001um okay good evening we call the meeting to order with the Pledge of Allegiance please congratulations good job okay welcome to the regular September meeting of the Greencastle School Board the first item on the agenda tonight is adjustments to the agenda Mr Gibney I have no adjustments uh to the agenda this month okay next item public comments regarding agenda items tonight do we have any comments moving on next item is recognitions Mr given yep uh so this will be the first month that we recognize um our students of the month beginning with uh 23-24 school year so uh Mr mcute would you like to come up and talk about Deer Meadow thank you this is Remy wood small Remy is a um and she was nominated for student of the month and we did something
002different this year here Meadow to where we have all the nominations that I have the entire staff vote on our nominated candidates and Remy was our overwhelming winner and some of the comments every time I see Remy in the hallways she's either zip grip and bubble or has the biggest smile on her face it's usually built she loves school she loves to be a good role model to everyone around her another teacher raised by kindergartners are always watching the bigger kids and she is a great one to look up to the watch so she loves school she works hard she's a good friend and a great role model so we're proud to have Remy as ours August student of the month [Applause] congratulations and uh it's just so that everyone's aware we have our backdrop
003uh Greencastle backdrop set up for pictures um so you're welcome to go with your students you're welcome to come back in after that but we also recognize it as a school night and you may want to get your student home thank you thank you Mr Roberts good evening I have Mr Michael sabank here who is a second grader at redpath and he was nominated by Mrs Dibble his second grade teacher and I'll read a few words that Mrs Dibble wrote about Michael comes to school each day eager to learn he is a great friend and can often be seen cheering up classmates with a joke or a riddle he is a great example to others in and out of the classroom by modeling star Behavior he is such a great leader for our building and
004we are proud of all of his hard work and so um last year I was new so all of the students that I was able to recognize I was learning as well and so I've known Michael for a little over a year now and he has made so much growth from first grade to second grade and he is a great leader for her so congratulations to Michael [Applause] thank you Mrs Eldridge teasing students Alex is a student in a multi-age classroom in our building and I've only known Alex for a short amount of time but he has already impressed me so much he has grown on his goals he's met most of them and have set new ones uh Mrs Green his sister is absolutely so proud of him and so we felt like it
005was it was our honor to Alaska obviously [Applause] congratulations good job this is close they're all as tall as me which is hard to get used to Janae Greenlee is our eighth grader she is absolute joy to have in our building she's always bebopping around in the hallway a great smile on her face she's kind hard working is what her teachers had said and she's a student athlete as well and thank you to our coach for walking her over so she could be recognized tonight um she keeps up with her grades she has a great positive attitude and we're lucky that we get to spend the year with her [Applause] okay so the high school would like to recognize Alexandra Smith um she was nominated by many she is a senior for us and she
006has overcome a lot of challenges over her four years she's lost some from a shy low attendance credit deficient student to being on track and attending area 30 for culinary arts she advocates for herself she works independently in the alternative Ed classroom with Mr Hudson and then she goes to area 30. Mr Hudson said he's very proud of all the progress you've made Mrs Duggan said that you have been hitting your academic in educational goals and I personally am very excited that I get to be here Mr Rogers had a birthday which I'm very proud of you and I think you've overcome a lot and I just think you've done an amazing job [Applause] okay next item on the agenda is approval of the consent agenda which consists of meeting minutes from executive session of
007August 28 2023 regular board meeting minutes from August 28 2023 allowance of claims financial report and Personnel reports part one and two Mrs Roman yes hello everyone hello uh for senior um uh Finance packet you've got a couple of regular payrolls first one dated August 4th uh total payroll of 392 115.90 and as usual we've got the payroll taxes and retirement to go along with that payroll August 4th of 117 000 18.98 second regular payroll was August 18th for 435 785 57 taxes and retirement for that payroll was 125 763.39 we did have one mini payroll in August it was dated August 21st total payroll on that one was 69 22.77 and taxes and retirement for that payroll two thousand thirty nine dollars and eighty four cents did anyone have any questions about the payrolls
008for August no no okay we'll just move on to some prepays for August was there anything on the list that anyone had any questions about for prepays we had quite a few as you can see yeah all righty total for prepays August 2023 was 396 322.63 . next in your Finance packet you've got the regular claims dated today September 25th 2023 were there any on this list that anyone had a question about no okay um the total for claims dated today 471 638 13. next in your packet you've got the fund report to balance the end of August 2023 in education fund three million seven eighteen six seventy eight Twenty One balance and operations the end of August 2023 one million 253 675.33 if you go to the very last page of the fund report
009that would be page five of six total in all funds is 8 million four eighteen four thirty three seventy six okay next is the depository statement you'll see that bank to fund we are in Balance to the penny did anyone have any questions about the fund report for this month okay already then we'll move on to the fund transfer report um these were transfers fund transfers that were done during the month of August 2023 total was one million seventy thousand eight forty four fifty and lastly we have the bond expenditures the bond 2021 um to date August uh through excuse me through August 2023 our 25 million 721 103 15 and then for Bond 2022 through August 2023 is three million 945 751.97 did anyone have any questions about any of the expenditures for the
