001[Music] Don't feel [Music] Hello. Hello. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Are the cameras on? Good evening. Welcome to the April 11th, 2023 Indian Hill Board of Education meeting. I will now call the meeting to order. Mr. Davis, we have the roll call. >> Mrs. Zikul, >> here. Mr. Marks >> here. Mrs. Singh >> here. >> Mr. Summer >> here. Mr. Tolles >> here. >> Okay, let's go to the adoption of the regular meeting agenda and memorandum. We need to adopt the agenda and and addendum. May I get a first? >> So moved. Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> Okay, Mr. Mr. Sham, we have some guests from Indian Hill Middle School. Students, if you could come on up and lead us in the pledge, we would appreciate it. He was much to the flag
002of 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 very much. Public commentary. Mr. Davis, do we have any public commentary this evening? >> We have none this evening. >> Thank you. Mr. KKI, can you lead us through the uh item six, the recognition, correspondence, and announcements, please? >> Welcome everybody. Uh we have some uh amazing celebrations and recognition tonight. Um thanks for everybody who's joining us. First, I'd like to congratulate 59 of our Indian Hill High School students uh who compete in marketing at the Deca State competition on Friday, March 10th and Saturday, March 11th in Columbus. Our Braves competed against approximately 2,000 students from across Ohio. 39 of our students made it to the state
003finals in their respective events. Those are all career pathway events where they're specializing in some part of business or marketing. Want to congratulate all those students for their amazing time and effort. Uh this has become an annual um uh event for our DECA students and um Susan Shaour and Phil say do such a great job with those students. Also want to congratulate our Indian Hill Middle School 8th grade student author Karma Phillips for advancing to the power of the Penn State competition. This competition is hosted at Ashen University in May and Karma placed 14th out of 78 writers during the power of the pen regional competition which took place at country day uh earlier in March. We also want to celebrate Indian Hill Middle School student authors Uma Sir Parappu and Ardisha Therani. Both qualified
004to compete in regionals and were unable to attend the state event. Congratulations to those students. Next, we'd like to con continue our celebrations with some more middle school and high school students who competed in the science Olympiad regional competition that was held in early March. Our students earned 13 team awards, fifth place overall and advanced to the state competition. Two of our middle school students earned four awards during the competition and that science olympiad is held uh on end of April at Ohio State University every year. So, February and March are big academic competition months for our school districts school district. Uh, want to celebrate Indian Hill High School visual arts students who received 11 art awards at the regional governor's youth art exhibition out of 1,062 submissions from our region. Our students were 11
005of the top 164 selected to advance to compete at the state level. Uh, IHS had three submissions by two students, Vivian Jenkins and Marin Messers chosen at the state level. Additionally, uh, regional winners included Liz George, Vivian Jenkins, Ryan Kenbec, Alyssa Kerr, Marin Messers, Macy Overton, Heidi Shellhos, and Vivian Zu. Want to celebrate our Indian Hill Cyber Club for earning second place in the tech Olympics showcase competition out of more than 50 schools represented. This is a debut appearance for our studentled competition by 15 students who participate in our cyber club. We're really proud of the student innovation that's developed with the cyber club. These are students who are really interested and passionate about computer science. Also want to celebrate five of our high school student athletes who took center stage in the gym for
006our celebration on Wednesday, March 22nd to commit to continue both their academic and athletic careers beyond high school at college. Participating that day were uh Cara Ericson, Alex Hansen, Alexander Sheldon, Jonah Waltz, and Sky Williams. Uh always this is a moment to cherish with parents, their coaches, their peers, and all the families who helped these Braves uh for this opportunity to move on to the next level. Uh outstanding athletes uh adding to a huge number of student athletes moving on to college this year from Indian Hill. Uh next up, we're going to celebrate some of our middle school students again. Uh Henry Sims, Abigail Ashton, Addison Colmeire, and Anakah Riddle for their positive contributions to helping all of our students at Indian Hill Middle School. We're going to have a conversation and a presentation this
