001I got mine. >> How is it? >> Oh, maybe not. >> It's probably that one. >> That works. It's actually splitting. So, it's 180 degrees from that. Is that how this on the other side, too? It's splitting at the door right now, which is fine. Oh, yeah. Both sides of it look identical. So, if you say it's the outside, it's either way. This with the cable being strung, this looks better, I think, this way. Anyway, cut it. >> Yep. Missed a whole lot of hair off that hand right there. >> You have a choice. You can curl it. No, I can't because it looks really bad. or haven't seen Rich in a while. You >> guys haven't had archery, have you? >> No. >> I think he's playing tomorrow night at um >> Oh, really?
002I know he was out at um Saint whatever it is out there this past week. >> I didn't go to it, but I just saw pictures he was there. Yeah, I I would like to be down there some Thursday evening when he's at Little Charlie's, but Thursday. >> No, but I've got a celebrate recovery on Thursday evening. One of the third things I need helpless is setting up for arch. I think they're going to tank for arch. They're going to tank. They play right at I really think Joe's g their best chance to win this year. >> Right. long term >> if that's what is [Music] >> Hello. How are you? >> Good. [Music] >> Wherever you want. Yeah. >> Uh in July I did. >> Yeah. >> Went to Scotland for a week. I
003went for a week. >> I think I remember that. >> That sounds lovely. >> It was great. >> So I'm here now till winter. >> Yeah. I don't want this high. >> My daughter went to Ireland last year. >> Did she like it? >> Loved it. Oh yeah, she loved it. >> She did a tour and it was just her by herself and >> really >> on a tour and um but you know she went to um Peru last spring and then Ireland last fall and um she still meets up with those with the people. >> Is that right? >> That she met there and they you know Yeah. So >> did you say you are going to Ireland? >> No. Oh, he just went July. >> You just went in July? >> Mhm. >>
004I was there on September 11th. >> And I was there in September 11th. >> Really? >> Yeah. >> What was that like? >> Uh, it was very interesting. The um we were on a charter so they um we actually we were at a castle and when we found out about then they took us back to the hotel and of course we watched TV and all that kind of stuff. >> Yeah. Um, there were a lot of people angry because, you know, they shut all the airports down. Well, not really shut them down, but there was very select flights going in and out. Luckily for us, ours was since ours was a chartered flight to get back. >> Ah, >> but >> what are you doing? >> Yeah. Yeah, we >> like a week later or
005what? >> No, we got we came back on time because it happened on like a Tuesday if I remember right and we didn't fly back until Saturday. So the airports were open by then. >> So the the airports were limited. >> Okay. >> But uh but yeah, because we had a chartered flight, it was it was allowed. >> Okay. >> It was it was an interesting experience. >> Okay. Yeah. >> Especially all of our kids were here. So that was >> Oh, yeah. >> You're trying to figure out how you're going to get back and all that kind of fun stuff. >> Yeah. Everything seems so urgent those first days, you know. >> Can I get you to sign? >> Absolutely. When you get to our party, you just want to turn over to me
006like I always do. >> Yep. It's all you, my friend. They're over here up here. I can [Music] focus on Sunday. So it'll be Friday, Saturday, Sunday for these kids. Friday. >> I know. I didn't It just seems busy for August. >> August to me, but maybe >> he forgot the bus drivers last month. So, >> yes. Yes. But page >> I really last week, >> you know, last August was much the same. >> Oh, was it? >> Classified. >> Yeah, I was going to say classify is like more of the domino effect. day. >> Hopefully it stays dry. >> Cool. Byebye. >> Morning. Good morning. >> Good morning. >> How you doing? >> I'm doing good. How are you? >> Thanks for coming. >> Yes, sir. Glad to be here. >> I know you
007are. >> Had to get up early in this morning. >> You didn't probably sweat as much. You haven't been either. A little cooler outside today. >> Yes. All right. >> Yeah, I I forgot to get batteries. So, Todd, thank you. >> Doug, anything else? You're good. Good. Miss David, how are you today? >> I'm good. How are you >> doing? Oh, >> Mike. Brandon, good morning. Good morning, Laura. I already talked to you. >> Yeah, you don't get as high. >> Of course she does. Every morning. >> Every morning. Uh-huh. >> That's probably the highlight of her day, Stephanie. >> I bet. I bet. It would be mine, too. >> It's all downhill after that. >> Hey, Jeremy. Hello, >> Mr. Raver. How are you today, sir? >> Good. >> Thank you, Todd. >> Hopefully
008the rain is in and out before our big cookout tonight. >> Yeah, for sure. That >> they met the GPA average that was set for the team. It was a 3.0 and they got 3.2. So, he's rewarding them with the steak dinner tonight. >> Very nice. >> Steak dinner. >> Football players are dumb, >> right? I don't know where they get that from. >> Proper motivation stay in do their homework. >> Well, and it's funny because I was telling Zach about it and he's like, "That is so not fair." Because he promised us a steak dinner and never delivered. So, he started texting him last night and was giving him crap about not giving them a steak dinner. >> Sounds like a love dinner. >> Yep. >> And Matthew just kept adding things to the
009menu. So, I was making pasta salad this morning. You are a good mom. You are one of the best football moms I've ever been around. So, >> well, thank you. I appreciate that. >> Zach's like, "Well, just think, Mom, you only have this year and next year." And I was like, "Do you really think I'm going to quit? What am I going to do with my time?" >> It's kind of like in the bylaws. Once you're in, you're in. >> Well, it's so like when we took over the grid iron club, per se, before that it was the parents club. There was only $120 in the account to get us through the season. >> So, we've built it up over the years. And that's hard to just turn it over to somebody that you don't
010know how they're going to handle it. >> They get back to 120 real quick and not bother you. >> Yes, it will. Yes, it will. I put a lot of time and sweat into that. And I'm don't know that I'm ready to just hand it over to anybody. >> And Doug, since I'm passing comments, you're the best school attorney I've had since I've been here at Facebook. I should political office. >> Exactly. >> I can doubt Doug Wilson's been the best school attorney in my nine years. >> I've been the best school attorney. >> Superintendent. Oh, you [Music] could probably more than that county. That looks like he's not like years up now. That's what I did. That's usually what I do. That remote charge to replace [Music] anything. It was on HDMI. >> Teamwork
