001Call to order at 6:00. The start with the 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 guys all for coming. We will start the meeting um with a memo by Dr. Inshaw. Have nothing to add. Any questions from the board on the memo? >> No. All right. Hearing none, we will move to public comments. Uh anybody wants to speak, just step to the podium and state your name and address and try to keep your comments to three minutes or less and not of personal nature. Do we have any takers? Yeah, one at least one. >> My name is Beth Scher. My address is 1400 North 1000 West
002Anderson. And we are in district. It matters. My mailbox is in Madison County, but we live in district. Um, first I'd like to thank our teachers and our um staff and administrators for the wonderful job you guys do with our students. My daughter will be starting high school in the fall. And I feel like she's fully prepared for that next season of her um educational career. At the eighth grade parent meeting, Miss Brewer mentioned the opportunity for our high school students to get dual credit through any university Cooko. Um and I appreciate Yorktown has that for them. Um I also know that many surrounding student schools have expanded partnerships with IvyTech Community College um to offer additional dual credit pathways and some students are graduating with a significant amount of college credit completed. um as
003they graduate from high school. So my question is does Yorktown have a plan for expending expanding um those college dual credit opportunities with IvyTech um for you know expanded student opportunities. >> So the public comments are mainly for us to get feedback and and respond to you. So we can get that information if you want to leave it here afterwards and uh I'm sure Stacy can probably give you a summary of kind of what we're doing now unless you want to >> we can answer that question for you. Yeah. No, appreciate that. We will definitely connect with you and I think my son has been party to getting dual credits at IU. So, it's it's been helpful, but always interested in looking at other options, too. So, appreciate you stepping up and speaking. Any other
004comments? All right. Hearing none, we will close public comments and move to to recognition of employee award winners. So, as we get to the end of the year, and I think some of this happened last year where we recognized several people who had won awards, and as we got closer and closer to the May meeting, I got more and more notices of people winning awards and it's a combination of uh staff members who have been nominated by their own organizations, by colleagues. Uh some of the nominations are done actually from here in central office. Dr. Sturgeon does some of those. we offer those opportunities to principles to make nominations and so it's a combination of different um approaches and as recently as yesterday we found out that we had another employee who won an award
005from his association. So it's it's a lot of fun. It encompasses a lot of different areas um basically every school as well as um SRO's and support staff and so forth. So, I I want to recognize just because they're first on my list. I'm not going in alphabetical order. Maybe it's the ones I knew about first, but Cara Shock, who comes in faithfully to every board meeting, our business manager treasurer, and she was the region six school business official of the year for 2026 through ISBO, which is the school business officials organization. And so, a well-deserved honor for Cara. Anything you want TO SAY? >> YEAH. JUST A BIG THANK YOU to the board and Dr. Hinshaw for allowing us to participate in Indiana as we stay ab breast with all current legislation networking. It's
006a wonderful organization and to be nominated by Dr. Henshaw and Dr. Sturgeent and Theresa. The honor is much appreciated. >> When I before I came to Yorktown, I did the budget myself entirely yellow pad all the way to submission of into gateway. And when I came the first summer, I said to Cara, "What what part of the budget would you like for me to do?" And she goes, "Well, what do you want to do?" And over nine years, I don't know, the first year I might have done 30% of it, 40% of it. Now I do like 10% of it. So, it's been a good relationship. Good spot. Kristen Comp, who is our accounts payable grants coordinator in this office, uh, was the Iasbo region 6 school support professional of the year. So, same organization,
007different award, and Kristen once upon a time was the high school treasurer, has been in central office like four months longer than I've been here. And uh one of the things I'll just throw out, we have spent a dollar or two on major construction in the last eight years at Yorktown. And every single one of those claims has gone through Kristen and she is super thorough. She will come in and be like, "Do we have pay 23 approved from cso?" Yeah. Or there's a charge on here that I'm not sure and just super thorough, super diligent. That's just one aspect of what she does. and so does a super job. What What do you What would you like to say? >> Well, thank you for the kind words. I appreciate it. Yes, I enjoy my
008job. I've learned a lot. I learned a lot from Kira and from everyone else here. Appreciate a chance to go to IAS. We always learn a lot conference and learned a lot and it was good time. So, thank you very much. Leah Chandler, who is a language arts teacher at Yorktown High School, the Ball State University Foundation creative outstanding creative project for 2526. So, fill in the gaps there. What the project was? >> Uh, well, yeah, I finished my master's degree last May and then was surprised to find out that I was nominated this year for my professor had nomine she was the professor that I worked with on my creative project. I was creative writing focus and so it was the first three chapters of a novel in progress and and she put it
