- It is 4 30. Let's go ahead and get started. We have a quorum. Anybody else coming?
- Heard from Randy and Tucker sent a message, but I don't think he indicated he was coming.
- His message said he wasn't coming because Jerry would represent our presentation.
- We have a quorum. Yes, one, two, three. Jess. Checking.
- He usually is late. So is he coming? I didn't see anything. Often shows up a little on the late
- side.
- Waits until it gets good.
- Someone is coming. I think he said he was out of town.
- Ready. Jeff, would you call the roll, please? Commissioner Martin. Yes. Commissioner Jones.
- Commissioner Kiesling. Yes. Martin. Yes. And I believe
- Dr. Sanders is, if the word is right, proxying for Commissioner Tucker.
- Having his name called. That's the first item on our agenda.
- For those of you in the audience who may not be aware, the Pre-Development Commission,
- through its TIF district on the west side, provides funding annually for STEM-oriented
- activities at RBB. And we get presentations periodically from RBB personnel regarding the
- use of those funds. And today we have Dr. Sanders here who's going to make a short presentation
- about
- the recent developments with the funding availability and the programs they have for STEM and STREAM
- and
- however many other mnemonics we have at this time. Jerry, I'll turn it over to you. Sure,
- sure. Thank you for the opportunity. And you just get me tonight. I hope that's okay.
- Oh, it's not okay, but we'll take you. Thank you. Yeah, I tell you what. Every time I'm
- getting ready to come to make a presentation, I just kind of go back and think about
- where we have come all because of the fact that the RDC has for this many years provided funding
- for us. And really in this day and age when it seems like public schools are having to spread
- the funds a little bit more, that funding is so critical, especially for these important programs.
- So I always like to tell you how much I appreciate you. I always use this diagram really and really
- the reason I show it to you is because at the bottom, the foundation of what we do is our
- partnership with you. And we continue to do all the basics of the program in terms of STEM
- education and providing our students with experiences and information and coursework
- related to STEM. But it goes so far beyond that now and I'd just like to share some of those
- things with you. First of all, one of the biggest programs that we're working on right now
- is our biomedical training project. Several years ago we had the idea of partnering with local
- businesses to provide training on our campus so that our students could go right from high school
- to the workforce. And that has those conversations, they always start out as conversations,
- just talking about an idea. And next thing you know, you're implementing a very innovative
- project. And so the biomedical training project is basically we're partnering with Boston
- Scientific,
- Cook Medical, and IU Health, and possibly Cintra down the road. And the whole idea is
- these companies are going to send the people that train their new employees and make sure
- that they get certified in certain areas, that they're going to send those trainers to our campus
- and transform their training modules from the workplace to a high school setting
- and provide that training to juniors or seniors in high school. And the plan then is for us to
- create
- this pipeline of future employees for these companies to solve their employment issues
- and also to meet the needs of our young people. And so while they're in high school these students
- are going to go through training, get the certifications they need, turn 18, get a high
- school diploma and then they are ready to move right into to these companies. And then if we have
- a student who they simply want to go from high school and get a job and work in that job for the
- rest of their lives at those companies they could do that. If they want to go into another area of
- the medical field and they want to expand their education these companies will pay for their
- education to go get their bachelor's degree their master's degree or whatever and be a catalyst to
- the young people going into the health field. And so we are in the process of adding on to the high
- school. We're in a designed phase but we want to add on to the high school two training rooms.
