001I pledge algiance 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. >> Thank you. agenda is blue tonight. All right. Well, thank you all. The first thing on the agenda is the uh approval of the consent agenda. The only thing contained in our consent agenda uh for this evening was the surplus auction um items of the ever growing list of surplus things we've been able to surplus by uh uh closing some of our other schools and consolidating into our new school as well as some other vehicles and things that we're going to be added. The list is not quite complete yet, but uh if you all have any questions about what was in there so far.
002If not, I'll entertain a motion to approve the surplus list as posted and sent to you. So moved. >> I'll second. >> It's been moved by Mr. Linds and seconded by Mrs. Green. All those in favor of acceptance, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Staining. And I will recuse because I bought something on the list. So, um, also approval of the financials as well. And just in case anyone's wondering at home, these things were listed online as an open auction bid. So I didn't get to be purview or anything uh exceptional. I had to bid with everyone else. So approval of the financials uh August bills which were 2,372,63 uh63.75 and the financial reports contained therein. >> Anyone have any questions about those? There's the one thing on there that really tickled me.
003We spent $350 for a plant. >> It was a really nice plant. >> Yeah. >> So, we investigated that. We spent $50 for the plant and the rest was for cleaning supplies and it all got lumped together. >> Yeah. >> 300. What kind of that was a 50 foot pine tree. >> I'm glad to see that you're uh checking the money so closely too, Mr. Linds. That is a >> very detailed. >> Yes. I saw that I thought we just sent a really nice spread to somebody and I assumed it was in its own coral >> correct nature. So >> Jack doesn't let anything slip by. >> So I'll take a motion to uh approve the financials as so presented. >> So move second. >> It's been moved by Mr. Smith and seconded by Mr.
004Linds. All those in favor, if there's no other question, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? staining or recusing. Next, we need to approve the minutes from the August 26, 2025 meeting. That was our tax hearing meeting uh and our of course board meeting that we had that evening. >> So move been moved by Mr. Carol. >> I'll second >> and seconded by Mrs. Green. Any questions or changes that anyone saw to the document? >> All those in favor of approving the minutes as presented, please say I. I >> any opposed? Standing or recusing? Uh next we need to adopt the agenda for the remainder of the meeting. There will be one addition uh we're going to amend items B, C, and D that you see listed um underneath the um old business and
005that is uh for sale of the Northwest School and approval of that process. So that's what uh BC and D are listed underneath your whole business. I'll be one more thing on new business. We need to add a B to new business for paper and we need to add a B to new business which was included in our packet bids on our paper uh bid but it was uh something left off for us to officially approve and to select one of those bids for uh going out for approving for our district. I so move >> B is going to be for the paper bids that were in our packet >> and that will be um underneath new business. B will be the paper approval of paper bids in a motion and then the old business
006is typed in underneath with B, C, and D which will be the process of closing and selling the Northwest School. >> Okay. I heard a motion, I believe, by Mr. Carol, to accept those changes and adopt the agenda for the remainder of the meeting. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> All right. Moving down to public comments. I will pause for a moment. I see uh district personnel uh from the uh MIS school here. So, I think that they're probably not going if you all want to start making your way up this way. And as usual, we thank you for joining us from the radio, sir, as well. So, and I believe when you ladies are
007ready, you are welcome to get started. And he is trying to hand you a >> Oh, >> this is not Miss Amy's first time here. She is a veteran presenter with us. So, we thank you. >> Everyone over here has presented, I believe, at least once. >> I have a great team. >> Thank you so much um for having us tonight. Um we just want to say thanks again for all the tremendous support. Um I'm Amy Heyman, principal at um the new intermediate school. Um, having the new building has been a a true true blessing and um, it's it's been a wonderful wonderful start to school. Um, we have thoroughly enjoyed all the staff members and the students in the building. Um, but in all the commotion and the ribbon cutting, I know there's been
