001[Music] Good evening everyone. I'm calling this board of uh board of trustees meeting to order. If you're able, you please stand for a moment of silence and pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. >> Thank you. Next we have patron concerns and no one has signed up. So we will move on to agenda item four presentation by War County Emergency Management Agency. Mr. Glo, did I pronounce that right? >> It's Gable. >> Gable. Thank you. >> Good evening everyone. I'm glad to stand before you today and speak about the incredible power of partnership. When we come together with a shared vision and a common goal, we can achieve
002things that are truly transformative for our community. Today, I want to share a few stories that highlight how our collaborations are making War County a safer, more resilient place for all of us. In 2024, our for our tornado response, I want to begin by recalling a moment when the true strength of our partnership with our school corporation was put on test on July 30th, 2024 and EF1 tornado touched down in our county. In a time of crisis, a community's response is a measured of its um preparation. I want to commend the War County School Corporation for their immediate and selfless actions. When we, the War County EMA, put out the call, the school corporation didn't hesitate. They opened their doors immediately, providing a safe and secured shelter for the residents who had been displaced. Their
003quick response was nothing short of amazing, and it demonstrated a deep commitment to the well-being of every person in this county. Not just their students. They didn't just open the building, they opened a opened a sanctuary, a place refuge for our neighbors in their time of the greatest needs. The act of kindness and swift actions is a very definition of a strong partnership. Moving on to our next is our outdoor uh weather sirens. Building on that foundation of collaboration, we have since embarked on a new initiative to enhance our county's emergency preparedness. We recognize in the face of unpredictable weather, every second counts. That's why War County School Corporation and War County EMA partner to place outdoor weather sirens at t two key locations. The War County Pathways and Career Center and Tecumpsa High School.
004This isn't just about protecting those two schools. This is about creating a wider, safer net for our community. With these sirens in place, the nearby industrial park and Lynville Park also have a better chance of receiving critical alerts, allowing everyone from employees to families enjoying a day out to get to get to a safer, more quickly safety to more quickly. Sorry. This initiative is a powerful example of how a partnership between an EMA and a school corporation can extend its benefits far beyond the classroom, touching the lives of many in our county. Onto our next one that I have been working on for over a year now, and I'm glad to say that it's going to happen is our stop the bleed kits. The next story, it's about empowering our teachers and our staff to
005be the first responders in a crisis. We all seen the news and know that the in an emergency immediate action can save a life. That's what why we partnered with the War County Health Department to bring a critical re resource directly to our schools. The stop theble to bleed kits and these are what they will be looking like and what all the supplies is that you'll find in a stop the bleed kit. It's a collaboration is a game changer. Together, we're providing over a thousand stop the bleed kits, one for every classroom in War County. Each kit is assembled from our commitment to equipment equipping our educators with the tools they need in a medical emergency. This is more than just a piece of equipment. It's a statement that we trust and empower our teachers
006to be the protectors of our children. This initiative is only as effective as the training that comes with it. To the end to that end, we organized a countywide stop the bleed training session. The word county EMA along with Booneville Fire Department and the Ohio Township Fire Department worked handinand with our schools to ensure our teachers and staff receive the best possible training. This collaboration is a testament to share to shared belief that protecting training is the key to preparedness. It shows that we are committed to not only providing the equipment but also the knowledge and confidence used in it effectively. And I'll end with the growing partnerships. This project are this these projects are more than just a list of accomplishments. They are a clear indication of a growing and thriving partnership. The collaboration
007between War County School Corporation and the War County EMA is a foundation upon which we can build even greater things. Our work together is a model for how public agencies can unite to create a stronger, safer community for everyone. This partnership is just not a temporary alliance. It's a deep rooted commitment to the well-being of our communities youngest and the most vulnerable members. By working together with the vital agencies and departments in War County, we're able to pull our resources, share our expertise, and solve problems in ways we never could alone. To the families who call War County home and to those who are considering moving here, we want you to know this. We are doing everything we possibly can. We are actively working to make sure our youth and our teachers are protected from
008danger because their safety is our top priority. We will continue to uphold that promise, one partnership, one project, and one act of community support at a time. Thank you. >> Thank you, M. >> Mr. Gable, will you support please? I'd like to shake your hand. I'd also like to thank Dr. Lambert who's in charge of our team. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> I was just going to say I wanted to also thank Dr. Lambert who's in charge of our student safety and he I know has coordinated directly with Matt on several different projects. So, um, we're excited for whatever continued and growing opportunities that we have in our partnership. So, thank you again. >> And for September 11th, if you guys >> Yes. Yes. So, on Thursday, we are having
009an event at WPCC at 1:00. The board is welcome to be there. Um, we will be uh basically presenting a joint statement about the stop the bleed kits and then we have students who will be there actually volunteering and putting all of those kits together. So that should be a great opportunity to see some good work in action. >> Thursday at one. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> Agenda item five, consideration of routine business. Dr. Redmond. >> Thank you, Mrs. Lover. The routine items tonight include approving the minutes of the school board meeting held on August 25th, 2025 and approving the claims and signing the docket. I recommend the board approve the routine items as presented. to approve. Second >> motion by Mr. Mosby, seconded by Mr. Baker. Do we have any discussion? All in favor
010say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item 7.1 hold our public hearing for proposed budget, capital projects, fund plan, and bus replacement plan. Dr. Redmond. >> Thank you, Mrs. Glover. In just a few moments after the presentation, President Glover will recess a regular board meeting and open a public hearing on the proposed 2026 budget, capital projects, fund plan, and bus replacement plan. Members of the public will be given an opportunity to speak on the proposed items. Once all public comment is complete, Mrs. Glover will close the public hearing and reconvene the regular meeting. At this time, Mr. Todd Armstrong will provide information and background. I'm gonna start with I guess the news got out. >> I was giving two presentations tonight. >> I I almost didn't come. >> Oh well, that's all
011right. Uh the first one is the presentation of the budget. Um, included in that, we have our uh three-year capital projects plan, our two-year debt service plan, our five-year bus replacement plan. Um, so that's all going to be part of what we cover. Uh, I'm going to start with this team slide, the War County Administration team. Uh, I believe the characters are very representative. I'm walk the uh the first page here is what we can start out with is the appropriations. So >> the whole process of getting a budget approved is the appropriation process. So what we're doing is giving the authority to spend money we have. So we have to identify that we have enough money or we're going to earn enough money to cover the appropriation set. So in this case uh for
012a budget that gets approved by the department of local government finance there are four funds that have to be approved during this process. Uh the first of them is the rainy day fund uh which we've appropriated $1.1 million. We put that dollar amount in. Um we've got well more than two $1.1 million, but uh we usually utilize the rain fund in those instances where a project is more expensive than we predicted or emergencies arise, but we go through the process and include that in the initial budget uh so that it's there so we don't have to wait nine or 10 weeks because it's a lengthy process as an additional appropriation. Um the second one is the debt service fund. Of course that is the fund in which we pay back uh any kind of debt
