based on what we thought would be early payouts which our employees can request we didn't have as many this year as we did in the past so that kind of affects that number a little bit plus we had some open positions throughout the spring but as you can see we're doing quite well in the general fund we're going to keep an eye on that as we move forward because we do know utility costs are going to go up this fall in the summer we don't know exactly how those are going to hit but i know i saw aes asked for a 19 increase the other day
011so we know that's going to impact our electric bills if you look at transportation they're they're about it's like they're just a little under where we'd anticipated and that number may be a lot worse by the end of the year than we anticipated just because of the fuel costs that are going to go up this fall unless gas fuel prices come down so just to alert you there we do have fund balance that can cover that though so it's not like we're going to spend more money than we have we'll just we just may have to come back with additional appropriation in the file to cover that but we're keeping an eye on that and we'll keep you posted as we go through if we get to that point and and will we will we
012think about this as we make our budget for the next year yes we will no one could foresee when we did the budget a year ago the fuel prices were going to go as high as they were and inflation was going where it was but we will factor that in next year and hopefully it goes the other way and we budget too high and come in looking very well after next year thank you very much i had a question regarding the fuel prices so that new rate will be calculated starting july 1st is that correct how does that work we actually are on a day-to-day purchase right now our contract ran out in may as we do every year uh anticipating prices will go lower so we are just kind of in the waiting game
013right now to find out what happens and then hopefully as it drops we can lock it in at a decent rate roger for those people in the public that don't understand how we handle that how do we purchase steel can you just give them a quick yeah we do it we got a consortium we work with and also locals vendors as we look at the volume of which we have we look at it on a quarterly basis and sometimes we go on a six-month purchase where we lock it in for six months and re-evaluate it and purchase again so that's kind of where we're at today it's a waiting game thank you okay if there are no more questions we'll go on to the board committee chair reports uh miss norman parks and rec thank
014you miss mustin um the two big items up are the fourth fest for the city of lawrence when which our district is a big part of each year that will be on july 4th at 10 a.m indiana community park um coach kiefer will be our um is the term master of ceremony or the grand marshal yes so exciting parade um and then secondly the farmer's market at the fort bend cultural campus is continuing on every thursday from four to seven that's all i have wonderful mr friji you and those policies oh yes yes yes everyone looks forward to this uh well dr harshberger and i are working through the proposed uh policies that will be another packet we were hoping to get those to you uh today but just didn't have enough time to get
015through them all but there's about 20 or so policies but a lot of them are just technical revisions um some deal with some updates for school visitor policy education grant policy address and grooming policies but uh hopefully i'll talk a little bit after this meeting tonight and then i think you can look to see those presented for first reading in july great because i never have enough reading in july so that's good um i guess the next would be our lawrence township foundation and our executive director ms gibbs is here this evening so she will fill us in madam vice president dr smith members of the board we just completed our annual golf outing one of the largest fundraising we were at capacity with golfers thank you for your presence and your support you do
016have an award-winning golfer among you and dr altemeier [Applause] exceeded our goal by three thousand dollars this year which will be pouring back into the district so we celebrate that i just signed scholarship letters today uh you might know that we had the largest pool in history of applicants this year with over 230 39 recipients going from building automotive culinary future teachers collegiate scholarships of 76 250. we just onboarded eight extraordinary board members again a precedent setting number and we are in the midst of strategic planning for a growing year any questions thank you thank you and that website again is all right um well let's see um i i guess uh we if there are any comments that the board members have um anything you'd like to say near the end of the meeting
017what oh that's right you know what i skipped ahead didn't i way i skipped way ahead of president we're good we're good to go all right um the approval of the calendar yes and that would be good evening madam vice president dr smith members of the board last time we met dr haas brown and i presented to you the academic calendars for the 2023-24 as well as the 25 school years and we bring those to you tonight for approval as submitted so moved second been properly moved and seconded all in is there any discussion all in favor aye aye uh those opposed same where that passes all right now we are going to vote on the proposed board of education meetings and i recommend the board approve the 2223 board of education meeting schedule as
018submitted second properly moved and seconded all in favor aye any opposed okay we have approved our board of education meetings um we're looking at the approval of the proposed resource adoption for the next level programs of study mr notre madam vice president members of the board and dr smith at your last meeting we presented to you the resource adoption recommendations for our new several new courses in the nlps curriculum and i recommend that you approve those as submitted do we have a motion second all those in favor aye aye any opposed we have passed the proposed resource adoption this is the approval of proposed boys volleyball and girls wrestling sports for the 22-23 season mr dr nesbitt thank you madam vice president members of the board dr smith uh during our june work session presented
019to you information regarding the addition of these two sports and i now recommend that we approve those as submitted so moved second all those in favor aye aye any opposed okay that has passed 4.5 the approval of classified employees handbook updates for the 2223 school year ms johnson madam vice president dr smith and members of the board at our last meeting we presented the classified handbook i recommend that the board approve the classified employee handbooks for the 22-23 school year as submitted so moved second properly moved and seconded um all those in favor aye aye any opposed we've got that passes um do we have are we going to approve each one of these handbooks separately or is that all-encompassing okay thank you thank you all right um very good approval of the student handbook
020updates for this school year miss bush madam vice president dr smith and members of the board at our last meeting you were presented updates to the student handbooks for the 2022-23 school year i would like to recommend that those updates be approved as submitted so moved second all those in favor aye aye any opposed we have new student handbooks all right um the approval of mr shreves the approval of transfer of funds little run right on the bottom of the page madam president dr smith members of the board i would recommend that the board approve the resolution to transfer funds between the education fund and operations fund as previously submitted second all in favor aye any opposed all right i move that we treat uh agenda items 4.8 through 4.13 as a consent agenda for
021the board's consideration second it has been properly moved and seconded to treat our those items previously mentioned as a consent agenda um all this in favor