001to approve a 319 and one cent donation from donors choose from mrs cassie harrell's preschool class for individual student chair pockets and name tags we also have a recommendation to approve a 250 donation from international violin competition of indy indianapolis 2022 juried exhibition of student art the monetary donation is an appreciation of mrs katie gray and the metro art program dr north park program those are the uh i'm going to accept donations sergeant motion second to accept the donations on favor say hi school recognition mr key favorite yes um i'd like to share some that our principles have shared and i'll start with mr mcdaniel from southwood junior senior high school he says congratulations to mo lloyd grade 12 for being named baseball across indiana high school player of the week in the past the
002last five games he was nine and 15 with seven home runs and 20 rbis that's pretty good yes and then of course uh southwest junior senior high would like to recognize angie lashavio and tyler cook for their work coordinating the eighth grade field trip to washington dc the students were able to visit various smithsonian museums the gettysburg civil war battle site the lincoln memorial the pentagon 911 memorial and many other significant historical landmarks also special thank you goes to mr jeffrey finical for helping chaperone the trip also from southwood the southwest community would like to recognize miss egan who will be retiring after 43 years of service to msd at wabash ms egan served as special education teacher but filled so many different roles in the school we appreciate her dedication to the students staff
003and school best wishes to in your retirement that a couple more here scroll down and then from northfield mr snyder congratulations ainsley dale emily pennington and jay calderman for honors they received at the trc banquet last evening or last wednesday jake and emily each received the mental attitude award and ainsley received the scholar athlete and distinguished academic honor awards also from norfield senior maya hunter was awarded the walrus kiwanis club midwest eye consultant self-reliance award last tuesday she will use this 1 000 to get her started and she pursues a social worker degree from ball state university next fall so congratulations to amaya also from mr snyder on may 10th two northfield high school seniors took home run home awards at the huawei's county innovate pitch competition congratulations to heat packet first place and andy
004schuler second place and for putting in all the hard work and preparation for this competition and i think i have one more ty lemming and ruby weaver each received junior high citizenship awards at our junior high awards at northfield these are very distinguished and important awards because they are in honor of past nhs students jonathan snyder and rhonda shaw these are awards i received because of how these students treat staff and their fellow classmates as well as their hard work congratulations to tai and ruby and thank you for your positive example and leadership you said at nhs and then mrs moore has a couple sure um the last meeting i think i shared that he had our numbers for summer programming as of just a few minutes ago we have 217 elementary students participating in
005summer programming um yep 66 are taking part in minds in action which is similar to science and motion and then 151 are going to participate at metro north or southwood and just elementary academics so that's exciting um and then our little knights preschool a couple weeks ago had their licensing visit and passed his flying colors on that and that takes a lot of behind the scenes but they've all had to have their fingerprinting and their tv testing and their cpr and first aid and just this long list to make sure that we are safe programming for our preschoolers so it's exciting very good thank you and i did have another one here southland junior senior high school was proud to announce that seniors joey bland and maya denny have been nominated for the albright gimlich
006excellence scholarship this 8 000 scholarship honors exceptional senior student athletes who have demonstrated excellence on the field in the classroom and in the community so that's what i have as far as that and now i would like to honor our spotlight [Music] so aubry carey is our student she is a southwood student and she just reminded me today that she is not a freshman she is now a sound lawyer because uh she's no longer a professional so aubry go ahead and tell us a little bit about why you nominated mrs miss me uh missy really likes to interact with the students and she makes learning music fun and she really cares about her students and she's just overall really nice and um mr lacey um yes being a southwood representative as assistant principal go ahead
007and share a little bit of it well i can speak for mr mcdaniel myself both we're very pleased with uh miss knee having her southward this year uh we went from a halftime choir position halftime band position uh to miss need going full-time choir in band taking that all on um and so she's kind of doing the work of three people now as a choir director band director and our drama director she's also taken that uh just head first i think the first week of school or so she came in office and she said hey can i do the drama uh you know normally sometimes we're making and pleading for people to do things like that so she's done a great job with that just recently had concerts last sunday a couple sundays yeah for
008band and choir the musical has now taken place involving students from northfield southwood and uh and so it was really really great to see those things and she's just done a great job connecting with our kids and i'd like to just echo that too because that's what i've seen already is just tremendous in the first year and not only just regular the concert band but also a pep band um jazz band you have a jazz band you do some different things with uh some contest and just really have done a lot and i just like with echo i don't want to talk a lot but just to echo that with mr lacy so we really appreciate that yeah so again you are the spotlight this is the new car like i said though we always
009make everybody read the cards you got to read the card this one yeah that's partners okay it's because you're agreeing to work hard you figure out whether you like software that's so nice but anyways car sheets are soft yeah all right thank you i appreciate it all right let's give it a round of applause you're welcome to stay or you got your picture then because we use was that slimming all right we'll move on in a business plan well they do have chair there's extra chairs and for those we have chairs now so and we can spot like you too if you want to yeah there's like three extra chairs up here now at this point point we're going to move on to public comment for agenda items only i will point out that later
010in the meeting under the new business we are going to have a hearing that is dedicated to what i suspect most of you are here for so while we don't have any restrictions about making public comment on any agenda item just keep that in mind that we're going to have a larger comment period later so can you anybody want to speak on any of the other items that's on the agenda okay we'll move on to the consent agenda items uh first item is the approval of the minutes from our last meeting on may 10. i moved here for those minutes second motion in a second to approve the minutes from our last meeting all the favor say hi financial claims of course the time of declines we will start seeing the increase as we complete
011the school year with our coaching staff and participate in a theater like get those positions that type of stuff i'll need to approve a second question a second to approve payroll all in favor say aye financial summary dr kim so at this time of the month in our board meets we just do a cash flow forecast for the year in our education operation fund so this shows what our actual expenditures and revenues have been since january to april and then the forecasted amount throughout may through december and then we factor in possible changes in enrollment uh adm dollars tuition support dollars and those types of things so this kind of shows you uh where we've started at the beginning of the year uh to where we're at at the end of the year and that's
012really more for those people that are out here that don't see this from time to time so the forecasted budget shows that we should in just over eight million dollars in our education fund at the end of the 2022 year obviously there's factors that involve with that like i said adm and those types of things will have a little bit better handle of what our new monies may look like based off of our estimates that we gave the state of what our potential adm might be going into first semester of 2020. uh just want to reiterate how good a job you guys have done with that what was it 2017 um 15 yeah where was it yeah and now we're paying on the block credit to you guys good job because then and then similar
013forecast there for operation showing you the actuals up to april and estimate costs and revenues through the rest of the square calendar year that's all i have on the financial side of things since there are any questions for dr kuhn we'll move on to the personnel recommendations under resignation resignations we have police hall paraprofessional at southwood elementary effective hannah mcdivoc paraprofessional southwood elementary school marsh marcia kratzer cook at southwood high school faye sallyweight paraprofessional metro north elementary under employment we have amy unger psychologist intern wmap angela myers dhs innovation intervention teacher at wmap lisa hazlitt data technology assistant for the admin office matthew schmidt music teacher at southwood elementary karen vanderpull fifth grade teacher at southwood elementary allison bartow custodian and southwood high school tony mckellap assistant volleyball coach northfield and a long list of
