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Y facility transformation and our district-wide long-term capital maintenance improvement project. Mr. Matt Miles. >> Thank you, Madam President. I appreciate the introduction. I am going to uh this the subject that we're going to cover

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today. You did a great job of explaining all that. Uh we have our um subject matter expert here with us tonight, Mr. Jeff Quacamush from Barnes & Thornberg. Um Mr. Quacenbush is going to explain what all that means and in practical terms and what these steps look like uh

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for the school district moving forward. So this time I would turn the mic over to Mr. Quacenbush. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Miles, Madame President, members of the board, Dr. Smith, Jeff Quacenbush. It's a pleasure to be with you this evening. So I'm here to bring good news. First of all, we went through

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the preliminary determination process earlier this spring on the McKenzie uh Career Institute and Technology Center project and districtwide project. And as of last Monday during the 30 into the 30-day request period, no request for referendum was uh submitted to the

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county for by the community for that process or for that project. So, you are to be commended on the fact that we went through that process without any requesting petition. So, I'm happy to say we can move on to this next step. This step in the process is very similar to the ones that you've done for your recent middle school projects as well as

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your high school projects and even in addition to that the elementary school and energy savings conservation projects you've done over the last several years. Um this process involves you having a public hearing this evening at which you will discuss and receive information from Mr. Miles and myself regarding the

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second amendment to lease for the financing of the projects. If you then approve a resolution during your action items, then we will come back on September 14th for one final public hearing on all of these matters. And then once that matter is concluded, we would then publish one more notice of

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execution of the second amendment to lease, which would allow a an additional 30-day period for a statute of limitations to go on the validity of the financing and the process as well. The building corporation did meet earlier this evening to approve the second amendment to lease as they've done in

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the past and they will then also plan to meet on September 14th to approve the bond issue. Um just by way of reminder this is for $175 million of bonds to be issued over the next three to four years. This will not all be issued at one time because of the size of the

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project. Most of this will go into the transformation of the McKenzie Career and Institute of Technology. Uh and that will be a little bit of that 25 million is also allocated for other improvements across the district like roof updates, heating and air conditioning updates, uh

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flooring replacement, uh wall replacement, uh coverings, those sorts of things, things that are needed in facilities all the time across the district like yourselves for facilities that are being utilized on a day-to-day basis every day of the year uh 24 hours a day. So, with that, I'd be happy to

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answer any questions you have regarding the process or regarding the steps that you're considering this evening. Uh, if there aren't any, then after that, I'll turn it over to Mr. Miles to go briefly through the financial presentation, which is identical to the one that we've heard in April and May of this year.

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>> Thank you, Mr. Quacenbush. Board, are there any questions? >> Okay, Mr. Miles. >> Thank you, Mr. Quacush. And as Mr. Quacush just stated the uh the slide deck is uh attached to the uh public hearing documents and our board

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documents here tonight for the record. There have been no changes uh to the finances since we last met. Um but we do want to bring that forth again just so it's there in the record. Again, uh we do anticipate um multiple debt issuances

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starting next spring, which is when we anticipate the bulk of construction to begin spring of 2027. And about at that uh roughly that same time is when we will first take out our debt. So uh really nothing going to happen uh from a from an additional debt or payment standpoint until that point. Um and

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again construction timeline uh will begin uh spring of of next year. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Miles. Um I know we discussed this and you answered a lot of our questions in detail back in June. um just because we may have new people

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hearing in um what is the tax rate implication to any of our taxpayers? >> So I believe on one of the slides here and I'm going to try to find it off the top u the majority the vast majority of our taxpayers will see no change um in

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payments ultimately when it when it hits their final tax bill. Um roughly 80% of that um I'm I'm going from memory because I'm not seeing it on our slide right now, but again the majority of tax taxpayers whether they be uh homeowners or business owners uh are not going to

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see an impact uh due to the project. >> Yeah, I think it was was it slide eight if I remember correctly? >> I'm looking there. >> Okay. Okay. The blue one. Okay. Yes. All

