District Invitational Math Bowl held on March 4th, 2025. So I'd like to ask, uh, assistant principal, Mr. Adam Schwartz to come up front. He's gonna introduce their coach and then we're gonna, uh, introduce our team members. Hi everyone. I'm gonna introduce our coach of, uh, this year's math ball team. She just finished up, I believe, the 10th year doing it. And so this is, um, Heather Evans our head coach. Alright. All right. We have, uh, let's see. We have Rhoda Hele, we have Charlie Troub, Tian, uh, Tian, Leon Tian song,
Malachi Colson, Maher Brahe. That's all for memory. And then I'll go ahead and, uh, uh, announce friends who were not able to be here as well. Uh, we have, uh, Tom Set, king Natalia, Rio Pina, uh, Moses, Leon, Mia, Marris Munoz, Jordan Huddleston, Joel Tong, Emmanuel Meca, be Choa asis Keto. And Brody Hoffman are also on the team. Congratulations, Abraham Lincoln, Matt Gold team Picture. Great job, Abraham Lincoln. Next up we'll have the math poll Team from Glens Valley.
So if you can bring up Principal Dave Roll to introduce his coach. The, uh, this competition was held on April 15th and we've had a larger number of schools and Glens Valley came from behind to get the victory. So, Dave Roll, principal and Lindsey Smith, assistant principal are gonna introduce their coach and then announced their team members. Sorry. Good evening everyone. Glens Valley has had a Math Bowl team for three years. Ms. Linz has been our coach since then, and we have finished first in, um, the regional competition each year.
So, congratulations, coach Lz. Thank you. And our teammates are Tal Young, Alfred Goman, Ben, Kristen Berry, LA Moy Clark, Owens boy who Bria Spivey, Ezekiel Kuman, Clara Williams, ni Tong Von eu, Easton Riter. Julie Sung Steven Cheney to EU Young Rim, Judson, Leon and Carly goin. Congratulations Ben Valley. Congratulations. Uh, next up we would like to recognize Abraham Lincoln Holcroft
and Jeremiah Gray, uh, robotics teams. Uh, these teams qualified for the Indiana Robotics State Championship held at the Indiana State Fairgrounds on March 22nd, 2025. Having three different schools, uh, represented in the championship as the most for us. Obviously, we've been continuing to grow the robotics program at the elementary level, and we're very excited of these three teams. So, alphabetically, we'll start with having Mr. Schwartz come back up and we're going to have Abraham Kins, uh, robotics team recognized. See what? Okay. Hi again. I'm gonna introduce our head coach, uh, Mindy Williams, who's walking up now. She just wrapped up her fourth year
of being the head coach of our robotics team. And I believe it's the second year in a row where we've qualified third year in a row where we've qualified for the state, um, competition. So that's really, uh, quite an honor. Great. And this year we have Team e, the Flame Tigers, and we have Charlie Troub, Camden and Andrew Wardlow. And then we had a member who couldn't be with us this evening. Um, and we have one of our assistant coaches, Ethan Williams, with us. Congratulations Abraham Lincoln. Congratulations. I would like
to point out Abraham Lincoln was recognized in both Math Bowl, spell, spell Bowl and robotics. So they all three, they were our champions this year. Next up home, CRT Elementary, I'd like to ring up, um, Mr. Jody Matthews, principal and Mr. Aaron Huff Ngel, the assistant principal. They're gonna recognize our, introduce their coach in, recognize their team. Good evening, we have, I, is this our third year that we've had a robotics team? Fourth year. Fourth year. First time though that we qualified for state. And something I learned about my coaches, they don't show it on the outside, but they're just as competitive as I am. And that was something that was fun
to learn about them this year. Um, our two coaches, we have Shaylee Massey and Sam Stubbs, and we wanna recognize our team that qualified. For state, we have Layla Latimore, Angelo de Ail, r Sanchez, and Kerrigan van Die. Congratulations. Home call Mr. Matthews. Can we have a paper back? And last but not least, uh, Jeremiah Gray's Robotics team will invite up Principal Doug Smith. He'll introduce his coach and recognize the team. Good evening Board. We appreciate the opportunity to be here tonight to recognize our robotics team. This is the second time that we've had a team make it
to the state competition. The first time under head coach Brent Cummings, Mr. Cummings took on six different teams this year. We had one that advanced all the way to the state, made up of some wonderful ladies, and I know Mr. Cummings would like to recognize the parent support that we had to support six teams and just their involvement. So super proud of our team and our head coach, and I will let Mr. Cummings introduce our, uh, robotics team. Uh, we have Jason Wells with us, who was our pit parent assistant coach. This was this team that made it to state. Uh, we have Amy Symphony, Alana, Lila, and Megan.
Congratulations, Jeremiah Gray. And with that, Mrs. Pollard has some recognitions on the secondary side. Good evening board. I'd like to ask the principal of Southport High School and the principal of Para Reading High School to come forward along with your building counseling teams. Please if we could have all the counselors forward Board. The American Counseling Association has awarded its recognized A SCA model program known as Ramped de designation to both Para Meridian High School and Southport High School in 2025. These schools are among 190 schools in 29 states that received this designation this year in Indiana,
only seven high schools were designated, and two of them are in Perry Township. The RAMP Award recognizes schools committed to delivering a comprehensive data informed school counseling program and a top-notch educational environment. Since its exception in 2004, more than 1,600 schools have been designated as ramp recipients in 47 states this year. 38 schools nationwide earned re ramp status, including Southport High School, which also received this designation in 2014 and 2018. I'd like to introduce the Perry Meridian High School counseling team. Andy Cottingham, Machi Magdalena,
Robin Mills is Iselle Moore, Rebecca Sholl, Christie Vance, and Director Brad Miller and the Southport High School counseling team. Renee Buckle, Annie Burris, Patrick Clark, za Par, Lamont, Roscoe, Brianna Underwood, and Director Julie Fierce. Congratulations guys. I know. Uh, and I do want to confirm just from the backside of that picture, there were no elbows that you couldn't see. Both schools are getting along well. Um, I think the kids took the lead, uh, the adults following. But if you're here for those recognitions, you're welcome to to exit. Now. Uh, we'd love for you to stay, but understand if you have other places to be this evening.