014summer school employees jeanette moore elementary director todd gaboon secondary director adam phelps at minimum share and kathy gilman ed venom michaela meyer and tim calloway both for sae patty steele mines in action cami ross minds in action david simpson mine's in action aide tara hopper primary reading teacher theresa co primary reading aid alyssa deiter primary reading teacher mary dye primary reading aid stacy james primary reading aid angie herring summer school teacher jennifer cox summer school teacher megan wright summer school teacher allison montz ymca teacher nicole knox ymca teacher we're on the dubuque ymca teacher patty steele katie johnson and heather amos hall ymca teachers becky becca elsie summer aide for kindergarten april howard summer aid full of kindergarten madeleine daisy summer aid first and second grade meredith kelly summer eight first grade kelly bear summer
015eight second grade and shelby drake summer aid kindergarten and that is our list of hr and it's like [Music] a second to accept hr friend all in favor say hi hi reports hartman career center report do you have anything for us matt uh unfortunately i do a little bit you know working on that building project for the adult education and there's been kind of a i would say dragging a fee trying to figure out whether our students can use this building because it's supposed to be an adult learning center and they wanted to put it on our ground for that uh it's taken them a long time to figure out whether our students can use it well there was a phone call it was last tuesday or wednesday somewhere last week and i finally talked
016to one of the heads of the eda and they said the students can use the building if those classes go to certification so that's mostly what heartland does is do certifications but if those certifications and classes count towards high school diploma they can't use that building so there's really no reason for heartland to have this building there if our students can't use it so that's a huge standstill and so they're going to have to figure out what they want to do with that grant that they have gotten so very disappointing i mean this adult education center that but our students can use it if they're getting certification outside the school so so i thought it would update you on that other than that they had their graduation that mike stood in for me last night
017because i was in the track it sounds like they did a bait and switch on us yeah that's it okay all right mr key favorite yeah i just have a few things of course we want to congratulate all the students that completed the 2021-2022 school year um and we had one of those students here i don't know if i see any other students i don't but i congratulate them uh also just to let you know about the graduations again white's junior senior high school bridge graduation is june 4th that's a saturday at 3 p.m at the southwood auditorium and then of course we have others that are ongoing because they graduate throughout the year northfield's graduation is on june 5th at 2 p.m southwest graduation on june 5th also at 5 p.m just a reminder
018summer school begins we finish today but summer school will begin next tuesday may 31st and run through june 30th that's correct and our students at white student center high school will finish on june 28th so we still even though a large part of our students are finished today there's a lot of other students that will be coming i think mrs moore said last time we have over 200 students that are coming through summer school and of course we have the students at whitestone that continue also so that's that also just to give you a heads up for those parents that are here registration for the 2022-2023 school year we have to say that because school is out right and so our first day is on august 10th registration is july 25th through august 1st that's
019the online registration we've done for several years and the on-site online registration will be august 1st for both north and south from 10 to 6 pm you'll be receiving uh phone calls if you have children from me later on about that information so you can mark your calendars don't worry about it right now also one thing i just want to mention the united states department of agriculture has actually provided meals for all of our students across the country for the last couple of years there's still some question about that but more than likely we'll go back to the regular uh meals of of course you can apply for free reduced lunches but also paid meals and we'll also send things out about that also later on um at one point they were saying they may
020extend that and then again they said maybe they won't and so it's been back and forth but the latest that we've heard is that it will not be extended so we have to get everybody back on track on that part of it so we'll keep you informed about that probably you'll be receiving something on friday and then we'll also send something to you at the end of summer right before registration so that's all i have for now mr great curriculum yeah i want to touch base first on summer school uh it's it's just amazing to me that we can get 29 staff members willing to come in over the summer and work so many of them have other things going on they have their own families to attend to uh and so mrs morris put
021together i love to call it uh summer school on steroids and that doesn't happen if we don't get teachers and so many of those teachers you know try to get the parents and families to come in because these kids need that help and i'm just thankful like uh i don't know i guess it's easy to read that and say oh yeah but please don't that is a that's a huge dedication and commitment by our staff and it's fortunate that we can use esther dollars to kind of help pay them for their time because again this is kind of above and beyond on that note we have two options of programs that we've started with our students through the school year that they can continue at home our license goes through that and so i excel
022is one of those we actually have had a family i'm sure their child was not very happy that they asked for us but their ixl license they got from their school they can log on to any personal device using their school email over the summer but the one thing i was excited for and i knew we had a crowd so i put these out there if you saw these please take one and hand them off to somebody you know all msd kids can get an online book from thanks to pulaski county public library uh on any device so some kids read on their phones some kid read on their ipads and so because of our partnership with pulaski county this is more am i saying that correctly okay she corrected me the last time so
023i just want to make sure i'm ahead of that one and so they can they just log on using their school email and their school password and then they can get any book that's in the digital consortium library so this we do have some kids excited that we do we do have readers and so uh there's extra flyers if you want to grab one and take it if you have a family member or you know the kid that would be able to do that um yeah and we are wrapping up now our all of our testing so i tried to list them here we wrapped up our nwea our sat data is in i learned that it is and we're just wrapping up summer i read here in a couple of weeks so i will
024have lots of data reports to bring back your way uh i will echo again as much as we beat up on the ido this year we were able to share i learned scores with teachers and students before they left the building and i had probably a half dozen meetings with teachers and were very excited to see that because then it tells them how they're doing where their kids are what they need to change for next year as a matter of fact just this morning i was talking to a high school teacher for iowa biology and so so anyway i'll have that data hopefully compiled by our next board meeting if not the one after that and with that summer school has begun in that the school year ends all right okay we're going to move
025on to new business uh first item under new business is a recommendation to approve the 2022-2023 curricular material course so giving you the elementary textbook rental fees nothing is changing with those there were some slight adjustments in some of the areas and some of the upper grades but there's no overall change in what the total amount is which we've been at 190 for elementary textbooks since i was a principal uh so that's at least 10 years where we've been keeping this trying to keep textbook fees as low as possible with that and so elementary principles get together and kind of hang out the details and make some of those changes in areas that certain materials may be needed the high school principals get with the their bookkeeper remember we share one bookkeeper between the two
026high schools and they work with their department heads on what textbook feeds should be for the courses that students take so their textbook fee overalls vary depending on the courses that they're taking for that school year yes yes i was waiting for any questions or tim or jeanette who had anything to say more about what i presented so well done mr king thank you i moved to accept the approval of the curricular material course fees so i've got a motion of the second to approve the recommendation for the curriculum material course fees for next school year all in favor say all right okay next we have a recommendation to approve the perf resolution so we've already we approved this a few board meetings ago back when we made changes to our uh classified salary rates
