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MEETING SECTIONS:

Part 1 (Video ID: U8HxR-IabEg):
- 00:00:00: Public Comment: TIF District Impact on School Funding
- 00:06:19: Public Comment: Concerns About TIF and Education
- 00:07:11: Public Comment: Voicing Concerns Over TIF District
- 00:08:09: Reports: Tax Refunds, Wellness Policy, Fee Structures
- 00:10:39: Consent Items: Approving Minutes, Personnel, and Claims
- 00:11:18: Action Item 5.1: Approve K2 Dyslexia Screening Renewal
- 00:12:30: Action Item 5.2: Cops Connecting with Kids Program
- 00:16:59: Action Item 5.3: Christian Life Center MOU Extension


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We'll start with patron concerns. Mr. ML, I'm Larry Michl uh from Union Township. Uh I've been on the redevelopment board for five years. Um, and um,

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I guess it's knowing that I've been replaced uh, here this last month. And I don't have any quums about that. Uh, because I've been standing up for the taxpayers of Gibson County and the administration didn't like it. Uh, so that's fine. Uh but I'm here tonight

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uh to ask you guys uh to look at the impact that it's going to have on South Gibson School Corporation in the next 25 years. um to our probably all taxpayers

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uh to and they could tell their own stories but or we don't have time for that. Basically, uh what they're concerned about is that the

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the taxpayers have to make up the difference on the assessed valuation. uh because of the money if this new tiff district comes about um the taxpayers have to make up the

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difference supplying money for the schools and everything else. So it's got to be a big impact to tie for the for the taxpayers and and I I do believe wholeheartedly that within 10

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years within 10 years uh it will be just like North Gibson School Corporation was the last 30 years at I expect or the Union Township property taxes to

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raise at least 30% % to probably more uh because of this money being captured. I was told that it won't be like last time where there was money left over and

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we got money for the YMCA and the library and the Fort Branch gym. at that won't happen this time at at any quality of life projects for taxpayers gifting county won't

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won't happen um I'm really this is the most passionous thing that I've ever experienced and I'm wholeheartly I'm trying to tell the most truth I can to be the most truthful

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and get the word out and try to educate the public. Uh the S resolution came to us on January the 12th for us to sign on the redevelopment commission.

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There was absolutely no discussion whatsoever on forming it to to at a redevelopment meeting. none whatsoever to to to even spend this couple

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hundred,000 that's already been spent. uh to to me I don't believe a word that goes on and this document here is a 14page document that spells out what's going to

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happen for next actually the next 27 years and and I tried to send it to you all in a in an email I hope you received it uh if not I've got copies but Um it

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it is going to tremendously impact Gibson County. Um tremendously, especially Union Township and South Gibson, South Gibson School Corporation.

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Uh I I sent a phone number uh Mark Un said he'd have and he'd be happy to talk to the board members on what happened, what took

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place the last 30 years. He was on the on the school board. He was school board president for several years and he was on the redevelopment commission for several years a and he would be a good source to find out information what actually happened to North Gibson and he

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was actually the one I helped get uh the 100% capture to drop down to 60% capture and that that was was a humongous relief for North Gibson but it was an every year deal

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you guys can't budget what you want to do because you don't know what you're going to get until until you wrap it up. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> I mean, no, you can finish up what you were saying, but

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>> anyway, nobody knows how much it's going to impact. The only thing you can do is look at the history of North Gibson and it's going to be just as bad as what they experienced

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and uh I think the board needs to study that is nothing out there. Baker Tilly was here December the 16th I think and explain what a tip district was. I was here and I was that was good education but there's never been any numbers put

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out. Uh uh uh in fact we just got number Baker Tilly was down >> uh there there in April and and there's no numbers actually out there yet for what is going to happen but it's going to be alarming.

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>> Thank you. Thank you. >> Appreciate any other comments. >> Yeah. Can I make a comment? The reason I'm here is because South Gibson School Corporation has been tremendous over the years. I mean, we

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live here. I I got grandchildren here and I want it to be continue to be strong. I'm concerned how South Gibson is going to come out on with with this tiff and that's and I don't think there's enough education. I don't think we know know enough. But that's why I'm

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here. I want South Gibson to remain really strong. >> Sorry. Sir, can you say your name so I can put >> your name? I'm sorry. I didn't touch it. >> Yeah, my cursor. >> Oh, you're Oh, >> you don't have a hat on. Yeah, they do. Sorry about that, T.

