001for YMS uh request for out of profession out of state professional leave. Uh we have an early graduation request. Um I think it's for end of first semester in 26. Yeah. Right. Um there's also plan for the removal of the leftover dirt that uh in this particular case it's the it's the the pile that's over by the visitors uh bleachers at the at the football complex. Um seems to have a pretty decent potential for fundraising and maybe making some money off of that uh that top soil that we scraped off. Uh there's also an item there for establishment of grade level ECA funds. So, uh, anyway, you've had a chance to look at that. I'd entertain a motion to, uh, approve the consent agenda as submitted. >> Motion to approve the consent agenda. >> All
002right. Thank you, Ashley. What is the process on getting rid of that dirt? How are we going to do that? How are they going to sell that for it and staff it? >> We have had some inquiries about people wanting to buy it. And so what that is simply doing is establishing the price at which we're going to sell it. >> So we think we already have buyers. >> Yeah. There there's already been some sold. And so then the rest of it, the plan is to have it removed with the end of construction on that campus. >> Is that the dirt that's on the south side of the field? >> Yes. >> That's not what we stockpiled. It's all from the same original. It's It's all spoilings from the football field. So, it was clean
003fill originally. Is it common for landscape companies to to purchase fil dirt like that? Not super. No. I mean, if it was finally graded top soil ready to go or something, but that could be more filled dirt. Gotcha. >> I would guess it's got to be screened and ready to go. I would think that is >> Okay. I've got a motion. Jason, you want to second that motion? >> Second. >> Motion a second. Any other comments or questions? Okay. All those in favor vote by saying I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries 30. Uh item number four on the agenda is our report section and Dr. Henshaw um is going to give us a update on softball planning. >> Yeah. So I would just share that on August 25th we had a meeting and
004Fred Prazo from Context Design led that meeting and Mr. Simpson appointed Ryan Kelly as the board member to serve on that committee and also Stacy and Paul, Brian Wagner, Coach Pinrod and I were present and I think it was a good discussion and you'll see in your um packet a listing of priorities that were sort of sorted by color. And uh I don't think I put in there what each color means, but basically the idea is that green is the preference, yellow is something that could potentially be done even in phases as we move forward. And red are things that uh Fred Po suggested that we would probably most afford by doing through cooperative purchasing rather than putting them in the core of the project under a general contractor. And we left the meeting. he
005was going to go back and look at all the site plans and surveys that are available and see what's needed and then he was going to put together some budget pricing um that was specific to our project and what it was that we had identified as priorities. So, and the only other thing I would add is that we talked about not uh making a hard commitment to move forward until we had our roof budget locked down and had a contract awarded so that we knew exactly how much we needed to spend on that roof replacement at Yorktown High School. So, Stacy, anything you want to add to that? >> I don't think it was productive. >> Well, that dubtales into item B. Okay. uh to talk about roof and >> what what's specific the next
006step on softball? What's like timelinewise? Fred will Fred will call us back together whenever he has numbers that he wants to share with us. And I think then we'll start running through concepts and the specifics of what's going to be included. And um I mean I think it would be fair to say that he felt like the budget numbers that had been shared with us were conservative in in the sense of trying to to cover every unforeseen and he was confident that that it probably wouldn't reach the numbers that we had received. And I think we did we ask him at the last board meeting or at that meeting how many baseball and softball fields he'd been a part of designing and it's hundreds. And so I think we've got the right person to help
007us through that process. But when when he's uh to a point where he's ready to share and get more input from us, then he'll let us know. >> Okay. Onto the roof. >> Uh so Brian Wagner and I have met with a couple different firms. One was Moisture Management and then more recently with Duralast Roofing and and their labor contractor is SPG. and gotten a couple different ideas about how to proceed. Um, SPG Durlast just gave me some pricing numbers this morning that I think look really um, promising and I want to go back and revisit that because it is also a cooperative purchasing contract. And so one of the things I need to confirm is whether or not State Board of Accounts and our attorney is going to say that this meets the standard
008by the Indiana State Board of Accounts to use cooperative purchasing. It's an outofstate cooperative as Equalis was that we were talking to earlier. Um but it's not the same cooperative. So it'll depend on how they establish their pricing up front as whether or not it's determined that that they can do business with Indiana public entities like schools. So, >> and you shared with me uh today that this is a group that has done some work for Liberty Perry. >> No, they are currently doing work for >> HSSE. >> Okay. >> And that's probably a byproduct of work they did in Perry Township. >> Oh, Perry Township. >> So, Mr. Mes, who's the superintendent at HSSE, was the superintendent of Perry Township, had used them, really liked the process and the price and the quality. I
