001allegiance 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 future board meetings september 14th and 28th here at 6pm and october 12th at 6 pm again we have no revisions to the agenda way i guess we do actually under recognition which we'll get right to public recognition we have a recommendation to approve a donation of 700 to provide students with a new scholastic book each month throughout the school year donors include carrie johnson senator gray cheryl hodgson amber fresman lisa bieber marianne milam shay lauer mary knight jody rosier megan hyde jessica savage monica sparling megan blaner apprecia swan joe alvin studio keisha mckellen kevin key faber becky wagner melissa benny tonya roser amy
002poole theresa cohey jenny carroll books will be purchased each month for every student at metro north and mrs ross's kindergarten class and mrs mrs mills first aid class we also have a recommendation to approve the donation of 260 provide students with a new scholastic book each month throughout the year donors include linda lisa wright carrie hannigan becky van meter hengel connie mckellar terry hand kerry snyder tracy asbelle pamela poe robin merrick judy mackel dylan mcphenson nancy krum lynn smalling david all and nancy joe hamill those books will be purchased each month for every student at metro north and mrs sterling's second grade class i have a motion to look [Music] to approve the donations of behalf of all those people okay we've been in school now 11 days so i'm going to go ahead and
003share mr boone actually shared something and then you know that we do have high school principles here so they'll share some things also if they have something but i'll start with mr boone says our custodial team of teresa baker kim miller and uh dana fosteller did a phenomenal job of summer cleaning and related tasks to prepare the new school year all areas of building look amazing more than one new family taking a tour in the days before school coming in how clean our building was we're blessed to have custodians who take pride in our school and their work and then i'll pass the baton to mr victor thank you mr keith uh i'm not recognizing school personnel directly tonight but i did feel like it was appropriate for me just to to share what a
004great job the leadership of white's residential is doing ceo ron evans and their director of campus matt riddle and their entire staff as with many places in the country right now and our area staffing is really difficult right now and the jobs of being what they call family teachers but i remember being called house parents but they found family teachers now is an extremely difficult job and certainly at school i think it's probably without a doubt the most enjoyable part of the day with the family teachers uh it's a great school it's a good day for them but i really just want to recognize them the hard work that they're doing and that really important work they're doing and it's just a it's a pleasure to work alongside with them we have been uh i
005think uh making a lot of great progress on just to continue to nurture and grow that trust relationship between msd and residential and it's a i'm really pleased with our partnership it's great to work with those two men so i just want to give a shout out to birthday and i'll just tackle that also get the opportunity to be able to be with mr mcdivitt mr evans and mr riggle on a monthly basis to share what's going on on both sides of the street so to speak with residential and schools and uh mr mcdevitt's doing a great job nurturing that uh relationship with them so thank you for that so at this time mr mcdaniel well just like mr dune said earlier uh commenting on his custodian staff i wanted to give a shout out
006to the folks at south high school mr louise mr snyder mr reed and mr middleton for all the work that they did we had the wiring project the ceiling tile project and the roofing project that's still ongoing and um being in the building throughout the summer it was pretty messy and uh looked kind of like a war zone for a while and so those folks really really did a great job getting everything to go for us and so very very appreciative of them um also want to give a shout out to the uh volleyball team they won their season opener at eastern and they will have their home opener this thursday and our football team our varsity football team had their home opener uh last friday against rochester and came away with a decisive plan
007it was 46 to 20. so those guys too thank you and i know mr steiner you might have something a little bit later so yeah all right uh we're going to move to the public comment as i am going to say anybody thanks mom's watching all right normally we would move on to the consent agenda items but we're going to pull an item from new business up ahead of that because we want to make sure that behind like this and i'm going to let the mr key paper well and i actually we're just going to turn it over to mr snyder and i do have a little write-up here but i won't switch it over until he's ready so um basically we had some parents and alumni from northfield that came to me and mr
008warren and i thank mr hawker as a board member so we've been talking and you know there have been places around like mr neal tennis courts mr gannon from shark creek softball field mr wilbur dawes football field and mr weingartner the baseball field we have mr campbell deck for wrestling and mr colton mark for the west gym and someone came with an idea about we don't have a name for our track but i know a guy that spent more time on that track than anybody else and so we are coming to the board to ask if we can say welcome to wilbur dawes field and living track when people come to northfield because i think what 40 years or more on the track 53 so it's like if we're gonna name stuff and we thought
