001Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat [Music] up here. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Paul, you ready? Can't see him back there. Can't see. >> Okay. I'll call to order the July 15th Lesville Community School Board of Trustees at 700 p.m. Board members, you have received the agenda in advance of tonight's meetings. You have had time to review, research, and consider the matters to be voted on tonight. Board members, do you have any questions or concerns to be addressed before we proceed? >> No. >> Okay. The second or the first is call order. The second is pledge of allegiance. [Music] >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for
002which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item number three is approval for minutes from the June 2nd, 2025 meeting and the June 17th, 2025 meeting. Could I have a motion and second to approve? >> I'll make the motion we approve those minutes from those two meetings. >> I'll second it. >> Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Item number four is approval of the claims for the month of July. And I have a motion and second to approve. >> I will make a motion to approve the claims for the month of July. >> And I'll second that. >> Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Number five is principal's
003report. Hello everyone. Um, welcome back. Um, we're excited to kick off another great year. Um, we start Thursday, so just shout out to Mrs. Hood and Mrs. Shiger with our kindergarten orientation. We are expecting, we think, in the around the 40 to 45 mark um, for kindergarten to open up the doors and to just welcome them into Lanesville on Thursday night. So, that'll be our first event. Um, on Tuesday night, we have our back to school bash. Um, our teachers work really hard to set up classrooms and just to prepare and to get everything set up and ready. Um, so we'll run that next Tuesday night from 6:00 to 7:30. Um, we have added on something and I want to give a shout out to Zach Payne. This year we are going to start back
004to school bash with actually an athletic meeting at 5:30 for incoming families. Um, for us it'll be fifth and sixth grade, but it, you know, continues up to the middle and high school as well. and Zach's just going to take the time to kind of launch athletics and you know like here's where we are. This is how final forms work, this is the way you can sign up for Event Link. Um because as much as we want to be involved, sometimes it's overwhelming when we've got all of these different platforms and different ways, you know, to communicate. So shout out to him for just setting that up. So that'll actually kick us off Tuesday night at 5:30 for athletics for 5ifth and 6th and then back to school bash from 6:00 to 7:30 for everyone
005else. Um tonight we have some changes to present to you all from the elementary handbook. Um we're excited to welcome our um new staff. Um we have again Elena Good. Um it is not a different person, but she was Elena Davidson when she was board approved with you guys and she did get married over the summer. So we're super excited to have her as our sixth grade teacher. Um Christina Clifford is coming to us to be our new special ed teacher and um we're excited to um welcome Karen Armstrong back. I know that she's familiar with so many of you guys to our PE program. Um and then if board approved tonight, we'll have a new position um for response to intervention. Um and that could be Ann Williams with your approval. So just excited
006to have a couple new friends, one returning um and just ready to, you know, get to work and to do great things this year. Um in addition to that, we had um last year um Lanesville Elementary had a new website, so we needed to fix that address, you know, in the handbook. And then with the board's work of all of the policies and those things, we just wanted to make sure that in the student handbook it said, you know, please look at the new adopted policy. So just some word smithing, not really any big changes. Um, one thing we have had is we've seen an uptick in allergies. Um, I don't know if any of you guys on social media are seeing all the different things with the glutens and the peanuts and everything. My
007family is blessed or cursed with many of them, but um, we really wanted to kind of slow the roll. we have so many celebrations. Um, and so Mrs. Control asked us to have some of the birthday treats and things brought in because labels matter. And so she just wants to slow down and make sure she checks the birthday cupcakes to just make sure because some of them are made in those processing facilities. And if if you don't live an allergy, you don't realize how intense it is. So that's one change in the student handbook. And we'll communicate that in the newsletter as well. We love that we're celebrating and we love that we have so many things to honor and to do, but we just want to make sure we keep our kids safe. So,
