Alright. We're gonna go ahead and get started. It is 06:30, and I figured that we might be a few people down, because it's light outside. I was thinking if it were warmer, I might really be some people down, but thankfully, it's not that warm out. No. So I wanted to hop in and get started today. First of all, thanks to all of you who are returning guests. For those of you who are here for the first time, thank you very much. I'm sure that you have watched community engagement session one and number two. And today we're gonna continue on and I'm going to tell you for those of
you that are going to do things with spring break, it is going to feel like we are having session three and you're gonna go to sleep and we're gonna have session four because session four is the Wednesday we get back from spring break. So, there's really not a whole lot of school things that are gonna happen between now and that next one. We're gonna have, I believe it's five school days between now and the next one. But it is several days off. So, welcome back. I would ask you to do a quick introduction at your table just so people
know who you are and and maybe an idea of why you're here. And we'll take about two minutes for that. So just do a quick introduction at your table. Okay. Come on back together. Wanted to do a few quick celebrations of Brownsburg Community School Corporation. We just completed iRead. IRead is a reading test that we give in second and third grade. This year was interesting because it used to be called iRead three because it was a test that all third graders took. Last year was the first year that we took iREAD as second graders so any second graders who passed the test last year did not have to take it as
third graders this year. So it's very strange where we have some kids taking it, some kids not taking it, second graders taking it. And ultimately this is a test in Indiana that as students who do not pass, we look at interventions that we can do from now until the end of the school year. During summer school, we do retakes, and then students who do not pass, who do not have a good cause exemption, we are required in Indiana to retain those students. So our goal is to get as many of our students to pass as possible because we don't want to retain students that don't need to be retained. Spring break is on the horizon so we are certainly celebrating that.
Enrollment for 2627 has started. I believe right now we are at about 200 kindergartners who have already enrolled for next year. That is an important number. We I don't know that we've talked about it in this meeting, but, when we think about keeping enrollment steady, we want to enroll as many kindergartners as we graduate seniors because those replace. I will tell you our senior numbers are very very high. Our incoming kindergartners are not nearly as high. So we we grow in other grade levels to kinda help us stay even but
that's that's that. And then recently we've had several fine arts events that raise funds for those groups and I'm gonna speak specifically about Bulldog Spectacular. That is a show choir event that we do. We did it last Saturday. So many people work that event and, put time and energy into that. The schools that come to participate pay an entry fee and those dollars go to pay for the rigging and all of that with the stage but it also is money that goes to our choir, fundraiser. So those are great things that we're able to do that bring people in but
also raise dollars for our students. So I've had a lot of questions about this I don't know if you've seen in the newspaper that there is a settlement. But I think it's important when we're talking to you about money that you understand where money for legal settlements come from. So I have shared this at the school board meeting on Monday. I have shared it with our teachers, and now I'm sharing it with you because this is, you know, I'll I'll just put it out there. The news says Brownsburg settled for $650,000 and so you're kidding me you settled for that much when we're in the money
pinch that we're in. So, I'm just gonna go through this. When a staff member or parent on behalf of a student or community member files a complaint or lawsuit against the district we immediately notify our insurance carrier. We make them aware of the situation. So sometimes complaints are resolved very easily without mediation. Others require mediation. And so others can require a fair amount of litigation. In some instances all of the resolution efforts are unsuccessful and it proceeds to trial. The insurance carrier works with us, and legal counsel determine next steps throughout the process. When settlement discussions take place,
the insurance carrier often takes the lead because they're the responsible party for paying the settlement amount except for our deductible. So I want you to think about you have homeowners insurance and maybe your deductible is a thousand dollars so that when your roof gets hailed damage and you need to replace it you're gonna spend the thousand dollars and your insurance company is going to pay for the rest. Okay? We have insurance for those same reasons and this is one of them. We pay the settle the insurance company pays the settlement amount minus the deductible that's
paid by us. If the case does not settle, they're also responsible for ongoing attorney fees and litigation expenses. So the deductible is based on the policy terms in effect when the lawsuit or complaint was filed. So in the instance just recently, that was what was our deductible back in 2017 when that complaint was first filed against us. When negotiations within that settlement, results in an agreement, the school district collaborates with the other ins and outs of the settlement agreement not the financial piece because really it is the insurance company who's driving,
the decisions at that point. Okay. So what that is long for me telling you we paid the deductible and the deductible was 4 figures. It was not 6. Okay? Alright. So recap of February 4. We asked for advocacy. We shared information about finances. We shared a brief overview of Indiana School Finance and collected questions from those in attendance. Recap of February 25. We asked for one last outreach to legislators. We discussed what we value in Brownsburg. We talked about access and opportunity, strong relationships and belonging,
community trust and transparency. You also came up with things. Other things that we valued based on the feedback that was given to us, familiarity within the community, extended help for iRead for so extra help for our students who need it. We value the people. We value investing in our future. We value the campus setting, which I thought was kinda fun because we are very different than other school districts when you think about how we are set up. And then we value our village, our small town feel. We discussed the operations fund revenue and expenditures. We compared Brownsburg Community School Corporation to other districts. And finally,
we shared what we've done with the money we have, which is our test scores in comparison to spending. We've done more with less. So our overall goal is the same. This has been on every slide deck that we've done here, to keep our community informed about recent legislation for Brownsburg schools. Our goal is to provide information, build trust, understanding, and unified voice. So back at our first meeting. I've heard you're only doing these meetings because you're gonna ask for a referendum and this is your way to set this up. What I wanna draw your attention to is the last part of that. One goal for these meetings is to provide you with information that will enable you
to advocate for BCSC with our state legislators and within the local community. So you've been advocating for with state legislators for the last two meetings. This time, we're gonna ask you to advocate here locally. And the people we're gonna reach out to are our town council members and the RDC, which is the redevelopment commission. So we've talked about legislative help, and we've talked about partnership with the town and townships for additional revenue. And so what's the update? Well, these are all of the Senate and House bills that are going to be in
effect that impact public education. So, I'm gonna choose two to talk about. The one thing that I do want to point out because some of these you look at and you're like, Oh, immigration matters. Okay, I have an idea of what that is. But we also have education matters, and education matters, and education matters, and education matters, and education matters, and education matters. So, a lot of education matters. I find this one to be just slightly interesting. We are going to deregulate 40 educational provisions. And we're gonna put some more in. So, a little commentary by Kat Jessup. There are a lot of these that as parents and community members if you are
not in education are going to make no impact to you. You're never gonna feel them. But for us, we're going to feel them. So for instance, there is information here about a math framework. That's things to do with standards and how we're going to teach. That's important for us. The governance for Ivy Tech and social media. Social media? That may be important to you. Governance for Ivy Tech? That's not even important to us. Okay? So, well, I mean, it's not. But the two that I think that you're gonna that you're gonna wanna know about, are the two that I've highlighted.
