TCSC School Board Meeting

Associate Superintendent, Scott Jaworski
Director of Food Service, Adam Proulx
Director of Technology, Steven Gingerich
Athletic Director, Colin Quin

Balances as of March 31, 2026:

Education - $817,200.53

Operations - $367,730.24

Debt Service - $532,748.57

Rainy Day - $2,035,833.41

A transfer of $100,000 was made from education to operations. Interest income for the month totaled $22,710.01. Our projected property tax credit loss for 2026 is estimated by the DLGF to be $876,300 (a 73% increase in the loss over the previous year). When building the 2026 budget in 2025, the DLGF provided an estimated figure based on data they had available at the time. The actual loss report should be out later this month, usually by May 1st. Last year's actual loss totaled $505,210.

Our first Medicaid reimbursement was received for billing eligible February speech services and totaled $4,827.35 (representing 67 billed speech sessions). Of this amount, $3,125.55 represents the federal Medicaid portion and is new money to TCSC (Fund 6460 on the fund report). The new funds will be utilized to help offset increased special education costs. The difference of $1,701.80 represents the state Medicaid portion and offsets our state basic grant payment (Fund 3250). The state portion will be transferred into the education fund to make the education fund whole.

Estimated Cost Reductions for 2026-2027 Presentation

In your packet, is a resolution supporting the Tipton Blue Devil Athletic's Foundation Inc., established in February of 2026. The Resolution allows for the School Board to appoint two (2) members to the Board of Directors and permit school personnel the authority to transfer funds from the Athletic Extra Curricular Accounts to the Foundation (the Board would be made aware of this transfer when it happens as part of the monthly Financial Report).  The Resolution also allows free use of our facilities for foundation functions as long as they involve school age students.  

Mrs. Keogh provided a detailed account of the process for the review and selection of THS English Language Arts curricular materials in the attached document.  The THS English Department chose to adopt some additional novels to supplement what has already been Board approved.  A committee of Board Members, Community Members, Teachers, Parents, and Administrators read each novel suggested by the Department, then completed a form with their input and review (attached below).  It is recommended the High School English Language Arts curricular materials be approved as presented.

Mr. Ayars provided an overview of the curricular materials adoption process for the Tipton Middle School English Language Arts in the attached document.  Instead a novel based based curricular adoption, the Committee comprised of Parents, Teachers, Board Members, and Administration are recommending a ELA program created by Savvas.  Much like the elementary adoption, the Indiana Department of Education vetted ELA programs to ensure they are aligned to standards and provided supplemental supports for struggling readers.  The Savvas "My Perspectives" curricular material was one of the programs approved by the IDOE.   

During tonight's work session, Mr. Jaworski presented calendar recommendations from the TCSC Academic Calendar Committee to modify the 2026-2027 calendar and adoption of the 2027-2028 calendar.  In your packet are calendars shared with the Board in a March 20th email.  It is recommended the Board approve these calendars as written by the TCSC Academic Calendar Committee.

In your packet is the annual premium review from WalkerHughes.  Our property and casualty is due for renewal this month.  We have 6.67% increase over last year's premium.  Due to changes in deductible for Wind and Hail Damage, we purchased addition coverage to reduce our exposure to $10,000 per occurrence (versus the $75,000 per occurrence in our renewal).  We also added some additional liability coverage up to $2,000,000 from our previous $1,000,000.  With the added changes our premium will increase by 15.6% to $276,549.

In the March meeting, the Board accepted the resignation of Michael Wheeler as our Middle School Technology Specialist.  TCSC determined this position would not replaced due to the financial impacts of SEA 1(2025).  Since the reduction of a Technology Specialist will result in an increased workload on our remaining Technology Specialists and Director of Technology we are recommending a change in compensation.  After polling other KASEC schools we determined TCSC is near the bottom for technology personnel compensation.  We are recommending a $2 per hour increase for Technology Specialist and an increase in contract days for our Director of Technology from 240 to 260 (at the same daily rate).  The changes in compensation will place TCSC technology staff in the middle range of all KASEC schools. The full savings to TCSC is $41,500.

No meetings scheduled at this time.

• April 18-Tipton County Safety Fair 11am-1pm
• April 23-TESO Father-Daughter Dance 5pm
• April 25-THS Prom
• April 28-Internet Safety Meeting 6pm
• May 1-3-THS Musical Annie
• May 4-8- Staff Appreciation Week
• May 6-TCSC Employee Banquet
• May 8-TES Spring Music Program 5:30pm
• May 9-YO Reunion Concert
• May 10-Mother's Day
• May 11-TMS Spring Choir Concert
• May 12-Monthly Board Meeting 6:30pm