WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.360 - It is 4 30. Let's go ahead and get started. We have a quorum. Anybody else coming? 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:14.720 - Heard from Randy and Tucker sent a message, but I don't think he indicated he was coming. 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:20.960 - His message said he wasn't coming because Jerry would represent our presentation. 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:30.160 - We have a quorum. Yes, one, two, three. Jess. Checking. 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:42.320 - He usually is late. So is he coming? I didn't see anything. Often shows up a little on the late 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:42.560 - side. 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:45.360 - Waits until it gets good. 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:52.880 - Someone is coming. I think he said he was out of town. 00:00:52.880 --> 00:01:12.160 - Ready. Jeff, would you call the roll, please? Commissioner Martin. Yes. Commissioner Jones. 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:18.800 - Commissioner Kiesling. Yes. Martin. Yes. And I believe 00:01:18.800 --> 00:01:25.520 - Dr. Sanders is, if the word is right, proxying for Commissioner Tucker. 00:01:25.520 --> 00:01:34.080 - Having his name called. That's the first item on our agenda. 00:01:36.160 --> 00:01:43.680 - For those of you in the audience who may not be aware, the Pre-Development Commission, 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:53.840 - through its TIF district on the west side, provides funding annually for STEM-oriented 00:01:53.840 --> 00:02:03.680 - activities at RBB. And we get presentations periodically from RBB personnel regarding the 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:09.440 - use of those funds. And today we have Dr. Sanders here who's going to make a short presentation 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:09.680 - about 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:16.560 - the recent developments with the funding availability and the programs they have for STEM and STREAM 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:16.880 - and 00:02:16.880 --> 00:02:21.200 - however many other mnemonics we have at this time. Jerry, I'll turn it over to you. Sure, 00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:25.520 - sure. Thank you for the opportunity. And you just get me tonight. I hope that's okay. 00:02:26.160 --> 00:02:34.880 - Oh, it's not okay, but we'll take you. Thank you. Yeah, I tell you what. Every time I'm 00:02:34.880 --> 00:02:40.560 - getting ready to come to make a presentation, I just kind of go back and think about 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:53.120 - where we have come all because of the fact that the RDC has for this many years provided funding 00:02:53.120 --> 00:03:01.920 - for us. And really in this day and age when it seems like public schools are having to spread 00:03:01.920 --> 00:03:12.080 - the funds a little bit more, that funding is so critical, especially for these important programs. 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:22.480 - So I always like to tell you how much I appreciate you. I always use this diagram really and really 00:03:22.880 --> 00:03:29.920 - the reason I show it to you is because at the bottom, the foundation of what we do is our 00:03:29.920 --> 00:03:40.160 - partnership with you. And we continue to do all the basics of the program in terms of STEM 00:03:40.160 --> 00:03:47.600 - education and providing our students with experiences and information and coursework 00:03:47.600 --> 00:03:56.160 - related to STEM. But it goes so far beyond that now and I'd just like to share some of those 00:03:56.160 --> 00:04:05.040 - things with you. First of all, one of the biggest programs that we're working on right now 00:04:05.040 --> 00:04:15.360 - is our biomedical training project. Several years ago we had the idea of partnering with local 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:25.840 - businesses to provide training on our campus so that our students could go right from high school 00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:33.760 - to the workforce. And that has those conversations, they always start out as conversations, 00:04:33.760 --> 00:04:41.120 - just talking about an idea. And next thing you know, you're implementing a very innovative 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:48.320 - project. And so the biomedical training project is basically we're partnering with Boston 00:04:48.320 --> 00:04:49.360 - Scientific, 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:59.280 - Cook Medical, and IU Health, and possibly Cintra down the road. And the whole idea is 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:07.600 - these companies are going to send the people that train their new employees and make sure 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:15.600 - that they get certified in certain areas, that they're going to send those trainers to our campus 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:24.320 - and transform their training modules from the workplace to a high school setting 00:05:24.320 --> 00:05:33.760 - and provide that training to juniors or seniors in high school. And the plan then is for us to 00:05:33.760 --> 00:05:34.160 - create 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:42.640 - this pipeline of future employees for these companies to solve their employment issues 00:05:42.640 --> 00:05:51.680 - and also to meet the needs of our young people. And so while they're in high school these students 00:05:51.680 --> 00:06:00.080 - are going to go through training, get the certifications they need, turn 18, get a high 00:06:00.080 --> 00:06:10.160 - school diploma and then they are ready to move right into to these companies. And then if we have 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:17.280 - a student who they simply want to go from high school and get a job and work in that job for the 00:06:17.280 --> 00:06:27.200 - rest of their lives at those companies they could do that. If they want to go into another area of 00:06:27.200 --> 00:06:32.800 - the medical field and they want to expand their education these companies will pay for their 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:41.280 - education to go get their bachelor's degree their master's degree or whatever and be a catalyst to 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:52.640 - the young people going into the health field. And so we are in the process of adding on to the high 00:06:52.640 --> 00:07:00.720 - school. We're in a designed phase but we want to add on to the high school two training rooms. 