010bonds I'd like to submit to approval pending no questions I would make a motion to approve this Mr give me do you have something on the personal report you'd like to pull out anybody new very own uh they're very memorable I mean I was having some computer issues uh Green Castle High School alum we have Crystal Burke um it will be joining us uh pending on your approval uh tonight as the next assistant principal at kazonica's intervening school and uh Chris uh really impressed the committee we had a good pool of candidates but Chris Easley Rose to the top and we believe that he has a lot of the skills and talents and and strengths that will help Mrs Eldridge and working alongside the teachers to uh to take TZ to new heights and the
011levels that we we want here at greencast so we're uh excited to have him join our team pending your approval tonight okay great thank you welcome welcome and we want to say uh thank you to um Mr Phillips Mr Phillips yeah absolutely Mr Phillips has been uh great for us just in knowing the procedures and protocols throughout the Z but also his familiarity with the students and staff and uh he's been a great resource for Mrs Eldridge and he's going to continue to to help support Mrs Eldridge and Chris as we begin their transition so it's always nice when you have teacher leaders ready to step up and step in when called upon and that's definitely Mr Mr Phillips so thank you so much thank you very much okay now can I get a motion
012to approve I will move a Dale seconds okay we have a motion and a second um any questions discussion comments okay are you not all in favor all right all opposed motion passes now officially welcome next item on the agenda is reports first one from the gcta The Unofficial scores are continuing on quite well I feel that both sides we know what we're looking at we know what we're looking for and we're hoping we can make sure everything's pretty good um a lot of positive thoughts around the board and other gcea news we successfully had one of our gcta socialists a couple weeks ago at Scoops quite a few of our local members came and enjoyed a treat on the union there's nice to see some turn out there and you know just because it
013was in our community to be the main goal with our kids and our parents in the community which was nice last but not least starting next month I hope they have some nominees for you for our gcpa members that we're recognizing internally that we feel are really going up and beyond for our school district so we'll have more news on that too other than that too that's about it great thank you next is the assistant superintendent report which is what I need now within their schedules um it's a focused time for the teachers to work with small groups the students on specific targeted skills and our teachers utilize our i.ready assessment and our doubles assessment to form those groups based on the students instructional needs and this really helps us to ensure our students individual
014needs are met [Music] I'd also like to recognize third grade teacher at TV Brianna Shafer and she was accepted into the English as a new language program at Huntington University and her coursework is going to be paid for through the Indiana teachers of English Learners licensure which was awarded to her through a competitive application process so this was not something that everybody gets to do so she had to work toward getting that so we are really excited about this opportunity for her and that impact on our students uh red path was one of 12 Indiana students or Indiana schools selected to be a collaboration site with the um teacher professional development company get your teach on this is an initiative from Dr Katie Jenner our state superintendent and it's aimed to improve not only our
015academic for our students but also our our teachers so really really focusing on our teachers and that their instructional practices so I'm going to have Mr Roberts share a little bit about their first two days and then we have a short video thanks a couple of this summer um britpap had a team of five teachers go to a summer get your teach on conference and um if if you follow gyto they have a huge social media presence and a lot of our teachers have been following um Mrs Lenny shatab who is actually teamed up with our school for a year-long partnership and we have several staff members that have been following her for years on social media and she's really just an expert when it comes to student engagement she has a lot of knowledge
016about the science of reading and the science of writing which you all know is a huge State initiative really Nationwide initiative right now so over the first visit she was here for two days and really her goal there was to get to know our school and so she was in and out of classrooms she met with each of our grade level teams and departments to really just see what we need need as a school and what's really neat is it's not just a canned program that they go and do the same thing at the 12 schools it's based on what we need and so um we're really excited about the work and part of what we learned from her first visit is you know it's it's something that we're going to be able to take
017and not just do it redpath but also help our entire Corporation so we've already started on some work at our first or actually our second combined PLC today which is really working towards um aligning our new curriculum with the new Indiana reduced standards so great things are going to come from this collaboration and we're super excited about it thanks Corey we'll show a short video that one of our Middle School teachers actually put together the girls let me see this song tonight it was also talked Like a Pirate Day that you normally wear but lenisha also came that day dressed um as a pirate as well so she who I'm just really really excited about this and not very many schools have this opportunity right now and so we're just going to take advantage of
