- Next 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 welcome to the June 2025 school board meeting, just a couple of weeks away from having a half of a year going already.
- Let the record reflect that all board members are present tonight. And are there any visitors? Are you a visitor? No, okay. My hearing aid just went out, so we'll see how this works. All right, we'll jump right into the consent agenda. We had a bunch of listening moments last week, not so long. We'll keep moving. We have the May 20th.
- regular board meeting minutes. We have the Treasurer's Report for May of 2025. And Mr. Durnall, the claims please. Thank you, sir. The gross wages for May the 9th, 2025, $826,215.10. The gross wages on May 23rd, 2025 for $842,462.92.
- for claims prepays on May the 1st, 2025 through May 31st, 2025 for $1,149,842.02 for claims regular vouchers for 6-17-2025, $662,503.87 for grand total of $3,481,023.91. Thank you, sir.
- Then we have personnel, resignations, retirements, non-renewals, leaves and terminations. That is C, one through 35. And D, personnel appointments and transfers, one through 57. And then we have out-of-state and overnight field trips, E, one through seven. And these are all of the normal high school and junior high
- athletic camps, so that's what those are. So do we have a motion? I move approval. Good and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Dr. Sanders. Yes, we have, obviously if you looked at the agenda, we have a long list of new teachers
- And it's exciting to see there's several on here for the new EECC, the expansion of that building. And so we're very excited to have those folks present tonight. We have some teachers who are present here tonight. And so I'm gonna call on the principals to introduce their new folks that are here. So let Brenda come up.
- So I'll introduce both of us. Yes. Well, we are very happy to share tonight our new assistant principal at Edgewood Primary School, Alisa Van Dusen. And she comes with a very well-rounded background. She's had 14 years in the classroom, and many of those years have been in first and second grade with a touch of fifth grade. So that's good. And then she's been a Title I reading specialist for the last few years.
- and an intervention coordinator, as well as an assistant to the principal. So she's got some solid experience. She's been in the building already. She's met a few teachers, and she's seen her new office. But now it's all been cleaned out. So the key is on my desk. Come and get it, and you can move in. You can move in tomorrow. And then we also are happy to have Maitland
- join us for good. She's been with us actually for the past year. She started out as a student teacher, moved into an instructional assistant position, and then became our long-term sub. Now in the process of all that, she's had a baby, she's lived through a flood, she's lived through all kinds of things this year, and has hardly missed a beat. And so when a kindergarten position opened up, we were just
- happy that we were able to offer that to her, and she accepted. So, Nathan, welcome. It's good to have you. Excited to have you both with us. Glad you could make it tonight, too. Lisa's going to be a great instructional leader. She has so many experiences. She has a dual license and English language learners, right? Yeah. So that's going to be a big help.
- All right, I'm gonna ask Mr. Siglin to come up. It's always, Brenda is the hardest person to follow, because she always has these super long introductions and knows everything about everybody. But we are excited. One of our new teachers, our seventh grade science teacher, Pen Pen Peng, is here to join us. Moving here from Louisiana, right, to Bloomington. And she will be our seventh grade science teacher this year.
- And then Mr. Ackerman. We got her at Edgewood High School. We won. We have Shonda Klinger. Shonda has taught for a long time at Owen Valley Middle School. We have all, like every time we have a special education opening, we all try to recruit her and we got her coming this way and we're really excited. So it's been a great day. I'm sorry, I'm a little giddy.
- hired a new math teacher, new English teacher. I haven't hired this many teachers in a long time. And Shonda was just the first of a few home runs that we've hit for the high school. So really excited to have Shonda at the high school. She will be there. She missed Jackson, her oldest son, but she'll be there for Ryan. And I know that he's going to enjoy having mom around as well. So Shonda Klinger.
- I just put two and two together. Welcome aboard, glad you're here. And those boys are smart. So a little quick story about Jackson. We were already impressed with Jackson because of what he did with the coffee shop. And I couldn't make it to his open house. So Matt and I took him out to lunch.
- And he proceeds to tell me that he has this other business that he started on his own. It has to do with shoes. And I mean, it's just remarkable how he is able to use the technology to buy the shoes at a low price. And then he sells them. And that's his student-run business on his own. And then I just got to tell this because it's just so exciting.
- 10th birthday, 10 years old, Jackson took his money that he got for his birthday and invested it in stocks. Yeah, so. I didn't think he was impressive before the launch, after the launch. That's all we talked about on the way back. Yeah. I think I need to meet with him. Wow. And remember, he was just like, I mean, he used himself to put money in.
- So much intelligence and even mr. Durham put two and two together All right, that's all for me Did you guys already vote on the consent agenda
- Yeah, okay All right. Well you guys have the cash flows there in front of you Starting with the Education Fund revenue projections for the month of May were very accurate Expenses came in slightly higher one of the main factors that we as we paid our deductible on we have multiple students that are in outside residential placements so we have to pair deductible on that before seek picks up the remaining costs so that was a
- An increase to what we had expected in claims and that was something that just ended up hitting this month The other thing made some changes to so the state made some changes to on my way pre-k funding It was cut back significantly. So the reimbursement rate is is less than 50% of what it used to be For for a program that's eligible to receive that funding that's that that's something that will definitely be a hit to us as a
- as far as expected revenue for the preschool, as well as they're limiting the number of people that are actually gonna be eligible to receive it. They're capping it at 2,500 people based on the way that the budget was set up. So Heather and I have worked on that, trying to update kind of where we are on enrollment projections as far as this far into it, how many we think might be eligible for On My Way Pre-K. Remember, we have everyone apply at the beginning of the application process just because it's beneficial
- to the parents, and in this case, it's not necessarily gonna benefit us, so to speak, because the reimbursement rate doesn't even equal up to what the actual cost of enrollment is, but it's gonna be a huge benefit to any family that might be eligible for it and would be accepted. So we'll see how that goes. That does negatively impact our projections. So I took down those projections on preschool revenue by about 15K a month.
- for the rest of this year. And then we'll make adjustments in 26 and those sorts of things. But overall, with all of these things in mind, cash balance looks a little different from last time. But again, we're still showing that we're gonna eat in some cash. And really the general guidance on this is not much different than what it's been. We're in a great place with cash balance. We can strategically look at how we wanna to move
- with cash balances over the next year or so as we navigate the changes with the legislative session and what we want to do with our employee pay and benefits and all those things. So we'll just continue to be cognizant of that as we make staffing decisions and all those pieces. So move over to the debt service fund. There was revenue in the debt service fund in May. It was reimbursement of funds that accrued when we made our payments.
