WEBVTT 00:00:00.834 --> 00:00:11.974 - Please stand. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for 00:00:11.974 --> 00:00:22.897 - which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very 00:00:22.897 --> 00:00:29.278 - much. You may be seated. OK, please let the record reflect 00:00:29.954 --> 00:00:39.285 - Mr. Tucker, Mr. Moss, and Mr. Kerr are here for this special board meeting of the Richland Bean Blossom 00:00:39.285 --> 00:00:48.257 - Community School Corporation. And there are no visitors in the audience today, so we can move right 00:00:48.257 --> 00:00:57.768 - into business. And we're going to consider a revision to policy 5136, which is on personnel communication 00:00:57.768 --> 00:00:59.742 - devices. Dr. Sanders. 00:01:00.898 --> 00:01:13.167 - So, you know, we've talked about this for the last three board meetings, I think. And I had in mind 00:01:13.167 --> 00:01:25.560 - intentions to extend the cell phone policy to the school bus. Just worries about students being able 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:29.854 - to access their phones on the bus. 00:01:30.402 --> 00:01:40.665 - with not as much supervision because the bus driver will be focusing on the road. But in listening to 00:01:40.665 --> 00:01:51.130 - parents, listening to you guys, and we had a really good discussion with our school administrators last 00:01:51.130 --> 00:01:58.878 - Friday, we decided that it was probably logistically impossible to implement 00:01:59.330 --> 00:02:08.518 - that extension of the law where we expanded it to the school bus. So basically we're going back to, 00:02:08.518 --> 00:02:17.707 - as far as the school bus goes, going back to the policy we've already had, which is K5 students are 00:02:17.707 --> 00:02:27.998 - not supposed to use their personal communication devices riding to and from school on the bus, but K12 students 00:02:28.482 --> 00:02:38.148 - may use their cell phones while riding the bus to and from school. And that's basically, the only difference 00:02:38.148 --> 00:02:47.193 - I should clarify is before it was a practice in the transportation department to leave that six to 12 00:02:47.193 --> 00:02:56.149 - grade question about cell phones, it was at the discretion of the bus driver. I felt like that was a 00:02:56.149 --> 00:02:58.366 - little inconsistent, so, 00:02:59.042 --> 00:03:07.878 - the new practice, new policy is K to 12, or six to 12, they can use their funds on the busts. That's 00:03:07.878 --> 00:03:16.626 - the change. I move approval of the revision of policy 5136. I second. Moon, second. Any discussion? 00:03:16.626 --> 00:03:26.686 - So I presume that the bus driver would still have discretion that if a problem arose, they could address it. Yeah. 00:03:26.818 --> 00:03:34.779 - talked to the bus drivers at the back to school transportation meeting and told them that we don't expect 00:03:34.779 --> 00:03:42.290 - them to be the cell phone police. Their main job is the safety of the students. But if they do find 00:03:42.290 --> 00:03:49.726 - a student who's abusing their use of the phone, then they would write a referral to the principal. 00:03:54.786 --> 00:04:03.816 - I appreciate all the thought and consideration. I really do understand your considerations for what 00:04:03.816 --> 00:04:13.117 - you were hoping to achieve with it as well. And I understand the parents. And I'm just glad that we're 00:04:13.117 --> 00:04:22.237 - a community that can talk these things out. And so it still may change more as we try things out. So 00:04:22.237 --> 00:04:23.230 - who knows? 00:04:23.330 --> 00:04:32.023 - I really appreciate all the discussions that has gone into it. And again, the fact that as a community, 00:04:32.023 --> 00:04:40.466 - we can talk these things out. And it's an honor to be part of that. I presume about 300 other school 00:04:40.466 --> 00:04:48.825 - districts are doing the same thing around the state, too. I hope they're doing it as amicably as we 00:04:48.825 --> 00:04:52.670 - are. Any further? All those in favor say aye. 00:04:52.802 --> 00:05:01.891 - And that will be communicated to parents tomorrow. Okay. Just say bell to bell then. Whatever the state 00:05:01.891 --> 00:05:11.155 - law, we're doing exactly what the state law says. Okay. Perfect. I've found the bell to bell to be pretty 00:05:11.155 --> 00:05:20.157 - easy to explain. It is, yeah. The exemptions are pretty easy to explain. You need language conversion, 00:05:20.157 --> 00:05:21.118 - of course. 