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right. Thank you. I just wanted to to go over that again. And also just for the public knowledge, this is not part of the cap capital referendum for the high schools. >> Not part of the capital referendum for the high schools. Correct. Um and just

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just for the record again, um our last we we'll get a new bond rating uh when our next set of uh borrowing happens likely again next spring. But uh our most recent bond rating um we had a A+ rating and a double A+ uh underlying

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rating along with that. So a very very good uh bond rating and also one of the factors contributing factors to that uh happened to be our most recent uh our most recent audit which was also uh a

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clean call it a perfect gap audit. >> Thank you board. Any other questions or comments? Miss Lawrence. >> Thank you, Madame President, and Mr. Miles. I really appreciate the due diligence and the fiscal responsibility

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that your team takes. Um especially as we're dealing with taxpayer funds. Um to that end, I'm very sorry for being a minute late. That 75th uh street roundabout is going to be spectacular when it's done. But it was a bit of a pain to get here this evening. Um and I

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was already running just a smidge behind. So, I appreciate your understanding. But Mr. Miles, as we think about referendums, I know this is something that um that is in the public's mind right now. Um especially as we start to understand the impacts of

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the Senate Bill One. Um could you please just for edification and so that members of the public understand explain the difference between an operating referendum and a capital referendum which is uh the the latter is the type of referenda that we had gone out for

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when we did our two high school renovations. If you could just explain that and potentially also just explain why we're feeling so much pre pressure from a fiscal stance. Uh because I I do want members of the I'm talking a lot, but I I do want members

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of the public to understand that when we add money into redoing McKenzie, it's not coming out of our operating costs and instead coming out of our So, Mr. Miles, I defer to you. >> Absolutely. Thank you, madam board member. Um, just briefly big picture,

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uh, two types of referendum possible um, in the state of Indiana operating versus capital. capital is specifically for building projects, construction projects. Um, our capital referendum. Uh, the big pieces of that were our two

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high schools, which the complete uh overhaul remodels that you've seen of those over those buildings over the last four years or so. Um, was a result of of that capital referendum. We also touched every school across the district. So, that money um was used to buy assets or

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improve assets. An operating referendum, on the other hand, is really a budget uh supplementary tool that school districts can use uh to to help pay their day-to-day expenses. Um whether they be salaries, um there's some flexibility

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there. Um we do not have an operating referendum. We're proud of that. Um one of the few schools uh in Marian County that can claim such and so um uh that is kind of the difference between the two. uh from a standpoint of um what's going

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on in the state of Indiana um short answer costs are going up faster than new funding. Um and that is in part by a number of reasons, but um SEA1 from 2025 is is restricting some of our local

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tax dollars, our property tax dollars, whether they be um residential, commercial, or industrial. Um so that that tax base is is getting pinched. um our costs continue to go up just like everyone else. Um from an insurance

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standpoint, uh um utilities standpoint, things that that are really some certain things that we don't have a whole lot of control over. So, um that's why you're seeing um a high number of schools go out for they're talking about operating referendums on the ballot this fall.

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>> Mr. Miles, another huge reason why you're seeing many of them go out is that state law now requires that referendums are done during general election years. So that's every even year. Correct. So we can't So a lot of districts are anticipating they've got to go in 26 because they can't do it in

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27. They would have to wait Yeah. until 2028. So this is a huge year and this is the first year of the enacted law. That's why we're seeing so many referendums in 2026. >> Great point. I I just wanted to add to Mr. Miles. Um

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the two funds, the operating and um and the capital for referendum. Um it's a little bit like Ghostbusters. You shouldn't cross the streams or were not permitted to cross the streams. Um, so when I I wonder if you could just put a

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finer point on that because I do think it's very critical for members of the public to understand that as we're spending our taxpayer dollars, we're doing so within the bucket that it's a that it is assigned to and we're not taking from our teachers or from our

