25 Metropolitan School District of Lake Township Board of Education Regular Board meeting is called to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. of to the flag of the United States of America
for it stands one nation with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. In Mrs. Burke's absence, I'll do the roll call this evening. Mike Mus. Sherry Ode Mara present.
Rama Graham present. Ben Wakefield present. Susan Graves present. I'm Brandon Bowman. Please note that Karen Burke is absent this evening. Moving on to the adoption of the agenda. Do we have a motion to adopt this evening's agenda?
Make a motion that we accept this evening's agenda. Second. Have a motion and a second. Any comment or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose?
The agenda is passed. We have an oath of office. Dr. Buts. Mr. President, if you wouldn't mind administering that oath. We have a new officer that we'd like to bring on board to the Wayne Township Wayne Township Police Department. I believe Dr. Samuel has the actual
vote. Thank you, sir. All right. You raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I, Jeffrey Patterson, I Jeffrey Patterson, do solemnly swear solemnly swear that I will support and uphold the Constitution of the United States
support and uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Indiana. the Constitution of the State of the Union and will faithfully discharge my duties faithfully discharge my duties as a police officer with the MSD of Wayne Township as a police officer
with the MSD Township with fairness fairness integrity integity diligence diligence and impartiality impartiality according to the best of my abilities congratulations Use
an official signing ceremony. Boomer. While Officer Patterson is signing the uh the oath, where will his duty assignment be? He's assigned to Chap. Okay. Excellent. at a school. Officer Patterson on behalf of the
school board like to present to you this certificate of appointment that you can hang in your office hopefully at Chapel Hill. Says Jeffrey Patterson has been appointed by the Metropolitan School District Wayne Township Board of Education to serve as a school police resource officer of the authority of Indiana code 20-26-3
with all powers, privileges, and immunities granted by Indiana Code 20-26-16-6. Effective on the date a fixed below the appointment shall hold valid until withdrawn by the board of education appointed this 8th day of September 2025. Congratulations sir.
Absolutely. Like picture. Absolutely. Get something time. Awesome. Officer B, if you wouldn't mind, I know we talked a little bit before the the
board meeting. Just sharing with the board a little bit about your your history and the work that you've done leading up to to being here at the MSU Township. Well, um I was IPD initially. Most of my time is spent training
academy. Um I came on I was north district during IPD. Then of course uh finished out my career with Metro Downtown District as a media resource officer. Went to Southport, love Southport High School. Um then was
seeking a an opportunity that best fit my values. Yeah. Which is Wayne and Chief Boomershine and a backing of my say you brought you brought something with you. You want to introduce your wife? Yeah, that's my wife Kelly Patterson. She's an actual administrator side. So
um I said you really don't have to come. This is my third time. She was, I want to go. She was invited to dinner tonight. She came here. So that's it. Well, congratulations. Speaking of which, if you would like to take your wife to dinner at this time, it'd be a
good time. You're welcome to stay. It's an open meeting. We certainly understand you guys would like to make a do I get a township credit card for watch. Congratulations. Absolutely. Yeah, maybe my wife Janine, would you mind taking off this
picture? Sorry about that. Congratulations. Thank you, Mr. President. board. Dr. Samuel shared with me right afterwards is now complete. Our entire course is being tier one police officers which we've
been working on since we first became department. So it's been what almost two years now and we we have all tier one officers. Congratulations. Congratulations chief. Thank you. At this time, we'll suspend our board
meeting and open a preliminary collective bargaining agreement here. Thank you very much, Mr. President. One of our requirements as part of our collective bargaining process each time that we open up the the agreements for negotiation.
