001Mhm. >> I'll go ahead and call to order the Tipton Community School Corporation public work session for the school board. We have first on our agenda the uh always exciting property casual insurance renewal Oh, yeah. >> presentation by Dr. Glaze. Yes, and uh you know, it's always a big surprise on on how much this is going to change from year to year. And uh so, this is certainly not an an exception this year. Um essentially, what we're doing is uh we basically have no change in our coverage. So, our coverage is staying about the same. The biggest change, which is happening to many um school districts and many other um groups like us, is changing deductibles. Uh deductibles are going um uh much higher. Uh and uh we originally quoted a 1% deductible, um which
002is 1% of the value of the building uh for which you need to do repairs, you know. Our most expensive building um is this one, the the the middle school and this part of the elementary is considered one building. So, if we were going to have to replace a roof, it would be $430,000. Um they uh they talked them down to um a $75,000 um deductible, What did you get? >> seems to be um more of the going rate. Uh we were talking to our our friends at Northwestern, that's what their deductible is. Um that's still pretty steep considering that it's been around $20,000 um >> [clears throat] >> uh until now. Um so, what uh our friends at Walker Hughes recommended was a deductible buy-down insurance, uh which is around $10,000 annually. So, we
003just kind of did the math and we thought, well, for $10,000 to save essentially 65, that that probably um you know, that that would make the most sense. Um so, that's what we are recommending. Um the uh Again, it's uh it the the insurance business is is definitely um becoming harder and harder to navigate. And with just the amount of of hail and wind damage that's happening um around this area, again, it's just kind of the way that the whole thing is working out. Uh the other part is uh sexual abuse. Um currently, we have a $1 million cap. Uh they recommended that we would go to a $2 million cap, which is more of the industry norm. Again, that's going to be an additional cost around $10,000 uh for that increased coverage. I think
004it's probably a good idea um for us to uh move up to that $2 million cap. Um and uh just to try to make sure that we are um covering ourselves in case uh something like that would happen, and we certainly always hope nothing like that would happen. Um but I just think that's a wise move as we're moving forward. Question. Yes. So, the 10,000 is in addition to what we're paying for the 100. Correct. >> So, what are we paying for the 100? What are we paying for the 100? >> Or 1 million? Um I that is broken down on your on that form that's in the packet. I can I can look that up and tell you. Um but it's uh I don't know. Scott, do you have that? Uh I don't see
005it on the packet. It may have been in the original proposal. Yeah. I can find that out for you. And if if we've got a little time between the two meetings, I'll go grab that packet. I want to say it it was like $6,000 for the 1 million. But I'm I'm not exactly sure. Um so, let's >> wanted a reference kind >> I understand. >> whether it was like 50,000 or 500,000. >> Yeah. I will I'll get that for you. That's a good question. Um So, overall, our our premium uh without adding these additional coverages was going to be an increase of about 6%, um which seems to be kind of the industry standard right now. Um adding the two additional coverages, um so, that $20,000 extra of of additional coverages would increase it about
00615%. Um again, I I would just recommend uh these although we don't ever like to spend more than we have to um on on insurance, um I feel like that it would be practical for us to consider those increases. And then, the total annual premium is uh $276,549. And uh Walker Hughes is great and allows us to pay that quarterly, so we're not taking that hit all of the time. Um So, uh beyond Tammy's good question, which I'll be glad to answer, are there any other questions um about the insurance? That's the total cost. That's not above what we >> Right. paid for 125. Right. Yes, that's the total cost. Total cost. >> That's the 15% increase. I when when Scott talks about the calendars, I'll go get that and be able to share that
007with you. Any other questions? Okay. All right. The high school curriculum material adoption. Hello Denise. How are you? I know it. You are perfect. The adoption for the high school is some additional novels. Currently, we have a novel based curriculum that seems to be working well in our secondary English classes. There's a combination of full class novels and novels that are used more for literature circles. So gives kids some choice and some small group opportunities for reading. We also have some that are differentiated for our multilingual students and also special ed students. So these are high interest novels that are at a lower reading level but still match the the type of genre that that all of the other students are reading. So some variation in the reading level on some of those. The the
008committee included three parents, two community members, two administrators, one board member, media specialist and then our four ELA teachers. The the the adoption was organized and run by our friend Mrs. Kehoe. And she did an excellent job. And uh the novels were selected by the instructional staff. They are high interest novels. So again novels that are definitely in that that young young adult early you know late teen kind of kind of approach and I may be said the wrong thing there cuz Denise gave me a funny look. And [clears throat] anyway, but she can answer that question more. So we did complete an evaluation and and a recommendation form. We met twice to discuss novels. Mrs. Kehoe completed the board report that is in your board packet. The total cost for the adoption is around
009$4,000. And does anyone have any questions regarding any of that? I'm sure that Denise would be glad to answer any specific questions. I was just going to say isn't there included a savings from that because didn't you pick up some copies of novels from another school or another place that you >> Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I just wanted to highlight that. I just thank you so much for doing that and just you know being aware of utilizing what was given to us for free. So Right. Yep. That was good. That was a good book. I like that book. Is there a Dolly Parton uh book program for children? Yes. Imagination Library. Yeah. It's a yeah and we to my knowledge I we we don't we don't have a lot to do with that. I
010think it's given out to individual families. Not really run through the schools. If I'm not mistaken Sarah, isn't that correct on the Imagination Library? Is that yeah? Yeah. So but again it's just kind of an outreach from some kids for some where parents can go and sign up but it really doesn't have a lot to do with the schools. But actually great books in the Imagination Library. Any other questions regarding the high school adoption? Okay. Middle school curricular adoption. So middle school went a different direction. We did that because the the middle school is going to move to more of a a similar type of adoption that we had for our elementary. We've we've heard from on high that IDOE has put some blessings on some programs. Everything that we looked at had the the
011blessing of the IDOE as far as the um the components of the program. More importantly, they really want to be able to tie what's happening in middle school more to the science of reading. And so that's one of the criteria they're looking at closely when they're providing this list of programs that that can be adopted by our our middle school students or middle school schools, I guess. Anyway, the committee included three parents, one board member, two administrators and four teachers. Committee reviewed four IDOE approved programs and narrowed the selection down to two programs. And they were Savvas and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The committee's final recommendation was Savvas My Perspectives. The adoption will include digital licenses for the students along with classroom sets of hard copy books. And then a full detailed report is in your
