WEBVTT 00:00:01.218 --> 00:00:09.228 - I call this meeting to order. Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of 00:00:09.228 --> 00:00:17.555 - the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, 00:00:17.555 --> 00:00:25.644 - with liberty and justice for all. Let the record show that board members, Brent Tucker, Larry DeMoss, 00:00:25.644 --> 00:00:30.878 - and Jimmy Durnal are present. Visitors comments, or the visitors, 00:00:34.818 --> 00:00:42.399 - If not, we'll go to the mustang moment, Dr. Sanders. I invite Mr. Ackerman to come up. I almost gave 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:50.130 - you another title, Dr. Ackerman. I want to read your pieces. No, it's too late now. I'm not going back 00:00:50.130 --> 00:00:57.861 - for that now. I am really excited to come before you today to introduce three incredible young ladies. 00:00:57.861 --> 00:01:04.766 - All three of them are seniors at Edgewood. They applied for the Lilly Endowment Scholarship 00:01:05.378 --> 00:01:12.744 - I admit I'm a little bit better because I don't think Edgewood has been as strong of a candidate the 00:01:12.744 --> 00:01:20.183 - past few years as I feel like we should have been with some candidates. But to have three out of five 00:01:20.183 --> 00:01:27.768 - in one year is absolutely incredible. So first I'm going to introduce Healy, who is actually the winner 00:01:27.768 --> 00:01:35.134 - of the scholarship. So Healy Patel, come on up. And Bella Carson and Ellie Vagitas. These really are 00:01:35.458 --> 00:01:45.430 - three incredible young ladies. I actually have a little bit of a connection to Ellie. Her mom was in 00:01:45.430 --> 00:01:55.600 - my first fifth grade class many years ago, and I'm not surprised that her daughter is here because she 00:01:55.600 --> 00:02:04.190 - was an incredible young lady as well. So what are you looking at Mr. Her mom. Yeah. So 00:02:04.738 --> 00:02:12.983 - Again, I introduce Ellie, Bella, and Haley. Well, I just want to say that Edgewood is a really good 00:02:12.983 --> 00:02:21.394 - community. I wouldn't have gotten the Lilly Scholarship if it weren't for Edgewood, and neither would 00:02:21.394 --> 00:02:29.721 - they. But it's a really good community. I love staying at Edgewood. I'm glad I came here for my high 00:02:29.721 --> 00:02:32.030 - school career. What's next? 00:02:32.578 --> 00:02:42.503 - What's next? Next is IU. Yeah, I committed to IU. Where do you guys come in? I'm going to IU Indianapolis 00:02:42.503 --> 00:02:52.146 - where I'll be swimming as well. I want to go to University of Evansville. So I will also throw in that 00:02:52.146 --> 00:03:01.790 - Ellie, our first swimmer since 2009, competed in the state championship swimming. 100 fly and 50 free. 00:03:03.746 --> 00:03:13.235 - won both and you have to win the sectional to get to the state. Yeah. That touring pretty cool. 00:03:13.235 --> 00:03:24.009 - Congratulations. I joined talk to each and every one of them. But what's cool about these girls is obviously 00:03:24.009 --> 00:03:31.422 - they're high academic students, right? But they're also very, very active. 00:03:32.098 --> 00:03:45.180 - And I don't know how they do it because Bella is like, she's probably here on campus more than I am. 00:03:45.180 --> 00:03:58.003 - You know, we've got a swimmer who competes at the state level and is a Lilly scholarship finalist. 00:03:58.003 --> 00:04:01.630 - And Haley, you know, she's, 00:04:01.986 --> 00:04:11.254 - She runs our coffee shop. Yeah, I'm all over Bloomington. I'm usually running my dad's errands around. 00:04:11.254 --> 00:04:19.712 - She also helps her dad quite a bit runs. Yeah, yeah. Very proud of all three of them. We are. 00:04:19.712 --> 00:04:29.070 - Thank you. Now we're going to accept the announcement of the approval of attendance for January 6, 2026 00:04:29.070 --> 00:04:31.230 - organizational meeting. 00:04:31.938 --> 00:04:42.349 - For January the 20th, 2026, a finance meeting. For January 20th, 2026, a regular board meeting. Financial 00:04:42.349 --> 00:04:52.269 - Treasurer's Report for January 2026 and claims are as follows. Gross wages on January the 2nd, 2026, 00:04:52.269 --> 00:05:00.126 - $729,179.28. Gross wages and mini payroll on January the 3rd, 2026, $15,587.47. 00:05:00.642 --> 00:05:13.073 - Gross wages on January the 16th, 2026, $744,890.20. Gross wages on January the 30th, 2026 for $820,653.31 00:05:13.073 --> 00:05:25.035 - for a total in that area of $2,310,310.24. For vouchers and claims and prepays, one January 1st, 2026 00:05:25.035 --> 00:05:29.374 - to January 31st, 2026 is $4,000,000. 00:05:29.922 --> 00:05:44.428 - $540,345.70 for claims and regular vouchers of February the 17th, 2026 is $381,593.65 for a total in 00:05:44.428 --> 00:05:56.062 - that area, $4,921,939, I'm sorry, $4,921,930.35 for a grand total of $7 million, 00:05:56.578 --> 00:06:06.410 - $232,249.59. And we go now to C with personnel resignations, retirements, personnel appoints. 00:06:06.410 --> 00:06:17.288 - This is D. E is out of state overnight field trips. Dr. Sanders. Yes, we have a couple really important 00:06:17.288 --> 00:06:22.622 - people here tonight to talk about the field trips. 