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:10.080 - One of the training rooms will be for sharing with Boston Scientific and Cook and the other 00:07:10.080 --> 00:07:19.600 - will be sort of a sim lab similar to what they have here at IU Health where we will have replica 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:29.920 - health hospital rooms where the students can actually go and practice. Now just to offer that 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:38.880 - to the students cold we might not have much success so we are also developing career pathways 00:07:38.880 --> 00:07:45.440 - and I think you might remember Jennifer Barrett talking last time about career pathways. I believe 00:07:45.440 --> 00:07:55.200 - we have 17 or 18 now but one of them is biomedical education biomedical science and technology 00:07:55.200 --> 00:08:06.080 - engineering those are just a few and so we had a very exciting meeting earlier this week between 00:08:06.080 --> 00:08:15.360 - our junior high and our high school administrators counselors on making sure that these pathways 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:22.480 - which will start at the junior high align with one another so as they go move from junior high 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:29.520 - to high school they they could be on that trajectory to go into a career related to 00:08:29.520 --> 00:08:37.520 - like I said biomedical training or engineering whatever the students want to do and one of our 00:08:37.520 --> 00:08:45.920 - principals asked at the meeting do other schools have this much communication and collaboration 00:08:45.920 --> 00:08:52.080 - between junior high and high school to make sure that the student doesn't get off track that they're 00:08:52.080 --> 00:09:00.720 - on track and you know we really have to to realize that this is also an opportunity for students to 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:07.680 - figure out I don't want to do the engineering I don't want to do biomedical training or whatever 00:09:07.680 --> 00:09:15.120 - and rather than making those decisions after a couple years of college and so this is going 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:26.160 - very well we have met several times with each of these organizations and my curriculum people 00:09:26.160 --> 00:09:32.560 - and their training people are right now they're sitting down and they're taking a training module 00:09:32.560 --> 00:09:39.200 - that they would do for somebody who's going to come to work every day and making that fit into 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:46.720 - a student who's going to come to class for an hour every day and how long that might take and 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:52.480 - the other part of that as I mentioned that we're building onto the high school we're in a design 00:09:52.480 --> 00:10:00.240 - stage of that right now we've met with the architect we're in the process of going through 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:07.600 - we're in the bonding process so we're going through the all the the legal meetings that 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:18.560 - that public hearings that you have to have and this is definitely one of those projects 00:10:18.560 --> 00:10:26.720 - on the list so that's probably the thing I'm most excited about tonight and it's my wife doesn't 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:34.320 - like it because she's kind of trying to get me to retire and I keep coming up with all these 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:42.800 - new ideas that I want to see through and so I appreciate what you're doing yeah yeah yeah 00:10:45.760 --> 00:10:53.350 - the other thing that that where we were taking the foundation that you guys led with us left with 00:10:53.350 --> 00:10:53.920 - us 00:10:53.920 --> 00:11:04.160 - and growing on that is the importance of using data to drive what we do so we are part of 00:11:04.160 --> 00:11:12.960 - Robert Marzano's high reliability schools our school board officially passed a resolution 00:11:13.520 --> 00:11:22.160 - saying that we are a high reliability school corporation and so there are five levels to 00:11:22.160 --> 00:11:28.560 - be in an HRS school level one is safe supportive and collaborative culture 00:11:28.560 --> 00:11:35.040 - two is effective teaching in every classroom three is guaranteed and viable curriculum 00:11:35.760 --> 00:11:46.960 - four is standards reference reporting and five is a competency based education and so our schools 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:52.400 - have been in the process of working through level one they're gathering data they're gathering 00:11:52.400 --> 00:12:01.760 - information they're gathering gathering evidence and our junior high school was the first school 00:12:01.760 --> 00:12:09.280 - last week to actually submit for level one and so they they submit it's a like I said it's just 00:12:09.280 --> 00:12:18.640 - tons and tons of data information and then we'll get some feedback from the HRS folks and letting 00:12:18.640 --> 00:12:24.720 - us know if we're that school's on track they need to make any adjustments to their proposal and 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:31.840 - hopefully we'll get some positive news that they will be certified at level one 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:39.200 - and if so then in january they'll have to go down to san antonio texas to accept their 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:40.080 - certification 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:45.840 - and we'll have a big celebration so junior high is a little bit ahead of everybody else they've 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:51.440 - already submitted not far behind is edward high school they're ready to submit in the next week 00:12:51.440 --> 00:13:01.600 - or two and then eis and and eps now there we're already working on level two which is effective 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:09.040 - teaching in every classroom and it's not just let me back up here a little bit for years and years 00:13:09.040 --> 00:13:16.080 - and years the state of indiana has put uh created a mindset in schools that you have to develop a 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:25.760 - school improvement plan and what that has led to is that it's basically a check off we submitted 00:13:25.760 --> 00:13:32.800 - this item we submitted that item it really doesn't lead to school improvement it's just checking 00:13:32.800 --> 00:13:33.360 - off 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:40.720 - boxes so that the state knows you submitted your school improvement plan this is all about changing 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:49.520 - mindsets and changing culture and uh and that sometimes could be a challenge and so uh we're 00:13:49.520 --> 00:13:57.120 - trying to get our everyone our teachers our administrators that when they say hey i find 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:05.200 - this really important strategy uh that i want to implement in my classroom uh the answer back to 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:11.280 - them is we're show me the data or if they say i don't want to do a particular strategy in my 00:14:11.280 --> 00:14:19.840 - classroom show me the data and uh so that that's kind of where we are uh and trying to change that 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:27.840 - mindset another mindset we have to change is um i think teachers are often uh afraid of data 00:14:30.160 --> 00:14:36.240 - in terms of uh i don't want to sit down with my principal and go over my test scores because if 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:42.000 - they're not where they're supposed to be uh i'm going to feel like i'm not a very effective teacher 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:47.200 - and that's just not how you use data you use data to determine okay here's what the data is telling 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:53.200 - me where do i need to make adjustments in my instruction what do i need to make adjustments 00:14:53.200 --> 00:15:00.160 - adjustments in my strategies and you might ask well where does this all lead lead back to what 00:15:00.160 --> 00:15:06.880 - we're all about which which is being a stem school and promoting stem it's about making those 00:15:06.880 --> 00:15:15.770 - opportunities in stem much more impactful much more meaningful not only to getting an a on that 00:15:15.770 --> 00:15:16.000 - next 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:27.520 - activity or that next test or project but helping them to be successful in life and i can't say 00:15:27.520 --> 00:15:35.920 - enough about how we're tying all this together and it you know really almost want to put this 00:15:35.920 --> 00:15:44.480 - upside down because yes rdc is at the foundation of that that it's going up and out 00:15:46.160 --> 00:15:51.520 - not like you know like this but it's going out more and more and more and more growing and growing 00:15:51.520 --> 00:16:01.680 - so that's kind of my presentation for tonight we continue to monitor the funds that you give us and 00:16:01.680 --> 00:16:10.960 - most of the funds go to providing people who work with teachers work with students 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:17.440 - and to make sure that these things that we're we tell you about are actually getting done 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:26.480 - and getting implemented with fidelity so any questions for me i have i just i have several 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:32.560 - but that excuse me the one i want to ask is what's the student's attitude about it all 00:16:32.560 --> 00:16:41.120 - how do they feel i hear more from the seniors who tell me why didn't we start this earlier 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:51.760 - um you know we we um i've actually been told that from our our seniors several times 00:16:51.760 --> 00:17:02.880 - and going into this now as an elementary educator but i've learned so much about 00:17:02.880 --> 00:17:07.920 - high school students that we don't really give them enough credit they are smart 00:17:09.760 --> 00:17:16.000 - and uh well another uh new new process that we have uh we 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:23.520 - purchased along with some help um two video boards for for the gym 00:17:23.520 --> 00:17:32.880 - and these aren't just scoreboards it can be a scoreboard but they are a place where the students 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:43.520 - are creating videos marketing the uh companies uh advertisement uh and also telling our story uh of 00:17:43.520 --> 00:17:51.520 - the achievements of our students uh if you see the sign down by 46 in front of the the our 00:17:51.520 --> 00:17:52.320 - technology 00:17:52.320 --> 00:18:02.640 - department it's a video board also and all the students are doing those uh putting those videos 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:10.560 - on uh on the the screens for people to see so um we just continue to try to give our students more 00:18:10.560 --> 00:18:18.640 - more opportunities and uh they are loving it i remember you know when you try something new 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:27.440 - and innovative you know there's a