013that we have. Uh appropriations are 6.56 million. And I'm going to talk a lot about that later today. Um the education fund 88,239,000. And down at the bottom of that section there, you're going to see that the education fund is made up of 92.6% 6% salaries and benefits. >> So when you start thinking about the the nature of that fund, almost everything we do out of the education fund pays for and be clear the cost of educating students. It is the the teachers, the principles, the program assistants, the all those people that influence the actual education of children. Um, in addition to that, there's, and I'm not going to read through all of them, there's a list of salaries broken down. Those are appropriations by categories. Um, just for example, uh, elementary teachers, kindergarten through
014fifth grade, the appropriations for 2026, $14.6 million. Um, and then you can work your way down there and see a variety of different numbers. Uh when you get down to employee benefits, um that number encompasses all of our employees, but we spend $22,67,000 that we've requested appropriation for to pay for health insurance, life insurance, uh retirement contributions, social security, all those things are encompassed in there. And when you look at that number, that's a lot of money. I mean, uh, in the whole scheme of what it costs to have employees. Um, and during this process of switching my document from PowerPoint to Google Slides, there's a there's a little bit of overlap there. Uh, our debt service, the appropriations of course for 2026 are the amount necessary to pay off the two bonds that we
015have outstanding. the 2022A which was to build the pathway center. Uh we have 3.161 million in appropriation and of course that one pays out in 2027. So we'll have that new building paid off uh two years from now. Uh the geo bonds of 2024 3.22 million um it also pays out next year. So that bond will be completely gone next year. And then the discussion for the prelim preliminary determination later tonight will be the 2025 work in progress bonds um showing the debt service for next year. And finally the operations fund appropriation. Um the operations fund is made up of the capital projects, transportation, bus replacement. Those all used to be their own funds. Um, it also covers maintenance of buildings and all things that are auxiliary to the instruction of of students and technology
016is included there. Uh, you see that that fund is made up of $41 million appropriation. Now, to be clear, we won't get $41 million there. It will be a smaller number, but for uh advertising purposes, etc., uh, we have a higher advertisement than we'll actually get. This this slide actually explains that. This is the public notice uh that is posted with the DLGF. It's posted on our website. This form and and there's two numbers in the middle of the page that really mean the most. Uh down at the bottom, it tells you what our maximum estimated funds to be raised are. But the two the numbers up there, the one that says estimated school operations max levy shows a 23,573,000 number. That is the maximum dollars that we can actually raise uh for the operations
017fund. Even though down in the bottom uh we've got maximum at 313 again that covers us in case we have a gigantic growth in AV and it also on the flip side if we have a dramatic decrease we advertise a higher rate than actually will exist. So we we covered on both sides. The fact of the matter is is we can only get $23 million in that fund in taxes. Yes. >> Quick question, not to interject, but for the record, AV is assessed value. We have no say in assessed value. That's done by the county. >> That is correct. >> Okay, that's for >> that is correct. And I'm still waiting for the 2026 net AV >> which was due when? >> August 1st. >> Oh, what's today? >> Huh? I I do not blame
018them. I actually would say that the changes that took place legislatively have made their jobs very difficult to try to get the things done. And I'm sure they're working really hard and probably fretting. Um but the truth is once they work it out, you know, I have to plan the budget based upon an assumption that things are going to happen. And I built the budget around the assumption that the net AV after the legislative actions that the additional $300 in homestead credits things took place that even though we've been growing in AV and our assessed values are going up that we could still end in a decrease for the year. And so I built the budget around a decrease in AV. >> Um now doesn't mean it will. If it does not decrease, fabulous. >>
019Um that will help our bond issue as well. But if it does decrease, we've got covered on both the levy side and the rate side. >> Thank you. >> Um again, the parts of the operations fund, uh some of the things are required to discuss uh or advertise the bus replacement plan was advertised. Um 1.054 million estimated to be spent next year. Uh that is a lot of money to buy six buses. >> Um but I mean that's how much they cost now. So, we're paying anywhere from 160 to $190,000 per bus. And so, that would be 3D D's, two C's, and one A if we spent all of that money next year. This here is a summary by building. This is the the capital projects plan is a 90page document broken down into three
020years of projects and spending for a variety of categories but on the end of it I summarize by building in 2026 plan spending by building are these numbers. Uh again the capital projects plan is available on our website. So if anybody wants to look at page by page uh to see where those numbers come from, it's on our website. This next slide, the state tuition support. Uh this is the the the mechanism in which we fund or we revenue we get revenue for our education fund. Um things that are important. the state during legislative action did increase the funding for education in the state of Indiana. Um they increased it by $340 million um in their calculations, but 160 million of that was for textbooks that we were already receiving outside of the funding formula.
021So, the increase was actually $180 million uh statewide. Uh that calculates to be just under 2%. Um so, the state increase in the tuition support for the entire state a little bit less than 2%. Hey, there were years when 2% was a great number, so I'm not knocking it. Uh so the only issue is is that inflation and the things that have been happening the cost of pretty much everything we have is moving up much faster than that. So although I'm happy with an increase in funding formula uh for the state I'm not happy that it's not more money um because we still have to try to do all the things we do and instruct and protect and all those things u with the money we get. Um the other thing with this and I've
022got down in here broken down, there's a number of complexity multipliers uh beyond the student count uh which is just count every student that's in a seat on a particular day twice a year. You also get additional monies for certain types of students. Um we get additional money for complexity. In other words, uh we get additional money for academic honors students who earn an academic honors diploma. We get additional money for special ed student uh disabilities of a variety of kinds. We get additional money for ELLL or English language learners. So, there's additional dollars. We get additional money for our career and tech education students for the vocational programs. And so all of those dollars are utilized to give additional funding to state tuition support. My to the detriment, every one of the complexity multipliers
023was decreased during legislation this past year. So they put more money into the formula and they they reduced all of the multipliers. Now there's certainly an argument for that. They're they're technically what they're saying is is that the multipliers were accounting for too much of the funding and so we're going to give more funding to the per pupil allocation and give less for each of the special disabilities or special needs that might be out there. So from a standpoint uh I definitely understand why it was done. Um I just wish they would have just increased the tuition support without taking that away. Um, finally on this one, uh, I guess that's all for that one >> question. >> Yes. >> When you when you talk about the cap, the state appropriation cap, >> that's the
024most that state will pay. >> That is the amount of money that the state has they have appropriated in their budget to allocate to all the schools in the state of Indiana. >> Okay. Um this one uh very important page for the taxpayers of War County. The identifies the trends in our tax rate uh last year to be clear was the lowest tax rate um we had in the past 23 years uh from the school corporation. Uh now certainly can be attributed to the fact that our AV was going up. Um but the fact of the matter is is our tax rate has continued to go down almost every year. The only times it hasn't has been during a reassessment or the uh building of Castle South Middle School, you know, things of that nature.