008lots of excitement. There may be a few things that you may not know about or may have missed. So, I brought some wonderful team members with me tonight just to give you a few snippets of what's been happening since then. So, I have Carrie Harvey, our instructional coach, Morgan Middleton, our school counselor, and Lorie Peele, our gifted and enrichment instructor. >> Excuse me. Let me get out of the way. >> Okay. >> So, um, one more. Okay. So, first of all, we are just so thankful to be all together. Um some of the things that we put in place to allow for collaboration teachers do not have duties duty in the morning so that they can ask questions to veteran teachers to Amy to anyone they need to. Um we have team meetings every Wednesday
009to help us all stay connected. Um during first quarter only we have short 20 minute brief team planning meetings so that we can collaborate and learn from those teachers that came from other buildings. And then we also have, which these pictures are from there, beautiful, great spaces to eat lunch with our teammates, which we didn't always have in the other buildings. So that's that's a plus. Um, so we're just excited to all come together and reach our reach our goals. So, thank you. >> It looks like great spaces to eat is very important because that was the uh highlighted word in there. Um, last year I interviewed and had an application process for the fifth grade students, but it started in their fourth grade year. They had to fill out an application, get it signed
010by their parents for them to be approved to be a safety patrol. Only fifth grade is allowed to do it. It's an incentive for them being fifth graders. Um, it has been a hit. They students ask me in the hallways. They ask me constantly, "When is it my turn? When is it my turn?" I created a dojo page. There's 72 fifth graders that get to be a part of the safety patrols this year. Um, I made an acronym for patrols of purpose, accountability, trust, responsibility, optimistic, leadership, and self-esteem. I believe that by all of these, all 72 of them having an opportunity to rotate weeks on when their squad is on duty um allows them to learn a little bit of all of those pieces. I think this this picture was from last week. It's
011red week or red squad week. And then over here up here is a part of them just giving out high fives, a positive morning. Um I haven't seen a parent leave our car line in the morning with a frown on their face. So I think it's not doing just great for the students, but also great for our community as well. >> 72 students, is that about 40% probably of that grade? Maybe a little less. about cuz there's like 65 fifth graders I believe. >> Yeah. So, just wanted to put that numerical stat out there that if you wanted to have a chance, it sounds like you probably did. >> So, >> the new maker lab is up and running and we are starting the rotations of students coming through. Um, these are just a few
012of the things that they can do in the maker lab. 3D printing, which has by far been the most popular project, robotics, and then we new this year we have the chomp saw, and that's a device that allows students to uh create prototype materials, and they're having a blast with that as well. Lots of other projects. Kids are so excited. Every third, fourth, and fifth grade student in the building has the opportunity to sign up to do a project in the maker lab. So, that's really exciting. And kids are thrilled. they go by the hall and they stop in and tell me the projects that they want to do. So, I'm excited about that and hopefully you guys will be able to see some of those projects this year. Thanks. [Music] >> My name is
013Corb and my favorite part of the school is that I get to play outside with my friends. Hey, I'm Charles and my favorite thing about school is the cardio we get when going up and down the stairs. >> Hi, my name is Nielli and I really like the music room. >> Hi, my name is Jermaine. Some of my favorite things about this new school is the new big spaces gym and how colorful and bright it is. Those are some of my favorite things about this new school. Hi, my name's Alexis and one of my favorite things about this building is how big it is and like there's so much room to play or enjoy having school. Hi, my name is Jackson and what I really like about the new school is that there is a
014new gym and the food is better than last year and there's a lot more books in the library. [Music] Hi, my my name is called Jackson and my favorite thing about library is reading my book. >> My name is Roxy and the thing I love about music is singing. [Music] >> I give it an A. >> I give lunch a A. I give lunch a A+. And my grade for lunch is an A. If I could give lunch a grade, I would give it an A. [Music] Woohoo. >> That's good. Yeah, >> that was cute. >> It was nice. >> I just had to give Mrs. Bozeller credit for the last video. She took time to interview our students and I appreciate that. So, thank you to her. >> I'm liking this video trend that
015we've got going on at meetings. We might have to continue that. >> Thanks to all of you. It's a big hit. I know the safety patrol is a big hit at my house. I I hear when it's done and when the next one is and appreciate everything you guys did. Thanks. >> Thank you all. Can I >> ask a question? >> Yes, of course. >> Do you have any graffiti yet? >> Good. >> Thank you guys. >> I I hear glowing reviews about lunch. I think we talked about that last month um as well at the beginning. So our guest two weeks ago when we met. So apparently it's not just a hit at the uh intermediate school. >> All right, moving down to reports. I will start with deputy superintendent, Mr. Rinky. >> Thank
