001Whenever you're ready, let us rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Pike Pike Township School Board meeting, June 27th. We start off with our public hearing. First amendment to lease and appropriations of the bond proceeds and interest. Mr. Foster. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board. Dr. Young, I'd like to welcome you to the public hearing. This is the next step in the process of the 2025 2027 early learning center expansion and districtwide project. I will uh the purpose of this this I'm sorry, excuse me. This notice has been published uh in accordance with Indiana law. Uh the
002purpose of a public hearing is to pre present information and allow an opportunity for public input. I will introduce Mr. Jeff Quacush, our bond council, who Mr. Quacenbush will walk through the legal process and the need for the rated related resolutions. We're presenting these resolutions as action managements later this evening. Uh then Mr. Tanzel will our municipal adviser with Baker Tilly will then provide a brief overview of the financials. Thank you, Mr. Foster. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Young, Jeff Quenbush. It's a pleasure to be with you again this evening. So, you might remember last month we met to preliminarily approve the form of the amendment to lease for the early learning center project uh and said at that time we would be coming back this month for a public hearing
003on that amendment to lease. This is the last public hearing and last meeting we will have. You might remember we had two public hearings back in March on the project and went through the preliminary termination process during which no one requested any additional community approval processes to be required. So then we moved into the next phase with the lease financing and and had meetings both at the building corporation at 6:00 p.m. in uh May as well as again this evening and then with you all this evening as well. As Mr. Foster stated we published the notice of the public hearing of this uh amendment to lease in the new in both newspapers at least 10 days in advance and then we have these two resolutions that are in your board packet that you will consider
004at the actual action items in the board meeting. Um the purpose of tonight's meeting is we will have a presentation for Mr. Tanzel on the financial parameters which have not changed since we met with you all back in in March as well. So there's no new information there, but we do want to summarize that. And then after that, you would open up for any public comment regarding the project or the financing as proposed. In addition, you would be able to ask any questions at that point in time regarding the presentation or the resolutions. The two resolutions that are in your board packet, one is confirming the amendment to lease and authorizing the issuance of the bonds in the amount not to exceed the 44,325,000 along with the other financial parameters that Mr. Tanzel will present.
005The second one is approving the additional appropriation of the bond proceeds and interest earnings. You will earn interest on those bond proceeds while the construction project is underway. Um we've estimated the amount for that appropriation to be a roughly $4 million because we want to set that artificially high so you don't have to repeat the process again. Uh if you are able to earn $4 million in investments, I want to talk to your investment advisor because that sounds like it's very he's doing he or she's doing a very good job for you. But we always want to set that artificially high just so we don't have to repeat the process and you don't exceed that. So that's the reason for the difference in the principal amount versus the appropriation. If you all approve the resolutions
006this evening, we will then publish one more notice in the newspapers and that will run for 30 days. At the end of that 30-day period, we could in theory at that point in time sell the bonds, but we will wait until we get construction bids on the early learning center to make sure that we match the bond issue size to the actual need for the project. Um there are other components of the project that are also being done such as updating HVAC systems, roofing systems, uh wall uh coverings, floor coverings at your facilities as you continue to use those day in day out. Those get worn and need to be updated just like everything else. So we will do those in addition to the early learning center project and that. So that's why it's going
007to be a total not to exceed 44,325,000. So with that, I'll turn it over to Mr. Tanzel and then we'll be available for any questions after the presentation as well. Thank you. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Young. Thank you for having me at tonight's hearing. My name is Jason Tansel and I am a director with Baker Tilly. And uh now that we've heard about the project scope and need from Mr. Quacenbush, we will now review the financial parameters that are within your resolutions here tonight. As Mr. Quacenbush mentioned, we are not changing any of the parameters that the board has already seen from the March hearings. So we are just reviewing these again for uh tonight for the resolutions before you. So, I do have a presentation here and again this
008is the same presentation from March and so if you do have that in your board packet. Uh if you would please turn to slide three. Hopefully this the will the Okay. Thank you. Perfect. Sorry, I should have I should have led with that, but I appreciate that. Thank you. So, again, this is the same information that we have seen in the March hearings. I'm going to skip to slide four. Uh this is a graph of the 12 bonds that are currently outstanding that the school corporation pays from its debt service uh debt service fund. Uh the bonds being discussed here tonight are in an amount not to exceed $44,325,000 and they will be repaid through property taxes in the debt service fund. So looking at the existing debt service structure of Pike Township Schools, you
