Call this meeting to order. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you all. Please be seated and let the record reflect that all board members are present today for our March 2025 regular meeting of the RBCSC and are there any visitors to make visitors comments? Nope. Dr. Sanders, you want to introduce the Mustang woman? Yes, this is as you could tell if you walked in and look down the hallway you could see some of the projects that are being made and have been made in the ILC design and we have Lisa Wilson and some of our amazing high school students who are here and going to talk about that so I'll just introduce Lisa. Good evening. A few years ago RBB school board and administrators had the vision to create an innovative learning center here at Edgewood High School. It's a dream come true for us all. In the few years since your students have launched amazing initiatives and projects to serve our classrooms, campus and community. I hope you saw some of them out there. We've been able to combine the resources generously provided by our school and community to create, build, innovate, recycle, reuse, repair projects far too many to mention here and in addition our Edgewood print shop and retail center have opened to serve our staff, teams, clubs and local businesses in incredible and affordable ways to further meet our mission to be self-funded to support our interns and the ILC staff and learning more about future careers in architecture, engineering, interior design, mechanical engineering, design, robotics along with retail sales and manufacturing. We brought over just a few things that we had, lots of them are gone, but we brought over a few things and I've asked a few of our amazing interns to be here today. I've provided a partial list in your stakeholders report and the highlights for this year so far include opening our retail shop to full-service embroidery, engraving and direct-to-film t-shirts and sweatshirts, designing and manufacturing cook metal medical international awards as well as our own EIS trophies and color-run trophies. We repaired the gym kayak that had a hole in it with melted recycled plastic and yes I did make the interns put on swimsuits and try that out and they did great and it floated. Blueprint and model designs of several local commercial new constructions and remodels. We took collected recycled plastic lids that you see here and some donations from a cook polymer and you see that we've already are starting to build with those a stick chair that you can sit in. We trust you to sit in. I sat in myself. I was a little nervous at first but it's amazing and they've done a great job. A from scratch design of an Eames style chair that you saw in progress out there. We repair things. We repaired things from broken glasses to teacher piano benches to the Journey's classroom exercise bike. We do the digital promotions for the Commons TV. We are reupholstering the junior high weight room benches. Numerous club and team poster designs and t-shirt printing. I can show you all these things but I cannot show you the behind the scenes. How much time and energy these students have put in to make this program thrive. The hours at home, the plus-time schedule, the after-school hours to build, create, laugh at failures, attempts, the wins and the try agains. I cannot show you that nothing you see here is from a kit or purchase plan. I cannot show you that the results you see here are true innovation. I cannot show you how they work to get new machines up and running, unboxed, ready to go, repairs and maintenance. I cannot show you how they spend time with clients assessing their needs and collaborating on solutions. But I can show you the results of this, those kids, and you have helped raise and support amazing kids in chasing their dreams. Thank you for this opportunity to serve RBB schools and community. Your support, encouragement and your purchases from ILC Designs Online have meant the world to us and we are forever grateful. Today I have three that are going to be speaking. Ren Millick is our design lead, Ellie Lewis is our retail manager lead. Just for, there's just, I asked them to say just a few words of what they've been doing and Gabby Buckley our engineering lead. Hello everyone, I am Ren Millick as Miss Wilson said. I'm a senior here at Edgewood High School and I'm also the head designer of the ILC. So a lot of what she just talked about has went through me at one point or another. I've worked with tons of clubs around Edgewood. I can name like the unified bocce ball team that we designed their shirts for and in the ILC it's really helpful because we can design the shirt, get responses back and forth really quickly and then deliver the shirt in school to the teacher and get their response in person which is really cool. I've also worked with a lot of clubs like the environmental club. Last year we worked on a project together and we were able to fundraise for the club. It was really cool and they really got all the proceeds out of it. We've also worked with lots of outside of school like Cook. We've worked with Lemonade Day. Recently we've helped design shirts for the Lemon Council and like Miss Wilson said we've helped with the Cook International Trophies which was a huge project and I think we stayed after school like like two hours or three hours after. It was a very long time of just working on trophies not even talking it was very nerve-racking but we got them done by the deadline and it was really exciting. Through my time I've also just gotten to work on communication with lots of people specifically different companies and how to interact professionally and just it's really helped a lot of my skills that I know will help me in the future and whatever job I hope to go in and I've also helped work on the retail center some but Ellie can tell you a little bit more about that. So my name is Ellie Lewis I'm also a senior and I am the retail lead so I want to talk a little bit about like past present and future of the retail center. So this is my first year as an intern with the ILC so I think both of them had the opportunity to intern last year so I kind of jumped in in the middle of things and so within my first month Mrs. Wilson approached me about helping her get the retail center up and running and so I believe it was the old edge space is where we now inhabit and so we took all of our equipment from our like workspace in the ILC and transported it over to that room and it was a little slow to start we were hoping to get it up and running before winter break but there were some complications and things that slowed us down and especially with all the construction going on it made things a little complicated but we came back from winter break and I'm happy to say that our retail center is now up and running we do take orders our website is fully functioning and has been now for quite some time but it's it's really exciting we do things like embroidery this thing called DTF which I think is direct to film we print and press t-shirts sweatshirts hoodies we can embroider hats it's been really exciting to have this up and running and to get the experience of kind of starting that up and what all needs to go into that and what needs to happen in order for things to work we've had a lot of kinks that have gotten in our way especially on some of our larger orders that we've had I think our largest order was the t-shirts that we did that were the team hornet shirts which I think really meant a lot to a lot of people but that order was very large and it was great to see but there were a lot of things that had to happen in a lot of people that had to work very very hard to make sure that we could complete that and make sure that what needed to happen was done and in the future we are hoping to open up that retail space to students and staff to be able to order from during school day during sporting events other things that may be happening at the school or on campus so the goal is to have specific items just generic Edgewood apparel stocked in the retail center and then people can also see the process of how we make the shirts so that's a little bit about that and Gabby I think is going to talk a little bit about the engineering side of things. Hi good evening my name is Gabrielle Buckley and I'm head of the engineering team over at the ILC and I just want to start by saying we have just done so many incredible things this year we've done so many project where we've all worked with each other we've had a clutch model that was completely designed by 3D print by Audrey Graham and it's her first year she actually switched to engineering halfway through the year and then made that which was quite incredible we've had Cameron Young who's turned the old digital clocks at the school into a scoreboard that's being used for a coffee corral project and again it's his first year as well and we've had a dust collector system