001I I've never seen anything as uh erratic uh volatile, unforgiving. There's a lot of different words that I could use about the insurance industry right now. But when it comes to schools and property, uh we've we've had a lot of challenges. So, we were very happy to be able to deliver um a $10,000 deductible uh which not many others uh will even talk about that these days. So I I think with that um also most importantly I think of partnership um I've done this for a long time and it's always about relationships. Um it's about it's about trust a lot of times easy to say got to earn it. Uh but uh you know we're uh we're part of the community. Um we we want to we want to be a good partner and uh
002again I hope that we don't have a need uh you know for a lot of indepth claims but we are ready if that happens uh to support Tiffan Community School Corporation. Um and um I I think one other maybe a couple other things I wanted to u just mention that we view as a service. I know I know Ryan and Brooke did um with this new carrier that we're going to introduce to Typton um at the end of the month. Uh they're going to come in and do a complete property appraisal service. Uh that's a pretty big deal. I think with schools in general, that's the biggest X factor. You just really don't know from from year to year from from project to project. And you know, there's been a lot of projects and improvements
003done here. Um, so basically, we're going to come in and we're going to do a complete uh updated uh property appraisal so that at least we'll know what that what the right number is. Uh because it's a it's a it's a difficult thing sometimes with with public schools. A lot of buildings, you know, a lot of buildings at different ages and and conditions. Um so that was one thing I wanted to mention. Um the um uh the other three things really they all kind of run together the way we look at it. We've got some additional services um that we're going to introduce uh to Ryan Brooke and the team um and and designated um you know u other points of contact uh additional services um that really it's an array of things that I
004probably can't even count that high um on on each day. What it is is it will allow um interaction. It will allow interaction with other schools. It will look at policies and procedures and um even things down to like uh uh upgrading uh current uh manuals and items like that. So, we're pretty excited about that. Uh we actually spend a lot of money for it, so we like it when our customers use it. Uh then, um I I think again I'll end with this. Um, and I'm always open for questions. Um, I personally live in Cooko. Um, and I think maybe one thing that I I could tell you guys, you know, like easy for me to say we ensure a lot of schools. We we I taken care of all the Howard County schools,
005um, including Cooko for years. Uh we ensure um you know MCqua North Miami um and going to go around the area here. But um uh we go all the way up to Marville um you know pretty large school corporation there. Um and then I think one of the more recent ones we we picked up this year was Southern Wells. So you know a small rural school. Um bottom line is is you guys have specialty coverages. You you need to make sure those are taken care of. Uh I can assure you that we've made sure in working with Ryan and Brooke um that all those areas have been addressed. Uh I'm always available for questions uh at any time. Uh more than happy to, you know, pop down here and and attend a meeting. Uh we
006like the engagement and uh we're really eager to kick this relationship off. That's all I've got. Okay. Anyone Anybody have any questions? You don't know a lot about Walker Hughes, but you're more local, regional to the area, right? Not a national company. Yes, we're we're we're definitely local. Um we we've got we've got 19 offices in the state of Indiana at this point. Um and we've just bought first one outside of Indiana uh in southwest St. Louis, but we're here. Um all of our all of our employees are here. Um so it's it it to us it's local service. No, I I I mean that as a positive, too. You talk about the volatile market, you know, other states that are having fires and hurricanes and things. So, we in Indiana sometimes are paying their
007disaster relief. Uh, so it's good. No, I mean, I'm if I could say that I that's something I think in the Midwest that historically we battle, you know, because there are a lot of national catastrophic events and we've had more than our share in the last few years. And somewhere in that funnel, I know that it gets to us. Um, but we battle that all the time. We primarily try to work with regional carriers versus the national carriers. Uh, we seem to have a lot more success with that. Yeah. Good. Um, the contractor's equipment that's listed, uh, it appears that we're paying insurance on that. Why would we cover a contractor's piece of equipment if we're contractors. Good question. So, so it's in the insurance world, in the insurance format, contractor's equipment is basically is
008referred to. It's not necessarily a contractor. Um, it's your equipment. Uh, there's just categories. It's, and I don't want to get real technical, but on inland marine is a section. It's a line of coverage and then you've got certain specified items of equipment that fall under that schedule and it's just called contractors equipment. Okay. As like the uh vehicles are under a different category. Yes, ma'am. The vehicles are covered under the business auto uh and that's a fleet coverage. So, we've got the we've got the the uh the vehicles and then obviously all the school buses. And then does that cover uh the we provide you vehicle. Is that correct? Just a I just Okay. And then cyber security. Yes, ma'am. Uh 10 years ago, we didn't we would have this conversation conversation. Um cyber
009liability coverage is in place. Uh we've got a very thorough coverage. Uh it's a it's it's a it's a uh specific coverage that we use um for most of our public schools. uh and there is an array of coverages included in that. Um unfortunately uh public schools and public entities in general are like number one on the target list uh today. I wish it wasn't the case but it is. Um so we take cyber security seriously. Um it's one of the best things about it um with the carrier that we use. Um and and trust me uh boy I could offline. I could tell you some stories, but we've had a lot of claims, unfortunately. Um, the biggest thing that I think about the company we use and their team is, um, I learn something
010every time we have a claim, I learn something new, because um, they send in experts. Um, even as far down as as forensic, uh, cyber experts, depending on how deep a breach might be, because every different claim is so different. Um it it varies, you know, from um you know, from maybe just a uh maybe just an maybe a small data breach all the way through. They've been buried in your system for a year. Um and they just now turn the switch on. So I will say that we take that seriously. I know Ryan and Brooke and I uh we discussed that. Um more than happy to always have a conversation offline um uh if or here at a board meeting if you would like to. Was there a max dollar amount? Yeah, there's a
