meeting order will everyone stand up and the pledge of aliance with Meed States stand indivisible andice for all thank you all for coming
comments on the agenda item okay to the agenda okay for consent agenda we have um items a through e and I'll go through them individually I will tell you that
for the um monthly fund and claims report we will need to conduct a vote uh separately on an invoice for B mechanical we'll come back to that that at the very end let me first go through each letter uh a is the minutes for the
executive session on February 17th B is the minutes for the regular board meeting that occurred on February 17th C is the monthly fund and uh revenue and claims report that I just mentioned D is the uh monthly Personnel
report I will cite that we have um or recognize that we have two retirements Patty Doyle in Food Services has been with us for 34 years uh she's done an incredible job for us she's ready for retirement and I'm jealous uh so we wish her the best also shirle Cox has been an
instructional assistant at the high school and has been has been with us for 25 years so again we appreciate her service and commitment to Clark Pleasant uh that's basically it for personnel amidst all the other regular things that occur there the contracts we
have two first one is with the sergeant Laboratories which is basically a filter for Aristotle and then the second contract is with Hadley towing services it's a company that um is based out of Maran County would like to get some business
in Johnson County uh they're willing to partner with our Police Department where if they make toes um a portion of that I believe around 75 would go to the current training fund that exists in our Police Department um they have this
partnership with three Township Schools in Marian County um we don't tow a lot of vehicles throughout the school year um but it is a um opportunity not just for this business for but for also continuing training for our Police Department comes from Chief price uh
that is pretty much it under consent agenda so I would recommend approval of all those items and then um seek a separate vote on that one invoice for be mechanical as previously mentioned approve agenda
and I'm opposed I've got a name okay I recommend approval of the separate invoice for Beast mechanical do we just need a motion for that I'm move that we approve the uh
invoice for Bon mechanic second allor all right all right now to the best part of our meeting why we have so many people here which I love is to recognize the
incredible work of our employees and our students we will first of all recognize our employees with the recognized Excellence award and normally um Dr schiloski does this but he's unavailable this month so
I'm going to go through this hopefully I can read the names correctly if I um mispronounce them I apologize up front we'll start at the high school Katie zenzinger Teresa morning then at the Middle School uh Deo Keefe Lisa Barnes
Holly Morales Jessica Walker Leanne Hawk Patty Evans Jessica Walker Abigail Matlin at break day Elementary Desi Bachman Le Walters Walters chrisy
Westerfield Julia Thorne Mary Davey Amanda fo at Clark Elementary uh Miranda Bailey Kenzie Martin Marissa goder Emily artt at the Early Learning Center Amy Bearer Ali
M daa mahuran Kyra sandal at Grassy Creek Elementary Ashley Collins Ann cook Shannon Sedwick Trina Lake Jason Breeden
Maggie Chipman Megan Miller Rebecca Grover Olivia Hobbs Courtney Nory Brandy tanell J Jenny Singh Jennifer Hawkins Melinda DWI and Paige Rogers at Pleasant
Crossing Elementary Sammy Warren Bailey Borges Hardesty Ella WP Ronda leech Brian oi at Ray Crow Elementary Debbie Campbell
Shaya Maddox Kirsten short Paige Lundy and Grace Halton at Whitland Elementary Khloe Lee Hannah Baker Katie rener Reynolds Hannah haer Heather fth Liz
Breeden Molly Maddox Jamie Kidwell David Feebas Amanda Compton Katie brigh Brandy Plunkett Rebecca Graham Dana Camp Laura Singleton Heather Wilson Alexis tacket
Jessica Hal Tanya Pew Heather smelli Transportation Anthony henkins and operations Chris Doyle let's give them all a round of applause okay uh we started this a couple months ago so we um really want to take those
names and then recognize um a certified employee of the month and then a classified Employee of the Month certified are those who have an Indiana departmental license uh primarily teachers counselors admin so we'll start
there and so our March recipient is Ellen rice please come on down if you're here [Applause] thank you principal short all right next our March 2025 classed Employee of the Month Dawson
shro okay next we are going to recognize a teacher who is our first graduate for the Indiana Wesleyan University stepup program and I'd like Miss Jamie Adams to come on down
[Applause] so just a quick explanation iwu stepup program is an opportunity for some of our folks whether they're coming from the classified side to get into the the class excuse me the classroom teaching
environment is to take a lot of courses and so if they commit to that finished the program um there's obviously some reimbursable there but more importantly is that they become a teacher and that they've graduated they've got a degree credentials and
obviously we're recognizing Jamie tonight so again thank you Jamie for your hard work we appreciate you next we want to recognize a group of middle school students I know principal reinold is here I'll kind of turn it over to him and he'll probably introduce the director too I know Katie also
