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- I will call to order our regular monthly meeting. This is the June 2026 Richland Bean Blossom Community

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- School Corporation monthly meeting. And we do again welcome you all here. We already pledged our allegiance

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- to our flag. And the roll call remains the same with the board members that are present. And once again,

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- there's visitor comments.

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- Visitors that. I had to. Yeah, Christy Alderson. If you please come up to the microphone. Now the microphone

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- is not does not project your voice in the room. It is for cats and so feel free to project your voice.

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- We may hear you. I am Parker.

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- Hello, we I'm Christie and this is Brad and we're both members of the music warehouse 50th reunion committee

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- and we've been working hard this entire year on putting together a celebration that will be July 25th

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- in our high school auditorium that will celebrate 50 years of music warehouse and the legacy of vertus

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- linkered. So we

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- We have started a petition and kind of been talking about this to members of the community, members

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- of the alumni groups and each other about the possibility of renaming the auditorium after Virta. So

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- I wanted to, I know I did send this letter via email, but I'd like to read it to you.

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- Dear Dr. Sanders and members of the school board, 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of Music Warehouse,

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- Edgewood High School's mixed show choir. Over those five decades, hundreds of students have been part

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- of the program as performers, instrumentalists, and stage crew, traveling coast to coast while earning

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- more than 35 grand championship honors and countless additional honors. Beyond those accolades are the

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- memories made, lessons learned, music performed, and friendships built in rehearsals, travels, and reunions.

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- to mark the golden anniversary of Music Warehouse and celebrate the founder of the group, Verda Savage

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- Slinkard. Alumni are planning a special reunion event in July.

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- As part of this milestone occasion, Music Warehouse alumni respectfully proposed an official renaming

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- of the Edgewood High School auditorium to something that recognizes Virta's contributions at Edgewood

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- High School. This honor would affirm the commitment Virta has made to the program over the years, including

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- her recent tenure as interim director of the high school choir program, as well as her impact in the

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- choral education community.

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- In addition to founding Music Warehouse in 1976, Virta also established the Sophisticated Ladies Show

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- Choir, Edgewood Singers, and two large annual events, Contest of Champions, Edgewood's annual show choir

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- competition, and the Tisza Season Holiday Concert, both founded in 1993. She continues to be an active

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- competition judge and clinician for choirs nationwide.

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- Many of Verda's former students have gone on to careers in education and music because of her guidance

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- and support during their formative years. The alumni committee as well as numerous alumni hope this

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- recognition may be considered and approved in a time for a formal celebration at the July reunion event

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- and respectfully ask that the board to consider the matter and vote to approve the naming. Our research

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- has shown that this recognition may be accomplished with an affirmative vote of the school board.

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- On behalf of the alumni of the entire Edgewood High School Choral Department, your consideration of

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- this request is appreciated as well as your continued support of music and arts education. Thank you.

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- Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anybody else that we might have missed? Thank you very much.

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- I appreciate that.

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- That concept has been brought up before and I think it deserves some contemplation. So thank you for

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- coming out. Next, we have our consent agenda. We have the approval of minutes.

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- from our May 19th, 2026 regular school board meeting. We have our treasury report for May, 2026.

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- And Mr. Durnall, our claims please. Thank you, Mr. President. For gross wages on May the 8th,

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- 2026 is $839,164.82. For gross wages on May 22nd, 2026,

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- $859,447.63 for a total in that area of $1,698,712.45 for vouchers, claims, prepays from 5-1-2026 through

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- 5-31-2026, $1,338,337.41 for claim and vouchers on 6-16-2026,

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- $527,451.38 for a total in that area, $1,665,788.76 for a grand total of $3,364,501.21. Thank you, sir.

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- Thank you very much. We also have personnel, resignations, retirements, non-renewals, leaves

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- and terminations, C-1326,

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- and personnel appointments and transfers, D, one through 54. Let's see. Let's see, there's nothing under

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- E. And F, we do have out of state and overnight field trips, F, one through six. So we know what those

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- are. Dr. Sanders, could you give us

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- description of those trips. Yes and Jerry Bland our athletic director is here so if he has anything

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- he wants to add or if you have any questions feel free to say so. So we have several of our athletic

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- teams who will be going to have their camps this summer. Cross-country team is going to the Indiana

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- Dunes for their camp July 13th through the 16th. The football

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- will be going to Rose Hallman for their camp July 20th through the 22nd. Volleyball team is going to

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- the Muncie Anna for their camp July 20th through the 22nd. Girls basketball team is going to Indiana

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- Wesleyan for their camp June 16th through the 18th. And I don't know, since we have a new coach, we

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- probably haven't decided about the boys.

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- but that will be coming down the road. And then in addition to that, this is an annual request for fifth

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- graders to go to Bradford Woods. The dates would be May 3rd through the 7th, 2027. Thank you very much.

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- If I could clarify the item E, we're no longer listing students on the agenda, but there are some student

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- appointments in the packet for the board to consider.

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- Okay, all right, so within the packet for the board, only thank you for bringing that to our attention.

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- There are some students for employment for educational purposes, and so for the students, confidentiality

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- won't post those in the agenda, but since it is positions within

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- the corporation, the board will still vote on them. So the board sees them within the packets, but they

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- are not specified. So for those appointments that are in the packet under E for the board, those are

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- being voted on as part of the consent agenda as well. So do we have a motion? I move approval of the

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- consent agenda. I'll second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion?

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- The hires the Appointments and transfers and I know we have some of them that will acknowledge here

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- in a moment All those in favor say aye aye opposed motion carries and Dr. Sanders, I'll turn it back

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- over to you. It looks like you have some recognition. Yes, so will be

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- recognizing some of our new hires tonight and also in July. Tonight, we have Elizabeth Beth Sedwick.

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- Beth, could you stand up real quick? By the way, each of the new hires, I told them they have a 30-minute

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- talk to give. So Beth, you're first. Beth is our new payroll.

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- specialist and she has just knocked our socks off in the short time that she's been here and she's going

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- to be a very valuable member of the team. So welcome Beth. And then I think that I will let Jerry Bland

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- come up and introduce our new basketball coach. Yeah, I really just want to start off by saying that

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- We feel our basketball program is one of the better ones out within the state, at least opportunity-wise

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- for coaches that didn't disappoint. We had over 20 applications for the position. We narrowed it down,

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- the committee narrowed it down to four. We brought in those four candidates, and after those interviews,

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- there was no doubt who our choice was going to be. I'd like to introduce Connor Basie,

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- Connor comes to us from Crispus Attucks, state runner-ups a year ago. Still kind of sticks with him

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- a little bit. But the energy level, the relationships he's already built with our players are

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- very contagious. Also, the relationships he's building with our other programs. In the two weeks, he's

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- kind of hit the ground running, literally

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- We introduced him to the team on Wednesday and sent him to Vincennes on Thursday to play games. So I'll

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- give him a second, but bottom line is we feel very fortunate, very privileged in the fact that we'll

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- be introducing Connor to our school community and in our teaching classrooms. But the energy he brings,

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- the relationships he brings, and really some of the toughness on the court, I think you're gonna enjoy

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- to watch this winter.

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- Connor Basie. I just wanted to thank everybody. You know, some of the board members were in my interview

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- process. They were great. Mr. Sanders was awesome. You know, principal athletic director, assistant

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- athletic director. Everyone's just been fantastic. Super excited to work with the guys. You know, it's

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- been a whirlwind so far, but we've had a blast. We're going to have fun. We're going to play hard and

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- can't wait to win and get the community involved even more.

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- Thank you guys, thank you. And you even emailed me and told me what I, or texted me and told me what

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- a great hire we had. So that was interesting. The last coach we had, our local radio announcer quoted

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- the Jing Hackman line from Hoosiers. We're sure you're a God-fearing man, but do you play a zone or

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- man-to-man defense?

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- Okay, John Siglin, assistant principal at Edward Junior High School, has a number of folks he'd like

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- to recognize. We've had a great hiring season. We appreciate you guys' support and being able to fill

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- some positions that we had open this year. Autumn Daughtry is joining us from EPS. She's going to be

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- teaching sixth grade ELA for us. Madison Shackelford, I don't think Madison's here.

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- She'll be joining us as an eighth grade English language arts teacher. Caitlin Ritchie is here. She's

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- gonna be joining us as a seventh grade language arts teacher. Sadie Baxter will be our new choir, show

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- choir director, junior high. Rebecca Myers, I think she's in Aruba tonight. Kent's in Florida, and so

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- here we are in Indiana. We're gonna enjoy tonight.

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- And then we've got Alita Boltinghouse joining us as our seventh grade inclusion teacher. Welcome all.

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- I was joking with the Boltinghouse family that last month it was Robert, tonight it was Alita, and I

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- wanted to know who was next. Well, come to find out their oldest daughter is

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- getting ready to do her student teaching. So we may be hiring her sometime down the road. Spencer. Well,

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- welcome all of you. We're so glad to have you. And we're really looking forward to a great school new

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- year next year. So very welcome. Great, somebody turned the light down. Temporary. Temporary. If I could

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- jump in there.

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- Christy and Brad, you're welcome to stay for the whole board meeting, as well as all of our new hires.

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- We'll take what you shared with us tonight under consideration, and I'll talk to each board

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- member individually, and we'll see what we can do. You're welcome to stay, like I said, but we won't

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- be discussing that tonight. All right.

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- And you're all welcome. The best part is the superintendent's report at the end. Thank you all. You

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- all take care. Larry, it looks like the spotlight's on you now.

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- I'll just duck a little bit and get out of it. Okay. Well, we're gonna move on to our construction update

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- and we have Martin Fusdale here this evening to walk us through where we're at and where we're going.

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- Thank you. As you know, we've got more than one project going on.

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- And I'll go ahead and jump into it and start. The early childhood playground is complete. There's a

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- view from the south. So in the last 60 days, we completed everything. I won't run through the list.

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- There's a view from the north.

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- Oops. And there's a playground in the US. Look at that big kid. He was held back once or twice.