The 2019 Indiana General Assembly enacted legislation known as Senate Enrolled Act 390 codified at Indiana Code 20-29-6-1 subset B requiring a school employer and school employees to hold a public
hearing and take public testimony to discuss the items described in the Indiana Teacher Collective Bargaining Law, specifically Indiana Code 20-29-61A, before engaging in formal collective bargaining. Therefore, the Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township and the Wayne
Township Classroom Teachers Association hereby convene this public hearing in accordance with Senator Act 390. Members of the Wayne Township Classroom Teachers Association serving on the negotiations team include our president Allen from
Wayne Township Preschool. Past president from Vendaves High School, Dan Chapano. Executive director Joanie Lawler. Michelle Hine from Mlullen Elementary. Jen Block from Mlullen Elementary. Alistister Loot from Westlake Elementary. All officers. Scott
Hatfield, past president from Maplewood. Also, Lisa Braden from Sanders. Brian Hartman from the 9th grade center. Thank you for being here. Also, Melissa Mooney from Ben Davis High School. Ryan Coffenstein from Roi Hitzel. Garcia Flores from Stoutfield and Paxton Davis
from Ben Davis High School will make up the team for the Wake Township Classroom Teachers Association. Appreciate you both being here. Also representing the MSD of Wayne Township Board of Education and Management team during this process. Dr. Chenia Suds, assistant superintendent for human resources. Dr.
Steve Samuels, uh, Samuel, Assistant Superintendent for Finance and Operations, President Bowman, Vice Past President Ma Graham, Deputy HR Officer Kyle Fesler, Deputy Finance Officer Amy Heaton, Mark
Bernol from Chapel Hill, Terry Matthews from Chapel Wood, Brad Mendenhal from Ben Davis High School, Rob Irvin from Westlake Elementary, Dom Dominic Day from the Ninth grade center, Artha Britain Roads Elementary, and Jen Nichols from Mlen Elementary Board of
Education recognizes and values public comments on educational issues and understands the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on school district matters. Indiana Code 5-14-1.5-3, the open door law provides that all meetings of the governing bodies of
public agencies must be open at all times for the purposes of permitting members of the public to observe and record them. Board President will recognize speakers and invite them to speak in the order in which they signed up. When addressing the board, please state your name and address for the
record. As a rule, the members of the board do not respond to comments at this time. Each person's statement should not exceed 2 minutes. Comments should be specific to collective bargaining of teacher salary, wages, and wage related fringe benefits. Comments should not reference patrons or students in the
corporation. No attire with provocative verbiage, symbols or images, nor any signs will be permitted. Board president may excuse a person who is simply repeating what has already been said is abuse is abusive or is rude. The hearing is now open for public comment. We have
one individual who has signed up to speak and that is Alysa Pretty Allen. I just want to say thank you for hearing us. Appreciate your leadership through this. I know uh these are trying times and uh as first year president I know you have a great team you put together to that
will be very supportive and engaged in the process. So we thank you both for being here. Mr. President, that is all at this time. Thank you. At this time we will close the preliminary collective bargaining agreement hearing and move into a 2026
budget hearing. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh those of the board included in your packet this evening, you'll find a couple documents that we will review over the next few minutes. Um the first of those being the form three notice to taxpayers.
This document uh is the next step in the budget process. It should look pretty familiar as we went through a draft of this um at our previous working session and when we began to communicate with you regarding this budget process. These numbers are very similar, slightly
different. We did dip the uh assessed valuation numbers back in between that last time and this time. So you would notice uh that we've bumped up our estimate on the referendum fund in order to ensure that we capture those values appropriately. Other than that, um
really pretty pretty straightforward from the information that we reviewed last time. I would note that we have appropriated the $5 million in rainy day fund. We don't anticipate needing that. That is just a safeguard to ensure we don't have to come back and ask the
board for any further action with regard to appropriations over the next calendar year. There's no action uh needed on form three this evening. Uh again, it is a review of what we have posted on Gateway as our notice to taxpayers.
As you may remember, the next step in the budget process will occur in October. And at that time, we'll ask the board to adopt the proposed budget and then um once that approval occurs, the DLGF will receive that. We'll await them
supplying us for the 172 in December to finish that process and move us forward into the 2026 budget year. So, with that, I welcome any questions that you have. And at the conclusion of those questions, we'd be set to move forward with the capital assets hearing and
budgeting placing. Dr. Sanders, for clarification, would that move us to uh agenda item 3C, the additional appropriations resolution? I thought, no, we would need action. We're doing action on capital assets um and bus replacement.