00:06:22.722 --> 00:06:33.616 - Now you proved last month the show choir trip to Fairfield, but that has changed a little. Kyra, can 00:06:33.616 --> 00:06:45.050 - you come up and explain the difference? So with show choir competitions, we don't always get our schedule 00:06:45.050 --> 00:06:51.198 - way in advance as much as we would like. So last Monday, 00:06:51.746 --> 00:06:58.161 - I got an email from Fairfield with the schedule on it. It's about a three hour drive in a school bus, 00:06:58.161 --> 00:07:04.638 - and we would have had to leave the school by 3 a.m. to make the time that they wanted us there by. For 00:07:04.638 --> 00:07:10.990 - the high school, we would leave at 4 a.m. at the junior high. The high school would have to leave at 00:07:10.990 --> 00:07:17.278 - 3. So rather than get the kids up in the middle of the night, we would like to do an overnight stay 00:07:17.278 --> 00:07:19.102 - in a hotel the night before. 00:07:19.554 --> 00:07:26.882 - so that they can get up early that morning and be at their best to compete. Okay, any questions for 00:07:26.882 --> 00:07:34.503 - Kyra? Saturday, we don't know yet. So Saturday for the junior high, we're going to be done in the early 00:07:34.503 --> 00:07:42.051 - afternoon and be able to leave probably around 3 p.m. The high school, it would just depend on if they 00:07:42.051 --> 00:07:44.542 - make the night show at Fairfield. 00:07:44.834 --> 00:07:51.413 - If they do make the night show, those awards are scheduled currently at 11.45 p.m. on Saturday. But 00:07:51.413 --> 00:07:58.386 - I can at least speak for- That's a three hour drive, right? And it's about a three hour drive on a school 00:07:58.386 --> 00:08:04.965 - bus, yeah. So for me, we're gonna be home before dinner on Saturday for middle school. Okay. So you 00:08:04.965 --> 00:08:11.676 - got chaperones for the night? Yes. Good. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, and we've gotten hotel rates and all that, 00:08:11.676 --> 00:08:14.110 - and we have a list of chaperones for 00:08:14.402 --> 00:08:20.722 - those students as well. Okay. Very good. Ms. Kim, I had a couple calls about when they're going to be 00:08:20.722 --> 00:08:27.041 - later than normal, like if they're going to be home like an hour later, you guys are communicating to 00:08:27.041 --> 00:08:33.237 - parents, right? Oh yes, yeah. Okay. Yeah, because I know some of them, and that's partially, I know 00:08:33.237 --> 00:08:39.494 - their kids can text them too to let them know they're coming in later. Yeah, we always post whenever 00:08:39.494 --> 00:08:42.654 - we're able to, we'll send out messages to parents. 00:08:43.074 --> 00:08:48.194 - about when we're getting home, when there's delays. Okay, so you got a group text that you can send 00:08:48.194 --> 00:08:53.315 - out? Oh yeah, yeah. We have several methods of communication that we use. Yeah, because I know with 00:08:53.315 --> 00:08:58.538 - junior high kids, especially, they have to wait, their parents have to take them home. Yes, yeah. And 00:08:58.538 --> 00:09:04.068 - luckily we aren't, we don't partake in the night show at the middle school level because it's not something 00:09:04.068 --> 00:09:09.342 - that's offered. So we're home well before the midnight and late, late hours of the night that the high 00:09:09.342 --> 00:09:11.646 - school can be with their finals shows. Okay. 00:09:12.610 --> 00:09:26.975 - So the downside for the high school kids is that they're leaving at 3 in the morning to go home. That's 00:09:26.975 --> 00:09:38.302 - a tough night for the dad. And we have hotel rooms also reserved for bus drivers. 00:09:44.802 --> 00:09:54.894 - We have a EHS Spain trip for Spring Break 2027. Brittany. Hello. So yes, I am back again. I'm Brittany 00:09:54.894 --> 00:10:03.614 - Clay. Proposing another trip through ACIS. We have traveled with them five times before. 00:10:03.778 --> 00:10:11.713 - But this year, or for next year, I would like to propose another trip back to Spain, we did Costa Rica, 00:10:11.713 --> 00:10:17.054 - most recently in 2024. But all of our trips previously were to Spain. 00:10:17.314 --> 00:10:24.749 - a trip off, but I wanna go back to Spain, to Madrid and Valencia and Barcelona. One big pull is that, 00:10:24.749 --> 00:10:32.330 - well, it's not officially done yet, but the Sagrada Familia, which is going to be the largest cathedral 00:10:32.330 --> 00:10:39.983 - in the world, the tallest cathedral in the world, it is still currently being built, yes. They predicted 00:10:39.983 --> 00:10:46.398 - that it would be done by 2026, so I was hoping to give it another year and then go see. 00:10:46.498 --> 00:10:53.333 - But I think with COVID and a few other situations, they're not done. They're probably not gonna be done 00:10:53.333 --> 00:11:00.101 - until 2030 something. But I would like to go back and see it. And I would like the students to be able 00:11:00.101 --> 00:11:06.805 - to experience a trip to Spain. So I try to do a trip within everybody's four years of high school. So 00:11:06.805 --> 00:11:12.062 - approximately every three years, we'll get every student the opportunity to go. 00:11:12.802 --> 00:11:19.004 - And if you noticed on the date, it says the 15th to the 22nd, that was the original date that I had 00:11:19.004 --> 00:11:25.268 - looked at, which would include missing a school day. It would be a Monday to a Monday. But she said, 00:11:25.268 --> 00:11:31.470 - I talked to the travel agent person, and she said that she could waive, it was a weekend, there was 00:11:31.470 --> 00:11:38.107 - a surcharge for a weekend travel, but she said she would waive that for us. So if we wanna travel Saturday 00:11:38.107 --> 00:11:42.014 - to Saturday, we can, and it won't affect with any school days. 00:11:44.130 --> 00:11:51.668 - Yeah, yeah. And Julie Byers will go with me. Yeah, so we're hoping to have at least 12 students because 00:11:51.668 --> 00:11:59.422 - with every six students, we have one chaperone go for sure. But the trip is also open to any other adults, 00:11:59.422 --> 00:12:05.438 - chaperones, parents, guardians as well. Perfect. Yeah. Thank you. Okay, thank you. 00:12:07.298 --> 00:12:17.222 - We have F, we have donations, we have 10 $100 donations from the local Tri Kappa group to the high school, 00:12:17.222 --> 00:12:26.868 - junior high, intermediate and primary school and early childhood school. Do we have a motion to approve 00:12:26.868 --> 00:12:36.606 - the consent agenda? Thank you, sir. All those in favor say aye. Durnal, if you could give me a chance to 00:12:37.058 --> 00:12:45.310 - I invite Mr. Rensler up to the podium to make a couple of introductions. Thank you guys. I wanted to 00:12:45.310 --> 00:12:53.480 - introduce a couple of new members to the EJHS staff. They were approved last month, weren't able to 00:12:53.480 --> 00:13:00.670 - make it to that meeting for various reasons, probably because I notified them too late. 00:13:00.770 --> 00:13:08.135 - But our two new teachers, Cecilia Venegas is going to be teaching eighth grade English language arts 00:13:08.135 --> 00:13:15.427 - for us. An IU grad from East Chicago, Indiana was actually a student teacher for us last spring and 00:13:15.427 --> 00:13:23.302 - has come back to actually teach in the exact same classroom. So I want to welcome her aboard. And Stephanie 00:13:23.302 --> 00:13:28.990 - McNeely has spent a little time down in Lawrence County and then over at MCC. 00:13:29.122 --> 00:13:35.923 - She has a kiddo at IU right now, and then a fourth and a fifth grader who hopefully will be joining 00:13:35.923 --> 00:13:43.064 - us next year. But just wanted to welcome them. Stephanie's actually our inclusion, sixth grade inclusion 00:13:43.064 --> 00:13:50.205 - teacher, because Noah, Noah Dixon decided to take a different job. So we were able to fill that position 00:13:50.205 --> 00:13:57.142 - with somebody great. So just wanted to take time to introduce them. Thank you. Welcome aboard. You're 00:13:57.142 --> 00:13:58.366 - still here, good. 00:14:03.778 --> 00:14:17.338 - Chicago. Because that's a local name. Well, they're bagging us and we've had to do. Okay. Interesting. 00:14:17.338 --> 00:14:30.503 - Welcome. Did you happen to see another familiar name on the agenda? Steve. Well, yeah, I grudgingly 00:14:30.503 --> 00:14:32.478 - voted for him. 00:14:34.850 --> 00:14:44.973 - That's it. That's it. Yep. All right. Number seven, consideration of revisions of wellness policy. First 00:14:44.973 --> 00:14:55.096 - reading, Dr. Sanders. Yes, it says action item, but it's actually seven and eight are both informational 00:14:55.096 --> 00:15:04.062 - items. And Vicki Coffey wanted us to consider two policy revisions. The first one is policy. 00:15:04.226 --> 00:15:15.333 - 8510 it's the wellness policy and Vicki and the champs committee are both recommending these revisions 00:15:15.333 --> 00:15:26.332 - in order to make our policy more current with national health standards. So I will bring this back to 00:15:26.332 --> 00:15:30.430 - you in March for a vote for approval. 00:15:32.130 --> 00:15:40.994 - Okay, thank you. Consideration for Revisionary Food Service Policy 8500, Dr. Sanders. Yes. Once again, 00:15:40.994 --> 00:15:49.772 - on the recommendation of Vicki Coffee, and this is to reflect our practice here at RBB in terms of we 00:15:49.772 --> 00:15:59.238 - don't let students go hungry, so we don't allow lunch charges. Students will be provided with a complimentary 00:15:59.238 --> 00:16:02.078 - meal, which would be a choice of 00:16:02.402 --> 00:16:12.055 - PBJ sandwich, grilled cheese, or a sub sandwich. And all these, the three meals include all five components 00:16:12.055 --> 00:16:20.993 - of the MyPlate program. And so this is really just to reflect our current practice. And once again, 00:16:20.993 --> 00:16:27.518 - I'll bring it back to you in March for approval. Thank you, Dr. Sanders. 00:16:27.714 --> 00:16:35.142 - And number nine is in removed from the agenda. Number 10 is considerated to approve agreement with Harold 00:16:35.142 --> 00:16:41.869 - Fish Incorporated. We're going to table that. Is there a motion? I move to table the agreement. 00:16:41.869 --> 00:16:48.877 - Thank you. Thank you. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Number 11 consideration to approve agreement 00:16:48.877 --> 00:16:53.502 - of Lancer Associates for the basketball softball artificial turf. 00:16:53.794 --> 00:17:05.203 - and sanitary sewer improvements. Dr. Sanders? Yes. So the next two items are to approve agreements with 00:17:05.203 --> 00:17:17.050 - our architect firm, Lancer. And one of them, actually number 11, is for the design of our baseball softball 00:17:17.050 --> 00:17:22.974 - turf project and related sanitary sewer improvements. 00:17:23.074 --> 00:17:35.662 - And the overall cost budget for that project is $23,483,673. That's the budget. So hopefully, we're 00:17:35.662 --> 00:17:48.375 - hoping the bids will come in less than that. The fee for this particular agreement is $1,526,400. So 00:17:48.375 --> 00:17:51.774 - I recommend your approval. 