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- What we have, everything is done. On the left side you see the seed and straw. The seed and straw was

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- done in June, which is not the most advantageous time to do it.

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- So we probably won't see much growth in there until the, until fall. Other than that, everything's done,

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- ready to go. Looks like he's tired. Another project we've got is a roof replacement and mechanical

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- renovations. Excuse me. At the,

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- At Junior High, we have both roofing and mechanical. At the Junior High, the submittals are done. If

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- you recall, we did through wall flashing around the gym. The through wall flashing is complete. The

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- masonry is complete. We have discovered that we need a little bit different coping detail, which is

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- the edge metal around the top.

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- We've reviewed that and the architect has approved our approach to that. That's something we'll do time

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- and material. At the junior high, we also have mechanical. The mechanical, we've completed the submittals

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- and getting the equipment on board now. This was the through wall flashing.

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- The photo on the left is they laid down plywood to protect the existing roof while they were working

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- on it. And it's a little hard to read, but what they did was took three or four courses of stone out,

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- put new flashing through to the existing block behind it, and then brought that out. So this just shows

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- the new flashing

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- Once it's completed, the stone will be back in place and there'll be a piece of counter flashing, which

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- is more cosmetic on the outside of it. And that'll clean it all up. But the flashing itself is all completed.

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- The through wall is complete. At the next 60 days at the junior high, the entire roof membrane should

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- be complete.

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- Counter flashing should be complete and the coping Will probably complete Mechanical we actually started

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- mechanical demolition yesterday They're receiving equipment now and in the next 60 days. We will continue

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- and try to see if we can't get that completed That's basically just boilers at that building

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- Roof replacement at the primary school. We started off at the high bays, which is the gymnasium, the

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- cafeteria, the kitchen, those areas. We've got all the submittals in, the high bay areas are roofed,

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- and we began the coping or edge metal on those high bays. At the intermediate school, same thing except

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- for there was some damaged

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- insulation and that was removed and replaced. We had an allowance in the contract for that, so you will

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- not see that as an extra cost. And here you see them on the left, you see them running the membrane

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- up and over the roof parapet. On the right, you're seeing a section of wet insulation being replaced.

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- Again, we had thought that there was wet insulation on both buildings on their high bays and it only

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- showed up on the intermediate school. So we're actually gonna have a little bit of money in our pocket

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- to take care of some other issues. Next 60 days roofing, we're gonna try and get the whole thing completed.

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- Now I will say we've had an extremely wet May and we are probably

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- a week or so behind schedule right now. Worst case is they would extend out into the school year, but

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- because we're just taking the membrane off and replacing the membrane, it would not be something that

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- would be particularly disruptive. We're gonna try to catch those days up. Just doing all three of them?

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- Yes. Okay, you've been happy with them thus far? I knew that was new when it came out of the gate.

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- I wish they were moving a little quicker. They've been working Saturdays and Sundays, and they've been

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- working from like 7.30 in the morning to 8 o'clock at night. What they do is they bring their crews

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- up, they put them up in a hotel, and then they just work the heck out of them. But the challenge is

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- if it looks like rain, then they don't bring the crew up.

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- we're actually having a discussion about that tomorrow because they need to keep going. It looks like

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- there could be some storms tomorrow. I think later in the day. I'm sorry? I think later in the day.

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- Yeah. Yeah. So is everything for get secured in those projects? Oh, yeah. What they do. And that's one

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- reason it appears that they're moving slow is they'll, well,

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- You see they've got this section torn off and the replacement insulation in they only tear off as much

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- as they can do in a day and if it looks like it's gonna start raining at two o'clock They'll tear off

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- enough that they know they can get it covered by two o'clock so

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- What you end up doing is if it looks like it's gonna rain a two, they tear off, they cover up, it doesn't

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- rain till six, and you're going, well, what did you do for the last four hours? They can't take that

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- chance. So that's one reason it's been moving slow. Softball turf, we did the bid process. You guys

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- awarded the contracts.

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- Contracts bonds and insurance are complete The application for permits has been completed and we're

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- working with the town on that that's going a little slower than we thought it might and we Approved

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- project signage that will go up and that signage looks something like that so that image will be on

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- a a eight foot by six foot sign and

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- Dr. Sanders had asked that we do one sign on the west side, which you'd see from the middle school,

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- and another sign closer to the football field. So we'll have two signs out there. Those are fairly large

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- signs, and that'll be the image that's on the sign.

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- Hopefully we will get going. I've talked to the contractor. We want to get the fencing and what we call

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- a SWIP, stormwater prevention and protection plan, which is all of the, everything to divert any silt

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- or mud from the site, from going into the storm system. So the first thing we do is put that up

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- Along with the fencing and then they'll get their equipment in we think that we think we can get the

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- fencing up going this week, maybe early next week and Probably see some heavy equipment the following

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- week What we've told the contractor is they need to have all their dirt moved Everything they're gonna

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- bring out out everything that we're gonna bring in in as far as heavy trucks and

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- before the first day of school. So that's kind of what the scramble is now. If they don't get that done,

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- then they have to do it after school hours. So they're pretty motivated to try to get it done. You mentioned

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- a mark about what we saw in New Palestine on the mount, the big mounds behind the softball using some

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- of that dirt. I think Mr. Bolteau saw that too.

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- Yeah, there's a there's a Palestine did it was really cool the way they set their diamonds up. Yeah,

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- we're doing one for or I'm doing one for Yorktown right now where they're doing that. Yeah, because

00:26:29.781 --> 00:26:35.783
- we already have the dirt anyway. So yeah, and we may have a little more dirt because the city's asked

00:26:35.783 --> 00:26:41.785
- us to make the or the town has asked us to make the detention area a little bit bigger. So okay, that

00:26:41.785 --> 00:26:43.550
- could turn into mounds. Okay.

00:26:48.962 --> 00:26:56.542
- So in the next 60 days, we gotta get the fencing up. We gotta hopefully complete that earthwork and

00:26:56.542 --> 00:27:04.123
- site drainage, because that's the trucks coming in and out. And then they'll begin the under drains

00:27:04.123 --> 00:27:11.930
- and the actual artificial turf installation. That work will probably go on until Thanksgiving or maybe

00:27:11.930 --> 00:27:13.598
- even a little longer.

00:27:19.266 --> 00:27:28.832
- In addition to the renovations to the junior high and the high school, design development is completed

00:27:28.832 --> 00:27:38.398
- and we've been doing what Lance has been calling AOCM design meetings and Dr. Sanders and yeah, Rick's

00:27:38.398 --> 00:27:46.014
- still here. You guys have been attending those meetings. We had one meeting today

00:27:46.594 --> 00:27:55.779
- My sense is that design is pretty well wrapped up at this point. We have, our estimating group has gone

00:27:55.779 --> 00:28:04.699
- through the design development documents and we actually think it's down a little bit more from what

00:28:04.699 --> 00:28:12.030
- we had at schematic. So we're comfortably below what our budget was for that work.

00:28:15.394 --> 00:28:26.599
- We have a meeting in-house to firm up those numbers tomorrow. Unfortunately, we got the design development

00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:37.491
- a little bit later than we thought we would. But it looks real good at this point. What we will do with

00:28:37.491 --> 00:28:43.774
- the additions and renovations, we will complete page turns.

00:28:44.226 --> 00:28:52.273
- And that's essentially bringing in the architect, the designer and the interested parties from the school

00:28:52.273 --> 00:29:00.169
- and going page by page through the documents. That will happen before it goes out to bid. Bid documents

00:29:00.169 --> 00:29:07.760
- are supposed to be ready July 3rd. We would complete receipt of the bids on August 6th. And then at

00:29:07.760 --> 00:29:13.758
- your August board meeting, we would bring the numbers to you all for approval.

00:29:15.330 --> 00:29:22.760
- And in the next 60 days, we should be to the point of awarding, of completing the contracts. That's

00:29:22.760 --> 00:29:30.264
- all I got tonight. You mentioned that the town, we have trouble with the town getting stuff approved

00:29:30.264 --> 00:29:37.990
- or what's going on there? I wouldn't say trouble yet, but we need to get it done fairly quickly at this

00:29:37.990 --> 00:29:43.934
- point. Okay, are we getting them what they want or are they making it difficult

00:29:45.442 --> 00:29:54.422
- They would like to revise, the storm drainage was approved. Bill Rigert and his crew, which I think

00:29:54.422 --> 00:30:03.672
- you guys are familiar with, landscape civil engineers, ran everything through the town, got everything

00:30:03.672 --> 00:30:12.922
- approved. They have come back and asked, after it's approved and after it's bid, they've come back and

00:30:12.922 --> 00:30:14.718
- asked us to enhance

00:30:15.234 --> 00:30:25.186
- the drainage retention a little bit. That just came up. The project based on what was approved, that's

00:30:25.186 --> 00:30:35.041
- detrimental to the school corporation for them now to come back and. Well, what we're hoping, I don't

00:30:35.041 --> 00:30:44.606
- wanna be a Pollyanna about it, but we're hoping is they want us to dig the tension a little deeper

00:30:46.434 --> 00:30:54.710
- And that's what they want. The school has talked about wanting a mound in the outfield. And what we're

00:30:54.710 --> 00:31:02.746
- hoping is the dirt that comes out to make the pond deeper creates a mound. And then they don't have

00:31:02.746 --> 00:31:10.942
- to truck that off site. So we're thinking it may, as far as cost, it may, we got our fingers crossed,

00:31:10.942 --> 00:31:14.558
- but we think it may be a washer. Okay. Okay.

00:31:16.034 --> 00:31:26.804
- So that mount, what's described it? Yeah, I'll show you. I'll send you a picture, Dana, rest of the

00:31:26.804 --> 00:31:38.220
- board. But when we were at the new Palestine, it was at a sectional regional game. We noticed that beyond

00:31:38.220 --> 00:31:43.390
- the outfield was a mound that had a flag on it.

00:31:44.130 --> 00:31:52.600
- And it was grass. And there were people that were sitting up there watching the game from the mound.

00:31:52.600 --> 00:32:00.986
- And it just looked like a great idea to use the dirt coming off of the field and create that mound.

