001thank you for being here with us tonight our first order of business is a public hearing on the disposition of property mr streets mr smith mr president dr smith members of the board as we approach the time when we're going to move into the new transportation facility we need to start the process of disposing of the former or the current transportation facility and in order to do that we need a public hearing and i'm going to turn the rest of this part over to mr jeff quackenbush our attorney who knows a whole lot more about it than i do thank you mr streams mr president members of the board it's a pleasure to be with you this evening jeff quackenbush with barnes and thornburg we published the notice for the public hearing on january 14th
002for this for this time in this place at this time you will then consider any public comment regarding the disposition of the existing transportation maintenance center once we get the occupancy of the new transportation and maintenance center you already do have your certificate of substantial completion on that completed we are now wrapping up the documents to be able to do the disposition we will publish that notice of disposition if you approve the resolution that's in your board pack this evening that will be done via an auction where we will advertise the notice and then they will submit bids first time to mr shreves and mr smith then they will be given notice that what those bids are and then ask them to come back two more times to increase their bid or keep their bid
003where it is we've been using this on these larger properties like this and been able to obtain more than the fair market value of the appraised value in many cases so we're optimistic about that especially given that site and the interests in it so with that the public hearing is just merely a public hearing where the public can comment on this disposition of the property since this is also not any property that was being used for academic purposes we don't have to go through any other procedures or processes like you would if you were going to a vacated school building so with that i'd be happy to answer any questions you may have about the process i have a question since we're disposing of the property through a bid process if a bid doesn't reach
004the level of the actual property value then we would start the process over you you have two or three options there very good question so the first option is we will put in the bid documents that we want to have the average of the two appraisals we will put that in there as the minimum bid and we will state that unless determined by the school board not to to change that term that the minimum bid does have to be that amount thank you if you decide to do that then you would restart the process yes thank you any other questions or comments on the disposition of the property for our community layman's term we are discussing the possibility of selling our transportation and maintenance center so uh just to be in layman's town club we're
005not talking about disposing in terms of turning something down we're this is good news it's a good public hearing for us yes sir right any questions comments from the public or if mr kawkenbush if not that will close the public hearing thank you sir and now we will open up our second order business our board of finance meeting mr shreeves mr president dr smith members of the board this is a annual meeting required by indiana statute from for the board of finance it's probably the only meeting we have every year for the board of finance but we have to elect officers into the board of finance and traditionally we've made those the same officers that we have for the regular board so we'll need to do that before this where the finance meeting com is
006over and then we review the investments from the prior year and we'll have to go over the fiscal indicators that are put out there by the distressed unit appeals board just so we've put those on the public record so at this point we would i would recommend that the president and secretary be the same as the current board but i need some action from the board itself to approve those i move that reginald mcgregor and wendy mustin be or sorrow crystal excuse me the uh respectively elected president and secretary it has been moved in property second that our current president president mcgregor's secretary crystal parker will serve as the elected officers or our board of finance uh group questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye all right and it opposed the
007same motion carries then as an order of business we will appoint our financial mr sreese as our financial officer mr president the other item of business we need to just review quickly our investments for the past year if you look at the numbers they've dropped drastically on what interest income we've been able to receive and as we all know there's the fed rates practically zero so it's kind of hard to get any return on your investment right now we were fortunate in 2020 that we bought purchased a lot of investments in 2019 that didn't mature until 2020 but when we had to re re-up those investments of course the rates were substantially less we're just hoping they'll go up here in the near future but not too much because if they go up too much
008that means inflation's getting too high so hopefully they'll stay relatively we can get back to where we were in 2019 or 2020 anyway so were the investments those amounts in 2018 and 2019 were those also similarly older investments that had higher rates that matured then yes yeah and by statute we can only have a certain amount that's longer than two years most of them have to be two years or less so that kind of limits what we can get in return as well the other thing we need to look at are we just need to review real quickly the fiscal indicators which are out on the distress unit appeals board website and we'll just kind of go in order they show up online the first ones just to show the the our attendance and our
