Community School Corporation Board of Trustees regular meeting. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United Please join me in a moment of reflection. Thank you. Communications, commendation, BHS wrestlers. Miss Murphy? Yes. Thank you very much. We have our three state champion wrestlers here with us tonight for our commendation. At first, I'd like Trayvon ducking, your 113 state champion. Head on up there. Stand up right up there, bud. Turn around and face the front. And then we have Braylon Reynolds at one forty four, state champion. And Kayce Bell, your two time state champion at one twenty this year for the Brownsburg Bulldogs.
How about that? Alright. So Trey Treyvon, that was that was a pretty cool celebration that made it all over the news. What were you thinking? Did you plan that? Did you think about it beforehand? Yeah. I had it I had it planned about a week before. That if you won, you were gonna do the whole? Yeah. What's what inspired that? Sean O'Malley. Okay. That's what I was thinking. Well, and you said also I asked you when you came, who came here with you or your parents here? And you said, well, kinda. Yeah. The Reynolds family over there. Kind of like my second mom and dad. So you guys are pretty close. You can hear you talking about all the things that you've done,
and you are a two time state champion, one in your freshman year and now in your sophomore year. So you were not necessarily the leader. What does that feel like for next year when you're the junior, what that looks like? Because you've had some great leaders in your time at Brownsburg so far. Yeah. Coming from a team my freshman year with some leaders like Braylon Reynolds, Jake Hockaday, Gunnar Henry, those guys setting big standards for Brownsburg and who we are here at Brownsburg. And it kinda just, like, gave me, like, a natural light to inspire the freshmen that we have this year and make them
wanna win like we do and just pass it down to them. So, well, congratulations. So we can expect that next year? We're all gonna win. Okay. I'm just gonna put that out there coach. Okay. Alright, Braylon, at 01:44, you were third your freshman year, second your sophomore year, and won the state championship, your junior year. What was the difference? What got you over the hump? A lot of things for me, it's just about improvement. So, a a lot of the time I go in the room, and it's not necessarily about winning, but it's about just getting better. And, I'm a very sore loser. I don't like to lose. So a lot of it's getting in the room and just pushing myself more and
more and, get over that edge and get a little better every year. Trayvon, introduce your parents, but, yeah, those are your parents. Right? We just wanna make sure that that we wanna introduce them. Also, there's you kinda have a legendary story at the state championship, because you're down four o. You hurt your ankle, then what happened? Yeah. So I kinda go out there with a lot of emotions. And, that first period, I get get taken down, and, I just hear my ankle pop. And there's a lot of adrenaline that goes into that. You don't really expect that to happen. You kinda go in there confident. And, when that happens, I got up,
and I was like, well, I do a lot of hard things. This isn't one of the hardest things I've had to go through. So I got up and, I looked at Smiley. He smacked me in the face. I was about I was like, alright. I'm ready to go. Let's do this. And, I got up and figured it out. Well, congratulations on a state championship. That's awesome. And as a junior, you're you're a shop in colleges? Yes, ma'am. So what do you think you're gonna decide? Class five. That's okay. That's okay. So Case Bell, two time state champion. Pretty excited to have you back here. Who's who's along with you? That's my mom and dad, Tracy Bell and Brian Bell.
And I remember waving to them during the state championship. Yeah. And seeing them every year up in the stands. That's a pretty exciting day. What what would surprise people the most about how you prepare for wrestling meets? I'd say it's just doing the stuff that, usually normal people or normal wrestlers don't want to do. So the stuff outside of the room and, how you live your life, whether that's in school, which honestly I haven't done the best job at, but improving on that. And, yeah, just these things people don't want to do. So a lot has been said about, you know, coach Snyder, coach Smiley, how good all your kids are. What's the difference between wrestling against these people in practice and other people don't have
that? I'd say, like, when I go out and, like, compete, like, it's just night and day. Like, I get these guys in the room, so, like, I'm overly prepared when I go out and wrestle. Normal competition. Well, what can we expect from you you next year? Freshman? Sophomore state championship? Yeah. Three time. Yeah. That's the plan. Coach, you wanna come up and say anything about these guys? I'll I'll need you to do it on the mic, though. Either? Coach Smiley, you want to come up? So Coach Smiley, Coach Snyder are gonna come up. That was a pretty big day, and you've had some big days, but tell me a little bit about these three. Just a really special group,
that we continue to have. And I think it really goes back to the last several years with guys like Jake Hockaday and Gunnar Henry leading the right way. And when you it's kind of like when we lost Brayton Lee, there was, like, a chunk of time in there where we didn't have someone to really replace that, like, energy and positivity. And, I think these guys and a lot of our guys have just done a phenomenal job. So I know, coach Smiley, I'll let him talk in a second. But, there's so many times we're just, like, standing at practice, and we tell these guys this. Like, we just watch the way that they're training,
the way they care about each other, and we'll look at each other and go, nobody else has this. And it it didn't we didn't get it done this year. We lost by three and a half points, but, I there's no other group we'd wanna go into it with, and it wasn't for a lack of effort. When we say they do everything right, that is in the hallways. That's in the classroom. That's in the locker room. That's in the wrestling room. Just, really proud of the young men they are. We need everybody talking, but, you know, just listening to these three guys talk, it that's why we who we are who we are, having great student athletes like this.
