We'll call this meeting to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Members of the board, it's my privilege to be in front of you this evening to celebrate a truly exceptional young man. Last month, HSE schools celebrated National Disability Awareness Month in conjunction with the City of Fishers. Each month, Fishers Advisory each March,
the Fishers Advisory Committee on the Disability honors individuals that exhibit an unwavering commitment to inclusion. This year's Life Without Limits award goes to Fishers High School senior, Carter Schmidt. Yeah. You can give him a round of applause. We're gonna do that a couple times. For Carter, you'll see Carter just actively engaged in the Fishers High School environment. Unified basketball, flag football, track programs. He's an avid member of the Tiger Cade Spirit Club and you'll I saw him at the many of the, sectional games and other games during the Tigers March to the State Championship.
I sat by him at the Carmel game, and he just lit up when he described the award and was so proud. And he's definitely a deserving, recipient of that award. The Life Without Limits Award recognizes those individuals that advanced inclusion, independence, and work to to break down barriers, making a positive impact on others. Carter has an awesome job. He works for the Pacers, primarily in their pro shop, and they have adopted him as one of their own and one of their valued members of their team. He's gonna stay with us next year. He's gonna go to HSE and be part of the transition program in the fall.
We're very proud of his accomplishments and wanna take this moment just on behalf of the district to let let him know how proud we are of him and how well deserved this recognition is. He certainly is a tremendous ambassador for our school district and for our city and certainly, advances our goal of inclusion and acceptance of all learners. And so I told you that Carter is a very busy guy involved in a lot of things, so much so he has a conflict tonight and can't be here. But to help you learn a little bit more about Carter, there's a great video that we're gonna show with Carter and his teacher,
Holly Lunaman, and Jeff's gonna show that for you now. Hello. My name is Koto Schmidt. I'd like to thank miss Lunaman, for nominating me. Carter Schmidt is an exceptional young man who has exceeded all expectations. As a senior at Fishers High School, he thrives in our general education classes. He leads as a quarterback for the unified flag football team and actively participates in unified track and unified basketball. Carter's leadership shines whether attending the principal's leadership retreat, working at the Pacers gift shop, which gift shop,
which I'm always trying to have him getting a Caitlin Clark jersey, or stepping up to teach my science class. He's a role model, proving that having a disability does not limit a meaningful, fulfilling, and awesome life. Congratulations, Shmiti. I'm so very proud of you. I'm a senior at officials high school. I'm going to, the HCA transition program next year and, hopefully still do Unified Sports and still work for the Pacers. What inspires me is my parents because they're always there for me. Me. My favorite thing about officials is going to,
Tuesday night consults. My favorite consult was the Bruno Moles, consult, to at the Tuesday night, Nickel Plate Trail. It's so important because it just celebrates, like, the people with, like, disabilities. Thank you. We'll now move on to 3.01, public comments on posted agenda items. First is Matt Albright, speaking on matters of corporation interest. Thank you. That's a tough act to follow. I'm back again to discuss transparency and public records requests. I have a lot to cover in only three minutes, so I'm going to move quickly. The good news is that as of March 6,
we had no more public records requests that were open. While some of them did take nine point five months to fulfill, they were finally fulfilled. The bad news is we didn't actually get what we requested, which is a common refrain we've heard from many people submitting public records requests. For tonight, I'm here with some fact checks and some suggested action steps for you guys. So first, there's a little bit of difference of opinion on the volume of requests. At the January 8 meeting, Mr. Grieisel said, and I quote, HSE Schools gets bombarded by public records requests, further describing it as pretty enormous. In the year 2024,
there were 26 APRA requests. Others may disagree, but two per month does not seem to be enormous to our group. Of that, we were seven of the requests. So outside of our group, there were really less than two per month. We initially didn't receive any response on four requests that we submitted between May and July until March of twenty twenty five. Anyone can request the APRA tracker, which I have a copy of and would be happy to share with anyone, that shows the 30 some requests that were made in 2023 and the 26 requests
that were made in 2024. I also want to talk a little bit about the accuracy of some of the information that's been presented to the public. At the January 8 meeting, the district board member said of the open app requests, There is not a single one that has gone unfulfilled. That was made at the January 8 meeting. Fact check, this is demonstrably false. We have the email trail. We have the Apple request. Anyone could verify this by checking themselves with the the school board the the school district, but we have the full email trail and are happy to share it. Question one of the questions is, what is the basis for saying that there's not a single one that has gone