The wireless communication device policy and the school corporation report. And I think that they're important for different reasons. So when we talk about that school corporation report that I'm gonna get to which is twelve forty two there's parts of this that you're like okay require statewide reporting on enrollment performance demographics and administrative efficiencies. Okay. We're going to be asked as a school district to provide information to the state and to the Department of Education and they're gonna take that information and they're gonna decide things that they're going to do with it. The second part,
a study of operational funding disparities. I'm gonna tell you that is all of the work that you guys did. That is a result of us saying you need to look at this. This is a concern for us. What we're getting in operations is different than what other people are getting. And so they're going to look at even though operations dollars aren't given on a per pupil basis, it's the best way to really compare how things are working from one school district to another. And so they're doing a study on that. Our hope is is that through that study they're going to say,
wow, we need to set a floor and that every school district is gonna at least get what that floor is. We've heard what that floor might be and I will tell you if they actually come through with it that floor for us means $7,000,000. Okay? Now the problem is that's not till next year. So we've we've gotta get there. So I will tell you I believe 14 or $12.42 is a direct impact because of the phone calls and the communication that you did and so I wanna thank you for for that because I think it's a huge huge impact for us. So thank you very much.
Next is Senate Bill 78 which is wireless communication device policy and so you may think to yourself this is a good thing no cell phones at all no cell phones no smartwatches no personal laptops from bell first bell to last bell. Doesn't sound like a bad thing. Okay. And it's not but. So a coach, teacher, choir director, band director, whatever sends out a parent square at 12:00 and says practice is canceled. Thunderstorms are coming in so you need to go home after school.
Parent square came in and came in on their laptops, came in for you on however you get your parent squares. What's the first thing that happens when that comes through? You send your kid a text or your kid texts you and says, Hey, I'm gonna ride home with John. Hey, can I go home with so and so? Hey, can you pick me up? No cell phones. Okay? So that's one thing. We have students who are diabetic who use their cell phones to monitor their blood sugar. So, there are going to be some exceptions that are going to be made. Cell phones have to be put away. So initially put away was had to be in a locker.
Our kids don't use lockers. We don't have enough lockers at Brownsburg High School for every child to put their phone in a locker because why would we spend money on putting lockers in if the kids don't use them? So that changed and now they can put them in their backpack. So what we are currently doing is, Doctor. B at the high school is working with about 40 students and we tried to get a wide variety of students athletes, choir kids, band kids, robotics kids, kids who do internships, everything that you can imagine. And we're having those kids keep track of when they use their cell phones at
school. And we've told them you're not going to be in any trouble. Just keep track. Because we need to plan for the things. So here's a for instance. Our kids who are in dual credit courses through Ivy Tech have to dual authenticate. Well, you know what you do that with? Your cell phone. So we need to understand what the problem is other than kids have their phones out. We don't want them to have their phones out. Yes, but there are also times when kids do have their phones and so how do we go from there? The other thing we're gonna talk about is what happens with the first time you have your phone out and you're not supposed to? What happens the second time?
And then what happens the third time? Because at some point we're gonna have to say, Nope. Because this is the law. Okay? So, I want you to know we're not being, we're not gonna wait around until July 15 and say, Let's come up with a policy what this is gonna look like. We've started working on this. As soon as we heard it was gonna pass, we're working on this. I share this because these are the two that I think have these are the ones we're gonna hear about. So after spring break, Doctor. B is going to work with parents and students and teachers and administrators to figure out what this is gonna look like at the high school and then from there
it will trickle down to middle school and elementary school. Alright. Very exciting. So, we've talked throughout this. We've mentioned the town and the township trustees, and we have met with them to discuss possible partnerships for additional revenue for the school corporation. One of those areas of additional of available dollars is from tax increment finance districts. We call those TIFs within Brownsburg. So a TIF district is a designated area where the property taxes are held from all government units to fund redevelopment and public improvement projects. These are established by the town and are used to stimulate economic development.
Okay? We have a map later in here for us to talk through. When you have TIF districts, the town can decide to send money from those to schools. And there are two ways that they can do that. Option one is through an assessed value pass through. And that is they can just pass money through to the taxing districts to help lower the tax rate and to provide additional capacity for revenue under the same tax rate. Okay? That's one option. The other one, option two, is program based. And what I really like about program based is it doesn't just say to the
government entity, here's the money. Do with it what you want. It really ties it to something. So the commission, can contract with the school to provide up to 15 of TIF dollars generated annually and it must be tied to an entity whose principal function this is if you see it's in quotes, it's all fancy. Includes the provision of educational work training, retraining, or other programs designed to prepare individuals to per to participate in a competitive and global economy. As of right now we receive no pass through dollars or program based dollars. Some school district receive both from their towns.
This is the one we're hoping to do. So here's what we do. The Brownsburg High School student programs that we do that meet the definition from this program based the amount is $2,100,000 and here are the different things. Area 31 costs over $800,000 We have about a 182 students who are involved in that. Project Lead the Way, Project Lead the Way for us is going to be our engineering classes. It's going to be our computer science classes. There's biomedical classes that are all in Project Lead the Way. 814 students participate in PLTW at about 450,000.
Our work based learning program which is our intern kids that go out and about in the community and do internships around, we have 328 students that are involved in that at a $121,000. Our TV broadcasting program with a 184 students about a $171,000. How many of you have ever watched a Brownsburg, a BCSC TV performance? They're real good. They're really good. I would caution you don't get real comfortable watching ours because ours are really good and then when there's an away event and you have to watch a different school district they're not as good as ours at all.
And then we have over a thousand students in our business and our marketing program. That's about half $1,000,000. So altogether, dollars 2,100,000.0. If we request the whole thing and just to be clear, we're going to it is more than the 15%. So there is no way that they could they could pass through the 2.1 because it's over the 15% which is the legal limit of what they can pass through. So we've had these conversations. We are presenting at the RDC which is the, redevelopment commission meeting on April 7 at 05:30. The RDC, and I put this in quotes again because this is straight off their web page,
their job is to promote a top positive town image through well designed high quality development, assist with the planning and development of businesses and designated areas, secures a comfortable quality of life for resident, and aids in the elimination of inappropriate land use. I don't know what that is but I'm so intrigued. So our request will be for the RDC to approve the use of TIF dollars to be used to pay for workforce development. Again, we're not just saying, hey, give us money and let us do with it what we want. We're really tying it to that whole workforce, that connection between let's train our kids to be able to do jobs and then
if there are opportunities within their community that our kids would be trained to be able to do those. So why are we here today? What's gonna happen today? I've already asked for advocacy and we're we've given you on your handouts who to contact and what to say. But we're gonna share information about property taxes because everybody wants to know about property taxes. Why the makeup of Brownsburg Taxing District impacts property taxes and revenue because if you remember what's one of our problems? We have a lot more residential than we do businesses. And we're gonna dig into the different parts of a property tax bill and help
explain the effects of SEA one. We're gonna ask for you to advocate for us and then we're gonna wrap up school funding. Our next session will focus on areas of reduction and the potential impacts of these cuts. And I say that because even with the support from the township trustees, even with support of the town, we are still going to need to make cuts. Okay? So these were questions that were asked in our first meeting tax rate determined, impact our tax revenue, how's the tax rate split, who makes up the tax base for BCSC,
how does TIF factor in, and what creates the significant difference in revenue from comparison communities? So all of those are gonna be answered in today's session. And when you see those buckets, you know what that means? The bucket man is here. Alright. So, appreciate it. I'm tell you what, if anybody's more excited than you are about ending the school funding portion of these sessions, I certainly am, but we will try our best to make property taxes taxes exciting for you this evening. So, again, we have really we've we've worn this slide out. I understand. I and we're not going to really focus on one particular bucket.