012packet for Mr. Ayers. The total cost, which is obviously a little bit more expensive than what we are doing for the high school is 43,722. And and that would be the adoption over six years. So that would be a part of the six year adoption. So we would use this for six years. They are going to continue to use classroom novels that they they have so and they've already been approved by the board in the past. And there are some of the the novels that we've that are included that are part of the My Perspectives curriculum. So it'll add well in the in that perspective. Boom boom boom. Anyway, um John, do you have anything you would like to add? I don't think so. I mean obviously your board packet prepared for you guys kind
013of a process. One of you got a firm receipt to it. Obviously Um You know I I will share that just kind of as being as Dr. Lewis kind of mentioned There is a high level of accountability in the middle school environment moving in terms of ILEARN and that's why the IDOE does have the curriculum. We actually did look at some that have been more cost effective. But those lack alignment with Indiana standards. They lack a lot of the non-fiction rigor and the writing And I'm I'm very happy to see that the Savvas one actually all that we looked at in particular the Savvas one is a comprehensive literacy program which is going to ensure that across the school year that reading, writing speaking reading, writing, vocabulary. There we go. Grammar is all included as
014part of it. It's happening all So this is actually of the ones we had narrowed it down to, the most cost effective one but not compromising quality. the most high quality one in the current duration. So I'm very much so looking forward to this. I have a couple of kind of collective commitments that we as an ELA department in middle school are going to be ensuring. For example, comprehensive language curriculums are really designed to be done in whole as opposed to piecemeal. And so you know we're going to make sure that we're We also one thing that we did notice when I I guess I will just add this briefly at the end here. None of the curriculum materials that had really addressed that very very low trial. There's a lot of good scaffolding, a
015lot of good differentiation for wide variety but unfortunately, the reality is that we do still have kids in the middle school environment five years ago that are not on grade level receiving instruction. No reading So sort of separate from this, we are actually partnering with the WEC to ensure that next year we're identifying and then intervening with those really really low readers to ensure that even the most struggling reader getting help and support they need to code and make some of the for building blocks of foundational literacy by which but what last six years of being an American some have had for us that I think it's very exciting exciting time and we'll see how all this next year. Maybe you already said this but can you tell me what the WBEC is? Wabash Valley
016Educational Consortium. Yes. >> Which is the professional organization that we are a part of. Yeah. We get free and reduced price professional development and they have literacy which is actually in common pricing instruction. Not only full staff but also great ELA teachers. It's okay. It's going on the list. >> No, there's yeah there you go. There are a series of educational service centers that are throughout the state. We're very fortunate with being a part of Wabash Valley that they have really taken on this idea of going and coming in and providing coaching. So it's not a one and done. It's not like they come in and you know talk about these great things, but they're actually, you know, with us in the trenches kind of looking at how we're teaching and how we can how
017we can deliver instruction better. So, we're fortunate to be able to have that option for us. Um it is at a reduced cost since we are part of the consortium, so it does does work out well. Price-wise, if we were to not do the digital um and we would just stick with our back books, how would that differ in price? You know, that's an interesting question, actually. Uh we got quotes from all of them for our copy books as well as for workbooks, but I don't know what I would not having I I I actually about having the Chromebooks is that with them. Um at the same time copy of it there's also value in that. Um I do just from my conversations with the company that I communicate with it I don't I don't
018have a whole lot of experience seeing that company that they say yeah, it'll actually be cheaper for you physical books but I don't know that for sure. Um so I I could ask that question. I'm sure I can find a quote. Obviously, that doesn't change the fact that it's our school curriculum, I'll get prices for that. Yeah, I I I would guess the pricing would be similar. The difference would be shipping. The shipping is just where You want to stop I know that. I know it. I know it. And uh but that's that would be the killer, I'm guessing. And And typically, we go try to do the first one. Um but there there would be a a cuz that's the most expensive shipping. But the other the rest of the 5 years, there would
019still be a shipping cost if I'm not mistaken. Am I Am I right or wrong? >> In my experience, and I still don't thoroughly understand this, they don't charge you at all for shipping if you pick it up the first year. I I can't explain it. I honestly still confused. I've asked several times. So, why did we go go why did we go road tripping? We road trip because if you don't get it if you ship it the first time, then get the full charge. Oh, okay. >> the first time, they don't charge you ever. That's been true in the girl hill. That's been true with Savvis. I don't question it. I'm just thankful for it, so. That's weird. I mean, we can I mean, we can get a If if we can if as
020long as we can approve the um the the adoption tonight, we can figure out it what the price would be. >> to know. >> Sure. Yeah. I mean, we can we can do that. And we we did talk a little bit about it. Well, and like I mentioned, we did get we we got quotes that were the same from all corporations or all the companies that we're dealing with. They made sure that we were comparing across different the same thing. Mhm. And we did get quotes on getting the consumable materials to just talk about, you know, that the active you know, pencil and paper >> Yes. working with the material. Um and if the consumable versus the expensive for all of them. Of course, if it comes to the students and they still lose these
021skills it's only worth spending Um and at the same time, if we adopt you know, our copy books, then they still annotating and you know, doing the similar skills They'll see it in the book. I will, however, ensure that I'll get a quote from Savvis paper or consumable or hard copy and see if I I think you're probably just referring to lots of data coming out about the efficacy of the book versus the digital. Yep. Yep. Yeah, I mean, I I would be a pro I mean, I would love for there to be no digital copies of books here. Yeah. >> But I understand the the cost implications, but I also think if there's a trade-off and we get better results in our testing and things of that nature because they are learning better. Um
022I think there's a cost-benefit analysis there somewhere even if it's break-even. Yeah. >> Um but the physical book um research is saying is the is the way for us to go, but I think, you know, we're turning the turning the aircraft carrier in the [laughter] middle of the canal. But um yeah, I'd be interested in that cost difference as well, so. And that was a question that I had basically cuz I'm a big believer in annotating and you can annotate on the digital side and it actually kind of works, but I'm not sure whether I'm not sure the beauty of annotating is being able to go back and and I I'm not sure how easy that is on the digital side. So, that's that's part of we had that conversation. I So, I'm a big
023believer in annotation, so. We did spend some time in the committee figuring out how to digitally annotate. >> Right. Again, not the same as Yes. highlighting and all that. >> Right. Right. We did spend time Right. Right. Right. I think we can definitely take a look at that. We'll get We'll get back to you. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> Yes, absolutely. Okay, any questions on on that? Good questions, good good dialogue. All right, calendar. And I am going to I'm going to take off and go since I have nothing to do with this. Yeah, I'm handing this off. >> [laughter] >> So, this year we we put together a calendar committee that was advertised um uh through newsletters, through uh social media. Uh we ended up getting representation of families from each of our three buildings.