Very good. Yes. There's no questions on Very good. Thank you. Moving on to the capital assets hearing. I I don't believe anybody has signed up for public comment on either of those either. No.
Thank you. Member of the board including your documents this evening. You will also find a capital assets plan. This is another legal step required by state statute. Uh we are expected to list all purchases over $10,000. As you can imagine, this is a pretty common
occurrence in a district and organization our size. And you may note that our plan includes technology, building and safety equipment along with various interior renovations, exterior renovation, and site improvement. We specifically keep that pretty broad
to allow us latitude to take care of those needs over the course of the 2026 budget. I welcome any questions that you have and humbly ask for approval of the 2026 capital assets plan as presented.
I move for approval of 2026 capital assets plan. Second. We have a motion and a second regarding the 2026 capital assets plan. Any comment or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I.
I. Any opposed? and the capital projects plan is approved. Thank you, Dr. Sam. Thank you, Mr. President. Moving to the bus replacement hearing. Again, just for clarification, um do we have anybody
signed up for public comment with regard to bus replacement? We did not have anyone submission. Thank you. So, members of the board, also in your documents this evening, you will find the bus replacement plan. This is a continuation of the old bus
replacement fund documents. Um, like the rest of our budget, this is an estimation. It is really a carryover from a time past when the bus replacement fund was a separate fund allocated to schools. Um I would note this plan does include a reduction from
our typical 14 buses um that we would replace reduced to 12 uh as we prepare for some reduced revenues and I think more importantly reach a point of equilibrium with our fleet. Thanks to your investment in in new
buses over the last 10 years we believe that we can maintain our 10year lifespan for buses at this point by purchasing 12 instead of 14. Of course, we will monitor that making sure that the buses continue to hold up at the appropriate
level over the next year and beyond. With that, I welcome any questions that you may have and humbly ask approval of the 2026 bus. I move for approval of the 2026 bus replacement plan.
Second. We have a motion and a second regarding approval of the 2026 bus replacement plan. Any comment or discussion? Good question. Um the the bus replacement plan is several
years out and the it remains 125,000 per bus. Is that just an estimate as to what cost would be? I take it in the next years. That's correct. Okay. Regrettably, this form now is um
it is part of the process but has no legal bearing on either the or impact on the budget or on what you're able to spend on a bus, um you're just required to submit the plan. And so if we get to 2027
and can only afford 10 buses and the you know let's say hypothetically the new tariff has been placed and all of a sudden they're 150,000 maybe you only buy eight. Um so this doesn't bind you to having to buy 12 doesn't bind you to a maximum cost of 125. It really is just
part of the process to submit. um this would be a great thing for the general assembly to eliminate um in some of the the processes that we're required to do, but it's it's hanging off. Okay, hanging off. Thank you. Thank you. Any additional comment or
discussion? Hearing none, all in favor say I. I. Any oppose? And the bus replacement plan is approved. Thank you, Dr. Sam. And I believe that will move us on to agenda item 3C, the additional
appropriation resolution. Once again, uh thank you, Mr. President, and members of the board. Uh in your documents this evening, you'll find the additional appropriation resolution. As we discussed um previous meetings, this resolution is needed as we fully
shift the expenses back to the referendum fund from operations in order to balance those expenditures. The main impact here is the spend out of cash balance in the referendum fund. As always, I welcome any questions that you may have and respectfully ask for
approval. the additional appropriation resolution which I should have noted has been posted um on our website for review by the public for the appropriate amount of time. I move for approval of the additional appropriation resolution.
Second. We have a motion and a second for approval of the additional appropriations resolution. Any comment or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. be opposed and the resolution is approved. Thank you, Dr. Sam.
Thank you. And this time we will close the public hearing and resume our regular board meeting. Dr. B, do we have anyone sign up for public comment this evening? We did not have one sign up for public comment. Mr. President, thank you.
board. As part of your board docs, you're provided with minutes from our last several meetings, included a working session and executive sessions in the past month. Uh looking for a motion and a second to approve the
minutes provided. Make a motion that we accept the minutes that are provided. Second motion and a second. Any comment or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I.
