- call the meeting to order for today, what's today? May 20th, 2026. And let's go with a presentation
- from RBB and tell us where we are. And please introduce yourself so everybody knows who you are. I know,
- but. Well, I'm Dr. Jerry Sanders. I'm superintendent at Richmond Boston Schools.
- Like we try to go by Edgewood schools today. Everybody knows more about being Edgewood than RBB, I think,
- because of athletics and show choir and things like that. But yeah, so tonight I really just wanted
- to show off this magazine that we created.
- that was mailed out to everybody in the community. And this magazine was, everything in it was created
- by students. So you can see on the inside of the first page at the bottom, the names of the students
- who put this together. They did all the writing, the picture taking, the arranging, the marketing, everything
- except for maybe
- There's some comments from the principals that they wrote their own comments. I wrote my own comment.
- But other than that, this was generated by students. And this is basically an assignment that I gave
- them at the beginning of the school year that I asked the marketing team to create a
- presentation of some sort that we could tell our story and what we're doing in Edgewood schools. And
- so they decided to put together this magazine and tell our story about what we're trying to do across
- Edgewood schools. So what I want you to do is when you turn into the first page, page three actually,
- You'll see three words, explore, engage, and experience. Colin? Challenge, Colin. That's my challenge.
- Challenge, right on. Welcome aboard, Mr. Colin. Thank you. It was a major accident.
- Yeah, that's what got me. I saw that, yeah. And we just started to listen to it. We're on page three
- of the magazine that was created by our students and mailed out throughout the community. And like I
- was saying, it was an assignment given to our students and our marketing team to create this.
- And they focused on three words, explore, engage, and experience. And this is all career-centered. As
- you look through the pictures, I know sometimes we look at the pictures. And in fact, on page seven
- is a picture of my granddaughter. So to be honest with you, when I first looked through this and I saw
- her picture, I didn't really look at any other picture at first. Of course.
- She's got a magnifying glass in her hand. As you look through this magazine, it talks about each of
- our schools from the Edgewood Early Childhood Center, which is our preschool. It's a daycare and preschool,
- daycare for staff members, preschool for the community, and it's already full.
- for next year. We doubled the size of what we had before and it's already full. We can't keep up. We
- keep building, but we can't keep up. But take, I want you to look at these pictures and not necessarily
- at the cute kids, but look at what they're doing. And most of the pictures that you see from page to
- page, you can,
- They identify some kind of career that that activity that the student is doing, some kind of career
- that can be linked to what their activity is. And in fact, if you look on page six and seven, our childhood
- center, you'll see one with my granddaughter, Alati, she, you know, she's, I would say that's kind of
- just a place where she's exploring.
- and maybe it'll engaged in some type of research. Now, several years ago, when we were getting started
- in what we're doing with Ready Schools and the STEAM initiative, we took a trip to several schools across
- the country. And one of them, I'll never forget, it's just been
- Part of what I share because it was so meaningful to me, but we were up in Wisconsin. At a high school
- and they had a student run business that was a machining shop.
- And so they had students who took care of the accounting, took care of payroll, took care of going out
- and talking to customers. And then those who were actually doing the machining part of the business.
- And companies would come to them and say, hey, I have a job for you to do. And they would, just like
- any other company, make the arrangements, figure out the specs.
- and meet customers' desires, and they were a profitable business. And so when we were up there, and
- I sat down for lunch with the students, and it was one particular student who was across from me,
- I said, oh, he's a senior, so what do you want him to do when you graduate from high school? Well,
- he goes, I want to go on and get an education. I want to be a nurse someday. I was a little confused
- because I thought,
- What does machining have to do with being a nurse? How is that helping him in any way? And he explained
- to me, I'm learning how to problem solve. I'm learning how to talk to a customer. I'm learning how to
- listen for understanding all skills, soft skills, that I will be able to employ someday as a nurse.
- as we turn from page to page, you'd be able to, if you thought about it, you'd be able to link some
- type of career to most of the pictures in this magazine. If you go back to page four, you'll see our
- graduate profile. So everything, this kind of gives a good snapshot of Edgewood schools.