011max of a million dollars. Now, we got it we we got an optional quote for 2 million um which was included in there um and it was like an additional $15,000. I will I will tell you this um Tammy on the uh it varies. Normally, you know, a school this size, what we see predominantly is a $1 million policy. Um, we always quote uh that extra million just to kind of make sure that our customers are aware of what it cost. And uh do we have are we heating by boilers at all? Yes. What about the boiler coverage? Yeah, boiler machinery and equipment. Yes, boilers are separate. Boilers are different. Well, but here's what it is. And I I hear you. Basically, it's all classified as machinery and equipment coverage today. Um, and it and
012it is and it's always included in the property form. Um, so yes, we we always make sure that and and boilers today are different than boilers from years past. I used to go in some boiler rooms and scare me to death. Yeah, we had one of those. Didn't didn't know what I was really looking for. But we had a separate policy just for the boilers. We used to have to do that. We used to write those with with the Cincinnati intern. Uh they were specific boiler. Uh today it's all classified as machinery and equipment. Uh machinery equipment is included as any other piece of of working um uh you know util or appliance uh for school inside the building. The biggest thing about those um is the business interruption coverage because if something happens you
013know it could be it could be charge of nature. Uh so the business interruption coverage is included in that for $2 million. And then is there uh any insurance for coverage of the board members? Oh yes, ma'am. It's called school board legal liability. Um I I wouldn't I wouldn't be here if you told me that you didn't want that coverage. It just wouldn't be worth it. And I say that Tammy unfortunately it's it's a it's an indic it's an indicator of society. Um I think that you know we all we all live in today. Um and inside that coverage employment practices liability these are all allegations um abuse uh discrimination. Um so it's an allencompassing coverage. Um and again some companies call it schoolboard legal liability. Some companies today just call it professional liability. But
014I will I will assure you that all of you are covered in in that uh in that section. You're welcome. Anybody else? Yeah. My question might be for you, Brooke. I'm just trying to make sure I understand. So we when we were with we are with USI, correct? Right. And so their increase was just like over 30,000. So if we switch then we're just looking at a minimal increase. But what was our pre or our deduction at before? We kept this policy very similar to the I believe it was 10,000 still at 10. Okay. That's the reason that we kept it. We did everything we could to keep it at 10,000. Um don't know if you want to know this but we had other companies that were interested um easy easy to say interesting, right?
015Uh they they they were setting minimum deductibles of $100,000. So it just it didn't make any sense. Sure. Yeah. Something different. Yes. Yeah. So yeah. So the other thing Brook brought up, so some companies are going with a minimum deductible and then there's a separate inhale deductive now. Uh and it could be 1%. Well, the problem with that is, you know, we're roughly at $153 million of property coverage. 1% doesn't work too well. So, we've got a straight $10,000 deductible. Um, no exceptions for wind and hail. Great. Thank you so much. You're welcome. And trust me, I know what wind and hail can do. If you've seen my house in the winter, they're finally done. But it looks looks looked rough for a while. I just like to end by saying thank you. Uh we
016look forward to a great partnership with Tippet Schools and again always available if anyone has any questions. Thank you, Ryan. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Uh, next item on the agenda, uh, this evening is just a followup, an update on the baseball diamond conversations been having with the city. Um, we have, uh, gotten a draft of the lease agreement. Um, we are trying to, um, there there's an architectural firm engaged. There are some conceptual plans um that the city has. Um, we've asked to see those plans and go over them with our facilities team to make sure that whatever they're considering is something that goes with what we want and where our pipes are buried and things of that nature. So, um, so we've asked to see that and uh, we haven't
017had that uh, meeting yet. Uh so we have pulled back on the attorney on the lease agreement until we get a chance to see those plans and that we can confirm that the the project is funded. So if we have a $4 million concept and a $2 million budget, we're not signing a lease obviously for that. So, where we are with that is we're waiting now on on the city and as soon as that happens, I'll keep the board updated, but it's moving ahead, albeit a little little slower than it was the last time I updated you. So, just wanted to update everybody of that, get on the record with where we are with that. So, um so uh next item on the uh agenda goes to Mr. Jorski I believe on the discussion uh
018for the process for selecting and approving our curricular materials. So Scott, right, thank you. Uh so again um one of the things that you got voted on tonight is approval of our scope and sequence materials and then the uh nonable supplemental materials requested by teachers. So this is just a brief 10,000 foot overview of kind of where this has come from and over the process shorter than my usual presentation I promise. Um so first off uh the first spreadsheet I shared with you guys in March was uh the shortcuts to the district's scope and sequence documents. Um the scope and sequence documents are essentially the road maps for our teachers uh as they implement throughout the year. breaks on the curriculum which is the Indiana academic standards units that are essential uh standards. So essential
019standards for each course each unit those are uh broken down there again that makes up our guaranteed curriculum that all students are expected to learn. Included in that sequence uh document is a list curriculum materials our teachers anticipate applying in their classes. Basically everything paper clips to non. All of this is done not only as an accountability measure for our content that teachers responsible teach but it's also means to provide that transparency for our community about what their child can expect. So if you want to know what little Johnny is going to learn in fifth grade math next year that map is laid out available for public. Uh the second spreadsheet shared with you in March uh was a list of those nonable supplemental materials that were requested by your staff the school year. Um
020we did this in the fall. We did it last spring as well before then. So um again these are your paid materials uh reviewed by an advisor made by parents professional educators uh to review that you guys can um recommend to again why we have to do this what's kind of brought this uh about um a lot of extension code obviously as most things that we do does. Um the first one uh obviously established in 2011 each governing body has authority to adopt cric materials or a school corporation. Pretty obvious there. The ones that are updated um the first one that really motivated a lot of this uh reviewing of policy was 2026 121 which is each government body of school corporation shif at no cost materials for students school corporation. Again I'd say overall
