School Board Special Meeting 9/9/25

001Sign up. Put something out in a row in that square. Did you know >> I mean can get in. She would take him in a heartbeat. >> You guys ready? >> Are you ready? >> All right. It is uh 5:30 and so I will call to order the Tipa Community School Corporation School Board work session. Um and I believe Dr. Glaze, this is kind of your show, so I'm going to hand it off to you. >> Yeah, you're going to get tired of hearing my voice uh today. Um so, uh for those of you that have not been through this before, um we uh what we do is basically a trial run for our uh our public hearing on September the 23rd and just kind of go through everything, all and everything budget. And uh

002so you'll get to hear this again on the 23rd. Um hopefully, you know, it'll be maybe a little bit better. Maybe we'll, you know, have a little song and dance going along with it. Um Mr. Jorski has been working on some of that and uh and so uh but anyway, we're ready to go with all things budget. Okay, so this is the proposed budget for 2026. Um just as a as a very quick reminder on how the whole process works. again. Uh long long ago we used to have many buckets, many many buckets. Isn't that right, Mr. Jorski? Many buckets of dollars coming into the school. Uh now we have three. Uh so basically we have the education fund bucket which is primarily money from the state, the operation fund which is primarily uh local

003property tax and then also debt service which is also local property tax. And the way all this flows into our schools, uh, so the state dollars basically come to us, uh, through the foundation grant, which is approximately $7,000 per, uh, student. Then the complexity grant, which basically takes care of those students that are, uh, on free and reduced lunch, um, that percentage of students, and they come up with some kind of a formula to make that happen. Uh, this is the state special ed funding. Uh we get also funding for special ed from the federal government which is actually which it actually goes straight to Kasich which is our our co-op. Um but and we we use the state level um special education money. We also get career technical money and uh we get um

004innovation uh money which is I'm not oh no we don't get the innovation money so the charter innovation does not happen. Uh but we do get the honors grant which is some additional dollars for kids who um are receiving um a like an academic honors um diploma. So basically when we're looking at uh just kind of potential revenue and Brooke you you're welcome to hit me in the head if I say something stupid. Um so basically what we're looking at in in education fund revenue is around 11 11,496472. Uh that's based on an enrollment of uh 1320 uh in-person students which we get 100% funding for and then 17 uh full-time virtual students that we get 85% funding for. Now our actual numbers are a little bit better than this. uh we always base the

005um the number on a very conservative enrollment. Um so uh it it does look a little bit better than than what what this number is representing. Um so once we have that final that final count day which will be um October 1st, we'll be able to share that with you. Um but we'll we should be a little bit better than what this is representing. uh the operation fund revenue. Uh so once again, we kind of play a little bit of a game with our assessed value. Uh we base um we base everything on a tax rate uh based on our 85% of our 2025 assessed value. We have yet uh to receive our anticipated um assessed value for 2026. Um so we're kind of waiting on that a little bit. So the advertised rate that

006we would have for the operation budget would be uh 55 cents. Uh so essentially um we know that this rate is going to be higher than what the final rate will be but again you always advertise high and then the DGF does their magic and lowers it down. Uh debt service. Uh so we're looking at revenue of around 4.8 million. Uh the advertised rate again 85% of the 25 2025 assessed valuation is 53 cents almost 54. So overall the total advertised rate will be 1.095 >> Ryan. >> Yes. >> The debt service rate >> I'm sorry maybe I missed something. Is it supposed to be below I thought we were 40. It it will likely be there, but it's because of because we're basing it on the 85%. Okay. That's why. Okay. Yeah. So, >>

007but we should be there, >> I would assume. Yes. Yeah. I mean, you never know, but I Yeah, we Okay. >> until we really I mean, >> there are some corporations that have had like a 12% assessed valuation increase. There are some that have had decreases. So, we're hoping that we're going to be on the increase side. Uh that'll tell us a lot. So um so the average the average daily enrollment we will get that October 1st that's what we call the infamous count day. Um the again assessed valuation does have impacts on operation fund and taxes. Um also there's a the statewide average income also has an impact on the operation fund. Uh circuit breaker again are property tax caps and then projected supplemental homestead credits. So right now that's estimated to be in

008the operation funds a loss of 876,300 uh for TCSC and 26. And then we have federal grants that are added in there. That would be the title one, title two, uh title three um that and title four that supplement some of our some of our funds. And then we of course we have investment returns uh for for basically the dollars we have deposited in the bank. So what happens is once a bill is um is enacted uh we get uh a like a real quick snapshot so we can kind of see where everything is falling uh with funding. And uh so basically they have an algorithm they they're the state number is always a lot lower than our actual number. So they're basing this on uh I300 or 1318 students. Uh but it kind of

009gives you an idea of how these other things are how these other areas are figured. So uh they're saying for the complexity index that we are going to be at a a 0.1270 and so that is added on to each student on and um so we have the foundation which is kind of the the money that every single student gets. It's the same amount all across the state and then they add in the complexity index which is going to be different depending on the school's free and reduced lunch rate. So that's basically the the total basic uh tuition support is going to be 9 9,874 and then we get in money for special education. This comes from our December 1 count. Uh we we we send in that count once a year. Um it's always

010a little bit later than what our um than our initial uh attendance count is. And then um the honors academic performance that always comes from the year before. So we would be looking at however um we our students graduated in uh 2024. Um that will be how that is calculated. And then our non-English-speaking uh students which right now we're currently at around 50 students. And that just is a a per pupil uh dollar that they give us. So number up again. >> I'm sorry. >> That number up again. >> It's up. Yeah, it's up. And uh and so basically what we're looking at is 11,478, which is different than the number because our our number is a little bit different as far as um what we used for the budget, but basically what we're getting

011per student is $8,710 somewhere around there. So these are our actual numbers. So, uh, Brooke goes in and does her magic. Um, this number is what everybody gets. And then the complexity, uh, index is around $500 per student. We get around $700 uh, per student for special ed. Now, I mean, obviously, not all of our kids are special ed, but in order to uh, you know, for confidentiality purposes and everything else, they're just kind of all Yeah. It's all kind of lumped in and then divided out by per pupil. Uh the uh career technical education, this is an area this that we get uh would you've heard me talk about 30A funding. So the 30A funding would be all of our our our students that are taking CTE courses, also our students that are taking

012um uh dual credit courses, all these different things. that allows us to be able to uh to be able to pull some revenue uh from that different category and that's been an area that has continued to increase here at Typton over the last six years. Um there's some question that that the way that's funded may look a little different in the future. So around $44 of that again is academic honors performance and then non-English uh 1470 per student for a grand total of 8,79. Okay. So what does education fund take care of? Um the education fund primarily takes care of teacher salaries and benefits. uh principal office salary and benefits, special programs, high ability, special education, summer school, CTE, remediation, instructional aids, guidance, counseling, nurses, speech pathology. Um also our our classroom supplies and equipment,

013educational media services, curricular materials, then athletic, academic, and uh sponsor stipens, which is all part of our collective bargaining agreement. Um, so that's all taken care of out of the education fund. Um, so basically where the revenue comes from, uh, when we're talking about the education fund, it comes from the basic foundation grant is equal all across the state. And then we add in complexity, academic performance, special education, so forth and so on. And then there's also some miscellaneous revenue that could come in reimbursement from summer school which is typically about 40% of our actual cost. So um we will get that back. What is new this year is $160 that is coming out in the funding formula for curricular materials per student. And and the difference with that is that is unbargainable. So you

014have to take that $160 per student off of that $8,700 that we're getting per student. Uh because that is money that is dedicated towards curricular materials and cannot be bargained. So that the when you look at the first number, you'll go, "Wow, you know, looks like we had an okay increase." Well, we it looks good, but it's kind of smoking mirrors because the 160 of that increase is curric materials, which was its own separate by line um a year ago. >> That number changed this year. >> Yep. Still the same. Um operation funds. So basically what we use for our operation fund is transportation, capital projects, central office staffing, utilities, uh custodial and maintenance staffing, uh property insurance, and then we can pay for per bus replacement with that. However, currently we are using geo