They lead. They by example, every day. So it's just it's just a joy to work with them. They're the best versions of themselves every day. We're proud of them. We're proud of our program. So it's a lot of fun. Alright. Let's hear it for all three of them. We'll get their certificates. Doctor Dixon. Brownsburg Community School Corporation certificate accommodation is hereby presented to Trayvon Case Bralin for being the IHSAA 2026 state champion wrestler in the their respective weight classes, from the board of school trustees.
Congratulations. Alright. We'll get them their certificates and parents can take pictures. Although you have lots of pictures of them with with trophies and things with you can get a picture of this. You guys want to stay? Thank you. Congratulations. They want to, their parents just won't know. Know. Now for the Brownsburg Education Foundation. Rally for our Kids gala presented by LeBlanc Nettles Law and Queen Anne's Lace Flower and Gifts. This took place on 03/16/2026. The event was a huge success and raised over $66,000 to benefit the students and teachers in our school corporation. The Chip in for the Kids golf outing presented by Summers Plumbing,
Heating and Cooling takes place on Friday, June 12 at Westchase Golf Club with a shotgun start at 08:30AM. Online sign ups are on the BEF website for anyone interested in participating or volunteering, and it is a fun event. BEF Pioneer Camp. The BEF will once again be hosting Pioneer Camp this summer, the week of June 22 through the twenty fifth at the Long Cabin Homestead property. All exiting third, fourth, and fifth grade students are invited to attend. Registration is now open and closes on May 31. Visit the BEF website to register. Brick promotions. Bricks can still be ordered to honor class of twenty twenty six graduates,
but will not be available until the 2026 order is placed. Grants and scholarships. Scholarship applications were reviewed by the BEF scholarship committee at the March to determine the recipients of $85,000 in scholarships that BEF will award to the class of 2026 on April 23. Dollars 19,000 of these scholarships are thanks to the generosity of the BCSC staff and the payroll deduction program. The incredible award and district excellent award grant applications were submitted before spring break, and announcements about them will be made in May.
Thank you. Operations update. Mister Hacker. Thank you very much. I have, quite a few things to share with you this evening. I will do my best to be, somewhat efficient in these slides. So first up, kind of go through a little bit of construction. Very exciting at the high school. Really, the the first picture up there you'll see is kind of the main space, the old space. I will call this the old version of the high school area that, just we recently got back. So if to kinda get your bearings really where we're at is, the we call the Bulldog Stairwell, in the main stairwell by the main cafeteria.
We kinda be over just on this side. This would be like the where the school resource officer office is, the main office Door 1, Door 8 over here. This is the old cardio room, and you can see that there were some other spaces in here, locker rooms and such. And really, this entire space, will look completely different, as it does right now. And we have not moved completely into it yet. We will wait to do that over the summer to start next school year, but it is a space, and I'll show you what the difference looks like here in a second. I also wanna talk about here, this is the area that's south of the main gym. So main gym would really be in this spot right here,
and this used to be what we call the PE Hallway. We had all the lockers for the PE in this spot, and then we have the locker rooms here. But this is really the entire area that's just south of the gym that had not been touched in any of the recent renovations, and kinda show what the difference looks like, with with the updated. So, again, the old cardio room in this space and and locker rooms that were associated, really is the old old weight room. And even before that, probably the space doctor gave the old old pool, I believe. But you can see that it has now become the TV studio suite.
TV broadcasting area that that captures the entire program. It is now more in the central portion of the building. It's on the South End right now. Once we move here and again, the South End will become the area for robotics and Project Lead the Way as that program continues to expand. But this is now the central location for us to continue to utilize the broadcasting, live broadcast to go on with all of our athletic events and such. Just puts us more in that center, spot, as well as you have the media control room that has always been there, and now we can access that with the the additional space.
So we got the TV studio, the control room as the live broadcast is going on for the, announcements, got the green screen area, some storage, and then we have the two classrooms that are available. And then here in the middle, you have office for our our our, teachers. We've got additional storage. We have a podcast, area as well. So, again, as this program continues to evolve, we wanted the facility to ensure that matches. Again, this was all items that were preapproved, really in the 2023 project, associated with the senior academy, and field house. We're just now finishing this up. The other portion of that, you can see that the old hallway here,
the p hallway, we've actually shifted that to where it's now adjacent to the gym. And we have re these are now boys and girls, volleyball locker rooms here, as well as we have the locker rooms for visitors, as well as coaches offices and storage. So all this area was under for really for the entire school year just came back to us and just kinda show the difference there. This is a little blown up version as well, just so you can see. But, again, all this is now back to us. We are gonna be utilizing these spaces, the locker rooms, before we will move into these spaces. But just so you can see what that finalized version looks like,
this is the, TV broadcasting area. So this is the control room here. This is where, eventually, we will build the entire set. The green screen will be here again. It's not in place now because it is now in the still in the current classroom. That'll all transition. We didn't buy all new equipment for here. We're gonna move that because it's still good, for some savings there. We've got the two classrooms that, are on each side of the control room area. Again, you can see that really just kind of a nice big space that, we can utilize for whether it be student desks, computers, different things there that's a very, very flexible space to meet the needs of the program.
