001is it done it's time where you stand and uh we'll give the Pledge of Allegiance please pledge of the United States of America good evening uh pitch hitting for Mr White who is not here with us tonight and uh so bear with me if I make a few mistakes uh first item on the agenda is the adjustment to the agenda yep there are no adjustments to the agenda this month the next item is the public comments regarding agenda items have any comments that on the agenda tonight from anyone please okay next one is recognition of students Mr Roberts well good evening I have Miss Alessa Gibson here who is a kindergartner for one more day it's almost a first grader and she has been such a pleasure to have it redpath this year and she
002is our student of the month so I will read a message from Mrs bonarot our kindergarten teacher Alessa has worked so hard this school year she has made tremendous growth academically and socially she is such a great friend to her peers and is always willing to help cheer a student up when they are feeling down we are so proud of Alexa and all of her growth this school year and we know she will do great things in first grade so congratulations to Alyssa [Applause] questions [Music] I'd like to introduce you to Lily holling a lily is a kindergartner also for one more thing and Mrs Stockman's class and Mrs Stockton's nominated Lily a student of the month for April writing I am nominating Lily for a student of the month for April because she is
003an excellent role model for her peers really gives her best all the time she's an incredibly hard worker and is a great friend to others so he is always willing to help when they need it Lily also helps others without being asked if anyone needs a friend Lily is always there really cooling is a Deer Meadow star [Applause] so hello so I am recognizing Kinley Coons As the Deer Meadow or ask the Deer Meadow my brain it's almost nothing as the TZ students of the month Kinley is a fifth grader for one more day um in Mrs Mitchell's class so Mrs Mitchell has written about Kim Lee I nominated Kinley for many different reasons Kinley has been an outstanding student since the beginning of the school year I know I can always count on her
004to participate in class and to make thoughtful contributions to our classroom discussions Kinley always keeps a very positive attitude and is an extremely hard worker she is not afraid to make mistakes but also does not hesitate to ask questions if there is something she doesn't understand Kinley is also kind and respectful to her classmates and teachers I am so glad to have had her as part of my class this year [Applause] hello I have 8th grader Emily Hunsinger with me for one more day she will go to Mr Rogers not too but just one right let me just need one more Emily huntinger is our GMS student of the month she was the recipient of our Rotary Club award which was presented today and it's presented each year to one outstanding boy and girl in
005the eighth grade it's an award based on character scholarship leadership and service to the school students must be nominated by a teacher to be considered for this honor and once nominated the students must fill out forms to tell as much as they can about themselves and their involvement in school activities for the past three years Emily has been a positive leader in her 8th grade class this entire school year leading by example through her willingness to take on challenges and her kindness towards others we are grateful for all that Emily has given to GMS and we look forward to watching what she does in the future foreign 's not here and if he shows up then I'll read it again if I can um our our character Ed trait was a positive attitude and our
006student of the month was brylan Tucker he never complains doesn't make excuses he has a high threshold of frustration Rylan is coachable and graciously accepts correction and instruction and we'll get this to him tomorrow since we got one day left that seems to be a theme right [Applause] and so I just like to offer my thanks and recognition of our students wrap up in other successful school year at Greencastle schools and with tomorrow being the final day of his school year um I think it's been another good one and I just like to give my thanks to students and staff [Applause] next item is the approval of the consent agenda for meetings and minutes if you don't need to read those yeah board work session minutes on April 17th regular meeting minutes April the 24th
007executive session meeting May the 10th allowance of claims allowance of their financial report and Personnel report Parts one and two yep here to share the financials it allows the claims that the claims we sure can do that yes um first in your Finance packet you're going to have the first payroll for April 2023 dated um April 14th total payroll 421 842.72 and along with that payroll came the um with taxes and retirement total taxes retirement for the April 14th payroll 120 918.57 we had a couple of mini payrolls after the April 14th payroll we had um some subs that were not put in Aesop so we went ahead and did some many payrolls for those folks to to get them paid so the first mini payroll was dated for 17 2023 total payroll 688.80 um
008there would just been five uh FICA and federal taxes on that 105.40 and then the second mini funeral that we did again was for another sub total payroll 880 and we had no retirement on that one that would just be Pike and Federal 156.69 and then um our second regular payroll for April 2023 was dated uh 428 total payroll for 58 9 11 74. retirement FICA Federal um total on that payroll would have been 130 616.91 were there any questions about any of the payrolls this time all right well we'll just move on to some prepays that we did for the month of April um there's really nothing unusual here that I recall did anyone have any questions about any of the prepays okay total prepaids for April 634.90 and then next in your package