025Otherwise, we've continued to uh closely monitor the tax rate that the school corporation uh requests funding for. Um but last year uh I gave an advertised rate of 85 cents. I estimated at budget time uh just under 61 cents and we ended at about 60 and a half cents. Um this year of course last year had more information. This year um I'm advertising 84 cents. Uh and I've got two different numbers there. I've got an advertised AV. Uh, and I did that to increase the advertised tax rate. And then the next line down, I have an estimated AV. Uh, both of them are declining AV. Again, not sure if the AV is going to go down. I suspect it will, but if it doesn't, those every dollar that that that the AV goes up, the
026tax rate goes down. Um, so I'm showing uh an estimation of a 4centent increase in taxes. Uh but if the tax if the if the net AV was the same next year as it is this year, we would actually have a reduction in tax rate. So until we know what those numbers are, we can't calculate it accurately. Um, in addition, as I you know, when I was saying student counts, this is an important slide because I I broke it down differently this year. Um, you'll see the green columns in the middle. There was in the past 10 years, I've went to every school and identified the highest number of students that each school had during the past 10 years. And then I took the numbers that we currently have in each of those schools and
027you can see that every single school in the district has a minus in the percent change from the highest number we've had to our current number. Uh some of those percentages are pretty high when you go down through the column. Um but to be clear, I mean we have gone down uh from 10,228 at one time. that doesn't account necessarily for the highest numbers, but uh to the 9,750 that we have now. Um I don't think it's a problem. I think it is just information that we make our decisions on. And so we are a declining enrollment school district uh from that standpoint. So when we're spending, we have to spend both effectively and efficiently for the things we do. Um but I just wanted to show that it is not a trend in one
028part of the county or the other. It is a trend. Our enrollment is declining. So um and be also that that 9750 does have 200 transfers from out of county. So there's even a bigger number drop than that. uh employees. I normally do a 20 well this year would be 23 year uh update and show the number of each category we've had for the past 23 years. I decided that maybe I would just show you how many employees in each of the categories we currently have. Uh that was as of last Friday uh in those positions. Um 1422 employees. that certainly accounts for $22 million worth of benefits um and a whole lot of salary, but that's the number of employees we currently have. >> This one here um is just as a preparation. You
029know, when we talk about the budget and the things we're going to do, we also have to talk about the fact that we're going to be negotiating contracts for our employees. We're going to be discussing payraises. Uh we're going to be talking about the insurance conditions that we have um among other things. And so um I did a little bit of research. So the average teacher salary increase for the past 15 years is 4.35%. Uh that's here. Um administrator salary is 2.23 and the non-certified increase for the past 15 has been 2.41%. Interestingly, I decided to run the beginning teacher salary, and this isn't on the slide. Um, I took the beginning teacher salary 15 years ago, and then I took the beginning teacher salary, bachelor's and zero, that we have today, and calculated the
030percent difference, and that ended up being 38.4% difference. So, in the past 15 years, the beginning teacher salary has gone up 38%. I then went to our uh index for inflation for that same 15 years and it is 38.4%. So we have exactly been able to in bachelors and zero keep up with inflation. Now that's at I want to say it this way at least we're able to do that. Um that the fact of the matter is is although they're making 38% more money at the beginning teacher salary than they were 15 years ago, it buys the same thing as the salary did 15 years ago. I did same thing at the master zero. It was 39%. I did the same thing at uh bachelor's top of the scale it was actually 40%. And at
031the master's top of the scale was 38.1%. So all those numbers when you know when we when we put them out there and we're giving raises and our complexity indexes and and we're throwing out our compensation factors. Um the fact of the matter is is we've basically been able to keep up with inflation for the past 15 years. Uh and that's just on the teacher side. So um just information cash balances uh most importantly um the education fund in this case uh in 2021 the cash balance was 12.6 6 million at that time that was 15% uh of our budget in that fund which is a really good number uh our cash balance during the COVID years during the ESSER dollars etc. We were able to generate some protection uh for the ongoings that we
032had that were going to happen when the cliff of Esser went off. We're in a process of working our way back down. The good thing is that we're moving at a much slower pace than I originally anticipated. Um I thought by 2028 we would be closer to that 1213 million. Uh based on again I'm using averages um using average pay raises, increases in health insurance and the things that I know uh that are common that we spend money on. Um, in 2029, we'll still be over 15 million uh cash balance in that fund, which is fabulous because it will still be well above 15% and we'll be leveling out around that time. So, um, provided we continue to make the decisions we're making now. Um, operations fund is leveling out debt service. the cash balance
033is going to decrease because next year uh again when I discussed the bond here in a little bit we're going to spend down the cash balance and debt service next year with an additional appropriation uh to reduce the capitalized interest. Um rainy day fund I anticipate will continue to grow unless we have a really really big emergency and school lunch fund is leveling out as well. So, and finally, just summary, Peter Ducker, efficiency is doing things right, effectiveness is doing the right things. So, making decisions before you do them is really important. Uh, student population is estimated to be nearly identical to last year. That's a really good thing for us because the funding formula increases the per pupil allocation. So, that does generate more money for us for next year. So, uh, again, even
034though the PPAs were reduced, it was an increase. There's no transfer tuition anymore, no textbook rental. Um, there were new legislated, uh, guidelines for salaries and benefit thresholds. Uh, we are well above them. Well, we're well above the 65% salary benefits threshold. We're slightly above the bottom of the teacher salary, but we are above the legislated uh bottom already. Um, our net AV again up 15% the past two years. I do expect maybe a decline this year. Transfer students exceeding 200. Um and this is not the cliff uh that's sitting over here by design of the cliff recovery. Uh the education fund will continue to gradually correct. That's the slow decline. Capital project needs are definitely greater uh than the funding that comes in the capital projects plan. Um and I say this because our
035buildings are aging. Our systems are wearing out. Our roofs are HVAC. um our plumbing. The fact of the matter is the buildings need there's painting that needs done and so it costs a lot of money to maintain buildings as they get older and hence conversation that we're going to have shortly on this bond issue. Um the overall budget excluding grants $137 million student counts twice a year. the maximum levy growth quotient. This is important because this allows a 4% increase in our operations fund levy. At one point they were going to put this at 1%. Uh they were going to they discussed locking it at the current levy we had last year. Um but some sense was gathered and they allowed for the 4%. It used to be the average the six-year average of the