So the, again, this is one classroom. The one on the other side of control room is is just identical to this. But, it's it's really, really nice to see. Quite honestly, I walked in and I was lost because it is completely different to navigate, but, pretty pretty fun to go in and see all the carpet and and finishes take place. Our, we know our our teachers are very excited to get in this space, and, we will hire a new teacher for, next year for the TV broadcasting program that will help us open that. So, again, a very, very nice space. Moving on to another area there. We this is actually a slide I shared at the March board meeting.
I included that because I was just so impressed with the pictures that the construction group provided. This is the rendering provided by the architect of the, additional classroom space of the band orchestra area. And this is the actual picture that we took last week. And I'm like, my goodness. It looks exactly the same. So, we are building what it looks like. Pretty exciting. So, again, you can see, as we outfitted, this is, actually the old band guard room. One large space we've now shifted into adding the additional kinda miscellaneous classroom there. It can be used by either band or orchestra.
You're in the space on the south end, a little closer to the main office. And we've got the mirrors. We've got the acoustical panels. Again, all set up for a, a, an instrument storage. All set up for a typical classroom for band and orchestra. This is just the other side of that. Again, plenty of space here. Plenty of storage for all of the, ran out. All the the instruments and such that we have in place here. Very, very nice space. On the north side, we've got the, what we call the band guard room completion. And this was an area this is not a new construction, but we built it knowing that we would have to come back and fill the
inside. This is not quite a 100% finished. Again, this is a space that can be utilized now, but we have essentially some additional acoustic material that will hang from the ceiling called baffles that, they are just not in yet. And so when those come in in the summer, we will install those, but and there will also be carpet on the floor. But we did not install the carpet because we know in order to get up and hang all the baffles, we would ruin the carpet and the flooring system underneath it. So right now, we're using it still as it was. We've got a little better acoustical with all the panels and such. You can also see the catwalk up there that allowed for the perspective,
of our directors in order to look down on the on the percussion, on the guard to make sure that all the formations are correct, and we can continue to provide feedback to continue performing well in our competitions as we've been doing so. And, again, this is just the other side of that mirrors and different things. Again, this is a a space that will be utilized really already is utilized every single day. Spot other spots here that I showed you, the the, new hallway there that's just on the other side of the gym on the South locker rooms. And this really goes from what what people would consider kind of the old athletic
hallway, to more of the Band Orchestra hallway. This will be shut down and badge access throughout the day because the only reason folks should be in and out of here is to access the locker rooms. It is not open like it was in the past where for PE because that is all now in the field house. So these should just be areas that are gonna be open up for practice and athletic competition. So this is not a spot that'll be utilized throughout the day for students to pass through. It will be locked off. And, again, these are just the team area locker rooms. It's more of a visiting spot, just a spot to change. And so usually, there's I think there's a whiteboard and stuff in there.
You can see the difference between that versus one of our home locker rooms. Our, this would be boys or girls varsity volleyball and JV as well for the entire program. But that's you can see a little bit bigger space for more lockers for all of our kids, spot for them to sit down because this is where they'll keep their stuff, all the time. Currently under renovation, as we shared last time, is the Varsity Gym. Some additional spots here. You can see the progress that all the the all the bleachers are out. All the flooring is up. They are working on continuing to take stuff out. They're adding all the HVAC, new HVAC systems in into the upper mezzanine there and really getting a nice start.
They thought this would take about four weeks to get everything cleaned out. We did it in about three. We are in a very tight time frame in order to get it back to us in October in in time for the, girls' basketball season. But this, I believe, is the South Gym upstairs. You can see here, this is more the perspective. It is a very, very large space. You can take all those bleachers out and see the the two north, or excuse me, two upper gym areas, with with the bottom floor there. But a ton of work. Credit to Meyer and Ajam, for for getting in there and getting after it and getting stuff done early. And every little bit of time helps. The closer we can get to getting stuff back installed,
the, the the better off we will be in meeting that timeline to get girls' basketball in place. As a reminder, this will be shut down for, volleyball. So boys' volleyball, which is now, girlies girls' volleyball in the fall, those will have to take place in the field house until this is all back and ready to go. So, that's just a quick update on all the constructions, new spaces that came back to us, and some that are currently under, still under construction. But before I move to the next portion of the ops update, any questions on any of the construction? What's the plan for the North And South Gems? Great question. So North Gym,
I believe, it will be more of a synthetic surface. The South Gym will be or excuse me. I hang on. I hang backwards. I hang South Gym will be the syn synthetic floor. North Gym will stay wood, and so still have the same kind of access that we had before with the with the courts, adding a synthetic surface to allow the flexibility. So for instance, I know that sometimes tennis will be, they will have been hitting in the field house, but that way that synthetic service allows them if they have an indoor space. We do not build them an indoor space with the new facility, so it allows that, allows for additional flexibility with pickleball and things for PE if we so needed it,
as well as then sometimes the band guard still needs a larger space in that that band guard room, and that synthetic surface will be a little bit better for instruments, and and the flags and the rifles and stuff to get thrown that it's not gonna ruin the gym floor. So, that's kind of what the the plan is for those spaces. Now that we've had time with the new field and with the field house, what kind of feedback are are you getting from community members or coaches or parents? Sure. And so, a, I think just I'm not people are very happy, to to put it very succinctly.