Uh, with that, we'll go ahead and cold order or public hearing tonight. Dr. Spray. Good evening. Um, the purpose of this public hearing is that tonight was we have our second public hearing on the proposed renovation and construction projects at both of our high school campuses, as well as other various projects around the township. These hearings have been advertised in accordance with Indiana Statute, and the presentation and facility study have been on the, um, Perry Township website under the resources tab. Following the presentations, the board will hear any public comments regarding the proposed projects. Individuals will have three minutes
for their comments following the hearing. We will be asking, um, and the regular board meeting for the board to consider a preliminary determin determination resolution as part of the business actions, the presentation format this evening. Our Perry Township team, um, along with our construction financing and architectural partners, have spent many months and many hours conducting an enrollment study, um, putting together our strategic plan and assessing our school's facilities. The proposed projects address not only needed maintenance projects, but also renovations
and news construction to allow our facilities to be better equipped to enhance the student experience and reflect the many curricular and and graduation requirement changes that have occurred over the past several years. At this time, I'd like to ask, um, Lancer Associates who will briefly review again the scope of the project following our architectural partners. Um, will be a member of the financial team, uh, Mr. Tyler Alts from Baker Tilly. And at this time, I'd like to introduce Misha Bele. Thank you Dr. Spray. Uh, members of board. Thanks for having us back.
Uh, again, Misha with Lancer Associates Architectural Company, and, um, I was the one that was conducting this study and, uh, kind of drop a few plans. Uh, so sorry, wrong way. Uh, so today I will do kind of a high level overview of the projects that are being proposed here. Again, these are some loose ideas and about what might happen in the future, but, uh, kind of these pieces are probably going to happen, uh, on in the future project. So the major additions to Para Meridian High School will include a,
on the south side, an activity center, as well as a wrestling room. Uh, activity center will include, uh, four courts and a jogging track, uh, on the west side of the building. There'll be a cafeteria addition, uh, to increase the capacity of the cafeteria. And then on the north side, there'll be a classroom addition to increase the capacity of the building, as well as, uh, looking at some of the programmatic needs of the high school. In terms of the heavy renovations of the building, one of the major portions is going to be a, uh, central plant remodel. So that's your mechanical
and plumbing systems that really need your attention as well as performing arts, art and, uh, uh, family and consumer science programs that really need to be renovated to increase efficiency and bring them up to the current, uh, teaching standards. Uh, there are also some, uh, science rooms and locker room renovations, uh, that will need to happen. Uh, and then the third piece is the auditorium addition. Um, not addition, but renovations that just needs some maintenance for both the backstage and front of stage, uh, equipment that's there.
And then on the second floor, uh, there's still that auditorium renovation as well as the renovation of the classrooms on the south side of the building. And those are the classrooms that we mentioned before are currently interconnected classrooms that we want to cut the corridors and make sure that those are separately functioning classrooms without any distraction that happens, uh, from classroom to classroom. And then moving on to the Southport High School, uh, again, on the southeast portion of the, uh, high school,
that's the New Student Activity Center, uh, very similar to the one at, uh, Perry Meridian High School, as well as the Wrestling Room Edition. Uh, we're also looking into flank the existing field house with a couple lobby and entrance spaces, both for, uh, secure entry into the high school, as well as, uh, just improving, uh, visitor experience in those spaces. On the southwest portion of the building, we're looking at possibly putting a, um, um, CTE addition, uh, with, again, a lobby again to increase, uh,
safe entry into the building, uh, itself. And then on the north side of the building, we're looking to increase the capacity of the building by adding classrooms, just because currently the, there are not enough classrooms in the building itself, and there'll be, uh, similar renovations to the auditorium with kind of back of house, uh, and front of house, um, things that just need your attention. And then, uh, in terms of renovations, we're looking at, uh, a lot of, um, uh, locker room, uh, renovations, as well as a few restroom renovations. And then on the second floor, uh, you still see that, um,
classroom addition on the north side of the building, as well as some renovations of offices and classrooms. And that's just kind of looking at, uh, how things are being moved around in the building. And then again, the auditorium edition. And that kind of is the kind of very quick overview of the projects. Uh, that's and really major parts of the projects, uh, that will be happening in the two high schools. Uh, and then there are a couple slides here that show the financing kind of from the Skillman team. I know that Victor is here, and so if you've got any questions,
he's ready to answer that. But those are exactly the same slides as that they appeared last time. And then I will turn it over to Baker t, uh, baker Till and Stifel to talk about finances. Good evening, and thank you for having me back. I am Tyler lol with Baker Tilly Municipal Advisors, and I'll be, be walking through the financing of the proposed project. I'll start off by showing you what your current outstanding debt looks like. And you can see that in 2026, uh, you do have quite a bit of outstanding debt falling off. So what that allows you to do is to issue additional bonds and fill them in where that drop occurs.
So then we wouldn't be increasing your debt service payments or your, uh, or your debt service tax rate. Um, a quick summary of the bonds. We've structured $175 million bond issue, um, to be paid off over the course of 20 years, uh, using conservative interest rates. We are estimating total interest expense over the life of the bonds to be about $147 million. Um, which would mean total debt service payments of about $322 million. And again, that is assuming conservative interest rates. And these would be paid off over the course of 20 years.
And again, we would not anticipate increasing your debt service levy or your tax rate. Here's how the new debt would look alongside your outstanding debt. The new debt there would be in green bars, and you can see that they would be paid off over the course of 20 years and be paid off, uh, in 2020 in 2044. And you can see that we also have built in another drop in 2027 to give you some additional flexibility in the future. And that's all I have, but I'm happy to answer any questions. Okay. Excuse me. Uh, the, the 1 75 figure, is that a hard cap number or is that,
That would be the maximum you would be able to do. Okay. If the board chose to pay more. 'cause the, as the mortgage, I'll use that term, bond repayment is structured mm-hmm. As equal payments over 20 years, et cetera. If the board were to choose to pay more aggressively in the lead up years, I see you see there's more than that on the, that first one. Um, that would potentially then save on that 332, It Would million dollars. Right. Okay. The quicker they're paid back, the the less you'd pay a interest. Okay? Mm-hmm. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. At this time,
we will open up the podium for public comment. Um, or just a reminder, you have three minutes to make your comments. We do have a signup sheet up here, um, that we'll we'll read from. Yep. So first, excuse me, is Kelly Gray a Good evening? Thank you for allowing me be to be here today to speak. Um, if I have time, I will be reading an impact statement from our, um, uh, band booster president. If not, I'll just give you my statement and I'll make sure we pass hers along. Um, I'd like to thank the board, uh, the board president and Dr. Spray for allowing me to speak here today. Um, I am here as a parent of a Perry Meridian Band student.
