001All right, it is 5:30. Stand for the pledge of allegiance. 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, welcome everybody for the to the Mach Boston School District Mount Vernon meeting of the Board Board of School Trustees for Monday, June 15th. Uh we'll start with the recognition of delegations. Any person wishing to be recognized to speak on any agenda item or to be heard as a part of the section of the agenda dealing with delegation to citizen comments are to identify themselves by name and the point of the agenda where they wish to be recognized. Follow us in our way, normal spot C1. >> Okay. Okay. >> All right, we'll I'll
002move right on over to uh routine matters here. >> Hey, and if it's okay, we'll take one or we'll take one A, B, and C together. We have presented you with the minutes from the June 1st meeting, as well as uh oh, pay- payroll checks and voucher checks, as well as electronic transfers, and also our financial statement for May. >> All right. Um I need a motion to approve the minutes of the June 1st, 2026 meeting as prepared or as corrected. Uh motion to authorize payment of payroll checks 410071 through 410823, voucher checks 147908 through 147988, and electronic transfers ET003449 through ET3003456 as recommended. Any voided payroll uh voucher checks not listed on the voucher listing in the above sequences are not approved for payment by this action. And a motion to accept the financial
003statement for May 31st Yeah, May 31st, 2026 and file it for audit. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right, we have a motion by Ms. Bessessi and a second by Ms. Butler. >> I'm opposite, is it? >> Oh, it's oppo- Sorry. There we go. Um All those in favor, I vote >> We'll do a roll call. >> Oh, roll call votes, okay. Um So, we'll start with Ms. Bessessi. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Butler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Isaac. Mr. Oath. And I vote yes. All right, we're on to unfinished business. >> So, uh cafeteria supply bids, uh our food service director uh went through uh went through and selected the the cafeteria selections and uh she'll be making those recommendations and uh we'll be moving forward. >> All right. Uh I need a motion
004to accept the bids for the cafeteria food and supplies for the 2026-2027 school year as recommended. >> Second. >> All right. Uh we're going to move to roll call vote. Um Ms. Bessessi. >> Yes. >> Ms. Butler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Isaac. Mr. Oath. And I vote yes. All right, we're going to move right on to policy revision. >> At a previous meeting, the board reviewed and discussed proposed revisions to these policies. We are now recommending the board adopt policy 413 04 and 413 05. >> All right, I would like to get a motion to adopt policy 413 04 and 413 05 as recommended. >> So moved. >> All right. All right, we're going to move to a roll call vote. Miss Pecessi? >> Yes. >> Miss Butler? >> Yes. >> Mr. Isaac? Mr. Oath?
005And I vote yes. All right, we're on to new business. >> And we have the following resignations: Misty Gross, teacher at Farmersville; Tara Martin, counselor for the secretary counselor secretary at the high school; Jacqueline Meyer, head coach for girls track; Allison Loudy, food service worker at the high school; Andrea Sims, chorus special ed TA at the junior high; and Matthew Bolt, assistant I'm sorry, assistant coach for volleyball half stipend at the junior high. >> Okay. I'd like to get a motion to accept the resignation uh listed above effective immediately unless otherwise indicated from the list above. >> So moved. >> Second. >> [clears throat] >> All right, we're going to move to a roll call vote. Miss Pecessi? >> Yes. >> Miss Butler? >> Yes. >> Mr. Isaac? Mr. Oath? And I vote yes. And
006now we're down to employment recommendations. >> Uh we have employed the following employment recommendations: Misty Gross, building secretary at Farmersville; Aaron Heckelbeck, English teacher at the high school; and Kelly Tuck, newspaper yearbook sponsor at the junior high and that's a three year quarter stipend to full stipend. >> All right, can I get a motion to confirm the employment from the list above? All right. We'll go ahead and move on to a roll call vote. Miss Bessessi? >> Yes. >> Miss Butler? >> Yes. >> Mr. Isaac? Mr. Oath? And I vote yes. Uh non-paid leave of absence extension. >> We have one um employee, Heather Fields, um maintenance at the junior high is requesting an extension of a non-paid leave of absence from June 1st, 2026 through July 31st, 2026. >> Can we get a motion