009will see that in total payments are roughly $17 million in 2025, declining every single year until all bonds come to maturity in 2029. And so these declining debt service structures would allow the school corporation the ability to bring on new debt service payments without increasing above these levels. And so again, we are not estimating a debt service levy increase uh through the issuance of these bonds. As Mr. Quacenbush mentioned, uh at this point in time, the school corporation is not think uh anticipating issuing these bonds in one series. We're potentially matching multiple bonds with with the construction program. And so some of these bonds might be general obligation bonds. And if they are general obligation bonds, uh we need to know what that limitation is. And as of today, that limitation is 2% of one-third
010of your most recent net assessed value. You can see here today that today uh as we stand, it's $19,432,000 could be general obligation bonds, but also as Mr. Quacenbush mentioned, we might also utilize the building corporation to issue some of these bonds as well. So just keep this in mind as we think about matching the construction need with the type of bonds that we will be issuing in the future. Here on slide seven, we have a summary of the maximums that would be within your resolutions. A maximum borrowing amount not to exceed $44,325,000. A maximum repayment term not to exceed 12 years. A maximum annual payment not to exceed the current level of $17,320,000. There's a maximum total principle in interest not to exceed $63,231,000. I do want to note that this does include of
011course include interest, but we have been conservative with our interest rate estimates. We assumed a maximum rate of 6%. Uh today looking at a 20-year bond, that interest rate is 4.25%. And so for anything that would be 12 years, we would expect it to be less. We'd be in the 4% range. So just know that we've been conservative with that estimate. And then right now, as you can see, we are not anticipating a levy increase above that current mark of $16,372,000. Here on our final slide, you will see in gray, those are the same payments from slide three, the existing debt service payments of the school corporation. In that blue color, we have uh uh shown a proposed repayment term of 12 years where again you would see we are not anticipating an increase above
012the current debt service levels. So not anticipating an increase in the debt service levy at this time. You can always determine to use a shorter repayment term than 12 years to help minimize interest costs. We are just showing the maximum repayment term here to provide flexibility to the school corporation should something in the bond market unforeseen happen. With that, I would be happy to turn it back over to um Mr. Foster or uh move on to the next agenda item. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Quack Bush and Mr. Tanzel. Uh as I mentioned since the opportunity for public comment uh so if there's more questions for public financing or the legal aspect I recommend we'd make that time available at this time. Are there any questions or comments? Yes, Mr. President. Uh it would be
013to my friend here. Uh when will the bidding uh process open or has it already opened? It hasn't. Usually once the project is approved, a project of this magnitude, it'll take 10 to 11 months to go through all of the schematic design and ensure that we have a a project on paper that we can successfully bid out. So, we'd most likely bid this out in the spring of 2026. Okay. Have a comment. Uh I love the fact, you know, we're being conservative with the interest rate. I love the the margin that we have there. um looking at and watching the the volatility of you know our economic climate. If we wanted to be more ambitious with the payback plan, I know we're at 12. Um if we decided if we wanted to do like maybe
014eight or 10, we're still able to do that. I see we have the flexibility of that. Would you guys recommend that if you if we thought if we were just one to think about put on the table? That's that's a very good question, a very good point. Uh, yes, you can you can clearly do a much shorter repayment term if you want. And as we get closer to the bond time of the sale, we will work with Mr. Foster and Dr. Young to to figure out exactly what uh they the term is. And he will they will both be in communication with you all on that. the the the balance you have to do there is that because uh while Pike has been very aggressive and uh in a positive way of repaying things very
015quickly and so it's put you in a nice position to be able to continue to do projects without increasing your levy, you're going to continue to have projects and so we don't want to have that levy be at that 17 million 320 for too many years on this project because then that means you would have to then potentially not do any bond financings for a few years while you you let that levy go down. So, we got to have a balancing act there of how much interest cost you want to incur relative to how much flexibility you want to meet additional facility needs as you have those arise over the next several years. And so what we've seen Pike typically do is they may have a large payment in the first or second year after
016the bond issue and then they'll drop down contemplating that they'll come along with another bond financing in a year or so after that to address either long-term capital needs or to address other major facility improvements like we're doing with the ELC this time. Okay. Thank you very much. Um I have a question. Oh, go ahead if you have something to say about that as well. I I appreciate that. I just wanted to also echo that uh we do try to match the bonding amount with the construction program. That's very important to us so that we don't borrow um you know the full 44 million pay interest on it for two years if you're not going to need it for two years. So that's another way we look to minimize interest cost to the school corporation