Um, I'd like to ask this body and the contracting team to consider increased renovations to the performing arts department at Perry Meridian High School, within the bounds of this project, um, for the coming 25 26 school year, nearly 25% of the student body at Perry Meridian High School, we'll spend at least one period in the performing arts area of the building. Currently, the band room is too small to accommodate the needs of the students who will join our multiple bands. And the room may also not adhere to OSHA standards. Um, our performing arts students and staff deserve spacious
and sound compliance spaces. I would also request that this body consider a safe and separate outdoor space for the marching band to practice. It is a common car. It is common for cars in the parking lot to ignore blocked off areas for the marching band, placing the students in danger of being hit by a car. I witnessed this three times last marching season. A separate area would also free up parking for other events that take place as the band practices. PMHS has a consistently growing performing arts program and has just been recognized with the Isma All Music Total Department award for the fourth consecutive year.
The township and school should see that this area of the school is large enough and equipped to handle the future growth and the 21st century music education, the PMHS marching band will see an approximate increase of 30% over last year's participation. And the band program as a whole will see an approximate 15% increase. Approximately 550 students will participate in the performing arts at PMHS in 25 26. Increased performing arts spaces also increases the district's capacity to host large scale performing arts events with greater ease.
I hope this body PMHS leadership and the contracting team will consider this project, um, as this project moves forward. And I'm gonna try and get our, um, booster president. Um, on behalf of Starla Elkins, I'm the president of the Perry Meridian Band Boosters, but more than that, I'm here as a parent who has seen firsthand how the performing arts can positively impact a student's life. When my daughter started high school, she was struggling with depression, PTSD and anxiety. She was withdrawn, overwhelmed, and unsure of where she belonged. But then Mr. Richardson, our band director,
encouraged her to try marching band. That simple suggestion made all the difference through band. She found structure, purpose, and confidence. She developed leadership, leadership skills, and most importantly, she became part of a community that supported her growth. Today, she's a stronger, more confident young woman because of this program. As someone who works closely with both our students and staff, I see daily the profound impact this program has. But I also see where the rooms are overcrowded and the sound levels are high, likely exceeding what's healthy for everyone outside our marching band practices in the parking lot,
where cars frequently ignore the barricades, creating safety concerns for our students. While I understand the district's plans to expand and renovate are not set in stone, I want to emphasize that a simple touchup or renovation to our band room will not suffice. We need a dedicated larger space that can accommodate both the current and future demands of our program. This program is growing and the interest continues to rise. You More and more are three minutes. If you could wrap up, please. Yes. Um, just as one last thing for the third consecutive year, our township, um, has been named one of the best communities
for music education by nam, the National Association of um, music Merchants. And we hope that you'll consider these changes as the project moves forward. Thank you. Thank you. And if, uh, as far as the, um, additional comment you mentioned, forwarding that to us, we can take a look at that as well. Uh, next is, uh, Nikki Stanifer. And again, Nikki, just as a reminder, you have three minutes. Share us with us, what you've got. Uh, thank you for allowing me to come up and speak today. My name is Nikki Stanifer. I'm the Vice President of the Booster Club Band Booster Club. Um, I'm here as also a, um, alumni
of Perry Meridian High School. I graduated in 94. I was there from 19 90, 19 94. Um, I am someone that was considered in the LD classes in Perry Meridian, which nowadays does not exist. But we were in the upper on the, um, we were all of our, excuse me, all my, all of our classrooms we're upstairs next to the children that could not make it down the stairs. So my concern today is the health and safety of all the kids. Um, whether it's the handicapped kids that are still
to this day, unbelievably still staged upstairs, the, um, kids in the band room, which is very loud when they're all in there playing their music, playing their drums, whatever music they're playing, it's extremely loud in there. And I'm sure if OSHA came in, they would put a nod to it. And also, uh, like Kelly said, I've seen numerous times cars speeding through the parking lot and almost hitting one of our kids. Even though there's barricades up to cone off the area
for the kids to practice during marching band, it is very unsafe for the kids to be out there, um, during marching season. Um, and people just do not recognize that those cones are up for those kids' safety. Um, I would hope that this, some of this extra money could help with the safety of the kids going forward. Thank you. Thank you. Next is Tim, die again. Tim, you'll have three minutes. Good evening.
Um, I teach proudly at Perry Meridian High School. And, um, I parent proudly at Southport High School. Um, and I'm, I'm gonna tell you what happens if we don't have the renovation space for color guards, specifically that my daughter was a part of this year. Uh, for practices not at Southport High School, either weekly or over the weekend, the following needed to be transported. 14 show flags, 10 practice silks, two to three extra flags, short flags called swing flags. I didn't know that. Uh, eight of those. And it takes two to three people to move the large bag from place to place.
Um, in part because that flag is, uh, that that bag is broken, it does not count the speaker, the rifles, the noodles, the buckets, or the tarp. The tarp is so large, it needs a trailer to transport. However, it's shared. The, the trailer is shared with the drum line. So if the drum line is using it, practices just simply went on without the tarp. We would never have a practice with markings on a field that weren't there for practice, like we do for color guard practices outside of Southport High School, were held at Southport Middle, Jeremiah Gray, Mary Bryan Holcroft, and Southport Elementary.
These multiple practice locations caused confusion. So if a student reported to the wrong school, it was up to other students to leave practices to go and transport them. Perhaps this is also why buses, um, had a difficult time. Two of five occasions, buses were needed and they were either late or did not arrive at all. In one instance, 14 students had to be transported between two cars and a two person truck. Carrying that tarp guard also had issues with doors being locked almost every single time. They were not being held at SHS leaving our children out in the cold, literally because these town, uh,
because these practices were being held all over the township, they're during the season of November to March, weather conditions are less than optimal for young drivers who should just simply be practicing at their own school. Please let me be clear, I'm not asking for special treatment for the Winter Guard, only space for them to practice in their school, just like every other extracurricular. Thank you for always putting our students first. Thank you, Tim. And last tonight is Ann. Oh, sorry, we've got some more on the next page, but Ann, you are next. Uh, again, three minutes. Okay. Um, once again, I'm complaining about the cost
of these expansions in renovations. $322 million. That's about a third of a billion dollars that you're asking taxpayers to pay for. That's a bit much. Um, most of these renovations have to do with playing sports, playing music, and playing, pretending you're somebody else in the arts. It's not a grand plan if you ask me that, that you give in to all these, uh, kids that just wanna play for four years.