00:05:21.538 --> 00:05:30.019 - only when you need language conversion. If you need it for checking for diabetes or things like that, 00:05:30.019 --> 00:05:38.418 - of course, but only when you need to be doing that. So it's pretty straightforward. It's pretty easy 00:05:38.418 --> 00:05:46.816 - to comprehend. So I think it's laid out well. We did get a little chuckle as administrators. We were 00:05:46.816 --> 00:05:50.558 - talking about the first week or so of school 00:05:50.658 --> 00:05:57.936 - Because bell to bell means that the kids can take them out after seventh period. And as they're walking 00:05:57.936 --> 00:06:04.934 - out to the bus or walking out to the car, can you imagine the zombies all walking out holding their 00:06:04.934 --> 00:06:12.071 - cell phones up because they haven't seen them all day? It's going to be a sight to see for sure. It's 00:06:12.071 --> 00:06:16.830 - going to be a learning curve. Every time I think about it, I laugh. 00:06:17.026 --> 00:06:24.824 - They have to be, once you get into the vehicle, you're going home and you can get out. So you're not 00:06:24.824 --> 00:06:32.776 - walking out. Mrs. Clark did say, I am not monitoring them in the comments on the way to their car. She 00:06:32.776 --> 00:06:40.497 - said there are just some things that are going to be way too hard to tackle. Okay. We do have a few 00:06:40.497 --> 00:06:45.438 - other items. We have consideration to approve an MOU with Rita. 00:06:46.626 --> 00:06:54.873 - Yes, this is one for EECC. We've participated with Lena before. Basically, it is a demographic study 00:06:54.873 --> 00:07:03.120 - with some procedures and protocols that we put in place at EECC using some of their products, and we 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:10.142 - don't identify any of the students, families, anything like that, but we do give them 00:07:10.306 --> 00:07:16.526 - information back about their product, and it brings about $1,800 in for EECC for the work that they 00:07:16.526 --> 00:07:22.746 - put into it. What we found is that we really like the Lena, they're like little vests that the kids 00:07:22.746 --> 00:07:29.152 - wear, and it's a great product, and it's an easy way for them to make a little extra money at the same 00:07:29.152 --> 00:07:35.434 - time. So we're asking you guys to approve the MOU. Christine reviewed it, and everything looked good 00:07:35.434 --> 00:07:39.166 - on it. I'll move approval of the MOU and Lena. I'll second. 00:07:40.226 --> 00:07:52.017 - executive any discussion for clarification can we state what the the acronyms are MLU memorandum of 00:07:52.017 --> 00:08:04.279 - understanding Lena give me a minute I got you on this I know what Cass is Lena is good night they don't 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:07.934 - even put it on their own stuff 00:08:12.002 --> 00:08:28.800 - That's a good point. Give me just a second. Well, I should have seen it There it is It is Lena grow 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:39.550 - in Indiana and There is it does not appear to be an acronym and 00:08:39.842 --> 00:08:48.055 - It appears that Lena is the name of their company. Lena is in receipt of funds from Early Learning Indiana 00:08:48.055 --> 00:08:56.038 - to support the evaluation of Lena Grow in Indiana. Sometime there was a Lena. Was there? I'm sure there 00:08:56.038 --> 00:09:03.944 - was. I do not see anything in here that that is an acronym, but simply the name of their company, yes. 00:09:03.944 --> 00:09:09.470 - Good question. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. 00:09:09.634 --> 00:09:20.250 - motion carries Next consideration to add before and after school care for I leads to the current pay 00:09:20.250 --> 00:09:30.760 - scale I Put a lot of this information into the memo that we sent out to the board what we're asking 00:09:30.760 --> 00:09:32.862 - is to restructure a 00:09:33.314 --> 00:09:39.539 - or before and after school care program. What we were doing in the past is we would have a director 00:09:39.539 --> 00:09:46.138 - for that program and we paid them a flat salary of $20,000 for the year. That director left last January, 00:09:46.138 --> 00:09:52.862 - February, she was continuing her education and Heather Kinzig picked that up for the remainder of the year. 00:09:53.538 --> 00:09:59.973 - And talking with Heather, she really started to kind of talk about some ideas about how we could restructure 00:09:59.973 --> 00:10:05.877 - that would make the whole program run more smoothly. And one of the pieces that we had talked about 00:10:05.877 --> 00:10:11.958 - is actually with the IAs who are working with the students, what we tend to find is that some of those 00:10:11.958 --> 00:10:17.980 - IAs, a lot of those IAs are actually going into education. They're college students in education. And 00:10:17.980 --> 00:10:23.294 - so not only does it give them an opportunity to lesson plan, but they're really creative. 