I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, for public comment, we have one sign-up, Maureen Martin. And Maureen, if you could go to the lectern there, and want to remind you, you have three minutes if you could. Good evening. My name is Maureen Martin, and I have a student at Southport Middle School in the eighth grade band. I am also the secretary for our school's
PTO board. I would like to draw the board's attention to the strength and growth of our music program as well as the pressing need for support. Last year, over 60% of Perry Township sixth graders enrolled in music. Of those, 58% stayed through eighth grade, with over 40% continuing into high school music. That is remarkable retention, and it's reflected in the state recognition we celebrated last month. The programs are continuing to serve our growing student population, but they are also struggling under budget cuts. The programs try to help all families regardless of financial situations, but with so many students, the costs for equipments and repairs still exceed
what they have to operate for a school year. The boosters try to fundraise year-round, but it isn't enough to close that gap, and our community becomes overwhelmed and tapped out on fundraisers because every program has to fundraise to survive. With the threat of further budget cuts from both the state and federal level, I would like to stress that cutting or reducing support for this program is not a practical solution. We don't have the teachers or classrooms to absorb hundreds of students who would lose their music classes. And research consistently shows music education supports academic achievement and test scores, not to mention the graduation pathway for the high school students that would go away.
As the schools and township look at being able to support these programs with equipment needs going forward, my question to the board is this: What specific assistance can be directed to our music programs to offset these budget cuts and ensure these students have what they need to succeed? I would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you. Thank you, Maureen. We will now move on to the consent agenda. Move to approve. Second. I have a motion by Mrs. Hartman and a second by Mr. Shively. Does anybody have any questions or any comments in regard to the consent agenda? There being none, we will vote on that. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay.
Consent agenda passes. And now we have some introductions. Mr. Spencer? Yes, thank you. Good evening, board. First I would like to call up Mr. Tony DeSano. Tony is the new principal at Rosa Parks Elementary School. So Tony has been a teacher for us, a mentor teacher, a master teacher, and for the last six years has been the assistant principal at Rosa Parks Elementary. And after, as you know, a rigorous process, he has stood out as the candidate that we are bringing to, and has now been approved by the board to be our next principal. So congratulations, Tony. I'd like to thank the board for this opportunity. I'm excited.
I'm excited for Rosa Parks and the community, and I'm really just excited to get to work and get started at Rosa Parks, so thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Joanne will get- Do you have anybody with you here, Tony? All right, and then at a previous board, we had a assistant principal position that was approved that we didn't get a chance to meet. So I would like Missy Decker to come up, new principal at Rosa Parks Kindergarten Academy, and she can introduce her new administrator. I'm delighted to introduce Keely Korstange. She will be the new assistant principal at Rosa Parks Academy. Yeah, so my mom, Katherine Kercher, is here.
My husband, Luke, and my daughter, Augustine, who you can't see yet, and I'm so thankful to the board and the administration for this opportunity. It's been quite a journey so far, and I'm just so excited. You guys want to come on up and join the picture? No, mom, you get to too. Welcome, Keely. All right, and last but not least, we have Mr. Jody Mathews, principal at Homecroft Elementary, come up to introduce his new administrator. It's both an honor for me and pretty humorous to, I guess, both of us at the same time When you call references,
they're the references they tell you to call, right? And so I decided to call a former student or talk to a former student of his. And I asked if I should bring him on since it's personal home growth, and her response to me was, "Dad, you don't care." And I said, "Why?" And she said, "Because he makes you feel loved, he connects with you, he's tough when he needs to be. But whether he's being tough with you or not, he is giving the best version of himself." And that is her statement, said that she was in his class very closely, so our son's connecting with him. So if he can make those connections with a woman who's not his own or
not, I know he's going to do it with my kids. So Mr. Fritz, are there anybody here that you'd like to- So I am looking at my wife, Bethany, my son, Sam, my daughter, Abby, my father, mother, my brother, Carol. Hopefully they'll attend after. Whoop whoop. All right, so everybody come on up. He wants his whole family up here, too. He comes as you are. That's right. Definitely. You're more green.
I know. Because of that. I know. Jamie, you okay with that? Yeah. Yeah. You stand right there. Is that a reference we can release? Thank you all so much. That was well deserved. Congratulations. Appreciate it. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you all for being here for the introductions. If you would like to leave, you are welcome to at this
time. Welcome to stay also, but please release the mic. I got it. Sorry. You got a phone? Can you help? Can you help? Yeah. Okay. We're going to move on to item four, which is the project and facilities updates.
Mr. Roman. Mr. Roman. There we go. Good evening, board. We would like to welcome Misha Belyaev. Yep. Practiced all day with that. From Lancer Associates Architecture, as well as Victor Lanfair from the Skillman Corporation, to provide an update on the three projects going on at this time. And so I'm going to turn it over to them and let them provide you with some information. Okay. Thank you so much. Members of the board, we are excited to present you some updates on some of the projects that we're currently working on with Victor, with Skillman Corporation.