011HDMI 13 battleship. Jerry, I saw you attending some tennis events. That's awesome. Atlantic start a new sport. >> Yeah, >> it's fun. >> So far, so far so good. Weather last night wasn't great, but afterwards. >> No, they was a complete wash out. So, >> hopefully that's not an indicator of what the rest of the spring is going to look like. So, >> good morning. >> Hello, Larry. Mr. started >> out where you run so many >> Yeah, they started out I think it was like 14 minutes. I had the same problem in there. really don't know where >> I think they did that three rounds and then the last >> Yeah, one hand is good to kind of get in front of them ahead of the regular game. Otherwise, I was like, "Well, that's
012kind of odd to play like a conference school in a scrimmage, but >> and I didn't listen to coach's corner, but Doug listened to it a little bit and he said," and I had never asked why we were even playing. You know, you just kind >> Yeah, it's like on the surface like an odd match up, but again, it's all scripted. So, >> you start bringing >> at that point, I wanted to see where we stood like where we were going to stand within the I don't know about that. [Music] >> I mean, I think these first few days when I break it. >> Yeah. >> I learned something about your ability to waterways. Somebody told me you have an interest in waterways. >> I'll take it. That's my wife. I'm not going to reveal
013my source. >> Yeah. So, >> yeah, I've never had a bucket list, but I've added one. >> My wife's not pleased with the duration that >> I just told her I'd take the three with me. >> Maybe when they get a little bit old, but >> the truth that did it Friday night, >> Mr. Towns, you're welcome, sir. official >> in the school year. >> I know all this stuff is happening >> all at once. >> Yes. >> Then you get lightning delays. the just saying, "Embrace the grind." >> She is. You could be with us forever, right? >> No, no, not forever. >> I'm good, Larry. How will they be? >> Not too bad. Is your daughter still with her Ivy Tech stuffra? and show off >> anymore. said my office and they were
014just like watching this one year. >> Oh, nice. >> Should be good. Should be good. blame usually better. >> I'm sure we can disagree on >> especially she started an internship at a lab her junior year and she started every two summers. She's still kind of part [Music] >> how you doing? >> I'm wonderful. How are you all? >> You get nervous when you walk in. Everybody gets quiet. I just want to welcome you. So, >> make sure I'm not late or something. >> Thank you. >> I'm good. >> Thank you. >> Good. How are you? >> Hey, howdy. Howdy. >> Thank you. >> Mr. Call the bat. You're on deck. read the Franklin County. >> Um, periodically >> Franklin County is a hot item right now. The way it sounds >> which part >>
015wheel tax or whatever >> Doug's all fired up about that one. >> Yeah. Senate bill. >> Oh, shoot. Some money. Senate Bill One fall out. >> Can't do anything about it. >> Technically, the city just passed a wheels tax, too. >> Yeah. And Ripley County doesn't have one. >> They do not have one. >> Word on the street is is that they will not adopt one. But I don't know how their budget looks compared to everybody else's. >> Frequent counting is kind of scary for the last few years and budget wise. >> Yeah. At least we got one good member on here. Eric >> from Toyota. >> Wait a second. I thought I complain about how the waterway passages in Franklin County are dangerous work and all this sort of stuff. So they pass the
016benefit and everybody complains about it. So it's like do you want to fix or do you not want to taxbody back to the person that cross [Music] >> for a public opinion >> to call the meeting to order. >> First start out with the pledge of allegiance and moment of silence. I aliance 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. Well, >> Madam President, good afternoon. How are you today? I hope you're having a good day so far. >> Good, thank you. How are you? >> I'm doing very well. Without further ado, I'll turn this over to you and our lease hearing. Madam President, >> at this time, we will be having a lease hearing
017and I will turn it over to Mr. Wilson to conduct this hearing. >> Thank you. Um ladies and gentlemen, the school corporation is funding this project through a lease financing as it has done with past construction and renovation projects. Uh lease financings are used in Indiana by school corporations in order to borrow for renovation and for construction. And actually what happens is that the we have a building corporation that will purchase a portion of the building. uh this particular case happens to be the band room and the chorus room uh which they're purchasing and uh the building corporation will then lease that back to the school corporation. The lease rental amount due from the school corporation will be paid by property taxes and will be for the lease of the building during the term of
018the lease. The lease rental will be sufficient then to pay the principal and the interest on the bonds that will be sold to finance the project. And then at the end of the project and after the bonds are paid off then the building corporation deeds the uh build that portion of the building back to the school corporation. So uh the law requires that we publish notice of a hearing. We have done that in both the sales and Brookville papers. And so at this time, if there's anybody in the public that would like to comment about the lease, please feel free to do so. >> I have one question, Mr. Wilson. >> Yes, sir. >> What's our annual lease cost? >> The annual lease rental? >> Yes. >> Um, it is, let me look. That lease
019is uh about 20 pages and I didn't memorize it. Lesie agrees to pay rental during renovation in the amount of up to $570,000 per payment payable on June 30 and December 31. Now it said up to that amount. That's because we drafted this beforehand and um the uh actual amount will be very quickly figured out based on how the bids came in and what the interest rate will be and so forth. >> So, we don't really know today. It won't be more than that. It'll probably be a lot less than that. >> Okay. >> But since we're a little fur farther out than >> I understand. >> Yeah. We don't know. And the second question is what budget area does that come out of? >> The debt. >> You were correct, Mr. >> Yeah. Okay.