But the reason we show this slide again is just to remind us that these two buckets, the operations fund and the debt service fund, are our local property tax dollars. That's where they go. So we we really talked about the education fund already. That is separate from local to property tax dollars. It's really the ops fund and the debt fund. And so, operations fund, again, we talked about last time. Debt fund, that is to pay off our construction loans. So the debt that we take that you see that we've talked about on construction dollars, that really the money we come we bring in for property taxes gets split between
those two funds. How does it get split up? That's we'll kind of dive into that as well. So prior to really talking about property taxes, we really need to focus on the the community of Brownsburg and us as a taxing district. So the slide format here is a little different. Just like last time when we had some slides up here from policy analytics, this is additional information from policy analytics as well. And so I believe this would be from, taxing year 2025, if I recall, based on just because when we run this, it's usually, in the summer, fall. So a lot of information on here.
I'm not gonna really pay too much attention to that top, but let's focus here because this is ultimately the breakdown of where our property tax revenue comes from. So there are three different sections of property taxes when we're talking about revenue that comes in, and that would be homestead deduct homesteads. Not homestead deductions. That's later. We have farmland rentals, and then we have commercial or industry. So and the reason why they are separated is because of how they are impacted by tax caps. These are impacted at 1%, 2%, 3%. So when we talk about the importance of knowing this information and why that's important
to our property tax revenue, it's because in the in the taxing district of Brownsburg, in our community, we are highly residential, as you guys threw back, so I know that you paid attention at least a little bit to these meetings. So at about 77%. Alright? And so you can see that is a, obviously, it's the biggest part of the pie, a very, very high number. That is high. It puts us high across the state. I do not have a list or ranking of that from across the state, but I know when talking to other districts, this and and our, folks like Policy Analytics and our other finance team, this puts us in a much higher level than most of our peers when it
comes to the breakdown of the taxing unit. So now why is this import also important? Because this orange right here, this orange represents the number of units of our parcels. And really, they're about 23,000 total parcels within the 1%, 2%, and 3% margin. About 15% of those or 15,000 of those are, is the residential properties. But almost 14,000 are at the tax cap. What does that mean? It means that 90%, essentially, of our community is paying as much property taxes as they can pay.
I could increase the tax rate as much as I wanted to as long as the assessed value would remain the same, but we could increase the tax rate as much as we want. We are not going to collect any additional dollars from this group right here. K? The only way you could collect additional dollars is if then you would have some of these folks that would then move into that orange area. But that would be kind of why Brownsburg is unique as well, is the majority of our homesteads are already at the cap. Alright? So what does that do when folks are at the cap that really shifts the burden to the 2% and then the 3%?
Now that 3% pie is very small for us. And what's even smaller is that you might say, well, if we had more 3%, then could we generate more money? Absolutely. But the problem here, as we're gonna talk about, is the majority of this 3% is in the TIF district that Kat just talked about. And we talk about that being in a TIF TIF district, that means that we are not receiving the property tax dollars that like we would from these other parcels. We are not receiving those dollars. Those are going into the town for the redevelopment commission.
So this certainly plays a factor in the amount of revenue that we can receive from local property tax dollars. K? Now it's nothing that we can necessarily do differently. Myself and and doctor Jessup, we're we are a product of living in this particular community. There are decisions made long ago from town council, maybe previous members or, you know, folks that have put us in this position. That's not what we're here to talk about. We're here to talk about the situation that we're that we're living within and what we can do differently or why how this impacts us. And so,
again, we are very, very unique in this, arrangement. And, unfortunately, again, if we were to increase the tax rate, that doesn't necessarily always equal more revenue. Alright? So kind of an interesting, process. And, actually, Jeff Thompson would say is one of the reasons that's a that's a problem. If the tax rate goes up, we should pay less. If the tax rate or if the tax rate goes up, you should pay more. If the tax rate goes down, you should pay less. We've done a study, I believe. We would have to lower the tax rate almost 50¢, which is a ridiculous amount for us, for the median household person to actually pay less in property taxes because of our
home values being so high. So, again, our tax rate itself is high, but it has to be a little bit because we are relying on more and more we're getting less dollars here, and the majority of it's coming from our residential properties. Okay? So it's important to understand this because this is the main factor in how much revenue we receive, and and a little bit more with our tax rate. Speaking of our school tax rate, you've seen this slide before if you've been to a board meeting. This is a representation of our tax rate since 2011. Alright? So, really, 2011 was dollar $60.58,
went up, and then it has been on a downward trend since then. We think about we we use 2015 as the the mark because I that's the year that we lost the capital referendum, and that's really the year that the Board made the commitment to the community and says, all right, we will continue to lower taxes as long well, if we do that, lower the school tax rate, can we continue to meet the needs of a growing district? That was the commitment we made, and that's the controlled growth that you have seen since then. So that has been a a purposeful design of lowering that tax rate since 2015
to ensure that we can continue to keep up with the growing district, all the projects and things that we've had going on, but also lower that school tax rate. So but the school tax rate is not just the tax rate. It is actually a, formed of two different of the two funds. The operations and the debt service each come with their own tax rate. That's what equals the total rate. So oftentimes, we talk about the total rate, but within the total rate, within the ops, within the debt, there has been some fluctuation up and down. And so and again, what we will do is work with the finance team to ensure that,
at the end of the day, that we end up with a rate that's lower. Now we have some control in the debt service. I say a lot of control in debt service. We really don't have a lot of control in the opera operations rate. If you think back to our first meeting, we talked about the operations. We've we use the term max levy, right, which is the maximum amount of dollars that we can ask for within the operations fund. That is a formula given to us by the Department of Local Government and Finance. So they like, for the last three years, they've said it can increase by 4%.
