001toddler. He can barely carry his bag and I don't have to go until the went off and I put it and it did and I put it on his desk and then I was like I don't think you carry that back. Yeah. I tried to get Sarah to drive him over there. I like appreciated that. Or I'm surprised he didn't give you his bag. I'm sure the rumors are going to our house because I have a niece who is an EMT. He had a family thing on Sunday and she drove the ambulance to our house. So, I'm sure all the neighbors are like, "What's going?" I didn't get any calls. I was right. He got to the end of the sidewalk and he said he was already halfway there caring the bag. I was like,
002I know. I just stop this. All right, I got 601. So, we'll go ahead and get started. Uh before we start each meeting, uh we'll say a prayer and the pledge if you would like to join us. Uh you can say at night, you could step out, Mr. Ensky. Yep. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for today. We thank you for the uh the fellowship that we can have this evening and the uh the time here spent with the the school. Um we ask for the best interest that we have um for the students and the school and the community here. Um we thank you for the rain um over the weekend and the the weather coming up. Um just be with us and let us make the best decisions for everyone involved. In
003your name we pray. Amen. 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. All right, we call this meeting to order. Uh, Mr. President, just a couple general announcements before we get to item B. Uh, number one, we want to welcome Beth Swift. Beth is now our new board secretary. Um, with Paty retiring. Paty's finishing up here this month, but she went ahead and said, "Beth, you can do this tonight." So, Beth's here for us tonight. So, welcome to her. Also, we we've practiced this, but we are officially um recording live, I guess, streaming live meetings. This is a new requirement of um all state public meetings, get government agencies, town councils I
004think have to do it now and um obviously school boards. So that's what the screen's for. Um there is a link on the website. Not that you guys know because you'll be here. Hopefully everybody else will, but those out there link on the website. It's a YouTube channel. Mr. Headland Swift are kind of managing that for us. But uh people can can come in and watch it at at any point. Do we have anybody watching right now that you can tell Mr. Headman? Not I can't see in the count in the console I'm in. Just so you know that's happening. And then also a requirement is that these these meetings be archived. So people can go back and watch them um through the website and that's three months. So they've got to stay on the
005website for 90 days and we'll just you know filter those out. Um, and Beth's backup and knows how to do it all in case anything wouldn't happen. Um, Craig's my backup. Yes, he gets to come to the meetings if I'm not here. Pretty simple process, but but I knew new new requirement. Any other questions about that? How that works for the board? Yeah, just one. So, the 90 days, if somebody came in and requested something from 180 days back, I assume we give it to them. I mean, is there a 40 that? So, my plan, unless you guys direct me otherwise, is to make it unlisted off the web page. So, we would keep the content. If you want me to delete it, I can delete it. It's whatever you guys would prefer. And can
006we make I I recommend we have it deleted after 90 days. Yeah, we probably need to I mean, we can bring a a formal or you guys can take action on it tonight. I don't care. I check with the statute and make sure there's I just know that we are not required to have anything out there after 90 days. Could we do some research on that and then and then within 90 days vote on it and we got plenty of time. We'll bring him back next month at least bring them and Yola be honest with you may I have not had a chance to do all the policy revisions. They may have some policy on this that you we can choose from look at. Um so we'll definitely bring that back to you before the
00790 days are up. You guys can decide what you want to do on that. Um and then okay so additions so the agenda that everybody has in front of them um that that were to appear tonight the red items are the additions there are quite a few and apologize we've said a lot things come in since the agenda went out Thursday and on top of that there's an another addition that is not on the agendas and that would be a personnel item that would be certified staff appointment. So after MCE teacher Taylor Brown, I would like for the board to consider new item MCHS teacher Gina Girardana as a new appointment. I think everything else should be there. Beth, do you have that? Is that I did not write that in a minuteended, but that
008came in like 3:30, 4:00 today. That's it. I have any questions? All right. I'll entertain approval of the agenda. I'll make the motion to approve the agenda with the additions. Second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. Scores one absent. Uh this time we'll take comments from patrons if anyone has anything they would like to address with the board. All right, we'll move on to the consent agenda. Uh, minutes claims, one fundraising request this month and one study trip request. Right. I entertain a motion on the consent agenda. So, second. All in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion carries 401 absent. All right. Financial. Couple items for you tonight. One is just a resolution to transfer some money from debt service to school pension debt. So, um Jessica is wrapping up