009we should have a living track out there you know i came here in 68 spring to 68 and there was no track out there it was it was stoned uh the parking lot was gravel and big stones for the foundation to be put in and then that summer they put in that new six-lane track and i heard that southwood and northfield were one of the first all-weather tracks put in in the state of indiana and the school board said we'll add two more lanes in five years so it wasn't my idea but a lot of people you've had in track and in pe and in class over the years i didn't think it was a bad idea so i said no i'll take it and go with it you know half the people in this
010room and it's funny to sit here and see all these people and i've been drivers training she's in our sixth grade class but you know when i was kevin invited us to the school board and my first thoughts were after 53 years and jane trying to get me to retire 10 years ago the last 10 years she secretly came to the board [Music] i worked with you for eight or nine years at and they got along great and i went on a science motion trip here and there before we we're trying to get it back but you know before all this other stuff happened and all i know is i couldn't agree more with naming that track lending track if it's okay with these guys thank you i can't imagine a better person i had
011him as a seventh grade football coach he right he started me out in a grade school in urbana uh had all four of my kids in elementary you know phys ed and then you had three of my kids and tracking across country who better okay well i've been blessed with a lot of good talent uh scott a spinner hold the school record 100 to 200 400 i was ninth in the state when it was pouring down rain and finished eiffel state of course i always say good athletes will make a good coach and and it's true but of course kevin um i raised him from the cradle with pogba reached in the crib and took his hands and legs and turned him upside down bouncing up and down before i was in first grade we
012had a mattress on top of tires that i was jumping onto can your mom let him do that kevin was fifth of course i don't know if you all know that track and cross country is the whole entire state it's not divided into small groups it's the whole entire state to finish ninth in the state and of course we've had several other athletes placed at the top kent state kevin was fifth his junior year and his senior year is second in the state and uh made the indiana all-star team and he got a full full-ride scholarship in indiana state which saved us a lot of money but you know the the biggest supporter that i had was jane six kids right running down ballet and cheerleading soccer she did all that stuff so i could
013coach thank you i'll oh and i wanted to mention mr driscoll his son uh i think it was four years ago the 4x1 greenway team we didn't have the four bestest sprinters around but our handoffs were so smooth and so slick that we just got random because of the baton exchange and went undefeated county champions uh conference champions broke the school record sectional champions and we were set to go into the state finals and so ryan had appendicitis so right yes brian was the lead off leg and i'm standing there in the middle field and ryan white scott is a good good head start and he was kind of jogging around the track and we were in last night ninth place what's the matter with him and of course we got way behind and couldn't
014make it up and i found out later the next day he was in the hospital got his appendix we just thought he was nervous [Music] all right we have a motion in a second to officially rename the track at northfield to be lending track all in favor say hi we did move that up if you want to say you you may but you want to go you can do it too so it's up to you okay [Laughter] he doesn't look that fast 49.4 you know what that that means that's good pretty substantial he could run collegiate i tried to get him to run that purdue and he would have brought his time down considerably at the college all right we're going to move on to consented items uh first up is approval of the minutes
015from our last regular meeting on august i'm going to take seven minutes thank you i wish you a second to approve from our last starting with claims this will be our last uh this concludes our pay for the 21 school year 2021 school or so next payroll would represent the new the new school year nothing nothing major other than that second second there's a big number on there too yeah okay that was our first payment for our room i saw that whole uh i don't know why it cuts this off but you guys should see the bottom part where i make the little notes on there i don't know why it does it on here but just the pdf yeah so what you're seeing here are i did factor in a potential uh wage increase
016but we don't know that for sure until we go through the contract bargaining and then i do have the basic grant revenues all focused from the july 2021 estimated number that was submitted but it does not reflect the actual september adm counts hopefully in the next week or so we'll have a better general idea of what our september alien account may look like um but obviously we won't know the actuals until towards the end of september once they go through their whole process and cleaning up and everything like that but i submitted 2 000 and so that's what the dollars represent in there based off of that number and then that will get adjusted once we know what september actuals are so that just kind of gives you a little bit of a preview then