020Yeah. >> We actually have a construction fund that's set up when the money comes in from the bonds to pay for everything and then those payments will funnel through, come out of the debt fund. >> Okay. Thank you very much for that. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. Well, at this time then, um we will go into what's called the additional appropriation hearing. Uh since the school corporation will receive money for the sale of the real estate uh from the building corporation, this money was not initially listed in the budget of the school corporation. Therefore, we're required to hold a hearing for the additional appropriation of those funds. So, at this time, uh, I'll open it up if there is anybody in the public that would like to ask any questions or comment on this additional appropriation.
021Hearing none, then that will conclude both of those hearings as required by law. There are four resolutions that I have prepared for you to consider today. The first one which was is uh exhibit A to the to our minutes is a resolution authorizing the execution of the lease. The statute provides that you must pass this resolution authorize the president and the secretary to sign the lease. And I should say that the building corporation met yesterday and they uh adopted a similar resolution. They signed the lease yesterday uh as well. So I need a uh action on this resolution. >> Can I seek a motion for someone to approve the authorization execution of the lease? >> I will make that motion. >> Thank you, Larry. Do I have a second? >> I will second. >> Thank
022you, Blaine. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. All those opposed, same side. Motion carries. >> Thank you. Second resolution is the additional appropriation resolution and u we need to adopt this resolution to uh since it wasn't originally in our budget. The resolution also spec uh specifies that the funds will be put into the construction account uh to pay for the construction. So we need action on this resolution. >> Stephanie, I'll make a motion that we approve the additional appropriation resolution. >> Thank you, Jeremy. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Sean. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. >> Third resolution is a resolution called approving the fifth supplement to the master continuing disclosure undertaking. Uh what that mouthful means
023is it's the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States requires that we have this disclosure agreement approved by the board. uh anytime you sell securities, bonds, uh we have to comply with the SEC rules. This requires that uh the school corporation timely provide information to the SEC through their database called EMA. Uh and u they have to report anytime there's any material events. So if half the business at Batesville left town and we we're going to have taxes coming from that, we'd have to report that to the SEC and say we've got an issue here. So need authorization of this resolution. >> So who submits it to this Emma database? >> Uh the school corporation does and in conjunction with >> Baker advisors. They help us with that. But make Mr. Na'vi and Mr.
024Ketchum and myself. Okay. Thank you. >> Can I seek >> Did we vote on that one? I can't. >> No, we haven't. Okay. >> Can I seek a motion to approve the supplemental of continuing disclosure undertaking? >> I will move. >> Thank you, Blaine. Second. Thank you, Jeremy. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Thank you. The final resolution is a resolution assigning uh construction bids and contracts to the building corporation. It's the school corporation that takes these bids from contractors for the jobs to be done. But since the money from the sale of the bonds goes into the building corporation, they have to assign those contracts to the building corporation. That's the purpose of this resolution. Can I seek a motion to approve the contracts
025to the building corporation? >> I'll make that motion. >> Thank you, Sean. Can I get a second? >> I'll second it. >> Thank you, Larry. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. >> Thank you. That concludes my business. >> Thank you, Mr. Olsson. >> Very much. >> Madam President, if I may take a personal privilege to to thank Doug Wilson for his 45 years of service to the school corporation. He has worked for four superintendents. I don't want to rank the superintendents, but I feel like I'm in the top four. Thank you. You're welcome. We begin every meeting with our portrait of a graduate, our northstar, our mission. Together with our community, BCSSE is committed to providing an engaging and relevant learning environment based on a
026strong foundation of academic knowledge, transferable skills, and real world experiences. Baseball Bulldogs embody confidence, empathy, and resiliency to ensure 21st century success. With that, Madam President, we will roll right into our agenda. My first recommendation for your consideration is the approval of minutes from our July 16th meeting. >> Does anybody have any questions about the minutes? >> No. >> Can I seek a motion to approve the minutes from July's meeting? >> I'll make a motion. >> Thank you, Larry. Do I have a second? I'll second. >> Thank you, Sean. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. >> Thank you, Madam President. The next item for your consideration are the payroll journals and registered claims. You did receive an additional five pages of claims for Mr. Nami today.