- on a bond obligation that has since been paid off. It was the 2009 bond obligation that's now been paid off. And so when we make our payments, the trustee bank invest those funds for a period of time until they release those dollars out to the people that purchased our bonds. And during that time, it accrues interest. And so at the closure of that, then they pull that money back to us, checked with Jacob McCullin for bows on the appropriate place to receive that back into, which is our debt service fund.
- So that's where you see that come back into the fund. And then other. Say what? Which amount is that? That would be the, I'm gonna pull it up here in front of me. That would be the $2,680 that you see in other revenue on the debt service fund for the month of May. But yeah, that was, and then we paid a small trustee fee, everything else.
- as normal as expected. We'll make some payments on some bond obligations in the month of June. We'll make the rest of them for that first round in July as normal. You'll see that on the cash flows and everything's in good shape there. Operations fund staying pretty steady. I layered in the daycare costs in.
- and just trying to look at where we are as far as what we've committed to as far as hiring staff and then what we think we'll have as far as revenue goes based on the people that have said that they're interested or they're gonna need that daycare option for our staff. So we've layered that into the revenue and expenses. We have only hired up to this point based on what we think we need. We're not gonna hire everybody if we don't need everybody at this point, just again, what's meant to run it
- almost at cost option and so we want to be mindful of what the demand is versus how much staffing we have as well as just making sure that we're meeting the expectations as far as student to staff ratios. And then other than that, we're sitting in a great place in the operations fund, things have stayed steady. I just continue to remind you during the summer months, technology, maintenance, custodial crews,
- There's a lot happening around campus and they're working hard just for summer upkeep, improvements, all the different things to get ready for the next school year. And so that stuff is actively going on and going well. So I appreciate their efforts. And with that, I'll take any questions on cash flows. One quick question on the first thing you said out of the gate, the multiple students in residential placement, how many kids are we talking about? We have two students.
- In ballpark, what's our cost on that? One of them, the monthly cost is about 18 grand or so. The other one's north of $60,000 per month. And so right now, if you. $70,000 a month? Over $60,000 a month for one because of the needs of the child that's in the facility. And so that is one where we put the application into seek for excess cost funding through the state.
- And we have to pay a deductible on that each fiscal year. So this year it was a little north of 28,000 that we had to pay a deductible on in order for SEEK to pick up the remaining costs. And then that is a reimbursement. So if you guys look in the fund report, there's a specific fund as it relates to SEEK. And you'll see that functions much like any other grant where it's a reimbursable. You'll see that in a negative.
- send in the reimbursements, they send it in, and eventually it equalizes itself out at the completion of each fiscal year. And then. So what's our net cost then? Net cost, if SEEK picks it up, it's the cost of our deductible, which is 28,000. A little bit north of 28,000. If SEEK weren't to pick it. Annually. Annually. Not monthly. Annually. OK. If SEEK did not pick it up, then we would be on the hook for all of it. And so that would be something that would be a huge expense. OK. OK.
- If somebody transfers in from another school corporation because they couldn't provide the services, they should have provided the services, correct? That's their responsibility if they came from another corporation. So if it's a public school that's accepting a student with different needs, yeah, I would assume that they're then responsible for meeting the needs of that child depending on whatever's been agreed upon in a case conference committee for a student with an IEP. So these are students that have an IEP
- in place. Okay. All right. Thanks. Yeah. Okay. We're not. We have the school and construction report and we have Martin True still a schoolman with his here tonight to walk us through that update. I'll try to get this pulled up on the screen while Martin makes his way up. That screen over there.
- I can't read it because of the glare. Okay. All right, I think what I'd like to do today
- is we've got the board package here, Matt. I think that's available to the board, the package. Talk about this? Yeah. I can email it to him. I think I'd like to talk about kind of some highlights of what are going on in the next couple of weeks. So starting with the early childhood center, adjusted the timeline just a little bit because we're actually doing it in 15 months, not 18 months. So early childhood center,
- We've got the exterior pretty well done. You can see the green metal panels. My sense is probably a lot of you have seen that in person. But rather than go through all the little items on last 60 and next 60, if it's all right with you all, I'd kinda like to just talk about what we're really driving on. The thing we need to get, and as we go through it, you'll see some pictures of the kitchen. We're really pushing on the kitchen.
- The reason we're doing that is we need to get a Board of Health inspection before it can be used and we also need to have Vicki, right, get it stocked and ready to go. So right now we have the kitchen equipment installed and Matt you might flip another couple pages.
- So all the kitchen equipment's on site. It's installed. We're doing just some minor stuff and some cleanup We're doing cleanup this week What we want to do is the first week of July get the Board of Health in there to look at it It's not unusual for them to have a few things to to touch up and that would give us a couple weeks to do that and we're hoping by
- no later than July 21st to have that where it can be stocked and start using it. And again, if we do that the first week of July, that would give us three weeks to make that happen. We're hitting flooring real hard next week. And we ought to have a lot of the administration in those type of areas. Ceiling pads, we're dropping in ceiling pads.
- Right now, jump to the administration and the clinic. I believe we've got map furniture coming on July 15th, if I'm correct on that. Yeah, furniture delivery install, yeah. So what our goal is to have the administration and clinic set up by July 21st, and I'm getting way off our PowerPoint here. But if we have that by July 21st,
- set up, then Heather and her staff can get in there and get themselves going. And again, as I think everybody's aware, we're really pushing the early childhood. We've condensed it to a pretty short window and I think we're gonna make it. Teachers, we're saying they're gonna be in there on the 28th and we'll be able to set up their classrooms. That only really gives them one week
- but we need to get it done and get cleaned before they move in. Paving will be done yet this month, but a lot of the landscape, and we're putting sod in up next to the building. So from the parking lot, it's gonna look done, because we'll have sod up there. But the fall planting season doesn't really start
- until I think it's August 15th. So any turf out in the swale or around the north side of the building where it's seeded, that'll get seeded probably that first couple, or second couple weeks of August. And you're really not gonna see the turf coming up until September, October. What else have we got? Okay. And then the other thing that's,
- that we're pushing is the playground. What we want to do is get all the paving and all that kind of stuff done so they can get around the north side of the building. And again, I'm way off of the program here. But the playground should be installed early July. They're waiting for a couple of events for that. And then they'll move into that.
- Again, not to spend a lot of time on this piece, but I don't know if you want to look at some of the pretty pictures we have, if we could do that. And I guess with that, are there any questions on the early childhood? At this point, we feel pretty good about it. We're at the point where
- Weather really doesn't impact us much. We've got, there are five mechanical units, rooftop units that do the air conditioning for the building. We've got three of them running right now, so that whole classroom wing is under condition. Now, what that means is, the units are running. We don't have the controls, the computer controls up and running yet.