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educational funds. >> That's correct. So, uh, we have fund accounting in the state of Indiana for education. um basically where the funds live, where they come from are designated for certain purposes. Um come from certain sources and to your point,

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I guess it would be like Ghostbusters. You can't you can't uh mix the streams. Now, later this evening, um we'll have a report that uh where the board gave permission uh to transfer funds between education fund and operations fund. We

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do that twice a year not to exceed 15% um into the operations fund out of education and that's by statute. Um outside of that really where the where the revenue lives and the expense lives is separate. So um there are only certain places that we can spend those

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funds on um our our education fund dollars primarily are spent on the classroom on our teachers and so salaries for the most part live in that area. uh our operations funds are things outside of the classroom and then certainly we have our capital referendum

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which is only to be spent on those those projects >> and we just hope that there are no surprise puff marshmallow man to come into the play >> we'd be in trouble >> all right thank you for that board any other questions or comments at this time we will open this up for

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public comment if there are any members of the public you may come forward Okay. If there is no other public comment at this time, we thank you, Mr. Miles. Thank you, Mr. Quacenbush, and all of the team that's involved on this project. I will go ahead and gave us

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this out. And now we will start our monthly board of education meeting. We do not have students as we've been blessed with in the past because they're on summer break. So we will lead you in the pledge of allegiance. Please join me to the flag of the United States of

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America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Sorry, I do have my sixth grader here, but >> Okay. Yes. No.

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>> At this time, I'll turn it to Miss Carla Johnson for the above and beyond and superintendent award. Stand right here. Good evening, Madame President, Dr. Smith, and members of the board. Tonight, we are delighted to present the Above and Beyond award to Adrienne

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Sergeant. Congratulations to Adrienne Sergeant, curriculum coordinator at LCC for being selected to receive the Above and Beyond award. Miss Sergeant's cont contributions this school year exemplify going above and beyond in service to the

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district. As a literacy expert, she played a pivotal role in supporting the district's comprehensive ELA program review, helping ensure strong recommendations for both foundational literacy and intervention programming.

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In addition, Miss Sergeant demonstrated exceptional fiscal stewardship by successfully negotiating and securing numerous annual contract renewals at reduced costs, saving the district thousands of dollars while maintaining

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high quality services for students and staff. Her leadership, expertise, and commitment to excellence have had a significant impact on the district. We are honored to present Adrienne Sergeant with the Above and Beyond award.

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Congratulations. And Miss Hargent has with us this evening her family. If we could just have them stand. This is Adrienne Sergeant's family, her support cast. Thank you for sharing her with us. Thank you and congratulations, Miss

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Sergeant. Moving into our information items, we have our blue ribbon updates with Dr. Dr. Nesbet. >> Thank you, President Norman. Members of the board, Dr. Smith, let's take a look at uh our July 20 update here. Our overview is the same. Uh McKenzie work continues and you saw the good news here

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with Northern Monstrance Craig Academy. It continues and then our classroom additions are wrapping up here in the next two and a half weeks. So, uh let's take a look. Uh there's our general guaranteed energy saving projects. Those are moving along. A few more have gotten to complete as we wrap up some roofing projects. By the next meeting, that

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sunny side will be wrapped up for us. uh Crest View. There's a look at the gang bathroom there, the the handwashing station that sits between the boys and girls room. And then there's a look inside of one of the classrooms. Uh keep my Some of these pictures are about six, seven days old. So there and a lot's happening this time of year. So

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flooring's down now. Um and there's a look at the classroom and then just a view out at the playground. The the deep in the picture that white there, that's the stone base for the uh playground. And then Forest Glenn, that's a new island going in in the front that's going to increase our parking and make us a little more efficient up front. And

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then uh if any of you have youngsters at Forest Glenn, they may notice as they drive by the playground is going up rapidly. And then there's a look inside of uh one of the new classrooms, the carpeted area. It's protected right now as they're still doing a little bit of work in there. And then there's a look at the new doorway uh that's near the the front

