- I call this meeting to order. Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of
- the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible,
- with liberty and justice for all. Let the record show that board members, Brent Tucker, Larry DeMoss,
- and Jimmy Durnal are present. Visitors comments, or the visitors,
- If not, we'll go to the mustang moment, Dr. Sanders. I invite Mr. Ackerman to come up. I almost gave
- you another title, Dr. Ackerman. I want to read your pieces. No, it's too late now. I'm not going back
- for that now. I am really excited to come before you today to introduce three incredible young ladies.
- All three of them are seniors at Edgewood. They applied for the Lilly Endowment Scholarship
- I admit I'm a little bit better because I don't think Edgewood has been as strong of a candidate the
- past few years as I feel like we should have been with some candidates. But to have three out of five
- in one year is absolutely incredible. So first I'm going to introduce Healy, who is actually the winner
- of the scholarship. So Healy Patel, come on up. And Bella Carson and Ellie Vagitas. These really are
- three incredible young ladies. I actually have a little bit of a connection to Ellie. Her mom was in
- my first fifth grade class many years ago, and I'm not surprised that her daughter is here because she
- was an incredible young lady as well. So what are you looking at Mr. Her mom. Yeah. So
- Again, I introduce Ellie, Bella, and Haley. Well, I just want to say that Edgewood is a really good
- community. I wouldn't have gotten the Lilly Scholarship if it weren't for Edgewood, and neither would
- they. But it's a really good community. I love staying at Edgewood. I'm glad I came here for my high
- school career. What's next?
- What's next? Next is IU. Yeah, I committed to IU. Where do you guys come in? I'm going to IU Indianapolis
- where I'll be swimming as well. I want to go to University of Evansville. So I will also throw in that
- Ellie, our first swimmer since 2009, competed in the state championship swimming. 100 fly and 50 free.
- won both and you have to win the sectional to get to the state. Yeah. That touring pretty cool.
- Congratulations. I joined talk to each and every one of them. But what's cool about these girls is obviously
- they're high academic students, right? But they're also very, very active.
- And I don't know how they do it because Bella is like, she's probably here on campus more than I am.
- You know, we've got a swimmer who competes at the state level and is a Lilly scholarship finalist.
- And Haley, you know, she's,
- She runs our coffee shop. Yeah, I'm all over Bloomington. I'm usually running my dad's errands around.
- She also helps her dad quite a bit runs. Yeah, yeah. Very proud of all three of them. We are.
- Thank you. Now we're going to accept the announcement of the approval of attendance for January 6, 2026
- organizational meeting.
- For January the 20th, 2026, a finance meeting. For January 20th, 2026, a regular board meeting. Financial
- Treasurer's Report for January 2026 and claims are as follows. Gross wages on January the 2nd, 2026,
- $729,179.28. Gross wages and mini payroll on January the 3rd, 2026, $15,587.47.
- Gross wages on January the 16th, 2026, $744,890.20. Gross wages on January the 30th, 2026 for $820,653.31
- for a total in that area of $2,310,310.24. For vouchers and claims and prepays, one January 1st, 2026
- to January 31st, 2026 is $4,000,000.
- $540,345.70 for claims and regular vouchers of February the 17th, 2026 is $381,593.65 for a total in
- that area, $4,921,939, I'm sorry, $4,921,930.35 for a grand total of $7 million,
- $232,249.59. And we go now to C with personnel resignations, retirements, personnel appoints.
- This is D. E is out of state overnight field trips. Dr. Sanders. Yes, we have a couple really important
- people here tonight to talk about the field trips.
- Now you proved last month the show choir trip to Fairfield, but that has changed a little. Kyra, can
- you come up and explain the difference? So with show choir competitions, we don't always get our schedule
- way in advance as much as we would like. So last Monday,
- I got an email from Fairfield with the schedule on it. It's about a three hour drive in a school bus,
- and we would have had to leave the school by 3 a.m. to make the time that they wanted us there by. For
- the high school, we would leave at 4 a.m. at the junior high. The high school would have to leave at
- 3. So rather than get the kids up in the middle of the night, we would like to do an overnight stay
- in a hotel the night before.