009enrollment the past few years as you can see it's been steadily increasing for the most part over those years and this one shows fund balances and if you remember in the past i've talked about how i remove the noise when we look at those because this shows all of our funds and it's kind of confusing so if we go to the next slide it just shows our education and operation funds so it's a whole lot easier to see what we do on a day-to-day basis and you can see those balances as we move forward then this this slide shows whether we spent more brought in less you know how we spend our dollars there's only two years there it shows the yellow line below the zero and that's when we gave some of our cash
010balance back to our our staff back in the 1516 time period next slide shows our fund balance is a percent of operating expenditures and this shows we've kept it in the prudent range and that's why we keep our cash balance per the board goal where you've established it so we can keep those percentages this breaks down all of our different revenue sources as you can see the largest portion is state revenue there the the blue in the middle and then the last slide is one that we're very happy about we do not have an operating referendum so you see a flat line there because we have no revenue coming in from that questions or comments for mr shreves is there any other observation in the other remarks mr streets no that's it for this for
011this time at this time this will close our border finance meeting and now we will open up our boarding again thank you for being here with us tonight our first order of business is our pledge of allegiance please into the stands for which stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you at this time we will have our recognitions above and beyond awards superintendent awards miss johnson good evening president mcgregor dr smith and members of the board it's our pleasure this evening to present to you our above and beyond awards with us this evening we have mr clarence small and we have carlos soto if they can come forward lawrence central had a student that was in crisis this student reached out to friends and luckily those students were directly
012were directed to administration and made them aware clarence small was able to use his amazing rapport that he has with all students at lawrence central to talk to the young lady off the ledge of the building while carlos soto risked his own safety to scale down from a higher roof level to the level the student was on carlos was then able to grab the student away from the edge and help the student down the ladder to safety thanks to all involved but especially carlos soto and clarence small the student was able to receive the help she desperately needed the two personal security officers will tell you they were just doing their jobs but this was more than that i'm honored to present both mr clarence small and mr carlos soto with the above and beyond
013ward thank you [Applause] oh congratulations our next above and beyond award goes to michael connors the athletic director of belzer middle school mr connors if you'll come forward mike connors was recently named the indiana interscholastic athletic administrator association district 3 junior high middle school athletic director of the year mike was selected out of a pool of athletic directors from 15 surrounding counties that make up district 3. we are proud of the work he does as a part of the belzer administration team and how hard he works to give belzer coaches and students an athletic program to be proud of it's nice to see that his colleagues at the state level recognize his efforts as well we salute mr michael connors for going above and beyond this school year congratulations [Applause] uh mr connors has his
014family with him and mr bush as well uh [Applause] next we have randy bremer golf course superintendent fort bend golf resort receiving the superintendent's award if you'll come forward randy bremer golf course superintendent at the fort bend golf resort has generously provided fourth grade students at crestview a first green stem study trip for five years he recruits volunteers and even a sponsor who funds the buses for the annual fall excursion students are introduced to golf on the putting green and driving range and experience the science behind the many grass surfaces with soil samples you can see students calculating the square footage of greens examining the trees and this year even planted trees randy collaborates with the dnr and the afternoon ends with a wildlife demonstration we salute mr randy brimmer with the superintendent's award congratulations
015[Applause] randy has with him this evening his family and his current principal and former principal from crestview elementary [Applause] we want to thank you all for being with us here tonight um that will conclude the fun part of the meeting um if you please stay because our business meeting is terribly exciting but if you choose to leave we appreciate you being here thank you like we don't take it lightly for those who help our families and when you have what i call local heroes that nobody said anything about they just doing their job but to a lot of people into that family those guys are heroes so we appreciate that thank you for your recognitions ms johnson dr smith well done well we have a full agenda tonight our next order of vision will be
016our blue ribbon update mr president members of war dr smith you see we continue on uh temporary walls went up at uh lc and that is surrounding the new cafeteria as it is uh uh taking place you'll see the walls inside and utilities going in as well as the utilities outside and the new north wall to that cafe going in ln continues with uh the outside we're trying to get it uh plastic in so we can heat and continue with the drywall on the third floor pool continues on we're finalizing the architectural precast panels and hope to have those on site very soon transportation and the final process there of that loft going in and hopefully in the next week and a half two weeks that total facility will be a hundred percent uh done