that's being used on the CAD machine created by Jalen Ludeman Cohen Bell and Isaiah Cherry and I mean these three boys they barely knew each other and then all of a sudden they were thrown into a project together and I mean they're creating some pretty incredible things and so I think that's one of the biggest goals in the ILC is to really just let students open up to all the their possibilities and all the things that they're able to do I completely changed my major after going into the ILC and now I'm never been so sure about something in my life and I'm so excited to go to college knowing exactly what I want to do and I mean our goals are to really promote outreach to the community and create things for people across the community but more importantly it's to really show what students can do before they're being sent off to college and just so all the opportunities that they're able to give the school and I mean I've learned so many things that I never thought I'd be able to do and it's just incredible having such a good mentor Mrs. Wilson she's one of the greatest people I've ever met truly and honestly and it's just really it's a great feeling to be thrown into something so new but to be able to thrive in a way you never thought possible and I can say that about any other intern in there we are all thriving in so many different ways I mean we have run creating furniture and we have Ellie being lead of a retail center and I'm sure that they went into it not thinking that they could do that and so again that's just one of our biggest goals in there is it's not just producing products but it's really showing what students are able to do and again just getting them more set up for college because I mean it's a completely different thing getting to really do things with your own hands and really getting to create things and we have so many different types of engineering specifically just in our program I mean there's mechanical engineering we've had kind of construction woodworking we had it with this chair right here that was created from bottle caps and we've also been able to do a lot of outreach with other companies cook has been giving us plastic and we've been figuring out ways to utilize that plastic to make more products so we're not just using the bottle caps from the school but we're also trying to work with another company that's you know they don't need all of this extra plastic right now but we're really trying to use it to promote you know going green in Edgewood and once again just showing all the things that we're really capable of doing and so again I think one of the most important things about the ILC is really just outreaching to the community but also really promoting the imagination and creativity that students are able to use without you know stricting them to super strict guidelines or anything like that and so yeah I think that's probably everything I can say. And I want to specifically mention Cam has been thrown into, do you want to describe that project just a little bit? Oh my goodness this poor kid. He has been thrown into I mean I can't he has spent so much time working on this he has gone he's brought it home and he's worked on it at his house he's worked in it over the weekends he's been completely dismantled and figured out how to turn it into a yeah I mean it's I mean it's truly an accomplishment if you saw a picture of all the wires that are and that's it is it is just crazy he sent a picture earlier to me today and I was like this is insane I can never but I mean again that's just one of the greatest things you go in there thinking I can never do this and then you walk out and you get to look around the school and say hey I did that or hey I created that or hey I had a part in that and it's again it's one of the greatest feelings I think a kid can have so yeah anything that you'd like to ask me and Justin also is here another intern who was I introduced to with Tony recently I brought my leg home like every kid should do this and they all made their own we had some walnut scraps left over from the trophies that we made for cook and they were tiny little and all of them made their own bowls there was a little bit of a wrestling match so that's on our purchase list of things we hope we can get but Jocelyn made something even just in the last two days this happens to be long-chair he's a sophomore what you see here when I say we have not we don't use kits this kid created this delivery droid completely with Arduino if if we had we're on Wi-Fi he would be able to drive that not even present delivery drones and droids are our future so I'm happy to show the lot and has completely programmed this is it we're still a prototype but this is not a kit as a reminder this is completely all kinds of wires inside and I do believe Dr. Sanders you may have a delivery in there you might want to open up the top this is from our joint effort from the coffee corral so we hope to bring you more ideas more innovations of how we can make this campus one we want to serve the campus and again we do believe that the future is in delivery and we have lots of kids excited about seeing that today it was revealed when Jennifer was busy in an interview and her faces couldn't quite believe it and we were super excited all that is from scratch there the 3d print the design we all did in AutoCAD he learned all the Arduino himself there's a camera hookup that we can remote and communicate independently again it's not to say I'm right behind it this was completely designed that it can be ran from a completely different office in one building to another so we're super excited to for the big reveal today so great job long thank you ladies you were amazing before they get away I can't wait just to go home tell mrs. DeMoss about your presentation tonight because she's going to be thrilled and not surprised in the least but she's going to be thrilled to hear about this thank you it's just so exciting because you know you don't know what all is going on over there and I mean I had no clue of how vast the projects you guys are doing are and how advanced in your presentations tonight were like they're professionals I wonder where their degrees are play practice yes earlier what they what they do with their free time and that amazing feeling you have in life when you realize that a dream that you've had comes true as these girls were talking that's I mean my goosebumps because especially when Gabby said that about changing her major and she never felt more sure about what she wants to do in life that's what this is all about and and these guys work so hard if you ever walk over to the ILC during the day it's a it's a bustling happening place it's you know have you ever seen a downtown you know city where just people are working and moving everywhere and that's the ILC and this is where the these students are they're creating they're they're practicing their what they want to do in life and these are all students that are very active obviously being in the in the play and show choir ran were you last night up singing at the Pacers game and I don't know who else was there I was up in nosebleed seats but and it all comes you know comes down to having the right people I tell this story all the time 2019 20 that was kind of our planning year for ready schools and so we visited a student run businesses from Tennessee to Wisconsin and I remember going to when we were in Wisconsin and we've got to sit down at lunch and talk to some of the seniors and they had a machining shop where they you know I don't know really I don't know why they call it machining but it's working with metal and creating products equipment for businesses and the young gentleman that I spoke to that that day was going into nursing and so I said okay I don't get it how's a student who wants to be in the nursing field someday working in a like a metal machining shop and he said well he goes I'm learning skills of how to talk to a customer how to problem-solve how to collaborate with others and all these skills I'm learning in this student run business I can apply to being a nurse and that's what this is all about I don't know what these young gentlemen want to do for their career someday but it's these are all skills that they can apply to whatever dreams they chase and so that was a vision back in 2019 2020 and to hear these students talk about what they're doing and going over there and and watching them and it's just it truly is a dream come true also an engineering intern going to Purdue really solidified what he wanted to do and it's just some amazing design work and it's just it's exciting to see these kids I've known them also since they were little and and seeing them find paths and things that they love or don't love is just a pathway that we are so great before and thank you for making that happen well you're welcome to stay for the whole and thanks for the bubble drink there was room