007evening with those students and their teacher uh who are here. Sandy Gimmel is here to join us along with our administrators from the middle school as we highlight the middle school this evening. So uh Miss Gentine and Mr. Rener if you and your team would like to come on up when you're ready. >> Could I just add one special thanks real quick before we start this? >> Sure you can. And that's to to Shelley Wland and Wendy Sylvia for the foundation experience program that launched I guess last month last board meeting. I had a chance to go to that after our meeting and saw the energy that was built through that event and the work that Shelley in particular and Wendy have done is remarkable and it's the start of that program and it's going
008to be really cool to see how that develops over the coming years. Um I know they're not here tonight but for anybody who's paying attention look into that program. It's it's really innovative um educational opportunities for our high school students and just wanted to again reiterate our thanks to them for all the work they've done on that program and everybody on the stage candidly. >> Yeah, I want to thank everybody included. I know uh uh Nancy was involved directly uh as one of the partner groups and uh there is a commercial that was produced about experience ships that will be uh shared out after uh this evening that people can interact with to learn more about it and we'll also be following up with another new event this week on Thursday evening at the high
009school which will be the finals for the big pitch which is an entrepreneurship competition that our students and staff have put together that is going to be quite unique and special for anybody who has a chance to come see that program. It begins at 6:00 right here in the auditorium Thursday evening. Okay, with that, uh, I would like to welcome to the stage Miss Laura Jentine and turn it over to Lauren. >> Thank you, Mr. Kicki. Are you going to be able to present oursel direct me when you're >> Perfect. We're we'll we'll be ready. Perfect. Thank you so much for letting us uh come tonight to share a little bit about what we've been working on. Obviously, I joined our middle school team at a unique time in its history where we are building
010a a beautiful state-of-the-art facility next door. Um, but one of the things that was really important to us and I heard it uh loud and clear in the interview process and then I heard it anecdotally right away from staff and families um was that we didn't want the construction to be a defining experience for our Braves today. that we have students showing up every day whose experience at the middle school doesn't need to be defined by a construction project. And so I felt like uh my opportunity was to come in and help us think long term uh when we consider the impact of COVID on Indian Hill uh schooling and then the construction project. By the time we open that building, we will have not functioned like a typical one school building in almost four
011years. Uh and so that's a significant amount of time. So my job was to look ahead at how do we prepare to be one school uh and yet how do we make sure that our kids are having an incredible experience daytoday while that's going on. So Mr. Kicki, if you could click uh what we decided to focus on this year is that building into people and building relationships is is far more important and far greater than building a building. that we're incredibly honored and excited to get into that building uh sooner rather than later. Um it is so important for us to really figure out who are we and uh and recognize that if we hang our hopes on that facility, that facility is not anything special without its people in it. And so we've
012really focused this year on building into each other, connecting and uh and so if you'll go to the next slide, I'll talk a little bit about my process and doing that and then we'll turn it over to the team to talk about what's coming ahead and uh and what we've been working on. So I spent a lot of first quarter uh Mr. Rener and I especially really listening and learning what are the needs and opportunities in our building uh as a middle school and really trying to say yes. What we knew is that there are incredible opportunities and an incredible staff, state-of-the-art people, and we just needed to say yes. Uh, in fact, I I often use the metaphor with our staff that I picture myself as this archaeologist who is there are these great
013bones in the construction dust can sometimes cover them up. So, my job is to just continually be wiping away that construction dust and bringing back what who are we? What are we really driven by? What are our purpose and our values? As we went through a process to do that, we started to really coales around two themes. We wanted all adults and adolescents to know that they belong at Indian Hill Middle School. And we want all adults and adolescence to have the opportunity to exercise agency in their learning and in their development. And so we've started once we sort of unearthed those value statements um which fit right in well with our strategic plan as a district um we decided to start in in this really intentional and incremental way. What can we do now?