016you. Um I this is the only item I have tonight. Um uh copy paper bids. So we bringing three bids to the board. Um, we're going to go ahead and purchase 880 cases, which is a truckload. That's why it's 880. Uh, this will last us, this should last us through, uh, the rest of this fiscal year um, for the school year. Um, so I've got three bids. Quill supply at $43.99 a case, office supply at 36.48, and green printers at 36.25 for a total of 31,900 um, with free shipping. and then he also helps us store and uh do some different things. So, I'm going to recommend the bid from Green Printers to go ahead and buy our district copy paper for the rest of the rest of the school year. And that when that
017comes, that is all I have tonight. >> Pretty quick. >> All right. Does anybody have any questions about the paper? You want to talk about them later on? >> Do we'll vote on the We'll vote on the paper underneath new business B. So, he's just given us the information now to start. >> Thank you. Yes, sir. We'll move to uh Superintendent Mr. Pettit. >> I also don't have a very long report and I don't have a presentation. Mine's just verbal tonight and it'll be really quick. Um the first thing I'll say kind of a great followup to MIS's spotlight and all the fresh starts and new things that we're doing there. And I know there's a lot of there's a lot of talk and in this modern world with social media, if anyone uh is
018on social media, you you can hear some of that, but you don't really hear a representation of the majority of the public on social media necessarily. You hear the people that are willing to talk the most and sometimes that's good and sometimes that has some drawbacks when it comes to what's the real picture. And so I'm going to speak to just a few things about that a little bit. First and foremost, uh I want to mention with regard to Eastwood coming down that that that has come down and there's been some talk in the community about what we're doing with that. I just want to remind the community and uh the board that there have been discussions with the historical society which now has a building on the square and there are some items which
019we hope to have preserved there. Just today I left a another message with them to follow up as we have some of those items ready to deliver to them. So, we are trying to memorialize the great memories that are had at that building. Um, but we're still and I think a majority of Marshall is still celebrating these great new fresh starts and the traditions that we're starting now and today. I always have laughed through my years of administration. I don't know how many that is, maybe 11 or 12 in public ed at least. Uh, where sometimes people say what but wait a minute, why are we going to do that differently? We've always done it that way. Well, that is not a sound argument. um the the world today and 100 years ago was very
020different and the needs uh and how we respond to them should also be different right so I think it's important to have fresh starts it's exciting to see what's happening at um at MIS to that end I know that there's been some uh conversations uh among us here with the board about our traffic at the new school I reported last month that our traffic was flowing really well I'm happy to report to you again that that is still very true I know that again we may hear from an unhappy person or two in The truth is State Street um and Slater Street are very busy streets. There's a lot of traffic with that new school, but we do not have lines that are out in the street for 20 minutes. Uh I would say the
021worst day you will see traffic on State Street or Lincoln or Slater would be about 10 minutes is our norm. Um that does mean for some of the people on those streets that there's an inconvenience in terms of their morning walks and what they can expect for what they used to do and what happens now. But that's just the new reality because we have a campus over there now and it's busy. Um, but we thank the majority that we don't always hear from. We have got very respectful parents. We have a lot of kids walking uh and crossing the street. We have crossing guards, especially at the end of the day, much more so at the end of the day than in the beginning. And we do have respectful parents and respectful adults that are
022treating them uh carefully and being careful. The cars are being careful. And I feel that we have a very safe situation over there. The last thing I would say um is with regard to Northwest school. We'll have some motions that have been added on Northwest tonight. And so these are the developments since our last discussion on Northwest. We had some offers, some counter offers. We had a closing uh that was slated to have already occurred that didn't happen. And so we haven't made the motions we're going to make tonight. The first motion will be to resend the last time the board voted because the last board vote was to accept a contract with a different closing date. So you'll resend what you agreed to before. Then you will vote on a resolution which allows Mr.