for four oh one more thing mr. president be sure to check out the stockholders report it's very informative and you also get received a gift of a keychain made over there too so okay gotta get the business so the first item up is our consent agenda and it includes the minutes for February 17th 2025 the regular board meeting the treasurer's report for February of 2025 and mr. Darrell the claims please wages on February the 14th 2025 for two hundred eighty two hundred twenty one thousand two hundred sixty one dollars and seventy six cents for gross wages on February 28th 2025 for eight hundred and ten thousand six hundred four dollars and seventy four cents for a total there of one million six hundred and thirty one thousand eight hundred sixty six dollars and fifty cents for preclaims between February 1st and February 28th 2025 one million five hundred fifty one thousand two hundred twenty eight dollars and ninety cents for claims regular vouchers for 325 2025 for five hundred five hundred eight thousand five hundred and eight dollars and seventy four cents for a total there of two million fifty nine thousand seven hundred thirty seven sixty four cents for grand total of three million six hundred ninety one thousand six hundred four dollars and fourteen cents I submit for approval we also have resignations retirements leaves and terminations see one three twenty one and personnel appointments and transfers the one to ten we're excited about having four donations Tri Kappa is Tri Kappa epsilon is available is always a big sponsor and they are doing hundred dollars to each the student assistant funds the junior high spring student art show and the junior high robotics for supplies there's also a donation from Boston scientific to robotics of $600 and there are two out-of-state and overnight field trips and would you go over those two forests dr. Sanders the trips yeah yeah so we have a group of students at the high school called it's called e lots Edgewood leaders for tomorrow's students and the these students go to Bradford Woods when the fifth graders go and they just interact with the fifth graders mentor them provided them some leadership and just provide a good example for them and they're a big help to the classroom teachers to have them there so that's the e lots and the other one is our junior high robotics team going to the nationals and I'm gonna ask Kelly Grimes to come up and she has some students here and talk about that a little bit and that that field trip request form I emailed to you wasn't in the board packet but you have a copy there at your desk there so I'm Kelly Grimes I'm the junior high robotics coach have been for the last seven years and we are requesting your permission to take five of our students from the junior high to council Bluffs Iowa for and they've actually changed the name of the tournament it was nationals now it's world championship so they've upgraded it this last over the last year we would be leaving it would be a driving day for April 2nd and then we'd have the tournament 3rd 4th and 5th and then return by that Monday for class I wanted to introduce to you Liam Kirsten and garrison all met we are here to answer any questions you have and these I'll let them answer the questions first if they need a little help I'll I'll step up and help them come on in the task that you have this year? I know it changes every year. So this year it's played with the same field, but with four goal walls and a loading zone. It's three balls, but only two on the field. You have two robots alliancing. Your goal is to pass the ball, which is getting one robot touching the ball, and the next robot touching the ball, and then scoring it, clearing switches, and the ball can be dropped through the ball loader. And you also have an extra person this year called loaders on either side, passing the ball from the goal to the ball loader, which gets it back into the field. How long have you been in the robotics? I've been in it for three years, all of Edgewood, and one year in EIS. I believe I've been in robotics for like four years, two years in EIS and others in junior high. So they are part of that pathway that we were discussing earlier. We're kind of the middle, in the middle part. Well, we won a competition, like, of this competing in this task, and then we got invited from Iowa to compete at this tournament. Were you in it this year? Well, we only won one, but I believe we were in-- Three, four maybe? Yeah, three, four. At least four, I think your team was in five. Yeah. And you were in four, yeah. What's the biggest obstacle you had to overcome this year? Passing in the game, 'cause it depends on the robot that you're with, if, how easy it is to score points. So they are teamed up with another team, and each time they go up for a match, it's a new team. And so they have to communicate and collaborate and strategize and all of those things together. And then while they're playing this year, this is kind of new, while they're playing, they had to communicate amongst themselves, or else the loader wouldn't know what to do, or the drivers wouldn't know what was going on. So it was really exciting this year to see the game kind of up that communication and collaboration part. During the competition, do you have to step away and the kids do it, or do you help out as well? I'm not even allowed to yell anything to them, except, "Yay!" (audience laughing) Yeah, we're not allowed to say anything. And we're not allowed to argue anything either. So if something goes wrong, which it did at State, and they had to argue something, it has to be the students who do it. Once they walk away, it's over. And the interesting part about robotics is, you have to work with the other team. Now, the Worlds, is this the same, did you say this is the same as Worlds, but it's called Nationals? They've changed it to say Worlds now. It used to be Nationals, and then Worlds was in Dallas. Now, evidently, there are two Worlds. (laughing) Okay, will there be teams from other countries? Hong Kong, in this one, the last time we went, there were teams from South Korea also, but this time, it looks like Hong Kong, and then a lot of Western and Midwestern states. That's the other cool aspect, 'cause you have to, sometimes you have to communicate with, but you don't speak the same language. (laughing) Well, and what I've seen is that the design of robots can be so varied. Everybody has their own approach, and so figuring out how to work with the different designs would be-- - 'Cause you've seen this many times at our tournaments. Yeah. - Yeah, you've seen a lot, yeah. Each team has a, every team from all these other places have the same initial kit, right? They have the same access to everything. To everything, and then that's where they, all right, so here's the harder question. What's super mega alliance? That sounds like the fun part. It will be, it will be fun. Where normally it's two teams working together, and then they're bringing in a four team challenge also, but the super mega is, I don't even remember how many teams, and they all have to talk and communicate. With others, you're working with other school corporations. Yeah, from other states and everything. All right. - That's pretty neat. That's pretty neat, yeah. And it will be online, so we'll send you the web app. Okay, cool, cool. Yeah, that'll be fun. We'll have fun with that. Thank you. - Thank you. Enjoy Iowa too. Yes, hopefully it'll be warmer. Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. True. Thanks for coming. Yes, thank you very much. Thank you. - Good luck. Thank you. - Good luck. Yeah. I'd second this, Jacob's motion to approve the decision. All right, moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Is that, I did, if I read right, the school's not providing transportation to the parents? Correct. Correct, okay. Are you talking about parents? Yeah, for yours, okay. So you're gonna have parents chaperones and all that. Okay. Good, good, good deal. All right, thank you. All those in favor say aye. Aye. - Aye. Aye. Motion carries. Dr. Sanders, would you like to talk about a few of these items? Yes, I would like to talk about four individuals. We have two resignations that I just wanted to make special mention of these folks. Marcy Jones, who's taught sixth grade social studies and has been at the junior high for 17 years and her and her husband are going on a, she describes a new journey. They're moving out of state and appreciate all that Marcy's done for our students at junior high. And then Becky Myers, who has turned in her resignation. She's been a SPED teacher at Edgewood High School for 25 years. She accepted a position at Bloomfield and more for family reasons. And so we're gonna miss Becky very much. She's just been a key part of the excellent way that we provide services to our special education students. And then also Gary Sims, who's retiring from, he's retired from