024Um we got uh administrators from each of our three buildings, and we actually got teachers from just two of our buildings. Uh our middle school teachers were just happy to be along for the ride. So, um did not get any teacher representation from middle school, but uh I feel pretty confident that our committee had a pretty wide uh perspective when we were putting this together. Um so, what you're looking at right here are the calendar options for '26-'27. Uh we actually did '27-'28 first. That was the original purpose of the committee um because we had already adopted the '26-'27 calendar. That's been out for uh about 9 10 months now. Um the reason uh for going back for a a potential recommended revision is uh twofold. One, uh the committee simply asked. They're like, "Hey,
025can we take a look at next year's calendar? We had a few things we'd like to recommend differently than what was officially adopted." So, I said, "Well, since the last calendar was really more kind of a made up for me and and going back and forth with the board. Um I thought, you know, we can put forward a recommendation if they want to uh accept those changes, we can. I'll talk with those in a second. The second reason was uh we actually made a slight miscalculation. I forget it must have been somewhere lost in the translation, but we actually scheduled an extra day in the uh previously adopted calendar. I I was just so excited to get everybody back in. Um so, we had 178 days. We only need 177 days scheduled for the school
026year because we had a 3-day uh waiver that we filed for. Um that's good for another 2 years after this. Um it's uh what we use for professional development days. Um so, in any case, uh here's what you're looking at. Here's kind of I know it's hard to see right now. Shared this with you guys a few weeks ago. Uh it should be in the packet, but uh just the big adjustments that were made. Just looking at first semester, um the first thing we professional development day from the day uh September 11th, which is the Thursday or Friday of Pork Festival week. Um we actually bumped that back to before the start of the school year. That was a really big push from our staff. Um they really valued having that professional development day to
027kind of kick start the year, not a month into it. Uh so, I said that shouldn't be too big of a deal. Um I know we originally talked about putting that on that Pork Festival week in the hopes of kind of alleviating some uh attendance concerns, but they so kindly pointed out to me that uh Thursday is usually when we have the the most absences uh because of that Pork Festival uh uh event. So, again, I I said I don't think that should be too big of a deal. Because of that 178 days, we decided we'll work out nicely. It's actually what we did with the '27-'28 calendar is we decided to bump school back a day. So, we'd actually start on a Thursday, not a Wednesday. Um that works out really well for the
028high school. So, the high school's shifting to just a straight blue white schedule, not a blue white silver day type schedule. So, by having it on Thursday and then school again on Friday, all of our high school students will see all of their teachers that first week. Um it also creates that kind of short week transition back into school. That's helpful for our students, helpful for our staff, and great for transportation as we kind of fix some of the bugs in the first couple days of of bussing. So, we felt like the start of the school year that was a good uh shift to that. Uh there really wasn't any other change in the first semester. That was it. The biggest changes that they recommended came from second semester. And bear with me as I
029kind of explain the steps that we followed through on this. So, uh one of the issues they saw is they didn't really like the 2-week gap between the end of the school year and graduation, but they also really really did not want to have graduation on Memorial Day weekend. They felt like that was a really poor idea. So, to kind of split the difference there and also from a middle school and the high school perspective, we we have finals that we give to those students and they felt like it would be appropriate to have a sort of final short week focused just on getting those final assessments out. So, what this does in this calendar, instead of ending on Friday, we're going to end on a Wednesday. So, that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday is kind of
030your finals short of the week. Um with that said, those three days have to be made up somewhere, right? We we've added three days, so we need to take off three days. So, where they recommended those three days be taken off, two at the end of winter break. They felt like that would be I think we had something similar to that this year and that was they felt a really nice little transition back in from a long break. So, they wanted to have it there and then they decided to add a day at the start of spring break. They liked having like the idea of coming back just clean on a Monday, get back into things, especially with ILEARN testing that comes pretty quickly after spring break. So, adding that one additional day to the
031start of spring break they felt was um the best placement for that. The other thing we talked actually at length about in like a couple of our sessions was the idea of flex days. Now, the idea of flex days again, if you're not super familiar with flex days, the whole purpose of them is is that if the weather's going pretty poorly in the middle of winter, we have some days that we can say, "Okay, this is an off day. We'll come in and make up that day another day in the winter." Usually that would be President's Day is probably the most popular one. One thing and this is strictly anecdotal, I haven't done enough digging into our actual attendance data. Anecdotally, there was a feeling that those flex days were typically poorly attended days because
032people when they see them on the calendar in August and September, they're like, "What's this day? It's a flex day. I'm just going to I'm going to assume that's going to be a no school day." Sometimes it's not a school some days it some years it is a school day. So, the idea behind the committee was they kind of wanted to eliminate flex days. The downside to eliminating flex days, I will tell you, is that it puts us in a bit of a a pickle because if there are a bunch of inclement days. We've had pretty good luck recently with weather. I think this year we only had three days where we had to cancel. Um the state recommends that you have five days built in. We technically have five days built in. Three of
033them are the year remote virtual learning days and then we actually have the Thursday and Friday of that finals week we could add in and create that fourth and fifth day for makeups. If you have a really bad winter and you end up missing more than a week's worth of school, that starts pushing us past Memorial Day. That starts getting us closer and closer to graduation. We know that our high school needs at least at minimum three full days before graduation to prepare for graduation. And so, realistically that puts us at six days for makeups. If we were to go beyond that because again, I'm not going to compromise student safety, we would have to push back graduation at that point. Again, that is kind of the the push pull on flex days. We could
034certainly put them back in, but it was the consensus of committee that we kind of were moving away from flex days. We honestly in the previous calendar only had one to begin with. So, it was one one day difference. They thought just be done with it. We'll we'll deal with it. If we end up having a pretty bad winter where we do have to close successively, we should know all of those days before spring break and that gives a few months to kind of plan out how that's going to impact graduation. So, that was the recommendations for the '26-'27 calendar year. Do you have any questions about that before I move on to the '27-'28? All right. Dr. Lace, do you want to swap swap me over there? Um This is the '27-'28 calendar. Again,
035this one fits really neatly with the recommendation for the '26-'28 that the committee put together. Again, we'd start August 5th, that's a Thursday. We would end May 24th, that's a Wednesday. Again, gives you that shortened three-day finals week at the end of the year. Graduation again, less than two weeks from the end of the school year. It's going to be on June 3rd. Breaks, you'd have fall break is still five days. Winter break would actually be that two weeks plus two day two days coming back. Spring break would be the two days before and then the full week after that. We eliminated the flex days. Again, we have the five built-in makeup days, three asynchronous remote and then the May 25th and May 26th. And then you throw in your your days off Labor Day,
036MLK Day, President's Day, Memorial Day. Those would stay in there as well. So, um Again, not That one really aligns pretty closely with the committee put together for the '26 '27, so I I feel like I'd be just repeating myself if I said the exact same things again, but questions on the '27-'28 calendar. Oops, I should say '27-'28. Calendar is always fun. I I I I will say this, I thoroughly enjoyed and I think the committee thoroughly enjoyed having these meetings cuz it's I'll say this, it's really easy to criticize the calendar. It's absolutely a target that everybody can get behind. But until you sit down and start realizing, "Okay, we've got 177 days we need to get in here. Oh, but we want to make sure we have this. Oh, we want to make
037sure we have that." I mean, we had several times where like, "Okay, we can do that, but you have to say goodbye to these things as well." And they're like, "Oh, I don't want to do that." And so, it was a lot of fun give and take. I enjoyed it just seeing someone else struggle with it. So, it wasn't just suffering alone. But yeah, if you have any questions, like I said, feel free to let me know. Okay, to go back and answer your question Tammy about the the the general the the sexual misconduct liability is actually an umbrella policy it is $30,000 altogether. The uh adding adding the two million per per claim would raise it the 10,00801. Um that we were that was in the in the quote. So. >> Yeah. So. Thank
038you. But I I don't I can't give you a definite number I can't because it's just covered under that umbrella policy. So. As far as what we're paying now for a million dollars. So. Okay. Any other questions along those lines? Okay. Then we have to review our board agenda for our next meeting. Um I don't know if anybody had any questions on that, but we've got the approvals of um We have our standard fare, right? And then we have the approval of the um um public school foundation that we talked about in the last meeting. We have approval of the English language arts curricular in the high school, the approval of the middle school curricular material adoption and we have the recommendations to approve um the academic calendars that we that we just reviewed and
039then the recommendation to approve the property and casual casualty insurance renewal. So, and then the other the only other thing we had was to consider the approval of the technology team and the compensation that came out in the Friday email and those would be any other items for the agenda from anybody on the board. All right. Hearing none, I would say we have a we have a good agenda. Okay. Awesome. All right. All right. With that, I will go ahead and conclude the work session. We will be back online 6:30 for our regularly scheduled board meeting. So. We are adjourned. 30 acres back. I have a presentation. >> But the Christian utilities I mean, that's the big thing. There's other farm ground, too, that is considered the poor farm. And again, I don't Uh but
040they've got quite a bit of ground up Fairgrounds Road. And I know utilities don't go to Max support. And I don't know if they intend to go to the fairgrounds. Uh And yeah, there's There's probably Approximately, I measured it on the east Approximately 24 acres behind >> Mhm. >> Legends. All right. This is the point in the agenda where we have a tell me something good members of the board. Anything encouraging or or you want to highlight from your time at the on campus or around the community. Here we go. The FFA awards ceremony that is on Sunday, April the 19th from 2:30 to 4:00. Well, I haven't received any information. I'm sure it's probably on the website. Okay. All right. Thank you. The eighth graders just got back from their trip to Washington D.C.