- But everything is focused on this graduate profile that you see on page four, that when a student graduates
- from Edgewood High School, we expect them to exemplify these areas, compassion, resilience, communication,
- collaboration, innovation, and critical thinking.
- Now a lot of times terms could have multiple meanings to people. That's why we put some other terms
- below each of those to kind of explain a little bit. What do we mean by compassion? Well, empathetic,
- generous, equitable, socially aware, resilience,
- reflective, adaptable, goal-oriented, industrious, and so forth as you go around. And so everything
- that we do needs to fit in to any one of these characteristics of what an Edgewood graduate is all about.
- Now, if you would, flip back to starting page 18.
- further. Page 20, it looks like this. This is, I showed you on page four what we expect our students
- to, the characteristics they should have when they graduate. But the key to this is breaking it down
- by grade levels. So when you get down to
- page 20, you'll see what those expectations look like at the primary school, and then at the intermediate
- school and the junior high school, so that we can track how we're preparing our students and saying,
- okay, what are we going to do at the primary school in grades K-2?
- What are we going to do at the intermediate school grades 3-5 that are going to eventually lead to these
- students actually having a graduate profile? We're not about putting a mission statement on a wall or
- in a document. This is all about putting things in action and living action. These aren't just words.
- These are things that students
- teachers are teaching and students are learning. So take another look through the different schools
- and you'll see the words explore, engage, and experience. So we're trying to develop in our students
- as they grow up and move from K to two, three to five, six to seven,
- We're trying to give them opportunities where they're developing their interests. What do they want
- to be someday? And a lot of times they're learning, what do I not want to be? I don't want to go into
- the health field. I don't like the sight of blood, so I don't want to be a nurse or a doctor. And they
- find out these things through exploring, engaging, and through experiences.
- on the junior high, a big program and that's pages 12 and 13. A big part of the program we have to junior
- high is edge media. And you'll see some of those pictures, top corner page 13, you'll see where the
- students are interviewing an individual.
- and recording that interview and putting that into a final product. The Ellisville Chamber of Commerce
- does, we do the awards every year, annual awards, and the people who are giving those awards, there's
- a video made of them. Our junior high kids do that. Today, I was at,
- We had our awards ceremonies at the junior high. I made every awards ceremony except for K-5 group.
- I was all of them. I had to hustle, but I made all of them. But you'll see in the gym, you saw the students,
- you saw parents, you saw the teachers and the principals giving out the awards. But up in the bleachers,
- the top part of the bleachers, you saw three cameras.
- who were recording the award ceremony for folks that couldn't be there. And who do you think was doing
- the recording? Junior high students themselves. They're the ones who are gonna put that together into
- a nice video for parents and grandparents. So on pages 14 and 15,
- is the high school. And you'll see where it shows some pictures about students attending job fairs,
- attending an opportunity to meet with companies so they can enter into an internship program.
- And job fairs, they've been around for a while.
- And that's kind of how we've always, schools have always done it. They've had a day where they invite
- companies in and the students go around and they talk to each of the businesses to learn about their
- career. And that's great and we still do that, but at Edgewood we're taking that a step further and
- we're giving them actual experiences.
- And one of those that we've talked about before is our coffee corral, our coffee shop that is the business
- model was created by students. We have three managers who run the business and they make tough decisions.
- I think I've mentioned this before, but
- I'm not a big coffee drinker, so I kind of took on one of their other products, a smoothie. And so every
- time I'd go over to the coffee shop, they'd make me a smoothie. And then one day I went over there and
- was off the menu. How can you take your superintendents' favorite drink off the menu?
- Well, they had done a cost analysis and determined that the cost of fruit made it something they couldn't
- be profitable for, and they replaced it with something else called a bubble drink. A bubble drink is
- just like, well, it could be lemonade and fruit and bubbles, they put them in. Favorite bubbles. My
- favorite drink now, actually.