teaching, but he continued coaching. And so Gary is going to retire from being our girls basketball coach. And I just love to watch Gary on the sidelines coaching our girls. And he really cares about his players. You could tell he does a good job relating to them and a good job coaching and we're gonna miss him. And then of course, Brenda Whitaker, who has been a principal at Edgewood Primary School for 18 years. She's been in education for 28 and she is going to be retiring. And she will be just really hard to fill that position. When she announced it to her staff, it wasn't 10 minutes later that my daughter, who's a teacher at Edgewood Primary School, called and was really upset about that. And so we're gonna do something special to recognize Brenda. She's actually headed, I think, to St. Louis tonight for a family event, so she couldn't be here. But we will definitely do something to recognize her and make sure she's present when we do that. But-- Interactions with Brenda, though. Gary Sims, when he was teaching, I guess my daughter didn't think that he was seeing her wanting help, so she held up this big sign, "I need help." And he had it, and he brought it to her graduation party. (laughing) And so that was, he definitely had a wonderful sense of humor and really connected. And you know, I always love when I see teachers or principals show up at graduation and other high school events. And I've seen Brenda do that too, that they understand that even though they're at the primary level, that what they do is so foundational to the success of our students all through their grades and in life. And I always want to recognize Brenda's work at the new EECC building was her dream. She passed that on to us. And she, one time I met with her in her office early on, being a board member and she pointed to that field and she said that's what needed to go there. Well, it's going there. And to me, it's because she had that dream, that vision. So I'm just so, so happy for her, her retirement. But, you know, we are going to miss her. But again, I think she needs to receive the credit for that vision because that was hers. So, and then the donation, did you want to? Oh, yes. Well, I was going to mention about the donation from Boston Scientific and in my superintendent's report, I'm going to talk a little bit about our visit to Boston Scientific. And they are one of our partners in the biomedical training project. And they surprised us in presenting a check to us upon that visit to our robotics team. And so they're a big reason why they're getting to go and funding that trip. So, thank you. We'll move on to the assistant superintendent's report. Mr. Irwin. Education fund, expenses and payroll and with benefits and everything came in really close to expected. The claims have started out a little higher this year and they asked to do with mostly the timing of curriculum material costs and renewals. Remember we had the 900 fund dissolved, moved those costs into the education fund. So those have continued to roll in and then just getting into the timing of some of those things as we continue to make adjustments to what it is that we need or don't need or the timing of those renewals, trying to get them on a cycle so that it makes things more productive at the start of the school year or there's not a loss of services in between. There's a lot to manage there and Jen Barrett and Rick have done a great job with helping to organize that. So those things have been rolling in and then as well as just more absences or filling absences, Kelly services, as far as those costs too contributed to a little bit higher and they've done a great job with fill rates as it relates to this school year. Incent income was right about in line with projections. It's stayed pretty stable. It's not quite as high as what it was last year. That was expected, but again, it stayed in a very good place for us. One of the biggest changes was the change in tuition support. They finally reconciled our December one count, which is our special education student count. And so I put that in there in the email to you guys with some of this in there, but they reconcile that. And so they have to backfund all of that to what would have been the beginning of the fiscal year. So they backfund that and then it changes the formula moving forward. We had about 19 more students this year than what we had the year before, which with the changes and what the current funding formula is for this budget year, it was a change of about $61,000 in total revenue that comes into the fund. That was one of the bigger changes. Again, we're in great shape. There's a lot left up in the air for the remainder of the year. As you guys know, with legislative changes to see, where things land, obviously in a budget year, and we'll continue to monitor that, I've kept a very stable, small 2% increase, which might, quite frankly, end up being too high. So I might need to even reduce that down, depending on what they end up approving legislatively. But believe it or not, we're about five weeks away from that concluding. So some of that information will start to roll in, and we'll start to fine tune some of those projections and variables as we know what's more concrete. All in all, we're in a good place. We have great cash balances, still showing us eating into cash. I don't foresee that to be an issue with our level of cash balance at this point. We just need to be cognizant of it and continue to manage it. Moving over to the Debt Service Fund, no activity in that fund at all during the month of February. That's normal, you guys know that. There's very little activity in that fund throughout the year, except for when it's, you know, receiving in funds and then paying out bond payments and debt service payments, so. Moving over into the Operations Fund, again, things continue to flow around nicely. Costs continue to come in on track, still have a great handle on those things. We did make our payment on our yearly premium for property liability casualty insurance, so that landed in last month's claims. The timing of buses and when they come in this year will affect what you see as far as the claims numbers and operations through the year as they ebb and flow. That's, you know, a big predictor when you're talking about a bus that's excess of $100,000 is showing up and when that hits, we'll most likely end up paying for about three buses out of the operations, because you remember there was one of the buses that we ordered for 2024 that never showed up, so that, you know, moves forward into the new budget year, so we'll look to do that. Right now, one of the buses has shown up. We've got word that the two other buses we should expect probably this coming month and maybe the next one, even the month after that, so, you know, that's obviously a lot different than what we've experienced, but it doesn't really matter for us at this point whether or not they showed up in April or they showed up in November from a standpoint of cash. It more so helps us operationally. The sooner we get them, the better, so that's a good thing. That's a good thing overall. So again, sitting in a good place there, continues to be very consistent, and then again, just monitoring what the impact of legislative changes are as far as how it affects decisions that we make down the road. But again, we're in a great place. We're in a lot better place than a lot of other school corporations that will allow us to adapt to some of those things as they become material and we understand what they're gonna be. So with that, I'll take any questions. So we've already appropriated from previous years for two of the three buses. All three buses will fit within the appropriation that we have. We carried those funds forward. We've all been encumbered. Yeah, we encumbered funds. Okay. We encumbered those funds forward. I thought it'd been a while when that was buses. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, one of them I think was close to 18 months. So then the three buses that are being replaced, are we going to sell those? One of them was one that was a trade-in, but then we'll have a couple of buses that we end up surplusing. Okay, okay, then just auction them off. Yeah. So can we get rid of those trailers down there too then? So those are surplused, one of them didn't, we didn't have anybody sell on those. The one trailer, we've got someone that's interested in it and it, quite frankly, will probably be one of those situations where it'd be better off because of the cost it would take to salvage it, scrap it, get it moved, have someone move it to find someone that will do that for themselves for a minimal cost for just taking the trailer 'cause there's not much value to it at all. The other trailer, we're working with Mr. Wells to see if there's any bans that he know that maybe have interest in it for using it for intermediary period. So he's reaching out to different people. We didn't have any takers on it on the surplus auction site. So we're kind of looking into other places as far as who might be a good fit that would have interest in it. But that white one does have value that we wanna make sure that we sell it to the right person. The last one that we used before the movie. That's correct. So yeah, he's reaching out to his contacts because quite frankly, he's gonna have better connections to some of those schools that, whether they're close by or not, that might have a need for something like that that may be interested in making that purchase, which if that's the case, then we can run through that with you guys as well. I'd like to emphasize again that we did grow slightly in our number of students. And that's big anymore because the birth rate's dropping. There's a lot of things going on that are most schools, our school corporations are losing students and we're growing. So you all are doing something very right, so. And that's representative of what you see on those two is I don't overestimate as far as trying to be aggressive with saying, hey, we think we're gonna have this many students. We have that information, we paid for the demographic study, but in sake of being conservative with some of the numbers, we flatlined to say, hey, it's gonna be 2675 again, where we, you know, we're certified at fall ADM, when in reality right now, we're continuing to look like we're gonna grow steadily over the next 10 years. And again, we're one of the very few school corporations in the state that has that type of enrollment projection. So again, like you said, I think that speaks to the type of school corporation we have and the quality of education that we're providing kids, so. Very nice. Okay, now you're gonna give us an update on the construction projects? Yeah, and so I'm gonna take part of this. What we'll end up having skill men do is they'll come back next month and do a more of an update, but I had them provide me some brief updates. You guys have access to the auto desk that has all like, they take like daily pictures almost of like updates of some of the stuff that's going on on site. And if you guys ever wanted to stop by and take a tour or do whatever you wanna do, let us know. Always happy to do that. We have one of our bi-weekly construction progress meetings tomorrow, that's at 9.30, which again is always, they're great meetings, great conversations. We do walks of the progress of the projects afterwards and make sure that we solve up any of the issues that are present or that need to be talked through with that whole group of people there. So a couple of quick things of note across the projects. The high school renovations, phase six is nearly complete. The auxiliary gym wood floor was removed and the concrete demo is underway. Remember, that's the area where the new cafeteria is going. So that's starting to become more and more real. The student activity center, the concrete floors were poured. The roof was completed and the sprinkler piping is being installed. It was pretty interesting to see the equipment that was used to float out that entire concrete floor. I saw some of the pictures of it. It was pretty wild stuff. And that continues to be on track. The EIS phase five renovation was completed. The restroom tile and flooring were completed. Toilets and partitions are ongoing. If you haven't gotten a chance to see some of the pictures of the restroom renovations, they look phenomenal. And so very excited about that change as well. And then EPS phase four renovations were completed. Phase five case work is complete. And the drinking fountain tile begins this week. And then the preschool project, the exterior brick began on 310 and will be completed this week. The windows begin on 331. So next week, interior drywall is well underway in area B. Framing is complete and the rooftop air handlers were set in place. The drywall finishing begins tomorrow. And so that building is taking shape quick. It is changing by the day. And so you blink and something looks different. And so that one's really exciting as well. And just at the different points as you walk through it, you're envisioning those spaces. You come back the next time and everything is continuing to, the layers of the onion keep going on and it's pretty amazing. So they're really excited to continue to see those come to fruition and what that means for our kids and our schools. So if you have any questions, let me know and we'll go from there. Sure. The one teacher I saw that was looking and said, they're not leaving the front of that pink, are they? So there, yeah, there was some questions. People like, is the building gonna be pink? And no. And then at one point, you know, is the building gonna be purple? No. As you put some of the different building materials on as it relates to moisture control and all of those different things like that. And yeah, so it's really exciting and looking forward to it being finished. I'd just like to commend the contractors that are working up here. I stopped in a couple of weeks going to Saturday and just snuck in the door and walked around trying to figure out which room is where and they were doing all the pipes, electrical stuff going. And I said, you sure this is gonna be ready by the end of May? And they said, that's not what we were told. They said that's why they were in there on Saturday. They were busting it pretty hard, so they're pushing it good. So it's exciting. Yeah, for sure. I saw the HVAC units went up this week too. They're on the roof. I don't know if they're hooked up. Yeah, they got set on the roof, yep. Yep. - Yep. Cool. Mr. Outten and I went through this past weekend and I'll just say that I was very impressed with the quality of work. I really was. And it, you know, I was looking at the walls and seeing if they were straight. I mean, it was, you know, checking door frames with my phone with a little level on it. And it was-- Dan even got his phone out and double-checked, made sure everything was exact. So, but I was really impressed with the quality of workmanship, so. And that was which building though? The E&CC building. Just continue to be impressed with the contractors and with Skillman. Skillman has done a great job of being very responsive. It's construction and things come up and questions come up and issues arise. And they are so responsive to solving those issues and working through things that contractors have been terrific about that as well. So far it's been an amazing experience and so hopefully it continues that way and they've been a great partner so far. Lancer as well. Lancer has been a great partner as well. And so hopefully this continues to be the trend through the fruition of the end of these projects, so. Remind me afterwards, I do have a question about that. Something on that. Sure. Okay, any more questions for him? All right, next will be, let's open that, consideration to approve the Lee Company furniture quotes. This is for the furniture that we need to outfit the new preschool. This is a large amount of the loose furniture that is budgeted in the bond to pay for those things. We worked with the Lee Company as a representative as far as sourcing furniture through cooperatives. So stuff that's already been competitively bid, high quality furniture suppliers that have already been competitively bid, and to bring that together so that we could work through and choose what is gonna work best in that space. So, Daris came and met with Heather and myself, and at times Vicki and Dr. Sanders, and talking about what type of furniture was gonna work best in the building. Heather was taking that back to her staff, getting feedback about what they liked, what they didn't like, what needed to be different. This doesn't encompass all the different supplies and a couple of odds and ends, but this is a large piece of the puzzle with outfitting offices and classrooms and those sorts of things for what we need to be functioning. Trying to get ahead of the curve to make sure we've already set the install date, giving that to say, hey, the install date's gonna happen during this week in July. It's turnkey, they're coming in, setting stuff up, taking away all the trash. Everything should be ready to go, so that burden's not on maintenance and custodial as we transition, 'cause in the summertime, they're deep cleaning buildings and doing the things that they're across campus, so to add that burden to them would not be feasible, so that piece is already included in this as well. But we're excited about getting all this in the space. The total of the furniture selection that you guys see are improving is $179,685.35. And again, this is something that is gonna be paid from and is budgeted through the 2023 bond as a part of this project for the new preschool. (murmuring) Who can second it? Any discussion? That's what they called it, the soft cost? Yeah, this is the soft cost. That was