009forth to compete against um everyone else in the grad school and apparently won and and even a monetary award which is really nice. So >> that's awesome. Christine Barrett, Pleasant View teacher, uh was a Ball Brothers Excellent in teaching award finalist. And so the Ball Brothers Foundation gives an award, I think it's a Delaware County award every year. And there's one overall winner and then there are two finalists that they recognize. And so Mrs. Barrett was one of the two finalists for that award. What What would you like to say? I was very honored um when when Kelly messaged me to let me know that I had been dominate nominated and Dr. Surgeon um I was a little intimidated. It was a lot of work to do, but I was very honored and um even
010more honored to be a finalist and chosen out of all the teachers in Delaware County. >> Do I remember correctly? Don't they come on site and observe? >> They do. Yeah. >> Yes. It wasn't they I had questions to answer and then they came and they observed in my classroom and then I had to meet with their board and do a presentation for them. So >> it was very thorough. >> What was the creative project? >> Um it wasn't necessarily a creative project. Um they just came in. They got to observe me teaching my kindergarten students how to make shapes out of other shapes. >> A lot of a lot of critical thinking and problem solving skills were involved in that. Um, so yeah. >> Awesome. CONGRATS. >> Is there still a monetary award attached
011with the finalist as well? >> Yes. >> Actually, I think you get to determine some some money comes back to your school, right? >> Um, that was only if I was the overall. >> Okay. All right. Sorry, Cali. >> Sorry about that. Um, Shelley West is our Project Lead the Way STEM teacher at both Pleasant View and Yorktown Elementary School. And Pleasant View and Yorktown Elementary School received notice from PLTW that they got distinguished school recognition. So, what would you like to say, Mrs. West? >> Well, Kelly said I didn't have to talk, so I do better in front of kids. No, it was very I'm very honored to receive this. I've been loving the job. six years under my belt now. I've learned a lot and kindergarten was scary the first year. I'm not
012going to lie, but I've learned to to work with them as well. So, thank you very much. Congratulations. >> It's been a fun process to watch that. Dr. Sturgeon, you could help me reconstruct some of this, but we had PLTW programming at the middle school, >> correct? >> And it's probably been five or six years ago that I learned that Dan Best was PLTW certified but wasn't teaching it. And I said, "Let's start a program at the high school." And Miss Brewer got on board with that. So, we set that up. And then on the other end, we said, "Let's expand PLTW down kindergarten." So, we offer STEM PLTW programming K12 at Yorktown. And that's been a lot of fun to watch that. It's all very cutting edge. Um, not like, you know, creating shapes
013from other shapes, but very cutting edge. and uh fun to see that program flourish. So, thank you. He's not here tonight, but Joe Turner, who is our SRO at Yorktown Elementary and Yorktown Middle School, we just got noticed yesterday that he is the Indiana regional school resource officer of the year or the school resource officer association. And if you know Joe, he is, I believe, a former my SWAT commander. We have a couple of our SRO's that are SWAT, retired SWAT. So, just word to the wise, you know, if you're trying to go in where you're not supposed to go. But, um, Joe also has a joke of the day every day, right? Uh, if you've heard it once, just move on because you'll hear it again if he forgets that he told it to
014you the first time. But, we'll we'll try to get him when he's here and recognize Joe as well. So, thanks to all the award winners. And one one other thing I want to say is this day always corresponds with the Yorktown Chamber meeting and the Yorktown Chamber long before I was here has invited the superintendent to come and give a school report. So I do that every month and I shared all these awards with the chamber this morning. And again, you can talk about all kinds of things in school, but it really comes down to the human capital. And uh I had a guy in another district who told me once that you can learn just as well under the shade of a good tree with a good teacher as you can in the state-of-the-art
015school building. Uh we could probably argue that on a day like today or whatever, but the point of his story was that it's really the human capital, the people doing the work in the school that's what makes the difference. And over and over and over again, you see it with the people that we have at Yorktown that just excel in every area. I mean, who would think you're going to honor your school business officials, you're going to honor some teachers, and you're going to honor your SRO for winning awards all in the same night. So, that's a lot of fun. >> Well done. INCREDIBLE. >> All right, that takes us to the consent agenda and maybe a good lead in a personnel report. We got some new hires, so I think Yorktown's attractive place for,