017as well. Okay. So this is just in relation to what you said about how we manage our the levy and all the do any of the laws that have been passed recently because I know some of them did impact the levies and how how much we can like for referendums it impacted all kinds of things. So do do anything down that's happened downtown impact what we're doing here and something maybe that we just need to be aware of. Not so much an actual uh experience but in in verbiage. Yes. Okay. and that um you've heard us talk more tonight about the levy versus the tax rate because over the next 6 years your net assessed value will potentially decline as they increase the homestead deductions to be a maximum of 66 uh% in 2031. They're
018also uh creating a new deduction for what we call the 2% property. So, the multifamily uh property, the uh assisted living properties, the uh the non-commercial properties are going to get a 33% deduction that gets phased in over the next three years over over the next six years as well. Um and so your net assessed value, we do expect that to potentially decline even though you may have a growth in your gross assessed value because those deductions are now going to be for the first time hitting at much larger amounts. So your tax rates potentially could go up even though a person's tax bill will not change because the levy is still going to be the 17 million 320 but now you're on a net assessed value that's of a smaller amount. So that tax
019rate is going to go up. So someone's tax bill is still going to be about the same as it was. So we no longer really are talking about tax rates and what your tax rate is doing at least over the next 5 to six years. and instead we're talking about what your levies are going to be because that's the only thing you're going to really be able to control uh over the next 5 to six years because no one knows how those deductions are going to really impact uh school corporations and other local governments. There's also some other deductions that are coming into play that will potentially be even more significant for Pike related to the fact that if you have less than $2 million or less of business personal property beginning in 2026, all
020of that will be exempt from any uh property taxes. Right now it's $80,000. Um you're fortunate in that you have some large commercial properties out there that have much high higher amounts than that, but you potentially have some smaller ones within some of that uh park 100 property that is going to hit that and so you'll see some loss in your business personal property uh returns or revenues as a result of those changes as well. So So with all that said, going back to Mr. Anderson's question about paying off early, how does that impact or does it impact that decision? And I know what you just said about that, you know, how we tend to do some we want to be careful with that levy. The good news is is that your um that we
021don't expect that because we're looking at levies, we don't expect the levy revenue in your debt service fund to be lost where it will be lost will be in your operations fund potentially. And so that will mean potentially that anything you were paying that was a capital nature or equipment nature out of your operations fund, which you were doing some of that, you're now going to have to push even more of that over to the bond financing. So that may cause us to be even a little more cautious and not having as long as as as shorter repayment because you may have be doing more more bond issues to fund some of those things that you were funding out of your operations fund like buses, like technology, things of that sort. So So instead of
022shortening it that we might go out the full 12 years, which would be rather atypical for Pike on even these larger projects, but we may have to even look at that or the administration may make that recommendation because of that. Okay. Thank you. Is there a prepaid penalty at all on these there? because there'll be if we go out 12 years, you'll probably have two years at the end that you would be able to do a repayment, a prepayment, but the first 10 years are typically locked out. If you do anything shorter than 10 years uh for a prepayment, that causes those interest rates to go a little higher because people want to be compensated for the fact that they may not be in the investment for as long a period of time. Uh, so
023we typically see repayment periods or prepayment periods being between 9 and 10 years out. And you will help maintenance the levy. I'm sorry. The levy. You're going to do your best to maintenance that levy for us. Uh, that yes, working with the administration and their professionals and Baker Tilly and and also policy analytics has been hired to help look and do some long-term forecasting on that as well. Um, and look on a parcel by parcel basis. So yes, it's going to take a it's requiring a lot more work now and will over the next five or six years than it has even in the past. Yes, sir. Thank you. Uh one thing I was you said something kind of brought something to my attention. So Pike is unique because of our large with Park 100
024is the largest in the state business park and then our our residential. What about on the commercial side? Do you can you speak to the levy decline if there isn't on the commercial side? So the only uh levy decline that will be on the commercial side will be on the business personal property. That's for businesses as well as the 2% property. So anything so personal property. So if they are a business commercial that is um operating and they have less $2 million or less of business personal property beginning next year, all of that $2 million of business personal property will be exempt from taxes. uh they are not that the 3% property which is the commercial property is not subject to any additional deductions available to them. Uh the only other thing that the general