009know they've also done some work in Seymour. They sent me a huge list of all kinds of of public entities in Indiana that they've done work for. >> And you slept with Mr. Roush as well? >> I have a couple times. So >> So I know you're kind of doing some vetting. >> I'll do some due diligence here and see what our attorney says about their cooperative purchasing contract and then we'll see. So, they were super optimistic both on price and on schedule and said that they felt like they could even be here yet this calendar year if we wanted them. So, >> well, I would hate to have Stacy be not have a project going on, >> you know, so if they could like come in right on the the new things done in
010November and just piggy back on that, >> see what we can do. >> But it does look pretty promising. I mean, we're it's we're cautiously optimistic. >> Everything I've heard so far sounds really optimistic to me. So, we'll we'll do some more homework. Like I said, I just got those numbers this morning and I have not had a chance to follow up and and dig into it yet. >> What would allow one school to use them but not another school? >> The opinion of their local council. So the state board of accounts will issue general guidance and then they will often say, you know, in in some of the unknowns or undefined circumstances, if your local council will give you a legal opinion that this is permissible, then we'll accept that. And so I I
011can't speak to other districts or other circumstances, but I know as we went through this with Equalis, both our bond council and our local council told us that no, Equalis would not qualify. So it's the same concept, but it's a different cooperative. And so my assumption is that they've established their price differently and used Indiana advertising in order to do that, or they can show that they've done that. So, >> when do you think you'll you'll know something more defined? Maybe by next board meeting. >> Yeah, I would I would hope. Okay. >> Maybe even by the time we have our budget hearing. >> Okay. >> On the 30th. >> Okay. The other thing that is out there is that we we've got everything lined up to sell the bonds to finance this, but the
012bonds have not yet been sold. And so, we've had some discussion with the financial advisor. One of the things I anticipate is that there's probably going to be an interest rate cut in the fall. And so there might be some advantage in waiting to sell the bonds >> and have that interest rate a little lower, but if we can line the work up sooner, we may go ahead and sell the bonds earlier. So, and there's there's some other ways we can maybe cash flow it depending on the price and refund our money back to our operations fund or rainy day fund from the bond later. But the first thing we need to do is just check and make sure we're comfortable with doing business through this cooperative. Right. Right. Okay. All right. Um not necessarily
013in your reports, but something that is kind of that has been on the docket. Uh so I talked with Ryan a little bit today about middle school diamonds, and I know you and and Brian have been working on a plan for that. So maybe uh for uh next month's agenda if we could uh could do a report on that >> that maybe is relative to status and kind of planning and a timeline for that as well as um to Jason's point, you know, what's what's the the plan between now and the time that the snow flies of of the the other stock piles of of Yeah. of dirt we have. But the plan is we're going to we're going to do something with the middle school fields. We're going to have some some seating of
014of the previous fields and some removal at a minimum. Yes. And you can see out there there's a rolloff dumpster out there to get rid of the bleachers. And we can I don't know how far down in the weeds you want to go about. >> No, we can we can talk more about it next month. The plan is continued demo of the unused equipment out there and then rehabbing of the two practice fields that remain, right? >> And one of the ways I characterize this to Ryan is it's high visibility space, but it's it's kind of low value space when you think about the totality of school facilities that we have. These are these are middle school practice fields. And so it seems like every time we've gotten ready to pull the trigger on that,
015we go, "Oh, wait. We really would rather spend our money over here on this that's higher value." And then I think another thing that happens is there's a lot of passion when people first approach the project and then they witness the flood for the first time and that sort of reorients the you know >> how much money do we want to put down there in that flood plane where it floods every third year or so. So those are all things that are in the discussion. So we can we can bring you an update next month. >> Great. Okay. Um item 5A is public meeting on tenative collective bargain agreement under IC20-29-6-9. So this is a requirement again of the law that once we reach a tenative agreement with our collective bargaining unit and which is
016a Yorktown teachers association that before the contract is approved at a separate meeting it has to be presented to you and then the public has to have an opportunity to give input to it. The markedup copy of the contract is in your packet as well as a summary of the changes. It represents for uh all returning teachers a base increase of $1,500 per teacher. Uh it will raise bachelors and zero pay starting pay at Yorktown to 55,000. Remember the legislature just um raised the minimum salary in the state to 45,000. We've been well above that for several years. there's a requirement that you have to have a salary increase for the elementary literacy endorsement in your contract. And so we had that in our contract. It was $100. We're proposing to raise that to $200.