00:32:00.986 --> 00:32:09.623
- It's a great visual for the community. But the flag and all, it just looked really nice. I got excited

00:32:09.623 --> 00:32:12.894
- about it. Robert got excited about it.

00:32:18.306 --> 00:32:32.849
- I mean, my idea was to put it between the softball and baseball field, just have one mound. And I think

00:32:32.849 --> 00:32:38.302
- that's how they had it at New Pal too.

00:32:47.874 --> 00:32:53.131
- but knowing that back on that drainage at the high school baseball diamond, whatever project it was

00:32:53.131 --> 00:32:58.388
- about six years ago, there was some drainage problems going across that road. It was getting those,

00:32:58.388 --> 00:33:03.644
- the people's yards. So we'll make sure that's all been rectified and addressed. So is that what the

00:33:03.644 --> 00:33:09.059
- town was talking about? That's what the town's talking about. Yeah, that was created some headache for

00:33:09.059 --> 00:33:14.421
- those folks that live there. Well, Larry, you're right. That's where you live. Those houses down from

00:33:14.421 --> 00:33:15.262
- you over there.

00:33:18.338 --> 00:33:28.393
- Right. It was coming from the baseball diamond, right? It's probably too much detail, but at the baseball

00:33:28.393 --> 00:33:37.975
- diamond, we have drainage under the diamond, right under the baseball field itself to get water away

00:33:37.975 --> 00:33:48.030
- from the field so you can play immediately after that type of thing. And the drainage was sized to create

00:33:48.674 --> 00:34:01.872
- detention of that water so that flows slowly out from underneath the fields. So, toward the northwest.

00:34:01.872 --> 00:34:15.966
- So, the way the designer has it, it should, as designed now, it should have some less impact on that neighbor

00:34:16.354 --> 00:34:24.226
- But what we're talking about is maybe even being able to reduce it a little bit more. Okay. Yeah. But

00:34:24.226 --> 00:34:31.944
- I had something to do with the backstop and the new bleachers, I thought. Yeah, there's always been

00:34:31.944 --> 00:34:39.970
- a problem. Okay, it's you know, the school was here first and I know they built that and there's always

00:34:39.970 --> 00:34:45.758
- been a problem. We didn't. We've not done anything to make it worse. Okay.

00:34:46.178 --> 00:34:57.139
- All right. And we have mitigated it. Yeah, we've done several things to try to help through the years.

00:34:57.139 --> 00:35:07.887
- OK. So we have been responsive to the extent we could. We looked into it one time, and it was like a

00:35:07.887 --> 00:35:15.230
- million dollars to put in. Right. I remember that. It was like, wow.

00:35:15.426 --> 00:35:25.000
- When you get to underground stormwater, the price goes up really fast. Yeah, I mean, if it's not that

00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:34.387
- significant of a cost, you know. Well, I'm not promising there's no cost, but we're going to try to

00:35:34.387 --> 00:35:45.182
- balance. I said no significant. Yeah. Well, it depends on what you consider significant. I realize there's a cost.

00:35:45.954 --> 00:35:55.816
- All right, well thank you, I understand that better now. All right, thank you very much. Next begins

00:35:55.816 --> 00:36:06.362
- our action items, and we have consideration to approve a new position for a K-12 mental health coordinator,

00:36:06.362 --> 00:36:12.318
- Dr. Sanders. Yes, and Board, if it's okay, can we talk about

00:36:12.418 --> 00:36:21.632
- both of the seven, number seven and eight at the same time, and then you could go back if you want to

00:36:21.632 --> 00:36:30.937
- and vote on them individually. We can take them together. Okay, okay. Because it just kind of all goes

00:36:30.937 --> 00:36:39.970
- together. You know, our school corporation, we're just in a continual mode of trying to improve and

00:36:39.970 --> 00:36:41.054
- get better.

00:36:41.538 --> 00:36:50.954
- So we're constantly evaluating what we're doing, how we're serving kids, how we're serving teachers,

00:36:50.954 --> 00:37:00.743
- and looking at ways to maximize the funds that we have available to us. And so we were looking at adding

00:37:00.743 --> 00:37:08.574
- these two positions, which really is just in the end going to be adding one person.

00:37:09.122 --> 00:37:19.563
- We have some people in current positions that we would like to transfer to these new positions. And

00:37:19.563 --> 00:37:30.316
- so we've adjusted some job descriptions to better meet the needs of our students and our teachers. And

00:37:30.316 --> 00:37:36.894
- so one of them is the K-12 mental health coordinator position.

00:37:36.994 --> 00:37:48.360
- This is something that Jennifer Barrett took over from Jennifer Anderson when she left. But we felt

00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:54.270
- like it's hard for Jennifer and I to do a great job

00:37:54.786 --> 00:38:04.563
- leading a program, an individual program, with all the items that are underneath our umbrella. And so

00:38:04.563 --> 00:38:14.245
- we felt like to better meet the needs of our mental health program, it would be better if we had one

00:38:14.245 --> 00:38:19.038
- person who oversaw the K-12 mental health program

00:38:19.202 --> 00:38:31.174
- Jennifer will be taking on some additional duties also this year and in terms of Megan Scott is leaving

00:38:31.174 --> 00:38:42.110
- us and so Jennifer will be taking on some of those duties that Megan did which would be really

00:38:42.466 --> 00:38:52.789
- that we need to do is we need to do is we need to be overseeing our teacher evaluation model, mentor

00:38:52.789 --> 00:39:03.317
- teaching program, HRS monitoring and certifications and so we need to adjust those items on Jennifer's

00:39:03.317 --> 00:39:12.414
- plate and we kind of knew that last year when Matt Erwin left and we assigned his duties

00:39:12.546 --> 00:39:22.455
- would have to make some adjustments anyways. This helps us make those adjustments. And we have somebody

00:39:22.455 --> 00:39:31.982
- in mind who has a mental health background, both in education and experience. She's already doing a

00:39:31.982 --> 00:39:38.270
- lot with K-12 mental health. And so she will be taking on the K-5

00:39:38.658 --> 00:39:47.677
- position also. We of course do all the requirements for posting the jobs but that's kind of the direction

00:39:47.677 --> 00:39:56.441
- we want to go with that position. We have a significant mental health team that as you know you've all

00:39:56.441 --> 00:40:01.886
- been part of it over the years as we've gone from almost having

00:40:02.018 --> 00:40:10.759
- Hardly anything related to mental health that now we have a very Exceptional team that continues to

00:40:10.759 --> 00:40:19.849
- to evolve and get better and we think this is the next step And making that happen having a k-12 mental

00:40:19.849 --> 00:40:28.765
- health coordinator This position will be paid for out of the smart grant the other positions position

00:40:28.765 --> 00:40:29.726
- that we've

00:40:30.402 --> 00:40:43.033
- I guess it's two really. But the other positions that we wanted to add were the EPS and EIS student

00:40:43.033 --> 00:40:54.654
- success coordinator position. And this has evolved really from a model that we started with

00:40:54.754 --> 00:41:05.565
- Edgewood junior high school in terms of we have a principal and an assistant principal and We added

00:41:05.565 --> 00:41:14.430
- a dean of students to address behavior issues so this frees up the principals and

00:41:14.946 --> 00:41:23.613
- the principal and the assistant principal to be able to devote more time to supporting the teachers

00:41:23.613 --> 00:41:32.367
- in terms of quality observations, being able to meet with teachers, do professional development with

00:41:32.367 --> 00:41:41.034
- teachers, communicate with parents, all the things that are under a principal's umbrella, they will

00:41:41.034 --> 00:41:44.414
- have more time to address those areas.

00:41:44.994 --> 00:41:53.998
- That model has worked out really well. A few years ago, I had some teachers who approached me about

00:41:53.998 --> 00:42:03.272
- some concerns with discipline issues, and there was no complaint whatsoever about the principals. What

00:42:03.272 --> 00:42:13.086
- they shared with me was the principals are doing all that they can and more. They're just not enough of time

00:42:13.250 --> 00:42:21.727
- in their schedule to be able to really address some of these needs. And like I said, it's worked out

00:42:21.727 --> 00:42:30.372
- really well. And we've been trying to figure out how do we do that same model at the elementary level?

00:42:30.372 --> 00:42:39.185
- Of course, you know, you don't hear of dean of students at the elementary schools. And so we were trying

00:42:39.185 --> 00:42:42.206
- to look at our needs for the school

00:42:42.754 --> 00:42:53.777
- And we came up with the idea of utilizing our student service coordinators that we had at the elementary

00:42:53.777 --> 00:43:04.591
- school, both schools, EPS and the IS, to address and meet these needs that the elementary schools have

00:43:04.591 --> 00:43:09.630
- just as well as the junior high did in terms of

00:43:10.050 --> 00:43:19.860
- You know, as a teacher and you have a situation in your classroom with a student who is experiencing

00:43:19.860 --> 00:43:30.448
- trauma or experiencing a crisis or having a behavioral issue, teachers need that support from administration

00:43:30.448 --> 00:43:39.870
- in terms of being able to address those needs with the students. And if you have principals that

00:43:40.002 --> 00:43:48.044
- that just don't have enough time in their day to spend time with these students and by spending time

00:43:48.044 --> 00:43:56.165
- I mean you can't just spend five minutes with a student and send them back to class. It oftentimes is

00:43:56.165 --> 00:44:04.286
- something that you have to dive deeper in with the student. You have to have conversations with them.

00:44:04.674 --> 00:44:13.454
- You need to address any mental health issues or crises that's going on in their lives, and it takes

00:44:13.454 --> 00:44:21.444
- time. And if I'm a principal and I'm required to go out and do so many observations, and I

00:44:21.444 --> 00:44:30.313
- have my responsibilities of meeting with teachers, and just all, like I said, it's under umbrella of

00:44:30.313 --> 00:44:31.454
- a principal,

00:44:31.714 --> 00:44:41.050
- you're just not going to have time to really provide that support and truly support our teachers. It's

00:44:41.050 --> 00:44:50.657
- harder today than ever, I think, to be a teacher. And in our school corporation, we're having an increase

00:44:50.657 --> 00:44:59.902
- in enrollment. We're also having an increase in behavior issues. And so it's just a need that we need

00:44:59.902 --> 00:45:00.990
- to address.