017uh also we continue on with belgium middle school and fall creek valley and lacc with the hvac upgrades and we're also starting the design work on the two middle schools starting this week questions comments i just had a art question was the um murals that were painted on the temporary walls at lc done by the lawrence central students student from the elementary up and uh that's a way for them to participate as well and it looks great additional color to the process any other questions or comments on the blue ribbon update um i would just i just have a question um left over from last meeting just checking to make sure that all of the water has been mitigated at ln that occurred during the process of construction the water leakage yes we're back in
018those uh classrooms that were damaged all but one and that one was beyond uh able to return into and then we had a couple storage areas that uh we have uh totally remediated and actually uh took everything out uh the good thing about that is if you can say it's a good thing uh it is phase 1c starts uh spring break so those classrooms and areas uh will be renovated starting uh the 1st of april and then um the life skills um area that was already finished um will we continue to do air quality samples throughout absolutely we continue that on a weekly basis thank you madam vice president your superintendent your chief of operation and cfo were on site we've walked the areas and we'll be meeting with skillman here very soon thank you
019thank you just i just wanted to follow up with you thank you for your thank you for your work on that any other questions or comments on the blue ribbon update results for a rfp to beat our launch central who mr president members of the board dr smith uh also with us tonight is anna marie with uh schmidt and bart york with gilman uh we were um or we did receive bids for the lawrence central high school pool on january the 12th we had 12 different bid categories and we had over 32 contractors who bid the project each bid is low and most responsive meeting all specifications um the good thing about it our projections of dollars was 1.3 million below the projected budget the total budget for this project is 23 million 545 403
020dollars and it will be a recommendation to the board to approve those bids questions or comments from the rfp or lawrence central approval thank you mr smith thank you ms anna marie thank you mr skillman for being here with us tonight request for proposal of the apparel company dr nesbitt uh thank you president mcgregor members of the board sure okay yeah he's coming to speak to you mr president dr smith members of the board it's been a it's the time of year when our current apparel rfp runs out and to present that to you as dr grant nesbitt grant thank you good evening president gregory remembers the board and superintendent smith uh it's been four years since we did a our first uh district-wide apparel uh deal and uh rfp and we're looking to do
021that again we did a four-year contract and uh i won't read the slideshow but you can you can go along here with us and and see the reasons why for the rfp and uh it has been very good for us you can see our 2018 summary um we had three people uh three companies bid on that and no surprise we went with adidas that's our current and as a reminder we did a four-year process because that's typically when we cycle uniforms um a new varsity team will get uniforms and every four years you have another set come through so that was our purpose of doing a four-year uh deal and that's what we're looking to do again and just going through that's our current status and then shia will look at the next one and
022i can take any questions now and then we'll obviously request your permission later i'd be happy to field some questions about our process here questions on the process for uh apparel in lawrence township how many bidders did we have last time three uh adidas nike and under armour okay and uh and when we did this last time each high school had a different vendor uh middle schools didn't have anyone we didn't have any district deal and uh we we drastically uh improved financially from what the high schools were getting when they were independent uh that the right now each high school gets twenty thousand dollars a year of uh merchandise they can they get for free uh before we did the deal it was ten thousand and two thousand so they they took a big
023jump the middle schools and and district why we weren't getting anything and then we weren't getting anything on uniforms and now we get buy one get one free uniforms which that's that's an athletic partner's largest expenses uniforms football uniforms 50 40 50 000 when you buy those so you think that's that's a very significant savings for our athletic departments of course i recognize all three of those uh bitter names that you said are there any is there anybody else that you might expect to get in to at this time or we'd welcome anyone else um not necessarily um you know some of those companies have we had to deal with reebok years and years ago and you know i think they kind of fluctuate up and down and and uh you know what their marketing
024budget looks like and where they're really wanting to to advertise and and have their product product promoted you know we do think they get a great value here um you know it's not uncommon for our sports teams being color photos on top and front page indianapolis star and have plenty of you know internet impressions so we we think the success our teams have really helps uh you know it's a nice partnership for for both us and the whoever the successful bitter will be any other questions on our apparel for the district thank you dr nesbit thank you mr streets transfer of funds update mr street mr president dr smith members of the board last month i asked for permission to transfer funds at the end of the year once we knew what those were between
025the two different funds the operations and the education fund we ended up transferring 8.7 just over 8.7 million from education operations and then 2.4 from operations back to education you may ask why do we do it instead of net those that stems from back when they used to have the general fund and capital projects fund there are certain things that were in the general fund that are now in operations and certain things that were in capital projects are now in education and it just keeps it clean so we can keep track of those costs for the year our net transfer was 11.29 million dollars between the funds which equates to 10.9 percent which is well under the 15 percent that was established to be under by the general assembly when they did this in 2019