014What can we do today that's preparing us for this future? And we've talked about in fourth quarter as we go in, we want to affirm the things that we're doing right now and we want to get aspirational really soon. So, it's affirmational now and aspirational just around the corner. Uh continually looking to to progress as we build this building, knowing that the building itself isn't what makes us special. It's the people, the spirit, our approach once we're in it. So, um, this is kind of where we've gotten to today. I'll turn it over to Mr. Rener to talk about some of the ideas that have come up for next year. >> As we keep with the themes of belonging and agency for student agency, there will be a big focus on the village green. It'll
015be a great opportunity for students to create, to explore, to showcase all through the lens of STEM. We want to continue and and expand our student service projects. We love the PTO. and we're incredibly grateful for the relationship we have with them and everything they do for the middle school. We want to use that partnership to open up new student service opportunities at the middle school level. We're looking at advisory, building in an advisory consistent on a daily basis as a great way to connect with everybody through the building, not just students with students, but also students and teachers, all staff. A great way to do that through a consistent advisory. We're also looking at how can we expand course offerings for our students at the middle school, especially when we're in a place that's
016stable, it's ours, we own it. How can we increase course offerings or electives? How can we create a more flexible schedule that's student centered and gives students more choice? I would look at the next slide, please. As we open the new building, we want it to be a soft opening. We want to have field trips, small groups visiting that space so they can start to see, imagine, um, see themselves in that space, teaching, learning. We even like to hold classes for short period of time so teachers and students can feel what it's like to be in that new environment and once again start to envision themselves there on a daily basis. We'd love to have a new school camp for everyone, including staff, teachers. We're all getting acclimated with the expectations of how we're going
017to take on this amazing new building. All right, next slide, please. >> All right, at this time we will spotlight some of our students and hear from their experience. Coffee and conversations. >> You've seen these students before. >> Telling us a little bit about what coffee and conversations is. >> Okay. Um, coffee and conversations is where students with disabilities and students without disabilities um can come together and go to a coffee shop and like play games and interact with others and forming like um new relationships. Um should I say what? Okay. Um, and we're all going to share how this has impacted us. And this has impacted me um by like connecting obviously connecting with others, showing learning new um environments and other people's like what other people have a hard time with and helping
018them with that. this has impacted me um just by like seeing what a good program it is cuz my sister has autism and I know there's not a lot of programs out there for people like that and it like it's also just like a really nice break in the day to like relax and just chill and hang out. Um, this has impacted me by like I get to make connections with the students and by getting to see how they're all like individually different and how they all like work with others. It's impacted me by not just being able to make friendships at school, but also outside of school. For example, this program. and it's really nice to be part of a school that does stuff like this where you can connect with other students and
019learn about their backgrounds. >> Thank you. >> Um, one of the things that I think is so important about highlighting coffee and conversations is it's it's not me or Mr. Rener bringing ideas to our to our school. Like I said, we really see ourselves as these archaeologists just swiping away at this construction dust and focusing on these really good bones. people who we can say yes to, who are helping us to to make a school where everybody feels like they belong and everybody knows that they can bring ideas to us and we will do everything we can to support them. There are a lot of logistics that make saying no easy and we've decided not to do the easy thing. We want to continue to say yes because it's what our kids deserve. So, we
020appreciate the opportunity to come and highlight what we've been working on. We know it's a unique time in this school in school year and in Indian Hill Middle School history and so it's an honor to really get to to share what we've been doing. Thank you. >> Can you all just hold on up here for one minute? Mr. Rener, can you grab these for me, please? And is Miss Gamble, would you come up to the podium for a moment, please? >> Sure. >> So, last year, you may remember um and if I get this wrong in any in any way, Dr. Stewart, please help me. Last year, Miss Gmel was um our district honore and a state honore for the Martha Holden Jennings Award um for her skills as an educator. And that um program
021brings with it a cash reward. And Dr. Stewart, can you explain what Miss Gamble did with that cash reward? I think that what Sandy does that's amazing is that she thinks about what's good for the entire school population and not just a subgroup of people. And I think what the student said was so amazing is that this program which was funded by the grant that Mrs. skimmel received is that it's beneficial for both groups of students who attend and they have this opportunity to interact with each other and to truly form like relationships that will last many years to come. So this is an opportunity for those students to get together and to have a place where they can go and they can all be in even ground and play games together and drink some