008that's a small change. Um, another big change is volleyball. I don't know if you saw them, but they're super excited. They were running and squealing. I believe one of them slid on their um um knee pads down the hallway, but volleyball is now an elementary sport. Um up until this year, it was a club. So, um we're super excited to have another athletic opportunity for our kiddos here. Um, and then we just have had some minor typos and um, language changes. And then Miss Sandy sent out an update. There's going to be a small change to, um, lunch and breakfast prices. So, we updated that. So, um, and our last thing, um, we're super excited. Um, again, excited just seems to be my word. Um, and I mean, I think that a restful summer just
009brings just that energy back, um, to kick off and to be excited. But our PBIS program, um, we have so many things to be excited about and so many blessings and we have so many great kids. So, Mrs. Smith spent a lot of time this summer trying to figure out ways that we can celebrate, bring new incentives and to just um, you know, motivate our kids to do great things. So, she's going to share those highlights. Okay. So, we kind of are going to relaunch PBIS this um year with some new things. So, we have some money um thanks to some endowment money that we're going to have. So, we have some money to work with. So, we're going to still use our Eagle Pledge, which is something that the students recite every morning after
010the Pledge of Allegiance, but we're just going to tailor it a little bit to the individual grades. So, we're going to add success cards in for our fifth and sixth grade um students. So, they're going to be working towards different goals throughout the quarter. And so, then at the end of that quarter, their celebration is going to be more age appropriate. Our littles are still working for the Eagle tickets. If you have littles in the elementary, you know that they talk a lot about their eagle tickets. They're still going to be working towards those eagle tickets and they'll still be the weekly drawing for the fun prizes that they get from Mrs. Holder or myself, but our older kids, we wanted to tailor it more to like a middle school mindset. So, they're going to
011be working towards these success cards. Um, we're also going to add in some extra earned field trips and fun things on campus. So those will be also things that the teachers will sit down and decide what parameters and then we will have students work for those incentives. We've talked about like the bats games. We've talked about maybe ice skating, different things that we can get some plays because we have some connections with stage one where we can get some free plays. Um but those students would be working for those incentives. So we're also going to launch that this year too. What uh Mrs. holder and I did is we sat down and looked at data and anywhere we saw an uptick in behavior, that's where we're going to plug in some of those incentives. So,
012it's something for the kids to work towards. So, it'll be data driven, but it'll also be fun and celebratory for the students. Um, we're also we have brag tags. We started that last year. If you have an elementary student, you know, their backpack got pretty heavy with brag tags, but that was something that they were very proud of. We're going to continue that. Um, we still do student of the month. Uh, Mrs. Steele is in charge of that. The students are picked by their teachers. they come down. Um we take a picture, we celebrate them. Um we still do eagle mail. Um we encourage teachers every week to send at least one or two postcards home to students um that are doing a really great job. They like to receive that mail at at home.
013So we also will still include those. And then Mrs. Holder and I have made it our challenge to really um publish those. We we do those celebrations, but sometimes we kind of fall short at like taking pictures and things like that. So we're going to try to incorporate those into the weekly newsletter. So when she sends out that new newsletter on Friday, take a look at it. look for pictures and stuff. You'll find your kiddos um periodically throughout. So, >> that's all I got. >> Thank you. Welcome. Welcome. Um I'll keep mine sort of brief somewhat. I will talk about some of the changes that I have um recommended that we change in our handbook as well. Nothing major. Um, I did want to say that I'm excited to get another year rolling at Lanesville.