so come on up tell us a little bit about who were recognizing so really forunate for students in grade seven through n um they have to audition so they had to rehearse and practice music and they had to um actually submit it for students
all over the state um so we actually have two of our middle school students and it also includes grade students so several from white high school as well um and so we want to recognize these wonderful talented students so um Avery Davis on trumpets Molly
amum sorry used to on trumpet as on horn Julia on horn Jack tuba Sam steba Caroline
[Music] [Applause] window great middle scho students know to recognize our school students and I see our director our ass director and talk a
little about our like Kati event that happens the high school students uh it's a little bit different in the fact that it happens actually just this last weekend Happ University and the students actually go through a live audition so they actually go to a site do a live
audition and then they are selected from all the different programs across the state imagine Inc comp so we're very very proud of our three students that made the allate this year Chase C trom Simpson clinet andone
[Applause] so I would like to thank everyone that we recognize for coming tonight you're more than welcome to stay but if you have other things to attend to Now's the Time we'll pause this is like dismissing them early from class you can leave class early if
you want or you can stay e it's going to take us a while gradu so it's been I've been close to 40 years 35 at least
well next we have um C9 report M posel okay um the C9 board met Thursday March 13th at 6: p.m. and we heard a report from the curriculum and instruction specialist Shan Martin he was explaining
his position at C9 that he's now in the third year of he um his work includes working uh with the teachers in each area on curriculum mapping um design and development use of rubrics co-planning
and teaching Etc and he gave us some examples of of his work um we learned from director Kovach that um he has spent time at the State House meeting with education secretary Jenner and
focusing that's focusing on the CTE funding um and they also discuss the feasibility of C9 being able to offer three sessions of students versus the current two sessions um they're working
on thinking outside the box how that can work uh students of the month from WCHS are Journey Lily in Dental careers um she represented C9 at in job skills a at the
skills USA competition and she received a bid to advance to State um also Jasmine Sandu medical assisting she exceeds expectations and demonstrates integrity that's that's a great
compliment in everything that she does um Alexandra Fair um is in veterinary science and she's been valued for taking the initiative in class and that's it
thank you very much Redevelopment commission Mr B the RDC met on the 13th of March um fairly un they have 1.21 million in the account Department sounds good uh you'll notice
on the agenda seven and8 our Geo Bond discussion and um obviously a hearing I'll turn it over to our board president to open it up and then I can introduce our um guest from Ice Miller tonight the meeting thank you and I'd like to
introduce Chris mclen with ice Miller to go through the process thank Ken um M president do you want to open the hearing with the initial part or would you like for me to do so perfect the next item on the agenda
is for the bo board to hold a preliminary determination hearing on the proposed project if you're interested in speaking at the hearing please make sure you've signed in the sign in sheet which I think is back in the back um after a presentation by some of the members of the Administration staff there will be
an opportunity for the public to make comments we ask that you please limit your comment to the proposed project in the each of the comments last three minutes we did publish a notice of preliminary determination hearing as legally required we are required to have
this hearing under Indiana Law anytime that a school corporation propos es to issue more than a million dollars in bonds to fund a facility or anytime that you have a Debt Service fund tax rate above 40 cents these public hearings set forth the maximum amount of borrowing
and the maximum interest rate so again it is just maximums we could always determine to issue less as a board you could but again this hearing is just to set forth the maximums and to hear public comment on the project um I'll now introduce Austin who will talk about
the fin thank you I didn't get appuse Karen so two things I want to talk about and it's the why behind Geo bonds and it's also the financial impact of these geob bonds that we are looking to
issue first is the why uh geob bonds are not new for our district we've utilize them in the past we utilize them right now and that is to combat our high tax cap losses that we have um so we can cover such items such as bus purchases various Capital Improvements that would have otherwise occurred in the
operations fund outside of buses we've also utilized geob bonds for LED lighting projects uh the current K5 Behavior program is covered by geob bonds technology athletic improvements such as the soccer field out there uh Roofing Replacements fire alarm Replacements
chillers boiler Replacements uh these are just a lot of things we wouldn't be able to do otherwise without geob bonds and that's what we're looking to do with with this iteration as well um we want to continue the maintenance of our buildings with HVAC repairs uh needed Roofing repairs or Replacements