00:45:02.434 --> 00:45:11.431
- Of course, with the financial situation that our school corporation is in, like many other

00:45:11.431 --> 00:45:21.416
- school corporations, yes, we need somebody like a dean, whatever you want to call that position, but

00:45:21.416 --> 00:45:31.006
- how can we afford that financially? And so we had one of our student services coordinators, she,

00:45:31.138 --> 00:45:42.807
- is moving out of state. And so the idea came to us to take her position and rework the job description

00:45:42.807 --> 00:45:54.590
- to put in more responsibilities for dealing with behavior issues, still incorporating the mental health

00:45:54.590 --> 00:45:58.782
- team into the process and freeing up

00:45:58.882 --> 00:46:09.485
- the principal and the assistant principal, like I said, to do all the other tasks that's underneath

00:46:09.485 --> 00:46:20.406
- their umbrella. And so the student services position, the person who left that position, that position

00:46:20.406 --> 00:46:26.238
- was funded out of the SMART grant. And so we had a K-5

00:46:26.594 --> 00:46:37.029
- mental health coordinator in Jordan Truax, who was over the primary school and the intermediate school.

00:46:37.029 --> 00:46:47.363
- So bottom line is we would like to see Jordan Truax. He will stay on and be one of our student success

00:46:47.363 --> 00:46:55.390
- coordinators only at the intermediate school. He'll have a new job description.

00:46:56.642 --> 00:47:08.712
- For the primary school, we won't replace the person who is in that position, but what we'd like to do

00:47:08.712 --> 00:47:20.663
- is transfer somebody within EPS into this new student success position. And so pay for that position

00:47:20.663 --> 00:47:25.278
- out of the smart grant. So in essence,

00:47:25.666 --> 00:47:35.768
- We're replacing a position at EPS, adjusting the job description. Money will still come out of the smart

00:47:35.768 --> 00:47:45.581
- grant. The only thing we'd have to do at EPS if we transfer the person we want to is replace them the

00:47:45.581 --> 00:47:53.278
- position that they're currently in. And then for EIS, if we would transfer just

00:47:53.698 --> 00:48:10.583
- he will continue to come out of the smart grant. So in the end really the only position we would have

00:48:10.583 --> 00:48:20.350
- to hire would be a teaching position at the primary school

00:48:23.394 --> 00:48:31.781
- Both of those positions, we would save money in education fund based on years of experience and the

00:48:31.781 --> 00:48:40.252
- people we might be able to hire. So that's a lot of information. And maybe I lost you along the way,

00:48:40.252 --> 00:48:48.640
- but feel free to ask me questions and I'll be glad to clarify anything. I guess my question, you're

00:48:48.640 --> 00:48:52.414
- talking about having motion. Yes, thank you.

00:48:52.802 --> 00:49:02.815
- 7 and 8 consideration approved new position K12 mental health coordinator consideration to approve new

00:49:02.815 --> 00:49:12.536
- position EPS EIS students 6 success coordinators. I'll second. I just I want to make sure I'm clear

00:49:12.536 --> 00:49:20.702
- here and I think you suggested that there. The creation of new positions. How many?

00:49:20.834 --> 00:49:28.593
- total new positions are we talking about? And are we cutting other positions in tandem with that? We're

00:49:28.593 --> 00:49:36.500
- really taking for the student success coordinator position, what we're really doing is taking the student

00:49:36.500 --> 00:49:44.035
- services position and giving it a new title and adjusting the job description. So the other position

00:49:44.035 --> 00:49:49.630
- just kind of goes away. Right. And then the K-12 mental health coordinator

00:49:50.274 --> 00:50:01.361
- would be a new position. It would be a new position. Yes. The the person we have in mind has been doing

00:50:01.361 --> 00:50:12.768
- the. K the 612. But by taking on K to 12 that would become a full time position for her and the counseling

00:50:12.768 --> 00:50:17.246
- position we would have to hire counseling

00:50:20.450 --> 00:50:26.618
- Thank you. Is it possible? I mean, I mean, I'm in support of this. Is it possible to get a budget breakdown

00:50:26.618 --> 00:50:32.500
- of the smart grant and the seeds grant to see where we're at with our budget? Because this sounds well

00:50:32.500 --> 00:50:38.268
- good, more support we can give, but I don't want to be in a position a year from now, two years from

00:50:38.268 --> 00:50:43.979
- now that there's no money. And then we got to start riffing teachers. That's what I'm big. That's I

00:50:43.979 --> 00:50:49.918
- want to see how much money is left in those two grants. And I know we're always looking for new grants,

00:50:50.498 --> 00:50:57.469
- is awesome but if we don't get a grant one year I just want to make sure the K-12 coordinator sounds

00:50:57.469 --> 00:51:04.372
- like a little bit of duplication also but if I could see maybe how the hierarchy works like because

00:51:04.372 --> 00:51:11.619
- I know we have the special ed director also yeah with the with the K-12 program what they're that person

00:51:11.619 --> 00:51:18.729
- is going to be taking on is a lot more administrative responsibilities too I think I put that in there

00:51:18.729 --> 00:51:19.902
- for you guys but

00:51:20.002 --> 00:51:30.804
- the K-12 person would take on the mental health grants, the evaluating the grants, and we have some

00:51:30.804 --> 00:51:41.605
- other needs that we were trying to find somebody to fill in to a need that we have, and one of them

00:51:41.605 --> 00:51:47.006
- is a guidance counselor specifically for the EDGE

00:51:47.522 --> 00:52:00.048
- And we've also been thinking about having a, starting a virtual academy for students. A lot of schools

00:52:00.048 --> 00:52:12.452
- are starting to go towards that, where it's basically going to high school online. And as more of our

00:52:12.452 --> 00:52:13.790
- neighbors,

00:52:14.306 --> 00:52:24.420
- go towards something like that, the more they could pull students away from us. So we're trying to navigate

00:52:24.420 --> 00:52:34.066
- that to that potential of having a virtual academy. And this person would help with not only the edge,

00:52:34.066 --> 00:52:39.966
- but also with having this potential idea of a virtual academy.

00:52:40.418 --> 00:52:45.820
- We don't have a virtual academy right now. It's being investigated, but a lot of schools are, there's

00:52:45.820 --> 00:52:51.276
- a lot of schools in the state are looking at, I get it, because there's a way to get more funding. But

00:52:51.276 --> 00:52:56.731
- if this person is the right person, they can get the grants to help keep these programs going. Because

00:52:56.731 --> 00:53:02.239
- I'm all for having the success coordinator at the primary and intermediate schools. I think that's very

00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:03.934
- helpful for the administrators.

00:53:04.706 --> 00:53:12.293
- but it seems like it's a duplication of efforts here. I just wanna make sure. I just wanna make sure

00:53:12.293 --> 00:53:20.181
- the hierarchy all fits together. The mental health coordinator is gonna be overseeing the program. We'll

00:53:20.181 --> 00:53:28.294
- still have therapists and counselors and the school psychologists in training that will be meeting directly

00:53:28.294 --> 00:53:34.078
- with students. So will they be over those school psychologist trainers also?

00:53:34.498 --> 00:53:39.917
- the K through 12 mental health coordinator will be. Yeah. Okay. So do we need to replace the junior

00:53:39.917 --> 00:53:45.118
- high counselor? Can we, can we absorb it somehow? No, they need that. They need two counselors.

00:53:45.118 --> 00:53:50.591
- We tried that. We tried that when I first got here, uh, they had gone to a one and a half counselors

00:53:50.591 --> 00:53:56.281
- at the junior high and that just, uh, I mean, I know we can't do it, but we got to make sure we're going

00:53:56.281 --> 00:54:01.374
- to get, we got to tighten our belts. That's what I'm really nervous about two years from now.

00:54:01.922 --> 00:54:10.372
- I'm really worried about it. And Brad, you know we're doing that. And that's why we are taking advantage.

00:54:10.372 --> 00:54:18.423
- If we didn't have these grants available, we wouldn't be talking about this right now. And the other

00:54:18.423 --> 00:54:26.394
- thing that I think is special about Edgewood is where we're located and the partnerships that we've

00:54:26.394 --> 00:54:29.662
- established with Indiana University that

00:54:30.786 --> 00:54:39.566
- I don't look for that partnership to go away. And when we first got our, received our first million

00:54:39.566 --> 00:54:48.522
- dollar mental health grant, it was like, oh my goodness, we'll probably never get one of these again.

00:54:48.522 --> 00:54:57.566
- And we have time and time again. And we're going to keep doing that and utilizing those grant dollars.

00:54:57.730 --> 00:55:06.345
- two different schools of thought with grants. Some school corporations, they don't wanna take the risk.

00:55:06.345 --> 00:55:14.794
- So they just don't, they're not very aggressive with grants. And in my opinion, that's not the way to

00:55:14.794 --> 00:55:23.326
- go because you miss out on a lot of money that you could pull into the school corporation to meet your

00:55:23.326 --> 00:55:24.734
- students' needs.

00:55:24.930 --> 00:55:34.327
- And thankfully, we have a good, excellent board that's very innovative. Some of the things that we've

00:55:34.327 --> 00:55:43.078
- done here in the corporation, starter coffee shop, innovative learning center, all the student

00:55:43.078 --> 00:55:52.844
- run businesses, that's thinking forward. That's part of who we are, being a caring, daring, and preparing

00:55:52.844 --> 00:55:54.686
- school corporation.

00:55:54.914 --> 00:56:03.027
- When we say that we're using grant money, that's not just kind of crossing our fingers and hoping that's

00:56:03.027 --> 00:56:11.140
- something we work hard at to make sure we have those dollars available. So I completely understand where

00:56:11.140 --> 00:56:19.330
- you're coming from. And we definitely want to make sure that we're always keeping our financial situation

00:56:19.330 --> 00:56:20.798
- at the top of the,

00:56:20.898 --> 00:56:27.255
- the heap in terms of what's taking on our attention. And we, and as you know, other conversations we

00:56:27.255 --> 00:56:33.548
- had where we're working to save dollars and other places to reduce the expenses that we have in the

00:56:33.548 --> 00:56:40.156
- school corporation. And we're going to continue to do that. That's just kind of a regular ongoing thing.