00:17:53.666 --> 00:18:02.143 - I move approval of the grant of Lancer for the baseball, softball, artificial turf and sanitary sewer 00:18:02.143 --> 00:18:11.118 - improvements. Is there a second? Yes. Quick question. That's the number 11 is not the $23 million. Correct. 00:18:11.118 --> 00:18:20.094 - Oh, that's the two points. That's two, 2.7. Correct. The number 11 for this. Yeah. The budget for that one. 00:18:22.786 --> 00:18:31.771 - You did 23 million first. Yeah, that's the 23 million is the overall budget of the whole project. That's 00:18:31.771 --> 00:18:40.585 - for number 12, correct? You're right. Right, number 11 was a smaller number. Yes, I got two, maybe two 00:18:40.585 --> 00:18:49.400 - and a half million. I got these mixed up, you're right. But you did second, right? So for the softball 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:51.710 - turf project, the overall, 00:18:51.874 --> 00:19:01.849 - budget is $2,540,000. And the fee for the agreement with Lancer is $177,800. So we take these individuals, 00:19:01.849 --> 00:19:11.264 - Christine, or together? At this point, we've got all the information in, so if there's no objection, 00:19:11.264 --> 00:19:19.934 - you can take them together. Can you amend your motion to that? Yeah, I'll second to approve. 00:19:20.258 --> 00:19:27.504 - I have number 11, number 12 under one motion. Thank you. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Number 13, 00:19:27.504 --> 00:19:34.750 - consideration to approve Edgewood Early Childhood Center Handbook for 26, 2026 and 2027. Heather, do 00:19:34.750 --> 00:19:41.925 - you want to say anything? I've just been making those updates now that we typically make at the end 00:19:41.925 --> 00:19:48.382 - of the year to align with our enrollment process so that parents have all of that updated 00:19:52.354 --> 00:20:02.732 - Usually we bring these handbooks together with the upcoming meetings we're having with parents, prospective 00:20:02.732 --> 00:20:12.438 - parents. We wanted to get this done earlier. It was last night. Good turnout? Yeah. Good. Good. I'll 00:20:12.438 --> 00:20:21.182 - move approval of the updates for the handbook for the early childhood center. I second it. 00:20:22.882 --> 00:20:36.347 - Any discussion? Yeah, thank you. Appreciate it. All those in favor indicate by saying aye. Aye. 00:20:36.347 --> 00:20:50.655 - Number 14, business manager report. Paul. Good evening to everyone. Tonight I gave you cash flows for 00:20:50.655 --> 00:20:52.478 - three years. 00:20:52.674 --> 00:21:01.555 - If you look at 2026, we're just now starting that. So we have January's numbers in there. And it was 00:21:01.555 --> 00:21:10.523 - typical of what we expected. What made January a little bit unusual was the three paydays in January. 00:21:10.523 --> 00:21:16.414 - So that bloats those numbers a little bit in payroll and benefits. 00:21:16.802 --> 00:21:24.074 - Typically, when I look at the beginning of the year, I don't get too excited until I've got two or three 00:21:24.074 --> 00:21:31.208 - months under my belt. Then we get some numbers that we can really get more accurate with in predicting 00:21:31.208 --> 00:21:38.550 - the rest of the nine months in the remaining year. So that's what you're going to see in 2026. And again, 00:21:38.550 --> 00:21:45.822 - I encourage you to keep an eye on your beginning balance in January and your ending balance in December. 00:21:45.954 --> 00:21:55.936 - That's what this is all about. This is knowing what's coming before it gets here. Okay, so then because 00:21:55.936 --> 00:22:05.727 - of that loss of revenue in 2026 and knowing we need to have at some point a discussion about 2027 and 00:22:05.727 --> 00:22:10.910 - 2028 because of what the legislature has done to you. 00:22:11.554 --> 00:22:19.740 - You've heard me say you're gonna lose 900,000 to a million dollars in your operations fund. That's not 00:22:19.740 --> 00:22:27.687 - chicken feet. We're really gonna have to prepare for that two or three years down the road. So I've 00:22:27.687 --> 00:22:35.873 - attached 2027 education and operations to this and 2028. As close as we can get at this point, we know 00:22:35.873 --> 00:22:38.814 - these numbers are not 100% accurate. 00:22:39.426 --> 00:22:47.185 - But they're ballparkish, and they will change every month as numbers change each month and tie in to, 00:22:47.185 --> 00:22:54.793 - February we'll have some say about what the beginning balance is and ending balance, and on through 00:22:54.793 --> 00:23:02.552 - 2026. So I'm not gonna talk anything about those two years tonight. I want you to take this, bring it 00:23:02.552 --> 00:23:08.638 - back when we do talk, whether it's in a regular meeting or it's a work session, 00:23:08.898 --> 00:23:16.639 - We're going to have to meet and talk about it at some point in time. And this is what you start with, 00:23:16.639 --> 00:23:24.457 - these three years. I'll probably bring 2029. But it's going to be an interesting debate. Can I ask you 00:23:24.457 --> 00:23:32.274 - a question, Paul? Sure. So just simple math. Over the next three years, Peter, the cash balance, we're 00:23:32.274 --> 00:23:38.270 - stealing about $1 million over the next three years. $1 million, $1.2 million. 