025assembly did do that could come and play a longer term role is that there is right now a floor on the depreciation or the deduction that you have available to you for any personal property that's in a commercial building. And that is 30% of the uh original value of that property cannot has to be assessed at no lower than that after it gets depreciated down. Beginning with any property that's purchased and put in service after January 1 of this year, that floor is removed. So probably five or six or seven years from now, you may have some business personal property that will drop below that 30% depreciation and therefore be valued at even lower amounts. And so that could have a longer term effect on Pike and other school corporations across the state if they
026if they start to have a lot of that put in place. Yes. So, um, as we stand here today in 2025, there's $862 million of personal property within Pike Township. Uh, your total net assessed value is 6.8 billion. So, that's roughly I can't do that math quickly, but that's over 10% of your assessed value is in the um personal property uh class. And uh the fact that I think I last heard uh Park 100 was at 40% capacity. Um so are you are you also watching the tenants in Park 100 because you know if there's no one there there's no one really tax. So are you still are you keeping track of that as well? Um we're looking at the county auditor the assessment data from the county auditor that would help us determine yes
027like who is actually paying taxes in park 100. That is a part of it. We have a schedule for large taxpayers. So we are we are keeping tabs on that from from that perspective from the county auditor and assessor level. How much are we getting back from that? Okay. Another question. At one time in Pike Township we had an extensive amount of commercial property that was lying dormant. Has that shifted uh or can you uh bring some report to us and let us know where we are commercially as it relates to the tax base that we can receive? I do not know that answer as we stand here today, but we can we can work with uh Barnes and Thornberg and Policy Analytics to help get you that answer, which is part of the levy
028work. Am I right? Yes, sir. Okay. Any other questions or comments? All right. Thank you, gentlemen, very much. Thank you. And then you should now allow for any public comment on this and then if there aren't any then you can close the public hearing at that point. Any comments from the public? All right. That adjourns our public hearing. Now we will start with our regular school board meeting. We start with for the good of the cause. If any patrons would like to use this platform, you have three minutes. You start by stating your name for the good of the cause. All right, we have no one for the good of the cause. We'll move on to spotlight on Pike, Miss Sarah Dorsy. Thank you. Good evening. It's wonderful to see you all. Uh we have
029a lot of exciting upcoming community events here in Pike. We want to remind and encourage you to join us this Saturday, June 28th, to welcome Pike alum and NFL player. He's on the Seattle Seahawks. Mike Derell home for his first free camp and community funday. The event will feature a DJ, dunk tank, bounce house, community vendors, face paint, football drills, free haircuts, games, prizes, performances, and more. Registration starts at 9:00 a.m. And um people will also have an opportunity to get their photos taken with Mike at that time and get autographs. And then from 10 to noon, he's having um his free camp which will include football drills. And then for the rest of that time, there'll be activities throughout the stadium set up for people to engage in. And that goes in totality from
0309 to 3:00 p.m. So we're extremely excited about that. Um B. Swift, who is also a Pike alum that we inducted into our alumni hall of fame, did a wonderful interview with Mike Jerel, um and he just spoke about how excited he is to come home, give back to the community, and engage with Pike. So that's on our social media if you haven't had a chance to check it out. Um this year's Westside Chamber Pike Township Job Fair will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9th at our Pike Freshman Center. Our Orthoindie Foundation YMCA will host their back to school fest at the Pike Freshman Center on Saturday, July 12th from 10:00 a.m. to noon. The free event will include bounce houses, vendors, music games, giveaways, vendors, food, and family
031fun. And they have a thousand backpacks with school supplies that will be provided on a first come, first- serve basis. So, that is always a very wonderful and well attended event. So, if you're able to make it out, we would love to see you. Last but not um least, we want to thank the Indianapolis Colts for their $1,500 donation to support our girls flag football program at Pike High School. Thank you very much. Next, our reports to the board. First reading of the board of education policies, Dr. Bishop. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. This evening I have an additional eight policies for you to review that the committee and I along with our Niola representative have gone through. Um if during the next couple of weeks if you have
032any additional questions regarding these eight policies, please feel free to contact me. I'm more than happy to answer any and provide additional information that you may have. Um and then in two weeks I will come back for your approval. If um you have any concerns, we'll certainly take a look at them. Otherwise, I'll seek your approval at our next board meeting. All right. Thank you very much. On to our action items. Minutes of the board of education regular meeting June 12th. I move that we accept the minutes of the board of education meeting from June 12th as presented. Second. We have first and second. Any questions or comments? If not, we'll go on to vote. All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Next we have approval of the board of education policies. Dr.