026i'd be happy to answer any questions if there are any at this time questions comments on the transfer of funds thank you mr trees permission to transfer funds to our rainy day fund as we ended the year and our tax draws came in we received a little more than anticipated in our tax draws and the circuit breaker was about a million dollars less than what they'd anticipated when we did our got our budget last year along with various departments in the operations fund making sure our expenses kept in line we ended up with 1.5 million that we could transfer to the rainy day fund out of the operations fund so later in the meeting i will ask for formal pres permission to have transferred those funds any questions or comments on the rainy day fund
027transfer for our stakeholders um assuming this passes what will be the balance in our rainy day fund you caught me off guard on that one because uh oh sorry i i believe it'll be close to 10 million thank you michael can you have that number before this i will get it when we get to the action item for you thank you anyway any other questions or comments mr freeze thank you sir safety and health update dr harshmark mr president dr smith members of the board to bring to you tonight safety and health report as information as you can see as we always start off with some numbers things are moving along in the state versus the county the county actually went down a little bit over a percent so that's promising other numbers are showing
028the same no movement in the uh vaccination rate but students came up by three percent on attendance staff 92 percent think those are outstanding numbers and praise for our staff and students and teachers just a few numbers on omnicom how it's taken over from delta v across the country obviously for indiana over 80 percent of the cases right now are stemming from the omnicron in fact the school nurse contingency plan i talked a little bit this about this last time wanted to touch again that our goal is to have a nurse in every school in the case that we were to have several nurses go down and we weren't able to do that there's a contingency plan to use our family liaisons who are being trained right now and just some general practitioner medications would
029still be given by an rn lpn or medical assistant lastly there on the page quarantine guidance for when all are masked which obviously we have a mass mandate in the district so that is us there have been some changes in guidance just a few to recognize tier when student exposed to covet in the classroom or outside and vaccinated three scenarios would basically apply they can remain in school if they remain asymptomatic they may continue extracurricular activities if symptoms develop obviously we refer them to testing and or quarantining home tests have been getting a real run as of late especially in the last three or four weeks obviously we know about them coming from either the government or being reimbursed from private insurer but the point of tonight is to really explain how they can be
030used in the school setting so a positive test with a photo would be accepted as a possible case and this is important because it would also start the clock on a natural immunization for six months so that's a key piece for that a negative test with a photo would be accepted for a person who stays asymptomatic and then if symptomatic it would all be about the symptoms and if they ever go away and if they do they can come back on day six like a normal quarantine if they continue then obviously the quarantine continues additionally there the indiana department of health is looking at contact tracing contact racing is probably one of the most time consuming obviously it's very detailed it's one of the things that they're trying to curb right now to allow more
031resources to be in the buildings obviously they're talking about the nurses but at any rate reducing that contact trace and reporting burden individual notification versus a close contact letter we might send a letter home for the entire classroom simply stating there was a positive case in the classroom monitor your child for symptoms get them tested obviously if any occur so the last two just as reminders vaccination partnership with community health we have two uh clinics coming up in february so we're excited to do that and our gravity indiana department health partnership is expanding so i'll have news on that as we go through the next few weeks or so i look here to see where we're going in terms of the spike that has been the last two weeks you can see we're just starting
032to tumble over and some of those lines aren't quite getting as high we've seen those same numbers here in lawrence township as we have in the county for students our kids in college win again i think probably for a lot of obvious reasons but when you look at the lower grades especially those first three elementary middle school and and kindergarten early childhood you can see those numbers are some of the lowest there and they're turning that corner as well so it's good news our data reflects the same we run this report every two weeks and you can see we're falling in every category one last graph here is the breakthrough cases this is obviously something we monitor and i think it's important in terms of behavior once you're vaccinated and boosted it's still a good
033idea to follow those protocols because breakthrough cases happen be them less severe obviously with a fewer hospital day stay if any at all and then just looking at our numbers you can see the week of the 10th we averaged around 250 in quarantine that's dropped significantly this last week gone by i would point your attention to that bottom number of 1862. it's up 269 that seems like a lot the week before we were up 400. so again we're starting to see those same fall offs that we're seeing at the county state level a little bit of movement in our big numbers we're seeing that uh sixth grade seventh grade ninth and tenth all grew um proportionately in in again um this isn't a lot of cases but significant that it's gone up a little bit