00:23:38.626 --> 00:23:47.339 - at the end of 2028 with the current appropriations, we're gonna be a mess. Okay, unless something changes. 00:23:47.339 --> 00:23:55.970 - And that doesn't even count the town reorganization, because that could be another half a million dollars 00:23:55.970 --> 00:24:04.275 - on top of it. I was interested in what's happening here with your city and the county, and I saw that 00:24:04.275 --> 00:24:07.614 - number. And so that's not in here, okay? 00:24:08.194 --> 00:24:14.859 - So we're gonna, that's what we need to talk about, stuff like that. So we're blessed to have a cash 00:24:14.859 --> 00:24:21.590 - balance from some good, making good decisions, but some things are being taken out of our hands now. 00:24:21.590 --> 00:24:28.321 - Yes. Okay. Yeah, we're gonna have to decide what that number is you can live with and how do we keep 00:24:28.321 --> 00:24:34.985 - it. Right. You know, that's the big trick. Yeah. Do you have a way to make those little parentheses 00:24:34.985 --> 00:24:37.118 - go away? Negative number? Okay. 00:24:37.890 --> 00:24:46.454 - All I want is a plus, not a negative. Yeah. Yeah, it would be nice. Yeah, we can do that. Right. Yeah, 00:24:46.454 --> 00:24:55.017 - right on. She's up here. High five. This is my moral support. Yeah, OK. And so next month, she's going 00:24:55.017 --> 00:25:01.502 - to do this, and I'm going to be standing behind her. Right on. OK. All right. 00:25:03.330 --> 00:25:11.929 - Thank you, sir. Yeah, I did have another quick question, maybe Ms. Tate can help us with. On the register 00:25:11.929 --> 00:25:20.366 - that I put out, just wanna see where we're at with our special ed situation. So we had a voucher amount 00:25:20.366 --> 00:25:28.479 - of $66,000, is that for a month? How does that work? I know we have a couple of private placements. 00:25:28.479 --> 00:25:33.022 - Yeah, the voucher, we get an invoice from the different 00:25:33.250 --> 00:25:40.515 - vendors, the places, the facilities, basically, that the students are staying at. So on the voucher 00:25:40.515 --> 00:25:47.853 - that you are looking at, that was from those facilities and what our cost was. Yeah, so that was one 00:25:47.853 --> 00:25:55.337 - student, one location. How many for the year or for the month? That was for that month. For the month? 00:25:55.337 --> 00:26:03.038 - Yeah. So what's our grand total for per year? Are we working on reimbursements? Yes. So we just submitted 00:26:03.298 --> 00:26:09.808 - We had to get approval from them to be able to submit reimbursement. So we finally took a very long 00:26:09.808 --> 00:26:16.448 - time, but we finally got the approval from that. We've been spending the money because we had to, but 00:26:16.448 --> 00:26:23.153 - now we were able to submit the reimbursement. It was approved. The money is on its way to us. I think, 00:26:23.153 --> 00:26:29.663 - I can't remember what the total is. It's 400 or 500,000 coming back towards our accounts right now. 00:26:29.663 --> 00:26:31.486 - How much is it per student? 00:26:31.778 --> 00:26:42.687 - I mean, give me a ballpark number total. I know we have two students. Right. So one student at one facility, 00:26:42.687 --> 00:26:52.996 - the contract, it's $877,254.81. We have a down payment. It's a minimum. And Noah can explain that more 00:26:52.996 --> 00:26:55.198 - to you of $30,621.63. 00:26:55.362 --> 00:27:03.475 - And then, so that leaves us with $846,633.18 remaining that we'll have to pay, but we will get reimbursed 00:27:03.475 --> 00:27:11.129 - from. So that's just one student for the entire, like from- For the whole year. For the whole year. 00:27:11.129 --> 00:27:13.502 - What about student number two? 00:27:13.730 --> 00:27:23.227 - So student number two is the facility cost and the contract is $232,646. The down payment is the same 00:27:23.227 --> 00:27:32.537 - as the other student. It's the minimum. So it's $30,621.63. So that leaves us owing $202.24.37, but 00:27:32.537 --> 00:27:42.686 - that is all reimbursable money. So we'll have to pay the $202,000, but we'll be reimbursed for that as well. 00:27:43.138 --> 00:27:49.993 - So we have to have the cash balance. That's over a million dollars for two kids. We have a half cash 00:27:49.993 --> 00:27:57.053 - balance to pay it up front. And if we don't, what do we do, Paul? Yeah, I mean, and that's for, I guess 00:27:57.053 --> 00:28:04.044 - my concern was, and I'm all about helping our students, but 877 for one placement, Noah, and the other 00:28:04.044 --> 00:28:11.646 - one's 232. Why is there such a disparity? Is it the amount of care or the? That's a monster number for one kid. 00:28:11.778 --> 00:28:17.971 - Yeah, it's the amount of care that is different. The one for JRC, for Judge Rudenberg Center, that one 00:28:17.971 --> 00:28:24.103 - student has more significant needs for what they have to do. So are you talking about considering for 00:28:24.103 --> 00:28:30.116 - why they wouldn't have possibly been placed in another facility? Yeah, I mean, I just, I don't know 00:28:30.116 --> 00:28:36.248 - how schools can do this. Right. I mean, if you were like a voucher school or something, they wouldn't 00:28:36.248 --> 00:28:39.134 - have that cash balance unless they borrowed it. 00:28:39.586 --> 00:28:45.946 - Well, and that's kind of the, that's kind of the very nice thing with the seek reimbursement that we 00:28:45.946 --> 00:28:52.432 - get in the sense of if we didn't have it, then we would be paying. I mean, without reimbursement, like 00:28:52.432 --> 00:28:59.107 - for the JRC $877,000, but very thankfully the state does give us the allowance to where we're just paying 00:28:59.107 --> 00:29:05.467 - a minimum and then the rest gets reimbursed. So they just calculate for that minimum we were talking 00:29:05.467 --> 00:29:07.230 - about too, for that 30,000. 