- So they just manually turn it on and off as they need it. It's important to have that done because that casework is subject to humidity as are the ceilings. So we've got that all under control. On the west side of the building, what we're calling unit A, the two units are not running yet, but they should be running next week. So right now we're running,
- portable dehumidification in there. You guys sitting on, I was up here Saturday and there were, there was probably 15 people that were working Saturday. Are you working on Sundays too? I'm not. You're not. I know I didn't, I haven't seen you ever on a weekend, but I don't, I was just, they were getting after 40 yard on Saturday. I tell you what, Dale is pushing them like crazy. It's making it happen. All right.
- Yeah, they have, yeah. There's not a whole lot of days between now and the first week. Anyway, I thought that was more valuable than running piece by piece. High school, Matt, you might flip into that, obviously. We're working on the outside. You can see our little red brick pier, which I think the next slide is a close-up of that.
- Site work We've not been doing a lot of site work the last 60 days We're working on the grease interceptor on the building And I kind of let you guys look at that rather than go through it item by item There's our red brick pier on the south side of the building and
- That kind of works with the red brick on the north side of your building to try to tie it all together. That looks a little green in the slide. But you can see the, even though they're both green, the color of the concrete panels kind of work with the color of the limestone. And with that red separating them, I think it makes it work. The next 30 days we'll complete the metal panels.
- We're gonna install the athletic equipment. And let me look at my notes here. We're starting to install the equipment now. We need to get the air conditioning going before we do the floor, which should be in the next couple of weeks. But the floor will go in in late to July. Now, just a reminder that the field house
- Was never scheduled to be done by by fall term We've got that scheduled in our as bid schedule as being done in September and we might beat that We might be able to get it done sometime in August no promises, but we're pushing toward that Kitchen there's the chaos of the kitchen a whole lot of block work that that used to be your auxiliary gym and
- You can see on the one side is a block the other side is blocked plus the duct work for your your hoods for your kitchen kitchen again We were pushing to see how quickly we could get it But what we've essentially done is said go to their early childhood get that kitchen done We're real close to where we could have the kitchen done before fall fall term but to get it in
- and get Board of Health through it and all that kind of stuff. That's not going to happen. So we've talked to your food service people. They're going to work out of the existing kitchen, at least for the first few weeks going into fall term. And then as we get that kitchen done, they can kind of evolve over to the new kitchen from that. We're trying to get the...
- floor done in the cafeteria. We're definitely gonna get it painted before school. We're gonna get as far as we can with the floor. And Matt, I think Dale may have talked to you and Jerry. It may be something that you may be working off a concrete floor in there for some period of time as we go in the fall.
- We'll do it in such a way that we can get in there and kind of give you part and work on part. And then the last thing we'll do is get into the existing kitchen and take it down. One change we made, excuse me, in the choir room, it had existing concrete risers. Those were originally called to be removed. After discussion with the high school staff, they decided they did not want them removed.
- So that saved us a little time. So we're working on that and the band room, that whole area, phase eight of the high school is on schedule. So we expect that to be done by the time school starts. And then I'll just put that one little slide, the discus area off of the high school football stadium is in process right now.
- Again, don't expect to have good grass in there until at least spring and probably next fall, quite frankly. So at your leisure, you can kind of go through that. Primary school, a big push on the primary school. We did not want to do,
- toilet rooms during the school year. So we're doing all of the toilet rooms during the summer. And we think we're gonna be done, we're on schedule to be done. But we're thinking one of them is right on the cusp. So you definitely have all but one, the one May by the time we get all the tile, well, actually the toilet partitions in.
- we may be looking at the first or second week of school, but you should have all the rest of it. Other than that, in the primary school, we've been sticking right to the schedule. The classrooms will be turned over on schedule. And I guess if there are any other questions on the primary school. And you can see us, our contractors in there,
- knocking the heck out of the toilet rooms and trying to get them done as quickly as we can. Intermediate school, everything's just, there's not a lot to talk about. Everything's on schedule. It's moving along nicely. One thing that's a little different than what we've looked at before is we're getting into the library and there's a,
- the media center and then there's a classroom right off of the media center. So that on the left is the media center, on the right is that classroom. They're moving along nicely and should be ready by the time school starts. And with that, anything else on the intermediate school? I know I've gotten off the track of the PowerPoint,
- Again, if Matt can get that to you, you can look at it at your leisure and it'll get down more to the nitty gritty. But right now, intermediate school looks very good. Primary school, we're trying to get all the toilet rooms done. We'll have them all done at least except one. And the early childhood looks good.
- The turf and grass and bushes won't be done. The other thing we're looking at, I think, is signage. We should have the building signage, the interior room signage. If we have to put temporary signage up, we will. Just as a reminder, the board's taking a tour of the construction projects tomorrow night. Meet here at 530. That's exciting.
- What's that big old hole when I came in and I parked up by the baseball field and because it was all gated off, what's that big hole for between the activity center and are they putting pipes still or is they going to pave it? You know, I didn't see the hole. What we're talking about by the field house area? Yes, like I get my directions between the field house. Probably the grease interceptors and or the drainage. They're probably connecting drainage. I just don't think it will repave all. I assume it's going to have to be repaved. Oh, yeah, it's got to be repaved. One thing.
- and I'm kind of looking at Matt, but I think there's a little discussion on whether we had talked about reducing that with the sidewalk in order to make the road a little wider. In order to do that, we've got to procure some additional storm structures. I don't know if there's- Just waiting on engineer on that. We're waiting on the engineer on that.
- if we go ahead with it per the original plans, the structures are already in and they can just get the sidewalks in and get it paved. So I'm not real sure, Matt, where we are with that. Still looking to widen. Yeah, just trying to get a clarification of whether or not it's a different type of grate that would make the intersection a little wider and not affect the storm structure. So they're supposed to be giving us an answer on that.
- we know how to proceed with it so they can make sure that things stay on time. So that's still a four way stop right there? Yeah, three way stop. Yeah, that's right there, yeah. Okay, all right. But what, until we get those, if we go forward and narrow the sidewalk and widen the street, then we will have to have new storm structures and the structures, the manhole essentially. Right, right.
- and it will take a few weeks to get those structures. So we're trying to move forward with the paving in the next several weeks, but if we have to change the structures, that'll, there'll be some things on the west side of the parking lot that won't be done concurrently with the rest of the paving. Okay. Over.
- Thank you very much, Martin. Appreciate your help and looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. I think you'll see, I'm sorry, I think you'll see Dale tomorrow. Well, I said see it. Yeah, yeah. You don't want to come back for another evening? You don't want to come back for another evening? I don't know, are we back here on Thursday? Friday, you're here Friday morning. Friday.