041I got to go on that and um the students all did a really nice job. I think representing our school and Mr. Bales did a great job planning the whole thing and making sure that it went off without a hitch. Just a few little bumps in the road, but um it was a great a great time, so. It was a great time. Beth and I got to go and I think there were 75 students. It was a great turnout. Um I think we had over 120 total, but yeah, the staff and Mr. Bales did a wonderful job and we all had a great time. The weather cooperated. Um We can highlight. We got to see um because the helicopter actually flew up I heard. And then um I think his mother came back to get
042five. They weren't sure if he was going to fit. So many people. Yeah. It was a great It was a great time. Very good. All right. Well, we will move on then from uh that to uh the Blue Future Awards and um I both both elementary is up, so they're out of the bullpen, so they're >> [laughter] >> All right. I would like for Atlas Jackson and Meridian Smith to please come up for your picture. >> They're pretty cute. So, this is Atlas and this is Meridian and they are both second graders at Tipton Elementary and they both received a perfect score on their I-Read test. And that is a big Both of these students are very hard-working, well-behaved students who try their best and who are both reading above grade level. So, congratulations to
043both of you. Awesome. Yes, stand right over here real quick and get your picture. Ready? One, two, three. >> [laughter] >> I do you want to come up here? I mean, you helped me. Okay. And I am excited this evening. A while you look outside and you wouldn't think it, winter was not that long ago. And we had really two incredible winter sports seasons. We're actually going to honor one of them in May and that is the wrestling one, but we are going to honor swimming tonight. So, if you were a coach or a student who was on our swim team, not as many were able to be here as I would have liked, but I'd love for those who are here to come on up so I can go ahead and honor them. And
044uh uh courtesy of uh Miss Feig and pulling some strings down the road, we have not only the the joy of honoring these people, but we also get to as part of it have some props behind us, which is that we've got a brand new records board that's going to be going up as part of our swim uh project that we have going on at the pool. Um now, for those of you who have potentially been able to admire this, you'll notice that especially on that left-hand side, um there are there are quite a few updates and that was part of the reason that we needed to make sure that we got this done and I want to honor some of the people who are part of that. Um we actually have two of them
045here whose names are going on that record board. and how Dean stepped in front of me Annie. That was good. >> [laughter] >> You know what, Dean? Let's start with you. Why not? Let's go for it. So, uh, Dean is showing up on this records board, uh, three times. That's a Thank you, Dean, for, uh, giving me the three there. Uh, and Dean, if I'm not mistaken, uh, you broke the record, uh, in the mixed 400 freestyle relay. And the two Yes, I was going to get to the other two. Thank you, Dean. Okay. And the mixed 200 medley relay, uh, as well as the mixed 200 freestyle relay. Is that correct? Everyone, a round of applause for Miss Dean. Dean joins two other individuals who also got three new records. Uh, so Jackson Stout
046is on there as well, as is Evelyn Fang, if I'm not mistaken. Uh, and then there are, uh, three individuals who, uh, got were part of, uh, two broken records. Those were in Zoe McMahon in the seventh grade, as well as, uh, Cammy Conduct in the, uh, eighth grade, and Luke Conwell in the eighth grade. So, round of applause for applause for those individuals. And here, some of you are going to have to step aside because, uh, you know, it's not every season that you have someone like Annie Hair, who, uh, I am, uh, incredibly proud to acknowledge broke not one, not two, not three, not four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine, but 10 records this past season as part of her seventh grade swim season here. So, a huge round of applause, everyone,
047for Miss Annie Stout. And those were all, in by the way, the 200 medley relay, the 100 IM, the girls 50 butterfly, 400 freestyle, 200 freestyle relay, mixed 200 freestyle relay, girls 100 backstroke, girls 100 breaststroke. She re-broke that one, if I'm not mistaken, right? She broke it one time and then broke it again. Uh, girls 400 freestyle relay, relay, excuse me, and the mixed 400 freestyle relay. So, um, Annie, I'm looking forward to having your name on this records board for quite some time. Yeah. Uh, you're welcome. You're welcome. Now, I do want to acknowledge because obviously we have more than just these two, uh, swimmers here who have broke records. One thing that I am con- sistently, um, just so impressed by by our swim team. Um, and we're so blessed, obviously, with
048the leadership that we have in our coaches here, uh, at our our middle school and of course our high school swim department, but also the kids themselves. Um, and when you are at a swim meet, there's just a different vibe. There's just a different energy. It feels like you've got kids who are supporting each other, kids who are there with each other, and goodness knows you don't just break records by yourself, you break it with the support of a team behind you. Um, and, uh, you know, I just I it's been so invigorating to watch that happen for the last 2 years. I know it's going to continue for the next many years, uh, especially with the leadership that we have at the helm. So, um, honestly, our our middle school swim team is just
049something that at the end of every season, I'm I perceive that I'm going to be standing up here every April and saying, "Hey, here's our middle school swim team continuing to do great things." So, a round of applause for all of you. And here, um, I have so many words. I'm not even going to hand them out until after. So, let's just take a picture then we can get the awards handed out. Yeah, let's go ahead and do that. So, okay. Thank you, guys. Okay. And again, thank you, thank you for helping out with the records. Oh, and they broke and they won the MIC as well. That's right. That's [clears throat] right. All kinds of stuff. Right. All right. Well, next on the agenda is comments from the community. I don't think we had
050anybody sign up for that today. So, we will move on to our consent agenda. I would give my public service announcement if you were here for a Blue Future Award and you want to leave, this is the appropriate time to >> [laughter] >> do so, or you're going to get pulled into a lot of really interesting conversations on the consent agenda, etc. So, thank you for coming. Yes, thank you. Um, our next item on the, uh, uh, docket for this evening is our consent agenda. Um, we have the approval of the agenda that we, uh, went over this this meeting earlier. Uh, approval of the minutes from our regular session in March on March 10th. Uh, we have approval of claims from payroll, uh, March 13th and March 27th and April 10th. And then we
051have the AP claims for April, uh, 2026. Uh, we have the approval of the personnel report, which I will read, um, uh, shortly. And we have the approval of field trips, uh, two of them, um, one of them is the FFA leadership overnight field trip, and the other one is the high school senior trip 2027. Mr. Leach, out of the gate hot >> [laughter] >> Um, they they literally parked the bus and he's in here with the next And then, uh, the, uh, the approval to, uh, accept this month's donations. So, um, I need a motion and a second to, uh, uh, approve the consent agenda for this evening. I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. All right, I have a motion and a second. Any questions or further comments from the board? All