a big soft cost number back in the day, so. It's already budgeted through. That's something that was, when we looked at what the cost of the project, that is obviously something that gets encompassed in. I know, I know. Can't build a building and not put anything in it, so it's all part of it, it's all in there. That was all part of the plan from the get-go, and all that's in good order. Perfect, all right. Yeah, I thought the best analogy was, is if you take the building and turn over and shake it real hard, everything that falls out, it's soft. So, okay, any further questions? All those in favor say aye. Aye. - Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Now the consideration to approve the Stanger High School practice field quotes. Yeah, so this has another connection to some of the construction that's going on. So the new student activity center, the field house, we had to replace the parking. We put that up in the area, which was serving as a practice field area. That also was where we were doing shot put and discus out as well, so we had to move that. There's the space that has been something that the high school and athletics has been after a while, which is trying to get that connected to the track and field area, so they're not crossing across the Edgewood Drive there to get over to the field. And so we worked with Bledsoe, Rigert, and James to put together the plans for doing the dirt work out there to get that done, the drainage that's there, all that stuff, and that will become the permanent home of the discus shot put and throw, and then also a practice area for football, for athletics, whether it's baseball or any other group that might need an open green space to go out there. We had worked through this. We were looking to do it within the project. As we went through some of the pricing, we felt like we needed to continue to try to bid it out more. So we went through that process. Skillman helped us put that together. We sourced out specific quotes from reputable companies. And Stanger was the low quote at $52,115. And they were low quote by a decent margin there. So we were excited about that savings that we would have realized. And so it definitely paid off to continue to do that due diligence on that. It took a little longer than what we wanted it to. I think it's worth it based on what you guys were able to see in the board packet as far as the savings that that brought. So we're excited about them. They do great work. They met all the requirements of what were in the specifications and they've done work for us in the past. And I think we'll be happy. So asking for your approval, again, it's $52,115. The plan would be to pay from that, from the 2023 bond. Asking for your approval. Motion. I'll second. So is this behind the practice, or behind the football field over by the softball diamonds? Yeah, it's that open grass area. So if you think about that open grass area that's back there behind the football field and behind softball, it's essentially about half of that area out there. It's not gonna go all the way out there. It's about half. And so there's some storm drainage that we'll need to go in to make that area a little safer as far as kids being out there moving around. And so there's some of that work. We have to provide site access. There's a thorough road that the town has to access things back there in the wooded area as well. And then the dirt moving everything out, seed and straw providing all of those things so that it's leveled and it drains correctly. So could that be coordinated if down the road, I know one of the goals is to have a pathway between the June 9 high school and Safe Path. If that was the area it came in, has that been thought about? We didn't specifically do this with that in mind, but I think that's a part of it. I think as the board continues to look at what are possible options for that, looking at the different alternatives of what that route could be and what are the pros and cons to that route so that we can continue to improve that. I just don't wanna spend money after this if we're gonna have to redo it later for a Safe Path. Yeah, that was not a part of the-- That's a big, that'd be a safe way to get the kids over here. Yeah, but we need a replacement of that practice area, which will be highly used by athletics and probably some of the youth sports teams as well in the community that ask to use our facilities. The grass area that's been saved, where we had to take out for parking lot up. They'll still be able to use that. That'll be a temporary home for a shop, put in discus. But that could be parking down the road over there too. It could be, I guess, depending on some of the decisions that need to be made down the road as well. But that'll be a temporary home. We have to allow that grass and seed and straw to take before there starts to be a bunch of traffic on it. Otherwise, we're gonna take a bunch of the money that we would spend on that and essentially throw it into the wind if we let people on it too early. Okay, all right. No further discussion. All those in favor say aye. Aye. - Aye. Opposed? It carries, okay, now consideration to revise the schedule for the 2025 school board meetings. Dr. Sanders? Yeah, so basically as a board, you have the opportunity to set the schedule of school board meetings and we usually do that in December for the next year. But as we went into 2025, we've just discovered that we have many more conflicts on a Monday night and a lot of other organizations have their meetings on Monday night. And so we feel like a Tuesday evening will be better, less conflicts for us. And so we are moving to the third Tuesday of every month and the calendar reflects that and everything else should be the same. Just move it to the third Tuesday. Revising the schedule for the 2025 school board meetings. Any discussion? That hasn't taken effect on our calendar yet, has it? No, after you prove it tonight, we will make sure this gets on our website and gets communicated to the school community. And we definitely appreciate the public either showing, coming to the meetings or visiting on CATS. And so we definitely wanna get that information out. Okay, I think it needs to go to the media too, per the annual, thank you. Okay, all right, anything further? All those in favor say aye. Aye. - Opposed? Motion carries. And now consideration to approve the 2025 summer school program, Dr. Sanders. Sure, and this really is pretty much the same as we did last year, except for the dates. And so we'll have summer school, June 2nd through the 19th at EPS and EIS. And then also end of May and through June will be summer school at the Edgewood High School. And then the junior high, they have more of a jumpstart summer school and that'll be July 21st through the 31st. I included for you the hours for both students and teachers. We will be providing transportation again for anybody that wants that. And also a free breakfast and lunch. And then on the backside of that, the next page anyways, is the estimated number of staff that we would need. And so we are required to submit to the state an estimated cost report. It's very much estimated because we really don't know how many students we're going to have yet. But that's just an annual requirement that we have to do for summer school. So I recommend approval. Moved and seconded. Any questions, discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. - Aye, opposed? Motion carries. No consideration to approve the Centerstone agreement. Yes, so as the board knows, we had an agreement, a partnership with Adult and Child to provide mental health services. And they were bought out and the new company decided to focus more on Marion, I think in Johnson Counties. And so we were at a loss, very worried about what we were going to do because these mental health services are very, very important to our students and our families. And I honestly believe, and I think back over the last several years, before we had such a strong mental health team that watching our school corporation grow and improve, I think a lot of it has to do with the mental health services that we've provided. So we were very nervous what we were going to do with Adult and Child not working with us anymore. Well, Jennifer Anderson did an awesome job contacting Centerstone and working out an agreement and basically it's the same agreement we had with Adult and Child. So they will provide the mental health services, they will bill Medicaid and insurance, and I don't think we're going to miss a beat, so I recommend your approval. I'll move approval. I'll second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And now another agreement with IU Year 3 SMART. Yes, so this is something you're familiar with. It's a SMART grant, it's a federal grant that we receive also for mental health, a $3.4 million grant, and this is just an annual requirement that we have to approve an amendment every