unfulfilled? Is somebody giving the board incorrect information? We would certainly want correct information to be shared with the public. Or perhaps counsel gave away the game when he said at the January 8 meeting, quote, where they take a terrible tone, you're going to get a choice response, end quote. What is this quote saying about HSE schools? First, does council speak for schools and the school board on this? If the public is not sufficiently deferential, does HSE schools ignore you? If your question anything about HSE schools, are you labeled an enemy? Certainly, we'd hope that's not the case, but as our requests were delayed for quite some time,
it does feel that way. I've also brought a copy of all emails that our group has sent to HSE schools and would challenge anyone to find something unprofessional in them. Again, I'd be happy to share that with any of you after the meeting. So where does that leave us? I have a few requests for the school board exercising oversight and I make them very politely. One, please investigate the false information about no outstanding requests. Two, please ask HSE schools to provide more timely responses to the community. And three, please engage the community. Listen to our concerns and dialogue with us. Thank you very much. Second is Janelle Stierwalt speaking on five point zero one,
Policy Second Reading. Good evening, school board, Mr. Mapes. Noticed a lack of any sort of advocacy against SB one for most of you, which will drastically impact our schools to the tune of 24 to 30,000,000 over three years. How are we gonna cover eight to nine million a year in decreased funding? What is the contingency plan? Are you discussing this impact? Paving parking lots won't happen. The expansions at HIJH and HSE for CTE classes won't happen. Classes will get larger with fewer teachers. When this passes,
and unfortunately it will, where do we make up the funding? Mr. Mapes mentioned today in a video that he sent out about Innovate 2028, a three year roadmap focusing on fiscal responsibility, student success, and strengthening our communication and support systems. The first part on fiscal responsibility, are discussions being held about SB1? Are there any outreach that you're doing to legislators, to the governor? I'm sure you all know a lot about this by now, and thank you, Mr. Mapes, for, speaking out about it. What I would like to see, the board do is what Mr. Mapes has done recently is start advocating for our schools
publicly, vocally, at the statehouse, in the community. When I heard that several of you went to the statehouse, I thought, Wow. They're going to go advocate for our schools. But no, you were advocating to put politics in our school board. The time to act is now. This is going to happen. Please do better. We will now move on to item four, the consent agenda. There are four items presented on tonight's consent agenda: 4.01, board minutes 4.02, personnel reports 4.03 Claims payrolls, four zero three and four fifty seven Salary reduction agreements,
and 4.04 Skyward SISA annual renewal. Do I have a motion to approve the entire consent agenda as presented? Motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. I will now call the question. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Passes seven-zero. We'll now move on to 5.01, policy second reading, presented by Doctor. Kegeli. Madam President, I would like to just take a quick moment, if you don't mind, and share the location information for the public on one of the items on the
consent agenda. Alright. Go ahead. Basically, I just want to just remind people that there was an item in our consent agenda, Skyward, annual renewal, which is a renewal contract. And that is found on our BoardDocs. And we actually had spoke on that in the budget committee meeting. And I commend Ms. Lang and Doctor. Albright for asking ample and great questions. And so remember that you can go to the Board docs general tab selection and select budget and finance committee, and you can read about that, what was discussed in that meeting. So,
okay. Thank you. Doctor. Kegeli? Good evening, Board. This evening, I come, for asking for action on a second read of nine policies that I presented at our March 12 Board meeting for first read, and then we sent those to the March 24 Policy Committee. Just as a reminder, there are no content changes to these any of these policies. They just allow us an opportunity to put eyes on them again and update them. We do have four of them with absolutely no changes, and, the other five are just strikethroughs that have moved legal citations up in the policy.
So, I'll happy to answer any questions, but I ask for your approval this evening. First of all, do I have a motion to approve this item as presented? Motion to approve items as presented. Second. Now, any questions or comments from the Board? Molly, I thought it would just be to ask the members of the policy committee if there was any comments. No, it was a very quick meeting. It was like five minutes long. It was just a review. So no major changes. Okay. We'll now close the discussion and call the question. All those in favor of approving Item 5.01, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Passes seven-zero.