023Jake as board president to sign and your other motion will be to just approve the new contract with the new closing date which could be as early as this Friday or next week. That depends a little bit on the time of the title company. So, this is exactly as discussed, selling uh slashtrading northwest to MSDC. MSDC hopes to get uh a working child care center at that facility. We gave them a timeline on how quick they had to fix the roof and I believe >> nine months. >> It was eight or nine months. Um and there was that there was a few years of right of first refusal coming back to us. All of those terms have stayed the same. The only thing changing with that agreement is the closing date from what you last
024countered offered to uh MSDC. So this is just the vote to finalize it and bring it to fruition. And that is all I have for my report. Thank you. >> Thank you sir. So moving down to old business. Uh it lists the surplus lists underneath appendix B which we already uh approved by the consent agenda I believe. >> Yeah. So you got that list with policy. Uh we'll finalize with some numbers and then open next month. I'll ask for one last motion to approve the final list and we should be done with surplus. >> So >> can you run down a little what's on that list? >> Lot lots of furniture. Um we have four five cars. Five maybe five >> five cars going through. They closed on Thursday like a used car lot out
025there. >> It looked like a used car lot out in front of the career center. It really did. We had hoped that those cars would get people on the site to buy furniture. We still have a lot of furniture without bids or only an opening bid that we hope people will uh get motivated to to uh bid on those. But uh basically it's lunchroom tables, classroom tables, desks and chairs in addition to these vehicles. uh next month those vehicles will be coming through on your financial reports as we have replaced some if not all of them I think by next month's financial report. >> Thank you. >> Yes sir. >> Uh so with that we will move down to uh the next motion is to resend the previous cell agreement of Northwest School. Um as
026he said this was the extension that we voted on two meetings ago I believe. Uh we didn't talk about I believe the tax rate hearing was the meeting before that. Um and so I'm seeking a motion to resend the previous date that we had for closing. >> I motion that we resend the previous sale agreement uh date for Northwest School. >> I'll recognize Mrs. Green and a second from Mr. Smith. >> Any questions? All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Mean to abstain or recuse. Um, next is to approve the newest contract sale agreement for Northwest School. Um, this just is the closing date being moved up to um, as soon as we can finish off on kind of the signing through the title company. I believe next Friday was
027the date that they had listed um, as well on this. So, this is to approve the new contract with the new terminology or the new date with all other factors staying the same as far as the roof repair um with the timeline with them and as well with the uh right of refusal and such. >> And there's lots I forgot that. Oh, and the and the trade that we had with MSDC is for two building lots um that the district would receive that in hopes that we could look towards uh supporting our building trades program with some viable ground to look towards building houses again in the future. >> I'll make a motion approve. I won't speak. I won't speak my piece, but that's been moved by Mr. Smith. Is there a second? >> I'll
028second. >> It's been seconded by Mrs. Green. I would urge you to say a little something if you would like to, Jack. I know that probably what you're talking about is you'd rather have had some monetary value coming back out of the school versus some land change value coming out of the school. And I know that that is uh what we'd like to do. We've been in the real estate business now. I've been on the board for eight years and I think for almost four, it uh at least maybe five I've been in the real estate business of buying various properties whether it was this building, the building to the side which we later sold within a few months and some other properties. So, if you'd like to uh mention that, uh I think it
029is duly noted because it is not a clean decision for us, but it is one I feel is in the community best interest of looking towards something hopefully that we can put back in the community that is of need. And I'll let you speak towards your your thoughts on that as well. >> Well, those lots have been for sale for over 20 years. I live within a couple blocks of them. >> Mhm. I know MSDC values them at what? $38,500 a lot. Both lots are sloping, both corner lots right on the highway. >> And this is just my opinion for whatever it's worth. To me, they're worth maybe $25,000 between the two of them. But if we're going to turn them in any hurry, we're the price is going to have to come down from
030where MSDC says. So we're in effect selling that Northwest, all of that for in my opinion $25,000 is what we're getting out of that. The only monetary thing we got out of it was their forfeiting their previous down payment under the other thing. So that's true. >> I that's all I got to say. I >> So where Mr. lens is going where he's talking about forfeiting the down payment. The escrow payment from MSDC initially because the contract change was forfeited um and came as a monetary ad that wasn't necessarily in the contract, but that um where these lots are located, they have been for sale for a while. The value of them and the price that they've been trying to sell for them has not worked for them to date as well. and that yes,