00:10:23.394 --> 00:10:29.856 - So instead of the director who isn't necessarily always engaged in the hands-on pieces with the kids 00:10:29.856 --> 00:10:36.254 - planning the programming, we really talked about a lead IA stepping into that role and creating the 00:10:36.254 --> 00:10:37.150 - lesson plans. 00:10:37.250 --> 00:10:43.736 - training the other staff, implementing that day in and day out, whether that's a craft activity, a physical 00:10:43.736 --> 00:10:49.802 - activity, and having those things organized for each morning and afternoon. And then what that would 00:10:49.802 --> 00:10:56.048 - do is it would take down the number of hours that the director would be involved. So the director would 00:10:56.048 --> 00:11:02.114 - go down to about 10 to 12 hours a week. And then those lead IAs, there would be an increase of about 00:11:02.114 --> 00:11:06.078 - $3 to $4 an hour because we are asking them to do additional work 00:11:06.242 --> 00:11:12.612 - not just overseeing the kiddos when they're there. So I knew that Brad would want to know what this 00:11:12.612 --> 00:11:19.047 - would look like financially, so I ran some numbers just to be sure that we had everything worked out 00:11:19.047 --> 00:11:25.481 - there. This actually ends up saving the corporation about $5,000. The current director, the previous 00:11:25.481 --> 00:11:27.774 - director, is making $20,000 a year. 00:11:28.514 --> 00:11:36.629 - The 10 to 12 hours for the director would be about $7,500 for the year. And then by increasing the $3 00:11:36.629 --> 00:11:44.665 - to $4, I counted about $3.50 for each of those two leads. That would work out to about $3,700 a year 00:11:44.665 --> 00:11:52.780 - extra to turn them from a regular IA into a lead IA, which would be about $7,500 total for those two. 00:11:52.780 --> 00:11:58.110 - So we would be looking at a savings here of about $5,000 simply by 00:11:58.818 --> 00:12:05.476 - adding that layer of responsibility and additional pay-in for the two IA leads, and then reducing the 00:12:05.476 --> 00:12:10.110 - director's hours down a little bit. So I'm asking you to approve that. 00:12:10.178 --> 00:12:15.790 - I think you'll see Susan and I are working on streamlining a lot of the pay scale pieces. We have some 00:12:15.790 --> 00:12:21.402 - one-off positions and things like that, and we really want to get everybody in a position where we can 00:12:21.402 --> 00:12:27.068 - see exactly where the scale's going to take them versus, you know, this position not necessarily having 00:12:27.068 --> 00:12:32.571 - something. So as Susan's going through and she's doing some of those audits, we may be bringing more 00:12:32.571 --> 00:12:38.074 - of those pieces to you. And this is one where, again, it would be a new position technically because 00:12:38.074 --> 00:12:40.144 - it's an IA lead, but we would be high 00:12:40.144 --> 00:12:48.355 - hiring two of our current IAs and move them into these roles. So we're not asking for additional funds. 00:12:48.355 --> 00:12:56.724 - We're looking to just reallocate the funds that we already have, and actually it'll cost us less overall. 00:12:56.724 --> 00:13:04.778 - And at the same time, make the latchkey program meet our high expectations. And we felt like over the 00:13:04.778 --> 00:13:09.278 - last couple of years, it hasn't been what it used to be. 00:13:09.410 --> 00:13:17.869 - This will help us to make it parents and trust their children to us at that time of the day. And we 00:13:17.869 --> 00:13:26.667 - wanna make sure we're providing the best program for them. I move to approve the addition of the before 00:13:26.667 --> 00:13:35.380 - and after school AI leads or AI leads. I second that. Is this 15 hours a week? It says, so I'm reading 00:13:35.380 --> 00:13:39.102 - here. Is that 15 hours a week per position? 00:13:41.378 --> 00:13:47.357 - 15 hours a week director. I wrote up to 15 hours for the director. We already had somebody apply for 00:13:47.357 --> 00:13:53.337 - director, so I'm gonna bring you that placement at the next board meeting. She's actually only going 00:13:53.337 --> 00:13:59.257 - to be able to work about 10 and a half hours. On top of what she normally works? On top of what she 00:13:59.257 --> 00:14:05.414 - normally works because she's a part-time. So it's not gonna put her in an overtime situation? No. Okay. 00:14:05.414 --> 00:14:11.038 - No. Is it gonna put her in a position we have to give benefits? She is gonna cost us benefits. 