015bonds uh for that purpose. So we're not that's not a a operation fund expense. Uh basically how the revenue comes in for operation fund um is funded by local taxes the sevet fit and excise tax. Um and the uh fund we are allowed to transfer up to 15% of our education fund revenues. We actually ended up being at around 3% uh that we've transferred out of um education into our operation fund uh local property taxes. Um then the way that we are so we talked a little bit about um AV so say our AV goes up 12%. Well we cannot increase our budget 12%. We are capped at 4%. So the operation fund can only grow 4%. And uh and that's this part of this maximum levy growth quotient which is based on a six-year

016average of non-farm personal income and calculated annually by the uh state budget agency. So they just give us that number say you can only grow by 4%. And then uh the department of local finance estimates then our property tax caps and potential loss which you talked about earlier um from revenue from the tax caps and then the homestead uh credit of 800,000. So just thought it is important for us to to kind of see where we stand in relationship to districts around us as far as our operation fund rate. So this is just a real quick snapshot of areas schools um and their um operation fund rate. So we are kind of right in the middle um and uh around 45 cents um u is is our rate u pretty close here to Tri Central

017and also to Clinton Prairie. Um you have you know a wide disparity. you have uh you know Hamilton Heights which has a really low rate. They have a low rate because they have a a much larger assessed value than what we do. So it all kind of works in with the assessed value and and how um all of those numbers are calculated in order to create the budget. Then you go all the way up here to Lwood, which is uh 68 cents. Um and that is by far the highest in the area. So operating referenda rates, uh there are a couple of schools that have an operating referendum. Um, so we have Sheridan which is at a 25 cent operating referendum and then we have Alexandria which is at a 32 cent operating referendum and

018you'll be able to tell on this next uh slide. Well, we'll get to that in a minute. Um, so basically what debt service is taking care of as far as uh we talked about the these are all the operations rates plus the operation referendum. So the debt service fund again what it takes care of is pays lease rentals, general obligation bonds, associated fees, then the revenue comes from property taxes, CVET, uh license, excise tax, and all those little fun things. So sharing the debt service rate and what I was about to say is you'll notice that Alexandria has a very low debt service rate because they have an operating referendum. So they've kind of shuffled the cards a little bit. And uh you also will notice and now the anomaly there would be uh a

019Clinton I think it's no I'm sorry it's Alexandria and Sheridan. So Sheridan still has a pretty high debt service rate. Then they also have the 25 cents on top of that uh for their referendum that they're they're using. So again Sheridan a really a fast growing district. They're building as about as quickly as they can. So, in a little bit different scenario, some >> how are all the schools to the right of us handling the new legislation about being over 40? >> No, I mean a serious question, right? >> Aren't they supposed to go through those steps? And >> it depends. Again, it depends on what their AV is going to look like. Um but yeah, I mean so what they will have to do really basically anybody that would be here on up if

020they wanted to if they wanted to issue additional debt they would have to do the petition or monster. They're okay at this rate because they were there when they passed leg when they passed. >> But they're going to have a lot of >> right >> more steps. >> And I will say our rate will go up. We will be above 40 cents. Probably not this next year, but definitely the year after that because that's when the AV starts to do this and edge down a little bit. So that's going to make our rates go up. Um that's just the eb and flow of the process. So we would debt we already have, right? So we don't have to do >> right. >> We would have trouble getting more money. >> If we issued no debt

021whatsoever, there's a there's a very high probability that we will go above that 40 cents in 27. So just kind of overall tax rate comparison. Um when we're looking at this, uh you know, Typton looks pretty good. I mean, we're ne we're near the bottom here and um and then you got all the way up here uh near the top again, you know, Sheridan is in a situation where they have that 25 cent um operating referendum and you've got Alexandria, they also have that referendum as well. So, they're a little bit on that, you know, over the dollar um uh side of things. And uh but again looking at our comparison, we are actually in pretty good shape uh compared to the rates of surrounding schools. >> We know real estate agents use that to

022try to get people to come to Typton County. >> I would hope so. >> I mean, I've lived in areas where that's a really really big deal. Well, and I think that that's that's I mean, if you're living in Hamilton County and you want to cross over the county line, you're going to pay a lot less in taxes than what you pay for. And uh so that's >> we should send that chart to all the local real estate agent. >> Hey, I have no problem doing that. >> Yep. Straight out of the DJ. Yeah, that's not a problem. Okay. And then just to kind of show you a little bit, you know, we've we've really been under this philosophy over the last six years really to do uh rate management. So, we've really tried to

023keep our rate consistent. We don't really want these peaks and valleys. Uh we did have a little bit of an uptick here. Um and I and I was trying to remember why that happened. It was because our AV came in a little bit lower than what was anticipated and then everything exploded here with AV. So that's when we had this big drop. Um so it's uh you know, but really it's been pretty consistent around this. We've never gone over a dollar. Um it's been pretty pretty much in this in this level uh really for a long time. So um actual revenue per student and uh this actually comes from policy analytics and really what I wanted to make sure that that um we were sharing here is this is revenue that is coming from the

024education fund and the operation fund and to show how we are spending those dollars. Um so you'll notice there's a couple things here. The state average is here. And I know it's not real easy to see. Uh state average is here. We are actually above the state average when you combine our operations and our um education fund. Um so we're a little above the state average. Um Sheridan of course they have this extra dollars coming in because of their uh referendum and uh so but for the most part uh very similar to to what Sheridan has as far as dollars coming in. So as we're breaking this down um TCAS revenue is higher uh than the state average per student. Um 76% of the revenue comes from the state funding formula. So 76% of our

025dollars come from the state tuition support. 24% basically is coming from local property taxes. So actual expenditures per student um you'll notice that this number is a little bit lower than that number. And the reason for that is we tried to be very cautious. That's about a 5% that we try to save back in order to cushion our cash balances. So you might say, well, why aren't we spending every single dollar? Well, that would be a very bad business practice. And so we uh we want to make sure that we have money for the future. So about 5% of that is going to be, you know, that again those cash balances that we all see in each one of these uh funds. So we are spending around uh $10,600 per student when we calculate education

026fund and operation fund and then divide it by our enrollment. So essentially what that means is that again our expenditures are above state average. 85% of our expenditures per student are dedicated to staff salaries and benefits and that's all staff. So that's teachers, that's paras, that's cafeteria, that's the whole shooting match. About 5% um the second largest is basically transportation. Uh so we're talking about bus um bus drivers, uh bus maintenance, not the cost of buses, but definitely bus maintenance, um fuel, all those things. So that's about 5%. Uh 3% of it is going to be supplies and technology. 3% is utilities, uh 2% purchase services, and then 1% is insurance. So basically that's how we're carving up those dollars that we are spending. So basically kind of the budget history over the last six

027years. Um so you'll kind of notice how our budgets have increased and this is our overall budget, everything combined. So that's that's taking into consideration education fund, operation fund, and debt service. And so our current you know what we're looking at for this current year is you know 22 million uh 22,535. Um you will notice a couple of things. Uh first of all all the we are using this again this 85% of our AV in order to calculate all of this. we will eventually get the our 2026 AV and uh so that may look a little bit different. Um so basically what we're looking at um this number includes does not include what we're doing as an additional appropriation out of the rainy day fund. And one thing that we're doing differently is we are

028going to go ahead and ask the board to approve an additional appropriation out of rainy day fund because we're just not exactly sure what's going to be going on with all these changes with SEA1. So it's more or less just as a precaution. Um, so it does include that additional appropriation out of rainy day when you're we add another uh 250,000 on top of that number. Okay. Um, again, um, so that kind of gives you an idea. The one thing I want you to also be aware of is as we're looking at these numbers and how they've increased and and you will notice the difference between this number and this number not very much and that is due to um what we're how we're being hit in operations. Uh it's also how we are being

029hit in um in the education fund. um even though we do have an increase in overall funding, you know, enrollment does have a key to that. So, as enrollment declines, that's going to actually suppress the amount of dollars that we get. Um so, again, not a whole lot of what we call new money. Um and that new money is what we use when we're talking about raises and when we're talking about, you know, what we can do differently. There's not a whole lot of that. So, this kind of draws this it to your attention a little bit. Um, so this increase includes the $160 per student for curricular materials. Um, so we're looking at an overall budget increase of around uh $56,000 uh with negative uh so with the operation fund being um $151,000 less

