Good. I'd like to call to order the Brown Ford Community School Corporation Board of Trustees regular meeting, 05/12/2025. Please join the state of the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America, Mind joining me for a moment of silence? Thank you. Communications, middle school related art schedule, mister Ripe and missus Cochran. Hello. I am Cochran, the principal at West Middle School. Andrew Ripe, principal at East Middle School. And we're here tonight to talk with you about our middle school schedule, for next year anticipated. So over the last several years, we've been really looking at the overall effectiveness of the middle school schedule,
with students changing and us trying to meet them at varying levels of support. We developed a schedule with our teacher leaders as well as support from the corporation leadership team, to create a schedule that would really enhance academic opportunities for students as well as add more structured breaks throughout the school day. With that, that eliminates our current purple and white schedule. So students right now have a related arts or an elective course every other day. And this allows them for them to have two every single day. And that really kind of increases their ability to have structured breaks as well as
kind of allowing us to meet their needs, and look at the whole child. So this is a more narrowed focus of what that schedule would look like next year. So you can see the schedule breaks, with the two related arts courses for each grade level. And really everything else stays the same. The core content classes are slightly shorter, but again, allowing for those structured movement breaks throughout the day. What will maintain the same, which we feel very passionate about, is that seek intervention and enrichment period in the morning, which we do feel like is our greatest leverage point with our student success.
And so what that creates is, currently when teachers have their prep time, that is during the related arts period. And and so currently, that is for every team only one a day. Now when we're gonna have, two related arts period a day, then we would ask ourselves, okay, what what productivity is happening for the teacher during that time? So this is a sample of what that will look like going into next year. So you'll see that, for essentially Monday through Friday, something is set. We have the regular prep time, but then also what's called team time, PLC, and then seek. And so, essentially, those supports are times where,
the teachers will have time to actually collaborate with one another during the school day that will allow everybody to be on the same page, not just within each building, but then also cross between both buildings. So, one thing that miss Cochran and I feel passionate about too is making sure that our students doing east and west have a more similar identical experience moving forward. So you'll notice even under the PLC time that, at least even once a month that the PLCs will even zoom together with support from the secondary departments as well. There are essentially, sandwiched between, the for the team tied, the the seat, PLC, and the PLC does our academic support,
and the team support is really all about behaviors that they that that needs to work together to support our kids. Thank you. So Got a question. That's On Wednesday, does that mean that I will ever have a shorter day period of, dismissal? So we'll still dismiss at 02:05, but the core, now related arts will still stay forty five minutes. Five days a week, but the core content classes will be adjusted for Wednesday. Okay. Any other questions? Thank you, Will. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Brenberg Brensburg Education Foundation report to doctor Dixon. Thank you. Chip in for the kids golf outing, presented by Summers Plumbing,
Heating, and Cooling is Friday, June 13 at Westchase Golf Club. Contact the BEF office for sponsorship opportunities or individual team registration, and you can register online. Scholarships. Seniors were presented with scholarships on April 24. BEF awarded $84,000 to the BHS class of 2025. '20 '7 of these scholarships are on behalf of the BCSC employees because of payroll deduction contributions. Thank you so much. Grants. The BEF grant committee met to award over $90,000 in classroom and corporation wide grants for the 2526 school year.
Announcements about grant recipients will be made soon as well as the 2024 grant chosen as the innovative grant of the year. Thank you. Operations update, mister Hacker. Thank you very much. So this evening, kinda take your focus still within construction, within a little bit of a more of a narrow focus within construction, and that is the senior academy cafeteria. So if we think back to, when we opened up the main building cafeteria in 2020, obviously, that was substantial program change with, the new cafeteria. We're we're moving from the South End to more of the central location. Very much more of an open environment.
Lots of lots of meal different types of meal options. Really some fresh cooking taking place right there on the line. And just much more healthier, very and what we call just trying to increase participation from our students because we know again that when students are eating throughout the day and eating healthy meals, that's gonna have an impact on education. So we wanted to carry that forward into the senior academy cafeteria. And so these are renderings. Now it look like I promise you it's not this far done, but the renderings look so so real. But this is kind of the the first take or really what the the final
draft when we talk about graphics of what the senior academy cap like the serving lines and such will look like down in the, in the new portion of construction. And so very similar options that you'll see as far as food availability that we have in the main building, but the theme of this, especially with it being right next to the field house and a little bit more surrounding with the, your kinda other athletic events and things, kinda wanna do a garage type feel, more like, that you would experience there up down on Mass Ave. And so we still have the the pizza cutter is right there on the left,
and, that would be kind of a you'll see the pizza oven right there. So we're cooking right there on on the line. Very, very fresh, hot, excellent pizza, I might say. The the nutrition services does an amazing job. You'll see the hot spot, which is more of, kind of traditional lunch that you would find down in the main building as well. And, the varsity club, more of of, you know, just kind of sandwiches and things. The the goal would perhaps that could be a spot where if you're having an event in the field house, that you can also open that place up. That way, we can have, again, more of the varsity club feel with food and accessibility.
