We'll call this meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge. Good evening, and welcome to tonight's board meeting. First is, Jason mister Jason Urban presenting to us. Members of the board, please join me in celebrating an exceptional young athlete who's with us here this evening. Jude Bozarth is a rising eighth grader at Fishers Junior High and a four time national champion in the sport of Taekwondo. Just last weekend, Jude claimed his fourth national title at the AAU championships in Salt Lake City,
Utah. And in just a few weeks, he'll head to Houston to compete for a spot on the AAU national team, which is an opportunity where it would make him one of few athletes in the country to earn a place both on the AAU national team and the USA TaeKwonDo national teams. June began TaeKwonDo at the age of four and holds a second degree black belt. So be careful up there, mister Mabes. He trains at the North Indy Taekwondo Club and has competed in 16 states and four countries. Earlier this year,
he proudly represented The United States at both the Pan American and World Championships, finishing in the top five among athletes from more than 40 nations. When he's not perfecting his roundhouse kick, he excels as an honor student at Fishers Junior High. Please turn your attention to the screen as we spotlight one of Fisher's finest, Jude Bozart. I do Taekwondo. I also do track and cross country, but Taekwondo is, like, the main one. There's nine degrees of black belt, and I'm on my second degree. I like competing,
and I like sparring. You have to change your strategy and what you're doing depending on who you're facing. Go. I just get my work done. It's school first and then take one day. Just stay committed to what you're doing. Pretty much exactly like boxing and how they find who you're fighting. So you have foot pads that have sensors in them. The body's worth two points and the head is worth three. And then punches are one. Leading up to competitions, I train ten, fifteen hours a week, getting mentally prepared, physically prepared,
just staying healthy in general so I can compete at the highest level. This past weekend, our team, we traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah at the twenty twenty five AAU National Championships. He fought five strong fights and dominated his division into where I'm very proud to say that he is a national champion. For his age group, I would say the most dominated athlete in his weight division. I have really good coaches, so I know that I'm actually achieving stuff and getting better. Our goal, including mine as well as his, is to try to get him onto the actual Olympic team or to at least
the team trial process. Congratulations, Stu. Congratulations, Stu. Thanks for coming. Good luck. There were no public no one signed up for public comment this evening, so we'll move on to item four, consent agenda. There are four items presented on tonight's consent agenda: 4.01 Board minutes 4.02 Personnel reports 4.03 Claims, payrolls $4.00 3 and $4.57 salary reduction agreements and 4.04 bond renewal. Do I have a motion to approve the entire consent agenda as presented?
I'll motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. I'll 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, and the presentation will be by Ryan Taylor. Good evening, members of the board. Pursuant to Indiana code, this next item will need your approval. We are seeking the hiring of an ELA teacher at Fall Creek Junior High, as presented. Do I have a motion to approve this item as presented? I move to approve this item as presented.
Second. I'll now call the question. All those in favor of approving this item, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Passes seven-zero. Thank you very much, Ms. Taylor. We'll now move on to five point zero two, Brooks School Elementary Furniture. And the presentation is by Mr. Rapp. I think. Does anybody know anything about furniture? I know a lot about the process, and I know a lot about the furniture purchase. Brooksville Elementary is the next school to school up for purchase of furniture. Logan and Matt competitively bid the entire process.
They had several, bids returned. This project will replace all the furniture, most all the furniture in the entire building. It is furniture that we'll be able to replicate, should we need to add additional furniture in during this purchase. HSE facilities did a great job through the competitive bid bidding process for both this project and the drive. Just ask that you make this recommendation and approve it for this next come this next school year. Any questions or from, mister Ross? Not really a question.