030than it was the year before and then with the education fund only growing about $5,000. So um again can be challenging can be a very challenging um time. Now this is a worst case scenario. If we hold true uh with our enrollment which again is higher than what we've calculated we will have a little bit more um money that will hopefully be able to be used for um some salary increases. So we just want to hopefully everything will stay um steady. Um, and you know, we're diligently, you know, looking at the enrollment and getting kids, you know, figuring out where kids are, especially kids who may not be showing up. Right now, we have two kids that are technically no shows. And we are working with authorities to figure out where those kids are, which

031is quite a task these day, excuse me, these days. Um, so we feel like the number uh that we're currently at is probably in the ballpark. Um, but >> did you say that's higher than what the state estimated? >> Yes. >> Yeah. State estimated us at 1302. We were at 1340 in person and 18. >> So the I mean that's about where we were last year. So we didn't lose. >> Right. >> Realist not like we had been losing. >> Exactly. Exactly. So we we continue to have small kindergarten numbers but we grew in the high school. a lot of transference. >> Yes. >> And and that's a great that's that's great. That's a different trend than what we've had >> like the busing like they they didn't move in. They're like coming in from

032other >> they're coming in from other schools. Yeah. >> So we we had that growth in the high school which really helped us a lot. >> I have a question back on slide 31. >> Sure. >> Um so we have had fewer students each year. >> Yes. in the total budget. This is just an observation. It's up $5 million and we have fewer students. How much of the legislation about minimum teacher pay because that's 85% of our that has that has to be a large effect, right? >> Yeah. >> Salaries and benefits are >> we went through some really good funding years there, too. So, I think that that's important to remember. >> Yeah. Jump. Yeah, the 23 24 funding years were pretty unbelievable. Um, that's when we had 7% and I think 6% in

033the second year and that's again, you know, it was inflationary probably, but the revenue was there and so the funding increase. >> I'm just I'm so just from a look at the chart, it's up $5 million in five years. How are we and we have fewer students. How are we >> Yeah, >> but the biggest expense is teacher salary and I know we they've upped the minimum teacher salary. Right. >> I'm just thinking and benefits aren't getting cheaper. >> No. >> Even though that's what 1%, right? >> It's still a big number. >> Oh, it is. It's uh the the benefits and and salaries again, they're they're big number. >> I'm just trying to get a grasp on where are the where are the dollars going? They go up, but we still don't have any

034money. >> Right. Right. And and again um you know a lot of this like you said before when at 2021 I think our beginning pay was I think it was 37,000 and now we're at 46. >> Yeah. >> So I mean >> plus you had to raise everyone else's pay. >> So we've we've made some huge strides. We're I'm sorry we're not at 46. We want to be at 46, but we're we're actually at 44. So, yeah. >> Someone back there was going to correct you. >> Yeah. But, uh, so I mean, we've had that that big increase, which has been good. I mean, again, you know, providing those additional dollars, that's that's what it's about and trying to try to reward our teachers as much as possible. Um, so basically just kind of talking

035about some inflationary uh pressures and I use the electric bill. You all have experienced electric bills. I mean they're they're just going through the roof. I mean in your home and and everything else. Ours is going through the roof and uh so basically we we have been hit really hard with with increases in our electric. Understand a couple of things. We are an energy star district which means we are one of the most efficient districts in the country. We're at like 95% efficiency. So, we we're in really good shape on the use side, but um with changes uh in electrical rates and and demand time and we had to end up changing our category uh to more of a uh commercial uh more of a commercial category. It really has had its impact on us.

036So, you know, this first year not so bad, but then we have this $95,000 increase. We are we are on track for another big increase. So, another $25,000. So, another 6% increase. And so, that's not factored in there. But again, the this kind of shows that yeah, I mean, the money, you know, might look like it's coming in more, but our expenses have drastically changed um really uh without any big changes on on our side. In fact, we're probably more efficient because we replaced a tiller at the elementary school and we also um replaced several air handlers um throughout the campus. So, I mean, again, we're we are able to to put in the most um uh efficient equipment as we are as we are as we did this building project. And then, you know,

037again, we still have these these increases. Before you go on on this one, how much of this the $95,000 increase like with our negotiations with Tips and Utilities, where does that where did I can't remember how many years or they gave us kind of a >> they they did a slow increase rather than all at once. >> They gave it to us over three years. Am I right, Rob? >> And um and again >> 23 24 and then this year. So we're in the last year of that. >> Okay. >> So I mean that's that has been the big the big increase. And again, I'm not this is not a blame game for Tip and Utilities. I mean, it's they did they were great partners. Uh but this is also an area where we've have

038some expenses that we just plain as simply can't control. And um we do have we will bring you some suggestions here in the next month or two about a way that might be able to combat some of this. Um but uh we you know we'll we'll share that when we get a little bit more information. Um but again that this is just kind of an example. Another example that I don't have a chart would be really just our property and our our property and uh casualty insurance different I mean those numbers have just continued to escalate as you know we have more and more extremes in weather. um that's just getting pushed on to us as you know different schools from you know all around the the country are losing roofs because of wind speed

039and tornadoes and everything else. Um that's another inflationary um pressure that is coming coming our way. So basically just wanted to review quickly kind of our cost cutting measures. Um, thanks uh to Brooke uh we were able to get uh kind of our staffing reductions and as as always we are we are looking at um at staffing. Uh we look to see if these you know if there are positions that we need to continue um to fund um how we can u move some responsibilities around to make us more efficient. Um so with um this upcoming year we were able to um decrease our spending by $268,000. Um and this would be across operations and the education fund. Um we've reduced the supply budgets of all of our staff. Um we put a cap on

040how much money they could spend within those budgets. And uh again with the idea that if there's an emergency that comes up, we'll figure out a way. Um and then we've also slashed our our maintenance budgets and and then we've also eliminated several service agreements that we've had um that that we had last year that we do not have this year. So, um, we really worked hard, um, to to prepare for this because we knew it was coming and, uh, so we've tried to be very proactive, uh, in how we've, um, and how and how we've budgeted and how we've looked forward, uh, in this situation. But anyway, we're we are cognizant of it and we have a committee that's going to dive deeper into this and you'll you'll be able to look at those

041numbers and and really kind of see exactly where we've we've made some reductions and give us some ideas on where we might be able to make some additional reductions. Uh we've also reduced staff. So this is just from 2019 and how much we've reduced. Uh the the the number of um total staff didn't change much because we moved a couple of teachers uh from the classified to the certified ranks. um one of one of which in the elementary PE that was one example uh where uh we were paying that person um as a an hourly employee and we moved him over to the certified as he has an emergency license and getting his emergency license and PE. Um so just kind of those examples where we've been able to do a little bit of shuff

042shuffling. We still have a decrease in our certified number. Um and uh but it just kind of remained constant as far as our classified. Uh we did have a bit of an uptick in admin and that's mostly because um our new athletic director has an administrator's license and so we've added him to the administrator line. Uh where before that was uh considered to be a non-certified position. >> That didn't affect the budget in any way. It's just Yeah. Um bus replacement just when you thought all the fun was about to be done. Okay. Um so bus replacement. Um good oldfashioned hand um uh oldfashioned printed uh stuff. Uh the the DLGF creates this uh little document for us and it is not real easy to put into a PowerPoint. So you're just getting the actual

043um paper version of it. Um so basically what we have to do uh is we have to tell the DLGF um if we intend to buy buses or not. So right now we have um we have one bus that we're looking at to purchase in 2026. I am probably I I will I do not recommend buying a bus because currently when you are ordering a bus they have about a $20,000 tariff sir charge on them and not knowing exactly what's happening with tariffs. Uh I don't want to spend $20,000 more for a bus than we have to. So, I will hope that in a year some of that will settle down and uh we may be able to uh get a bus at a at a more reasonable cost. Um this money would be uh