022tea and some coffee and then return to school. And that sets a basis for a relationship that I think will last for many years to come. Mrs. Gimmel, anything you want to add? >> No, these are just rockstar kids and we've had a lot of fun and it's just a great opportunity to again like like they're saying, build authentic connections and I think that's so important. It's a true friendship um as opposed to like someone helping another. And I think they all highlighted just seeing the strength strength in each other. So, so >> super special >> board members. Again, Miss GML is being really humble here. She helped to fund this program that we I think should continue to fund to make sure that our students have these experiences moving forward as a part of
023her award and uh she's very humble and we're very proud of her and her students. >> Can I can I just add something to it? Look, so you may not know but I have observed you working. So when I was in the middle school working with PTO often times I have seen you working with these kids. So I know how special you are with these kids and how much you really make a difference in these kids life. So no thank you for everything you do and for the kids. You guys are amazing and you are the future and you are going to make the difference in this district and because of you all this district is where it is. So great work. Keep working hard. Keep building those relationship because it'll go longl lasting. You'll
024always remember these. >> I'll just add on to that. I appreciate your humbleness and your leadership and guidance. So thank you very very much the students. We appreciate your input and thoughts and giving us a firsthand experience of something you're going through right now. So that is amazing. Thank you very much for everything you guys are doing. We really appreciate it. >> Thank you. Brace. Uh Mr. Mr. Rener and Miss Gentine, could you stay up here for a minute? You all can go get comfortable again. Thank you. >> While we have Mr. Rener and Miss Gentine here, I just like to point out um Mr. Rener, this is the third principal you've worked with in three years. >> It is. >> Yeah. Mr. Rener, as an assistant principal, while our buildings have been disjointed and
025our grade levels have been all over the district, this is now the third uh principal in the last um that that he's worked with in the district. and I just want to thank him as an assistant principal for his leadership in the different buildings around the district. Uh Lauren and Drew do not get to be with each other much like some of our faculty don't throughout the week. Everybody is disrupted and they help to try to keep that as smooth as possible. So, thank you for all your work on the logistics, Mr. Runner, and everything you do. >> You're welcome. >> And Miss Gent, is Miss Gentine smiling behind me? Okay. She's usually smiling. What I would like to say about Miss Gentine and I I think this presentation is appropriate uh than it reinforces
026to me in my mind the climate of our middle school has changed in a palpable way because of that smile and because of the energy that Miss Gentine brings every day with her team. And when she says she's open and says yes, we see evidence of that all the time. And I truly appreciate her understanding of what this transition should look like. It's one of the reasons she was hired and she has a plan. Uh, and I I haven't given much input to that plan. Um, I don't think any of the cabinet level administrators have had to because Lauren's on top of it and that's what it's all about. And so, Lauren, welcome to the Braves again and we really appreciate you. >> Thank you. Thank you so much, >> Mr. Connect. I'd like to
027add on to that and um that Mr. Rener um appreciate you being so flexible. I know that you're missed at the high school. my son Ethan had a chance. I think your first year to have you there and and being flexible and being willing to move places where you're needed has been a huge help. So, we appreciate that. And Miss Gentine, I know that Miss Singh and I had the opportunity to listen to you during our instruction and technology where you kind of previewed this with us. >> Yeah. >> And I just say, you know, I think about a middle school experience and those are such interesting years, right, for a student, um, as you guys know. And so to think through, hey, we're doing amazing in instructionally as it relates to the academics and
028the academic performance, but we have opportunities where we can grow that you shared, but then also really thinking through those those pieces around this idea of agency and this idea of belonging. And I think that will be the piece that our kiddos are going to remember when they're 22 and when they're 32 and when they're 82 is having that sense of belonging, having that sense of purpose and agency. So, thank you both of you. Thank you to your staff. I I think it's really really important and appreciate that that's the lens that you see things through. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> And I I I love the the message of building the relationships is more important than building uh the buildings. But Mike, Kyle, Olly, Chris, Chris, if we hear
029that from you guys, >> we might have a different discussion, but thank you. Thank you. Uh before we move on, I'd like to say one other thank you. We have a special guest in our audience tonight, and that's our director of people services, Erica Leard. Uh Erica, wave. There you go. Sandy knows this. The students know this. Um people outside tonight know this. There are uh so many inclusive events happening in our school district and that is because Erica has put an emphasis on those relationships and worked with our leaders and our staff and they have a collaborative environment where they come up with some amazing ideas for all students to feel that sense of agency and belonging. So thank you Erica for all you do with that. I'll move on to the superintendent report.