I will start with Southport Phase 2 project. We actually just wrapped up design documents and sent them over to Skillman for review over the weekend. So this is an additions, renovations project that is going to really do a lot in the front of the building. It consists of the new lobby space for your existing field house, as well as some classroom spaces on the north side. So those classroom spaces will both include some special education classrooms, as well as FACS, Family and Consumer Sciences classrooms that will support a
big commercial-grade FACS lab that's going to be right there in between the new lobby space and the classroom wing. We're also looking at a few other classrooms, renovations to the locker rooms around the field house, as well as providing a new training space for your coaches in that space. We're also looking at some of the changes to the front of the building in terms of how the circulation is moving. We'll remove that circle around the front door, connect that drive, as well as
provide additional parking spots right there in front of the front door. And then the second floor will also include more classroom spaces, as well as a few art classrooms that will be up there as we are replacing some of the existing art classrooms just to connect that additional wing into the building. So that's a bird's eye view of the addition. It's really coming closer to the building itself. And then a few images. So bringing in some of the reds of the school as the
school color, creating that entrance with some logos, as well as creating a more subdued classroom spaces there that you can see in the back. This is the interior of that lobby space that's going to be large and will accommodate all of your spillout spaces for both of the games that you have in the field house as well as it will be a space that is flexible where you can host any sorts of events, whether it's alumni events or training programs or anything else like that in the space.
But still giving that space enough character so that it's visible who this school is and for the Southport. And then after that, we are also in development of phase three space currently. It's going to be a lot of interior renovations, but also just one addition to the west of the building where there's going to be a new entrance piece from the bus parking lot there. So centralizing the entrance for the students to come in. We're also looking at the renovations of the
cafeteria with serving lines, looking at all of the restroom spaces so that we can update all of the plumbing, including not just the fixtures, but also getting into the walls and replacing all of the pipes as they're aging. There's some auditorium renovations, including lighting and rigging, just bringing it up to date, as well as a few locker rooms and miscellaneous updates on the first floor. And then second floor, replacement of the lighting in the main gym to be LED, as well as renovations to existing facts lab that's currently on the
second floor. And that is just a quick view of the entrance piece there in the back, a little bit more subdued than phase two project. So double door entrances on both sides and being able for people to enter the building as quickly as possible. Then Perry Meridian phase two project. We are working currently on construction documents there. It's a lot of interior renovations of the building, and that consists of performing arts renovations, so really reorganizing all of
the spaces inside of the building there, creating more flexible and more usable spaces inside of the band and orchestra spaces, as well as looking at choir spaces and storage spaces. Also renovating the art classroom that has not been yet designed to be an art classroom, as well as family and consumer sciences labs, renovating those. We're also looking at a few classroom renovations to support special education programs, some locker room renovations, and some support spaces
around the cafeteria spaces. And then on the second floor, that's where you currently have a few classrooms that are just organized in a way that you have to go through a classroom to access another classroom. So we're renovating those to make sure that all of the classrooms have access directly from the corridor there. And then phase three of the Perry Meridian High School project is cafeteria addition renovation, along with the serving renovation. Some renovations in the science lab, mostly about plumbing in those
spaces, as well as auditorium renovation, again, lighting, and rigging, though here we're also replacing the auditorium seats as they have been aging a lot, and some locker room renovations. And I failed to mention in both of the Southport and Perry Meridian, there's also work in terms of reroofing the schools as well as new air handling units in both phases. And this is just a quick rendering of that addition to the cafeteria space that we have, just because the existing cafeteria
space is smaller. So creating a lot more natural light and giving it a little bit more height so that it doesn't feel too constricted there. And that is currently where that outdoor patio is. And I'll turn it over to Victor to talk more about construction site. Good evening, board. Thank you, Misha. Good evening. Just like to start out with a little bit of an update on the pre-construction portion of phases two and three that Misha just reviewed. Just as a refresher, our overall schedule, I grayed out where we've been and where we're headed, and you see that we're into the red bar
of phase one at Southport, and then you see that we're getting into a position of bidding phase two. And then about four months stagger, we'll be bidding phase three. So we're on track, to put it simply, for both projects. The Perry Meridian project lags about two months, roughly a month or two months behind Southport. That's by design. This is a phasing plan we came up with over a year ago. Just to narrow our focus to the phase two, here are what we call the bid and award milestones.