044our geo bond that we we passed a couple of years ago would purchase these buses. So again, regardless of whether that's money that's paid out of operations or out of a geo bond, we have to let this the DGF know that we are considering a a bus in 2026. That's that. Uh the other uh this is uh the capital projects. Um, those of you that have sat in on this little suare before, um, know that this is kind of something that was left over from, uh, a time when we used to get a capital projects budget. Uh, it was its own, uh, it was its own, um, tax rate um, and we would get those dollars and we had some control over that rate. It all became part of the operation fund. So even though

045we have to do this, it's it's not um it's a little it's a little untrue. We're just kind of doing it to make sure that we have we have taken care of the legal responsibility. So you might see some things in here like, you know, that look pretty darn vague. The reason why they're vague is because we don't really know whether uh we will have the dollars to spend for those different um different pieces of equipment or not. So uh so you have on the first page just kind of fixed assets uh that we would be looking at purchasing over the next three years. And then on the other side you would have on the next page you would have uh capital projects. Um that would be more of you know kind of a a

046facilities type of improvement. You know one thing that you will you will see as as long as I am your superintendent is I'm kind of insane about um parking lots. I like to keep our cracks filled and I like to keep um our parking lots in good shape because we do have a lot of a lot of acres under asphalt and uh once you start neglecting your your parking lots, you're you're just kind of asking for it because the cost to replace them is pretty high. Uh put in some uh just some idea. This is some funding on um audi auditorium. Uh we would like to do some lighting updates, maybe some seating, some carpeting, and uh but for the most part, I have kept these these capital projects um on the third page fairly

047low and uh compared to what we've budgeted in the past. Um just kind of knowing, you know, the the kind of budget that we're getting ready to confront. Um so basically what happens with with that is we will go over this again in our September um hearing and then in October you will you would vote to accept the capital projects plan andor the bus replacement plan. Then you would sign um sign the resolutions and then we upload these into the DLGF and that um that process uh would happen. So essentially if you want to see uh and I'll let Brooke talk really quick here. Uh this is the detail of the budget. So this this is everything that is the budget and uh so basically we're we've just gone into gateway and made PDFs of

048everything budget and you have access to all that. So if you want to get you can you can look at that and uh and kind of see where everything falls and how those dollars are spent. Um and um and then we will ask you for permission uh to advertise um for the budget and once you give us permission probably in the next uh 24 hours. Uh this will become active and anybody that would want to see it from the DLG side would be able to go to this link and and look at it. But you got to give us a a little bit of time to get all that moving forward because I have to go in and check yes on a bunch of things. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And uh usually Brooke is standing over

049me going uh you missed that. Uh you missed that. So anyway anyway, which is good. So basically that's it. Any questions? It's I know it's riveting. Okay. So, on the 23rd, it'll be take two. >> That's right. >> Very good. All right. Uh, next would be on the agenda is just to review our uh board agenda for the following meeting. I don't know if anybody had modifications to the agenda or any questions about uh the agenda. Anything? Everybody good with it? All right. Silence is compliance. All right. Well, then uh with that, I would uh um uh say we were going to adjourn our uh work session and uh we'll reconvene at 6:30 uh for our regularly scheduled schoolboard session. So, we are adjourned. >> Thank you guys. >> Hey, it's coming along. Thank you

050for asking. Oh no. I I had that done a year ago and it did nothing. >> Oh no. I'm sorry. It's You know what? It just thinks getting old, doesn't it? She goes everywhere. They go on trips. >> So they have each other. >> I talked to Austin. >> She has a bunch of the same friends from she's >> 86 whatever weeks or something. 17 started school and I was getting >> you know but I get it. I mean he's still doing like just like >> strawberries 5 years old. >> Oh yeah it's just >> how much fun >> I can tell you how many times you just don't even go >> and you're like it sounds horrible. This sounds absolutely person if you separate your legs and your >> pulled over somewhere [Laughter] >>

051my kids call like hey mom I want to let you know I watched it before I came home to make you proud. I was like, "Okay, >> she took him to the doctor." >> We didn't do that back in November. >> No, I Sam came home for his first week from school to be >> and he left his whole audience basically homebound >> and I said, "Sam, you didn't need any of this." And he's like, "Um, okay." He's like, "I mean, >> seems like a problem, right? >> She's famous." >> Just >> got to love that though. >> We made dinner. All right. >> All right. Will it Are we uh are we good back there? >> Right. Well, it is uh 6:30, so we will call to order the Typton Community School Board U

052meeting. We are going to start with the pledge of allegiance and our vision statement. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Growing empowered, future ready students who are prepared for a lifetime of opportunity and success. Sorry, I'm having trouble with connection. >> Oh, it's okay. >> All right, we're good. Great. >> That's interesting. >> While we work on our connection, um so uh that we've moved on to the point in our agenda with uh which is tell me something good, which is opportunity for the board uh to uh to communicate some things they've seen whether uh academics or athletics or around the grounds that uh was encouraging. So, I'd open

053it up for uh tell me something good. >> I would just like to highlight our students and um staff administration. I mean, this last weekend was so busy with pork festival homecoming and so many different events and it was just so fun to see so many of our students um participate in that whether just um from the pageant to the parade and just um football game and the weekend activities. just so proud of them for just managing their time and just showing up to represent our school really well in our community. >> Thanks, Jen. Anybody else? All right. Well, we will move on to the Blue Future Awards. I think that is that's me, right? Oh my gosh, I'm up already. >> Yes. >> Okay. Um, so I'm going to need the little podium thing

054for this. >> Yes. I know that's not okay. Um, so, um, I've got a bunch of blue future awards. Uh, but we're going to try and roll through this pretty quickly. Uh but in as a schoolboard member, you get an opportunity to interact with other schoolboard members around the state. And I will say consistently, one of the things that I always hear from other schools and schoolboard members is our FFA program and the teachers and the kids and our accomplishments. And so over the summer, a lot of stuff goes on over the summer for FFA and we're not always uh in tune with that. And we're uh so we're catching up from a lot of stuff that happened over the summer. So bear with me on this. Uh but these students deserve a tremendous amount

055of recognition for this work that happened uh when school wasn't kind of in session so to speak on some of this stuff. So um so the first uh blue future award that I have is for uh Maggie Klene, Lillian Cloud, and Broen. Broen's I usually see the hair not here. Okay. So but uh so this is um this is for them. they they um they have this the Hooser degree um award and it's the highest state level degree awarded by the Indiana FFA Association. It recognizes members for significant achievement in their supervised agricultural experience program leadership development and uh community service. So, I wanted to take a moment to recognize Maggie, Lillian, and Broen uh for the Hooser Degree Award. I don't know if anybody's any of >> soccer. >> Yeah, there's soccer. >> Soccer.

056>> They get they they chose soccer over me. Okay. >> All right. It's It won't be the last. All right. Um then our next one is uh for the natural resources demo first place and that went to Maggie Klene. And the natural resource demonstration at a state FFA competition is a hands-on event where student teams showcase their knowledge and skills in managing natural resources like soil, water, and ecosystems through practical problem solving and data interpretation. And Maggie finished first place. Right. Next is the Discovery A Issues uh second place award. Uh Discovery Agricultural issues competition at the state FFA competition is an event specifically designed for middle school students grades seven through 8. And I was amazed when I read this. These are seventh and eighth grade students that did this. Uh they're working towards

057their discovery FFA degree. It's a modified introductory version of the agricultural issues forum. It challenges these young students to research a local agricultural issue, build a presentation outlining the pros and cons, and deliver it to a panel of judges. Our team uh finished second in the in the state and that team was Olivia Ogden, Caroline Roab, Elena Mast, Alexis Middleton, Claire Minkkey. >> Minky. Okay, I'd have lost that one. Uh Sophia Ripburgger and Courtney for none. So if you're here not going to expect me to know all the names, are you? >> Do we have Olivia? >> Caroline. Alexis, here is Alexis. Congratulations, Claire. And so, thank you. >> Good job, you guys. Great. Uh the next one I have is for the um Agra Science LDE poster was first place. It was awarded to

