Welcome to the May 20 meeting of the MCCSE board of school trustees. I am not your regular host
 April Hennessey
 I'm the vice president Erin Cooperman. I know the agenda still says April
 Clear that up
 We ask that you please come to order
 Tonight we honor the excellence of MCCSE dedicated employees students and volunteers to make a
 difference in our community
 Miss Harmon
 Thank you
 President Cooper men dr. Winston the board of trustees and community members
 It's my pleasure to share this month's excellent spotlight
 The excellent spotlight is a feature of every regular board of school trustees meeting
 This is a dedicated time to honor the excellence occurring every day through the dedication of MCCSE
 employees students and volunteers
 To make a difference in our school community and foster environments that reflect the mission
 vision and core values
 The May excellent spotlight goes to Bloomington High School North student. I Lou Allen Lou
 I Lou Allen was selected to participate in the molecular medicine in action a symposium that was
 held in February at the
 Herman B. Wells Center for Pediatric Research Cancer Research
 Institute Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis
 50 students were chosen for more than
 150 applicants from across Indiana to participate in this program which participants which provides
 participants hands-on experience with the techniques used in modern
 Biomedical research we congratulate I Lou Allen on being chosen for this special opportunity. Thank
 you
 On behalf of the board. Thank you. Ms. Harmon and congratulations to I Lou Allen Lou for being
 recognized tonight
 We also have a special presentation tonight
 Winston
 Thank You vice president
 Last month I shared that students from Bloomington High School South
 Were named one of the ten national finalist teams in the Samsung solve for tomorrow stem
 competition held in Washington, DC
 Today I'm thrilled to announce that this team was one of the three national winners and received a
 prize package valued at
 $100,000 in Samsung technology and classroom supplies. Can we give them a round of applause?
 Additionally this group of talented young women won the rising entrepreneurship award that's worth
 25,000 additional dollars
 That should get a hand clap
 This team designed it designed a prototype called the storm shield an echo friendly headband
 Specifically created to protect hearing aids from damage during physical activities
 It also senses potential dangers thereby improving accessibility and sports for students who use
 hearing aids this evening
 I invite the team members to come forward to receive the superintendent's sustaining excellence
 award
 I understand that many of them have other end-of-the-year activities tonight and may not be able to
 attend
 But as I call your name if your presence, please come forward
 Audrey Adams
 You
 Danielle Yang Emily Wang
 Nikki bash car
 Isha and Cole Harbaugh
 Sarah Carmona Melendez
 Sarah Carmona Melendez
 Wing is get another big round of applause for
 Thank you, thank you.
 I think if we were to share a word, I think, beginning from the team, this like, this whole
 experience has been so long, there's been so much hard work and effort in the process,
 but to be such winners and to have this money for our school is really meaningful for us
 to be able to give back to our teachers for everything that they've taught us and for
 encouraging us to continue in the competition, but especially I think the biggest win is
 being able to continue with our product.
 So the $25,000, we are using it to purchase supplies and to do research as well as to
 file our patent, which is a really long process, but we are really excited to use that money
 toward putting our product out to the market and get started with the process.
 So I think, yeah, thanks.
 [applause]
 This is absolutely what excellence and sustaining excellence looks like at MCCSE.
 Thank you ladies, we so appreciate you and we celebrate you on this amazing accomplishment.
 On behalf of the board, thank you Dr. Winston, and congratulations to Dr. Milks, Ms. Parker,
 for those on this team who attended tonight and for those who were unable to attend.
 A tremendous accomplishment, we are very proud of you.
 You would like, you are more than welcome to depart from the meeting, you do not have
 to remain for the rest of the meeting.
 But you can, you are welcome to.
 Only the students can leave.
 We will now receive our quarterly update on the activities of the MCCSE foundation.
 Mrs. Helm.
 Thank you Vice President Kuhlman, members of the school board, and Dr. Winston.
 That was hard to say, I'm used to the Hennessy, sorry about that.
 Alright, so they left before I could say congratulations, but wow, most everybody in this room has
 been through some sort of a higher ed degree and you've had big projects and stuff.
 To do what they did is pretty darn amazing, so yeah, because those competitions are stiff
 and those corporations don't let go of that money easily, so they did a good job.
 Alright, speaking of those types of things, we just finished our scholarships and awards
 for the year.
 This year we were able to award $25,600 that went into mostly seniors that are moving on,
 but there are some undergraduate class awards.
 So those were presented mostly last Thursday night at both North and South.
 The listing is on our website, so I encourage you to go take a look at who some of these
 other amazing students are that are inside of our corporation that are receiving scholarships
 and awards.
 I also, this is not really me, but I just want to do a thank you to Lisa Greathouse.
 She puts together the MCCSC Fund Run.
 I don't know how many people in here are aware of it or go to it or have ever been there.
 The past couple of years she has hooked that on to our mental health endowment, so any
 fundraising that comes through that is going into the mental health endowment.
 And this year they were able to add $1,300 to that, so we're very proud of their work
 for that and we appreciate what they're doing.
 We were also given notice that we have been awarded a literacy grant from Centerpoint Energy
 Foundation.
 At this time in the year we're going to roll that money forward into the fall and it's
 going to be used on some of the Jamie Peebler literacy training that will be happening for
 our faculty.
 So I know a lot of you have probably been through some of that already.
 This is allowing it to continue.
 There's another grant that we also closed in the spring with the City of Bloomington.
 It was a trades grant for $38,000.
 That is in support of the trades industry for construction electrical welding programs
 that are at Hoosier Hills Career Center.
 It was a very different twist on anything that we have done before and basically what
 we try to do with that is to take students who are graduating in those fields that are
 planning to move into the career and when they graduated last Thursday, they received
 tools.
 One of their largest barriers is if they are working for a small business that doesn't
 outfit them with tools, drills, electrical things of that nature, welding helmets, those
 types of things.
 It's a barrier.
 So it's just like not having a car, if you can't get there, you can't work, if you don't
 have a helmet, you can't weld.
 So it was a really different twist for us and I was really proud to work with Andrea
 De La Rosa at the city to make that happen.
 So that was a very, very new and different thing for us.
 Upcoming on how we fund some of this stuff is Golf4Kid.
 That is Monday, June 16th and we have sold out our teams.
 So if you really need a team, call me, I'll try to figure it out, but we have actually
 sold out our teams, so we're very grateful to all the sponsors that have come in this
 year and are fielding teams, as well as this year we also have a lot of individual teams
 that have been put in.
 Our event sponsors I'd like to thank is Medical, CFC and CSO Architects.
 There's a ton of other sponsors, I'm not going to go through the full list of it, you
 can check those out on the website, but those are the primary ones at the highest level.
 Our lunch and golf ball sponsors also at a high level, that's Blades Audio Video and
 Weddle Brothers Construction, so a big thank you to those.
 Now I know a lot of you were there, I saw a lot of you, I did see both of you there.
 Two Saturdays ago, time flies, we did our first duck race festival, okay, if you did
 not come, you missed out, all right, it was a blast.
 Being a bucket truck hoisted over the fountain at Woolery Mill, dropping 3,426 ducks into
 the fountain, yes we counted them all, they all had a number on them, was amazing, it
 was amazing.
 The support that we had for this event to take it out just from people buying ducks,
 so we sold 3,426 ducks, goal for next year is 6,000, we want to double down, okay, that
 brought in about $19,000, and if you don't have any, if you don't know how hard it is
 to sell 3,426 ducks, find Vanessa McCleary and ask her, and you can ask me, because it's
 hard.
 Gaming Commission doesn't make it easy for us to do that because it's all in personal
 interaction, you can't hit the website, buy a duck in your private home, it's all done
 the other way.
 So, a huge thank you to the sponsors on this, Cook Medical, Community Chrysler Dodge G Ram,
 Old National Bank, Harris Services, Blesinger Entertainment, Steve's Rusing, and Cassidy
 Electric.
 And a big shout out to Vanessa McCleary with Kiwanis in South Central Indiana, they were
 a partner with us on this, first time we've ever really partnered with somebody outside
 of the corporation.
 They were selected because they're in our schools already, they do a lot of work at
 a lot of the different schools, so I know a lot of you know them.
 Our winner for that was Dale Jones, so congratulations to Dale, she won the $2,500 with the winning
 duck.