So whatever that number that dollar amount is, that's what we put in our budget. We wanna receive this. When they look at our overall assessed value, that is what will determine what that rate is. The only way that we can drop it is if we say that we wanna try to take less money in the operations fund. Same. So really, this one's kind of set for us. Yeah. That should not be a dollar. Sorry. Move that, move that over. Or $10 Yeah. Pay attention to this one, please. We'll fix that. All these numbers run together. So this would be a dollar should be here, o $5.00 9. So the debt rate is where we can make those decisions on how to ensure
our tax rate drops. Right? And how do we do that? Well, we look at our assessed value. We look each fall, we look at what that looks like. We know what our max levy will be. That gives us the capacity. We talk to our finance team to say, alright. Here's what the operations levy needs to be. What can we afford within our debt service to ensure the tax rate drops? We work with them, and that's how we then design that budget to ensure that whatever we put in our our our debt levy makes when we add these two together, ensures that this rate will drop. Okay? So again, that is a controlled effort to make sure that that line continues to that downward
trend. So that is our school tax rate. That's how it is formed. So what what does that look like within from a terms of dollar amount? And I'm just gonna focus on the operations fund because it just gets too too muddy here as far as the number of of let me talk about the numbers. Let's go back to the same comparison group that we used previously. And I'm also going to throw up Plainfield here, because I had a comparison of Plainfield, I believe, in the first presentation, and we also want to bring that back because it was a question. So the certified ops levy is essentially the max levy.
This is from the 2025 budget. Okay? So this is for all those school corporations that we've already talked about. This is the difference in the max max levies that is provided to them by the Department of Local Government and Finance. Again, school districts aren't necessarily making this decision. This does not include operating referendum. This is just based on what the DLGF says, what you can ask for. And so if the number is different than what the DLGF has recommended, then it would be lower. And again, it's probably not going to be lower. We are, schools are going to be asking for as much money as possible.
So what's interesting here is that when we then look at the ops rate, so I believe that we are the second highest operations tax rate, but we are the sixth highest certified ops levy. Okay? So the tax rate, a higher or lower rate, doesn't necessarily always equal more money. Why? That goes back to the slide that we just shared two two slides ago. The district makeup of your taxing unit plays a larger part in what happens with your dollars that you can raise with the tax rate than the rate itself.
Okay? Increasing the tax rate doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna get more money. It has everything to do with what is your assessed value and where's the money coming from with the number of residential, commercial, those types of things. So for instance, again, us and Avon are very similar. Well, Avon's got a little bit higher assessed valuation, probably a little bit more commercial than us. And so they are able to generate, you know, dollars $2,200,000 additional dollars in their max levy at essentially this exact same rate. Right? We go here to Westfield, another school corporation kinda similar in size.
They actually their rate is 5¢ less. They're generating $6,000,000 more. Why? Because their assessed value is so much higher and has a lot to do with the amount of commercial that they have in place. Another corporation that's very similar, Noblesville, again very similar, is that 34¢ tax rate for the ops gets them about 18,000,000. So, again, a rate doesn't necessarily tell the story. It is what has to be in place looking at the taxing unit to ensure that we can see the to try to figure out how much money is available. Now, it's this man,
I would love to say this is how much money we're actually getting. But the other thing that is impacting by your taxing district would be circuit breaker. So when you saw all the orange on that, we have a lot of of our parcels that are already at the tax cap. Okay? So that essentially means that there's uncollected dollars. So the DLGF tells us that we can raise this much money. That is before circuit breaker. This and so we then lose or or just not collect, essentially, this amount of money and that's the circuit breaker from 2025 from each of these
particular school districts. As I mentioned earlier, you know, Plainfield, they request 9,700,000.0, and they pretty much get it all. So this is the net levy after circuit breaker that each of these schools receive in the percentage of their original max levy amount. So again, a a corporation like Plainfield, which would be I think it's over 50% commercial. They are a district that also receives additional pass through dollars from TIF, and they also receive program dollar. I know that. My wife teaches there. And so trust me, everyone's pretty much jealous of Plainfield in the school finance world,
and so because they are able to keep the majority of that money. Again, what's interesting is they end up with over a million dollars additional in revenue just from this from the levy for a district that's just not quite, but almost about half of our size. So, again, the rate doesn't necessarily tell the story. It's the makeup of the district that is the true difference between us and some of our peers when it comes to the amount of money we're able to generate and why our rate has to be what it is. So now that we understand a little bit of property taxes and and why our rate may be what it is,
let's dive into a little bit of Senate Ruled Act One. So Senate enrolled Act one, we went through this in June 2025. We have, one of our financial advisors in from Stifel. And they talked about the impact of Senate enrolled Act one. At this time, it was still some projections. So but but the impact and what it was after the bill had passed, but these were still some projections. But we wanna go kinda go through some of those with you because this is not only about how it impacts the school, but also how it impact you as a homeowner. So we're kind of breaking this down into two sections. The first is the Debt Service and the implication
to Brownsburg Schools says this, as of 07/01/2025, BCSC will no longer able to approve projects without a referendum. That is true. That happened as a result of Senate enrolled Act I. So what does that mean? Because our debt service rate is over $0.7 So that means, go back to the slide, we have supported our budget and do a lot of smaller construction projects like roofs. Let's take the East Middle School roof, about $6,000,000 right now. That's the longest roofing project of all time. I'm sorry, mister Repay. I know it's been a big impact to you.
So 6,000,000 project, we if we can't afford that in the operations fund, which obviously we cannot, but if we would then need to take out a bond to pay for that, we would have to put that on the referendum ballot right now. That's what that says because our debt rate is over 70¢. K? So that's a problem for us. Right? Because we said no capital referendum, and we're gonna maintain that. So let's kind of we'll get to the the slide here I'm I'm gonna get to. But that's a little bit different than the process of which that we have essentially been working with.