- Last year when I was here, I believe that I reported that the students last year had achieved over $30,000
- in sales. This year, they exceeded 50,000. So this is a student-run business in high school selling
- enough product
- to have $50,000 in sales. And they hustled to do that. They're at all of our events, ball game or play
- or musical. Our coffee shop is open and they're taking orders. So there's more in this magazine that
- I could share with you, but we really wanted to put something together to tell our story.
- We live in a day and age where, especially Monroe County and especially where Edgewood schools are located,
- there's a lot of competition for students. And a school has to tell their story and then leave it up
- to the parents to decide, yeah, I like that story, that's where I want my kids to go. Everybody should
- be doing that. It's just very informative to parents and parents can make
- better decisions knowing what's going on at each of our schools. But there's also Bob Martin, right?
- Is it Bob? Richard. Richard Martin. Sorry. Sorry, Richard, if you're listening. But Richard is always
- somebody who wanted to have some, you know, where is this all getting us? How is this making a difference
- in the lives of kids?
- And I can tell you that we have some very solid evidence. So as long as I've been superintendent,
- you know, the Monroe County has every year two Lilly scholarship awards. As long as I've been
- a superintendent, which is from 2000, Edgewood has never even had, we've had some in the top 10, but
- never anybody who got the award.
- This year, we not only got, one of our students got one of the awards, but two of our students got the
- two awards, a little scholarship awards. And I believe the reason is they had a story to tell. They
- had an opportunity to tell about experiences. One of them is one of the managers of the coffee shop
- and our valedictorian actually.
- She was supposed to come when we were supposed to meet in April. She was going to come to that. And
- that meeting got canceled, I think. And then I tried to get her to come tonight, but this is tomorrow's
- last day of school. She had other commitments. She couldn't make it. But the interview is a very key
- part of winning that award.
- And I was given some guidance a few years back that our students at Edgewood needed to do a better job
- in those interviews happening now because they have something real, real experiences that they're living
- to tell about. They're not just saying, you know, hey, I have a business mind or I have the skills to
- be, to go into this Kelly School of Business.
- They actually are already developing those skills. They have those skills, and they can prove it by
- their experiences. We have many more direct admits into the Kelly School of Business. And so this is
- what we're after, is to have some really tangible impact that we're making on our students. And one
- of the inserts that I added
- into your magazine today that I wanted to share were just some highlights. Some of them are related
- to this presentation, and some of them it's just a superintendent bragging about his school. There are
- lots of brag. OK. So we have an honors night at the high school where they give out awards. But the
- biggest part of that night is they announced scholarships.
- And Dollars for Scholars, I don't know if you ever heard of Dollars for Scholars, but it's an organization
- in Alexville that they do a 5K run to earn some money and they give out scholarships to our students.
- They gave out $86,500 to our students this year. And that comes from other volunteers, other donors.
- not only just folks that participate in the 5K, but people, local businesses that just want to give
- back to the school. But the total amount, so this would be for everything, scholarships that the universities
- are giving out, dollars for scholars, other types of scholarships. But this year, it was $1,901,
- One almost two million dollars. How about that 1.9 million? Yeah, it's cool. 1.9. Yeah, how many students?
- Around 200 a little less than 200 this year, I think. So as I mentioned, we have two high school students
- who earn the little scholarship. The marching Mustangs this year won another state championship.
- Unfortunately, 80% of schools in Indiana are in declining enrollment, and we are not. We have a slow,
- steady growth going on, and a positive enrollment trend. So we're in that 20% of schools in Indiana
- that are growing. We're continuing to add quality staff, teachers, administrators, quality programs.
- I talk to you about our graduate profile, internship programs. I talk to you about the student-run
- businesses. So a few years ago, we started into a process called high reliability schools. And there
- are five levels to that. And it's basically creating a way of thinking that you're using data to be
- in a continuous
- mode of improvement. You're always trying to improve and you're using data to improve in those areas.
- Level one is really talking about school cultures, talking about school safety, and so all of our schools
- this year achieved level one. Levels two and three are curriculum and instruction, and that's what we're
- working on now.