033Bishop. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. I seek your approval of action item B, approval of the board of education policies as presented. So move. Second. We have first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? If not, we'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you, Dr. Thank you. Next, we have the human resource report. And before we get into that, I would like to make a motion to separate the CFO transfer from assistant to uh from CFO director to uh assistant. So move to pull to pull for a separate vote. Second. Have a first and a second. And due to the confidentiality of the HR report, we won't entertain any questions or comments. So long as everyone is clear
034that we are separating just that part of the vote. We're going to vote on it tonight, but we're just separate from the rest of the the HR report. Are we all clear? Yeah. Yes. All right. Human uh resource report. Dr. Mr. Elmore. Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Young, I ask that you approve the human resources report as presented. separated from the portion with the uh the director of finance. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. All right. All in. So move second. Can which are we voting on now? We're just voting on the human resource report separate from that. Then we're going to move to the CFO part. Second. All right. All in favor? We have a first and a second. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Now we move on
035to the CFO uh part of the HR report. So move represent. We have a first second. First and a second. We'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Oppose. Motion carries. All right. Moving on. for the approval of the accent item D for the approval of the 2526 transportation 11 care classified handbooks. Mr. Elmore. Thank you, Mr. President, members of the board. Dr. Young, I ask that you approve the 2526 transportation loving care and classified handbooks as presented. All right. Do we have a first and a second? So move second. Have a first and second. Are there any questions or comments? There no questions or comments. We'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Elmore. Thank you, sir. Next, we
036have request to approve the secured school safety grant. Mr. Gruber. Thank you, Mr. President, members of the board. Dr. Young, I'm seeking your approval of action item E, which is the application for the secured school safety grant for the 2025 2026 school year as as presented. I move we uh accept the proposal for the next generation firewall replacement as presented. Sorry, it's a I apologize. Action item E. I strike that. I move that we accept the request to approve the secure school safety grant as presented. A second. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? No. We do not. We'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Thank you. Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Groover. Acceptance of the proposal for the next generation firewall replacement.
037Mr. Hec. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board. Dr. Young, I request approval of action item F, acceptance of proposal for next generation firewall replacement as presented. We offer a motion that we accept action item F as presented. We have a first, second, and a second. Are there any questions or comments? All right, we'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? No. Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Hec. Schoolboard resolution confirming first amendment to lease and approving the insurance of the bonds and related matters. Mr. Foster. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. I present item G, the school board resolution confirming the first amendment to the lease. I recommend your approval as presented. I move we accept the school board resolution confirming that the amendment
038to the lease and approving the issuance of the bonds and related matters as presented. Second. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? We'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next we have the school board resolution approving additional appropriations of the board proceeds and interest earnings and related matters. Mr. Foster. Good evening Mr. President, members of the board. Dr. Young, I present the youth school board resolution approving the additional appropriations. I recommend your approval as presented. So move. Second. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? If not, we'll go on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Foster. Next, I would like to combine action items I, J, K,
039and L for a vote. Mr. Foster. Good evening, Mr. President. Members of the board, Dr. Young, I present items I, J, K, and L. Uh, the request to seek proposals, claims and allowance, contracts, and the donations. I recommend your approval as presented. I recommend an approved I, J, K, and L for approval. Second. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions on action items I, J, K, and L. If there are no questions or comments, we'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. President. Lastly, we move on to board member items. Dr. Moore. Thank you, Mr. President. Um the first item on the agenda, the administrative staff transfer. I want to address that tonight. Uh and that is um I will be
040as One sec. One sec. I'm sorry. What what can you repeat that? I want to uh in my comment tonight, I want to make a statement about the the chief uh financial officer and the assistant chief financial officer due due to the confidentiality of HR. We just won't be able to take any comments. You can tell us on outside we won't be able to do any comments or questions about the HR report. Well, it's it's really not a report. Uh it's really not a report. We just I'm just basically asking that we get much clearer information in the future in these positions. That's all I'm asking. Yeah. Yeah. Understood. That's all I'm asking. Thank you. Okay. That's I'm done. Okay. All right. Mr. Wilson. First of all, I want to um give my condolences. Thank