017for the remainder of the year of where we may finish out and then for operations nothing really has changed with anything in there all based off of trends so nothing i didn't change anything on that as far as what would be consistent uh one thing i will say and i don't know if you will notice that have noticed that we got a memo from the stapler accounts like two weeks before our first payroll in july or in july saying that we had to change our object codes and so the reason we have to change our object codes is to uh it will track the new legislation as far as the of tuition support go into teacher salaries and the funding floor formula where you have to pay more in teacher salaries each year as long
018as the revenue increases so they have to track that so one of the ways they track that is through changing object codes so they gave us a whole new set of object codes that we have to use moving forward and so you can kind of see there are some rows that are left blank there and that was because of the change in the object for that so really won't get a good idea of trends for a while until get through a couple months of using those object codes but that is something new that is represented on both of those cash flow spreadsheets so anything with an object code 110 is strictly teachers and teachers are defined as somebody that teaches more than 50 percent of their day so counselors no longer count as teachers even
019though they are considered teachers in our bargaining unit so it gets a little tricky now with some of that but that's what those numbers uh are representing there state tracks out on a year-end basis for how six months so on our form nine we report every six months and it pulls in all the information based on what we what our accounting structures are and then they use that information to determine out their tolls so like when they so now when they compare teacher salaries they'll code anything with an object 110 will represent how much we spent on teacher salaries and then whatever our basic revenue is revenue support from the state is for that time period they'll use that to figure out if we've met that 45 percent or not and there will be some
020discussions about changing some of that legislation already as far as you know adding some people back possibly counselors and also maybe the benefits because that's a big part of budgets also so there's been a lot of discussion about that but we don't necessarily know why it just became 45 percent where that number came from it's just an arbitrary number what happened with that but there'll be a lot more discussion about that coming up in the next legislative session in my reading that correct we're at 46.85 percent of that is that that's a different number now okay that number is how much we spent in our appropriations yeah so right now they don't include any kind of benefits nope benefits are not included in the teacher compensation polls anything that's why it needs to be revisited
021yes i love oh operations i already mentioned everything with operations there's nothing new there sure so this will conclude our budget review for the 2022 budget and then the next board meeting will have our budget hearing and then the board meeting after that we'll have our budget adoption so the last thing that i kind of go through with everybody each year is what we call the form not our form for advertisement which is something that you will approve at the budget adoption which just highlights what we're going to advertise as far as the tax rate is concerned and so we all know what taxes are i don't think it goes to the definition there according to those slides i do have a video that i want to show that was kind of funny what's been
022where's all your money going buddy taxes [Music] so he's learning at a young age so when we look at determining what tax rates are what impacts on our tax rates there's a couple things that we look at we look at assessed valuation and levies and so assessed valuation is what determines the value of a residence for tax purposes those are things that us as a district we don't have any control of we are given what our assessed value is as far as the district-wide component is we don't control what property values get assessed as or any of that type of stuff but assess valuation plays an important role in figuring out what the end tax rate is going to be and so the other thing we look at is levies levies we do have a
023lot more control of this is essentially the levy is the money that we are asking to fund our budget and so based off of that levy then and what our assessed valuation is there's a formula that determines what that overall tax rate is going to be so our levees are considered fixed levees and so uh on a kind of a seesaw there the levy amount is fixed and then the rate is fluctuated based off of the assessed valuation so if the assessed valuation is high the tax rate is lower if the assessed valuation is lower than the tax rate becomes higher so we look at historically where we've sat or where we've been with our net assessed valuation you can see over the last three years we had a little bit of a decline and