- That's where real improvement is going to come from is using that data to try to get better. We're improving
- our facilities. At the high school, we expanded the kitchen and the cafeteria. And I don't know if you
- remember school lunches when you were a kid, but there was one item usually. You like it? Ate it? If
- you didn't, you didn't eat it.
- I mean, that's the way it was. Now, if you walk into our high school kitchen, there are so many different
- types of food that's available. Alibar, there's pizza, there's just all very healthy. We have a chef,
- actually, that works with our kids to help them to learn about tasting food and trying new foods.
- So that chef is really helping students to learn that, hey, maybe I do like broccoli or maybe I do like
- tomatoes or healthy foods. They don't even know it's in the product or the food that they're eating.
- I mentioned to our early childhood center, we opened up a new field house. Field house has three basketball courts.
- has a walking track and sports shoes in it. We have been pretty much it's booked solid by students using
- the field house. Some of our projects that are coming up will be this summer putting turf on our baseball
- and softball fields.
- We're expanding the band and choir rooms at the junior high and high school, making them larger for
- our students. The Life Sciences Biomedical Lab that we're building, this is a whole project that we're
- partnering with IU Health, Cook Medical, Boston Scientific, and Ivy Tech.
- provide an opportunity for those companies to send their own people onto our campus and to train our
- students in the biomedical fields. And so biomedical labs that we're creating will include on a much
- smaller scale than the IU, I don't know if you ever gone through the sim lab at the IU Health,
- but where the students practice their medical skills. Going to have a lab like that in the facility.
- And the Boston Scientific Cook Medical, like I said, they'll be sending folks into our high school to
- provide skills to our students. Now, it's not only providing the skills,
- experiences for our students, but it's also building relationships with those folks from Boston Scientific
- and Cook Medical. A lot of times students, all they know is they drive by this building that says Cook
- Medical or Boston Scientific, IU Health. They drive by, they don't necessarily have a clue that that
- Sunday could be an opportunity for them.
- So by building that relationship and say Brad's from Boston Scientific and he's coming into my classroom
- on a weekly basis and I'm building a relationship with Brad and then when I get to graduate I know exactly
- what Boston Scientific could offer me. I could go to Boston Scientific and get a job and then that company
- will then pay for me if I want to
- expand and become a nurse or a doctor or a scientist of some sort, they'll pay for that education. And
- so the whole idea is being a direct link from high school to our local businesses. And believe me, once
- we get this model going, then we have it successful, then we can expand it to other companies and
- develop partnerships with them and provide that link to future employees. And that's what our internship
- program does too. I think Smithville has had some interns. And so that's what it's all about is trying
- to be a good community partner
- take the funds that you guys give to us and it's so important because that pays for people to help plan
- these things, help organize them and help make these things happen in the classroom first. I always
- enjoy coming here because of the brag about what we do. I know we have other great schools around.
- but I'm gonna brag about mine. And I think Monroe County is a great place to live because we do have
- a lot of quality educational opportunities for our students throughout the county. And from public school
- to Ivy Tech to IU and
- It's just a great place to live and great opportunities. And if anybody out there is listening to this
- presentation and they'd like to have a tour of our schools, I'd be glad to set that up. If any of you
- would like to come, I was thinking today, I didn't know if we could ever have a meeting like this over
- on our campus someday. Just an idea. Next year, I do plan to bring
- more of our students. I've been giving this presentation for several years now. I think it's time to
- listen to our students. I want to bring some of those students over with me. I would say we could notice
- the meetings to happen in your facility. You could do that and then either before or after to give you
- a quick tour. Have the coffee shop kids provide you your favorite
- coffee or smoothie and while they do smoothies to the superintendent's drink which is a strawberry lemonade
- bubble drink do a quick before they take it off the menu yeah they have a they have something to call
- play it forward and so some of the athletes will they will
- I have a picture taken. It'll do a little marketing spill with the student's favorite drink. And if
- somebody in the school orders that drink, then a certain portion of the funds from paying for that drink
- will go to the local sports league. So it's kind of like the kids came to me one day and wanted to know
- if they could do the NIL deal.