So as Misha mentioned, we just received the 100% documents, so we'll be assembling those and putting those out to bid on the 23rd. We'll have our bid opening on August 20th. We'll bring those bids and our GMP to the board on September 14th, with the idea of starting in November with near the completion of the activity center, so in July of 2028. As you see up on the screen, Perry Meridian will follow closely behind with August 21st drawings and bringing it to the board in December
with a January start. So again, we're on track with our original phasing plan for the overall program of the project for phase two. In terms of budget, we're tracking against the board-approved budget. This is a snapshot of that budget that we reviewed over a year ago. And just to summarize, the board has already approved three GMPs that total $53 million. That work is underway. And then we are tracking against the budgets the board set for phases two and three. So you'll see that the budgets for phase two
were a little over $43 million. Our final estimate puts us somewhere around 41 So we would project when we bring GMPs to the board for those two projects, that'll be roughly around $45 million. So again, under budget, on schedule for those projects. With phase three, those are projected to be roughly $35 million, or budgeted to 35 together. You see the two numbers. We just completed our schematic estimate. We're literally reviewing that today, advising the administration. So we're not quite ready to publish,
but early indications are we are under budget for phase three. So everything, the trajectory is good for the budget for the overall program. Construction, I wanted to give the board an update on the phase one construction. So going back to phase one, a construction update. Southport High School, if you haven't noticed, we have started work. We've gotten our drainage permit. That was a huge milestone to get our drainage permit. We've completed site clearing and demo, and we've got our construction roads laid out. So we've staked our area for the phase one
on the campus. We continue to work. This was published on Thursday. We'll receive our ILP late Friday afternoon. The ILP is the improvement location permit, so this is the next step after drainage. We'll now be able to pull our structural permit here in the next week or two. So we're right on track to continue working through the project. We've been working on our storm drainage system, we're working on electrical transformer relocation, disconnect utilities. So really getting ready to hopefully start going
vertical in the next 30 to 60 days. The electrical infrastructure project, if you recall, the board approved a third GMP, which was infrastructure at both high schools. The electrical infrastructure, we've gotten our permits, we've done our field surveys, we're working through our shop drawings and our material procurement, and the first piece of that will probably be in fall break to put some panel replacement. It's a very intricate sort of infrastructure, existing electrical panel board, switch gear, a lot of coordination. Obviously, we have to keep the buildings running during
that, so a lot of coordination has to occur up front for that electrical infrastructure. There's an aerial photo of the staging area at Southport. If you haven't been by our staging area construction entrance, and there's a little bit of some evidence of our storm drainage and our site demo work, just for the board's visual. I have to apologize. I'm a victim of the copy-paste scenario here. I copied over the Southport and didn't properly edit it. I will get you a new slide. Apologize. But on the Student Activity Center, we have worked on our permit, we're working on our submittals, we're working on our
procurement of materials. We have not started work, so I apologize. However, the mechanical infrastructure, we have gotten our permits. We've had a meeting to coordinate with the utility company, and we have received six boilers. So we're pleased to have had material in hand, which will allow us to do that boiler placement before we need them for winter. So that's great news, and we continue to work on material procurement and the demolition in the mechanical room to prepare for the new boilers. So, really on track with phase one. Misha? Yep. Okay, and now we wanted to switch gears into the new
Innovation Center for the partnership project between the Perry Schools and the University of Indianapolis. So this is what we've been working on so far with your administration and looking at the building on the University of Indianapolis campus. So what we're looking at here is a three-story building, standalone, that is going to occupy what currently is a cafe, older house, and a parking lot that's there really close to the
football stadium. What we're looking at here is the first floor that would be mostly occupied by the administration spaces. Some spaces, what we labeled as shops, is a cafe space or a space for students to be able to sell their work, as well as a LGI room space, which is large group instruction. So a large gathering space for both the school and possibly outside entities that might be able to borrow that space. And then going upstairs through either a learning riser or a couple of stair
towers, we're going to the second floor, which will have two studios, which are called Make and Create. Make is more about wood shop area and really making things with your hands. Create is more of a digital platform creation studio with some recording labs and other things like that to really get kids thinking about possible projects that they want to do or businesses and entrepreneurship, things like that. And then going up to the third floor, we have two more of those studios.
Venture, that is more about textiles and fashion and merchandising. And then Discover Lab, which takes more into having students discover other things through whether it's cooking or science-related fields. As well as on the third floor, we do have a roof deck that can be accessible, or it can be locked off depending on how the school decides to do it. But we do program it so that the science lab can either take some of the
growing equipment outside with some hydroponic towers, or it can be used as an event space as well. In terms of the 3D imagery, this is the front door, which is facing north, that parking lot. We're really looking and trying to tie some of that language of the university with some brick and limestone pieces, but really modernizing it and bringing it to the 21st century. And then another view, looking at it from the corner. So that's that lower piece with a roof deck on it, with the limestone,
as well as the brick around it. We're still working on design and refining some of those things, but that's where we are currently with it. Thank you, Misha. I'd like to update the board on our efforts for pre-construction for budget and schedule. Here's our overall planning schedule for the Innovation Center. As you can see, here in July, we are nearly through design development. So as Misha's demonstrated to you, they're about halfway through the design. The plan is to put this project out to bid and bring it to the board before the end of the year,