058Ryland Kaine. Um the Agra Science LD poster competition at the FFA state comp convention is part of the leadership development events designed to enhance leadership skills among the FFA members. This competition focuses on demonstrating abilities in public speaking, decision-making, and communication related to agriculture and the FFA organization. Participants compete in various events, including poster presentations to showcase their knowledge and skills in agricultural communications. Ryland won first place on that. All right, two more and then you'll get to even more fun stuff. Uh the Discovery Creed speaking uh second place went to Monroe Stewart. Uh the Discovery Creed speaking competition at the state FFA uh convention is designed for FFA members in grades seven, eight, and nine. Participants are required to recite the FFA creed from memory and answer question about its meaning and purpose. The

059event aims to develop public speaking skills, self-confidence, and professionalism among FFA members. Each chapter is allowed only one entry in this event and the first place winner advances to the state event. So that was Monroe Stewart. And finally, save the best for last. A business demonstration third place goes to Darcy Dunn. Um Darcy. So the the agricultural and farm management uh demonstration entails FFA members demonstrating the principles of farm organization and management with the utilization of technology or the concepts necessary for managing an agricultural related business from a local and global perspective. Topics included in this area are not limited to economic principles, decision-making, methods for organizing and planning, starting an egg or farming business, recordkeeping, risk management, safety management, uh entrepreneurship and planning, organizing and controlling and directing of an aggra business. That's pretty

060impressive. So, Darcy really don't want to be invoked. All right, that is me. Um I think the next is uh to Chicago. >> Okay. Um I have three blue future words to give, but only two of them are here. If I could ask Mr. Matt Boyd and Miss Jeff to join me up here. Okay. Um, as they are coming up here, um, I'm going to go ahead and kind of share uh why I'm inviting them. Uh, the third person who I did not invite is the third member of the TMS uh, science PLC. Um, I don't know if all of our board members know kind of about PLC's. I know at least one of us probably know intimate amount about it, but uh, PLC's are uh, professional learning communities. It's kind of the gold standard

061framework for professional collaboration in educational settings. Uh all of the work of PLC's are based on the core questions of PLC. Uh what do we want students to know? Which is a question of course that gets down to curriculum. How will we know that students know it? That of course gets to questions of assessment. Uh what will we do if students don't get it? In which case we're talking about questions of intervention. And finally the fourth question is what do we do if students do get it? Right? Which then goes to enrichment and how do we go beyond that? Um we at TMS uh do PLC's uh every single week. Uh we specifically have two meetings uh throughout the week. One of them is an official meeting of the uh PLC. Of course, our science

062PLC uh gets the least fun one, which is the seventh period one where they are exhausted at the end of the day, but they still do the best work that they can. And then another meeting where they do some prep work, making sure that they are putting together the materials that they need, uh curriculum, assessments, uh planning, putting together the data so they can have the most successful meetings. I wanted to honor our science PLC of our PLC's. uh because this is a PLC that in my opinion really exemplifies what some of that great work is. Um uh just looking at last year they had a brand new curricular material. This is of course of having a year where they did not have a curricular material because we were waiting on that adoption for the

063uh Indiana Department of Education to get their acts together. Um and uh so they had to overhaul their whole new uh curriculum for Quest for number one. As part of that they had to look at assessment uh specifically uh claim evidence reasoning uh was something that they really had to look into. Um cla ev evidence reasoning is kind of a new take on hypothesis and the scientific method. It was embedded in their curriculum. They had to redesign their instruction, redesign their assessment. Um and all of that work they did as a professional learning community as a PLC every single day altogether. And uh you know just to remind everyone uh the results of that in their first year were pretty incredible with our highest sixth grade science uh uh results in uh the area. Um

064and really that is a testament not only of course to Mr. Matt Boyd who is our sixth grade science teacher but to our science PLC as a whole. Um now uh Miss Papy being here is a little bit funny. She is of course our newest science teacher. One thing that she's been able to note as she is coming in um first off she's just fitting like a glove. Okay. into that science PLC. Um, part of that is just a recognition the fact that our PLC really put their best work into it such that they could have someone join the team and say, "Hey, this is what we do. This is what we're about." And this paper has been able to be a part of joining that. Um, and uh, honestly, this year it's just really

065incredible to see already how uh, as they're answering the questions of PLC. I'm looking forward to seeing how this year grows on last year. And I wanted to congratulate them and exemplify and share that they exemplify that PLC work at TMS. So, Mr. Boyd and Miss Papy, everyone. All right. Tonight, uh, TEES is going to focus around teacher impact. That's going to be, um, our area that, um, we're giving Blue Future awards around. Um, joined here by Miss Wigington, our assistant principal. This first group of teachers, um, their impact, uh, was brought out by parent recognition. Um, unfortunately as a principal, a lot of times I hear um the negative things. I get phone calls about negative things and and so forth. Um, but couple weeks into school, I happened to have three conversations that

066week with families that had nothing but positive things to say about uh their students experiences at uh TEES. Uh these students, two of them were brand new students to tees and another one was a family that has a first grader and a kindergartener. Um the parent um attended a different school growing up and uh was leerary about Typton Elementary uh is what she told me. But we've done nothing but prove her wrong in and the experience that our kids have had. So, um they just talked about every year we have new students um coming from different experiences uh from previous schools and these parents had nothing but amazing things to say about our staff, how welcoming we are, um how flexible we are, how we do whatever we can to make their kids feel welcome

067and successful at Typton Elementary School. Um, so this group uh of teachers, not they're not all around the same student, but uh around all three of these different uh students. So, uh, fifth grade teacher Bryce Brown, kindergarten teacher Mara Eisenhower, fifth grade teacher Dell Grub, fourth grade teacher. Sher Laughler, first grade teacher Ashley Nighthelzer. Special education teacher Nicole Oliver and special education teacher Alexis Perry Leper. [Applause] All right. Our second group of teachers that we want to recognize for uh teacher impact are the four teachers that were recognized by senior football players uh this year at the first home game um as teachers that had had a positive impact in their education. Um, as elementary teachers and educators, uh, we get to see kids at the very beginning of their career, uh, and then they

068go on to middle school and high school. So sometimes we feel like we get disconnected from those students and we don't get to see the end result, the ultimate result of graduation and um, this is a pretty neat award that in recognition that the high school has started to do. So, um, these four teachers were recognized by seniors on the football team. Diane Degenle, second grade teacher. This may be a first for Blue Future Awards. One, a person getting recognized twice in one night. Sherry Leler, fourth grade teacher. Monica Rich, third grade teacher and third grade teacher Allison Ripburgger. We should try. Is Nikki Clifford here? Oh, there's >> Okay. I think you're my you're my solo one. So, I've got a stack of uh Blue Future awards to hand out here. Um but kind

069of as you found out, Rob, a lot of our athletes um are our students are out busy tonight. So, we have every um high school team in action tonight except for the cross country team. So, um I'll go ahead and ask Nikki to come up. Uh I wanted to recognize uh uh two groups um today at Typton High School. First is student council. Mrs. Clifford is the um the the sponsor for that. But student council is in charge of all things really school culture. They look at homecoming. They organize food drives. They do just a lot of planning and things around to make make students feel welcome and create opportunities for them to come in and have a strong u interaction with the school and a good community and culture. So I wanted to recognize

070Mrs. Clifford, President Broen Fur, he's playing soccer. Kennedy Lancaster, who is vice president and is currently playing golf. Isa Walford, who is currently playing soccer, uh she is secretary, treasurer Quinn Smith, who is playing soccer, and uh uh public relations officer Braxton Carpenter, uh for their work so far, um in in a successful homecoming. They had um Pocoella, which is like a music thing, I guess, or something. But the the you know it it's the it's the groups like this like you know I have not a whole lot to do with student council and uh Mrs. Clifford meets with these kids regularly during advisory and they they come in before school sometimes and after school and they meet a lot to to make plans and pull things together. So some days you show up and

071the the hallways it's like um oh what's the movie with the pumpkin and the you know where they like everything just kind of changes and it looks pretty. You know what I'm talking about? >> Cinderella. That's Yeah. It's kind of like that. You know, you walk in and the hallways look great. Um the the Sorry, needs to get cable. >> The dress days are all well organized. Um and and I feel like this year our kids really surrounded homecoming and we had kind of a good energy and a good flow uh with everything and that's because of their planning. I want to give a special shout out to Braxton uh for being the public relations officer. She has done a fantastic job with the the student council page on Facebook making sure she's snapping photos