little bit of worry behind that of okay but will the kids like it 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:34.800 - will the students respond to it and uh our innovative learning center is just a hopping place 00:18:34.800 --> 00:18:48.320 - and a lot has to do with people um i'd say i guess it was new 2019 and uh we were visiting schools 00:18:48.320 --> 00:18:56.880 - across the country on um student-run businesses and i actually about the third fourth visit 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:03.840 - got a little nervous because i thought okay it's not just a pro not just a building it's not just 00:19:03.840 --> 00:19:11.360 - the facilities their programs are working because of people and so people like uh lisa wilson who 00:19:11.360 --> 00:19:18.960 - runs our uh ilc um she's making a difference and the students are recognizing her 00:19:19.840 --> 00:19:27.600 - stacia meyers is another business teacher that's making a difference um and uh that's what that's 00:19:27.600 --> 00:19:32.800 - what counts and we're so we're really blessed to have people behind all this success 00:19:32.800 --> 00:19:40.080 - can i i just want to make sure everybody's aware that uh commissioner cassidy is attending 00:19:40.080 --> 00:19:40.480 - virtually 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:45.360 - tonight he has been online throughout the whole meeting and i would ask tsd to promote him 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:50.000 - so that he can work his camera and microphone thank you 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:58.640 - colin have you has your son been involved with any of this 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:07.120 - yeah mostly media so he's he's had a fascination with film uh for a while but i think that 00:20:07.120 --> 00:20:15.600 - that um ken grile has done a great job running that department and um he's changed up the space 00:20:15.600 --> 00:20:21.520 - this year and and that's great and i think that it gives it allows for more collaboration so it's 00:20:21.520 --> 00:20:21.760 - not 00:20:21.760 --> 00:20:29.280 - you know he changes a little bit every year this and that the podcast studio is now i think mostly 00:20:29.280 --> 00:20:35.840 - um kind of a backup type room which that's fine i think that it's reflective of where it needs to 00:20:35.840 --> 00:20:45.040 - be right and uh our son really appreciates the opportunities and and i think that um he's learning 00:20:45.040 --> 00:20:53.680 - because he's also you know being taught not to slack off a little bit too um but but it's been 00:20:53.680 --> 00:21:00.090 - good for him and and i think with um with the other kids in the class too uh they've learned a lot 00:21:00.090 --> 00:21:00.240 - so 00:21:01.120 --> 00:21:06.880 - that's it's a good step and i think it's been a success at the junior high level that's what's 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:14.400 - still amazing about it so this year with our student-run business the coffee shop 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:22.800 - uh you know kids graduate so you have to find some new managers and uh they just pick up right 00:21:22.800 --> 00:21:23.040 - where 00:21:23.040 --> 00:21:32.720 - the old managers left off and one of our managers from last year is this year he's in the iu kelly 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:39.760 - school of business and i happened to sit down with him at a soccer game recently and he was telling 00:21:39.760 --> 00:21:49.840 - me that um he really was having trouble getting into the iu kelly school of business until he 00:21:49.840 --> 00:21:57.920 - read it wrote an essay on his experiences running a a business in high school and that that was 00:21:57.920 --> 00:21:58.160 - what 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:06.800 - got him over the edge so we like that all because of you guys and i want to keep going back to that 00:22:06.800 --> 00:22:13.600 - i can't say it enough um we appreciate you guys and we'd love to have you come over sometime and 00:22:13.600 --> 00:22:26.000 - check things out so we now have people graduating that have been in these snim programs for 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:39.360 - years now nine years started one in elementary and second grade yeah yes and uh 00:22:41.360 --> 00:22:47.200 - all right i could just tell you that it's changed the culture of the the school corporation in so 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:53.920 - many ways and um and these students are having experiences that when they go into college now 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:59.920 - they're a little bit ahead of the game and that's kind of the the word that that we get back i wish 00:22:59.920 --> 00:23:06.240 - there was a way to capture that data of students who've graduated we're going to have to work on 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:12.320 - on it's so hard to catch up to students but maybe there's a way to do that or firm we could work 00:23:12.320 --> 00:23:12.480 - with 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:18.800 - oh i would say is i because i was here when we started this program if you would have told me 00:23:18.800 --> 00:23:24.080 - and i think that was nine to ten years ago i thought it was 25 or 15 or 16 if you would 00:23:24.080 --> 00:23:31.120 - have told me that the school was going to add a room for baxter and cook to come in and do training 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:38.560 - that would i mean that would have been amazing but it also would have been kind of what the rough 00:23:38.560 --> 00:23:42.960 - vision was at the time because when we did this we had letters from cook we had letters from 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:48.160 - you know the all the businesses in the west side tiff saying these this this is the type of thing 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:55.040 - and i think it would have filled in greatly with putting probably beyond even their dreams at the 00:23:55.040 --> 00:24:03.680 - time of of something that would happen you know we've visited the training facilities of all three 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:12.240 - of those organizations and i was encouraged really highly encouraged because the personalities 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:20.000 - of the trainers who work for cook or boston scientific they're going to fit in just well 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:26.960 - with high school students and that's what i can't wait to see is to see them build relationships 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:34.080 - the old the old days of having a job fair that's not really very effective because 00:24:34.080 --> 00:24:43.600 - it doesn't really go deep inside a student they don't really have a deep understanding 00:24:43.600 --> 00:24:48.480 - of what a company is all about they don't know what boston scientific does or cook medical does 00:24:49.600 --> 00:24:55.840 - but you have somebody from those companies meeting with them every day building a relationship with 00:24:55.840 --> 00:25:02.560 - them they're going to learn firsthand not only what those companies are all about but they're 00:25:02.560 --> 00:25:08.160 - going to make a connection with jeff who works at say you work at boston scientific and then 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:16.800 - when i graduate i'm not going anywhere else but boston scientific and our partners are very excited 00:25:17.520 --> 00:25:25.920 - in each of those organizations so where maybe last year at this time you know i was i was maybe a 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:31.600 - little more stressed is this really a possibility is this really going to work well i could tell 00:25:31.600 --> 00:25:31.840 - you 00:25:31.840 --> 00:25:37.520 - from these meetings and the progress we've made that it's just a matter of time we may actually 00:25:37.520 --> 00:25:46.000 - get it going before the facility is finished we may have to just find a room or use my office 00:25:47.280 --> 00:25:53.840 - we'll get it we'll get it done i just thought one of the things you could do to try and keep 00:25:53.840 --> 00:26:02.240 - track of the results that certain that edgewood and other i mean all the high schools have alumni 00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:08.640 - reunion kinds of things and having something available at one of those reunions where you 00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:15.680 - could collect information about what those kids are doing now might be one avenue for you to 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:16.080 - collect 00:26:16.080 --> 00:26:25.200 - some data about the long-term impact and i think i know who just who needs to do that and that we 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:34.880 - have a a career coach that meets with each and every student and i think it's it's really going 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:40.400 - to be important to us that she not only works with students while they're in high school but 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:47.040 - stays in contact with them post high school and so that we can gather that that kind of data 00:26:47.040 --> 00:26:50.000 - that we need but that's kind of probably where we need to go next 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:57.840 - and we've never had an edgewood alumni group of really of any kind it's always been the 00:26:57.840 --> 00:27:03.760 - individual classes not like ellisville where it's everybody and they have their big reunion 00:27:03.760 --> 00:27:09.600 - every couple of years i think but it'd be interesting to get maybe that's the impetus 00:27:09.600 --> 00:27:15.280 - to get something going with her is to in order to track you got to have some kind of at least a 00:27:15.280 --> 00:27:21.200 - structure it doesn't have to be big formal and bureaucratic but right at least some kind of 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:27.440 - structure where we can track how how graduates are doing what they're doing and and eventually 00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:32.560 - filter away you know because it's been 60 years now since the school opened maybe filter our way 00:27:32.560 --> 00:27:42.080 - back to you know do a video program with with that's coming what from from where we started and 00:27:42.080 --> 00:27:42.320 - where 00:27:42.320 --> 00:27:49.680 - we are and do that with chat with the community action program they're always looking for programs 00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:55.680 - and i think if you do it in short spurts not a great big long one but i bet somebody there 00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:59.680 - would be interested or some of your students might be interested in helping put it together too 00:28:01.360 --> 00:28:09.840 - so at a recent presentation one of our new managers of the coffee shop mentioned that she 00:28:09.840 --> 00:28:16.480 - is staying in constant communication with one of the managers who left because he graduated and 00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:23.360 - i don't know if that's ever been a connection for students where they're there i'm here's this 00:28:23.360 --> 00:28:30.880 - connection i have and someone in college already and i'm learning from them how they did ran their 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:42.080 - their business at edgwood high school and i think once you know so yeah we have classes who come 00:28:42.080 --> 00:28:42.320 - back 00:28:42.320 --> 00:28:51.520 - all the time in fact next saturday we're going to take a class on a tour of the high school 00:28:51.520 --> 00:28:58.080 - but eventually those those classes will start having their reunions and get togethers 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:03.840 - and we can definitely have a captive audience for those 00:29:03.840 --> 00:29:10.320 - i think there's more i'd like to be able to do some surveys with these folks and 00:29:10.320 --> 00:29:19.200 - get a small group together that you can video and have an interaction and say okay 00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:25.280 - what happened here and so on that that's really and show the fact that you've got had the 00:29:26.560 --> 00:29:32.800 - coffee shop and a couple other things too that i don't think everybody know that that many people 00:29:32.800 --> 00:29:38.480 - know about it let's just do that i'll just say i'll make a commitment right now that before we 00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:46.880 - present in february or march whenever the next one is we'll have a we will have had a focus group 00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:47.040 - of 00:29:47.040 --> 00:29:54.720 - post-graduates and we'll video that and and bring that to you for that that presentation that'd be 00:29:54.720 --> 00:30:03.600 - good yeah all right congratulations for itself mr jones you should go and visit anytime 00:30:03.600 --> 00:30:10.800 - thank you dr sanders appreciate the report and uh keep up the good work 00:30:10.800 --> 00:30:18.480 - yes all right uh the next item our agenda are the minutes just a minute would you send those 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:19.040 - graphics 00:30:19.040 --> 00:30:27.520 - to um well what i shared with you yeah yeah we just sent them to jeff so that he can send them to 00:30:27.520 --> 00:30:28.000 - us 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:34.880 - i think we'd like to see them thank you that's would be a good place thank you sorry richard 00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:45.040 - what do we got next okay uh we have two sets of minutes that's right uh july and august if i'm not 00:30:45.040 --> 00:30:52.880 - mistaken it's a july one so i can't really vote on it although i think i attended by 00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:58.080 - channel three that's how i did it that's how i found you guys 00:30:58.080 --> 00:31:05.680 - and the other one i i didn't see anything i've noticed a couple places where you misspelled my 00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:15.760 - name that oh we have some some name serious name correction well it's just a matter of ia and ai 00:31:15.760 --> 00:31:22.640 - and you know those kind of things the small small things and unfortunately our computers don't 00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:28.720 - decide to help us with that yes microsoft has decided that your name is incorrect and it needs 00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:35.600 - to be that way the first time but not the second time yeah that's the interesting part okay what 00:31:35.600 --> 00:31:45.200 - do we okay i'd say i'll make a motion to approve the minutes for july 16th and for what's the other 00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:54.640 - one august 20th august 20th okay i'll second we have a motion and second to approve the minutes 00:31:54.640 --> 00:32:02.560 - of july and august uh jeff read the roll please commissioner martin yes commissioner jones yes 00:32:02.560 --> 00:32:10.480 - commissioner keesling yes commissioner mccarty yes commissioner cassidy yes motion is approved 00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:14.800 - five to zero all right claims 00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:24.640 - i've got two pieces of paper that have claims on it jeff did you give me a new one or 00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:33.930 - the first one had an incorrect uh block of voters because it hadn't been updated for mr jones so 00:32:33.930 --> 00:32:34.560 - the 00:32:34.560 --> 00:32:39.760 - the information on it should be the same other than the the signature block and you've got a 00:32:39.760 --> 00:32:48.240 - signature one with correct yes okay all right so the the claims for this month are from financial 00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:56.320 - solutions group for fifteen hundred dollars city of bloomington utilities for uh one thousand five 00:32:56.320 --> 00:33:05.040 - hundred and thirty three dollars and then our spring 2025 stem for rbb uh community school 00:33:05.040 --> 00:33:10.160 - corporation of one hundred and sixty three thousand three hundred and five dollars and 00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:16.440 - fifteen cents for a total of one hundred and sixty six thousand three hundred and thirty eight 00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:18.560 - dollars and thirty five cents 00:33:18.560 --> 00:33:26.560 - questions or about these approval i second second 00:33:26.560 --> 00:33:39.760 - have a motion and a second jeff would you call the roll well let me roll this is to vote for 00:33:39.760 --> 00:33:44.880 - the approval of the claims for financial solutions group city of bloomington utilities 00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:52.720 - and the spring 2025 stem rbb csc payment total one hundred and sixty six thousand 00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:56.400 - three hundred and thirty eight dollars and thirty five cents jeff would you call the roll 00:33:56.400 --> 00:34:04.160 - commissioner martin yes commissioner jones yes commissioner kiesling commissioner mccarty yes 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:14.240 - commissioner cassidy yes motion is approved five to zero all right we're up to staff comments 00:34:14.240 --> 00:34:23.520 - lisa you want to start um we had a good time we had a good time our first ribbon cutting for the 00:34:23.520 --> 00:34:29.120 - month um we are trying to let me go through sunrise greetings first we will still have to 00:34:29.120 --> 00:34:35.200 - walk through uh with end dot and the contractor for punch list items we don't foresee anything 00:34:35.200 --> 00:34:40.960 - big coming or rising from that um and then we'll work through all the quantities there'll probably 00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:48.480 - be some change orders come through um they are all participating items which