014Year one, I learned a lot. Um, thank you guys for sticking with me through all the things that I was learning as I was going. I feel a lot better coming into year two with um, you know, more of a structure, more of a plan of how things work and and the order of things and how we're how we're supposed to do them. So, welcome new staff. Jamie Kolker, math teacher. Kelsey Rawlings will be going into um, our science. We'll have Heather Baker going into study hall. She has been an instructional assistant here. We've been working this summer a lot with Audrey Brown. We've been talking about some things that uh I'm really excited about to make Lanesville great. Thank you, Sarah Smith, for helping last year. Um I'm also looking forward to just working
015with um having somebody separate in separate spaces. I think that's really going to add a huge value to these kids and what they can do. um some of the proposed changes to the handbook on the junior senior high school side. Most of them are just wording things, but there are a couple um larger tweaks. The first that I'm going to propose is that parents, as it currently stands, have up to 10 times that they can call in a student without any notice or a notification from a doctor. And so what I'm proposing is that we make that about three to give parents because every time a child gets a sore throat, I don't expect them to go to the doctor and get notes. Um but 10 times what happens when we get to 10 is
016you have the the unexcused absences begin on the 11th. And so when you're at 10 and then you're starting your 11th, you actually are missing 20 days of school before the school is obligated to report that your student is not attending regularly. And there's a direct correlation to students who attend and students who have good grades. Um, and so that is one thing that I think we can can can dial back a little bit. Obviously, excused absences are still never going to be reported to juvenile probation, but when kids miss 20 days and then we have to do something, like I said, by the time that they schedule a meeting with juvenile probation, you could be up to almost a month of school missed before anybody's doing anything about it. And so, that's just one
017catch I think that we could see um an easy change. >> That would probably have to be affected on both sides of the building. Um but that is something that I would like to see on the junior senior high. Another is that students cannot be on their phones. This is already something that we have practiced last year during instructional time. So the only time students will be allowed to have a cell phone and I don't and all of the data and all of the most of the discipline that we dealt with was cell phones. It's going to happen during non-instructional time anyways. But whatever we can do to give our kids the best chance, I want to do that. And so non-instructional time would just be before school starts, after school ends, in the hallways
018during passing period, and at lunch only. No time should phones be out during the school day while they're in classes. And I think that we'll see I'm hoping to see a reduction in discipline referrals for cell phone use. And then lastly, we have um supervision after school. This is also something that I sent out last year just as a as an email to parents and guardians, but students need to be out of the building if they are not supervised by no later than 3:15 every day. School ends at 3:00 on the junior high side, junior senior high side. And so really, when kids are not supervised, I can't guarantee that they're safe. Um, and so that is that is one concern. If there's a staff member that wants to stay over, help tutor, um, whatever
019the situation is, as long as they have somebody there with them, I'm fine. It's I'm comfortable with it. Um, it's just the ones that want to stick around. Basketball practice or practice doesn't start till 4:30 and they're hanging out in the commons every once in a while. Um, 99.99999% of the time, that's not a big deal. It's that point, however many zeros I need to add there, percent that I don't want to happen. So that is just a few things to help our school a little bit function a little bit better. And then lastly, our seventh grade welcome night's the 21st. So that's next Monday. Starts at 6:00 p. p.m. Look forward to meeting new faces on the senior on the high school side. And then looking forward to meeting the new seventh graders. And
020there'll be lots of volunteer students here to walk the halls, help students find classes. I'll be there. Mrs. Brown will be there to answer some questions. And um let's have a great year. >> Thank you. Thanks. >> Hey, next up is superintendent report. >> Um, first thing on my list that I want to do is recognize one of our board members. Um, Miss Sharon Rothrock. We're being recognized by the Indiana School Boards Association as exemplary honor role recipient. Um, this recognition comes from a board member who accumulates at least 225 points by attending meetings, seminars, and conferences uh over years. Uh, and so I've just got a a little something here for for Miss Rothrock. Uh, it's a lot of time that you put in. >> Yeah. >> And so, thank you on behalf of
021Lanesville Community School Corporation for all the time over the years. [Music] Uh last month we talked about some preliminary I learn numbers. They are still embargoed technically until the state board of education meeting tomorrow. So I can't go through the specific numbers with you. We will next month. But what I will give you is just an indication of uh the improvement that we had over the 2425 school year. Every every time we go through these we look at 20 school corporations. us being one of the 20 in our general area. That includes all of them in Harrison County, Clark County, Floyd County, Washington County, Orange County, Crawford County, Perry County, and Scott County. Uh so if you know those corporations, last year we sat up here and we looked at a uh a trend line