00:56:40.156 --> 00:56:46.576
- So I'm just saying all that to kind of give you a little more assurance. Right. And I hate that we're

00:56:46.576 --> 00:56:49.534
- putting this position, but the legislature has

00:56:49.890 --> 00:56:59.029
- has done this to us. And we're blessed where we're at. We really are. We really are. All right.

00:56:59.029 --> 00:57:08.835
- Thank you. And we will get you the breakdown for you. And I think some additional information in terms

00:57:08.835 --> 00:57:17.118
- of just with all these changes we're talking about, how does the flow work in terms of

00:57:17.218 --> 00:57:24.167
- What does our mental health team look like? And who's doing what? And how many students are we serving?

00:57:24.167 --> 00:57:31.117
- And how much time do they devote to students? We want to get a report to you in one of the future board

00:57:31.117 --> 00:57:37.799
- meetings on that. It might be nice to have kind of an administrative work chart. Yeah. Just to see.

00:57:37.799 --> 00:57:44.481
- And that's exactly what I was going to bring up. I really want to see how this works, because we've

00:57:44.481 --> 00:57:46.686
- got so many different positions.

00:57:46.850 --> 00:57:56.016
- And so many, you know, the health team went from, like you said, basically very small to a nice team.

00:57:56.016 --> 00:58:05.542
- But I want to make sure that when you have a nice team that you're not having a lot of nice team meetings

00:58:05.542 --> 00:58:13.630
- and not working with kids, you know. So I'd like to see, you know, how much of these jobs

00:58:14.082 --> 00:58:20.243
- are they actually working with students, you know, maybe percent-wise or something. How much of your

00:58:20.243 --> 00:58:26.525
- time are you spending actually, you know, working, you know, one-on-one or one with a group or however

00:58:26.525 --> 00:58:32.868
- it is, and what do these, you know, different positions do? How is a psychologist in training different

00:58:32.868 --> 00:58:38.846
- from a therapist, different from a counselor, different from a social worker, different from a...

00:58:39.106 --> 00:58:48.349
- You know, it doesn't have to be elaborate, but, you know, kind of, you know, what do they do in layman's

00:58:48.349 --> 00:58:52.222
- terms, so to speak, you know, to really get

00:58:52.354 --> 00:59:01.039
- And I think it would be great for the community to know too, and for parents to know, look, it could

00:59:01.039 --> 00:59:09.724
- even be part of our marketing materials. Look, this is our mental health team. This is what Edgewood

00:59:09.724 --> 00:59:12.734
- Schools provides for our students.

00:59:12.898 --> 00:59:20.518
- And, you know, and then along with that, if it's marketing, this is how you can link into it. This is

00:59:20.518 --> 00:59:28.214
- who you can go to to see that your student's taken care of, that their needs are met, and to make sure

00:59:28.214 --> 00:59:35.759
- students, you know, get referrals and get into these things. But I'd like to see how that plays out,

00:59:35.759 --> 00:59:42.782
- how that hierarchy, how that flowchart, so as you will, whatever, looks like. I'd like to see

00:59:42.914 --> 00:59:51.850
- you know, how much of this is grant funded? You know, it'd kind of be nice to know how much of our positions

00:59:51.850 --> 01:00:00.047
- period are grant funded. Because I know that these funds for seeds and for smart are federal grants

01:00:00.047 --> 01:00:08.327
- that go, you know, to others that give us the grants that flow through others. And so, you know, the

01:00:08.327 --> 01:00:11.934
- federal government has cut back on a lot of

01:00:12.226 --> 01:00:19.791
- grants and so what happens if they cut back? So you know how much time do we got left on these grants?

01:00:19.791 --> 01:00:27.356
- Are we spending now money that may have allowed this grant to go on another year or two or is it money

01:00:27.356 --> 01:00:34.847
- that would have we would have lost because we didn't you know take out the programs or are we cutting

01:00:34.847 --> 01:00:36.830
- our program off because we

01:00:36.962 --> 01:00:48.618
- spent too much early on, you know, kind of get an idea of that to make sure that we're balancing it

01:00:48.618 --> 01:01:00.741
- some. And I too, like Brad has said, worried about being able to continue with these positions and what

01:01:00.741 --> 01:01:03.422
- happens when we can't.

01:01:03.810 --> 01:01:11.809
- We fall in hard times, which we're really worried about the budget, you know, in two years from now

01:01:11.809 --> 01:01:19.808
- and beyond, unless something significant happens to change that. So if we're working, worried about

01:01:19.808 --> 01:01:28.127
- that, what if we don't have positions that those people are actually suited for, that they can go into,

01:01:28.127 --> 01:01:32.446
- you know, then, you know, I think that we've gotta be

01:01:33.378 --> 01:01:42.864
- I don't think that the board can say, we 100% guarantee we're going to have something. Would the board

01:01:42.864 --> 01:01:52.258
- and administration try 110% of their ability to try to make it work? Yes, definitely. We care for our

01:01:52.258 --> 01:02:01.653
- people. We want to support our people. We want to do what we can. But when you have a position that's

01:02:01.653 --> 01:02:02.942
- grant funded,

01:02:03.106 --> 01:02:13.271
- you've got to realize that there is a little bit of risk that's involved with that. And so I think that

01:02:13.271 --> 01:02:23.436
- we've got to understand that and be careful because if three years from now the grant runs out and it's

01:02:23.436 --> 01:02:31.646
- the same time or we're going through some times where we're having to reduce staff,

01:02:32.450 --> 01:02:40.867
- you know, that's gonna be difficult. And so people just gotta know, and everybody knows anyway that

01:02:40.867 --> 01:02:49.369
- if we have to reduce staff, it's gonna, everybody's in the same boat of being in difficult times. So

01:02:49.369 --> 01:02:57.534
- I just wanna make sure that we're transparent with that and we're not, you know, making promises

01:02:57.634 --> 01:03:05.848
- you know, are we making promises to work hard? Are we making promises to do our best? Are we making

01:03:05.848 --> 01:03:14.308
- promises that, you know, these are our people and we care for them and we want to do everything we can

01:03:14.308 --> 01:03:22.768
- for them? Yes, we'll make those promises. So, you know, so that's on there. So it wouldn't, so that's,

01:03:22.768 --> 01:03:25.150
- those are the concerns that,

01:03:25.986 --> 01:03:36.959
- that I have that I just don't want to promise too much, but I'm happy to promise that I do everything

01:03:36.959 --> 01:03:48.147
- in my power to try to make sure that this works out as best that it possibly can. And education, that's

01:03:48.147 --> 01:03:55.678
- a dilemma. Your analogy there points out, it's very valid, points out

01:03:56.226 --> 01:04:04.099
- something we really have to deal with almost every school year. And that's in terms of like when you're

01:04:04.099 --> 01:04:11.746
- monitoring your class sizes and you're getting closer to the start of the school year. And I've been

01:04:11.746 --> 01:04:19.392
- in conversations when I'm across the table from a principal and the principals trying to tell me how

01:04:19.392 --> 01:04:23.934
- much the classroom class size average is going to increase.

01:04:24.226 --> 01:04:32.655
- because of the increased enrollment, and then I've got to make that decision, a hard decision of,

01:04:32.655 --> 01:04:41.428
- you know, the financial side of that, okay? I definitely, as an educator, see the needs side of that,

01:04:41.428 --> 01:04:50.288
- but I also have to make that decision in terms of the financial impact, and education is just a unique

01:04:50.288 --> 01:04:53.470
- organization in those terms. And so,

01:04:54.050 --> 01:05:02.913
- There are times where, you know, you hire a new teacher right at the beginning of the school year and

01:05:02.913 --> 01:05:11.688
- there's always that possibility that the state's gonna cut our funding and that new teacher that you

01:05:11.688 --> 01:05:20.724
- just hired might not, they might be put on a riff list. I was, when I was a teacher after my first year

01:05:20.724 --> 01:05:21.854
- of teaching,

01:05:21.986 --> 01:05:30.438
- I was put on such a list and I was told it's just a technicality but that didn't mean anything to me.

01:05:30.438 --> 01:05:39.056
- I was still on that list and it didn't feel good. So yeah, there's a lot of things we have to consider.

01:05:39.056 --> 01:05:47.508
- So all valid points. Yeah, yeah. Like I said, I just want to be transparent and not, you know, I just

01:05:47.508 --> 01:05:51.486
- want people to know that I and I appreciate the

01:05:51.906 --> 01:06:03.436
- the work of trying to move things around to make this work. So I appreciate the hard work that goes

01:06:03.436 --> 01:06:14.389
- into that. Let's call the question. Call for the question. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?

01:06:14.389 --> 01:06:16.926
- Motion carries. Okay.

01:06:23.298 --> 01:06:30.852
- way you're going to hear from me a lot tonight with Jennifer Barrett. She's I think she's in Chicago

01:06:30.852 --> 01:06:38.407
- or Detroit right now coming back with the German team. The group of students who went to Germany and

01:06:38.407 --> 01:06:46.036
- so. You got me tonight. I saw Facebook videos of her with a group of students were dancing. It looked

01:06:46.036 --> 01:06:51.870
- like they were having a wonderful time, but still think she ought to be here.

01:06:52.034 --> 01:07:02.662
- Okay, consideration to set a deadline for enrollment of transfer students. Yeah, this is a annual request

01:07:02.662 --> 01:07:13.592
- to the board. It's required by state code and policy that we need to set a date for a deadline for accepting

01:07:13.592 --> 01:07:22.014
- transfer requests and that deadline for next year is being recommended as May 21st.