- so that they can get up early that morning and be at their best to compete. Okay, any questions for
- Kyra? Saturday, we don't know yet. So Saturday for the junior high, we're going to be done in the early
- afternoon and be able to leave probably around 3 p.m. The high school, it would just depend on if they
- make the night show at Fairfield.
- If they do make the night show, those awards are scheduled currently at 11.45 p.m. on Saturday. But
- I can at least speak for- That's a three hour drive, right? And it's about a three hour drive on a school
- bus, yeah. So for me, we're gonna be home before dinner on Saturday for middle school. Okay. So you
- got chaperones for the night? Yes. Good. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, and we've gotten hotel rates and all that,
- and we have a list of chaperones for
- those students as well. Okay. Very good. Ms. Kim, I had a couple calls about when they're going to be
- later than normal, like if they're going to be home like an hour later, you guys are communicating to
- parents, right? Oh yes, yeah. Okay. Yeah, because I know some of them, and that's partially, I know
- their kids can text them too to let them know they're coming in later. Yeah, we always post whenever
- we're able to, we'll send out messages to parents.
- about when we're getting home, when there's delays. Okay, so you got a group text that you can send
- out? Oh yeah, yeah. We have several methods of communication that we use. Yeah, because I know with
- junior high kids, especially, they have to wait, their parents have to take them home. Yes, yeah. And
- luckily we aren't, we don't partake in the night show at the middle school level because it's not something
- that's offered. So we're home well before the midnight and late, late hours of the night that the high
- school can be with their finals shows. Okay.
- So the downside for the high school kids is that they're leaving at 3 in the morning to go home. That's
- a tough night for the dad. And we have hotel rooms also reserved for bus drivers.
- We have a EHS Spain trip for Spring Break 2027. Brittany. Hello. So yes, I am back again. I'm Brittany
- Clay. Proposing another trip through ACIS. We have traveled with them five times before.
- But this year, or for next year, I would like to propose another trip back to Spain, we did Costa Rica,
- most recently in 2024. But all of our trips previously were to Spain.
- a trip off, but I wanna go back to Spain, to Madrid and Valencia and Barcelona. One big pull is that,
- well, it's not officially done yet, but the Sagrada Familia, which is going to be the largest cathedral
- in the world, the tallest cathedral in the world, it is still currently being built, yes. They predicted
- that it would be done by 2026, so I was hoping to give it another year and then go see.
- But I think with COVID and a few other situations, they're not done. They're probably not gonna be done
- until 2030 something. But I would like to go back and see it. And I would like the students to be able
- to experience a trip to Spain. So I try to do a trip within everybody's four years of high school. So
- approximately every three years, we'll get every student the opportunity to go.
- And if you noticed on the date, it says the 15th to the 22nd, that was the original date that I had
- looked at, which would include missing a school day. It would be a Monday to a Monday. But she said,
- I talked to the travel agent person, and she said that she could waive, it was a weekend, there was
- a surcharge for a weekend travel, but she said she would waive that for us. So if we wanna travel Saturday
- to Saturday, we can, and it won't affect with any school days.
- Yeah, yeah. And Julie Byers will go with me. Yeah, so we're hoping to have at least 12 students because
- with every six students, we have one chaperone go for sure. But the trip is also open to any other adults,
- chaperones, parents, guardians as well. Perfect. Yeah. Thank you. Okay, thank you.
- We have F, we have donations, we have 10 $100 donations from the local Tri Kappa group to the high school,
- junior high, intermediate and primary school and early childhood school. Do we have a motion to approve
- the consent agenda? Thank you, sir. All those in favor say aye. Durnal, if you could give me a chance to
- I invite Mr. Rensler up to the podium to make a couple of introductions. Thank you guys. I wanted to
- introduce a couple of new members to the EJHS staff. They were approved last month, weren't able to
- make it to that meeting for various reasons, probably because I notified them too late.