Thank you, Doctor. Kegel. We'll now move on to 5.02, Community Health Agreement, presented by Tim Brown. Good evening, members of the Board. Thank you so much for the opportunity. I would like to call up a couple members of the community team to come up with me. Happy to introduce Michelle Ware, director of school partnerships, along with Abby Wright, executive director of school partnerships. Recently, HSE put out an RFP for our health related services, with our partner Apex Benefits. There were nine, hospital groups that this was sent to. Three responded to that. Of those three respondents, community's, process came out to be the best and the one that we would like to
recommend before the board. Couple items of note. The first is we are recommending tonight a five year agreement for three prongs of our, health services. The first is our clinic. The second is, our nursing services already in our school environment. And the third is our athletic services. Part of the RFP response, and I commend community on this, was they added an additional athletic trainer at each of our high schools with our expanding intramural and sports programs. Having three athletic trainers at each high school is critical. In addition to the the doctors and the other supports that they already provide as
well as our weight coaches, or weight training coaches, excuse me, at one of, one at each of our high schools. So what you have before you tonight is a a recommendation for a five year agreement for those three spaces. The agreement does not have an auto renewal. Part of the agreement does say at the end of year four, we will work back with the community team, to look at potentially extending that or ending that, however, both parties would like to move forward. In addition, there were some other, items related to behavioral health on our docket tonight. I commend community for putting that agreement together so quickly,
but because it came so quickly, we've discussed and we would like to put that on the May meeting. So the recommendation for approval tonight is just the nursing portion, the clinic portion, and the athletic, trainer and weight coach portion, and we'll come back to you in May. But I do wanna give the opportunity for them to introduce their team. They brought several key members of their team today and allow the board, certainly, to ask any questions of the of the great support the community provides. Michelle Ware, director of school partnerships. I have the honor and privilege of, being here since we started the school partnership,
services back in 2019, and it has been just a wonderful privilege and honor to do that. And I can't speak highly enough about our team. Our executive director, Abby Wright, she has been with us and she has been a wonderful leader. We also have brought, if you guys can stand, Scott Schoen first is our director of school nursing, oversight of all the school nurses. And then Tammy Bryant, she is our group practice director for the on-site clinic services. And then, Brett Patterson is here representing director of our sports medicine. We do have one other member of our team,
Kendra Belden. Unfortunately, she had a conflict tonight, but she is over with the student behavioral health, services as well. So, again, thank you and I'd like at least to give Abby the opportunity to, speak. Obviously, she has been a tremendous leader for our team as well. Thank you so much. Thank you for having us. And it has been a privilege and an honor to, be a partner with HSC and walk alongside of you in this journey and support not only your student athletes but your students and your staff, and just to continue to grow this partnership and see where we can take it, because it truly is
been a blessing to to be a partner with you and just to continue to see, the community grow, and the opportunities that we can provide within the schools. So I do thank you. And coming from the schools, I know it it does a lot, and it helps, increase graduation rates, and also what it does to keep kids in the classroom. So thank you for what you allow us to do within your within the school district. So thank you very much. I would just make one other comment. Although we were thrilled that they won the RFP, one of the secondary benefits is the continuation of services.
Our school nurses have very personal relationships with their school buildings. Our athletic trainers have very personal relationships. Our clinic staff has very personal relationships with our employees that see that. And so to be able to continue those services, I think, is an extra bonus of them winning the RFP. Thank you very much. I'll ask a couple of quick questions. So the first thing is I want to commend the relationship as well. I've heard some very positive things from staff that is able to use the clinic and the athletics and been involved in sports for so long and hearing the great
things from the athletic trainer. So I just want to say, first of all, I'm very pleased and I commend it. I do have a quick question though. Did having the program, bid come in for us to agree in a five year, is that what kept the pricing lower? And I only say that just as someone who tries to be fiscally conservative and look at budgeting as we don't know where we're going in the future. Ideally, I wish it was more of a three year contract, but I see all the benefits we're getting, so that's very positive. So I'm just asking, is that what kept the rates lower is the commitment to go to a five
year? So specific to the on-site clinic services and the rates that, we have, we felt, to be honest, that our commitment for the district, knowing that there is several areas that are of high need in other financial areas, to make that commitment to hold those rates for another year and not have our typical escalator, it did not have an impact. We actually, as a network, asked for a long term agreement because we are that committed to not only this district but our program and many other districts. So, it did not have an impact on holding those rates.
That was a commitment that we wanted to make back to the district. Okay. Thank you for sharing that. And then, in following up, I'm glad or not glad, but, with the behavioral health amendment, you're saying that that's gonna be pushed to the next meeting. There's only one sentence in there that I had a question on that maybe you guys can discuss or you know the answer to it now. Is it it says in there, that it states that there's a one that it's a one year renewal and it's an amendment to the contract. That being said, is it a renewal when it because it then it says it goes to auto
renewal. Is it an auto renewal through the five year contract? Or is it an auto renewal that we're saying is indefinite until we use number eight, which is a termination. So as of right now, the way that the contract is written, it would be an auto renew annually. So Through the five years? Through it's kind of as a separate standalone contract. Okay. However, what we have proposed and what we would like to do is at the end of this first year is come back to the table and say,
would it be appropriate to then have it aligned with your four year, the balance of that, so that it, in in essence, runs at an annual renewal but is embedded within your four year contract? With the other contract. Yes, ma'am. Okay. And really, that was my only two questions. And again, thank you for all your service. So I have a question. Regarding the renewal, you said after the first year, is there any scenario where a price increase would happen? Is that specific to the behavioral health services? No. To the whole contract. Okay. So the current contract that is being proposed today,
those fees are as they are stated in there. So for the on-site clinic, there is a five year. Each year, those rates are as stated. In the behavioral health separate agreement, a lot of that is, determined based on the reimbursements from the different whether it's a commercial payer or MedicaidMedicare type payer. So that's traditionally why our behavioral health has not ever been embedded in the larger agreements because it is an evaluation that goes year after year on whether there is contributions needed or not.