01:07:22.210 --> 01:07:30.099
- which essentially we're saying we would accept transfers throughout the school year as long as they

01:07:30.099 --> 01:07:37.989
- meet the requirements set forth and classrooms have not reached a maximum capacity. I move approval

01:07:37.989 --> 01:07:46.430
- of setting the deadline for enrollment of transfer students. I second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion?

01:07:46.430 --> 01:07:51.006
- All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

01:07:51.458 --> 01:08:01.804
- on to establish the accepted number of transfer students. Right, this is once again required by school

01:08:01.804 --> 01:08:12.150
- board policy 515111. And we set the classroom sizes for K to 24 to one, grades three, five, 27 to one,

01:08:12.150 --> 01:08:20.990
- grades six to eight, 30 to one, grades nine through 12, 30 to one. And then we've added

01:08:21.218 --> 01:08:35.433
- Capacities for our journeys classroom k2 and 3 7 would be 8 to 1 and Grades 8 to 13 would be for the

01:08:35.433 --> 01:08:44.862
- journeys classroom would be 10 to 1 now We also being educators of

01:08:45.122 --> 01:08:51.493
- try to factor in, like we just were talking about, the needs of students, the needs of our schools.

01:08:51.493 --> 01:08:58.055
- But these are the numbers that we're setting. If we were to have to maybe adjust any of that, we would

01:08:58.055 --> 01:09:04.426
- come back to the board and ask permission. No approval of the accepted number of transfer students.

01:09:04.426 --> 01:09:10.861
- Moved and seconded, any discussion? No, I'd just like, Dr. Sanders, thanks for your chat about that.

01:09:10.861 --> 01:09:14.046
- That's a starting point, but we may have to tweak

01:09:14.850 --> 01:09:23.668
- If we have one or two kids over, we're gonna make it work. Right. Right on. Thanks. All those in favor

01:09:23.668 --> 01:09:32.230
- say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Now we're looking at a first reading of the revisions to the

01:09:32.230 --> 01:09:40.877
- policy. This is volume 38 number two. I am really glad when that sun goes behind the clouds. I could

01:09:40.877 --> 01:09:42.846
- see you guys actually.

01:09:43.298 --> 01:09:54.925
- So as maybe for the public who might be watching, we utilize a company called Neola that works with

01:09:54.925 --> 01:10:07.134
- a law firm, Lewis Capus, that as the state makes changes to state law, if there's change to law based on

01:10:07.234 --> 01:10:16.836
- the court system. They monitor all that and then they recommend to us adjustments that we should make

01:10:16.836 --> 01:10:26.908
- to our board policies. And so this is Neola policy volume 38 number two in the board packet with a summary

01:10:26.908 --> 01:10:36.510
- of each of what we're asking to change on or adjust on each policy and also on the board packet where

01:10:36.898 --> 01:10:50.354
- where you can see the actual policy. I would like to make note, and this kinda goes to the handbook

01:10:50.354 --> 01:11:05.022
- also, but one of the new state laws that was approved by state legislators was, it was Indiana Code 20-26-5,

01:11:05.122 --> 01:11:17.092
- dash 40.7, which basically states that students, if they have their cell phones at school, they have

01:11:17.092 --> 01:11:30.366
- to be turned off and stored. We were also given the option from Neola to say cell phones aren't allowed at all.

01:11:31.106 --> 01:11:41.443
- That was one of the choices that we could have made under the law. But we chose to go with that students

01:11:41.443 --> 01:11:51.288
- can bring their cell phones to school, but they have to be turned off and stored away. And for what

01:11:51.288 --> 01:11:57.982
- we want to do at Edgewood, and we've talked about different ways to

01:11:58.626 --> 01:12:06.649
- how you might store the cell phones. One option that was discussed was students would have to keep them

01:12:06.649 --> 01:12:14.595
- in their locker rooms or the lockers. Some schools are going, they're buying these little pockets that

01:12:14.595 --> 01:12:22.464
- they could put them in in a certain location in the school. And what we're going to do is we're going

01:12:22.464 --> 01:12:27.710
- to allow the students to have their cell phones in their book bags.

01:12:27.970 --> 01:12:38.122
- But they have to be turned off and stored away, so they can't have them out at all. And if they do take

01:12:38.122 --> 01:12:45.150
- them out, and we would enforce it, and this is related to the handbook,

01:12:45.250 --> 01:12:53.959
- made some put some language in there what happens if a student violates that that rule which means they

01:12:53.959 --> 01:13:02.333
- would have their cell phone confiscated and take it to the office and The parent would have to come

01:13:02.333 --> 01:13:10.707
- in and pick up their phone multiple violations of that rule It would be like any other violation of

01:13:10.707 --> 01:13:13.470
- a rule it would have a kind of a

01:13:13.602 --> 01:13:22.830
- a scale of, you know, how often they would be violating that rule and the consequences would just become

01:13:22.830 --> 01:13:31.618
- more significant along the way. We just want to make sure, too, because I, as we would all imagine,

01:13:31.618 --> 01:13:41.022
- this would probably be very unpopular rule, but this is a state law that we have to follow, and we're, we,

01:13:41.186 --> 01:13:50.391
- believe that students need to have their cell phones for especially after school activities and in cases

01:13:50.391 --> 01:13:59.158
- of emergency. But so we're trying to find, we're trying to combine state law with some common sense

01:13:59.158 --> 01:14:07.486
- too in there with our policy. Now I'll say this, this policy and the language in the handbook,

01:14:08.898 --> 01:14:15.812
- It might change, because if we put all this into practice, and when you put something into practice,

01:14:15.812 --> 01:14:22.862
- you learn from that, and so we might have to make an adjustment. Hopefully it works out just perfectly

01:14:22.862 --> 01:14:29.981
- fine, but there may be a chance we come back and say, hey, we need to tweak the language here or there.

01:14:29.981 --> 01:14:34.910
- So the old policy that we're talking about tonight is on first reading.

01:14:35.010 --> 01:14:44.023
- You take a look at all the policies. If there's other items that you have questions about, let me know.

01:14:44.023 --> 01:14:53.382
- And then at the July board meeting, we'll bring all this back and ask for your approval. OK. Any questions?

01:14:53.382 --> 01:15:02.394
- My last year of teaching, we had a cell phone ban, except that students were allowed to use them during

01:15:02.394 --> 01:15:04.734
- passing periods and lunch.

01:15:06.274 --> 01:15:13.367
- from my perspective, it was not a problem. I think the important thing is the administrators and the

01:15:13.367 --> 01:15:20.810
- teachers need to be on the same page and that there's consistency throughout. It will be a little tougher

01:15:20.810 --> 01:15:28.184
- if the kids can't get to them during lunch. That'll probably be your biggest headache, but I don't think

01:15:28.184 --> 01:15:35.838
- it'll be as dramatic as some people fear. No doubt there will be some issues, but I think we will handle it.

01:15:37.218 --> 01:15:45.032
- Yeah, I am concerned about enforcement, too. I just hope that it's consistent across the board so that

01:15:45.032 --> 01:15:52.619
- everyone's treated consistently. Larry left after I did, but my last year here, the rule was if you

01:15:52.619 --> 01:16:00.206
- had a cell phone, parents had to come and get it. That gives us a chance to meet the parents. We're

01:16:00.206 --> 01:16:04.606
- not always happy. But that was the guideline at the time.

01:16:04.706 --> 01:16:12.525
- I think I'm glad that we're using some common sense, Dr. Sanders. Yes. And we'll put some responsibility

01:16:12.525 --> 01:16:20.045
- on the students. And just as long as all the K through 12 administrators are on board, I'm good with

01:16:20.045 --> 01:16:27.566
- it. Yeah. Moving on to consideration to approve the status quo classified employees agreement. Yeah.

01:16:27.566 --> 01:16:33.374
- And this is just a formality for our classified staff that are on a contract.

01:16:33.506 --> 01:16:47.494
- we're not going to be able to do that since we often don't make decisions, budgeting decisions and bargaining

01:16:47.494 --> 01:17:01.483
- decisions until the fall we are we need to bring to the board these status quo contracts that are technically

01:17:01.483 --> 01:17:03.390
- from July 1st,

01:17:03.490 --> 01:17:11.537
- revised contracts back to you for approval. So for tonight, I'm just asking you to approve these status

01:17:11.537 --> 01:17:19.275
- quo contracts. I move approval for the status quo contracts. I second the status quo contracts. Any

01:17:19.275 --> 01:17:27.090
- discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Now let's look to the revision

01:17:27.090 --> 01:17:29.566
- of the administrative guideline

01:17:29.730 --> 01:17:40.403
- 4439 regarding holidays. Yeah, so this administrative guideline is outdated in terms of the Certain

01:17:40.403 --> 01:17:51.717
- positions 12-month employees clerical staff nutrition services Corporation level staff That they received

01:17:51.717 --> 01:17:58.654
- a paid holiday for Memorial Day well these positions now they're

01:17:59.170 --> 01:18:08.056
- jobs are finished before Memorial Day. And so there's no need to pay them for a paid holiday. They're

01:18:08.056 --> 01:18:17.378
- already off for the summer. So we just want to amend this administrative guideline 4439 to remove Memorial

01:18:17.378 --> 01:18:26.700
- Day as a holiday pay date. Move approval of the revised administrative guideline. Second. Move and second.

01:18:26.700 --> 01:18:28.094
- Any discussion?

01:18:28.450 --> 01:18:37.597
- the calendar in the future were to get changed and we had to extend it later, we'd have to come back

01:18:37.597 --> 01:18:46.926
- and revisit this. Hearing nothing else, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next

01:18:46.926 --> 01:18:56.798
- is consideration to approve corporation and the handbooks for the buildings. Yes, so Megan Scott, one of the

01:18:57.570 --> 01:19:06.461
- She did a lot of good for our school corporation. Always with a smile. Yes, and one of the things that

01:19:06.461 --> 01:19:15.352
- she really worked with the principals on this year is going through the handbooks and streamlining it,

01:19:15.352 --> 01:19:23.294
- taking out language that really wasn't needed in the handbook and making it probably a more

01:19:23.426 --> 01:19:31.608
- useful document for students and parents to find information instead of what they want to look for is

01:19:31.608 --> 01:19:39.789
- so buried under information that's not necessary. So they addressed that. They obviously went through

01:19:39.789 --> 01:19:47.891
- and made changes based on changes in the law. And Christine really helps us with that, going through

01:19:47.891 --> 01:19:52.222
- the handbooks and telling us, hey, this code changed.