034and then lastly just continue targeting the vaccine clinics continue to expand our ability to be able to test our staff and students and then of course continuing our later protocols as they're listed there and i'll be happy to take any questions questions or comments with dr harshmarker i had a question about the vaccine clinic in partnership with community health on the 3rd and 24th of february is that open specifically for our staff and students or can other people within our neighborhoods or communities take advantage of that both okay yeah both we we do put it out on the website and we obviously the community is us as well okay okay i just wanted to clarify it's very um i'm grateful for the accessibility right here absolutely we first started we didn't quite have enough people
035and what have you but now we're able to move two to three hundred through in the clinic wow thank you any other questions or comments for dr horsley yes i have one i know that we serve a very diverse student population with varying needs and so first and foremost thank you for everybody and just our efforts and keeping our schools open but there has been questions where i have received questions if a parent is alarmed by the numbers and wants their in-person student to go virtual could you just re-iterate the process for that or what that would look like to that parent sure i i mean i can speak to it i also can administer notre speak to it but those are case by case at this point and and working with the principal and
036the parent to make sure that that is the best fit and that there's space available in that classroom okay thank you any other questions or comments just for the community to understand we we keep this safety and health update on our agenda because we are definitely want our students our teachers staff and everyone in our community to understand the importance of everyone being safe and the well-being of everybody in our district and how important it is to make sure we can keep our schools open so we know it's a lot of data but the other reason we because we on a weekly basis get information on this data and if there's any decisions we have to make as a board with dr smith that information is available to us so community we are well aware
037of what's taking place in this environment and we're doing everything we possibly can to keep everybody safe in our township so uh so we take the time to cover that so dr harsh parker thank you for this information and all this information is available and if you do have questions parents you're building leaders how to they have the same information so keep asking questions because we definitely want to make sure everybody is safe thank you thank you board goals student achievement update mr president members of the board and dr smith i'm pleased to bring you an update on student achievement relative to the board goals that you previously passed the board goal that we're going to take a look at this evening is a growth of 10 percent and our students meeting grade level proficiency
038on our district benchmark math and reading assessments and looking at that through the lens of every racial subgroup within our district we use fastbridge reading and math assessments and this is from the approved list from the indiana department of education we administer those assessments in august for the beginning of year baseline they are nationally normed both assessments their adaptive assessments meaning that the cut score for benchmark changes as the year progresses it gets increasingly it increases as the year goes on the second administration was either in december or january schools could choose either one for their mid-year growth data point the testing window has been extended for kindergarten middle school in order for them to reach the 90 student test completion so i'm bringing you elementary data this evening so this is our reading data
039for grades one through six and you can see each subgroup listed on the left-hand side the total number of students that were tested in that subgroup at the beginning of the year middle of the year the percentage of students that were reaching benchmark at the beginning of the year middle of the year the percentage growth as well as the growth overall growth in the subgroup so you can see that for reading we've had growth in every subgroup with the exception of our special education subgroup which did decline by percentage point but all other subgroups have increased with the percentage and number of students at benchmark math i'm pleased to report every subgroup has grown with the percentage of students reaching benchmark as well as growth within that subgroup a couple of other data points that
040we need to take a look at on the next slide attendance data although this isn't a result of student achievement it certainly impacts student achievement and something i've been monitoring very closely as a data point for us i'm typically and this is pre-pandemic what i call typical before march of 2020 our student attendance rate would average 96 to 97 percent in each school each week this year our elementary student attendance by school averages anywhere from 88 percent to 92 percent and that's a from the first semester this year which this student achievement data is attached to so some analysis points we know that our attendance has impacted overall student achievement we're growing we're getting more students towards benchmark but we know we've got some students that have missed quite a bit of school we also
041know that we're fighting through staff vacancies and that also has impacted benchmark growth achievement in some classrooms one piece that i think is really important for us to continue to analyze is that although we've seen growth in each of our subgroups we have a larger percentage growing in our white students than we do in our students of color and so we've got to look at some additional data points our cohorts are bigger and our students of color so we actually have more students reaching benchmark african-american students hispanic students than we do white students but that percentage of growth there's still a disparity that we need to pay attention to so in terms of next step we need to analyze our data by intervention type by growth percentile and i i do have the growth percentile