00:29:07.362 --> 00:29:16.050 - 621.63 cents. That one's just a state one. They take it from, it's just the minimum per IEP. So in theory, 00:29:16.050 --> 00:29:24.169 - and I know what you mean too about at this point, it's just the process of, I think I submitted the 00:29:24.169 --> 00:29:32.450 - paperwork for it per their guidance in early fall, like August, September. It's just a longer process 00:29:32.450 --> 00:29:36.510 - for what they take from when that's submitted to, 00:29:36.706 --> 00:29:42.102 - Now, so that is kind of where we've been paying the front end for it. But then now we're starting to 00:29:42.102 --> 00:29:47.765 - see the money come in and that should be pretty steady. I think they are out of pocket once reimbursement 00:29:47.765 --> 00:29:53.268 - is right around 30,000 each. Is that correct? That's out of our pocket out of the schools corporations 00:29:53.268 --> 00:29:58.611 - pocket the 30,000. Yeah, is that about what it's going to be? That's what we've already paid it and 00:29:58.611 --> 00:30:03.953 - that's already been taken out of our amount. So at this point they were just reimbursing us for the 00:30:03.953 --> 00:30:05.022 - full amount that we 00:30:05.410 --> 00:30:12.957 - Do we always get, I mean, I know we haven't done this every year since I've been on the board, but we 00:30:12.957 --> 00:30:20.875 - do get reimbursed. Is there a guarantee we're gonna get reimbursed? And that's by the state or the federal 00:30:20.875 --> 00:30:28.644 - government? State. So the state's paying $877,000 to place one student. Okay. Yeah, and again, the whole 00:30:28.644 --> 00:30:30.494 - idea of it just with us, 00:30:30.786 --> 00:30:37.046 - being the ones that provide faith for free, appropriate public education. Since they're there, I mean, 00:30:37.046 --> 00:30:43.123 - the needs of these students would not be appropriate within them here at school. So we have to look 00:30:43.123 --> 00:30:49.383 - at other options for them, other places that they're at for their needs. And that's again, where it's, 00:30:49.383 --> 00:30:55.521 - if it didn't have a program like this, it would fall on us to still pay for that lunch sum of money. 00:30:55.521 --> 00:30:56.190 - But again, 00:30:56.738 --> 00:31:03.836 - In some ways it's nice again where the calculation for that minimum of the 30,621, that's just across 00:31:03.836 --> 00:31:10.794 - the state. I would be much more worried if it was like percentage based off of the entire money. So 00:31:10.794 --> 00:31:17.961 - like if you had one that was like 800,000 and then they're saying we're gonna take say 20%, that's the 00:31:17.961 --> 00:31:25.129 - minimum, that would be a lot more worrisome to me. But at least if we do have the higher end one, it's 00:31:25.129 --> 00:31:26.590 - still regardless of, 00:31:27.010 --> 00:31:34.620 - If we were paying, say, you know, $32,000, $40,000, $50,000 for a student to be at residential, which, 00:31:34.620 --> 00:31:42.008 - I mean, we wouldn't find costs for that anyways, we would still be paying that flat fee. So in some 00:31:42.008 --> 00:31:48.879 - ways, it's nice, even if it is to that point where it's on the higher end up there, we still 00:31:48.879 --> 00:31:55.454 - get reimbursement for the rest. We just pay that minimum fee, and that comes back to us. 00:31:57.314 --> 00:32:03.994 - Chairman of the Education Committee of the House today, when I was at the State House, they actually 00:32:03.994 --> 00:32:10.608 - addressed this and they said there's nothing they're going to do this session, but they definitely, 00:32:10.608 --> 00:32:17.354 - it's on their radar for next year and both the Republican chair and the Democratic minority leader on 00:32:17.354 --> 00:32:23.902 - the Education Committee are aware that this is a lot of money that is coming out across the state. 00:32:24.322 --> 00:32:32.278 - Right, and we're just one school corporation. Yeah, exactly. This was great, a lot of school corporations. 00:32:32.278 --> 00:32:39.862 - Oh yeah. They wouldn't have the cash balance to do it. And it gives a whole new meaning to rainy day. 00:32:39.862 --> 00:32:47.743 - Yeah, right. I didn't know if there was a way to get, without spending a ton of your time, the difference 00:32:47.743 --> 00:32:53.022 - is 877,000 versus 232, how much more services can be provided for that 00:32:53.666 --> 00:33:00.437 - Extra 700, that number seems, that's a lot of money. I don't know how or where that comes from. I don't 00:33:00.437 --> 00:33:06.557 - know if you could have a breakdown. Was that from this Rotenberg, Rotenberg Education Center, 00:33:06.557 --> 00:33:13.067 - Judge Rotenberg? That's where that 877's at? Yeah, we can provide. I don't know what I mean. Oh, we 00:33:13.067 --> 00:33:19.903 - might see that. Oh yeah, not tonight. Yeah. Okay. I can get that to you. Yeah, because I'm just thinking 00:33:19.903 --> 00:33:23.614 - if there's 10 kids there, that's over $9 million a year. 00:33:24.706 --> 00:33:33.131 - You can get a lot of services. All right, thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 00:33:33.131 --> 00:33:41.805 - Thank you. Sister Supervisor Fort will pass on that. Yeah, this is the mayor. It is headed to Fort Wayne 00:33:41.805 --> 00:33:50.313 - tonight. They were doing a presentation tomorrow for ROI. That area is getting ready to go through the 00:33:50.313 --> 00:33:53.534 - same process we went through with ROI. 00:33:53.762 --> 00:34:01.346 - and they asked for a school corporation that would come and do a good job in their presentation, and 00:34:01.346 --> 00:34:09.155 - they mentioned Edgewood, so Jennifer's on her way to Fort Wayne, and she'll do an awesome job tomorrow. 