027and and handbook uh because we made some adjustments with perk we approved it when we submitted the form perf came back to us and told us that they gave us the wrong form and so nothing has changed as far as what we're asking it's just on a different form and so i'm asking for your approval so that we can submit the correct form to emperors need to accept the new resolution question a second to approve the new curve while the new form for the current resolution all in favor say hi recommendation to approve the 2022-2023 board of education meetings nothing really has changed with these typically we have our meetings on the second fourth tuesday of each month um minus typically october and december and june uh sometimes we have to have those to meet
028different deadlines but um that is typically what we have done over the last well the last year um we really have not ever had i think two on in december but as we kind of reduced one in october and one in june but if we need it we'll have to add those this recommendation for the 2022-2023 school year so question a second to approve the 2022-2023 board of education meeting schedule on paris area next we have the first reading and review of the 2022-2023 elementary handbook this is more sure um just some minor changes on the cover we have date of the year um and then also on page i we also updated on page one mr software as the principal on page nine we added the information about the annual notification for medicaid billing
029which came to us frost area program um on page 16 we added some clarification regarding field trips when it is a field trip that is occurring during the academic day you're going to require students to ride the bus there and back to school sometimes parents want to take the child with them but it helps us keep a regular role and call it who is where so it will work by our students but then and there but we did add at the principal's discretion we could amend that for extinct waiting circumstances um one of those you know i had a student fall on a field trip last week and my mom would come and pick her up to take her to be checked out um on page 17 we added information about elementary athletics and we
030essentially copied this from the high school handbook so that we have information for our students that's consistent that are playing athletics they're involved in athletics in grades five and six as well as those that play up i think i'm using them like crazy that they may be a sixth grader but playing on a seventh grade team so it's consistent language mostly regarding their grades as well as those requirements about having a physical and completing importance with their respective high school um and then we updated the school calendar to reflect any questions for them all right next we have the first reading and review of the 2022 2023 high school iphone yes thank you for having me this evening uh just again a few changes as mrs moore stated just an approval date uh table of
031contents page numbers and things like that will be revised after uh this is approved um we also uh same document i'm sure that mrs moore's putting in elementary but before medicaid billing from area program is going in uh we're adding in also statements concerning attendance a couple different places to go with current excessive unexcused absences will result or may result partly in a referral to attendance mediation attendance mediation is a program we're working with kind of a third party outside of probation and the court services to clear up attendance issues before they need to maybe go to probation report services so we're just adding that in that is something that we now already do also adding a statement in about participation in extracurriculars and in regards to attendance uh basically if they have a student
032this will be mainly for seniors but if they're in an internship through either heartland career center or through msd's internship program for the most part they attend classes periods one two three and then leave after that we're going to we would like to say that they need to be present at their home school whether south florida or northfield on the day of that event whether that be practice uh game whatever it may be that they're doing extracurricular-wise that they'd be in attendance for those periods one two and three with us to be able to participate that afternoon or evening pages 56 and 69 are also in the athletic handbooks uh one is for northfield i believe in page 56 page 69 is southwards athletic book and that is just uh amending that statement to match
033uh what's in the academic portion uh that i just told you about there as far as attendance to participate um and then again as mrs moore stated to we just leave the school calendar for next year all right we'll move on next we have looks like keith was trying to find it a recommendation to approve an overnight extended camping trip for northfield cross country team to visit uh mississippi campground june 6 through midnight so move motion and second to improve the overnight extended camping trip all in favor say aye recommendation to approve an overnight extended trip for southwood wrestling team to purdue university sports camp on june 12th through the 15th 2022. motion and second to approve the overnight extended trip for southwest wrestling team all affairs say aye recommendation to approve the overnight extended
034field trip for mines in action ii students to indiana dunes state park and spring mill state park june 1st to the third second motion a second to approve the overnight extended trip for mike's action students all in favor say aye okay oh okay the next item on the agenda i suspect is why you're here is a preliminary determination hearing on the proposed construction project if you are interested in speaking at this hearing please make sure you have signed the sign in sheet if you've not done that and wish to we can still get that to you make sure you have signed the sheet and include your name and address after a presentation by the administration and our advisors there'll be an opportunity for the public to make comments about the project at the hearing we
035will ask that each person limit their comments to three minutes out of respect from others who may wish to speak no one's going to haul you away if you go more than three minutes but please be respectful of others and we also stressed that we'd ask that the topic be limited to the proposed project under consideration the notice of this preliminary determination hearing was published as legally required on may 14 2022 in the wabash plain dealer at this time i will ask mr keifer to explain the purpose of this hearing and the purpose indiana code 6-1.1-20-3.5 a school corporation must hold two public hearings and adopt the resolutions preliminarily determined to issue bonds or to enter a lease for a project which has a total project cost in excess of a non-controlled project these public
036hearings are for the very beginning are the very beginning of the legal process and we'll also hear from mr kefaber and others about the process of determining and communicating the project to the community and the need for the project and the history and process to this point and how the proposed project meets the needs and the description of the project and how it addresses needs and expected timing of the construction and renovation all right well thank you so we have a slide deck here we'd like to share with you and some of this was actually part of it was even in our september work session that we had but we'll just go ahead and get started to go along with what mr daisy has said and the reason why we're doing this so the district
037strategic priorities we have the four different ones that were actually uh looked at and developed in actually 2019 so student achievement recruitment and retention of students but also for staff financial and facilities and technology and for the last several months we've been really focusing on priority number four even though all all of them wrap up into one nice package because they all kind of are combined together so priority number four uh facilities and technology it says provide safe and efficient learning environments so the objective 4.1 is optimized utilization and determine feasibility of current facilities or other possibilities and that's what we've been doing so community communication these are some of the things that we've had different community work sessions and meetings so started all back in april 17th of 2019 with the school board work
038session to work on strategic planning planning we had dr deb licklider from actually she was on her own she's a professor or assistant associate professor at butler university so she started that process with us we actually then went to all the buildings and had strategic plan presentations we then had public hearings or public strategic plan presentations in both northfield and southwood if you look at those dates um the 17th and 27th that was right before code started on march 13th but anyway we we did have those presentations at those schools open to the community september 22nd we ended up with another school board work session to look at the strategic plan reviewed and updated because it is a five-year plan and then continued on with policy analytics to assess the assessed valuation and tax rates
039at november 10th school board work session reviewed strategic plan with barcode vilma our architect and then going in 2021 in january them coming in we also had a swot analysis toured buildings during that work session and then getting a little closer to um now september 28 2021 had a board work session on strategic plan for update the board meeting then that same night recommendation to approve the resolution authorized appraisals of real estate and then april 12th most recently or almost most recently school board work session we had ice miller our bond council come in to talk about controlled project process and referendum presentation to the school board meeting and recommendation to pro approve the resolution authorizing negotiation and execution of the purchase agreement of that real estate and then may 10 the school board work
