WEBVTT 00:00:00.450 --> 00:00:11.670 - Our next meeting this evening is our regular January 2026. Let the record reflect that all the board 00:00:11.670 --> 00:00:22.780 - members are present. My understanding is there's no visitor comments this evening. There's not open 00:00:22.780 --> 00:00:30.334 - board, but there's nobody who wants to do it. So seeing none, we'll 00:00:30.434 --> 00:00:38.902 - jump straight to the Mustang moment. Dr. Finitas. Yes, so the original plans were to honor our Lilly 00:00:38.902 --> 00:00:47.453 - Scholarship finalists and winner. But they, being the students that they are, they had conflicts with 00:00:47.453 --> 00:00:55.837 - other activities. So they are going to come in to the board meeting in February. And so I just want 00:00:55.837 --> 00:00:59.358 - to take just a real quick minute, though. 00:00:59.458 --> 00:01:09.014 - You know, we have the debit card program that with some of our local financial institutions that we 00:01:09.014 --> 00:01:18.569 - get so much money for every time one of those cards are used. And so we received our check from the 00:01:18.569 --> 00:01:27.934 - IU credit union for $5,000. And so that's the maximum that you can get. So we're doing very well. 00:01:28.034 --> 00:01:37.388 - And that money goes back into our Ready Schools type activities for our students. So I just wanna thank 00:01:37.388 --> 00:01:46.652 - IU Credit Union for that opportunity to participate in that program. That's awesome. Okay, next is the 00:01:46.652 --> 00:01:55.646 - consent agenda. We have the approval of minutes from the December 16th, 2025 regular board meeting. 00:01:56.098 --> 00:02:06.086 - the Treasury report for December of 2025. And Mr. Turner with the claims, please. Thank you, Mr. President. 00:02:06.086 --> 00:02:15.334 - For gross wages on December the 5th, 2025 is $827,939.93. For gross wages, mini payroll on December 00:02:15.334 --> 00:02:20.606 - 8th, 2025, $546. For gross wages on December 19th, 2025, 00:02:20.738 --> 00:02:36.565 - $826,903.32 for a total in that area, $1,655,389.25 for vouchers, preclaims prepaid from December the 00:02:36.565 --> 00:02:50.686 - 1st to December 31st is $5,563,315.29 claims and vouchers on January 20, 2026, $336,846.64 00:02:50.818 --> 00:03:02.258 - For total to that area, $5,900,161.93. For grand total, $7,555,551.18. Thank you. Next we have personnel, 00:03:02.258 --> 00:03:13.914 - resignations, retirements, non-renewals, leaves and terminations, C1 through 16, and personnel appointments 00:03:13.914 --> 00:03:20.606 - and transfers, one through 13. And we have three out of state 00:03:20.898 --> 00:03:31.048 - indoor overnight field trips. Dr. Sanders, would you like to say what those are? Yeah, so three field 00:03:31.048 --> 00:03:41.098 - trips I'd like to highlight. The first one's on March 7th. We're asking for the Edgewood High School 00:03:41.098 --> 00:03:50.750 - show choir to go to the Fairfield Crystal Classic in Fairfield, Ohio. And we also are asking for 00:03:50.914 --> 00:04:01.238 - permission for the high school guard to go to Dayton, Ohio. And this event is more for them to observe 00:04:01.238 --> 00:04:11.661 - some top guard programs throughout the country. And that's on April 10th. And then the last one is with 00:04:11.661 --> 00:04:18.878 - the junior high accelerated jazz bands and show choirs to Kings Island. 00:04:19.426 --> 00:04:28.769 - in Cincinnati, Ohio, and that's to reward them for all their hard work in band and choir for the year, 00:04:28.769 --> 00:04:38.202 - and that will be on April 25th. With those field trips, is there a motion for the consent agenda? Moved 00:04:38.202 --> 00:04:47.454 - and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. 00:04:47.586 --> 00:04:59.536 - Now we get a construction progress report and we have Martin here. And Martin, you're up. I was gossiping. 00:04:59.536 --> 00:05:11.486 - This is January 20th, 2026. We're coming to closure on some of our projects and moving into some new ones. 00:05:18.882 --> 00:05:27.188 - I just like that picture, so I put that up there. We're pretty well completed with the early childhood 00:05:27.188 --> 00:05:35.414 - center. It doesn't look like that right now. That's true. Just remember that. Just sit here and stare 00:05:35.414 --> 00:05:43.478 - at it. I'm fumble fingered here. Fieldhouse, start with that. Over Christmas, we had to come in and 00:05:43.478 --> 00:05:46.462 - resurface the red part of the track. 00:05:47.458 --> 00:05:55.840 - My understanding is we may have gotten some footprints in there, but That that was completed The the 00:05:55.840 --> 00:06:04.472 - main net that divides the basketball courts had to be moved We did that and we're working on punch list 00:06:04.472 --> 00:06:13.186 - items at this point And as you can see the gyms now in use and I think it's being used pretty thoroughly 00:06:13.186 --> 00:06:14.846 - is my understanding 00:06:20.354 --> 00:06:30.422 - wide variety, not just sports, but band. I heard band was in there. Yeah, and Winter Guard was in there, 00:06:30.422 --> 00:06:40.490 - and swimming, you know, I never thought we'd have the swimmers in there, but they're doing strengthening 00:06:40.490 --> 00:06:49.982 - drills, so it's getting, it's used all the time. So there's our track surface and the new stripes, 00:06:50.690 --> 00:06:58.952 - I think there's a little touch up that needs to be done on stripes. Again, I kinda like the wall graphic 00:06:58.952 --> 00:07:07.057 - in the field house, so I put that one up there. So they protect the floor when it's other people using 00:07:07.057 --> 00:07:15.005 - it, like band, you know, wheeling stuff across the wood floor. Did they take precautions? Yes, yeah. 00:07:15.005 --> 00:07:18.782 - All right, thank you. I was over there watching 00:07:19.362 --> 00:07:26.177 - freshman game a few weeks ago, and at 8.30 they came out and they started putting the tarp down, because 00:07:26.177 --> 00:07:32.731 - then the collar guard was coming in. My only nervous was the tarp's not real thick, but they said it 00:07:32.731 --> 00:07:39.546 - would protect the gym floors, what they said. But it was a very busy night. Every inch of that was being 00:07:39.546 --> 00:07:42.142 - used during the time frame I was there. 00:07:49.666 --> 00:07:58.586 - The next 30 days is a pretty short list. We need to complete a few punch list items, part of it having 00:07:58.586 --> 00:08:07.593 - to do with that striping in the gym or the field house. High school renovations, the phase nine offices 00:08:07.593 --> 00:08:16.860 - have been, and bookstore have been turned over for use. We're working on demolition or just have completed 00:08:16.860 --> 00:08:19.198 - demolition in the kitchen. 00:08:20.578 --> 00:08:43.172 - There were some challenges. Arnold with the... I'm going the wrong way. Come on. My fingers are too 00:08:43.172 --> 00:08:49.950 - fat. Modification with the... 00:08:50.306 --> 00:08:59.166 - overhead rolling grill, the mechanism kind of hung down and we reworked that and I think it's satisfactory 00:08:59.166 --> 00:09:07.861 - now. And we continue punch list items at the kitchen. Vicki came up with several items as far as kitchen 00:09:07.861 --> 00:09:16.638 - equipment that need to be adjusted as I've started using them and we're working toward that. There we go. 00:09:17.410 --> 00:09:26.797 - Kitchen equipment, those are the grills. Before we modified them, there was a big chunk of like block 00:09:26.797 --> 00:09:35.999 - and tackle hanging down. That's now tucked up into the ceiling and I think it looks a heck of a lot 00:09:35.999 --> 00:09:45.662 - better. We finished the demo in the existing kitchen. When we're done, there will be paint wall graphics 00:09:45.662 --> 00:09:47.134 - in the kitchen. 00:09:47.586 --> 00:09:57.145 - And that's what those graphics in the cafeteria and that's what the graphics will look like. The intent 00:09:57.145 --> 00:10:06.796 - is to complete the renovation of the existing kitchen into cafeteria space by January 30. And Dale seems 00:10:06.796 --> 00:10:16.079 - to be pretty confident that we'll get that done. We'll finish up the phase nine in the kitchen punch 00:10:16.079 --> 00:10:17.182 - list items. 00:10:17.314 --> 00:10:24.714 - Hopefully on that same schedule. And did they get, they said they had some concerns about the way the 00:10:24.714 --> 00:10:32.042 - electrical was with the cash registers. Did that get resolved? I'm not aware of that one. Arnold, is 00:10:32.042 --> 00:10:39.297 - that making sense? They said. What was the issue? They didn't have the right electrical in there to 00:10:39.297 --> 00:10:44.158 - get the cash registers to work. Well, it's just, it's more of not, 00:10:44.386 --> 00:10:54.530 - how they want it to flow when they go through to pay for their lunches. And so we're studying that whole 00:10:54.530 --> 00:11:04.192 - project in terms of the concern. So that's on the punch list. Well, we just wanna see how it works. 00:11:04.192 --> 00:11:08.926 - Just get some more knowledge from the experience 00:11:09.058 --> 00:11:15.840 - how students are going through the line to pay for their lunches and is it efficient? Is there a way 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:22.623 - that we can adjust it to get more students through the line a little bit quicker? And so rather than 00:11:22.623 --> 00:11:29.606 - rush right into making some changes right away, we wanted to see how it works in practice and then make 00:11:29.606 --> 00:11:32.158 - the appropriate changes at that time. 00:11:32.290 --> 00:11:40.228 - So that's not so much a punch, it's a change we want to make once we see it. Yeah, I just thought the 00:11:40.228 --> 00:11:48.322 - electrical wasn't the way they wanted it. That's what I was told over there. I think the point of sales 00:11:48.322 --> 00:11:56.337 - stations, they wanted to tweak how they worked. Is that correct? The cash register? Yes. So that would 00:11:56.337 --> 00:12:02.174 - be a change order, though, if it was designed. It would be a change, yeah. 00:12:05.122 --> 00:12:13.440 - So, but it was designed the way that they wanted it designed? I think it's more a function of it was 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:21.922 - designed as we thought it would work, but once they got into it and started to function, then... Yeah, 00:12:21.922 --> 00:12:30.569 - sometimes, you know, when we're in that process now of looking at our next set of projects and you have, 00:12:30.569 --> 00:12:34.110 - we'd have a meeting with the architect and 00:12:34.274 --> 00:12:43.322 - like we just had the performing arts people work with the architect. And sometimes those things get 00:12:43.322 --> 00:12:52.461 - adjusted after somebody has been included in a meeting for various reasons. So in this case, I think 00:12:52.461 --> 00:13:02.142 - Vicki Coffey thought she had mentioned that she wanted that point of sale a certain way. And it didn't get 00:13:02.466 --> 00:13:09.206 - done the way she anticipated it, but it did get done according to the design. So now we just need to 00:13:09.206 --> 00:13:16.012 - see if it's worth spending the money to make that adjustment. To tweak it, okay. All right. Yeah, I'd 00:13:16.012 --> 00:13:22.953 - like to be conservative on those things. I mean, because we're trying to do as much as we can with what 00:13:22.953 --> 00:13:29.759 - we've got. So instead of tweaking something with a certain amount of money, I'd rather put it towards 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:31.294 - something else. Right. 