This is all the projects since 2015, and then the process in order to get those approved. We have not asked for a capital referendum in these since the we failed one in 2015. And so we've gone through the process where there's been a public hearing, where public comment is allowed. A second one, again, public comment allowed. Board will then approve the project. And then we have a thirty day remonstrance period. During that thirty days, signatures could be, collected, sent to the county clerk's office, and that project could be stopped by the community. So the community still has a say in yes or no,
will that project move through? That has happened in I believe it was several years ago for the auditorium project. I was not here. I I don't have that that, year off the top of my head. But that has been something that has occurred here in Brownsburg. Once that thirty day is up, the project's approved. We can then secure financing and construction begins. So what's interesting is because you have to follow this long process. Sometimes, I think people see the end of the result of a construction project and then begin to associate the end of the result with the tax rate or the tax
dollars and those types of things, when, ultimately, a lot of these projects are approved a year or two or three prior to the end of that project, which is when we secured the funding for those. So for instance, all the items that are taking place here for the most recent renovation, the Tennis facility right now, we got the main gym that's just closed on Monday. And we will be moving forward with the East Of Odell project for track and softball. Those projects were all approved in 2023. June '23, we approved those. And while it has taken really in full three years to implement that,
we approved these in 2023 all prior to, what, Senate enrolled act one. So had there been a Senate rolled Act one in 2023, we really were playing on different rules. They changed the rules of the game mid mid game at halftime, and now we have to make those adjustments. So but that just kind of gives you a sense of what we've done, how we've approved those, the community input and potential stoppage of these particular projects. But we've we have a good working relationship and the tax rate has continued to fall. And so I want again, quick reminder here, as all the things I've said,
that these construction projects are not the reason that we are in this financial situation. K? This has not impacted the debt service fund or excuse me, the operations fund. This is the debt service fund, and we have worked with our finance team to ensure that how we cash flow those projects over the course of those three years, knowing what our operations rate will be, knowing what our debt service rate can be, that's how we begin to build this plan. And we've been working on that plan since 2015. And so, with the increases in assessed value, that has certainly helped. We've restructured the debt,
that has certainly helped. Again, lots of things other than those big projects you see. This is a repeat, but a reminder that we do a lot of work with those dollars, not just build buildings. The buses, paving, the roofs, lighting upgrades, equipment, lots of things that we are doing able to do to offset the budget within the operations fund we're able to take care of with those particular project dollars. Again, what cannot we spend those money on is staff compensation, consumable supplies, our property and casualty insurance, transportation operational costs like fuel, educational programming,
premium and maintenance costs, utilities. So there is a limit on what we can and cannot spend those dollars on, but it's important to understand that because that leads us to this one. If you pay attention to our board meetings, I know some of you in here attend a lot of them. You will see here that you might remember that in this past June, we did approve more projects. Okay? Why did we approve projects? It's to avoid the capital referendum. So this Senate Rule Act one took, effect 07/01/2025. So when we knew that if we were gonna be under 70¢,
which we weren't going to be, that we would have to do a capital referendum in order to do any sort of project or take out any debt to pay for something, we began to get a list of all items that we thought we would be looking at from a construction standpoint, all the little things we're gonna take care of, like buses and technology replacement and roofs and HVAC. And we began to compile a list what we thought over the next five years. And we put that in front of the board and said, this is what we're gonna do because this was our response to senate and rolled act one. What this allowed us to do is approve this project in the exact same format the others have been approved at without us having to put it on a referendum
ballot. So had we waited until 2028 or 2029 or 2030, those would all have to fall on a referendum ballot, and we're trying to avoid that. So to give ourselves the flexibility, we went ahead and approved these projects, but we are not obligated to move forward with those. So this just allows us the opportunity to do so based on what our tax rate is gonna be doing and those types of things. So we are not in any sort of contract. We're not in any sort of agreement. We do not owe any dollars on these things. We have not even committed the dollars at all, but we now have the flexibility. And so if we get to it and we say the only thing we can
afford are are replacing buses, we have to replace technology, and we got another roof that goes bad, then when we can just look at those few items and that's what the debt that we could take out. And this doesn't have to expire in 2032. This could continue to extend for ten years if we needed it to. But this, again, provides us the flexibility to cover these costs without having to impact the operations fund and without having to put it on a capital referendum ballot, and so because that is our commitment to you. So important things to understand why we did this from Senate Enrolled Act one, and again, provides us the flexibility to do the things that we want to do need to
do. So that's the debt service rate. Now let's take a look at the other items. Assessed value changes and the homestead credits. These have the most impact to you as a homeowner. Alright? Implications here as it's from assessed value is that, essentially, they're trying to lower the deductions on a tax bill, which will ultimately drop the net assessed value of your home. That will impact the net assessed value of our community, which, if the net assessed value drops, our tax rate may have to increase no matter if we do projects or not. And then the Homestead Credit,
that is the up to $300 credit, for the, that's the additional cut of property taxes in 2026, and that's a straight revenue loss for us. But let's talk take a really look at your property tax bill. K? So this this is actually somebody's bill in this room. So not not yours, Rob. I promise. And so but we did we wanted to make sure we included a property tax bill from Brownsburg. Alright? So we're not looking at any other community but ours. And this particular home is right around the median household in,
home value, which in Brownsburg, the median household assessed value of a home was $330,400. So we, we got very, very close to that. So what is on tax bill? I know, probably, when I when I was a teacher, principal, I never even paid attention to tax bill. I just paid it. Never really even cared what was on there. Know that you just have to have to have it. But it's important to kinda understand what's going on, how this all ties together. So on the left side, you have what twenty twenty four taxes for pay twenty twenty five or 25 pay 26, but, essentially, last year and this year.
I'm gonna pull out the green one. Gross assessed value of your homestead property. What is that? Well, that is what the, essentially, it's not not quite what you can sell it for. It's not the appraisal value, but it is the assessment value provided by the, county assessor. So that's essentially what your home is worth. And when it changes from one year to the next, that's essentially saying that the in the housing market has increased and so did your home. You are not paying taxes on a $340,900 home. You are paying taxes on what we would say is the net assessed value of
that property. Okay? So the net assessed value of that property is minus the homestead deductions. So Senate Enrolled Act one is increasing those deductions. I'm gonna go to the next slide. I'm gonna ask you to look only at the bottom right. Okay? Right here. On your property tax bill, you will see the homestead deductions. Senate enrolled act one is eliminating the standard homestead deduction, which is that $48,000 mark. That's what it's been for several years. They're phasing that out. So in '26, I think it's 48,000, and then drops to 40,000,
it drops to 30,000, all the way through 2031 when it comes to zero. What they're moving to is a percentage. So the percentage of your gross assessed value is now what they're going to be implementing until you get to up to 67%. So in 2031, 67% of your home value, of the gross assessed value, will be filled in right here. And that number, if you see the 01/7960, and let me go back, combined with why didn't that match? Darn it. What's that? 40 oh, yeah. Okay. Thank you. Plus the 48.
I've been I've been seeing these slides for way too way too long. Increases the total deductions that we have in place from property taxes. And what that does then is drop your gross assessed value to net assessed value. The net assessed value is what is multiplied by the unit rate. The unit rate times your net assessed value, and the unit rate is not just the schools, but it's the town, it's the county, it's the library. The unit rate times your net assessed value equals your gross tax liability. This right here is what you would pay if we did not have tax caps.
But we have tax caps. Tax caps on a residential property says you're not going to pay more than 1% of the gross assessed value. So you're not going to pay more than 1% of this number, which is what you see right here. We're going to subtract the dollar amounts associated with tax caps in order to get $44,201.87 down to 10 no more than 1% of this, okay, dollars 3,679. If we look back here from last year, that's exactly what then we pay.