027Those claims total $13,000. the two largest portions of that are our Kurt's lawn care care maintenance for maintaining our grounds and also mechanical for the work that they've done. Uh you can see on the back page I'm sorry page 505 that's about $92,000 from the operations construction fund only just under $9,000 from the education fund. Give you a moment to look over that. Happy to answer any questions you have. Seek a motion to approve those as presented. Todd, thank you for those answers. >> Stephan, I'll make a motion that we approve the payroll journals and registered claims. >> Thank you, Jeremy. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Sean. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. >> Thank you, Madam President. The next
028item for your consideration is list of personnel. It is an extensive list. As we start the school year, we have a lot of moving parts. Happy to answer any questions you may have, but I'll see a motion to approve that list as presented. Paul, just a point of clarification. I know there was like you said fairly lengthy, especially in that kind of classified section. Are those like most of those are those like additional responsibilities that people are taking on not necessarily a completely new position? Correct. >> That would be accurate for some of those classified staff as we have attorney leaves. I believe they have stepped up and filled those roles. Yeah. So that's accurate. >> Extended leave or for attorney >> could be granny request attorney being one. Extended leave simply is a term
029that allows this board to understand that employee will be off for an extended period of time. We don't get real specific. Mr. Merkel for HIPPA violations and all the other reasons. >> So is Megan Bogs? Is she extended leave resignation? She she was both. She was hired here for extended leave. She found a full-time position in more. She's now a resation. Appreciate that. >> Yes, sir. Do and I know this may be more for some of our coaches to fall. Do we have like a policy for because some of these the names on here are younger folks that recent graduates of the high school which is great but do we have like a policy where we don't have recent graduates coaching their former teammates? I know when I was coaching at the middle school that
030was kind of a concern that has been expressed but I don't know if that's a general policy. >> That's a great question. Cole can capture that. Is it a background check? I don't know if we have a specific policy about the age of our coaches or student athletes they work with. We'll do some research on Yeah, I I think it's great that we have alumni or recent graduates helping out with the program. I just didn't know if there was a policy in place to for whatever reason. So, we'll do that research. >> Yeah, >> I would think the age of 21 would be a program. >> It could be depend on what level you're working for, Mr. Purple, an individual who's doing the coaching, right? There's a lot of different factors that we've considered before
031allowing student former student coach for coaching campus. And if it's a volunteer coach, do they still have to sign some type of contract? >> Go through the same processes as a paid coach. The only difference is they're unpaid positions, but they still go through approval process to be a coach. >> Okay. Thank you. >> And they take trainings and things of that sort all the same as as the paid coaches for interacting with athletes and things. >> That's correct. There Mr. Helby has a list of videos you have to go through and watch. Come check those boxes. So yeah, CPR, first aid, Yeah, everybody does the same things. >> Any other questions? >> Can I seek a motion to approve the personnel list? >> I will make a motion. >> Thank you, Bla. >> I'll
032second. >> Thank you, Jeremy. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed, same sign. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you, Madam President. If you may, I'd like to take a point of personal privilege and introduce Mr. Mel Sever, no stranger to Batesville, Indiana. Mr. Sever's been kind enough to come back and fill as our interim high school principal for exactly 93 days. Maybe we're tricking in 94 95. I didn't tell Kyle this, but after this meeting, he's going to line Kyle up the baseline and have him do some wind sprints. So, full circle. Yeah, full circle. So, I do want to thank Mr. Seer. He was the only individual I reached out to. He's he's the perfect fit. I say that he's going to keep both hands on the wheel. There's high
033expectations for Batesville High School and he's prepared to leave that building. Mr. Seed, anything you like to add that sir beginning of the month this wasn't on my card called I was actually excited and the closer I get. I do miss the interaction with kids, teachers after being out for five years. Looking forward to get back into the game. >> So, are you retired now? >> Start my right. So, yeah, we uh you know there are a lot of things that that are the the IvyTech program here. We started that at Planefield used their model And they took it to another level which they overdo and built building which houses and several corporations in area train in that facility right across the street from high school. a lot from work. So students at the high
034school can take college classes at Indiana State Roseman and also I can right walk across the parking lot. Great. You know, and I know you guys here, they drive off. We we had some property there that wasn't being utilized. We felt like it was nice the parking lot. Great. Look forward to starting. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Appreciate that. Madam President, we'll continue on the agenda. Next agenda item for your consideration is travel requests. Let me do a little uh set the table for you. So you see Erica Burks request to travel to Los Angeles, California, which they typically employ to do that. So in conjunction with IvyTech about five years ago, we started a process and NAC is a organization that accredits colleges. Uh they we put in a proposal in conjunction with IvyTech to
035present at their conference. So Miss Eric Burke will be presenting with Miss Sammy Cardbec about our dual credit experience and how much we leverage that, how important that is to us. So Eric Eric will be part of that presentation in Los Angeles, California, but obviously we need the board to approve the travel and attend that conference. >> Motion to approve that as presented. >> I'll make the motion to approve the parable request. >> Thank you, Larry. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Jeremy. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed, say. Motion carries. >> Thank you, Madam President. We'll transition on our agenda to the financial report and I'll turn it over to Mr. Tim Hunter. >> The the financial report is on the screen for the
036end of July. Um coming off the summer months um we have lighter payroll out of the education fund for some of our classified um nine-month positions. Um so we started the the month in the education fund with just a little under $2 million. We had over $1.5 million in revenue, but just about $1.3 million in in expenditure. So that balance climbed by $200,000 to finish the month at 2,188,155, which represents 12.3% of the of the full year appropriation. So that's kind of a high water mark. that will come come back down considerably um next month with our August report um because we have it's a three payroll month right off the bat here to start the school year um but almost $2.2 million balance in the education fund. The debt service fund had um just