024then we kind of flattened off our excessive vibration has not uh increased uh as much so it's kind of been a little bit on the flat side of things but currently we sit at 721 million dollars of assessed valuation for our district so that can kind of show you how it's grown over time we do get estimated numbers from the county uh in deter in showing what our assessed valuation may potentially be the number that we got this year was pretty high uh which was uh unforeseen a little bit uh looking to be if it's true was around 760 million in assessed valuation which would be the highest that it's ever been about a year ago we had a study done through policy analytics we've already went through all of this but just kind of
025to review it this was all happening when the pandemic started but this was kind of a projection that was used in looking at what our potential assessed valuations uh would be over a period of time uh the blue would be what would happen on a regular situation where the orange represents if we were to happen to go into a recession a lot of uncertainty was happening at that point in time because of covid and everything else so they ran a couple different models for that so from an assessed valuation standpoint if we wanted to compare with our border schools uh huntington has the largest assessed valuation obviously it's one district one county uh and so they get they pull in everything from from that area and then we would be next followed down by everybody
026else the one thing that's interesting to look at is the little dot that dot represents the assessed valuation per adm so student number so based off the number of students that we have you know that comes out to be about 350 thousand dollars of assessed valuation per student so that shows a pretty strong assessed valuation free when we look at our tax rates over the last 10 years you can see that there has been some fluctuation up and down a lot of that is driven by what the assessed valuation is um and so again you know if assessed valuation were to go down tax rate kind of increases it goes up tax rate might kind of decrease but as an average of those 10 years we've been hovering in the low 80 cents i couldn't
027find one for 2020 so i had to use the last one that i had access to this just represents from 2019 what statewide the median average was for school corporations it was just uh just at a dollar and so you would see that historically we've been in the lower 25 percentile of assessed by their of tax rate this is just another graph representing the same thing you see we would fall in that 80 cent category tax rates again uh policy analytics use that assessed valuation to kind of give us a prediction of what our tax rates may look like over a period of time uh and so the green or the orange would represent if we kind of kept our tax rate uh as far as our our debt and our operations tax rates similar
028over a period of time and how that would adjust as assessed valuation changed the blue line would represent if we assumed our current debt schedule which would show debt falling off and i x out the 20 20 uh two there because of the bond that we took out that will be paid off in 2023 so that line would actually represent just bump over to one one column to the next side there uh this shows tax rates uh comparatively uh with our border schools and you can see there that we are the second lowest than of our surrounding areas and then this is a similar graph that shows tax rate compared to uh levy amounts and the reason i show this to you because it is i think it's kind of interesting because you can see
029okay huntington their tax rate i think it says a dollar eight but that that dollar eight is that dollar eight mike dollar three and that dollar three generates over 16 million dollars for them uh and so you see our tax rate at 87 cents generates just uh around just over six million dollars and then you can see like wabash city theirs was a dollar six i can't 64.64 and that generates less than four million dollars so you can kind of see how some of those tax rate and dollars that they actually generate for that corporation so tax rates are impacted on two of our funds that would be the debt service and operations fund those are not state supported those are not federally supported those are only supported by our local tax dollars and so
030evaluation plays a role in that circuit breaker loss plays a role in that tif districts which can have an impact on assessed valuations can play a role in uh some of those determinations so our goal is to advertise a higher rate and a high levy to ensure we can collect the full amount of levy for the budget we need in order to operate so to do that we use a low assessed valuation in our advertisement and because we do a low assess valuation that's going to show a higher tax rate increase to get the levy that we do that and we do that to protect ourselves because we don't know what our assessed valuation is going to be and if our assessed valuation comes back lower than what we actually put on there that could
031cause us to not uh be able to fund our budget because we may not be able to draw as much levy as we've requested and so i'm kind of playing a little bit of a game there with that but once assessed valuation is set then that then it will typically level out to what and what it would normally be for us so things to keep in mind which funds are max levied funds and which funds are not so our operations fund does have a set levy so even though if we were to say okay i need eight million dollars to fund my operation budget i'm not gonna ever get eight million dollars i'm only going to get whatever the levy is that is determined by the dlgs for that and they base that off of