Any opposed? And the minutes are approved. Thank you. Moving on to the financial report. Dr. Sangel. Thank you, Mr. President. Under the board including your document for tonight's meeting. You should have found the claims docket totaling 32,947,9334.
I welcome any questions that you have and respectfully ask for approval of the financial report that I move for approval for the financial report as presented. Second. Have a motion and a second for the
financial report. Any comment or discussion? All in favor say I. I opposed. The financial report is approved. Thank you, Dr. Sanders. Moving on to new business and human resources.
Dr. Suggs. Thank you, Mr. President. Members of the board, you've received in board docs. Human resources reports A1 and A2. Addendum A1 and addendum A2 have been made available for your review. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have and respectfully ask for approval
of human resources reports A1, A2, addendum A1, and addendum A2. As per sitting, I move for approval of HR reports A1, A2, and the A1 and A2.
Second. Have a motion and a second for the human resources reports. Any comment or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? And the human resources reports are
approved. Thank you. Dr. Suggs present. uh donations this evening. Mr. President, members of the board, respectfully, Dr. Walters and I request your consideration of the following donation. Hygiene items and supplies
valued at $400 from International Paper to be shared with the Stafffield Clinic and Classrooms. $25,000 from Omnasource to assist in funding school initiatives and programs at Stfield. annual donations of Kleenex and dry
erase markers valued at $500 from Ladies Auxiliary to Mlullen students, school supplies valued at $4,000 from Kids in Need Foundation to Chapel Glenn students and Kleenex valued at $600 from Southern Blazers Wine and Spirits to benefit all
elementary students. And from secondary, two $1,000 donations from the Indie West Wrestling to Ben Davis Athletics for our girls and boys wrestling teams. $3,500 from American Legion Post 64 to help
fund travel expenses for the high school drill team. Various parts including a steel sheet tubing and piping from Indie Steel LLC to BD Welding Classes. We respectfully request for approval of
these donation. I move for approval for the donations as presented. Second. We have a motion and a second for the donations. Any comment or discussion? Dr. Pierce, I I'm familiar with Omnisource, but the $4,000 to kids from
Kids in E Foundation, the Chapelman. Are you familiar with that one? That's great. I mean, it's wonderful, but I don't know kids in me. you. I'm not sure. Um I do know that that was all school supplies that they donated. I could get a little more information on
that, but I just want her to go. Yeah. And the office source donation, you know, they are the ones that gave um the Kabota last year. And so they wanted to do a similar contribution um this year. And so they came up with that $25,000
um and then worked with the school to prioritize a really lengthy list of links that they're going to supporting throughout the year this year. So they mark just a real quick Google on um I know
they are a national organization focusing on um students who have most significant barriers. They focus on schools where 70% or more are eligible for free in reduced lunch. the national programs. So, yeah, they're they're a national organization.
Great. That is nice. Thank you, Dr. Any additional comment or discussion? All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Thank you, Dr. Pierce, Dr. Walters. The
donations are approved. Thank you. Moving on to field trips. Mr. Friends and members of the board, we have three secondary field trips seeking your approval. Winter percussion ensemble would like to travel in Dayton, Ohio for the WW WGI World Championships
contest on April 6th, I'm sorry, April 16th through the 18th, 2026. Orchestra students traveling to Cedar Point, Cleveland to see the symphony on May 16th and 17th, 2026. and Lynhurst Aspire team to visit the Griffin Science
and Industry Museum, Navy Pier and a River Cruise in Chicago on May 9th. I may be joining them. Respectfully, I request for approval of these field trip for approval for the list of field trips.
Second. We have a motion and a second. Any comment or discussion regarding the field trips? hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Thank you, Dr. Walters. Phil trips are approved.
Thank you. Moving on to the cyber security pilot grant. Mr. President, members of the board, we applied for the federal government's cyber security pilot pilot grant and we
were awarded with $614,000. We sent out RFPs and four companies beed and one. Um, CDWG got abnormal which is for our email security. Network solutions is going to provide us with a
firewall to prevent bad actors. Network solutions going to provide us with do logging on to your need to authenticate with a cell phone. We're going to expand it to all employees uh for 3 years. and CDW government also got falcon complete.