037about $20,000 in miscellaneous revenue in and no expenses. So, it climbed from about 1 and 1.375 million to almost $1.4 million balance. Um, the operations fund started with with about $4.7 million. Um, a little over $90,000 in revenue and and still the expenditures at about $360,000 for the monthly light. We actually had a lot of um summer project um invoices and things that were approved with your um that were approved at this board meeting, payments for things that we did. So that was a pretty light month in the operations fund, but that balance dropped by about a quarter of a million dollars to finish the month at $4,442,827. the um the rainy day fund the rainy day fund actually had $50,000 of expenditures. I think that may be incorrect um on the screen. So we
038I know we haven't had any changes for a long time, but we did pay um $50,000 was what we had budgeted for for 2025 and for the purpose of paying um severance and retirement benefits to employees. And we had several um retirements in some later um in May and June decisions that um some of those expenses were paid out of the rainy day fund. So that that balance is dropped to about $9,000. Overall the across those four funds the balance um at the end of July was 8 million $34,19 about $30,000 more than the end of July of 2024. Any any questions from board members? >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. >> Thank you. We'll transition on our agenda. And before we do that, I just want to take there's a we take a great deal
039of pride at Batesville to grow our staff members and we challenge our staff members to take leadership positions and do more and Mr. Cow Lake as our board ready coordinator has absolutely done that to the best of his ability. Very proud of Kyle and what he's done. Uh so one of the benefits of having these meetings at noon is we have access to our staff. So Kyle is going to take some time and kind of help you understand where we're at in the master plan and specifically what our bull ready calendar looks like calendar events. So without further ado, Kyle, the floor is yours. >> Thank you, Mr. Ketchum. Uh board, uh good afternoon to you all. Thankful that that that air handler just shut off. I know you guys are probably freezing like I
040am, but uh I just want to touch base real quick on just our our bulldog calendar. And if you guys if you guys want one of these as well, you actually pass one of those down. Um, I really just want to paint the picture for you all that as Paul said, like a lot of times people thought Bulldog Ready was Kyle Lakers initiative. And what I'm most proud of or most uh looking forward to this year is just seeing the number of people that are involved in Bulldog initiatives as you see it. You know, we hired uh well, we we made some room in um Rose Wild's schedule here to help with the the freshman community and the sophomore communities. So you'll start to see really her role change as a high school teacher as
041well uh to really start to take some of that ownership for our freshman community and our sophomore communities while I can still oversee from the corporation side and then also working K through eight on our experiences there. What I wanted to do for one of my visions were last year April and May became like a zoo for me because everything waited till after testing. We had our second grade guaranteed experience. We had our fifth grade guarantee experience. We had our eighth grade guarantee experience. And we also had a workbased learning fair all the last couple weeks of April and into May. And my vision last year was like, I cannot do that again. It's needs to be spread out. And so one of my initiatives here early on this summer and the start of the
042school year was to get a date for everything that we're doing um and be able to spread out these guaranteed experiences. So there's one per month. And so at the top of this document that you have in front of you was those guaranteed experiences. And as as you remember last year, we did two, five, and grades eight. Whereas this year, we're adding three more. So how do we continue to make this a sustainable model that we can build year in and year out. As you see down there in the monthly planner in September, it says year two of the master plan begins. We kind of use that calendar year to work from September to September. Let's get the rolling started. Let's let's roll into the school. Let's get a a a process and a routine
043down and then we can really start to roll into a lot of our guaranteed experiences and a lot of our community connected uh opportunities that we have K through 12 with our uh Bulldog Ready events. And um so I just want to paint that picture for you all. In in year three or year two of the master plan, we're adding experiences for kindergarten. We're adding experiences for third grade. And then we're we're adding an experience for sixth grade. So those are our our new experiences, kindergarten, third grade, and sixth grade. Um kindergarten and third grade. We I'm working with those grade levels currently to build out those um experiences. And remember the root of our guaranteed experiences is are how are we tying uh these experiences to our pathways at Batesville High School. So when
044we talk about our two different communities at Batesville High School, we have eight different pathways. We're trying to expose our students K through eight to those eight different pathways so they can see what it means to be in the agriculture pathway or what see what it means to be in the engineering pathway. Um just to have that real world experience in those different pathways. So you'll see that pathway listed at the top of those guaranteed experiences and then a date there at the bottom. You'll see kindergarten and eighth grade. I have a question mark. I'm still waiting to nail down that date. But what I have done so far, this is a draft. Consider this a draft. I'm trying to finish this up uh as we speak. I want to nail down those last two
045dates for those guaranteed experiences. Beyond the guaranteed experiences, we also have a lot of other opportunities that we we're bringing in community members into the classrooms or into the schools as a whole. And so that's kind of this monthly planner. I then wanted to just break it down for my own sake. what does uh the month of September look like for me and what do I need to start planning now to be able to happen in in um September there? So, you'll see some points of interest in September is you know the the Ripley County Community Foundation Genesis Pathways create a career exploration expo. So, we're hosting that this year that happens on our schedule September 16th the sixth grade nonprofit day. Um and if you guys can advance to the next slides there, I'll
046I'll talk about our vision for Batesville Middle School. based on middle school, sixth grade, you'll see that it hits nonprofit. We don't have a nonprofit pathway at the high school. But what we want to do is when we when we are constantly asking our community members to come in and help out with events or come be a presenter or let us come see your your space, we we may wear out a lot of businesses if we keep asking the same businesses over and over and over again. And so what a model that we have stolen from the Ford and Gail uh process is to make the middle school area about like service learning and nonprofits and giving and and being able to understand like I can give them my own time. I can give them