- And I said, no, I can't do that. Back then, you couldn't. And so they came up with this idea of where
- they could promote the coffee shop, but also make a donation to the local sports league. That's good.
- Richard, listening to this.
- Richard is not. Richard is in a different continent. Okay. Don't tell him I called him Bob. You know,
- before we wrap up, I just want to make sure everyone's aware, and I can say this, is that our current
- agreement runs through the end of next year. So after the payment gets approved today, there are three
- more payments left, and then the agreement expires. And I think last year we waited another
- year before we started talking about maybe renewing it. So if there's an interest to renew it, I personally
- would rather start those discussions now so that we have a lot more time to work on it than to wait,
- I don't know, the last six months or whatever. But that is nothing we need to discuss today, but I thought
- I'd just make sure everybody's aware of it. You let me know what we need to do to renew it. I don't
- have a vote, but you know I'm for it.
- I mean, I guess by statute, it's 15%. I don't know off the top of my head what we'll receive for you.
- Yes, as values went up, no county. Those years go by fast. I didn't realize we were so close to. Well,
- that's why I brought it up. Well, it's been a few years.
- And I know it was only a five-year renewal, so it's like we're in year four or five, right? Yeah, it's
- been used very well. Have any questions? Keep going in the right direction. Yeah, absolutely. I'm so
- excited to see it from the beginning and not where you are, because I don't know how many of your students
- have graduated onto other things. And they're the ones we want to hear from, too.
- Yes, absolutely. Because I think we need to know where some of these young people have gone as a result
- of the experiences at Edgewood. That's probably one of the biggest lessons I've learned over the years.
- You know, high school students, they're very creative, they're very smart. More than sometimes we give them.
- That's certainly true. I've been running into quite a few young people recently that can't believe where
- it all comes from. Just fantastic. But we need to give them the tools to be able to express what they've
- learned. Yeah, keep going. Thank you for coming and showing us. Thanks for having me. Here's the next one.
- put it in the commissioner's office. Well, Jeff, you and I can get together and figure out when this
- will come over. And like I said, just look for, you know, August or September, you know, because that's
- generally when we do the presentations, the presentation in August or September, that to me would make
- the most sense. So it's easier for your students to
- to meet up and be there, and we could notice it any time. I mean, is that timeframe work for everyone?
- I would say if we could plan on September. September? And maybe talk about the renewal. Mm-hmm. Because
- there's a lot of programs that are impacted by this. Right. Mm-hmm. I try to bring back, like, I just
- saw one of our former
- managers of the coffee shop who's now first year at IU Kelley School of Business, have them, former
- students come back who are now in college and say, you know, how did this help me? Yeah, because that's
- what it's all about. That's why we're doing it, and I think that would be fantastic. I just want to
- tell you guys I appreciate each of you.
- I came to Edgewood in 2017, twice a year since then. So one of my favorite things to do is come. So
- in September, we'll have you come over. That'd be good. All right. Thank you. Jeff, you just have to
- make notice of where we're going to have our meeting. And I'll work with school. It seems pretty obvious
- to me that they have the technology
- that we probably don't need to bring anything with us as far as the cameras and the mics and all that
- kind of stuff. I'll get started on that with our director of technology tomorrow. Oh, good. That'd be
- great. Would it be communication work? Yeah, we do all of our regular board meetings and our work sessions.
- They're streamed a lot using CAS. Of our tech guys talk to their tech guys and work out all those kind of
- that I know nothing about. All right, thank you, guys. Good luck. Continue the work. Jeff, who's supposed
- to be chair, he or me? I think Colin's vice president. Your vice president, Joe, you need to chair the
- meeting. Okay, I get to chair the meeting.