00:14:11.170 --> 00:14:18.571 - And you have calculated that in? Yeah. That's another $20,000 a year. Yep. Okay. And it's still, 00:14:18.571 --> 00:14:26.354 - as Dr. Sanders says, this is a wash? It is. Actually, it's a little bit of a savings. What'd you say? 00:14:26.354 --> 00:14:34.137 - As your famous term, this is a wash, I don't know if I... If we're paying benefits, we weren't paying 00:14:34.137 --> 00:14:37.342 - benefits before, though. Correct. Well... 00:14:37.666 --> 00:14:44.194 - I don't think I should probably talk about that individual's needs for certain benefits or lack of needs 00:14:44.194 --> 00:14:50.412 - for certain benefits, if that makes sense. Is it this person paid for most of their salary paid for 00:14:50.412 --> 00:14:56.816 - by a grant? Yeah, most of their salary is paid out of the Monroe County Foundation grant, and then the 00:14:56.816 --> 00:15:03.033 - additional 10 and a half hours would be paid out of the education fund in addition to the benefits. 00:15:03.033 --> 00:15:06.142 - Well, who's paying the benefits, the grant or the 00:15:06.402 --> 00:15:14.822 - No, we would be so in other words if this employee was taking family insurance, then yes, we would be 00:15:14.822 --> 00:15:23.076 - paying for that So we're talking about one person or two people one person one person You're saying 00:15:23.076 --> 00:15:31.330 - that this additional hours we push this one person into the benefits Those benefits are gonna be an 00:15:31.330 --> 00:15:34.302 - additional problem guessing $20,000 00:15:35.554 --> 00:15:44.432 - If that person would take benefits. Okay, but I see what I see what you're saying, right? Yeah, yeah. 00:15:44.432 --> 00:15:53.136 - Just yeah, as well. Make sure you factor in all the different parts. Yes. Yeah, that's a tough one, 00:15:53.136 --> 00:16:02.449 - but I think, you know, that's. That's hard because when people take benefits, it's up to them. And there's 00:16:02.449 --> 00:16:04.190 - always that option. 00:16:04.290 --> 00:16:11.255 - You know, even if somebody says I'm not going to take benefits at this time, my spouse, you know, has 00:16:11.255 --> 00:16:18.289 - the health insurance. There's always that that piece of it's available to them. Yeah. Yeah. And that's 00:16:18.289 --> 00:16:25.527 - always something that we have to consider and factor in. In this case, this person would not be accepting 00:16:25.527 --> 00:16:32.561 - the health insurance benefits at this time unless something strange would happen. So there is not that 00:16:32.561 --> 00:16:33.790 - additional factor 00:16:34.146 --> 00:16:41.941 - coming in with this employee taking on these additional hours for the director's position. And this 00:16:41.941 --> 00:16:49.892 - is a hard to fill position. It's a really hard to fill position. Because of the hours. Again, whether 00:16:49.892 --> 00:16:57.765 - I think they take benefits or not is their decision and I think we just roll with what it is. Right, 00:16:57.765 --> 00:16:59.870 - and we would never hire or 00:16:59.970 --> 00:17:06.530 - release someone based on whether or not they take benefits or not. So I want to make sure that I stress 00:17:06.530 --> 00:17:12.902 - that. But after talking with this person and her expressing her interest in the director's position, 00:17:12.902 --> 00:17:19.462 - knowing that that would push her into full time. Of course, that was one of the things that I had asked 00:17:19.462 --> 00:17:26.086 - her and we had looked at to figure into how much additional this would cost us. And so that conversation 00:17:26.086 --> 00:17:28.798 - has already happened there. And I wouldn't 00:17:29.250 --> 00:17:35.790 - have no problem if there was a change of mind and they wouldn't benefit. And she needed it for some 00:17:35.790 --> 00:17:42.723 - reason, absolutely. She's a wonderful employee in our district and I really appreciated her being willing 00:17:42.723 --> 00:17:49.067 - to take on the additional responsibility. The work that she does now is incredible. Like I said, 00:17:49.067 --> 00:17:55.739 - she's just, she's a really fantastic employee and in this situation, the additional hours, additional 00:17:55.739 --> 00:17:58.878 - pay is the most important piece to her, not the 00:17:59.266 --> 00:18:10.062 - benefit side of it that's not necessarily what her family needs right now. So we're basically creating 00:18:10.062 --> 00:18:21.173 - a new position correct with with what's like a one-off one position. Yeah we have the directors position. 