047my own resources and make kind of take pride in your community. So you'll see this nonprofit vision for for the middle school. And we use a mantra of see do evolve. Again, we're in year one or year two of the middle school, sorry, year two of the master plan, but year one of our uh kind of our plan for this see to evolve model in sixth grade. They want to see as many nonprofits and learn about that foundation of giving so they can understand what it what it means. We had a lesson the other day about pizza and they said the the lesson was about the difference between a for-profit and a nonprofit and the kids could not figure out this is this is where we have to really educate our our sixth graders the
048difference between like family pizza was a for-profit because you could go in there and eat pizza but they said Domino's was a was a nonprofit because they don't have a store you can't go in there. So those are type opportunities where our advisory teachers are then taking these mini lessons and teaching them. Um you guys all are familiar with our convening council, right? Where we have this organization outside of the school who's who's building these resources. They've created some vocab that they wanted to us to upfront kind of teach our students so that they were prepared for that September the 16th date. words like philanthropist. Our sixth graders should know that word before that nonprofit day on the 16th. So those that's kind of how we're working these guaranteed experiences. There's opportunities beforehand on September
04916th. They're going to see five different non nonprofits and we're just going to create a rotation uh in the school where we have five different nonprofits in what we call the inspire and impact series. They have 10 minutes to inspire. They have 10 minutes to give their elevator speech to our kids. And then for 30 minutes, how can our sixth graders actually like partake in an activity that might be example of their nonprofit? So that elevator speech should talk about like what problem did they solve in the community and why is it important to their passion? Uh because that's part of our portrait for graduate is find your passion like what's your why? All these nonprofit directors and nonprofit workers have a passion for this and what what passion is that solving? And so that's
050that middle school model. When you look at C and then in seventh grade next year as we start to plan on that, what how can we then donate a day of our of our time to a nonprofit to help them find their passion and they'll get to choose that nonprofit of their choice after they're exposed to a lot of different nonprofits, their sixth graders. So that's I want to paint that picture. I keep want to give you guys bite-sized chunks of what we're trying to do with Bulldog Ready without overwhelming you in the the roots of the master plan, but as that master plan's coming to uh fruition, I want to just paint that picture for the board here today of what we're really trying to do with the bull ready calendar and then our
051our nonprofit kind of focus there at Benson Middle School. So, with that, I'll take any questions from you all. Mr. Merkel, >> two questions. Uh, can you provide those slides to us? >> Second question. What nonprofits do you have? You're done right now. >> Yeah. Uh, I don't add that to this slide, but I'll go. That's my last slide. >> That's the last slide. >> So, um, so in September 16th and in, uh, January, I think it's January 13th, we invited a group of 10 nonprofits that we felt could connect well with our students. We don't want to have all the same opportunities for our students. So, for instance, like the Carson Hughes photography, Carson Hughes, you all probably remember the story, the South student um that that that passed away at at Forale State
052Park. >> Oh, okay. >> That's a that that kind of draws some of those heartstrings for people that one can connect with that student, but two, photography is a big passion for from students. So taking that that role of outdoors and uh photography for that uh youth the Yellowstone's another example uh we have green acres in in just for the agriculture cultural piece. >> Um we have basic community education foundation because it's important to keep them rooted in our schools as well. >> I'll provide the board I'll provide Laura uh and Mr. Ketcher if we we want to um share those resources out. share those and say this is the list that we've reached out to. >> Great. >> And we'll continue to open that door up for from others as well. >> Great. Thank
053you. >> Any other questions related today? >> Great job. >> Yeah, fantastic work. >> Appreciate support from from all these initiatives and we'll continue to look for more community involvement as we go. >> Thank you, Kyle. Appreciate that. >> Thank you, >> Madam President. We'll transition on our agenda to patron comments and I think you heard from both our patrons unless you want to hear again. >> I think we're good unless you got something you want to add. >> Okay, we'll roll right to our action items. Madam President, members of the board, the first item for your consideration is the approval of the change of the October board meeting due to fall break and some other conflicts. We need to approve our budget in October. So, I'll seek a motion to move our board meeting
054to October, Wednesday, October 8th, noon here in this board room. >> Paul, it's likely that I will be unable to attend on that date. So, I just wanted to verify that we do have at least three other board members able to attend. Does anyone else have a conflict on the >> I'll be here? >> I have a >> I will be here. >> So, it sounds like you have three. >> We have three, but no one can get six or and I will I will be in town. I just have a commitment that I really can't step out of, but if there was an emergency, I I could be here if for some reason somebody else was ill or something happened. So, >> thank you very information, Mr. Townley. Thank you. >> I'll make a
055motion to move the October board meeting to Wednesday, October the 8th. >> Thank you, Larry. Do I have a second? >> I will second. >> Thank you, Bla. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. >> Thank you, Madam President. The next item for your consideration is approval of memorandum of understanding and agreement association of Indiana counties tax refund exchange compliance system. That's a lot of work to say this organization will replace small claims court. There are times when we have patrons who are unable to pay for or unable they don't pay lunch balances or fees and we go through every layer of opportunity to help them do monthly payments, legal payments, but at some point if there's no further road forward, we have to try to
056collect those fees. This is Mr. Na'vi's initiative. I appreciate him taking this initiative forward. Todd, is there anything you want to share with the board about what this is and what this does? Um it's called the trucks program and is used by several schools and cities and towns from around us and throughout the whole state of Indiana. It's where um we upload information to the system and it goes to their um tax returns. You know, when they file a tax return, if you're getting money back, you owe an entity money, they will garnish it from your tax return. >> So like how far back? So, like if you have somebody that you're still dealing with from a couple of years ago, does that still go into this or are we just forgiven that at that
057point? >> No, we we it will go into it because right now we're down to cafeteria balances and um some of our daycare systems and technology. Those are all current. Um technology we forgive. Daycare bounces we forgive. School lunch is not forgivable. But if we were to forgive it, it would have to come out the oper the operations or the education fund to replenish that money to that account. It's federal dollars. So we don't really we do our best not to have you know to forget that money. >> How much of a sum are we talking about? >> Um uh for cafeteria we are at um about four grand um total. It's uh about a dozen students. There's a couple in our daycare system and I'm not sure how much on the IT fees. Um