009you're going to see the claims that are dated today May 22nd 2023 uh total on these would be a hundred and ninety thousand fifty two dollars and three cents did anyone have any questions about anything on the claims this month no okay if we're ready we'll just go ahead and move on to the fund report um your fund report as of the end of uh April 30th 2023 education fund balance 3 million 134 868.64 and operations fund total balance is if I can get my bifocal to line up here properly here we go 534 66.50 wow it's just all part of the people um if you want to go to the last page on page six total for all funds is six million 918 178 La next in your package you're going to see the
010bank to fund balance and you'll see that the grand total for all funds of the grand total for all banks those um uh uh balances match that's exactly what we're going to where we want to be did anyone have any questions about that the only question I have Matt I'm assuming it's a matter of timing is the uh 7923 fund sr3 cares that's a pretty big negative number sure yeah we actually had um just last month and I do reimbursements every single month on all of the grants but we had a substantial amount of money that was going out the door paid out of the Esser grant for furniture at the middle school so that's why that's pretty substantial and that reimbursement has already come back to us so you'll see where we'll be revoluted
011and that balance will not be nearly as high in the negative next time okay all right so next in your package you're going to see the fund transfer report once again you're going to see the transfers that I've made from One bank to another so it makes it look like those Bank transfers are way higher than they really are you've got the school lunch transfer from 8400 to 800 and then of course the education to Ops and then um uh on those many payrolls um the payroll person referenced the wrong bank so I had to do a transfer from one bank to the other so your total fund transfer for uh transfers for April was 763 25.40 . and then I believe lastly we have the report on the bond issues Bond 2021 um total
012expenditures through March 2023 was 18 million 784 320 40. and we've got some expenditures that we had during the month of April so our total expenditures out of bond 2021 is 18 million 806 690 28 and then Bond 2022 total expenditures through the end of March 2023 is one million seventy thousand eight thirty seven oh nine our April expenditures bring our total expenditures through the end of April 2023 up to 1 million 731 328.09 and have any other questions I'd like to submit for approval okay I'll make a motion that we accept the consent agenda second can I have a second it's been second and all those in favor signify the saying aye aye opposed motion carry okay really quickly if we could since we uh just approved her this this evening we have our
013new Middle School principal uh Ms Selena Clements um she's currently uh principal Mill Creek West Elementary in the Mill Creek School Corporation and we are really excited to have her uh take over the middle school and continue to push the middle school and build on the great work that has taken place and to join our team so I don't know if you want to do the same thing [Applause] so I just want to say thank you I'm really excited to join um on the table to walk over and smell the new in the building and so that's really exciting as well and then carry on but thank you already started and then um you uh thank you for giving me this opportunity I'm excited to continue the Excellence that you guys are expecting and I'm
014building our students perfect so thank you thank you thank you very much and welcome aboard I'm certainly glad to have you next item is the assistant superintendent's report hello so I am very excited but I don't have to balance both positions for very much longer one more day yes one more day um so just some things that I've been working on um we have now received three pallets of materials for our new reading curriculum so we'll be going through that and checking to make sure we have everything and then dispersing to the teachers I know they're anxious to get that in their hands so they can start preparing for next school year um in addition to our K-5 reading training on Thursday our math 6th through ninth grade teachers will be getting training on their
015new curriculum so they have time over the summer to go through that and be prepared in August when the kids get here um last week I attended a workshop with our sixth grade social studies teacher they have Indiana has decided that for sixth grade second semester should all be Civics so they've added 23 new standards to sixth grade social studies so we had to remap um the other 40 some odd standards into first semester and map out what Civics looks like second semester um so that was a process he and I went through and it was great we were able to get that all finished and upcoming I and five teachers from middle school in high school will be attending the Fab Lab training in Chattanooga June 7th through the 9th so I'll be learning
016all about Fab Lab and what we need to do to make that into the vision that we see it so that's what I've been working on thank you next is the superintendent's report yeah so just a few a few brief things obviously I think it's been said a couple of times we have one more student today I think the students are eager and excited obviously we've had a lot of fun things um taking place to finish out the year um at each of our buildings um graduation will take place uh this Friday at 7 pm everyone's uh welcome to uh to attend we'll we'll utilize all those parking spots and uh navigate the construction for just this graduation and be back to normal for next year's graduation um obviously things are continue to move along