as they arise athletic updates technology um we have a lot of ab uh systems that need replaced in our current School District um staff devices so we have some teacher devices that are nearing the end of their life cycle that we can use this money to replace those um as well as bus purchases as for the
financial impact Cassie can you bring up that summary of proposed perfect so this document here shows the details um we would look to get approved for the 25 million but understand we're not issuing $25 million all at once uh we would look to issue about $5 million
a year starting in 2026 through 2030 um that's based on the needs that we have and the scope of the various projects that we have um you'll see the estimated net available proceeds is less than a 25 million that's because there's always issuance costs that go with issuing debt um
the max repayment term shows at 20 years I believe that the plan is for us to have that at less than that 10 years or even less than that um the estimated interest expense is estimated very high at 5% it likely won't come anywhere near 5% for interest expense the most important item on this document though
is going to be the estimated tax rate impact and you'll see that that is nil so zero dollar impact to our tax rate in fact our overall tax rate is going to continue to decrease borring any unforeseen circumstances our debt rate will be maintained to under 80 cents and
that'll even start to decrease in 2029 given that the East Side tip district is going to fall into our books around that time so with that said I believe we just need to open this up for public comment or take any questions you may have before we would answer any questions I would just add to what Austin said um
this is an opportunity not just to um maintain that tax rate there's no increases you just heard him say to continue with projects that we've been doing but there is a great unknown with what may happen in the general assembly so this is a a protection for us since
we are still a growing School Corporation to make sure that you know we have um an opportunity to take care of our facilities prioritize those because who knows what um restrictions we're going to have in the future um even here in about two months once the
general assembly May conclude and even Beyond and we'll now open the public hearing on the first preliminary determination remember if you'd like to speak speak please state your name and address is there anyone to sign up at this hearing anyone else in the room that would like
to speak um thank you to all who listened for our presentation today we appreciate your time and interest in the project Pro in the future of the community um this is just the first step in the legal process again at the next board meeting
which will be April 21 2025 in this room there will be resolutions for the board to consider that will set those maximums but we will hold another hearing on that date thank you the next item on the agenda is for the board to hold another hearing um
this is an additional appropriation hearing on the proposed Bond proceeds so as you know much like when you have to hold an additional appropriation hearing when you are receding in different money to different funds we're also required under state law to have additional appropriation hearing for when you
receip the bond proceeds we did um publish a notice of this additional appropriation hearing as legally required um if it's okay with you we can now open this meeting for public hearing on the additional appropriation does anyone would anyone
like to speak on the additional appropriation hearing none we can close the hearing and move into the two resolutions that are under consideration if that's what you would like to do so moved the first resolution for your consideration tonight as it relates to
the bonds then is the appropriation resolution which Cassie just had on the screen again it's the resolution that allows us to appropriate the bond proceeds once those are received and we will need a motion and a vote
the final resolution that we have for your approval tonight is a final Bond resolution as you saw in your packet it's multiple pages long um you're used to seeing these in the past but what it does is it allows the issuance of the bonds it actually has an example of what
the bond form would look like and as a part of this multi-page resolution it also approves all of the other Bond documents that we'll enter into as we do um with every General obligation bond issue if there are no questions we will need a motion a second and a vote on
this one as well are you waiting for a motion so moved I thank you thank you Kristen for coming tonight all right under new business um we've got Mr fruits uh that will talk about a
couple of donations for your approval I'm GNA be up here for a while um all right donations at this time I would like to ask for the board's consent to approve the following donations uh $175 from Hagerty Hagerty law firm and $200 from
Delta Tri and that is to the WCS Athletics fund and then $500 from Grace United Methodist Church and that has to go towards unpaid student meal accounts all right next item is transfer of funds Mr fruits I I won't read
through all of these I would just ask for your consent to make these fund transfers as presented as always four out of the five of these transfers are moving from ECA accounts to school corporation accounts so that they can make purchases in compliance with the sbaa uh the last fund transfer that is more of an internal fund transfer within
our Corporation donation funds um as we were receiving our two-year audit from the sbaa the one thing that was noted was the amount of donation funds that we have and the age of those funds um so my request is to simplify those funds not change what they're used for um by moving them into two separate donation