So to stand here today, full transparency, and say that would be the same contribution for the next five years, we could not do that. But we do our best to ensure that, we are taking all of those factors into consideration. Did that answer your question? Yes. And what would be your out? Say that we said, no, this is not working or you thought it wasn't working. What is the out clause in the contract? What is it exclusion clause? Yes. So there is in the term section, there is an out clause that we ask for either party a six month, advance notice.
And so, therefore, that allows us we have a lot of caregivers that are under contract to provide all the services. But it also allows you as a district to budget appropriately if there is a need for a change. Certainly, we hope that is not the case and we would wanna sit down and discuss what's causing those reasons. But it is on both sides a six month, out clause if needed. Thank you for your hard work on the proposal. I was lucky enough to see it, so thanks. And I would like to add from the behavioral health side, if there was ever a change in the rates or we were coming and looking
at potentially a change in contribution, there would be discussion way in advance before we would ever do anything. We would be bringing it, having discussions about what we would be looking at. In the end, we it is really about a win win and trying to understand and knowing what the budgets are for both sides, and trying to figure out where we can land so that it truly is where it meets everybody's needs. So and just so you know, we have not increased, behavioral health over the duration of the contract that we have had with you. So Thank you very much. Anything else,
miss Brown? All right. Do I have a motion to approve the five year Community Health contract as presented? I motion to approve 5.02 Community Health Agreement covering Nursing, Athletic Trainer and Clinic Services, excluding the Behavioral Health Services. I second. I'll now call the question. Suzanne Thomas? Yes. Sarah Parks Reis? Yes. Ben Orr? Yes. Patricia Schooley? Yes. Dawn Lang? Yes. Tiffany Pascoe? Yes. And I abstain. Thank you very much. Madam President, I would like to make a comment. Okay. So just to let you guys know,
I did due diligence, because I am concerned about transparency as well. And by far, the community contract beat out every other contract and is great for our school district. So again, thank you for all your hard work. We'll now move on to 5.03, 20 20 five GO bonds, final approval and additional appropriation. Tim Brown? Yes. Thank you so much. So twenty twenty five GOs, have gone through all the statutory requirements minus what we're going to do tonight. This included public hearings that took place in January for a maximum amount approved up
to $42,000,000 Typically, we sell those in a minimum of two issuances, and I would absolutely recommend, when that time comes to do that again. Part of that helps us to protect the tax rate. So tonight before you are really the final steps. You have two resolutions, a resolution approving the actual issuance of bonds and the resolution approving additional appropriations of bond proceeds. Do I have a motion? I move to approve the final bond resolution and the additional appropriation resolution as presented. Real quick, Madam President, we have to have a public hearing before we take the motion. So just have the public hearing on the additional appropriation hearing,
and then we can move forward with the motions. So sorry, Chris. You're good. Thank you. I will now open the public hearing regarding the additional appropriation resolution. Anyone from the public like to speak? Hearing none, we'll now I will now close the public hearing. And we have two resolutions for this item, so I'll take a separate motion for each. Do I have a motion to approve a resolution issuing the 2025 GO bonds as presented? I move to approve the final bond resolution and additional appropriation resolution as presented for the school board resolution approving issuance of bonds and relating matters.
So we're taking them as two. So we need a mo I need a motion to approve a resolution issuing the twenty twenty five GO bonds only. So, okay, then I move that we approve the, issuance of the '20 '20 '5 go bonds. Second. Any questions or comments? I'll now close discussion and call to question. All those in favor of approving this resolution as presented, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Passes seven-zero. Now, we'll do I Do I have a motion to approve the additional appropriation resolution as
presented? I move to approve the additional appropriation as presented. Second. Any questions or comments? I'll now close discussion and call the question. All those in favor of approving this resolution as presented, say aye. Aye. Any opposed, say nay. Passes seven-zero. Thank you. Tim, you're up again. 5.04%. So right along parallel to the GO bonds, we've also worked on our hedge bonds. Those have gone through two public hearings in January just like our GOs. But because this is a first lease bond, the process just takes a little bit longer. So tonight, we will hold a hearing on the second amendment to the lease of these bonds.
Prior to this meeting, our building corporation approved the same resolution that's before you tonight. And so, at this point, I would recommend to open that public hearing and take a, vote on the resolution, second amendment to lease. Thank you. I'll now open the public hearing regarding the second amendment to lease to the lease. Anyone have anything they would like to say? Hearing nothing, well, I will close the public hearing. Do I have a motion to approve this resolution? I move to approve the final bond resolution as presented for the second amendment to the lease.