I think that the space what I really appreciate, first of all, when you walk in and see the entire space full of kids, that's probably when I'm happiest. It's really nice to see when you walk in empty, and it's very, very, very nice, and a great space. But when it's full of kids working, I think that is when, we're very, very proud most proud of of the area. So what's really, really nice is especially in the field house, is just the, you know, the there's so many different purposes we can we can use in that space. You know, we had the when as the band was practicing for Rose Bowl, they were able to be in that space before since it was so cold outside.
You know, you can have the track and field runners, on the track. We had softball doing workouts. We have baseball with the curtains down, and they were doing some little infield on the, on the additional court while basketball's going on the wood. And so, again, we can have so much going on there while while it's after school. And we don't have to have so many different sessions, like we did, you know, boys practicing after school, girls then coming in at 06:00, and then staying late. And so, again, when we talk about accessibility too and and being able to keep our kids involving in these sports and activities, being able to house those those individuals after school so no one has to find
rides back. We're seeing an increase in the number of participants and, again, just all positive things. Did we do it perfectly? I'm not saying you can ever do anything perfectly, but we still are very, very proud and not too many too much negative feedback up to this point. And so I think when folks are in, there is any negative feedback on the field house. It's just that, you know, a basketball court, one of those can be a little bit far away from the viewing area. But, again, we wanted the multipurpose purpose use of that space and the bleachers are really designed with an indoor track meet in mind. So not just basketball. And and so that may be a little bit of feedback,
but what I will tell you, those who have had the indoor track meets in there could not be more pleased with the with the viewing areas that we have and the ability to host a full indoor track meet. I can tell you it's been nothing but positive remarks, and we're very, very excited to keep doing that and keeping our kids here and not having to travel all over the state. Is the plan to have continue to have gym classes in the varsity gym after construction or only in the field house? Everybody will be in the field house. Okay. So during the normal school day, there won't be anything going on in the Should varsity gym should be shut down, which means that should extend the life of that floor.
And so the one of the reasons that we're in here I know it seems like it's new, but it's 25 years old. But one of the reasons that it's out of sands is because when you have freshmen in there, and and baseball on that floor all the time is that, yes, it gets worn out much much faster than just playing basketball. So, the intention here is when we get this gym floor done, is that it'll last a little bit longer than the previous twenty five years because we are pretty much hosing it or using it for, basketball boys and girls basketball only. And volleyball. Excuse me. Volleyball. Great. But not PE. Great questions.
Anybody else? K. I will shift into the next portion of the slide. Again, I'm gonna show you a couple of slides that we went through in October, which was really about energy management. And we talked at this time as some of the the increases that we were seeing on electricity from '25 to 2026 and adjustments that we had made. I'm not gonna go through all these slides, or these bullet points here. But these bullet points really led to some of the adjustments that we looked at from an HVAC stamp, including the temperature ranges we looked at from going from, 78 to,
72 to seven or 68 to to 74, expanding that before things start kicking on. We also looked at the occupied versus unoccupied times when lights are at full strength or the HVAC system is on. We looked at adding sensors. We looked at the event schedules. And so we we put a lot of focus in usage and trying to become much more efficient. And I share that in some celebration here. As we look at our operations fund expenditures just from January through March, really in the area of,
utilities. So our January through March 2025 versus January through March 2026, the year to date savings and decrease in expenditures is shown there. So in our usage of natural gas on just the dollar amount I shouldn't say usage, but the dollar amount on our utility bills is down 15% in natural gas. We're down about 21, almost 22% in electric. We are down 21.7% in water and sewer. And the overall custodial supplies, we are down 15%. So when we add all those numbers up, we are, to to date, from January through March,
when we just compare twenty twenty five, 26 in the same three months, have spent $257,000 less in these areas than what we had, like I said, for 2025. So, really, credit goes to mister Faulkner and the entire facilities team and the really, the plan they put in place. And, also, I know it's sometimes that rooms were a little warmer, rooms were a little colder, and so it has been sometimes some inconvenience on our staff. But when we are seeing the savings like this and and the current financial situation, we're very, very happy with with the results, and hopefully,
we can see this, moving down. I also think that as far as cold goes, this is a colder wet winter than last winter. So usage and things should it shouldn't be that we just had a really nice, mild winter. So very, very excited for these numbers. We'll continue to update you all on on this these initiatives and how they're impacting the overall bottom line. But we're very, very excited for the first three months where we sit as far as utilities go. Any questions on on those? Great. So the last thing we, we'll kinda talk through. We we wanna do this at each board meeting because,
really, there's something that happens, between board meetings, really, that's community engagement recap. And while this is not to go through the entire slides, we do wanna make sure that the board and, anyone who may not have been able to attend those meetings, I know that those are recorded, but I know we have a different audience sometimes for the board meetings, but some of the highlights. So, again, we just finished up session number four on April 8 last week, and we talked about really focused a lot on cuts. And so this was more, doctor Jessup speaking to the group. We did have, a lot of time there at the end for some questions and such, but I can promise you, she she does such a nice job.