Government is giving us falcon complete but they not giving us the advance. The advance will prevent um foreign targets from attacking our network. So all this for our cyber security environment and I kindly present this
for your approval. I move for approval as cyber security pilot grant second. We have a motion and a second for the cyber security pilot grant. Any comment or discussion? I would just say kudos to Dr. Harvey and
the IT team. Since we have implemented abnormal um which is an AI product, we have found hundreds of thousands of fishing scams um already that are coming in. It's amazing the number coming into our system. How many have Brandon's name on it?
I I did not authorize any checks. or knock your butt's offering $50 an hour. Yeah, it it's been really interesting. And so, Dr. Harvey, actually, we have a new um folder in our
inbox that some of us are not yet accustomed to checking that sends all these messages for us to go through and make sure that we are um filtering through. And some of them are are ones that need to to be moved over to our inbox, but a lot of them are ones that can be deleted. But it's um it's been
been excellent. And you know, one of the things when we talk about spending $70,000 and outside of this grant, it's well worth a it's well worth that cost over a three-year period of time to avoid us having to shut our entire system down or to not be able to make payroll or to lose all of our data or
any of those, you know, those kinds of things that we know are happening to school districts all over. And quite frankly, the ransom on that will be significantly higher than that $70,000. So it's it's a a great expense uh a great expenditure to protect the
thousand tens of thousands of devices that we have in corporation. So So we have the A61,000. Okay. Yeah. That's the differential between what the grant was and what the cost for the four the four different systems are like another spam folder like check that
is kind of like that good. Okay. That's right. So, we have a spam folder and then we have our other folder of gray mail. Yeah. I didn't know if I could bulge the name of it. Yeah. So, we have we have a folder called gray mail and we we go in and Okay. Yeah.
And it it ends up with a couple hundred emails in there a day. So, yeah. I do have one question. Will the board also have Duo? Yes. And will it support if you already have an account? Yes. Okay.
Thank you. Norally people ask not have duo. I'd like to not have duo. I'd like to remove my duo. I will say I used to have the little thing, but it's so much more convenient to have it on my phone because I would forget my my thing all the time. So
long as you have service. Yeah. Right. We're all walking out of the park. Any additional comment or discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any oppose?
Thank you, Dr. Harvey. The cyber security pilot grant was approved. And Dr. Harvey, I believe we will stay with you for the technology surplus. Mr. President, members of the board, I present to you a list of obsolete um devices and damage devices that we want
to dispose of. Um they are made up of access points, switches, um Chromebooks that are damaged um um and old photocopers. They are just occupying space. They are of no use and we're trying to dispose of them so we can have
some space at ops operation center for other machinery and other devices. The list is presented for your approval. I move for approval of the items listed on the technology surplus list to be disposed.
Second. We have a motion and a second for the technology surplus. Any comment or discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? And the technology surplus is approved. Thank you, Dr. Harvey.