Um, where, where you're also asking their neighbors and parents and grandparents to pay again for 20 more years, probably at three times the amount that we're already paying now, um, I don't think the referendums now are anywhere near a quarter, a third of a billion dollars, and we're paying on an average, which I think Dr. Spray said he was gonna find out how much the average homeowner is paying. Um, and that that amount is about $15,000 and multiply that by three
and add the $15,000 to that. And you're asking taxpayers to pay $60,000 for kids to play in new equipment in new buildings. I think that's kind of an immoral ask of taxpayers. Um, you know, the two referendums are still in place then you wanna add this to it? I think, um, you know, they, the, um, board and administrators keep saying, our housing, uh, is worth more. It's not worth more unless we sell. And as taxes go up,
people will be less interested in buying in Perry Township when they can pay a lot less taxes in neighboring townships. So that, that really is a ridiculous argument if you ask me. Um, you know, like I, if, if, you know, the, if the, uh, band is having trouble with the barricades put up more noticeable, better barricades, if the color guard, um, needs a new trailer. So one doesn't have to be borrowed,
a new trailer costs a whole lot less than a third of a billion dollars. So I'm asking that you do not approve this. I think it's, it's, um, a disgrace. And any of you who vote for this, think of what you're doing to people. That is, that's just not nice. And I hope that you consider that. Thank you. Thank you. Anne. Next is Audra Cauley. Hello. Thank you for allowing me to speak today. I'm Audra Cauley. I am am the current president of Southport Band Boosters.
Um, I have two children that have gone through the program, and I'm here to talk about the proposal and the added space and how it would benefit our program. Uh, we are a growing program. In the past four years, we've had more than a hundred students at the high school level. We've gained more than a hundred students at the high school level. Um, we have one of the largest, if not the largest middle school program in the state right now. Um, so the added space, we're just gonna keep growing. Um, I'm around these kids nonstop. They think that I'm employed with the township, unfortunately. Um, and I can attest that I've watched,
I've actually watched now two sets go all the way through because my oldest is now in college. But, um, there are kids that come in and have, don't speak, aren't engaged. And, um, I just talked to a, a kid the other day who is getting ready to graduate and moving on to play music at Ball State and learn how to, uh, record music. And that is going to be his career. Um, I can speak a lot about how beneficial band and the performing arts is to the kids' wellbeing and how it helps them, um,
improve in their studies and engage more in school and how much that helps. But I have three minutes. So, uh, space is a huge consideration. We also have issues with cars going through the, the lot we use the back parking lot at Southport. Currently, the band director to be able to see the drill has to climb on top of the school because we have no tower. Um, that's, uh, takes a lot of time. He does not like to be on the roof, as you can imagine. Um, having our own space would improve safety and make rehearsals run smoother. Our winter indoor problem, uh, programs would benefit the most.
You heard from Tim? Uh, my kid is in the, um, indoor percussion. The, but the thing about this is the gym. A gym is our competition space. And we, um, currently don't have access to gyms for the amount of practices that we would like to have. Um, so adding that space at the high school would make a huge difference for rehearsals, but it makes a big difference on competition days for us. We're competing nearly every weekend for two months over the winter. Um, we rarely have a access to space at the high school for rehearsals on those weekends. Um, other schools have been very generous with us.
Um, but what that entails is that every weekend, uh, between indoor percussion and winter guard, we're hauling three to four trailers worth of equipment to another building. Um, that involves a lot of extra coordination, a lot of parent support. Um, it's getting kids to stay after school to pack up the trailer so that they can be moved by the parents when the parents finally get off work on competition days. You know, we're trying our best to pack as much stuff as we can, make sure that we have everything we need.
But as you can imagine, teenagers are gonna teenage and there are just times when, uh, things get forgotten. Um, things break or that you don't expect. Um, and we spend a lot of competition days and parent support running back and forth to the high school to pick up things we feed the kids on those days. So we are also like trying to find ways to plug in and clean up. You are three minutes, if you could wrap Up. Okay. Um, but like in conclusion, the ability to be in our own school and have access to our facilities at the high school
where our fridges and our extra socks and everything that we need are, would be a huge stressor off of our programs, our students and our parents. Thank you. Thank you Audrey. Uh, and finally tonight is Alyssa DiUS. Again. Alyssa, you all have three minutes. Good evening, and thank you for the opportunity to speak on behalf of the parents of Southport Bands and the students as well. My name is Alyssa DiUS and I've had the unique opportunity to have, um, two kids go through the band program. My one, uh, son has been graduated for two years now. And, um, when he expressed to me in the sixth grade
that he wanted to, uh, potentially be in band, marching band, we went to, uh, the Homecoming Parade. This was in 2017. And, um, you know, I was hyping the kids up all excited. Look, look how much fun this is. Here came the marching band with like 40 people wearing what looked like phys ed clothes. Um, I was, I was really surprised as we are not from this area. And, um, uh, my husband and I talked greatly about actually moving out of Perry Township, um, to be part of a music program
that would, um, support the kids. Um, you know, we, when we were ready to look at homes, we ended up deciding on Perry Township, um, because our son already had friends that were going, was that were going to be in the program. Um, his freshman year came and went. Um, you know, and we also have to remember these kids that are coming through now. Um, they were little when Covid happened. Um, the amount of activities that they could be in were limited, and now we're trying to like, get the numbers back up and, um, and, and increase involvement with parents. Um, that's been an issue since Covid has happened.
Um, but to get to my point, um, band is, is more than just playing, um, this program. Um, my children have been exposed to all sports, didn't work for them. This program has really helped them flourish, um, emotionally and with other peers as well. Um, uh, please consider the band programs when you're making decision about the new facilities. Um, originally back in 2017, we were a festival band. That's what I saw. Uh, Mr.
Moin came in in 2021 and we are no longer a festival band. These kids are pumped. We went from 124 in 2021 to 230. Um, I don't think I need to say that. How important it's to have music in your life in one way or another, rather it's on a stage or on the field. At halftime, um, the atmosphere of this program has changed exponentially. Um, the kids are excited, they're ready to work together.