031we will probably have to sell them at a less money for sure than they have them valued at. And we potentially could um help fund our uh building trades program with a lot and a space that maybe potentially we could attract a buyer. It is an maybe less of an advantageous area being closer to the highway for people that especially would have small children or other things. Um but it is um something hopefully that the building of Northwest will come into uh hopefully the development and the idea of a child care center which is something that we really need in the community uh versus us not having any kind of control or help to the community. So >> I was going to say that too Ryan on the positive side of it if MSDCA comes
032through and does what they are proposing to do that's a tremendous thing for the community. >> Yes. I I will say that on the podcast. >> So So being able to, as you said, partner somewhat. It's almost a partnership of a sale because we're hoping that the fruition of what MSDC would like to do uh gain some support and will allow places for our children to have other places to go. It is a very large space. It needs a little work and a little help, of course, or else we would still be in that space. But it has a future for children and for kids in our community, and that's what we're here for. And so hopefully uh our pros and cons um outweigh as we are able to sleep at night. Mr. Carol, you
033have anything you want to add? >> Yeah, Jack's giving me a reason to pause on this because I was all excited about the building trades building a house, but what if we put a house up there and we can't sell it >> because of the way the lots land? >> And what if we have run into drainage problems if it's sloped as badly as it is? Will we run into drainage problems? Will we have to put extra extra culverts in extra ditches or something? It could turn out to be a nightmare. >> That's where those cores that they're providing us will be helpful because it'll uh so they've corded down and checked to see what sort of foundations need to be built there. But I would add too that will we build building trades houses
034on those lots? We don't know that for sure. We just have that as an option and should we do so, we know from these cores that they're giving us and that was valued at a pretty lofty amount, too. They're they cred down however deep and they know what we have for soils there so that we don't you know perhaps say dig a basement and there's a spring. We know what kind of foundations need to happen. Um but we don't know for sure because we have the lots that we'll build on those lots versus just sell them ourselves. That's uncertain. >> And historically you've had a a buyer of a house before you have a builder. So, the people that are moving into those building trades home in the past have purchased those lots and those
035uh homes with the idea of knowing what they're going into. There are also lots up and down that ditch on both sides. There's probably another six to eight lots down that block. So, it would not be the only thing. And as Mr. Pettit said, we don't know what our future is, but it is a future that we can control a little bit potentially. So, I >> I agree with you, Brian. I want to get out of the real estate business as quick as possible. But I mean, they we gave up money. We we gave up money for them and then they backed out of the deal >> and now they come back and want the deal again. And it's a sweetheart deal. I mean, Jack's absolutely right. It's a sweetheart deal >> that we're giving
036to them. We had a cash offer in our hands. >> So, but I want I want to see it gone. So >> I think on the I think on the positive Harry from from my personal perspective on this is I think about those uh community forums we had at all the school sites and what the community's feedback was and >> um there again I talked earlier about what you see on social media but overwhelmingly the community response was we'd like to see these buildings not become blighted or become something for the community. There were a lot of people at >> our last two forums that talked about let it be something for the library, let it be something for child care. >> Now will it all come to fruition again? I don't know. But I
037think that we made good on telling the community we want to try and do what you want and we're taking a chance on that in good faith. >> Now we we we won't get this building back once they once we sell it. >> We don't have to. They'll be our first right of refusal. We don't have to exercise it. >> We we Yeah, we don't have to escalate and take >> and this was the best of the four buildings and we're literally literally giving it away. I mean, this is of all the four buildings that we got rid of, this one was the newest and the best, >> which we got less for this one than we did for any of the others. >> So, hopefully it's going to be a childcare facility because I