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doors. Uh Mary Castle, all new curb work there in the front. And then in the back, the we also had some hard surfacing go down around the playground and the basketball courts there. And they are striping that this week. And then there's a look at their new gymnasium floor. It's all brand new. And

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then also look inside one of the four new classrooms with furniture ready to go. Teachers are in there loading things up. And then Craig Academy. Uh that's door six there. Uh that's um some new storefront going in there. We have to do a lot of uh sectioning off of that

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building because we have a lot of lot of different programs in there. And there's a look at one of the uh top floor classrooms. Um was the mill work going in. Uh there's your old boardroom there on the left. That's the way it's looking right now. It's coming along. And then on the right, it's the return of the cafeterium to Craig that they originally

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had back in the 60s. And uh Sunnyside Roofing, um we're getting real close to wrapping up there. We have two crewies go do sheet metal this week and I think we'll wrap it up before school starts. And then Winding Ridge, we're complete there. Uh so they just finished that up. That concludes a blue ribbon phase two

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for your July 20 update. Happy to field any questions that you might have. >> Thank you, Dr. Nesbet. Board, any questions or comments. >> Yep, that's accurate comment that the students are watching the playground and

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and uh >> sharing about it and giving me comparisons when we go to other playgrounds. So, >> any other questions or comments, board? >> Yes, Miss Dunn. >> Yes. And I reflect a lot about how the public believes that as educators we

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don't work over the summer. Um and just really want to point to this right here as um exhibit one. We're going to talk about another exhibit later on, but um just thank you and the fact that teachers are so excited to be in their classrooms and getting them up and

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going. I'm sure they are elated. So um thank you for the work that you're doing to create these spaces for our scholars and our staff. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Nesbet. If there are no further questions, we'll move on to the 4.2 proposed 2027 budget

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adoption calendar with Mr. Miles. >> Thank you, Miss Norman. Um, at this time of the year, it is time to get back into budget season. And so as a first step to that u we are required to present uh to the board and receive approval for our

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budget calendar uh which basically outlines per statute a timing um framework for when we present the board board with the initial budget and uh move forward to hearing u advertising hearing and the adoption. Um all process

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needs to be completed by November 1. Um and this will allow us to do so. um you may notice there is no um nothing scheduled for October. We do have one board meeting in October that does give us a little flexibility. If we were to hit something that would um cause a

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delay or or need us to extend something, we've got a little bit of cushion in there. We could bring something back to the board in October if need be. But uh if we don't have to, we won't. We'll be done. We'll be done on time and a little bit early. So um happy to field any questions. >> Thank you, Mr. Miles. board. Any

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questions or comments regarding the budget adoption schedule? >> Okay. Well, the first half of summer was a lot of policy reading. So, now we got to prepare for the budget packet to come in. >> It'll be riveting. >> So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Miles.

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Continuing on with Mr. Miles 4.3, the transfer of funds updates. >> Thank you once again, Madam President. uh back in uh in June at our board meeting uh you uh gave us authority to transfer funds uh between the education and operations funds and as we always do

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we want to report back with what those dollar figures were and then you have those in front of you on the slide and also in the record uh from education to operations fund um these transfers again took place uh June 30th uh 11,882,4980

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uh from ED to ops from um operations to education we had 3,141891. Uh the net transfer amount there is is just what it says it is. There's the difference between the two. Uh the two totaled uh the net transfer was just

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over 12% right in line with where we were at last year. Um and also below the 15% maximum uh that we're allowed to transfer between the two uh per state statute. And off uh also just for a reminder why we do this is basically to

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match up um our revenue with where we house the expenses. So um it just it just allows us to do so um in a way that the money uh matches again where they're being where where it's coming from matches where it's being spent.

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>> Thank you, Mr. Miles. Board, any questions or comments on the transfer of funds? Okay, thank you. Moving to 4.4, the request for RFP for the Crest View serving line. Mr. Miles, it's your day.