Just a quick comment. But I'm trying to do it through the tablet. So they're all attached right here, right? Those quotes and the dates are all right on here. I'm trying to pull them up. So that's why I just want to make sure that when we're voting on it, it was right here in front of me because I can't see it, so All right. Do I have a motion to approve this item as presented? I found it. Thank you. A motion to approve as presented. Second. I will now call the question. All those in favor of approving this item, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Passes seven-zero. Thank you. We'll now move on to 5.03,
HSE Athletic Drive. And Mr. Rapp. Good evening. I apologize. I was looking for some numbers to tell you how much we saved on one of these projects. And thank you for allowing me to be here tonight. The Facilities Department evaluate the HSE South Lot and North Lot, and decide that it is in need of a full replacement. This will include a new asphalt, curb, stormwater drainage and ADA accessibility for sidewalks. Sorry. I ran. You're all good. The Facilities Department issued an RFP and held public bid opening on June twenty seven
of this year. After evaluating four proposals, it was determined that D. C. Construction Services was the lowest most responsive, and responsible bidder for, $496,424.14. HSE Facilities recommends the award for the South Lot And North Drive replacement at Hamilton Southeastern High School to DC Construction Services. And I'd ask you tonight to approve this, recommendation. I just had one comment, and this is really because we missed our Facilities Committee meeting.
I know we were all sad, for the July 4. Yes. Those are my time to shine. I know. It's going to be great. But since we didn't have that, I think you could bring this up to the whole group, so I will now. This item was initially budgeted for $1,500,000 And we obviously came in significantly under that. Just thought maybe you could talk for a second about how that happened and obviously, we're happy. So Yes. That's great. We did pad it. We weren't sure first how some of the tariffs would do or some of the, taxes that we might see.
So we did pad it on the side, but bids came in very competitive. I do have tonight here from DC Construction, Dustin Calhoun and Jeff Saunders from the company. They were just really good bids. Asphalt I don't know if they could talk a little bit about asphalt prices, but they came down not like immediately after COVID when we saw huge spikes in that. I'd like to add, board members, that the operations crew has done a really nice job of competitively bidding everything that you're seeing in front of you,
not just this month but for the last several months. And we're seeing bids come back really, really low. I just wanna commend these guys for really going after and asking people to bid and and really looking for the best price that they can get. This particular project did have some room in it for reclamation that we simply believe that we do not need after doing some more studying. So this is a great bid. We're super excited, and I do appreciate the operations team for really going out and competitively bidding everything
we're purchasing. Thank you, sir. Is this project for this summer to work on? Are they doing it in the fall? Yes. As soon as you guys approve it tonight, they'll start immediately on preparations. And is this out of our bonds funding? Yes. Out of bonds? It was written into our GO bonds. Actually, we had it for a couple of years. The first year we had it in, funding, didn't support it. And so this year, it does and it's great. Have you guys ever driven back there to a baseball game? Yes. I was going to say this is needed to be done for a while. That's why I was asking when it's starting.
Okay, great. Thank you, Matt. My only I was going to say something about that. Any of us who have been back there and used that, it's between the baseball fields, softball fields behind the football stadium. Any of us who've been there obviously know it's needed. But I think something that's neat too, I believe our contractor also is from the district and has kids in the district and uses a lot. So it's nice to see not only were they the low bidder and compliant, but a local company. And obviously, they'll be back there driving on that with kids in the sports programs. So nice to have that in the community.
Yes, sir. Any other comments or questions? I will now or do I have a motion to approve this item as presented? I make a motion to approve 5.03 on HSE facilities as presented. Second. I'll now close discussion and call to question. All those in favor of approving this item, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Passes seven-zero. We'll move on now. Thank you very much, Mr. Rapp. We'll move on to 5.04, policy second read. Doctor. Kegley? Good evening, members of the board. Mr. Mapes, come before you tonight, seeking action as a second read for policy.
The following policies D3, D4, D5 and D6, as well as E2.00. All of these were taken to the July policy committee meeting, and no changes were recommended, from what you see in the information before you. So I, seek your approval. Any questions or comments? So these have already gone to the July policy Correct. Committee. Okay. All right. Do anything else? Do I have a motion to approve this item as presented? Motion to approve policy second reading,
as presented. Second. I'll now call the question. All those in favor of approving this item, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Passes seven-zero. We'll now move on to information item 6.01, policy first read. Thank you, Doctor. Albright. Before you this evening for first read, policies, the rest of this bundle that we have before you to review D6.01, and I'll walk through these real quickly for you, not any major changes. In this extracurricular accounts fund, we're simply changing deleting the words investment income and changing that to interest fund.