And then there on the on the right is, Simply Greens, the salad bar and such. And right across the way there, that would be just a cooler for all the drinks and things that's kind of built within the Senior Academy cafeteria. So, again, lots of fresh, hot options for our, see again, there's be some seniors and juniors. It won't just be seniors. Very similar food types that'll be offered down here. Little bit different look to it and such. Maybe different names of each of the locations with very similar looks, so there are similar type of food. That way, our students are are getting similar experiences. You'll see the mobile stations here that as kids,
as they finish up getting all their food, they'll just head on out and then have a seat there in the main cafeteria. A new feature of the new building will be the Market Central. This is, located it's kind of more of a grab and go option. It is just, right before you get to the Senior Academy Commons area and just before you get to the serving lines. But this is going to be open might not necessarily all day long, still kinda figuring that out. But certainly in the morning, available during lunch, and then we would like it available after school. And so this is kind of the like, the quick grab and go, maybe some cold options, I would say, much like a a Wawa perhaps,
or or or Buc ee's that you can go and grab something quick. Or we say those because people think those are nicer gas stations. Right? But, you you again, the cooler's here in place, drinks. We We'll have some fresh produce available. We'll have the coffee shop here. Again, we have the coffee shop down in the main building as well. So very similar features in the senior academy. A goal of this location as we continue to work with Hendricks Regional, I know we have the partnership will approve later this evening, is really the nutrition for athletes as well. So our goal is have this open after school for some of our athletes who,
you know, if you've got an early lunch at 11:30 and then you're going to practice and you did or may or may not brought a snack, if you have a competition, sometimes those kids are going off in time very late into the evening without another opportunity to eat. So working with athletics and and working with nutritionists, perhaps with HRH and our nutrition services department, our goal here long term is to have some options available for our athletes, or those, staying after school that might need that extra boost in nutrition. That way, we are, again, thinking of the whole child. That's nutrition is certainly an important part of that.
So, again, this is kind of unique to the senior academy area, but this is a little bit farther south. So, again, as students, especially the drop off or all student drivers, it's gonna be a little bit close to where if you enter as a drop off location or as you're walking through as a driver, you're gonna walk right past this. And and, again, senior academy isn't we don't have doors there to keep the underclassmen out. This will be accessible, you know, during those times for, all of our students. So, again, just something extra that we're, we're looking forward to offering our students. And last but not least, still still landing the plane here on on the graphics,
but right now, we feel like this is kind of what the senior academy cafeteria, the common space that we think as far as where your bearings go to the field house would be over here on the left. The serving lines I just showed you were on the right. Market central is actually gonna be right in this hallway here on the other side of this line. But just again, a nice clean space, very consistent feel with what you'll see in the main building cafeteria. And again, this view from up top, a nice big kind of bulldog wall, has a little bit of a back lit, purple glow to it as we see a lot of pictures in front of the bulldog that's down the main building as well. So trying to offer a, photograph option for folks that might be having,
you know, banquets or participating in events in the field house. So, when they come out here, they're gonna know they're in Brownsburg. So just very excited. I would say, Jordan Ryan has worked extremely hard on all this. She her mind is just outstanding and, and she's cast a great vision. And, again, just very excited for the opportunities we're gonna have to offer our students here at Brownsburg. Happy to answer any questions you might have. Question? It looks like there's empty space in the middle. What am I seeing? Like right here? There's yeah. So those are the, like, trash cans and tray return Oh, okay. Areas. So, again, more like a we'll call food court,
perhaps, instead of a a yeah. A little bit more long and narrow. Instead of taking it up to a window, we've got carts and such. They'll sit there. They'll dump the trash can or dump the trays in trash cans, stack the tray on a cart, and then we can just quickly rotate those carts and trays out as we take them back to wash and prepare for the next round of kids. And three lunches here, the same three lunch times that are in the main building will be in the senior academy. Very consistent schedule. Thank you. Any questions? Alright. Finance update, mister Hacker. This one will take a little longer. So, one of our our goals here as we move ahead in 2025,
there's been certainly a lot of changes and adjustments with legislation, lots of, you know, lot of things in the news, media, and such. And so our goal here is to provide just a little extra information at our board meetings in the upcoming to kinda talk and just be a little more transparent and open about what's going on and and the impacts that some of that legislation has on us. Here, just a couple weeks ago, we had the this really isn't related to new legislation, but have there is a legislative impact. But the DLGF, Indiana Department of Local Government Finance just released the 2025 circuit breaker report.
And it's it's great that they released this in April. We really probably need it back, about six months ago before we approved the budget. But they get all that to us now, so these are actuals. And so prior to kind of getting into the to the report and the numbers, I wanna kinda share just remind folks what circuit breaker actually is. So circuit breaker is related to tax caps. And the circuit breaker essentially will be the uncollected tax dollars due to the tax caps that are set set in place. Again, homeowners only pay up to 1% of the gross assessed value of their home.