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>> This is my day. I'm I'm I'm excited. Um happy to bring to you tonight uh proposal or request to take out for a request for proposal for the Crestview serving line. This is for the food service area at Crest View Elementary

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School. um and bringing this forward um as a uh as a proposal tonight for permission to advertise. We would follow up this uh this approval should it happen later this evening with the actual advertisement. Um and then the

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bid process which we would go through uh prior to uh any purchases or any agreements being entered into. Um this piece of the proposal or the the request for proposal has to do with the replacement of the equipment in the food service serving line. Um we would have a

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another services agreement um that would be funded out of operations to do some of the u physical work on the infrastructure um there that that piece um far less expensive and would be paid out of funds that are already approved by the board u through prior debt

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issuances and through our operations side. Um this piece would be for the equipment which is the bigger funding um need for the project. Keep in mind all the equipment um that serving line is original to the school. So um go back to

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1961 and that's that's where we started the building. So um definitely time to do so and happy to report that uh this would be funded out of our food services fund again not crossing those streams. So food services uh is is legally allowed to buy this equipment and would

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do so out of their cash balance which they have um the ability to do so. So, um, and and the funds available to make that happen. So, tonight, uh, later this evening, I would be asking for your approval to, uh, to issue this RFP.

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>> Yes. Thank you, Mr. Miles. Board, any questions or comments? >> Yes, Jessica. >> First of all, what whoever put those in in 1961 obviously chose top of the line. So, kudos for keeping it that long. um my and and I hope that whatever we do

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get will be as um long lasting as that for future generations. My wondering is do we anticipate any other schools having similar serving issues or is this kind of a oneoff and are the others have

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they been updated since the 60s? >> Yeah, great question and this is a one-off. Um, when we initiated this project, uh, gosh, Crest View was 15 or so years ago. Um, >> Crest was the first project in Blue

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Ribbon One. >> That's right. >> So, it's been a while. >> It's been a while. Uh, this the the it did not get into the scope. All the other buildings that we've done, we've upgraded the the serving lines along the way. So, this is a catch-up. >> Okay. Thank you. You're w I I

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anticipated that answer. >> Good question. >> Followup. >> Thank you, Miss Dun. Miss Lawrence. >> Yes, Mr. Miles. Um, I hold a lot of things in my brain, so correct me if I'm wrong here, but I do

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recall us at one point saying that the food services team is actually one of the the revenue generating organizations within our district and as such has a surplus. It's not like So, if you could explain that.

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>> Yes. Um, >> and I'm glad to know I'm right and that I remember correctly. >> Your memory is is spot on. U, Miss Lawrence, um, yes, they do generate some income. It's one of the few areas where um we can uh build up some revenue. So

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projects like this, it's great to be able to fund them uh on their own um based on based on that. Um certainly the the biggest part of their money comes from the federal government federal u which allows us to to provide free uh

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meals which is amazing and great for our students and our families. Um and it's also great that we're able to to provide updates um from time to time to to some of the infrastructure and that the that balance allows us to be able to do so. >> I only remember because of my stomach

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having voted for the personal pan pizza advancing that we did a few years ago. Thank you, Miss Lawrence Ford. Any other questions or comments? >> Yes. >> Well, I get to go home and share another fun fact with my my younger brothers who

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attended Crest View in the9s. And it's just really cool to know that it did last that many years. And it's going to be pretty interesting to see what comes up in the proposal process and the advances that have been made. Um but finding that right balance with not too much innovation because sometimes those

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things um don't necessarily always work for 75 years but um it's going to be interesting to see um the development. So thank you for sharing that. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Sounds like that equipment's

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the is it the terazzo flooring of equipment? I can go back to my old elementary that's 80 years old and I think they still have it. the the old uh the old adage, it takes a licking but keeps on ticking, I think would be appropriate as well.