016you know, really good people. So, thank you for Mrs. Griffy, Yorktown grad coming back to Yorktown. So, good to see you on the personnel report. >> Yeah, I don't think I have anything to add to what you say. Maybe once we vote, I'll make one more introduction, but um there are several of our positions due to retirements and some other openings that are already filled with this report for 2627. So, that's exciting to see some of that. >> All right, any questions on the consent agenda? >> I had a question about our donations for our angel fund on the lunch accounts. Are we any closer to being able to make those point of sale transactions like faster? >> Well, and I mean I know we talked about this before and the short version is that
017you have to it takes some leg work to do it and so we can do it at the end of a semester because of some of the work that's required in order to apply the funds. So I think that's probably the intention here is when the school year's over that it'll >> okay >> as I understand it the the system has to be shut down on the front end so that the funds can be applied on the back end and that's one of the issues right >> are we able to do it Christmas then semester and then >> based on the um negative balances at the end of the semester and roll forward we are doing it for the end of school year. So that is in place once school is the funds. Um >>
018I think part of the discussion is it it probably could be done but it does require hours hourly wages to pay somebody to do that work when school's not in session. And so that's been one of the considerations too. >> Okay. >> So any other questions board? >> I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second that. >> First and a second. All in favor say I. I. >> All oppose. Same sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. 50. And I will just introduce uh Mr. Brian Levelvel is here and the board knows him. So we've been through an interview process. Mr. Levelvel is just approved by that vote as our new assistant superintendent for the district starting July one. So I don't know if you want to introduce yourself. >> Sure. Yeah. So I'm Brian
019Levelvel and I'm excited to be able to join your town. I grew up in the Muny area and have been on the south side of Indie for the last 27 years um in a lot of different roles in education. So I'm very excited to come back up to Muny area and Yorktown as a whole. So this is my wife Amy. So she's also a teacher in Mount Vernon. So we have we live and breathe the education world. So I'm very excited to be able to join the Yorktown team. So thank you guys very much for your time and the process and so and a lot of your time shoot. So I appreciate it. >> Welcome. He he hinted, but he didn't say he's a cowen blackhawk. >> You never know when that's something. Open up.
020>> I think it's okay. >> Okay. >> I I don't think you disclosed your wife was a teacher at Mount Vernon, though. >> Oh, >> yeah. That might be a bigger issue. Black and gold follows me wherever I go. >> All right. Uh let's move on to reports. 4A is the safety school audit. I just want to mention and the board will actually be taking a deeper dive into this in executive session which they can do statutoily but one of the things that we've done recently is invite Yorktown Police Department Chief Walltower and Scott Stafford who's uh a certified SRO and a member of the Yorktown Police Department to come in annually and go through every building and conduct a safety audit and then give us a written report. And so it's I think that's
021just a good process for us. One of the things I like about it is that you have an independent third set of eyes coming in and making an evaluation of things that need to be approved. And by doing it annually regularly, they were able to bring their report in from last year and say, "Okay, here's what we told you last year. How many of these things have been accomplished in the year since we were here?" And that when the board looks at the report, they're going to see they were very pleased with a number of things that they had marked last year that we have been able to correct, improve, or you know, make gains on. So, we'll talk more uh in in executive session about that. But I do want the public to know
022that that's something that we do. >> All right, we'll move on to 4B if there's no questions on 4A currently. Updated financial report from policy analytics. >> I want to thank Mr. Simpson because he texted me this afternoon and asked me if I would call him and go through this report with him and I said I've been waiting for someone to ask for this. >> I hope there's not going to be a test. I think I might still fail. >> And we'll just sort of go through the high level of this. So to to give the backstory, I think a lot of people know that the legislature passed SEA1. SEA1 um is property tax reform and the stated goal I think of the leaders in the legislature was to slow the growth in assessed valuation
023for local units of government and there's there's a lot of panic I will say for us the original legislative services prediction was that we would have a million dollar decrease in our operations fund in 2026 as a result of that but that was just based on a formula that was applied. And so we hired Policy Analytics, which I would call them a boutique firm that specializes in public finance. And they did a parcel by parcel analysis for us. And we got the initial report last fall, but now that we have our budget order for 2026, they gave us an updated report. And that's what this is. And so it's it's just a couple high level things that I want to point out. We'll have Dr. Sturgeon, go ahead and go on. Um, so there's a