- Okay. Well, it is I think we have a couple sets of minutes. I think the next thing on the agenda, if
- you need it, is the excess assessed value. You kind of wanted me to introduce those. I'd be more than
- happy to. At the last meeting we had our annual reports and as we went through our annual reports we
- talked about things such as what are our revenues going to be like, what are our expenses going to be
- like, what do we have in our plans, and then we always ask our
- consultant, whether we have any excess assessed value. To this point, we've never, he's always recommended
- that we do not have any excess assessed value, and I'm just gonna go through the four TIF districts
- and kind of explain the justifications for that, and if you have any questions, I will do my best to
- answer it based upon my memory of our last meeting. The Westside TIF district, we're currently been
- very low on our cash since when we did the
- connection of Vernal Pike to Gates Drive. That project was a very expensive project for us, and we got
- a lot of federal funding for it, which was great, but that had our cash balance very low. We are beginning
- to do the Curry reconstruction project, and this is also the TIF district that pays for the RBCSC contract,
- as well as purchasing a fire truck for Richland
- Township Ellitsville, their combined fire program. And so the recommendation for this is that we need
- to maintain our revenue in there so we can continue to do phase two and phase three. And I can't remember
- if there's a phase four of Curry Pike reconstruction. So those are kind of the things that are going
- to utilize that funds for the next few years. There's also some trail projects in the fifth district.
- The State Road 46 corridor TIF district we currently and the hope is within this year or next year the
- Hunter Valley Road project will be construction and so the money that we are collecting now will go
- to pay for the debt associated with that project once it gets moving and that's the the big
- the big project there and the reason we need to, and right now it also is not generating a ton, it's
- generating based upon a couple of businesses, otherwise it's mostly open ground. Fullerton Pike TIF
- district, we have half the revenue in that TIF district sent, designated for the Fullerton Pike phase
- three debt, which along with the major bridge fund,
- Again, this TIF district does not raise a ton of revenue, and the fear with this TIF district has always
- been if the main taxpayer, which is the hospital, Monroe Hospital, if it went not-for-profit, then the
- revenue would even decrease even more. And so the final one is the Curry Profile TIF district. This
- is the old G building, and we still have debt on it that we owe Cook.
- a startup that didn't really work out in right before covid we had a bond issue we did we have the issuance
- cost which is all we've had and then covid hit and everything with that property changed now it's gone
- a new direction so we don't expect that bond to be utilized but i think we still have about 10 to 15
- thousand left and so we'd like to get the revenue generated so that we could pay that off and then explore
- what else we
- we want to do with that funding, which may include helping with the reconstruction of Curry Pike. And
- so those are kind of the four statistics we have. That's kind of the justifications as we went through
- last month, or no, two months ago now, as to why we do not have any excess assessed value. Well, it's
- always nice to have access, but I would rather that we stay in balance, whether it's excess or
- I don't want, if we don't have to have any debt. I got a question on, and I think it pertains to the
- West side. I've been reading that BT had been looking at putting their operation facility there. That's
- a nonprofit, correct? Correct. Which is that? I didn't get that.
- Blooming's transit operation. Okay, they're going there. I hadn't seen that. Well, there had been discussion
- about that and I don't know if that's... I had heard they were going somewhere where the old ABB site
- was, but I've never seen anything official. Okay. I don't see anything either. I've heard it enough
- to think it's true. How about that? Okay. Yeah. Where the caterpillar's at? Her right side? Right across,
- yeah. And her down. But the impact would be
- It would have an impact, correct? It just wouldn't grow, right? I don't think it would reduce revenue.
- Typically vacant ground is with the base, right? There may be a little bit there, but typically you
- wouldn't expect it to have a huge role in reducing current revenues. It's just the growth in the revenue.
- I'm curious about that. Are there any other questions or discussion regarding any of these? I would
- like to make a motion that we accept the evaluation resolution for Westside TIF, State Board 46, Fullerton
- Pike, and the Curry TIF. Do I have a second? That was for approving the four resolutions, correct?
- All four, yes. Any further discussion?
- please call the roll. Commissioner McCarty. Yes. Commissioner. Yes. Mr. Jones. Yes. Commissioner Cassidy.
- Yes. Motion is approved four to zero. All right. Moving to the minutes. I see Randy Cassidy.
- There he is. We have minutes from
- February 18th. I still owe you guys the March meetings. I just haven't gotten those pulled together.