072uh because you know those those things last forever and you'll be able to look back and check those kind of things out. So uh here's my plug for follow Tan High School on Facebook. Follow Typton High School and Instagram. Um apparently I haven't gotten that far because I don't have cable or any of that kind of stuff. But but I did want to just recognize student council and the work that they do. So thank you Mrs. Clifford and all of your student athletes. Thank you. >> Yeah. Yes. >> And then the the next group, none of them are here. Mr. Robertson uh is currently at a fever game, I think, because he's a big fever guy. Josie Butler's playing golf in Preston Lancaster. I don't know what Preston's doing. probably watching his sister. Let's say

073that. Let's go with that. Um, I wanted to recognize them because Mr. Robertson every year does a lot with uh with the blue crew and this year has been kind of a renewed focus to try to get it more uh like a club instead of just a section in the stand. So, we've already had like a whole blue crew uh se or a meeting where we had 160 of our students that have signed up. They'll get a free t-shirt from the city of Typton. so that we'll have, you know, kind of like that that collective uh unit um behind the blue crew. But the point of that is just to get more kids at more events cheering on their classmates so that even if they're not an athlete, they're on the grounds of our school

074because we know that the more they can be around the school outside of just the educational day, uh the better the experience is going to be, the more they're going to show up every day and the more proud they are to be a Blue Devil. So, I just wanted to to recognize John Preston and Josie for their work so far. Thank you. >> All right. >> Oh, no. You got >> try that me out. >> All right. So, that is the end of uh the Blue Future Awards. If you came for uh Blue Future Awards, this would be the time if you wanted to graciously exit or you're going to get deep dived into budget talks. So, we'll give you a second to uh give you a second to uh to filter out. >> Everybody

075didn't leave. >> Yeah. >> All right. Um next on our agenda is comments from the community. We had one Laura It's on right. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. I just wanted to quickly briefly talk about two of the policies that were listed on the agenda for tonight. And one of them was regarding the audio and the video digital recording at school meetings. And it's it's quite a thing to navigate our website to find like the policy. And I think I found the updated one based on questions that were asked from last month's meeting. Um, but I just have really some questions concerning this 24hour window of notification as to when like a parent or guardian is to notify the school regarding recordings of like parent meetings or parent teacher conference meetings and things like that

076because currently up in uh Whitley County um regarding this specific issue, there is there has been a case filed in federal court for this very policy to be overturned. And I I asked this because the reason that was cited that was given for why there has to be a 24-hour notification is because it frequently materially interferes with corporations's educational mission which with the parent bill of rights and they were codified by our own legislature in this state this last session. and they passed it which states that parents have a fundamental right to control and direct the education and upbringing of their children. So I'm trying to reconcile how that would interfere in any way with the educational mission of a school. And since not every school has this policy requiring the 24 hours, I would

077strongly encourage you to relook at that. um especially since it's being challenged now in federal court. Um I really I I really don't know how it any rational reason as to why that would prohibit a parent from doing that. I mean so many things can arise in a meeting. And I say that from someone who's never recorded a meeting in my life. But when there's so much emphasis put on this and especially the violations that'll happen if a parent doesn't seek this permission 24 hours ahead of time. It kind of makes me think why like should we be recording? Like why aren't we being told like why do we need a 24-hour notice? And shouldn't what we say together in private be the same in a meeting whether it's recorded or not? Like that's the

078fundamental trust. So, I just wanted to say that about the policy as you consider approving it or not. And the second one really quickly was regarding the suicide prevention policy. And I read through the whole policy, but I I failed to see where it mentions in there specifically regarding the parents involvement. Again, specifically given that we just Indiana passed the parental bill of rights, giving parents that fundamental right and control to direct upbringing of their children. And in that policy, it talks a lot about referrals to 4C and counseling sessions with school counselors, but I don't see anywhere in there where it's where it includes the parents or notifies the parents. And I would want to be notified. >> Thank you, Laura. Thank you so much. Uh next on our uh agenda is the consent

079agenda. Um that consists of approving the agenda for this evening, the approval of minutes from the work session, uh the regular session and the public hearing from August 12th, the approval of claims from August 15th and August 29th. Um and the AP run for September of 2025. Uh we have two uh uh personnel rep reports for approval tonight. Um August 25 and September 25. I'll read those at the conclusion of this um approval of field trips. We have the Typton High School senior trip to New York City and then also the FFA soar and fire overnight trips. Uh you have an uh seen an attached uh list of accepted uh donations. And so that is our consent agenda for tonight. I would look for a motion and a second to approve uh the consent agenda.

080>> I move to approve the consent agenda items. >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second uh to approve the consent agenda items. Um all those that vote in favor, would you please signify by saying I? >> I. Any opposed? >> Motion carries. the August um personnel report from certified staff uh positions. We had the resignation of Terry Schmidt, science teacher in the middle school. Uh we had the recommendations for Alexis Bell to part-time prek teacher. Um and Jessica, who was here earlier, uh for the science teacher in the middle school and Ashley Wyn for kindergarten teacher in uh the elementary school. um classified staff resignations. We had Alec Wedle as the athletic director for TMS and the assist uh the athletic assistant for the high school. Um we have Lydia Vanderender who is

081a cafeteria worker, Natasha Surface who is an instructional assistant. Uh those were resignations. The recommendations were are for Natasha Surface to be a kindergarten adjunct teacher. Uh for Joseph Hummerhouse to be a health adjunct teacher in the middle school. Um Alina Henry for the library assistant in the high school, Lisa Webster for part-time prek para educator in the elementary school, Angela Emory for cafeteria employee, and Michelle Russell for cafeteria employee at the Typton Middle School. ECA staff resignations. We had Joe Gosnell from the varsity head softball coach position, Alec Wedle from eighth grade boys basketball head coach, and Andy Hassong from the varsity head baseball coach at the high school. uh and recommendations on ECA staff, Kim Warner for a key club sponsor for the high school. Um Rachel Ripberger for assistant soccer coach in

082the high school and Missy Henry for the supervisory athletic department or director in the uh middle school. That was the August uh certified or I'm sorry, the August personnel report. On to the September personnel report. Uh maternity leave was requested by Emily Paffford. Uh we have recommendations for Jason Shuck for the high school and middle school agricultural temporary teacher um to backfill for uh Emily. Classified staff, uh Ashley Cunningham as a resignation as a third shift custodian and ECA staff, we have resignation of Lori Crawford from the middle school student council sponsor and Corbin Nelson as the high school assistant swim coach as a resignation. recommendations in ECA staff are Jeff Walker, academic coach for the elementary school, Brian Johnson for the varsity boys baseball coach for the high school, Tanner Scott for the Tipton

083Middle School student council sponsor. Um, and Melinda Fernung, almost called her Mrs. Fernung. Melinda Fernung, senior class sponsor for Typton High School. Kim Warner, um, senior class sponsor, Tipton High School. Uh Fred Henderson, uh junior class sponsor for Typton High School, Ashley Roberts, junior class sponsor for the high school, and Olivia Gonzalez for junior class sponsor for the high school. Uh John Robertson for block six PLC lead, D. Jackson for the block 7 PLC lead, Kim Robertson for block 8 PLC lead, and Amy Cole for block nine PLC lead. Those are all recommendations for the high school. That include concludes the August and September personnel reports. All right. Um at this time, the board's going to recess from a regular business meeting for the purpose of conducting a brief public hearing. Um do I have

084a motion for recess? >> Move to recess the regular school board meeting. >> Second. >> All right. I have a motion and a second. Uh we are uh uh recessed and yes. Uh so um we're going to do a call call to order uh for our public hearing. Uh this is the public hearing uh that u notifies the the community that we are beginning the collective bargaining uh cycle. So I hereby call to order the public hearing to begin the formal bargaining process between Tipton Community School Corporation and the Typton Education Association. Uh we do have an opportunity for public comment if anyone would like to give public comment in regards to the bargaining window and its opening. Okay. Um this was a very long meeting. So do I have a motion to adjourn the

085public hearing? >> I move to adjourn the public hearing. Second. >> All right. And then I need a motion to convene the regular business meeting again. I move to reconvene the school board meeting. >> Thank you very much. All right, from that we'll go straight into the superintendent report. >> Don't you just love the general assembly? They are just so awesome. >> Love statues. >> They make us do all kinds of fun things. Okay. Anyway, all right. Uh superintendence reports. Um kind of I read the re-roofing project. Just kind of wanted to let you know about how things are going. Um we uh had a kind of a freaky little storm. um a couple of weeks ago uh where some water got up under the membrane and ended up getting down into one of our

086server rooms did cause some server damage. Um uh the company that is doing the roofing as well as our alterer covering all the damage. I mean it's something that was negligent on their side. Um so I do want to say a special thank you to Stephen and his team because uh I don't think we had very little if any interruption. Um, and it was actually pretty it was pretty could have been a pretty big thing. So, uh, I just want to thank them for jumping in and kind of rerouting some things and making sure that we had Wi-Fi on the top floor and all that kind of crazy stuff. And, uh, and again, um, these things just happen. So, um, but we're we're certainly glad uh, that everything has turned out okay. Uh, inferno roof.