- One of the training rooms will be for sharing with Boston Scientific and Cook and the other
- will be sort of a sim lab similar to what they have here at IU Health where we will have replica
- health hospital rooms where the students can actually go and practice. Now just to offer that
- to the students cold we might not have much success so we are also developing career pathways
- and I think you might remember Jennifer Barrett talking last time about career pathways. I believe
- we have 17 or 18 now but one of them is biomedical education biomedical science and technology
- engineering those are just a few and so we had a very exciting meeting earlier this week between
- our junior high and our high school administrators counselors on making sure that these pathways
- which will start at the junior high align with one another so as they go move from junior high
- to high school they they could be on that trajectory to go into a career related to
- like I said biomedical training or engineering whatever the students want to do and one of our
- principals asked at the meeting do other schools have this much communication and collaboration
- between junior high and high school to make sure that the student doesn't get off track that they're
- on track and you know we really have to to realize that this is also an opportunity for students to
- figure out I don't want to do the engineering I don't want to do biomedical training or whatever
- and rather than making those decisions after a couple years of college and so this is going
- very well we have met several times with each of these organizations and my curriculum people
- and their training people are right now they're sitting down and they're taking a training module
- that they would do for somebody who's going to come to work every day and making that fit into
- a student who's going to come to class for an hour every day and how long that might take and
- the other part of that as I mentioned that we're building onto the high school we're in a design
- stage of that right now we've met with the architect we're in the process of going through
- we're in the bonding process so we're going through the all the the legal meetings that
- that public hearings that you have to have and this is definitely one of those projects
- on the list so that's probably the thing I'm most excited about tonight and it's my wife doesn't
- like it because she's kind of trying to get me to retire and I keep coming up with all these
- new ideas that I want to see through and so I appreciate what you're doing yeah yeah yeah
- the other thing that that where we were taking the foundation that you guys led with us left with
- us
- and growing on that is the importance of using data to drive what we do so we are part of
- Robert Marzano's high reliability schools our school board officially passed a resolution
- saying that we are a high reliability school corporation and so there are five levels to
- be in an HRS school level one is safe supportive and collaborative culture
- two is effective teaching in every classroom three is guaranteed and viable curriculum
- four is standards reference reporting and five is a competency based education and so our schools
- have been in the process of working through level one they're gathering data they're gathering
- information they're gathering gathering evidence and our junior high school was the first school
- last week to actually submit for level one and so they they submit it's a like I said it's just
- tons and tons of data information and then we'll get some feedback from the HRS folks and letting
- us know if we're that school's on track they need to make any adjustments to their proposal and
- hopefully we'll get some positive news that they will be certified at level one
- and if so then in january they'll have to go down to san antonio texas to accept their
- certification
- and we'll have a big celebration so junior high is a little bit ahead of everybody else they've
- already submitted not far behind is edward high school they're ready to submit in the next week
- or two and then eis and and eps now there we're already working on level two which is effective
- teaching in every classroom and it's not just let me back up here a little bit for years and years
- and years the state of indiana has put uh created a mindset in schools that you have to develop a
- school improvement plan and what that has led to is that it's basically a check off we submitted
- this item we submitted that item it really doesn't lead to school improvement it's just checking
- off
- boxes so that the state knows you submitted your school improvement plan this is all about changing
- mindsets and changing culture and uh and that sometimes could be a challenge and so uh we're
- trying to get our everyone our teachers our administrators that when they say hey i find
- this really important strategy uh that i want to implement in my classroom uh the answer back to
- them is we're show me the data or if they say i don't want to do a particular strategy in my
- classroom show me the data and uh so that that's kind of where we are uh and trying to change that
- mindset another mindset we have to change is um i think teachers are often uh afraid of data
- in terms of uh i don't want to sit down with my principal and go over my test scores because if
- they're not where they're supposed to be uh i'm going to feel like i'm not a very effective teacher
- and that's just not how you use data you use data to determine okay here's what the data is telling
- me where do i need to make adjustments in my instruction what do i need to make adjustments