042ready to share with you in a future meeting and subgroup to determine effectiveness of of our instructional approach i'm specifically looking at our during the school day interventions and we've worked hard first semester um to get all of these interventions in place um and so now that next step of analysis analysis we'll see which one are we getting the most bang for our buck from as well as after school supports um we've started several new approaches to after school supports that we've never done in the district before and so we'll be analyzing our data by after school support as well and then continuing to support our schools in their data proven practices be happy to entertain any conversation or questions any question on student achievement um i have a question on slide number six and
043just to clarification the attendance numbers 88 to 92 percent that that includes our virtual students yes yes okay thank you okay i just have a well more of a comment slash yeah with the data that was given here our equity audit it's using data such as this that helps to pinpoint and target and narrow what we need to do to better improve these systems right absolutely so i just wanted to just to reiterate that the purpose of our audit was to pinpoint and to address some of the issues that were mentioned tonight you're exactly right groups just wanted to reiterate that thank you so help us with the calibration so a three just a one percent increase what does that really mean so if we can go back to the the math slide mrs blankenship
044so on this particular slide three percent of our african american students 57 students five and a half percent of our hispanic students 77 students 10.5 white students 39 so you can see we've got more students of color reaching benchmark but it's less of a percentage because the overall subgroup is larger correct okay i just want to make sure you understand what these percentages mean that's significant it is talking about it is bodies right it is okay i had a question mr notre well first of all thank you and your team for putting all of this together and my question was what factors would do you attribute to the decline in the reading score on the special education group so that's still part of our further analysis as we're looking at specific intervention types we need
045to look at the type of supports that students had and look at growth percentiles within those supports so that'll be coming in in a future meeting okay so it's in next steps then absolutely thank you sir and troy and karen that's not all of our spare kids those are the kids who are sitting in general education class is that correct correct that is correct that's not all miss norman okay what does that mean doc smith go ahead karen go to the bike our experts yeah and they can explain that you have your own language we do have our own language and you can see the numbers significant less kids who are in that number so there's a reason why sure as we look at the different data and the fast bridge data some of our
046students who are in more self-contained classes functional academic or life skills classes don't participate that we use other assessments to gauge their growth and gauge their progress so when we look at the students that are taking the fast bridge those are students who are in the general ed classroom more frequently and for a higher amount of time thank you any other questions or comments on student achievement boy just a reminder we will address a board goal at our meetings uh instead of waiting to the end we can have comments questions as we are going forward so thank you mr nora and your team again i know some work to pull data but it helps us better measure how well we're doing as a district so this is good thank you sir thank you results of
047our teacher laptop rfp mr michael good evening dr smith mr president members of the board tonight i'm presenting to you the results of our recent request for proposals for new teacher laptops as i presented to you previously it is time for us to refresh our teacher devices and to maintain a greater level of flexibility for a staff and a long time request that's been coming to our division we'll be shifting from desktop computers to laptop computers that will also consolidate the number of devices that our teachers have to maintain instead of maintaining a chromebook and a desktop they'll just be able to maintain a windows laptop so what you see in front of you is the results of the bid process our team did our due diligence and identified three specific models and configurations that
048created an apples to apples comparison across vendors so they would be roughly equivalent in in performance and capability and as you see the results there the the hp model was the winner and the reseller with the best possible price was virtucom at 12.95 and that includes a four-year warranty for your battery coverage and the docking station that will allow the teachers to continue using their dual monitors their webcams and their keyboards and mice any questions on our rfp for our teachers laptops thank you sir thank you financial update mr street yes mr president members of the board dr smith we're gonna i'm gonna reverse it a little bit we're gonna start with the transportation fund this evening then come back to the general fund as you can see the transportation fund in every category finished
049above what we'd anticipated except for the property taxes and that kind of has to do with how the tax caps impacted them at the end but we still came out better than we expected there by a few thousand few hundred thousand dollars now if we flip over the general fund this is where all the this is where the good news is our almost every category there again you see is in green so that we were way over anticipated in almost every area due to a lot of reasons but we ended the year with 16.5 million in revenue our anticip we had anticipated 11.5 but due to less sub costs that we had some staffing shortages throughout that we we've been filling and revenue came in higher than anticipated due to the increased enrollment we had