058I don't know that I don't have that dollar amount. >> Stephanie, I thought maybe this is where you were going. >> According to Mike, it's about $10,000. >> I guess a similar question. I thought maybe this is where Stephanie was going, but like if you've currently got something in the current small claims process, can you then move it over to this process? um on the um this is another reason why we're using to the small things process is not working currently. So none of the none of the cafeteria or the um other fees that are have been put in um I know it has worked on that but I do not believe that small claims has moved forward on anything that's been sent to them several years. >> So you can move it over >>
059but they move it over. >> Okay. Yeah, that's kind of where I was. >> And it's a no charge to the school corporation and it's a less charge to the individual than small claim. Small cla is I believe 75 to $100 per court and then this this process is $25 is only $25 per >> it's great and madam president I want to reiterate this corporation is committed to work with every family. this just a last >> right >> I mean we have this haven't done anything since co just because we've been trying to work on >> right >> in other ways >> is is there an assessment for individual accounts for the the debtors like whether they even have the ability to pay I mean I'm guessing that some of these folks may not even
060file tax returns potentially >> which we will find out from whenever they do it this we're just starting it but they'll let us know and then you do then that's when they go to unclaimed and then for cafeteria balances we every year we do a transfer of money from the ed um education fund to cover those fees like this year we didn't have we I had to bring them to you because we we had enough to cover those those small amounts that were due were covered by surpluses that no one requested Mr. Tim and I a quick history lesson. We no longer the state of Indiana covers textbook rental fees for families. But prior to that we did we were able to raise a property tax under debt service under unclaimed textbook rental. We no
061longer have access to that. So again this is again there's no textbook fees just mostly it cap balances trying to reclaim that. Todd mentioned it because any unclaimed fees or any unpaid balances we have to take out the education fun. We can't run a negative balance. Do we know like are some of the cafeteria things are those like students that already receive like reduced lunch and maybe they need to be like more on the free lunch program or >> No, that is also done through our food service director. She reaches out monthly. If you if it's more than $25, she sends if it's at $25 less, she sends a just a statement home to the student. Once it's between 285 or above, she calls once a month. If it's over $50, she send She tries
062to call she calls um 25 to 50 is about once a quarter because sometimes you know you just forget and if it's over 50 then she call tries to call them monthly um she sends me a list of whether or not they've answered the phone whether or not they um give her a response saying hey we'll try to pay and she keeps track of that and so she's that's all been done for a while this is so the amount I'm going to send is people who she's tried for almost a year to get payments and She does suggest that you know if you you know free reduce you can't pay talks someone will say oh I'm going to do that and then they never do because they >> so the options >> it's an exhausting
063process before before I get to the point where I'm send them to >> what was the high point of balance >> we're total probably in the red right now is about five grand you So, I'm only looking at the ones that are $50 or more, which is, believe it or not, is actually 3500 of that five grand. So, most of it is bigger balances. But whenever um it was taken over before COVID, we were close to like 13,000 in the negative accounts. And uh we worked very hard to get that between um the deputy treasur at the time and our food service director has worked tirelessly on trying to get it. When we when we hit three lunches, they worked really hard on get people, okay, well, you know, you're not it's not going to
064grow. So we pay, you know, makes payments that we we've worked a lot on that process. So five grand sounds like a lot still, but I mean it's a very working workable number. >> It's better than 13. >> Yes. >> Todd, do we accept like payment plans? >> Yes, we, you know, we accept payment plans. Um I like when we had text, I used to do formal payment plans with certain parents because, you know, that's how how we did it. The cafeteria, it's always, you know, you could always make a payment. We don't, you know, we try to get them to do it. Most of them don't, but we just try to call and communicate that, you know, if if they start making a payment, then we then Bernard stops, you know, she stops calling
065because they know they're in the red, but if it starts shrinking, she knows they're trying to make a payment. Usually the ones she's calling are the ones that >> don't make don't attempt the payment and are still just racking up the bill because they still, >> right? >> Any other questions? >> No, I think great great work being done and I think this is a good improvement. So, thanks for bringing it forward. uh make a motion to approve the uh change and adopt the memorandum of understanding. >> Thank you, Jeremy. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Sean. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. >> Thank you, Madam President. The last item for consideration are the approval of the old policy updates 371372
066special July update. Happy to answer any additional questions you may have, but then I'll see a motion to approve those policies as presented. This would be considered our second read. >> Mr. Ketchum, the only question I have is the AI we we currently that currently is banned in our school. >> It's not banned. Not banned. We have to have a policy. So what two things Mr. Merkel? One, we have to update our what's called a responsible use policy, a rough policy. It now includes AI. And then we do have a policy on the proper utilization of AI in the classroom. It's not banned. In fact, we encourage students to leverage AI at times for prompts or starters or things like that. So, it's not banned, but we do have specific policies about what is usable
067and what is not usable with AI. >> So, if they're doing a a a paper, we don't want them to go out and search AI and create this paper for them. >> There's no educational value in plagiarism. you just basically have AI create your paper. There is value in leveraging AI to do research, document, >> yes, >> thesis statements and then leverage those tools. So again, it's similar to the calculator a few years ago. You know, the calculator was probably not encouraged early in math, but you know what you use on a daily basis now. >> Okay. Thank you, >> Paul. I have one question. Um, on the expulsion appeals process, how I guess from a relevancy standpoint, has there ever been an expulsion appeal tried or brought to the board? In one in my