00:18:21.173 --> 00:18:24.318 - Lowering the number of hours. 00:18:24.610 --> 00:18:32.532 - She was overseeing the last three months of school to get us through last school year. I got you. Yeah. 00:18:32.532 --> 00:18:40.301 - So the previous director was about $20,000 at about 10 to 12 hours a week. This format will put us at 00:18:40.301 --> 00:18:48.223 - about $7,500 for that director. Plus benefits. Plus the perf and all of those pieces in there. And then 00:18:48.223 --> 00:18:53.022 - the two leads would be about a $7,500 increase for us as well. 00:18:53.474 --> 00:19:02.524 - So we're looking at 20,000 is where we used to be. And so when you break that down, it'd be about 15,000 00:19:02.524 --> 00:19:11.402 - plus that person's benefits with perf and life insurance and those kinds of things. And like you said, 00:19:11.402 --> 00:19:20.194 - if she chooses to take health insurance down the road, then yeah, that gives her an option to be able 00:19:20.194 --> 00:19:21.918 - to do that as well. 00:19:23.042 --> 00:19:34.998 - All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next in our last action item is consideration 00:19:34.998 --> 00:19:46.954 - to approve the revised ready 2.0 resolution. Okay. This one's an easy one. I'm actually asking for less 00:19:46.954 --> 00:19:49.598 - money from all of you. 00:19:51.362 --> 00:20:00.055 - In the previous resolution that Dana and Larry signed for the Ready 2.0 grant, this is a process. Not 00:20:00.055 --> 00:20:08.834 - only are we working through ROI, but ROI is working through IEDC. So every step that we take then goes 00:20:08.834 --> 00:20:17.528 - to the next level and then comes back down the scale again. And so Julie, well, Marin Harris, who has 00:20:17.528 --> 00:20:21.022 - worked with us at ROI for several years, 00:20:21.634 --> 00:20:28.154 - She went on maternity leave, and so in the midst of all of these things, her replacement had sent us 00:20:28.154 --> 00:20:34.609 - the amount that we would need to put into the resolution. And then she ran that back up the ladder, 00:20:34.609 --> 00:20:41.387 - and guess what? When it came back down, and Victor adjusted the amount that we were going to be spending 00:20:41.387 --> 00:20:43.646 - on the renovation versus building, 00:20:43.746 --> 00:20:54.445 - The good thing is, what I'm asking you to sign is the resolution saying that instead of $2,255,500 being 00:20:54.445 --> 00:21:05.348 - set aside out of the bond for the life sciences training facility, I'm asking you to set aside $1,233,171. 00:21:05.348 --> 00:21:11.870 - So about a million dollars less. The $1,233,171 is our portion. 00:21:12.354 --> 00:21:20.933 - And the additional $500,000 then to complete the project is coming from Ready 2.0. I think that Dr. 00:21:20.933 --> 00:21:29.597 - Sanders explained to you guys in the last board meeting that we were gifted about $150,000, $175,000 00:21:29.597 --> 00:21:38.605 - in this project because with Ready 2.0 funds, it looks at that match across the entire umbrella of Ready 00:21:38.605 --> 00:21:39.806 - 2.0 projects. 00:21:39.938 --> 00:21:48.021 - And so even though we don't meet the match exactly, ROI and IEDC wanted us to use the entire $500,000. 00:21:48.021 --> 00:21:56.340 - And so that's why you've seen a couple of these adjustments come through as we've been adjusting numbers. 00:21:56.340 --> 00:21:58.302 - We are thrilled with it. 00:21:58.402 --> 00:22:05.035 - It's $150,000 that was going to come off of our side, which is now coming out of the grant money. And 00:22:05.035 --> 00:22:11.928 - then in addition to that, being able to reduce that amount down based on Victor's cost and his estimates, 00:22:11.928 --> 00:22:18.496 - I feel really good about that. So that's good news. I'm coming to you and asking you to give us less 00:22:18.496 --> 00:22:22.398 - money. I approve the revised rate 2.0 resolution. I second. 00:22:25.538 --> 00:22:39.249 - No comment this time. I wish I could do that more. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay, any 00:22:39.249 --> 00:22:51.230 - board member comments? Mr. Tucker? No, I just want to start. Excited for school to start. 00:22:51.554 --> 00:22:57.513 - I just want to thank Katz for coming out for our special meeting. I appreciate that. And we really appreciate 00:22:57.513 --> 00:23:01.630 - you. And with that, this meeting is adjourned. And have a lovely afternoon.