with the expectation to start work as early as December. We have been planning perhaps an early demolition package to remove the existing building that's on the campus right now, because it's the old Honors College building. That will allow us to then start construction this winter. It's planned to complete in the spring of 2028, with occupancy over the summer of 2028. That's our planning schedule. This is a snapshot of our schematic design cost estimate of the project right now. Hard construction costs projected to
be about $20.9 million. And then including soft costs, which is everything from furniture to design fees to owners contingency, we're projecting about a $27.1, $27.2 million total project cost for the Innovation Center. You can see some of the line items there. It's a 48,000 square foot building. So, again, this is the first of three estimates we'll do before we put the project out to bid. So as Misha and his team refine the design, we'll refine those cost estimates and update the board before we go out to
bid. Happy to answer any questions. We know that was a lot, and we appreciate the preparation to put that together. We hadn't brought an update like this to the board, I think since February, and there's just been a ton of things going on with those three to four different projects. I lose count with all the phases and that sort of thing. So, just again, wanted to bring you up to date on what that is. I also want to thank the Lancer team, the Skillman team, and our administrators that have really worked hard to put a lot of thought into what we need, and touching base with the school building administrators and the teams at the various
buildings and the users. But also doing that in a way that we stayed within scope. We didn't have a lot of scope creep, as we do in the construction world, and that's when we start asking about this, and then this, and things get bigger than they ever were intended, and therefore you can't increase the budget. It's already been said what the maximum is. You have to start making decisions on what the priorities are. But you've done a really nice job on all levels to limit that. Anybody else? Thank you very much for the update. Thank you. Very informative. Okay, we're going to move on to items of information requiring
action. Consideration of the supplemental personnel report. Mrs. Baker. Good evening, board. I recommend approval of the supplemental personnel report. Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Lewis, a second by Mr. Mertz. Does anybody have any questions, comments? There being none, we'll vote on 5.01, supplemental personnel report. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. 5.01 carries. 5.02, consideration of the 2027, 2028 school calendar. Mr. Romine. Thank you, board. We ask for your consideration of the 2027,
2028 school calendar. The 2027, '28 school calendar mirrors the '26, '27 school calendar with corresponding dates, with the following exceptions. Spring break will be moved to begin a week later, March 27th to April 7th. Winter break, the last student day will be on Friday, December 17th. The end of school, the last student day will be on Wednesday, May 24th, with graduation set for Thursday, May 25th at Southport High School, and Friday, May 26th at Perry Meridian High School. We ask for your consideration of the school calendar as presented.
Move to approve. Second. A motion by Mr. Shively, second by Mrs. Hartman. Do we have any questions in regard to the 2027, 2028 school calendar? You go first. What was the reasoning for the change in the graduation date to Thursday? It was in collaboration with the building principals. If we had moved it back to the corresponding date of the Friday, Saturday, the following, it would have been about 10 days after the last student day in that particular year. It'll be a little bit of a challenge for Southport to do the graduation on the last student day, but their seniors are coming in and doing
practice that day anyway, so the Thursday, Friday seemed to make sense with the dates. Saturday wasn't available? Saturday was available to do that. We were trying to move off of the Friday, Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. Okay. Could you explain how the whole calendar process works? How do we get from the start to the finish of a school year? We did a survey a couple of years ago, haven't done one in a number of years, just to talk about our length of our breaks, whether it's the longer fall break or a long spring break. We do the two weeks and the two weeks.
Then you really take a look at the two semesters, and you want those to balance on numbers of days as they work out from that. That's how you get to the beginning of the year and the end of the year. And then just corresponding dates with holidays and that sort of thing. Preferences are typically, teachers don't want to start on a Monday. That's a long first week, most cases. And then also is the going with the full two weeks at the winter break. And so when you have those parameters in place, the calendar pretty much makes itself at that point in time. So the two-week breaks are the
kicker for the reason why we can't start in August? The two-week breaks are the barrier at times to start a little bit a week later. Some districts have made changes where they do one week of fall break and a full week of Thanksgiving, which buys you a couple more days. But then, like this particular calendar, I'm guessing some of the neighboring school districts are going to push into that couple of days into that week of Christmas. Has there been any consideration to one-week breaks? That was part of the survey we did, I think it was two years ago, just to talk
about the preference with that. And it comes out close to 50/50 when we ask. That's with a slight preference to the two weeks in the fall. Okay. During these two-week fall and spring breaks, are we going to be offering the intercession for struggling students? In some cases. High school credit recovery and getting them matched up there. We've gone away from that a little bit, especially at the fall with the elementaries, just because we were getting about four days of half days in in that aspect. So we have gone away from that some with the intercessions.
If we only had the one-week breaks, would we still offer the intercession? I don't know. Are we seeing any kind of benefits from the intercessions that are being provided during those breaks? I think we're seeing some gains at the high school level of kids getting caught up and that sort of thing with credit recovery, but we weren't able to find a statistically relevant difference at the elementaries with the amount of time that they are actually in class and working. If we went to a one-week break, would those sessions still be necessary then? The intercessions?