021a net positive for our families for our community. pre-ublic education should be public education, right? Um along with that came some of this language which I'll talk about next uh next slide as well but uh the local curriculum material selection for any code 2026 124 a special committee of teachers and parents may also be appointed to review books magazines material uh classroom to supplement state adopting. So we have a process for adopting textbooks, right? That's a very similar process to what we do in these non materials. This is Indiana code. It states that we may so in response uh in 2023, our board uh changed our policy from a to a sha super shall implement administrative guidelines for the selection of curriculum materials that shall include effective consultation with advisory committee of parents, professional staff
022members at all appropriate level. So again um this process is applied uh both to requested resources like I said um that comes from uh main web based uh web based uh programs apps or again your books novel sets those are the kinds of materials that and like I said it also is very similar to our text adoption essentially the same process the only difference being our textbook adoption we usually get um a showing from those from those uh vendors to come in and try to sell us the tax. Again, the state at this point is providing us like four or five vendors uh for a subject and maintain those. So again to kind of summarize here uh the process uh first off by February we ask our staff to um submit a request for any
023of those non-consumable supplemental correct materials. Uh in March we get those special budgets by building together to review those and submitting recommendations board. Um April here second April vote on whether we approve those or not. Um by April have Everything that's been approved will get purchased at work on our teachers to make sure everybody gets processed quickly and then uh all purchases are finalized and resources should be accessible by um again just kind of hope you're voting on night quick recap uh scope and sequence documents that's the content that's taughc resources on how trust me is exciting sounds. Any questions? Everybody good? All right. Uh, next item uh is um the uh board policies are in our packet. This is batch four. There's no action on this tonight. It is just there for our first
024reading, but did want to draw your attention to that group of uh the policies uh that will be up for vote in our May uh meeting. Um, so they are located there uh for afterwards if you want to go back and review those. That's where they are. Um, and then uh advisory committees. I don't think we had anything. We did not schedule. We did not have anything on the advisory committees. So we I will schedule that. I promise. Do we have one? Monday night though. Yes. You know what time that is? 5:30. Unless it needs to be early. Which committee is that? Student student is that student achievement? Let me confirm that. I'm not sure. Student achievement. Hey Rob, we found our new Amber. Was it We found our new Amber. I'll resend out the
025Let me look. I appreciate you reading and detailing your questions on the board policy. Yeah, you Yeah, I do. You can join the policy committee. I have more information. I'm already on more committees than Are you sure? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I think you did. I do think you got elevated to a few more. Yeah. Yeah, I know. All right. So, from a public works session, we do have uh the student achievement advisory committee. We believe that's on Monday. It's on Monday at uh and we believe that to be 5:30. Yes. As of print as of now. So, that is coming up. Um uh next on the agenda is comments from the community. We have one. We have one Thank you. Yeah, I think you There you go. There you go. You are in business.
026Um I just wanted to in my opinion express something. I just feel it's a very slippery slope when we as a school corporation start down the practice of messaging parents regarding reaching out to our official representatives in opposition to legislation and in this case regarding the Senate bill number one, especially since there was an active advocation against making things like school board elections partisan by listing an affiliated political party when running as a school board candidate. And testimony given by our own um board president during this legislative session to keep everything apolitical, which I'm a firm believer in. I have never seen anything like this before in my over my 8 and a half years of attending school board meetings. And the bill is constantly changing. It's huge bill. It's 65 pages long. It encompasses
027so many other issues as well. Um first time home buyers, property deferral, senior tax reduction a lot dealing with farmland um incentives, things like that. So, I just feel that sending a corporatewide message that kind of puts the political slant on it that it's only about taxation in schools, it's kind of misleading and I hope people read the entire bill and decide for themselves as it should be. But first and foremost, I hope we don't continue this practice and strive to remain apolitical because we all are very concerned about our school and funding and where the money is being sent and spent and how. And furthermore, I would like to ask you as a board if we could review our website because it's a mess and it's difficult to find things and I understand that
028we pay for this service and the return on the investment I feel is poor when you have to sit there and search through everything where it used to be when you went on the website on the left side of the ledger you could automatically see where um school board meetings were, the dates, the time and now you literally have to spend searching for it. You can't find it, you can't access it. Um, and it's extremely difficult and I just think it defeats the purpose of enhancing communication and information finding for parents and alike. Um, I would really hope we would look at that. Um because just to find the date for the meeting, you have to actually go to the school calendar and look on every single date through the month to make sure you're
029not missing the school board meeting or if there's a special meeting added for some reason or um a public hearing, those kind of issues. And I just feel the current setup in no way helps to meet our strategic goal. And it makes it more difficult and cumbersome to find all this information. And in fact, it set up and navigation ability in direct opposition to our goal of improving communication. So, can we please reassess and revise the current format as it states? Thank you, Laura. Dr. Was that something the website we could talk about communications have? Yeah, we actually did some work on the website today. Okay. So, um and then Last thing on our agenda is to adjourn for the 16 minutes before or I guess it's 6:15 it ends and 6:30 is our next
030meeting. So you have 31 minutes to go to the South Pole and get something to drink and uh hustle back. So uh with that we'll adjourn the uh public work session. Brad, thank you for coming. Welcome everybody this evening to the Typton Community School Board meeting for uh April 8th. Um we were calling the meeting to order. We'll begin by the pledge of allegiance. I've asked Tammy to lead us this evening. 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. And now for our uh vision statement. They're growing empowered future ready students who are prepared for a lifetime of opportunity and excitement. Right. Next item on our agenda is something we talk we