They accept other kids. I don't know about you, but there's no other program I've ever seen where band kids, kids accept other kids in, um, no matter what their backgrounds. Um, we really need these facilities so that we can have, um, space to host competitions. We need new trailers. We've asked for money for trailers. We don't have enough money. A lot of these trailers that we need are over $15,000. And one of the best ways to fundraise and get this money is to host competitions. And we can't because we don't have the space. Um, you know, I don't know any other programs
where the coaches have to stand on the roof to be able to see their team. Um, I would, I would like to get Mr. Moin the proper, um, facilities that are safe and be able to direct properly. Melissa, you are at three minutes if you Wrap. Thank you. Yep. Alright. At this time, I'll, um, anybody else that wanted to speak? I think everybody has spoken. Alright. We will close the public hearing. Yes, sir. Any Chance I could say for Absolutely Ms. Tru. Great. Thank you. Good evening, Dr. Spray Perry, uh, township school board.
I'm Jim Cooney, city of Southport, and I just wanted to say a few words that I totally support the renovation of the, the facilities, the buildings. When we talk about city of Southport Perry Township, what do you think of if you're trying to attract residents to the area, you think about the schools. Um, we have outstanding teachers and facilities here. Now we need to keep up with that. If we need to do renovating to the buildings, expand the facilities, we need to do that. You have the support. Um, I think it's very important personally, this is,
it's about marketing. What have we got? That's great. Perry Township schools are great. We need to keep up with that. That's certainly a very positive thing to bring people into the township and we need to keep it up. Um, we're, we're right next door to you here. We're all around. You guys do a great job and we support you. Um, it's really important to keep the school district going strong. Renovations very important. The buildings are older. They need additions, they need new hvac. You have our support and thank you for the opportunity to speak. I appreciate it. I did get here late,
otherwise I would've signed up. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Unless there are any other comments, we'll go ahead and adjourn the public hearing and call. To order the regular meeting, if you join me in the pledge of Allegiance, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag. Flag pledge, the United States of America and to the Republic. For we just stand one nation under God. Liberty. Liberty, justice. First item, uh, tonight is the consent agenda. Move to approve. Second Motion was made by Mrs. Hartman, seconded by Mr. Lewis.
Are there questions or comments? Hearing none will vote. All those in favor of the consent agenda, say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Nay. Consent Agenda is accepted. Uh, before go on to items requiring action, I'm gonna pass to Mr. Spencer. Thank you Mr. Shively. Uh, in the consent agenda that you just approved, we named, um, Mrs. Jennifer ple, the new principal at Winchester Village Elementary. Um, Mrs. Ple came up through, um, she's been a teacher, a district coach, and then a kindergarten principal for, for the last eight years where she's had great success at home, crt, kindergarten, and now she's taking that next step and moving to Winchester Village Elementary.
So, Ms. Sleek, would you like to introduce guests tonight and then say any words you would like to the board? Thank you. I have my mom here. Um, I just wanna thank you very much for 19. I raised my daughter, taught I was math coach in the nineties. It was a really difficult decision there, but, but I'm ready. I believe that what we've built there, I'm very sustainably excited for the last eight years opening that were posted.
Just, um, so I'm gonna go and follow. Thank you. Thank you. And, uh, in my haste to, to get to your recognition, i, I neglected. We do also wanna allow for public comment just for the regular board meeting. So, uh, I would say if any of the people who signed up for comment also wanna make general public comment on the meeting tonight. You are welcome to do so. All right. We'll move on to our items requiring action. Uh, first tonight, uh, looking at secondary textbook adoption, Mrs. Pollard, Thank you, um, board tonight.
As we've done over the last couple of months in your board packet, we've included the, um, textbooks for the 25 26 school year, and we'd like to ask your approval of those for adoption tonight. Move to approve. Second Motion was made by Mr. Hurt, Mr. Mertz, I combining your names tonight. Mr. Mertz, seconded by Mr. Hernandez. Other questions or comments? Hearing none will go ahead and vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. 8.01 is accepted. 8.02. Uh, Mr. Sampson Roof project bids.
Thank you. Board, we ask your consideration of bids to complete roofing projects at Perry Meridian Sixth Grade Academy and the Perry Township Academic Center. The lowest and most responsive bid received for the Perry Sixth Grade Academy Roof project was by New Tech with a base bid of $1,193,000. And the low and most responsive bid received for the academic center project was SPGs base bid of 489,785. Both contracts will contain an alternate, which calls
for a deduction in the base bid work. Uh, that may, may not be necessary to be completed. We ask, uh, for your consideration of the bids as presented. Move to approve. Second Motion was made by Mr. Lewis, seconded by Mr. Hernandez. Are there questions or comments? Hearing none will vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Nay. 8.02 is accepted. Uh, 8.03 Consideration of EAB Global Agreement Dr. Spray? Yes. As for the board's, um, consideration for the EAB Global Inc agreement, um,
this agreement will provide a research partner to walk beside, beside our leaders, um, specifically in our elementary and secondary curriculum departments. Um, their first two big projects are really to kind of talk about what, uh, principal development and professional development, um, needs to happen and in what stages, as well as our literacy work, um, throughout the township. So, as for your consideration of that agreement, Move to approve Motion was made by Mrs. Hartman, seconded by Mr. Mertz. Are there questions or comments? Hearing none will vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? A 8.03 is accepted.
8.04 Consideration of Market Ready Interiors agreement. Again, Mr. Sampson, Uh, thank you again. Board. Uh, we are asked for your consideration of a bid from Market Ready Interiors to provide, provide classroom carpeting and installation, uh, for Perry Meridian Middle School, uh, classrooms. Uh, their low bid of $295,000 work will commence at the conclusion of summer school and continue until completion. We ask for your approval or your consideration of, of this bid. Move to approve.
Second Motion was made by Mrs. Hartman, I believe. Seconded by Mr. Mong. Are there questions or comments? What's typical life for the carpet? I'm sorry. Typical lifespan. Lifespan? Um, I don't know. I'll, I'll lean on. Kirby, do you have a typical lifespan of carpet? Okay. Thank you. Alright. Hearing no others will go ahead and vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed nay. 8.04 is accepted. Uh, 8.05 Consideration of Square one LLC contract. Mr. Spencer Thank you Board. Uh, we
present the following, uh, MOU for your consideration with Square one. LLC square one will be providing behavioral healthcare services to Perry Township students and their families at each building location. Each building will have the ability to refer students to square one for evaluation. The parent, the student's parent or guardian must provide approval for this evaluation. And then all services, all service plans are disclosed to the parents in the or the guardians. Uh, these services are provided to our students at no cost to the township, but billed through private insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, insurance, or parent guardian. We ask your approval for this MOU
Move to approve. Second Motion was made by Mr. Lewis, seconded by Mrs. Hartman. Are there questions or comments? Is this in addition or replacing adult and child? This is changing from a, from adult and child to this service. Okay. Thank you. Hearing none other will go ahead and vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Rose nay. 8.05 is accepted. 8.06 Consideration of technology contracts. Mr. Willie? Thank you board. Good evening. Uh, I have two multi-year agreements for your consideration this evening.