032the growth quotient which is the next slide you can see our levy grew from 4.3 this year and it was 4.2 so another thing that can impact taxes is that if your assessed valuation does not grow as fast as your maximum levy growth quotient does it could also cause a little change in your tax rate as well uh because it's not being able to keep up with that but your your levy growth quotient or your max levy growth quotient is based off of the six-year non-farm personal income average uh and then you can see what that average is some years it's higher some years it's lower uh and they take that six year average and like i said some of it drops off so one of the reasons why we had a higher increase over
033the last couple years is because you can see in 2013 that eventually dropped off of that six year average and so the numbers became higher with that and that's what has increased that growth growth quotient over that period of time so the far left column represents what we advertised in 2021 which would have been last year's budget and then the next column to it is what we actually got or what actually came about from the 2021 advertisement so it shows that we advertised a low assessed valuation in 2021 that was our actual assessed valuation and you can see we advertised last year at a dollar six and then after our assessed valuation came back it was at 87 cents but allowed us to get our levy that we asked for to fund our budget so
034in 2022 again we use a lower assessed valuation um to advertise a 97 cent tax rate but if you look at the 2222 estimate we don't know what that's going to be yet but if i use the same number as what we currently have that shows what it would actually be around 88 cents and depending on how that assessed valuation fluctuates i would say that could go up or down 3 cents and if it happens to be 760 million dollars then that's gonna go down for your four cents probably and so um it all determined on what that is final assessed values the last thing to consider we haven't considered this in a long time but we've had to do it in the past for cash flow purposes is to borrow money uh just on
035a yearly basis to cover any issues up and running the cash flow we haven't had to do that but one thing that has changed in legislation now is that we cannot include that in our debt service budget unless it's been already approved in the past we could put that in there in with the intention like we could say okay we're going to put ten thousand dollars in our debt of service with the intent that we might have to borrow money that would pay off the interest for that but we no longer do that we have to have the tax anticipation warrant approved by the board first before we can do that so that's something that's changed with that but so i did not in the debt service when we talked about that service there was
036no estimate in there for any short term for that so with that being said then that kind of concludes our budget review and then we'll go into the budget at our next court meeting the last thing then that i need to advertise before we can have our budget hearing is the form three which this just shows what our budget estimates are which we went over each of those funds individually uh in previous board meetings as well as what the levy is to support that fund uh if it's a tax support and so it will advertise that information along with when our budget hearing dates and budget adoption dates are being held and this is no longer advertised in the newspaper it hasn't been for a couple years but it is advertised online at that website
037there and so once that is approved then i will submit that to the dlgs so that it can be advertised on that website for a while okay i have a motion in a second to approve the advertising of the form of free in gateway i'll try moving on to personnel under resignation we have cody mcclure junior high golf coach and stephanie selleck secretary cody was at northfield and stephanie's at southwood employment rebecca macy paraprofessional at metro north elementary sarah gaylord paraprofessional southwood elementary kristin pegg junior high volleyball coach at northfield high school melissa spann junior high volleyball coach at northfield cheyenne ruff paraprofessional at metro north elementary tiffany livesay elementary volleyball coach sharp creek elementary jessica freeman secretary at south of high school abby denney elementary volleyball coach southwood elementary having met amy matthews elementary
038volleyball coach at southwood elementary and then under leave number 126 and 127 and you see the approximate leave when they begin and when they return i move to approve the hr report second second to approve hr all in favor say aye apartment career center report yeah we had a short meeting the other day schools got off to a good start they said uh yes 640 650 students that's up about 40 to 50 from last year which is great and they're meeting with some architects and we're going through the building so that's still on the slate hopefully they'll figure something out all right yeah i just want to say again this is the 11th day of school and just continuing to witness um all of the staff working very hard um and also still dealing with