030So tonight, um board members, we have a second reading for academic fees under 7A. Um you all have had a chance to review those for a month and no big changes there. Uh letter B, some approval approval of an overnight field trip for our DECA students for nationals. Uh and then letter C is a host of our annual personnel actions, TW tuition reimbursements, and professional meetings. Those run from uh C1 through 10 and also onto the addendum through number 11. And those include uh the approval of some administrative contract terms, uh a couple of certified staff contracts, some change of contracts for new positions, including our uh student engagement and campus life coordinator uh and our play studio teacher for next year. Those are those teachers on special assignment. uh as well as a couple
031of retirements and resignations under number eight and some supplemental personal service contract approvals um as well as one tuition reimbursement. And if you see on the addendum also we have uh some retirement resignations approval for summer help and an esports field trip. Uh if there are no questions, I have a couple comments after this, but if there are no questions, uh I would like to ask the board to entertain uh approval of 7A through C1 11A that's inclusive of addendum items 7, B, and C. >> May I have a motion to accept the superintendent's report? >> I'll make a motion to approve items A through C1. Is that correct? >> Yes. Yes. >> Inclusive of the addendum. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Marks. >> Yes. >> Mr.
032S? >> Yes. >> Mr. Tullus? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Zikoltz? >> I. >> Mr. Summer. >> Yes. >> Thank you all. And I'd like to go back to the approval administrative contracts for a moment. You know, I think it's really important when we work in a public school district to acknowledge leadership and stability and leadership positions. And tonight we've approved uh renewal terms for both our chief academic officer, Melissa Stewart, and our chief human resource and operations officer, Jim Nichols. I was quizzing them before the board meeting and neither one of them could actually remember how long they had been in the district until I quizzed them. I believe Jim, it's 12 years now, >> correct? >> And I've asked Dr. Stewart three times because it's been so long. Is it 17? >> Yeah, 16.
033>> So I think >> Dr. Stewart started when she was two. Just for >> I I think this is really important for not only public school and leadership development but for the future of public schools. Both of these leaders started off in other districts. They came to Indian Hill and they made their mark as principles and their longevity as principal leaders was recognized by all staff and the board of education to provide them with the opportunities that they're in now. and they have done commendable jobs uh in the time that I've had the privilege of working with them. And I just think it's so rare in public schools anymore, no matter what size they are, to have leaders with such staying power and longevity and stability. It's what makes excellent school cultures excellent. And I
034can't even ex begin to explain the amount of work that these two people in particular do for everybody in this district. We talked also last year about uh Miss Hickden uh again a chief communications officer that simply there is no better in the nation uh up there in the dark somewhere and um who helps us to communicate in any way shape and form you can imagine at the highest level and Dr. Dr. Owens, who can't be here with us tonight unfortunately, but um has been with the district both as an assistant principal and now as a head principal and renewed and has taken the primary school through a change process that has led to some amazing work and some upcoming amazing um I think accolades and she has just done a great job. So really
035want to thank all of these people and um not just recognize their term and renewal but the hard work that they do all the time. Melissa, thank you. Jim, thank you. We sincerely appreciate all of your hard work and effort that you guys both put in to make this a great environment for everyone in the village. Thank you very much. Okay, we're going to move on to the treasures report. Mr. Davis, for my report tonight, I'll start with the approval of minutes from the March 14th, 2023 regular meeting. Approve the financial reports for the month ending March 31st, 2023. Item C is a resolution raising the capitalization threshold of a fixed asset from $2500 to $5,000. Uh the Government Finance Officers Association made a recommendation in 2007 that public government entities should have that a
036threshold of 5,000. I decided with uh things the way they're going with inflation and all those things that 2023 is the perfect year for us to make that move. So, um, that's why I'm recommending that move. Item D is to approve now and then invoices. Um, we don't have any of these anymore, unfortunately, and this one couldn't be avoided. Um, this was for Rockworm Academy. It's reimbursement of Hamilton County ESC with IDEIDA funds in the amount of $17,480.20. Item E is to increase and decrease some of our budgets for some of the uh some of our funds. Uh there are five changes to appropriations there. Item F is the approve the following construction contracts. There are six of these items and I know we typically don't do a lot of celebration when we have to