Yeah. Probably just on the high school side. We could potentially do it a different way. They are always working at the high schools to keep the kids caught up and to give them those opportunities for credit recovery and that sort of thing. So, I would say that the purpose of the intercession, when people first went to, because it was an early adopter in the school districts that I was of the two weeks intercession was a part of that, but it really didn't pan out to be super effective in that period of time. Okay. Okay, thank you. Mm-hmm. Yeah, going back,
that was one of the selling points, I think, if I remember correctly, going back in the recesses of my brain, when we instituted the two weeks, that we would utilize that intercession. Since we are not, if there was a possibility of moving to one-week breaks, would we then offer or could we offer back what I would call the original summer school? We're doing summer school now, so yes. So we were doing at one point in time intercession, intercession, and summer school. Okay. And so we would do summer school. The state has also changed how they fund summer
school, so it's a little smaller scope- Yeah ... on what we can do in the summer school time. Okay. Thank you. Excuse me. The e-learning day on September 29th, I'm assuming that correlates with parent-teacher conferences? Yes. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. We'll vote on the 2027-2028 school calendar. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Nay. 5.02 carries. 5.03, consideration of the 2026-2027 Student Success Handbook. Mrs. Powell. Good evening, board. Tonight we bring to you the '26-'27 student
handbook for your consideration. And I believe in your board packet you have an outline of the minimal changes actually this year, and adjustments that we need to make to be prepared for the school year, and we ask for your approval. Move to approve. Second. Motion by Mr. Lewis, second by Mr. Shively. Have any questions in regard to the Student Success Handbook? Is there any significant change? Because I didn't go through all the pages. Sure. Well, I will tell you it's one small page this year, so that's a good thing. I think probably the most significant change is updating to reflect the new state law with electronic devices.
Okay. Everything else is pretty minimal. Okay. Any other question? Nope. Okay. We'll vote on the 2026/2027 Student Success Handbook. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. 5.03 carries. 5.04, Consideration of the Elementary Curriculum Adoption. Mr. Spencer. Thank you, board. I'd like to present the following contract with STAR Autism program. This is a supplemental curriculum with professional development to support the implementation of the program in our kindergarten discovery rooms.
Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mrs. Hartman, a second by Mr. Lewis. Anybody have any questions or comments in regard to the curriculum adoption for elementary? I know we've got the cost of the training here. What does that look like? Is it one session? Is it multiple sessions? I believe it's three days of training. Let me double-check really quick. Yeah, it's a three-day training for the teachers that are going to be implementing. And do we know yet when that would be in terms of teachers out of buildings or not? It was something that was offered on our summer PD calendar. So I believe that they have signed up, and it will be before school starts, so they
won't be out of the classroom for it. Cool. Thank you. And our discovery classrooms are not autism specific. That's correct. At the kindergarten level, we used to have SIP classrooms on both sides of the district, and last year, we evolved to this new model of discovery, which the thought being that an opportunity for the supports those students need, but don't necessarily put them in a defined program as a kindergartner. And so they have access to tier one curriculum of CKLA and Everyday Math, but we identified a need this year doing this program of some supplemental pieces that support behavior a little bit more and don't require the teacher
to create it on their own. It gives them some ready-made materials that they can pull from. And I understand that all four of the teachers will get the curriculum, correct? That's correct. And all four of the teachers are special ed teachers. They are, and they have the specialized license that allows them to teach in a self-contained classroom. Perfect. Thank you. Okay. We'll vote on 5.04, Consideration of the Elementary Curriculum Adoption. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. 5.04 carries. 5.05, Consideration of Resolution 26-008, Supplemental Homestead Credit
Transfer. Mr. Hatcher. Thank you very much. The state made a change in the law and the supplemental credits, I think everybody's aware of, that were allowed for taxpayers to lower their tax bills. Hits us in a different way than the rest of the circuit breaker credits used to hit us. They were spread across different categories of our taxes. The supplemental credit hit directly to the operations fund only, and the legislator realized that that could be a burden on schools, so they allow a transfer
back from the debt service fund to spread some of the loss across different categories. It's a one-year change. It required a waiver with the DLGF, and it's allowed in the law, and the amount is calculated by DLGF. So we had to submit a waiver to DLGF, Department of Local Government Finance with the state, to do the credit transfer, and then we needed to bring it to you for a board approval due to the Indiana Department of Education would like us to have it approved by the board. So,
it is a transfer of the credit. And so, like I said, one year. They did make another change that affects the excise tax credits that hit next year, and it didn't go in effect until 2027, so it will kind of offset this. So we won't have to do this going forward, and that's why DLGF only allowed this for one year. So they allowed schools to do this. Lots of schools are doing it. As far as I know, all the large schools are doing it. So, we just ask for your approval. Move to approve. Second. Motion by Mr. Merch, second by Mr. Shively.
Anybody have any questions, comments? Is this something we had to claim this year and this year only? Yes. Yeah, the waiver's only allowed for one year, so. Okay. And we're doing the whole waiver as of June 30th. If you pass this, that will allow us to budget properly for 2027. It won't throw our numbers off when we bring you the budget later in September, October. Thank you. Yep, thank you. Thank you for clarification on where that number came from, because it's very specific down to the penny. Yes. So thank you. I didn't know. Yeah. I thought, ooh, kids. They're calculating a lot. So, it came from DLGF.