036non-farm incomes, but uh they've gone away from that and they set a number and said the max is 4%. So, we'll see if that holds for more than a year. Circuit breakaker credit uh estimate is $2.36 million. We certainly would not like to see that number. Uh every other circuit breaker estimate has been far exceeding what our actual circuit breaker credit has been. Um but I do not have a full grasp of the tax credits and uh deductions that have been put in place. Um, I don't even know what all of them are at this point. And so I gather from what I've read that more people will hit the circuit breaker. And when more people hit the circuit breaker, there's more circuit breaker credit. Now, for things like debt service, it causes a tax
037rate increase for those that haven't hit the circuit breaker. So, we'll see how that unfolds. Um, our cash balances continue to earn valuable interest. We're still getting really good interest rates. uh spending in 2025. At the current rate, we will spend less than 98% of our appropriation balance. And it's funny when you say something like that, that means we're going to have more than $2.5 million of appropriations left. So 98% sounds like you're spending almost all of the appropriation, but in fact, it's a couple of million dollars less than our appropriations. So that's a really good thing. And I'll end on this note. my my distressed unit appeals board, the DOWAB. Uh, school corporations are multi-million dollar organizations. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. I think I've said that a few times. Spend
038less than you take in. Maintain adequate reserves. Have a plan to reduce temporary operating expenses that were increased from COVID. Don't overreact to building capacity issues. Very important. and be aware of one-time or limited time funding sources. So, I will probably continue to say that every year questions. >> Todd, you mentioned that you what you've seen uh indicates that more you're going to have a higher circuit breaker um credit. >> I would expect it. >> Is that a Wouldn't that correlate to a higher AB? Isn't that kind of one to one? >> Well, no, not necessarily because the circuit breaker credit. Now, what happens on the credit, the circuit breaker credit is when your rate hits a certain amount or your levy hits a certain that were going against individuals, >> they stop paying. >>
039So, let's say that Cliff hits the circuit breaker and his tax rate was going to make him generate $1,500. Instead, he's generating a,000 because he's hit the circuit breaker limit. Well, that $500 still has to be gathered. >> So, everybody else that isn't at the circuit breaker, it increases. So, it's going to generate a higher rate. >> But the only reason Cliff hit the circuit breaker >> could be values are up. >> Not necessarily. It could be because of the new credits and deductions that they put in place. >> And we I don't know. >> It is what it is. I just >> I don't know what's going to happen until we've gone through a year. I expect I do not believe it's going to be 2.36 million. >> Yeah. >> I think that is
040a very I think that was very conservative on the DLG's part. >> Okay. >> To prepare us because that would be $2.36 million we would not have in the operations fund. >> Right. >> Um where we actually need it. So >> yeah, >> I'm I would be surprised honestly if it's over a million. >> Okay. >> Anything else? >> Thank you Todd. A lot of stuff here. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Okay. I will now close the meeting >> and open public hearing for our if anyone wants to make comments on the proposed 2026 budget capital projects fund plan and bus replacement plan. Members of the public will be given an opportunity to speak on the proposed items and once all public comments are complete. Nope, I skipped the line. Y >> if
041you have anything to say, come forward now. You have three minutes. >> No com no public comments being made. I will now resume. I'll close the public hearing and open our regular board meeting. I read this too. Item agenda 7.2. Our first preliminary determination hearing. Dr. red. >> Thank you, Mrs. Glover. The next item on the agenda is for the board to hold a preliminary hearing on the proposed bond projects after a presentation by Mr. Todd Armstrong. There will be an opportunity for the public to make comments about the project. At the hearing, we will ask that each person limit comments to three minutes and the topic be limited to the proposed projects under consideration. At this time, Mr. Armstrong will explain the purpose of the hearing. I promise it won't be as winded as
042the last one. Um, so anytime we issue bonds, a public entity issues bonds uh that exceeds the non-controlled project threshold. In other words, for us, if we're exceeding a bond issue, that's approximately $6.7 million. Um, we have to hold two public hearings. Uh, and the reason for those hearings is so that information can be provided before we adopt a resolution. uh determining that we're going to issue those bonds. So the hearing first is to inform the public of what we're going to do, which is what I'm going to do here. Secondly, it's to give them the opportunity to speak about said bond issue, and that's the second part of the the hearing. Um inside of that, uh there are some things that have to be disclosed in the resolution. And so I'm going to go
043through what those are and I'm going to try to explain them out a little bit. Um so maximum financial terms have to be disclosed in the resolution. So the first thing is is the maximum dollar amount that we're going to borrow. Uh in this case is $17 million. The uh bond issues plan is a $17 million bond issue. We can't come back and change our minds after this after the resolutions adopted and say you know what we've got 19 million capability. Let's draw 19 million. This sets that maximum 17 million the estimated interest. Now we used a number we used five and a half percent uh for the interest on these bonds. We didn't calculate a premium. We didn't calculate uh a discount. Um we simply used 5 a half%. The estimated interest is $3.285
044million over the course of the five years of the loan. I would expect it to be less than that. Um the maturity date that is identified in the resolution is January 15 of 2035. Our bonds are planning to mature on December 31st, 2030 uh and or 115 2031 depending. We'll pay it by December 31st of 2030. But again, we're outlining the if something happened and we had to add a year to the bond payout, we could because we're putting a a further date out there, but our anticipation is and what we're planning on doing is a bond issue that is paid back in five years. Um the maximum annual debt service levy u is $5,87,000. Again, that is a much higher number. It's like advertising for the budget. It's a much higher number than we'll
045ever utilize, but it would allow us to levy that for this bond issue if need be. Again, you have to do these things because when you're borrowing money and selling bonds, the people that the entities that are selling those bonds to that on your behalf want to make sure they're getting paid back. So, they don't want you to be like, well, I can't raise enough money to pay them back. So, we have to disclose that information for that purpose as well. the maximum debt service tax rate change. This is important because you know the the tax rate could change as much as 0.0968 which is a 9 cent tax rate change. Now our current plan is a near zero tax rate change. Um our levy that we're generating after this bond issue happens for next
046year is identical to the levy that we have this year. In other words, we're not raising a dollar more next year. I intentionally in the budget have identified our max levy at last year's number. So, we can't generate more than that. So, consequently, there's no way we're going to increase our tax rate 9 cents unless our AV drops literally $800 million. >> I mean, it could. I mean there's stranger things have happened but the reason you have to put the maximum change in levy I mean so if that happens and the AV did drop and they recalculated and lo and behold we went from 4.7 uh billion to or if we decrease by $800 million. Let's just leave it at that. Um we could go up a tax rate that's a number that looks like