- adjustments in my strategies and you might ask well where does this all lead lead back to what
- we're all about which which is being a stem school and promoting stem it's about making those
- opportunities in stem much more impactful much more meaningful not only to getting an a on that
- next
- activity or that next test or project but helping them to be successful in life and i can't say
- enough about how we're tying all this together and it you know really almost want to put this
- upside down because yes rdc is at the foundation of that that it's going up and out
- not like you know like this but it's going out more and more and more and more growing and growing
- so that's kind of my presentation for tonight we continue to monitor the funds that you give us and
- most of the funds go to providing people who work with teachers work with students
- and to make sure that these things that we're we tell you about are actually getting done
- and getting implemented with fidelity so any questions for me i have i just i have several
- but that excuse me the one i want to ask is what's the student's attitude about it all
- how do they feel i hear more from the seniors who tell me why didn't we start this earlier
- um you know we we um i've actually been told that from our our seniors several times
- and going into this now as an elementary educator but i've learned so much about
- high school students that we don't really give them enough credit they are smart
- and uh well another uh new new process that we have uh we
- purchased along with some help um two video boards for for the gym
- and these aren't just scoreboards it can be a scoreboard but they are a place where the students
- are creating videos marketing the uh companies uh advertisement uh and also telling our story uh of
- the achievements of our students uh if you see the sign down by 46 in front of the the our
- technology
- department it's a video board also and all the students are doing those uh putting those videos
- on uh on the the screens for people to see so um we just continue to try to give our students more
- more opportunities and uh they are loving it i remember you know when you try something new
- and innovative you know there's a little bit of worry behind that of okay but will the kids like it
- will the students respond to it and uh our innovative learning center is just a hopping place
- and a lot has to do with people um i'd say i guess it was new 2019 and uh we were visiting schools
- across the country on um student-run businesses and i actually about the third fourth visit
- got a little nervous because i thought okay it's not just a pro not just a building it's not just
- the facilities their programs are working because of people and so people like uh lisa wilson who
- runs our uh ilc um she's making a difference and the students are recognizing her
- stacia meyers is another business teacher that's making a difference um and uh that's what that's
- what counts and we're so we're really blessed to have people behind all this success
- can i i just want to make sure everybody's aware that uh commissioner cassidy is attending
- virtually
- tonight he has been online throughout the whole meeting and i would ask tsd to promote him
- so that he can work his camera and microphone thank you
- colin have you has your son been involved with any of this
- yeah mostly media so he's he's had a fascination with film uh for a while but i think that
- that um ken grile has done a great job running that department and um he's changed up the space
- this year and and that's great and i think that it gives it allows for more collaboration so it's
- not
- you know he changes a little bit every year this and that the podcast studio is now i think mostly
- um kind of a backup type room which that's fine i think that it's reflective of where it needs to
- be right and uh our son really appreciates the opportunities and and i think that um he's learning
- because he's also you know being taught not to slack off a little bit too um but but it's been
- good for him and and i think with um with the other kids in the class too uh they've learned a lot
- so
- that's it's a good step and i think it's been a success at the junior high level that's what's
- still amazing about it so this year with our student-run business the coffee shop
- uh you know kids graduate so you have to find some new managers and uh they just pick up right
- where
- the old managers left off and one of our managers from last year is this year he's in the iu kelly
- school of business and i happened to sit down with him at a soccer game recently and he was telling
- me that um he really was having trouble getting into the iu kelly school of business until he
- read it wrote an essay on his experiences running a a business in high school and that that was
- what
- got him over the edge so we like that all because of you guys and i want to keep going back to that
- i can't say it enough um we appreciate you guys and we'd love to have you come over sometime and
- check things out so we now have people graduating that have been in these snim programs for
- years now nine years started one in elementary and second grade yeah yes and uh
- all right i could just tell you that it's changed the culture of the the school corporation in so
- many ways and um and these students are having experiences that when they go into college now
- they're a little bit ahead of the game and that's kind of the the word that that we get back i wish
- there was a way to capture that data of students who've graduated we're going to have to work on
- on it's so hard to catch up to students but maybe there's a way to do that or firm we could work
- with