And what that means, if your assessed value comes back at $300,000 for your home, then the total tax liability that you will pay is $3,000. Right? 1% of that. However, the tax rate is applied to the net assessed value. And oftentimes, that that tax rate applied to the net assessed value, especially in Brownsburg, where the median price is over $300,000 of our homes, will typically exceed that 1% option. So, again, this is purely hypothetical, but for instance, if they, the $300,000 home after we apply the tax rate,
perhaps that comes out to $4,000. But state law says you're only gonna pay 3,000. So that difference, that $1,000 difference ultimately is, is the circuit breaker. And that difference is essentially split up between all the taxing units, between the town and the schools and the library, but by percentage of what our tax rate is. That is split up between all tax units and is considered the circuit breaker credit credit or tax cap loss. And that doesn't sound like a lot. Right? Just if that in that instance, maybe a thousand dollars, but there are 15,000 homesteads in Brownsburg.
And so with the majority of those homes being at or above the tax cap, that that does create some substantial circuit breaker credit, again, or tax cap loss that Brownsburg schools deal with. We also have a very high residential tax base, and data would suggest that these types of communities see a higher circuit breaker credit. And, again, those uncollected tax dollars are unfortunately only applied towards the operations fund, unless a school qualifies to implement the protected taxes waiver. And I'll get a little bit into that here in a second. So you can see below there since 2021 what our circuit breaker credits have been.
Again, this is tax cap loss or or revenue that is removed from the property tax levy that hits our operations fund. We've gone some since 4,600,000.0 in 2021 to this most recent report that came out at $9,000,000. And so, again, that's money that's essentially taken. We levy for a certain amount. That money is removed, and Brownsburg's Operations Fund gets the remaining balance of that. So operations fund, why is that important? Well, I I know I've shared this this, slide many times, but if we just focus right here on the ops fund.
The operations fund is people, including custodial maintenance, bus drivers, mechanics, a lot of the central office staff, or really any employee that's role is directly tied to the operation of a school district. We have to pay for utilities, property casualty insurance, transportation, general maintenance maintenance throughout the district, and as well as plenty of custodial maintenance bus supplies and such. And these are very consistent expenses for all schools. Right? All schools have to deal with this. But when you have more students and more buildings, obviously, the expenses are a little bit higher for larger districts such as Brownsburg.
Those numbers typically increase with students, facilities, and staff. The property tax dollars that you will see begin to come in and form the our tax rate. They pop that that revenue for the operations fund and debt service fund. But as as we just talked about, the circuit breaker credit, again, that only applies to the operations fund because the debt service fund is protected. Right? We have to pay our debt, so any money that's designated to pay debt has to be paid out of the operations fund. And so operations is certainly a big part of we got a lot of buildings
to take care of and is a big part of what we do. So some previous legislation impacting operations fund. This is really back in 2023. But but it's, again, playing a a a factor in how we're moving forward financially, which is why I wanted to bring this back. So in 2023, house bill fourteen fifty four, unfortunately, removed Brownsburg's Community School Corporation's ability to utilize that protected taxes waiver. And so now what that means is the protected taxes waiver, which is right there on the bottom, allowed us to essentially transfer dollars from debt service into the operations fund because we
qualified or had such a high circuit breaker loss. So this wasn't additional, revenue that we had to levy for. This is essentially a transfer of money from debt service into the operations fund. Essentially, utilizing any cash balance that we had, we would ship that over. For Brownsburg Schools, that was about 3 and a half million dollars that we were moving from debt into ops. Again, that wasn't impacting the tax rate. It wasn't extra money that we were levying for. It was simply just in, utilizing the dollars that were already in debt service and moving into ops. Unfortunately, again, House Bill fourteen fifty four took that our ability to move that away,
starting in 2024 and beyond. So, again, what used to be a little bit of a balance between debt and ops for us now only hits the operations fund. And I've shared this slide with you before. And so the impact of fourteen fifty four from legislation, that is an impact to revenue Because, essentially, if we are unable to transfer money now from debt into ops, that was purely revenue that we were able to use for the operations fund. And so what you'll see here is up top, I just kept it simple, waiver yes or waiver no.
So when we were and really, the net ops levy here is the number that we need to pay attention to. The ops fund levy at the top, that's really considered a max levy, and that, by state statute, is the maximum amount of dollars that we can levy for. That's provided with a formula. So that's not us saying we need $146,000,000. That's the state saying this is what you can levy for. And that increases a little bit, each year. So what used to be, when we implemented the the protected taxes waiver, the 14,000,000, we have a little bit of circuit breaker loss, not the full extent. And so you see the net levy here at 12,400,000.0.