Thank you so very much. Moving on to the self insurance resolution. Thank you, Mr. President. Um members of the board, including documents this evening, you'll find the resolution to establish an improved self- insurance
fund. This is um a unique one and I'll I'll give you a little background on kind of what brings it to you uh this evening and what it really is is indicating here in this revolution. But this is a cost-savings strategy at its
core related to our liability insurance. So just some quick numbers there. U in 2020 we paid basically 1.1 million for our liability insurance. In 2024 that was 1.8 billion and likely uh in 2025
without these cost savings um would have been 1.9 million. So pretty pretty um extraordinary increase in those costs over the last five to six years. Um, as we engage with Epic, our insurance
broker, of course, we um have expressed concern about that, asked them to bring us some potential strategies to alleviate some of that. And the self-insured um fund of self-insured retention um are one of those strategies that they brought to us. And so, as a
result, um we were able to reduce our fixed premium costs from that 1.9 million to 1.65 65 million. The trade-off is that we're assuming a little bit more risk on our own. And so, um, for claims, um, we we have, uh, the
potential to pay up to the first $100,000 for those liability claims. um within this the analysis of whether this is a good decision. Um if we look back 10 years at what that differential was
and what our costs have been in nine of those 10 years we would have saved money anywhere from $20,000 to up to about $180,000 in a given year. The one year where we would have um come out on the wrong side of
that was only by $5,000. So this self- insurance fund, similar to our health insurance self insurance fund, would be established and we populated um with dollars. Uh and then as as you can imagine, if they're not
spent, keep those there and hopefully be able to build up some some balance in that fund. um so that if there were a year where things maybe didn't go quite as well that we would be able to cover that or if if we have to build it up at even higher level potentially use that
to uh pay for some of those liability insurance costs. So few moving pieces there. The other part is those claims that would be handled on our end up to that 100,000 would be
handled by JWF. That's our current partner for workers compensation claims. We have a great relationship with them and that reduces the administrative burden for those claims on the MS of Wayne Township staff. That's all rolled
into the the fixed costs that we are paying with that. I welcome any questions that you have and respectfully ask approval of the resolution to establish and approve self insurance. I make a motion to adopt the self
insurance resolution. Second. We have a motion and a second. Uh Dr. Samuel, I'll start off with a couple of questions. Um great idea. Math is math. I I I think you got a wellthought plan.
Is there anything in this change that will attract negative attention from state legislators might be frowned upon from that aspect? And then kind of the second uh part of the question is is the MSD of Wayne Township a trailblazer with this endeavor or is there a precedent
with other school corporations? Both excellent questions. I don't believe there's anything um that that there would be an objection to. Um in in with regard to both of those questions um as part of due diligence I do meet with other uh brokers to talk about um
strategies and and you know make sure that we're representing the interests of the district at the highest level and um through those conversations was able to relay um our analysis with this strategy and and able to vet and seek
confirmation that this is a is a valid uh play that it it is utilized I don't think at a really high level. Um I believe from those conversations I think larger districts have a little bit more capacity and ability to handle this type
of risk and so it is a little bit more specific to that but so it is used but but I don't believe that a higher level makes sense. Yeah. Sorry. I also have a couple questions. Um you talked about using funds to build up for
this. Where would the where do those funds come from? Correct. So we would we would just transfer some cash items into this fund as seed money and then okay. So in a perfect world the other option is if we don't spend any um we would leave it
right where it's at. So I think that's kind of analysis for every year whether we need to top it off to certain dollar amount or kind of roll with it or hopefully we have no claims but would those claims be from employees, student
injuries as well too if there's a suit or y so all of those pieces um would fall under that general liability school leaders um error mention things like that somebody coming into the building something happening that kind of any of
those type of claims could be paid out. That's excellent. Thank you. Thank you. Any additional comment or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I.
Any oppose? And that resolution passes. Thank you, Dr. Samuel. Thank you. Moving on to board information and comment. Dr. bus. We do have a few things. Um, your exit ticket tonight is your
lunch reservation or your lunch menu for Bianca for the upcoming conference. So, should be at your table. If you please fill that out, get it to Bianca before you leave this afternoon so that we can order in advance and be expeditious in our our lunch plan for the ISBAs
conference. Um, I do want to acknowledge we have two birthdays coming up. Um, this upcoming Saturday will be Rama Grim's 25th. Is that right? 25th. 26th.