024good if you like maps, I didn't have Mrs. Turner in geography, I don't think, but I love geography. So if you like maps, you know, here, blue, the darker the blue means the higher the growth in assessed valuation. NAV is net assessed valuation. So in other words, your tax base that your property tax is assessed on. And so you can see that that little dark corner, that's Daleville Community Schools. they they evidently had more than 15% growth in AB 25 to 26. Our rate was about 14%. So relatively high growth in assessed valuation in Yorktown. And that's growth under the new assessment system under SEA1. So that's kind of the first peak when we got those numbers to say, okay, this is not going to be as dire for units of government as you might
025think. Now, if you're in J County, um if you're in Rush County, Southern Wells, some of those places, it's a different story. So, that's the first peak into it is we have growing AB and and most and I've actually heard this anecdotally that a lot of people as they got their assessments said, "Wow, my assessed value of my home went up." And the map shows that in Delaware County. Let's go on to the next one. So again, taxing districts and rates. There are, if I counted this right, there are nine separate tax rates within Yorktown Community Schools. Part of Yorktown Community Schools is has actually been annexed into the city of Muny. There are Muny phaseins, there's a tiff, there's some consolidated. So there is no Mount Pleasant Township government anymore. Yorktown Town Government and
026Mount Pleasant Township are one, but there are still some different tax rates within that unit of government depending on whether you were annexed or not. And what you notice is the second light blue from the bottom is the same all the way across. That's because that's the school tax rate and the bottom is the county tax rate. So, it's the same. And then depending on um whether you have a municipal tax rate from my or municipal tax rate from Yorktown um library, etc. It it makes it vary. So, depending on where you live in the school district, you will have a different total tax rate. That's just showing that in bar graph form. So, let's go on to the next one. And then they've shown us the history. And what you can see is for
027the different taxing units. The school tax rate has been relatively flat. We intentionally let our tax rate fall in 2023 to 95 cents in anticipation of that larger project, but our tax rate has been consistently just above a dollar for several years other than that one year. Let's go on to the next one. So then what they did was they took um 2026 net assessed valuation per student. So they took the net tax base basically and divided it by the number of students per district. And this happens to be districts in the state with similar ADM or similar enrollment. And what you can see is the state averages about half a million dollars of tax base per pupil. In Yorktown, it's just under 300,000. And you can see if you were at Wani, that's Napony
028schools. Handover down in southern Indiana. I mean, some of them have the state average is about twice per pupil of what we have in Yorktown. And there are districts that are our size that have, you know, almost three times the tax base per pupil is what we have. Let's go to the next one. Then we looked at this for Delaware County. And interestingly, all Delaware County schools have a net assessed valuation that's below state average and Yorktown and Daleville are at the bottom of that. And um one one thing that was pointed out is well, you're doing it per pupil. So obviously enrollment is affecting this and if you have a high number of transfer students then that's lowering your assessed valuation per pupil and that is a factor but we can account for that.
029I'll tell you what that is later in a future graph. So then they're showing these same groups of schools what their total tax rates are and how we compare to that. So the state average tax rate for schools is about a dollar two dollar26 and we're at a$138. So we're just slightly above state average for our school tax rate in comparison to all the other schools in the area. And then the county tax rate, Daleville has a tax rate higher than ours. We're next. And then you can see from there. But if we went back and looked at the net AV for per pupil, who were the two lowest? Daleville and Yorktown. And so it takes a higher rate to get more revenue per pupil when the tax base is smaller. So let's go on
030to the next one. Then if you like scatter plots, you can see it in scatter plot form. And if I put a correlation and R value in there, which you can do in Excel very easily, I would guess that it's statistically significant, but they didn't do that. So let's go on. And there it is by um the the other cohort of similarly size schools. and then Delaware County schools and then we can go on and the other thing well that's nice that's all great theory and what we really care about is the fact that um we want to know what do they project is going to happen to our revenue. So all the numbers up through 2026 are real numbers and the numbers 2027 and beyond are projections based on the data that they've run
031for us. So this is growth in AV year-over-year as a percentage. And you can see that we've had some really good years and we've had some really low years. But the projection is that the effect of SEA1 on us is that it is going to lower our net AV as all the provisions of SEA1 roll in. It's a five-year bill. It's five-year piece of legislation that has different provisions that roll in one at a time over the course of five years. And then their projection is by 2032 we'll actually start to go back in growth. So let's go forward to the next one. And >> that's an AB not dollar revenue. >> Correct. That was Yeah, that's growth in assessed valuation. So then what's this? Debt service not protected and debt service protected. We really