It's, talking to the group, and when I get in there and it's all numbers and charts, everyone gets bored. But, so I think that if, things went really, really well last week, and and and I just think I really feel like those who have attended all of those sessions are truly they may not be necessarily completely, when I'd call, on, on our side, but they are certainly in the loop and understand exactly what's going on. And and I think are supporting the cause and all the things that we're trying to do. And, and I think that that sometimes is difficult to do when you bring a a
community together to get everyone on the same page. And I do think that we've done a nice job of that and and feel very good about the information that's been shared. But just so you know, again, we talked a lot about staffing and the the cuts that are gonna take place for the upcoming school year. And so we've talked about these in board meetings as well, but just to put numbers to them right now, again, through attrition, we are down five custodial positions and down four maintenance positions. Really, the one of the focuses really on the meeting last week is not just talk about the people and the positions, but then the impact, and had lots of good conversations surrounding that and questions of what this looks like.
It's not just, you know, that we have fewer people, but this is now facility is not being cleaned as often, you know, more maybe more usage and wear and tear, responsibilities put on noncustodial staff. I could tell you here at central office that if we want our trash cans cleaned, we have to take them and physically put them out somewhere ourselves. And, you know, just different things like that. The biggest thing here is the spreading of germs. Probably, we sometimes, we'll implement additional cleaning during the winter months, flu season. Again, we have a smaller staff. Sometimes those extras begin to fall off to make sure that we can just get what, what's required.
So, the other thing here is response times are gonna potentially increase as well as increased time for salt application and snow removal. Our custodial staff are really the ones in the winter months who are looking at our sidewalks and entry areas for salt and and and snow removal. Really and then maintenance are really in charge of the snow plow, so the trucks and things in the parking lot. Since, again, when you've got nine fewer staff members in these areas, that is a cause for some delays, which could actually increase more cancellations or delays on our end.
You know, sometimes a two hour delay isn't necessarily because the roads are, just so treacherous you can't be driven on yet, but it's just to give us a little bit additional time to make sure that the campus is safe for our walkers and our student drivers and our staff who are coming to school that day. So fewer people can sometimes make that challenge. I can promise you the folks that are in these positions still are up to that challenge and will do everything they can. They do not wanna be the reason that school's canceled or delayed. I promise you. But those are the reality of the situation in these particular, positions.
From the energy management, we kinda talked about. We're really seeing some of the positive side of here as far as the preventative maintenance, some of the energy management adjustments. Unfortunately, we also had to look at the recycling program. Recycling program is costing us about $53,000 a year. This is interesting because when we first started that, we were actually receiving dollars, and now waste management charges us for that as well as if there's something in the recycle bin that is not supposed to be in there, a contaminant. There are fees associated with those as well. So, that's an unfortunate, program to have to eliminate. But, again, when we talk about what's on the list, priority wise, we really felt like this is one of those that had to become off the
list. And it's unfortunate because we have lots of jobs, students with with clubs, or even our applied schools program who this has really become a part of their weekly routine and and something they do to help out the community. So it's an unfortunate thing, and I believe that we have to think a little differently there. But, but that's recycling. And, again, as far as preventive maintenance, I promise you we're not we're still doing everything that's required. But for instance, we used to change the exhaust, excuse me, filters. Excuse me. Not exhaust filters, but the furnace filters three times a year. We're only doing those twice now. Or we're looking you know, kinda going in and doing less,
or we were relying on, just what we have to do instead of doing the inspections every year. It's required every other year. So, again, we're cutting back on some of those services. We're still meeting the standard, but Brownsburg standard sometimes is a little higher than what is required. But, again, because of the financial situation, we've cut back. Less mowing, more geese on campus. And again, that doesn't seem like a big deal until you ask the soccer program. And right now, the soccer field is a little bit of a disaster with Goose Boot. They've grown to like the, the soccer area. So we will we're putting some things in place to address this,
but, these are just some of the consequences of removing these services. We really hit this hard, in several meetings, but as far as administration goes, again, we've cut social superintendent position at the end of the year and not be replacing. We are going from four secondary department heads down to two, and the high school associate principal will be eliminated after the 2728 school year for a total of four. Again, you can see the impacts there as we discussed with the community group. The largest group, as we get in support staff, is really, over the last couple weeks, we've seen those are not been fun conversations that doctor Jessup and our principals have
had to have. From treasurer standpoint, we're looking at going to a treasurer for every other building at the elementary and middle school level. And total, that is, you know, five treasurers that we currently have in place now that will not we will not have those positions next year. As well as the middle school front office staff, we are have asked the principals to, eliminate one at each school for a total of two positions. And one of the things that we really like about front office is the warm welcoming environment, the the the promptness in in responding, answering calls. Those are things, unfortunately, that may have to fall to the wayside at times.