031call tell me something good. So it's a chance for the board to uh to uh talk about some things they've seen in the community or in the school uh of a positive nature. So, I'd open it up for anybody that's got something they want to share this this month. I think our new door numbering looks fantastic and I think uh Dave Mats did a great job spearheading that. Great. I did want to just kind of and this is kind of under the tell me something good, but Cliff Hawkins, our our basketball coach, um is in surgery today for a kidney transplant. Uh I don't know how everything's gone, but I know that he's in there and everything went well earlier today. So, uh, anyway, we were just kind of send our thoughts and prayers with
032him and his family as they go through this. So, I had a couple things I wanted to uh to to bring up was um all of our juniors took the SAT during the school day on March 5th. And um I guess we're all very proud of this year's results. We showed significant growth uh from our PSATs in October to the May SAT. Um, and we also met or exceeded u state and national averages in nearly every single category. So, a huge shout out to uh well Carrie and all the people in the high school that are are making that happen. But as a community, we should be very pleased with the efforts that we're we're seeing around our SATs and then also to your point um our DC trip. Uh Mr. Veils had a huge
033group according to Facebook showed up for that meeting and then our yos leave tomorrow morning uh for Disney and they're performing down there for a few days. So uh we've got kids traveling. So uh hopefully your thoughts and prayers are with those well with the chaperones number one. Number two with the students that they have a great uh exciting um time both in Orlando and in Washington DC. Anybody else? All right. Well, next we come to the Blue Future Awards, which is all you guys really are here for to get here. Uh the rest of it uh is pretty mundane, but I'll let Dr. Glaze take off with the Blue Future Awards for this month. Okay. Um are we going to start with high school? Okay. He's the first one to get up, so go
034ahead and Yeah. Come on. We gota really be happy and proud of Sam here because I invited the all of the seniors on the basketball team and and Sam is the one that's come in to come in the clutch here to be recognized. I just wanted to to give a blue feature award to our boys basketball team. Uh, as many of you know, um, they they've achieved four sectional championships in a row, which means that over the four years that Sam's been in the high school and the seniors have been in the high school, uh, they haven't done any worse than the sectional champs and then put forth great effort um in the in the regional game each and every year. And that takes a lot of hard work and dedication. If you look at
035the sectionals that we're in, we're playing good teams and they they show up every year. They're they're putting a great product on the floor that's fun to watch. and uh they found um a lot of success. So, I want to thank and recognize uh the boys basketball team as a whole, but then we've got the heart of the team, same here, to to accept the award. We have two seniors, by the way, Gdy Carpenter and Lance Vital. So, if you see them around, give them a hard time. And then North. Well, uh, also, uh, Randy Bagley helps with the the basketball team and has done so for 16 years as a statistician. Uh, if you've been to games, you you've seen Randy and on the bench and and a guy that's always there for players,
036uh, and and going above and beyond for the boys basketball program uh, and really putting in time. He does this a volunteer capacity because genuinely cares about the boys that are in that program as more than just basketball players, but as as guys that are going to grow up uh hopefully return to our community and be upstanding members of of of our community. So, we just wanted to uh recognize uh Randy because he is retiring and stepping away from the status role with the boys basketball team after 16 years of service. So what we have for that is uh is three floorboards from the from the floor that would have been under old it's a really old it absolutely is but it does you know say it's got the old blue devil so we made
037sure to honor the past and then it's got our new blue devil and uh and the years of service. So thank you Randy for your Thank you very much. He's okay sitting up and okay so I'll let you know. Okay. Thank you. I would like to say that it's been easy to coach here because of parents. Parents are great here. They really are. Absolutely. Thank you. I by the way. Okay. And I have one one last uh she couldn't be here. Um, but we we've talked about the Tipton way, uh, you know, this year is as something that we're providing feedback to our our our staff and, uh, this last person is a teacher in our building that that meets the Tipton way, her professionalism, her grace. She's always putting students first and going above
038and beyond in the things she's done. Um, that is Olivia Gonzalez. So, if you know Olivia, you know the kind of energy that she brings into our building every day. Uh, funny thing is is Olivia was just going to be a PAR educator and was going to start out as as an aid for Tiffan High School. And we sat back and we were like, well, you actually have a a science degree, a bachelor's degree. Could we convince you to be a science teacher? And you know, you would think that transitioning into that would be kind of difficult for for someone that hasn't been in a classroom. And um, talk to her students, they'll tell you she's made for the job. She's she's she's just built different. And um uh despite that in the natural tendency
039she has in the classroom as a teacher anyway, she's always looking for feedback and getting better. Um she gets involved with athletics and does does everything that we we need her to and more. So she can't be here. She's coaching right now with with the softball team, but I have a future award that I'll give to Olivia Gonzalez tomorrow. Uh, members of the TMS domain diving team as well as coach vector, pop on up. Let's do this thing. Yeah, I was about to say you can come on up too. Okay, starting while starts starts. Okay, Mr. and I were prepared to fight over this one, but we decided that there's a tough bragging that we could go. All right, so the middle school swimming and diving team and coach Kendrick Veester for a blue future
040award this month. This season marked coach's first year leading our team and under his guidance, the team achieved an undefeated season and secure the MIT championship title for the second consecutive year. Um, additionally, he's not here, but we'd like to acknowledge our diving coach, Corbin Melton. He was a Tiffany graduate and a current diving director holder. Under his leadership, our diverse secured victory every single week. Our two fifth grade divers made a strong debut, proving um to be extremely competitive despite only having a couple practices under their belts. Our coaches leadership brought fresh dynamic energy to the team, resulting in not only outstanding performances, but also an atmosphere of camaraderie, teamwork, and fun. Our team had several landslide victories throughout the season to showcase some talent and lots of hard work. If anyone just spent
041five minutes on the deck with these kids being so dispersed, you'd be here to be that they got a raise. U but you would also see why this team has been so successful just because they have coaches here. And this is all our script that we agree on. Um but last night at our um awards banquet, coach Ber took the time to really call out each individual and speak to some like he knew them. Um and after this one season with them, that's really something special, especially with the groups of so um we had two girls that went undefeated as individuals this year and Mr. is going to speak about one, but he's going to let me rag about one specifically. So I am honored um to be able to recognize our eighth grade diver