We levied for 16.2, lost 3.1, ended up at 13. And then in 2024, '20 '5, you can see so on. This was what the projections were based on our financial team of where how much revenue we were gonna bring in in our operations fund. Well, after house bill fourteen fifty four, we are unable to implement that waiver. So, therefore, we now have that full amount. So instead of 3.1 circuit breaker hit, in twenty twenty four, six point eight. And so instead of what we thought we get is $13,400,000 in net revenue in the operations fund from property taxes ended up only being 9,900,000.0.
So when we look at that over the course of the next several years, that's, again, that's money that we can no longer transfer from debt service into ops. That's that's just pure loss of revenue. And over the next seven years, that total was about, you know, a little over $24,000,000. And these were based on some projections and things that may not be exact, but I can tell you that it was about 3 and a half million dollars that we were transferring, and that is very, very accurate as far as the number that we were gonna lose in the operations fund. And so that was a big deal for us. Right? That's a lot of that's a significant impact,
especially when we, we're not losing buildings. We're not transfer transporting fewer kids. Utilities are not going down in cost. And property casualty insurance is not going down in cost. Also, we gotta think about raises for all the staff and things. And so that is a substantial impact to the way that we operate. So does that just hit Brownsburg? What is let's let's take a look at some comparisons. What I did is pulled information from really gotta give Corey Ebert a lot of credit here in in helping me with this information. There's a lot of numbers on this page, and I'm asking you to stay with me. What you'll find here is the schools from our HCC conference.
Avon, Brownsburg, Zionsville, Hambleton Southeastern, Noblesville, and Westfield. These are all districts that I think that a lot of folks would associate ourselves with. Right? Similar size, similar suburban type schools. You know, we would compete oftentimes for staff. And and so which is the reason that we selected these for the comparisons. What we've done here is, again, for each school district, you'll see a total tax rate. You'll see the certified levy, which is the total amount of property taxes that the schools are asking for, what the total circuit breaker credit is, so the amount of money that we're taking away from the levy,
and then the net levy. And then in order for us to have any sort of quantifiable number here, we have this per ADM or per student number that really is the only thing that we can be consistent on when talking about what what what how far can this money go for us. So, again, let me quickly see here that as far as, and I'll I'll reference this slide a few times. Of all the schools on this list, actually, Brownsburg asks the community for the least amount of property tax dollars. Okay? That that's important to know. Even though that we are not the smallest school corporation on this list,
you know, we've got Zionsville. We're very similar to Noblesville. We're bigger than Westfield right now. Avon's a little bit bigger. And h HSE, obviously, is a big district with two major high schools. And you, again, you you think 10,503. We've also thrown our pre k kids into this number because we still have to provide utilities and transportation and things for our preschool. Right? So you can see here at Brownsburg, this is for 2025. We'd levy for a total between debt and ops for $62,000,000 all over that. That $9,000,000 circuit breaker, so we're left with 53,000,000 total that were split between debt service and operations.
And then you can see here as far as this number right here is the dollar amount per student that we now have available out of the operations fund only to provide all the services that I've just talking about. And so I find this to be very fascinating as when we take a look at that number right there alone, just the operations number across all these districts, here's what we end up with. These are by schools. So Avon, just looking at the operations levy after circuit breaker, about $1,200 per student. Brownsburg, just over 800.
We got 1,400 at Westfield, Seventeen Hundred Hamilton Southeastern, Twelve Hundred at Noblesville, and again, over 1,400 at, excuse me. That's that was Zionsville. This is Westfield. Get my greens mixed up. And so, obviously, we are, we are at a disadvantage right now when we talk about, again, how we're transporting students, the utilities, property insurance, the ability to pay bus drivers and our maintenance folks, our our mechanics, we are already starting with far fewer dollars per student, that we can go for to to do to provide those services. Prior to if we were still able to implement the protected tax taxes waiver,
that would bring us to just just over $1,100. So we we think back to up to 2023, we were pretty happy with that number. I mean, it wasn't perfect. We knew that we were still not quite as high as some of our other peers, but that certainly was a dollar amount that we could live with when it came to amount of revenue that we have per student in order to provide and maintain our facilities. But, unfortunately, that's not the whole story. Because you will see up here, there's also there's referendum one or referendum two. Referendum one means that is an operating referendum that a district might have.