- It's been a busy couple of months. You're just not being quiet around here? We get sidetracked.
- And honestly, I thought I did them before the last meeting. And then I looked for them last week. And
- I'm like, oh, I didn't. So that was part of it as well. OK, that's fine. Pure negligence.
- We have these, so any comments, any corrections or amendments that need to be made to the minutes from
- February 18th, 2026? February 18th? February 18th, 2026, yes. If not, we'll entertain a motion to. I
- move that we approve the February 18th. Second? Second. All right, call the roll. Commissioner McCarty. Yes.
- Commissioner Jones? Yes. Commissioner Cassidy? Yes. Motion is approved, four to zero. And did we have
- April? No. We did not have an April meeting. Okay, thank you. All right. So moving along to claims and to April.
- Or do we need to put them all together? The May claims includes April and Mays, so we just need the
- approval of the May claims. Okay. I do have a question in regards to the flagging and really what all
- that entails. Lisa's not here, but. Which one? That's from May. That's the $96,000 to Indiana Railroad
- Company. Oh yeah, okay. Standing to the overpass.
- and it was flagging, and the documentation, she didn't go all the way back to the original project,
- which, okay, that's fine, but I'm curious as to what all that entails for that amount. So, we can save
- that question. I'm not sure I'm able to answer that one. Yeah, okay. Which one is that?
- The fourth one down, so it's in May. It's the $96,000 one. Oh, okay, I see it. Spot that. So we will
- save that for Lisa Ridge.
- Lisa I'm sure can answer that question. She did sign off on that and everything looks in order so I'm
- not questioning that. Yeah it would be nice to know what the inclusive items on that were if Lisa could
- get that to us. Yes yeah yeah and if Jeff and if you would make a note too to just ask Lisa to forward
- that on. Just a summary of all that was included in that. Yeah.
- That's the hunter sighting overpass that says here. Yes. But it's, you know, okay. But within that,
- that's just. That's a lot of money. Yeah. And I, I like in a railroad, I like Bernie guarantees, but,
- uh, sometimes things come up that in our business from the railroad, it boy, that seems expensive. So
- that's all I'm curious about.
- Other than that, everything seems to be in order, so. Any other questions on claims? April, May. This
- is the total of $202,095.73. Yes. I will read them. Repro graphics for $390. RP STEM program 10669465.
- Hummel Electric Incorporated, $1,590.08. Indiana Railroad Company, $96,021. And Financial Solutions,
- $17,400, with a grand total of $222,000. Let me say it again, $222,195.
- point 73 total. Sorry. Okay. I must guess second. And I'll move that claim. Okay. We have a motion.
- Is there a second? Move. Second? Or was that a motion? Second. Harris, was that your motion? Yes. Okay.
- So Mike, Mike seconds. Second. Okay. All right. Okay. Mr. Conklin. Commissioner McCarty. Yes.
- Yes. Commissioner Jones. Yes. Commissioner Cassidy. Yes. Motion is approved, four to zero. Okay. Thank
- you very much. Five things. That was all for clay, is correct. That's what we have. I think so. Okay.
- All right. At this time, staff comment.
- I think Lisa emailed you guys some comments that she had, and so I don't remember what. I don't remember
- either, I saw. Yeah, I yeah, I think we're just. We're gearing up to do the. Very Pike reconstruction
- phase one and that is going to happen this year and so that's I think the big the big update.
- She is going to, she has it scheduled so that it's not totally closed at any one period of time, but
- it's going to be restricted for a longer period of time, which is choices you have. I think it's from
- city limits to the intersection with 48. So it's south of 48 to the city limits.
- run by SEMTRA and the IU or the BMV. So it's where the city limits I think is where it goes from four
- lanes to two lanes to two lanes. So everything over there is phase one. Okay.
- It's it's on the council's of meeting agenda for Tuesday. And so that's what's on the agenda. That's
- a second reading. That's the same kind of like farms. Yeah.