040session again up a date from the architect architecture firm of barton phillip so been a lot of things that have been going on um that have been open to the public and most of the maybe not the very first one but most of those work sessions have been facebook live so you can go back and review those on our facebook page also we were the first school district in wabash county that started the facebook live so people could watch uh from home and we've been doing that ever since so we're going to talk about where we came from there could be a lot of jokes about that but uh where we came from so the picture that you see there is actually in the back corner um the embassy of wales county school board in
0411959 july 1st of 1959 msd of august county became a corporation and we had these gentlemen that actually were on the board and of course they were looking at all these different township schools and what were they going to do about all the township schools what with all the students and the buildings and things like that and so then in 6263 um is when they opened up southwood in northfield um i'm kind of it's kind of close to my heart too because my dad was a band director and he actually uh us was at la fountain and different places after la fountainburn and uh then was a teacher at southwood the very first year um i always say too my wife was a norfolk graduate i had to make sure i plugged that in there
042too so where we came from so 60 years later 60 years later we are we are here a little bit over 60 years so you can see uh 1959 is when uh msd became a corporation uh north village southwestern they opened up the doors of 62 and then the 65 through 1980 the other elementaries were built and occupied so just some history there so where we are today so you can see that we have two uh preschool programs of both the little norths and little knights at southwood elementary and metro north elementary we have the three elementary schools we have the two uh traditional junior senior high schools and of course the non-traditional junior senior high school white junior senior high school we have the bridge program which is an online credit recovery program we
043are actual member schools of i'm kind of skipping to heartland career center mr driscoll is the board member from msd for that and then of course we are the lea for the wabwish miami area program which is our special education co-op the five schools that that feed into the wall-based mining program and heartland career center are both the five school districts so it's nice to have that collaboration with those schools in that program so we did a swot analysis i don't know if i'll read all these maybe i probably should so the strengths assessed valuation retiring debt last payment will be in 2023 cash balances in the rainy day fund you saw some of those quickly not necessarily the rainy day fund but you did see the operations and you also saw the education fund
044the circuit breaker losses are minimal student transfers from out of districts have really helped we have a net gain of our students that the border schools and also the state of indiana with white student senior high school and the bridge program we have the opportunities that we have are low tax rate below the median managed tax rate developed debt plan expand out of district transfers and creation of long range planning and of course we look at weaknesses in the swot analysis of student capacity in the buildings two high school buildings double services 18 buildings uh facility updates uh lack long range facility plan and lack debt plan and then some of the threats of course declining enrollment which is also the bonding population state legislation funding which is the open enrollment resistance to facility needs
045and upgrades additional required programming and unexpected growth growing cost of like coba 19 and certain situations like that so what is the challenge the challenge if you have been to any of our meetings we we put this uh up here we received this from grover wabash county uh but the projected population declined and you can see in the heyday of wabash county around 19 the mid-1980s and then you can also see in the narrative on the left-hand side there i can read that very well but the 2010 to 2020 the census we actually lost 1912 uh residents in wabash county um you think about 1900 people in a large population of course it's all relative but in a small population of 31 or 30 000 people that's a large percentage so the same thing that
046um so that that is you know when we say what is the challenge that's part of the challenge and so if you look at that graph picture that in your mind look at the next one it doesn't match up exactly because part of it is the adm or the enrollments that we had uh dating back to 1976 we have not found all of that data but you can look at the data just the high schools we're not talking about the junior senior high schools but we're talking about a 9 through 12. you can see in 76 77 a 980 students combined and you can see there's a big gap there after 81.82 but then you can see presently and i will tell you the other number here but 2021 and 2022 are exactly the same
047we have 509 students combined in the high schools so you can see it's almost 50 less from the 76 77 when they were built there was a some data that we found that the two different schools at one time had 778 students and 782 students in those schools uh in the heyday in the population in wauwais county was a lot larger and now approximately 380 in one school and 420 in the other so quite a big big difference so student opportunities um i think i'm going to turn this over i don't think we talked about this but you helped develop this so i'm going to let you talk about it all right actually go back to this slide before that so when we look at programming as the chief academic officer i like to audit
048the programs we offer our students we try to stay competitive with other schools our size and so i can find their class offerings online and sometimes i can meet with guidance counselors sometimes schools get to be very protective of what they're offering and so i've done that twice i've met with mr keyfaber to go over those lists and our class offering is very comparable to schools that are obviously now much bigger than we are um and so our opportunities are very strong uh the catch of course is uh one of the steal a phrase from mr billman a critical mass of students and so we may offer those classes but in order for those to fit into student schedules then we need to have a critical mass of students to make that work and so
049some of the other challenges that come from not having that critical mass meaning so many students to fill those classes sometimes we have a hard time getting teachers to do those and so we have tried to drive one teacher on the north we'll drive half day and then go to the south or vice versa and so that presents its own challenges and so i i know that sometimes i live in this world so i could talk about it it makes great sense to me but maybe uh those of you that haven't built a master schedule it doesn't and so uh i worked with uh our marketing director laura you can turn it on laura laggy barles and uh she and i concocted this scenario here uh this is not an accurate statement bobby doesn't really
050exist uh the schedule that is there is not a real schedule uh but i wanted to put it together so you could see our challenge because we do offer lots of classes but in order for those to fit in a student like bobby's schedule is not so easy so the scenario we set up bobby been playing in band for sixth grade and he's a welder we love our work at heartland career center they do a great job giving kids uh career certifications uh many of those kids are gonna go make as much money as i do without even needing to go to college and so we love to send kids there the catch with heartland though is when you go to heartland you go for three hours a day their program is that long and
051that's because it's very intensive and so uh it's a great program but then if bobby's trying to fit other things in the schedule then he has to kind of offset that with that with that choice and so to be a senior he'll have to take english 12 if he wants to graduate on time and we want bobby to graduate and he'll need to take government one semester in econ the next semester and so his first and third period are fine after lunch he'll go to heartland where he'll take weldon capstone and he'll graduate with a lot of certainty but you'll see period two cad three is only offered period two cat three is taught by gary dale gary dale is one of those teachers and so he'll teach at southwood uh in the afternoon and
052he cheats at northfield in the morning and so that then locks the schedule for people that want to take cab we have a great cad program lots of our kids go on to architecture as a matter of fact mrs moore is not nodding because her daughter went through that and went to ball state as an architect and that's a that's a very difficult field to get into so the kids do very well so the opportunity is there the challenge is getting it to fit in their schedules and so so bobby really wants to take cat three however bobby has loved a band and again because of our tight schedule we can only offer band one period and it just so happens this year that bait is going to be offered second period the same time