Referendum two would be a capital referendum or construction referendum. And so when we look at some of these schools, which I believe yeah. We are the only school on I promise I didn't do this on purpose. This is the HCC schools. We are the only district that does not have a referendum. So our total levy here only goes to debt and ops. So you'll see Avon has an operating referendum. Zionsville has an operating reform and a capital referendum. Same with HSE, same with Noblesville, same with Westfield. So the extra dollars from a referendum they are using to help with their operations fund, that can go to the education fund as well and also then construction for the
capital referendum. So if we just look at the operating referendum and did the same, kind of add those up together between operations and the referendum, it's a substantial difference of what these schools are able to offer their students when we look at this number. So when you add in operating referendum at Avon, they're they're looking at just about $2,500 per student after the referendum and including the operations fund. Again, Brownsburg does not have a referendum, so we're here. You've got Zion you've got Zionsville, HSE, Knowlesville,
and Westfield. And so substantial difference when it comes to the amount of revenue that's available for the operations fund. And so a little bit more and and, again, just to be completely transparent, as I've looked at this, part of me understands why we think about some in the legislation that I feel like they are pushing schools towards referendum a little little bit here. They're doing putting a lot of barriers in place for schools and especially with property tax reform. And what I found is very, very fascinating because one thing question you might ask is when we look at the
total circuit breaker loss, k, Brownsburg's Nine Million, Avon's Six, Zionsville, One, HSE, Four, Noblesville, Five, Westfield, Eight. And we are the largest we are hit the hardest with circuit breaker. K? Might be wondering why. Well, some of that has to do with the tax base. Right? If we had a community with a large 3% tax base, they're obviously able to pull generate a lot more revenue, that that has an increase in their assessed valuation. And a higher assessed valuation means you can lower your, tax rate, generate the same amount of money, and you're not gonna have as much of a tax,
or a circuit breaker credit. But here's where I really want I this has been kind of a learning experience for me as well I wanted to share. So our debt rate is by far the largest on the board here. Now our tax rate, again, has dropped, but when you look at the debt rate specifically, we are at a dollar 5. Avon is not 96¢. Zionsville is at 70¢. HSE, 50 cents. Noblesville, I think it's 46¢ or 48, and Westfield at 68. And so one might have to ask, these are all growing districts. They've all been building buildings.
What's the difference? Well, the difference there, quite honestly, is that they have wrapped up the funds to pay for all of their buildings in the capital referendum. And so Avon does not have a capital referendum. That's why theirs is a little higher than anyone else's as well. But, they have the operating referendum, so that does help. They keep their debt service a little bit low. And so what's happening happening is when schools, for a long time, have implemented the referendum, they've been able to keep their debt service and operations fund just a little bit lower. And those are the two rates that ultimately are impact Cert Breaker.
And so while I'm not suggesting and and upset that we don't have a referendum, I'm just giving the information as to why you might see a difference here in that total circuit breaker, loss that Brownsburg has to endure. So, we have wrapped up all of our construction, to deal with growth into the debt service fund. And that's you know, obviously, we set payments up for twenty years, and and we've been able to lower the tax rate because our assessed value has been growing. But overall, we've had to keep our debt service rate a little higher in order to to man to to build all the our facilities.
Whereas the referendum with our peers has been able to keep their debt service down, which then lowers their circuit breaker, which then gives them more money per student in the operations fund. And so it's a little bit of a of a fall down approach there and, one that we've managed very well for a long time. So why why am I saying all this now? Because, ultimately, when we think about the two major funds, and the revenue sources here, our education fund and operations fund. And we spent a lot of time talking about the ops fund. But as a reminder that the revenue here in the operations fund with property taxes
minus circuit circuit breaker, which we've talked a lot about. We have miscellaneous revenue that comes in. That would be our use of facilities, transportation charges for ECAs, things like that, but also that transfer from the education operations fund. And so state says a maximum of 15% of revenue from the education fund, that's as maximum we can we can transfer. And so we've really worked on trying to lower that transfer because the goal, again, how do we keep as much money in the education fund for educational programming for stat raises for staff,
and, and that helps everybody. So but, unfortunately, because now that we are unable to implement the protect taxes waiver and because of the high circuit breaker loss, and we'll have a little bit more of that with some of the senate bill one stuff, that we now have to take a look at this transfer between the education fund and the operations fund. So increases that we might see here in revenue in the education fund, we also have to look and say, well, in order for us to keep the lights on in our buildings and maintain them,
we do have to look at increasing this transfer. And we're starting that right now. Our plan is to to increase the transfer this year of about one and a half million dollars. But as doctor Jessup is making decisions on staffing and who we're hiring and how many years of experience and what raises that we have available, all that are things that will be impacted moving forward based on some of this information. So, again, this is just purely information, and and it could be a change in in our budget moving forward as far as looking at revenue and the transfer from the education operations fund. We have to continue to look at increasing this,
and I just wanna make sure that everyone's on the same page as to why. So, I will stop there in answering questions. But, I will say that next month in June, I really wanna focus a little bit more on senate bill one, which is the property tax reform. And we'll talk about changes in homestead deductions, supplemental credits, and tax rate implementation implications. But as to right now, we I felt like this was enough. We can keep that for June, try to focus on one topic right now, but certainly wanna open it up for questions they might have. So one question I have is based off of the referendums from the other schools
you Sure. I mean, those are just short term fixes based off the community. Correct? So flow to whatever their current levels they want to be at. It doesn't do any long term fixes for that. Correct? It's a long term fix if they can continue to renew that every seven years. And so now what will be a little bit different so for instance, I believe Avon's is up for expiration renewal in '27. This year legislation adjusted where referend can only take place in, even, general election years. So, it'll be in '26 or twenty eight November elections.