032only have two local property tax funds operation and debt service. And we have the circuit breaker. We have some limits on on taxation. And what the legislature has historically done, the the limits are triggered by both funds, but they only apply to the operations fund. Why? Because you use your debt service fund to pay debt obligations. And the state's theory is you need to raise money and pay those debt obligations. So, you have to take all of your reductions out of your operations fund. What does the operations fund pay for? pays for central office operations. It pays for transportation operating, pays for bus purchases, pays for custodial maintenance, and it pays for utilities. And so you start to look at those things and say, "Okay, then that's where you have to tighten your belt. So,
033let's go forward." And by the way, there's one provision of this new um household tax credit that you can apply to the debt service fund. So there, you're not protecting it. And you'll see the revenue scenarios alter a little bit when you look at that. So the the main line that anybody should care about is under net levy where it says debt service and operations. And what you can see is that in 25 so we collected 3.254 million in our operations fund. And the projection is that we're going to collect 3.39 million in 2026. Good news, right? That's an increase more revenue in that fund. Go forward and in 2027 it's 3.5. So it's still growing. And then you see in 2028 it drops by about 300,000 to 3.2 million. And that's as some additional
034provisions come in. Business personal property tax is one of them. There are some other things in there. It lowers the assessed valuation even further. And with some of the limits on the tax rates and the levies, we will see about a $300,000 reduction in our operations fund revenue in 28. This is not a surprise to anyone on this side of the table. We've talked about it. It just reminds us that this is true. So, if you have been here in the past and we've talked about changing our schedules, changing our bus schedules, trying to consolidate routes, trying to purchase fewer buses, there is a logic to that and it's called we're anticipating a reduction almost 10% reduction in our operations levy in 2028. And so, we're trying to scale up for that and plan for
035that. Then in 29, revenue starts to go up again and we fully recovered by 2030 and 2031. So those are projections. So this just tells us that with a little more data from 2026, what we thought was true in the fall, it still is saying that it's going to be true. >> And under debt service not protected, it it allows you the flexibility to flex money out of debt service >> jobs. So roll to the next slide. Here's debt service protected. And what you see there is the operations levy is lower. Why? because you're have to you're having to take more of the tax savings the the revenue reduction has to come out of the operations fund and you can't share it with the debt service fund. So again and what our plan is we've
036submitted to the DLGF that we want not protected uh debt service because we have the cash and we have operating reserves in order to pay that to get through that period of time. All right, let's go forward. Uh this shows the anticipated tax bill of the median uh taxpayer in Yorktown town, that taxing unit. And so remember when I said the the legislative leader said we're just going to try to slow the increase. Well, that's what it says. That's what the policy analytics projection says for us that it's just slowing the increase over time. All right, moving on. And then this whole concept, we're back to the operations fund specifically and whether we're protecting or not protecting the debt fund. And you can see the decline in 28 and then the re the return to
037increases in 29. And then this is the same group of schools about the same size um looking at what the net levy is per pupil. And I this is probably the most interesting one. So the state average is $4,000. That's all property tax revenue. And in Yorktown, it's about $2,400 per pupil. And go ahead and roll forward. You can see it for Delaware County. And then you can also go ahead and show it. It's operating fund only. So not there's no debt service fund in this. And I don't know if you've heard me say this before, but when I'm in another school district for a meeting and I look around and I look at facilities and I was up in um Valpo, what county is that? Porter. Somebody help me. Porter County. And I was
038at a meeting up there and I looked around and I mean everything had the mightest touch. Everything was new. You know, every surface looked like it had been redone. And I don't know if it was Cara or Angela, I texted and I said, "Get on the DGF and look and see what the circuit breaker is in this district." And it was non-existent. So, it's just it's the tale is told here. When you look at some of these districts, you go, "Well, why why are things so much nicer there?" Well, it's it's operations levied per pupil. Go ahead and give do it for Delaware County. So, and Muny's of course is a factor that the circuit breaker is so large there because they share so much of their taxpayers with the city of Muny. That's a
039that's an old story. So, what so what? Right. Well, the so what is it's not the end of the world. Um revenue continues to increase. We have a little bit of an explanation for why does it seem like sometimes it's easier for other people to do things than it is for us. Well, the numbers speak to that. And then we just need to continue to be aware of managing the increases in our operations fund as we go forward the next few years. So, I'll pause and ask questions. Would you say one of our trying to hit on this last maybe sort of incorrectly strategy wise obviously you have transfer students. When I look at that, I think how do you maximize the revenue or that's a growth in AV. Is it fair to say our