042Spencer. She wrapped up her second undefeated season uh placing first at every meet in both her second or her seventh and eighth grade years. For two seasons, she was the sole dire for TMS. And this year, she was thrilled to have some teammates to share the experience with. Uh she finished the season as an MIC champion and was only four points shy of breaking the MIC record. Um she's overcame so much adversity in her diving career. And although we can admit that I'm a little bit biased, um I don't think anyone would agree that her dedication Matt, you did the first one. So, um I'm also going to be talking about our swimmers. I my policy when it comes to acknowledging uh anyone who's an athlete is anyone who's breaking records and I got a
043lot to celebrate this year and more hopefully I mean I don't want to put any too much pressure on people, but hopefully I get to celebrate next year too. Um specifically, I want to talk about uh four ladies. We've got Josie, Evelyn, Monroe, and Annie here. Um I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget. They broke the records, the school records in the 400 tree relay and the 400 medley relay, right? Well, there we go. Close. Okay, thanks. 200 free relay. Okay. And 400 medley. I got that one right. Right. They're both free. Great. They're swimming past freestyle. Cool. You got it. We're Okay. Um Annie is of course an, you know, forget honorable mention. She I think I put it in a Facebook post that she's got propellers on her feet. I mean, she
044just broke so many records beyond being a part of that group that swam free relays and won them. She also broke the record for the correct me if I'm wrong, 100 individual medley, 100 meter breath stroke, 200 freestyle, and 400 freestyle. Nailing that one. Okay. So, um, and I will say selfishly, I'm very excited. Josie, we're gonna miss you next year as you head on up to the high school and do great things, but I get to watch the other three girls still swim next year, too, right? And hopefully see some amazing things happen there. So, um, now those aren't the only ones that I've got up here. Um, I did, originally I was going to just invite the couple of them, but I'm glad the folks are here, too, to represent the entirety of
045the diving team. I've got blue future awards for every single one of them. Um, if you were at any of the meets this year, just the energy, the positivity, um, it was just wonderful to be around. I would just hop on down, you know, watch the national anthem get sung just and see the kids supporting each other. I mean, just the level of support that happens there. I know that swimming, you know, in a lot of ways feels like an individual sport. Um, but of course, when we are able to uh do that together and support one another together, we know that even if we're, you know, the only one swimming in our lane, uh, that we're able to swim further and faster when we're supporting each other through that process there. And that is
046of course led by a wonderful coach, okay? But it's enacted as well by a wonderful group of swimmers as well. I don't know why Harlo didn't come up either, but you know, maybe next year. I guess any Miss I'll let you finish out. This has been a middle school and diving team with a staff and Josie Hay alongside coach Buster and Coach Nelson have exemplified excellence, perseverance, and support. Their achievements this season are a testament to their hard work and dedication. over there so that way we can get a picture where Mr. Go ahead and follow that, Brian. Yeah, that's coming up. Absolutely. Um direct Rachel Carter. Rachel, if you want to come on out. Rachel is our um social worker counselor at uh Tees, but she doesn't only do those roles. Um she serves
047as our special areas uh team lead. She serves as our uh building leadership team representative special areas team. Um a couple years ago we had a a big turnover in our special areas team and Rachel just took that and ran with it and she's doing a fantastic job. Um she just she our pride meetings um for um our pride monthly community meetings. Rachel organizes all of those. Um she communicates with presenters and gets all the prizes and make sure everything's in line on those days. So, Rachel goes way beyond um just her duties as a social worker council. So, I just want to recognize her and say thank you, Rachel. Well, that concludes our Blue Future Awards. And for those of you that came for that, uh you are free to leave unless you're dying
048to know about our property and casualty insurance quotes and uh other financial matters. But thank you for coming out and uh supporting your kids. She can if she wants to. You want to go home or you want to? All right. Um, next item on our uh, agenda is comments from the community. I believe we had one signed up for um, agenda item nine. Correct? I hope so. All right. Three minutes. Um, I just I I first want to say thank you, Dr. Bryce, because even though we may not agree on things, always done respectively and I appreciate your willingness to dialogue and talk and just I appreciate you sending one of the policies so I can check it over which just proves that you can do it. We can do it as a board. We
049can send it out that what's in the packet can send out before the meeting so parents can have a say and it and it was the harassment policy which I mean I think some of the I think the term genetic information is pretty broad and I'm not sure what that means, but I just kind of wanted to review take the rest of my time to just review why I go so passionately about sharing what you all get in the board packet, which is public information. And I shared that at the last meeting regarding the opinion from the public access counselor and the case involving the West Lafayette School Corporation because the entire purpose of the board packet is to provide members with a succinct finite set of documents to review and to consider during an
050open public meeting. And the point of public comment is to give input prior to a vote. And we can't do that as parents and as a community if we're cut out of the process completely and it defeats the purpose of electing an official to represent their constituents in the community. So the decision basically said once the packet is going to the school board members, it's public information and that was in the decision. And the concerns from the school board member who actually filed the claim was that she felt nobody knew what was going on if he were in the audience. Um, and that the schoolboard packet has all the relevant documents associated with agenda items and the public should have access to those packets before and after the meeting. And her view as a school
051board member was that she could not represent her community um because she can't represent the community if the community doesn't know what's going on and can provide input before a vote is taken. So she pushed for more transparency and apparently per the decision of the public access counselor in the spring of 2023 they voted 7 to zero change their practice at West Lafayette and I'm just advocating that we do the same thing here at Tiffan because the meeting packets before and after the meeting are so important that the public can see so that we can offer our input and feel represented and currently we So I again would encourage you to do that. I have reached out to the public access counselor. Um apparently look has stepped down as of at the end of February.