Yeah, they sent all schools a spreadsheet you'd- Drop down your school number and p**f, there's the number. Thank you. Yep. I was going to give you credit for the calculation, but- It was an easy one. Okay, we'll vote on 5.05, the supplemental homestead credit transfer. All those in favor say, "Aye." Aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. 5.05 carries. 5.06, consideration of the Perry Township Schools UIndy Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation license agreement, term sheet, and memorandum of understanding. Dr. Sprague. Board, in your packet is a copy of the license agreement, which is basically our
rental agreement for the next two school years for us to rent space at the University of Indianapolis. The term sheet, which is the terms of the land lease that we'll be executing for the property to build the Innovation Center on. And then the memorandum of understanding is the action taken by UIndy's Board of Trustees approving both of those. So it asks for your consideration. Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Mertz, a second by Mr. Lewis. Anybody have questions in regard to this project? I just wanted to thank not only Eli Lilly, UIndy,
but our administrative team. This is something that in some way, shape, or form we have been wanting to do in the district for a long time, and offer these opportunities for our students, getting some exposure to a college campus. And what a great way to do it with a college campus that's right down the street from us. So, this just puts a smile on my face. Like I said, we've been working on this in some way, shape, or form for a long time and talking about it, so to see it come to fruition is exciting. So I just wanted to thank everybody.
In the licensing agreement with UIndy for the rental of the space, they reference The Hub. That is the building at UIndy currently, correct? Yes, I believe so. Right, Jane? We're struggling with the actual name because we haven't officially named all of it, but Jane, do you- Because our students are going to name the building or the program as the first one. And it's been called The Hub, so I'm not sure. Martin Hall is where we're renting at UIndy. Okay. When they're talking about their building, it's Martin Hall. When they're talking about our facility, it's the new building that we haven't started yet. Okay, so they're referencing ours as The Hub.
Potentially. They called that for a while. Yeah, if it's in the licensing agreement, that's the land lease. Okay. Yeah. And then, as far as police, the memorandum, the MOU for the police department, we are not hiring additional police officers- Correct ... for our- Correct. Okay. That's it. Okay. Let's vote on the UIndy Innovation license agreement term sheet and memorandum of understanding. All those in favor say, "Aye." Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. 5.06 carries. 5.07, consideration of Theresa Zealis'
contract for CPI training. Mr. Spencer. Yes, we're bringing a new contract with Theresa Zealis to offer CPI training. She previously was a special education teacher and then special education behavior coach, who just retired. Previously, she was trained to be able to offer this training to our staff, and so she's going to continue doing that in retirement. So this contract allows us to continue to contract with her to provide CPI training for our staff, and that is the de-escalation technique and program that we offer our administrators and appropriate staff.
Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Lewis, a second by Mrs. Hartman. Any discussion on this item? Did Theresa work for us? Like was she- Yes. Okay. She just retired on June 30th. She retired this last school year, and now she's going to... So she used to offer this service as one of our employees, and now it allows us, because we trained her to be a trainer in the model, it allows us to continue to use her expertise in that. Got it. And I am not familiar with the acronym CPI. Can you tell me what those three letters mean? Crisis Prevention Institute. And so this is their foundational training.
And in the state of Indiana, it's a training that offers de-escalation techniques, and then if it gets to that because of safety, it allows those staff that are trained to appropriately restrain students so that they're not a harm to themself or others. Thank you. So all of our administrators are trained, and then oftentimes our special education staff that needs that training. Any other questions? Okay. Vote on 5.07, the contract with Theresa Zealis for CPI training. All those in favor say, "Aye." Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. 5.07 carries. 5.08, consideration of Roof Links
bid for Clinton Young roof project. Mr. Romine. Thanks again, board. We ask for your consideration of the bid to complete the roofing project at Clinton Young Elementary. Roof Links provided the lowest and most responsive bid for the Clinton Young Elementary roof project. As you can see in your packet, they were the lowest bid right at $822,000 And so we ask for your consideration of this project. Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Shively, a second by Mr. Mertz. Any questions in regard to the Roof Links bid? Is this the first time we've used Roof Links?
I believe so, yes. But our project managers have vetted them and made sure that we're in good shape. Great. Thank you. Okay. We'll vote on 5.08, consideration of Roof Links bid for Clinton Young Roof Project. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. 5.08 carries. 5.09, consideration of Lancer Associates agreement for the renovation of the Perry Meridian High School lift station. Back to you, Mr. Romine. Thanks. So we ask again for your consideration on an agreement with Lancer Associates to provide consulting, engineering, and management services for the renovation of the Perry Meridian High School lift station.
The cost of the agreement is $42,300. Just some background information, the services as construction manager will include pre-construction services, engineering services, bidding services, construction oversight, and a role as an advisor to Perry Township on all construction matters pertaining to this project. The anticipated cost of the entire project is around $130,000. And in your packet, there's detailing all of the different engineering pieces for this much needed process, if you've been down
that road and so forth. And you don't want to be downstream of that road. Move to approve. Second. A motion by Mrs. Hartman, a second by Mr. Shively. Any comments or questions in regard to the lift station? This is necessary. Beyond necessary. I think we all understand that. However, given that there's current construction or will be current construction, these can go simultaneous. It's- Yeah, so we'll work with Lancer, as well as Kirby, he's really been heading this up, and to make sure we're coordinating
everything. It's going to be a little bit of a lift for the building, because as you know, when you shut down sanitation for a period of time, we're going to have to schedule around that and make sure we're doing that. But all of that is being considered as we move forward with this to make sure we get it done, because it's got to get done. Yep. Thank you. And this is a renovation of it, we're not replacing with a new lift station. We're definitely replacing the inner- Inner- ... part and the engineering, including adding a grinder- Yes ... which grinds everything up so we won't have issues where things get stuck or
stop. And again, when you're talking about sanitation- Yes ... nobody really ever wants to, but it's pretty essential and should hopefully alleviate the problems going forward. Thank you. When's the expected completion date? That we're working on. That's when they'll- Look at it ... get the whole scope of it, then we'll come back with the bids and so forth. And do- Do you think this will result in maybe having to have an e-learning day, or? We've discussed some things. I think we're looking at breaks primarily. Okay. Or even summer of next year. But I know it's also urgent, and so we're trying to coordinate that to make sure we can get that done
without disrupting the school as much as possible. E-learning would probably be our last resort kind of thing. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? We'll vote on 5.09, the Lancer Associates agreement for the renovation of the Perry Meridian High School lift station. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. 5.09 carries. 5.10, consideration of the acceptance of donations. Thank you, board. The dynamic duo. Just a few short ones from the elementary side tonight. So on behalf of Henry Burkhart, we would like to receive a donation of $340.32. This is from their PTA and will be used for treats during assessment time, and also for math bowl shirts.