047that. But again, we have to be able to generate enough money to pay back for the bond issue. Let me say that again so Jordan doesn't have to ask me in a little bit. Our intent is levy neutral and near rate neutral. The rate will only be indicative of the AV reduction if there's an AV reduction. Okay. Um uh we we did advertise publish the uh prelimination the preliminary determination hearing on August 28th in the Boonville standard. It was also posted on the corporation website. Um, more importantly, the purpose of this bond issue is to generate funds to remedy maintenance and construction renovation issues at nearly every building in the school corporation. Um, I fully anticipate that we will start work uh right after the bonds are issued. We will probably start planning before the
048bonds are issued. Uh we have lots of systemic work that needs to be done. Um but ideally we'll probably spend some of this bond issue at nearly every school building in the corporation over the next couple of years. I think in a span of two to three year period of time, two years I'm expecting, but you know, projects add up. They take time. Things get delayed. So could be a little bit longer than that. Um, it also would allow us, if we chose to build an additional building of some sort, um, provided the funding is there after we make the decisions on all the things we need to do, we could also do that with money as well. Um, I'm going to divert you to this spreadsheet up here. Um, on there right now, our
049existing debt, we have two outstanding bond issues. 2022A, which again is the Pathway Center, pays out in 2027. We also have a bond issue from 2024 that pays out next year. So, both of those bonds uh would be eliminated and gone in two years. Now, with that being the case, it does allow, if you look across that top line there, uh we have a current capacity of almost $32 million of general obligation bond capacity. With the debt only being $12 million that we have outstanding, in other words, over the next two years, we would have zero. But right now, outstanding total is 12 million. It gives us the capacity to borrow up to $ 19.767 million. So with issuing the bond of the $17 million, obviously the immediate effect is our capacity to borrow again
050is reduced substantially because we're using the largest portion of that. But if you look at that right side of the spreadsheet, you see by December 31st of this year, we're already back up to five billion capability. By June 30th of next year, we're up to 8 million. And by December 31st of next year, we will be back up to 11 million of bond capacity. So very quickly, because of the way we've structured our bonds to pay back so quickly, uh that capacity runs right back up so that if we need to borrow for something else, we have the capability to do that. Um so it's important to understand how that capacity works. And finally, this is a a a depiction of our current bond issues, the 24, the 22, and the 2025. Now, I'm going
051to I want you to look at this chart here. So, the blue represents the WPCC bond issue. The orange represents the bond issue from 2024. And you see that in 2027 there's no more blue or any more orange. In 2026, you see the blue, the orange, the gray, and the gold. This is important to understand and what we are doing with this bond issue. So the gray represents the portion that the school corporation will pay through our debt service. Now it is not additional gen revenue being generated. $174,000 of that gray dollar amount right there is generated in our budget that we have right now. But that's the maximum dollars we could get to keep our levy neutral for next year. So that's 174,000. We get to generate that this year. It still maintains levy
052neutrality. We're not raising a dollar more than we did last year. However, that 174 isn't enough to cover the interest on this bond issue that is going to take place in 2026. Um so we'll do an additional appropriation mid to late next year for spending a little bit of our cash balance in the debt service. probably another $250 $300,000. So, we'll pay a portion out of our cash balance and debt service, the interest portion uh probably the second six months of the new bond issue. On top of that, there's capitalized interest. And when we sell these bonds, again, we don't have the capability to generate all that revenue without raising our tax rate or raising our revenue. So rather than do that, we are going to uh capitalize the interest on this particular issue. So
053the issue will be a larger amount than we actually get in dollars coming back. They'll take the first 500,000. Let's say they'll take that $500,000 and put it in a separate fund. And after six months, we'll take that money and pay back the interest for the first six months of this loan for next year for this bond issue. Now, obviously, we'll have $16 million in the bank. I know Jordan was gonna say this or Jeff was going to probably earn $400,000 in interest on that money while we're while we're sitting on that money waiting to spend it. So, when when you say $500,000 of capitalized interest, yes, we have to pay that because we have to generate the money. Um, but in the side effect of that is is we also have the money, so
054we're going to earn money on that money. Uh, so the the net effect of it would be very small. Um, it's kind of like putting a a roof, I guess, if you had a roof that started leaking and you had to put it on your credit card because you didn't have the money. Uh, but that's a lot better than having all the damage that's done when the roof if you don't get it and put it on your credit card and the rain leaks through the roof and destroys the insulation, the substrate, and everything else. Uh, so you do it this way. >> So, quick question, Todd. The additional appropriation you're talking about, that's what you alluded to earlier in your conversation about cash balance and debt service fund going from 850 850,000 down to >>
055four something. Okay. That's what you're talking earlier. Okay. >> Thank you. >> And so again, this issue and you'll see it stair steps up in 28 2930. We'll be able to pay larger portions of this again. maturity date maximum is 2035. Our anticipation is to pay it off in 2030. Uh and again I everything we've built around this bond issue, we kept a couple things in mind. One of them being that our AV never goes up. So obviously if it goes up the rates go down. Um we also worked under the idea that we would never generate a levy dollar amount that was higher. So again, moving forward with this bond issue, we'll never have to raise any more money than we did last year through the levy currently. If we do do that, we
056have to have a special hearing and we would do that publicly and and and work through that. But right now, this issue, there's no intention of doing that. >> Explain again how the new law affects u bonding in the future. Well, there's a look back period and so when you you can't what was happening is, you know, very common. Uh they wanted to eliminate the ability of doing the same kind of bond issue over and year after year after year for operating expenses and things like that that they could really because transferring money from one fund to the other, generating a million dollars, doing it again. And so they put a look back period. They said that you can't generate the exact same kind of bond issue uh year after year. And so you have
057a two-year look back period. And so in our case, our look back period for the 2024 bond issue didn't apply because we had we issued a two-year and one month bond issue. So they had to go back to 2023 in which we did issue a one-year bond. But this as long as you're modifying it and in this case instead of doing a controlled project bond issue we we did are doing a non-controlled we did a controlled project making sure that our public had the capability to hear what we're saying what we're planning on doing. It's a larger amount of money and so this issue is different than that and so it gives us the capability of doing so. Um but again it's under higher scrutiny which is intentional. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Okay.