So I believe they're they got a decision to make. Are they gonna go in 2025 and try to throw the renewal on early, or Or will they wait till '26, but they can no longer do it after, you know, in '27 or or '29? We'd have to make decisions on '26, '20 '8, '30, and so on and so forth. But, yeah, I I wish I could say that schools use this to catch up, and then they back down. But for the most part, and we could say that maybe we all do this as we begin to live within our means and and the amount of revenue that we're bringing in. And I believe that schools certainly do that.
I know that if Avon doesn't renew, that we've heard doctor Windham say that about a 50 teachers, they may have to look at cutting. That's some tough decisions. But, also, some you know, as you can see that we're we're lacking very, resource dollars that we have available to to to do all the things we need to do. That be that does become a little bit harder. And then a question on that. So using Avon's example, I think I see a point two of my visions right Yep. In terms of referendum. So point two four is their is their referendum tax rate. If that was hypothetically implemented at at Brownsburg, how much would that add per person?
Would that be up to around 40? I would deal? That's a really good question that I I am not prepared to answer in this moment right now because it has to do with that would we have to take plate, look at the assessed valuation and multiply that. And so what I can tell you is that number is, out anybody if you're at the tax cap, you'll still pay that referendum tax. So that everyone essentially pays that On top of on top of you you for your north for ops and debt service, you're only paying up to 1% of your homestead, and then the referendum would be above that.
You're gonna pay the full amount, which is why, you know, there's a little bit of sort of I mean, it's like over 65 circuit credit circuit breaker credits and things that are applied across the board. But when you see that Avon referendum, they're levy for 13,000,000, and they get 13,000,000. That's because everyone's paying that amount. It's it's not impacted by circuit breaker. K. I just wanted to clarify to everybody. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Mhmm. I've got a question. Sure. The when you're talking about house bill fourteen fifty four, how there was nothing prior to that that looked anything like this.
So the plans that were in place place that kind of set the course for how we manage things Yeah. You mentioned we were on a good, a positive track, but there wasn't sort of that disparity prior to that happening. We were all kind of more consistent with That's correct. Totally agree. And and that kinda shows I get that's why I wanted to show this. When we were able to use before 1454 and we were able to utilize the protected taxes waiver Mhmm. This kind of is you know, this shows that we were somewhat consistent. It's not perfect, but we can we were able to operate in this,
and still give great raises and still upkeep our our facilities and such, in in a way that everyone has become to expect. And the goal is still to do that. I mean, we we are taking a look, I promise you, at at, taking a hard look at all of our expenses to ensure that we don't lose expectations here. And so that's a lot of work yet to be done. But yeah. As I think I've mentioned this. It's really feeling like they changed the rules of the game in the middle of the game. So this wasn't a preventable situation because we were It's not and so we they
this was signed I believe, if I go back to the, slide here. It was signed in law 05/04/2023 with effective date of 07/01/2023. And so the caveat there would was that school districts could still implement the protective taxes waiver if you qualified if you did not issue in any additional debt. And so that which really eliminated us right off the bat because we were in the middle of this construction project. And so this was signed kind of last minute. That would certainly be in May 4. That's the last day of session,
at at that particular year. But we were already under contract with all of our construction bids and the construction stuff that's currently going on. And so for us to stop that means we were gonna default. We're still gonna owe those that those dollars, and we'd have the site undeveloped and, at a construction project halfway through. So we really didn't have the choice. So when we approved the project and all the things that are going on that you currently see, that was, again, under the the, we were gonna do that without an increase in tax rate and the ability to continue to to meet the needs of the operations fund. We're gonna implement and protect the taxes waiver,
and then they they, fourteen fifty four came in place. So that was right in, like I said, really in the middle of the game for us. So we really didn't have the option to to, not move to try to keep this Mhmm. Unfortunately. Thank you. Yep. Any other questions? Brownsburg has ran so lean for so long and done a great job managing finances that it really has been a perfect storm. And, you know, it's my thought, and I'm sure I don't wanna speak for everybody. But, you know, keeping in mind, like, our original goals for our students and what we're here to do and retaining top
talent and, you know, maintaining our, you know, status as one of the top school systems in the the district. I mean, it's gonna make us take a hard look at that Mhmm. And really to, you know, continue to manage what we have. I mean, mean, with Avon looking to lay off a 50 teachers, I know that we'll get to the point where if we don't do something, that, you know, that will come to or could possibly, you know, come to if something doesn't change, something we have to look at. And I know classes sizes are important to us. Sending kids off prepared is important to us, and providing the best education is important to us. So, really, I always wanna continue to keep in mind,
like, what are our main goals of the school system and how we have to look at that. Absolutely. And so we're I promise you, we're working hard back here Mhmm. To, at all possibilities. And and, again, in July, when we talk about education fund revenue, you know, what are we? Sixteenth highest on the list in, you know, dollars per student. Now you can see we're very, very low in the state, especially with this operations fund. And so we've done a really nice job of doing the absolute most with with far fewer dollars than others, and we're very, very proud of that. And, we really wanna keep those expectations. So we are I promise you we're looking into every avenue that we can to
to keep keep things moving forward for us. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. Alright. Comments from patrons. Seeing as we have none, consent items. Doctor. Dressen. Thank you. Looking for approval of minutes of the April 14 business meeting, April 28 executive session, approval of claims, and the superintendent's report. Do you have a motion? Motion to approve. Sorry. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Both say aye. Motion passes. Missus Heffernan, if I may, with that approval, we just approved Kristen Sargent as the Harris program lead.