Uh, the first of which is Parent Square moving us from a year to year contract to a three year contract. So it'll lock in a predictable amount of budget increase every year, and they did bring down the rate as a result of that. The second contract is through Cisco with NSI. This one's covered under the State Qualified Purchasing agreement. This moves us from an on-premises phone environment to their new system. They no longer support that, and that hardware is aged. So this will move us to a cloud calling system. Our existing phones and everything stays in place, but this changes the backend and it's a new six year agreement on that software and support around that.
So we would ask for your consideration and approval of those two agreements. Please Move to approve second Motions made by Mr. Mong, seconded by Mr. Lewis. Are there questions or comments? I, um, I don't ever wanna make assumptions. So let's start with that. I know as a parent, what athletics and the school, the high schools use, um, parents Square have, I'm assuming I'm making the assumption that since we're wanting to renew that, um, elementaries and middle schools are probably even using this at a greater
clip than when we started several years Ago. Oh, dramatically more. In fact, I would say from what we see, some of the components, like the messaging components are used more at the elementary, the individual messaging components, then the broadcast components we see more at the high school. So they're using it to communicate very regularly. Okay. We've seen a huge increase in use. Great. Thank you. And what, I know that for a while, um, we, we had a large number of parents that were on, are we still doing the recovery to make sure that every parent is being contacted in some way?
Yes. Our buildings are still working on that. We still get reports on who's unreachable. It's a pretty low percentage. I don't remember off the top of my head, but yeah, we've been working on that. The buildings have put a lot of effort into keeping those communications up. Great. Thank You. Mm-hmm. The, uh, regular Wednesday reminder that it's early release at the elementary level has saved to us more than once. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none will go ahead and vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Nay a 0.06 is accepted. Considering resolution 25 dash zero eight, the, uh, 20 2025 to 27 high school expansion, renovation,
and district wide facilities improvement project. Dr. Spray? Yes. I'd ask for the board's consideration and preliminary determination. Resolution number 25 dash zero eight Inside of this resolution includes a, um, general description of the project, a maximum bond amount for the project at $175 million, a maximum repayment schedule, as well as the, an analysis on what that would be for, um, tax rate and tax levies going forward. This once if approved this evening, this will also go into be legally advertised, um,
in the appropriate locations as determined by Indiana Code. Move to approve. Second Motion was made by Mrs. Hartman, seconded by Mr. Lewis. Are there questions or comments? I I just have a couple questions that I, um, I'm just gonna be real honest, I already know the answer to, but I feel like they have, they're questions that I have been asked by public on numerous occasions, so I want to ask them again. And I feel like even some of these are some that I've asked last time. Sure. So I apologize for the redundancy, but purposeful
Redundancy. Yes, that's right. Okay. So, um, if we choose not to do this, there are a lot of projects still in this that we are going to have to conquer. Like the, um, boilers, chillers, roofs, all of those things that are on our 10 year plan, that 10 year plan is paid for out of this same bond process, correct. Just at a lower amount. Correct. So it, taking whatever our current borrowing is and applying that current borrowing to this project,
which is also clicking off a lot of those items that are on the 10 year replacement cycle, including especially the, um, the mechanical structures inside of Southport Fieldhouse, the HVA. Yep. Um, projects, roofing projects and those kinds of things. Okay. Um, and we, nothing is set in stone. The bond hearing and what we are approving is a maximum amount that we can borrow and a maximum amount that we can repay. Correct? Correct. When you say set in stone, what Like, uh, we're definitely
building activity centers. Got Okay. Or we're, yeah. So concept, We're doing X amount of work to the band area. Yeah. So conceptually, this is kind of where we, we, um, got through a lot of discussion with our administrative team, with, um, department chairs and those types of folks at the buildings. The next step is that design and development. And that'll be a lot more people and a lot more conversation about how this project gets put together under what is then the defined scope dollar wise. Yes. And so, you know, as we continue to have these conversation, here are the great input
that we get from our staff and our, and our families and our communities. We knew going into this, we can't do all things for all people, um, going forward, but we wanna try to get the biggest bang for our buck for as many programs and, and have as much flexibility as we can in that, um, throughout the process. And this is not a referendum. Correct. And we're not increasing tax rates. We are staying within our, with our levy amount. We're staying within what we've talked about with our current, our current levy, current levy, et cetera. And that's what we ha way that this has been built.
And it would, has not been the intention of, um, my administrative team nor conversations with the board that this would be a referendum. Correct. Thank You. So if I'm hearing correctly, tax rate will not change. There's a lot of pieces on tax rate and how that works. The intent is for it to, to always try to hold our tax rate as steady as possible. Okay. So theoretically my property taxes should stay the same. Again, assessed value is, is a, is an indicator. Theoretically. Theoretically. And however, However, if the property assessors changed the value
of my home, my tax bill will go up. Yes. And that had nothing to do what we are doing here today. That was on the property assessor. Correct? Correct. Also understanding the new legislative changes for property tax reform. And quite frankly, we don't know what that impact will be for each and every individual taxpayer at this time, but still feel like that our going forward with this project is not gonna substantively change that. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? I have a question. All right. The hearing now will go ahead and vote. All those in favor of 8.07 say Aye. Aye. Aye.
Opposed nay. 8.07 is accepted. 8.08 tonight. The acceptance of donations. Mr. Spencer and Mrs. Pollard Thank you board. We present the following, uh, donations, uh, for consideration on the elementary side. Uh, Abraham Lincoln Elementary, Brandy Gaskin, a an Abraham Lincoln parent made a donation of $8 to Abraham Lincoln Elementary. This will use to purchase, uh, clothing for students in need. At Douglas MacArthur Kindergarten Academy, Chick-fil-A donated $289 and 42 cents. This donation was a result of a dying to donate held on February 11th.