It is 1% of $349,000 comes down to $3,409 That was what we would have paid in 2025. But in 2026, because of Senate Enrolled Act one, there is a sub additional subtraction of $300 That $300 means that you will pay $300 less than you would have paid. But because gross assessed value still went up, it's not a full $300 savings when we look at year to year, but you will pay $300 less than what you would have paid. Now again, the issue as a, as a homeowner, I'm very, very happy about that.
As a school finance person, this number drives me insane, because that number, ultimately, times 15,000 properties within our community equals a lot of money of revenue that has been pulled out from underneath us that we got in '25 that we will not get in '26. K? So that's the property tax bill. Exciting stuff. So this is to help you see kind of then how how is that tax rate formed. So the unit rate that we showed on the last slide there, again, that is from all the taxing units that are within the community of Brownsburg. You've got the county. We've got the two that are I don't know why it's called school total and
school debt. The school total is the operations fund rate. Debt service fund is obviously school debt. And you have the town. Let me go back. You said, Shane, I thought you said that the school rate dropped. But, when I look here, the unit rate in '25 versus '26 is higher. That's because I guess, not to blame. I'm not blaming. This is just pointing it out, is that we look and add all these up, the increase really comes here from the town. So thirty nine fifty four to forty three fourteen. So what does that mean? Right now, there are things in place for school corporations and districts that are forcing us to
try to drop our tax rate. That's what they're doing. Trying to trying to impact property tax revenue, which in turn drops the rate, which in turn should hopefully impact what you pay. The problem with that is some school corporations and communities are facing is that schools are dropping the rate, which is just turnaround and being taken up by one of the other taxing districts. So as a taxpayer, you are really not receiving any sort of benefit by the schools dropping the rate. Because if other units can increase theirs, then that does not help your tax bill. It does not help circuit breaker. And so there are some school corporations that drop their sub tremendously,
and then the town or county or somewhere else, took advantage of that and just really soaked up all that additional capacity. And so, again, this is where taxing units have to begin to work together. And, I think this especially this year, we are doing a better job than we ever have in that endeavor. So that's our tax bill. So kinda going back here again, these are all the things that we just talked about. I wanted this on the slide. If you're gonna review this, just kinda point at where these all all come from, assessment from your home, and and where that falls, and all the all the explanations. I'm gonna go back into this.
But, again, this is how your tax bill and how you'll be impacted as a taxpayer. So what does that mean for us, as far as moving forward for Brownsburg? I'm not saying that your homes are going to get worth, be worth less than what they are. The projections would state is that this top green line here is going to be the increase of gross assessed value. So if you think back to what we just said, that is the value of your home is gonna continue to increase based on projections. This is what's gonna happen with your net assessed value. It's going to decrease. Meaning, that the amount of money that we're pulling away from the tax bill on assessed
value is going to continue to increase, and that's what shows here. What does that mean for us? That means if we are lowering all the assessed values, the net assessed value for all of our taxing units, that means that our assessed value as a taxing district is going to drop in 2027, no matter what. So, we've looked at the projections. And based on what we are putting in place for debt, knowing what we're going to have in place for our Operations Fund, if we take out no additional debt, our assessed value is going to drop as projected as 3.7%.
This is still a projection. If we had a bunch of brand new homes, new construction that increase, that could change. But this is the best projections that we have. And so but the assessed value, if it falls like this, then that means the tax rate in Brownsburg for the school, essentially, will, in fact, increase. Now it'll increase, but if we think back to the previous slides, for 90% of our folks, that really doesn't impact you at all because you're already at the cap. Okay? So it's one of those things, again, that is being done to us. The school cannot control that. We've already sold our debt that is in place for twenty years.
We can't change that. And so this increase the decrease in the net assessed value will impact us for five years. Through 2031, once the full implementation of Senate enrolled Act one is complete, then we will begin to see, again, the normal increase, which is projected out as about 3.6, like much what we had here. So it is a short term problem. But again, because this has been done to us after everything has been set, it does have implications for us from a taxing district. So and this ultimately represents what's going to happen to your tax bill.
Because the $300 bill, if we think of the median household income, dollars 330,400, last year, that bill was approximately 3,166. This year, it will drop because we get the additional $300. But because that $300 is a one time, it's gonna be you're gonna still see that $300 drop. But because your gross assessed value will continue to increase, you're actually your tax bills are gonna continue to increase as well, as those projections look like. So, again, each one of these, you'll be paying $300 less maybe than what you would have paid. But because your home value will continue to increase,
so will what you're gonna owe on property taxes, even if the schools aren't necessarily gonna be receiving any additional, based on what you know, that'll all depend on what our tax rate is and such. Mister Hacker? Yes. I don't wanna talk into the mic. But, apparently, I have to. Can you go back to the slide where it says, like, all the different types of texts, like the library and the school and the town and all of that? I'd be happy to. Our table has a question. Yep. One, who gets to decide that the town gets the extra money? And two,
what is the town using that money for? And three, why is the library also going down? Like, who gets to decide that the town is the one that's getting the increase there and not the schools and the library or etcetera? Who decides that? Each of those governmental units have their own budget, and the budget that will be approved by their their governing body. So for us, this would be the school board would approve our budget, which in turn approves the tax rate. The town count Would approve the town budget, which, in turn, is the rate. And then there is a browns the library board as well.
Couldn't we set a higher budget and say we wanna take a bigger piece of that pie? So the only so the pie itself is not necessarily it can expand. So if we we could decide that we are gonna take more debt and increase our debt rate. The town could also decide that they're wanting to put in a pool and increase their debt rate. So whatever. That's that's the right? I've heard that. So if that were to happen, all that does is increase the tax rate, but it doesn't necessarily, it's not one piece of pie that we are all pulling from.