039the situation with the pandemic and so we work with a lot of great people that are very dedicated to what they're doing so we have student learning every day so just appreciate all of them to continue to do what they're doing because it is taking a lot of time and extra effort to be able to get all that accomplished all right mr craig is not here does anybody have anything in his under new business public hearing or formal bargaining what we're going to do here at this point is that since september we are going to be doing formal marketing with our teachers and so at this point we are required by a law to have a hearing uh on that bargaining by the teacher contracts so i'm going to open the floor for anybody that
040might have anything to say about future contracts okay not hearing any we're going to adjourn that normal bargaining meeting uh moving on to the recommendation to approve the vault meal price change due to ido school nutrition yeah so we did this this summer and then the friday after school start we got a memo from the department of education on the nutrition side that said our adult meals need to be increased since school schools that do the sso program which means we're doing that program that's the seamless option so that we provide free meals to our students the adult meals cannot be cheaper than the reimbursement rate of the free meals and so that means we have to increase our adult prices to meet that guideline and so the requirement is for adult meal prices to
041be at four dollars and sixty cents what did we say four dollars cheers [Music] watch it in a second to approve the state's mandate to remove the school prices for adults say hi i like to mention that when i first started teaching it was 35 cents i don't know if you get a milk for that some people claim that that was before paved roads and electricity at least before paying practice okay we're going to move on to the junior senior high school improvement plans and i just want to mention that uh principals here tonight just to share briefly very briefly their their school improvement plans not a lot of changes from last year and obviously you know that the testing has changed a lot over the years as far as having testing and not counting
042and things like that so um they will be very very brief in this you have had that since friday to review it to ask you know 100 questions if you want but they're going to be very brief so they can entertain all the questions that you have so we'll start um in alphabetical order with schools so it will be mr snyder first all right the main thing in northfield just we appreciate the technology but one thing i noticed my first year over there last year is we just need to get back to some things that work which is like i noticed during our norse time there's a lot of junior hires on the phones they weren't reading books they weren't using the time we don't have time to waste obviously with the pandemic they're in
043and out we just need to make sure we're using the time so looking at ilearn data when it came back in i don't like ilearn i don't think it's that great of a test but it is a baseline for us our language art scores weren't good enough there were some that were at state level some a tad bit below but typically i think northfield should be at or above the state average all the time so that's the goal that i've been talking with teachers about and to do that we brought back a program called reading counts that we didn't have last year encourages kids to to get books and read a lot every junior high student's been to the library got books when i go by now during our norse times which is the point
044of norse time is to give kids a chance the high school kids if they're not doing well in a class it's time during the day to go to that teacher and get extra help but if they don't have anything to do and a lot of kids have their work done and they need to be reading my belief is and i think a lot of the staff is you don't get good at anything that you never do if we're not reading at school and writing at school and doing math at school we're not going to get better at it if we're just texting on our phones so we're putting that up we're getting back to some old school stuff so that's basically in a nutshell we love the technology we use it to keep connected with
045kids and communicate with parents and all that but if we're going to get back to reading writing and math and i mean reading and writing and math in all content areas it's not just the reading writing and math teachers job the english and math it's teach them how to read in history class how to look at primary sources how to get evidence on what's going on teach them in science how to read that science and get information from it and that's why we're working on getting some new materials for those classes but it's just kids got to be doing that and that's what we focus on at northfield just to use everything we have and use the time we have with the kids to teach them how to get back to those basics and get
046better in those areas with what we currently are especially since we've lost so much time over the last year and a half two years any questions for mr snyder i appreciate that today thank you right alphabetical order okay we continue to look at um our goals uh i learned math and english the state average percent of the eighth grade uh and on that one test we continue to work on our graduation rate to keep that at 97 or above and also work on our attendance rate with a 97 percent order bond to to work or fulfill those goals this year last year we looked a lot at our atlas which generated a failing rate report every couple of weeks or so and what we noticed from that data is that the rates of failing grades