Again, we still wanna be a a smiling face, but there will be delays because of fewer people in these positions. And this is the, biggest impact to, I would say, our operation of from the edge from the elementary standpoint, which is the elimination of the learning lab program instructional assistance. We currently have three at each school for a total of 24, and we are eliminating all, all three of those at each school with the caveat that down there, one interventionist will be added at each of the schools. So there will still be eight positions added back, so a net loss of 16.
And then we have also, notified them where there's two currently media center assistants at the high school, and we've eliminated one of those for next year as well. From again, we've looked at instructional coaches. We've we used to have one, right, and currently have one at every building. We are reducing that to one to every other building, so four coaches will be returned to the classroom. While that is still the same number of staff, really, that means that it's for fewer replacement hires we will need to make at the elementary level, so it is a savings. And, again, right now, this probably will be higher, as doctor Jessup mentioned, last Wednesday. But, we would rather say lower number and work up than start with a high number
and work down. So if we said we're gonna lose 20 and we end up only losing 12, and it feels like that we were not transparent or left a few things out. So right now, we think that 12 is a number, but it could be more through attrition of certified staff, especially at the, elementary level that we're not replacing, which will look at increasing class sizes. So, in total, if I kind of quickly run through here, is that is 49 positions that were eliminated, right now for the 2627 school year. And we look at all the cuts discussed there from certified staff,
support staff, operations staff, the non staff operations area, including transportation, area 30 one, which we've already discussed in board meeting, and one time savings. Right now, that does get us over the $3,000,000 mark, 3.3, just over for the $26.27 school year. And, as you can see, we do feel like, especially in educational support staff area with front office and IAs and with service contracts and one time savings, those cuts are really maxed out. We really we have to have folks some folks in those positions.
And really from the IA standpoint, the rest remaining in special education, which are tied to service provided to our students who have IEPs. We have to meet certain number of minutes, and so, those things are really required. It's not been a fun time here in in when it comes to having these conversations for sure. And, but but this is what position that we've been put in due to the legislative decisions. It's unfortunate that 49 positions is about 4% of our overall staff. When we talk about a number to that, we've we'll have to eliminate for the next school year.
So I realized that was a lengthy operations update. I wanted to make sure that the board was in, went through the same slides there and cover these in a in a board meeting. But, myself or doctor Jessup would be happy to answer any questions you might have on any of these slides. With the, the staff, with the snow removal, the things like that, is there any thought of potentially having them come in earlier and then leave work earlier to avoid the possibility of, more delays or cancellations with school? We are exploring all options, at this time. So, and and I assume you mean,
like, leave early, like, the the maintenance staff to leave early. Yes. Come in come in earlier. So So work and then get work done here. The timing is everything. Right? So if we think that we can have school we right now, sometimes, they usually report at three in the morning. We could certainly have them report earlier than that. Oh. But one of and and and that's just because of the amount of I don't want them coming after me now. Yeah. Uh-huh. The amount of, really, I'll say, acres that has to be plowed in order to us to have school and time. We, we have to get started that early. So we usually report three, then we're on we're out certainly no later than 04:00.
And so we have also explored maybe asking for help. So instance, BrightView. They take care of our our, our mowing. They do have snow plow service. The problem or we've looked at volunteers or folks that can just help occasionally. Problem is we need them to be there at three in the morning. And so it cannot be a situation where today they've got they've already committed to plow, you know, this company or that company or Walmart, Meijer, or they are going to do in these, you know, 15 different residential driveways and then come to us.
It really has to be a commitment for us to start school on time. We need the folks to start when we say they need to start. So, you know, mister Faulkner has had those conversations, and I think BrightView is someone that we could potentially lean on, especially looking at the amount of snow. If it's a, you know, three or four inches, that's something that doesn't that's a little bit faster. If it's 10 or 12 inches, then that might be something where we have to ask for additional services to avoid a snot load of overtime, ultimately. So we are trying to make sure also to get folks home so that they're sleeping because there is a certain amount of time that we really don't want. After twelve hours of plowing,
they need to go home, get some sleep, and things. So, yeah, we are looking at all those options to, try to make sure we have the most efficient plan in place. Thank you. Thank you. Alright. Comments from patrons. Reminder that you have three minutes and please state your name. Mister Murphy. I've tried to talk to that's much better. Jeff Thompson, he keeps telling me that he'd be more than willing to talk to administration in the school system. I called this morning, and I was basically told that they've already met with representatives from the school twice,
and it's more or less is as it is. So again, voters here, especially in Lincoln Township, have a choice and can send a message to Jeff Thompson in senate bill one. Please exercise your choice. Thank you. Thank you, mister Murphy. Consent items, approval of minutes. Oh, no. Yeah. Doctor doesn't. Thank you. At this time, we would I would ask for approval of minutes from the March 9 business meeting, approval of claims, and superintendent's report. Do we have a motion? So moved. Second.