- But our two new teachers, Cecilia Venegas is going to be teaching eighth grade English language arts
- for us. An IU grad from East Chicago, Indiana was actually a student teacher for us last spring and
- has come back to actually teach in the exact same classroom. So I want to welcome her aboard. And Stephanie
- McNeely has spent a little time down in Lawrence County and then over at MCC.
- She has a kiddo at IU right now, and then a fourth and a fifth grader who hopefully will be joining
- us next year. But just wanted to welcome them. Stephanie's actually our inclusion, sixth grade inclusion
- teacher, because Noah, Noah Dixon decided to take a different job. So we were able to fill that position
- with somebody great. So just wanted to take time to introduce them. Thank you. Welcome aboard. You're
- still here, good.
- Chicago. Because that's a local name. Well, they're bagging us and we've had to do. Okay. Interesting.
- Welcome. Did you happen to see another familiar name on the agenda? Steve. Well, yeah, I grudgingly
- voted for him.
- That's it. That's it. Yep. All right. Number seven, consideration of revisions of wellness policy. First
- reading, Dr. Sanders. Yes, it says action item, but it's actually seven and eight are both informational
- items. And Vicki Coffey wanted us to consider two policy revisions. The first one is policy.
- 8510 it's the wellness policy and Vicki and the champs committee are both recommending these revisions
- in order to make our policy more current with national health standards. So I will bring this back to
- you in March for a vote for approval.
- Okay, thank you. Consideration for Revisionary Food Service Policy 8500, Dr. Sanders. Yes. Once again,
- on the recommendation of Vicki Coffee, and this is to reflect our practice here at RBB in terms of we
- don't let students go hungry, so we don't allow lunch charges. Students will be provided with a complimentary
- meal, which would be a choice of
- PBJ sandwich, grilled cheese, or a sub sandwich. And all these, the three meals include all five components
- of the MyPlate program. And so this is really just to reflect our current practice. And once again,
- I'll bring it back to you in March for approval. Thank you, Dr. Sanders.
- And number nine is in removed from the agenda. Number 10 is considerated to approve agreement with Harold
- Fish Incorporated. We're going to table that. Is there a motion? I move to table the agreement.
- Thank you. Thank you. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Number 11 consideration to approve agreement
- of Lancer Associates for the basketball softball artificial turf.
- and sanitary sewer improvements. Dr. Sanders? Yes. So the next two items are to approve agreements with
- our architect firm, Lancer. And one of them, actually number 11, is for the design of our baseball softball
- turf project and related sanitary sewer improvements.
- And the overall cost budget for that project is $23,483,673. That's the budget. So hopefully, we're
- hoping the bids will come in less than that. The fee for this particular agreement is $1,526,400. So
- I recommend your approval.
- I move approval of the grant of Lancer for the baseball, softball, artificial turf and sanitary sewer
- improvements. Is there a second? Yes. Quick question. That's the number 11 is not the $23 million. Correct.
- Oh, that's the two points. That's two, 2.7. Correct. The number 11 for this. Yeah. The budget for that one.
- You did 23 million first. Yeah, that's the 23 million is the overall budget of the whole project. That's
- for number 12, correct? You're right. Right, number 11 was a smaller number. Yes, I got two, maybe two
- and a half million. I got these mixed up, you're right. But you did second, right? So for the softball
- turf project, the overall,
- budget is $2,540,000. And the fee for the agreement with Lancer is $177,800. So we take these individuals,
- Christine, or together? At this point, we've got all the information in, so if there's no objection,
- you can take them together. Can you amend your motion to that? Yeah, I'll second to approve.
