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.