These funds will be used to supplement student activity Fund. AZA Pizza donated $90 and 78 cents. This donation was from a dying to denoting event held on April 8th, 2025. And this money will also be used to supplement the student activities account. Douglas MacArthur Elementary received donate donation from American Legion Post 3 55. Um, the donation was for $1,500. It will be used to assist students with expen expenses such as field trip costs or scholarships. For the fifth grade outdoor education trip at Henry Burkhart Elementary, the PTA donated $1,115
and 50 cents to support student activities. This will be used. They'll use this donation for iLearn testing, treats and math bull shirts. Jeremiah Gray Elementary, PTO donated $562 and 59 cents. This money will be used to support the fifth grade Happy Hollow field trip. Southport Elementary is seeking board approval to accept the donation from the Pacers in the amount of $348. This money will be used to support the fourth grade trip to Camp Rancho Formosa. The Phoenix Material Management Group donated $1,500 to Southport Elementary. This money will used to purchase Math Bowl shirts
for the Math Bowl team and help support the fourth grade trip. And at Winchester Elementary, Winchester Village Elementary, the American, uh, income life insurance company donated $97 to Winchester Village Elementary. They'll use this for student activities and various staff donated $9. This money will be used to fund the support staff fund and staff holiday party. And Mrs. Pollard, a secondary Thank you. The Compass Education Center is asking approval for $137 and 16 cents from Chick-fil-A at Southport Road to be used for student incentives. JWR Success Academy received a $755 and 49 cent donation from the Perry Township Art Show
to be used to cover the JWR lumber expenses. To make more art. At Perry Meridian High School, we're asking for approval for a $7,500 donation from the American Legion to be used for student support and activities. A $2,000 donation from Indiana. First to be used to support the robotics program and a $5,000 donation from Allison Transmission to support the Cyber Blue Robotics program as well. On behalf of Southport High School, we ask approval for a $7,500 donation from the American Legion, again, to be used to support, um, students and their activities. A $625 donation from Daniel's Advertising Agency to be used
for student support and activities. A $50 donation from Robert t Taren to be used to support Southport High School baseball. $215 from Thomas Wright to be used to support the boys lacrosse team. A $9 donation from Keep the Change for the high school volleyball, softball, and baseball team. And on behalf of Southport Middle School, we ask your approval for a $200 donation from their PTG to be used to support their drama club. Thank you for your consideration of these generous donations. Move to approve Second motions made by Mr. Lewis. Seconded by Mr. Hernandez. Are there questions or comments?
Hearing none will go ahead and vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed nay. 8.08 is acceptable. Wrap up tonight with board superintendent comments. Mr. Mong, if you'd like to start us off As word of thanks. The we nearing the graduation is, uh, may And this is the last meeting for the graduation. Right? Always when I go to the graduation, I feel like high school students and feel younger. That means, and, uh, really highly appreciated the, the administration in schools and superintendent team, everyone board member, uh,
taking care of our committee. We are, I I've been here for 25 years and I sense the way growing and the school is the, the key elements of the society, the community in south side. People, if the school is good, south side is good. Parish school is just good. The rest we have like hospital people don't usually come for hospital mostly, but school is parents a key concern at school. And, uh, we are improving and I'm really encouraged and public. And also holding accountability with the public is really greatly appreciated.
Everything is transparent and is, uh, comfortable to the public and highly appreciated the way we handle our business. Thank you both. And, uh, superintendent and the team as well. It's always a fun time of the year, not only for for, uh, graduation, but some of the recognitions that we had this evening. Um, when you take a look at some of these recognitions, these kids are doing some unique things at the elementary level with a math bowl and math competition and, uh, the robotics, um, programs that have started the elementary school really here recently, within the past three to five years.
I had a cousin who didn't have that ability, but when he went to Perry Meridian High School, he got involved with the robotics team. He's now an engineer in Lafayette, um, with Subaru, really out of his, um, interest in robotics and what the robotics team gave him. So this leads these kids potentially down a path they may not otherwise be exposed to. Um, or at least gives the kids an opportunity to say, I think I want to try this. Is this something I'm interested in? So, um, hats off to those coaches and those kids that have, um, given their time and effort and performed well.
It's always, always fun to see. Um, graduation's always a fun time. Uh, I absolutely agree, uh, with, with, uh, Mr. Mag that, uh, you feel kind of youthful, uh, when you're sitting there. 'cause all these kids are, they're ready to move on to their next step, whatever that next step may be. And I do think in Perry Township that we prepare them very, very well. Um, and, uh, to go to whatever, uh, the next stage brings them, whether that's the university level, whether that's out in the workforce, um, whether it's to a, a community college. So thanks to everybody here that, uh, worked so hard to, to prep those kids starting in kindergarten all the way
through to 12th grade. Uh, thanks to my fellow board members. Um, they, they put in a lot of time, effort, and energy. Um, you see us here just to make casting votes within an hour to, to, you know, to an hour and 15 minutes. But there's a lot of behind the scenes work that goes on as we read this information and board docs. I appreciate everything that my fellow board members do for the township as well. I'll just say congratulations to the, the seniors and graduating is always exciting and best of luck in their whatever they do next. I also wanted to say that the arts and sports
and athletics is not a waste. And that they go hand in hand with education and creating well-rounded students and giving them opportunities to become leaders and knowing how to deal with other people. Scheduling, managing school, their homework and going to practice getting there. Those are all life skills they can bring to the real world. And these are opportunities that they deserve to have and they deserve to have a safe space to do that. Um, also problem solving skills and skills for a lifetime. I know I've benefited, um, for the, from the athletics
that I was able to do in high school and also the opportunities for music. So just wanted to say that. Thank you. Just wanna say, uh, congratulations to the, the Math Bowl and the robotics participants, that that's a great job. I know you guys spent a lot of time and effort and, and it's nice to see positive results from that hard work. Um, great job by the high school counselors. You know, they've, they've got it rough, you know, they're, they're dealing with kids every day that have an issue or something that needs to be an adult, help them with, and they're there helping 'em through these tough times or,
or helping them, you know, figure out what they're gonna do in the future. And once again, that's a, a lot of time and effort and, and getting to know these students. Um, it's a, uh, an award and recognition they deserve and it's, uh, we're, we're lucky to have these people working in the township. So, congratulations, um, seniors. Congratulations on graduating. It's, uh, been a long four years, but I'm sure when you look back, it's, you're gonna say it flew by. Um, you know, great job and, and good luck with your future. Uh, lastly, uh, I just wanna say, uh, thank you to Mr.
Boer and his team at Perry Meridian, along with, uh, nurse Mandy Martin. Uh, they, they jumped into action here and, and saved one of our students, and that's not reflected in the media. It's always the negative stuff. And because of what you guys, the protocols you have in place, we still have a student with us. Thank you. I, I, I, I can't say this from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. I, I don't, I hate to end on that note, but great job. Thank you. Um, I, um, love full boardrooms. Like, it's, like, brings me just joy.