052So I sent an email just because I would like clarification as to that whole decision and kind of how we can proceed going forward. So I thank you for hearing that. Thanks Laura. Thank you. All right. Next item on our uh agenda is to uh review and approve the uh consent agenda. Within that is the approval of our agenda for this evening, the approval of minutes from our work session of March 11th and our regular session minutes from March 11th and then the executive session uh minutes from March 17th. We have the approval of claims from April. Approval of the personnel report which I'll read at the conclusion of this. Approval of field trips for both the high school boys golf team to participate in the Adam Shank golf invitational in Ben Sins and also
053for the state FFA convention overnight trip in June. Um and then approval to accept some donations and since we do have members in the audience here, it's good to hear from the good for you to hear the support that the school has from the community. Uh tonight we're going to approve to accept donations from the Typton County Foundation for our employee recognition banquet. Uh the Blackbod Giving Fund uh is giving uh tees donations. The Typton Elks is uh giving a donation towards the AllPro Dads program. Uh the National FFA organization has given a donation specifically to our chapter. The Campbell Family Foundation has given a generous donation in support of the TEES playground. Um the land of lakes um program has given a thou a thousand dollars for our lunch program that helps with uh
054with those balances. And then the five beta oh man five beta sai sorority uh I was um has also given money towards the charitable lunch program. So uh wanted to publicly recognize those supporters of public education and thank them uh for that support. Uh, at this time I would take a motion to approve the consent agenda. I move to approve the consent agenda. I'll second. I have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. Any questions or comments? I have one comment and I'm going try to make this short, but I'm very concerned about the re resignation of Leo from fourth grade teaching that we put extracurricular the board, the staff, the faculty, the community. We should education should be ahead of extracurricular and to run someone off because I mean we got
055a lot of emails. I feel like I know you're looking at me run off but the parents there were a lot a lot of movement to get rid of Leo as a coach and most of them said it's not about her. They backed her character. She's a fine person. They just didn't like how she coached. And it breaks my heart that we lose an educator over losing basketball games. And I just think I don't want to say this because I don't want to get a bunch of emails from people, but I've never gotten an email about a bad teacher. I know not all of our teachers are perfect, but I get lots of emails about coaches. And maybe, you know, Randy Bagley said how great the parents are and that they can be and they
056often are when you're winning, but you know, we're losing a a person from our community who lives in our community and loves our community. And it it breaks my heart because we need more of those, not less of those. So, I I just I've been thinking about this since this happened. I don't know all the details. Um, but I just uh it's going in the wrong direction if you ask me that we lose a teacher over that. I wish there was something that could have been done. So, like I said, I don't know what happened behind the scenes with all of that, but I read all the emails and there was nothing about Leela's character. She wasn't abusive. Her language wasn't bad. There was none of that. And um I'll leave it at that. All
057right. I have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. All those in favor of approval, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? All right. Motion carries. Next item on the agenda is the superintendence report. Uh spotlight on schools. Yes. Are you going to read that? Oh, personnel report. Right. Fourth month on the job. Sorry. Uh from a certified staff pers uh perspective, we do have the resignation of uh Leela Gilman as a second grade teacher and also Brianna Lun Lounsberry as a first grade teacher. On classified staff, we have the resignation of Danielle Perez, a special education para educator. We also have a recommendation in the classified staff of Lisa Heckler or Heckler uh for cafeteria staff for the high school. Uh from an ECA staff perspective, we have the resignations
058of Alexis Finanella as the eighth grade volleyball coach and Leela Gilman as the co-ed golf coach in the middle school. And um the volunteer uh approval of Jeremy Papford as the FFA volunteer adviser for the middle school. That is the uh personnel report. Thank you. Now we're on to you. Sorry, sounds good. No, no worries. Um so we're going to start spotlight on schools. We would love for uh Tesso to come up and we're asking Andrea to uh accept this really awesome donation. I want to take this opportunity to thank Tesso for the great work that they do and how they just work so hard to uh to make the experience at our Typton Elementary uh great for all of our kids. So, we want to want to give you an opportunity to speak if
059you would like. If you don't want to, you don't have to. It's up to you. But they're uh they have a matching grant with the Campbell Family Foundation for uh $25,000 for a grand total of $50,000 for the Typton Elementary playground. And we are very excited about what this playground is going to look like and we really are we're committed to making it super awesome and uh appreciate you guys and everything you do. Thank you. Big check. Thank you. I did uh want to just quickly do a presentation. Um as you guys are aware we do um contract out with policy analytics and what they do for us primarily is um just project things out um and they also help us to understand really kind of what um legislation different things might um actually I
060need to relinquish So, this report basically is just an analysis after we've had our um there's always an anticipated um uh AV and this is actually our official AV. And um and this is in your packet if I can't get it to pop up here. So it that you guys may be out of a a very entertaining uh presentation. There we go. There. Okay. So, uh you guys have met Barry before. He came and and talked to us in January. just talked about uh you know basically just kind of forecasting out you know what our funds are going to look like. Um basically he is u primarily talking about debt service and um and also our operations fund. So what he does is in the beginning here is really just kind of talk about a
061little bit about the scope and the purpose of what he's doing. I'll let you guys look at that on your own. Uh but essentially what I wanted to show you is just a couple of the graphs because I think the the graphs kind of tell a story. Um there's a couple of things that um that are going to impact us a little bit um as we are moving forward. Um I know when Barry came back in January, he talked about um the percentage of of residents that are at the uh the residential property tax cap of 1%. and it was fairly low. Um, and uh, one of the things that's changed since then is the city has issued a bond which has changed that a little bit. So, we have more more people that are
062at the cap. So, what that does for us and what that does for other entities in Typton County is it does it does affect how the circuit breaker hits us. So, we're expecting a little bit of a circuit breaker hit. It's just the way that the tax policy works in in Indiana. It's a complicated process and uh but it is going to have an impact and we've had that conversation before here um where we've talked about how each entity, you know, we're really kind of all intertwined and so it it's going to have a little bit of an impact for us. uh starting in 26, it's probably going to be around $30,000. Uh may increase up to around 40 in the next two years. And uh once again, it's just one of those things that
063happens um when when you know, debt is issued. Um so this is just a little bit of a just the tax base within each one of the townships and the city of Typton. So, you're welcome to take a look at that. Um, and then, uh, we talk a little bit about this is the net AV divided by our students. So, as you can see, we're we're far above state average on that on that particular uh, piece of information. when we're looking at a variety of schools that are similar to us, similar size, um similar free and reduced lunch rate, you can kind of you can see that we are, you know, on the again on the other side of the state average, um obviously uh Union Township, which is up north, um is is the