058At this time I will close our regular meeting and open up public hearing. If anybody from the public would like an opportunity to speak or have any comments please please do so now. As no one has come forward, I will now close the public hearing and reopen our regular board meeting for our next agenda item. >> Mrs. Clever, I would also just like to say and to note that this is the first step in the legal process. And again, no board action will be taken this evening. Rather, this hearing again was solely to hear public comment. The board will continue to work with the administration and its professionals to look for efficiencies to conserve tax dollars while meeting our educational needs. The board will hold a second public hearing in this boardroom on September 22nd,
0592025 at 7 o'clock. And I would also like to say thank you to Mr. Armstrong for both of the hear both of all of the information tonight. Um, we talk extensively ongoing year round about projects, needs, budgeting, and I always ask him and our team asks him to come back with solutions to make sure we can pay for everything that we want to do. So I appreciate his hard work. >> Thank you. Your next agenda item 7.3 approve resolution 2025 point or -8 to grant temporary fringe benefit. Dr. Red. >> Thank you, Mrs. Glover. In your board packet is a copy of resolution 2025-8. This resolution once again provides a temporary fringe benefit to those employees who may not otherwise receive compensation during emergency situations or other circumstances that may cause school closings. I recommend
060the board approve the resolution 2025-8. >> So move. >> Have a motion by Mr. Baker, seconded by Mr. Friends. Do we have any discussion? Can you clarify just what types of employees and what type of situations this is talking about? >> Um, we might have something like looking back to when we would have an asynchronous day. So, it could be a situation where we would say or a PD day where some of our employees are working and getting paid, but out of no um decision made on their own and a group of employees might not have their job that day such as transportation. So we may choose or this just allows it gives us the flexibility to pay particular groups on those rare unique days when the situation is out of their control. >> Thank
061you. >> You're welcome. >> Any other discussion? >> All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item 7.4 approve the non-exclusive clinical affiliation agreements. Dr. Redmond. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. We have a few agreements this evening. Uh we would like consideration for approving the affiliation agreements with Woodmont Health Campus, Rickyard Healthcare, Woodlands, and Newberg Healthcare. These agreements state that they will provide qualified professionals and make their facilities available to the War County School Corporation's faculty members and students for practical learning and clinical experiences. I recommend the board to approve the affiliation agreements as presented. >> So move Second. >> I have a motion by Mrs. Wilhelm. Mr. Skinner, did you second? >> Yes. Okay. >> Do we have any discussion? >> So, this is for instance for our CNA programs to give
062our students. >> It can be for any of those programs. So, at these three sites, um, typically to answer your question, typically these are WPCC students. Um, but this just allows us to have our students on their site and we have the agreement between them and us that Mr. Whitehead and his team have looked over previously. >> Very good. >> Thank you. >> No other discussion. I'll call for a vote. All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item 7.5. Approve a dual credit memorandum of understanding with University of Evansville. Dr. Redmond. >> Thank you. The purpose of this agreement is to enable students completing courses at WPCC the opportunity to earn college equivalent credit for courses taken as part of their secondary education program. This agreement will be approved annually. I
063recommend the board approve theou as presented. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Have a motion by Mr. Bonesby be seconded by Mrs. Wilhelms. Have any discussion? Are there other agreements with any of the other universities and is this just >> IT Tech University of Evansville >> just have to read this one happens to be coming up. >> Yes. >> Any other discussion? I will now call for a vote. All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item 7.6 Six, approval of a course edition. Dr. Redmond. >> Thank you, Mrs. Glover. Director of learning, Mr. Jason Fischer, is asking the board to approve the addition of the following high school course offering for the 202526 school year called Principles of Digital Design. I recommend the board approve the course as presented. >>
064Second. >> I have a motion by Mr. Fred, seconded by Mr. Baker. Do we have any discussion? Is this for second semester or has it already begun? >> This has already begun as I understand and I believe what happened was initially the in inadvertently a course number was sent to the board for approval but this is the course number that it actually needs to be aligned with our department of ed. So this will replace the other course number. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> No other discussion. I'm calling for a vote. All in favor say I. I >> any opposed? >> Motion carried. Agenda item 7.7, approve a line of easement at the WPCC with Centerpoint Energy. Dr. Red. >> Thank you, Mrs. Glover. Assistant Superintendent Mr. Todd Armstrong is requesting the board to
065approve the electrical distribution line easement at WPCC. This will include entering into a three-year minimum use agreement for electric service with Centerpoint Energy Indiana South. I recommend the board approve as presented. >> Motion to approve. >> Motion by Mr. Ier, seconded by Mr. France. We have any discussion? >> Is it 2022? We built that, right? So, is this just a first three year was expired and >> go back? >> No, this is this is to get electric out to our civil construction >> just out to that new area. >> Yes. Have any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion carry. Agenda item 7.8. Approve donations. Dr. Redmond. >> Thank you, Mrs. Glover. Yet again at Tecumpsa High School, a $1,975 donation from the LA Grid Iron Club to be used
066for press box and inzone camera software and support. At Boomville High School, a $2,000 donation from Boomville Cub baseball to be used for equipment supplies and attire. At John H. Castle Elementary School an $8,992.50 donation from their PTO to produce the reading to purchase, excuse me, the reading program accelerated reader for all students in the school. And at Log Elementary, the family of Preston Blackwell would like to donate a bench to the preschool playground in his memory. Preston attended the preschool at Log and was in Mrs. Duckworth's class. The bench is valued at $900. I recommend the board approve the donations as presented. So moved. >> Second. >> Have a motion by Mrs. Wilhelm, seconded by Mr. Mosby. We have any discussion? >> I do have a question. Does any you may not happen to
067know this, I can follow up later, but do we know how many schools are used still using accelerated reader? >> Do you know, Jason? >> Okay. Okay. and that's all being funded through various organizations. We This could be something on our agenda for our committee meeting. >> I can just briefly speak to that as a district. We did not we have not paid for accelerated reader for all of our schools for several years now because we've moved to other assessments and programs like map reading fluency, map growth, study island, edmentum. Um, so those things are what we are purchasing for our schools as a district and then accelerated reader became an option for schools if they wanted to purchase on their own and some are not using at all. Um, so >> so the schools