And then on behalf of the Perry Township Elementary District Robotics, we received a $260 donation from REC Foundation. This will be used to support our robotics programs at the elementary level. And then finally, Winchester Village would like to accept a donation of $300. It was an anonymous donation. It will be used to offset the cost of fifth grade T-shirts. For our secondary schools, the JWR Success Academy received a $5,260 donation to support their workshop from generous donors, Joe and Emily Hartman, The EM Company, and the National Association of Women in Construction.
Our Department of Student Services received a $1,000 donation from the Perry Township Kiwanis Club that'll be used to support the 2026 Share event. Perry Meridian High School would like to accept a donation of $90 to support their orchestra from Jessica Smith, Rockford Panniri, and Lazara Lara, and a $500 donation from the Greater Greenwood Community Band to be used to support the high school music department. Southwood High School would like to receive an $810 donation from the Adult Athletic Booster Club to be used to support the swimming, golf, boys' volleyball, and boys' track teams, and a $400 donation from Abby Hinson to
support the football team. Perry Meridian Middle School received a $250 donation from their PTSA, and they'd like to use that to support their dance. On behalf of the elementary and secondary schools, we ask for your approval of these generous donations. Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Lewis, a second by Mr. Merz. Any comments or questions in regard to the donations? There being none, we will vote on 5.10, the acceptance of donations. All those in favor say "aye." Aye. Opposed, nay. 5.10 carries. We'll now move to comments of the Board of Education. Mrs. Hartman, would you start us off, please? Thank you.
Thank you to Skillman and Lancer for coming and doing the presentation. That was fabulous. And I am a visual learner, so I appreciate the pictures, the aerial photos, of what's going on at Southport, because sometimes as I'm driving, I can't always peek back in there. So, thank you for that. Ms. Martin, thank you for your comments about music. I am a firm believer that extracurriculars, whether it be art, music, or athletics, or even clubs, are a way to keep students that might struggle in the classroom engaged at school and feeling belonged,
and which then bleeds into their efforts in math, English, social studies, and foreign languages. So, thank you for your comments, and I appreciate your support of the arts and the music program there at Southport Middle School, and onto the high school too. Mr. Romine, welcome. We had a couple things on there for you this evening, but we're thrilled that you're part of the team, and glad that you're here. And I would be remiss if I didn't thank Kirby and your team as well as
the administrative team here. I can barely keep track of maintenance at my house. I can't imagine having to do this many buildings, and I think tonight was just a reminder for me as I was going through the bids thinking, "Oh my goodness, you've got a grinder over here, and a roof over here, and then, oh, let's add in three construction projects all at the same time." So, just thank you all for your attention to detail in all of this, and making sure that we are meeting students'
needs, whether it's keeping them dry in the classrooms because of a new roof, or the renovations taking place, and the new additions. So, thank you very much. Not much thing to say, but I would like to say thank you for the student size perspective of music. And when my two boys were growing up here all the way until they finished high school, they were in music program, and it's truly helpful for students, and I think that's worth consider about it. And construction, really impressed about where
going on in Innovation, and especially like when checking Innovation Center, the third floor is a roof, and it only came to my mind that could be used to have a board party room sometime. Thank you everything, and the administrative team and everyone. I think we're catching up the change and we're improving a lot. And Indianapolis City, we in the last 20 years, improving as one of the growing city in the state and in the school district. We do internally and logistically and structurally, I think that's really impressive to
people who really know inside, outside, and I think we're doing a really good job, everyone. Thank you. Yeah. I would agree. Having been on the board for a long time, I'd like to pat the administrative team and our teachers and our staff on the back. We've done a lot of unique and innovative things way before I got here and while I'm here. So just to reiterate, some of the things that we get to see now in this partnership with Indy, it's so exciting for me. My kids are older, they won't be able to take advantage of it, but what an opportunity for our kids in Perry Township to be able to partake in something like this.