00:34:09.155 --> 00:34:16.739 - I'm not surprised. And now we have superintendent's report, Dr. Sanders. Yes, I just wanted to share 00:34:16.739 --> 00:34:23.422 - a really fun experience I had last night. My wife and I drove over to Columbus, Indiana, 00:34:23.650 --> 00:34:33.304 - and got to see our gymnastics team compete against East Columbus High School. And so proud of them. 00:34:33.304 --> 00:34:43.151 - Now, East Columbus is a school, a high school that's twice our size, and yet we had double the number 00:34:43.151 --> 00:34:51.454 - of gymnasts. And we also won the, I don't know, what do you call a gymnastic, a meet? 00:34:52.066 --> 00:35:00.123 - And then our girls, I guess it was the best they've ever done, so I may have to go more often. You know, 00:35:00.123 --> 00:35:07.950 - I watched the coaches last night. Hannah Dodds is our corporation nurse and she's a gymnastics coach. 00:35:07.950 --> 00:35:15.700 - And while I was watching the girls, I was watching Hannah and David Woodamore as assistant on there. 00:35:15.700 --> 00:35:19.614 - And David Woodamore is just like, he's everywhere. 00:35:20.098 --> 00:35:29.517 - participates in a lot of different ways. When I look at these people, they're passionate about kids. 00:35:29.517 --> 00:35:39.217 - They're taken away from their own family, their evenings, many evenings, for the sake of building these 00:35:39.217 --> 00:35:48.636 - young people up. I hope someday we can have a place where our gymnastics team can compete on campus. 00:35:48.636 --> 00:35:49.662 - Right now, 00:35:49.794 --> 00:35:57.452 - We don't have the equipment nor the space, but that's a goal I think that we have for down the road. 00:35:57.452 --> 00:36:05.111 - Gymnastics, at least for Edgewood, continues to grow, and I'd like to see them be able to compete on 00:36:05.111 --> 00:36:12.845 - our own campus. And we have March coming up here pretty soon. We have some important events coming up 00:36:12.845 --> 00:36:19.518 - with that. Preschool enrollment will open up. We'll have, towards the end of the month, 00:36:19.618 --> 00:36:27.026 - We'll have a K-5 kindergarten welcome week. And so we want to make sure that this information 00:36:27.026 --> 00:36:34.513 - gets communicated out to the community so that we can get young people signed up for preschool 00:36:34.513 --> 00:36:42.394 - and kindergarten. And then last, I just wanted to share the latest enrollment numbers. As you know, 00:36:42.394 --> 00:36:46.334 - we have two ADM counts two times during the year. 00:36:46.466 --> 00:36:56.178 - that we do an official count of number of students. And so I always like to give you those numbers back 00:36:56.178 --> 00:37:05.704 - to fall 2018. And I just picked that because that's when I started. It just seems like a good time to 00:37:05.704 --> 00:37:15.136 - start. And it shows our numbers K through 12 from really fall of 2018 until present time. And if you 00:37:15.136 --> 00:37:16.350 - look at the, 00:37:16.514 --> 00:37:25.791 - The graph below, you'll see, I think that's pretty cool, given the circumstances across the state with 00:37:25.791 --> 00:37:34.797 - so many school corporations declining enrollment. But if you look in spring 2019 compared to spring 00:37:34.797 --> 00:37:44.254 - 2026, you'll see that we grew over 100 students during that time. And I think that's pretty significant. 00:37:44.386 --> 00:37:52.368 - for us to be really proud of. And I think it's just an indication of our community, a growing community, 00:37:52.368 --> 00:38:00.577 - indication of the quality of education that we're providing here at Edgewood, our facilities, our programs. 00:38:00.577 --> 00:38:05.214 - And hopefully, we'll continue to see this slow steady great. 00:38:05.378 --> 00:38:11.583 - We don't want this sort of growth. It'd be a good problem to have, but a growth that's overwhelming. 00:38:11.583 --> 00:38:18.157 - But right now, our demographic studies that we've had are right on target of showing a slow steady growth. 