068are purchased may be purchasing it on their own or other organizations are paying for it. >> Yes. As in this case. >> That's all I need. Thank you. >> Y welcome. >> Any other discussion? >> All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Motion carried. Agenda item eight, consideration of personnel recommendations. Dr. Gresham. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. The human resource office has the following business to bring before the board tonight. Agenda item 8.1, consideration of employment. Certified staff, Alexis CR, temporary second grade teacher at Logan Elementary School, and Tana Small, temporary art teacher at Tecumpsy High School. Non-certified staff. Piola Clim, temporary program assistant at Chandler Elementary. April Hawking, program assistant at Chandler Elementary. Kelly Layman, student support specialist. Dorothy Doss, program assistant at Newberg Elementary. Sean Ali Camp, multi-responsibility position. Alysia Vaughn, program assistant
069at John H. Castle Elementary. Railan Pull, school nurse at Brunal High School and Log Elementary School. And varsity coach, Dominic Cosby, varsity girls tennis coach at Castle High School. Motion to approve certified staff, non-certified staff, and varsity coach. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Mr. France, seconded by Mr. Baker. Do we have any discussion? I must say when I first read the name, I thought it was Allison Krauss who is an excellent musician and I was so excited. >> No further discussion. I'll call for a vote. All in favor? I. >> Any oppose? Motion carried. >> Thank you. Agenda item 8.2, approve ECA positions. In your board packet is a list of the 2025 2026 ECA positions. I recommend the board approve the ECA positions and replacements to the same as presented. >>
070So move. >> Second. >> Have a motion by Mrs. Wilhelm, seconded by Mr. Skinner. Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? >> Motion carried. >> Thank you. Agenda item 8.3, termination, Joshua Julian, a part-time custodian at Comey High School. Termination effective August 28th, 2025. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion by Mr. Mosby, seconded by Mr. Baker. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carried. >> Agenda item 8.4 Four leaves. Macy Stum, a second grade teacher at Log Elementary. Jennifer Watson, kindergarten teacher at Yankeetown Elementary. Lisa Buyers, title one teacher at Yankeetown Elementary. Noah Harata, 4.75 hour cafeteria position at Castle High. Lauren Smith, custodian at Lynville Elementary. Daisy Lowe, program assistant at Yankeetown Elementary. Amy Hap, 5.0 hour cafeteria position at Castle
071High. And Lena Parker, first grade teacher at Lynville Elementary. >> So move. Second >> motion by Mrs. Wilhelm is seconded by Mr. France. Any discussion? >> Motion carried. >> Agenda item 8.5 report of transfers. Martha Beiel Rising or Smith from cafeteria float position to 6.0 hour cafeteria position at Newberg Elementary. 8.6 Resignations. Allison Oliver, art teacher at Tumpsy High, resignation effective September 19, 2025. Aaron Ballard, parttime custodian at Castle High, resignation effective September 5th, 2025. Brittany Merurl, program assistant, Newberg Elementary, resignation effective September 12th, 2025. Sydney McNau, program assistant, Newberg Elementary, resignation effective August 25th, 2025. D Poston, program assistant, Log Elementary, resignation effective September 12th, 2025. Tessa Neper, school nurse at Bumba High School in Log Elementary School. Resignation effective September 16, 2025. Shallini bagel, program assistant at WC, resignation effective September 16, 2025.
072Michael Spangler, program assistant at Castle North, resignation effective September 19, 2025. Jennifer West, bus driver, resignation effective September 9, 2025. Kelly Brink, program assistant, John H. Castle, resignation effective August 28th, 2025. And 8.7 retirements, William Shaw, social studies teacher, Boomville Middle School, retirement effective December 19, 2025. And Vicky Dalton, English teacher away, retirement effective October 29th, 2025. >> Thank you, Dr. Bron. Our next agenda item, any reports? Dr. Redmond. >> Thank you, Mrs. Glover. Our first report tonight will come from Dr. Walter Lambert. Um, if you remember a few weeks back, we had a bit of a discussion around attendance, and we wanted to bring back to you some information about the number of actual attendance hearings we have and what that looks like. Um, and Dr. Lambert is prepared to share that this evening.
073>> All right. So, just a reminder about attendance hearings. When I hold them, it's either 10 days of unexcused absences or 18 days of excused and unexcused. Sometimes that's dependent upon how many doctor's notes and things like that that play into that. They don't all these hearings don't happen exactly on 10 days or 18 days. They usually go a few days over than that. Um it just really depends on the situation when that happens. So we had 86 different requests last year for hearings. Um we had a total of 47 hearings held um with myself and the principal of the building or the person in charge of attendance. Um so out of that you're talking about8% of our kids that had um issues with their attendance. Now we did have kids that probably should have
074had a hearing at the end of the year but were at the end of the year. Um they're hitting that threshold then at that point. um and they just they just didn't have those have those days. Um so I would probably and again it's hard number to get a get a grasp on because of kids moving in and out and kids leaving especially the kids with attendance problems because when you file for something for them to have it. Um sometimes they'll just come out and go I'm going to homeschool my kid then they they're dropped. Um so but I would say when we have attendance issues um overall where they're missing that 18 day or or slightly above um you're talking about probably overall 1.4% of the entire student population. Not a huge uh group
075but a group nonetheless we try to have uh meetings with and some some of the meetings have been very fruitful when we've had those hearings. We've seen attendance increase and get better with those 47 that we held. Um, but there's a lot that that just stay the same, but we're still trying to chip away at that. So, and again, out of these number of kids we had, out of all those kids, out of the 86 kids, they missed a total of 2100 days. That's about 24 days per person when we look at that. Um, and half and half, about half the days were excused, the other half were unexcused. And usually unexcuse means they're not calling in. That's the biggest thing is they're just not calling in. And of those kids, only 19% of them
076had any kind of medical excuse for that. So usually it wasn't a medical issue. It was just hard for them to come to school. Uh fought mom and dad on it, didn't want to get up and go. Um those kind of things um that were happening. Um and we try to work with the parents then when we have the hearing to say, "Hey, what can we do to help you?" Sometimes we utilize the SRO. We try not to, but sometimes it it does help at times to send them out to the house and talk to the the student about missing school. Um, sometimes it's kids that are just uh getting that lazy attitude of mom leaves at work at 4 in the morning and I'm going to sleep in. Um, so then we'll do some
077stuff to help the parents out with that issue as well. Um, so usually it's it it can be fixed and we can do some things that help that. Um, so yeah, so we had approx 86 requests for hearings last year and then we held 47. So you're talking about 55% of them actually responded. So those that don't respond to the hearing, we'll go ahead and file with uh the prosecutor's office. is educational neglect. We do file at times with the um DCS, but usually that one gets screened out. When I say screened out, you call the hotline, they'll say, "We're just going to screen this out. It's not something they're going to go and investigate for educational neglect." They usually will add that in. If there's another neglect charge of some sort in there, um