00:13:31.586 --> 00:13:39.049 - It's not gonna, yeah. If it looks like it's gonna be a problem, then we'll spend the money, but if it's 00:13:39.049 --> 00:13:46.224 - going to work like it is now, then there's no need to spend that money, save it for something else. 00:13:46.224 --> 00:13:53.831 - Got it, okay. I saw a couple hundred bags of underlayment out this side of the building. I presume that's 00:13:53.831 --> 00:14:01.150 - for the cafeteria area? I'm sorry, I didn't. There's bags of underlayment. Oh, yeah, what that is is, 00:14:01.634 --> 00:14:09.838 - In the space here, you can see there's a step where it used to be quarry tile in the kitchen, and then 00:14:09.838 --> 00:14:17.962 - it goes up to the concrete. And that's all to kind of flush the whole floor out so it's all level. So 00:14:17.962 --> 00:14:26.086 - are those block walls gonna stay just like they're painted, or is there gonna be drywall over outside 00:14:26.086 --> 00:14:31.582 - of it? They'll be painted, and then they'll get the graphic on them. 00:14:31.714 --> 00:14:38.779 - Yeah, that area looked really a lot bigger with all the stuff out of there. So it's gonna really open 00:14:38.779 --> 00:14:45.913 - up that cafeteria in there. Compared to the size of your existing cafeteria. Absolutely, yeah. I think 00:14:45.913 --> 00:14:53.185 - they should be able to get all the kids in there now at lunch. Well, half of them anyway. Or half, yeah, 00:14:53.185 --> 00:15:00.250 - half of them. Yeah, 50% of them. Enough of them. So we're moving on to the future, I guess, projects, 00:15:00.250 --> 00:15:01.566 - the next projects. 00:15:02.018 --> 00:15:10.115 - Early childhood center playground is the next one we've got coming up that's going to be Relative to 00:15:10.115 --> 00:15:18.212 - seeing what the weather is in the spring As soon as the weather breaks enough, we'll move forward on 00:15:18.212 --> 00:15:26.390 - it Heather, I think you approve the colors for the playground equipment Which looks up something like 00:15:26.390 --> 00:15:30.398 - this that's that's a major piece of equipment and 00:15:30.850 --> 00:15:38.537 - You also have swings and another ground piece of equipment in there, but that's a big piece, so that'll 00:15:38.537 --> 00:15:46.002 - give you an idea of what that's gonna look like when it's done. So we've completed the contract. Dr. 00:15:46.002 --> 00:15:53.615 - Sanders just signed it, and I've got it right here, so we're ready to go. Color selection's completed. 00:15:53.615 --> 00:15:59.454 - For the surfacing, I said continued color selection for playground structures. 00:15:59.906 --> 00:16:07.907 - because it wasn't till this afternoon that we finished that and I'd already sent the slide in. So we 00:16:07.907 --> 00:16:15.987 - finished the color selection for the structures also and working on permitting. And that had the same 00:16:15.987 --> 00:16:23.909 - surface like at the other schools that spongy rubbery stuff. It's a granular material. It's a yeah, 00:16:23.909 --> 00:16:27.870 - it's a resilient board surface. Okay. So we got a 00:16:28.162 --> 00:16:36.448 - Complete the submittal process and I think with this it may be complete and will complete permitting 00:16:36.448 --> 00:16:44.897 - But we won't be breaking ground in the next 30 days. It'll probably be in the end of March Corporation 00:16:44.897 --> 00:16:53.347 - wide roof replacement, this is a high school roof We're talking to Brad briefly before the meeting the 00:16:53.347 --> 00:16:56.382 - highs what we have done There's some 00:16:56.578 --> 00:17:04.166 - complexities with high school work that need to be worked out. So we're, Lancer's working on that now. 00:17:04.166 --> 00:17:11.975 - So what we're going to do is the next bid will be for the junior high, the primary, and the intermediate. 00:17:11.975 --> 00:17:19.342 - And we feel like that's a good move for a couple reasons. One is we can pull that all together. And 00:17:19.342 --> 00:17:26.046 - the other is it gives us a package that can probably be completed. We're looking at doing, 00:17:26.530 --> 00:17:34.768 - the gymnasium and kitchen and cafeteria areas first and we'll try and get those done before school's 00:17:34.768 --> 00:17:43.087 - out and then we can, we think we can complete all the classrooms during the summer while kids are out 00:17:43.087 --> 00:17:51.570 - of school. We'll probably do this one next year and it will probably take a little longer than the work 00:17:51.570 --> 00:17:56.382 - we're doing right now. So, Lancer's completed the contract 00:17:56.706 --> 00:18:05.144 - documents and specifications. We forward Dr. Sanders a bid ad to run next week and we will ask permission 00:18:05.144 --> 00:18:13.183 - shortly to bid. The contract drawings and specifications, we got the final ones Friday and I've gone 00:18:13.183 --> 00:18:21.382 - over them the last couple days and we will actually post them with the Eastern Engineering of Predator 00:18:21.382 --> 00:18:26.238 - tomorrow. And again, the current bid is gonna be the primary 00:18:26.594 --> 00:18:34.691 - intermediate and junior high schools. High school. But the boiler bid is part of this package, right, 00:18:34.691 --> 00:18:42.867 - for the high school? That's correct. The boiler's for both the high school and the junior high school. 00:18:42.867 --> 00:18:51.123 - But you have a separate bidder for the boiler, probably versus the roof, I assume. Correct? Okay. We'll 00:18:51.123 --> 00:18:55.806 - bid it at the same, put it all out at the same time. Okay. 00:18:57.282 --> 00:19:09.907 - On February 17th, we'll receive beds for both the boilers and the roofs. OK. Baseball on softball turf. 00:19:09.907 --> 00:19:22.047 - Lancer is continuing to develop the contract documents on that. And I buried myself here. Victor, I 00:19:22.047 --> 00:19:26.174 - think those are due here shortly. 00:19:28.418 --> 00:19:37.439 - March 6 we're supposed to get our CDs on that and we'll put put those out to bid bid opening will be 00:19:37.439 --> 00:19:46.459 - somewhere around the 1st of April And we'll nail that down as we get those documents music additions 00:19:46.459 --> 00:19:55.748 - and renovations Lancers continuing to do the programming on that The intent is to have schematic design 00:19:55.748 --> 00:19:57.534 - done March 16th and 00:19:58.338 --> 00:20:10.433 - and the final documents to us June 24th, and then we will get those out to bid. We're looking at trying 00:20:10.433 --> 00:20:22.064 - to award those contracts at the August 18th board meeting. And I think that's all I've got to know. 00:20:22.064 --> 00:20:27.646 - Any questions? Kind of asking as we went along. 00:20:27.842 --> 00:20:38.000 - Anything further? On the last item there, if the bids go out on the music and the music edition, 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:49.101 - et cetera, in August, how long before construction begins and then how long before? Well, we were looking 00:20:49.101 --> 00:20:57.374 - at that. If we bid it August 18th, and I'm making the assumption that we would 00:20:57.762 --> 00:21:10.540 - mobilize that probably first two weeks of September and probably have break ground somewhere mid September. 00:21:10.540 --> 00:21:22.844 - That will push us into the winter and we've been discussing that. And nine months? How long to complete 00:21:22.844 --> 00:21:24.382 - the project? 00:21:25.378 --> 00:21:33.206 - What we're thinking right now is we haven't seen the final documents yet, but we've got the music additions. 00:21:33.206 --> 00:21:40.675 - Our thought is the music additions will take about a year, but we'll do the additions, let you continue 00:21:40.675 --> 00:21:48.216 - to use your band and choir rooms. Then when you move from band and choir rooms to the new band and choir 00:21:48.216 --> 00:21:55.326 - rooms, we'll come in and do renovations. So we're looking at 14 to 18 months, something like that. 00:21:58.466 --> 00:22:07.194 - That's what I'm thinking, Christmas of 27. Dr. Sanders, does that still put us in line time-wise with 00:22:07.194 --> 00:22:15.751 - that ROI grant? We just have to spend those funds by December 28. To get to half a million dollars? 00:22:15.751 --> 00:22:24.565 - Yeah. All right. We'll spend that first, right? Yeah. What's that? We'll spend that first. Yeah, we'll 00:22:24.565 --> 00:22:27.902 - spend that. Yeah, for sure. All right. 00:22:28.162 --> 00:22:37.328 - Anything else? That's it. That's all I've got tonight. Thank you very much. And I think we'll stay around 00:22:37.328 --> 00:22:46.494 - for your task for bid permissions. All right. Next is the consideration to create the position of network 00:22:46.494 --> 00:22:55.574 - security administrator. Dr. Sanders? Yes. So periodically, positions will change, will evolve, depending 00:22:55.574 --> 00:22:57.822 - on the current landscape. 00:22:57.922 --> 00:23:08.384 - Technology is certainly the perfect example of continuous change. And the position of Ashley Davis, 00:23:08.384 --> 00:23:19.264 - who has been one of our technology support specialists since 2021, his work has changed over the years, 00:23:19.264 --> 00:23:27.006 - mainly because of the importance of cybersecurity protecting our network, 00:23:27.394 --> 00:23:37.539 - His time, his energy, and his growing experience is very critical to ensuring that we have reliable 00:23:37.539 --> 00:23:48.292 - connectivity, system security, and a safe learning environment across the corporation. And so we, there's 00:23:48.292 --> 00:23:57.118 - kind of a two part. So the next item is to increase his salary to match that position. 00:23:57.858 --> 00:24:08.547 - and be more reflective. We would still have a ways to go to get it up to where a salary for network 00:24:08.547 --> 00:24:19.344 - security administrator normally is given. We have some work to get closer to that, but this will get 00:24:19.344 --> 00:24:26.078 - us in a step in the right direction. So we just want to write, 00:24:26.818 --> 00:24:36.044 - things and make sure we're accommodating one of our employees for the services he provides, the school 00:24:36.044 --> 00:24:45.000 - corporation. Thank you. Is there a motion? I move approval of the creation position of the security 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:54.316 - administrator. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Just a question. Will somebody else be hired to take 00:24:54.316 --> 00:24:56.734 - Ashley's current position? 00:24:56.898 --> 00:25:04.673 - an additional position. No, this will be we won't be hiring an additional person. Thank you. Can I ask 00:25:04.673 --> 00:25:12.599 - Rick a question? Yeah, are we where we at with with five star with our are we still utilizing five star? 