00:38:18.157 --> 00:38:24.547 - And so that's my report for tonight. Thank you, Dr. Smith. That's won me over for those two demographic 00:38:24.547 --> 00:38:31.183 - studies I thought were way off. Right. I just in my mind, I see all these houses going up around Ellesville 00:38:31.183 --> 00:38:32.350 - and I think, well, 00:38:32.674 --> 00:38:41.694 - That's going to bring a bunch of kids in there, but it just doesn't. RBBEA comments. Ty. 00:38:52.770 --> 00:39:01.842 - Good evening, everyone. I just wanted to speak briefly. We're coming up on the end of the legislative 00:39:01.842 --> 00:39:11.091 - session here on February 26th. And there's a lot of bills that we don't have a ton of control or agency 00:39:11.091 --> 00:39:18.206 - over. But one of the things we were talking about at the high school meeting on 00:39:19.138 --> 00:39:27.042 - Monday was state bill 78, which is potentially banning wireless devices in the classroom, which would 00:39:27.042 --> 00:39:35.023 - fundamentally restructure throughout the entire day, which would really restructure the way that we're 00:39:35.023 --> 00:39:42.849 - doing things. And the message that we were given on that was basically there's nothing to do on that 00:39:42.849 --> 00:39:45.406 - until it passes, but if it does, 00:39:45.826 --> 00:39:53.699 - we're gonna really have to come up with a plan and address that, and this is from the ISTA legislative 00:39:53.699 --> 00:40:01.878 - update from February 13th, so a few days ago, and so I know these things are quickly changing, but another 00:40:01.878 --> 00:40:09.598 - bill that has come up is, and I'm just gonna read it from President Jennifer Smith-McGrath's update, 00:40:09.826 --> 00:40:17.105 - Says a new and problematic issue has arisen under state Bill 76, a large and far-reaching immigration 00:40:17.105 --> 00:40:24.241 - bill that now impacts both K-12 schools and higher education institutions among other entities. The 00:40:24.241 --> 00:40:31.520 - bill requires schools, universities, courts, jails, and any other governmental bodies to comply fully 00:40:31.520 --> 00:40:36.158 - with immigration customs and enforcement or face a $10,000 fine. 00:40:36.290 --> 00:40:43.591 - Further, the bill includes university police, also hospital police, and relevant to us, school resource 00:40:43.591 --> 00:40:50.822 - officers as agents of immigration enforcement. ISTA and multiple coalition partners have been sounding 00:40:50.822 --> 00:40:58.052 - the alarm on SP76, along with many other community groups. The bill passed 60 to 28 on a third reading 00:40:58.052 --> 00:41:04.862 - in the House Thursday. It now heads back to the Senate. So, again, this is not something that is 00:41:05.378 --> 00:41:12.413 - happening currently, but it is something that could be happening soon. And I just wanted to make sure 00:41:12.413 --> 00:41:19.518 - that I said something today. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Board members comments, Mr. Tucker. Thanks for 00:41:19.518 --> 00:41:26.622 - when it came out this evening. I am going to defer to Mr. DeMoss to kind of tie into what Mr. McGinnis 00:41:26.622 --> 00:41:33.726 - mentioned, because he was at the state house today. If you've got any additional information to share. 00:41:35.554 --> 00:41:45.377 - It's going into you. School board association had their legislative date today. And so there were education 00:41:45.377 --> 00:41:54.472 - committee members that addressed us and we discussed that as well as some of the other legislation. 00:41:54.472 --> 00:42:01.566 - You're right, it's of a concern, although there was some, I guess, moderation 00:42:01.698 --> 00:42:11.037 - in terms of what the actual impact would be because a lot of the information that is already available 00:42:11.037 --> 00:42:20.286 - and you would not be required to share any information that's otherwise forbidden like HIPAA or FERPA 00:42:20.286 --> 00:42:29.625 - information couldn't be compelled without a judicial warrant. I felt a little bit better after hearing 00:42:29.625 --> 00:42:31.166 - that discussion. 00:42:32.866 --> 00:42:40.185 - It appears that most of the legislation that we've been watching is probably going to pass in one form 00:42:40.185 --> 00:42:47.504 - or another. The wireless device thing, I think there's still some will room on how that's going to end 00:42:47.504 --> 00:42:54.681 - up hitting the road, what it's going to look like in the classroom. But I think something's going to 00:42:54.681 --> 00:43:01.502 - definitely happen. I think it's pretty much a done deal. But yeah, it's coming down to the end. 00:43:01.794 --> 00:43:10.324 - I know a couple of bills are certainly going to die and a couple of others that probably will be gutted 00:43:10.324 --> 00:43:18.936 - before they, before they're signed, so anyway. Yeah, but also congratulations to the girls that appeared 00:43:18.936 --> 00:43:27.219 - this evening. That was really exciting. And also thanks to Tri Kappa for their generosity as they've 00:43:27.219 --> 00:43:30.910 - been doing for generations and it's amazing. 00:43:32.162 --> 00:43:39.228 - Thank you. I just reiterate what Mr. Tucker said. So glad to see the administrators here. It's just 00:43:39.228 --> 00:43:46.365 - amazing the job you're doing. The more I understand your job, that was my goal to be a teacher and a 00:43:46.365 --> 00:43:53.573 - coach and a principal at some point in time, but I'm not sure I can put all the hours in you guys put 00:43:53.573 --> 00:44:00.781 - in, but we really appreciate it. Debbie and Paul, we're gonna be leaning on you quite heavily here to 00:44:00.781 --> 00:44:01.982 - guide us through 00:44:02.658 --> 00:44:10.787 - to guide us through this up and down time we're coming. So it's really interesting. The town's going 00:44:10.787 --> 00:44:18.835 - through the same thing. We're trying to fend off reduction in force and it's just, it's been tough. 00:44:18.835 --> 00:44:23.262 - So if there's nothing else, this meeting is adjourned.