I second the motion. Any comments or questions? Now, I will now close discussion and call the question. All those in favor of approving this resolution as presented, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Passes seven-zero. We'll now move on to 5.05 Hoosier Road Elementary parking lot. Madam Rap. Good evening. Tonight, I'm here to ask to make a recommendation to replace the Hoosier Road Elementary, parking lot, the main lot and the bus lot. This building was built back in 02/2001. And through inspections and constant repairs, we have we have identified it as one of two schools that need replaced this
summer. And I'm here to ask for you to, approve Howard as the, as the construction company for $258,000 We did receive three bids, one from Baumgartner, one from Autos and one from Howard Company. And I'm here tonight to ask the approval. Thank you. Do I have a motion to approve this item as presented? Motion to approve the Hoosier Road Elementary parking lot as presented. Second? Second. Any questions or comments? I have just a quick one. Was this presented in the committee meeting? And then does the Facilities Committee have any comments on this one?
Did we talk about this in the past that it was coming up? It did hit both. And at that time, we didn't have the bids in. I had asked both committees telling them that we're going to be bringing this with the bid numbers. Yes. And I can confirm that we talked about it briefly in committee, just basically the bid process. We've mostly discussed many times before, the weighting of the price along with the contractor's reputation essentially, their locality, scope of work, all that. But it looked like they got multiple bids in, and this one was clearly the best.
And this is for the Hoosier Elementary parking lot? Yes, ma'am. Okay. And is the whole thing front and back and the bus area, the whole entire parking lot? Right. The main parking lot where, the cars park in the front of the building and then the back lot where the buses are. Okay. Alright. Thank you. Alright. I will now close the oh, it's good. How often, are we resurfacing and repairing these parking lots? Yeah. So it depends upon the budget. And, mostly, it's patching. We'll identify a spot then we'll patch it.
And if you drive through our parking lots, you'll see. And then here lately, we've had the opportunity to identify some larger areas like, Hoosier Road Elementary and Brook School Elementary, which I'll be talking about next, that we really do need just to start as a clean slate. So that's where we're at. We'll do inspections, every six months. Most of the time after winter, we'll find all the check holes and things like that. Thank you. I have a quick question. I might have missed it. Did you say what fund it's coming out of? Are we using bonds? Or Yeah. I'm happy to answer that.
So we still have bond funds remaining in the 2023 bonds. Anytime you take a GO bond out, there's a a two year window to spend those funds down, 10% in the first six months, forty five percent in the second six months, seventy five percent in the third, and a % with what they call a de minimis amount of under $250,000 at the end of the bond. Some of the projects listed in that ten year plan did not come in at the cost that we anticipated on the good side. And so I was able to work with Mr. Rapp to recommend that we use $20.23
bond proceeds to do the projects that he has before you. Thank you. Any further questions or comments? I'll now close discussion and call the question. All those in favor of approving Item 5.05, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Passes seven zero. Five point zero six, ma'am. Thank you. And this is the second school that we identified that needs to be replaced through the same process. If you drive through those areas, you'd definitely recommend it yourself. We received the three bids from the same companies,
Baumgartner, Autos and Howard. And Howard was also low on this one for $282,000 And I'm here to ask the board to approve this project. Do I have a motion to approve this item as presented? I have a question for Mr. Raffer. Can we please take a motion and then we'll take comment and discussion? Do I have a motion? Motion to approve Brooks School Elementary parking lot as presented. Second. No comments or questions? So I see that Howard is the bid for both of them. When they did the presentation, did the bids come in together like we will bid both or did they bid them completely separate?
They did bid them separate because this isn't the only asphalt company that, or or that we put out there because we're also doing some asphalt around, replacing this, drive right here. Mhmm. But it it doesn't meet the threshold to to bring it to the board. But we got bids. They have these other companies have one other bids that, and I'd be happy to share those the projects with you two. That's okay. I I just didn't know if they came in as one bid for the two projects or they just happened to be two separate bids and both went to the
same company. Yes. They were two separate bids. All right. Thank you. I'll now close discussion and call the question. All those in favor of approving item 5.06, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Passes seven-zero. Thank you, Mr. Rapp. Moving on to 5.07, HSE High School Tennis Courts. Mr. Rapp. Thank you. As part of our 2024 and twenty twenty five ten year plan, we we plan to replace the deteriorating tennis courts at Hamilton Southeastern High School. The tennis courts are at the point of needing a full removal and replacement that's
taken it all the way down to dirt and rebuilding it back up. They were built in 1998. And, the new courts will have full ADA access for visitors all the way around all the courts. The current currently, only one court can be viewed by ADA, visitors. Having analyzed the proposals and scope coverage and financial statements and qualifications, we recommend the award of the tennis court replacement to PCC Sports in the amount of $2,665,000 Do I have a motion to approve this item as presented?