064high mark there. So you can kind of see how we um measure up compared to uh some of the schools that are similar to our size. This is also a comparison of our overall tax rate. So currently the state average is cents. Our current rate is 84 cents. Uh, Tri Central is right in the middle of that. Well, a little bit on the other side at 92 cents. Um, so this is just a county glimpse of of tax rates and how um and how each corporation is working within that rate. This is also a comparison of our tax rate compared to schools that are similar size to us. Um you'll notice that uh the yellow here uh these are schools that have a referendum a referenda in in place. Um either an operating referenda with
065the I think it's u capital referendum with the yellow and then it's an operating referendum uh with the blue. Um, so you look at our rate, uh, we're on the on the lower side in comparison to schools that are our same size. And um, so again, what we're looking at is you take this information and what we want to try to do is project out what our assessed valuation could look like. Now, there are going to be a couple of factors that are going to going to calc they're that going to affect our AV. Um, Senate Bill one could have an impact. This does not take into consideration Senate Bill one. Um, but it what it does take into consideration is the way that assessed value assessed valuation is calculated for farmland. And so that
066is going to create a a little bit of a decrease in in what our AV has been over the past few years. Um so as we're looking at this, we're looking at where we've had several years of double-digit AV growth, we're going to have some lower AV growth because of those factors. Now, a lot of things can change with that. This is just projecting out. this is just kind of policy analytics best guess. Um so we'll kind of wait and see how things shake out and then determine how you know how that's going to impact us. So um so you know what we're saying is uh with with AV growing at a slower rate that will have an impact on how much revenue we can generate in operations. And uh so basically as as he
067as he spoke uh the last time he was here, we have to kind of decide what philosophy we choose to go with, whether we go with a fixed debt service levy scenario or we look at um a a debt service rate scenario. So where we're trying to keep the rate the same or as as even as possible or we are just uh really trying to just maintain um the dollars that we are currently uh currently in our debt service. So, uh, he is going to come in July and do a presentation, but I thought it was important for you guys to have this before he talks about that because uh, there's going to be some obviously a lot of changes uh, with uh, property taxes. There's going to be some changes um that, you know,
068with charter schools uh, you know, taking a percentage of our operating funds, it's not going to impact us yet. uh but he's going to be able to in July he'll have time to have digested all of this information and give us some good information so we can do some planning. But I again you're welcome to look at this if you have questions. I I'll probably just forward them on to Barry because he's far more uh seasoned than I am on that. So that's that's that. And we were on that call with them on Friday, I believe. Uh Brooke and I. So, any questions on that that I hopefully can answer? Well, so we're all watching this House bill that they're trying to give tax relief, property tax relief to the citizens, which will affect our
069budget, right? I know you sent us some numbers and it's ugly. Yeah. Is there any talk of where they're going to I mean, they have to be aware. Yes. Is there talk of where those funds are going to be made up? They um municipalities local they're going to raise our local rates. Raise our local rates. Yeah. and and they did the amendment that came out on Friday. it it what it what it did I mean when you're looking at I mean if they weren't taking away our local option income we actually would not be very heavily impacted but they're taking away about $180,000 of local auction in income tax that we get annually budget it's that tax line that's and and so I I do think there's going to be compromise I do think it
070um I do think that they're going to find some common ground. Um, and I know that um, right now, you know, there's some division in the Republican caucus on where this needs to be going. So, it'll it may all happen the you know at midnight on the 29th, but I think there'll be I think I I think and I hope that it won't be as bad or dire as it appears to look right now. So, So, does that answer your question? Well, that's what I mean that's my hope. I mean, it looks very doom and gloom, but I mean, they've got to I'm sure every school corporation in the state's calling them and saying, "Oh, yeah." You know? Yeah. I mean, for us, it's $300,000. For bigger schools, it's millions of dollars. Oh, I know.
071I know. I know it. And and we're we're really pretty lucky um because, you know, what we get per student in operations is higher than a lot of schools. So, we're fortunate in that in that area. Um, so but there are schools that are really going to get hit hard on this. And and for us, we've been we've been a corporation. We have probably the lowest percentage of transfer from the education fund into the operations fund of any school in the state. We about 2 or 3%. We can go all the way up to 15%. But we had chosen to keep money in the education fund so we can pay our teachers and and you know maintain staffing and pay good wages and do the best that we can. It's going to force us to
072increase that transfer amount. And that's a little bit about what Barry's going to talk about because so much of operations is fixed, right? I mean there's not a lot of discretionary money there. Um it just it just makes it hard. So So I mean that there's a lot of information. I don't want to I always had a superintendent that that I had when I was first a principal. He said, "Don't practice dying." And I I don't want to practice dying. I don't want to do that. Um I But you know, I also want to make sure that I'm keeping everybody aware of what's happening and hope for the best. So anything else? Okay. All right. Thank you guys. All right. No, the spotlight on schools. Yeah. All right. U so next in our in our
073agenda uh was the uh departmental reports from um Scott and Adam and Stephen. I guess you guys have had a chance to review all that. I know Adam's here. Uh Scott's here. Were there any questions on the uh uh reports that were in your packet? All right. No. All right. Well, then we will move on to the ever popular Brook Cleaver and the financial report. Thank you. You bet. Um for March, we ended the month with balances and education 1,36,732.81 and I made a note there of the um the revenue exceeding expenses just by $6,600. Um operations fund um balance ended with 484,776. The opposite happened there. Expenses exceeding revenue of course because we don't get a majority of our draws until May and June. Um debt service fund remains at $791,10505 and rainy day
074fund remains at 2,3,83341. Um that property tax cap loss report, the actual figure for the 2025 budget should be out real soon. I think LA I mean it's normally by May 1st. Last year it was April 11th, but um we as the DLGF estimated a loss of $600,000. We typically go with their estimate and we're okay. So I guess if it exceeds that we would have to scale back. If we come in under that's good news for us. So thank you, Brooks. Any questions on the financial report for Brooke? All right, we'll move on to old business. Uh, which is ironically me, so I must be the old business. Um, so, um, we have our second reading and approval of batches one, two, and three of the new CCHA policies, administrative guidelines, and forms. Um,
075we've had an opportunity over the last uh, meeting and up until now to review uh, batches one, two, and three. In your packet are those batches. and then the um uh the P policies that retire um that by adopting these new ones. And so, uh, first of all, before we go to a vote or on that, I would like to thank those of you that have been a part of that review committee, uh, that have been taking time out of very busy schedules to dive deep into into those policies and make sure, um, that what we are are seeing and adopting are uh, in line with uh, with our uh, mission statement, our values and those types of things. So, I wanted to thank everybody for doing that. Um but we have had our second