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:21.054 - So they're not we're not paying them a dime yet now. So we're doing this all internally. We have a small yearly 00:25:21.186 --> 00:25:27.790 - drawdown account we have with them. So they're our backup if something would happen if someone's not 00:25:27.790 --> 00:25:34.394 - in our facilities. They're also doing our monitoring. So they monitor our network 24 hours a day and 00:25:34.394 --> 00:25:41.195 - then send us alerts if we have a problem. But we don't, I think we have $5,000 into them and we haven't 00:25:41.195 --> 00:25:47.865 - used a dime of it for a year. So it's just one of those reassurance backgrounds that we're using, but 00:25:47.865 --> 00:25:49.630 - we do everything in house. 00:25:49.986 --> 00:25:55.403 - That was what the goal was initially, was to bring it all back in house, right? Okay, I had no idea 00:25:55.403 --> 00:26:00.927 - where we'd be at with five stars, I appreciate that. Yeah, we left them about two years ago, and what 00:26:00.927 --> 00:26:06.669 - Ashley does is more than what was in the little memo that was sent. That's what, yeah, I don't understand 00:26:06.669 --> 00:26:12.465 - that much how that works, but I assume it's a long. Yeah, the network is a key element to the corporation. 00:26:12.465 --> 00:26:16.798 - If our network goes down, our students and teachers cannot do their job at all. 00:26:17.250 --> 00:26:24.621 - The reliability that we have to maintain with the network, it's not a eight to five job. It's something 00:26:24.621 --> 00:26:31.709 - that he ends up doing remotely from home sometimes because the only time we can update the firmware 00:26:31.709 --> 00:26:38.938 - on the access points is after nine o'clock at night or when no one's left in the building. So he does 00:26:38.938 --> 00:26:43.262 - a lot of work after hours to make sure that our equipment is 00:26:43.426 --> 00:26:49.265 - always up to date, always secure and ready to go for the teachers the next morning and the students. 00:26:49.265 --> 00:26:55.220 - The security side of it is just as it says, it's security. We have to make sure that we are compliant, 00:26:55.220 --> 00:27:01.233 - not only with the federal, the local and the state guidelines, we have to make sure that we're standing 00:27:01.233 --> 00:27:07.014 - and protective of what we do and how we protect all of our assets inside the building. So that is a 00:27:07.014 --> 00:27:10.078 - key element right there. And then the other part is, 00:27:10.210 --> 00:27:16.958 - all the card access readers and everything, the security cameras, it is all fallen under this position. 00:27:16.958 --> 00:27:23.772 - So if it's a security camera, it's Ashley. If it's gonna be add-on for security, it's Ashley. So network 00:27:23.772 --> 00:27:30.325 - wiring, I would say probably with Arnold and stuff, I would say that between Ashley and Lee Kirk, we 00:27:30.325 --> 00:27:37.009 - have probably saved the corporation $30,000 in cabling that we do in-house now. We don't hire that out 00:27:37.009 --> 00:27:37.982 - unless it's a, 00:27:39.010 --> 00:27:45.443 - a job that we just don't have the tools for. So it's a very important job. And the job description was 00:27:45.443 --> 00:27:51.751 - in your board pack. Yeah, I read that. And I had the same thing, I think I talked to you before that 00:27:51.751 --> 00:27:58.247 - it's not, we're not creating a new position, we're just adjusting it. He'll still be doing tech support 00:27:58.247 --> 00:28:04.243 - as well, it's just that this really reflects what he does and how it works for the corporation. 00:28:04.243 --> 00:28:07.678 - Got it, okay. It's great that he's been able to evolve 00:28:08.642 --> 00:28:15.355 - pull in these other things. Gosh, it is, technology changes so fast. Yeah, oh yeah. What we walked into 00:28:15.355 --> 00:28:21.874 - six years ago and what we have today, I think everybody in teachers would hopefully agree with that. 00:28:21.874 --> 00:28:28.780 - Our network has probably never been a solid, and it's due to him, and you know, that's what his background 00:28:28.780 --> 00:28:35.428 - was, was networking, so. Right. Awesome. And we relied heavily up to seven years ago on Five Star, and 00:28:35.428 --> 00:28:38.462 - we completely, pretty well nixed them out now. 00:28:38.978 --> 00:28:44.866 - Is that the way most corporations have done it or they still rely on Five Star? A lot of corporations 00:28:44.866 --> 00:28:50.754 - rely on Five Star. And I think some of them are starting to see what they can do and what they can't. 00:28:50.754 --> 00:28:56.699 - And so I think they're looking at us and what we're doing, because we do get questions about how we're 00:28:56.699 --> 00:29:03.049 - set up and what we do. But I don't think we have the board that puts behind what we do at their organization. 00:29:03.049 --> 00:29:06.974 - So they have a little tougher time trying to get on board with how. 00:29:07.394 --> 00:29:14.931 - I also say that when it's someone that works for the company, there's more dedication to keep it running 00:29:14.931 --> 00:29:22.252 - and keep it looking right. Right. I get that part, yeah, for sure. Thank you. Any further discussion? 00:29:22.252 --> 00:29:29.717 - All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thanks, everybody. Might as well stay up here 00:29:29.717 --> 00:29:37.182 - in case they have other questions. Go ahead. The next would be consideration to appoint Ashley Davis to 00:29:37.282 --> 00:29:47.671 - the position of network security administrator. Would you second it? Any discussion? Well, just as what 00:29:47.671 --> 00:29:57.660 - I already mentioned, Rick did a lot of research on this to see what the average person was paid for 00:29:57.660 --> 00:30:03.454 - this type of position. And we have a target goal in mind. 00:30:03.778 --> 00:30:14.088 - that we wanna work towards, but this time we're recommending that Ashley have a salary of $60,736.39, 00:30:14.088 --> 00:30:24.397 - which is a $7,000 increase. Good. We got a first and a second. Any discussion? All those in favor say 00:30:24.397 --> 00:30:30.462 - aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thanks again. Thank you. 00:30:31.650 --> 00:30:39.109 - And thank Ashley for his hard work. Next is permission to void corporation and ECA checks older than 00:30:39.109 --> 00:30:46.789 - two years. This is an annual thing and David T. will lead us through it. So each year the ECA treasurer 00:30:46.789 --> 00:30:54.174 - and I submit a request to void checks older than two years. These are checks that were never cashed 00:30:54.174 --> 00:31:00.894 - and they're just sitting in the bank account. We do try to attempt to reissue if possible. 00:31:00.994 --> 00:31:07.639 - But when we can't, we just want to follow the process and just go ahead and void them and let those 00:31:07.639 --> 00:31:14.484 - funds go back into our accounts. So I've provided you guys with a list of those checks. So if you have 00:31:14.484 --> 00:31:21.129 - any questions, feel free to ask. But I just wanted to get your permission for that. I move approval 00:31:21.129 --> 00:31:27.841 - of avoiding the corporation ECHX that are older than two years. Moved. Seconded. Any discussion? All 00:31:27.841 --> 00:31:30.366 - those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? 00:31:30.786 --> 00:31:40.752 - Motion carries, thank you. Thank you. Didn't Debbie do a nice job today? She did. Yes, I tell you. She 00:31:40.752 --> 00:31:50.428 - sure did. We didn't have any questions. Wait till next time. Yeah. Next is consideration to approve 00:31:50.428 --> 00:31:58.846 - the S-Craft, or as I usually say it, maybe. The ESCRFT Insurance Invoice, Dr. Sanders. 00:31:59.202 --> 00:32:08.987 - Yes, so s craft is the company that we've been using last six years I think now for liability insurance 00:32:08.987 --> 00:32:18.678 - and it sure has been helpful In helping us keep down those types of insurance costs They are very good 00:32:18.678 --> 00:32:24.606 - about Mitigation providing a lot of training for our staff and 00:32:25.058 --> 00:32:36.060 - to make sure that we're doing things in the safest possible way. They often very periodically they will 00:32:36.060 --> 00:32:47.063 - come out and do an audit and go around the campus and look for just areas that we can make improvements 00:32:47.063 --> 00:32:52.670 - in terms of safety. So the invoice for 2026 is $439. 00:32:53.986 --> 00:33:04.221 - 439 thousand five hundred forty one dollars and 78 cents And that's up twenty three twenty two thousand 00:33:04.221 --> 00:33:14.062 - dollars but that's because we added the ECC building and the field house I'm approval of the scraft 00:33:14.062 --> 00:33:17.310 - insurance invoice Any discussion 00:33:17.698 --> 00:33:26.539 - I like $439 better. I did too. I about freaked out. That was a 5% increase, but we added on a lot more 00:33:26.539 --> 00:33:35.208 - square footage of coverage with those new add-ons. That's correct. There was a lot of square footage 00:33:35.208 --> 00:33:44.478 - we added. Right, right. Okay, no more discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. 00:33:45.538 --> 00:33:54.606 - No, we have consideration to approve the EECC rates for the upcoming 26-27 school year, mercy. And so, 00:33:54.606 --> 00:34:03.586 - we have other things for that. So we have two things to consider tonight, the class offerings and the 00:34:03.586 --> 00:34:12.478 - rates, and I think it would make more sense to talk about the class offerings first, if that's okay. 00:34:13.218 --> 00:34:19.362 - With opening the new building, we were able to double the number of preschool classes that we have this 00:34:19.362 --> 00:34:25.447 - year, which has been fantastic. So we have full day pre-K classes for four and five-year-olds that are 00:34:25.447 --> 00:34:31.532 - offered two, three, and five days a week. And then for preschool, three-year-olds, we have two, three, 00:34:31.532 --> 00:34:37.499 - and five days a week for full day for that as well. And then we also added a young threes class this 00:34:37.499 --> 00:34:39.390 - year. So those kids, the state, 00:34:40.226 --> 00:34:46.219 - licensing regulations allow us to enroll kids that turn three all the way up to December 1st of the 00:34:46.219 --> 00:34:52.452 - school year. So we have a class of kids that turn three between like June and July up through December. 00:34:52.452 --> 00:34:58.445 - And so that allowed us to enroll some additional kids that wouldn't have originally met that August 00:34:58.445 --> 00:35:04.439 - 1st cutoff that we usually have. So we have that full day preschool class as well. And then we have 00:35:04.439 --> 00:35:08.574 - our half day preschool class and we have an AM class and a PM class. 