- Appreciate it. Thanks Martin. Thank you. Thanks Martin Now as we complete some projects, let's have a discussion about 2025 bonds timeline Mr. When you like to yeah, so I'll kind of just
- kind of queue up who's here and what we've been having discussions about possible projects. We've had multiple work sessions at this point to discuss some of the various needs of the school corporation, as well as look at kind of what our financial outlook is and what our possibilities are for this upcoming year and some of those projects. So here tonight is Matt Shoemaker from Stiefel who's been at the work session is presenting some of this information to you previously. So some of this,
- All of it should be a review for you in that way, but he's gonna continue to touch on those things. And then again, just presenting in a board meeting so that people in the public can continue to see that information and we're making sure that we're putting that out there to everyone. And then Jacob McClellan from Boas McKinney or Bond Council is gonna talk through the proposed timeline and what that would look like and walk you through all those pieces. But I know you're all well versed in this, but that's who's here tonight. So we'll start with Matt Shoemaker from Stiefel.
- Good evening. Good to see you all again.
- I'll be brief tonight. I know we've been over some of this before, but this page looks at all of your outstanding debt as of today, color coded by issue. So all the payments stack on top of each other to show you what your annual payment is, not only in 2025, but moving forward all the way through 2042. Obviously, this has been done intentionally, always with an eye to the future to make sure as we're doing these projects, we're doing them under your financial goals.
- 2025 you can see total payments are about 10 million just under 10 million dollars schedules drop in 26 27 in 2028 obviously that was intentional so that we can add on projects such as these and again hit hit hit the goals that you've set for so as we look at the next page so we have put in a potential 40 million dollar bond issue and
- As of today, we've shown all of this being issued at once. We know that's not going to happen. Obviously these projects are most likely gonna take months and months, if not over the course of a couple years. But we've done it this way to be most conservative. If you issue everything at one time, you're gonna start paying interest on everything at one time. So this picture should be worst case scenario. As you guys decide exactly how and when you wanna do some of these projects, if you bring
- break this up into smaller bond issues over a period of time, that's going to make this chart look a lot better. You're not paying interest on everything right away, so you're saving some interest costs. Also, you can only pay these bonds back over a course of 20 years. So if you end up issuing these bonds, say, over the next two or three years, you get 20 years on each issue. So that can be extended out. All of this picture is going to look a lot better. The reason I've done it this way is simply to show you that you can keep your levy the same moving forward.
- if you choose under any circumstance if you're talking about a $40 million bond issue. As we've talked about in the past, the tax rate is somewhat up in the air because we don't know the full effects of the new legislation. But what we do know is this can be structured so that the levy, the amount of property taxes we're asking taxpayers to pay, remains constant moving forward if that's what the school board administration decides to do. So I think my message is fairly simple in that we can do this under the worst circumstance
- However, you guys end up breaking this up is only going to make this look better. But in either scenario, if you want to keep those property tax dollars that levy the same moving forward, that can certainly be accomplished with the size of a project. Questions about any of this? Can you send a chart at 30 million, too? Oh, of course. Anything, yeah.
- What we try to do is we try to set it at the highest amount so we could just prove that you can do that. And then anything you want to do that's less than that obviously will make all of this look better. So yeah, we can run this in any number you want. But if we get approved for 30, then we could spread it out over two different years. Spread it out over whatever period you want to spread it out. Yeah. We could offer a series. We could spread it out over five.
- Keep the level under the 70 cents that they voted on this year our debt service That's kind of what I'm moving down the road on unlikely. It's still to be seen. We have them if we have them This keeps us away from the service doing so we're authorizing it now, but we're not under we're not at the 70 cents mark this allows us to put the authorizations and the limits and guardrails in place and
- And then from there, the school corporation can decide how they wanna issue that 40 million once it's authorized. We're setting those parameters just like in previous bond issuances. We said, hey, we're gonna authorize up to this amount while it still fits within the goals and the constraints that the board has set forth that they want. This is that same sort of idea. He's just saying this would be a parameter that we could go with and it's still fit with what we need.
- doing it in multiple issuance is keeping the flexibility and seeing those cliffs and those jump-offs, which are important to maintain flexibility for the school corporations so that when needs arise or when changes happen legislatively, we have the ability to react to that. Yeah, and in the perfect world, these are structured, and we're gonna have to see the data over the next few years too, because we're still not sure, but the idea would be to structure these in a way that when these projects are complete and you've spent this money, that we can get back under the 70 cents again in the future,
- I think the beauty of this is it just gives you full flexibility. If you pass, decide 40 million is the number and we get some bad data two years down the road, you don't have to issue all 40, right? This is not all or none. You can just issue any number up to that and then you'll retain that authorization for as long as you want. Correct. That makes sense. If it starts to sneak up. Right.
- Let's just say something happens and you need a new roof right away and you're over 7 cents. Right. No fault of your own because of what the legislature did. Then you have that, if you have that authorization, you have the bill. Right. I mean, that's the... Yeah, and that authorization sticks. I mean, there are plenty of schools that will do this and they won't, they'll issue it over three, five, seven years. The timing and the amounts are totally up to the school board and the administration on how you want to do that. If we do it correct, if we do it correctly, then we won't have to do the referendum.
- That is the ultimate goal, yes. Now, do they change the goalposts again? As of today, that is the goal, yes. So right now, we're looking at Friday, the meeting we talked about earlier that we're gonna have on Friday is actually taking some of the projects that we've prioritized and we've given them estimated costs. We wanna be much more precise in that
- And then once we have that finished, then we'll come back to you. And then as a board, you'll be able to prioritize and say, well, these two projects need to be done sooner rather than later. And then we'll see how much those costs are. And we would bond for that amount. And then we could kind of map out then over the next several years, each of those prioritized projects. I think it's important to note too that by
- maintaining the tax levy and having a drop from 27 to 28 gives even more flexibility for the future. Plus it gives, you know, as needs may change, three years down the road, four years down the road, five years down the road, we can quickly adapt to that. So if there's a swell in population
- from all the mushroom houses popping up or whatever, we should be able to react fairly quickly to it. And that's flexibility that a lot of school systems don't have. And it's flexibility that we didn't have back in the day. So it's awful nice to have worked it up to this point. So a lot of work from a lot of hard people.