040strategy is with the transfer students along with the town of Yorktown time convert those to people that move here? >> Is the I guess the benefit or reaction of that positive that AV theoretically grows with that per pupil and would raise that if they live here over time. Obviously, we can't get rid of trans students, but >> I think the goal is to convert them, right? like that's a win for everybody and and AB is comprised of residences. It's comprised of rental, you know, very very little egg in as a percentage in Mount Pleasant Township and there is some industrial or you know category 3% category but the short answer is yes. I think anytime you're living in a desirable market, so it's this circular effect of I think the town says repeatedly, we see
041the schools as our number one economic development driver. And I I'm glad they feel that way and that's good. And so then what does that mean? Well, if you put your house up for sale in Mount Pleasant Township, how easily can you sell it relative to other places in East Central Indiana? And the answer I think is very easily. And you know the as that price increases, as that demand increases and that price increases, that's raising the AB. Um when you're building new housing units, that's raising AB. Now, some of it's tiff and so forth, and that's a different discussion, but generally, yes, the more people who want to get in, you're raising your assessed valuation if you're holding everything else equal. Um the rest of the story is though that we're about one quarter
042transfer students and so that is providing roughly uh have to roughly run the numbers but it's got to be more than $5 million a year in state tuition support. And you can say well but for every student you take you have to provide more services but you're getting between seven and $8,000 per pupil for every one of those. and you're not you're not expending that much money specifically on the on the typical transfer student. >> So I think if you if you talk to the people that have done it a long time they would say it's a both and strategy. You want resident enrollment to grow. Uh and if you can do it that way that's probably the better way. But until you can do it that way you need to be tra taking transfer
043students so that you have growing enrollment. The other thing >> especially if we have capacity in building you know >> your analogy that you shared with me the other day is right I mean we we build them out and they we want them to be full because then you are increasing the revenue that's what has allowed us to have competitive compensation etc. Um, and then I I just think you think about of all the programming that you have all around the state right now, people are making reductions. >> And sometimes you go, if you're on this side of the table, you go, they know something that we don't know. But in most cases, they have declining enrollment. So that's a huge factor. And then they might have been in one of those places where their
044their map was not blue. The other thing I would is when you're relying on the the state and the state tuition support to fund the education fund and it's 100% of it basically I mean I think I'm right on that that's funded by the state remember the state's percentage increase was 2% in each year of the bianium and so if you have no enrollment growth and you're flat then the best you're going to do is 2% new money and inflation I believe is somewhere over 2% % and if you want to give employee compensation increases of more than 2% you have to have enrollment growth to increase that number above 2%. So it's there's a lot of there's a lot of factors and I'll use my old saying I've been using for nine years. I've
045been in a declining district I've been in a growing district. They both have problems. I much rather take the problems of growth over decline. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Any questions board? >> I won't say a question but more comment to your point Ryan that if nurser how you convert um transfer students into resident or district students. Um, I mean, ideally you attract more folks into the district because a lot of the things that the town is doing and because the quality of the school corporation, but I think one of the challenges that Delaware County has is creating jobs that will um that will attract people to move to Delaware County. When your two biggest employers are Ball State and Ball Hospital, I think Muny Community Schools is third. your top three employers. I mean, Ball
046State and the hospital struggle to get people to move to Muny and Delaware County. >> U and uh if they do, I think we probably get them right for the most part. U probably us more so than even than Delta. But um I mean, I think that's the challenge for the county is how do you grow population? How do you create job growth that will get folks? I mean, the housing will come uh if I mean >> and and it is. >> Yeah. Yeah, >> when I say convert, I think it's more collaborative. How do you work with the town, the county, the redevelopment commissions to support each other with the same goal, which is getting people to move here? >> I think, you know, working on that and improving. I mean, I think we
047do a good job now is just improving that. One other thing I would say anecdotally is if you think of Delaware County as an economic unit, the idea of having open enrollment transfers I believe is a benefit because prior to 2009 and you had to either go to school in your geograph within your geographic boundaries or pay tuition for that. Um now as long as there's space for transfers, I can choose to live anywhere. So, I may want to come and live in the inner core of Central Township. I may want to find a an affordable house in Muny and and gentrify it or whatever, but I can still send my kids to Yorktown to school or to Delta to school or Ken to school. And I'm not saying that as a criticism of anybody