So she will take over leadership of Harris Academy, for the 2526 school year. So we're super excited, for Kristen to submit role. Thank you. Old business. No old business. New business. Recommendation to authorize approval, to advertise for disposition of real of real property. Mister Hacker? Thank you very much. So, if you recall, a couple years ago, back in, I think, 2022, we purchased the homes on Grant Street 527 And 601. And, what we've been able to do with that is, Meijer and the corresponding contract contractors have been able to utilize those spaces.
That allowed us to eliminate the, construction trailers on the site where the current multipurpose field is being They should start rolling turf out any day now, by the way. And so but with the, as we bring it close to this project, they are looking to vacate those homes. Unfortunately, they'll have to mobilize kind of across the street at Pete Moore Drive. They can no longer stay in that. The that decision really saved us about a little over $98,000 in construction cost that since we weren't paying to rent the trailer. And that again, that savings passed right along to, to Brownsburg Community School Corporation.
And so very, very thankful that we had that opportunity. And since we are done with those those two homes, really, again, to be good financial stewards, we don't wanna knock those homes down and just have vacant lots there on Grant Street. Feel like now, since we're done with it, we'd like to sell. In order to do that, we, need, obviously, your approval to authorize the sale. We will accept bids for those two particular homes and, why we will still have the ability to refuse any bids if they ever come in. And, you know, we can set a minimum threshold. We'll work with appraisers on that to do that.
But, the goal is that we had the but sometime in July that we were able to close on that and give it to the, highest bidder. So if you happen to answer any questions you might have in that process, but asking for approval to authorize the sale of those properties at this time. Do you have a motion? So moved. The second? Second. Question, comments? All in the States, pay first, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed same time? Motion passes. Thank you. Recommendation to approve meal prices, mister Hacker. Yeah. So, in board packet, you'll find the current school year and proposed school year for next year 2526 for
nutrition services. This includes breakfast k to twelve and then the k through five lunch, a grade six to 12 lunch. And so it is a proposed difference of about 15¢ for breakfast and a quarter at each of the lunches. And, again, that is simply due to, additional cost that nutrition service is taking on with supplies and such. So, asking for approval of those increases for next year at this time. Motion? So moved. Second? Second. Questions, comments? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposing sign. Motion passes. Thank you. Recommendation recommendation to award construction contrast contracts,
mister Hacker. Thank you. Again, just wanna start out by saying that any of the con con construction contracts that we're being asked to award tonight, the reason why we're doing it now is again, these are directly related. This is not a new project. And, again, these projects are not impacting or have an increase on our tax rate. It's something that we've already approved several years ago. I guess, been a couple years ago now. It feels like forever, to be honest with you. So but I think in 2023, we approved these these projects. And so the reason why we're just now coming to you now with the contracts is because we knew the work from a scope and sequence standpoint would not start
until this upcoming summer. So we wanted to wait in order to make sure that we had the appropriate, pricing and such. Sometimes contractors will inflate prices if they feel like it's going to be too far out in order to protect themselves. So, again, this isn't anything new, but it was time for us to go out to bids with with these. And so you'll see here, this is for the continued interior refurbishment of the, Brownsburg High School and asking for your approval to award the construction contracts this time. They did come in right at budget, so we're very thankful on that.
Motion? So moved. Second. Second. Questions, comments? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposing time, motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. Recommendation to approve master affiliation agreement by in between Hendricks Regional Health, including the nursing management and supplemental staffing services agreement, sponsorship agreement, and sports medicine agreement. Mister Hacker? Very good. So, copy of these are all in the board packet as well. Essentially, this continues and renews the, sponsorship agreement and partnership with Hendricks Regional Health. And so we really started that in 2026.