047were larger than what they had been in the past and so to ameliorate that situation we've changed our bit committee our behavior innovation team computer looked at behavioral concerns academic in terms of students to a grade-level team format where teachers who primarily teach seventh and eighth grade ninth and tenth grade and eleventh and twelfth grade are going to meet on a monthly basis to review data to look at kids behavior their academics and so hopefully that's going to provide some more quickness and responses more collaboration amongst those teachers and awareness of how those kids are doing in various classes so that's in a nutshell what we're working on any questions there all right i didn't get all the way through i was trying to time it out that i would give her that's going to
048be a little more difficult and uh mr mcdivots likes our focus at white's is to just to continue to work to find ways to help our students graduate without a waiver we are certainly making progress on that we have work to do with the new graduation pathways diploma there's a part of that diploma just because the nature of the where our kids are at are really going to struggle to find a way to check all the boxes of that department so really our primary focus and we've looked at creating a local creative pathway which i assume mr keifer shared with you but did not get approved but we're not we're going to continue to look at that as an option we're looking at a potential partnership with the virtual school that may be able to
049do some uh connection with us uh when our kids leave campus to pull in some some capability for them to check box three of that graduation department with a place of elder crossing so we're looking over that but the big thing we're doing at school uh with our with our staff is implementing a student conferencing model or teacher's conference with our students one time a week just to listen to them about how things are going what their struggles what sort of goals they want to set just to help make sure we're keeping kids focused on and on the track of what they can do and so we hopefully keep them from getting frustrated on what they feel like they can't do so we would love to get our graduation rate to 67 just mention that
050since we have an audience and obviously an audience online too i don't know how many besides my mother but when we talk about that we have to always remember um the students that come to us from all over the state of indiana and typically an average day of about six months a lot of them come uh what we used to call i don't know how much we didn't start this but uh the transcript looks like swiss cheese there are a lot of holes in it and sometimes it's just a big hole because there might not be any credits and they might be a sophomore junior senior and in six months you can't necessarily get all that time back to be able for them to graduate so it's one thing that we continue to talk and
051even to the media when it comes out because typically that will come out as a district graduation rate and so i had to always talk to them about splitting that up into the different schools because it's a lot different situation but they do great work there working hard and uh i appreciate what they're doing there too so i just want to mention that again just because some people just don't understand that whole situation so any questions okay i'm going to slide through if you guys want to read those later i'll let you have them but there's a lot more slide throughs how long is it like 130 pages so second okay we'll show you the second to accept the school improvement plans all of them say that now we'll move on to finish business which
052we haven't and then we'll move on to board policy the second reading and vote for foreign policy 1220 electronic participation by board members in a board meeting and president daisy i did not receive any more comments or questions for the rest of the board so i would ask for you to approve this new policy one motion recruiter for policy 1220 electronic participation of board members [Music] regarding electronic participation before the university meetings on so i have one question i guess and i didn't know since i was gonna be here anyways i thought i'd bring it up um northfield hosts their cross-country annual cross country invitational this saturday at the field of dreams and as a part of the course um dr mccann has graciously allowed us to use his trail over the years and so
053i met with him on sunday and picked up the key and he had just had a conversation with mr france now regarding an indemnification letter for us using his property for the meet is anybody aware of that this is my first time getting it i don't know if that's what i needed to talk to the ad or if i needed to get in front in touch with mr france for that but apparently it's something that's been done in years past do you know anything about that no okay school had to provide some kind of insurance for protection from using his woods or his property yeah his property i probably first went through the athletic director of north carolina i would imagine well okay so to start with like i said i was just going to
054be here anyways and durham could come and i thought i would just ask if anybody here knew anything about it okay i'll go to josh okay so it was something dr mccann asked of me and i said i'd be here i'd take care of them yeah it's a saturday so okay i'll talk to josh in the morning and then we'll reach board members