We all can can increase the size of the pie, I guess, if that makes sense. I don't know. That's my food reference. I don't know. It doesn't look like it landed. Did that make sense? Yes. Okay. The extra money for. I I do not know what they're using the extra dollars for. So that, and and nor have I necessarily asked. But but that, I mean, I I have a hard enough time keeping track of ours. But that would be something when the the town approves their budget and they're supposed to go through their budget in a in a community meeting, that that's some of the questions that could be asked of them. So typically, it's probably going to be because of a project that is gonna be require additional
tax dollars in order to pay for, more than likely. So for us, again, I cannot increase this number right here because that the num, amount of money that I can ask for is given to me by the Department of Local Government and Finance. So the operations fund, which helps in our operating account that we talked about last time, that is given to us. It's a formula. It's already set. So I think next year, it's a 6% increase is what they're were hoping for. So it might be a 6% increase on the $18,000,000
It's gonna increase by 6%. And then that, by our assessed value, will give us what our rate will be. I cannot go above that 6% increase in the, in the max levy fund. Yes. Vicki's coming with the microphone. The chart showing the taxes going up on your house, does that take into account you now have a two thirds deduction on the gross assessed value? Yes. That should take all that into account. I don't think it does, but it it doesn't the math doesn't seem right. So the I had a different slide in here that was
that would show the different but I took it out because it was too much. But I'm happy to show the example of from a 330,400. Now it should it should continue to increase because this this I can't remember what the the increase in the gross assessed value has been, off the top of my head, but that's what those projections are based on. So the gross assessed value, pulling that off. Because it really isn't until 2031 that you might actually see some potential circuit breaker where with the amount you're paying would be less than 1% of your home value,
which is a possibility depending on the value of your home. But you and the other Corey, I believe in that example, they were still playing more dollars each year even in that example. So I've I'll if you wanna stick around, I'll pull that up on my my computer. Good question. What other questions? We needed a break anyway. It's too dry in here. And I I don't have a fun joke for you this this time around. So any other questions that I'm happy to go back and answer? K. You guys are gonna be tax experts. Alrighty. So, again, why is this important? Things this is your takeaway here. Senatorial Act one,
result in increase potential, increase in school tax rate. Even if we don't take out additional dollars, it's still projection what assessed value might do. So this isn't a guaranteed, but based on projections. And so and that's due to the increase in the homestead deductions and lowering net assessed value of our community. That's an attempt to keep you from paying as much money on property taxes of what you would have paid. An increase in school tax rate has minimal impact to homesteads due to 90% of our taxing district already above the cap, but it would have an impact on circuit breaker. If we move more from the green to the orange,
that mean that's more uncollected tax dollars. And finally, increase in tax rate should move the tax dollar burden to 3% tax base. But since the majority of our commercial industry tax base is within TIF district, school would not receive any additional tax revenue from the businesses. So, again, these are kind of the takeaways here. Because of our tax base and the makeup of that, unfortunately, that is a hindrance to us receiving additional tax dollars if we're going to push that burden to other, to the 3%. That would actually help the TIF districts, because they would essentially get more dollars,
but would not help the school corporation at this point in time. So what all is in TIF? This is a TIF map, okay, from Beacon. Anybody can pull this up. This is not this is not special. If you go to the Hendricks County, map within the the Beacon GIS program, you can pull this up and select, the TIF to show all the TIF areas. So I tried to, change this one where it's you have to zoom out so far, but it left the roads, in place, so you at least have can maybe get your bearings a little bit. But when you talk about what's what's in place for all the TIF, well, pretty much any commercial that we have in within the town of Brownsburg is in
a TIF. There are a few areas, like the New Myers not in a TIF. I believe the OrthoIndy up there on 56 is also not in a TIF, and there there are a few random spots here. But for the most part, you know, this is all your downtown area. This is over by Ronald Reagan where the, you know, Hendricks Regional 74 Hendricks Regional over to Raceway Park heading north on the Ronald Reagan Beltway. We've got some down here in what's called Wind Farms area as well as in the downtown area as, up through the the northern part of Connection Point and such.
So pretty much, most of the business, if you're going out somewhere to eat, or going to a business to shop, it's pretty much in a TIF district. And so those dollars are going back to the redevelopment, of our infrastructures and such. So it's not like that monies are not being spent, but they are not helpful to the school corporation, which is why we are now going back to them and saying, Can you please give us some of those dollars? So, I believe that my portion of this is done. And I think we do have time for questions. Is that correct? So, we do have about we knew we weren't going to go as far along today.
I want to make sure. Are there any other questions? Some complicated stuff here. It's very dry. I understand that. But it's important to understand where our money comes from, how it's spent, and some of the roadblocks that we have in place. Any other questions for us? Yes. Mister Wyant and then mister Murphy. Townships were identified as a particular, government entity that might participate in this exercise? Yep. The word township hasn't appeared in any of this. Are are they able by law to participate? And if so, what what can they do? Our two township trustees have been fantastic to work with,
and they are working with their legal counsel to try to find the the the ways that they can participate. They are certainly willing to participate, as long as we can make it work legally. It is not as there's not as much state statute like there is with TIF. It has to be tied to something specific that kinda benefits the area more so. But Lauren and Steve have been Lauren. Sorry. Angela and Steve have been very, very helpful in that, endeavor for us during those meetings. Jim Murphy. I'm on the board in Brown Township. Mhmm. And I wanna tell you, folks, facts. K. Okay?
The facts are we have approximately just over $1,000,000. The township trustee, along with board members that didn't realize what was going on, have given the fire territory $500,000 250 well, now it's up to $300,000 for expansion of an exercise room at Station 133. In addition to that, Brown Township has been trying to reduce
their, surplus. And one of the means that they've done that with is for the operation of the township itself, the tax rate for the township is zero. This so the actions that have been taken is going to cause now sooner than later the township to have to pay a tax. So there is no money in Brown Township. And when it comes down to it, we're going to end up reinstituting a tax rate to operate the township.
Thank you. Fact. Thank you very much, mister Murray. Appreciate you sharing. Other questions? I know I didn't do that good of a job. So, this message yes. You got it? I'll let you do it. With regard to the ask for the TIF money, the, earlier, there was a slide and there were two different pools of money in the TIF, the the the ones that are tied to the, programs specific programs, and then there was the pass through money. Yeah. Is there a reason that you're leaning towards asking for the ones tied to the program and not just the pass through? Absolutely. So the the pass through actually is more in the form of assessed value only,
not direct dollars. So the that would be additional assessed value that could potentially lower the tax rate, or would provide us additional capacity. For instance, if we receive an additional $100,000,000 in assessed value, that could look drop our tax rate 10¢, and that would then means that we could eliminate circa or not eliminate circuit breaker, but drop circuit breaker a little bit, which would in turn give us additional dollars in our, operations fund. That's a possibility. But just like with when you mess with assessed value and that tax rate,
if another taxing unit were to increase their tax rate, that actually would be null and void because if another tax rate unit went up and we're receiving additional, then the tax rate may not be impacted, or additional dollars in circuit breaker would remain the same. The other option would be the capacity generated could allow us to do more projects or more debt at the same amount of, at the same rate, but we're not looking to do additional debt. We really know what that plan is. We're not trying to do more more projects. We already have that in place. And so that's really the reason why we wouldn't we feel like option two,
which is here's cash that you can utilize for the operations of your school corporation. That's the reason we're doing that versus the assessed valuation, which might give us additional dollars, but it's not a guaranteed. Yep. Mhmm. So who has influence on these TIF districts? Because I see the giant blue one, and there's nothing built out. The Reagan's not even there. Lee, that is a county TIF at the moment. And the what they there was recently in RDC, they transitioned it from county to the town, but I cannot recall what that what they're putting in that.