All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. Old business. Second reading and recommendation to approve 2027 and 2028 school calendar. Doctor Jessa? Thank you. This is, being presented for the second reading and approval. This follows the same schedule that we've been on for the past several years. Just ask for approval at this time. So moved. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Second reading and recommendation to approve policies a 100, a one twenty five, a 200, a two fifty, b one seventy five,
c one twenty five, c one twenty six, C two seventy five, and H two fifty. Doctor. Jessup? Thank you. As we discussed earlier this year, we are moving our policies, from ISBA to CCHA. These policies were presented for the first time last month in March. They are being presented for the second time and approval today. These, policies include nondiscrimination, anti harassment, nepotism, conflict of interest, gifts and use of corporation resources, firearms, weapons, and destructive devices, no tobacco policy, functions, admission to the district with regard to legal settlement,
participation of non public and homeschooled students, test security provisions for statewide assessments, and school library material removal requests. I think it's important to point out, the goal of this was to really streamline policies. And so some of these policies actually take two or three or four former policies and put them into one. I think it's more user friendly, and I I think we're gonna get some some really good results out of making the policies easier to read, easier to digest. So at this time, ask for approval. So moved.
Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Recommendation to approve contemporary literature book for the twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven school year. Doctor. Jessel. Thank you. Ask for approval of the contemporary literature book, All My Rage. This book has been approved by teachers as well as parents. Our goal when we do a book approval is for every teacher that chooses the book. So if we have five teachers in a certain section of English, then we also have five parents who read the same book. And so we have that information,
collected for this book as well. So ask for approval of this book at this time. So move. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. Recommendation to approve two three high ability novel for the twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven school year. Thank you. Along the same lines as our contemporary literature book, we had the teachers and the parents look through this book as well, read the book, give feedback on it. This novel replaces an outdated historical fiction unit with a more kid friendly option. The book that we're approving is I Survived the Children's Blizzard 1888.
And so we ask for approval at this time. So move. Second. All those approved? All those in favor? Aye. And opposed? Motion passes. And recommendation to approve out of district student transfers. Thank you. In the past year, we had approved out of district transfer students for gate grades k through five as well as nine through 11. We are asking for the same grade level grade ranges for students, to be approved. We would limit it to 15 students for each of the grade levels. 15 for each grade level allows us to place students in places so that would
not require us to increase class size. Our middle school is just to the point that we do not believe that bringing in any additional students is a good plan for us. The one change this year versus last year is last year we accepted students in just the month of June, and then they started at the beginning of the school year. What we are asking for this time is that we will accept applications from June all the way through December 18. What we would do is we would only allow students to enter at the beginning
of first semester, and those who apply after that would have to wait until second semester. What that will allow us to do is see how many students we either had move out or students who graduated midterm, so we can look at where we want to admit more students based on that 15 students per grade level. So we ask for approval at this time. So moved. Second. All those approved? Oh, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. Superintendent, comment. Thank you. First of all, would like to thank our wrestlers for coming, tonight. It's always great to honor our kids.
I wanna thank mister Hacker for doing a great job with, presentation operations report today. I think our community engagement sessions are going well. I certainly wish that we had a strong turnout for every single one of them, but we do know that those people who are not able to come have the option of watching the sessions online. I'll be real real frank with you. Last week and the number of cuts that we made and let people know, it was a it was These people that positions were eliminated are not just positions. You know, they're our colleagues, they're our friends,
they're our community, our neighbors. And and to have to you know, the the people that can be the positions that cannot be filled through attrition are are the best kind because then we're not telling people they don't have a position next year. So, this past week was certainly very difficult. Mister Hacker and I are going to present to RDC this Thursday at 05:30, hoping to, maybe garnish some support from the town of Brownsburg, for the current situation that we're in. And and we're certainly hoping for the the very best. We have in my mind,
we've done all that we can to ask legislation for help. The legislative session is over. There is no help coming, from legislation. I do think that there are some studies that are in place that have the potential to help us, but that help would not be in place until the 2728 school year. So we can't count on that help for next school year. So certainly us asking the town to to consider supporting our our school as the largest employer in this in the town.
As I think a cornerstone of our town is certainly the request that we are going to make. I think strong schools make for strong communities, and I do worry about the impact of eliminating this percentage of our staff, and knowing that that could increase if we are forced to make more cuts for the following school year. Finally, on a happy note, because I would like to end on a happy note, this Thursday is our school corporation art show. If you're looking to do lots of things in Brownsburg, this Thursday might be a time to come in.