- I have number 11, number 12 under one motion. Thank you. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Number 13,
- consideration to approve Edgewood Early Childhood Center Handbook for 26, 2026 and 2027. Heather, do
- you want to say anything? I've just been making those updates now that we typically make at the end
- of the year to align with our enrollment process so that parents have all of that updated
- Usually we bring these handbooks together with the upcoming meetings we're having with parents, prospective
- parents. We wanted to get this done earlier. It was last night. Good turnout? Yeah. Good. Good. I'll
- move approval of the updates for the handbook for the early childhood center. I second it.
- Any discussion? Yeah, thank you. Appreciate it. All those in favor indicate by saying aye. Aye.
- Number 14, business manager report. Paul. Good evening to everyone. Tonight I gave you cash flows for
- three years.
- If you look at 2026, we're just now starting that. So we have January's numbers in there. And it was
- typical of what we expected. What made January a little bit unusual was the three paydays in January.
- So that bloats those numbers a little bit in payroll and benefits.
- Typically, when I look at the beginning of the year, I don't get too excited until I've got two or three
- months under my belt. Then we get some numbers that we can really get more accurate with in predicting
- the rest of the nine months in the remaining year. So that's what you're going to see in 2026. And again,
- I encourage you to keep an eye on your beginning balance in January and your ending balance in December.
- That's what this is all about. This is knowing what's coming before it gets here. Okay, so then because
- of that loss of revenue in 2026 and knowing we need to have at some point a discussion about 2027 and
- 2028 because of what the legislature has done to you.
- You've heard me say you're gonna lose 900,000 to a million dollars in your operations fund. That's not
- chicken feet. We're really gonna have to prepare for that two or three years down the road. So I've
- attached 2027 education and operations to this and 2028. As close as we can get at this point, we know
- these numbers are not 100% accurate.
- But they're ballparkish, and they will change every month as numbers change each month and tie in to,
- February we'll have some say about what the beginning balance is and ending balance, and on through
- 2026. So I'm not gonna talk anything about those two years tonight. I want you to take this, bring it
- back when we do talk, whether it's in a regular meeting or it's a work session,
- We're going to have to meet and talk about it at some point in time. And this is what you start with,
- these three years. I'll probably bring 2029. But it's going to be an interesting debate. Can I ask you
- a question, Paul? Sure. So just simple math. Over the next three years, Peter, the cash balance, we're
- stealing about $1 million over the next three years. $1 million, $1.2 million.
- at the end of 2028 with the current appropriations, we're gonna be a mess. Okay, unless something changes.
- And that doesn't even count the town reorganization, because that could be another half a million dollars
- on top of it. I was interested in what's happening here with your city and the county, and I saw that
- number. And so that's not in here, okay?
- So we're gonna, that's what we need to talk about, stuff like that. So we're blessed to have a cash
- balance from some good, making good decisions, but some things are being taken out of our hands now.
- Yes. Okay. Yeah, we're gonna have to decide what that number is you can live with and how do we keep
- it. Right. You know, that's the big trick. Yeah. Do you have a way to make those little parentheses
- go away? Negative number? Okay.
- All I want is a plus, not a negative. Yeah. Yeah, it would be nice. Yeah, we can do that. Right. Yeah,
- right on. She's up here. High five. This is my moral support. Yeah, OK. And so next month, she's going
- to do this, and I'm going to be standing behind her. Right on. OK. All right.
- Thank you, sir. Yeah, I did have another quick question, maybe Ms. Tate can help us with. On the register
- that I put out, just wanna see where we're at with our special ed situation. So we had a voucher amount
- of $66,000, is that for a month? How does that work? I know we have a couple of private placements.
- Yeah, the voucher, we get an invoice from the different
- vendors, the places, the facilities, basically, that the students are staying at. So on the voucher
- that you are looking at, that was from those facilities and what our cost was. Yeah, so that was one
- student, one location. How many for the year or for the month? That was for that month. For the month?