022coming out of COVID and a steady decrease in our test scores, particularly at the elementary level over the years. We finally today got to see everybody else's. Uh, and so we knew what our numbers were. We knew that we had increased, but you didn't know exactly what that meant till you looked at everybody else's. Why I can't go through the specifics, what I'll tell you today, and I'll just run through some numbers with you real quick. Um, we put a lot of emphasis on English language arts and writing in particular. We saw significant gains um especially in our elementary school uh junior high. We have a lot of work to do in English language arts. But just just for everybody's knowledge, our third graders in English language arts of the 20 corporations, they were second
023uh ranked second. >> The increase >> no uh total score overall percent pass rate. So second of the of the 20. Our fourth graders were second of 20. Uh last year they were fifth. Our fifth graders were fifth of 20. Last year they were 12th of 20. Um our sixth graders were fourth of 20. Last year they were seventh. Our our junior high uh we we've got some work to do. We saw some decreases there. Uh I know they're going to work very very hard on that. Our seventh grade group was 15th of 20. Last year that same group was ninth. Uh so we saw a slide there that we're going to work very very hard to correct. Um and our eighth graders were 11th of 20 and last year they were seventh when they
024were seventh graders. And so we saw a slide in our junior high English and a lot of work's going to go into that and into correcting that for those kids. Uh math, same thing. Our third graders of the 20 corporations, they were first uh in their pass rate in math. Uh our fourth graders were second and last year they were second as well. Um this one I'm really really proud of. our fifth graders, they were sixth of 20 and they had a a teacher change in midyear. Uh, and I think it really really benefited our students. They were sixth of 20. Last year's fourth graders, they were 16th of 20. Um, our sixth graders were third of 20. Last year, that same group of fifth graders were tied for ninth in 20 of 20. Um,
025our seventh grade, they were second of 20. Last year, sixth graders, they were eighth. and our eighth graders. And this one we saw a decline, but you really can't. They were second of 20 and last year they were first, but it was razor's edge first and now it's kind of razor's edge that they were second. Just a flip-flop here or there. >> Uh, but overall in English language arts we were third of 20th of third of 20. Last year we were ninth. Overall for the corporation in math we were second of 20. And so we saw really significant gains. And then if you looked at the combined score, those are kids that passed both sections. Uh our third graders, we were second of 20 corporations. U for those that that passed both. Um our fourth
026graders were second of 20 corporations. And last year that same group as third graders were fifth. This one, this is a good one. Uh well, the next Yeah. No, this one or fifth graders. They were second of 20. This group last year as fourth graders were 17th. And so a lot of gain in that fifth grade room this year. Um our sixth graders, their combined score, they were second of 20. Last year they were 10th. >> Mhm. >> Um our eighth grader or our seventh graders were seventh of 20. And last year they were eighth. And our eighth graders, and again, just a small little thing here, they were second of 20. Last year they were first corporationwide. of all of those, we were second um corporationwide as far as our test scores and our
027percent pass rate. And last year, we were seventh. And we'll look at those uh the actual numbers next month. But I just wanted to go ahead and shed a light on all of the hard work that our our students and our teachers and our instructional assistants and our tutors and our administrators are doing. We we targeted some things and we put a lot of work in on them and it was very very hard and some people got upset because it wasn't the norm but we were seeing a downward slope and we had a I was hoping for some type of uptick but it was a a significant movement in the right direction uh corporationwide across the board particularly in our elementary. So very very proud of all of those involved, the kids, the students, the
028teachers, the instructional assistants, tutors, lunch ladies. Literally, it takes everybody for those things. Um, this morning, I want to give a a good shout out to Miss Sher back there and Miss Hood. Uh, I started my morning off with the ISTA. They had new teacher uh kind of training for all of Harrison County and Crawford County. Uh, we had several teachers there that are going to be new to us. Um they gave a lot of good tips, a lot of good things. Uh some have some years of teaching, some have zero years of teaching. So it would be very beneficial for everybody. Um but I wanted to shout out to them because I know that's a lot of hard work to put that on and especially you know cordon high school where it was it
029was with us the last couple years. Cordon this year it's going through construction and so where they planned on going in and then the parking lot's getting redone so they just move everything around but they did a really really good job okay >> on that. Um, we are, knock on wood, fully staffed for the 25 26 school year. Uh, not many corporations can say that. Now, that could all change tomorrow. Who knows? So, I'm mentioning it now and then knocking on wood. Um, new bleachers are installed in the high school. They look very, very nice. They they will be beneficial for us. Um, we have started the initial process of budgeting for 2026. uh we've kept it the last couple years just under 11 million. We know that we're not going to be able to
