would stand also comments all right we have a lot tonight on the consent agenda so please bear with me uh first uh for A is the minutes for the regular schoolboard meeting from last month of March uh March 17th b is the
minutes for the executive session on March 17th c is our monthly fund revenue claims report um on that note as I go through the rest of the items on consent agenda I would ask that we remove the one claim with B mechanical and you vote
on that separately after you would take the rest of my consent agenda items please d is consideration of the disposal surplus equipment um basically it is previous reading curricular material um before 2016 so we need to
have you declare that surplus and then um it's it's really not usable for for any of our programming so we'll take care of that properly e um is why we have a lot of people here tonight too I think and so it is our personnel report
uh do want to highlight some things and then after approval we'll take a few minutes because I know there's going to be some important introductions hopefully I don't miss any and for my administrators that are here if I miss you please just holler you're not going to offend me at all but with the regular
personnel report there are a couple of special recommendations that I do want to highlight um not in any particular order but um you will also see the re employment of our HR director Dr scholaski that's per his administrative
addendum rights and benefits so that's why that's on there and you will also note that um we are approving a new communications coordinator and we're also approving a
new boys soccer coach who is also going to be a science teacher for us we'll do some introductions like I said after approval uh we're seeking uh your approval for a new alternative education coordinator and then we've got some um
teacher uh recommendations in some of our buildings and some of our principles are here um that is oh and then there is a separate recommendation for um one of our administrative assistants that's done um a lot more work and and
responsibilities and duties with the disillusion or behavioral health director from last summer so that pretty much concludes the personnel report let me go through the rest of the items seek your approval then we'll we'll pause like I said for some uh introduction introductions comments and so forth uh
letter E is contracts there's a lot there but I can summarize it very quickly in the following first contract though is uh for fuel prices with Keystone are cooperative uh we need to lock those rates in they are very good who knows what's going to happen here in the next six months with tariffs and
everything else um the rates are 261 and 241 that's pretty uh darn good contract two is with uh KLR medical certification uh that's basically for our CMA pathway uh that we're starting for our high school students we're excited about that
partnership contract three is with the marriages uh for supplemental healthc care staffing services the rest of the contracts common litella goian learning a math fact lab notable lesson picks every way
every day speech are all renewals so um we wanted to seek your approval there then the last one is with Simon Youth Academy and there is a section in there that is uh revised because we are expanding that alternative programming
for to our middle school students not just to our um 10 through 12 high school students so that pretty much encapsulates all those contracts um and my recommendation would be to approve all those items as a consent
agenda with the exception of the one claim making a motion to approve consent agenda as presented second all right before I do introductions my next recommendation would be to approve
the one claim with for beast mechanic i move that we approve the bon um what do we call bill yes all right thank you very much so we'll
take a few minutes here where again not in any particular order but um I do want to recognize our new communications coordinator here in a few months Miss Jenny Zam she's right here in the front row you can stand if you'd like and we are excited to have her come on board
and she will Yeah we can clap for that thank you Jenny jenny does a lot for this corporation through the education foundation through um sponsorships and so um we are thrilled to death that she's going to come on and help us with um how we communicate um to
our parents to our constituents um in a variety of different methods from social media to website to you name it so welcome And next uh let's recognize our new alternative education coordinator Miss Rachel Tante please stand right there currently uh Miss Tante is a dean
at the high school and uh we knew it was important as we are expanding as you just heard me say our alternative programming that we have a coordinator that oversees um not just the Simon Youth but we have a flex program we have a couple other things that have different names but alternative education is so important because not
every student um has success in that traditional classroom and so our goal is to try to graduate everybody we don't always do it but we try our darnest and so I um know Miss Tante and her leadership and her connection and relationships with students so wish you
the best and um then let's go to uh some of our principles dr oliver do you have someone here tonight please introduce You're coming to the better county so sorry uh let's see i know that um
Principal Gil Foy with Gilfoy with Whitland Elementary has a few people to introduce teaching her we are so excited to have her welcome all right last but not the least and I
know we have some players here and probably some parents here so I want to turn it over to our athletic director Mr david Edens good evening it's my pleasure to introduce you to our new boys headaches earlier
science as well wednesday thank you Mr reed let's give a round of applause welcome coach um you know you're going to come in a great time with a great complex that we're wrapping up so I wish you the best of luck um at our state of