Motion to approve 5.07 HSE High School Tennis Courts as presented. Second. Any questions or comments from the Board? Yes. Go ahead, Latricia. What find is this coming out of? Great question, ma'am. So we did the design in 2024, and the rest is coming out 2025 bonds. My question is just going to be the expected life span of these. So we went 1998 to now. That's probably too long. But what's our plan to get out there? Yes. So technology and materials have gotten better over the years. So hopefully, we get the same amount. Normally, what happens is you build it,
build it and then every two years you come back and resurface just the top. With us going all the way down to the dirt and building it back up with tension strength concrete, it'll last a lot longer. Won't have the cracks that we see. And it's similar to what we did at Riverside when you guys approved that project, and we were at the forefront here in the state of using concrete for our tennis courts. And then you mentioned it's gonna get ADA compliant too, so that includes the outside space around sidewalks, all that? Yeah. So it'll have sidewalks. Currently, if anybody's been over there,
it's grass through the center and only one tennis court really has viewing. This will get concrete throughout plus seating, for ADA and more visitors. Okay. And last question and, I'm sorry. We've gone through a lot of these facilities, but for the public, expected completion date? Great. And so we're hoping ninety days. And so hopefully, because the timeline has increased or has gotten so short, we are expecting a full summer and into, September. Well, now we you'll probably see me back in a couple months to ask to do Fishers High School.
Thank you. Just a couple quick comments. So I know that, the bid is here on attached to Board docs here in our meeting. That context wrote a letter and they outlined the alternative items to their actual bid. And I'm just confirming we are just getting ready to approve the additional items added to that bid. So it would be the $2,665.03 56, correct, which includes those A, B and C, the additional items? Yes. I believe it's A and C. I need my glasses. That's okay. But the additional items that they talked about that were in there that included the
extra items, it says additionally alternative bids a, b, and c. Oh, no. No. That's not it. Yes, ma'am. Yes. We didn't go with the, but we did go with A, B and C. B is the fifty year warranty. Okay. So they did add those and that's why the price is a little bit higher. Yes, ma'am. The next, I do want to address the second paragraph, which I kind of find exciting. Are there plans currently for HSE to discuss lighting and the tennis courts? Is that why that is on there to kind of state? Because I know in real estate, when someone builds a basement and they don't know if they're going to put a
bathroom in, we do the rough ends in the plumbing. And that possibly that if it's not in our plans currently, will we be prepared, quote, with the rough ends in case we decide to do, lighting at a future date? Yes, ma'am. And we are currently asking bids for lighting. We are. So it will be roughed in. The new tennis courts will actually have power run to them so that they can run, their microphones and the tennis ball machine. Excellent. They're the current ones that both high schools don't have that. So we will roughed in everything else, and we're currently asking quotes for lighting. And then when we go to do the fishers,
it will be similar the same way? Yes, ma'am. Excellent. Thank you for that input. Any further questions or comments? I'll now close discussion and call the question. All those in favor of approving Item 5.07, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. It passes seven-zero. Thank you. We'll now move on to information items, 6.01, 20 20 five collective bargaining time line. Tim Brown. Thank you very much. Before you, just two informational items tonight. The first is the estimated 2025 collective bargaining time line. Doing this for a couple of different reasons. One, we certainly want to schedule this in advance so that all schedules and calendars can
be booked for this critical process. The second piece, transparently, is we always hold an open enrollment process for our health, dental and vision insurance every year. And the earlier that we can make sure this process is locked in and hopefully come to a conclusion allows us to have that open enrollment in a fashion that aligns with the oneone renewal date. And we're working very hard on the health space to align all of our dates to oneone, and so we would need to hold an open enrollment in November to queue that up for December premiums. I do appreciate the Teachers Association looking at this and Abby and her team in
verifying that these dates, and confirming these dates do work. So just real quick, our pre formal bargaining hearing, which is a statutory process, is scheduled to take place the evening of Wednesday, September 3. And then we would begin our formal bargaining process, and then move to hopefully a tentative agreement by Wednesday, October 22, the second board meeting in October. And then we would, assuming that stayed in line, have a, item or a special board meeting to come together to approve the official, agreement at that point. So important to lock those dates in. And again, appreciate the association and their team for confirming the dates as well.