052right. Hearing none, all those in favor of approving the consent agenda, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Consent agenda is approved. Um, the, uh, personnel report for April 14th, 2020 2026. From a certified staff position, we have Carol Sanguinetti, uh, a a retirement effective at the end of the 2025-26 school year. We have a retirement of Amy Cole, math teacher at the high school, effective at the end of 2025-26 school year. We have Denise Keough, uh, English teacher in the high school, retiring at the end of 2025-26 school year. And Sheila Harrigan, French and Spanish teacher in the high school, retiring at the end of the 2025-26 school year. We have one resignation of Emily Pafford, the ag teacher at Tipton Middle School, which would be effective at the end of the, uh,
053school year. From a classified staff perspective, we have a leave of absence request from Erica Hawkins, um, requesting a, uh, leave of absence. And from an ECA staff, we have the recommendations of Ethan Gallster for the girls head track coach in the middle school. Um. And Catherine Rushden for varsity girls assistant track coach at the high school. From volunteer perspective, we have Cara Conger as a volunteer softball coach at the high school. Emma Pratt for volunteer girls tennis coach at the high school. And Brian Pierce is the volun- volunteer golf coach for the middle school. That concludes the personnel report for this evening. With that, the next of, uh, item on our agenda is the superintendent's report. All right. So, uh, we're excited to say that, uh, the pool deck installation is complete. Uh, the
054Decktron unit, uh, is installed and operational. Um, starting block installation probably in the next couple of weeks. Uh, pool painting is happening right now. So, uh, that is part of the warranty work that, uh, that was needed, so that, um, that's being redone this, uh, this week. And then, kind of a new thing, uh, as we were, uh, draining the pool, we found out that our the pump that helps us to drain the pool really needed to be rebuilt, and and so we're in the process of doing that, um, at this point. Um, so that's that's kind of new on the horizon, uh, but a much needed, um, not much needed upgrade. Here are some pictures of the new pool deck. It's really pretty. Yeah. It looks great. And, uh, and I tell you, um,
055I'm really really happy that, uh, um, Mr. Vester, he he saw this finish at, uh, Kokomo and thought it looked really looked great. So, he he made this all happen. So, if we had not gone to Kokomo, we would not have used that. So, it's a great finish and it has an incredible grip. So, if you have a chance to walk on it, you'll notice the grip is pretty darn awesome. So, uh, anyway, we're excited about that and that went off very well. Uh, re-roof update. Uh, we are completing the metal work on the Inferno. Uh, that's probably going to still be a couple of weeks, uh, because we have to do some metal work on the east side and the west side and the downspouts. Uh, so that's going to take a little bit
056of time. Uh, the connector in the band room just completed today. Um, so that's that's out of the, um, that's off off of our list. And then, uh, they are transitioning to the vocational wing. Uh, projected completion by the end of April on the roofing in general. Um, metal work will probably be early May. So, about a month ahead of schedule, um, considering, you know, kind of the weird weather we've had. I think they've done a great job and, uh, once again, uh, want to thank, um, R. L. Turner and also Henshaw Roofing. They they've just been great. Uh, playground. Uh, we met with the city, I guess it was yesterday, uh, and, uh, to discuss the demolition, um, They have experience with demolition of of some playground, um, equipment. Uh, that's going to begin
057[clears throat] June 1st, and, uh, they expect that to take about a week, depending on weather. Uh, might take a little bit longer. Um, so we're looking at install, depending on how long it takes for demolition, uh, to be either June 8th or June 15th about a 4-week install for the playground. So we're hoping that it'll be completed by early July. And one thing I would like to do and I will send some information out about this is a groundbreaking ceremony that would include you as well as Tesso and the Community Foundation or the Tipton Foundation and also the Campbell family Foundation. So definitely would like to have those people involved. So once we get everything demoed and we'll try to send out an invite for those. We'll give you a couple couple of weeks
058notice but thought that would be a nice thing to do and take some pictures. And also planning to do some kind of a uh commemorative sign for those people who donated those organizations that have donated. So again we want to thank those people because without them we would not be able to do this. So next meeting we will be approving the scope and sequence and updates. We also will be beginning student handbooks. That's a little bit of a question because we're still waiting on a few of the the changes in legislation to be updated and and policy given to us. This is a particularly along with the with the personal devices and the changes in the law along with those. We just want to make sure that we get the correct language in those handbooks
059before you are set to approve those. And then we're looking at June to approve staff handbooks. And that's it for now. Questions or comments for superintendent's report? All right. Next item on the agenda is the department reports of radio packet from the director of technology from the athletic director from the associate superintendent or for food services. Did anybody have any questions or comments on that report packet? All right. Hearing none. We will turn it over to Brooke Lever for our financial report. Really quick Rob if I went wanted to I thought we'd let Adam come up and talk. We had a lunch audit. Oh. And which is whenever you hear the word audit you automatically go ah but anyway I thought you might but I thought you might share because it was a very good
060audit for us. So Do you mind going to the mic? Yeah that way the people out there in the world can hear you. You're welcome to. You can turn it around. That's a little strange but okay. Is it on? Yeah yeah you're good. Okay. So yeah actually best one I've been a part of really proud of our staff. We don't have the finalized audit so I don't want to go into too much detail until she knows it to Brooke and we can fully go over it but the initial hearing where we had to go over the stuff that she found in technical assistance >> [clears throat] >> she said that it is the first time she's had an audit where the kitchen staff has had zero findings on production on prep on service on paperwork
061logs direct certification applications and verifications in free and reduced. So she said she's never been a part of an audit that that has a zero finding in every category that could possibly touch a kitchen manager basically. So so yeah Chris knocked it out of the park Chris Smith in the high school and all of her team. The team was very knowledgeable. They had new people there not new new but pretty new and they were well versed in all the rules. They answered all the questions right. She was just very pleased and expressed tons of kudos to us in the meeting. So we are super proud. And there there were some minor technical assistance that they want us to work on differently how we calculate some numbers how we store paperwork things like that but overall
062we are very pleased with the audit so Yeah great job. Thank you Adam. Yeah thank you. Yep. We like to celebrate those those cool opportunities and again thank you to our food staff. They just do a tremendous job every day and sorry about that. That's fine. I'm the anchorman I read what's on the >> [laughter] >> Me too. Me too. Me too. I repeat anything that's on so okay Brooke now is the financial report. Thank you. We ended March with a balance in the education fund of $817,200.53. Operations $367,730.24. Debt service $532,748.57 and rainy day remains at $2,035,833.41. March interest income totaled $22,710 and a penny and we did make a transfer from education to ops in the amount of $100,000 and we are anxiously awaiting our circuit breaker actual loss report from the state.