What a fabulous opportunity. And I'd like to extend a thanks to the Skillman Corporation too. To you guys, you've been a longstanding partner way before I got on the board. If you look at any of the plaques where it has the principal's name and everything when they made changes to updates to the building, you'll see Skillman Corporation go back to probably the '70s. I know the '80s. So, been a great partner. And, so we thank you for that. And thanks to my fellow board members. There's a lot going on. There's a lot of questions that everybody has,
and keep them coming, and I appreciate all your guys' efforts and work too. No comment. Thank you, Mrs. Martin, for coming and sharing more about the music program. I'd like to hear more of your perspective of where you think the cuts would be coming from or if before the cuts we're already in dire need and need to have more support there. In regards to the calendar, I just want to make sure that when we're thinking about all our decisions, that we want to support our kids academically, and it might be more cost efficient to have a longer break and no intercession,
but our job is to educate these kids. So if we're having long breaks, we should have intercession as well. That's what I believe. Especially looking at our test scores, we should be keeping our kids who need it most in front of a teacher as long as possible. That's all. Thank you. When I asked my question earlier, Mr. Spencer, you made reference to a PD calendar, it sounded like. And just pulling up some notes that we'd received from Dr. Spray about ILT, Instructional Leadership Team retreat,
and I don't know if the phrase would be good to be reminded, but I'll just share it, how schools never sleep and neither do the people who work in them. That just because we don't have students in buildings doesn't mean our teachers and staff aren't hard at work all summer trying to learn how to better serve them. Maureen, thank you for coming tonight. Having been with this group of servants for a little while now, I can assure you that things like a music program, we do hold in high priority, and we will
ask, and you mentioned it, anything we can learn more about what specific concerns are, because we would definitely want to uphold any and all opportunities we can have for our kids. I want to say congrats and good luck to our new hires. Just another example where we're finding talented individuals from within, stealing them from buildings, sorry. But also looking from the outside at who can contribute to Berry Township, and that's good to see. And I thought it was an interesting juxtaposition tonight where we approved a calendar that will have a very important graduation date for, I know my own family.
But also the presentations of these new projects and just made me think, and Kenny mentioned it, thinking that the board, the work we're doing is not selfish. At least it shouldn't be, and I don't think it is for anyone on this board. But we're looking for not just the interests of our own kids, but the future of this district, and wanting to make sure this is a place where kids of all backgrounds and all experiences can come, have a great experience, and more than anything, in my own family experience, want to come back with their own kids and raise future
generations. So, thank you for your presentation. It was very helpful. That's all I have. Well, I can probably just say echo. There were a lot of great comments here, but I do also want to give my thank you for Ms. Martin. That was a very good presentation, and thank you for the comments and your passion with it. We can tell, and thank you for staying around to hear the rest of what we had to say, too. So, and the thanks to Mr. Shotton and his group. They have so much going on, and I was personally involved with one aspect of that and just really saw
how much he was pulled in different directions, and I really appreciate everything that you do. New administrators, congratulations to them. Mr. Romine. Thanks. You're welcome. Really, having the updates from Lancer and Skillman is just very important because we can see some things, but where are we really? We heard some things about some of the permits and so forth, but I'm glad everything's on schedule and moving forward. Thanks to all those that worked on getting this school year ready, the
calendar, the curriculums, the student success handbooks, all those sorts of things. Also wanted to comment on the UIndy Innovation Center. We are giving opportunities that other schools don't. We're doing what we say. We're growing our kids, and we're giving them those opportunities to do so. And also just wanted to note that even though the donations were a little bit shorter list, it hit corporations, it hit charitable organizations, it hit individuals, it hit anonymous individuals. So it was a little bit of everything, which is
what we want to see. So other than that, Dr. Spray. Yeah, just a couple quick items. A couple of key dates coming up. Those will be sent out to you separately as well, but on July 28th, we're going to have a press conference and a kind of an unveiling of the Innovation Center work and the partnership that we're having with University of Indianapolis and our joint press conference at University of Indianapolis School of Engineering at 11:30 a.m. on the 28th. There's quite a list of dignitaries that'll be there from both the university, and then representatives from the state for us, too.
So you're welcome to attend that if you would like. It's 11:30 a.m. on the 28th. The 29th is our first student day. So the buses will be rolling, and we'll have thousands of kids and teachers in the classrooms, and we're excited about that. At this time of the year, we're taking a look at two and a half weeks from now. There's a little pressure, but it will get done. We've got a lot of great leaders making those things happen. The August 24th public work session, I'll put out some information, but we may move that to a board training with ISBA and Steve Horton. That's an available date and a date that's already on your calendar
for that. So, I'll be working with Mr. Hernandez to get that finalized, but I just want to plant that seed now as well. August 27th, Thursday night, is University of Indianapolis's first home football game against Marian University, and we are potentially planning a groundbreaking for the Innovation Center on that evening. So, I don't know, probably news to you, but we'll work together on that. But that'll be a nice time to do it, and we've got a lot of people on their campus, and they're pretty excited about that opportunity. So that's another date if you were able to make that.
We'll get you one of those shiny shovels. And that's all. All right. Thank you. And just to remind everybody, no public work session this month. The next board meeting is, is that correct? Okay. Next board meeting, August 10th, 6:00, right here. And with that, we are adjourned. Thank you very much