050in the fall so when we get done with this report mrs johnson will bring a couple things to you that i think everybody will be happy with and if we approve those with some other things that we agreed to in the contract we'll still keep our cash balance above the 12 million that the board goal is but we're very pleased with the way we finish the year i'd be happy to answer any questions anyone might have questions comments on our finances mr freeze well good news for us mr street no comments from the ward okay we're gonna wait on the good part okay is this a good comment mr sreeve you left out one thing i always remind people we can do all those things but we also have board very good management so add
051that on your list of good things mou between lawrence educational association and the msd of lawrence township johnson mr president dr smith and members of the board i'd like to present to you our memorandum of understanding that is entered into this 24th day of january to memorialize the agreement between the metropolitan school district and the lawrence education association regarding provisions which become necessary after the deadline for the completion of collective bargaining so as our cba currently reads we have a cash balance stipend that as of december 31st if greater than or equal to 13 million each teacher hired by lawrence township on or before november 1st 2021 and who is still employed on december 31st shall receive a 250 stipend well lawrence township finished the year with a larger than expected cash balance in the
052education fund and wishes to distribute some of the excess to the lea in the form of a one-time stipend of a thousand dollars so the said one-time stipend would be payable to all certified staff employed prior to january 22nd and working on january 24 to be payable no later than the end of february 18 2022. we're looking to amend the amount from to an additional thousand as outlined above our parties have read understood and agree to the term so we're just bringing this to you as an information item at this time any questions or comments on mou between our lea and our township certified thank you ms johnson stipend for our classified administrators mr johnson mr president dr smith and members of the board before you we have the administrator and classified stipends amounts due
053to the large balance in the education fund as of december 31st 2021 we are bringing to you an amount of a thousand dollar stipend as recommended for administrators this is also in addition to the 250 stipend already outlined for administrators and for our classified staff an amount of 500 stipend is recommended and this is also an addition to the 250 stipend already outlined for classified staff are there any questions questions coming forward thank you miss johnson or committee chair reports has any committees met okay thank you mr president oh is it him no you miss no go ahead amy oh okay sorry i only have one update from lawrence parks um pickleball is taking signups now for the spring pickleball league the public is invited go to ccasports.com starting april 1st so that recreational availability
054will soon be in the city of lawrence thank you thank you mr friji so dr harshberger with other members of the cabinet and uh and a little bit from me have been working through a bunch of policies i think we have dr harshbarger around 27 29 policies and all to be presented to you all we're not quite ready to do that yet we have a few that we're still tweaking but uh before the february work session we should have some policies for you guys to review and then we'll do a first reading at the february work session thank you foundation the foundation will be very excited to introduce new leadership to you very soon and um please keep march 11th friday march 11th on your calendars it is the township foundation celebration at crane bay
055i want to see everybody there we have a great time if you if you feel that you can't be in a crowd we're working on a virtual aspect for the celebration again this year as well thank you ms mustang we'll circle the date march 11th it's been two years a year uh it well we did make 2020. we didn't make 20 20. we did make 20 20 okay um and also you can go to msdltf.org to sign up for that msdltf.org thank you board on to our action items approval result of our rfp to be at our launch center pool mr president members of the board dr smith it is recommended for approval the bid package for lawrence central high school pool for 23 million 545 403 dollars as presented second it has been moved
056and property second to approve the rfp bid of the stated amount of 23 million 23 million plus dollars for our launch central pool questions or comments 23 million plus my comment is that's a lot of money yeah questions or comments they say wow yeah that's that's good and i guess the the other comment would be thank you to our community for making that possible for our children it has been moved in probably a second that we accept this bid as submitted questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye all right and impose the same motion carries thank you approval of a resolution for our disposition of the property mr president dr smith members of the board earlier this evening we held the public hearing regarding the disposition of the current transportation and
057maintenance facility at this point we would need to have you approve the resolution so that we can move forward with that and i believe you've had that in your packets so moved second it had been moved and properly second to approve the resolution for disposition of the properties as stated questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye and oppose the same motion carries thank you approval of the rfp of the apparel company mr streets mr president dr smith members of the board earlier this evening you were presented the rfp to for the apparel to for us to advertise and bring that back to a later date i'd ask that you approve us to be able to do that at this time i'll get you to repeat that mr freeze yeah earlier