- I appreciate all that. All right, let Jacob come up and talk about the timetable a little bit. So the timetable, Jacob McClellan with Bo's, McKinney and Evans. So the timetable should look like what you guys have been through before because of your debt service levy rate and because of the size of the projects. It would be a controlled project potentially subject to
- referendum and so what we would do in that timetable and what you guys have done in the past if it's if it still works for you all is we've had you have to hold two public hearings so we typically recommend that you hold those one week apart I mean you could do it one day apart but if you look at that timetable and that's what we've done in the past but we would start with the the public hearings once we get kind of
- parameters in the list of the projects. We'd work with Stiefel to get notices out and we've got to kind of put together, you know, tax impact in those notices and things like you all have probably seen in prior years. But we would have, if we stick to this timetable, the first preliminary determination hearing in July 8th, the second one at your kind of normal board meeting,
- And that's when we would put out, assuming everything gets adopted, we put out a notice, and there's 30 days when the lesser of 500 property owners or 5% of registered voters can petition to have the referendum process apply. I know your public, your constituents have been pretty supportive, so you haven't had a lot of pushback on anything in the past. We kind of don't expect that, but because of
- That's a 30-day period. We've got to kind of wait for that 30-day period to run before we can do anything with the lease. And this would be a lease bond through your building corporation. That's a 30-day notice as well. So we're not really taking any action then if you stick with this timetable in August. We'd be back for the hearing on the lease and presumably approval on the lease at your September meeting. Then there's a 30-day period that we have to put out a notice because you would have been through
- the preliminary determination process, there's not really a remonstrance, but we don't like to, the statute's a little ambiguous, so we'd like to wait that 30 days, and that's typically what we do, and then we'd be back in October with forms of bond documents, and then if you needed to issue something or you planned to issue something by the end of the year, we'd work with Stiefel and Matt and Jerry on timing, and again, you know,
- Assuming we authorize kind of a very long list of needs, we'll put in authorizations for this to be, you know, multiple series, issued on multiple dates, multiple addendums to your lease to match up with those, just for maximum flexibility. And that way, if for some reason we jump over the 70 cents, you're not kind of hamstrung by that and stuck waiting or trying to scramble to figure out something, you know, that you can do to kind of fulfill a need.
- With that, I'd be happy to answer any questions. Early November seems like a fairly good time to spend or to sell bonds, correct, before you get into the holidays when things get crazy. Yeah, and it's always kind of good to get through, you know, we've got you getting through. If you do that special meeting, we get you through without really rushing in October. And then if, you know, Stiefel says, hey, there's no reason to rush, you can sit on it. I mean, what I don't like is what,
- Clients that kind of do it last minute and then have something come up that's political or that's a big hurdle It's kind of the way you guys have always proceeded is to kind of take your time and that way if something comes up You're not rushed so The timeline that we've got here because we're not going to take any action this evening so the timeline that we have here so just generally
- since I've been working for you all, we've always kind of briefed the board before we started anything. So that June 17th, you know, I think it's just to kind of talk about potentially we've got projects and, you know, depending on what you guys decide, you'll have some notices that you'll see. And then at the next meeting, we'd have a, you know, potentially if you guys are, if it works for you all, we'd have that special public hearing. We could kind of present on what the potential projects were and the parameters. And then you'd be taking action at the July 15th meeting. So.
- Would it be prudent to, if the 1028 would be by June 23rd to have the board at least vote that we agree to start with the $40 million and that we should use this timetable and authorize you to do the 1028 hearing? To publish the notice for the 1028 hearing, should the board go ahead and just authorize that?
- It's just. You can if you'd like, yeah, to kind of say, hey, please proceed with, you know, getting, you know, formulating projects and parameters and then we can kind of start the process, yeah. Okay. So the parameters, the budget would be the 40 million. That would be the 40 million and then Stiefel will run kind of not to exceed parameters for us. And that's kind of tricky if we're doing potentially
- You know, that might be a little bit, I don't, Matt can speak to it, but it might be a little bit higher than you're used to just to allow for flexibility and changes, you know, that might happen if you don't issue for, you know, something for two or three years, so. Okay. Okay. Well, I'll make a motion to authorize Stiefel and Council to take the necessary steps to publish the notice for the 1028 hearing and,
- and set the maximum amount at $40 million. I thought this was informational here. I don't see it. Is this an actual item? It is informational and we don't have to authorize the publication of the 1028 notice. I just feel better about it.
- so that we've looked at it, we've been working on it. So we'll still publish it. And so this would allow us to publish it. Matt or Jerry could instruct me to publish, but I mean, that's probably good. And you guys will still have to vote on it in July. It doesn't like lock you in if you do it. It's just kind of affirmatively saying, hey, please proceed. So even though it's informational, I would like to go ahead and show that we are in support of this
- at least moving forward and to keep things moving forward. And again, Matt or Jerry could have authorized the 1028. I just like putting it for us. Without our consent. They could have did it without our consent. Yeah, they didn't need us to do that, but I want them to know that we would like for them to. I'll second it. Move and second it. Anything further? Any questions? I just think everybody needs to know that this is
- Just a first step and nothing is set in stone But you guys will have more can't take steps until we correct take a step You guys will have multiple public hearings and multiple chances to kind of weigh in everything so we'll have a chance to look at 30 million also between now and then see how it plays out and
- I think what you don't want is people say, well, they upset 1028 notice to the boarding vote on that. And that's why we bring it to you guys. That's why Matt and Jerry have me bring it to you guys so that you don't see something in the paper and go, hey, nobody told us. Right. Yeah. Right. No. OK. No. So I just think it looks good that we're showing that we're a team on this. Right. All right. So it's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion?
- All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, guys. Thank you. Matt and Jake, I really appreciate you guys coming down and making everything so clear. I appreciate it. Thanks.
- I didn't want to do it necessarily at the beginning of the meeting because we had everybody here and it was such a joyous time. But I would like to take a moment to pause and stop and remember Cindy Bentley and her family. It was a very tragic loss. The driver in the other car actually
- someone that I had had as a student at Ivy Tech. So I knew both. She was Jasmine was St. John was in the other car and she was the administrative assistants at the proactive health clinic. So a lot of our folks know her. Yeah. Yeah. So it is a very sad time for them and their families and we just know it.
- my prayers are with them, and that if we could just take a few moments of silence, I think we should. Okay. So,
- No, we will go ahead. We have an informational item that is the revisions to policies 4162 and 8510, and this would be the first reading, and Dr. Sadler. Yeah, so we, as you mentioned, we have two policies that we're presenting to you tonight on first reading, and then at the July board meeting, we'll give you the opportunity to approve those
- revisions. The first one, 4162, is the drug and alcohol testing of CDL holders and other employees who perform safety-sensitive functions. The policy is being revised to better align with the Indiana State Police flow chart that outlines protocol for when you do a drug test. Our buses are inspected.