018it as much as we can okay that's great thanks next item is the superintendent report Mr giveny yeah I just have a few uh brief items um this month um Monday October 2nd is our ADM count day so if you remember they moved it from September uh to October and they'll determine our school funding so um at next month's meeting I'll have an update for you with our ADM accounts um just a couple updates with just some general facility um things that will be taking place we're getting ready to replace the stairwell by the tennis courts um they're uh they're become a little bit dangerous so we've closed them off and uh we'll be replacing them hopefully here within the next next few weeks um we'll have uh rails on both sides we just completed
019our annual bleacher inspection and to go along with that one of the things that we're looking at doing is to see if we can potentially make any adjustments or changes out at the home side bleachers at the soccer and football field and track um that's good those are very dangerous yes um so hopefully we're able to do that uh you know when you make adjustments you have to bring things up to code so I don't know if that'll be cost prohibitive or not but we're gonna we're gonna see what our options are see if we can do anything now or see if we need to plan for the future with that along with that um the pool is back up and running so our swim team is able to use the pool again after sealing
020uh sealing the leak passing the water test and so that's kind of get that back up and running um we're getting ready to replace roughly 59 lights on our athletic fields we've got a lot of lighting that's out and so we're getting ready to uh to replace that here hopefully within the next couple of weeks as well um we started breakfast in the classroom and all three of our elementary or well we will be starting breakfast in the classroom all three of our elementary schools here this fall Deer Meadow has done it for a couple of years um rid path just started at the beginning of this year and then TZ is planning for an implementation I believe in November right after fall break um so breakfast in the classroom helps to remove a barrier
021for students or families especially if they're arriving late to school just really helps to cut down the amount of time it takes to go and go to the serving line get your meal go to the classroom and eat so hopefully more kid Studies have shown the more kids when we eat breakfast um cut down on the transition time and then we lost learning time so we're really excited about that and then as Mr Nance said earlier we we had a just an initial meeting to talk about goals and priorities during this negotiation session and uh we'll be meeting again on October 12th um with myself and the board team and this is Mcpherson and uh Michelle Cooper from Lewiston campus to work towards what we I hope is a an agreement in The Fairly short
022a short order but overall things are school years continue and Go well we're seeing a lot of good things taking place and a lot of the positive changes have been made being implemented it's alive for the smoke okay great thanks next item on the agenda on the agenda is old business and we have no old business that brings us to new business the first item is a public hearing from the 2024 budget cpf plan and bus replacement plan so I'm assuming we just do this is like any other hearing opened up to public comment yep so we'll call the meeting or the hearing to order anyone have any comments on the 2024 budget the cpf plan the bus replacement plan can make their public comments now okay hearing none hearings close do you need anything
023else there or is that nope we went before the County Council so next month we'll go through our adoption process with County Council and our school board foreign thanks next item is an approval request for the 2023-24 Indiana State Department of Health death and hard of hearing contracts yeah so you might remember in the past you've approved the contract for blind and low vision this is uh kind of a similar thing to where we work with the Department of Health to provide depth and hard of hearing services to our students who qualify for those services so it would be my recommendation that the the board approved the contract I make a motion that we approve okay we have a motion in a second any questions comments carrying none all in favor all right all opposed
024motion passes next item is an approval request for blades audiovisual Glades audio video security proposal yep so uh really excited to share um that once again um like normal um Mrs good pastor has has worked um with our team to submit a secured school safety Grant and this year we're awarded just under a hundred thousand dollars um so essentially we have a 200 000 project a hundred thousand dollars will come from Grant proceeds and a hundreds out roughly a hundred thousand dollars so we can come out of GCSE funds and that's to help make improvements to our security cameras and some of our intercoms throughout our campus and um it'd just be a you know as equipment wears out um we're able to upgrade our servers there are some enhancements with just the quality of
025the cameras um and so it's a definitely a good thing for for Greencastle so it'd be my recommendation that the board approved the proposal displays audio thank you Yolanda for working on this future thank you okay we have a motion and a second degree for the questions comments you're hearing that all in favor all opposed motion passes next item is an approval request for the 2024 out of state band choir trip to Orlando Florida I'm guessing Mr Hansen is here um because of this um so this is a good opportunity for our students to not only perform but to go to Orlando Florida and since this is overnight out of state it requires board approval the itinerary and information is in your board packet so they have all all things lined up and have a
026well-organized trip so this is an annual trip right typically they it has been but we kind of got off course obviously during covert I just couldn't remember it was every year if it was every other one okay so it's a just a really good opportunity yeah you know it's a great trip whatever okay if I have any questions for tomorrow thanks for doing this I'll make a motion delivery okay no motion and a second um any more questions comments yes have fun um all in favor all right all opposed motion passes next item is an approval request for uniform conflict of interest disclosure statement yes so we have a uniform conflict of disclosure statement for for Mr Wilson and um it would be my recommendation that the board improve this Outlook Adventures disclosure work and