007to approve an extension of extension of a non-paid leave of absence request uh for the above mentioned? >> So moved. >> I'll second. >> All right. We'll move on to the roll call vote. Uh Miss Bessessi? >> Yes. >> Miss Butler? >> Yes. >> Mr. Isaac? Mr. Oath? And I vote yes. Uh educational meetings. >> Amber Nation um is requesting to attend the Student Data Privacy Consortium in Indiana Indiana Alliance in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 21st and 22nd, 2026. >> All right. Uh looks like we need to get a motion to adopt a resolution permitting personnel listed above to attend educational meetings. Okay. Uh we'll move on to a roll call vote. Miss Bessessi? >> Yes. >> Miss Butler? >> Yes. >> Mr. Isaac? Mr. Oath? And I vote yes. Looks like we're to breakfast
008and lunch prices. >> So we are recommending the prices the same as they were last year. >> All right. Uh can I get a motion to approve prices for the 20 2026-27 school year as follows: student breakfast $1.50, reduced breakfast 30 cents, adult breakfast $2.75, and lunch prices for type A meals as follows: elementary elementary $2.20, junior high $2.35, high school $2.35, reduced lunch 40 cents, and adult meals $4.85 is recommended. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. We'll uh move on to a roll call. Uh Ms. Pecessi? >> Yes. >> Ms. Butler? >> Yes. >> Mr. Isaac? Mr. Outh? And I vote yes. Uh employee travel procedures. >> I included in the package is some updates and uh some clarifications to our uh travel procedure. Uh just some clean up of the language,
009and then also the really the big change is uh increasing the amount that you're eligible for meal reimbursement on a trips that extend past 50 miles. >> Okay. >> Can we get a motion to approve the updated travel expense reimbursement procedures um for all of MSD of Mount Vernon employees effective July 1st, 2026? >> I'll second. >> All right. We'll move on to the roll call. Uh Ms. Pecessi? >> Yes. >> Ms. Butler? >> Yes. >> Mr. Isaac? Mr. Outh? And I vote yes. Uh we're on to the corporate resolution for Farmersville and the junior high. >> A copy of the resolution is enclosed due to personnel changes Farmersville Elementary and Mount Vernon Junior High, an updated corporate resolution is needed. >> All right. Uh can I get a motion to adopt a corporate resolution
010authorizing the following person to manage the following account? Mount Vernon Junior High uh junior high school extracurricular account, Stacy Reese principal or Jay Hilly assistant principal and countersigned by Lindsey Schmidt treasurer. And then for Farmersville Elementary School um the extracurricular account, Kaylen Herman principal and countersigned by Misty Gross treasurer. >> I moved. >> All right. Got a motion and a second, so we need to roll go to roll call vote. Miss Bessessi? >> Yes. >> Miss Butler? >> Yes. >> Mr. Isaac? Mr. Oath? And I vote yes. Uh looks like we're down to information and proposals. B1? >> B2, Colleen. She replaced Holly Hatter in uh IT in the IT department. So she Yeah. And she was um What was she before? The >> She was the information systems secretary. >> And she left and
011came back to us. >> Uh we do. Yes. Uh not necessarily. It's just uh the the the normal program that all schools are are part of. Yep. Uh yeah, that that amount's the same, 49 cents. Uh it was the uh the meal reimbursement amount is just brought more in line with other surrounding school districts. It was at 30, it's at 45 per day uh maximum cap. Yes. Yep. Yes. That's right. >> [laughter] >> Yep. That's right, next month. Yep, everyone's favorite time of year. Uh we believe it's second meeting in July is is the first presentation. Hope so. Those are just expenses in general. Do do you have that in your budget? Yes. Yeah, as far as the year goes, we're we're still in in the black as far as Yeah. >> We um had
012to include We're part of a cohort uh for our special education department, and they are helping us to make sure we have all of our policies in place that need to be under Article 7. So, we um have We We put through least restrictive least restrictive environment and educational surrogate, and then we are proposing we have a first read on our FERPA policy. Which we already have a policy, we're just updating it to make sure it Yeah. Mhm. >> It is policy season, so there will be more. >> All right. >> Nothing new on the house. >> Mhm. >> Okay. Paula, did you have something? >> We We don't really have a plan for that. I know that when we our future plans for moving pre-K to head start potentially, we would have a playground
013in the courtyard in the middle of the school. Um but we really haven't discussed what, you know, we always want to be really careful that someone doesn't get hurt, but we haven't really talked about those students at all. >> Yeah, and I'm not sure if they came off or if they were intentionally taken off cuz they do have a painting program that they go around and paint the playground equipment, so Yeah. Maybe they did. did that. Okay. Might have been hit by a lawnmower Yeah. We'll have them check out those other things. None of that is intentional. Like we're not starting work there. So if if the swing is down, it's just either they took it down or someone took it down clearly. Yeah. >> You can contract all your buses out if if you