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>> Okay. All right. Well, bringing us home again, Mr. Miles, with our 4.5 financial updates. >> Thank you once again, Madame President. And at this time, as we do every month, bring back the prior month's um financial reports. So, let's start with

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our general fund report. and our ending balance trending slightly ahead of expectations at this point with revenues and expenses modestly outpacing our projections. So again, you notice those green checks. We'd like to see those. Um certainly would point out or

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will point out that the ending balance um a little over 12 million that's we know that's not at our board goal. Um but the year's not over yet either. So, um, we will have our eye on the prize, uh, for 1231 balance, um, certainly to hit our $14 million goal. Um, but at

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this point of the year, we are we're tracking pretty close to where we expected and anticipated. Uh, nothing really out of line. Um, similarly, um, with our transportation fund, um, again, balance, current cash

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balance, um, a little ahead of where we thought we might be, but but really within close reason. Um, and again, our our revenues just came in. We've been uh reporting back each month that that happens twice a year and and we've now received that. So, just over $8 million

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in revenue uh for our transportation fund um with expenses very close to that same amount. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Miles. Board, any questions or comments? >> Green means good. >> Green means good.

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>> Yes. Thank you for that. Now we will go to our board co committee chair reports. We'll start off first with policy. Miss Pucket >> going in hot. Okay. Yes. Niola recently released its special June 26 June 2026

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revision update which includes revisions to nine board policies consistent with our established review process. Anformational meeting with Niola has been scheduled for July 29th, 2026. That meeting is to review the proposed changes and their implications.

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Following that meeting, the policy committee will complete its review and revision process before forwarding any recommended policy updates to the board for first reading. >> Thank you. Thank you for serving that hot. >> Oh, thank you.

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>> And now we will move to Lawrence Parks and Recreation. Miss Dunn, >> thank you. Well, I saw many of you at the July 4th festivity. So, um, thank you to the city of Lawrence for celebrating our nation's 250th birthday. It was, um, very warm,

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but it was a wonderful, wonderful day, um, celebrating our city and um, community. So, thank you to um Jamie with the parks department for her efforts. She um, was there a very it was a very, very long day for her. Um, also

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just as a reminder, Thursdays we have our farmers markets right or the farmers market that's right over here at Fort Ben. Um, you all have heard me say about the Forever Young clubs. Those are still in existence. A couple things. Um I don't know if you had seen on social media. Um but there was some

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misunderstanding with the parks in the city. Um and um the hill 317 um 317. Um it's a running and conditioning um that is provided at Lawrence Park for our community. It happens on Mondays and

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Thursdays. Um and it is a really awesome opportunity to get out into the community um to get healthy. Um it happens from 7 to 9. Um, so if you've not had an opportunity to visit, um, the Hill 317. Um, I highly recommend it. Um,

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and then just some things to keep on the horizon. Um, we have on August 4th is National Night Out that'll happen at various neighborhoods. Um, and then we also have our Lawrence um, safety day on August 22nd. So, um, mark your calendars.

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>> Thank you very much, Miss Dun. And then finally, the, um, school foundation with Dr. Mholland. >> Okay. Well, yes, it's a little bit quiet, but um I know there's still work happening. They recently, the Lawrence Township School Foundation um has a new

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slate um a new board members that have joined. So, I think there's a lot of excitement and a new board um chair. And um I think one of the things that we'll be looking out for is in August there's going to be the mini grant. So, I would say just look out for the website for

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miniigrant information or teachers that you may know who would be interested in applying. Thank you. Thank you for the updates, board. Now, we'll move to our action items. 5.1, approval of the proposed second amendment to lease and issuance of bonds

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and related matters. Mr. Miles. >> Thank you, Madam President. As was presented earlier this evening, at this time, I recommend the board approve the proposed second amendment to lease and issuance of bonds and related matters as submitted.

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>> Some moved. Second >> properly moved Miss Pucket and seconded Miss Lawrence. If there are no further questions or comments, all in favor of the approval of the proposed second amendment to lease and bonds issuance, say I. >> I. >> I.