00:35:09.442 --> 00:35:17.552 - That is our smallest class this year. It's sitting around 50 to 60% full most days. In previous years, 00:35:17.552 --> 00:35:25.505 - we only had an AM class because our special education class used that classroom in the afternoon and 00:35:25.505 --> 00:35:33.694 - they kind of shared staff. So we did always have a wait list for that class in the past, but opening up 00:35:34.466 --> 00:35:42.609 - both options, AM and PM, we just aren't really filling that class to capacity anymore. The other classes 00:35:42.609 --> 00:35:50.363 - are, I just did some percentages, about 80 to 95% full any given day. Tuesday, Thursday is a little 00:35:50.363 --> 00:35:58.429 - bit less full in some classes, Monday, Wednesday, Friday is a little less full in others. But that half 00:35:58.429 --> 00:35:59.902 - day class is just, 00:36:00.386 --> 00:36:07.017 - been a little bit more of a challenge to fill both the morning and the afternoon section of that. So 00:36:07.017 --> 00:36:13.648 - we would like to keep all of our full day class offerings the same that we're offering this year and 00:36:13.648 --> 00:36:20.542 - consider dropping that afternoon half day option and only using that classroom for a morning class only. 00:36:20.542 --> 00:36:23.102 - That would allow us to use those staff 00:36:23.650 --> 00:36:29.810 - in other capacities in the afternoon and maybe have to hire less floating staff and assistants and things 00:36:29.810 --> 00:36:35.796 - like that. And hopefully get that class fuller to capacity so that we're not staffing a class with six 00:36:35.796 --> 00:36:41.607 - kids in it in the afternoon on some days. And then another thing that we often hear from parents is 00:36:41.607 --> 00:36:47.070 - they don't often choose half day because of the length of the day. It's two and a half hours. 00:36:47.394 --> 00:36:53.560 - It's hard to drop off your kid, turn around and come back and pick them up in that short amount of time. 00:36:53.560 --> 00:36:59.491 - So we'd like to lengthen that by a half an hour and have a three hour half day class. Not having the 00:36:59.491 --> 00:37:05.774 - afternoon gives us that flexibility because we don't have that short window to turn around and get another 00:37:05.774 --> 00:37:11.882 - class in. And then we also like to add a lunch option for those kids. So parents could choose the three 00:37:11.882 --> 00:37:16.286 - hour day or they can add a lunch bunch option for an extra charge and that 00:37:16.514 --> 00:37:22.414 - those kids could stay for lunch, eat lunch in the cafeteria, and that would give those kids a little 00:37:22.414 --> 00:37:28.489 - bit longer experience at school, but still a half-day, so they're not staying for nap in the afternoon, 00:37:28.489 --> 00:37:34.388 - they're not getting the full-day experience, gives parents a little bit longer, and gives those kids 00:37:34.388 --> 00:37:40.405 - a chance to learn those skills of eating lunch in the cafeteria that a lot of parents worry about when 00:37:40.405 --> 00:37:45.662 - their kids are getting ready to go to kindergarten. So I think that might increase the... 00:37:46.594 --> 00:37:54.875 - desire for parents to enroll in that half-day option if they can lengthen that day a little bit more. 00:37:54.875 --> 00:38:03.319 - So our goal is to maximize enrollment in all of our classes, and I think this is a good way to get more 00:38:03.319 --> 00:38:11.681 - seats filled. We can probably just take these together, too. Do you want to go ahead and do the rates? 00:38:11.681 --> 00:38:13.630 - Yeah, so for the rates, 00:38:14.530 --> 00:38:21.576 - Our classes are not filled right now. We are sitting, like I said, around 80% full across the board, 00:38:21.576 --> 00:38:28.693 - I think, per day. We've increased our prices a lot over the last seven or eight years, and I think it 00:38:28.693 --> 00:38:36.227 - would be wise right now to focus on increasing the number of kids that we're getting rather than continuing 00:38:36.227 --> 00:38:39.646 - to raise rates in those full-day classes because 00:38:39.970 --> 00:38:45.979 - It has gotten fairly expensive. Everything's gotten fairly expensive over the last several years. And 00:38:45.979 --> 00:38:51.987 - we do need to always make sure that we're bringing in the money to pay our staff and run the program, 00:38:51.987 --> 00:38:58.055 - but I think it would be smart to keep those full-day class rates the same as what we're charging right 00:38:58.055 --> 00:39:04.240 - now, which is $37 a day for preschool for the three-year-old classes, because those classes are a little 00:39:04.240 --> 00:39:08.894 - bit smaller, and then $34 a day for pre-K. So that's $170 a week for full-time 00:39:09.026 --> 00:39:16.670 - pre-K or $185 a week for full day preschool. But we would like to increase the rate of the half day 00:39:16.670 --> 00:39:20.798 - class since we are lengthening it. And it's kind of a 00:39:21.058 --> 00:39:27.744 - Convenience for parents who want that half-day option. We're still paying our staff that are here for 00:39:27.744 --> 00:39:34.364 - that time So right now it's $17 a day, which is half of the pre-k rate We'd like to increase that to 00:39:34.364 --> 00:39:39.870 - $20 a day. We're adding a half hour to that day. It would be 830 to 1130 instead of 00:39:40.322 --> 00:39:48.980 - whatever it is right now. And then if parents want to enroll in an extra hour, it would be an additional 00:39:48.980 --> 00:39:57.473 - $5. So they could pay $25 for a four-hour day or $20 for a three-hour day. You too. Following approval 00:39:57.473 --> 00:40:05.719 - of the class offerings and rates for the 2016-2017 school year. Second? Second. Moved and seconded. 00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:07.038 - Any discussion? 00:40:14.914 --> 00:40:21.122 - Cafeteria separately they would pay the cafeteria separately. That's so by adding it that goes that 00:40:21.122 --> 00:40:27.454 - would be on top of the $20 Okay, so then nobody's pay the cafeteria directly. No Yes, they'll pay the 00:40:27.454 --> 00:40:33.662 - cafeteria directly or send a lunchbox. Yes. Okay. Okay induction This is coming. This is all funded 00:40:33.662 --> 00:40:40.181 - from the operations fund, right? All this all the salaries are paid from the operations fund. Yes, which 00:40:40.181 --> 00:40:44.030 - is where the legislature is kind of cutting into us next year 00:40:44.674 --> 00:40:53.594 - All right. I know we're keeping a close eye on that too. So well, the state has not made it very they've 00:40:53.594 --> 00:41:02.684 - made it. Yeah, I know easy for us. They also cut funding for on my way pre-k and so we're we are receiving 00:41:02.684 --> 00:41:09.310 - what $85,000 less. Yes, approximately last year. So they paid us quite a bit. 00:41:10.018 --> 00:41:15.251 - Over what our weekly charges per child in previous years and this year they cut that so We're getting 00:41:15.251 --> 00:41:20.485 - a hundred and forty seven dollars a week and then the parents have to make the difference in previous 00:41:20.485 --> 00:41:25.615 - years We were getting three hundred and forty eight dollars a week for those kids that are eligible 00:41:25.615 --> 00:41:30.797 - for on my way pre-k so For the whole year for the number of kids that we have enrolled. That's about 00:41:30.797 --> 00:41:36.031 - eighty five thousand dollars difference that we're not getting from them we also have kids who should 00:41:36.031 --> 00:41:38.750 - have qualified for CCDF or on my way pre-k, but they 00:41:39.010 --> 00:41:44.767 - aren't issuing any more vouchers. So that's an additional cut that we're getting that those kids will 00:41:44.767 --> 00:41:50.468 - be getting that funding as well. And just to clarify, the preschool is education fund and daycare is 00:41:50.468 --> 00:41:56.338 - operations fund. Daycare, okay. Yeah. And this is just preschool rates and offerings that we're talking 00:41:56.338 --> 00:42:02.152 - about right now. Gotcha. So this would impact our education fund. Right. So they're gonna kind of back 00:42:02.152 --> 00:42:07.006 - us in the corner on doing some, make us have to make some financial changes, I think. 00:42:09.122 --> 00:42:21.887 - Okay, all right, thank you very much for all you. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. 00:42:21.887 --> 00:42:35.153 - Aye. Opposed? Motion carries, thank you very much. Okay, next is our Neola policy updates. This is volume 00:42:35.153 --> 00:42:37.406 - 38 number one and 00:42:37.538 --> 00:42:46.935 - This was an informational last month, and so it's an action item this month. Dr. Sanders. Yes. So we 00:42:46.935 --> 00:42:56.332 - discussed this in December. And really, these are policies that, a variety of policies, some related 00:42:56.332 --> 00:43:05.822 - to board responsibilities, teacher. Some of them are teacher-focused, staff-focused, student-focused. 00:43:05.954 --> 00:43:15.270 - The board has had a month to review these policies. We've also shared them with specific staff members 00:43:15.270 --> 00:43:24.858 - in the corporation. And Christine Bartlett with Ferguson Law has also reviewed these policies. So tonight 00:43:24.858 --> 00:43:34.174 - we bring them to you for approval. I move approval of the new old policy. I'll second. Any discussion? 00:43:36.226 --> 00:43:45.926 - Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next is consideration to advertise 00:43:45.926 --> 00:43:55.263 - bids for the roofs and mechanics. And Dr. Sanders. Yes, so as Martin mentioned, we are going to submit 00:43:55.263 --> 00:44:01.246 - the advertisement that was in the board packet to the paper to be 00:44:01.378 --> 00:44:09.462 - In the paper, January 28th and February 4th, we're going to be, the advertisement says that we're going 00:44:09.462 --> 00:44:17.857 - to have a pre-bid meeting on February 9th at one o'clock and a bid opening on February 17th at two o'clock. 00:44:17.857 --> 00:44:25.707 - And Martin and Victor are here from Skillman. They have some additional information that they'd like 00:44:25.707 --> 00:44:27.806 - to share with you tonight. 00:44:32.546 --> 00:44:38.810 - Well, I think the board has a copy of our estimate, just a reminder that we're working within a much 00:44:38.810 --> 00:44:45.073 - larger budget that you set aside, but these are the first projects out of the gate where we're gonna 00:44:45.073 --> 00:44:51.337 - be doing roofing at the primary school, intermediate school, and the junior high, and then of course 00:44:51.337 --> 00:44:57.911 - the boiler replacement at the junior high and the high school. So that whole package, our original budget 00:44:57.911 --> 00:45:01.694 - was about 3.7 for construction costs, so call that bid cost. 00:45:01.890 --> 00:45:09.543 - and we think we're right on track with looking over the drawings that Lancer sent to us. We think we're 00:45:09.543 --> 00:45:16.902 - gonna be at or right at that budget at about 3.6 million. So we're looking forward to, we'll go out 00:45:16.902 --> 00:45:24.335 - and solicit bidders and make this project known to all the roofers and mechanical contractors in the 00:45:24.335 --> 00:45:29.118 - area and look forward to receiving bids on the 17th of February. 00:45:35.714 --> 00:45:42.317 - even something to consider? You know, that's something that was talked about and I think decided to 00:45:42.317 --> 00:45:49.118 - go ahead and bid it and see, we don't do a lot of painting of metal roofs. So we're gonna see what the 00:45:49.118 --> 00:45:56.250 - market says that cost is. And then, you know, there's some, we wanted to take a look at the specifications. 