053that cat 3 is and so this happens all across homestead caramel i mean big schools have the same problem it just becomes more magnified the smaller the student population is and so i think a community our size is used to a two-way school 120 150 kids in there and so to maintain that level of program it becomes a challenge as we get smaller because then that tightens up that schedule and so it's difficult it's difficult to say in a nutshell because our programming is very strong we offer what we'll offer great classes and we will let classes go with two kids in them the school board and our finances allow us to do that there are a lot of school districts that attends the minimum if they don't get 10 sorry you don't get to
054take that class that's not how it is for us however then if there's only two kids in it that tightens up that teacher's schedule and so maybe they can't get other classes that they want and so i don't know if that doesn't make sense or you want me to talk about that later on i'm happy to do that uh the long of the shorteners our program offerings are are outstanding for schools our size they frankly are the catch is of course getting those so that they can fit so we could have multiple sections of that i'm not getting a lot of knots so i'll say it another way if we had more kids if we had a bigger school you might offer band two periods in the morning right or cad could be offered two
055periods in the morning and that might shuffle the schedule around just enough to fit those classes in whereas because it's such a tight schedule you can only offer ban that one period i appreciate you nodding at least that makes you feel like i think that covers it and i just i guess i want to put a personal data in there too that we talked about too so when we talk about 2a school 1a school 3a school or whatever we're not talking about large schools here when we combine when we're thinking about combining for example my my senior class when i graduated a long long time ago but 130 students this year norfolk and southwest combined we have about 111 students graduating combined so less less combined compared to my one class can i say one
056more thing before i leave that we have amazing guidance counselors at the high school roger boone nicole michael bryan dubois amelia france like roger boone will he won't finish southwood schedule for another three weeks because he just wants to pour over it to make sure every student can get every possible and so he'll work combinations and i kind of like to do that so sometimes he lets me play that but we have amazing people who do the best to make sure that class fits and it wouldn't be solid right if we go two-way and we do combine both high schools kids are still going to have to make choices however i feel like to maintain the level of programming that we're used to having right we need to we need to grow that population better
057so building use efficiency this is just some data as far as the 2021 building cost i don't know if dr wants to mention any more of this but you can see that we have the different columns of the schools that we have presently the salary the benefits the capacity you can see that of how much the capacity of those uh schools are at present and then of course the building costs compared to the total district cost when you combine all of the district cost of those so when we're looking at this we are looking at the one high school and then eventually repurposing junior southwood and norfolk junior senior high school so it'd be a three building district and so you can look at how that would save actually cost avoidance for some of that
058some of that program not programming i'm sorry but some of the cost you want to mention anything yeah i mean that's just really a 30 000 foot view on our overall expenses for what it costs to operate um our buildings looking at salary benefits and then then you add into other things such as supply costs repairs and maintenance costs utility costs construction costs and then you also add into the fact from the district level some of those costs are always building specific when we talk about things like insurance uh some of our staffing are shared between buildings and so those are a little bit harder to break down because those aren't necessarily specific to buildings but if we didn't have our buildings we wouldn't have those costs still necessarily so this just i said like
059i said it gives you a 30 000 foot view this is based off of last calendar year our school finances typically operate on a fiscal year we're not done with the fiscal year because the fiscal year ends in june 30th so this is based off of the 2021 calendar year costs which would give you a similar idea regardless of its physical or calendar but that just kind of shows you what those overall costs look like from a year to year standpoint even though this is just a one-year reflection so what is the solution uh middle new high school grades 9-12 currently in norfolk and southward combined into one new high school the current norfolk and south of junior senior high buildings would transition into buildings for preschool through eighth grade this would transition msdwc traditional
060schools or five buildings into three buildings so student opportunities maintain and enhance academic offerings maintaining enhanced extracurricular offerings and consistent course scheduling and building efficiency so efficiency and staffing will result in increased opportunities for our staff and utility and maintenance costs so this is a possible timeline people would ask what what would the possible timeline of this decision be made so these are estimated date ranges that are subject to change so with a referendum on november 8th 2022 referendum passes then you can see how that goes from the architectural drawings from 2022 to 2023 and that would also include them bids during that time groundbreaking in march of 24 and then march of 2027 new high school complete so three years later and then open the new high school in august of 2027 and then
061do some transition of the uh other junior senior high schools of south of the northfield become the elementaries and you can see those dates there the 2028 2028 2029 and then of course um possibly the transition to three schools complete by 2029 2030. so again going full circle the priorities of looking at our strategic plan student achievement that would increase that recruitment retention give us other possibilities for that financial be more efficient at cost avoidance and then facilities and technology of course provide safe and efficient learning environments so strategic plan number four additional opportunities for students facility improvements maintenance and upgrades building use efficiencies and so 62 years after the creation of msdwc we want to propel msd at wallabies county for the next 60 plus years so that's the end of my presentation okay
062we will now hear from jim elizondo from steeple midnight company about the proposed project how to be financed as well as information about the effect on the typical property taxpayer [Music] this information will be will be shown in the resolutions that we have construction costs cost of issuance equal total project principal estimated interest annual lease rental interest rate tax rate increase and impact on how the proposed project will be financed as well as information about the effect on the typical property taxpayer perfect thank you mr president i can sit down you just shared what i'm supposed to talk about yeah yeah now you get the hard part where i'd like to step in is we'll start with an estimate of the budget that these projects have been presented um that we estimate that to be
063ultimately look how we put that in around your existing debt service and then finish up with what we estimate uh taxpayer impact would be again every one of us knows our our taxes are different from our neighbors so we're going to give you some estimates based on some basic assumptions but then there will be at some point during this referendum process a calculator online that you'll be able to go and put your own information in and get you know a very specific yes uh if you decide to proceed after the next year but if we start with the next slide i want to start first with some of the assumptions we've used in our analysis and presentation first you have nine different taxing districts in the school district and by taxing districts if you live
064in a township you would have it here your over line and underlying tax plus the school tax rate in your in your township if you live in wabash or uh ryan or you know any other uh incorporated area you also have a different level of taxes i just want to highlight that because we all currently have a very different tax rate structure in and around the school district uh the lowest rates appear uh for walt's township at a dollar 27.83 per hundred dollars of assessed value and the highest tax rate we're seeing is in the wabash city portion that falls under msd wabash at 3.37.88 per hundred dollars of assessed value that's only on there as a starting point that we tax tax rates are different among all of us and you have a very
065diverse group of taxpayers next are assessed value assumptions basically as we try to project for tax impacts and how that might happen we need to look at the assessed value and make projections is how that might grow in the future you have utilized policy analytics to do reviews a couple times for you on this and have recently been updated i want to share some information from theirs and we have incorporated their estimates into our modeling first your 10-year historic av growth has been about 1.9 per year your actual rate of growth at 22 was 5.4 percent for last year they're projecting an average over the net out through 32 of 3.6 their models are defined enough that it's not just a flat three point two percent that we carry out they have given us you