our facilities and making making our team a lot better so thank you for being here tonight did I miss anybody else all right you are more than welcome to stay uh but if you have other things to attend to you may do so too at this
time all right uh next is communications and I'll turn it over to Dr sloski welcome back thank you it's good to be back uh I want to start with uh the uh month of March uh recognize excellence program
from um the middle school jennifer Greg Katie Briel Julia McClug and uh Gilberto Ramos um Break a Day Elementary Kim Stefen Julia Perry and Amanda Foist
clark Elementary Kelly Roy clark Pleasant Early Learning Center Sarah Sailor Grassy Creek Brittany Fiser Pleasant Crossing Aaron Griffin administration building Brandon Wright uh transportation Keith Calbertt and
Robert Flotter whitelland Elementary Heather Frith Abby Wilhelm Brandy Plunkett Kaylee Denan Darcy Britt Heather Smearelli Melanie Owens
Ryan Hogland Heather Wilson Hannah Baker Dana Camp Casey Hersburgger and uh Ryan Hogland so now I would like to announce our
certified employee of the month and that goes to Katie Bright third grade teacher Whitland Elementary School sure i have two of my children one of them make sure we get a picture
and for our classified employee of the month Grace Halum instructional behavior assistant at Ray Crow Elementary i have my dad and my Good picture of that family too thank you Dr sloski and like I said um
thank you for being here if um you have other things to attend to you don't have to stay for the whole meeting but you're more than um obliged to and then Rick will probably take some pictures out in the hallway if you'd like all right next is our Central 9 uh career center report mel yes um the
Central 9 board met on April 10th um we saw presentation on early childhood um and how they partner with Adventures Preschool in Greenwood we learned about um ach the possibility of achieving a
CDA credential and including hours that are through IV Tech um and how it opens doors to future scholarships with teach i heard from several Whitland students each student told about their
experiences and their future goals and it was fun to see some former students there as well um on May 8th is the awards day um and that is the next board meeting students of the month from
Whitland include Jeremiah Devos for criminal justice for being an active participant ready to assist and lead where needed um Corbin Stanky um in culinary arts he continues to hone his
cooking skills and is has been a significant part of the ProStart culinary team success mia Waltz in early childhood she's working diligently to ensure that she finishes the program with more than 480 hours of experience
and a high quality portfolio to pursue her CDA credential isabelle Boyce in pre- N nursing she's an incredible student in many activities while maintaining an A average as well as being kind and
considerate kylie Stickles in exercise science she is known of her time for the C9 open houses um Franklin Central open house C9 camp and ambassador programs she regularly assists with treatment for
the C for a C9 staff member and she's presented her organ tissue don donation presentation to her mentors so I congratulate those students excellent thank you Miss Bzil uh redevelopment commission report Mr
the RDC had a meeting on April 10th they did present they had captured 1,417 last year they have two areas that have started patch
thank you very much all right our next um item of business is our go bond proceeds a second preliminary determination hearing i want to introduce um Ice Miller to come and help us walk us through that as um if there's anything I or a board president need to
do just please let us know absolutely thank you uh Dr zel my name is Lauren Syler i'm here from ICE Miller serve as bond counsel for the school corporation so appreciate you all for having us here tonight um we're here to hold the the project hearing and the preliminary determination um hearing for the project
um for those of you if you're interested in speaking believe there's uh cards sign up or let us But there is an opportunity for the public to speak on the projects at the hearing we would ask if you do like to speak that you limit your comments to three minutes that you speak
on the proposed projects um and we just want to note that a notice of these hearings was published as legally required um in the local paper um more specifically the the hearings we're holding tonight are pursuant to two state requirements indiana Code 2026 um
737 requires that a school corporation hold a hearing and consider the adoption of a resolution to approve a project um when when it involves um financing a project uh for a building with more than $1 million um worth of work to be done
there um also Indiana Code 6-1.1-20-3.5 requires the school corporation hold two public hearings and consider the adoption of a preliminary determination to issue bonds um when a project that they are financing is in excess of certain thresholds um we
previously held the first hearing to satisfy that requirement this would be the second hearing to satisfy that 3.5 um requirement and we want to note for the community that this is the very beginning of the legal process for the project financing um and the resolutions that are put
before the board tonight establish maximum financial parameters um I would turn it back over to uh Mr fruits or Dr edsil just to kind of discuss the project um overall the scope of the work to be done and the financial parameters
that are being considered by the board so I went through this um at our last hearing our last um we issued geo bonds to cover a number of things buses capital improvements site improvements technology uh and we do this because we
have such large tax cap losses in our district and otherwise we have to cover those in the operations fund so this is to continue doing that um and we're doing this in such fashion because of legislation going through right now so um we are pushing these through uh so
that we can do these projects over the next five years so uh we're looking at 25 million and note that's not 25 million in one year like I said that's over five years of issuing that um and we also were looking at estimated interest rate of 5% now that's pretty