It is the art show. There is a baseball game. There is a softball game, and there is a tennis match. So if you're looking for something to do on Thursday night, we have a wide variety of things for you to do after you join us at the RDC meeting. So that's all I have. Thank you. Mister Wells. First off, congratulations to, the three individual, wrestling state champions. I'm looking forward to, seeing all three return next year and hopefully make another run-in the state title individually, and we get those three and a half points and win a team state title also. Tonight will be my last school board meeting of the school year because I'll be
out of the country for six weeks starting in May. So I wanna take this time to congratulate all the graduating seniors this year. That is my favorite day. Especially congratulations to doctor Dixon and miss Hefferman. We're gonna have four kids total, graduating. Hopefully, every all these students will continue to make Brownsburg, proud in the future. I know this was a very, very tough year, especially like doctor Jessup just alluded to, but I wanna thank doctor Jessup, mister Hacker, and the entire staff for, continuing to work hard. Things will get better at some point, hopefully sooner than later,
and I guess I'll see you right next school year. Doctor Friti? No comment. Mister Haber? Yeah. It's a lot harder to, give comments here in the middle than it is in the beginning. I do wanna congratulate our wrestlers, Kace, Draydeon, and Braden Braylen for, their state championships. Look for more in the future. Mr. Hacker, thank you for the operations update. In particular, a nice job on the energy savings. That was pretty impressive, especially given, as you said, our harsh winner. Doctor. Jessup and Mr. Hacker, thank you for the outstanding job you guys are doing on the community engagement meetings.
I think you're really doing a great job of explaining our situation that we find ourselves in. And while I haven't been able to attend like many people, I have watched them all and been very impressed. So thank you so much for that. And, finally, thanks for taking on the tough very tough and difficult task of eliminating staff. And, you know, I didn't know that we were gonna be eliminating nearly as many as we have, and it's just quite unfortunate, but it's the situation we find ourselves in. And so just getting rid of the goose patrol and the recycling wasn't gonna be
enough. So thank you for that difficult job. I'm gonna start with hard stuff. I can end with the happy stuff. So, thank you guys for everything you're doing. I know you've diced this up every different way, and I hope that the town comes through and help support us because it is a huge draw for this town. When you talk to realtors, you talk to the people in the communities that they move here for the schools and the athletics and everything we have to offer. So, it's a big loss on the town if, things that we have to continue to do and if we don't have that true partnership between the town and the schools. So, hopefully, they will come out strong and help us.
So, hopeful for that. But thank you guys for everything, and I know it's been hard, and it's been hard on everyone. So, gosh. I bought my bricks. So the boys are ready. There's gonna be lots of tears this year. Katie and I were telling the telling these two they better be ready with the tissues as we get hand out diplomas because there'll be lots of lots of tears as all my all three of mine graduate. So it's a exciting time in our house. The lacrosse team, being able to play on the field, that's been really cool for my son's senior year. And, gosh, Avon. They beat Avon, like, 18 to one, which was pretty exciting. I mean, it was 19 to two, something like that.
But not having to drive four to five hours, you know, over the weekends and two hours of a of an evening to go see the kids, that's been a what was this? Snot load of fun. Yeah. It made us laugh. It was great. But it has been so much fun. So, and the kids and parents have just been so grateful. I think that's it for me tonight. Thank you. And the wrestlers, of course. Congratulations. Right. Congratulations to the wrestlers. You know, I love to look at all of the the good things that are happening. The Brownsburg Open Color Guard just finished the world championships in third place,
which is a really big deal. And plug for them Thursday night. This is their community night in the field house. So if you have nothing to do Thursday night, which apparently there's a lot going on, you can go see the Color Guard and Winter Percussion performance there last weekend, this weekend in Dayton, at their world championships. And as a a mother of a senior, I wanna give another, thank you to BEF for the large amount of scholarships that are coming for senior students and due every single year, and also to the staff that choose to contribute through the payroll deduction program. It may not seem like it's a huge amount in,
you know, an actual, paycheck. They may not really even notice that it's gone because of the way that BF has it set up, but it makes a huge difference to parents. And, with three, I don't even know what you're gonna do, but I'm you know, college is expensive. I also want to congratulate our robotics team. I think they have a big weekend coming up. They had some great, progress this past week couple weeks, and they are making a run at potentially a really big opportunity to travel. So shout out to them. And, if you have an opportunity to go and see one of the robotics matches,
it's super cool what they can do. I don't know how they do it. And, again, for those there's a lot of people in this room who have been at the community meetings. It is really great to hear community members trying to come up with solutions to the financial challenges that we have. This past meeting, we had parents offering to come in an empty trash cans so the teachers don't have to. Or can they come in and work with students to make up some of the deficits from some of the cuts? And I think that's where the community and the school combine and recognize that it
really is a Brownsburg situation that we're dealing with and, I think that, this Thursday, there will be a lot of people in support of the schools that'll be there at the RDC meeting and, but I appreciate all the people who come to the meetings, who've watched online, and who sent notes and emails and, spoke out in favor, and reached out to our legislators and our town council members, to try and help solve some of the challenges we've got going on. So Thank mister Murphy too. Thank you for always sharing. Mhmm. He's a great resource during the community meetings too. It's great.
I know. Alright. If there's nothing else, can I get a motion to adjourn? Mhmm. So moved. Second. Meeting adjourned.