 And I also want to give a big shout out to the students at the Academy of Science and
 Entrepreneurship in Jim Meyer's Architectural and Design class, if you were there you saw
 what they created, it was really really cool, they've already asked to come back, so nothing
 taken from any other STEM groups inside the corporation, but they have it next year, and
 they will be fine tuning what they did to make sure that it grabs a little bit better
 this time around, but it was a learning year all the way around, and I just really thank
 everybody.
 Since there's so many faculty in here, have a great summer, and thank you for everything
 you do to art with our kids and for the corporation and for parents and for people like me, I
 did forget Ms. Antrim, I don't know if she's in here or not because there's a lot of you
 back there, she was our winner on the 500 minute reading challenge, that means her kids
 turned in the most forms at the event, that doesn't happen just without parents and teachers
 encouraging them to do that.
 So the event will take again next year, so encourage your kids to come, it was just a
 lot of fun, and thank you all so much for a great year.
 On behalf of the board, thank you Mrs. Helm, and I can confirm the duck race was really
 fun, the ducks were fine, but the real hit for my kids was the carnival games, so if
 you get an opportunity next year, there are carnival games, definitely check it out, and
 there were lots of volunteers, I really appreciated that too, seeing that.
 We will now proceed to public comment, thank you to all who have signed up and acknowledged
 the guidelines to speak to the board tonight.
 As a reminder, Mrs. Butcher will ring the bell once to signal that you have 30 seconds
 for your comment and five bells to signal that your time has concluded.
 The first person on my list is Jonathan Frey.
 Hi, I'm Jonathan, either way, I'm a reporter over at the Indiana Daily Student, and I understood,
 sorry, I'm a little, I've never spoken at a board meeting before, we recently got word
 of some layoffs that are going to begin to happen in the MCCSC over the course of this
 next year.
 And I just wanted to ask a little bit more if you're at liberty to tell me a little bit
 more about the reason behind that, especially because we just saw a press release saying
 that you got in the referenda over $30 million to support faculty and staff.
 So and I'm sorry to like bring the vibes down from these great achievements that we were
 just talking about, but I was just curious if you could explain a little.
 We don't usually respond during public comment.
 Okay, understood.
 Thank you.
 Is there any other time that I would be able to reach out to somebody and get an answer
 for chance?
 You could email us.
 Okay, understood.
 We, somebody emailed you and we were told it would be discussed tonight, so I apologize.
 Thank you.
 Next on my list is Eric Nolan, I might be pronouncing the first name wrong, the last
 name is Nolan, okay.
 Thank you, Dr. Winston and MCCSC Board of Trustees for listening.
 My name is Eric Nolan, and I speak to you this evening in my role as MCEA board member
 elect.
 A number of people are obviously very concerned with, you know, budget concerns coming up.
 We were already concerned when the two-year strategy to achieve balance was presented,
 and now we're looking at, you know, more dire circumstance when it comes to our budget
 next year.
 We recently, I think it was just made public that a number of positions have been set to
 be laid off already, and none of those are teaching positions, so I really can't speak
 directly to them, except that just as a fellow worker, my heart goes out to people who are
 being laid off because of this.
 Something that keeps coming up, and a number of members have talked to me about, is reporting
 on the two-year strategy specifically regarding administration compensation versus what we
 can find from the Indiana Gateway, where the school corporation reports, you know, employee
 salaries to the state.
 And I myself, just honestly, after school today, I wrapped up grading, just decided
 to pull the data from that and sort it by administrator type, and then further sorted
 that by building-level administrator.
 I noted that on the Indiana Gateway website, it shows that our total for building-level
 administrators in 2022 is, I'm just going to summarize, or abbreviate the numbers a
 little bit, about 5.5 million; in 2023, 5.9 million; and in 2024, 6.1 million.
 For central administration, and this includes both certified and non-certified central
 administration
 positions, in 2022, on the Gateway reports, just over 2 million; in 2023, 2.5 million;
 and in 2024, 3.1 million.
 And so, those totals add up to, you know, administrator salaries being about 7.6 million,
 8.5 million, and 9.3 million.
 When I look at the graphs regarding, specifically, administrator salary totals on the Two-Year
 Strategy website, I'm seeing much smaller numbers reported; for instance, central administration
 positions are listed in 2022 as 647,982; in 2023, 583,000; and in 2024, 843,000.
 So, there's a difference of, you know, more 2 million and then up to 3.5 million dollars.
 And I don't know how to explain this when people ask me, and I would love some sort
 of explanation for this as we're looking at budget cuts, because it appears that administrative
 salaries have grown substantially in these last three years or so.
 Thank you.
 Thank you.
 Next, we have Jenny Nogokuchera.
 Good evening, Vice President Cooperman, School Board of Trustees, and Dr. Winston.
 Thanks for having me here again this evening.
 I am the Monroe County Education Association President, and as such, I represent 558 members,
 all of whom have signed a petition.
 And the petition essentially is asking our school board to adopt a reduction in force
 policy given the current climate that we are living in.
 I have sent drafts to our school board in the hopes that it would become a topic of
 your conversation, because essentially what this boils down to is we are working with
 our administrators.
 We have fantastic conversations and discussions, and we are meeting to that end with clarity
 and transparency.
 However, it's not enough.
 What we're asking is you all as our employers to actually put into place a policy that will
 make it crystal clear who stays and who goes.
 If there is gray area, which there has proven to be in a court case, Elliott v. Madison,
 that's not going to bode well for any of us here in this room.
 So it is the last thing I want to ask for, and yet it is exactly what I'm asking for,
 and that is for all of you to discuss and adopt, hopefully, the draft that I sent you
 yesterday morning, because right now the Indiana code, and I quote, says, "Any of the following
 items may be considered."
 Following that, we have things like content areas, additional content degrees and credit
 hours, performance categories, on and on and on.
 So without clarity and without transparency, it's going to be really difficult for us to
 move forward beyond our good conversations with administrators if there's no policy that
 everyone can follow and everyone knows is happening in a straightforward way.
 So please do us the courtesy of looking at that draft.
 It meets with Indiana code, it is constitutional, so it won't provide any issues.
 And I thank you so much for that consideration, I hope it moves.
 Thank you.
 And last we have Angie Shelton.
 Good evening, thank you Dr. Winston, Ms. Kripperman and the other members of the school board.
 My name is Angie Shelton and I am an elected member of the NCEA board and I'm speaking
 on behalf of NCEA members this evening.
 I have several questions related to the two-year strategic plan that I'm hoping will be addressed
 in the presentation this evening, but well related to that I guess as I learned this
 afternoon right prior to the meeting in the personnel report that 61 support staff positions
 were eliminated today.
 These are primarily lunchroom staff, custodians, and other support staff.
 These are, speaking as anyone who spent time in the school, really important positions.
 Having clean buildings and safe food that can be delivered to our kids in the amount
 of time they have so that they still have time to eat are important things.
 And so as someone who's in the building, I feel for those positions.
 In addition, it doesn't seem like eliminating lowest paid positions is one of the most strategic
 ways to reduce costs, so I have some other ideas about ways that might be more effective.
 One of them would be offering retirement incentives to staff.
 We have a lot of high paid staff, and as you know MCC has pretty, or MCCSC has pretty good
 salaries now, and we have a lot of people who would be willing to retire if used early
 with any kind of incentive.
 And that would also then reduce the highest paid positions while retaining lower paid
 positions and younger teachers whose jobs are more critical probably for their families.
 Not that people closer to retirement aren't, but hopefully if you're close enough you
 can afford to live a decent retirement.
 And that would also not just save more money, but improve morale, and a lot of people in
 the district, and I'm sure the school board as well and administration, this is a difficult
 situation and it's stressful on everyone.
 So giving people options I think would reduce a lot of anxiety.
 And my third comment is just to echo Jenny's request that we have a clear and consistent
 RIF policy.
 By state law, if RIFs are done, and I know MCCSC has said they don't plan to do any
 this year, but by state law they have to be done between May 1st and July 1st.
 And so the next board meeting is the end of June, which should things happen during the
 summer, and I'll just say I know people are afraid that they may lose their jobs, but
 it would be dependent on the school board to approve something that goes through discussion
 with MCCSC and the CDA.
 Thank you.
 We'd like to thank everyone for their comments tonight.
 Now for our consideration is the consent agenda that includes the following.
 Minutes from the hearing and board meeting held on April 22nd.
 Memorandum from the executive session and minutes from the hearing held on April 29th.
 ECA expenditures, annual request for projected overnight out of state field trips for 25-26.
 Financial report, April 2025.
 Appropriation balance report, April 2025.
 Register of claims, May 2025.