high that likely won't even get close to that but that is where we estimate that at and it is over a max term of 20 years and it can be less than that um obviously but the estimated impact toward tax rate is zero and that's the
most important thing so any questions on that turn back over thanks so much Mr um do we have anyone sign up for the hearing didn't anyone would like to speak tonight okay hearing none um we
will proceed with the uh the resolutions that are before the board for your consideration first is the project resolution so again that's required when the school corporation is planning to um proceed with a project where it involves spending more than $1 million at any
given facility um the project resolution itself contains the estimated hard and soft costs of the project as well as the total cost um and the estimated cost of issuing the bonds um it also contains the estimated tax impact that Mr f just
mentioned uh with that I would uh entertain a a motion um from the board to adopt the project resolution as presented in your packet thank you very much the next um resolution for the project is the preliminary determination resolution
this is required when the school corporation is planning to um finance a project for an amount in excess of certain thresholds um it contains the total cost of the project the maximum am annual payments um for the debt service and other financial terms related to the
financing including the estimated principal amount and the projected tax impact um with that I would uh ask for a motion from the board to adopt the preliminary determination resolution as it was presented i move we adopt preliminary
determination resolution thanks very much and then uh next on on the docket is the preliminary bond resolution um this pertains more specifically to the general obligation bonds that'll likely be the structure of the financing for the the first series of bonds um related to this project the
preliminary bond resolution contains the the project cost the maximum interest rate um and other financial terms for the for the bonds such as the first interest payment date and the um estimated maturity date for the bonds with that I would ask for a motion from the board um to consider the adoption of
the preliminary bond resolution as presented in your packet thanks very much and then finally um last related to the uh financing is a reimbursement resolution um this relates to uh the financing itself and basically preserves the school corporation's
ability to pres uh to reimburse itself from the bond proceeds for any cash that it might spend prior to the actual project uh prior to the closing on the bonds um this is required under federal tax law to basically preserve the the school corporation's ability to to reimburse itself once we've actually
received the bond proceeds um with that I ask for the board to uh for a motion to adopt the reimbursement resolution as presented and that's it for the the project but I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have thank you thank you for
your help all right next under uh new business first item is a recommendation to appoint new general legal counsel and uh my recommendation is to employ CCHA Church Hill and Antrram starting July 1
of 2025 at a rate of about 1,800 of 1,800 per month um for educational assistance and um I know we have a representative here tonight uh in Chandler Lawson Flynn i've also been working with Jesse Billingsley i'm excited to partner with them um they
help us already in special education matters so to help us in all educational matters is exciting to me and um their reputation is topnotch and so we've done our due diligence and talking to some others um but this is where we as our
leadership team are comfortable bringing this recommendation to you tonight i move that we hire church p and for our um legal services
thank you for being here tonight i know you're very busy good all right next item is recommendation for uh establishing late fees at our early learning center good evening um going to be up here for
a little bit I think uh this is my first recommendation and that's to approve the late fee payment structure for our prek tuition uh that we charge on the first occurrence you're looking at no charge the second occurrence is $25 and the third occurrence is $30 the issue that
we have is we do have some people that take advantage of our prek tuition program um and they will wait until the very last second to where we send them to collections and if we have to collections we're losing money on that um out of that so uh this is really a way to mitigate it from getting to that
point um so I would just ask for your approval to uh for these late fee payment structure and I just add this I know our director Julie Wolf's here thank you for being here um there's grace that's shown but when you don't have anything in writing for for some type of consequence that's the impetus
for bringing this forward and I'll also add the tough thing about it is prek is not necessarily funded to the top level from the state so we rely a lot on our state tuition and it is covered in the ad fund so it affects everybody that's
covered in the ad fun do we have a lot of it do we have a lot of the amount that I mean we have I I know we have quite a few that I end up having to send collections at some point in time and there's always different circumstances uh but we don't want to
send just anybody collections it's going to be those that are really taking advantage of the system do we run in the red or the black in this program it is still in the red but we have really um gotten as far as we can to uh
running it at zero because that's really the goal is to get it as close to zero as possible and I'll say this uh Julie's done a very commendable job in trying to write that ship and so I appreciate the diligence there we're not not there yet but we're getting closer than we were a couple years ago