It's really not up to expire or excuse me, 2016. It's not set to expire till '26, but we wanted to go ahead and get our, kinda get our ourselves going with those negotiations. And we're very very pleased with the current services and sponsorship agreement that is taking place. It's a true partnership. It really is. And not only do they provide naming rights and things to the stadium, and includes a hundred and $5,000 sponsorship agreement, they also provide the, the athletic trainers at both east and west and the high school and as well as the nursing partnerships. So they they provide us with a health services supervisor that manages our nursing staff
at the schools. And so and just an outstanding partnership. Couldn't be more thrilled to extend that for an additional ten years, and that additional ten years will start in '27. So it's not ten years from now, but at the ten years at the conclusion of the current contract. So really, this secures the HRH partnership to sign those at this time. I don't approve. Second. Questions, comments? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign? Motion passes. Thank you. Recommendation to approve new novels for the 2526 school year, doctor Jessup. Thank you. At this time, would ask for the approval of four novels, one at fourth grade,
one at sixth, sixth grade high ability, and one at eighth grade high ability. These books were selected by our fourth grade teachers and our secondary English teachers. Each book, once we decide that we want to add it, we do have a parent review the book, one parent for every teacher who's recommending the book. So we received all of those in. I I will say that, one of the books that we are replacing is a book that we had concerns about every year, and so we took that one off of our list and added a a different
one. And, some of the parents who had raised concerns with us were the same parents that we asked to review the new books. So rather than we wanted to make sure that we had the connection with that group of parents. So, feel good about these books and ask for approval at this time. Thank you. Do you have a motion? So moved. Second? Second. Questions, comments? All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Thank you. Superintendent comments. Doctor. It was a good week, good weekend, for the Bulldogs. Our, academic Super Bowl team, our band, our orchestra, and our choirs all performed, fantastic ways and did,
great things. So we're super excited about our students, performance this weekend and then certainly also, wishing everybody a strong finish to the end of the 2425 school year. Countdown. Forward comments. I just wanted to take a moment. I had the pleasure of going to the, teachers of the year, support staff of the year, recognition ceremony. That was that was really, really entertaining, but also, very positive experience, and I really appreciated that. I wanna thank mister Hacker. You did such a nice job, presenting all that information. I really like the construction updates much better than the finance updates.
Yes, sir. Heard much more fun to give. And that's really it. That's okay. I also had the opportunity to go with Gordon, to attend the teacher of the year and support staff of the year banquet, which was fantastic. I think it's really interesting the number of nurses that were nominated for support staff of the year by their peers in the buildings. And that three of them, which in the buildings, which is amazing, and their, administrators had great things to say. But to see the HRH contract and knowing that that partnership allows us to to,
you know, with the financial situation, have some of the best people, and they really are some of the best people. In the same vein, I think we have to take an opportunity to thank Renee Barrons and all of her hard work with BEF because to see the amount of money that is raised for grants that go directly back into the classrooms, it's so necessary, especially with the legislative situation and cuts. And in addition to that, the donations from all of the, the payroll deductions that people are willing to do, that the staff is willing to do to put back into the classrooms for,
scholarships as well. I know that means a lot to Brownsburg families. So those are the positive numbers to kinda offset some of the the craziness that we see sometimes. It's out of our control, and it's nice to see the community, Brownsburg school community and Brownsburg community community, impacted in a positive way by choice. And I did have the opportunity to also, attend some of the music programs this weekend, and that was something that was really, fantastic and uplifting to see. And once again, another weekend of Bulldogs representing Brownsburg very well,
at the state level. So Thank you. Miss Wells? I know we still have, what, two weeks left of school after two and a half weeks, three weeks left of school. So open up in the car before the horse. But, mister Hackard, great job all school year with the, construction updates. I'm not gonna say I wish I was going back to school, but I'm excited for everything that's gonna come, next year to high school. I hope the, if the, pick and go place in the senior academy is as good as Buckey and Walla, you may get students who never wanna leave out of there. Great job this whole school year from an athletic standpoint,
academic standpoint, and music programs. It was a very strong year, for for the Bulldogs. Doctor Jessup, miss Libby, miss Hacker, great first year together. Without the interim title on your names, you guys did an excellent job this, Year. Again, don't blame me. We hope nothing happens over the next couple weeks. But I noticed our last official board meeting before the end of the school year, so I just wanna publicly, thank all three of you for the job you've done this school year. Thank you. As always, I echo what has been down here. Just looking forward to seeing all our graduates walk in May and,
air all the students keep up the good fight for a couple more weeks. Yeah. I'd like to echo everything as well. And, you know, it has been an awesome school year, and we have a great administration team and just super proud of where we are. And, you know, going back to my comments late earlier, you know, we're we're dealing with a lot of things that are outside of our control, and you guys are doing, I know, the best that you can with the situations that we have. And we're fortunate that we do have a community to your point that hear so much about our students and our teachers and our schools, and we'll do what it takes to, you know, continue to, provide education to our kids in the schools, that we are proud to have in Brownsburg.
Alright. I have a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Sorry. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed same sign? Meet meeting adjourned. You don't know the smile and the frown,