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>> Any opposed? All right. The proposed second amendment to lease and issuance of bonds has been approved. 5.2 Approval of the proposed 2027 budget adoption calendar. Mr. Miles. Thank you. >> Madam President, I recommend that the

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board approve the proposed 2027 budget adoption calendar as submitted. >> Moved. >> Second. >> Properly moved, Miss Lawrence and seconded, Miss Dunn, on the approval of the proposed 2027 budget adoption

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calendar. If there are no further questions or comments, all in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Any opposed? The proposed 2027 budget adoption calendar has been approved. 5.3 Approval of the request for proposal

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for the Crest View serving line. Mr. Miles. >> Madam President, I recommend the board approve the request for proposal for Crest View serving line as submitted. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Properly moved, Miss Lawrence. And

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seconded, Dr. Mahaland. If there are no further questions or comments, all in favor of the approval of request for the Crest View serving line, say I. >> I. >> I. >> Any opposed? The request for proposal for the Crestview serving line has been approved.

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>> Thank you. >> Yes. Thank you, Mr. Miles. 5.4. Approval of board minutes. Dr. Mhalland. >> Madame President, I present for approval the minutes to be approved as submitted for June 22nd, 2026.

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I'll entertain a motion for the approval. Some moved. >> Second. >> Properly moved, Miss Pucket, and seconded, Miss Dunn. All in favor of approving the board minutes from July 20th or wait, I'm

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sorry, June 22nd, 2026. Say I. >> I. >> I. Any opposed? The board minutes from June 22nd have been approved. >> All right. Madam President, I move that we treat action items among 5.5 to 5.8 as consent agenda.

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>> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> All right. P properly moved by Miss Pucket and seconded Miss Dunn to treat action items 5.5 to 5.8 as consent agenda. All in favor say I. I. I.

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>> Any opposed the All right. >> All right. I move approval of consent agenda. Second >> properly moved, Miss Pucket and seconded, Miss Lawrence. All in favor of approving the consent agenda, say, "I."

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>> I. Any opposed? The consent agenda has been approved. All right. Now, we will move on to our administrator and board comments. Would anyone like to go first? There you go. That's everyone.

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Okay. Any thoughts? I'll go ahead and go. Um, I just wanted to say thank you to our staff as everyone is gearing up for the next school year. I know that July is a busy time, getting ready with bus lists and class lists and class supplies and all the things. So, thank

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you to our staff. I hope everyone had a restful Fourth of July time frame. Um, also I just want to express gratitude as a parent and a community member for the community eligibility provision. As a parent of teenagers and growing kids, um

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this is so valuable to everybody and I'm very grateful that our district offers this to our students to um be able to have lunch and breakfast at school at no charge. Very valuable because >> Brown, stand up in the back. Ro, there's

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a lady. Thank you, Ro. That's our director of food services for the public. Those of you watching out there, >> bless you. >> Yes. Thank you for that. Um, just wanted to share with the the board and the public. I'll be um, serving on the ISBA,

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the Indiana School Board Association legislative committee this Friday. We will be meeting to set our legislative priorities for the upcoming 2027 general assembly budget session. So, we uh, look forward to doing that and advocating for

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our schools. Does anyone else have any other comments at this time? Yeah, Miss Dun. >> So, as I alluded to, exhibit one or A was the great work that is happening within our facilities. Um, but would be

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remiss if I did not um just applaud the wonderful work um that Dr. Kousnik, congratulations, um is doing um to prepare our students or our teachers and staff for welcoming our students. And so the professional

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development that Lawrence Township offers is truly second to none. Um, and that as somebody who works in education and prepares professional development, I can tell you that that is not a task that is easy. And so I know that that is you and all the members of your team

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that are working diligently to provide really strong professional development that will then translate into what we've seen. Improved outcomes for students is what we are about. and kudos and thank you. I know that you are working tirely this this summer to prepare for the

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upcoming school year and so am extraordinarily grateful um that our district offers so such robust offerings. So thank you team. >> Thank you Miss Stone and congratulations Dr. Kousnik. >> Yes >> board. Any other questions or comments?