 Payroll register and payroll claims, April 2025.
 Request to declare as surplus and authorized disposal of out-of-date items.
 Do I have a motion regarding the approval of the consent agenda?
 So moved.
 Do I have a second?
 Second.
 It's been moved by Ross and seconded by April that we approve the consent agenda.
 Ashley.
 Sorry.
 Thanks, Ashley.
 It's been moved by Ross and seconded by Ashley that we approve the consent agenda as presented.
 All those in favor of the motion to approve the consent agenda signify by saying aye.
 Aye.
 Aye.
 Against?
 Say no.
 Abstentions?
 Motion carries.
 Next for our consideration are the donations.
 We have received donations of over $2,000.
 Thank you to all our donors.
 Your generosity is appreciated.
 Do I have a motion to accept the donations?
 So moved.
 Do I have a second?
 Second.
 It's been moved by Ross and seconded by Erin that we, Erin Wyatt, that we accept the donations
 as presented.
 All those in favor of the motion to approve the donations signify by saying aye.
 Aye.
 Aye.
 Against?
 Say no.
 Abstentions?
 Motion carried.
 Next for our consideration is the personnel report.
 Do I have a motion to approve the personnel report as presented?
 So moved.
 Do I have a second?
 Second.
 It's been moved by Ashley and seconded by Tiana that we approve the personnel report
 as presented.
 Dr. Henderson?
 Thank you Vice President Cooperman, Dr. Winston, and members of the School Board of Trustees.
 This evening I would like to call your attention to the following administrative changes of
 status and retirements.
 We have two administrative changes of status that I'd like to highlight for you this evening.
 The first of which is Kelly Dawson.
 Kelly is transitioning from an assistant principal's position to the principal's position at Rogers
 Elementary School after 14 years of service to the MCCSC.
 Alongside her, Melinda Fields is also transitioning from an assistant principal's position to
 the principal's position at Lakeview Elementary School after 8 years of service to the district.
 So I'd like to offer the opportunity for those individuals to speak to the board.
 Good evening.
 Thank you Vice President Kupferman, Dr. Winston, and the Board of School Trustees.
 I am honored to continue the excellent work at Rogers during this next chapter.
 It feels like a bit of a homecoming for me as I spent the first 9 years of my career
 across the parking lot as a Benford Badger.
 The time I've spent at Rogers a little bit over the course of this year has been, I've
 been touched by the willingness for everyone on the team to lend a hand regardless of the
 scenario or the different students and the high standards for everyone in the building.
 I'm thrilled to join the team in the fall with eyes wide open about what lies ahead and see
 what we can do together for our students.
 Thank you.
 Thank you, congratulations.
 Thank you.
 First I want to extend my deepest thank you to Vice President Cooperman, Dr. Winston and
 the board for this extraordinary honor.
 I'm extremely grateful for the trust and confidence that you've placed in me to take on this
 challenge.
 I also want to express my love and appreciation for my family who unfortunately weren't able
 to be here tonight.
 There's an event at Jackson Creek that they are attending and while they're missed I was
 accompanied by some amazing teachers that I work with from Lakeview.
 When I started there in 2017 I was new to the school and was immediately drawn to their
 love for family and for Lakeview and so I'm so appreciative for them and they continue
 to inspire me for their dedication to education and their passion for professional development.
 I also want to acknowledge the mentors and Summit Elementary for the things that I've
 learned from them in the past several years.
 I got to spend the last three years part-time at Summit and the lessons that I learned along
 the way there will carry me into this next journey and again I'm just so grateful for
 the opportunity and thank you.
 In addition I'd also like to highlight for the board that we have one administrative
 resignation Glenn Hopkins is resigning from his principal's position at University Elementary
 School after seven years of service to the MCCSC.
 Moving on to certified staff retirements Donna Barons-Kincaid a teacher of sixth grade Alps
 at University Elementary School is retiring after 33 years of service to the MCCSC.
 Kelly Holloway a teacher of special education both at Bloomington High School South and
 the Hoosier Hills Career Center has been with the MCCSC for 11 years and is also retiring
 at the conclusion of the school year.
 We have some support staff retirements as well that I'd like to highlight this evening
 Donald Butcher is retiring as a lead skilled maintenance person operating at the service
 building and Mr. Butcher has been serving the MCCSC for 43 years.
 Tina Hill is retiring as a food service supervisor one from Marlin Elementary School and has
 been serving the MCCSC for the last 23 years.
 And finally highlighting Cindy Rogers a corporation bus driver who works at the transportation
 building and has served the MCCSC also for the last 23 years.
 Altogether the retirees presented this evening represent a combined total of 133 years of
 service to our school community.
 On behalf of MCCSC I would like to extend a special thank you to all these individuals
 for their many years of dedicated service and wish them well in their next adventures.
 At this time I request that you please approve the recommendations as presented in your board
 packet in the personnel report.
 Thank you.
 Thank you Dr. Henderson.
 Congratulations to our new principals, to the retirees, to those moving on to new adventures.
 We appreciate your service.
 Do I have any comments from the board?
 Thank you Donna.
 It's not often I get to say that because someone's actually in the room when their retirement
 is brought up, but thank you.
 Thank you for all you've done.
 All those in favor of the motion to approve the personnel report signify by saying aye.
 Aye.
 Against say no.
 Any abstentions?
 Motion carries.
 We will move on to the contracts.
 Do I have a motion to approve the contracts and award two bids as presented?
 So moved.
 Do I have a second?
 Second.
 It's been moved by Ashley and seconded by Tiana that we approve the contracts and award
 two bids as presented.
 Mr. Kenney?
 Good evening Vice President Cooperman, Dr. Winston, members of the board.
 There are 13 contracts and two bids to be awarded before you tonight.
 I recommend approval of the contracts and bid awards as presented.
 Thank you.
 Do I have any comments from the board?
 All those in favor of the motion to approve the contracts and award two bids signify by
 saying aye, aye, against say no, any abstentions.
 Motion carried.
 Tonight, Dr. Winston will present the referenda impact report.
 Dr. Winston?
 Thank you Vice President Cooperman.
 It is a pleasure of mine to be able to move forward and to share with everyone an update
 on the impact of the 2022 and the 2023 referenda.
 This is something that we will begin doing on a regular basis so that the community is
 very clear on the promises that were made over the last couple of years and how those
 dollars have been spent and the most important I think aspect is the impact that the referenda
 dollars have had on our children.
 In thinking about supporting excellence in our schools over the course of the 2022 and
 the 2023 referenda, there are four large categories that are addressed within each of those referenda.
 Early learning is the one most recently from the 2023 referenda.
 Teachers and staff, that's from the 2022 referenda primarily.
 Curricular enrichment and student support, which was incorporated into both and student
 school supplies for the 2023.
 Within the course of the last two years and three months, approximately 22.6 million dollars
 of referenda funding has been invested to support our students and our staff.
 When we talk about excellence in our schools, we recognize that we have a strong and long
 tradition of quality instruction, amazing students as you got a chance to see a little
 bit tonight.
 And here are some of the numbers, MCCSE by the numbers that represent some of the ways
 in which we are excellent, ways in which our students and our faculty demonstrate excellence
 each and every day.
 I won't go through and read them, but you can see there, and the one that I think jumps
 out certainly is our graduation rate.
 We're not quite back to where we were pre-pandemic, but we're on the rise in that regard.
 The amount of money that our families are saving for college by the participation of
 students in dual credit and AP courses.
 I particularly like the blue boxes in that when you think about the 289 or 290, it depends
 on which reference you look at, but there are some folks who have indicated that MCCSE
 is the 18th best school corporation in Indiana out of 289.
 Not shabby, not bad, but we think we're even better than that, and we really want to see
 ourselves get into the top 10, so I'm very proud of that number 18 distinction, and then
 also when they talk about districts with the best teachers in Indiana, we've been ranked
 as number 22, and they must not have been inside our classrooms yet, because I would
 put our teachers up against anyone and say that our teachers rank number one out of however
 many schools that are actually in the state of Indiana, and so we think that this is noteworthy,
 we recognize that excellence is everywhere in our schools, in every building, in every
 classroom, and inside of every one of the students that we serve, that we have the fortune
 to serve, so I think that's an important piece just for us to be reminded of.
 For the 2022 referendum, I'd like to start briefly there.
 The 2022 referendum, from January of 2023 through March of 2025, provided $36.881 million
 of money to support our students and our staff in these three areas.