00:45:56.250 --> 00:46:00.542 - So I thought we thought it's not a significant effort to bid it. 00:46:00.642 --> 00:46:06.198 - So we'll bring that to the school administration, we'll discuss that with your architect, we'll come 00:46:06.198 --> 00:46:11.808 - to the board of the recommendation. I agree, I'm not sure we're gonna recommend that, but we're gonna 00:46:11.808 --> 00:46:17.364 - do a little research in the bidding process. So that mean when you say refinish it, basically you're 00:46:17.364 --> 00:46:22.919 - saying paint it? Yes, sir. Okay, I didn't know if there was like another coating on it or? I have no 00:46:22.919 --> 00:46:28.530 - idea. It's not your average paint out of a can from Home Depot, it's a high quality roof product. Not 00:46:28.530 --> 00:46:29.630 - with a paint brush. 00:46:30.338 --> 00:46:37.691 - It's a big sprayer probably. Probably so. It's what they refer to as the last of Merrick, I believe. 00:46:37.691 --> 00:46:45.118 - So again, we wanna take a little more look at the product and the specifications and what the, that's 00:46:45.118 --> 00:46:52.325 - something we might see a large range of bids from depending on the expertise of the bidders. Okay, 00:46:52.325 --> 00:46:58.878 - all right, thanks. Do we have a motion? I'll move approval. I second. Moved and seconded. 00:46:59.042 --> 00:47:09.360 - I do like that idea of fishing around with alternates, because you never know until you look. So I think 00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:19.679 - that's a very good approach. So any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion 00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:23.806 - carries. Thank you very much, Victor. OK. 00:47:24.322 --> 00:47:31.928 - Consideration to approve the ECA positions for the 25-26 collective bargaining agreement. June Barrett. 00:47:31.928 --> 00:47:39.899 - Yes, so back when we asked you to approve the collective bargaining agreement with our teachers association, 00:47:39.899 --> 00:47:47.505 - September, October, I can't remember which month that was, we had said at the time we were tabling some 00:47:47.505 --> 00:47:48.894 - ECA conversations. 00:47:49.378 --> 00:47:56.649 - We really wanted to dig into those requests a little bit more, understand the purpose behind some of 00:47:56.649 --> 00:48:03.991 - these new positions that were being asked for, as well as understanding why there might be a schedule 00:48:03.991 --> 00:48:11.262 - change for other positions. I worked with a team of teachers, tell you what, it was one of the best, 00:48:12.162 --> 00:48:19.419 - meetings I think that we've had in terms of just productive. We sat down, we went through every single 00:48:19.419 --> 00:48:26.535 - one of these requests. They went back, they talked with their teachers, they asked questions, and we 00:48:26.535 --> 00:48:33.791 - really worked to not just make sure that we were adding every position to the ECA schedule, but really 00:48:33.791 --> 00:48:40.414 - kind of looked at where they would fall in line with other positions that were already there. 00:48:40.514 --> 00:48:49.470 - And the teachers were phenomenal. They gave a lot of great feedback. For instance, we had a new 00:48:49.698 --> 00:48:55.950 - coach position in there. This is a new team for EHS. And the teacher said, you know, this is a position 00:48:55.950 --> 00:49:01.842 - that's gonna be right now one season, not two seasons. We're just getting this up off the ground. 00:49:01.842 --> 00:49:08.034 - You know, let's go ahead and let's put this on this schedule instead of this higher schedule for right 00:49:08.034 --> 00:49:14.347 - now. Just a lot of really good reasoning behind all of this. So what I'm bringing to you is the proposal 00:49:14.347 --> 00:49:16.030 - for all of these positions. 00:49:16.098 --> 00:49:23.381 - Some of them you will see are brand new. You're going to see a lot in here related to our drama program. 00:49:23.381 --> 00:49:30.317 - We do put on an amazing play and an incredible musical each year. And those positions right now, we 00:49:30.317 --> 00:49:37.323 - have a drama director for the play, a drama director for the musical. But what we're asking to do is 00:49:37.323 --> 00:49:44.190 - also add in a music director for the musical as well as assistant directors for each one of those. 00:49:44.354 --> 00:49:52.012 - You will also see down through there moving an academic coach that we currently have at EJHS and EHS 00:49:52.012 --> 00:49:59.669 - over into a lead coach position. The rationale for that is that person does a lot more of the travel 00:49:59.669 --> 00:50:07.251 - arrangements, getting registrations ready, communication with parents. It does take a lot more time 00:50:07.251 --> 00:50:09.374 - on that lead coaches plate. 00:50:09.538 --> 00:50:16.623 - You'll also see, somehow along the way, we have not been paying our junior high academic coaches. And 00:50:16.623 --> 00:50:23.708 - they just decided to let us know that. So you're going to see that in there, picking those guys up on 00:50:23.708 --> 00:50:24.958 - the ECA schedule. 00:50:25.634 --> 00:50:32.626 - in addition to that we know what a big lift our robotics teams are across the district and Again, we 00:50:32.626 --> 00:50:39.965 - did not have ECA positions for our assistant coaches Those assistant coaches are critical to the robotics 00:50:39.965 --> 00:50:46.957 - tournaments if you've ever been at a robotics tournament It is all hands on deck if you've ever been 00:50:46.957 --> 00:50:50.142 - at a fourth and fifth grade robotics practice 00:50:50.434 --> 00:50:57.310 - It is all hands on deck. So right now, we are asking for three assistant coaches there, one at the high 00:50:57.310 --> 00:51:04.517 - school, one at the junior high, one at EIS. I'm sure that our coaches would say, can we add three additional 00:51:04.517 --> 00:51:11.327 - for every single building? But one there for each building. And then, you'll notice that I've also put 00:51:11.327 --> 00:51:15.294 - in there, just so you guys are aware, how this would impact 00:51:15.490 --> 00:51:24.836 - the education fund, we've talked a lot about how we're getting cuts, and I wanna make sure that we make 00:51:24.836 --> 00:51:33.912 - this really clear. Right now, what we are paying for these ECA costs for these positions in 24-25 is 00:51:33.912 --> 00:51:42.718 - $22,450. We would be asking to increase in the education fund for this school year about $14,875. 00:51:42.818 --> 00:51:50.059 - That goes up to about $17,000 when we are looking at TERF and FICA. We would take some of that out of 00:51:50.059 --> 00:51:57.300 - the robotics grant. So you'll see a total down there of roughly $14,800 that we're asking to increase 00:51:57.300 --> 00:52:04.825 - in the education fund for 2526. One thing I also want you to notice is that we are looking at adjustments 00:52:04.825 --> 00:52:06.174 - in other positions 00:52:06.274 --> 00:52:12.960 - to help offset this cost in 26-27. So you'll see changes in there that we will be proposing when we 00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:19.713 - work with the Teachers Association for collective bargaining next fall, which would bring down these 00:52:19.713 --> 00:52:26.533 - additional costs to around $8,000 per year. So it does look like we're adding a lot of positions, but 00:52:26.533 --> 00:52:33.086 - we have plans in order to offset that cost. And I think that that $8,000 is more than acceptable. 00:52:33.186 --> 00:52:39.799 - in terms of what it brings back to our students and programming in all of our buildings. So I'm asking 00:52:39.799 --> 00:52:46.220 - for you to approve those. And in addition to that, we would, for those teachers who are doing these 00:52:46.220 --> 00:52:52.705 - positions, and it's more than, I believe, $1,000, we would be back paying them through the beginning 00:52:52.705 --> 00:52:59.318 - of the first semester. Otherwise, if it's a stipend payment, we would pick that up for them at the end 00:52:59.318 --> 00:53:01.822 - of their season. I think I got it all. 00:53:03.682 --> 00:53:12.610 - position adjustments to the collective bargaining agreement. I'm so happy that you are taking a look 00:53:12.610 --> 00:53:21.714 - at these. A lot of things that really, I know the teachers impact in the classroom, but a lot of, when 00:53:21.714 --> 00:53:30.907 - it comes to the fun stuff that the kids enjoy, that really keeps them tied to the school and keeps them 00:53:30.907 --> 00:53:33.470 - involved and just helps them 00:53:33.602 --> 00:53:42.579 - social, making friends and working together in collaboration. These positions are very important and 00:53:42.579 --> 00:53:51.822 - we gotta make sure we recognize them and I know they all should be paid a lot more than they're getting 00:53:51.822 --> 00:54:00.887 - but we appreciate the association working with us and trying to get those lined up where they need to 00:54:00.887 --> 00:54:03.198 - be. They work so hard and 00:54:03.522 --> 00:54:08.274 - you know they're doing it for the love of it, because they're sure not doing it for the money. 00:54:08.274 --> 00:54:13.476 - That's right. The fact that the junior high academic coaches weren't getting paid at all, but they kept 00:54:13.476 --> 00:54:18.928 - doing it. They kept doing it. They deserve so much more. Just goes to show our teachers and their commitment 00:54:18.928 --> 00:54:24.030 - to our kids. But at the same time, we have a commitment to our teachers, and we want to honor that as 00:54:24.030 --> 00:54:29.131 - well. So yeah, I just can't speak highly enough of that team. And they actually are requesting to get 00:54:29.131 --> 00:54:30.782 - back together again this spring. 00:54:30.850 --> 00:54:36.208 - to look at these positions because they notice some discrepancies in terms of that position shouldn't 00:54:36.208 --> 00:54:41.513 - exist anymore or that position doesn't have the same responsibilities it used to have. So that needs 00:54:41.513 --> 00:54:46.818 - to be reduced. So I just appreciate their crucial eye, their critical eye looking on that and saying 00:54:46.818 --> 00:54:52.228 - we can do a little bit better as a district. They know this money comes out of the same pot that funds 00:54:52.228 --> 00:54:57.533 - salaries, that funds raises, and so they wanna do right by it as well and make sure that we're doing 00:54:57.533 --> 00:54:58.846 - our due diligence there. 00:55:02.786 --> 00:55:09.228 - the association, too. I assume, Mr. Rentschler, that 24, 25, I was kind of upset, because I thought, 00:55:09.228 --> 00:55:15.670 - where's our team, our academic team? We had one, we didn't pay them for it, correct? So I appreciate 00:55:15.670 --> 00:55:21.793 - that that's being compensated here. And I thought that was a newly created position. I thought, 00:55:21.793 --> 00:55:28.362 - wait a minute, where's these teams at? But I like the last line item, when the technology, where those 00:55:28.362 --> 00:55:31.806 - responsibilities are reducing on the technology side. 00:55:32.002 --> 00:55:39.887 - and that's gonna drop significantly between last year and 26, 27. So thank you for, and it eliminates 00:55:39.887 --> 00:55:48.004 - positions that I had never even heard of before. So I think that was good too. So thank you. Any further 00:55:48.004 --> 00:55:55.270 - discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you so much. Next 00:55:55.270 --> 00:56:01.918 - is consideration of an addendum to our agreement with Policy Analytics. Dr. Sandberg? 