087Uh, this is going to be happening uh, over the next six weeks. Uh so it's a little bit of a slow process uh with that roofing project. Uh they are replacing uh the ephus which is uh you might have noticed it's kind of like that stucco looking stuff that's tan. Um we had to take that down and replace it with the metal because um if we leave the the stucco stuff up there it can actually void our our roof warranty which would be bad. And so uh they're replacing that uh with with the metal that is on the east and the west side. Uh so it'll all look the same. We're also replacing a couple of hoods up there um on the roof project. And then uh what the the way they're going to do

088the um the inferno is they're starting at the peak, moving to the north, then going back to the peak, moving to the south, and then they'll move on down to the academic wing. Um, so the the inferno roof is kind of the one I get a little bit nervous about because it is fairly tall and there is a little bit of a pitch to that uh to that roof. So, um anyway, so that's starting and uh and I again um that seems to be going really well besides a small bit of server damage. Um hey, if you're walking out back, the chiller's here. Um the uh the chiller arrived last week and uh we got it a little bit earlier than what we anticipated and I think it was just to um let us know

089that then the Dtron was going to be delayed because we were supposed to get the Dectron in October. Um so uh the Dectron is going to be a March delivery. Uh so a little bit of a delay there. Um they will replace the uh the new uh chiller um over uh fall break. So they're set to begin that on the Monday of fall break. And uh basically they'll bring a crane in, take the old one out, put the new one in about the same footprint. Uh so it should be a pretty quick process. Uh but it's here and uh that's a that's a good thing. That was earlier than we anticipated. Hey, I would like to thank these awesome students for helping out with uh the Porkfest parade. I I love the fact that uh

090we have such awesome kids and uh and I love the fact that they're willing to uh to help us out. So, we did run out of candy, which is, you know, one of those things that we really try not to do, but we did run out of candy. So, again, I'm going to have, you know, Scott take a mental note that buy three times more candy. Um so, uh for next year and uh and again, I do appreciate uh these kids. Again, we wanted to represent a wide uh variety of activities and uh and they did so. So, again, great kids. Appreciate them uh showing up and and doing doing what they do. I also want to thank our administrators. Um uh I love to hear our kids when they see our administrators on the

091parade route because they're just like, "Oh my gosh." you know, they're just they're so excited to see everybody and uh and what I truly love is to hear our administrators who respond to them by name. That's impressive. Um that is a that is something that I was never very good at. And so I really appreciate our administrators and how they have built relationships with our kids and how they know our kids. And uh again, it's just a kind of a great experience to to kind of sit and watch. I did hear the cameraman uh ate all the candy. That's why I didn't get any. >> That's that's what was going on. You know, >> that was the rumor in the crowd where I was. >> One hand photograph. >> Yeah, he's got to he's got

092to keep >> got to keep his energy up. >> Yeah, got to keep the energy. >> Um I I do want to, you know, we've had a great uh fall here with athletics. Things are going really well. The homecoming activities were just incredible. Again, a thank you to the admin for the parade and it's just exciting to see um how our community and our students and everybody is engaging in in what's happening in our school. So, it's always just uh it's a fun time of year and it feels like this year is going to be a special year. So, uh you like to you like to have that feeling and uh so again, just great things happening. Okay, now for some fun stuff. Okay, uh we got this on Thursday. I think it's the first

093time we've actually ever received this as an official report. But um uh one of the uh one of the markers that that is uh taken from our form nine which is always due uh in June um is basically if we are if we are uh holding up our end of the deal as far as statute and pay. Okay. So uh the first the first one here is teacher compensation. So, we are asked to spend at least 62% of um all of our education fund dollars towards teacher compensation. Uh so our actual number is uh 68.74. So we have far exceeded that 62% uh with you know a lot of our dollars that are in tuition support going directly to uh teacher uh pay and benefits. Um, we also get a report about um for potential

094excessive transfer. Uh, once again, as I've mentioned before, you can you can transfer 15% of the um education fund dollars into the operations fund. We've never been close to that. Uh, we ended up being at 3.91%. Okay. And now for a little bad news. Um back uh in 2025 uh or I'm sorry actually 2022 I guess the um uh the legislature created what was called the funding floor. Uh essentially the funding floor says that uh we can never pay fewer dollars out to our our teaching staff than we did the year before. Now, that's all fine and dandy, but uh the reality is as as enrollment declines, as our staffing decreases, we are going to end up not hitting that funding. So, this is the first year we've done it. I didn't think we'd do

095it until next year, but >> they realize the older teachers that retire make more than the younger teachers we hire, right? >> Yes. >> We should all send them an email to make sure they know. >> I'm serious. Really? It's It is It is ridiculous. And >> there's no way around that. >> I know it. I know it. And so we missed it by 21,000. >> Um but part of the part of the process is and this is just all the figures. Um part of the process is that we have to acknowledge it in a in a public board meeting and then you will all get a letter from the IDOE as well as a an email from the IDOE saying that we did not make the funding for a threshold. Um and and then

096this is kind of a matrix of how it all works. So if less than the funding floor then IDE will let you know and then we have to do this public notice and then we have to do the um uh we have to put something on our website saying that we I'm going to say guys this is probably going to be an annual um I mean it's not something that I'm happy about but it's just something that it's just I mean we as things change um it's going to be really hard for us to maintain that level of funding um for our staff. And so um anyway, this is just kind of a real quick. >> Does it raise that every year? So like what we spend this year compared to next year or is

097it you know what I mean? >> Yes. Um maybe I I don't know the answer to that. I I don't I didn't get the impression that it was. I think that the the high threshold is where it states. >> Okay. Um, but I that's a good question. I need to I need to find that out. So, that's a good question. Um, >> I'm sorry. >> Oh, yes. And the amount of time. So, it's comparison what from 22 to 24. Yeah. >> And and what happens is we did get a per we got a per pupil funding increase. So So they're are calling that an increase in funding, but it may not be we may not have more dollars in the education fund than what we had the year before because it's because of the number

098of staff. So, uh, again, it's kind of one of those little silly things, but, you know, we are, you know, we are doing it. We want to make sure that we're doing what we're supposed to do, um, with this process. But, again, I I look at the other side of it where we're almost paying 70% of all the dollars that we get towards teacher benefits and and salary. I feel like that uh that other matrix is telling us we're doing the right things. Um, so anyway, I did want to do a really quick congratulations to Mrs. Hartley. Uh, Mrs. Hartley was named the 2025 agriculture sciences, education, and communication distinguished alumnist, and she will be honored on Friday uh at Purdue. I'm going to be able to go and and uh and be with her

099on that. I again we are so fortunate as Rob said earlier um to have such a really strong A program and we are so fortunate to have three excellent um educators and uh so we are excited uh to be able to uh acknowledge Mrs. Hartley and and this great honor and uh we'll we'll also do a bit of a press release um in you know the following weeks or so uh just to make sure that everybody knows that we've got this incredible teacher and even though we all knew it now everybody will so anyway congratulations to Mrs. Hartley uh upcoming events. So, um the tag grant language we found out today is coming out in March and uh and so um it is a competitive grant um versus just a grant that we would get.