076reading and I would be looking for a motion to approve uh policies in uh in batches one, two and three um as as indicated in your packet. I move to approve batch one, two, and three of the new CCHA policies guidelines and forms. Second. All right. I have a motion and a second to approve the policies in batch one, two, and three. Any questions, comments? All right. All those in favor of approving um the policies uh listed in your packet, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? All right. Motion carries. U moving on to the new business. Um or earlier today uh during the work session, we heard from um Walker Hughes. In your packet is the school in insurance summary review from both USI insurance and Walker Hughes Insurance Group. Um, our property
077and casualty insurance and workers comp cyber security and risk management is due for renewal on the 28th of this month. Our current annual premium from USI is $233,828. The proposed premium from a for a USI renewal was 268,853 with significant increases on our deductibles. Walker Hughes Insurance Group who represented uh or who I'm sorry who presented to us during our work session as our recommendation as our insurance vendor. The proposed annual premium is $239,469 with no significant changes in deductible from our current coverage. Many local school districts are using Walker Hughes and we have heard nothing but positive feedback on their customer service and follow through. Um, so I am looking for a motion to approve um the Walker Hughes proposal uh listed in your packet for our insurance. I move to approve our property
078and casually casualty insurance um as stated quoted within our packet with walks. I'll second. All right. I have a motion and a second on the insurance. Uh any uh questions or comments? All right. All those in favor of approval of the property and casual insurance workers compensation and risk management premium quotes from Walker Hughes, if you could signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? All right. The motion carries. Uh, next we have the approval of non-consumable supplemental curricular materials. Uh on March 24th, Scott Jorski shared the superintendent's curriculum advisory committee's recommended non-consumable supplementary curricular materials list. Thanks for whoever typed this. Um but um these uh are curricular materials requested for the upcoming 2526 school year. These supplemental uh curricular materials will provide our students and staff with valuable learning tools for their classes. Uh
079many of these items are either required by universities for dual credit courses or renewals of contracts of previously adopted curriculum. The superintendent's advisory committee made up of teachers, parents, and administrators reviewed the purpose, quality, and value of each of these resources and it is this uh committee's recommendation for the listed resources uh that they be approved for purchase for the two 2025 2026 school year. So, I'm looking for a motion and a second to approve the um uh non-consumable supplemental curricular materials. Move to approve the non-consumable supplemental curricular materials. Thanks, Tammy. Easy for you to say. Sorry. Second. I have a motion and a second. All those Oh, I'm sorry. Do we have any comment on that? I meant to ask Scott this. I'm sorry. Are these the materials that we could charge for now
080that we talked about last year but we didn't and we um there is something in the legislature that's I don't know if that's changed or that they may allow us to charge for some things. I again it last time I read it it was still pretty darn vague. I know but um but we decided not to do it last year because we didn't understand but I know if they added any clarity to that not particularly but we we may be able to get some clarity once everything gets done and like I said I should ask Scott earlier but no worry that's a good question. I had a motion from Tammy. Did I get a second? Okay. Yeah. I asked for questions. All right. So, uh, all those in favor of approving, uh, the curricular material,
081please signify by saying I. I. And any opposed? All right. That, uh, that motion is approved. Um, also the next item on our agenda is the approval of the 202526 scope and sequence. In accord with our policy 2510, the superintendent shall implement administrative guidelines for the selection of curricular materials that includes effective consultations with an advisory committee of parents and professional staff members at all appropriate levels. All currently used curricular materials are included with the scope and sequence documents shared with this board on March 21st, 2025. The approval of the scope and sequence documents shall satisfy the school board's oversight of curricular materials for all TCSC students and all scope and sequence documents will be uploaded and up or updated and uploaded to the website upon our approval. Concerned parents or patrons may complete the
082curricular materials reconsideration form if they believe any of these materials are inappropriate and this would begin the review and this would begin a review process. We are requesting approval of these documents as written. So I would like a motion and a second to approve the 2526 scope and sequence. I move to approve the 2526 scope and sequence. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments on uh 202526 scope and sequence? I have a question. Yes. I noticed that there are some of them that don't appear to be completed or done. Is there a date where that's going to be which which one specific? There's some without the check marks beside them, but Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Special education 9 through 12. That's one that guess would concern me to not see that.
083Which ones were um special education grades 9 through 12. Right. So if those those don't have any specific curriculum and it's not a state standards in line with that. Um the reason we include that is simply because those uh teachers those teachers in those different departments use group materials and so we want to make sure that any materials that are used are accounted for by them. But they don't teach a separate curriculum from what's being taught in the class. It's they they teach a followup remediation second teach that content. So they're essentially taking what you taught in the classroom and those students. That makes sense. Yeah. What about global global economics though? Like which one? Do they just not have a class on that this year or something? I don't we all right. Okay. Thank
084you. Thanks for your question. Um, so I have a motion and a second for the uh approval of the 202526 scope and sequence. All those in favor of approving, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? The motion has carried. Um, and then um our first reading tonight um in your packet is batch four of the updated CCHA board policy forms and administrative guidelines. There's no action necessary for this first reading, but the uh second reading and adoption will be uh during our May 13th monthly meeting. Uh but those are batch four is included uh in in the packet. So um next item on the agenda is other matters to come before the board. We have our advisory committees. The update on that is student achievement advisory committee will be meeting April 14th. And the
085uh upcoming schedule of events is uh again our student achievement committee meeting on the 14th. The allimportant tesso fatheraughter dance on April 17th. Those memories are now starting to show up in my Facebook. So um so that is uh that is on April 17th. April 20th is Easter Sunday. May 12th we have the re region 5 ISBA uh spring regional meeting in Cooko. I know Tammy's out of town, but any other board members that are available and would like to go to that, you get a hold of Dawn or Dr. Glaze. We will get your uh get your ticket procured for that. It's 5:30 in Cooko. And our next meeting is May 13th uh in this room uh for our next board meeting. So that is all of our updates. Uh with that being said,
086I would take a motion and a second to adjourn our meeting for April. Move to adjourn our April meeting. Second. All right. All those in favor of of adjournment, please signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Our meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Thank you all for coming.