00:56:02.338 --> 00:56:13.469 - Township are in the process of developing a plan to merge into one government entity Once this plan 00:56:13.469 --> 00:56:24.599 - is developed the reorganization committee will present the plan to the community the merger will go 00:56:24.599 --> 00:56:28.606 - before voters next November now the 00:56:28.770 --> 00:56:38.313 - One of the big questions that we have is how will this merger impact our school corporation? The answer 00:56:38.313 --> 00:56:47.582 - right now is we don't know. And for that very reason, we want to add an addendum to the agreement we 00:56:47.582 --> 00:56:55.198 - already have with Policy Analytics to research the data, provide us with a report, 00:56:55.714 --> 00:57:07.091 - They will meet with us to share what they've discovered in their research and then as a school corporation 00:57:07.091 --> 00:57:18.149 - that will enable us to make an informed decision. I've looked into other companies to use and basically 00:57:18.149 --> 00:57:20.382 - the report I got was 00:57:20.578 --> 00:57:28.193 - we need to go with policy analytics, they would do the best job, they'd do this on a regular basis. 00:57:28.193 --> 00:57:35.808 - So the cost of this addendum would be $5,000 for this study. I move approval of the addendum to the 00:57:35.808 --> 00:57:43.422 - agreement with policy analytics. You second it? Any discussion? I just think it's, we need to know, 00:57:43.422 --> 00:57:49.438 - and there's so much that is uncertain at this point about what's gonna happen. 00:57:51.778 --> 00:57:59.843 - I don't want to use the word disappointed, but I'm a little concerned that this is going to be happening 00:57:59.843 --> 00:58:07.600 - in November, and they don't even know what the impacts are going to be. I think they should have had 00:58:07.600 --> 00:58:15.665 - a study to know what the impacts were going to be on everything, so they could share that with everybody 00:58:15.665 --> 00:58:20.734 - else. So I wish that they would have got more information sooner, 00:58:21.314 --> 00:58:28.711 - glad we're getting our information so that we know. Because I have no idea what impact would be. So 00:58:28.711 --> 00:58:36.627 - we need to know. We got to know, especially with the way the state's cutting our operations and everything 00:58:36.627 --> 00:58:44.024 - else. We've got to know what this will do. Well, these decisions are important. And we want to make 00:58:44.024 --> 00:58:50.238 - sure we make an informed decision. And I mean, we've got to take into consideration 00:58:50.466 --> 00:59:01.205 - community, so it's not just, you know, are we gonna lose a dollar? It's a community as a whole, 00:59:01.205 --> 00:59:12.727 - but still, we need to know our part. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? 00:59:12.727 --> 00:59:19.998 - Motion carries. Next, we have consideration to approve the click 00:59:20.162 --> 00:59:30.614 - Co-op contract for school year 26, 27. Dr. Sanders. Yes, so this comes from Vicki Coffey, our nutrition 00:59:30.614 --> 00:59:41.166 - services director. I think this was our first year using CLIC, which is a co-op for ordering, purchasing 00:59:41.166 --> 00:59:43.678 - food for our cafeterias. 00:59:43.778 --> 00:59:52.516 - I just would like to ask the board to approve, renew basically, this agreement that we have with Click 00:59:52.516 --> 01:00:00.999 - Co-op. And it's been reviewed by Christine. What's the amount in this contract? There's not a basic 01:00:00.999 --> 01:00:09.483 - amount. If you go through the contract, it talks about the pricing for individual food commodities. 01:00:09.483 --> 01:00:13.470 - OK. All right. Thank you. Do we have a motion? 01:00:15.778 --> 01:00:23.535 - Moved and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next is 01:00:23.535 --> 01:00:31.215 - consideration to approve the culinary student internship position. Jennifer Barrett. This is an easy 01:00:31.215 --> 01:00:39.048 - one. Now that Chef Amanda Waits is both her feet on the ground and is running our new cafeteria at the 01:00:39.048 --> 01:00:42.622 - high school, she is ready to take on anything. 01:00:43.330 --> 01:00:50.793 - And this is going to be a paid position. We have a student who is interested in culinary arts and is 01:00:50.793 --> 01:00:58.403 - going through that pathway right now and has expressed interest in this position. So we are asking you 01:00:58.403 --> 01:01:05.792 - to approve an internship position, a paid internship position, with our culinary department. I move 01:01:05.792 --> 01:01:11.998 - approval of the culinary student internship position. I'll second. Move and second. 01:01:12.578 --> 01:01:22.428 - Any discussion? Sounds like a terrific opportunity. I love it when we can give internships for our students. 01:01:22.428 --> 01:01:31.555 - It's pretty awesome, yeah. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. OK, next is the 01:01:31.555 --> 01:01:34.718 - Assistant Superintendent's report. 01:01:35.522 --> 01:01:42.121 - Okay, I brought you a whole packet tonight, but I promise I am not going to take a ton of time to go 01:01:42.121 --> 01:01:48.654 - through it. This is homework for you to take home. We were fortunate enough last, no it hasn't been 01:01:48.654 --> 01:01:55.710 - last, it's been two weeks now, we met with the Cook Medical Team on January 7th to discuss our partnership. 01:01:55.810 --> 01:02:02.054 - We got really down into the nitty-gritty which is something that we've been working to do with all three 01:02:02.054 --> 01:02:08.060 - of our partners with the life sciences training facility We got down into the high school curriculum 01:02:08.060 --> 01:02:14.185 - and dual enrollment with Ivy Tech We talked about our short-term and our long-term goals with the life 01:02:14.185 --> 01:02:18.942 - sciences training center just in terms of breaking ground all the way to how we 01:02:19.202 --> 01:02:25.971 - anticipate this helping our students in the long run, helping our families in the long run, and then 01:02:25.971 --> 01:02:32.807 - the impact that it will have on hiring at all three of those facilities. Probably most importantly to 01:02:32.807 --> 01:02:39.777 - you guys, we got down into very specific asks of them in terms of financial contributions for equipment 01:02:39.777 --> 01:02:46.814 - and transportation costs. Transportation costs meaning actually taking our students to their facilities. 01:02:47.138 --> 01:02:53.742 - We want them there at least on a quarterly basis, if not more often, visiting all of those departments, 01:02:53.742 --> 01:03:00.345 - seeing the real world in action, real work in action. And in addition to that, we talked about staffing 01:03:00.345 --> 01:03:06.759 - contributions with their trainers, work-based learning opportunities for our juniors and seniors. We 01:03:06.759 --> 01:03:11.902 - just approved a paid internship position. I would love for our three partners to 01:03:12.034 --> 01:03:18.671 - be doing the same thing with our students. And in addition to that, creating a potential new hiring 01:03:18.671 --> 01:03:25.309 - avenue and training program for the graduates that come out of this program. One of the things that 01:03:25.309 --> 01:03:31.614 - we talked about with Cook Medical is that these students are going to be prepared to move into 01:03:31.778 --> 01:03:37.480 - positions in their company that somebody just coming off the street would not have the knowledge that 01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:43.463 - these kids would have. By kids, I mean 18, 19-year-old graduates from high school. So putting them through 01:03:43.463 --> 01:03:49.165 - the same training program that you would put somebody through that doesn't have any experience in any 01:03:49.165 --> 01:03:54.308 - of these pieces versus someone who has spent three or four years starting out training with 01:03:54.308 --> 01:04:00.235 - smart manufacturing when they're 15, that employee is going to look a lot different to train than someone 01:04:00.235 --> 01:04:01.744 - coming in off the streets. 01:04:01.744 --> 01:04:03.038 - We started 01:04:03.106 --> 01:04:08.670 - just kind of getting them to look at that through a lens of what would that look like for them. So a 01:04:08.670 --> 01:04:14.233 - really great conversation there. We made some really good headway. In addition to that, I think it's 01:04:14.233 --> 01:04:20.127 - almost like Boston Scientific has spidey sense. They know when we've met with Cook Medical because they're 01:04:20.127 --> 01:04:26.076 - reaching out two days afterwards and wanting to sit back down and keep going forward with our collaboration 01:04:26.076 --> 01:04:31.970 - there. So I've already sent them our asks that we had with Cook Medical in person, and we have a follow-up 01:04:31.970 --> 01:04:33.072 - meeting with Boston 01:04:33.072 --> 01:04:40.513 - next week, and we also have a meeting with IU Health this week. So we're now getting down into those 01:04:40.513 --> 01:04:47.953 - nitty-gritty pieces, and it's pretty exciting to see all this come together. Our Ready Schools team, 01:04:47.953 --> 01:04:55.909 - I should take zero credit for this. This is all Megan Scott, who has been working on updating our eLearning 01:04:55.909 --> 01:05:01.950 - Day handbook. I gave you a couple of pieces of this handbook in this packet here. 01:05:02.434 --> 01:05:09.268 - The reason that we have to do an update on this is that the state of Indiana only allows up to three 01:05:09.268 --> 01:05:16.102 - asynchronous learning days. Asynchronous simply means that our students are at home, we've sent home 01:05:16.102 --> 01:05:23.004 - packets, or we've put things on Google Classroom for their Chromebooks, but they are working at home. 01:05:23.004 --> 01:05:28.958 - Our teachers are available for office hours, but they are doing the work independently. 01:05:29.314 --> 01:05:35.851 - Since the state of Indiana only allows for three asynchronous days, our only options if we would have 01:05:35.851 --> 01:05:42.003 - additional snow days would be to use built-in days, which we've already done once, Dr. Sanders, 01:05:42.003 --> 01:05:48.476 - one time. We would have to add days to the end of the year, or we establish guidelines and implement 01:05:48.476 --> 01:05:50.206 - synchronous learning days. 01:05:50.818 --> 01:05:58.528 - So we don't anticipate using many synchronous learning days. This is not an option that we're looking 01:05:58.528 --> 01:06:06.464 - at using six, seven, eight of these. To be completely honest, it's difficult, especially for our younger 01:06:06.464 --> 01:06:09.790 - students, to be online with their teachers. 