100Uh so as we as we find out more information from that tag grant, we will share it. It's um it's it's a big mess. I mean, I'm just I mean, I'd love to be a little bit more professional in in that, but it's it's kind of a it's it's really complicated. Um 26 uh the 2026 budget uh public hearing will be the 23rd at 5:30. uh we'll ask for approval of the 26 budget uh in October and hopefully have the approval of our 2526 collective bargaining agreement in that same uh meeting in October as we begin u formal negotiations in the next couple weeks. So that is it. >> Very good. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh next item on our agenda just was for you to review the department uh reports. Um

101Mr. Dorski had uh some more test score breakdown in there. Um and then Adam and Stephen with theirs and then wanted to notice the uh addition of the athletic director's um report to us. Um and it was encouraging to read all that uh that is going on there. So uh thanks to Colin for taking the time to um start including that in uh in our reports. Um, next item on the agenda would be our financial report and I will turn it over to Brooke. >> Thank you. Um, for August, we did transfer 100,000 from education to the operations fund. Um, August was also our three pay month and we ended the balance on August 31st in education with 920,424.89 89 and operations $846,180.554 and debt service 1,58,2619 the rainy day fund 1,82,32061 interest came in

102at $21,5923 with a year to date of $170,220. And then we will get operations and rainy day reimbursed for the um con some of the construction expenses it's fronting when we get the geo bond closed in October. And then our um corporation AFR and food service AFR were completed and submitted timely. >> Perfect. Thank you, Brooke. Uh moving on to old business. We do have the third reading uh for the special legislative updates of the 2025 CCHA uh board policies. Um we have the administrative uh guidelines and uh forms uh B100 the board authority and philosophy uh the student suicide prevention and awareness. uh the audio, video and digital recording on school property and of school meetings and the updated notice of um executive session. So I would be looking for upon third reading here

103a um motion and a second to approve um those policies. >> I move to approve our uh the third reading for the policies as listed in our pack. >> Right. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Okay. So, I have a motion and a second uh to approve the uh the policies um listed in the in the packet upon third reading. All those in favor, would you please signify by saying I >> can first? You can. >> Okay. I just want because Beth had some questions with these. I just wonder if that questions were answered. If you ever got any clarification >> on on all four of them. >> Okay. Great. >> And then we met um part of the policy committee met and I I don't want to put you on the spot,

104Scott, but I just Laura asked some questions before about these um and we had kind of talked about those with um our lawyers. I just wonder if you could provide any more clarification to Laura just on those couple questions she had >> regarding the uh student suicide prevention and awareness. Um I don't know if we can put a policy in that dictates what parents would do uh with with suicide prevention. Um >> just made a notification of it I believe. Is that not Yeah, that's that's that's part of law if I'm not mistaken that we need to notify parents within a certain time frame. Um so I don't know if that necessarily needs to be embedded in the policy. Um that CCHA typically recommends that we don't you know just simply restate the law with

105our policies. It's something that if that's already built in to the law, you don't need to include that. You need to include everything else with it. And then as far as the uh G350, which is the audio video and digital recording on school property and school meetings, um I am not familiar, but I'm aware of the the case you referenced that's currently going through. I would argue that that's probably a reason why we wouldn't make additional change on this. Um I would keep it as is until that plays out. Once that plays out um based off the ruling, that's when I would say let's go back review that policy again. Uh, but for now, this this update is simply, you know, in compliance with the changes in the recent legislative. >> Thank you, Scott. I

106I I figured you remembered a little better than I did, so I just wanted to get her questions answered to make sure Beth Beth's questions have been answered. >> Thank you. Thanks for stop. >> All right. >> So, I do have a motion and a second. Questions have been resolved. Um, uh, all those in favor of approval, please signify by, uh, saying I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item on the agenda is our academic calendar. Uh last month we considered options for the 2627 calendar that's in your packet. Uh based on feedback from last meeting, uh the TCSC administration is now recommending a revised break calendar with a start date of Wednesday, August 5th, and ending Friday, May 21st. This provides a balanced calendar between the fall and spring semester and reduces

107the number of shortened weeks due to extended break and it aligns with the case academic calendar. Um I would be uh entertain a motion and a second on the acade to approve the academic calendar. >> I move to approve the academic calendar uh the final draft that we have in our packet. >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second. Any questions on that? All right. All those in favor of approving the academic calendar, please signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed? >> The calendar is approved. Uh moving on to new business. Um approval of to advertise the proposed 2026 budget. Uh the 2026 budget, capital project plan, and bus replacement plan were shared during the public work session prior to this meeting. Uh permission is requested to advertise the 2026 proposed

108budget for the education, debt service, and operations funds along with the capital projects and bus replacement plans. A public hearing is scheduled for September 23rd, 2025 at 5:30, and the board uh would then consider approval of the complete budget at the October 14th, 2025 school board meeting. Um, may I please have a motion and a second to approve the advertisement of the proposed 2026 budget? >> I move to approve the advertisement of the 2026 budget. Proposed budget. >> Second. >> Right. I have a motion and a second to approve the uh proposed budget. Any questions? Right. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Right. Motion carries. Um, also under new business, we have the first reading of batch seven of the CCHA board policy administrative guidelines and forms.

109And in your packet is batch seven of the updated CCHA board policy forms and administrative guidelines. No action is necessary this evening for the first reading. Second reading and adoption will be in our October uh monthly meeting. Next item on our uh agenda is other matters to come before the board. Uh we do have um one advisory committee as mentioned earlier. Um we have the expense reduction and review committee. This is for the public's interest. This is a new uh committee that's been formed with the board and the administration to help look at potential cost savings in response to Senate enact. And so that will be meeting on um uh the 15th. and thank you to Eric for kind of um chairing that from the board's perspective. So, I appreciate uh appreciate the help there.

110Uh the next schedule of events is September 15th and 16th, the Indiana School Board Association and the uh IAPSS fall conference is happening downtown. Um September 23rd, we do have that special board meeting where Dr. Glaze gets to present his budget again. And then September 26, we we have the Tesso movie night. Um October 7th, believe it or not, is the end of our first nine weeks. And October 8th is parent teacher conference. Uh students do not uh attend that. And October 14th will be our next meeting in these chambers. Uh last item for business. I'm sorry. >> Nothing. Sorry. Your use of the word chambers. >> Oh, well, okay. It's the gallows. Whatever you call it, however you want to put it, >> whatever you can get it. So um but the uh the

111last item is the TCSC presentation for ISB uh the fall conference. So um we Typton Community School Corporation has put an emphasis on improving student attendance for the past few years with very encouraging early returns. Like many schools across the country, CO had a dramatic impact on how Typton prioritized illness prevention over in-person attendance. This led to increased learning loss for many of their students. In an effort to write the ship, Typton targeted student attendance as the means to return and exceed uh prepandemic achievement letters uh levels um through consistent internal and or intentional communication with families and a revamped attendance policy. Tipton has seen an incredible bounceback in attendance with their achievement data following suit. Tipton uh Community School Corporation will be presenting um these findings to peers at the Indiana School Board Association

112um fall conference in downtown Indian uh Indianapolis. So, uh Dr. Glaze and and Mr. Jorski will be joining um uh I I guess taking taking control of the PowerPoint and uh so we we submitted and got approved for this. So, I want to thank Mr. Jorski for a ton of extra work in addition to his master's level work. But if I had to grade this, I would too give you an A+. So if that helps at all. Uh but a ton of work went into this. But I think it's a great opportunity for us to showcase to other administrations how the efforts of >> Mr. Leech and Mr. Leiday and um all the all the other administrators who are smiling and dialing when kids aren't kids aren't where they're supposed to be. So, uh it

113does have um a huge huge impact. So, wanted to recognize that. So, uh that being said, that is the end of our uh agenda and I would uh take a motion to adjurnn. >> I move to adjourn the September meeting. Second, >> have a motion and a second to adjurnn. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> We are adjourned. Thank you. >> We need a book of Robisms. >> Robisms. I actually have them in