May I ask a quick question? So with having those four dates, I know, like, in real estate, when we're negotiating, if I saw four dates, I'd be like, Oh, I'll just skip those three and we'll come to the fourth. So I'm just asking, is there a chance like if everybody comes to agreement after the second meeting, do they have to have the other ones? Or are they there in place in case we need them? Just placeholders. We would love to have an agreement in just one or two meetings. Okay. That's all. I just wanted to make sure that it's not something that they have to. We could possibly all agree and get it done in the first couple. And accelerate the calendar for sure.
Okay. Thank you. We'll now move on to 06/2002 to 06/2026 budget. Right along with this is our budget calendar. This looks exactly similar to what we did in in this school year for the 2025 budget. Just hitting some high, high level highlights. Cecilie Nunn and myself will present a tentative budget to mister Mapes in late August, early September. It'll go before the finance committee meeting, at the September, and then we'll start going through the board process at that point. We'll do a work session in September just like we did this past year. Then we go through our statutory requirements of a public hearing on the budget on
October 8, and then hopefully, formal approval with the budget on October 22. So that aligns nicely, with the calendar that we had last year and should work very well again. So So just an informational item. I will ask another quick question. So in having this as a guideline, this is all subject to or until we get our actual budget information that comes through that's approved. And we're gonna take whatever we get there and use this budget timeline to come up with our budget for the next year. Yeah. Just for clarity, we already have our 2025 budget,
so we are not we'll wait on important information to prepare that budget, but we're not waiting on a new budget to come to light. But that's for 2026. We have to go through this information to prepare for 2026, am I not correct? That is correct. Okay. So what I'm saying in that is if we don't know what our funding is going to be, do we have committees or we put things together that if we do have to make cuts or adjustments or changes, I'll just speak out and Sarah can say the same. When we came on the board, four year four and a half years ago,
we had to do $5,000,000 cuts in our district that was not fun, not fun at all. But we had to approve and boards before us had to work on things. And, administration, staff, they've worked in so many different committees to find the best way to do that. And I'm just saying, has any of that been put in the back pocket that we may have to make some changes? And is that part of this budget, guidelines of what we're doing to prepare for anything that could come to us after April? Yes, absolutely. Any part of budgeting process is to make sure that we're fully prepared.
To say that we're not monitoring the budget daily would be false. We are monitoring the budget on a daily basis. So by the time we queue this up in August and September to Mr. Mapes, we'll have been through a very long process of monitoring the budget and preparing what's appropriate for our school district. Excellent. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you very much. Moving on to 7.01, Board Member Reports. We'll start with, Ms. Pascoe and go down the line. Just want to say happy anniversary to Mr. Mapes for his one year. Also want to give and commend, the Cafe Read a Latte program. I had the opportunity to go and see how successful that was,
and our librarian, Laurie Cushman, is doing an amazing work with that, engaging all the senses and and getting our literacy rates up across the board. I think it's honestly, lightning in a bottle with the curriculum that's being implemented there with the teachers as well. At the Charger Throwdown, I was I had the opportunity to attend the Charger Throwdown led by our food services leadership. They did an amazing job, had an opportunity to give kids the experience to compete almost kinda like in a top chef setting. So that was amazing to see. And I'm also excited to say that we are replacing lights and starting that process
and financing or in maintenance and committee. We got the finance stuck in me, but which will be huge. The lights will be on dimmers and it'll help with productivity for the children. As we all know, there's a lot of side effects for LED lights for all kids of all needs. So thank you. I'd like to wish our students across both Fishers High School and Hamilton Southeastern High School with We The People good luck next week as they travel to D. C. To compete. I had the blessing, I will say that, of being a judge with Fishers High School's team on Monday night, and I can say that I am not smarter than a fifth grader.
I'm highly impressed with those teams and the amount of time and effort that they put into this. And as much as I like to say that I've studied in civics, the deep dive that they do with this work is highly impressive. We really have a solid team and it's if you've never sat and watched them, go and listen because I think you will my jaw dropped. I was highly impressed with the ability for them to really debate the Constitution and some of the top issues of the day. Also, had the opportunity of attending a disability awareness event with the City of Fishers with
two other Board members, they may comment on that as well. But it was an opportunity for us to look at how disability affects all aspects of our lives, not only in education, but also in the workplace, in events and hospitality. So it's an effort for leaders across the city in business and community and education to look at ways that we can have a constant process improvement. So it was fun to break out in different groups and brainstorm. Also, there were some administration in there as well, so it was great to see everybody. Also lastly, the next Finance Committee meeting and the Policy Committee meeting is on May 7 in
the morning. That's it. So policy committee was a quick meeting. She's already given the dates. I would implore community members to start coming to some of these meetings. It gives you a lot of information. Also, yes, I did do We the People about a week ago, and I was pleasantly surprised that there were several different point of views. It wasn't just one point of view. So they truly are our future. As regarding the, my point of view, disability awareness, I don't really like the term disability. I prefer calling people differently abled because it's not that they don't have abilities.