01:06:09.858 --> 01:06:16.738 - I think about my K-5 kiddo at home and him being online for a couple of hours with his sweet K-5 teacher, 01:06:16.738 --> 01:06:23.358 - and I would just feel like I would need to cook her dinner that night, or something else to say thank 01:06:23.358 --> 01:06:30.107 - you, because I can't imagine how difficult that would be. But what we have done here is we have created 01:06:30.107 --> 01:06:36.597 - a plan that would outline our synchronous e-learning. Some things that I want to highlight, because 01:06:36.597 --> 01:06:39.518 - I do think we'll get questions from parents, 01:06:39.586 --> 01:06:45.463 - I think the biggest question we will get is, what happens if my kindergarten, second grader, third grade, 01:06:45.463 --> 01:06:51.118 - fourth grade, fifth grade student, what if we don't have a device at home? And our answer to that is, 01:06:51.118 --> 01:06:56.829 - that's okay. We anticipate that's going to happen, and that's why we're providing three days after one 01:06:56.829 --> 01:07:02.373 - of these absences for kids to get caught up at school. I think we'll get questions like, they're at 01:07:02.373 --> 01:07:08.028 - grandma and grandpa's during that day. I'm not gonna be there to help them. Grandma and grandpa can't 01:07:08.028 --> 01:07:08.638 - help them. 01:07:08.738 --> 01:07:16.297 - That's OK. We are very much going into this with a let's make it the best situation we can mindset. 01:07:16.297 --> 01:07:23.856 - This is not going to necessarily be the end all be all, you know, great day of school that we would 01:07:23.856 --> 01:07:29.374 - anticipate if our kids were sitting in front of our instructors all day. 01:07:29.954 --> 01:07:34.863 - This is really just information for you guys to take a look at. Let me know if you have questions on 01:07:34.863 --> 01:07:39.966 - it. We're going to start rolling out informational sessions with our teachers. Actually, the first one's 01:07:39.966 --> 01:07:41.278 - tomorrow morning with EIS. 01:07:41.346 --> 01:07:47.354 - I'm sure we're gonna have a ton of questions and I think we'll see some of this change just based on 01:07:47.354 --> 01:07:53.422 - some of the feedback that we're gonna get from teachers. But I think one of the most important things 01:07:53.422 --> 01:07:59.550 - there is for you to see how we've set up the day in terms of what that synchronous learning would look 01:07:59.550 --> 01:08:05.737 - like with teachers. We would actually start on a two hour delay schedule and then our youngest students 01:08:05.737 --> 01:08:08.830 - there would have about two hours of in-person time. 01:08:09.058 --> 01:08:16.373 - in-person virtual time, and then our high school students would have about 25 minutes per period moving 01:08:16.373 --> 01:08:23.899 - between teachers that day. So take a look at it. Like I said, it's just all informational as we're looking 01:08:23.899 --> 01:08:31.004 - at how we can meet the state's guidelines for potential inclement weather days that may be coming up 01:08:31.004 --> 01:08:35.646 - there. In addition to that, February 13th and 16th are coming up. 01:08:35.746 --> 01:08:40.446 - February 13th is a flex day and we have a teacher work day on the 16th. 01:08:40.514 --> 01:08:47.119 - We have a ton going on, and I wanted to share this with you just in case you would get questions from 01:08:47.119 --> 01:08:53.594 - our community members asking, what do the teachers do on the days that the kids are not there? I've 01:08:53.594 --> 01:09:00.133 - provided a whole list of things that our teachers will be participating in, from training to faculty 01:09:00.133 --> 01:09:06.673 - meetings, which will be a very, very small part of those two days, but it does allow us to get those 01:09:06.673 --> 01:09:07.774 - in for February. 01:09:07.874 --> 01:09:15.122 - We're going to be working with our HRS school improvement teams, a lot of curriculum work for our teachers, 01:09:15.122 --> 01:09:22.168 - SAT proctor training at the high school level, AI training 6 through 12, PsyOP training for K-5 teachers 01:09:22.168 --> 01:09:29.080 - with multi-language learners. We are packing it in. So if you would happen to get questions, feel free 01:09:29.080 --> 01:09:34.046 - to share that information. Feel free to send them my way. I even included 01:09:34.402 --> 01:09:40.740 - calendar in here so you can see how we're structuring this and thankfully we've talked with our association 01:09:40.740 --> 01:09:47.077 - even though one day is a teacher workday we've kind of blended those two days together so that our training 01:09:47.077 --> 01:09:52.945 - sessions don't necessarily overlap and we're using our instructional coaches and mentor teachers to 01:09:52.945 --> 01:09:58.931 - the best of our abilities during that time. So that's all I have for January unless you guys have any 01:09:58.931 --> 01:10:00.926 - questions about what's coming up. 01:10:03.330 --> 01:10:12.806 - And now on to the superintendent's report. Dr. Sanders. Yes. So traditionally, the first board meeting 01:10:12.806 --> 01:10:22.190 - of the new calendar year, I like to present my goals for the school corporation. And really, the five 01:10:22.190 --> 01:10:31.574 - goals never change. They're always the same five goals. But really, how they're applied changes every 01:10:31.574 --> 01:10:32.862 - year based on 01:10:32.962 --> 01:10:40.241 - what's going on in the education world, what's going on in our school corporation. Goal number one is 01:10:40.241 --> 01:10:47.448 - to continue to provide students and staff with a safe school environment. We will always continue to 01:10:47.448 --> 01:10:54.727 - do that. As you know, we have a school safety team that meets on a regular basis. The cool part about 01:10:54.727 --> 01:11:01.150 - this is our SROs continue to expand their impact and influence on the school corporation. 01:11:01.282 --> 01:11:10.093 - Obviously, their job is to build relationships with students to provide safety every day that we're 01:11:10.093 --> 01:11:18.904 - in session. But they're taking more of a leadership role, especially in the school safety team. And 01:11:18.904 --> 01:11:27.803 - you'll see Alec presenting some ideas, some thoughts of what maybe we can do to be more safe. And so 01:11:27.803 --> 01:11:30.270 - I think that's pretty cool. 01:11:30.466 --> 01:11:39.681 - mental health teams continue to be strong. We've expanded the opportunities for mental health by additional 01:11:39.681 --> 01:11:48.639 - grant dollars, and we'll continue to work hard to find those grants to help us make sure we're providing 01:11:48.639 --> 01:11:57.171 - mental health opportunities for our students and staff. Goal number two, to continue leading RBB to 01:11:57.171 --> 01:11:58.110 - a position 01:11:58.210 --> 01:12:06.294 - of financial strength, and we talked a lot about this tonight. Fortunately, the state legislators continue 01:12:06.294 --> 01:12:14.530 - to set roadblocks in our way. It's disappointing because over the last several years, we've worked ourselves 01:12:14.530 --> 01:12:22.161 - into a position to put ourselves in a good spot financially, and we have. But they're making it more 01:12:22.161 --> 01:12:26.014 - difficult every day. But we are adjusting to that. 01:12:26.114 --> 01:12:35.339 - We talk about it all the time about how can we increase revenue and decrease expenses. And we'll continue 01:12:35.339 --> 01:12:44.128 - to do that. We just want to make sure that our taxpayers know that we are doing the very best we can 01:12:44.128 --> 01:12:53.004 - with the funds that they provide so that we can stay competitive, so that we can prepare our students 01:12:53.004 --> 01:12:55.006 - in very effective ways 01:12:55.138 --> 01:13:05.796 - for them to chase their dreams. Goal number three, to lead RBB to sustain growth in enrollment. And 01:13:05.796 --> 01:13:16.773 - we've continued to see growth in enrollment, steady, slow but steady. And we do that in multiple ways. 01:13:16.773 --> 01:13:24.766 - We try to create a culture where students and staff love coming to school. 01:13:24.866 --> 01:13:33.458 - We want our students to love coming to a school to learn and the staff to enjoy coming to school to 01:13:33.458 --> 01:13:42.051 - work. And by doing that, I think it leads to promoting growth and increasing student enrollment. We 01:13:42.051 --> 01:13:50.987 - talk all the time about some new housing additions that are going up across our community. Harmon Farms 01:13:50.987 --> 01:13:53.822 - over here, I drove through that. 01:13:54.114 --> 01:14:00.738 - Recently, there's like three homes that are already started. And so that's pretty exciting news. And 01:14:00.738 --> 01:14:07.296 - we just continue to market our school corporation through Edgewood Showcase, marketing, what we do, 01:14:07.296 --> 01:14:14.117 - and making sure parents are informed about the opportunities we provide our students. Goal number four, 01:14:14.117 --> 01:14:20.806 - to lead RBB into a strong partnership between the school corporation, families, local businesses, and 01:14:20.806 --> 01:14:21.790 - the community. 01:14:22.242 --> 01:14:29.862 - I think you'll see Edgewood Schools very active throughout our community. We continue to bring in our 01:14:29.862 --> 01:14:37.408 - business leaders and our Edgewood Business Leaders Advisory Team, continue our partnership with Boys 01:14:37.408 --> 01:14:45.029 - and Girls Club. Jennifer was talking about our partnerships with Boston Scientific, Cook Medical, and 01:14:45.029 --> 01:14:52.126 - IU Health. And we work very closely with the Elksville Police Department, the Fire Department, 01:14:52.226 --> 01:15:00.864 - the Chamber of Commerce, and the town of Ellitsville and more. And goal number five is to lead RBB in 01:15:00.864 --> 01:15:09.418 - creating an educational environment designed to prepare students to chase their dreams in tomorrow's 01:15:09.418 --> 01:15:15.262 - world. We continue to work on our professional learning communities, 01:15:16.002 --> 01:15:24.665 - project of high reliability schools. We just took another 15 folks to San Antonio and while we were 01:15:24.665 --> 01:15:33.414 - in San Antonio three of our schools received level one certification and next time around we'll have 01:15:33.414 --> 01:15:42.163 - EPS getting level one certification and then we'll and we're already working on levels two and three 01:15:42.163 --> 01:15:45.022 - and we have not taken a group of 01:15:46.178 --> 01:15:53.942 - teachers, principals, school board members without somebody coming back and saying that was an amazing 01:15:53.942 --> 01:16:01.707 - conference and it happened again this time. We had a really productive group who, sometimes they latch 01:16:01.707 --> 01:16:09.245 - on to different aspects of the conference, but this group really was focused on the art and science 01:16:09.245 --> 01:16:14.974 - of teaching and looking at data and I just love to hear their conversations 01:16:15.394 --> 01:16:23.484 - When we meet afterwards, we are very lucky to have the teachers and principals we do at Edgewood schools. 