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>> Yes I agree we should all say congratulations Dr. Kznik and we should um take a moment and um just want to echo what Jessica mentioned about the work in the summer um with with all you know all the things

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that that are happening from the hiring that takes place in HR um the construction work um in all the buildings um the professional development with Dr. Kusnick, I'll keep saying it. Um, it's an inside joke, right? Right. About the doctor. So when

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newly minted doctors um but uh the professional development, I know my background is in post-secary ed and the importance of of providing that learning experience as a group um as as um the leadership opportunity that you're

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giving. Um so I also want to say thank you for sorry I'm a little bit jumping around here. the summer meals program. I said thank you at the beginning of the summer, but it was really um a valuable part of many students and families summer experience to receive that type

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of support um with busy work schedules, many of our schedules continue. So, um the care that was done, not only in the meals and the just the quality, but the people behind it and the people who came each day and started to form those friendships and getting to know the

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students. So, it was really cool to be able to see that in a different way this year in my new role um where I am in my nineto-5. So, thank you so much to the food services program. Dr. Mahaland, that made me think of one other thing that I um saw on our Facebook page. So,

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thank you for sharing the great work that's happening, Dana. Um, but the fact that during our summer meals program, seeing that we have teachers that are helping our students with their reading and utilizing that time is just incredible. And so again, our educators

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do not stop. That was that's evidence B. No, C. We're on C. We're on three. Um, but people are working during the summer and working tirelessly. Um, and thank you for mentioning HR. We saw a lot of folks on that personnel report. So, um, kudos to you, Miss Johnson.

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Thank you. Well said, Miss Pucket. >> I second everything that everyone has said. >> All right, Miss Lawrence, >> I'm I'm good. I think um we are all ready for the summer to >> parents are ready for the summer to be

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wrapped up. Uh very very happy to have that eight-year-old uh back at Forest Glenn jumping all over the the new equipment that we've installed. So I'm good. Thank you. >> Thank you. And speaking of food, there

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is the first harvest from District 3, organic umly grown peaches and apples. So please take a bag on your way out. >> Thank you. >> There you go. >> All right, >> Dr. Smith >> board of education. Uh you did allude to

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it, but uh we have another doctor in the house formerly. Mr. Knick is no longer. He is now Dr. Kznik. Uh the board knew about that then because I let him know ahead, but we'll put it on the public record. We do have another doctor. Grant Nesb, I'm going to let you make

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this announcement because something happened on Friday that normally doesn't happen. board. Uh we were not only uh a big deal about a high school recruit, it made it to the national level. And so Grant, would you tell the board of education what happened Friday? And yes,

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the Indiana Hooers won out on this one. >> Oh, that was the that was the pinnacle comment monitoring sales. Lawrence Norse, wide receiver. He's a uh five-star recruit. Uh number four overall in the country. uh Indiana's number one football player potentially

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of all time at this rate why it's looking um he was on the Pat McAfee show which is that that is that is recorded at 75th in Oak Landon in the old church there at the northeast corner and uh he announced that he'd go head to Indiana Hooers the defending national champs so

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I was really hoping Ball State might squeeze in there somehow but it didn't happen >> that's all I have Madam President >> okay Well, thank you everyone. Also, I believe do we have our partners from is Anna Marie here? From Schmidt.

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>> They're just coming to hang out a little bit. Nothing big. They just they're here. They they just want to >> just wanted to acknowled that bond process was approved. >> Yes. Okay. All right. Well, thank you for attending. >> Powers is here, too. >> Oh, they are. Okay. Powers and Suns. Yes. >> Yep.

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>> Okay. Thank you for attending. We look forward to the ongoing McKenzie project >> coming soon. >> All right. Well, our next uh monthly board of education meeting, well, actually it won't be our it'll be a work session here on August August the 10th

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at 5:30. At this time, if there are no other comments, I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Properly moved. Miss Dunn and seconded Dr. Mahalid. Have a good night. >> Thank you guys.

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I'm out