 The teachers and salary staff, $24.6 million, support staff, $9.9 million, and then special
 programs.
 I'm going to talk a little bit more about each of those areas momentarily.
 But overall, $36.8 million is what we received from that 2022 referendum, and it's important
 for the public to know exactly how those dollars have been spent.
 One of the things that I think is important for us to be reminded of, and when we had
 an opportunity to talk with our faculty members and our department members, we talked about
 the fact that while our voters unanimously approved the 2022 referendum, the 2023 Legislature
 put in some tax caps, some limits as to how much money we would actually be able to receive.
 So while you'll see under the graph of 2023 on the left-hand side that our community approved
 $17.3 million and we actually received $17.3 million, and we are appreciative of that.
 For 2024, $17.8 million is what we were expecting to receive, and that's what we actually did
 receive.
 The difference, I think, went into effect that the 2023 legislation was not going to
 go into effect until 2025.
 And so if you look at that, we were anticipating a levy increase of a little over $1 million
 for 2025, which would have allowed us to have $20.2 million from our 2022 referendum, but
 we only received $18.9 million, or we will only, we haven't received it yet.
 We will only receive that this year.
 And so I think it's just important for our taxpayers to understand the implications of
 the decisions that are made at the State House.
 I think our teachers recognize that, and they've made their voices heard loud and clear, and
 we continually encourage everyone to make their voices heard, so it's important to know that
 all of the monies that were committed by our community have not come to the school system.
 For the 2023 referendum, again, we're looking at January 2024 through March 2025.
 The total investment is approximately $8.4 million, and you can see that the bulk of
 those dollars are going towards early learning, but we also see a pretty significant amount
 going towards students' school supplies, and that was a big win for a lot of our families,
 and you'll hear from some of our families a little bit later in terms of how they felt
 about that.
 And then the additional dollars went towards advanced placement, dual credit, and enrollment
 fees where they weren't already spent in other funding sources.
 So I'm going to break down and just talk a little bit more about each of the four areas.
 So I mentioned on the earlier slide that we spent approximately $6.2 million in early learning.
 The thing that's most impressive about that is we've had more than 104 percent increase
 in participation and enrollment in our early learning program, and that's pretty exciting.
 During the first eight or nine weeks of school, we'd already recognized approximately a 73
 percent increase.
 But when you look at our school programs and our community programs, we've more than doubled
 participation, and that is a significant investment in the future of our community.
 And we are eternally grateful for that.
 During this upcoming school year, we're going to utilize these monies as well to expand
 upon our three-year-old program.
 So efforts are underway with Dr. Dowling and his team to make sure that we are well positioned
 to continue to grow.
 Now, we may not be able to grow it as much as we had originally intended because of the
 tax caps, but we certainly want to make every effort to provide access and early access
 to our three-year-olds.
 So when you take that $6.2 million investment and you distribute it across each of these
 categories, you can see how much money has been spent in each of these areas.
 Students benefiting from pre-K more than doubled; I've already spoken to that.
 The second area, teachers certified in early childhood.
 So we spent a lot of time and energy and effort to make sure that we had the highest quality
 teachers certified in early learning and early childhood to be able to provide instruction
 to this population of students.
 And then we also invested monies to provide professional development.
 New curriculum materials were purchased across the board for all of our early learning programs
 and we're very proud to be able to share that those dollars were spent to make sure that
 our students had access to high quality curriculum.
 In addition, we are very, very ecstatic to be able to report that the majority of the
 families that participated received free pre-K, so 68% of our families, their children participated
 free of charge.
 Not $1 did they spend and that is something for our entire community to be proud of and
 thankful for.
 32% had a reduced rate and I don't think anybody paid the full rate and so we're very ecstatic
 about that and honored to be able to be in a position and to be in a community where
 that level of commitment to our youngest learners is present.
 We are so thankful for the five, six partners, had been five for the longest, the six community
 partners.
 They have been amazing in working alongside us to make sure that we're providing the highest
 quality early learning programs throughout our community and these six partners have been
 by our side helping us to design what the programs need to look like and they are also
 a significant reason why we have such a significant increase in growth in the percentage of
 students
 who are participating.
 And I know you've heard a lot of this information already from Dr. Dowling a couple of months
 ago but it's a significant piece for us to be able to share within our referenda impact
 report.
 I'll give you just a moment to read just a couple of quotes from some of the family members
 who whose children are participating.
 This will help you get a better understanding of why it matters.
 And if you'd like to read more, please go to the website or click on the QR code there
 because there are many, many statements that have not been edited but have come directly
 from the mouths of our families who are so appreciative of the generosity of our community.
 Teachers and staff, that's the second overarching area that I think is important to talk about.
 Approximately $34.5 million from the 2022 referendum has been invested in teachers and staff
 through
 base salary increases as well as hourly rates. If you take that 34.5 million dollar investment
 and you break it out, you will see that 24.6 million dollars went to support our teachers
 and our salary staff. And 9.9 million dollars went to support our support staff. And so
 it's important to know that everyone benefited from this investment from our community.
 A couple of comments shared by our families and our parents regarding the relationships
 that they value with our educators. Curricular enrichment and student support
 Both referenda, the 2022 and the 2023 referenda, supported expansion of different programs
 and supports for college and career readiness. And so I want to just kind of highlight a
 little bit of that and some of the examples of how those dollars were spent. So this in
 2022 was a 2.3 million dollar investment between the months of January 2023 through March 2025.
 Some of the examples, not necessarily an exhaustive list of examples, inclusive of the performing
 arts, IB programming, which really is the continued certification requirements for IB,
 as well as outdoor education so that our students can continue to participate in some valuable
 programs such as Bradford Woods and Honey Creek Outdoor Education Programs. Just to name a
 few. In addition, in 2023 under the same category, 1.3 million dollars were spent from January
 2024 to March 2025. College course fees covered and career technical education costs covered.
 Those covered under the career and technical are those supports and services that are not
 covered under a separate funding source. I think it's important to denote that. And the
 student school supplies. This is probably one of the hottest ticket items, and I could
 certainly clearly say that there was a lot of excitement and enthusiasm amongst our teachers
 to be able to standardize the types of materials that every child in every classroom was able
 to see. And you would have thought they were getting the supplies, the excitement that
 I saw and experienced, and it was a lot of fun to see that happen. And I credit our teams
 at the building level for identifying what the supplies were that they felt like their
 students needed. So the referendum covered $912,000. That was the investment for materials
 and school supplies. And to be able to announce that there is no need for any more school
 supply lists was pretty exciting. And so then you can see the itemization that was necessary
 out of the budget office, and I can't even imagine the amount of details that they had
 to manage in terms of keeping track of how many pencils and binders and markers and construction
 paper and crayons and scissors and on and on. I just can't even, I don't want that
 job. I wouldn't want that job to have to keep track of all that. But it's a significant
 investment and it really has mattered so much to our family. And I think we have a quote
 here from a couple of family members just to understand how something maybe small to
 some is so significant to others. Quotes from the families that we serve each and every
 day. I hope it warms your heart as you think about it. So to put everything in context,
 I think it's really important. We run a $187 million operation in this corporation. It's
 pretty significant, $187 million. And Mr. Kinney's going to talk about the distribution
 of those dollars and what that looks like. But when you put the referendum in the context
 of all of that, if you'll see the two yellow highlighted areas, that represents approximately
 18% of our overall operating budget comes to us from the 2022 and the 2023 referendum.
 I talked a little bit already about past legislation. The 2025 legislative session concluded. And
 there are some significant impacts that are going to hit us, just like they're hitting
 every other school corporation throughout the entire state of Indiana. And the tax caps
 that were passed in 2023 are hitting us now. That's the $1.2 million that we're not going
 to get this year. Senate Enrolled Act 1 is going to reduce our operations fund by approximately
 $17 million. But we are working very closely with our finance team to verify and clarify
 exactly what that dollar amount is going to be. We think it's going to be somewhere between
 $15 million to $17 million. But we want to continue to work with our finance team to
 make sure that we can plan accordingly and how that's going to impact us over the next
 three years. And then, of course, the state budget bill, which everybody's heard about,
 the significant reductions that have happened there across the board. But at the end of
 the day, that's going to give us fewer dollars per student, which then goes into our education
 fund. And we've spent a lot of time talking about our education fund, how that is utilized,
 and the focal point of our two-year strategy has been in addressing the education fund,
 which helps pay for our teachers. But I think it's really important that we all have a better
 understanding of what our overall operating budget is, what the various funds are, how
 those different funds are being spent, and how the legislation here in the state of Indiana
 is impacting those dollars. Our commitment, certainly we recognize and do not take for
 granted the generosity of our community in allocating these dollars to our schools. It's
 important to me, it's important to our collective team, that we will come to you every other
 year, every two years, to share an update similar to this on how we've spent the money,
 what the promises were, what the commitments were, and most importantly, as I said before,
 how has this impacted our children? And so, our students want to tell you a little bit
 of story about how this is impacting them. Our community has supported the Monroe County
 Community School Corporation by voting yes for tax referenda in 2022 and 2023. This
 essential funding is an investment in our students, the future of our community. Over
 the past two years, the referenda have made a real difference for students and families,
 investing approximately $22.6 million each year in four voter approved areas. These four
 areas include early learning, teachers and staff, curricular enrichment and student support,
 and student school supplies. Thanks to the 2023 referendum, one of the biggest wins for
 families has been expanded early learning with free or greatly reduced pre-K tuition.
