001maybe it's where you right um thank you for joining us tonight on our reschedule thank you for making time and your schedules to be with us on the reschedule for our board meeting tonight i won't go into why we had to reschedule but i won't first of all thank the district dr smith's leadership and his team for responding to a crisis that really made a difference for the district as well as for the family and to all those at the ln that administration as well for the work they've done in that crisis so on behalf of the school board we appreciate your response and your professionalism during that time so now if you would stand with me for the pledge of allegiance and justice for all thank you and now we will have recognitions our
002superintendent's awards ms johnson good evening president mcgregor dr smith and members of the board we would like to thank each and every one of you for your dedication and support since march 2019 with the handling of the coronavirus pandemic we would like to thank the following areas operations transportation support services and our school nurses the past three years have been historic never in our modern day age have we dealt with such uncertain times we are so proud of how you all work together in such a harmonious way to fight this virus our number one concern is the health and safety of our students and staff during the pandemic you were able to implement new procedures with an ever-changing dialogue figured out how to educate students virtually and in person assist with getting staff and students
003vaccinated and tested for the virus all while wearing a mask we are honored to present to you the superintendent award for your contribution in battling covet 19. with us this evening dr timothy hershberger chief of support services [Applause] sean bush director of student services [Applause] roger smith chief of operations [Applause] dr grant nesbitt director of operations [Applause] matthew miles director of transportation [Applause] amanda perdue district nurse coordinator [Applause] and also with us we have our district nurses whitney thomas lawrence advance academy sheri johnson elc amy beverlin sherry johnson [Applause] we have dana dalton e.l.c brook park in attendance rebecca cabin elc mary castle [Applause] with us this evening joanne stroy elc wining ridge jessica schmidt amy beverlin and sarah randolph brook park carter millman crestview michelle weber forest glen and with us this evening heather
004hoffer harrison hill oh she's here [Applause] and heather hoffer from harrison hill [Applause] julie hills indian creek [Applause] we have katie fowle mary castle patricia cress o'clandon and with us this evening beatrice rodriguez from scott's test sarah hudson sunnyside marianna brunner winding ridge tracy dasture bowser abby thompson bowser beth dreamin fall creek valley megan etherington fall creek valley mario tressler lawrence central christina evans lawrence central elizabeth butts lawrence north jennifer english lawrence north alice jackson lawrence north brittany brown lawrence north and karen young mckenzie we just want to call out all the names of our nurses and that concludes our presentation would you like to introduce them uh step forward thank is [Applause] yes doesn't need people do a wonderful job it's so easy to take it for granted we thank you for all your
005expertise compassion and patience i know you guys made it look easy well sometimes we made it look easy but we got through it and we thank you again on behalf of the school board thank you for the wonderful work doing the pandemic and the wonderful work that you can do continue to do for our families and students thank you makes it really easy for us mr smith blue ribbon update sir mr president members of the board dr smith progress continues lc matter of fact we're going to start punching the third floor so that means 95 plus percent finished uh in that area moving in in june or july uh elsia again offices space on the second and first floor continue on uh lcgm that's a new entry on the east side and lobby area as
006well as the gym upgrades ln almost uh weather tight with windows and doors going in a new addition again inside work continues ln pool roof is really going well a little bit of break on the weather helps a lot interior work also continues on as the roof goes in fall creek valley uh you see the chillers on the left they're in and hopefully by the first of july will be operational uh in the building along with the you can go to the next slide the boilers in place plumbing electrical continue both at fall creek and at belser middle school thank you sir questions or comments for this just update i would just say having taken the tour of lc last week about a week and a half ago it's it's impressive it really is impressive
007thank you for all your hard work everyone who's worked on that thanks any other questions or comments for mr smith thank you sir proposed lunch fees for the 2022 2023 school year agenda item i was hoping that i would not see dr smith but we know it is what it is mr streets give us update sir mr president dr smith members of the board as you know this past year the federal government had passed where we were able to offer free lunch and breakfast to all of our students that provision has expired for next school year we're hoping they would renew it but congress has not done that as of today so that means we have to look at what our fees should be next year and on the board you see what those fees
008are that represents a cent increase for let's see yeah lunch at the elementary in middle school 15 cents at the high school a tencent increase in breakfast that may seem like a lot but we have not changed our fees since 2016-17 school year so we've done very well but with the added food costs as you've seen when you go to the grocery store we feel we need to raise our prices as well accordingly so i'll ask you for approval for those later in the meeting and as you can see there's eight of our school or i think it's eight eight of our elementaries and two elcs i believe that qualify for the community eligibility program and that means students at those schools do not pay anything for their lunch or breakfast questions or comments for