means um they will run 00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:54.160 - through the normal end dot process if there's money left on the contract they're participating 00:34:54.160 --> 00:34:59.920 - items then they will cover those at the 80 20 um anything outside of that we'll run it through 00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:08.160 - the regular um uh process claim process at 100 local um but that'll take some time it'll be a 00:35:08.160 --> 00:35:14.080 - couple months of going through that process closing out that project um it won't close 00:35:14.080 --> 00:35:21.440 - out for a few years just because it takes them a while to audit it um fullerton pike phase three 00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:30.240 - they should finish paving tomorrow they were to be on site today to do the layout for striping 00:35:30.240 --> 00:35:38.240 - there's some cbu work that's scheduled for overnight monday night 14 part property owners 00:35:38.240 --> 00:35:45.120 - will be notified they won't will not have water overnight so they want to give them a a heads up 00:35:45.120 --> 00:35:52.080 - on that um we have some loops to put in for the trap new traffic signal we have some pedestrian 00:35:52.080 --> 00:35:59.120 - railing to put in we hope to have everything in place done by next wednesday so i kind of sent a 00:35:59.120 --> 00:36:07.120 - doodle poll for some times looks like right now the the winning time is friday morning the 26th 00:36:07.120 --> 00:36:16.320 - at 9 a.m to have that ribbon cutting so get that notice out in the morning if that's okay 00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:25.280 - and we'll go from there it looks great with the asphalt now it looks like real road makes a 00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:29.600 - huge difference i've been checking on it twice a day i told richard i think when they see my 00:36:29.600 --> 00:36:36.400 - car drive up twice a day it's um they probably worry about it i'm sure they do i'm sure they do 00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:42.960 - um not probably very popular right now but that's okay we're going to get it open and uh and the 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:48.720 - weather has been cooperating so that's a good thing um so next friday morning the 26th at 9 a.m 00:36:48.720 --> 00:36:53.840 - is what the notice will go out to be um to the public i know the media has been quite calling 00:36:53.840 --> 00:37:00.240 - quite a bit um so i'll get it all out to them send send it to all your emails and hopefully you can 00:37:00.240 --> 00:37:06.960 - attend um we'll send it to the school library um that way the school buses should mostly be out 00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:12.000 - of the way at nine um and then we're not in their way at the end of the day either so 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:19.040 - that's kind of where they got 00:37:26.320 --> 00:37:33.920 - pick up this and then i'll go to the festival and be there at 10 when the kids started fighting 00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:46.960 - it's coming yeah it's coming it's coming hundreds of little kids a lot of kids 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:55.920 - okay uh jack do you have anything i think when you we look through the minutes you'll see 00:37:55.920 --> 00:38:03.360 - a couple references to residential tiff and a potential project on west side of the county 00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:08.880 - still working on that i think we had another meeting with the group that are primarily looking 00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:16.400 - at sewer extensions and and how to solve the that issue on that side of town still working through 00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:21.360 - that don't have it we do not have anything concrete yet but i think my next step is going to be to 00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:25.600 - reach out to planning to see what their thoughts are on some of the ideas that have been floating 00:38:25.600 --> 00:38:29.600 - around and so look for that in a future meeting knock on wood 00:38:29.600 --> 00:38:36.080 - yeah in conjunction with that i've been communicating with a couple of the 00:38:36.080 --> 00:38:40.000 - utility service board members and i think i'm going to end up doing a 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:46.320 - presentation of this sewer district that they don't know about because we already have a 00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:52.560 - relationship for some county sewering right in conjunction with usb and i think it's 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:58.720 - both of us trying to work together to solve this problem is going to be a better way forward than 00:38:58.720 --> 00:39:06.240 - each of us kind of going our own way it's just the amount of money that's involved is too high 00:39:06.240 --> 00:39:13.190 - for us not to think about how we're going to manage this together and i think for the context of 00:39:13.190 --> 00:39:13.360 - the 00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:18.240 - project you're thinking of i think that makes total sense and is much more efficient but as 00:39:18.240 --> 00:39:23.440 - we've discussed there may be other opportunities to to effect out elsewhere so i think we're still 00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:29.520 - going to follow those through oh yes no we certainly are the other issue is that there 00:39:29.520 --> 00:39:33.280 - may be other areas of the county that we should be thinking about in the same way and 00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:42.560 - the difficulty always is that a residential tiff doesn't generate a lot of money in a hurry 00:39:42.560 --> 00:39:50.000 - and so you need some way to get a chunk at the start probably with some kind of commercial 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:58.800 - activity involved with it or some multifamily dwelling