001[Music] hello everyone and welcome to school board briefings my name is josh burnett and i'm the communications coordinator here at bartholomew consolidated school corporation one of the new initiatives that we're going to be going forward this year in the 2021-2022 school year is to add these summary videos about the school board meetings if you don't come in person to the school board meeting or don't view the live stream on our youtube channel we want to make these available for you so that you can keep informed and up to date with all the things that are going on within our school corporation if you haven't already please take a moment to subscribe to our youtube channel so that you'll be notified when these new videos come out you can also find all things school board related
002at our website bcse schools dot org forward slash school board you'll be able to find things like meeting agendas past minutes as well as any links or details that you would like to know about the school board all right let's get into our most recent school board meeting our bcsc school board met for the only meeting of this month on monday july 19 2021 at the bcsc administration building columbus north athletic director brian lewis introduced members of the bulldog track and field team who meddled at this year's state meet these athletes included tucker smith shotput state champ reece kilburger stump 1600 meter runner-up mckenzie barnett brianna newell lily baker and julie klaus as four by 800 meter relay third place and finally emily herndon who is shot foot fourth place congratulations to these tremendous student
003athletes and to coach rick slooter next dr roberts provided our covet 19 plan of action and reopening plan for the 2021-2022 year this plan was first communicated publicly on thursday july 8th and a slightly revised version was shared on friday july 16th the plan can be viewed on our website under news around the district occasionally with district-wide communications like this we will utilize our e-alert system so that we can get this information to as many stakeholders as possible if you aren't already signed up for our e-alerts please go to bcseschools.org forward slash e-alert registration and follow the instructions provided local data found at covid19communitytaskforce.org and state data for covin 19 spread was reviewed as part of this presentation and we recommend using this website to stay up to date on this information the reopening plan
004presented was formally approved by school board members as a part of the approval process near the end of the meeting as a part of that plan masks are optional but recommended for individuals who are at risk or not vaccinated masks are currently required on all buses because of a federal mandate speaking of masks we had a number of people choose to offer public comments expressing their thoughts both for and against wearing masks other themes included concerns expressed about critical race theory also known as crt covet 19 vaccinations in contact tracing after the public comment portion of the meeting assistant superintendent of financial services chad phillips gave his second quarter financial report and that's based on our financial status as of june 30th as a part of this report mr phillips cited information related to our
005use of the referendum that was approved by our voters last year for this first half of 2021 490 teachers averaged 3657 in experience increases 218 teachers received a one-time stipend of 556 dollars 949 support staff members averaged 667 in additional pay and then 150 000 went towards salaries of our five school resource officers also known as sros and four hundred thousand dollars went toward updating our school bus fleet jim funk from cso architects provided information about a recent evaluation completed on all of our facilities and laid out next steps to address our needs as a corporation these next steps include hvac improvements at a number of our buildings hvac replacement at schmidt elementary many improvements at parkside elementary roofing replacements at the information services center also known as isc clifty creek elementary and smith elementary
006as well as improvements to the columbus east high school softball baseball and football areas items that were recommended and approved besides the already mentioned reopening plan included minutes of the regular school board meeting held on june 14th supplemental contracts field trips and professional leaves fundraisers claims and payroll and a federally required adjustment to adult meal prices the board approved all human resources recommendations that includes retirements resignations new hires school board members will next meet for a strategic planning session on july 30th and the next school board meeting will be on monday august 9th here at the administration building in the terrace room at 6 30 p.m you can come in person you can also view that online on the bcsc youtube channel will be live streaming and then it will be archived there where you
007can watch it and on your own time thank you so much for tuning in to this first of many school board briefings i look forward to keeping you up to date with all the things that are going on here at bartholomew consolidated school corporation you