037talk about change orders and the cost of our construction project going up, but I would like to mention a few celebrations tonight as far as these go. Item one is roofing material escalation. And I know escalation sounds like a dirty word, but in this case, our Scansa team did a wonderful job along with our with MSA and MCS of u comprising our GMP when we first did it and going out and looking at the inflation numbers they were predicting and saying, "We think we could do better. We're going to write in a clause and we're going to wait until it's actually time to buy that product." and that's how we got to 27,000 when in actuality it probably would have been a much higher six-digit figure had we written those into the original GMP. So,
038it's really exciting when we see that that everybody's working together to save money, help us put together the best project we can. Item two is approval of structural steel $141,98759. Again, a large number, but this number actually decreased from what we thought it was going to be in March. So, that's another celebration. Um, item 10 is not so much of a celebration, but it's a need that we found as we were doing the design process. Uh, we wanted to put some receptacles in our science room, so we made sure we had plenty of electricity for all of the computers and technology that we use in those centers. Item four is the community room layout finishes, $25,822.80. And number five is as signage innovations. This is for room signage. Again, this is something that we're doing
039as as the district going out and doing direct contracts, trying to find the best possible prices we can for these and our our own staff doing a wonderful job finding some great great value within these uh these particular orders. Same thing with the Cincy Entertainment Services, uh, installation of a sound system in the cafeteria. Mr. Eric Smei, who's up top, who is one of the most humble people in the district, was instrumental in getting this price and the value that we're going to get for this this product. So, again, we usually don't celebrate those construction contracts, but I just wanted to let everybody know we are all working as a team and we're all trying to get the most value we can out of our dollars to make the best project we can. Item G
040is to approve the following contract. There's one on there for this evening. It's for the Hamilton County ESC. This is a collection of annual services um that we purchased from them. Uh the total amount of the services is 235,785.60. We do receive a credit from the ESC in the amount of $13,136.50. And then finally on my report, item H, the acceptance of donations. Um, the PTO donated to both our p our primary school and our elementary school both their art and music departments in the amount of $1,419.54. The boosters uh donated $1,600 for our mock trial state tournament team. And the boosters also donated uh 2500 for our robotics team to go to state. Again, we always appreciate our our partners that are willing to uh help raise money and help donate that back to
041the district so we can get all the extra things for our students that they deserve. And with that, that's the conclusion of my report. If there are any questions, no, but I have one comment. >> Yeah. Which is that I look at like the music department, art department, mock trial, and it's pretty cool because the work that we're doing now, what kind of impact that has. So, I'll be going to Memphis to watch the national championship for mock trial at the collegiic level. And we'll have four Indian Hill students there. We will have Michael at Ohio State, uh Albert and my son Ethan from UVA, and Casey from Yale who are all on their A teams. >> That's amazing. >> And so, when you think about this is the national championship, you've got four different
042kiddos at three different universities that will be there. And I know there's other things out there. Um, but it's cool to see our kids, whether it's arts, athletics, you know, uh, different things that are the the foundational work that they get here. And so, thank you to the um to the PTO and the boosters for supporting those because it makes a huge difference. Just to to uh echo a little bit of that, when it comes to robotics, some people um who maybe have not been around the district as long may not be aware our we did not have robotics teams in the past. And over the last four years, the or 5 years now, the way that this team has come together as a club and competed uh would not be possible without the grants
043and the assistance of our partners. And they're also winning accolades all over the state of Ohio and qualifying for national tournaments. Uh the same goes for esports which just started last year with foundation help and was a state runner up in their first year. Our students are doing some amazing things with the support of our partners. >> So I'll make a motion if there's no discussion to approve uh the treasures report items A through H6. >> Second. >> Mr. Marks. >> Yes. >> Mr. Tullus. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Eicolz. >> Hi. Mrs. Singh, >> yes. >> Mr. Summerall, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> Next up, board members, we have the second or sorry, the first reading of our new uh spring mola policy updates. I've attached all of those there for you under 9A