year so we could pay our partners, IU, for the services they provide, and we're a little nervous about this grant too because we've heard that some other organizations who have the same federal grant have already been cut, and this funds six mental health staff for us, and so we're hoping we don't get that note. So far, so good, but this is just an annual requirement that we approve this amendment. I second. You seconded? Any discussion? Were those other school corporations? I assume those are the other school corporations that got the notice? I don't know if they're Indiana. Oh, okay, you're making me nervous now. Yeah. - Yeah, okay. Nothing further, all those in favor say aye. Aye. - Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Dr. Sanders, your superintendent's report. Yeah, I don't know if I say this every month, I truly am excited about the things I get to report to you. First of all, I wanna give congratulations to the high school color guard who came in state runner-ups. Now, we're used to state championships, but a state runner-up is pretty good too. And then as it was already mentioned, I got to go to the Indiana Pacers game last night, but it wasn't the game that I was interested in. In fact, as I'm getting older, I got to about halftime and I was tired. So we left, but we had our show choirs, both show choir, sophisticated ladies and music warehouse to sing the national anthem. And combining those two choirs was just amazing because they had such a strong voice and great performance. And it's so good to hear in Edgewood High School's show choir throughout the court and the stadium there. And then this Saturday, our winter percussion will be performing at the state competition in Terre Haute on March 29th, that's this Saturday. And they'll be doing a public performance Friday night at 6.30, but just a note there, it will be held at the junior high. And then secondly, at the Edgewood Early Childhood Center, we have, our enrollment is open. And so far we have 147 students enrolled for the 2025-26 school year. And that's about 75% capacity. So we're getting pretty close to filling the spaces. And we will have that facility open. Staff childcare enrollment opens on next Monday, March 31st. And that has been communicated to the public, and well, to our school community, and that our school staff will be able to enroll their children in the daycare portion of the preschool. Kindergarten Welcome Week is next week, March 31st through April 4th. And there'll be a, so on Welcome Week, our next year kindergartners will come with their parents. The kindergartners will go and they'll do a fun type assessment. So the teachers get to know their, start to get to know their students. And then the parents meet with important people throughout the school, school nurse and counselors and teachers and fill out papers. And so that'll happen next week. And then there'll be an open house April 3rd from 545 to 745. I thought I'd give you an update on our biomedical training facility project. We are, right now we are working on visiting different training facilities and getting an idea of how we should design this project, this facility for our Edgewood students. And so we've already visited Boston Scientific. We visited, just this week we visited the Sim Center at IU Health. And well, if you've never had that opportunity to tour that, that's just an amazing place. And I was very proud to be a resident of Monroe County, realizing that we have such a facility. Because it's so, I mean, as you know, it's connected to the hospital. But we were able to see where our future nurses, future doctors, EMTs, where they practice and there were mannequins all over the place from babies to adults. And what they could do with those mannequins was just truly amazing because you could do a scan and actually see simulated inside the body and track an artery. And we got to see a simulation in progress and when you walk in, you walk into a smaller room and there's a glass between you and the hospital room. And we had folks who were working on a baby at the time and practicing a procedure on that, not a real baby, but a mannequin baby. And I think, Dirk, didn't we have one of our students that was in there? 2007 graduate Hannah Holmes was the lead nurse in Detroit. Yeah, and so the places which looked like, basically like a hospital room, it was designed just like the hospital. So it looks exactly the same. And so we're getting some pictures of that because when we design our facility, now we know what we need to do here. And we met a couple of really important contacts. One of the gentlemen is a professor with IU and also works with IU Health. He works nationwide with designing and working with organizations on these sim labs. And so he offered, he offered, we didn't even have to ask, I was gonna ask anyways, but he offered to help us out for free and definitely asked for his card at that time. And so not only were we getting some good ideas about the facility, but we were making some important contacts. When we were at Boston Scientific, we were able, they committed to working with us and taking their process for training their employees and transforming that into a high school setting. And their curriculum, their training process is built on that they're gonna have an employee there all day long, several days, weeks in a row. And how do we take that kind of a training process and replicate that into a high school setting? And so they've already started a meeting on March 14th. We had a team to go down there. I couldn't go that day, I had to stay here on campus. But on March 14th, we had a team to go down there and they're starting that exact process of taking their training facility or the process and working the scope and sequence, the curriculum to make it fit here. They're committed to sending their trainers here to work with our students. And we're excited, IU Health is committing the same thing. They are organizing themselves and getting key people that's involved in their training and their professional development. They're organizing that so they can start meeting with us and doing the same thing. And then we're gonna follow that same pattern with Cook Medical. And we were able to meet a gentleman that works, leads a CEMTRA. And so we've scheduled a lunch meeting with him and one of his colleagues to start the process of sharing our vision about what we're trying to do here on our campus. And at the same time, trying to determine what their needs are. And so we're continuing to grow those partnerships and it's really starting to pick up a lot of momentum. It's just really exciting stuff. We're going to visit some other training facilities. Now not all these are health related, but we're gonna go see the Andrus and the Hauser training facility. And then I think that's in Greenwood. And then Toyota 4T Academy and the Barry Link program. And these are state of the art training facilities. And so we're just going to pick their brains on how do they take their training process and replicate that in their local high schools. So we'll have a group going this Friday and then again on April 2nd. We have our business leaders advisory luncheon coming up April 18th at 1130 and we've talked about this before. Twice a year we invite our business leaders to come on campus and the key to that is not only to show them what we're doing, but also to make connections between them and our students. And so what we wanna focus on this time is our new Indiana diploma requirements and our career pathways, but from a student's perspective. How does a student see all this? Do they see these things as good things? How do they think these initiatives will benefit them? And so Jennifer Baird is working with some of our high school students to prepare for that date. If you would like to go, let me know. It's April 18th at 1130, and I think we're gonna have it right here in this room. This morning we had the Ellisville Chamber of Commerce has a coffee connection every once in a while to promote networking, and so we hosted that in our coffee corral this morning. So if you were at the high school this morning, you would have met a lot of business leaders across the community, and I love that because the whole time I'm over there, they're just bragging about our coffee corral and our students, and it's a real showcase to what we're trying to do here at Edgewood High School. That was today. Also today we had the internship fair in the high school gymnasium. We had 55 students and 25 businesses to participate, and Jennifer Barrett was telling me how all the businesses just were amazed at how well our students handled themselves, and some of our students are gonna have some tough decisions because they received multiple offers, and so that was an exciting day. It's just really, you know, as I mentioned earlier with the ILC design group that, you know, we're seeing these dreams that we as a board have had