- Yeah. So what's our grand total for per year? Are we working on reimbursements? Yes. So we just submitted
- We had to get approval from them to be able to submit reimbursement. So we finally took a very long
- time, but we finally got the approval from that. We've been spending the money because we had to, but
- now we were able to submit the reimbursement. It was approved. The money is on its way to us. I think,
- I can't remember what the total is. It's 400 or 500,000 coming back towards our accounts right now.
- How much is it per student?
- I mean, give me a ballpark number total. I know we have two students. Right. So one student at one facility,
- the contract, it's $877,254.81. We have a down payment. It's a minimum. And Noah can explain that more
- to you of $30,621.63.
- And then, so that leaves us with $846,633.18 remaining that we'll have to pay, but we will get reimbursed
- from. So that's just one student for the entire, like from- For the whole year. For the whole year.
- What about student number two?
- So student number two is the facility cost and the contract is $232,646. The down payment is the same
- as the other student. It's the minimum. So it's $30,621.63. So that leaves us owing $202.24.37, but
- that is all reimbursable money. So we'll have to pay the $202,000, but we'll be reimbursed for that as well.
- So we have to have the cash balance. That's over a million dollars for two kids. We have a half cash
- 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
- my concern was, and I'm all about helping our students, but 877 for one placement, Noah, and the other
- 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.
- Yeah, it's the amount of care that is different. The one for JRC, for Judge Rudenberg Center, that one
- student has more significant needs for what they have to do. So are you talking about considering for
- why they wouldn't have possibly been placed in another facility? Yeah, I mean, I just, I don't know
- how schools can do this. Right. I mean, if you were like a voucher school or something, they wouldn't
- have that cash balance unless they borrowed it.
- Well, and that's kind of the, that's kind of the very nice thing with the seek reimbursement that we
- get in the sense of if we didn't have it, then we would be paying. I mean, without reimbursement, like
- for the JRC $877,000, but very thankfully the state does give us the allowance to where we're just paying
- a minimum and then the rest gets reimbursed. So they just calculate for that minimum we were talking
- about too, for that 30,000.
- 621.63 cents. That one's just a state one. They take it from, it's just the minimum per IEP. So in theory,
- and I know what you mean too about at this point, it's just the process of, I think I submitted the
- paperwork for it per their guidance in early fall, like August, September. It's just a longer process
- for what they take from when that's submitted to,
- Now, so that is kind of where we've been paying the front end for it. But then now we're starting to
- see the money come in and that should be pretty steady. I think they are out of pocket once reimbursement
- is right around 30,000 each. Is that correct? That's out of our pocket out of the schools corporations
- pocket the 30,000. Yeah, is that about what it's going to be? That's what we've already paid it and
- that's already been taken out of our amount. So at this point they were just reimbursing us for the
- full amount that we
- Do we always get, I mean, I know we haven't done this every year since I've been on the board, but we
- do get reimbursed. Is there a guarantee we're gonna get reimbursed? And that's by the state or the federal
- government? State. So the state's paying $877,000 to place one student. Okay. Yeah, and again, the whole
- idea of it just with us,
- being the ones that provide faith for free, appropriate public education. Since they're there, I mean,
- the needs of these students would not be appropriate within them here at school. So we have to look
- at other options for them, other places that they're at for their needs. And that's again, where it's,
- if it didn't have a program like this, it would fall on us to still pay for that lunch sum of money.
- But again,
- In some ways it's nice again where the calculation for that minimum of the 30,621, that's just across
- the state. I would be much more worried if it was like percentage based off of the entire money. So
- like if you had one that was like 800,000 and then they're saying we're gonna take say 20%, that's the
- minimum, that would be a lot more worrisome to me. But at least if we do have the higher end one, it's
- still regardless of,
- If we were paying, say, you know, $32,000, $40,000, $50,000 for a student to be at residential, which,
- I mean, we wouldn't find costs for that anyways, we would still be paying that flat fee. So in some
- ways, it's nice, even if it is to that point where it's on the higher end up there, we still
- get reimbursement for the rest. We just pay that minimum fee, and that comes back to us.