01:16:23.484 --> 01:16:31.193 - And then we continue to expand our career pathways for our students. I would put this up against any 01:16:31.193 --> 01:16:39.131 - school corporation in the state of Indiana in terms of what we provide our students. And I'm very proud 01:16:39.131 --> 01:16:43.710 - of that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, we'll go to, 01:16:43.874 --> 01:16:55.518 - RBBEA comments. Thank you. 01:16:55.682 --> 01:17:01.443 - for working with our committee on the ECA funds. That was just a very productive committee, 01:17:01.443 --> 01:17:07.705 - and like she said, we're planning to meet again in the spring just to tighten things up and look at 01:17:07.705 --> 01:17:14.093 - those job descriptions, create job descriptions, just a better understanding of each role. I'm hoping 01:17:14.093 --> 01:17:16.222 - one of my personal goals would be 01:17:16.322 --> 01:17:23.377 - to streamline that process so that we can have that information ready to go when we do come to the bargaining 01:17:23.377 --> 01:17:29.855 - table. And so, you know, of course our members had already, when we had our referendum, had already, 01:17:29.855 --> 01:17:36.397 - or ratification, excuse me, they had already approved those changes, but just having that all done at 01:17:36.397 --> 01:17:42.810 - the same time moving forward. I know Mr. Kerr mentioned legislation, and I saw that there are three 01:17:42.810 --> 01:17:44.478 - days of action coming up, 01:17:44.674 --> 01:17:53.083 - in February, so I am just in the works of talking with our Uniserve director as well as Mr. Yules just 01:17:53.083 --> 01:18:01.329 - to get feedback on those. I'm new with those things. I've only attended a couple, so I don't know if 01:18:01.329 --> 01:18:09.575 - there are specific sessions about funding, but that is one of ISDA's priorities. Their list of goals 01:18:09.575 --> 01:18:13.086 - came out January 8th, so just some things. 01:18:13.474 --> 01:18:22.127 - Moving forward, that's all I have. Thank you, Randy. Okay, next is board member comments, and we'll 01:18:22.127 --> 01:18:31.299 - start with Mr. O'Donnell. Seeing firsthand what the legislative cuts have done with the town, and hearing 01:18:31.299 --> 01:18:40.038 - the $900,000 shortage, that concerns me, but it's nice to know that we have people in place that are 01:18:40.038 --> 01:18:43.326 - watching it, people in place that are 01:18:43.458 --> 01:18:52.141 - taking measures to make it less painful. I couldn't think of a word, thank you, Paul. So that's all 01:18:52.141 --> 01:19:00.130 - I have to say, but I'm just, like I say, I'm really concerned. I'm just really disappointed 01:19:00.130 --> 01:19:08.900 - in our legislature right now. Thank you. Mr. DeMoss. Great to have Debbie here. I was gonna ask when 01:19:08.900 --> 01:19:12.286 - we would expect to have you joining us 01:19:12.386 --> 01:19:19.467 - So I'm glad you're here. And I do appreciate the oversight on our finances, because I know it's going 01:19:19.467 --> 01:19:26.408 - to be important. When you go to the State House, I've been following some of the, especially in the 01:19:26.408 --> 01:19:33.558 - House of Representatives, and they're not doing us any favors. And if they do anything to address what 01:19:33.558 --> 01:19:39.806 - they did last year with Senate Bill 1, it's going to make it worse for schools and towns. 01:19:40.002 --> 01:19:48.724 - encouraging everybody to contact your legislature because it's not looking good. And I know what a can 01:19:48.724 --> 01:19:57.445 - of worms it can be to talk about ECA positions, so I certainly appreciate you doing that, and I'm also 01:19:57.445 --> 01:20:06.506 - glad that I wasn't in on that conversation. I'm so excited about the progress we're making with developing 01:20:06.506 --> 01:20:08.030 - the life sciences 01:20:08.386 --> 01:20:16.628 - and I'm also excited that the facilities that we're taking the steps to get to that. So as that blossoms, 01:20:16.628 --> 01:20:24.637 - that we'll have a place that we can really make that pop. And I think that's gonna happen. And I can't 01:20:24.637 --> 01:20:32.801 - stop without saying, who's yours? That's pretty exciting. Big night. Yeah, that was amazing. Mr. Jacobs. 01:20:32.801 --> 01:20:35.134 - Yeah, I agree with everything 01:20:36.546 --> 01:20:45.494 - legislation we we have to get our voices out there. And that means community members that means everybody 01:20:45.494 --> 01:20:54.442 - is involved in that in and fighting what's best for our our students in public school. Jerry I appreciate 01:20:54.442 --> 01:21:03.390 - senior goals. Every time I I see your goals in in you know work with we all work with you very closely in 01:21:04.226 --> 01:21:13.666 - You are on those goals every year and we appreciate it. We have such a strong superintendent, strong 01:21:13.666 --> 01:21:23.012 - leaders in our corporation that it makes our job wonderful. We have a really good position where we 01:21:23.012 --> 01:21:32.546 - are. We have a very strong board and I just, I really appreciate your goals and there's, you are true 01:21:32.546 --> 01:21:33.854 - to each goal. 01:21:33.986 --> 01:21:41.903 - every year and get stronger and stronger every year, and I'm glad for that. I'm excited for the out-of-state 01:21:41.903 --> 01:21:49.311 - overnight trips for our students, you know, giving them something to look forward to for all of their 01:21:49.311 --> 01:21:56.720 - dedication and their hard work after school, before school, during summers. They work extremely hard, 01:21:56.720 --> 01:22:03.838 - and I will always support our students being able to have those moments to be with one another in 01:22:04.162 --> 01:22:14.757 - become stronger as a team, as their groups go along. Thank you so much for your work. I know it's very 01:22:14.757 --> 01:22:25.147 - difficult and we support you in your job. Of course, if there's things that we can do and change and 01:22:25.147 --> 01:22:32.862 - make things better for you, we will do everything in our power to do that. 01:22:33.858 --> 01:22:41.561 - We'll just continue to keep strong. We'll continue to stay steadfast in our movements forward with our 01:22:41.561 --> 01:22:49.489 - corporation. And we're gonna fight tooth and nail to continue to bring forth everything that our students 01:22:49.489 --> 01:22:57.043 - and staff deserve. Mr. Cutler. To get on to what's been said about the concern of the legislature. I 01:22:57.043 --> 01:23:03.550 - don't think anything's gonna magically happen this year, because it's a short session. 01:23:03.746 --> 01:23:10.219 - Hopefully, you start the process and we get some people that will pay attention to what's going on and 01:23:10.219 --> 01:23:16.629 - the good things that are going on with the mandates they're putting down with the career pathways and 01:23:16.629 --> 01:23:22.914 - so forth. A lot of those are unfunded mandates which those wear me out. So hopefully, the powers to 01:23:22.914 --> 01:23:29.387 - be will get their attention, they'll listen better. Thank you to everybody behind the scenes, Ms. Tate 01:23:29.387 --> 01:23:31.838 - and Paul and Ms. Barrett, Dr. Sanders. 01:23:31.938 --> 01:23:39.066 - an hour asking questions before the board meeting and they answered my questions very well and I appreciate 01:23:39.066 --> 01:23:45.731 - their patience with me and I apologize for my incessant questions but I think we have a lot of great 01:23:45.731 --> 01:23:52.463 - things going on here. I do want to thank Ms. Barrett also for the asynchronous and what was the other 01:23:52.463 --> 01:23:59.194 - word, asynchronous? Yeah, the three days in writing, you know what, you're erring on the side of kids 01:23:59.194 --> 01:24:01.438 - and you can't go wrong with that. 01:24:01.538 --> 01:24:08.547 - It's a gray area, it's in writing. Let's use some common sense with that. And I'll finish with a quick 01:24:08.547 --> 01:24:15.419 - story, and I promise, Jimmy, it won't be for a half hour here. Got a call from a lady last week. She 01:24:15.419 --> 01:24:22.224 - was from Wisconsin, and she was an attorney about a situation on identity theft thing. And we start 01:24:22.224 --> 01:24:29.233 - talking, because I like to talk, Jimmy. And I said, well, my first career, I was principal at Edgewood 01:24:29.233 --> 01:24:31.070 - High School, and she goes, 01:24:31.458 --> 01:24:38.133 - Are you kidding me? I said, no. She goes, I was there in 1987 for Contest of Champions. She was from 01:24:38.133 --> 01:24:45.072 - some school in Sullivan, Illinois. And I said, oh my gosh. She goes, that place was rocking. And I said, 01:24:45.072 --> 01:24:52.012 - yep. I think it's going to be again this year at the end of January. So it made a depression on somebody 01:24:52.012 --> 01:24:58.753 - from somebody in Wisconsin to start out in Illinois. So that'd be a lot of excitement here at the end 01:24:58.753 --> 01:24:59.678 - of the month. 01:25:00.290 --> 01:25:08.511 - Hopefully, they don't spill much Coke on the new gym floor. Thank you. As always, appreciate everybody 01:25:08.511 --> 01:25:16.731 - coming tonight. I did want to touch on the reorganization committee. I believe that there's seven from 01:25:16.731 --> 01:25:25.191 - the township, or three from the township, three from this town. And those would elect the seventh person, 01:25:25.191 --> 01:25:29.022 - which they chose Dr. Sanders for that position. 01:25:29.250 --> 01:25:38.374 - So he's sitting on that board and, you know, I do applaud the reorganization committee for appointing 01:25:38.374 --> 01:25:48.034 - Dr. Sanders to let the school have a voice and let the school, you know, let them know. SEA 1 has butchered 01:25:48.034 --> 01:25:58.142 - the town. It's hurting, you know, it's already started hurting the schools and it's just gonna get really worse. 01:25:58.338 --> 01:26:05.555 - the way things are set up right now. So we do have to try to work together to get through this. So like 01:26:05.555 --> 01:26:12.773 - I said, I am disappointed. We don't have an idea upfront what it was gonna be, but I do know that there 01:26:12.773 --> 01:26:19.782 - are appointing committees and getting those together and they're gonna be looking into those things. 01:26:19.782 --> 01:26:26.791 - We have policy analytics looking into it for us. So our independent look at it. So what I, you know, 01:26:26.791 --> 01:26:28.318 - I just hope everybody 01:26:28.994 --> 01:26:38.309 - keep their minds open because we're in really weird times when it comes to local governments and so 01:26:38.309 --> 01:26:48.183 - in schools. So just keep open minds, listen, pay attention, get involved, follow what's going on. Because 01:26:48.183 --> 01:26:58.430 - I think it's gonna be important because we wouldn't be as good as we are if we didn't have such a great town. 01:26:58.978 --> 01:27:08.972 - And the town wouldn't be as good as it is if it didn't have us. So we have to work together. So I think 01:27:08.972 --> 01:27:18.677 - that's a great way to look at it going forward. The other thing, I just want to say I was excited to 01:27:18.677 --> 01:27:27.422 - hear how the preschool's doing. I'm just so glad that trying to toe the line on the rates. 01:27:28.450 --> 01:27:38.120 - One thing we may have to think about at some time is do we need help supporting the preschool? And what 01:27:38.120 --> 01:27:47.512 - might that look like? Because there's a lot in our community that still can't afford what we charge. 01:27:47.512 --> 01:27:57.182 - So how do we help them? So just keep your minds open, keep your eyes open, keep your ear to the ground, 01:27:57.442 --> 01:28:05.150 - Be sure you know what's going on here locally. So we appreciate everyone coming tonight and go Hoosiers.