063So they projected us in the budget to be at $876,300. Our loss last year was actually $505,210. So that's a significant loss should it come true. Also a first for us we made our first Medicaid reimbursement requests. February services totaled we billed for 67 speech services for Medicaid eligible students and received back $4,827.35. Part of that is a federal reimbursement which goes to its own fund. You'll see a new fund on your fund report 6460 and part of that is a state reimbursement 170180 that goes into a separate fund on the fund report. You'll see it a new fund 3250. And then we will take the state portion they offset our large basic support grant payment every month. They offset this state portion against that. It goes in a separate fund then I have to
064move the money back over to the education fund. That's just what the state board requires. So we were excited to see that happen. So Any questions or comments on the financial report? All right. Hearing none we will move to other business and Dr. Glaze it is you again for cost productions. Yes. This will be tag team by Scott and I. So just basically want to start out just a really quick review of our finances and how finances work here at the schools. We obviously have three primary funds the operation fund education fund and debt service fund. Just to review the debt service and operation fund are supported by local revenue sources property taxes local income tax which is going to begin a phase out auto excise tax and then commercial vehicle tax. Debt service may
065only be used for capital improvements to district facilities and cannot be used for pay or salaries. So again these are two funds debt service and operations that are strictly coming from local property taxes and local funding sources. And one thing I'll just add to that is our debt service fund is very much protected. That's the one that gets paid first first course we pay our debts first. That's a requirement that's something that the state makes sure we uphold and then operations is what is left over from that. The operations fund just as a reminder that supports our day-to-day district operations including transportation utilities maintenance insurance and district administration. May be used for certain employee wages and benefits particularly transportation and maintenance staff central office personnel and administration and most of the remaining operations fund are
066fixed expenses such as energy water insurance and and maintenance. So you can see the 37% is transportation and and maintenance staff and 15% of that overall is for central office personnel and administration with the rest of that being for those miscellaneous fixed costs. Education fund is the district's largest fund. It's supported exclusively by state funding formula based on student enrollment and must be used to educate students. Teacher salaries and benefits account for approximately 67% of the education fund. I'm sorry 68% of the education fund. When building level then then building level administrators counselors support staff paraprofessionals nurses and extracurricular stipends are included additionally to the 67% that's that's up to about 89% of the total education fund dedicated to salaries and benefits. The remaining education funds are used for curriculum professional development classroom materials instructional
067technology and instructional supplies. Up to 15% of the education fund dollars can be transferred to the operation fund on annual basis. Currently we are transferring about 7% of our education funds into the operation funds. The impacts of SEA 125 already taking effect uh the transfer of more dollars from the education fund to the operation fund, uh which uh we Last year we transferred about 3%. Now we've moved up to about 7%. Um beginning in 2027, uh TCSE will be forced to transfer the maximum allowable amount uh just to keep up with costs despite the continued uh cost reductions. Just to reiterate, again, Dr. Glaze mentioned about 89% of the education fund is going towards funding uh personnel, whether that's instructional personnel or aides or nurses. Um the When we say we're going to shift from
068Well, we were around 3% transferring from education operations to currently 7% to eventually next year up to 15% That is money we are taking away from the education side of things, from instruction, from what's happening in the classroom to maintain our buildings, keep them open, running. When chillers working, air conditioned. Um But again, those are those are real consequences to the lack of revenue uh that we're we're facing. It's It is the way I've heard it and repeat it being framed as is This is not a spending problem. This is a a structural revenue problem. Uh The funds are no longer there that we've been able to rely on for years. And now we're having to supplement our operations funds with dollars that should be going to the classroom. So again, uh together these financial
069and demographic conditions explain why even modest enrollment declines in addition to SCA-1 revenue deductions create significant long-term fiscal pressure for TCSE and why multi-year cost reduction plan is necessary to maintain fiscal fiscal stability. So we as as we try to do, we're trying to respond in the Tipton way. And so what we did is we developed this expense reduction and review committee. Uh the purpose was to really review all expenses. Uh There were several of you on the on the board that were a part of that committee. Uh we're identifying the academic what's academically critical, core content, which really comes down to math, reading, science, and social studies. Uh recommend areas for expense reductions, and really establish a four-year plan. And the idea of this four-year plan was to develop a plan without additional revenue.
070Um so additional revenue is not something that we can count on right now. And so being able to uh take a look at it from that perspective is critical. Nothing is exempt Nothing is exempt. Every area will be impacted. And again, uh we're already starting to see that. I mean, you guys obviously uh we have the retirement incentive. We had several teachers take advantage of that. Um And while that does provide some uh short-term relief, the the ultimately again, um without the additional revenue, there are going to be some pretty significant uh reductions across the district, things that are um more programmatic and not just uh comforts, just how we say. So once again, uh looking at eliminating unnecessary spending, so basically going from a wants to a needs uh basis of decision-making, um finding
071revenue sources. We've looked at adding that transportation fee, which has already been approved. We've the Medicaid reimbursements are beginning to um to come in. And then you you probably have heard just, you know, some information about our facilities usage fees and how we've we've increased those and how we are being um a little more critical of how our facilities are being used and by what organizations are using those facilities. And then uh reduction by attrition. Uh no vacant uh positions, you know, again, we're we're looking at every vacant position and deciding whether that needs to be replaced or if we can find some economies uh to be able to eliminate those positions and uh and try to um determine how that will impact overall programming. So understanding the consequences of decisions, fewer dollars equals fewer
072services, uh fewer personnel equal fewer programs. Uh protecting programming when possible. So we are trying to do that by splitting responsibilities and by sharing staff. One of the conversations, I mean, of the many conversations I think I've had over the last month or two um with staff in various positions. Um It's a change in expectations. Um We understand that when programs are when personnel is reduced, um the same expectations cannot be held. When we have fewer dollars, fewer resources, fewer people working these programs, we cannot expect the exact same result. We understand that there's going to be changes. So whether that's uh a reduction in uh a music program, whether that's a reduction in an agriculture program, whether that's a reduction in maintenance or uh custodial services, there are consequences to the decisions that we
073have to make. We do not make those decisions lightly. It is not as simple Oh, well, let's save a few thousand dollars here, a few thousand dollars there. These are people's livelihoods. These are students and families, things, traditions that they look forward to year in year out. These are difficult decisions that we made. And ultimately, we have to understand we have to run a school. We are held accountable for certain areas of our school, not every area of our school. Um And that's why we kind of emphasize the When there are fewer dollars to go around, there's fewer services that we can provide. Fewer personnel means fewer programs. Um And ultimately, it's it's not what any of us want, but it's what we need to do in order to keep our buildings operating. So uh
074at you know, starting the this last summer, um we knew that the the homestead exemptions were going to take in into we're going to go into effect in 2026, which which would decrease our revenue by around $280,000. Um the total reductions that we were able to accomplish were um 989,560. And the way that that happened was through the elimination of one administrative position, uh reduction of one technology ed position, elimination of TMS athletic director, uh elimination of two bus routes, um technology and software consolidation, as well as administrative salary freezes. So if you remember correctly, we did give stipends to our administrators, but they did not receive an increase in pay. And I will say that each of those uh positions that were eliminated was through attrition. The expense reduction and review committee established a
075number of annual financial targets to position TCSE for a full impact of SCA-1 2025 by the fall of '29. Uh the the full financial impact of SCA-1 property tax losses coupled with uh decreasing student enrollment will decrease TCSE funding by approximately $2,700,000 annually, or approximately 13% of our annual budget. So this is projected out for next year, uh '26-'27. So what we are looking at, and this is again uh the result of the expense reduction and review uh committee, um so district level cost reductions, we're looking at curriculum material budget reductions around $50,000. Uh we've been working through that process as we speak. Um and our our teachers are well versed in in uh We've always been able to provide everything that pretty much teachers have asked for. Um there we we're just not able
076to do that. And that's where that $50,000 is coming from. Uh easy field trips, transportation costs. Um so that's about a $70,000 um reduction in in what we've um what we've we've been spending for those particular activities. Uh reduction of a tech specialist through a resignation. That's going to be savings around 40 thou- 41,000. Uh superintendent transition savings as um Mr. Dworski and I flip roles, there will be about a $30,000 decrease in overall expenditures. And then um the elimination of a full-time classified position around $32,000. So at the district level, we're looking at a reduction of 223,967. Elementary level cost reductions, uh we are looking at uh six full- and part-time paraeducator positions that are will be eliminated. Again, we're hopefully those will be handled through attrition. In some cases, they've already been handled
077through attrition. And then reduction of one certified teaching position through a retirement at a cost savings of around $71,000. Grand total for the elementary is 166,618. Um middle school level cost reductions, uh we're a reduction in one music position, and that is uh because um Mrs. Haynes is paid out of the middle school budget. Um it's just where she's placed, even though she has middle school and high school responsibilities. Um she is paid out of the middle school budget. So that's why she appears here. And then uh reduction of one ag education position through resignation, and that's around 71,554 for a grand total of 149 62 cost reduction in middle school level. At the high school level, this is we've eliminated state reporting support for cost savings around $26,000. The reduction of two math positions
078through retirements 176,000, reduction of one world language position through retirement 86,000, reduction of one ELA position through retirement and that's a savings of around 108,000. Total reduction at the high school level is 387 5 or 658. So, just to kind of put this all into one you know, one slide. So, over this year and last year there'll be a reduction of around nine certified positions and the reduction of 10.5 uh uh FTE classified positions. So, full time equivalent. Um the subtotal of the reduction is around for this next year. However, we do have around 90,000 that we will have to put back due to the retirement incentive. Um there is a higher cost for year one. Um the cost for the remaining four years will be about half of that amount. Um so, a grand
079total of savings of around 400 and or 847 um for the two 2026 2027 school year. Uh one thing I I do want to make sure I point out is that um Um again, we talked about, you know, consequences of SCA1, consequences of dropping enrollment. Those are the external factors that are impacting our um our our our revenue streams. Uh that number that you see there 847 307 is representation of our first first real serious year of reductions. Um it's going to make life uncomfortable around here, but overall, the majority of things um day-to-day operations won't change dramatically. There are a few programs that will see limitations, like we talked about before, um but if you're on the outside looking in, it doesn't look like anything's too dramatically different. Um that number represents about a
080third of the amount of cuts that would need to happen in the next two to three years. So, if 1/3 is making us in an uncomfortable state, 2/3 is going to create some serious structural changes in the way we operate as a school district. Long-term consequences of this would end up being fewer course offerings at the high school. Again, like I said before, fewer personnel means fewer programs. Fewer dollars means fewer resources. Limited electives, especially non-core, that's across all three buildings. Larger class sizes across grade levels, reduced student support, fewer extracurricular opportunities, fewer less staff prep time, increased bus ride time is a potential and and maintenance challenges. These are real things that are going to start impacting us in 26 27 and will only get more dramatically impactful in 27 28 and 28 29.