 The pre-K program helped me a lot financially as a single dad to help make ends meet. It's
 truly a lifesaver for parents. In only one year, the number of children attending pre-K
 through MCCSC and partner programs has more than doubled. That means more kids are entering
 kindergarten ready to learn and more parents can pursue work knowing their children are
 in safe, high-quality care. As a single mom working full-time, I was really nervous with
 him going into school. Such a blessing. I haven't had to pay for it. You know, we were
 able, thankfully, to get the help and the assistance. So, you know, normally I would
 have to go and spend a lot of money with the child care and other programs, but with the
 extended day and pre-K, both, the entire day is free. And it's just, it's wonderful.
 Since he had started the pre-K program is around the time I started my new full-time
 job. And I've been able to, you know, make it every day and be consistent with my work
 and just rest assured and feel confident at work that he's safe and, you know, well cared
 for. The referendum, making pre-K free, allowed us to thrive as a family and individual people
 as well. It opened up a lot of possibilities. I was able to finish school, find a career,
 that I love. He was able to make friends and this allowed us to move on with our life,
 continue to grow as a family and individuals. So Max, he wasn't very confident coming into
 that pre-K. He made choices at home, but he didn't really translate to school. So it's
 kind of built his confidence and made him feel more empowered with how he spends his
 time. The pre-K program has really illuminated this other side of him. So he brings home all
 these really brightly colored drawings that he makes every day and they always have smiles
 and rainbows. And before I didn't really know how he felt about things and now he's just
 so happy. In addition to our pre-K program, both referenda have also enhanced our curriculum
 and student support. The 2022 referendum also allowed us to attract and retain highly qualified
 educators. Voters approved raises of $4,500 for teachers and salaried staff. And for support
 staff, a $2.25 hourly raise on top of 1.5% raises. The 2022 referendum also supported
 free student school supplies. The school supply program, the assistance has been amazing.
 Helping me so much just be able to budget as a single mom and to not have to worry about
 that extra expense. So it's been great. Thank you for my school supplies. Thank you to our
 community for supporting referenda to sustain excellence in our schools. Your yes votes
 have truly made an impact on students and families and we are deeply grateful. Thank
 you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Dr. Winston. And
 let me add my thank you to the community in a year when those of us who care about public
 education have felt like we've taken a lot of hits. I think that probably includes everyone
 in this room. I know that I find a lot of comfort in the fact that my immediate community
 has shown so much support. All of those things that were in the video are things that our
 community members did, that voters did, that wasn't the board and that means a lot to me.
 So thank you. I have a no crying in school board meetings rule for myself so I'm trying
 to maintain that rule. I'm going to turn it back over to you Dr. Winston. Can you please
 proceed to the two year strategy for sustaining excellence update? Gladly. Earlier this year,
 after several months of reviewing and analyzing corporation finances, we announced the rollout
 of a two year strategy to achieve financial balance. At the time, we identified two specific
 structural issues that were adversely impacting our finances. Declining student enrollment
 and increasing payroll expenses. Following the announcement of our two year strategy,
 I committed to providing a quarterly update to the public to demonstrate our progress.
 Our May 2025 quarterly update includes what will become the cornerstone of each of our
 future quarterly updates. A financial transparency report that will detail the progress of our
 five part financial management plan to increase resource optimization, to generate new revenue,
 and ultimately to increase our cash reserves. Our CFO, Mr. Kinney, has worked tirelessly
 to secure additional revenue opportunities on behalf of our corporation. You will hear
 in this financial transparency report that Mr. Kinney will share, an update on our cost
 savings through natural attrition, cost savings through employee retirements and resignations,
 and all centralized non-classroom cost savings to date. Primarily, these non-classroom cost
 savings will focus on the reduction of centralized services, central office, and services that
 did not have a direct classroom impact. As we shared in February, our first priority
 is increasing operational efficiency while thoughtfully reducing personnel expenses in
 alignment with student enrollment and available revenue resources, all while attempting to
 minimize direct impacts on classroom instruction. So when you talk about excellence in MCCSE,
 we know that we have a long tradition of excellence, excellent students, excellent administrators,
 excellent teachers, excellent educators, and excellent performance in the academics, in
 the arts, in athletics, and numerous other areas. We have consistently demonstrated excellence
 because our commitment to every student, in every classroom, every day. On this slide,
 you see just a few examples of how we consistently demonstrate excellence throughout our community.
 Our focus is meeting the needs of every child that walks through our doors. We continuously
 provide high quality instruction, we are focusing on the academic growth for every child, and
 we do that through amazingly strong community partnerships. Back in February when we announced
 our two year strategy to sustain excellence, we specifically discussed items three and
 four on this slide. Our two year plan encompasses strategies to address these two structural
 factors. As you will recall, for those of you who were present during those presentations,
 our enrollment declined by over 800 students, 833 to be exact, since COVID, which resulted
 in a cumulative loss of revenue to the education fund of approximately $22.4 million, inclusive
 of this current school year. In addition, our annual payroll expenses increased by approximately
 31% over the three years, which was about $28.6 million. As a friendly reminder, our
 two year plan encompasses strategies to address items number three and number four of the
 structural factor. Tonight, Mr. Kenny and I will highlight our efforts to bring us back
 into financial balance over the next several years. In April of this year, the Indiana
 legislature passed legislation that will adversely impact our ability to operate as we have known
 in the past. Specifically, SCA-1 is projected to cause our corporation to lose approximately
 $15 to $17 million, as I referenced earlier, in property tax revenue. As a result of that,
 our two year strategy will need to be adjusted to account for the known and the unknown
 reductions in state funding. Today, as we begin to share our financial transparency report
 that will become a cornerstone of our future two year strategy quarterly update, that's
 an important piece for us. This financial transparency report will include components
 of our financial management plan that you see highlighted by the arrow here. We will
 also address new avenues for revenue generation that are being thought by Mr. Kinney, resource
 optimization, and building our cash reserves. Mr. Kinney will also provide an update on
 our current cash balance, an essential indicator for assessing and monitoring the fiscal health
 of any organization. He will also highlight some cash balance projections based on our
 current and future efforts that will extend through the year 2028. As you will see, some
 of this work is well underway and putting us on the right path to financial stability.
 But to be clear, we are not there yet, but we are definitely moving in the right direction.
 Just as a friendly reminder, these are the guiding principles that we outlined back in
 February that inform our work, that includes a focus on sustaining educational quality,
 and our commitment to the community. When we talk about and think about our guiding principles
 in action, this is what we are thinking about, and these are some of the actions, the recent
 actions that we have taken. Mr. Kinney and myself and members of our executive team attended
 faculty meetings in every building, talked with every department and staff about what
 the two-year strategy is, what it means, and why it is essential. We reached out to our
 families, employees, and the public to share with us thoughts, ideas, concerns, and suggestions
 for how we can strengthen our strategy. We did that through some online forums. We updated
 our FAQs in response to considerations at this particular website, and myself and my executive
 team have spent a lot of hours, weeks, and months analyzing all viable options that preserve
 educational quality, minimize classroom impact, and are good for kids. Our first priority
 of this particular strategy to achieve balance was through natural nutrition. To date, we
 have identified throughout the corporation of 198 positions that are currently vacant
 as a result of retirements, resignations. 117 of these are already vacant, and the remaining
 numbers will become vacant later this summer. So by August, we anticipate 198 vacancies.