01:19:52.450 --> 01:20:01.370
- Or this language change you need to change that language in the handbook. So all that's been done and

01:20:01.370 --> 01:20:10.464
- These will obviously be on our website and as soon as we can get your approval tonight and So recommend

01:20:10.464 --> 01:20:19.559
- your approval I move approval of the corporation building handbooks Second any discussion. I appreciate

01:20:19.559 --> 01:20:20.958
- the kind of the

01:20:21.282 --> 01:20:29.433
- The presentation so that we could find what the changes were it was yeah, it was easy to understand

01:20:29.433 --> 01:20:37.584
- and it made sense to me All those in favor say aye aye opposed motion carries Next is consideration

01:20:37.584 --> 01:20:45.816
- to approve the amendment to the superconduct Superintendents contract addendum and we had our public

01:20:45.816 --> 01:20:50.462
- hearing before this meeting and again the addendum is to

01:20:50.754 --> 01:21:01.622
- It alters the salary to 158,000 annual salary. And so this is the fifth amendment to the contract. And

01:21:01.622 --> 01:21:13.017
- so like I said, we've gone through what the addendum was during the public hearing. Everything was properly

01:21:13.017 --> 01:21:18.398
- public noticed. We followed the statutory process.

01:21:18.498 --> 01:21:29.405
- And so I ask for a motion. As presented. I second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none,

01:21:29.405 --> 01:21:40.743
- all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next, we will move to consideration to approve

01:21:40.743 --> 01:21:47.870
- dual credit ACP agreement with Indiana University. Yes, this is a

01:21:48.130 --> 01:21:58.039
- annual request that our counselors bring to the school board that we provide. We provide dual credit

01:21:58.039 --> 01:22:07.949
- opportunities for Edgewood High School ACP courses with Indiana University and this is just a MOU to

01:22:07.949 --> 01:22:17.662
- an agreement that enables us to do that. I move approval of the dual credit ACP agreement with IU.

01:22:18.978 --> 01:22:27.230
- Any discussion? I just want to thank IU for the continued support of that ACP program. It helps these

01:22:27.230 --> 01:22:35.483
- college kids tremendously when they go with credits in their back pocket. Well, and I saw the list of

01:22:35.483 --> 01:22:44.139
- teachers that are teaching those courses, and those are superstars there. Absolutely. It's been wonderful.

01:22:44.139 --> 01:22:48.670
- And it's just continued to grow. My daughter graduated.

01:22:49.090 --> 01:22:57.555
- several years ago and she had pretty much a year of at IU completed before she graduated Edgewood. So

01:22:57.555 --> 01:23:06.185
- it's just an amazing program and students can really, really take advantage of it. And she was involved

01:23:06.185 --> 01:23:12.990
- in show choir and so many other things. So you can do that and still be involved.

01:23:13.186 --> 01:23:22.891
- and many, many different things with the school. So kudos to that program and to IU working with us.

01:23:22.891 --> 01:23:32.885
- Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Now, last action

01:23:32.885 --> 01:23:42.782
- item is consideration to approve MOU between Indiana University and RBB schools for the SEEDS project.

01:23:43.266 --> 01:23:50.615
- Yeah, I'm actually going to ask the board to table that. OK, we'll table that. And so the previous one

01:23:50.615 --> 01:23:57.749
- was our last action. And so we'll jump right into the business manager's report. And we have Debbie

01:23:57.749 --> 01:24:05.597
- Tate this evening. Hi. Good evening. So I gave you guys our projections for the Education Fund and Operations

01:24:05.597 --> 01:24:08.094
- Fund and where we're at currently.

01:24:08.258 --> 01:24:16.235
- Right now, our projections for both of those funds, they're on target in line with everything we've

01:24:16.235 --> 01:24:24.690
- been looking at. We still have, showing on the operations fund, a $500,000 deficit at the end, but again,

01:24:24.690 --> 01:24:32.906
- and also with education, we're looking a little over 900,000. Again, like I've mentioned before, we're

01:24:32.906 --> 01:24:36.894
- just constantly, we have these huge spreadsheets,

01:24:36.994 --> 01:24:44.917
- looking at every single detail of all the staff coming in and out. I know we discussed it earlier, just

01:24:44.917 --> 01:24:52.612
- looking at everybody, every person, all the details with the grants and everything, just making sure

01:24:52.612 --> 01:25:00.535
- we can provide for that long-term and also looking at possible future opportunities that are out there.

01:25:00.535 --> 01:25:06.782
- So that's kind of where we're at with that. In terms of knowing our full outlook,

01:25:07.074 --> 01:25:13.406
- We're kind of thinking at the end of September we're gonna have a really good baseline with everything

01:25:13.406 --> 01:25:19.553
- on our projections because we're gonna have a full month of Payrolls once the new people start once

01:25:19.553 --> 01:25:25.762
- all the changes take place So that's gonna give us a really good place on where we're gonna land and

01:25:25.762 --> 01:25:32.093
- really make some heavy adjustments if we need to So yeah, that's where we're at right now. So you guys

01:25:32.093 --> 01:25:33.630
- have any questions? Yeah

01:25:35.746 --> 01:25:42.861
- So as of right now, our projection is we're digging into our cash balance of one and a half million

01:25:42.861 --> 01:25:50.189
- total, correct, between the two funds? Yeah. Okay, so that will help me sleep better seeing that, like

01:25:50.189 --> 01:25:57.445
- we said, the balances of the different grants and which positions are funded out of that. Yeah, yeah.

01:25:57.445 --> 01:26:04.062
- And we're blessed that we had a nice cash balance to begin with. Yeah, we are. Yeah, I know.

01:26:04.546 --> 01:26:11.278
- So education, we're estimating 3.3 million and then operations 2.5, but we wanna make sure to protect

01:26:11.278 --> 01:26:18.142
- that. Okay, and I wanna make sure that, I know the goal was when we did the teachers last year, we took

01:26:18.142 --> 01:26:24.940
- that out of the rainy day fund is we make sure we keep that fund going as well. So appreciate what you

01:26:24.940 --> 01:26:31.540
- guys are doing on that to work through that. Yeah, we're dissecting it and looking at every detail,

01:26:31.540 --> 01:26:33.982
- trying to really protect that money.

01:26:34.562 --> 01:26:41.080
- And then I had to think the day where the federal government was here, the Department of Ed Secretary,

01:26:41.080 --> 01:26:47.662
- Lyndon McMahon, or the federal government's gonna hand off everything to Indiana, the state of Indiana,

01:26:47.662 --> 01:26:54.180
- with those title grants. I'm a little nervous about the state gonna pass it through to us, or are they

01:26:54.180 --> 01:27:00.509
- gonna try to change the rules? So we just need to watch that. Yeah, yeah. The reasons they have the

01:27:00.509 --> 01:27:03.230
- information set to remember. That's, yeah.

01:27:03.554 --> 01:27:11.639
- That's when things back in August. You can't really go into contracts and do over a year of training.

01:27:11.639 --> 01:27:19.804
- You have to do that kind of stuff. So when you're starting a school year, you have some idea that it's

01:27:19.804 --> 01:27:28.048
- a point in the old month, or even worse, the previous month. And that's why we're kind of anxious about

01:27:28.048 --> 01:27:33.438
- that. I retired 16 years ago. And I'm thinking I should have stayed

01:27:33.858 --> 01:27:45.312
- What's difficult here, and I gave rooms to the corporation, watch yourself. What's difficult here is

01:27:45.312 --> 01:27:57.446
- for me, every month I get new debt through this printout, but every pot, every $9.80 salary, every benefit

01:27:57.446 --> 01:28:01.982
- that they receive in dollars from that,

01:28:02.242 --> 01:28:10.665
- And I know, at the end of the month, that's what this operation costs. Then I get this, tonight's June.

01:28:10.665 --> 01:28:19.008
- There are 26 residential staff. There are 54 conditions point-way around. I'm going to go home tonight

01:28:19.008 --> 01:28:27.107
- and take my sheet and burn it in my platform because it's still on the roof. And that's a challenge

01:28:27.107 --> 01:28:30.590
- here. There's the challenge of heating up.

01:28:31.202 --> 01:28:38.929
- I'm not saying the changes are wrong. They have to. Gary and I have discussed that today a little bit.

01:28:38.929 --> 01:28:46.656
- You've got to lead up to people moving and the spouse moves, you believe. So you've got to replace it.

01:28:46.656 --> 01:28:54.158
- The other challenge then for me and whoever's on health care is this is what this person costs. I'd

01:28:54.158 --> 01:28:59.934
- like to see that. Here's what the replacement cost is. I'd like to see that.

01:29:00.738 --> 01:29:09.137
- Because when I look at this, it tells me nothing financial. So we've got to get into a system that tells

01:29:09.137 --> 01:29:17.216
- me, oh, I made an undergraduate this month, and all I cost this year is money. And that's what we're

01:29:17.216 --> 01:29:25.215
- working, kind of working on. We're meeting next week to start talking about, again, about September

01:29:25.215 --> 01:29:30.494
- and where we're headed. We know we have a million dollar problem.

01:29:30.818 --> 01:29:39.987
- And we know we can't get a million in one year. But we've got to get half of it. We really do. If you

01:29:39.987 --> 01:29:49.155
- don't get half of it, you're in trouble. Down the road. And you are blessed with a nice cash balance.

01:29:49.155 --> 01:29:58.503
- Actually, both of us are talking about it. And yet, I'm really nervous about the education fund because

01:29:58.503 --> 01:29:59.582
- that's just

01:30:00.514 --> 01:30:27.902
- We have regular financial meetings that involve Debbie,

01:30:28.386 --> 01:30:37.872
- Susan Shockney, Jennifer Barrett and myself and we've got a spreadsheet where we're monitoring, looking

01:30:37.872 --> 01:30:47.268
- at ways that we can cut expenses and when we make those changes that Paul talks about, we see that and

01:30:47.268 --> 01:30:51.646
- that's all part of our decision making process.