- oh i would say is i because i was here when we started this program if you would have told me
- and i think that was nine to ten years ago i thought it was 25 or 15 or 16 if you would
- have told me that the school was going to add a room for baxter and cook to come in and do training
- that would i mean that would have been amazing but it also would have been kind of what the rough
- vision was at the time because when we did this we had letters from cook we had letters from
- you know the all the businesses in the west side tiff saying these this this is the type of thing
- and i think it would have filled in greatly with putting probably beyond even their dreams at the
- time of of something that would happen you know we've visited the training facilities of all three
- of those organizations and i was encouraged really highly encouraged because the personalities
- of the trainers who work for cook or boston scientific they're going to fit in just well
- with high school students and that's what i can't wait to see is to see them build relationships
- the old the old days of having a job fair that's not really very effective because
- it doesn't really go deep inside a student they don't really have a deep understanding
- of what a company is all about they don't know what boston scientific does or cook medical does
- but you have somebody from those companies meeting with them every day building a relationship with
- them they're going to learn firsthand not only what those companies are all about but they're
- going to make a connection with jeff who works at say you work at boston scientific and then
- when i graduate i'm not going anywhere else but boston scientific and our partners are very excited
- in each of those organizations so where maybe last year at this time you know i was i was maybe a
- little more stressed is this really a possibility is this really going to work well i could tell
- you
- from these meetings and the progress we've made that it's just a matter of time we may actually
- get it going before the facility is finished we may have to just find a room or use my office
- we'll get it we'll get it done i just thought one of the things you could do to try and keep
- track of the results that certain that edgewood and other i mean all the high schools have alumni
- reunion kinds of things and having something available at one of those reunions where you
- could collect information about what those kids are doing now might be one avenue for you to
- collect
- some data about the long-term impact and i think i know who just who needs to do that and that we
- have a a career coach that meets with each and every student and i think it's it's really going
- to be important to us that she not only works with students while they're in high school but
- stays in contact with them post high school and so that we can gather that that kind of data
- that we need but that's kind of probably where we need to go next
- and we've never had an edgewood alumni group of really of any kind it's always been the
- individual classes not like ellisville where it's everybody and they have their big reunion
- every couple of years i think but it'd be interesting to get maybe that's the impetus
- to get something going with her is to in order to track you got to have some kind of at least a
- structure it doesn't have to be big formal and bureaucratic but right at least some kind of
- structure where we can track how how graduates are doing what they're doing and and eventually
- filter away you know because it's been 60 years now since the school opened maybe filter our way
- back to you know do a video program with with that's coming what from from where we started and
- where
- we are and do that with chat with the community action program they're always looking for programs
- and i think if you do it in short spurts not a great big long one but i bet somebody there
- would be interested or some of your students might be interested in helping put it together too
- so at a recent presentation one of our new managers of the coffee shop mentioned that she
- is staying in constant communication with one of the managers who left because he graduated and
- i don't know if that's ever been a connection for students where they're there i'm here's this
- connection i have and someone in college already and i'm learning from them how they did ran their
- their business at edgwood high school and i think once you know so yeah we have classes who come
- back
- all the time in fact next saturday we're going to take a class on a tour of the high school
- but eventually those those classes will start having their reunions and get togethers
- and we can definitely have a captive audience for those
- i think there's more i'd like to be able to do some surveys with these folks and
- get a small group together that you can video and have an interaction and say okay
- what happened here and so on that that's really and show the fact that you've got had the
- coffee shop and a couple other things too that i don't think everybody know that that many people
- know about it let's just do that i'll just say i'll make a commitment right now that before we
- present in february or march whenever the next one is we'll have a we will have had a focus group
- of
- post-graduates and we'll video that and and bring that to you for that that presentation that'd be
- good yeah all right congratulations for itself mr jones you should go and visit anytime
- thank you dr sanders appreciate the report and uh keep up the good work
- yes all right uh the next item our agenda are the minutes just a minute would you send those
- graphics