027security involvements well we're glad you're there working with security thank you I'm glad I'm there as well it's a fun time you get to interact with the students okay I get emotional proof so move a second you have a motion and a second all in favor all right all opposed motion passes well thank you a pleasure next is an approval request for the invitation for membership to the new Athletic Conference so Mr Rogers and uh Mr Greenlee have been working probably over the last year there have been some some meetings of that essentially we weren't a part of initially so we're happy in the western Indiana conference some things that have changed and we were extending an invitation to join a new conference with North Montgomery South Montgomery Crawfordsville Frankfort Western Boone Cascade and I
028think North Putnam if I didn't say them already so they extended an invitation to us to join they had some conversations with our coaches and some of our student athletes and their families and the overwhelming majority was in favor of making the move to the new conference we're not necessarily sure what the new conference would be titled um but it would begin in 25 26 so we would continue to compete as the member of the WIC um until that until that time period so Mr Rogers Mr Greener making this recommendation and so I would go along with making that recommendation to the board as well what I understand this is schools are slightly more like us as far as student numbers and they have all the same sports that we have yeah we're probably more
029closely along or closely aligned with size there's not like a North View and a really small school we're all about the same size and yes we compete with they all have just about the same athletic teams this week it's a little more geographically yes I don't have to go far to the southeast that you don't have to go west sounds like a good idea to me can I get a motion second okay Motion in a second all in favor opposed motion passes next item is an approval request for the second reading of the gcsc foundational statements for 2023 through 2026. thank you Corey um so we've been spending roughly the past year working as the board uh administrative team and then the administrators have had served to have conversations with uh their teachers in the
030building but more or less just really examining what it means to be a Greencastle tiger cub and so I will I won't read them because we have them listed on the on the screen but we've developed our core beliefs we've developed our vision and our mission um and in combination with that we're going to focus on our prior use these to develop our priorities to help us develop our goals for 2023 through 2026 so we can continue to move forward as a district and essentially the whole goal in going down this road or this process is one just having a good conversation as an administrator for a team but also with our buildings and our families and to put together the road map to move Greencastle for us and so this is really kind of
031that first first piece is to adopt these foundational statements um to kind of update our identity and then moving forwards we'll be sharing some priorities and goals that we can measure throughout the time and going along with you know any strategic plan you have to remember that it's not just a one-year plan it's kind of a continuing rolling three-year plan but within that plan there are going to be goals and it doesn't necessarily mean that we're going to try and Tackle everything at the same time so it it builds upon each goal so I'm really excited about this work and really excited to to move forward with this work good thanks for working on it do you have any questions or comments I think I get the most to approve ment second care of emotion
032in a second all in favor all right all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is to approve three new athletic corporate sponsors being seniors seniors towing or fifteen hundred dollars Buffalo Wild Wings for 750 and Putnam seed Service LLC for 750 dollars any questions or comments other than thank you yes sir I make a motion we approve those yeah okay motion a second home forever all right all opposed next item is just as easy approval request for donations we have a donation from breadworks by Bridges to gcsc for 500 Balfour to Greencastle High School for one thousand six hundred dollars Greencastle alumni Dollars for Scholars to Greencastle High School for one thousand dollars into Mary Allison children's trust to Deer Meadow primary for one thousand dollars make a motion will be approved okay
033I have a motion a second any comments thank you thank you thank you very much okay all in favor I I all opposed motion passes next item is an approval request for the second reading of the New York Eola policies that we heard last month so this month we actually had to approve that it'd be my recommendation that the board approved the updated policies depending any questions no questions accepts a little second okay we have a motion in a second to adopt the Neola policies on the second release all in favor aye all opposed motion passes the next item on the agenda must be Meola policy season here the third is a first reading of okay used to be 30 Neola policies here yes there's a lot volume 35 number two yep so with this
034that we really don't have to do anything other than ask questions if we have them it's the next month and we'll approve it correct if I have any questions on these maybe not all the pretty self-explanatory okay good enough next item on the agenda is other business because you only have any other businesses like to discuss I was just going to ask about the bleachers just because I've seen some people in their wet have a little bit of a hard time with them but you guys are looking into that to things yep right to clarify that it happened here at home right definitely not anyone else have any other business okay next item on the agenda is adjournment make emotionally close a second okay we have a motion a second all in favor all right
035all opposed motion passes thank you all for coming this evening and because we're going home and we will see you next month easy