sponsorship funds one is for education purposes and the other is for athletic purposes uh so with this request I'm moving all sponsorship and donation funds into one of those two categories than you and move we approve transf
funds all right next item is C and it's a recommendation for an enrichment day at the Early Learning Center before Mr fruits talks a little bit about that fee just um so for some more background information um um with our Early Learning Center we need time for our
teachers to have some uh training and staff development that is is critical and so that's why there is this consensus to have an enrichment day on a Friday while there our teachers are getting um some training through our Administration so a little bit more you
may want to add Mr fruits with that call you did a good job there uh this recommendation is to offer that optional Friday enrichment day um along with a cost of $25 per day um we do get quite a few concerns that we don't offer anything for our community on Fridays for our preschoolers um and this does address
those schedule complaints that we have on that this will not be to the degree of the Monday through Thursday instruction um it will be structured around enrichment activities provided mostly by instructional assistance uh so it also gives our IAS a little bit more hours to earn some some more income
hi all right letter D is a mouthful it's really an adjustment with some pay that Mr fruits will explain in our special education services this recommendation comes from our special education department uh one of the admin assistants will be resigning um and thus the recommendation is to increase the
salary of our Medicaid specialist in that department so that she can consume some of those duties and responsibilities um and they will bring in an admin assistant with less days so they're adjusting pay on both sides of that so that the um the result is zero
uh and so the one thing I will add is that the Medicaid specialist is funded out of Medicaid funds and not out of appropriated funds I'll second all right last item Mr fruits will explain is a recommendation for an increase with Kelly Services in their
sub rate so this recommendation comes from the HR department um and the recommendation is to increase our substitute teacher pay through Kelly Services to $125 um and they classified instructional positions to $110 what I'll say just based on my
little involvement with filling sub positions here um is that fill rate has always been a concern not just for our school district for all school districts um and this rate adjustment will allow us to fill our subs and classrooms we are makes us competitive with our neighbors to the north south and west
too all those in favor thank you Austin all right next item we'll take a little bit of time here and it is um a presentation and information from our curriculum director Brian Lovel um he did a great job uh leading uh several different committees
through this process appreciate that Brian and I know he'll talk a little bit about um the cost impact and again why the the choice that you're seeing tonight in your packet for ele M reading textbook adoption Mr absolutely thank you guys so thanks for your time this
evening so kind of want to walk through this process a little bit with you we've talked about a little bit a couple years ago or actually about a year ago when we uh got the science of reading Grant so kind of the history here is science of reading Grant came out um back in January of 2024 we had an opportunity to
have about 80 of our staff members administrators coaches teachers go through that training which was like a 10-month Long training so it was kind of a module mon um just in that we wanted everyone to have kind of some foundational understanding and background when it comes to the science
of reading in that process the state of Indiana released um a high high impact curriculum so the state in the past you could choose any curriculum you wanted to there are now five that the state approves um and so if you want to adopt a new curriculum you have to choose one of the five that have been approved by
the state um vetting process so there were five that were approved so in that process then we as a commit so I had a committee of um primary intermediate teachers coaches ml teachers special ed teachers administrators that kind of really dug into all of that data from
the state um all the curriculums kind of walk through that process together um and then in December of this past year we had all five committee or all five companies come in and present to us so we spent a day in this room all five companies came in we walked through it
we had a pretty robust rubric that we kind of utilized based off the St and the rubic from the reading League which is kind of the nationally known company for um understanding reading curriculum so we use their information kind of broke down into what our reading curriculum needs to look like what are
the components that we have what are the components we're missing how do we need to adopt some of those changes so in that process it very clearly two companies Rose the top so we had a lot of data from um that rubric and a lot of the pieces that we looked at two companies kind of Rose the top of that
so from there um we wanted to have an opportunity for any teacher that teaches reading in our in our elementaries to have the opportunity to see those and review those um we also wanted to invite parents community members in to see those so we had an opportunity for a couple weeks where all those curriculums