009mr shrees i just had one in general um what's the guidelines to meet for the community eligibility program for a school to meet that if i recall correctly you have to have 65 percent of your school qualify for free or reduced lunch okay thank you mr let's talk to our community a little bit because i know we understand the state of the economy inflation but we raise the price is it do we benefit from racing prices or what what what determines prices to go up 10 cent 15 [ __ ] and it don't seem like a lot but today that's a lot so help the community understand well what dictates those price increases is a self-supporting fund that means we have to pay for all our costs with the revenue that comes in from both us and
010the federal and state government as you know food costs are going up more than fifteen twenty percent on some items right as well as wages have gone up so to cover those additional costs is why we need to raise our lunch fees as presented and then help us understand so as a district we try to do everything we can to help our families but there's not much we can do in this area because of what mr sreeds well there again we have to cover our costs and in the past the this past year the federal government covered all our costs for us they're not doing that moving forward they're just covering the cost of the free and reduced portion of those those children so we have to cover all our other costs that we have
011right and the fact we haven't had an increase since 1617 we have tried to help our parents as much as we can and we're hoping the 10 what we did may not be enough but we think we can absorb it if it's not and then next year we'll reevaluate and see where we are thank you sir and also is there any indication that congress will come together over the summer and make these lunches free again and if so these price increases will just be moved to another year it's my understanding that has been proposed but has been stopped in the legislative process in congress okay thank you and madam vice president i re had the pleasure of meeting the secretary of agriculture two weekends ago and the answer is no i asked that question on
012behalf of all the school districts in the state of indiana since i was invited but that was the question and right now there's not a sign that that's going to change thank you one thing i would like to point out is the provision for the free lunch actually ended the end of may but we did get a waiver for a jump start to still allow those to be free for this summer for the students that attend jump start that's good news thank you sir any other questions or comments on our proposed lunch fees thank you disposal of vehicles update street we brought this to you in the past with different vehicles but from time to time we'll have either buses or some of our other fleet that have no resale value and are not operable
013and we've worked with the lawrence fire department and the swat teams in the past they would like to use those for training purposes and then when they're finished with them we get the salvage value out of those vehicles so that's what this is we're asking for your permission to dispose of those vehicles to allow them to use them for training purposes and then we'll get the salvage value when they're complete with their training exercises for questions or comments on disposal of vehicles thank you sir our department of education flexibility waivers proposed virtual education board resolution mr president dr smith members of the board later in the meeting i will recommend approval of a resolution granting permission to submit uh indiana department of education flexibility waiver indiana code currently requires the establishment of a separate virtual
014school for any school corporation that has at least 100 students enrolled that receive at least 50 percent of their instruction virtually we obviously met that threshold this school year uh but with the discontinuation of connect lt there will be a significantly smaller number of students receiving their education virtually however we do have students that for portions of the school year are placed in home access and they would fall under this definition indiana's performance-based accreditation system allows for us to request what's called a 1003 accreditation flexibility waiver we're going to ask for that waiver to maintain enrollment for students learning virtually at their home school we brought this to you about this time last school year you're actually able to allow to request this waiver for up to three years and my recommendation will be to
015submit this for the following three three years i present this as information at this time questions or comments from mr kuznick thank you sir thank you viola policy updates mr president members of board dr smith tonight i bring forward to uniola uniolapolicy0167.3 participation of board meetings for first reading the policy revision is in response to changes made to state law regarding public participation in school meetings i do recommend the board receive this as information tonight questions comments on the neola policy update presented tonight it's appreciating additional comments from you sir yeah i'd be happy to answer any questions and if the board members have and if you haven't had a chance to look at it you know we'll be taking it up for second reading and approval but it's in response you know to the
016recent legislative changes as you know we've always had you know public participation opportunities this refines that and makes it a little bit more specific on some of the procedural things to be consistent with the new state it becomes effective on july 1. it's my understanding from reading it that it doesn't change our policy very much no i think that maybe the most significant part of it is that it looks like under the state law you have to allow public comment per an agenda item where we're taking action on it and that we can't just have a lump sum overall a lot of time so as you go through the proposed policy you'll see that it contemplates that for each agenda item where someone signs up there's a certain allowed allotted amount of time if more