D 6.02, there are no changes. That is revenues from school owned real estate. So the paragraph is staying exactly the same. It was just a matter of making sure we reviewed it? Yes. Excellent. Correct. Thank you. Use of school facilities, d 6.03. We are removing the adopted language that's, in strikethrough at the bottom. And in d 6.04, we are deleting and in the first bullet and changing heshe to they in the second bullet. Additionally,
for information, we would like to, because of our change many of the changes that we've had before you in the last couple months have been, changing superintendent to superintendentdesignee. So moving forward, we would like to, recommend that the executive assistant have the flexibility to change that as needed. If that's the only change, it would necessarily come to this body for approval. Additionally, with our move to diligent from board docs, allowing Denise to also make that change where it says board docs in the verbiage
to, HSE school board portal. So that's just a note for information this time around. Alright. Thank you very much. And Thank you. Jenny, quick question. Just so for clarification, we would well, this is information, so we're not voting. Correct. But when we come back next month, we would be voting on A, the policies and B, authorization for our executive assistant to make those To make those two changes. Correct. Thank you. You're welcome. Alright. Moving on to seven point zero one, superintendent report. Good evening, board. First of all, mark your calendars. We're getting closer and closer to get back to school,
and our Before the Bell event will be Thursday, July 31, from 05:30 to 07:30 at the Nickel Plate District AMP Theater. We'll have student performances, fun activities for all ages, food trucks, and helpful information from our schools and community partners, and a great way to start out the school year. Hopefully, this year we have better weather, but we do have a rain plan or a thunderstorm plan for this year. Also our back to school guide is live and on our district and school websites. You can even download a copy if you have an interest.
You'll find key dates like open houses and meet the teachers nights as well as, school supply lists. Believe it or not, you know, we're about four weeks out. Monday, August 4, our teachers will report to start the 'twenty five-'twenty six school year. Wednesday, August will be our first student day. And then our next board meeting will be August. And at that board meeting, we will start having a discussion about redistricting. We'll have a kickoff presentation that evening for the Board and community as we take on that very,
very big lift during this fall. The other items, and some of it's been mentioned, but as you drive by our facilities right now, you see a lot of construction going on as we work on the turf fields at the soccer and lacrosse at both high schools, tennis court action at HSE parking lots. If you drive by Brooks School Elementary right now, you can see that's completed and that's something that the Board approved earlier this year as well as all of the construction that is taking place at Fall Creek Intermediate as it just begins.
And you can actually now envision Fishers Elementary of what that's going to look at look like as soon as school got out and we were able to get a lot more people on the job site. So lots of things going on. We're still in the process of hiring staff and get ourselves ready to kick off the twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six school year. Thank you. Thank you very much. We'll now move on to 8.01 board member reports, and we will start, we'll start with you, Edna. Mine's very simple. First of all,
we have a foundation meeting at the end, third week of every month. Don't really have an update right now. Getting ready for that coming up for our school year. But I just wanted to point out, we had the Fishers Spark Rotary Golf Tournament. And even though it's not, quote, HSC, it does support our HSE mental health program. And I just want to say it was a fantastic day, huge event, and a great fundraiser for our mental health support program. And I would be at the rotary board meeting tonight, but I'm here. So I will get that report and,
be able to submit, what we were able to raise at our next board meeting. Thank you. No report. As I mentioned earlier, our facilities meeting was canceled because of the holiday, so I don't have a specific report from it. But for a few people here, and anyone more so listening online, We're still encouraging any new contractors, any new bidders, as some of the staff mentioned. We've had some really competitive bids lately. We're getting more bidders on more projects, and we're even seeing contractors with different ideas submitting different ways to do things. And it's giving us better quality and saving us money.
So those are available on our website on the Facilities page. So any contractors out there, submit a bid, we'd love to expand our opportunities. Thanks. So six point zero one, covered the policy committee meeting. We have our next policy committee meeting August 6 at 08:30 a. M. In the Admin Building. We have just a state for finance committee meeting. It follows the policy committee meeting on August. Just, again, want to thanks thank everybody involved from our admin.
It's easy to get complacent in contracts and just keep using the same partnerships that we have, so I just appreciate everybody always looking for the best deal and the best way to extend our dollar to better serve our students and and staff. So thank you. And I believe that is all, so we can all go enjoy the summer weather. And thanks for being here, and we will adjourn the meeting.