 Now, I have to admit that some of those vacancies will be filled. Some of those vacancies include
 building principles, and so we're in the process now of reviewing each and every one
 of those vacancies to determine how many of those 198 will remain vacant. We do not anticipate
 any of them being filled, but that's a body of work that is underway right now. If you'll
 recall from our February and March meetings, we talked about 80 to 100 teachers generally
 resign or retire every year in our corporation, and then we replace every one of those every
 year. Similarly, we see anywhere from 250 to 300 support staff resignations every year,
 and we have historically replaced all of them every year. Times are different now. We cannot
 continue to operate in that manner, and so each and every position has been reviewed
 and is in the process of being examined to make those determinations. Mr. Kenney will
 talk about the potential cost savings that would exist here with that 198 year over year.
 The second area of our two-year strategy is centralized position reduction. This means
 reductions in centralized services, programs, and staff to realize savings as much as possible
 outside of the classroom. Centrally, we have approximately 28.8 FTEs that have vacated
 as a result of natural attrition. We have an additional 53.3 FTEs that are as a result
 of position elimination and position reduction. We are very sensitive to the fact that those
 are individuals' livelihoods, and we don't take that lightly. We recognize also that many
 of those positions were initiated during COVID era, and we feel as if those positions can
 and should be eliminated at this particular point in time. Some of those are in the area
 of health services and custodial services. We have some additional centralized support
 staff positions that have been eliminated as well. There are support staffs from the
 main admin building. There are positions that have been eliminated from transportation,
 from technology, from food service, as well as by building services. All of those areas
 that are not physically housed in a building may impact a building, but they are not in
 the classroom. So in total, we're looking at 83.1 positions that have been identified
 for reduction across multiple departments. These reductions represent a 10% cut to departmental
 spending. While every effort has been made to minimize reductions in our classrooms,
 these centralized reductions will definitely result in operational gaps that will impact
 indirect service delivery and capacity in key areas such as maintenance, technology, custodial,
 functional support, and food services. In addition to the reducing of centralized positions,
 we are also in the process of reviewing centralized non-personnel reductions across the various
 departments. These reductions will reduce supports and services from the central level,
 but we believe it demonstrates our commitment and our effort to direct as many resources
 as possible towards classrooms while being as efficient as we can. The other area that
 we talked about had to do with our enrollment. We believe that we are and will continue to
 be the top school choice in our community. We recognize that when COVID hit, many students
 and families left us. Some moved out of town. Some made other choices. And so it's really
 important to us that we bring our students back, that we get our students back because
 we recognize that the quality of instruction that we deliver here is truly second to none,
 and we want to make sure that we are responsive to the needs of our families. We've surveyed
 family members who have moved on to other school options, and we've heard from them
 that there are a number of options that they would like to see us have available to them,
 and we are responding to that. One example of that responsiveness is our commitment to
 offer some online learning opportunities for our families. So some of our families have
 left to go online, and we want to make sure that we have a responsible and effective and
 efficient, unlike what happened during COVID, online options. And so that's really important
 for us to figure out and make sure that we will have that as an available option for
 our families for the 25-26 school year. So that's just one way in which we are listening
 to our families and trying to be responsive, because we do believe that we have the best
 educators to be able to support our students. And in doing that, we're certainly looking
 at additional partnerships that can assist us with offering that online. So for those
 of the teachers in the room who are getting a little nervous about what that was going
 to look like, don't be nervous, because we are looking at how we might partner to provide
 that support. And as I prepare to close my portion of this presentation, I think it's
 important for you to know that we're going to illustrate our financial story. Only we
 can tell our financial story, and it's essential that we do so effectively, efficiently, accurately.
 We want to do so by thinking about and talking about the past, as well as what our future
 projections hold. While we have, in fact, maintained a stable cash balance with the assistance
 of one-time funds, we will illustrate how we are moving toward a model of true financial
 sustainability through our two-year strategy for financial balance that we shared with
 you back in February. As we shared in February, our two-year financial strategy requires structural
 adjustments. One-time fixes are not going to get us out of this. We must have structural
 fixes, and the structural challenges that are in front of us require us to reduce our footprint
 in terms of our staffing. Reducing structural expenses in our budget, which are primarily
 payroll. We all recognize that 85 percent of all of our expenditures are payroll-related,
 and in order for us to be able to do that, we must align with the financial reality that
 we are facing. A decline in state funding, an enrollment decline, and future projections
 of population and enrollment decline. That is our reality. This presentation will illustrate
 the important structural changes that we are making as we achieve true financial sustainability.
 Our CFO, Mr. John Kinney, will now share our financial transparency report, and he will
 demonstrate the current and projected impact of the structural improvements that are underway
 within our two-year strategy. As I mentioned before, as he provides this financial transparency
 report detailing the progress of our financial management plan to increase resource optimization,
 generate new revenue, and ultimately increase our cash reserves, you will hear in this financial
 transparency report an update on our natural attrition cost savings to employee retirements
 and resignations and all non-classroom cost savings to date. Primarily, these non-classroom
 cost savings will focus on the reduction of the centralized services. And as we shared
 in February, our first priority is reducing expenses while minimizing direct impacts on
 master instruction. Mr. Kenney? Thank you, Dr. Winston. I'd like to begin with a review.
 It was also in the referendum report, but of the overall MCCSC budget. On the following
 slides, you'll see charts with color-coded areas. The upcoming slides, these indicate
 the different funds that make up the majority of MCCSC's total budget. This presentation
 will focus on MCCSC's three largest funds, the education fund at 47% of the budget, the
 operations fund at 24% of the budget, and the referendum 2022 fund at 13% of the budget.
 Each of these funds has specific usage requirements per Indiana code and a little bit of context
 payroll expenses are approximately 85% of MCCSC's overall budget and payroll is primarily
 paid out of the education fund for teachers and operations fund for support staff. While
 these funds include other expenses, payroll is the largest expense. The following three
 graphs show progressive cash balance projections. The first graph, the first slide will show
 projection for the period 2025 through 2028, utilizing data available towards the end of
 December 2024. This projection showed that the corporation had a structural imbalance
 that would lead to a projected cash balance of negative 30,571,973 at the end of calendar
 year 2028. In 2024, the year just completed, we had some one time adjustments of 7.3 million
 that allowed the corporation to maintain a level cash balance. Graph one is a projection
 that shows cash balances over time if the corporation were to make no structural adjustments.
 Outlining this slide for you, it shows cash balances for 2023 and 2024, which are actual
 at this point. And then it shows projected balances from 2025 through 2028. The red area
 is the 7.3 million in 2024. It was highlighted as one time adjustments that helped stabilize
 a structural imbalance that would have had 2024 at approximately $17 million, a decline
 of the 7.3 million had we not had the one time adjustments. This shows the projections
 from 2025 through 2028 show a year over year structural imbalance in the education operations
 and referendum fund 2022 of approximately 14 million on average per year. Graph two begins
 with the graph one assumptions, but updates the graph with actual data for the first quarter
 of 2025, January to March, along with changes for additional information obtained. The first
 bar graph is a repeat of 2024 from the previous slide. And then we have projections from 2025
 through 2028. In this slide, the average annual structural imbalance has been reduced to
 approximately
 11.8 million from 2024 through 2028. The improvements are due to reduced payroll projections and
 revenue projections based on the spring legislative session. Graph three illustrates the updated
 cash balance projections through 2028 based on our two-year strategy implementation as
 of 5/7/25. At DataSpick, we do a weekly updated report that brings us the vacancies forward
 at that point in time each week. So 5/7 was the Wednesday of the position control report
 that we work off of to provide this data. And that weekly report continues to improve,
 but we utilize that report at a point in time of Wednesday, May 7. It includes natural attrition
 and non-classroom cost savings, which are centralized service position reductions. So
 Graph 3 shows, again, the 2024 information. And then 2025 through 2028 includes those
 updates from vacancies that have already happened or have been processed by the Human Resources
 Department as upcoming either July 1 or the school year, which usually begins in the middle
 of August for teacher and some support staff salaries or hourly. So with the effect of
 natural attrition and support staff resignations and retirements, we are, as of May 7, 2025,
 we have projected annual savings of 7.7 million on an annual basis through attrition and the
 centralized cost savings. When applied to Graph 2's assumption with actual data through
 March 2025 and then applying the natural attrition and other cost savings to those numbers, we
 show that we have much smaller annual projected deficits to the tune where at the end of 2028,
 we see a cash balance in the collective funds of 9.2 million up from 30 million on the first
 graph and 21 million negative on the second graph. So substantial improvement due to natural
 attrition and other cost savings at the central office areas. While this is not a finished
 product, by any means, it does show significant improvement in our cash balances. As a summary
 of the graphs, they are intended to show progress towards the structural imbalance the corporation
 is facing. Those cash balance projections do not include one-time adjustments that have
 been previously discussed. One-time adjustments will be included in future updates as they
 occur. The following is a list of potential one-time adjustments that have been discussed
 over the past six months at a variety of sessions and events. Those include taxable bond revenue,
 EV bus rate income or reimbursement, IRS solar rebates for the 2023 calendar year, IRS solar
 rebates for the 2024 calendar year, and also we have not included SEA-1 estimated property
 tax levy reductions. These potential adjustments are being analyzed with our financial consultants
 to determine their effect on future budgets. Another couple slides I'll hand back to Dr.