I love hearing all the voices when we walk. It just, it, it, it does because it can hear, you can hear all the littles and, um, of course I knew what the recognitions were, but, um, it's always exciting, um, when we get the opportunity to not just recognize our students, but the staff members who works tirelessly with these kids. And, um, I also think that it's, um, appropriate, I guess this evening that, um, everything that was recognized today, even down
to our counseling department, could, will benefit from the renovation projects that will take place at the high schools. Um, and I think that just goes to show the vast broadness of this project and how it will touch all of our children, whether they're in robotics or band or math, um, the spell bowl. I mean, there's so much that can be done in that space. And, um, I, I just, I think that, that, that's fabulous. And, and the key component,
or one key component I think that hasn't really been touched upon is how this, this will benefit our, our community as well. So, so, um, I just want to say thank you to our finance team and our architects and everyone that have answered all of my questions, sometimes three and four times, so I appreciate that and I appreciate you also, um, speaking with the public and, and questions that they had as well. So, um, I look forward to this renovation project. Um, I know that we're kind of now getting to the hard part,
so, um, but I, I look forward to it and, uh, think that the future looks bright, so thank you. Alright, uh, just a couple things with the, the recognitions with, with the, both the Math Bowl, it was interesting how, uh, that the dedication of, of those volunteering, you know, somebody say, oh, well you've been here for three years. No, it's been four. No, it's been five, you've been 10 years. You know, that, that, that's a lot of dedication to, to keep that, that, that up. And it also showed in, in the, uh,
the participation. I mean, we, we had like a football team, uh, out here on, on, on some of the, some of those, uh, teams there. Um, with the robotics, I'm, I'm really pleased that, that we have jumped into that the way that we, we have, um, mentioned before, the, the opportunities are just, just incredible and, and they're, they're learning so many things, teamwork, um, that, that they can use later on. And, uh, with the counseling, with, with the RAMP program, wow, our township is in rare air there.
Um, with, with the, the numbers that, that were set. And it, it, it shows, again, dedication of, of our groups and, and some of the vision and, and the planning that, that, um, that's taken place by our, our principals and, and others, uh, with the, the renovation project, uh, just wanted to thank everybody who's shared their thoughts, their stories. Uh, we need, we need to hear all of that. Um, with the donation, there's quite a bit of activity from individuals to other nonprofits and, and,
and a variety of corporations and, and, um, let's, let's keep that going. Well, well done. And last thing, uh, good luck to all the seniors with graduation. That's it. You all made it hard for me to come up with something new with the elementary stuff, but I think I found it. I, I do wanna thank PEA. Um, they've pushed in the last several years to look at stipends, especially at the elementary level, uh, to make sure people who are giving of their time additional to the school day, are being compensated for their efforts. Um, I will vote for that every, every day
and twice on Sunday, as they say. Uh, as far as the, uh, Mr. Lu, you mentioned the high school guidance counselors, I think people probably have a, a view of guidance counselors, which I've actually been corrected. It's a school counselor, so, um, but we think of, you have, they're gonna help you pick your schedule out and you will, um, maybe help you figure out if you're going to college or not. But with these states changes to the diploma, um, with Pathways and with everything else that is evolved, they are tremendous at record keeping, uh, things that they didn't go get a, uh, a counseling license for,
but they not only have to do, but are clearly doing at a, an above average pace, uh, on top of that, uh, working with students on a daily basis with life crises, um, in these sorts of things. So we know school counselors across the country do great work every day. Uh, tonight showed that we've got some of the best here. Um, I do wanna thank everyone who did give public comment tonight and in our previous meeting. Um, we continue to, to have, uh, respectful public comment, not just on this issue, but every issue. And I think that sets us apart. So I do wanna thank, uh, on behalf of the board, uh, the,
the civic engagement, the public coming and sharing their thoughts and ideas and doing so in a respectful way. Um, so I do appreciate that. And when it comes to these renovation projects, first, uh, I do wanna thank, uh, Misha and Tyler for coming out again tonight. They've come several times to explain, not just to us, but the public, what's going on and how we're going to get it done, uh, but most importantly, why we need it done. Um, and tying that to Mr. Hatcher and your, your team, again, I've, I've said it before, but that graph stands out to me every time where as the debt rolls off, we're actually being a better spot.
Even with this, these projects moving forward. Um, we would not be able to even conceive of these without you and your staff's work. Um, I, I look forward to how that progresses. Um, I think we all know that while students love to play sports, play music and play pretend in the theater for some, that is the only thing connecting them to school. And again, I will vote every time in favor of that. So, Dr. Spray, Yeah, I'll try to be brief and I won't do a couple of recognitions as well. Um, Mr. Romine, Ms. Pollard, Mr. Spencer, the work that you guys did
with regards to the Square One agreement and, um, really kind of vetting through kind of where our stance is currently and how we can be so much better with providing those, um, mental health services for our students, um, going forward. And for those that don't know is we, that doesn't cost us anything at the school district, but it's getting a partner who can leverage the available dollars at the state and federal level, um, to provide as much as possible to our students. And we look being able to provide a lot more services for our kids, um, and their families. Um, as we go into the summer and go into this renovation project, uh, kind of the,
the group, uh, somewhat behind the behind the curtain is, is Kirby Shot, um, as well as Mr. Sampson. And, and, and Matt Willie over there as we, um, take a look at a lot of the summer projects we have going on. Um, their summer never begins. Um, and so we just have a lot going on there. But then also when we do all this design and go through the construction process, like I said, it's just beginning. Um, teacher Appreciation Week was last week. Um, great week, great support, um, by so many of our, um, parent teacher organizations. Our, our different, um, community groups, et cetera. From our PEA who delivered, um, cookies to all of our, all
of our teachers last week as well. Um, what an amazing group of humans, um, and professionals that work in our classrooms, um, every single day with, with our kids. I also wanna wish you a, um, happy Memorial Day weekend, especially the high school administrators who will not be managing graduation, um, this year on the Memorial Day weekend. I hope you get to enjoy every moment of it, um, as well as some of our other administrative staff. And then we will have a graduations the following weekend on the 30th at seven o'clock for Southport High School, and the 31st for Perry Meridian High School at 10:00 AM And also a reminder for the board
as we have an executive session scheduled for immediately following the meeting. Alright, our next regular meeting will be here in this room at this building, June 9th at 6:00 PM Look forward to seeing everybody then. We are adjourned. Have a good night.