floated the elementaries get them a time to look through them ask questions ask questions coaches people on the committee myself um we also then had a night in January where parents and those teachers could come in and see from the companies again so the companies came in twice for us for those two committees um
we had about 30 people I had 70 sign up and I had 30 that showed up that night so we had quite a few people in this room just kind of walking through that commit those curriculums understanding what they are um about what what it looks like language Elementary language
arts is the most expensive curriculum We Buy in our six-year rotation that's just there's a lot of materials you think about K1 students and reading a lot of Hands-On things a lot of resources for teachers and a lot of resources for kids because a lot of has to happen in a one-on-one environment every kid needs
access to things and be able to do that so through that process after we kind of looked through all of our data our leadership committee came back together looked through all that data and it was kind of it was pretty obvious to us that this one curriculum was where we needed to go so we are recommending wonders
from mcra Hill um this company um has done a lot of reading curriculum for many many years um they've adopted adapted some of the things they've done that better are aligns with the science of reading and some pieces that we are um learning that are more effective strategies to teach kids how to read um
this is a six-year adoption so we start in we start next school year and it will last for us for six years um along with included in this proposal is all the training it's all the shipping of everything every every year we'll get student consumables that's included in
this the training is included so we will bring in um they actually have sent us some of their National Specialists to kind of walk alongside our coaches and administrators to help us dissect some of these things and then they'll also be here this summer so we can prepare teachers ahead of time and they'll walk alongside us the next couple of years to
be able to make sure our implementation is looking pretty good it's too much to every Implement everything at one time so we're going to need some time to dive in and help us kind of continue to look and grow as we look at our data and how things look so um our request for you is to look at this proposal and to be able to um move forward with adopting our
wonders curriculum for next starting next school year the only other thing I would add is not only is Grill wonders a very solid reputable and wellestablished um company that's existed for decades and decades what you see up here is the most coste effective in other words
cheapest by far um and yet they provide a high quality curriculum so it meets both of our needs make a motion to improve second thank you Brian all right next is a recommendation for summer programming K through 12 Dr
ship good evening today I present to the board our complete summer program um this is a little bit different because because normally it's just the high school but because of the the reading initiative with the states and if our students do not pass I3 they need an
opportunity to attend summer school um so this time I created a one sheeter for you to see all the programs that we provide in the summer you see a list of our elementary Reading Program our social skills camp program which uh
support our students with special needs uh our kindergarten jumpstart last year we piloted with one school this year will be every um kind student has an opportunity right before school start to get a jump start and get the experience
Expo exposure of being in school again we will continue with our high school program we also will have an extension program with our Early Learning Center we will have we will host two programs with a partnership
with Camp curiosity and Honey Grove and our last program By Invitation Only is the transition day for our students with special needs as they transition from 5th to 6th and 8th to 9th thank you Dr
ship as you can see we have a lot going on in the month of June all perfect segue in the next item is to talk about the Staffing for summer school Dr ship thank you for approving our program programs next is our staffing you should have two recommendations one
for the elementary um and this will be based on um our current numbers we project out from historical data of our students that uh pass our I um and the second one would be our high school recommendation
for staff I know last year was asked um what if you need more staff if we need more staff I will turn back to the board and ask for request additional teachers I all right letter I is another recommendation for um a classroom
expansion at clerk Elementary Dr ship anything to add there uh yes this was unique by surprise and um we had uh a preschool registration through the preschool registration um I asked for data and I
did I saw that we had several families from Clark that wanted full day kindergarten full day preschool but because they could not get full day prechool because the slots were uh full they just selected uh half day so I asked uh Julie wolf to go back to those
families and I said if we would offer a preschool at Clark would they be willing for their students to be full day and go to Clark and they said yes and so today I am asking the board to approve a recommendation to have our first class