 Winsome, but I'm available for any questions either at this time or at the conclusion of
 this presentation. Mr. Kenney, I know we've talked about this before. Is there an update
 on our bus rebate? Yes. There are strong rumblings at the federal level that the rebates
 are moving and at Monroe County as well, although when we would receive that money is not really
 clear at the moment, but I have been reached out to for some additional information and
 have been told by our consultants that when they reach out like that, it's with the intent
 of providing the funding in the not too distant future, but I can't guarantee that at all.
 Thank you. Any other questions for Mr. Kenney? Thank you. So as in conclusion, as we wrap
 up here, there are a few main takeaways that Mr. Kenney and I have talked about in terms
 of what does this mean for our fiscal future. The main takeaways are certainly declining
 student enrollment. We recognize that we've had a pretty significant decline. It seems
 to be tapering off a little bit, but the demographic report that we received back in November
 suggests
 that we will continue to have a decline over the next 10 years. State funding. Well, need
 I say more about that? And we are monitoring that very closely and working with our consultants
 to make sure that we have the latest, most up-to-date information about what the implications
 and the impact may potentially be for us. So we're not confused in that regard. And
 certainly the increasing payroll expenses have required us to make the structural changes
 that are currently underway. Nobody looks forward to making the kinds of changes that
 we must make in order to be relevant, quite frankly. Natural attrition is working for
 us. There are some who said to us, natural attrition will never work. We beg to differ.
 We are beginning to see some good progress in that regard. We are not posting any type
 of mission accomplished sign because we are far from there. But it's encouraging where
 we can save monies outside of the classroom. That's a priority for us. We are not taking
 that lightly. And then we also recognize that while one-time influx of cash is helpful and
 beneficial, that's not going to get at the structural challenges that face us. And so
 while we haven't realized our full financial sustainability, we are moving forward. So
 some of our action steps are to continue to move forward with our current structural changes
 to close the financial gap between our declining student enrollment and our increasing payroll.
 That means reducing the number of people that are on our payroll, as painful as that is.
 And continuing to examine operational efficiencies corporation-wide. We have looked at every
 single position, all 1,998.3 positions that exist within this corporation, to determine
 what's the right number. You know, how many folks are necessary to do the various jobs
 that are required in our organization. And that's a very uncomfortable and a difficult
 conversation to have. And yet we believe that these efforts demonstrate the corporations
 and this administration's commitment to making difficult, strategic, and student-centered
 decisions with a focus on all decisions being made with as much transparency as possible,
 with integrity, and our community's values at the center.
 That concludes our report with just a friendly nod back to the guiding principles that are
 front and center every day that we walk into our offices and make the tough choices and
 decisions that are necessary to maintain our fiscal viability in the future. Thank you.
 Are there any questions or comments from the board? Dr. Winston, as always, you can decline
 to answer this, but I know in the last two public comments, I think, the last two months
 of public comments, we've had people raise the issue of administrative salaries, and I
 appreciate that we've started, that the cuts we've made so far have been to central office,
 and we may not need to make additional cuts, but I wondered if you would want to take the
 opportunity to address concerns about administrative salaries and cuts, especially in light of
 the public comments we've heard recently. So in terms of administrative salaries, it's
 something that we're very sensitive to and paying very close attention to. There's been
 a consistent history as to how items regarding staffing is reported through Gateway, and
 so the reporting mechanisms that have been in place for the last several years haven't
 changed, and so we're continuing to follow in that regard. There are certain positions
 that are required in running an organization such as ours, and so I can't speak to the
 discrepancies that someone might be referring to, but I can say that every administrative
 position that exists in the corporation, whether it's centralized out of central offices or
 whether it is at the building level, is under review and consideration, and we recognize
 that there may well be some additional changes. We've had some reductions in central office
 administrative positions. We anticipate that there may well be more, but we also anticipate
 some building level reductions as well at the administrative level based upon the significant
 decline in enrollment, and so everything is on the table at this moment in time for consideration,
 and so we're not going to be overstaffed in any area. We're going to make sure that the
 staff that we have aligns to the students that we serve, and importantly, it aligns
 to the revenue that we have. We cannot keep staff on the payroll that we cannot afford
 to pay. That's a disservice to our community, and that would not make us a good steward
 of the finances that we've been entrusted with.
 Thank you. I appreciate that, and let me say, again, I know I appreciate the sensitivity
 with which you addressed this. I think people noted in public comment that we wish we didn't
 have to make any cuts, and it's not an easy thing to do. I sympathize with those who have
 gotten noticed recently, and as you said, we don't want to make light of that. Thank you.
 Thank you, Dr. Winston. Thank you, Mr. Kenney. Next, we will have an update on the Redistricting
 Study Commission, Dr. Dowling.
 Thank you, Dr. Winston, Vice President Cooperman, and members of the Board of School Trustees.
 Thank you for this opportunity to provide an update on the Redistricting Study Commission.
 This is the May update. As always, I'd like to highlight our project charter. It really
 defines the scope of our study. I won't go into detail because I've shared this before,
 but just a reminder that our project charter includes the purpose of our project, our goals
 and metrics, as well as our expected deliverables.
 Tonight, I really want to highlight our guiding practices for the Redistricting Study Commission.
 This graphic here really highlights the circular nature of our work. We want to really make
 sure that we're using research and best practices, including a review of those. We've shared
 articles with the Redistricting Study Commission. We've discussed those articles. We've shared
 a synopsis of other important topics related to redistricting.
 We use data, both from those articles as well as localized data, share that with the commission
 as they ask us for information about topics related to the running of our schools. We've
 shared that data with them as part of the engage, evaluate and refine process, and then
 that continues to let us know what articles, what topics they'd like to learn more about
 as we continue our work.
 This slide really just highlights the practices I've already highlighted. I do want to take
 a moment to highlight the web page we have for redistricting. I would encourage those
 to look at it if they have not had a chance yet. It's mccsc.edu/redistricting. On there
 we have a timeline of redistricting in our school corporation. We have a frequently asked
 questions section, and as well as we have this slide deck and all the articles we've
 shared with the redistricting commission that we've discussed.
 Moving forward, I'd like to really highlight the work we're focused on right now, which
 is commission considerations. We sent a survey out to the community. We had 333 responses,
 and this survey asked community members to share what considerations or what factors
 we really should focus on in our focus of the commission. We also included the notes
 from the World Cafe from our first commission meeting. We had 333 responses from community
 members. These numbers add up to more than 333 because of course community members often
 fit in more than one category. This highlights the number of parents and guardians we had,
 the number of former parents, guardians, school employees, community members, and alumni. We
 took those results of that survey along with the notes from the World Cafe and we put it
 through using some qualitative data analysis using in vivo to code for us what is the community
 telling us is the most important factor we should evaluate boundary maps which is really
 the focus of part of our study. What should we focus on? What should we create a rubric
 on to help us evaluate these boundary maps? So putting these survey results from the community,
 we put them through this qualitative data analysis approach and these were the results.