- on a regular basis, and at one of those inspections, the inspector said that our policy could be worded better in order to be much more aligned with their protocol. So that's the purpose of 4162. 8510 is being revised. The CHAMPS committee that
- kind of organizes and leads our corporation in areas of health and fitness. They felt like, once again, the language in policy 8510 should be revised to better align with the USDA smart snacks in school nutrition standards. And so we've revised those policies accordingly.
- Christine has reviewed them and this is first reading. So once again, we'll ask you to vote on this in July. Thank you. Now we will look at the administrator contract adjustments. Mr. Irwin. So this is for our preschool director. So with this upcoming year, we'll be doubling the size of the preschool. We'll be adding in the addition of the daycare.
- And she will have the over being overseeing the before and after care program, child care program as well. It's much more aligned with the duties and the things that she is focused on throughout the day and throughout the year. And with this, what we're trying to do is continue just to,
- create a mold of rhyme and reason as to how we pay our administrators and how that's in alignment with other administrative positions and it being competitive as well. And so this brings this, the payment of our preschool director position in alignment with our AP positions at the elementary level as well. So some little bit more of equal footing as far as the level of responsibilities that are there. So that brings this into alignment. So it's an adjustment of this upcoming contract year, which would start July 1 through June 30
- of 2025 through 2026. So it's just an adjustment of that second year. The contract has been reviewed by Christine prior to it coming to you. The administrator contract adjustment. A second discussion. She is gonna have more on her plate this year. No question. She's been doing an outstanding job just getting prepared and planning for the opening of the new building.
- She has been in on every detail and has been very meticulous in the way that she's planning and trying to get things set up and ready to go. So I applaud her for that. So it's still a 200 day contract. Same again, it's brought into alignment with that of an AP for the elementary buildings. Any further?
- All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next is to approve status.
- of the year-round classified employee agreements. Again, Mr. Irwin? Yeah, so this is a yearly piece. It's the status quo classified employee agreements for these six individuals. It's something that we do every year. So those are one-year agreements. So it's just to make sure that we renew their agreements prior to them expiring so that they're not walking into July on an expired contract. So this is, again, reviewed yearly by Christine prior to your approval. I move approval. I second.
- Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carried. Now consideration to approve the PCS quote, nope, policy analytics agreement. Yeah, so the last time we worked with policy analytics was back in 2021. They did a tax-based study analysis for us.
- And so this is very similar in that way, but they're also gonna help us key in on some things that are very important with the changes as it relates to SEA 1. So again, having a firm understanding of our tax base and the direction that it's heading as well as the impact of the homeowners credit, that's an immediate impact on our budgets because it's gonna come off the top of our levy like a circuit breaker credit. And so they're gonna be able to give us much more accurate
- count as far as what to expect for that type of credit so that as we plan for budgets for cash flow projections when we're making decisions about staffing, we have more accurate detailed information to make decisions off of. So this is in alignment with the same reasons that we would do a demographic study or we would do a facility study assessment.
- or all of those pieces, it brings good information to the board. They're one of the leader. They are the leader in this for around the state. They work with a lot of schools. And so this allows them to do it. It is a one-year agreement so that after one year, if we feel like we don't need to continue to do it, that's fine. But this will help us get some of that information so that we're better prepared as we make decisions in the near term. Small approval of the policy analytics agreement.
- Any discussion and that fees an annual cost, correct? Yeah, that is a cost of ten thousand five hundred dollars and it can be paid for either from the operations fund But I did check with Jacob McClellan from Bose because it is helping us with our analysis as it relates to bonding and some of those other projects we can include it in our Costs for issuance so that it doesn't come out of our operations fund It saves us that appropriation and that cash and operate operations, which is how I would advise to do that
- and they give us more detailed information to Stiefel. Yes, yeah, so it's kind of a layer. Stiefel is more so on that side of advising us on bonds, bond parameters, all of those pieces. Policy Analytics is back in giving us a lot of information as it relates to our own tax base and what the parameters are of that as far as what to expect, AV growth, all of those other things, which helps make Stiefel's information that much more accurate as it relates to giving you information about those parameters. And they would be evaluating, for example, the TIF.
- Yeah, so they can look and help us with evaluating some impact of the TIF and some of those other pieces, which again is very appropriate for us at this time. Sure, thank you. Nothing further. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. No consideration to approve the PCS quote for the junior high school. Yeah, so,
- We have been looking for some space to house student support for students if they are removed from the classroom or they're waiting to see an administrator or they're hanging out there for the day working on work. Mr. Rensler gave up his office this year and moved to a different office so that they had a space for that. And so this would allow us to create some space that's not being well utilized at this point, which is in the teacher's lounge where a lot of teachers aren't using that right now.
- would rather have a space where they can serve students. So it's putting a wall up in that space, cutting in a door, making sure all the appropriate HVAC
- Fire alarm, strobe, all those things are there to help with that. And then also is solving a secondary issue, which is we have no direct access to the back of the bleachers in the main gym at the junior high. So our maintenance and custodial staff is having to kind of shimmy their way to the back to try to get in there to service or clean back there, which is not ideal in any aspect. So it takes care of that. They'll cut in a door and give direct access to the back of that for service and cleaning.
- So we did put it out to three quoters.
- Only two people quoted. The low quote was provided by PCS. The total all in, if you take the alternates, which we would like to do, is $56,105, and it would be funded through some remaining funds of a bond back in 2010, which is an appropriate use of those funds. Checked with Jacob McClellan as far as what were the allowable uses of those remaining funds, and that's something that he said is an allowable use, so we would take it from that account, which has more than enough money to cover
- And so and also what you have in front of you is I printed off Christine wanted there to be like a standard AIA document like a short form document to go along with the quote Just because there was some renovation work going on in the building So we've been working with Ed surface and PCS to get that written out What I've given you is the latest version of that So what I'm asking for is for you guys to approve the quote and the agreement
- pending satisfactory language, which I expect to have soon, so that they can get this work done during the summer and hopefully have it ready before school year starts and that all of this is completed. So asking for approve that pending satisfactory language, the quote in the corresponding agreement. I'll second. Second, any discussion? Just curiosity, how big a space are we talking about?
- I don't recall the total square footage off the top of my head, but if you know where the teachers lounge access area is to the junior high, you walk in and you look to the left. So kind of where that little hallway is, that wall would go along where that hallway is. So it's still have that access hallway to get into the media center in that place, but it would wall that off. And then there'd be a door cut on the outside wall. That would be a direct access from the hallway into that room. Yeah, it's not, it's not, no, no, it's,
- And it's a much better utilization of that space than what it's being used for now. It's gonna be able to serve students, which is obviously a great thing. It'd be done this summer. So hopefully pending approval from you all, I'll be getting out that confirmation to them tomorrow so that they can get it scheduled because if not, if we had to wait till July, there's just no way that we would have the opportunity to get this work done. So we're really gonna be pushing on them to get this completed and finished before next school year starts.