041you to Pastor Moore and the loss of his brother, his baby brother um this week. um and he's been holding tough and strong through it all. So, uh that's great. And just want to give a shout out to um the alumni that's coming. Uh Derel, that's going to be great. I think that when we see positive leaders coming back and give it to the community, it just makes for a bigger and better pike. And u it's always good to have our guys come back and show us what they've learned, experienced. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. Mr. Hooper. All right. want to echo Miss Wilson's condolences. I know um time of loss is a time to lean on faith and glad faith is strong. So um did had a great time this week. It was great. U
042we had the um food pantry was open again uh this last Wednesday and so um it was awesome an opportunity to get to serve some of the community. It was um an ironic timing. We it coincided with the um free vaccine clinic at the trustees office. So, we actually had some people come to the food pantry looking for the vaccine. So, we were able to uh help out and serve the community in a lot of different ways, pointing people in the right direction. But, I just so appreciate that service that we're able to provide for the fam for the community and want to remind the community that the next one will be July 30th also uh the same time from 4 to 6 um over at the uh the Pike Freshman Center. And then this
043week, I had the chance to represent the board along with Mr. Sorry, Dr. Young and Mr. Foster at the ISBA school budgeting and finance seminar. They held that down at IvyTech and um a lot of good information. Uh the the information isn't good, but the way they presented it, it's good good to have the knowledge as we were speaking earlier today. Um and just want to encourage everybody, we tend to voting gets out of mind between the seasons of the regular. Uh, and I just want to remind people that how we vote, who you vote for, when you vote, it it matters. It affects things. It affects your schools um in a real way. And so just um be be thoughtful about those things whenever we're going to the polls. And um and looking forward
044to um the back to school fest on July 12th. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Dford. Dr. Webster. Thank you, M. Anderson. Again, prayers and condolences to Dr. Moore. Uh we um have one of Dr. Moore's brothers is a parishioner at our church and so we certainly praying for both he and his family. Um many of us may or may not know Maxine Chicken and Waffles. We all uh most of us have probably eaten there at one time or another. We celebrated her life and legacy and homegoing today. And so we wanted you all to know that and what a beautiful services that that was. And so we certainly um want the community to know that she served the community for several years uh with her services. And so um I think one of the things
045that was really interesting today at the repass is that they would they brought forth her um her her uh recipe and it just was I that just fattened everybody up at the end. And so just want you all to know that. Let's continue to pray because we don't know uh what's ahead, but we certainly know who's in charge. Thank you, Dr. Webster. Miss Barnes, I don't have a comment this evening. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much, Miss Kelly. Um just everyone, do what you need to do in this heat. Um I'm all about wellness and you know that. So, um, staying active, but making sure you're hydrated and everything. Condolences to Dr. Moore as well. And, um, just looking forward to continuing, refreshing over the summer because August is coming. All the plans
046that are being made are exciting for the students that will be returning to us and new students that are coming into Pike. Everything we're doing is again about our students, about our staff, our teachers that we serve. And even as we're going through policy, I'm looking at what's going to be best for our students and our staff. So, making sure we're ready to remain Pike strong. Thank you, Miss Kelly. Dr. Young. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, like uh what was shared, I did have an opportunity u by Mr. Huffer to attend the ISBA school budget and finance seminar. Very informative. Uh there are still some things we don't know that um could still impact school financing such as our title funds and what the federal government may or may not do. So we should know
047those things in the uh next few weeks. And I know students are out. I can give an update on one Pike graduate. He was dropped off at Texas College down in Tyler, Texas. And um he shared on the first workout that he got dizzy four times and almost uh vomited three times, but he he went to he went to workout practice the next day as far as I know. So um uh pike pike #pipe route. Thank you, Dr. Young. Uh in closing, I'll just give you updates on the climate survey. uh we had our our meeting to develop the questions uh very good questions and again I want uh all that will participate in the survey feel comfortable uh the survey will be again it's a board initiative uh it will not even uh be
048on the Pike email server uh it will go straight to our attorney and hard copy to the board and so please uh we just want you to feel comfortable because we need information for us. If you want us to help make the district better, it's all all hands on deck. All right, with that being said, I have a motion to adjourn the meeting. I move we adjourn the meeting. Second.