017Um our insurance increase in premium was 4.5% which is one of the lowest percentage increases we've had in a while. But we also are um agreeing to an acrosstheboard insurance adjustment of an additional $348 for every plan. That's the first year we've done that in several years. Uh there are several ECA changes that we um proposed and that the teachers association accepted dealing with all sorts of different uh things in every building. Um, and I think some of you will remember that we uh Paul Heiden had done an analysis of wages for head coaches in our stipens for head coaches in our conference and we were competitive in most every area, but there were a couple areas where we were well below the market rate for the HHC. So, we tried to take some steps
018to address that. And then there were some other legal changes that the legislature had created that affect language that we added. And so other than that, I think that's that's the highlights. >> So, do we need to take any action? I know the meeting is scheduled for September 30th, correct? >> No action required other than giving an opportunity for public comment. >> We need to do that now. >> Okay. Uh do we do we have to open a separate hearing? >> Yeah. Yes. >> Okay. Well, in that case, I'll go ahead and open a separate hearing for uh public comment on our collective bargaining agreement with the teachers association. And uh we'll open that now. And if you would like to speak in regards to to this, uh now's your chance. Okay. Hearing no comment,
019I will close the public hearing. And again, September 30th uh of this year, which is what day is? >> Two weeks from today. >> Okay. So, it's a it's a Tuesday. Okay. Will be the meeting to approve um for the budget hearing to approve uh approve that uh that formal agreement. Um okay. Item 5B is a first reading of Neola policy updates. Uh, this is where Ashley usually reads all of these for us. Are you going to decline that again, Ash? >> Yes. >> Okay. I thought you would. >> Um, anyway, there's approximately 12 of those. Uh, so they're entered in uh for first reading and then they'll be on the docket for next month at the October meeting for uh final reading and approval. So, we won't actually go through those. It wouldn't be
020a meeting if we didn't have some policy updates to >> I agree. >> Look at I agree. Uh 6A uh I'm sorry. Uh six is closing comments. Uh and I already mentioned the September 30th meeting. Dr. Henshaw. Sorry about that. Stole your thunder. >> You stole the highlight. >> Yeah. Stole stole your highlight there. So feel free to uh chime in on anything else you'd like. Well, I want to recognize Michelle Cooper, one of our counselors at Yorktown High School, who was recognized as the Indiana High School Counselor of the Year by the Indiana School Counselor Association and someone from that association came and made a surprise presentation to her at the teachers meeting last week and Dr. Sturgeon and I were able to be there and be a part of that. So, that's a
021well-deserved honor. And uh it's it's uh I'm going to say not coincidental the number of those kinds of things that occur in this district. I I I hesitate to start to try to name them, but you know, we've had the the statewide winner for the school counselors or for the school high school counselor for the school psych. Um Stacy, I think, was a regional winner for principal of the year not too long ago. and the list could just go on and on of some of the honors that our certified staff has received. And so that's a that's a commendation not only to her but to the high school as well. Also, I want to recognize that Mr. Simpson was the region 6 outstanding school board member through ISBA and was recognized yesterday morning. >> So,
022congratulations to you. >> Thank you. And then I'm I'm not going to try to name individuals or sports because I'll forget somebody, but we're off to a great start in our fall athletic programs. It's been fun to watch some of that. Won't name any names. I ran into some Delta people down in ISBA and so it's always always better to have that conversation with them after a big win like that. >> And I read that was the that was a record >> Yes. >> spread in all of history. So >> there were a few tow cars involved in that. I saw. So kudos to Mrs. Toer's kids and the rest. So, >> okay. Anything else, Greg? >> That'll cover it. >> Okay. Closing comments from board members. Um, Ashley, I'll let you start. Uh, congratulations