for years turning into reality and just continues to grow. It also challenges us because we have more and more students who wanna participate in the internships, and so that means we have to go out and find opportunities for them, and then coming up as a career and employment fair for our students on April 8th. I wanted to make that noted tonight for the board, so if you have any questions, let me know. Thank you. Now we have RBBEA comments, and we have Brandy Abel with us tonight. Good evening. I just wanted to start by saying it is just always wonderful to hear what's happening in the other buildings. You have no idea, and these products are amazing, but I think what filled my soul the most was just hearing the passion in our students' voices and seeing it in their faces. I think I can speak for all educators, when you see that passion in your students, that is just what makes your job. There's amazing students like you that provided that foundation for them to do all that. And there were a few that I remember (laughs) whether they remember me, I don't know. Mrs. DeMoss was a few years later. One thing I wanted to share, Doug and I are trying to change a few things with the bargaining process. We're trying to do a lot more front loading before the end of the school year. We realized with this last session that people, some of our members felt like we weren't as transparent and maybe communication wasn't as strong as it could have been. So we are working along with our building reps to start having that communication with our members about things that they would like to see. At the same time, continuing to educate them about what bargaining means, what can be bargained, what cannot be bargained. We hope to have a survey sent out to everyone so that we have a good plan before the end of the school year. I'm also planning to communicate with Nancy Guy. She's our director. She's the one that helps us with bargaining in the next week or so to get some dates so that hopefully I can email you, Mr. Irwin and Dr. Sanders so we can get those dates on the calendar before the end of the school year. So hopefully getting that to be an easier process. So that is our plan. And then finally, a few months ago, I stood up here and sang Vicki Entriken's praises. I'm going to get emotional, so sorry. I'm glad she's not here. I'm sorry, I knew I was gonna do this, but we were, there was rumor for years that Vicki and Brenda were gonna go out together. And I think many of us thought, oh, that's not happening 'cause we hadn't heard anything about Brenda. And yeah, the Thursday before spring break, she made the announcement, and I'm sorry. And I honestly have kind of avoided her 'cause I knew I was gonna do this. But Vicki and I are two of, I think, six people that have been there since she started. And I'm not gonna lie, Brenda and I have gone head-to-head a few times. We talk about passion. We've had our laughs, our cries, our hugs. I call her my work mother, and coincidentally, she lives next to my mother. And so now they can enjoy retirement together. They've known each other for a long time, but you know, I can't stand here and tell you that Brenda was not what made me the teacher I am today because she sure has, she's been my principal for 18 years, and she's just been fabulous. She's been so good to all of us, and you know, again, we all have our strengths and differences, but I just, I hope, I'm happy for her, I'm happy for Bob. She has a grandbaby now, but we are gonna miss her. So yeah, so if there's any kind of interview process, then you need teachers, Dr. Sanders. I don't know what that process is, but anyway, so we will miss her. But thanks, that's all I have. Then we'll go to board member comments, Mr. Irwin. Thank you, sir. I don't know if I can explain how impressed I was with the ILC kids tonight. They were just so mature and so well-articulate, so prepared for this, so it's just really, it just says a lot for what you do there at the high school and then junior high and Jennifer and Olivia, you know, it's just great. I'm just so proud of this school and so honored to serve on the school board. Thank you, sir. Mrs. Jacobs. Yeah, I totally agree. I'm in awe of everything that the students are doing. Impressive is not even how I can explain. Talk about goosebumps. It's phenomenal what these students are doing and very appreciative that I can be on a board that supports them. Thank you to everyone that's giving the donations for our students, for our robotics team, to be able to get to Worlds. I was a robotics mom for a lot of years, so they are in a special place in my heart. I'm just really, really happy to be where I am and watching all the phenomenal things that our corporation is doing. It just, every time you think or you come and sit in this chair and get to see what our educators are doing for our students and what our students are producing, it's just phenomenal. It makes me very happy and blessed. Yeah, Ditto did everything, I can't say it any better about what you did about Ms. Whittaker. I know she's made an impact on a lot of kids, and congrats to all that have gone on well tonight. The ILC was great. I do wanna leave one quick story, and this is for all the principals and teachers in this room. I stood in line last night in Odin, Indiana, which I don't know if you guys know where that's at, Davies County. There was a gentleman named Ken Hudson that passed away. He was the last principal at Odin Elementary. He's 91 years old. And this place was packed with all the people that he impacted his whole life. Students, parents, a multitude of people. In my, I was thinking, this is gonna be a long line to sit through, to get through. But the kid in front of me was 42 years old. He had Mr. Hudson. The last year, Odin was in elementary, and he wanted to make sure he came and paid his respects because Mr. Hudson didn't always get along with him. He said he got to meet Mr. Hudson's paddle a few times. But he was telling me all the things he's done as an adult now and the successes he's had. And that left an impact on me. You guys are all making a huge difference. You don't hear it every day. You hear the bad stuff sometimes. But he was one of the 10 percenters, this kid was. He's one of those 10 percent that the principal probably remembered him. And he wanted to come and let Mr. Hudson's boys know how much he appreciated his father. So continue your good work, and don't forget how much of an impact every day you guys are making on people. Thanks. Well, yeah. Mrs. Whitaker, Marcy Jones, Ramiz, at the high school, Becky Meyers, Becky Murphy, Becky Patterson, she was in my speech class. I will always think of her as with her yearbook picture, where she's, the look of determination on her face is she's at the free throw line as a student, and then she came to be one of my colleagues, and we're gonna miss her a lot. And then I can't, Gary Sims, what a guy, and I'm gonna miss him. I'm glad that he's finally gonna take advantage of retirement, but I still, he hasn't gotten over the technical, he got in the sectional last year, and that may have been the only one he ever got. The, just beyond us, the RDC, they continue to assure us of their intent to support the schools with going forward from, with the TIF, and I have no reason to believe that they're anything but genuine in that desire, because they're just really supportive, and I'm looking forward to that. It looks like we're just playing a waiting game at the General Assembly at this point, until they get some good numbers, and until the April forecast comes out, I don't think we're gonna know a lot, and so that's, I just, I do appreciate all who have contacted their representatives about various legislation, especially the Partisan School Board legislation. That's, it definitely is wavering, whether that's gonna go through or not. It looks very iffy at this point. And finally, I got to go to IU Health Sim Lab with the group yesterday, and it's exciting. I appreciate Jennifer Barrett so much, and I think, I was telling her that the vision and seeing what has happened in the last couple of years so much is moving, and building on that, what we saw with the ILC this evening, building on that with biomedical careers, the goosebumps we got tonight, I think that's just the beginning of what we're seeing, and it's so exciting, it's so reassuring, and so I'm just so proud to be part of this, so thank you. Very difficult to go last, 'cause I agree with everything everybody said, but I'd like to point out how positive the meetings are at RBB, where we all just work together to do what's best for kids. There's a lot of school corporations that don't have the family feel that we have here, and that's because of all of you, every person that steps on this campus, it makes a big difference for kids, and so I just appreciate all of you, and this meeting's adjourned. 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