- Mr. Siegel, does this make sense? This is what you guys want, right? Yeah, we're really limited in the office space and giving up an office to utilize it as high as this right now is a short-term fix on the long-term and something we really need. And for the number of teachers that utilize that space, we've got another space of mind that we can use. Is this like a 10 by 10 or a 20 by 20? I would say it's a whole pack.
- 16 by 16, maybe 16 by 20, something like that. It's not a full classroom, but it's big enough to do. It would have to be for an extra suspension. Yeah, and it's, I mean, right now we're utilizing a space where we can only fit three students, four students maybe, or they're sitting on top of each other. Which, at the end of the break, they don't need to be sitting on top of each other anyway. But to go is not to have it, period.
- We just need us we just need us we just need a space Did we have a motion, yes, was it contingent on the review by legal? Okay
- Okay, there's nothing else all those in favor say aye aye opposed motion carries Thank you. And now we look at the renewal of the IU health athletic trainer agreement mr. Wang
- Yeah, so last year was the first year that we had this agreement in place. This is a continuation of that agreement, obviously, but this is for a multi-year agreement. So not a whole lot of changes to the structure of the agreement. The initial price for this year is the exact same as what it was last year, but what they did was put a 3% escalator in it for each year just for it to keep up with cost of living and to keep that person's salary and benefits moving.
- Everything else is pretty close to the same. They made some slight tweaks to the marketing pieces that they would like in exchange for the sharing of costs for an athletic trainer. Looked into those some more. I don't think that it's gonna pose an issue to the school. It's not really any different than what we're doing now. And so this is just a partnership that we have with IU where they're helping to share in the cost of what it is to provide an athletic trainer to our teams.
- At this point, we're very happy with where we're at with this, so I'm recommending your approval of this renewal. I'll move approval. I second. The cost of it? $43,000, and then next year it will go up by 3% each year thereafter. Any further? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Now permission to create the position of a certified
- occupational therapy assistant. Yes, so in the past we have had a contract with an outside company to provide the services of a certified occupational therapist assistant. We feel like we could possibly save the corporation some money by hiring this person directly. And so in order to do that, we have to create this position.
- And so we recommend your approval of that tonight. I'll second. You can second. Any discussion? Just curiosity, what do you anticipate that the cost would be for this person? Matt, do you know that?
- You probably set the hourly rate somewhere in the mid 20s as far as what the going rate is. We're gonna continue to kind of look at what the analysis of what the going rate is for that. If we had to work with a contracting company, the markup on that is pretty extreme. And so we think that if we're able to find the right person, this would be a much better service to the kids and to the school corporation on every side of the spectrum.
- This could be reimbursing some through maybe some Medicaid reimbursement. Yeah, I have to double check on on that on that, but I believe so. I think there's probably a little bit different reimbursement rates as it relates to different levels of professionals on licensing, but that would be something that if we're able to reimburse will continue to do that just like we build Medicaid services for those that are eligible to to bill. So they'll get benefits too. This is going to be a part time
- And Next would be the creation of a position for a speech-language pathologist assistant Yes, so The purpose of this new position would really be to support our SLP's Kara glasscock who serves EPS and Justin Ross to who serves
- at the Edgewood Early Childhood Center. They've been doing a fantastic job trying to keep up with the growing demands, growing caseload. And so we feel though in order to support them, it would be really beneficial for the corporation to create this
- a speech and language pathologist assistant position so we can help take a little bit of the caseload off of these two fine educators. Last year we had had a, the board had approved an agreement for an outside,
- to provide that and we can get a lot more hours out of someone and a lot more service to kids for a lot cheaper costs if we're able to hire them directly rather than paying all the markup fees and get more time. So the idea is that it would be a part-time position and it would even then be a step up in some of the services and some of the help that we're able to provide our SLPs. I move approval of creation of the. I second. Any discussion?
- All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Now consideration of the agreement for a memorandum of understanding with the South Central Community Action Program head start. Mr. Irwin. Yeah, so you guys saw Jennifer Anderson's memo on this. This is something that as a renewal, we do it every two years. There's been no changes from the last MOU. It was reviewed by Jessica Heiser, who's a special education attorney that we use through imprint legal group.
- And again, and just make sure that there's coordination of services for the students that need them from early intervention services, part C to preschool special education services, part B, if eligible and are at headstart. I move approval. I'll second. Moved and second. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Now consideration to approve the 2020
- 2025-2026 classified handbook. Mr. Irwin. Yeah, so I put just one pager there in front of you because there was one adjustment I needed to make. I had gotten a last minute feedback from one of our directors on a question that I felt like this was something. So if you look at the page that's there in front of you at the bottom, the second piece that's in red, it says days to be used at the discretion of department supervisors or superintendent.
- So we had added in the three e-learning pay days for transportation and nutrition services staff. That was to make sure that some of our employees who don't have an opportunity to make up work when we are out of school have a protection to their paycheck. What this is, is to make sure that when we have a flex day and it's not bad weather, if there's work for them to do,
- then obviously we're gonna have them come in and do that work, whether it's training or being better at some of the surfaces that we need for them to work on. And so that's something that's just saying, hey, there is that flexibility. It's a clarification of what we're already doing. But again, one of the goals every year when we review this is to say, is there something that we need to clarify? And also, is there something that we need to change? And so this would be something that's just a clarification of how we already administer that as well. But again, the sole purpose of it's there
- to protect that, so if they're not used on flex day and say we have a really bad winter and we have to take several e-learning days, those three e-learning days that we're allowed to use asynchronously, it protects the paycheck of those employees who don't have much of an opportunity to make up work when we continue to be outside of school.
- The other changes that were in the classified handbook, again, I put those in red that was reviewed by Christine. I put those in red just so you didn't have to read every piece of that, but it kind of points you to these are the major changes or these are the things that are changing from one year to the next. But this is something that you review multiple times a year as it relates to the handbook. So asking for your approval of that. I'll make approval. I second.
- Quick question on the preschool secretary we That was a we were moving into the school secretary category transferred over to the school secretary scale again Just because we didn't exit. Yes. Yeah, so there was no point to have it on there anymore because with the
- creation of the new building, doubling the size, daycare, all the things that are going on there. There's a little bit more alignment with that and there's not the other assistance there in the office. So bringing some of those things into alignment and again, just making adjustments to the handbook over time as it makes sense as things continue to evolve from school year to school year. Yeah, appreciate cleaning that up. Okay, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?
- Now consideration to approve the 2025 2026 before and after care handbook. Yeah, so bright bringing this to you because again with the change in the preschool again adding more opportunity for kids to have before and after care if they're in the preschool.