They just have different abilities. So, again, I want everyone to make sure they come to the meetings, and, we are working on being more transparent, guys. Quite a facilities committee meeting last week. Those notes are online. And, the highlight, I wanted to thank Mr. Raff. He moved. Going over that bidding process, again, continues to be great and in line with transparency and trying to find the best contractors and service and balancing that with our budget is always obviously a struggle. But they're doing a great job with that and look forward to perhaps even making some changes on our website to encourage some more bidders,
and just get as many people looking at the projects as possible. So I appreciate that. That's all for me. I'm going to let Suzanne give the foundation update. I just want to wish everyone a safe and fun spring break. Okay. I have a few things to say. First off, I want to commend, our district with the literacy that they did in March and the reading across our district. I had the pleasure of reading in several elementary classes, and it was by far fun and great to be with the students and the staff. They do an amazing job. And I also was part of Ms.
Cushman's, program that she had at, Southeastern Elementary, and it just was a blast. So it was really great how they tied in, the theme and the kids were reading. And I'll let Mr. Mates speak on the reports and stuff, but we have improved and I think it's just outstanding. So I want to commend everybody in the work and, Doctor. Featherstone Thompson for her work in the elementaries and how we're doing so well with improving our literacy. Congrats to our Fishers Tigers on a phenomenal season and also to be our 4A state runner-up. I think it is just phenomenal the way they represent our school district and their
school and their class act kids of character. And I think they did an amazing job and had a phenomenal season two seasons actually. And to become the four state runner ups is awesome. I also want to talk about the, My Point of View event. And it was very much a pleasure to be there, alongside of, Latricia, Doctor. Or Ms. Schooley and Ms. Lang and the way that the city is incorporating the school district and the community people and the leaders in our community to talk about all areas,
whether it's travel, events, education, coming together as one and really benefiting, our sorry, our students and community and disability and just helping all, I think, is an amazing thing. Sarah and I, serving as the liaison for the foundation, we had the opportunity to go to Thorpe Creek Elementary and see how the awards that we give there, the grants, the foundation, that's one of the biggest things they do is they give grants to our teachers. And they use those grants to do amazing things in education for our students.
And at Thorpe Creek Elementary, I just want to say, when we got to visit there this month or last month, excuse me, we got to see some amazing things, and I want to commend the work that the Thorpe Creek educators are doing. And now the update from HSE F is we are doing Thank an Educator right now. The HSE's annual Thank an Educator campaign will take place from April 21 to May 2. This is a wonderful way to show appreciation to anyone who has made a difference for the student this year. For a $10 donation,
anyone can nominate an educator for honor roll with the staff member receiving recognition via social media, Fishers Magazine, and a certificate with personal message and a gift certificate to Schoolhouse Seven Cafe. Please make sure you sign up for the Prairie DASH. It's a five k. Students and families are invited to join us for the third annual Prairie DASH five k run on Saturday, May 17 at 9AM. The run will take place through the grounds of Conner Prairie with registration opening right now. All participants get a medal, a t shirt, and a free ticket to an upcoming Fishers Freight football game.
And visit the foundation.com excuse me, hscfoundation.org to register for that today. And I'd like to close by wishing everyone a very safe and amazing, spring break, whether you have a staycation or get to travel. I hope everyone enjoys. Thank you. A lot of this has been covered already, so I'll just mention a couple of things. Number one, this evening starts the National High School Boys and Girls Championship at Hamilton Southeastern High School. And if you go to ESPN plus the cameramen tonight are eight Hamilton Southeastern High School students. So our students are getting a real life workout today,
in a production truck, running camera angles and working along professionals. And those same professionals from ESPN have come in and talked in both buildings to their media classes about a career in television production. So that's just very exciting that we can host that. Huge economic impact to the City Of Fishers, but more importantly, the practical experience that our kids are getting is just fantastic. Ahead of time, even though we're going on spring break, Matt Rapp and his team has got a lot of work to do next week. I want to thank them ahead of time for everything that they do in a very short window to be done with that work when we get back in a
week. It'll be pretty much a ghost town here. Our administrative team is going to take a well deserved break as well. And we come back and we have six point five weeks and then school year will be over with in a blink of an eye. So thank everybody for all the work they'll be doing, and then we'll give some academic updates in our May meeting. Thank you. And for me, I would like to, Ms. Pascoe already mentioned this, but I would like to recognize that, Mr. Mapes has been with us about a year now, and I'd like to thank him for joining us and for, guiding our district.
I think we've seen done some amazing things, and I really look forward to what is yet to come. And everyone enjoy spring break, and we'll see you back here in May. Thank you very much. Meeting is adjourned.