081Um Like I said, you you might be noticing these kind of conversations happening in your community. You'll notice them in the news where you hear other school districts and the drastic measures they're taking to get in response to SCA1. This, like I said, our expense reduction committee has put together a rough three to four year plan of how we're going to get under that 2.7 million dollars in annual costs to our corporation. Again, that four year plan started this past year with some general tightening the budget as our enrollment drops down. 26 27 we're seeing a more intentional reduction where we can uh trying to do that through attrition. In 27 28, without some sort of uh additional revenue stream, we're going to see nearly million dollars worth of cuts. And when we're already pretty
082bare-bones as far as maintaining what we've done in the past, that one million dollars there represents a dramatic shift in the way Tippecanoe School operates. We will continue to operate. It will just look a lot different. In 28 29 we'll have to see another half million dollars on top of that. Again, ultimately we're trying to get to that 2.7 million dollars in order to have a sustainable financial situation moving beyond the 2020s. So, 2.7 is um through 2029. But like you've said both ways that it's 2.7 per year or 2.7 from 25 to 29? >> Once we get to that 27 28 28 29, when we get to that, we're going to have to maintain that 2.7 million dollars in order to keep us above water. Cuz otherwise, what ends up happening, if you recall
083from the policy analytics presentation, if we don't start making these cuts and particularly without an additional revenue source, if we don't make those specific cuts, we start overspending and we start going in the negative. And as you know, we cannot be in the negative as a public school corporation. So, those cuts without additional resources would need to be made in order to keep our head above water. That's why we're not making the 2.7 million dollars right away. The cuts are going to come over time, but by the time we get to that 28 29 school year, ultimately it's going to be 2.7 million dollars and then >> every year. From there. >> It's a loss every year. It's I mean It depends on how like where our enrollment goes. And if there is any chance
084that >> we would need to clarify and tighten up that language because you can read the presentation and it looks like we're in a 2.7 million dollar deficit annually. Okay. And it doesn't explain that that happens in 2028 so, I'm not Yeah, no, understood. But I I would tighten up that language because that is a little bit confusing. If it's confusing to us, it's probably going to be really confusing to the taxpayer. Sure. So, but but that we get to the 2.7 and then it's ad nauseam after that, right? >> Yeah. And then this doesn't factor in all of our expense increases with electricity, property and casualty, all those things. This is just if we stayed the same as is today. This was maintaining as far as I can remember. That was last week's policy
085analytics. There was a small increase. If you But if you call I think you you pointed that out Rob in their presentation that that their estimates were well below what we had been experiencing for the last couple years as well. >> I was drawing out is that that the best case scenario of this is the this is the number. Right. >> If we see food prices, diesel fuel, all those things continue where they are, it's worse faster. Correct? >> All right. Uh so, estimating of for 27 28 again, our four year plan we're looking at trying to eliminate uh 927 uh 927,000 from the 27 20 budget. That would include two administrative positions, four certified positions, five classified FTE positions, a 10% reduction in our extended contracts, and reduction in athletic and academic segments. Like
086I said, that is going to represent a pretty significant alteration in the way we operate as a school district. And then in 28 29, it gets to that final five 500,000 from that year. That's an additional four certified positions, six classified full-time employees positions as well. Um Again, that's the the general plan for now. Obviously, these things will change as more information comes available to us, but that is our current projections as a school corporation. Do you guys have questions, concerns, thoughts you want to share? Awesome. Um The quality of education. Mhm. What's that going to do to our students? What's it going to do to teachers? If all of the math teachers retired next year and you have to have a social studies teacher teach math or I mean, how are you going to
087be able to keep the quality that I believe we have right now? So, what we would be doing is we'd be looking at what positions we're we're we're looking at positions not necessarily people, right? That's something that we try to be really intentional about is that we're looking at positions not people and understanding that people fill those positions. So, if we were to lose math teachers, math is part of the core. We are obligated to provide math instruction. That is a state accountability issue. So, we will make sure we have certified math teachers teaching math teaching our students. Like we mentioned in the presentation, your core is going to be about as protected as anything in that respect because that is what we're held accountable for. It's those electives, those additional things that aren't necessarily
088measured by the state that would probably the first ones that we'd have to take a close and hard look at as far as what is the possibility of retaining those positions. But as far as concerns about quality in your core content, Uh will still uh maintain certified teachers uh in your core content. And then are there um state regulations on the number of children per teacher? No. I mean I mean there's fire code but for the room capacity, right? But as far as the number of students that can be assigned to a teacher uh That's that's a local decision. So by eliminating so many aids and paraeducators like our teachers also have jobs they just might pick them. It will be uh fewer resources because of fewer dollars, yes. These are part of the challenges
089that we will have to face um Like I mentioned before this is certainly not something that any of us are looking forward to. Um it's kind of the reality of the situation that we have in front of us. Um again some the the drop in enrollment, the uh SEA 1 impacts, these are kind of external things that happen to school districts. One of them's a bit imposed by the state legislation um which is a whole separate conversation but uh and we are certainly not alone in these conversations. I know um across like I said if you check the headlines you'll see across the state. Um I know ones I'd heard about I know uh Sheridan had a conversation with their community about this same thing I think a month ago. I saw in the newspapers
090uh Richmond Community Schools is having some pretty um pretty serious cuts to their uh certified positions as well. Um It's it's a reality comes down to it looks a little bit different in each district cuz each district has a little slightly different situation but um one way or another everybody's feeling this. Yeah, HSE is in the process of not filling positions. So I know that we have a we have a friend who's uh an art teacher who's going to be teaching uh preparing for college and careers next year. Um because that's the position that's available cuz they're eliminating an art teacher. So again those things are happening all over the state. Um it's it's just a a reality of where where we are. So if the hypothetical Mhm. if all of the school districts who
091have had to make cuts uh if the scores go down do you think our legislature and our government uh governor would look at that to see oops? I am I am not going to uh Okay. sure about what our legislature or governor is going to do about the situation. Uh I would I'd like to believe that. I'd like to believe that they would see some of the consequences and maybe make an adjustment. I will leave my opinions at that. Okay. Um I wasn't part of this committee but I can see that it took a lot of time for our administrators and committee members and so I just would love to say thank you. It's a really really hard thing. It's fun for me to meet as part of an English language arts adoption committee but
092these kind of things are really hard so I just want to say thanks to all of you put a lot of time into doing the really hard things. Are there questions or comments? All right. We have no old business on the agenda so we will move to new business. Um The first thing um is the recommendation to approve a resolution um supporting the public school foundation. Um in your packet is a resolution supporting the Tipton Blue Devils Athletic Foundation established in February of 2026. The resolution allows for the school board to appoint two members to the board of directors and permits school personnel the authority to transfer funds from the athletic extracurricular accounts to the foundation. The board would be made aware of this transfer when it happens as part of the monthly financial report.