- And so this was something we've made several changes to it, felt like it was something that we needed to start bringing to you each year to review. The rates that are in the back end of it is something that you guys have already reviewed earlier in the year, just because we need to set those rates earlier as we are releasing information to families about that are looking into preschool or that are getting ready for kindergarten roundup or whatever that might be. So some of that stuff is some things that you've already seen before, but with some of these changes felt like it was necessary to start to bring that to you. And again,
- and will be under the direction of Heather Kenzik. She'll oversee the before and aftercare director. She'll still obviously work with the EPS and EIS administration to coordinate those services in those buildings, but she'll help with making sure that things are billing and all those other pieces are running the way that they should. So with that, asking for your approval on the before and aftercare handbook. Any discussion?
- All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. No consideration to approve the 2025-2026 student parent handbooks. Dr. Sanders. Yes, so I was just thinking about this. The handbooks are probably one of the most valuable documents that we have because it's such an effective way to communicate with parents and provide them with valuable information
- on procedures and other information that they need to know as parents. And so if you look at our handbooks, they're very well done. Our principals put a lot of time and energy into that. And every year, you kind of evaluate and think back on the past school year and different things that have come up. And then the principals think, well, we could better word that. And so they make revisions to the handbook.
- or there might be new laws that the state legislators have provided us. And so we include those changes in the handbooks. We run those all by Christine and she just loves that time of the year when she could look at all the handbooks and she's very, she does a very good job at that and I really appreciate that. So we recommend your approval.
- student parent handbooks. I'll second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. I have consideration to approve power school section 504 software program contract. Mr. Erwin.
- Yeah, so this brings into alignment the state moved to power school being the provider of the new IEP platform as well. So it brings into alignment our section 504 plans in the IEP program being on the same platform, which makes it a lot easier for staff to make sure that we're administering the pieces that we need to for the students that get those services. So it was reviewed by Ferguson law. There was one change that needed to be made to it as it related to auto renewal.
- That change has been made. So the agreement that you will be able to sign or approve at this point, Dr. Sanders will sign after pending your approval. It does have the auto renewal out of it, which is what Christine wanted to be out of it. They agreed to that change. So at this point, everything's good to go. So asking for your approval of that, please. I'll move approval. I'll second.
- a set price contract, or is it? Yeah, so each year there's a set price. So year one, 25 to 26, is $5,822.50. Year two is $1,640.35. And then the years after, it has those in there as far as what those prices are. And then it has the subscription pieces that are in it. And it has the different layers in it as far as product services, training services. Training is $855.
- so it lays out the different pieces that are in it. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Okay, now we're to our friendly superintendent's report. You know, I just love this report tonight because so many times when I'm out and about, sometimes the public thinks that
- school corporations shut down during the summer.
- And I just wanted to give a report tonight to demonstrate that really our campus never sleeps. It's maybe moratorium week. It slows down a little bit. So our wonderful nutrition department is always on the move. As you know, they're providing free breakfast and lunch to students participating in summer school. We have the summer
- feeding program, which provides individual breakfast and lunch meals, which goes from May 28th through July 25th. And so there's different pickup points.
- that the community can go to to get those individual lunches. And one of those would be our food truck that they could go to a location and utilize our food truck for those individual meals. This summer, we've added something, and that's the summer meal pickup. So a family can pick up a meal for a week, five breakfasts, five lunch meals, and a gallon of milk per child.
- And so that goes from June 4th through July 23rd. And it's a drive-through service that's behind EPS. And I think that's pretty cool that we serve our community in that way. As we mentioned, summer school is wrapping up this week for EPS, EIS, and the high school. We've had 55 students at the primary level, 34 at the intermediate.
- and approximately 60 students at the high school. The junior high does a jumpstart program, so that'll be July 21st through the 31st.
- And then there's tons of extracurricular activities. I just listed all the camps that are provided for our elementary students from boys basketball to football, soccer, tennis, volleyball. The girls basketball will have a camp in the fall. And it's just really cool to go up and look into our facilities
- Our football complex and see these future mustangs learning their respective sports and something I don't know. Maybe Larry knows different but I've never remembered us having a summer performance before we have.
- Sixth musical, the teen edition, will be June 26th and 27th at seven o'clock or the 28th at two o'clock in the high school auditorium. And of course, you'll see all of our fall sports athletes around campus and the band practicing here at the student parking lot.
- And then finally, a really exciting week. And this happens because of our dedicated teachers, but we have a Camp Invention at EPS. It's a STEM-focused summer camp, and it'll be June 23rd through the 26th. And it goes from 8.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. every day that week. And so pretty cool to be around campus in the summer.
- There's no RV be a representative here this evening. So we'll go to board member comments. We'll start with Mrs. Jacobs Well, um, I'm Happy about all the things that are just you know, all the progression that we're going through as a corporation it's amazing to see all these pieces come together and I'm very excited to see how the the new school
- takes off this fall. It'll be exciting to see all the littles come in and watch them grow. I'm sorry, this is gonna be difficult. I'm asking everybody to please keep Cindy Bentley's family very close to their hearts. I've known Cindy for a lot of years.
- And it's going to be difficult. And I haven't earned our corporation. We need to make sure we're rallying around the staff that have worked with her for so many years because they're hurting. And her grandchildren are RBB students. So we need to make sure that we're rallying around them and supporting them. Thank you. Mr. Tucker.
- Yeah, just continued prayers for that family and for the community to wrap their arms around the Bailey family and help them through this time. And also for the family in Owen County that was affected as well. So appreciate all the information tonight and good meeting. If I can get it out, thank you, Matt, for all your work you've done for us and Jerry.
- I appreciate your leadership so much. And I see Mrs. Whitaker out there. Is this our last time? We'll see you at a board member meeting. Well, I was there when we hired you, and I'm there now that you're leaving. So good luck, and I sure enjoyed watching your career. So thank you so much. Yeah, I had two of Cindy's.
- children in class and Logan was on one of my boys little league team so I've known the family for a long time and it was that's a hard load to bear. Graduation once again was as you have often said it's the it's our favorite time of the year seeing what our students have accomplished and this was a terrific class and I'm
- I'm so proud of the class of 25 and I'm looking forward to class 26. I'll leave it there. Yeah. I would just like to have one comment and that is to thank Mrs. Whitaker for all her years of service here. We've talked and talked a lot about things and you've
- planted a lot of seeds in my brain that just sprung up around this place. And so, you know, I always attribute the preschool to being your vision that you brought to us. So I really appreciate you and all your years of service, and we're definitely gonna miss you. This meeting's adjourned.