038think about my babies going to one of those other buildings. I don't find that reassuring. >> Yeah. >> All right. Mr. Smith, do you have anything you want to say down on this end? >> M. >> No, I just I mean, it was probably the best of the of the buildings that we've gotten rid of, but the the city and the railroads also cut that side of town off. Yeah. >> So, it's also the least desirable for anyone to do anything with. So, >> I mean, >> all right, let's just get rid of it. >> Mrs. Green, you have any comments before we >> vote? All right. >> Yeah, I agree. Jack, >> well, this has been uh moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Our
039abstain. All right. It looks like we uh plan to still sell school as we are going. So as as uh as good as the discussion is, it's good to understand that we're still going in one direction together. >> So it's discussion is healthy. The thought process is needed for sure. So >> um the last thing to do is to approve the board resolution for closing Northwest School. All that means is that Matt gets to sign a piece of paper that says that Brian can sign for the property and we can go on and sell it by board policy. >> So move. >> Second. >> Yeah. >> It is moved and seconded. I will let the secretary decide who she wants to give those to. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> That
040was the old that was the old section of the board over here. >> Anyone opposed? >> All right. Uh, moving down to new business. The first thing is MSBA policy updates. I actually had to print those off for a short run because there were quite a few. I think there are seven in total. >> Three, four, five, six, seven. There are eight actually in total. >> It's about >> I want to compliment the superintendent. He did a nice job with that piece of paper you're looking at and summarizing those whole things. >> Yes. >> I don't remember reading him. >> Oh, it must it must be that old literature guy. I read everything. I don't remember reading them. >> I I'll pass this to you at the end, but I'll give you the clip. How
041about >> I'll just go with Jack. >> I'll give the clip motion to accept. We're we're going to accept IGAA which is a new uh policy under Senate Bill 63 which is about homeschool participation in sports with no minimum inseat requirement prior prior we had >> threehour oh now it's coming back to >> I read them last meeting >> BBBA-1 is the update to comply with house bill 199 about board members are not to be eligible to serve if convicted of assault in the first or second degree that was another statute change uh made as well. IGBI is the existing homeschooling policy with sections now redacted uh since Senate Bill 63 supersedes it. IC IGCD which clarifies students assigned from inperson to virtual due to behavior will still require due process. Um we're already doing
042this of course within the district. IG CDA, which are additional updates to uh comply with homeschooling changes by uh policy and statutes. IG, it's related to Senate Bill 39, which prohibits um males from competing on female teams and vice versa. Um JFCD, this aligns with state statute 162.207, 207 um which is the cell phone policy which is statewide as well by mandate and GCBA which is um something that we have as an in-house uh change and this is to make sure anniversary policy was incorporated into our pay scale a couple of years ago um to make sure that we've updated our um language to comply with things which were recommended by our auditors. Many of the I guess seven of these eight are by state statute and mandate and just making sure our records reflect
043um what is being ordered to us by the uh the votes or by the uh votes of our senate and house. >> Yeah, I'd add too that most of those were covered the uh mandatory training that we just had. They covered it extremely well in the mandatory training thing that will all be taken. I did it yesterday. Harry gets the prize. First one, I think. >> Huh? >> First one done, Harry. >> First one. >> Oh, it's got to be first. >> I just want to announce that Harry's retired and has a little bit more time than the rest of us, but I I did watch half of it. >> Uh, so I need a motion to accept those updates uh to update our handbooks and policies for the district. >> So, move. >> I'll
044second. >> It's It's been moved and seconded by what was the contingency? You all called yourselves down. >> I made the motion together. >> Okay. This is Jack has the motion. >> All those in favor of accepting of the MSBA policy updates, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed are abstaining. >> Uh the last thing is the paper bid um which uh Green Pinters came in with the lowest bid. Uh thank you Green Printers as well. We've uh accepted a few other bids in the past that were not always the lowest from Green Printers because we like to keep our money as local as possible uh when we can. So we will be uh that is the recommendation from uh deputy superintendent rinky and if anyone has any other comments or wants to make
045a motion >> move except for green printers. >> It's been moved by Mr. Carol and seconded by Mr. Smith. >> All those in favor please say I. >> Any opposed? Recusing have any stocks within green printers? All right. Next, we'll be uh taking a motion to adjourn to close session where we will talk about any lease purchases of real estate, hiring, firing, disciplining or promoting to particular employees or individually identifiable personnel records. >> So, move second. >> It's moved and seconded. All those in favor of moving to close session, please say I. >> I. >> Thank you all. You guys were motion hogs.