so if someone doesn't pay do we ever eliminate them from the program no that that has never happened and I don't foresee that happening good because these are the kinds of kids that we need in that program i make a motion to approve
all right next item is a recommendation to approve the annual uh protected tax waiver uh Mr f to explain at this time I would like to ask the board's permission to apply for the protected taxes waiver uh this waiver allows us to spread our tax cap losses across our debt service
fund and our operations fund so that the operations fund isn't taking the full brunt of that hit um to be honest I don't think we're going to qualify this year uh legislation changed some wording that said if you issue any debt at all you don't qualify for this anymore um
I'm really doing this as a safeguard in case they change language again and we can apply for that all right letter D is four donations Mr fruits i have four donations for your approval here tonight uh $260 to the CPMS band fund uh from Merchant Brothers
$29 from various musical partners to the break a day theater fund uh and $500 each to the WCHS boys baseball program from Langdale and Ship Enterprises thank you second
we are excited about the next three items will still do these um individually but that we have a chance to have um partnerships with our community members and their businesses um the work that's been done by Austin and by Jenny Zam um I'm I know we're all
appreciative and we're excited to see this expand and continue to grow so uh in saying all that I think the next item is sponsorship agreement with our robotics teams so I'm glad Jenny's here she's been really busy with this um and we're going to start seeing a lot more of these come through uh but this first
sponsorship this is from a company called Bary uh and they are an energy efficiency they kind of do some consulting for that uh but it's a $3,500 sponsorship and it is specified for our robotics teams uh this is for one year they will receive logo placement on
various robotics items uh and some public acknowledgements as well so with that said I would like to ask the board's consent to approve this sponsorship contract i move we approve this sponsorship all right next is uh letter F and it's a recommendation for sponsorship with
Bailey and Woods Financial Group yeah so this next sponsorship is um likely unless I'm wrong one of the largest that we've done as a school corporation uh and it's one we're really excited about this is a 10-year $1.25 5 million sponsorship with Bailey and
Wood um as you may know Mike has been a staple in our community uh and this sponsorship signifies his vision aligning with ours of expanding upon the success of our athletic program um and hopefully reaching new heights so the details about this agreement are as follows it'll start on January 1st 2026
and that's because his current four-year $200,000 sponsorship that he signed originally that expires this year um our football stadium will be named Baileywood Stadium and that will be displayed on the new video board the auxiliary gym will be named Bailey Wood
Gymnasium they will receive some signage at other sporting events which I believe they already do right um they will get to keep their signage or their logo on our Glen Ray Gymnasium and on our middle school gym they will also get signage on the back of the football press box which
they already get that currently too uh and they will get a commercial to run on our video board during different events that we have out there um I told Mike that we'd like to do a big check presentation at some point for this uh and we were thinking next month's board meeting but uh we're also thinking about
doing a video board unveiling out there and that might be a good time for him to do a big check presentation uh in front of that video board um so with that I ask for you to approve uh us entering into the sponsorship contract with Bailey and Wood so moved
no it was pretty self-explanatory and Austin did a good job of explaining it so I have no questions all right thank you very much and next item G is a recommendation of hurricane golf carts fairly new business uh those
owners um are uh I think they live in Whitland i know their kids went through Whitland i know them well uh they are strong supporters of of Whitland um athletics and and everything Whiteland so I'll turn it over to Mr fruit say a little more so like Dr edel said this is
with Hurricane Golf Carts uh it is a one-year sponsorship for $2,500 and it is going to be our indoor middle school concession stand sponsor um they will also receive some advertising such as in athletic newsletters social media uh and they will also have the opportunity to display their golf carts at our home
football games too um Chad Warwig is the owner of the company has deep roots here um with our school corporation so once again I love seeing alumni give back to our school corporation any fashion especially this so with that I ask for your approval to accept this sponsorship agreement
i just have a comment and this this kid played baseball and basketball for me and he still gave us money so that's a good thing yeah that's saying a lot there yeah yeah on the on the Jerry Lasser
scholarship and our we did purchase new golf carts for the athletic program over there because they were on their last legs there and they look really nice we'll show you pictures once they have the uh our branding on them with JC Bank too thank you Austin uh next item H is a
recommendation for some elementary ELA reading curriculum uh materials i know Mr levelvel's here thank you for being here it's a follow-up from what was approved last month and some supplemental and and Mr levelvel may give you a little bit more detail so thank you yeah so thank you guys for um your time tonight so yeah if you see on
the proposal that we um brought last month so last month we bought the um proposal to adopt Wonders as our reading curriculum so as we've dug into that initially we had plans for um our writing teachers to simply have online access to be able to access curriculum