023to Michelle as well and the girls golf team at the Hooser Heritage Championship and all of our Delta or all of our football teams I think except for eighth grade maybe beat Delta. So, it was a good win. too. >> And um I just after our last meeting I started thinking about how many times we talked about test scores and we just kept test scores and I thought you know teaching and being doing anything in a school is so much more than test scores and you know we wear so many hats every single day and I know all of you are doing all of those things and your staff and test scores is really just a small part of what we do each day. And there's there's so many more things of taking care of
024our kids and multiple ways. Schools may be the only hugs some of our kids get all day long ever at times. Food, clothing, just the comfort of someone who loves them. And I know that our schools do such a good job with that. and I thank all of you for all that you do. >> Okay. Thanks, Ashley. Jason, >> uh, nothing to add this one. >> Okay. I just have a couple of things. Uh, Dr. Henshaw mentioned the, um, ISBA and the superintendent association's fall conference just wrapped up this afternoon. Um, couple of interesting things, uh, developments, uh, or just discussions, uh, that came out of that. Um, teacher pay was one. So, uh, this morning we had a we had a breakfast that was attended by about about a hundred, uh, board presidents from
025around the state from different school corporations, and we had a variety of different kind of poll questions and things and and one of them was was teacher pay. Uh, and we talked about teacher pay and teacher retention and recruitment. Uh, retention and recruitment was a universal pain point uh, across the state, not surprisingly. Uh, teacher pay was interesting. Uh obviously 45,000 is the minimum mandate by the legislature now. So you have to be at at least 45k for for starting teacher, but um there were only about seven or eight people in the room that raised their hands that were over $50,000 and that includes some really big corporations. Noblesville was one of the one of the panelists for for that group that I moderated. And I I think we were higher than anybody. I don't
026think anybody I didn't I kind of took liberty and said anybody over 55,000 I didn't see a single hand raise. So, uh I I think that's you know that's exciting that we're able to do that um for our staff because they certainly deserve it. Uh tag grants was also a big topic. Uh you know the initial consensus was who wants to do it? Who's going to apply? And you know most of them were like no way. But at the end, you know, cooler heads prevailed, I guess, in that it's $35 million of money. And and if schools say no, just because there's not an easy way to navigate of how do you how do you figure out who to who to who to give those that those grant monies to, then the state will just
027take it away and they'll give it to a charter school or or a voucher school or somewhere else in the budget. So I I think the takeaway was ISBA is and probably with the superintendent association is going to try to be, you know, an incubator, if you will, and gather as many different ideas from other corporations around the state of how do we how do we effectively come up with a program that will equitably allow us to take apply for that grant money and give it to our best teachers. You know, there was talk about if you win it once, then you're not eligible the next year. So, it's not just the same teacher every every year and using things obviously other than just scores, right? Uh other outcomes just like, you know, we're hoping
028for through >> uh with, you know, uh more tweaking to the A throughF accountability side. So anyway, I thought it was good discussion and there seems to be um renewed interest in embracing it and coming up with a way uh you know a model a template uh of some kind that that schools could potentially consider. So I I thought that was that was really good discussion. Um it was a really good conference. A lot of good ideas discussed Dr. Jenner, uh the uh now the secretary of education for both K12 and higher education. Uh Katie was there and spoke and spoke very passionately about some things going on. Obviously, uh I read scores was a big topic of discussion. Um math scores was talked about in terms of improving math scores around the state. Um
029a lot of discussion about attendance um and uh and some success stories there. So anyway, it was a really good conference and uh u brought home some additional ideas I'll share with the board later. So uh that's all I have today. Thanks to to all of our staff for all you guys do. We greatly appreciate you all. And we are adjourned.