- to um well what i shared with you yeah yeah we just sent them to jeff so that he can send them to
- us
- i think we'd like to see them thank you that's would be a good place thank you sorry richard
- what do we got next okay uh we have two sets of minutes that's right uh july and august if i'm not
- mistaken it's a july one so i can't really vote on it although i think i attended by
- channel three that's how i did it that's how i found you guys
- and the other one i i didn't see anything i've noticed a couple places where you misspelled my
- name that oh we have some some name serious name correction well it's just a matter of ia and ai
- and you know those kind of things the small small things and unfortunately our computers don't
- decide to help us with that yes microsoft has decided that your name is incorrect and it needs
- to be that way the first time but not the second time yeah that's the interesting part okay what
- do we okay i'd say i'll make a motion to approve the minutes for july 16th and for what's the other
- one august 20th august 20th okay i'll second we have a motion and second to approve the minutes
- of july and august uh jeff read the roll please commissioner martin yes commissioner jones yes
- commissioner keesling yes commissioner mccarty yes commissioner cassidy yes motion is approved
- five to zero all right claims
- i've got two pieces of paper that have claims on it jeff did you give me a new one or
- the first one had an incorrect uh block of voters because it hadn't been updated for mr jones so
- the
- the information on it should be the same other than the the signature block and you've got a
- signature one with correct yes okay all right so the the claims for this month are from financial
- solutions group for fifteen hundred dollars city of bloomington utilities for uh one thousand five
- hundred and thirty three dollars and then our spring 2025 stem for rbb uh community school
- corporation of one hundred and sixty three thousand three hundred and five dollars and
- fifteen cents for a total of one hundred and sixty six thousand three hundred and thirty eight
- dollars and thirty five cents
- questions or about these approval i second second
- have a motion and a second jeff would you call the roll well let me roll this is to vote for
- the approval of the claims for financial solutions group city of bloomington utilities
- and the spring 2025 stem rbb csc payment total one hundred and sixty six thousand
- three hundred and thirty eight dollars and thirty five cents jeff would you call the roll
- commissioner martin yes commissioner jones yes commissioner kiesling commissioner mccarty yes
- commissioner cassidy yes motion is approved five to zero all right we're up to staff comments
- lisa you want to start um we had a good time we had a good time our first ribbon cutting for the
- month um we are trying to let me go through sunrise greetings first we will still have to
- walk through uh with end dot and the contractor for punch list items we don't foresee anything
- big coming or rising from that um and then we'll work through all the quantities there'll probably
- be some change orders come through um they are all participating items which means um they will run
- through the normal end dot process if there's money left on the contract they're participating
- items then they will cover those at the 80 20 um anything outside of that we'll run it through
- the regular um uh process claim process at 100 local um but that'll take some time it'll be a
- couple months of going through that process closing out that project um it won't close
- out for a few years just because it takes them a while to audit it um fullerton pike phase three
- they should finish paving tomorrow they were to be on site today to do the layout for striping
- there's some cbu work that's scheduled for overnight monday night 14 part property owners
- will be notified they won't will not have water overnight so they want to give them a a heads up
- on that um we have some loops to put in for the trap new traffic signal we have some pedestrian
- railing to put in we hope to have everything in place done by next wednesday so i kind of sent a
- doodle poll for some times looks like right now the the winning time is friday morning the 26th
- at 9 a.m to have that ribbon cutting so get that notice out in the morning if that's okay
- and we'll go from there it looks great with the asphalt now it looks like real road makes a
- huge difference i've been checking on it twice a day i told richard i think when they see my
- car drive up twice a day it's um they probably worry about it i'm sure they do i'm sure they do
- um not probably very popular right now but that's okay we're going to get it open and uh and the
- weather has been cooperating so that's a good thing um so next friday morning the 26th at 9 a.m
- is what the notice will go out to be um to the public i know the media has been quite calling
- quite a bit um so i'll get it all out to them send send it to all your emails and hopefully you can
- attend um we'll send it to the school library um that way the school buses should mostly be out
- of the way at nine um and then we're not in their way at the end of the day either so
- that's kind of where they got
- pick up this and then i'll go to the festival and be there at 10 when the kids started fighting
- it's coming yeah it's coming it's coming hundreds of little kids a lot of kids
- okay uh jack do you have anything i think when you we look through the minutes you'll see
- a couple references to residential tiff and a potential project on west side of the county
- still working on that i think we had another meeting with the group that are primarily looking