 I'll first start on the left hand side to really highlight these are the 10 that came
 out of the analysis. These were the 10 themes which now we're calling considerations or
 factors. These are the things that the community was telling us were the most important things
 for us to focus on in our study and evaluation of boundary maps. On the right hand side you
 can see their average rank. Let me explain that. We asked the commission members to take
 these 10 themes that came out of our data analysis and rank them from 1 to 10 with 1
 being the most significant of the 10 down to 10 to the one that they thought was the
 least significant of the 10. This is the average score of those commission members with the
 lower score showing the higher priority from our commission members. So you can see the
 lowest score we had was 3.71. That's the one that our commission members felt like was
 the most important consideration. We had talked with our commission members about using these
 5, the top 5 considerations to really help drive our work. We've been guided by the board's
 priorities for this commission since the beginning and I'll highlight those again. That's
 balancing socioeconomic status and cost effectiveness. Now taking the 5 that had the
 highest rank from the previous slide, these are the considerations that we brought to
 the commission in our last meeting and our focus of that meeting was sharing the results
 of the survey but then also working with them to create definitions or operational definitions
 of our consideration because those operational definitions allowed us to create a rubric
 which we will use at our next meeting which I'll talk about in a further slide. One thing
 I want to highlight which has been a very frequent topic since our very first commission
 meeting really culminating into further discussion in our last meeting is input from our commission
 members whether it's in our group discussions, our small group discussions or it's just
 information set to me is given the current financial landscape should cost effectiveness
 be the top priority of the commission. Given the frequency that commission members have
 brought it up I thought it was important to bring that to the community tonight. Looking
 forward to next steps now that we've defined our considerations we will use those defined
 considerations to create a rubric. We worked with our leadership team today to take the
 commission's input and create that rubric. We're still finalizing it but we have a great
 draft of it today. Our next meeting on the May 28th will be to take that rubric and evaluate
 boundary maps those that are previously shared by our demographer Preston Smith from business
 information services as well as some internal maps that we're drafting as well just so we
 have a full expanse of maps for review by our commission. And that concludes my presentation.
 Are there any comments or questions from the board? I guess I would, in response to what
 you were stating, I do think that balance of socioeconomic status and costs in financial
 management should be co-equal priorities for the commission. That's my personal opinion.
 So I think that if we were to sort of rephrase or restate the purpose for the socioeconomic
 balance, I think, again, I can only speak for myself, but from my perspective, the reason
 we were interested in socioeconomic balance was to protect our priority populations. And
 I think there could be an argument made. I'm not at liberty to change the priorities of
 the board, but I think an argument could be made that cost-effectiveness and protecting
 our priority populations are entwined now, because to protect our priority populations,
 we have to maintain the financial stability of the corporation. So I think, again, Ross,
 I don't think that we can realign those priorities tonight, but I would welcome feedback from
 other board members on that topic. I think that that has become more nuanced, certainly.
 Dr. Dowling, are there other things that the board can do to help the work that you're
 doing on the commission? That discussion was helpful. Like I said, this has been a frequent
 point for the commission, so I appreciate the discussion. Any clarity about, you know, like
 Dr. Dowling? We will now receive the last legislative update of this legislative session
 from board member Prani. Good evening. As Vice President, almost said President, see
 I'm doing it too, Vice President Cooberman said this is the last legislative update.
 It's mostly doom and gloom, and hopefully Dr. Winston has something in her board report
 that will lift us up before we leave here. So, we have the SEA-1, which is the property
 tax relief, which is going to reduce property tax dollars for school corporations quite
 significantly.
 It's going to be about $740 million decrease over the next three years for our school corporations
 in our state. As Dr. Winston alluded earlier, that's somewhere between $15 and $17 million
 lost for us in property tax revenue. Then we have SEA-287, which is the school board
 matters and that's in regards to having a school board candidate declare their political
 party affiliation. So, they are now required to, one, either do that, either declare as
 an independent, or two, that the candidate elects not to disclose their party affiliation.
 The third one is the state budget is going to do a number of things to impact public
 education. I'm sure most of the folks in this room have been following pretty closely
 with that. It rolls $160 million curricular materials appropriations into the foundation.
 It repeals and replaces the teacher appreciation grant program. It will also be requiring school
 corporations to increase their minimum teacher pay to $45,000 beginning in the 25-26 school
 year. We already exceed that requirement with our salary at $57,750. Throughout this year's
 session, we have worked diligently to make sure that you're informed about what's happening
 at the State House and we've encouraged you to make your voices heard. The pieces of legislation
 that have been voted into law are going to significantly impact our ability to serve
 our students. And even though this session is over, that doesn't mean it's over. So
 you still need to reach out to your legislators and continue to tell them why you are for
 or against something that has passed. It's crucial. I know it may feel like it's falling
 on deaf ears, but we have to do that. And that concludes my comments.
 I don't know if it says to say thank you, but thank you. We're member of Pirani.
 I appreciate that hard task, especially for what it is. Do any other board members have
 comments or reports that you would like to share? And finally, Dr. Winston, do you have
 any additional information you'd like to share with us tonight?
 I'll try to make it sound uplifting. Please. No, we have some good news to share as well.
 Our summer programs will begin on Monday, June 2nd, and we are very excited to offer
 our students numerous learning opportunities throughout our summer program. Our students
 have been contacted with details regarding the specifics of the program for which they
 are registered. Earlier, I mentioned MCCSE Online. Due to the frequency of requests from
 students and families and inquiries from our building administrators, I am pleased to announce
 that we will be expanding our online learning opportunities for the 25-26 school year for
 kindergarten through 12th grade. Look for more information in the coming weeks.
 ISBA Exemplary Governance Awards. I am very excited and thrilled to have been at a training
 for ISBA recently with board member Erege when it was announced that our school board
 was being recognized. I'd like to commend the MCCSE Board of School Trustees for being
 awarded the Exemplary Governance Award by the Indiana School Boards Association for
 the calendar year 2024. This recognition reflects their exceptional commitment to student success
 and professional learning. Additionally, Aaron Wyatt and Ross Grimes were each honored with
 individual Exemplary Governance Awards. Congratulations to all. It is truly an honor to celebrate
 these achievements. Senior sendoff. It is a long time tradition, maybe not that long,
 of annual senior sendoff and it took place on May 15th. This event allows our graduating
 seniors to visit their former elementary schools where they are celebrated and honored by students
 and staff. It's a very heartwarming tribute that touches everyone involved and I hope
 you've had a chance to see all of the amazing and glorious pictures that have been posted
 to our website. Congratulations to our seniors. Graduation ceremonies. We are excited to celebrate
 the class of 2025 in the coming weeks. Well, next week. Bloomington Graduation School Commencement
 will be on Thursday, May 29th. The Academy of Science and Entrepreneurship will be on
 Friday, May 30th and North and South High Schools will be held on Saturday, May 31st.
 We are honored to award approximately 890 students from our high schools and our adult
 education program. Congratulations to the class of 2025.
 Last day of school for 2425. Here's let me see. How many days do we have left? Oh yeah.
 Two days left. That's Thursday, May 22nd. Teachers are like, you really don't know?
 Oh honey please, I do. I know. End of the year. As we close this chapter on the 2425
 school year, we want to extend our deepest gratitude to everyone who helped make this
 year truly remarkable. To our students, your energy, resilience and commitment to learning
 continue to inspire us. Whether you were showcasing your talents in music, art, theater, cheering
 each other on at the homecoming game or participating in service learning projects across the
 district,
 we represent an MCCSE with pride and excellence. To our parents and guardians, thank you for
 your unwavering support and confidence in our ability to better your students. From
 helping with homework to attending countless events, your involvement made a lasting impact
 on your children and our school community. To our dedicated teachers and staff, your
 passion for education and your tireless efforts to nurture, challenge and support our students
 have not gone unnoticed. You make MCCSE more than just a school district. You make it a
 community. You make it a family. You make it a home. This year, we celebrated achievements
 in academics and athletics. Our school musicals, science fairs, reading challenges and others
 were filled with joy, creativity and teamwork. Each of these moments reminds us that our
 success comes from the strength of our entire community working together. As we head into
 the summer, I wish everyone rest, renewal and plenty of time with family and friends.
 And regarding the most recent weather situation here with the tornado of the other day, our
 hearts continue to be with those families who were affected by our recent tornado. We
 want to ensure that our families, that support is available. If you are in need of any additional
 assistance, please reach out and contact 211.org. You may also reach out to your school's social
 worker for help in navigating community services. For more information about student support
 available at MCCSE, please visit our student services webpage. Please don't hesitate to
 connect. Each and every day since this happened, I have heard of countless stories of community,
 family, friends, neighbors stepping up in unimaginable ways to lend a hand, to offer
 support, a meal, encouragement. And so that's just the beauty of MCCSE and Bloomington. That's
 who we are. That's what we do. And family matters. And so I just thank everyone for
 your show of support for all of the families who've been impacted by the tornado. Thank
 you very much. That concludes my report. Thank you, Dr. Winston. The next regularly scheduled
 board meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 24th, 2025. We are adjourned.
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