066know six percent five percent three percent you know a trend line that we then have incorporated into our estimates um that is reflective of growth in the community it's also reflecting of farm-based assessed values starting to come up in their projection of those increasing so it's a combination of all a very thorough study of your assessed value and finally for all of our modeling we're talking about using a bond issue to fund these projects and so and your next hearing if you decide to proceed you will as a board be setting maximums for the future uh you can always pair those back if interest rates are lower when we sell bonds that pair can pair it back but you'll be setting maximum so we want to use a conservative interest rate so all of my
067modeling is using one and a half percent over the current market i think in prior bond issues that i've been here before you we've used as low as a half percent to a percent over the market but as all of you watch our news and the ongoing issues in ukraine etc our markets have had shown increases in interest rates and volatility so we're trying to be conservative there so we're using one and a half percent over the current market if we're in the markets today you'd be on a 20-year financing somewhere in the three and a half to three to three-quarters percent tax-exempt which is still historically a low interest rate but you know a year ago we were at one and a half to one and three quarters so there's been quite a bit
068of change there we go to the next slide we'll start with an estimated budget of 115 million dollar bond issue if you had the cash on hand and i will tell you there is a one school district in indiana that has 115 million dollars to put towards a project but if you did 100 of that would go towards brick and mortar engineering architecture fees etc but because we have to go to the bond markets we have other costs involved so i'm going to break down some of that so of that 115 million we would estimate that you would have about 113 million uh 400 000 or so available for hearts and soft construction engineering architecture you know everything you need for the building in addition we have a couple items that need to be added
069when we do a bond issue first one is capitalize interest it's minimal i have an about 385 000 change capitalize interest is interest we put into the bond issue to help make payments in lieu of the school corporation making payments in this case we i have a little bit in there to smooth to smooth tax rate that first year to be a tool if we need to smooth the tax rate if we don't we pull that out and that goes right to construction or reducing the size of the bond issue and then the final item would be cost of issuance that's attorneys the underwriting fees that's selling the bonds to the public so title insurance all of those things fit as custom issues i've used a conservative estimate of about one bit one million one
070hundred and seventy thousand hope is that pairs back but again i wanted to try to build a really realistic worst case picture for us today so now we go to the next slide how do we fund and how does that 115 million dollars fit in and around your existing debt service fund and ultimately how do you pay for that with taxes the blue represents your existing debt service tax rate fund from 2016 through 2023 23 is an estimate 22 is an actual number so you'll see in 16 and 17 we had a little higher rate historically it was higher there but we gradually as debt paid off we dropped down and held kind of in that 29 range through 2018 through 21 and that's really when this process started if we go back to mike's
071time schedule this the planning all started 2019 and that's kind of where we started to look at this from a base standpoint but also some things happened in 2022 we experienced that large uh assessed value growth you know the 5.4 and that drove those rates down even though there wasn't really a change in debt service and then our projection is driving the 2023 rate down only because using policy analytics estimated to over six percent and i live in an allen county i will tell you i'm afraid i got my reassessment notice and i'm up much more than southwest atlanta county grew last year so my guess is across the board just higher home value of sales is driving some of that so i'm pretty comfortable that that drop will be some i i guess that's
072the right drop but there will be an anticipated drop in 23. the issue also is you're not ready occurring that time schedule to actually put debt on so there may be some periods where we have that little bit of a drop and then we're going to go back up what i want to show is 29.18 cents per hundred dollars of assessed value is where i'm paring back and making a comparison so that's our his your historic kind of tax rate in that service if that makes sense we go to the next slide uh this is what uh an amortization of approximately of 115 million dollars might look like in the grant put into the debt service fund the next slide will share with us that that's about a 54 per 100 of assessed value increase
073to the debt service tax rate over what we were experiencing 19 20 21 in 2021 as our starting point so that is our first reference point is you know roughly a 40 54 increase in that debt service tax rate over and above what you were historically paid up through 2021. if you go to the next slide part of the resolutions that you don't have you have no resolutions this evening the part of the resolutions if you after the next hearing you'll be asked to consider setting some maximums and those maximums will be tied to the worst case scenario for this debt on its own ignoring all your other debt with just this debt and you'll see that we have for this debt alone 83 cents per hundred dollars of assessed value as an estimated max
074with about a 10 million 400 dollar maximum lease paid and that is what you're setting that maximum lease payment that's again based on one and a half percent and twenty years of repayment those would you'll be asked to consider that as a maximum uh in those resolutions now we go to the next slide there are a couple other things that um mr president you read some of the things that we needed to highlight in the hearing these are some of those items and i'll go through them with you um just so you know what they are and again they will be in the powerpoint as you have on your phone on your website etc but current debt service lobby for 2022 is one million nine hundred forty seven thousand two hundred eight hundred and twenty
075nine dollars your current debt service tax rate levy is 25.61 uh cents per hundred dollars of assessed value the maximum term of the lease is 22 years i just said 20 years in the financing the state of indiana only allows you to finance for up to 20 years however the lease will be for 22 years because we need to add enough cushion that if there are delays or anything in the process you don't have to start over so again it's all going back to the idea that we're trying to set maxims that we could stay within but ultimately you cannot finance for more than 20 years um the estimated total interest again using very conservative interest rates uh about 71 million dollars the debt service rate to net assessed value these are two ratios that
076the bond markets look to as bond buyers evaluate how much interest they should earn when they buy your bonds it's also something the legislature has added within the last few years as something they wanted to have as a comparison point among different school districts the first one is your existing debt service to net assessed value and that's 1.31 that fits in the low to moderate range after you put if you were to put this debt on there you would move into the moderate but not the high you you'd be pushing to the high but still in what the bond market would consider moderate um the outstanding an overlapping underlying debt takes a look at how much debt do you have outstanding so how much is obligated not payments but total outstanding debt plus any outstanding
077debt in the county townships towns libraries etc and the share your taxpayers have in that so as an example you may make up 50 percent of the county debt so the county has uh 5 million dollars outstanding you would we would attribute 50 of that to this number again that comes in at about 3.38 fitting in the low to moderate range um so again those ratios when i throw them on there i want to try to relate them a little bit to you as a board of where you fit in and among your peers nationwide this is not statewide we're talking about buyers nationwide and so you know we look at those ratios and say this doesn't scare anybody away from a bond standpoint you know where it still will be an attractive indiana bond
078issue winning if you decide to proceed next okay now we start to talk about you'll see i've highlighted the nine different taxi districts and we're starting with the median value of homes in each of those taxi districts and that again was provided by policy analytics um so we'll start with largo township you'll see the median value of a home in largo thank you welcome welcome to walmart county i apologize medium value home is 149 400 uh in the uh that town this city or town is 45 liberty township uh 146.7 trying to find where the white's best for me to the look is uh 78 300. noble township city of wabash 142 300 papa 154 500 ryan 82 000 and waltz 52 120. the reason i'm starting there is that is the median house obviously
079when i started i opened with the idea that all of our houses have different values this is trying to reflect the market value of your home again all of our market values of our home until you sell them who knows what they are but they're all assessed at a certain level so these are market valley homes from that we then would take away any of the credits um exemptions etc to get to your net assessed value and then we calculate the tax rate on that net assessed value if you have any circuit breaker credits um 65 and older veterans etc those come out of that assessed value before we calculate the tax impact so if you follow on that if we go to the borough township the estimated tax impact would be 351 per year