- at sewer extensions and and how to solve the that issue on that side of town still working through
- that don't have it we do not have anything concrete yet but i think my next step is going to be to
- reach out to planning to see what their thoughts are on some of the ideas that have been floating
- around and so look for that in a future meeting knock on wood
- yeah in conjunction with that i've been communicating with a couple of the
- utility service board members and i think i'm going to end up doing a
- presentation of this sewer district that they don't know about because we already have a
- relationship for some county sewering right in conjunction with usb and i think it's
- both of us trying to work together to solve this problem is going to be a better way forward than
- each of us kind of going our own way it's just the amount of money that's involved is too high
- for us not to think about how we're going to manage this together and i think for the context of
- the
- project you're thinking of i think that makes total sense and is much more efficient but as
- we've discussed there may be other opportunities to to effect out elsewhere so i think we're still
- going to follow those through oh yes no we certainly are the other issue is that there
- may be other areas of the county that we should be thinking about in the same way and
- the difficulty always is that a residential tiff doesn't generate a lot of money in a hurry
- and so you need some way to get a chunk at the start probably with some kind of commercial
- activity involved with it or some multifamily dwelling project of significant size to generate
- enough tiff revenue to get the parts of it that are hard to do we know a lot about what it takes
- to build this stuff we don't know a lot about how to get it paid for in a reasonable way so
- okay uh have comments okay we're up to commissioner comments let me start with
- randy you have any comments out there
- just the uh hats off to dr sanders rbb and the lisa and getting the roads open and going
- the paving guys this morning lisa as i cut through there indicated we're going to have
- it done next week and that that was guys on the ground so i think you've been pushing them
- adequately in a way that they're excited to have it done so appreciate everything you got you're
- doing on that lisa jeff and residential tiff you know as you said richard you know we got to solve
- the solutions together so i appreciate everything guys okay mike anything like the rbb presentation
- you know owning a business 15 years and trying to play base was more than difficult
- and we had ivy tech we had the schools around us and we didn't get thousands of openings for the
- for the kind of jobs that we did in the in the area i lived in and the talent pool just was
- exciting to high schools it's happening up there now too but it's it's exciting to see high schools
- buy that or help to supply that labor need
- here's anything okay colin yeah great presentation dr sanders thank you so much and i think that
- with semper's involvement it's it's already becoming a game changer in the community and
- with that investment they'll um but they're making a great bike wow it's um all in richland
- township and so this is even better and and when you look at the power of centra and cook and you
- know other entities in the township um that are in life sciences it's um i think it's only the
- beginning so um it is fantastic to see and yeah i i just sat in amazement having grown up in that
- area and knowing the people who were behind um merging original and bean blossom and then having
- to fight for its survival it's paid off and i think they would be extremely proud today
- and be your biggest champions on this project so and i you know those men too they were you know
- dedicated um to getting the school corporation created and uh here we are talking about setting
- up a bio biomedical uh lab simulator if you will um to teach also uh so the uh the bridge opening
- um and the upcoming i mean we've got two great projects that now we open here and
- um won't be able to make fuller than bike but i think this is gonna obviously another game changer
- it just opens things up so much and um hopefully we can then um lay a good foundation for a
- residential tiff whatever that looks like under our new property tax regime so uh that's the big
- question i have but thank you let me add thank you very much lisa for all the things you've done to
- get all these projects accomplished as efficiently and so quickly typically but that's right
- it takes a lot okay don't add up don't add up the years we started that about 50 years ago
- thoroughfare yes in the end dots records it was 2008 2008 is when it was officially became a
- project
- right after 1966
- i think i was on the county commissioners when when that was even was percolating if i recall
- that was just starting big projects take a long time long time it takes a while
- all together a lot of money from different places different places yes yes um speaking of projects
- there the other our next effort as we have talked about before with our west side tiff is now we
- can
- start turning our attention to every pike and the improvements in media mitigation of its heavy use
- for the last few years uh that'll be our next big task that we're going to have to doing bits and
- pieces because we have stretched ourselves about as thin as we can at this point and
- careful about how we proceed but uh we do have
- that i think we are done uh anybody want to move for adjournment
- second motion and a second to adjourn we are adjourned thank you all for attending
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