068nine years, there's been one. >> I just had questions about skipping the board and sending it directly to the circuit court. You know, good friend Judge Dudley, I don't know if he necessarily wants to hear those um without us having vetted it first, things of that nature. But if it's only been one of the last years >> worth >> is that something that you're in support of is just sending it straight to circuit court or that you think it's something that the board should hear. >> I I I think it's always local control first. I think it should go with the chamber of man obviously building level superintendent's office as a board. way every parent has the opportunity to go through three levels. I think the circuit court is excessive in my opinion, but I
069don't make the statutes. I would prefer that the the this school board would have the final authority whether to hold or return that concern. So I agree with you. I think that we should hear those before they end up in front of Judge Dudley, Judge Taylor, or wherever. and and so I don't know do we have an ability to reject that amendment in itself and we retain those that would be my opinion I don't know if anybody else has the opinion >> that's a great so my recommendation may be that you approve this as stated with the exception of that policy and we can table that policy mr do some further research and come back next month and approve that policy or amend that policy based on our conversation >> I would be in favor
070of that with I just need a recommendation to approve the policy list as presented with the exception of that. >> Yeah, I will move to approve and adopt the new policies as presented with the exception of the revised version of volume 3 number one November 2024 suspension and expulsion of students um to be revisited in the future. >> Thank you Blaine. >> I'll second that. Thank you, Jeremy. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. >> Thank you, Madam President. That's concludes our action items rolls right into our super superintendent report. And I think you probably seen us or saw an email, but again, I I want to take every opportunity to celebrate the extremely hard work of our elementary schools. I know our primary school, intermediate school
071are separated by Highway 46, but Mrs. Cassie and Mr. Mr. Jones has done a tremendous job aligning those elementary schools to accomplish the fifth highest pass rate in I read in the state of Indiana. So again, kudos to to not only our principles but our teachers, our support staff, and maybe most importantly our families who understand the importance of literacy. So I I'd be remiss not to again celebrate in the public forum the hard work our elementary schools K3 prek3 has done and that's a very amazing accomplishment. Very proud of that team. So I just wanted to again share that in the public forum. Any questions about iie or anything like that? >> I think it's great. >> Yeah, I'm very again humbled that our team works so hard and proud of our community. >>
072Well, I think it is a testament to both buildings, right? Because we are doing some of that testing now in second grade and they have to pass it in third grade, right? So, it really is both buildings. >> It really is. You know, we talk about a K12 continuum vertical alignment. Our principles do an amazing job at those gaps between middle school and high school and the elementary schools and and again credit to the team and how hard they work. >> Correct me if I'm wrong. It was like 98.8% passage rate. >> Correct. >> And I think when you bring the numbers down to that it's only like two to four kids or something like that that ultimately didn't pass. And so we're awfully close to the 100% mark. >> Yeah, we're trying to get
073there. Miss Cassie gets a lawyer grabbing me. I said, "Why don't we get to 100 for that?" You let me know about that. Yeah. >> We'll continue on. Again, I one of my favorite events is our annual staff picket picnic. Retirees and current family members at Liberty Park on the Wednesday after uh Labor Day. So again, want to invite you as board members to participate in that staff picnic. We have upwards of 400 attendees every year and current employees bring their children to play Liberty Park and the retirees love to come back and catch up and there's a group of three young ladies who are always the first ones there and the last ones out so they they keep me on my toes. So looking forward to that event in September. Did want to bring
074to your attention a handbook change and it will be across all four buildings but our new middle school assistant principal Austin Glow brought it to my attention. Senate Enrolled Act no longer permits schools to suspend or expel students as a a consequence of student attendance issues. Our current handbooks say that we can suspend or expel students based on attendance issues. We're no longer able to do that. So we have to amend our per the statute we have to amend our handbooks that basically will change those students will then be assigned our cats which is an alternative suspension. So again no action item for this board. I just wanted you to be aware that our handbooks by statute have to change to reflect that law. Any questions I can answer on that? I'm happy to do
075that. >> If is there ongoing work in Franklin County to reinvigorate an arcat program on that side of the county line? >> Mr. Tim, I do not think there's been a recent conversation about that. Uh, and that's been a little bit of a barrier for a school corporation that spans two counties. >> Right. Right. >> But yeah, if there's an opportunity to have that conversation and I would welcome that. >> I'll put a word in. Thank you. Thank you. I think there's a few people there. Yeah. Just going down our events in September. Again, no school on Labor Day. September 1st. September 2nd is a professional development day for our staff. There will be no students. September 8th through 12th is a school book fair at BIS. And then again, our next school board meeting
076is here in this room on September 17th at noon. That concludes my report. I'll turn to you, Madam President. Any board member comments? Does any board members have any comments? >> Uh, Mr. Ketchum, I think in some of your emails you said we would have a executive session at the next prior to the next board meeting. >> Yes, that going to happen. >> We're I'm going to confer again with Madam President about that. I just wanted to you there could be an opportunity for that as we make some transitions. My question for you is if that should be before the meeting or after the meeting based on schedules. So, we'll talk offline about what that looks like. Mr. Merkel, >> I'm available before and after. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments or questions? >>
077Nothing for me. >> Uh, there was a Senate bill that was passed that was going to do away with the grading system of ADF. I think that's been reinstated. I don't know what they're doing going forward. No, great question. So, for years, schools were on an accountability system and they were rated A through F and for many years obviously being schools and A-rated schools. They hit pause on that accountability model in COVID in 2020 and they haven't reenacted that model since. The state board of education is currently working on with the rules power to create a new accountability model. So, I would anticipate for the 26 27th school year there will be a new accountability model in place. So we'll be at the high level of proficient or something like that. >> There is a
078dashboard and what will happen is based on I'll get way in the weeds here. So there'll be an opportunity for local boards to pick what portions of the dashboard they value and based on how the school performs on that dashboard that would become their accountability rank. >> Okay. I like your bra. >> Anything else?