- didn't are aware that yes yeah that's the ones yeah okay any anything on 100 Valley Road that you've
- heard Jeff last I heard is that mr. Kreider says they missed their ability to move trees for the bat
- season and so it's gonna start up in October okay or whenever that
- There's two days of the year that really are important with that, and we know, too. All right. Any comment
- from our sitting council member? I'll be voting on Tuesday.
- So it's a long time ago. Okay. Mr. Comments. I have none right now. Okay. Randy Cassidy. Well,
- we're good. Uh, one standard standards to keep up the good work. Mr. Mike Jones. I enjoyed commission.
- So Sanders presentation. Great stuff.
- for letting Dr. Sanders share tonight, and there's a lot of exciting things going on at RVB way. Looking
- forward to starting a new construction on the band and choir this summer. Good. Good. Yeah, the field
- house looks fantastic on the outside, and I've been in it, but it's wow. Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah, it's
- over utilized already. It's used a lot, they said. That's cool. That's great. That's what you want to
- see happen. So Herman Farms is starting.
- outside the school corporation. I've snuck in there. It's nice. Yeah, that'll be exciting. Yeah, that's
- our ship with the town. It was great on that road to. It certainly is, and it will literally open up
- a lot. Yeah, so it's it's a great development. And I don't mean to beat this dead horse, but because
- I pulled it up on my phone, I was looking for this
- update on Curry Pike from Lisa Ridge, and this came up on the flagging. The railroad invoices for flagging
- services during the Vermil Pike Sunrise Greetings Connector project, just to clarify, and I think what
- a couple of us were after is just, you know, that's a lot of flagging services. So we just want to,
- yeah, give a summary of that. Great presentation by Dr. Sanders. I think that the STEM money is definitely
- a great investment.
- And the partnerships that they're forming, they're working on are meaningful. And for disclosure, our
- youngest will be a freshman at Edgewood High School. So yes, I'm very interested in negotiation,
- renegotiating of renewals. So it's all great stuff. It has come so far, just really even in my lifetime,
- A little before that, there was a referendum on the two districts unifying back in the day.
- And RBB won over. So yeah, it's amazing the progress that's been made. And I think Dr. Sanders has put
- together a good team around him. And I'm sure they're hard to keep, I'm sure. But he's doing a great job.
- are there a fair amount of uh students within bloomington that uh and uh to edwood high school yeah
- it'd be good to get a count i i think there are a few i don't know exactly what that number is i mean
- that's any student's option quite a few from mineral county and anilwood county to come by the transportation
- right right
- Yep, I mean, I'm biased, but every student, everybody knows our names. It's not that big that your number,
- which is awesome. Where I moved here from, we had a school district we lived in. Right. Near South Bend,
- and so we had a. Right, right. More than we could actually allow in, so. Well, yeah. Yeah, well, there
- are challenges, as you said.
- for other school districts, including Monroe County. But they've, RBB's weathered the storm so far.
- And they're probably positioned both by size and the resources. Housing is just, I hate it. People are
- living in construction zones. It's just, yeah. Prominence Point can't build fast enough. I mean, Value
- Build's done a great job. And Chris Smith with Harmon Farms, it'll be the same one.
- families living and art straight art straight to construction coming up down that way. Yeah, it's a
- what reorganization will bring. But who knows? It's county do the school corporation we had that we
- did a study how it would impact the school budget as it can't. Study I can't hear you. As the tax has
- there been a tax day how it affects the taxes county versus township?
- I think the county as a whole I don't think was difficult because I think the state gave us a lot of
- the property tax numbers and so a lot of the a lot of the unknowns are how quickly are people going
- to hit property tax caps. That's what yeah it's good it's projected to be about a half a million dollars
- short for the school because
- reorganization if they merge yeah it'll be a shortfall I know the school corporation yes I don't think
- the county looked at merger that's what I'm wondering yeah I think with the Senate and roll that one
- with that approval the claims right yeah yes but I don't but it but it's the numbers it's the income
- taxes I think the more
- I don't think that affects the county people in the county, right? Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you
- all. Okay. All those in favor, please leave. Thank you everybody.