009what we call the form nine. So, every six months we have to submit to the state basically all our financial all our balances and we want to clean up that pension debt. Um it's been if you've looked at your fund report, we've been running that negative for several months. Um, we are no long I mean we have that paid off. We just needed to make sure we transfer our money from debt service to get that zeroed out. And honestly with you once that's zeroed out that's going to fall off your fund report. You're not going to see pension debt hopefully ever again. So we'd like to get that transferred cleaned up and zeroed out. So that balance zeros it right? That balance that brings it to zero. Yes. Yep. All right. I entertain a motion
010on the resolution to transfer from debt service to the school pension debt fund. Move. Second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries 401 absent. Okay. And this was something I apologize did not make your packet but we've been waiting on something. Paty has for some time from the state and she got it Friday and she was scrambling to get this together yesterday so we could get it out this morning to you. But if you've not had a chance for to look at this, feel free to ask questions. But we we need to look at um prices for meals for the upcoming school year. I can tell you that to the best of our knowledge, we have not raised meal prices since 201 1920. I think it's it's been five years. It's been
011since co um and it definitely shows when we started to research with some other school corporations. So, we are recommending this is Paty, this is Chartwells and myself. We're recommending the breakfast be increased from 125 to 175, lunch from 215 to $3. Just to give you an idea, that definitely falls within the range of area school corporations. Randolph Eastern's at 285 for lunch, 3 I'm sorry, 2.85 for breakfast, 350 for lunch. Randolph Central's 185 for breakfast, 285 for lunch. These are the Chartwell schools. J County has a 350 per lunch for high school kids. So I think that's definitely within range. And like I said, we've not we've not done an increase for at least five years. So something that we typically talk a lot about like on taxes and things like that is the
012amount of increase, not necessarily whether it's a bad price or not, but the amount of increase at once. And that's a pretty significant increase for a lot of our students who are challenged sometime. Do we have any kind of plan of making an initiative for the free and reduced lunch signups and things like that more than normal because I think that is it needs to be very out and open if we do this. Yeah, we we've tal talked about this a lot over the years. Um, we we have a there are several people in our community that have a great amount of pride and they just simply will not um sign up for preo news which hurts them and honestly it actually hurts the school. We've talked about this before not just because of the
013lunch money but it just hurts us on other grants that we could apply for. pretty much everything federal is got to do that somehow. Yeah. So, we we are constantly looking for ways to better promote that and to kind of get better participation in that because we we generally fall right at the 50 sometimes in the 40% and we just simply know it's it's higher than that of our community. So, and to to your point on the on the percent raise, yeah, honestly, we probably ought to just instead of waiting so long these huge, just do a nickel or a dino, but try to do that every year so we don't just jump. Um but 125 and 215 are extremely low when you compare to other schools on lunch that are not some some schools
014have free breakfast programs because they qualify. We don't again we don't we don't have enough reuse to qualify for just a blanket like we did in co just a blanket free lunch for free. How will we advertise the increase before school starts? I think we'll probably have to do um the alert. We'll send alerts out. We'll get a we'll email it out. We'll do a voice. I think prize the first week of school. Well, and in every communication with that if we can include the free and reduced how to sign up, how are the prices? Also a reminder, if you have any questions about applying, we're going to introduce, okay, contact the office. Here's the information. There's the application. Pass has been great about trying to do that. I know we we just struggle every
015year with getting those applications in. Any questions? I will make the motion to approve the cafeteria meal price increases for 2526 school year. Second. All in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. 401 absent. This is just a credit card resolution that asked for us to change the credit card companies that we use. Uh we are currently with Old National. This is not in any way tied to our bank. So it's not tied to First Merchants. Um, we've used a credit card program to Old National, but Jessica's been doing a lot of research on this. And there's just a lot of hoops that we have to jump through with that that she has to jump through with that. And um, also we get no incentives, none. Um, nothing, no money back or anything like
016that, like you would if you had a credit or card program. she's recommending, and this is something she got through IASBO, Indiana Association of Business Officials, a program that actually came from out of Illinois school business association, but uh it's actually through um shoot, I'm not going to get the it's the Bank of Montreal B. Yeah. Um Bank of Montreal credit card program is what she's recommending we we switch over to. it does pay some incentives back. So, and a much easier process for her um with statements because I I have a credit card, Ann has a credit card, Ron has a credit card. Everybody has to have their we have a separate she separate statements for every single item. I mean, I use my credit card maybe twice a year when we go to