080or 29 a month and as we read across you'll see that it goes from 48 342 101 354 326 369 114 and 282 with a monthly ranging from 4 to per month those are all different because our base assumption is different in that we're looking at individual houses with different prices if we go to the next slide i throw in the base assumption of a hundred thousand dollar home and the point of this is to show you that the tax impact is equal among all taxi districts when you go to referendum the tax circuit breaker tax credits remain in place but when you go to referendum this debt would be outside of the circuit breaker cap so that means every tax in district shares equally in that payment of that and that's what you'll see
081there a hundred thousand dollar home in every taxing district would experience about 177 dollar increase per month or per year or 15 per month if we go to the next slide any of you that have farms and farmland you know there's no simple estimate here uh to to give everybody a little quick share of that is every acre of farmland is assessed at various production levels and it starts with a base assessment from the state that is set every year based on a formula so as an example if you have a an acre that's 100 killable but you have a wet area that doesn't produce very good or it isn't very productive you may have different ratios part of that land may be at a 120 percent of the face value some of that may
082be at 90 percent of the base value and so it's a it's a convoluted idea but i wanted to share at least a very basic idea and that is 100 uh thousand dollars of 100 killable land at the base assessed value so at a ratio of 100 or one times the base value so it's a very simplistic approach but again you see the 542 dollars across the board or 45 per month for farmland every every farm will have various assessment or various production factors you a lot will have homesteads on them you'll have out buildings etc so from a farm standpoint when that calculator comes in place you need to sit down with your assessed values and check out and actually run a number to find out exactly what it is to you but finally
083if you do know that number the next slide shows the formula we use and the formula is the one seven cents per hundred dollars of assessed value you multiply that times your net av now there is a tiff value that is calculated and that is that should not be part of that calculation that's already calculated into the 54 cents so the next version will have that plus tiff scratch down there the actual formula is the 54 cents times the net assessed value divided by is the way you can calculate your own but um we'll modify that um that is all i have uh for my part of the presentation i'll turn it back over to you mr president all right we'll now open the public hearing remember if you'd like to speak sign in on
084the sheet here i see a lot of names but not very many people that have signed up to actually want to speak i will offer another chance for you to do that even if you've not signed this as i mentioned earlier just state your name and address and limit your comments to the proposed project financing and keep your comments around three minutes and also let's try to avoid being repetitive so without any further ado first person who has said yes they would like to speak yes yes um oh yeah please do you know properly how many jobs may be lost in this scenario [Music] we would not so we're projecting out you saw the timeline so the timeline obviously we have retirements and different things not knowing class sizes and things like that so those
085are some of the things that we would look at so we're actually going to look at an faq and so i'm going to add that one on faq okay um and it's going to be it obviously would have to be a prediction right because we're looking at you know this would be something that would be five six years down the road and so um somewhat of a looking at data and looking at uh uh retirements and all those different things that you would look at so i'll put that on there i also want to commend you know the work you did on this finding out how all this is and i understand why it means why you're looking into this um it's for academic purposes mainly getting better programs i still think that what the
086board's been able to do is to give us options you've given us one option and that's your option to look at what if this referendum failed what are you going to do that's what i want to know what happens back to the drawing board go back to reconfiguration be funny look at the consolidation um you know those are the things so this is a lot of money to spend on something where we you know we're given one option to look at and that's it um i would like to see the other options how much that cost i know there got to be a lot less money than 106 or 115 million and they would accomplish the same goals of getting more programs um closing down a few buildings to save money um we're not we're
087not able to see those options and you know we're not given a choice we're giving your option and that's it that's all i have thank you the next person that said anything she put a question mark mary kramer oh yeah [Music] uh my husband and i graduated from wabash i'm from uh 37 57 mill creek quiet we're in the southwest district but my husband and i both graduated from wabash back into heyday 75 and 77. and my kids both graduated from southwood in 2005 2007 and while i understand the need programming is very important to me my son in his senior year had to drive from southwood to northfield so he could take jim wen which is physics class and in the course of that there was a car accident involved um just he and
088two other students had some issues with that so programming is to me the utmost importance my concern though is being short-sighted and i realize that this is a very sensitive subject but commenting as we have that wabash county population has gone down so dramatically in the last year to 185 as a county-wide project with manchester wabash and all the surrounding incorporated cities that's determined that perhaps consolidation is something we could consider and again i realize that's sensitive for everyone but i don't want msbd to be short-sighted and invest this enormous amount when there may be another option that should be addressed we're going to ask that you please keep your your comments about the project at hand consolidation is not the project and i realize that my concern is just the short-sightedness perhaps this isn't
089the right time i realize that you are on the time frame and i understand that completely but i just hope that you consider further down the line that there may be a better step and maybe right now we need some further information thank you [Music] uh ryan rosie you have maybe have you changed your mind yes is that enough mine are pretty similar i'm ryan rosen around the corner on 300 west um i don't want to get argumentative i don't want to get i don't want to get timbers raised but that's a very valid question i want to reiterate it is a part of this because it is an option um you're talking about one option this is a great point you're talking about 115 million in a time of almost unprecedented inflation they're talking
090about 10 gas by the end of the summer and you want us to pay 115 000 what other options are there you failed it reconfiguration how many years ago four that was a necessity six however many years ago the necessity of that situation didn't change and didn't do anything since then why is there not another option why are we not looking up the forecast of continuing declining in population and looking very why this has been on the docket for a long time we had these conversations ten years ago when i sat on the school board nothing's changed it's getting worse and now we want to pay a whole bunch of money what's the other options and why are you pursuing them or are you at least looking at them i i've got some answers outside
091of here and they're prejudiced and strong somebody's got to come up with an answer that's not prejudiced because i've heard those kids and those people for way too long if it's about kids in education there's a better way to do it okay thank you for your comments steve ford it says depends on discussion appreciate tim's comments in particular on the synergies involved with maybe consolidating classes and combining those things that critical mass can offer too and i would just offer that if anybody has any interest in conversing with the business community on subjects of synergy subjects of uh how schools are perceived in terms of hiring recruiting the wabash my door's open and be glad to post those conversations or um coordinate those if ever helpful so just just an offer there and again thanks
092for the chance well that's actually all who signed up to speak if anybody else would like to speak for free to do so at this point just state your name and address and eventually sign this [Music] um i actually am really concerned about what would happen if you go to to vote for this and it doesn't pass what's what's the backing i mean nothing's been said about a backup all this all i've heard about is just like everybody else said this one option and uh i just think it's it's really kind of a silly time to be be looking into spending a ton of money or you know i'm not real person and all the uh you know all everything that goes into the education part of it but i just i do feel like
093financially it's not a good decision at this point and so if that happens what are we going to do after that is there anybody have any idea i mean i i figured we would get some kind of answer when it comes to that and uh also i i think i think we're missing the point as far as the the population goes uh i think that the people in this county are heavily taxed and to ask them to pay more is egregious i mean not only is assessments going up and i i'm sure everybody sitting in here understands that and then you've got lloyd taxes upon you know more tax everybody wants more and more and more at what point is enough we got to figure out a different way so i mean at what point