048except to say it it provides kind of more of a free market for people to go where they want to go. And and I think that has to be a benefit to the economic unit. Yeah. >> So anyway, >> so on average, Dr. H, are we I hate to say losing, but on a transfer child, is it around 1,600? Am I >> like versus if they were an ind district kid, are we because does it lower every child what the state is paying us then? >> No. So how how are we getting less than >> the the the amount from property tax is let's just basically say it's a fixed amount. It's not fixed but it's fixed in terms of >> that property tax is paid whether the house is empty whether it has kids
049in it or whether it's empty nesters >> it's paid. If we're dividing it by resident students only we're only you know then that's only 2100 students. But if it's all students, it's closer to 2,800 students. >> Yeah. The AV goes up if you if >> there was, you may be referencing chairman Thompson who's the chairman of ways and means and a retired teacher has had the philosophy that he would like to have an operations equalization formula where basically all there's different iterations of this, but the most extreme of it would be everybody would pay their property tax or schools. the state would take it and the state would then distribute it per pupil rather than back to the units the geographic units that that have those students. The the other side of that is they
050would probably it would be distributed also to charter school students and other private school students that are voucher qualified. Now I had the legislature hasn't acted on that. >> And the other I didn't catch it in here but I might have just missed it. What skews it results is the AV on the type of um entity. So if it's a commercial building, it's going to be at a 3% tax rate versus a one. So that equivalent of a personal house at a million dollar value or a business, your your revenue is going to be three times as much. So it's a little skewed on that report because it doesn't factor in like what type of assets are >> in and some of the things that are baked into that is your 3%s are not getting
051homestead credits and mortgage exemptions usually things like that. >> The report's taking total AV, right? >> Right. So that's an excuse. That's why I think to Tom's point like we have a lot of personal residences, not a ton of businesses, not a ton of factories that drives I think that's probably the bulk of that per pupil calculation that >> I we have that abstract. I it's not up to date in 26. And then another factor which again I don't have up to date numbers but at one point in time over 90% of the homesteads in Yorktown were at the circuit breaker cap. So then you you have to factor that in. You can raise your rate as high as you want, but people aren't going to pay more unless they're abs. >> And a lot
052of the businesses aren't a circuit breaker. So those places would theoretically have less of a circuit breaker loss. >> On Brian's point, the commercial development in in Mount Pleasant Township primarily is the loss of Borger and Marsh. The new development is either the town which is tiff district. You've got the 332 >> 69 development which is in a tiff district. I pretty sure that the car dealerships Hubler and uh American that's I think that's tiff >> probably. Um, chances are if it's a new commercial development, it's probably tiff. >> To your point, and I tried to look this up and I struggled because it's far enough back, but I think I remember correctly that when I was working at Delcom, the tax base in Yorktown was larger than Delk's because there was still boarder and
053the Marsh Warehouse was still here. And I'm guessing those were probably the two largest taxpayers. And so the evaporation of those changes the composition of the tax base as well as its size. >> So >> I know you guys love to hear analytics. You guys want to move to 4C special education. I I just want to report and uh some of this has been given in notice to my community schools, but there is some work that's taking place right now to reorganize this the special ed co-op in the area and uh I anticipate that I'll bring a recommendation back to the board for the June meeting that we give notice to Delaware Blackford that we're planning to withdraw from the Delaware Blackford co-op. you have to give a year's notice and so that will be
054effective for the 2728 school year. What is likely to happen is that all of the outlying districts will probably reorganize a new interlocal and the work on that is in its very early forms but we have to give notice by July 1 if we want to be in that process. >> Any questions board on that? All right, let's move to 5A the softball project. Uh just included in here is the schedule and then also a contract addendum with Skillman for very basic uh construction management on that. Uh the advertisement will run for the first time tomorrow and the bids are scheduled to be opened on June 11th. So um moving right along, fingers crossed on that. And remember you're funding that with your 2025 bond. So ideally the money to fund it is already in