um for preschool at Clark starting in 2526 I make a motion we um approve the expansion of the preschool at Clark Elementary all those in favor you know I would Echo thank you I
know we don't have dedicated preschool Center but I do like to see how preschool is expanding to our other buildings that's what we can accommodate so that is um encouraging uh next item is some field trips so I would recommend uh the
following three field trips one is the boys basketball team to Washington from this past weekend uh because they were in the regional um um championship game uh the 14th and 15th and then um our high school FFA
will be going to West Lafayette for the Indiana FFA convention on June 17th through the 19th then our cross country team um will be doing their camps um um summer camp at
Bloomington uh July 15th through the 18th second all in fav I all right thank thank you and next item is a recommendation from me to um or in regards to the employment agreement for a director of operations I
re recommend approval to revise the contract uh with Sam arms that reflects an increase in salary vacation time and um an increase to his retirement contribution effective immediately
all right next item is L recommendation for the employment agreement for our new Transportation director and I know they're sitting quietly there in the back we are excited I'm excited to recommend um the employment of Robin Hall as our new Transportation director
for the upcoming school year we did have a very competitive pool of applicants I appreciate all those who served on our two different rounds of interview committees and uh Robin I won't wait you speak but I I do want you to stand up so we can acknowledge you and did you bring your
husband there you go thank you very much thank you Robin wish you the best thank you again for uh the transportation team for being here tonight for showing that support appreciate you um every single day looking forward to great
things nice a second hi thank you very much last item is a recommendation to revise the central n operating agreement it is under the section of non-participating students
and the quick explanation is for those students that are in our non-member C9 schools they have to be part-time students with some of our not some with any of our um sending C9 member schools
uh that did not exist I I support this um because again they could be from somewhere in Shelby County but then they've got to enroll in one of our member schools um that's in Johnson County that sends their kids to C9 or
Marian County on a part-time basis I think this cleans some things up and um thus that's why you would see the recommendation before you did I miss anything Mr poselle I know you represent us um I move that we approve the revised C9
operating agreement all right that's it for new business one thing did just pop in my head um I do want you to realize that about two weeks ago our um second graders third graders and some other ret testers took I3 and um that is a high stakes test for
those kiddos they do get get stressed out over that um but it's an important test I I I won't um you know um criticize that and um the results are in they're still embargo we can't say anything our principals um seen them um
probably have shared a little bit to the parents but we just can't put anything out officially and then you know as what Dr ship alluded to in the summer school uh something that's really brand new from the Department of Ed is that we can remediate them and test them twice in
the past we've only been allowed to test them once after remediation whether that's for the remainder of the semester or an intense week usually that first week of June so to be able to test them twice like at the beginning of the remediation at the end of the
remediation um is is a positive and the more opportunities some of our students can um receive to take those tests the better of a chance and probability that they have to pass those tests remember um they do have to pass or they cannot
be promoted on that's a rule that was passed by our legislators last year so um we're optimistic and hopeful that um we can get as close to 100% proficiency as as possible so that's pretty much it under
superintendent report now it is open for public comments if anyone has any public comments please approach the podium and just let us know your name apprciate if you can keep it to
minutes Linda Pell board member um I want to say that um I've seen so many good news things here lately uh the last few months um certainly the section Champs and even though it was a a heart
rendering into that on on Saturday I I appreciate how they fought like Warriors um the band that we saw here and just yesterday we found out that uh the Rhythm Masters and the expressions in um show choir is going to the state
finals which is amazing first time in seven years for us um then I have another comment I personally I've been studying a lot about the Constitution and learning a lot about
our uh founding and I've learned that uh Benjamin Franklin said to to his constituents that we must go to the we must gather together and pray together
as we're making these hard decisions so I've wanted to do that uh with the board and so I invite anyone who would like to um pray along with me as as we do so now dear heavenly father thank you so
much for this wonderful country that we have where individual freedoms and self-government has been so important for 250 years um I thank you for guiding us uh
the decisions that the Board needs to make and I ask your wisdom upon us because we know these these decisions can help shape the future of our the rising generation in Jesus name I pray
amen that I have Ave