030do that, especially on the operation side because we have some large things that we have to do and that's what the the big the big issue with uh getting some solar on, getting some roofing done and running that out of debt service was because we know we've got parking lots and roads we have to resurface and we know we still have a couple buses that we have to to buy because and we'll talk about one here in a minute, but we have to prepare for the next contract cycle potentially having one, maybe two, maybe none uh or zero um contract drivers. The price of buses have price contract drivers out for the most part. So, we've got to pick all of that up and be prepared. And so, we've been doing it bus after bus
031over the last couple years, but we kind of really have to ramp up next year and grab a couple. So, we know that there's going to be some sizable things coming out of operations. Uh, and so we we know that that's going to to move up some. Um, last thing I want to talk about, we uh sent a parent survey out um as soon as school was out. I got a lot of good information from the parent group that I meet with on ways to get more uh participation. Last year we got 37 total surveys uh responses. This year we got a lot more. We had 109 um and represented and you could go through and check on but you how many kids because they marked how many kids they had and roughly about 27%
032of our kids. Now some of them were duplicates some of them parent the mother and the father filled it out and so it's the same set of kids but so roughly about 25% of our kids were represented and 109 survey responses as opposed to 37. Uh, one of the questions that it asked, uh, is, "I'm happy with the current path of Lanesville Community School Corporation seems to be on." Um, of that 15.6% said they weren't. Um, I was was happy with that number. >> U, you always have people that are upset with you. Um, 38.5 said they were unsure. Uh, and a lot of those, you know, I've got a son that that's at Silver Creek and I know what he's doing and I care what he's doing. I don't really pay attention to the
033corporation. So, you get a lot of that. But then the largest number was 45.9% that said yes, I am happy with um with the way that the school corporation is going. So th those were good numbers. Another thing u that we asked of them was what is it that we do really really well? Um the the largest thing that they said that we do really really well was uh safety at Lanesville Community School Corporation. And 67% people said yes. That's what we do the best at. they they feel safe with their kid here. >> Uh the next highest was creating a warm uh and inviting atmosphere >> and that was uh 59.6%. And then the third um was uh quality of communication from teachers uh home and uh right behind that was administrators uh and
034then counselors and then athletic opportunities uh was right there as well. And so those are some things that was h that were highlighted for us that we do exceptionally well. And we asked them what are some things that we really need to improve upon. Um by far the the leading tally marker there was uh maximize space that we have and we know that we are out of space. 100% we know that and that's 37.6% of respondents. Um the condition of the facility was 28.4 that was second. We put a lot of time and effort into our facility, but we know we've got a lot to do. I have had some architects going through looking at some remodeling uh over the last week just uh help us up some schematics on some things we need to
035do um no matter what happens around here. Um and then uh ironically, some of the highest ones were the quality of communication from teachers and administrators and counselors. Some of the lowest numbers were uh the quality of communication. Uh it was 26.6% 6% said that they got u poor communication from their teacher. Um 24.8% said that they had poor communication from administrators and 13.8% said they had poor communication from counselors. And so we know that uh we've got a a lot of people say they do well and a lot of people say we do. And so one thing that we do with this data is we had administrators retreat uh and it was the department heads and building administrators and myself uh got together and we go through these things and some other things. And
036one of the things that we know we have to do is work on some communication and some systems for communication to make sure that it doesn't matter what teacher you have, you're still getting communicated with properly. We know most of ours do that. Some still fall short. Sometimes I fall short, but putting some systems in place. And so this data is always used by us and we we look at it and we make some changes and we do some things um based on some feedback that we get. And so I just want to thank everybody that responded and and the parent group that I meet with for their feedback because uh it really garnered a lot a lot more attention and better responses this year. >> Thank you. That is my report. Okay, next up
037is the PTSO report. So, right now we are working on our back to school bash, getting ready for that. Um, we're going to be having popsicle set up outside like last year. Um, one thing that we are going to do different is we're going to have what we call the Eddie's closet. So, it's a bunch of um gently used Lanesville gear that we'll have for sale at a really discounted price. Um and we might even have that pop up at different events throughout the school year. Um so, we'll be taking donations at any time to help um provide that for other kids and adults. We'll have adult sizes as well. Um and we've gotten together and created our schedule of events for the school year. We've made a few changes to certain events. Um, but
038at the back to school bash, we're gonna have magnets with not only our meeting dates, but also different events, which those dates could be tentative depending on how the schedule goes throughout the year. Um, and then lastly, we got the um field trip shirts designed and set up. They went through Parents Square today, so anybody can purchase them. We'll also have the QR code at the back to school bash, so anybody can scan that and get a field trip shirt if they like. So that's what we have right now. >> Thanks. >> Next up is public comments related to agenda items only. Public particip participation policy will be in place. The only person that signed up was Donnie, but he's thinking about 22, right? >> Okay. The next item is item number nine, approval for