- Chairman of the Education Committee of the House today, when I was at the State House, they actually
- addressed this and they said there's nothing they're going to do this session, but they definitely,
- it's on their radar for next year and both the Republican chair and the Democratic minority leader on
- the Education Committee are aware that this is a lot of money that is coming out across the state.
- Right, and we're just one school corporation. Yeah, exactly. This was great, a lot of school corporations.
- Oh yeah. They wouldn't have the cash balance to do it. And it gives a whole new meaning to rainy day.
- Yeah, right. I didn't know if there was a way to get, without spending a ton of your time, the difference
- is 877,000 versus 232, how much more services can be provided for that
- Extra 700, that number seems, that's a lot of money. I don't know how or where that comes from. I don't
- know if you could have a breakdown. Was that from this Rotenberg, Rotenberg Education Center,
- Judge Rotenberg? That's where that 877's at? Yeah, we can provide. I don't know what I mean. Oh, we
- might see that. Oh yeah, not tonight. Yeah. Okay. I can get that to you. Yeah, because I'm just thinking
- if there's 10 kids there, that's over $9 million a year.
- You can get a lot of services. All right, thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
- Thank you. Sister Supervisor Fort will pass on that. Yeah, this is the mayor. It is headed to Fort Wayne
- tonight. They were doing a presentation tomorrow for ROI. That area is getting ready to go through the
- same process we went through with ROI.
- and they asked for a school corporation that would come and do a good job in their presentation, and
- they mentioned Edgewood, so Jennifer's on her way to Fort Wayne, and she'll do an awesome job tomorrow.
- I'm not surprised. And now we have superintendent's report, Dr. Sanders. Yes, I just wanted to share
- a really fun experience I had last night. My wife and I drove over to Columbus, Indiana,
- and got to see our gymnastics team compete against East Columbus High School. And so proud of them.
- Now, East Columbus is a school, a high school that's twice our size, and yet we had double the number
- of gymnasts. And we also won the, I don't know, what do you call a gymnastic, a meet?
- And then our girls, I guess it was the best they've ever done, so I may have to go more often. You know,
- I watched the coaches last night. Hannah Dodds is our corporation nurse and she's a gymnastics coach.
- And while I was watching the girls, I was watching Hannah and David Woodamore as assistant on there.
- And David Woodamore is just like, he's everywhere.
- participates in a lot of different ways. When I look at these people, they're passionate about kids.
- They're taken away from their own family, their evenings, many evenings, for the sake of building these
- young people up. I hope someday we can have a place where our gymnastics team can compete on campus.
- Right now,
- We don't have the equipment nor the space, but that's a goal I think that we have for down the road.
- Gymnastics, at least for Edgewood, continues to grow, and I'd like to see them be able to compete on
- our own campus. And we have March coming up here pretty soon. We have some important events coming up
- with that. Preschool enrollment will open up. We'll have, towards the end of the month,
- We'll have a K-5 kindergarten welcome week. And so we want to make sure that this information
- gets communicated out to the community so that we can get young people signed up for preschool
- and kindergarten. And then last, I just wanted to share the latest enrollment numbers. As you know,
- we have two ADM counts two times during the year.
- that we do an official count of number of students. And so I always like to give you those numbers back
- to fall 2018. And I just picked that because that's when I started. It just seems like a good time to
- start. And it shows our numbers K through 12 from really fall of 2018 until present time. And if you
- look at the,
- The graph below, you'll see, I think that's pretty cool, given the circumstances across the state with
- so many school corporations declining enrollment. But if you look in spring 2019 compared to spring
- 2026, you'll see that we grew over 100 students during that time. And I think that's pretty significant.
- for us to be really proud of. And I think it's just an indication of our community, a growing community,
- indication of the quality of education that we're providing here at Edgewood, our facilities, our programs.