017school conference and but Ron Ron's using credit card. How often use credit? I mean, you're using it once a week, twice a week. So, it's it's it's this is much better system and but it requires board action resolution to switch if you want to do it. Any questions? I move to accept the program resolution as presentable. Second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. 401 absent. Okay. personnel that time of year when lots of movement moved in and out and around and um so we can take these however the board would like but a certified staff resignation so these are your teachers certified staff members Adrien Mappy she's leaving for going work for one of her former principles in Mudsy wish her well in that move Cooper 25ear employee just got to
018hand her 25-year plaque er's been our SLP and was our special ed coordinator there for a while. Just a great great great person. Um, love working with Aaron. All the respect in the world for her u going to work at a hospital and uh Memorial I believe. So great career move for her and I wish her well. Elena Wines super MC gal graduate, tremendous heart for her program. Um just wish her well as she goes off and does something different. Mackenzie Braun kindergarten teacher at the elementary. Mackenzie Braun just finished her 10th year. So she is going to work with her husband school life an incentive program and we'll get to travel and glad that they'll be able to do that. and then just came in yesterday. Um was kind of anticipating this because I
019I talked to Steve and we was looking at some different opportunities for um a career move. So he's actually taking a job at Warren Central High School. Believe it's Warren Central on the east side of Indianapolis. So those are your resignations for tonight. Good folks. A lot of experience there. Wish them well. Everybody good to take this? Yep. All right. entertain a motion on the certified staff resignation. I will make a motion to accept the certified staff resignation at all second. All in favor say I. I oppose. Motion carries. 401 absent. Okay. So on st certified staff appointments. Um and Miss BL here. She want to speak to some of these. Mr. Middleton is not. So, I'll just read through them first. Um, I'm probably not going to get these right. Sarah Jones is an
020elementary teacher that we're recommending. She is actually taking Miss Mappy's position. Um, she would be a first grade teacher. Kimberly Olid is a uh our SLP recommendation. She'll be taking Aaron's spot. Kim did her student teaching last spring with Aaron. Comes highly recommended from Maryland. So we were lucky to get her. Believe she's a Winchester kiddo. Graduated from Winchester Community High School. So local gal. Wendy Anderson. Wendy's a former student of mine. Wendy went to Monroe Central. Um she is going to be taking Elena's position. Taylor Brown. Taylor's Yep. Yep. She's she will be our new kindergarten teacher. She's taking Mckenzie's spot. And then uh just added few minutes ago here. We kind of locked this one up this afternoon, but Gina Gordano will be taking Steve spot. Gina was a former teacher here at
021Monroe Central English teacher. I believe Leftton 21 High School and u you know just a great gal, good culture lady, very positive individual. uh she she'd like to get back at Manur Central. So excited to get Gina. So Miss Blly, do you have anything you want to talk about? Any anything? Very excited about our new hires. Sarah, member of the community. We've had our her kids here at the elementary and the high school. Um great lady. She's chomping at the bit to get started. Kim, you already said student taught. She did a great job. Erin, have a lot of respect for her. Um, and then Taylor Brown, four years of experience, new PAL graduate. She's very excited. She just came in this afternoon for a little bit to see her classroom and very excited. And
022you said she is moving to Winchester maybe. So she just moved to Winchester. So if pending board approval here, I believe, you know, teacher-wise will be fully staffed at this point. I think we need another parah and another bus driver. We'll talk about those here in a minute. Teaching wise, I think we're we're staffed at this point. Any questions? Right. I will make a motion to approve the certified staff appointments. Second. All in favor say I. All oppose. Motion carries. 401 absent. classified staff resignations. Uh, bus driver Eric Not, MCE custodian Adam Willis, and then a preschool parah Nicole Hannah. I think Nicole um I think her kids go to Winchester and she was able to get on at the preschool over there. So, she just wanted to be on the same school. Obviously, same
023schedule and everything else. So, they read that in their letters. So, um those are your classified resignations. All right. I entertain a motion on the resignation. I will make the motion to accept the classified staff resignations as present. Second. All in favor say I. I. All motion carries 401 absent. And I'm probably going to need help on these later. So, um I'll read them again. MC Par preschool parah Ryland Butterfield. Um Corporation Daycare Michelle Jordan. Um I'll speak to this one since Nick is not here but high school registar. So with Beth moving over to the central office admin office that opened up her position here and Amanda um Coington who had been working out of the library last year. Um what's her name? Uh Cooper, right? Amanda Cooper, but she goes by Cington now.