039St. Mary's Catholic Church to use two of our MIDI buses on Sunday, August 10th for their annual picnic. Can I have a motion and second to approve? >> I'll make I'll make a motion. Will you go ahead and approve those buses for the St. Mary's Catholic Church? >> We've done it for years, won't we? Yeah. >> Second it. >> Okay. Any discussion? >> You second it. >> Yeah. >> Okay. If not, all those in favor say I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. The next item is approval to purchase a new fullsize school bus. Dr. Apple, you want to speak on that? >> Yeah. Um, what we're needing to purchase is exactly the same bus that we purchased last year. Um, it is a international um, school bus. It's got the racks underneath. We
040will go through Wilson Center and through Midwest on bidding. Um the IC is actually the base price is is the cheapest. Um most of the things it comes out a few thousand cheaper then because of different parts and whatever um they try to factor in a tariff cost. Um and they they're figuring about 6,500 on that one. That puts it just a little bit above about $1,000 above the Thomas. Uh but we really like the one we had. It's got what we need. uh the additionals, some of them can do heated seats and heated mirrors, some of them can't. Those kinds of things, which if you ask Mr. Bridges, that's important whenever you're climbing in a bus at 9:00 in February to be able to do those things. >> 7:00 in the morning. >> Um
041yeah, >> the the listed price on that is 1687678,767. Um that might be higher, it might be a touch lower. They they factored in tariff costs, but they don't really know. they tell us. Uh but just so everybody is is aware, that's about 15,000 more than what we paid last year. Uh similar bus we bought uh in 2022 was 112,000. And so school buses, the prices just keep escalating and escalating. And that's why we know that we have to be prepared talking with our contract drivers uh and other um transportation directors in the area. contract drivers have been priced out of buses. Uh we've extended how long that they can keep buses. Uh we we've gone out to 24 years instead of 20 just to try to keep some drivers and but they still can't
042they still can't buy buses. Uh they they've priced contract drivers out of buses. Um and so we know and we're preparing and some of our drivers may still drive but they may still drive for us. So we have to do those things. We have to prepare for that. Uh, and so the the price on that international's um um but it may be a little different than that whenever they factor in tariffs and they just wanted to make sure we're aware of that. But we know and I'm asking for approval of about 170,000 on that bus. >> We ordered it. We're going to order it. >> Well, you haven't approved it yet, but as soon as I approve because we have to get we have to get the price locked in price before it goes up
043again. Yeah. >> Plus, you got to prepare for the future because a lot of these drivers that I've talked to, >> I'm not saying they're going to. I'm just saying they've been talking about not doing contracts again. >> Yeah. They they they can't afford >> you can't afford the upkeep on >> they'll they'll drive for us, but they don't want to have their own Yeah. >> And they'll drive for us, but they don't want to own their own buses. >> Yeah, >> I get it. >> Okay. Can I have a motion and a second to approve? >> I'll make a motion we approve purchase of a new fullsize school bus. I'll second all >> or any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. >> Okay. The next
044item was the approval of the elementary school 2025 2026 student handbook. We got that ahead of time. >> I've had a chance to look at it. Um, could I have a motion and second to approve? I'll make a motion that we approve the elementary handbook for 2025 26. >> Second. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. The same with the approval of the junior senior high school 2025 and 2026 student handbook. Could I have a motion and second to approve? >> I'll make the motion we approve the changes to the junior senior high school student handbook for this coming year. >> I second. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Okay. On 13 through 21,
045we're going to do the as we've done in the past, consent agenda. So that's number 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21. Would anybody like to pull any of that out? Before Before you do that, I just want to make sure we are clear on one hiring. Uh Miss Ann Williams as a RTI teacher that is that newly created position. She will not be full-time. Um >> Fridays she won't be here and there are a few weeks that she won't be here whenever kids are doing end of semester, end of quarter parties, those kinds of things. Um and so she'll be with us vast majority of the time, but her contract will be prrated um to show those days. >> She's here. Yeah. Yeah. >> But just want to make sure everybody
046was aware of that. >> And she's and she's the one that's helping with uh Bethany with with title. Title. >> Yes. She's she's the one that's handled with that. >> Yes. Williams is a retired teacher and done this type of work for a long time and so she she would be a great asset to us. >> Okay. Anybody want to pull anything out? If not, can I get a motion and second to approve? I make a motion that we approve items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 for approval of all of those folks listed in those areas. >> I'll second that motion. >> Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Okay. The next item is additional public comments. What's the matter?