058this evening we presented the request to advertise for the apparel rfp i'd ask your permission to do that at this time so moved second it has been moving properly second to approve the the request or proposal of the apparel company questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye any opposed motion carries thank you approval permission to transfer funds to our rainy day fund earlier this evening i presented to you the proposal to transfer 1.5 million from the operations fund to the rainy day fund after that transfer we will have 9.58 million dollars in our rainy day fund so i'd ask that you approve that transfer at this time so moved second it's been moving properly second to approve the permission to transfer funds to the rainy day funds questions or comments
059all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye and oppose the same motion carries thank you approval of a mou between lawrence lea and msd at lawrence township earlier in our meeting i presented a memorandum of understanding between the lea and the msd of lawrence township i would like to recommend the board approve the mou between the lea and lawrence township as submitted so moved second it has been moved in property second to approve the mou between lea and the msd at lawrence township questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye and impose the same motion carries thank you thank you approval of stipend for classifier and administrators johnson earlier this evening i presented information concerning a stipend for classified staff and a stipend for administrators i recommend the board
060approve the stipend for classified staff and administrators as submitted second it has been moved in property second to approve the stipend for our classifier and administrators questions or comments all those in favor say we thought by saying aye aye aye aye and oppose the same motion carries thank you it's all well done approval of teacher laptop bids good evening mr president dr smith members of the board uh i'd like to ask that the board approve the uh award of the uh rfp laptop or the laptop purchase to uh the uh winning bidder uh from our rfp process so moved second it has been moved and properly second that we approved the [Music] is it virtual com yes a virtual com virtual com as as submitted questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying
061aye aye and oppose the same motion carries thank you president mcgregor i would move that we treat agenda item 6.8 through 6.14 as a consent agenda for consideration second it has been moved and properly second to consider items 6.8 through 6.14 as consent agenda items questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye and oppose the same motion carries thank you i move approval of the consent agenda second mood and property second to move and properly second to approve the consent agenda items questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye and oppose the same motion carry thank you board for getting us through our information items as well as our action items there's a lot of good news come through our action items any comments from the board
062it's amy we'll start on this end saturday i was honored to attend the vex robotics championships i want to as both a parent and a board member so i was exciting to have that back after two years for the elementary kids all of the schools were well represented and i want to especially thank indian creek for putting on a great event and also to the lawrence township school foundation for ensuring that all of our elementary students have access to vex robotics kits so thank you freezie i would just say very pleased that we were able to do our approvals of the special stipends tonight i know our teachers and our classified staff and our administrators have worked very very hard over the last uh couple years because of covet and i'm glad we were in
063a position to do that tonight thank you i'm vice president it was such an honor to attend the rededications of four of our buildings yesterday they look beautiful it's wonderful to provide such lovely education centers for our children and it was very clear to me at all of the schools but certainly at brook park which had a plaque for 1960 when the school was built for 1966 when it was renovated for i believe the year 2000 when it was renovated and again now in 2022 it's very clear to me that this board this administration stands on the shoulders of dreamers in this township who believed in the children of this township and still do it was quite an honor indeed madam secretary i second everything that everyone has said with the addition of vex competition
064this coming saturday february 5th see our little kiddos go at it um it is at linheur's seventh and eighth grade center so i urge you all to come see because i learned a lot myself when i went it's pretty awesome so that's it for me board let's just take a moment here to think about what we've done tonight first and foremost recognize some heroes in our district and other business partners talked about the achievement of our students able to celebrate funds to be able to give back to our classified certified administrators in the midst of over 19. dr smith you're on your team this is outstanding work as a board we thank you we don't take this for granted and i just want the community to know just how proud it is for us to
065serve and then on yesterday to be able to see the work of these beautiful buildings it's really touching in a sense and i don't mean that to be cliche it's a touching moment uh invaders sit here in this seat and to be able to look through these action items and see the things that's being done from everybody that we get to look out and see so thank you security for keeping us safe so we thank you on behalf of the board and i think i can speak for a lot of families thank you for the work you guys are doing for us dr smith thank you mr president superintendent well said and well done and with that being said i don't have anything else for the good of the cause just to thank the board
066and our our team and i'll turn it back to you sir for our next meeting february 4th to be a work session we'll start at 5 30. there'll be a work session on february 4th and we'll start at 5 30. any other than good for the cause again thank you for being here our guest tonight thank you for all your support if there's no other items we will take a motion to adjourn so moved