017people sign up than that a lot of time then you divide the allotted time of that number of people or reduced but you know each significant agenda item we would have an opportunity for people to sign up if they would like to make comment and you have to do that before we take any formal action on it thank you any other questions or comments thank you dr harshbarger thank you mr friji financial update mr street yes mr president dr smith members of the board if you look at the general fund you see all but one they have a green check mark that means we're doing better than we anticipated and the one that's not was a transfer out and that's just due to a timing on that item so we're doing very well there transportation
018the item of concern may you may when you look at it may be the salaries but what that is versus projection is we did projections based on what we had last year but we've had a few more extra double routes and some extenuating circumstances this year but still by the end of the year we should still be okay within that fund to where our projected amounts have been thank you any questions or comments on our financial update thank you sir war committee chair reports foundation that would be me hello good morning so we had our um our race last weekend and um and it was well attended by lawrence students as you read i'm sure as you read in the notes both buses from the high schools were loaded up to help with that race
019and um our our coaches were in attendance and um it's it's a it's a great way to get the get the family and the kids out for a nice race on a saturday morning saturday holiday morning that's you know we have our golf outing is uh this saturday june 7th tuesday june 7th and i do believe um that there are some sponsorships left if you wish madam vice president you must not be a golfer that would be circled on your calendar it would be circled on my calendar it would be got you back we got plenty of people to go don't worry yep thank you thank you for the update lawrence parks and recreation um thank you the fort bend farmer's market opens this thursday june 2nd it will be every thursday from 4 to
0207 p.m at the cultural campus also i may need dr nesbits and put on i don't have a pickleball update i do know that there was another construction delay um do you have anything okay yes i know that we were able thank you to the district for allowing um the people signed up to utilize the craig middle school um courts out back that's all i have thank you thank you thank you any additional updates on policy let's freeze anything else well there's another batch that is on the way and dr harshberger tells me that it consists of about four new policies and 14 amended policies and so i don't know at some point a few meetings down the road will be presenting more policies for your review i think most of these i'm sure are
021in response to other state law changes anything else thank you for those updates board thank you on to our action items approval of curricular resource fees for the 2022 2023 school year mr trees mr president dr smith members of the board i would recommend that you approve the curricular resource fees for the 22-23 school year that were presented at our last meeting so moved second boom is amy norman second mr freezey questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye and impose the same motion carries thank you approval of our lunch fees for 2022-2023 school year i would recommend that the board approve the proposed lunch fees that were presented earlier this evening for the 22-23 school year second boom is wendy mustang second miss crystal puckett questions or comments all
022those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye aye and oppose the same motion carries thank you approval disposal of vehicles i would recommend the board approve the disposal of vehicles as previously presented so move second move mr mr dick freeze second miss amy norman questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye and oppose the same motion carries thank you approval of the indiana department of education flexibility waiver mr president dr smith members of the board i recommend the board approve the virtual education board resolution as submitted so moved second move move mr freezey second is wendy thank you any questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye and oppose the same motion carries thank you approval of our sunnyside elementary dual language mr president members
023of the board and dr smith at our last previous meeting we presented a recommendation to expand dual immersion two-way dual immersion to sunnyside elementary beginning in kindergarten of next school year i recommend that you approve that plan as previously presented so moved second with enthusiasm it's been enthusiastically moved by muslims and second as well by miss crystal puckett questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye and oppose the same motion carries thank you good news thank you mr notorer mr president i move that we treat agenda items 4.6 through 4.12 as a consent agenda second it has been moved in property second that we consider items 4.6 through 4.12 as consent agenda items questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye and oppose the same motion carries
024i move approval of the consent second mood and property second that we approve the consent agenda questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye and oppose the same motion carries thank you do we have guests tonight this evening the school board of the metropolitan school district of lawrence township unanimously approved the hiring of coach stephen thomas as the girls varsity basketball coach at lawrence north high school coach thomas will take the reins from coach chris griffin who is transitioning to head boys basketball coach and he is with us tonight [Applause] coach thomas has served as the junior varsity head coach and girls varsity assistant coach with the lawrence north program since 2017. in his tenure as head junior varsity coach coach giffin has referred to coach thomas as the source
025of program wide energy and enthusiasm other coaching experience includes belzer middle school and broadapple high school and ips an indianapolis native thomas attended indiana university purdue university of indianapolis thomas as a scholarship earning student athlete playing for the iupui jaguar men's basketball team he earned his bachelor's degree from iupui in 2012. that same year he came to wining ridge elementary in lawrence township where he served as behavior mentor for almost 10 years he completed the district-based alternative certification program in lawrence township in partnership with iupui earning his teaching license in 2019 at that time he assumed a classroom teaching role at wining ridge elementary where he served until 2021 according to superintendent dr sean smith we're excited to have coach thomas transition to this new role in the lawrence north athletic department he has learned