078they'll come around and add that in. It just really depends. Most of the time it's all done through the prosecutor's office where we'll file and say education request. Bad thing about that is they're inundated with things and sometimes you can talk six months to a year before paperwork flows towards the parents and things like that. So, but like I said, we do have some success. I had one over the summer that actually um wanted to make a transfer and they needed this for their child because they didn't have good connections with kids at the school. And I said, you miss, you know, 24 days over the school year. I think it was 24, 26. And I said, I just really can't make this transfer. But I said, I'm going to give you a break. I
079said, if you do well the first few weeks, I'm gonna let it go. Kid hasn't missed a day yet just because of that change in environment for the kid. So, we'll try to do those things as well when we go forward with that. So, sometimes there's some some there's some good wins, but there's a lot of times there aren't aren't those good wins either. So, any questions for me? >> Yes, Dr. Lambert, were you able to break it down like grade level? Who who has the most >> the most it? Yes. So, the most of those hearings were coming out of the high schools. majority of the hearings I would um I don't have the exact number but most of the hearings I had out of the high school it was probably out of the
08086 you're probably talking about 68 69% of them were out of the high school the next biggest chunk was middle and then elementary was the next biggest chunk now we always we get some of those kids become routine year in and year out we'll see them miss you know 20 days 25 days whatever and you'll see it year in year out and you'll that same pattern going on all the way up. Um, and we try to really hit those kids early on. So, this year I've asked the principles, if you got those kids that over the year miss that many days, if they start you start seeing that in the first few weeks, let me know. And so, I've already had several hearings scheduled right now. I think I have my first two or three
081hearings next week. So, um, we're trying to hit those people ahead of time, try to, you know, give them the tools that they can utilize to get their kids to school and help, uh, stop that pattern from happening. >> Great. Thank you. >> Anything else? All right. Thank you all. >> Thank you, Dr. Lambert. Our second report tonight will be from Mrs. Tishwagner. I believe she's going to share some information about AP scores. >> I'm going to try to project it, but in case you can't see the numbers, There's a copy here. >> Drum roll. >> No, I did my job today. I'm done. >> Sometimes you have to walk up here a little bit to There it goes. >> The last um few meetings that we've had, we've focused a lot on some of
082the data around I read, I learn, those areas. So, at the last meeting, Mr. Fischer spent time um sharing with the group about our advanced placement exams that students were taking. So this is additional good information um coming out. So all of the subject areas that are on there are AP exam areas that are offered within the district. This is within the schools and there's some that come through the Apex system as well that some of our students are doing online. So, we administered a total of 1,119 AP exams, which is great. Um, the next thing that you can see on there are the score levels. Those numbers at the top are one, two, three, four, and five. In order for to be considered a pass, you have to have a three, four, or five
083on the testing. So based on that, if you can see, we had out of those 1,119 exams administered, 820 students earned a three or above on that, which is great. And almost threequarters of our students who were taking the assessments were earning that percentage of passing. And so one of the things that that's great for students who are moving on to the college is if they've been able to pass this, they don't have to take those necessarily in school. Um there's there's different different schools there are some differences in scores, but if we looked at the passing rate for our students who've had the three, four, or five and consider $300 a credit hour, usually about three credit hours per class, um Mr. Fischer did a great job of kind of running how much money
084our families have been able to would be able to save based on them not having to take those classes when they get to college and being able to access that through the district. And so if you can look at that amount, $738,000, that's a pretty good uh number. So overall, it looks like our students are accessing it and majority of our students who are taking the assessments are actually hitting three, four, or five on the assessment. questions. >> In addition to the AP, we've got the dual credit classes. Do we know how many are taking dual credit and how much money you factor that in? Our students are able to save. >> That would be even a larger number. >> Yeah. Yes. >> Thank you. >> Mrs. Weber, the last thing that I wanted to
085share this evening was just a quick um a few quick comments about the chemical fire. Um, just wanted to say thank you to all of the agencies who who have been coordinating with us and providing us direction and guidance. That includes our Ward County EMA, Ohio Township Fire, our local health department, and the EPA. Um, this afternoon, we will we were able to send a second communication to the families of those seven Newberg schools, letting them know that EPA was going to be on site this afternoon and tomorrow. Um during this meeting I have gotten notification that they've been to Yankee Town Elementary, Sharon and Newberg and have already inspected those sites and have cleared them for what they call no special cleaning. So what we will which is great news. So what we will
086do though however is we will still do a quick scrub on the playground equipment tomorrow and then we will give the building principles permission to allow students back in those areas. The other four schools will be inspected by EPA tomorrow. And so we're just going side by side and then we will wait to hear um what their recommendations are and either release the site or take under consideration the guidelines that they recommend and take those steps. Um just want to say thank you to Brian Flowers. He and his team on Saturday very swiftly and quickly got all of our HVAC systems shut off um once we had the notification to do so. And then again to all the agencies I mentioned and my team for helping me um read this one more time. Does this
087make sense? Of proofing our our messages going out to our families. Um so that's where we are at this point. >> Great. We have any other business to report construction committee meeting tomorrow morning 7:30 at the administration building. And we have a personnel committee meeting scheduled for October 13th at 6:15 in this building here services. >> The next student learning and growth will be September 23rd at 900 a.m. at the admin office and then the next policy will be October 13th here in this building at 5:45. Is there another committee? Seem like we're short. Okay. Uh our next board meeting will be September 22nd, 25, 2025 here, 7 o'clock here at central services. And then we have our fall conference coming up this weekend. I'm going to miss you, but I'm so glad you could
088be with us tonight. >> I'm glad to be here. >> And if there's nothing else, well, this meeting is adjourned. [Music]