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>> I'm sorry. >> Geez, thanks. >> Anybody else? >> Could I say just a brief word? Yep. Sam Weiss. I live in Port Branch Union Township. I'll have kids going up through Gibson Southern the next several

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years. Kids are at Holy Cross right now. I just want to say I'm I'm here as well. Um voice my concerns over the death district. Um took time out of actually seeing my kids tonight. I'm a little bit um maybe not upset about it, but this is very important. I wouldn't be here

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tonight if it wasn't this important, I think, to me be pushing back against this. So, thank you for your time. Anything else? Okay. On to reports.

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Okay. Um I we discussed the tree act requirements last maybe last month about trying to intercept uh tax refunds at the state level. We're working on that process. Um additionally you see this language in here about the board of trustees. We

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have to have this language in our minutes for wellness policy to satisfy the uh state and federal requirements for our cafeteria. Uh I I put allowable fee flow which is a PDF that's a state

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supplied because we want to start implementing some fee structures again. Now they're allowing that and put in there what Indiana education how it defines it. You'll see the building ECA balances, the April financial balances, the full version of this wellness

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policy, and something I I it slipped my mind to give you. Um, and I noticed I got one mistake on it. Well, who knows? I got a mistake because I got a hidden row. Uh, this goes back to 2009 and it shows you what our AV was

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in 2009. It was $747 million. And our NAV, same number last this past year, current year is 1.33 million. Excuse me. Trillion. >> No, no, Billion. One billion. >> Yeah, trillion would be really cool. Um,

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and it shows you the tax rates. But the line I left off was when it was back when education fund 100, the old general fund. Uh, it's what makes up the difference on the tax rate at the bottom. So back in '09 the taxpayers were paying 9308

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and this this year it's 7781. That's the schools. You have to add all those all the t all the other taxing entities up. I'm just wanted to point out that I think the school board's done a good job in trying to keep the rate down as much as you can. And it shows you what the budgets are to

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match that at the same time. But and I apologize that it's pretty small, but on your screens you can probably see it better. And this is part of the public docs that are out there for anybody to go out and see and download if they want to. So just want to make sure you saw that because I usually print this out

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every year and I just for some reason it just slipped my mind. It's an old age. Well, I can't recognize Mike hat. I'll forgive him on there. >> Besides, I'm used to us looking like we

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did when we were 17 and 18. >> Thank you, Tim. >> You're welcome. >> On to consent items. >> Mr. President, this evening we have different consent items. We have approved the minutes from the April 216 meeting, the personnel items for this

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year, this this meeting, and then claims from Mr. Armstrong. At this time, we'd ask that you approve those consent items. coming out since there's a great idea. Motion to approve consent items. >> First person second. All in favor?

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Motion pass. >> Okay. So under action items president tonight we have 5.1 is amplify inclass. It is a renewal of a requirement for K2 dyslexia screening that we must do by statute. Um, we also have to do that now

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for math. As you recall, uh, I've already submitted for the formative assessment grant trying to recoup some of the funds that we will uh, be extending to do these screeners. It won't cover the cost of both the Amplify and the IN forum for math, but it will help offset it. We won't know until

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September October uh, time frame what that number will be. Um, I'm estimating it to be about 5,000. Hope that hope that's the case, but I don't anticipate it being met with the number of schools that will apply. But we're asking that you approve that this evening so we continue to meet the statute

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requirements for reading. >> Motion to approve amplify. >> First, >> second. >> Yeah. First and second in discussion. All in favor? opposed.

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Motion pass in the 5.2. >> So this evening, u we were approached in late April, early May about cops connecting with kids program. Uh before we go any further in this, we wanted to bring it to the board to see if there was interest in continuing to do that opportunity. Um we would need to

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continue to seek the funding doesn't come from the school. It comes from out outside providers. Uh we would send a principal uh another a couple more liaison to go with it. We're looking at four to six kids that would possibly go along with this. North and East Gibson do it along with some of the schools in

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uh Evansville have done it. Uh they are anticipating doing some metrics to see how this starts to impact because I know there are stories of kids who have gone and they come back and some of became police officers etc. U but before we start continue down this path I want to make sure that the board would be