024Um Nick's real high on her. She'll do a great job. MCE instructional assistant. This is the digital learning position. Kylie Smith, MCHS C, I'm sorry, corporation custodian parttime. Eric Cox, daycare pair professional, Brianna Poland's Brianna is a student. Correct. Graduated college. Just graduated. Right. Two years ago. Two years ago. A year ago. And then um MC parrofessional Nicole Higgins and Renee Sierra and Ron. Anybody up there? everybody wants to talk about highlights and questions from the board on any of those hires. What other pairs do you think we need between now and school? Right now, what I have on my list is we need one more, I believe, Cub Academy par professional preschool parent. And again, things change drastically when it comes to para as we get into registration and the first day of school.
025So where we are at, but right now I think the plan says we need one more as of right now. I think high school's fully staffed, elementary is still looking for one more pair uh the cup academy. And then as far as on the custodian side, we're still really looking for at least part-time custodian. Yeah. And then on the bus driver, so um technically we have two bus driving openings. I I I believe we'll just we're looking for at least one bus driver right now. All right. Any other questions? Everybody good to take all these together? Yes. All right. Entertain a motion on the classified staff appointments. Second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. 401 absent. Okay. So every July I ask for permission to go ahead and be able to
026offer and hire without board approval. basically anybody that leaves us between uh now and the first day of school um really between now and that first board meeting in August. So u I just got to be able to give my principles and everybody permission to do this. So I will keep the board informed and we will go ahead and put them on the agenda for the August 12th meeting. But I can't wait. So if we have any, you know, resignations between now and the first day of school, then I'm going to need the permission to go ahead and try to build those. So this tradition, this traditionally the way we've ran this, if you have any suggestions or you want us to do it a different way, let me know. But we got to be
027able to staff staff classrooms. We literally don't really like not to have to stab it with a temporary or a substitute. It's kind of hard to persuade somebody to come. They don't know if they have a job for sure. So, any questions on that? It's worked well in the past, I think, and and employ good communication. So, I appreciate that. Yep. All right. I'll make the motion to approve the permission to hire for the next board meeting. Second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. 401 absent. Games with guys 256. Yep. I submitted a list of dates for the school year on the last Friday of the month. I just want permission to use the elementary gym to do it again this year. It was great. We might need a bigger gym.
028That's what we like. For cafeteria, cafeteria. I said cafeteria. It's a gym, too. It has basketball. Yeah. too. Mr. Enskeep, um, you know, just asked to put this on there. Obviously, as a board member, we typically just approve these at the the billing and the admin level, but I think it would be appropriate for the board to and also just just wanted to appreciate him doing this for us. It's a great community service and yeah, look forward to seeing that cafeteria bowl on Fridays once a month. because I'm not tied to it financially. Can I vote for this? Yeah, it's a program. It's not a financial call. I give myself permission to use it. So, there you go. I'll make the motion to approve the games with guys uh for the 2526 school year. I
029second. All in favor say I. I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. 401 absent. Okay, superintendent board, I hit some things, a couple things that are not on here right now. So, we uh believe it or not, we start school three weeks from tomorrow. So, first student day is three weeks from tomorrow. Countdown is on. Um registration started this last year, but no inerson registration. The offices will open back up next week at the building level. So people can come in still, you know, call, email, whatever they need to do. But really all registration can be can take place online. No need to come in unless you wish to. I think all what else on registration that that pretty much covers that. So staffing obviously has been a big focus. always is this time of year.