026from the best and has demonstrated his commitment to the student athletes at lawrence north lawrence north athletic director mike penrose states coach thomas has been a key piece to our player development over the last five seasons he knows what it takes to be successful both on and off the court he adds i've been impressed with his detailed preparation moreover he has been a tremendous role model to our players congratulations and welcome coach folks um first so thank my wife um courtney thomas here in the back but i also have a long list of people to thank dr smith the board um mike penrose mr kraussohr um very humbled and privileged to be in this opportunity um also very excited to to continue the tradition of excellence that's already been put in place by coach giffin
027um looking forward to great things both on the boys and girls side at lawrence north um it looks like you know ready to get going um as early as tomorrow with our team um and they're biting and excited about the news as well so uh thank you to everybody um and let's go cats thank you folks come on down shake hands congratulations this easy part here coach [Music] we competitive coach job well done good choice for ellen we're excited we're excited for you coach well done well done more comments miss amy i just wanted to um congratulate coach thomas again um all the coaches we have you're going to be role models for our boys and girls for years to come also as a parent and a board member i wanted to thank all of
028the staff involved in summer jumpstart so thank you for all the work you're doing to prepare and get ready i i truly saw a benefit in my child last year so i i know what a success it is so thank you mr president since we're on that topic can i ask mr notre just to give a quick update on the start dates of jumpstart for the public so we can put it on the public record please yes the first day of jumpstart is monday june the 6th and will run through thursday june 30th thank you thank you troy it's freejie so i also would like to congratulate coach thomas and also i would point out that your attire is very ln looking i love it it's great however your go cats has a way to
029go if you want to compete with mr that's all i gotta say there's only one way to say it right you trained us all mr crowd anything else mr freezey nope that's all thank you sir what what has already been said and it was such an honor and joy to attend the avid and i'm sorry not the avid the project search graduation a few weeks ago and those that may be my favorite day of the whole year to to watch our kids graduate and find employment and i think that our valedictorian and our salutatorian have some things to learn from those who addressed the group the other day they were brief on target and very meaningful thank you miss karen thank you anything else bucket my turn well i'll just keep this brief um my
030kids were leaving out to go to school or go to my son was going to swimming today and my daughter was going out to a friend's house today and so i find myself saying the prayer that i normally say over them when they go off to school for my faith tradition we pray from the bible and so the lord bless cover and keep you i pray you have a wonderful day i pray you are a blessing to others and that you are blessed as well in the lord's name we pray and i said that prayer and i'll be honest with you i said it and i rested in that moment because i felt this prick and i felt the prick and i processed it i noticed it i felt like the prayer was almost coming
031from a place of angst and so i sat in it i processed it i processed my prayers when i when i when i have those pricks i process them until i till they come to a place of peace for me and so i say all that to say with the events that are happening in our world and our community that i will continue to lean into those pricks and i will hold space for all of us during my quiet time and that i pray that for all of our children and our teachers and everyone that you have a amazing summer that every moment that every moment is one filled with memories with joy leaning into joy leaning hard leaning hard to joy and that i look forward to seeing everybody this coming august and i'll
032be holding space for all of us [ __ ] well said do i adjourn now what do i do well done well done real quickly just uh it's always a pleasure to be with our classified of the year our teachers of the year to see their excitement i know they're excited because summer but just to just to see them in one space we thank them for all that they do we thank all the schools for all they do uh one thing for sure as we talk about what has happened in the past let's use this summer and going forth the excitement for the future let's start talking about what we are getting ready to do for our families and children going forward we won't forget the past we'll learn from the past we'll lean into the present
033but let's be excited and intentional about the excellence that we share with our families going forward in the future i ask all of you to meditate on that dr smith mr president it is always a joy for me to make this announcement i need your presence on wednesday and thursday june 8th and 9th as we do the most important job of the board of education and the superintendent with the permission of the high school principals we will certify the graduates of lawrence north june the 8th and lawrence central high school on june 9th we will be there got it board right that's all i have today mr president thank you sir again thank you for your leadership thank your team for their leadership thank everybody for their compassion for our families board our next meeting
034will be a work session it'll be on 5 30 on june 13th again we'll be in a work session on june 13th at 5 30 p.m there's no other items all gennadies have been covered i will take a motion to adjourn second move property second back