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interested. We could either maybe get in on we can get in on this year possibly and or next year possibly. Um it's a it's a good program. They go to Disney, they spend a week, they supply everything through these funds. Uh, and this is for kids who are uh, you know, they they have to qualify for it. They

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have to show good behavior. They have to show good grades. That, you know, there there's a lot of criteria the school we used to select it. And we would also be selecting from each school. This is not a school specific because we want to represent the entire district when we do this opportunity because we're not like other schools that have we don't have a

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middle school. So we'd be pulling from the six through eight uh buildings uh at our three schools. So >> the SRO, are they involved at all? >> They they could be going along that we think we can do some fundraising without incorporating them, but uh we want to we

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need to sit down and have those conversations about who would go and possibly could go. We haven't gotten to that depth. I know the sheriff has gone in the past. >> Yeah. Just for discussion. I mean, I think this is great and we do that outside outside of this and support it.

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And I think uh we teach a lot, but having those relationships with law enforcement and understanding those activities and having it in the educational system, I think that's very positive. Um, so I mean I personally think this is great and is there what

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other discussion >> heard of this? you mentioned though that's a small number of kids. I want to make sure that we point out our SRO's interact with our buildings every day and they do a great job connecting with kids in the building each day after school etc. So make sure that we give them the credit that they obviously earn

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but u it would just be an an additional opportunity to get to know kids a little bit deeper. >> So one of our will we have a replacement that day? >> Sheriff Vanovven has said that there would be a replacement to take care of that week. Um depending if one of ours

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goes, the sheriff is very much on board with supply that. >> Okay, Dan, you're okay. You guys are going to have talks with Dan. >> We need to have conversations with Dan and the SRO's and principles and really dig into it. But before we do anything else, we felt like the board need to

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have that because we are talking about sending kids on an airplane to Disney. Do the students they apply then if they're interest or they're they're chosen? >> Uh they're I think they would apply and then they'd be chosen they're chosen by the school. They're chosen by the school

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based on a set criteria. And you know a lot of our kids wouldn't have that opportunity to go and that's what we see more often than not is kids who wouldn't ever get that opportunity to go branch out. They give them bags to carry their stuff in. So, they make sure that when they show up down there, they've got

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hoodies and t-shirts. They fit right in. The cast knows who they are. They they get a little bit extra treatment. Uh, so we make sure that we cover all their needs before they ever leave too. >> So, you've done this before. >> I haven't been involved in it, but I was in this happened. Dr. Alhorn's been

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involved in it. Dr. Phillips has been involved in it. Um, they have been involved in the program. Okay. So, okay. questions. >> Motion motion to approve the uh cops

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connected with kids. >> First second. All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion pass to 5.3 Evansville Christian Life Center.

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So, this is an extension of the MOU that's been in place for many years. They provide services at no cost to corporation. Uh they create they positive relationship programming at our schools and we'd like to continue that partnership with Christian Life Center. >> I'll make a motion to approve the

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Christian Life Center. >> I'll second. Okay, we have a first and second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion pass on to 5.4 special education handbook.

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>> It's been something that a special education handbook is something that we've been needing to put together for quite a while and u will be available for our staff to use and it'll be a reference for them but also we get audited and I don't want to use the word investigated but uh we have meetings

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with the state and this book can be used to verify that we have policies in place to address special education issues. This will help us as we move forward with anything that would come up in the special education world. Um, and it's it's a really welldone document. U, so

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this benefits us in that we can give it to staff to use, but also when the state comes in or a federal agency or like that, here's our special education stand handbook. >> So, it's something we developed, are we? Well, we we got it from some other

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places and put it together because u that's sometimes it's better to take things that already created and massage them to meet our needs. >> I didn't know if this was like a Neola policy subscribe, >> which I have Neiola stacked on my desk

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and you'll be seeing those very shortly >> again. But no, this this is something all three Gibson County schools, North Gibson has one, East Gibson's working on doing the same thing. They're all going to look very very similar because we have the GCSS.

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>> I'll make a motion to approve 5.4 special education handbook. >> First second and second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion pass on the 5.5 boys

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basketball trip? >> They're doing the IBCA shootout June 26th and 27th in Indianapolis. So, Mr. or would like to spend the night up there that evening and during the next day. >> Motion to approve the boys basketball shirt. >> Got a first. >> I'll second.

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>> Second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion pass on 25.6. Mr. Armstrong. Uh this is just a