I was close. I knew I was close. Also celebrating her 26th. The next Tuesday will be Susan Graves. So, if we could uh sing happy birthday to Rama Susan, that would fit right along with our tradition. So,
happy birthday to Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to Happy birthday to you. Hope we have great celebrations and and
uh are able to be with loved ones and enjoy your day. Thank you. Just want to give an update. uh board, as you're probably familiar, uh AES, our utility company, has requested a rate increase um with the regulatory
commission and their proposal, which is to be u finalized or decision to be finalized next spring. if for a 7.5% increase for residential in 2026 with another 6% increase in 2027 a total of
of 13 1.5% um in addition to a 6% increase already approved uh for some grid projects. So all total that's 19.5 12% but wait um as a school municipality we're looking at about a 23% increase in
the next two years in our utility rates if those go if those are approved. So you consider over the last 10 years I think we've seen a 70 that right about 70% increase in the last 10 years. So this will take us over that really close to that 100% increase mark in the last
decade for um our utility services. just round numbers. Um we're looking if this increase goes through, we'll be spending about $4 million a year on just utilities. Um with Senate enrolled act one, um that could be our entire
operations budget potentially or more depending on on what that looks like. So, um, when you think about those increases and just another thank you to the board and one of the things that I'll be fortunate to present on at the conference is our um our energy
management program that you have have supported for so long. If we did not have all of these things in place with our battery towers, our our LED lighting, our solar arrays, our variable speed controls, all the things that you've allowed us to do, I can't imagine
what our utility rates would be. So, the the fact that we're able to benefit from that is is terrific. Um, I will say one of my new causes hopefully in in my new role will be to advocate that um, public schools are built differently than we
currently are. We're built on usage, not on peak rate. Um, we think that'll be beneficial for for us. So, I don't utility regulatory commission is is a powerful entity. I don't know that I'll make much uh much headway there, but know that that's one of the things that
I'm going to be trying to to accomplish um as we think about the utility rates and the impact they're having on budgets. So, just want to give you a heads up there. We'll continue to monitor that. Still some time for public comment before that is is officially approved. And of course, the governor
has put together a commission uh to study utility rates as well. Also at your table is our itinerary for next Monday for the ISBA IPSS conference. You'll notice on there we have two waves of departure. And just to make sure that
I'm still correct, um Mrs. Graham, Mrs. Ode Marott, and Mrs. Templeman, you'll be driving yourselves. Is that correct? Okay. And then so um you can see who you're riding with. you're not necessarily riding home with the the the ride that brought you, but um we'll
divide up because I know we're going to three different places after the conference at afterwards. So, you see where the uh who the drivers are there so you have a sense of of who to look for at the end of the conference and the drivers know who they're taking uh which is equally as important. So, um first
opening session 8:45 as you remember will be up in the front front right as you walk in. So front right of the 500 ballroom is typically where we sit so we can sit together there. Uh we've got a little bit of an extended period of time for lunch this year. They they've changed some of the things around. I know Mr. Bowman is going to be meeting
with the ISBA legislative uh folks and so uh he is is not going to be able to join us for lunch. Got time for the exhibits clinic sessions in the afternoon and then we'll stop by. The reception is right there outside of the session rooms at the convention center. So we'll stop by there at 4:30 for those
who are going to the native event. um be able to walk from the uh the convention center is right almost caddy corner from there. Um those who are going to the Smith um event will be driving and um and then there's a group
will be coming back here to the education center. So hopefully that'll give you a little bit better um idea of what our day is going to look like. And then before we know it, the Claremont parade is right around the corner. um September the 20th, so a week from this
Saturday. Again, we'll meet at the Roby Elementary parking lot in the back there at 9:45. Uh 10:00, we'll jump on the child nutrition bus. Makes it a lot easier for us to not have to worry about the mini. And they'll take us over to the church. 10:30 we'll load the parade
vehicles. Um and we have sign new signage, updated signage for that. And then we'll uh pray will start at 11 o'clock, be over by 11:30. And there is a rodeo this year. So if you're if you're the rodeo's back, I don't know how they got insurance. The rodeo's back
there. Let's hope not. Let's hope that'll be problematic if they are. So um we had a wonderful today, a wonderful day today. administrative color conference downtown fors
wonderful breakout sessions that conference continues tomorrow for half a day and uh then uh we're getting into to the third round third one this is our fourth round fourth round already
national institute for school and systems leadership kicks off this week as well so a lot going on uh in the district we taking on center at Center Grove uh this Friday. Good for anybody who's there. You'd like to go to home flag football game. Our girls and play Wednesday night at 700 p.m. will be on
tour. The girls are really good and it's a lot of fun to watch. That's right. That's right. That's all I have, Mr. President. Thank you, Dr. Bus. Any additional board information or comment this evening? Take a motion and a second to adjourn. I
move that we adjourn at 7:15 p.m. Second. Have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. We arejourned at 7:15. points that the