030But um now we kind of swift shift g years a little bit in our office. Now we'll start working on the budget. Now that we kind of know staff, Mr. Cheeseman and I the next month, three or four weeks hit that hard and you guys approved those dates last month. So be hitting the budget kind of seeing where we're at on that. Um now on to operations. So, lots been going on the last seven weeks since we've been out of school. Tremendous progress on these projects. I lumped them together up here on the screen just because they kind of required shut down the water and everything else, but we'll start with the water pipe project at the high school. Saw your Taylor did a tremendous job for us. Again, you guys approved four laborers, if
031you recall, to come in and do the work. We bought the um most of the supplies. They brought their own equipment in to do the work and those kind of things. But that took place there in June. Um water was shut off here at the high school. You know, very smooth, went well. I know the board kind of did a walk through back in June kind of looking at some of those areas, but this point it's wrapped up other than just putting some ceiling tiles in. did not replace all piping, but definitely, you know, got everything from basically the boiler room out into the gyms up toward across the band room, choir room. And the key here is, if you recall, not only replacing that galvanized pipe, but you got shut offs now, so that
032if you do have a problem in a far reach, especially if you have a a farreaching area, Ron can shut that off. We can still maintain water pressure. still have water in the building. We don't have to go on boil water every time we have a pipe wreck. All right. So, um, did we get all the areas that were having problems? Yeah. Yes. Yeah. We added the kitchen while we were in there. I had to do all the hover or that didn't make sense to open it back up again. So, uh, we won't have to get above the kitchen again. So, we are we're hoping that this will obviously pipes convers at any point, but um and even if with doing the hot water, we were all within budget and everything too. Yeah, we actually
033um switched to PBC that and they only worked up here three weeks. So, we've got a week that we got credit for. So, but I used it at the elementary, but we used it on preschool. didn't get to it in a minute, but I poked around in there a week or two ago to see the water water project is is pretty much wrapped up. Um, however, um, we're still on a boil order here at the high school. Um, well, now I'm sorry, we are actually on a boil order campuswide hopefully through tomorrow or Thursday, but we had a scheduled power shutdown as part of the solar project. Of course, we've been on a boil order at the high school the whole month because June because of the water project. There was no sense in hiring
034Mr. Wyman to come in and do a bunch of tests when we knew we were get shut ready to shut it down again. So, we were waiting purposefully until the power shut down. The power shut down was last Tuesday, Wednesday, and it dug on into Thursday. But by about I don't know 2:30 3 o'clock on Thursday we're able to uh we all witnessed what Ron and I went out and watched turn the power back on. So I think we are we're hooked up pretty well ready to go on the solar project. Few minor things here and there and obviously the big one is waiting on AAP but everything's on schedule at this point. We're going to shoot for the first of August. Most of the work at this point is is finished. Definitely on the
035we do not have to shut the power down again. So we be able to see the kilowatt usage. I know we'll be able to see our bill lower, but do we actually see what they produced? Oh yeah, they will have a it's a little graph. It's you can get it on your phone. I I will start sharing it probably every month with you so you can see it. I'm just hoping that August 1 we'll start seeing that meaning it's energized. So, you know, anytime power goes out, it's a it's a you know, it's that's a hassle for you at your homes. I know it is at our house, too. Um, it's a tremendous hassle at a facility. You know, you know what? So, Thursday, these two guys right here are bringing everything slowly back on
036after being off for three days. And you leave here Thursday night feeling pretty good about things. Don't even turn the chiller on yet because we got to wait 24 hours for that and it'll be dog gone if Friday afternoon unrelated to any of the power shut down any of the solar project we lose power at around 5:30 Friday afternoon. Um, of course bands trying to have their big event that night and we have when we lose power we obviously have no lights. We have we have no walker. you we don't have pressure. We can't keep pressure. So, we're scrambling. I mean, what it's it's just like when you lose power at home, could be out five minutes, could be out five hours. We don't we just we did not know. We did know though. Thankfully,