But, essentially, the county and the town work together on this. And then just a slight follow-up. Like, what I guess, what influence is there about these tips are bringing in you know, designed to bring in businesses who bring in people and bring in jobs and increase the number of students we have, like, what influence is there to say, yes, some of this money should go to the schools because we're increasing the population and increasing the schools? Sure. So the every year, the there is a option to do pass through or program based if that's voted
on every single year. And so that is at the town council level. And so there's also the Redevelopment Commission is the other group that would be, have some influence here. And so, like, who I'm presenting we are presenting to on the seventh, probably me, where we're gonna go through this stuff because I'm I'm a non voting member on the RDC, so I'll be there anyway. So it's like it's like it's like what you are right now. It just gets to sit through a meeting and have no influence. But this time, I feel like I will. And so the redevelopment commission can then determine the pass through dollars or excuse me, the program based dollars. I believe that decision is in the hands of the redevelopment commission.
So that's the reason why both, units are on, the sheet tonight for you to take home and and contact. Yes, mister White? Wait. Can we go back here? Oh, yes. Thank you, Vicky. You may have just mentioned it in two questions ago. But in in layman's terms, can you if Brownsburg if we had 200 houses, you know, new development, what does that do to school financing? K. How how does that happen in simple simple terms? Yep. So the new construction of homes would add to the assessed value of our taxing
district. So that would bring that means the the entire value of our of our community would certainly go up. Where we are falling is that's probably also gonna be houses that are at or above the tax cap. So we would not receive the full dollar amount for those, like, just like what you're seeing here. We're gonna lose dollars to circuit breakers so that we we would not receive dollar for dollar what that home value is worth. And I guess then the other thing is if that home were filled with kids, then that would also that are they're attending Brownsburg schools,
then we would receive the dollar per pupil in the education fund to educate those kiddos. But if they're filled with just folks that aren't going to school, then we would just that's property tax only increase in revenue. What would happen, essentially, is increase if we only added homes and not added any commercial to offset that. That would only drive up the residential percentage of our home and, again, still continue to shift the tax burden to to homeowners. And it is not helping us generate more dollars from commercial,
to help offs either generate more money or lower that tax rate. I don't know if that was layman's terms, but best that I could do. Great question. Yes, mister Warren. In your slide where you, accumulated all of the programs which may qualify for a TIF pass through Sure. That number was in excess of $2,100,000 Yep. And you also said that that was greater than the amount that the town could possibly give you. Yep. What is the maximum amount that the top that the town can, by law, pass through that you're gonna come and ask the RDC for?
Okay. Great question. And that may not be what you get, but that's the maximum that they could Sure. So the the maximum amount would be 15% of the overall TIF revenue. I've, we've not been provided the 2025 TIF report. Obviously, that changes each and every year. So, but I know from the 2024 report, 15% of all of the entire TIF revenue would be somewhere in the $1,300,000 range. So but, again, that would adjust every year based on the amount of debt that that, needs to be paid, their tax rates, those types of things. Negotiated or what the town thinks they can give?
Give every year would have they would have to make that decision. So we've ultimately asked for a three year commitment, in this minimum. Obviously, we'd love for that to be extended, but we know the three years, that gets us through calendar year '26, '27, and '28. So until we may begin to see some of the impact of center elect one, that could be positive for us. And so that's why we're asking for three year commitment. But, unfortunately, the town cannot say, yes. We're gonna do this for three years. It has to be an annual, action item from the town council. Somebody asked, just recently here, the green area that's TIF, that's from 56th Street up north.
And we've got two county representatives over here, and they can make comments to that. But from what I understand, the county is going to take all that revenue off that TIF area. The way it works, that's how they're paying for the road. Yes. Okay. Mhmm. So none of that TIF money will come back to the school or anything else. Correct. Yep. So I believe the TIF areas in which we are talking about the town of Brownsburg would be this general region here. Alright. Doctor Jessup, you wanna bring it home for us?
Yes, I do. So, again, these are the values that drive us, and we believe these are the things that make Brownsburg Community School Corporation Brownsburg Community School Corporation and when we talk about, the need to make cuts and whether or not we're going to be able to, generate some support. These are things that will be impacted when we have to make cuts and that that's just the reality. We've asked for advocacy. The bottom section there is kind of the verbiage that we've shared with you at every time is here's what you can say, here's what you can send so you don't have to come up with your your
own, email. We're we're just gonna provide it for you, with email addresses of people that you can contact. Now we're asking for you to contact the RDC, as well as town council with this little blurb. The meeting is on April 7 at 05:30. Early. Early, you can still have a nice dinner afterwards. You won't get the early bird, but you can have dinner afterwards. And and certainly, we believe that when when we think about what's going to bring business and what's going to cause people to come to Brownsburg, we think Brownsburg Schools is a pretty big part of that.
And so that's why we feel that our request within TIF for those dollars we think that it's it's a little it's a realistic ask. How can you support us? Certainly share, what you learned tonight with neighbors, friends, and families. Encourage people to go to the website. I will tell you the number of people who watch session one was much higher than the people who watch session two. And, yes, I do check those metrics. I'm pretty sure it had to do with Shane. But I would ask you to encourage people to watch this, as well as to reach out in advocacy for us. And then finally,
we'd ask you to come back to session eight, session eight, April 8 to session four, where we're gonna talk about reductions, because we feel that part of what we need to do is is tighten up. We're we're going to show that we're doing everything that we can. Our goal is to push dollars into classrooms and in order to do that, the cuts that we're going to make are going to be, are are going to be significant, but that's so that we can hopefully do what we need to do in classrooms and and cut in other places. You know, we've already shared. We've cut four administrative positions for next year,
a fifth one for the following year. We've already not hired custodians and maintenance staff that have resigned this year. We know that we have several teachers that are not coming back and the question is will we replace them? So the next round between now and what we're gonna do with teachers is gonna be our instructional support staff and those will be, cuts that will start the week after spring break. So, Wednesday, April 8 is we'll be sharing some information with you at that point. So, certainly not something I'm looking forward to,
but it's something that I feel that we need to do because of where we are financially. And I think it's easier for me to tell you we're struggling when I can tell you the cuts that we're making. So that's it. Look at us. We are done early. Thirteen minutes in advance. Can I try and yeah? I just just real quick. The one thing that's important I think it's different. It's a little different. It's a little different. So is we are asking in this request, for their continued support. We it is not a time for pitchforks, yet with town council or RDC. So, please please be nice.
We have had great conversations. This is to ensure that that they hear from the community that, yes, that this is important. But it is not that they are saying they're no. They are saying yes, but it's to ensure that we give them just a little bit of a nudge to say yes. So keep that in mind. I thought he was gonna come up here and do a dance because yesterday when he was practicing, I was doing a dance off to the side because I said if you didn't have a joke this time, I was gonna dance for you. But apparently not. So, that's what we have for you. Thanks for coming tonight. Well, if you have questions, come on up.