- And hopefully, we'll continue to see this slow steady great.
- We don't want this sort of growth. It'd be a good problem to have, but a growth that's overwhelming.
- But right now, our demographic studies that we've had are right on target of showing a slow steady growth.
- And so that's my report for tonight. Thank you, Dr. Smith. That's won me over for those two demographic
- studies I thought were way off. Right. I just in my mind, I see all these houses going up around Ellesville
- and I think, well,
- That's going to bring a bunch of kids in there, but it just doesn't. RBBEA comments. Ty.
- Good evening, everyone. I just wanted to speak briefly. We're coming up on the end of the legislative
- session here on February 26th. And there's a lot of bills that we don't have a ton of control or agency
- over. But one of the things we were talking about at the high school meeting on
- Monday was state bill 78, which is potentially banning wireless devices in the classroom, which would
- fundamentally restructure throughout the entire day, which would really restructure the way that we're
- doing things. And the message that we were given on that was basically there's nothing to do on that
- until it passes, but if it does,
- we're gonna really have to come up with a plan and address that, and this is from the ISTA legislative
- update from February 13th, so a few days ago, and so I know these things are quickly changing, but another
- bill that has come up is, and I'm just gonna read it from President Jennifer Smith-McGrath's update,
- Says a new and problematic issue has arisen under state Bill 76, a large and far-reaching immigration
- bill that now impacts both K-12 schools and higher education institutions among other entities. The
- bill requires schools, universities, courts, jails, and any other governmental bodies to comply fully
- with immigration customs and enforcement or face a $10,000 fine.
- Further, the bill includes university police, also hospital police, and relevant to us, school resource
- officers as agents of immigration enforcement. ISTA and multiple coalition partners have been sounding
- the alarm on SP76, along with many other community groups. The bill passed 60 to 28 on a third reading
- in the House Thursday. It now heads back to the Senate. So, again, this is not something that is
- happening currently, but it is something that could be happening soon. And I just wanted to make sure
- that I said something today. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Board members comments, Mr. Tucker. Thanks for
- when it came out this evening. I am going to defer to Mr. DeMoss to kind of tie into what Mr. McGinnis
- mentioned, because he was at the state house today. If you've got any additional information to share.
- It's going into you. School board association had their legislative date today. And so there were education
- committee members that addressed us and we discussed that as well as some of the other legislation.
- You're right, it's of a concern, although there was some, I guess, moderation
- in terms of what the actual impact would be because a lot of the information that is already available
- and you would not be required to share any information that's otherwise forbidden like HIPAA or FERPA
- information couldn't be compelled without a judicial warrant. I felt a little bit better after hearing
- that discussion.
- It appears that most of the legislation that we've been watching is probably going to pass in one form
- or another. The wireless device thing, I think there's still some will room on how that's going to end
- up hitting the road, what it's going to look like in the classroom. But I think something's going to
- definitely happen. I think it's pretty much a done deal. But yeah, it's coming down to the end.
- I know a couple of bills are certainly going to die and a couple of others that probably will be gutted
- before they, before they're signed, so anyway. Yeah, but also congratulations to the girls that appeared
- this evening. That was really exciting. And also thanks to Tri Kappa for their generosity as they've
- been doing for generations and it's amazing.
- Thank you. I just reiterate what Mr. Tucker said. So glad to see the administrators here. It's just
- amazing the job you're doing. The more I understand your job, that was my goal to be a teacher and a
- coach and a principal at some point in time, but I'm not sure I can put all the hours in you guys put
- in, but we really appreciate it. Debbie and Paul, we're gonna be leaning on you quite heavily here to
- guide us through
- to guide us through this up and down time we're coming. So it's really interesting. The town's going
- through the same thing. We're trying to fend off reduction in force and it's just, it's been tough.
- So if there's nothing else, this meeting is adjourned.