044through T. If you could take a look at those and if you have any questions, please let me know and we will review those again uh next month. >> I just have one question. Are all of these um updates and changes versus are any of these actual new policies? uh all updated language and just modification to current policy language. Uh there is one addition that I would point out and that is under uh student staff acceptable use and safety policies. There is a new there's new language because of artificial intelligence um which is new but a part of a policy that we're now um modifying. >> Which letter was >> uh M&N. Okay. Item 10, other business by the board administration. >> Uh board members, uh we're very fortunate this evening uh to have reached
045an agreement with the uh Indian Health Foundation and a uh donor and his family, Mr. John Harter who can't be here this evening uh but uh we have been in contact with and at this time would like to ask that the board consider uh the approval of that agreement contract between our school district the foundation and Mr. Harter. >> May I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Ju just a comment I I guess really um this will be a transformational gift for the school. Um Mr. Harter and his family are making a significant gift, the largest of its kind that I'm ever aware of and certainly all the thanks to his family, to him, um to the foundation, our partner who's been involved from the beginning of this. Um, but
046we take for granted sometimes how fortunate we are to live in this community and and this is one of those times I think it's worth to hit the pause button and really take a step back and reflect. Uh, just the generosity that that Mr. Harter has expressed to the school. Um, I've got to know him a little bit. I look forward to getting to know him better. Uh, he is as humble of a person as you would ever find. Um, and doesn't want the recognition that he deserves for this gift and it's important that it honors his family. Um, when I met him, I asked him, you know, what what is it can we do to to truly honor his wife with this generous gift? And he kind of flipped it around to me. He
047goes, "Well, what do you think?" And my comment was, "We will do everything we can to maximize the value of his gift, maximize the, you know, his family's integrity, his intent, um, and his support of this school and make sure that the resources he's giving to this school will be used in the best manner possible, whatever that may be. We don't know what it is. You know, it's tomorrow is a different day. Um, but just to reiterate that thanks to him. We look forward to publicly celebrating him. Um, again, thank you to his family. Thank you to our partners at the foundation who I don't think could be here tonight. Um, but really impactful gift and really exciting to see uh what this will lead to and um just a reminder of how fortunate we
048are to to be in this community and in the school district. So just one other comment additional there will be um some information shared out um this evening board members after your uh your vote and uh we again want to reiterate our thanks to all of our foundation members and the president Lisa Consolino as well as the employees of the foundation including Lori Kleinens for all of their hard work and partnership with us uh to make sure that we can again continue with our community to do amazing things. very humbled and honored to accept this type of gift to the district. I >> I also should have added thanks to Mr. Kcki for his work and building the relationship with Mr. Harter. Uh this gift would not have happened without his relationship and the trust
049Mr. Harter placed in Kirk's leadership for the school, getting to know the team around him. Um this is a this was a monumental effort by everybody, but certainly led by Kirk and his team and um this gift would not have happened without your leadership. So, thank you for for that. So uh from uh uh the evening maybe we could do the vote and then we'll share one last detail. >> I'll vote it yes. >> Mrs. Iikolds >> I. >> Mr. Tullis. >> Yes. >> Mr. Marks. >> A resounding yes. >> Mrs. Singh. >> Yes. >> Mr. Summer. >> Yes. >> Thank you all and we're very proud to announce the Sue Harter Memorial Performing Arts Center as of this evening. and moving forward when people visit this building in the future forever they will understand
050the story uh of Sue Harter and her family and the amazing gift to our community. Thank you very much. >> Okay, item 11, adjournment. At this time, I would like to adjourn the meeting. We have any other business? May I get a motion? >> Make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I thank you everyone. >> Thank you. Thank you everyone. >> Exclusive coverage on the Indian Hill Television Network has been a copyrighted presentation of the Indian Hill High School Video Department.