014choose to do so. So so the contractor supplies their bus. We have a what we've done historically with with Nick specifically is four-year contracts. And so in the contract, we kind of specify obviously the price, but then what model year the bus needs to be or newer. And that's factored into to the pricing. And then there's also like a fuel escalation in there so it protects both of us in in case fuel goes there's a war in Iran or something that uh you know, they're they're not locked into $3 a gallon and you know, vice versa if we signed a contract when it was really high and it dropped, it protects us. So, uh yes, they're responsible for the repairs um and the maintenance on their buses. Uh we're responsible for like the cameras and
015um the the recording devices that are that are on there. >> I think they need to update it though. >> Yeah. I I think that so they did a they did a major overhaul and overhaul in the route consolidations about a year or two ago and since I think at that time they took them all down uh while they're still trying to figure out if how exactly it was going to work and if we uh needed to add routes, if we probably time that those those go back up. Mhm. >> We some are back up and we we put I think Ashley Nichols is in charge of that. I think she's looking at adding uh potentially another route to West. We will have some different routes when we start the school year to improve um
016ride time for kids. So that they're on the We do not We would like that to be reduced. Yes. So that's what we're working on. I mean any number any any any earlier to so they aren't on the bus. We don't want kids on the bus for an hour and 45 minutes. So, um I know that she has some plans in place to help that to reduce that time. So, we have some buses that go all around that's the in the county roads and take kids home and their bus routes are really long and so we're really working to reduce those and hire more drivers. So, still looking for more drivers. Ashley Nichols is our bus transportation manager. Uh, it is possible except for they do have some exams they have to take. So. We
017have EL teachers who >> [clears throat] >> do work with our students to improve their their back vocabulary and their knowledge of English. Yes. Stephanie Smith is our No, it will be in English. Well, that we had to choose whether we were going to have kids. We have not presented the policy yet to be to be voted on. We had two options. One option is for kids to put a cell phone in a locker powered off or in a backpack and they can't touch it bell to bell or to purchase a pouch and the kids put their phone in a pouch or some stored device and that's locked up until the end of the day. But the the the um compartments are about $50 each. So, it's we probably will propose a policy that phones
018are >> [clears throat] >> in a stored position in the locker from bell to bell and that's what the law they basically they give you two options. So, that is the option that we'll present to the board. Yeah, nothing was not an option. It's going to be hard for our kiddos to not have their phones with them all day long, but we'll get there. So. Yes, it will. We probably will bring that for first read at our next meeting. Yeah, oh yeah, definitely. >> It was proposed in Indiana, but it got it got got down and so >> Yes, we will be making that transition this next school year. So, we will be busy. It would be great. Yes. There will be some, I would say, to anticipate some payoff because we still will have
019tile factory closed. So, we may start with a route plan and that may change once tile factory is back open. So, we'll have to make some modifications. You can't. It's closed. You have to take the long way home. >> I feel your pain. I have to I have to go around, too. All right, doesn't look like we have anything for non-staff communications reports from the superintendent and staff. Self-insurance funds continues to be being in good shape. >> And now we're asking for liability volunteers. So, we ask for two volunteers from the board to serve as members. Did you have more to say about self-insurance? I kind of just cut you off. Sorry about that. We ask for two volunteers from the board to serve as members of the liability broad-based committee for the 26-27 year.
020>> Say that again. >> I'm happy to do it. Thank you. So, we will have Brian. >> make those two since they're not here. We voted them in. >> I can feel it coming through the phone. >> Yeah. All right, are any other questions um by the board members? Nope, nobody online now. All right, we're down to future business and I think Stephanie usually takes us out from here. >> Hey, so our next Monday won't be until July 6th um here at 5:30. Then we'll have one July 20th and August 3rd. Um and then you have new policy. It's just a FERPA policy to review before the next meeting. So that's all we have. >> All right. Uh looks like we can adjourn the meeting. >> Great.