project of significant size to generate 00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:07.360 - enough tiff revenue to get the parts of it that are hard to do we know a lot about what it takes 00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:14.000 - to build this stuff we don't know a lot about how to get it paid for in a reasonable way so 00:40:16.640 --> 00:40:24.160 - okay uh have comments okay we're up to commissioner comments let me start with 00:40:24.160 --> 00:40:26.320 - randy you have any comments out there 00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:35.760 - just the uh hats off to dr sanders rbb and the lisa and getting the roads open and going 00:40:35.760 --> 00:40:40.800 - the paving guys this morning lisa as i cut through there indicated we're going to have 00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:44.480 - it done next week and that that was guys on the ground so i think you've been pushing them 00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:49.840 - adequately in a way that they're excited to have it done so appreciate everything you got you're 00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:55.760 - doing on that lisa jeff and residential tiff you know as you said richard you know we got to solve 00:40:55.760 --> 00:41:06.880 - the solutions together so i appreciate everything guys okay mike anything like the rbb presentation 00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:17.200 - you know owning a business 15 years and trying to play base was more than difficult 00:41:17.200 --> 00:41:25.680 - and we had ivy tech we had the schools around us and we didn't get thousands of openings for the 00:41:25.680 --> 00:41:31.760 - for the kind of jobs that we did in the in the area i lived in and the talent pool just was 00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:41.520 - exciting to high schools it's happening up there now too but it's it's exciting to see high schools 00:41:41.520 --> 00:41:46.080 - buy that or help to supply that labor need 00:41:46.080 --> 00:41:58.880 - here's anything okay colin yeah great presentation dr sanders thank you so much and i think that 00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:06.240 - with semper's involvement it's it's already becoming a game changer in the community and 00:42:06.240 --> 00:42:13.520 - with that investment they'll um but they're making a great bike wow it's um all in richland 00:42:13.520 --> 00:42:21.280 - township and so this is even better and and when you look at the power of centra and cook and you 00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:28.960 - know other entities in the township um that are in life sciences it's um i think it's only the 00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:39.200 - beginning so um it is fantastic to see and yeah i i just sat in amazement having grown up in that 00:42:39.200 --> 00:42:47.600 - area and knowing the people who were behind um merging original and bean blossom and then having 00:42:47.600 --> 00:42:53.040 - to fight for its survival it's paid off and i think they would be extremely proud today 00:42:54.960 --> 00:43:01.440 - and be your biggest champions on this project so and i you know those men too they were you know 00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:09.840 - dedicated um to getting the school corporation created and uh here we are talking about setting 00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:21.760 - up a bio biomedical uh lab simulator if you will um to teach also uh so the uh the bridge opening 00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:27.680 - um and the upcoming i mean we've got two great projects that now we open here and 00:43:27.680 --> 00:43:35.840 - um won't be able to make fuller than bike but i think this is gonna obviously another game changer 00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:43.200 - it just opens things up so much and um hopefully we can then um lay a good foundation for a 00:43:43.200 --> 00:43:49.520 - residential tiff whatever that looks like under our new property tax regime so uh that's the big 00:43:49.520 --> 00:43:56.400 - question i have but thank you let me add thank you very much lisa for all the things you've done to 00:43:56.400 --> 00:44:04.240 - get all these projects accomplished as efficiently and so quickly typically but that's right 00:44:04.240 --> 00:44:11.040 - it takes a lot okay don't add up don't add up the years we started that about 50 years ago 00:44:11.040 --> 00:44:18.640 - thoroughfare yes in the end dots records it was 2008 2008 is when it was officially became a 00:44:18.640 --> 00:44:19.280 - project 00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:23.600 - right after 1966 00:44:23.600 --> 00:44:33.120 - i think i was on the county commissioners when when that was even was percolating if i recall 00:44:33.120 --> 00:44:39.440 - that was just starting big projects take a long time long time it takes a while 00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:46.480 - all together a lot of money from different places different places yes yes um speaking of projects 00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:52.560 - there the other our next effort as we have talked about before with our west side tiff is now we 00:44:52.560 --> 00:44:52.640 - can 00:44:52.640 --> 00:45:01.680 - start turning our attention to every pike and the improvements in media mitigation of its heavy use 00:45:01.680 --> 00:45:07.760 - for the last few years uh that'll be our next big task that we're going to have to doing bits and 00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:12.400 - pieces because we have stretched ourselves about as thin as we can at this point and 00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:17.680 - careful about how we proceed but uh we do have 00:45:17.680 --> 00:45:28.880 - that i think we are done uh anybody want to move for adjournment 00:45:30.160 --> 00:45:45.200 - second motion and a second to adjourn we are adjourned thank you all for attending 00:46:15.200 --> 00:46:41.180 - 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