01:30:52.258 --> 01:30:59.638
- It includes the salaries and the benefits on there. What we're gaining, what we're losing, and it gives

01:30:59.638 --> 01:31:06.947
- us a total at the end to show our gains and losses between so that we can balance it out is what we're

01:31:06.947 --> 01:31:14.540
- doing. We're almost better off than we were before in terms of we have more eyes on this than ever before.

01:31:14.540 --> 01:31:19.294
- Coming from Debbie, who's overseeing the finances along with Paul.

01:31:19.426 --> 01:31:27.537
- Susan Shockney, who's overseeing, making sure that we're, as far as HR responsibilities and making sure

01:31:27.537 --> 01:31:34.712
- that we're doing things according to the teacher's contract or school policy. She's part of

01:31:34.712 --> 01:31:42.979
- that conversation, of course, Jennifer and I. And it really helps me as superintendent to make decisions,

01:31:42.979 --> 01:31:48.126
- having all those folks in the room, helping with that discussion.

01:31:51.266 --> 01:32:01.962
- I don't know why we get so nervous when we have these new positions that come on and it just worries,

01:32:01.962 --> 01:32:13.182
- really worries us. Any other questions? All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. Appreciate it. Appreciate

01:32:13.182 --> 01:32:19.998
- you, Paul, and glad that we got team Debbie and Paul to help us.

01:32:22.050 --> 01:32:32.528
- So, okay, now superintendent report. Yes, I'll try to make this quick. We're wrapping up summer school

01:32:32.528 --> 01:32:43.311
- at EPS, EIS and the high school this week. Junior high will have their summer school the two weeks before

01:32:43.311 --> 01:32:49.822
- school starts July 20th through the 30th. And I just wanted to,

01:32:50.082 --> 01:32:59.052
- Brian got our nutrition services department once again. They provided free breakfast and lunch for our

01:32:59.052 --> 01:33:08.109
- summer school students. They're implementing, they go after these grants that provide us with the funds

01:33:08.109 --> 01:33:16.992
- to help feed our children over the summer. We have 650 children who are signed up for the summer meal

01:33:16.992 --> 01:33:19.518
- pickup program. They receive

01:33:20.642 --> 01:33:30.159
- Breakfast and lunch, five meals for breakfast, five meals for lunch per child. And this can run, it's

01:33:30.159 --> 01:33:39.116
- already started, it goes through June 18th. So it's gonna be finishing up this week. Let's see,

01:33:39.116 --> 01:33:48.446
- they also had, we're doing something pretty cool over at the high school this week. They have some,

01:33:48.674 --> 01:33:59.592
- nutrition services experts. They're nationally recognized experts in K-12 school nutrition and culinary

01:33:59.592 --> 01:34:10.090
- education. Kathy Powers and Chef Sam who are providing training to 43 school nutrition specialists,

01:34:10.090 --> 01:34:18.174
- several from our school corporation, but many others. And then that provides

01:34:18.370 --> 01:34:27.392
- our nutrition services department to be able to prepare healthier meals, meals that meet the changing

01:34:27.392 --> 01:34:36.502
- guidelines. And so I think it's pretty cool that our new kitchen at the high school that we're hosting

01:34:36.502 --> 01:34:44.286
- that event. And then I have to give a shout out to Alyssa Drews, who's once again doing

01:34:44.418 --> 01:34:54.544
- Camp Invention, and it's a STEM-focused summer program. They're building claw machines, studying, taking

01:34:54.544 --> 01:35:04.478
- apart robots, learning about Antarctica and optical illusions, and so that is going on this week. They

01:35:04.478 --> 01:35:11.518
- have 145 campers. They have actually, this year they have 15 high school

01:35:11.618 --> 01:35:20.261
- leadership interns who are helping out and 11 teachers or directors. And then this last item, I was

01:35:20.261 --> 01:35:28.990
- just thinking about this recently. Our school corporation does a really good job in making sure that

01:35:28.990 --> 01:35:38.238
- we're staying compliant with the law. And we do that through a variety of ways. Obviously we have the best

01:35:38.338 --> 01:35:47.352
- corporation attorney in the country with us tonight. And Ferguson Law, Dave Ferguson, such a great guy.

01:35:47.352 --> 01:35:56.193
- And we call on Christine all the time. And if we have special education issues or Title IX issues, we

01:35:56.193 --> 01:36:04.254
- reach out to Jessica Heiser. She specializes in those areas. She's with Imprint Legal Group.

01:36:04.642 --> 01:36:14.541
- I mentioned earlier tonight that we use Neola to help us with our school board policies and then we're

01:36:14.541 --> 01:36:24.151
- active as a board and as a superintendent in attending law conferences. So I believe Larry and Brad

01:36:24.151 --> 01:36:30.878
- just attended the, yeah, the ISBA law conference last week and we'll,

01:36:31.074 --> 01:36:38.787
- They usually have one in June and one in December. I was on vacation last week so I couldn't attend

01:36:38.787 --> 01:36:46.655
- that one. But I will be attending the IU Law Conference June 18th on Thursday. So I just say that and

01:36:46.655 --> 01:36:54.522
- share that because I just want our community to know that we work really hard to make sure that we're

01:36:54.522 --> 01:36:58.302
- doing things the way we're supposed to be doing.

01:37:01.506 --> 01:37:08.945
- Thank you very much. RBBEA comments? Nobody's here this evening? All right. So board member comments?

01:37:08.945 --> 01:37:16.237
- Mr. DeMoss. Yeah, I went to the ISBA. Brad and I went to the conference on last Tuesday. And it was

01:37:16.237 --> 01:37:23.603
- very good. I think it's the best one I've been to. And much of the discussion was about cell phones,

01:37:23.603 --> 01:37:30.750
- surprisingly enough. But yeah, it was very insightful. And then just welcome to all the new folks

01:37:31.682 --> 01:37:39.444
- that are joining us and looking forward to the new school year. Mr. Durbel. Thank you. Same here. Welcome

01:37:39.444 --> 01:37:47.059
- to the new hires. I was fortunate enough to be asked to be on the committee to look at a new basketball

01:37:47.059 --> 01:37:54.674
- coach. And Connor Bayes just took our socks off, didn't he? I mean, just right from the start. So we're

01:37:54.674 --> 01:38:01.118
- really tickled with that. Mr. Siglund, good to see you tonight. Appreciate you so much.

01:38:02.338 --> 01:38:09.777
- Christine, yeah, thank you so much for taking care of us. I heard a disturbing announcement on the news

01:38:09.777 --> 01:38:17.000
- either yesterday or today that 600,000 children this summer would go without regular meals. And that

01:38:17.000 --> 01:38:24.367
- was just so disturbing to me, but I look here at 650, we've got right here in Ellitsville, Steinsville

01:38:24.367 --> 01:38:31.806
- area, so it wouldn't take much to get to that half a million 600,000 students. So again, I think we're,

01:38:32.514 --> 01:38:40.218
- Just in great shape, our school system is running well, our board is running well, and I appreciate

01:38:40.218 --> 01:38:48.076
- you guys so much. So thank you. Mr. Tucker. I think Dr. Sanders, that's kudos to Ms. Coffee, correct?

01:38:48.076 --> 01:38:55.857
- Because that's all run through the nutrition services, which is amazing to me that we're serving 650

01:38:55.857 --> 01:39:02.174
- kids. That's 25% of our population, of our student population. So that's awesome.

01:39:02.274 --> 01:39:08.514
- Best of luck to the new hires tonight. And again, Ms. Barlow, thanks for being there last week at the

01:39:08.514 --> 01:39:14.755
- law conference. I will tell you, you sit with the Owen County people, so you build them, not us, just

01:39:14.755 --> 01:39:21.056
- so you know. Okay, I knew you were gonna do that too. All right, so yeah, thank you. I needed to drive

01:39:21.056 --> 01:39:27.419
- faster. Okay. I wanna say one more thing about Ms. Coffey. I know I've said this a thousand times. I've

01:39:27.419 --> 01:39:31.518
- been on the board for so long. When we hired Ms. Coffey, the food,

01:39:31.714 --> 01:39:38.220
- service was at a quarter of a million dollars in debt. And that's been 20 years ago, or at least 20

01:39:38.220 --> 01:39:44.920
- years ago. So it's a great thing. She's built, bought a bus, and you know, it is fantastic. So I think

01:39:44.920 --> 01:39:51.426
- that's it, Mr. President. Yep. A lot of square pizzas back in the day. A lot of square pizzas. That

01:39:51.426 --> 01:39:55.134
- was about it for lunch. So yeah, she's done a great job.

01:39:57.410 --> 01:40:07.691
- Yeah, it's difficult going last. I appreciate all the comments, and they were good. I appreciate the

01:40:07.691 --> 01:40:17.870
- visitor comments. And whenever you name something, that's a difficult process to go through. I know

01:40:17.870 --> 01:40:24.894
- we've talked about getting a policy together on how that might work.

01:40:25.282 --> 01:40:35.951
- It's never come to fruition yet, but that's something we should work on sooner than later. And I do

01:40:35.951 --> 01:40:46.834
- appreciate Dr. Sanders saying we would have conversations about that. And I appreciate them coming to

01:40:46.834 --> 01:40:54.302
- speak what they felt. So appreciate that. I just want to brag on the,

01:40:54.530 --> 01:41:05.764
- the students at graduation. It was a beautiful ceremony. Everything went so well. All the performances,

01:41:05.764 --> 01:41:16.673
- all the speeches. It just was a really, really wonderful experience. And I just was so happy to have

01:41:16.673 --> 01:41:24.126
- the honor to be a part of that. And it makes sitting up here and all

01:41:24.226 --> 01:41:32.329
- stresses and things worthwhile because I know it's worth it in the end for those kids. So I appreciate

01:41:32.329 --> 01:41:36.734
- y'all coming out tonight and this meeting is adjourned.