037Brent checked with a realized this is not just an isolated neurosententral program because I initially thought when I got word I was like, "Oh crap, here we go." You know this the solar messed up and they didn't I all indications this was a power outage for about how many customers you say it affected this was an unrelated issue they didn't even come on site so we know it didn't have anything to do with us I think it was out for at least an hour and a half hour and a half somewhere in there I just I hated it for Derek Brazwell the band kids I think they were able to still do some some things Friday night but obviously bad bad timing on that. So we are because of that um we are still on
038a boil order test happened today yesterday and going to happen again tomorrow we should we should be good Thursday ready to go power water back to normal. Any questions on the pipe or solar power or water issues? Okay. Renovations. So, two the two big renovation projects we've been working on this summer are the special ed classroom which is nearly complete. Flooring's in, painting's done, lights are in. Looks fantastic. Got a little cosmetic work to do above. It's not even a doorway now, but it's just an opening that went from the storage room into the work room if you remember how that works. So, got got an opening up there that Ron needs to fill in. But other than that, I think that room I looked at it yesterday. It looked beautiful. Turned out great. It's
039going to be great space for for the life skills kids. Got a restroom. Have restrooms. We have water right in that room. So, let me go preschool room 63. Um Ron alluded to this, but he was be able to use some of the Sawyer Taylor guys to help out with some of the plumbing pipes, get all that going. So restroom is all piped up. Other than obviously set, sinks, toilets yet, and the door frame came in. How many inches off? What was it? Four, four inches from spec. So what you can expect nowadays generally when you order things but thankfully it's it's 4 in smaller than the opening 4 in bigger the opening. So that's going to put us a little behind schedule but we we'll continue to work on that. It's going to be
040great room once we get it finished but still work with ADA compliance and all that being smaller. I mean it's literally Yeah. It's just the outside frame is so the doors the same. The door is actually not. It's just the frames. Gotcha. So his opening is bigger than the rough openings. He took out more than he would have had to rough opening too. Had they done at the specs where they made the where they wanted the frame of the glass they miscalculated. I guess it's too narrow. Can we do a walk through there sometime? See both of those. I hope to take you down there on August 12th. Okay. Or if you want to come out look at it before then break several time. Right now it's a construction zone to be honest with you.
041But tremendous progress. Craig's got everything wired up as far as the AV stuff. I think the lights are pretty well pretty close. Don's got most of the lights. Lights. Lights in the bathroom. I think done in the classroom. Yeah. Keith Lambert's on hold. We'll turn him loose on the the plank as soon as get painting done everything. But going to be a great classroom once we get it done. So that's the renovations uh track. So the high jump area that was burn was able to wrap that up this week. Finally got some decent weather to do that. Looks good. The athletic director Kyle Beach went out said he he approved. So it's regulation size now. Ron's going to work tomorrow this week, Thursday, Friday on getting some straw blankets because we're going to have to
042get grass on that quick because we got to start watering the football field. So we don't want to have a muddy mess. So you'll see stroll blankets around both ends where we took those high jump area out on the south end and where we added it on the north end. So uh plan is to bring the track resurfacing folks and again when we say resurfacing they're not taking anything off. Um they're just kind of going in like they're just filling in areas that look low, you know, putting a little light top coat on it. I mean, it'll look brand new and then they'll restripe it, but they're not putting on like they are putting that on the actual high jump area because it's just asphalt, but the track obviously already has a layer and you're
043just kind of filling in. That is supposed to take place the first week of August. So, we're going to be back in school, but should be done by the end of the first week of August. So, those are projects as of right now that we've been working on. Brent, Ron, guys have been working hard. Crews have Chromebooks are here. Have been. So, not stuck on a boat out in the Pacific somewhere like we've been told in the past. What else you guys got? Do I have anything else? All right. I'll just add uh appreciate all the work that goes into hiring new people and all the work that is being done to have buildings ready. So, I want to hang on to whatever's left this summer, but also look forward to seeing the buildings and
044and seeing the kids excited to go back to school when it starts. Um with that, this meeting is adjourned.