that way as we've dug into it we see the need for our writing teachers to have actual text teacher material so they're not going to need the whole classroom set of things but they will need um text actual teacher textbooks that'll be able to help them partner with the reading teacher to be able to do that well some
of our buildings um it's a it's depending on the number of teachers in that grade level depending on the how that the structure is set up we have some buildings where everyone teaches writing and we have some buildings where it's maybe one or two people it could be the same person so this is an additional um need we have just to be able to
purchase teachers additions for our writing teachers at the elementary level um so they have the ability to um align and tie their writing curriculum along with our reading curriculum so I kind of asked this question to Brian we'll ask the same thing here you
know we want to support our teachers and I just want to make sure that if this is approved that this is definitely going to be used as supplemental material on a consistent basis absolutely yeah so we've kind of we are at a point with our our writing curriculum i mean one of the things with the science of reading is
the um writing reading to respond and being able to um have an opportunity to read and respond more um and not make reading sorry writing as a separated thing so it's not we do need to be able to write a narrative response or an informative response we also need to be more and more cognizant of having kids
opportunity to respond to what they're reading and be able to draw off that kind of very seldom when we state tests or do those things are they just writing independently it's always based on text and something that they're drawing information from to be able to support their ideas so to be able to do that in
our writing curriculum we have to have it tied to what we're doing in reading all right thank you very much um you can stay right there in case there's any questions i want to enter into the minutes um the first reading of the following policy um Mr levelville brought this to my attention uh with
respect to test security measures there's a new section um scroll back up there for me Cassie if you don't mind that's highlighted under staff training i think it's right there um you see that italicized that's what is um required to
be in our board policy per Indiana code so we wanted to make sure that we get that started as we um enter into the next school year anything to add to that i think this this came out of one of our audits from the state so what's what they're telling us we we are very good about all the people
in our buildings making sure they go through test security and assign um you know bus drivers are exempt from that but who are not exempt are for example our police department our maintenance department who have access to our buildings and have access to things yet are not necessarily there during the day when testing is happening but they still
have access to students and those things so this allows us to just more clearly define who is needs to um complete test security and sign off on those waiverss every year any questions thank you Mr love that's it
for new business i have a few items under superintendent report first as you kind of just heard a little bit t the season of testing um that literally is going on in grades three through eight that's all of our elementaryaries and our middle school both Dr ship and I have been in the buildings quite a bit
last week was ELA um for iLearn and this week is math then the next couple weeks is social studies and science and respective grades so um I can tell you that it is there's one positive about all this testing it's quiet and um kids
are um in the classrooms taking the test our teachers take it seriously we're doing all the test security measures properly so um it's it's it's a stressful time but it's a time where obviously we want to get a gauge of where our students are at and um I
appreciate all the efforts towards that last thing I'll say is um you know there's um a lot of talk at the general assembly with the the state budget next month um I will spend quite a bit of
time sharing with you some of the updates from the bills that will pass the general assembly should conclude officially at the end of this month they may conclude sooner than that um without going into details the state
budget yes Senate Bill One with property tax reform um is is a major concern and I won't share those concerns tonight but will next month it's something that um every school is going have going to have to examine what the repercussions are with
that that budget um I think short term will be okay long term beyond a year and a half we may have to see what necessary reductions are are going to be required um part of that is is um local income
tax um it's not going to be passed through to us that that's a major blow that's 1.4 million like I said I'll get a little bit more of the details next month there's still another portion of the budget House Bill 101 that's yet to be approved so that's still in committee we don't know where that's going to land
that's with respect to um what the percentage is with uh any increase or decrease in the education fund that's the state funding plan if you've paid attention the educational I'm sorry the revenue forecast from last Wednesday was
not good for this state and for this country in our state uh projection of 2 point or two billion shortfall so that's significant to say the least uh there's a couple other bills 287s with
schoolboard um uh declarations of of what your party affiliation may or may not be that's still out there um it's not been passed yet then there's uh I think it's 1002 House Bill 100 no 1003 that's the house
the deregulation there's a lot of good elements of that deregulation is simply mean all the statemandated required reporting we may not have to do as much that's a good thing gives us flexibility we can see what we need to keep doing what we we don't need to do so that part
I appreciate from our legislators there's a lot more but again I'll take some time next month to walk through those with you that's all I have under super report