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District highlights playground, lighting and value‑added gains; asks board to review facilities priorities
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Administration presented playground-surface and parking estimates, LED lighting proposals for fields, and a Ball State value‑added report showing Tell City students performing above expectations on several measures; board requested photometrics for lighting and asked to review fee schedules and facility policy.
District administration updated the board on multiple facilities and academic topics on April 14, providing cost and technical information and sharing a recent value-added study.
Paul Shuttrell summarized playground-surface estimates and photos for William Tell and said the district will meet with a playground representative April 23 to refine plans. He also reviewed an estimate to pave a gravel parking lot used by staff and visitors and noted LED field-lighting proposals from Energy Harness to convert existing sodium halide heads to LED and improve photometrics. “He said he could provide IHSAA level lighting by using only the four poles along the sides because the LEDs are just that much better,” Shuttrell said, adding administration would request photometric guarantees in any RFP.
Shuttrell also presented a Ball State Center for Business and Economic Research value‑added report the district had shared with the board. He said the study adjusts for demographics, free‑and‑reduced‑lunch rates and special-education population and showed Tell City third‑grade proficiency in the second quartile (missing the top quartile by one school), eighth grade in the second quartile, and SAT/college-readiness measures in the first quartile with a reported value‑added figure of over 8 percent.
Board members asked whether state letter grades would incorporate these measures; administration said state systems probably would not include the private study’s adjustments but that the report demonstrates the district’s performance relative to expectations. The board asked administration to return RFP specifications, photometrics, and fee-schedule recommendations for future action.