055the trustee bank. So we don't have to go through that process. We just need to get a contractor to come do it. >> Jason, do did you get your an question answered on the overlap of the two contracts between uh context of talked about it. >> Do we need to approve 5A? >> Please motion. So moved. >> Second. >> First and second. Any questions, comments? >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. 5-0. >> All right, that's the end. Closing comments from the superintendent. You want to go back over the policy analyt? >> Let's take a deeper dive into those. >> No, congratulations to all of our award winners. I see some other uh people that are getting new positions in the audience and so congratulations to them
056as well. Um uh other than that, graduation is May the 29th at 7 PM at Tiger Field. Hoping that the weather is not like this. >> Tiger. >> Yeah, at Tiger Field. And uh other than that, just thanks everybody for a great school year and uh have a restful summer and uh do something fun. >> And Friday is the retirement breakfast. >> Friday is the retirement breakfast. 7:30 at the high school cafeteria. >> All right. Thank you. Closing comments from the board members. Mr. Brooks, let's start down there first. All right. Thanks to the teachers, administrators, Dr. Henshaw. It's been a great year. Appreciate all you do. We come here and work on a lot of problems and different things, but tons of good stuff going on in the district. So, personally, thank you for
057all your hard work, >> Mr. Simpson. >> Okay. Um, Miss Scholler, I hope I pronounced that right. Um, thank you for coming and speaking and I think anything that we can do to expand our dual credit offerings makes a ton of sense. I I've talked to a lot of folks outside of our district whose some whose kids have graduated with an associates degree already uh which is a gigantic benefit to the student as well as uh to the family. So, it's a great suggestion. I think we we definitely ought to look more into it. Um, congratulations to Cara and Kristen. Um, you know, we operate with a really small central office staff. Uh, so, you know, we only have five or six people in this building and Cara and Kristen do a fantastic job among
058other people that we have here. Um, Dr. Henchaw is right. Cara is a rock star and he could do it if he's done it in the past, but having Cara, one of the the best in the state on our staff is a is a giant benefit. Uh, congratulations to Leah, Christine, and Shelley on your awards. Uh, welld deserved, and we're so lucky to have you on our staff. Uh, we'll we'll I'll talk to Joe later and thank him. Um, Mr. Tur, uh, but, uh, same thing to echo uh, what, uh, Jason, Dr. I I'm just I've got a a granddaughter who's at PBE now and and uh all three of my kids are are long gone from Yorktown schools, but um my granddaughter uh there is having an awesome experience and uh we do have
059a tremendous group of teachers and support staff and administrators. It's not an accident that our folks get great accolades and that the school corporation does so well because we've just got a tremendous team. And you're right. I'm glad we have the facilities we have, but even if we didn't, we'd still be really good because of the people we have. And lastly, uh welcome to uh Mr. and Mrs. uh level. Welcome to to Yorktown. Glad to have you on board. Excited to work with you in the future. Go Tigers. >> I'm wearing green today. This is gas away. >> All right. Thank you. I would like to also um echo what our fellow board members said. Thank you for administrators, teachers, staff, Davis for Mr. Davis has got us all up and running in the tech
060world now meeting um all those uh rules and regulations. So, appreciate that. But no, thank you for coming. Thank you for a great year. I cannot believe that we are at the end of the school year. My daughter made a comment, I think it was a couple weeks ago, you know, the countdown and it just hit me and I was like, I was not prepared for this. It has flown by. I know it may not have felt like that to you at some points throughout the year, but greatly appreciate all of you. Um, also wanted to recognize our uh, wind ensemble. They received a gold with distinction at their state competition, so from our high school level and also our DECA students um, went to Atlanta. So, >> I know there are >> lots of
061organizations throughout our school corporation that are always doing fabulous things, but those were two that kind of stuck out to me recently. So, we like to give them kudos and welcome to all uh or welcome all of our new staff and so looking forward to working with you and congratulations to all of our winners. So, enjoy summer, those of you that get summer. So, >> thank you, Mrs. Gillespie. uh just reiterate everything everyone else has said. Thank you for everything that all of you have done. All of our winners, Cara, Kristen, Leah, Christine, and Shelly, thank you for all of the effort that you all put forth every day. And to Joe, I know my kids are big fans of Joe and we appreciate him as well. And welcome all of our new hires. Look
062forward to working with you. >> Yeah. Thank you. An exciting get to summer. I don't know if it's relaxing when you get to summer, the kids camps and all that stuff, but it's relaxing for the staff hopefully. So, no, thank you guys all and you know, I appreciate everything you guys have done. You know, I think got my first kid graduating from Yorktown. I feel like he's really prepared and obviously we have more kids on that track. So, appreciate everybody everything everybody's done to invest in in our kids and and others as well. So, I think they're well prepared. You know, the dual credits were part of that, AP classes were part of that. So appreciate those programs have been developed over time to get them kind of on the right start. So appreciate it.
063We will stand adjourned at 6:47. >> Did it >> 49? 649. >> And I'm sorry to