093The resolution also allows free use of our facilities for foundation functions as long as they involve school age students. So I am looking for a motion and a second to approve the resolution supporting the public school foundation. I move to approve the uh foundation. Thank you, Tammy. Second. Thank you, Jen. We have a motion and a second to approve the resolution supporting the public school foundation. Any questions or comments additional from the board? Hearing none um we have a motion and a second to approve the resolution for the public school foundation. All those in favor please signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item on our agenda is the recommendation to approve the Tipton High School English Language Arts curriculum materials. Mrs. Keough provided a detailed account of the process for
094the review and selection of the THS English Language Arts curriculum material in the attached document. The THS English Department chose to adopt some additional novels to supplement what had already been board approved. A committee of board members, community members, teachers, parents and administrators read each novel suggested by the department and then completed a form with their input and review which are attached in your packet. And it is recommended the high school English Language Arts curriculum material be approved as presented. Looking for a motion to approve the THS English Language Arts curriculum material. I move to approve the high school English English Language Arts curriculum materials. Second. We have a motion and a second to approve. Any additional questions or comments? Hearing none uh we do have a motion and a second to approve the English
095Language Arts curriculum materials. All those in favor please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? None. Motion passes and we do thank Mrs. Keough who's here this evening uh for a lot of hard work. I appreciate uh uh your service there. Next item on the agenda is the recommendation to approve the Tipton Middle School curriculum material adoption. Mr. Ayers provided an overview of the curriculum materials adoption process for the Tipton Middle School English Language Arts in the attached document. Instead a novel based uh curriculum adoption the committee comprised of parents, teachers, board members and administration are recommending an ELA uh program created by Savvas. Much like the uh elementary adoption the Indiana Department of Education vetted ELA programs to ensure they are aligned to standards and provided supplemental support for struggling readers. The Savvas My
096Perspectives curriculum material was one of the programs approved by the IDOE. Looking for a motion and a second to approve the middle school curriculum material. I move to approve the TMS curriculum material adoption. Second. All right, thank you. I have a motion and a second to approve the the TMS curriculum adoption. Uh any questions or further comments from the board? Hearing none uh we do have a motion and a second to approve the TMS curriculum material. All those in favor please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Ayers. Uh next on our agenda is the recommendation to approve um uh the modified 26-27 and adopt the 27-28 academic calendar. During tonight's work session Mr. Dworski presented uh calendar recommendations from the TCSC Academic Calendar Committee to modify the 26-27 calendar
097and adopt the 27-28 calendar. In your packet are calendars shared with the board in a March 20th email. It is recommended the board approve these calendars as written by the TCSC Academic Calendar Committee. Looking for a motion and a second to approve the modified 26-27 and adopt the 27-28 academic calendar. I move to approve the modified 20 2026-2027 academic calendar and adopt the 2027-2028 academic calendar. Second. Very good. We have a motion and a second. Um any further comments or questions from the board? >> [snorts] >> Hearing none we do have a motion and a second to approve the modified 26-27 and adopt the 27-28 academic calendar. All those in favor please signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item on our agenda is a recommendation to improve approve the property
098and casualty insurance renewal. In your packet is the annual premium review from Walker Hughes. Our property and casualty is due for renewal this month. We have a 6.67% increase over last year's premiums due to changes in deductible for wind and hail damage. We purchased an additional coverage to reduce our exposure to $10,000 per occurrence versus the $75,000 per occurrence in our renewal. We also added some liability coverage up to $2 million from our previous $1 million. With the added changes our premium will increase 15.6% to $276,549 on an annual basis. I need a motion and a second to approve the property casualty insurance renewal. I move to approve the property casualty insurance renewal. Second. All right, I have a motion and a second to approve the renewal. Any questions or further comments from the board?
099All right, hearing none, we have a motion and a second to approve the insurance renewal. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item on our agenda is the consideration to approve the reconfiguration of the technology team and compensation. In the March meeting, the board accepted the resignation of Michael Wheeler as our middle school technology specialist. TCSC determined this position position would not be replaced due to the financial impacts of SCA 1. Since the reduction of a technology specialist will result in an increased workload on our remaining tech specialist and our director of technology, we are recommending a change in compensation. After polling other KCS schools, we determined TCSC is near the bottom for technology personnel com- compensation. We are recommending a $2 an hour increase for the
100technology specialist and an increase in contract days for our director of technology from 240 to 260 at the same daily rate. The changes in compensation will place the TCSC technology staff in the middle range of all the KCS schools. The full savings for the the corporation is $41,500. We'd like a motion and a second to approve the reconfiguration of the tech team and the and the um compensation. I move to approve the reconfiguration of the technology team and compensation. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Uh any further questions or comments regarding this item? All right, hearing none, uh we do have a motion and a second to approve the uh reconfiguration of the tech team and their compensation. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion
101carries. All right, other matters come before the board. Um from our advisory committee's perspective, we have no meetings scheduled at this time. And we have a wild schedule of events, so buckle in, folks. This is uh going to be a second. Uh April 18th, we have the Tipton County Safety Fair from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. On April 23rd, we have Tesso's Father-Daughter Dance at 5:00 p.m. On April 25th, we have the high school prom. Um April 28th, we have the internet safety meeting in the Inferno at 6:00. Uh May 1st through 3rd, we have uh Tipton High School's musical uh production of Annie. May 4th through 8th, we have staff appreciation week. May 6th will be the TCSC employee banquet. May 8th will be the elementary school's spring music program at 5:30. Uh May
1029th, you will have the YO reunion concert. May 10th is Mother's Day. Got to remember that. Um May 11th is the middle school spring choir concert and May 12th will be back here for our next monthly board meeting at 6:30. I need a motion and a second to adjourn our meeting. I move to adjourn the meeting. Second. Motion and a second. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Uh anybody opposed? All right, we are adjourned. I would just like to encourage everyone to vote on May 5th. >> [laughter] >> Being apolitical, every vote counts. >> Absolutely. Thank you, Jamie.