047>> Donnie Hong, uh, Lanesville. Not really a comment, maybe a question. I forgot the date. It was early June. Dr. Apple hosted an open house type of answer question and answer session on the solar project. And I understand I wasn't able to make it because I was enjoying a week off with my son and daughter-in-law whom you all know and my wonderful grandkids at Chesapeake Bay. I understand that there were some questions asked in particular answers weren't available and the consultants or this administration were going to get some answers and get back. Will there be a follow-up meeting to provide those answers or have they been provided? >> They got the questions and then he's had surgery. We're meeting again next week >> to go through those. >> Huh. Hope I'm off. >> Well, we're
048we're meeting next week and then getting those answers to the people that asked the questions. >> So, it won't be >> if they haven't already. Some of them I think maybe reached out to him directly. >> Was it what little bit I heard secondhand is that the scope of the project's been modified somewhat because the condition of the roof and maybe >> we want instead of listening to some public comment and a few other things instead of putting them on the roof's got most most areas about 10 to 12 maybe 15 years in it. But instead of putting them on and then they're not drilled or anything, so you just take them off, bring them down. Uh but instead of doing that, then we're using this money to help do the roof where they go
049on. Um what the last conversation we had is the roofing estimates are much better than what we uh originally thought uh as far as price-wise. So it frees up more money for more solar. Um but then over the next few years, then we'll replace the rest of the roof. So the the there was it was mentioned there would be a reduction in panels. That's not going to be as drastic as you first thought. >> Yeah. Because the pricing on the roof is better. >> Okay. >> That's good to know because that's what you was hoping for to generate >> to offset at least a teacher salary a year. >> Yeah. Um, and then the second, have you had a chance to look at, figure out, or be told the impact of SB1 on school finances
050and the potential loss of certified shares? >> We've gone through that. The state's given us those readouts. Um, the one tricky little part, we're looking at probably the last estimate that we saw about 34 of a million uh that we're going to lose over the next few years. What we'll also lose, but won't take place until 28 are local income taxes. Unless >> certified shares, >> unless you guys decide because we can't levy those, you guys at county council or the town, everybody else but us can level levy those. That's about $111,000 a year that we would lose. And so now, but it's hard to then calculate because that won't be until 28. So it's hard to calculate that now with the first three years, but those three years are never coming back, >> right?
051And so who knows what that's going to look like then in 28. And so we know what that's going to be. We know what our local income tax share is, the 111,000 that we got last year. So we're looking at anywhere, depending on on the way things look, anywhere from probably 500 to 3/4 of a million over the next three years. And then once the local income tax comes off, then that's at least another 111 a year. Unless there's some deal uh where somebody feels generous and and gives us some of that back. There's six other people. Come on. The impact uh to county government on SB1, not I think including certified chairs, we're going to be looking to make up about $600,000. >> Yeah. >> Uh that's not as bad as threequarters of a
052million, but >> and I guess we're lucky because that's a $42 million budget, but >> yeah. >> And and that's not taking into account any potential riverboat loss or any of that if that were to happen as well. I mean, that is just truly the estimates that we got off property taxes. >> Again, I can't speak for anybody else, but I as far as my mind's made up, there's no intention to further reduce riverboat contributions >> that will give you >> I I don't think you're going to see increases because, you know, right now C County levy from all sources is about $23 million. Our total budget is $42 million. So we got to find $23 million somewhere where we get 22 million in the river boat. So >> So it's not that they're going
053to hold. >> Well, that's just budgeted numbers. >> You then you have all these things that come up during the year where gosh, we need a million dollars to build a grand stand where we're going to get it. Well, we you know, we overspend about eight or nine million dollars a year for good things in the community. >> Sure, I get it. >> Okay. Thanks. Okay, the last item is adjournment. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? >> I'll make the motion to adjurnn. I'll second. Second. I'll second it. All those in favor say I. I. I. Thank you. Thank you.