094does does another option come out or or a backup plan you know at what point is that does that come out yes uh and i signed you everything but i didn't sign anyone to speak my question oh everyone else is is looking at other options but when we're talking about a class being offered at northfield that a student at southwood wants to take 10 years ago maybe it wasn't possible but now they can do it on the internet they don't have to be physically in the class to take it so if a teacher wanted to be at northfield two days a week and at southwood two days a week the kids would share the burden of doing the online classes i don't see a need here i i'm maybe i'm missing something but i don't
095see a need for a new high school not when our enrollment is declining every single year and with the technology we've got today we don't need the physical building that's all yes um matt burkhart 594 west 250 south um have you looked for can you disclose possible locations yeah um looking at uh north of heartland career center between 150 west and 200 west [Music] [Laughter] he's trying to find your address the big brother's always looking at mr lacey brother [Music] do you guys have an answer for your backup plan nobody's answered it yet and this will go to referendum and if it doesn't pass there needs to be a plan correct i just i want to reiterate tonight's purpose is to gather questions and concerns that you have we will put together we will answer
096these questions we're not going to do that tonight we're going to issue a faq and we'll be part of that so you have an answer for that yeah yeah okay okay um well we know the the cost of this land how much it's being sold for or how much is known under the price remember we won't know exactly how much it cost per acre or whatever i would think that would be yeah i think that's going to be public knowledge but then we'll have to you know at some point when we make that actual purchase that'll be on the record mr daisy yes adam statement 242 west hill street in wabash two boys that go to msd you go to northfield um i commend you for the work that you've put in uh to this
097this project to this point and i know it goes back many years i would like everybody else's has stated that that you you are all in a tough position um something needs to be done with our buildings and there there are things that we do have to do to progress forward so you guys are in a tough position but i think back to the way that they started your presentation with the original board members of msd they were also in a very tough position at the time with the township schools and a lot of residents that were opposed at that time to consolidation so they were never going to make everybody happy but they they had a plan they kind of had to take that leap of faith and and progress and obviously they have
098a vision and here we are 60 some odd years later and it's it's worked out well um i i ask that you board members also look into the future not our our problems we have right today in the the current environment with our buildings and the maintenance and making sure that kids are taking care of what the class they need to think forward 60 years in what our county what the state of education will look like what this whole northeast indiana will look like at that time make decisions based off of the big picture it's tough nobody can can see it but do your best and not just solve the problems that we're dealing with today kenneth yeah first of all i want to thank everybody um i do have a a question um we
099obviously have a great school system here you want to build new buildings what's going to happen to the old buildings what are they going to be you know uh i mean i was kind of getting outside but you know we've got an old jail we're building a new jail what's going to happen to the old schools i mean you know the land doesn't exist now urbana doesn't exist now you know because that's the end of the city but you know a lot of schools have been shut down so if you get rid of northfield uh southwood uh metro north shark creek alright i mean those are all going to go by by and what are you going to do with those buildings what are you going to do with that property and where is the
100new facility going to be built because you're going to have kids south town you're going to have kids north of town you're going to have more bus traffic it's going to have to be more safety issues because you don't have more bus travel to shuttle these kids back and forth to school to their homes how's that going to play in the factory but the main thing is what's going to happen in these other buildings what are you going to do with them where's the money i mean who's going to buy them isn't going to go back to the taxpayers can they sell them or is it going to go to fund the new school facility i can answer that because part of that's well that's part of this program so i don't know if you
101heard everything on the presentation too but um so building the new high school we talked about the location of that and actually siri was helping us to try to find that too um but along those lines then northfield and southwood would be repurposed into our elementaries okay and so you're right there would be so eventually there would be three buildings that you would have to follow indiana code as far as leaving them empty if someone else wanted to purchase or something like that but just like we did like other schools do they have to make decisions where they sell them or they demolish them whatever i mean but those are some of the decisions that have to be made um of course the fountain was one of those that was was closed earlier and that
102was purchased and been used and so so anyway that's part of that but as far as demolition then that goes back onto the taxpayers because your demolition you're getting rid of that building and then you still have the property that somebody's still going to have to maintain that property and it just can't go up in the weeds right yeah they're going to sell it off uh right there's options that we have to follow through indiana code which we would not know that until we got way out there until like 2029 2030 something like that so good questions but that's those are the things that um you know it would have to be in a transition period and you have to follow any other code of how those are opened up to the community and for
103any other uh person that would like to purchase okay thank you mr daisy can i just make one you have one question sure thank you and i didn't speak my full three minutes i'm just curious next tuesday's meeting on the 31st can you kind of give us an idea of what will transpire any decisions that will be made at that time i i will not speak to that because yes if we um continue to go forward at next week's meeting i believe the schedule requires us to vote resolution point you can find out what the other options are is there at the next meeting or after you guys decide whether you go forward or is it gonna be after you go forward and it it is voted down at what point do we find out
104the other option [Music] okay i will say that those all of those things have been discussed though in all of our in our work sessions in our strategic plan so the strategic plan we're looking at those four priorities and what matches with the four priorities with what what uh we feel like is the best plus the best plan going forward and so those have been discussed i will say that um but we have to try to follow or not try to we are following the strategic plan and those priorities and i would say too that those meetings as i would reiterate what we said earlier uh evening those meetings are available online and i know this is somewhat short notice too because i i follow facebook too and i know you have felt blindsided um
105but we've advertised these for almost three years now and so i would encourage you to go out on our msd page and watch some of those those live meetings of our public work sessions and get a lot of those answers that we've already spoke to in public meetings yes um i grew up in somerset um how long of a bus ride is it going to be from the for the kids from the southwest corner of the district to the new high school are you going to have buses to drop off kids pick up kids like we used to do at metro north to go to northfield when my kids were in school i mean i know i was on the bus for 45 minutes from somerset to southwood yeah the new this is the question
106yeah part of the program okay well at this point i'm going to like to thank you for those of you who participated in this hearing we appreciate your time and interest in the project and the future of our community please note again as i said this is just the first step in the legal process no more action is legally required tonight rather this hearing is solely to hear your public comments and to work with our administration professionals to look for efficiencies to conserve tax dollars and meeting our educational needs this board will hold a second public hearing in this room on may 31st at 6 pm our determination hearing we'll get back to the regular meeting and we're almost finished with that we have no unfinished business no board policy before us public comment we've
107heard the public comment uh any items from board members i just have one one thing nothing pertaining to this but any of you that know kevin wilson he was involved in a farm accident today he basically lost his hand and so please uh keep on doing your prayers [Music] in is anything else from any of the board members