017with the building project if you drive past the school you can notice the shape of the building starting to take excuse me yeah the shape of the building started to take shape essentially so they're they're moving right along um at the at the high school we're close to actually taking back um half of the upstairs which coincides with giving up the other half over the summer so they can really push to work through and get as many of those as close to completion as possible for the start of next school year um shortly into the school year be able to take back um our cafeteria and our new kitchen while they continue to make progress on some of those other spaces the brand new science labs we expect to have those fully complete by the
018Saturday school year as well at both the high school and the middle school so Middle School construction should be completed before the end of the summer we'll start to see the gate arms being installed for the high school transfer lot we're moving away from the bungee Cable Systems to the little more secure gate arms just for for safety and then obviously there's just miscellaneous site work that will take place throughout the district and just general maintenance and repairs but overall things are moving really well and we're really excited about that um obviously we're still kind of trying to break down what took place um during this past legislative session um so obviously we know some new laws have been enacted but now we know the doe and the lawyers are really trying to break those
019apart to see uh the impacts for schools we have things such as the book list that will have to be posted and made public for parents to review we're kind of waiting on some guidance with that our staff has started to prepare those with those books are that we have in the classroom so that way they can be reviewed and seen by parents but we're still kind of waiting on all the exact specifics with that um to go along with that the big one is the um change in textbook rental or curriculum material fees and charges the governor obviously passed legislation to partially fund um that to where schools will no longer charge families fees for uh to access the curriculum again we're still kind of operating in the rears where we're waiting on some
020additional guidance from the Department of Education to see what exactly that entails but there'll be some changes moving into next school year which families will notice when they go to register with a kid so we'll share additional information um as we receive it and then uh just uh working on potentially looking at a potential change to the 2324 school calendar with the eclipse just talking to some other schools and superintendents to to see what they're doing I'm not doing anything this month but potentially or possibly bringing um bring the calendar back and asking for a change potentially this summer but those are just a few items that I wanted to share share about thank you next item is old business and there is none so we moved to anime new business approval request for 20
021to 23 24 building handbooks so we had a first reading of the uh each of the building handbooks last month those are provided to you last month they're in your packet again this month and now we are seeking approval of those updated student handbooks so that we can get them off the printers uh in time for publication okay I need a motion someone say again hi there you guys a second yeah there's one uh correction on the high school Greencastle High School one it has Russell Harvey's name on there as being a school board member we just need to correct that to reflect Megan sure but with that change I would make a motion to accept Maiden in a second it was in favor signifies saying aye all right I opposed motion carrying Item B
022approval requester 2023-24 school psychologist intern Mrs Sullivan um I believe we actually had an intern this year as well um and so essentially we through her relationship with Indiana State uh we had the opportunity to have a another intern work with us and we are essentially seeking approval for that to take place this movement second all in favor signify saying aye aye opposed motion carry more help we can get the better item D approval request for permanent edition of the baseball and softball let's see I'm sorry I'm sorry approval requester 2023-24 staff handbook yep so just again as is customary uh year to year we've had our first reading and now this is the second reading on our staff handbooks uh there were no major changes or updates to those and essentially we are seeking
023approval of them at this time thank you now we're ready for you know we need approval but I make a motion we approve say again it's been moving second those in favor signifies saying I I post motion carried now we're ready for yep the the yes sir approval request for permanent edition of baseball and softball to Greencastle Middle School sports yep so as you might remember uh prior to the start of this school year we uh Mr Rector um and some coaches really explored uh adding Middle School baseball and softball while it was always our goal for them to become permanent Sports of Greencastle Middle School we kind of wanted to do it on a trial basis just making sure that the athletic fund could sustain those programs um and it not cause any harm
024to any of our other programs and overall uh things went really well this spring and the partnership with the city and allowing us to use some of their their facilities their diamonds we are now ready to make them permanent and so that's why we bring it before the board this month and Jeff is that going to be something where we are going to use the diamonds at the high school then for that are we going to continue to use with the city how's it going to considers the parks the ones in the Parks okay and they're on board with all those no problems cool okay I need a motion sounds like a great addition just moved in second those in favor second five was saying I I opposed ocean carries item e approval request for
025100 fighting service proposal yeah yep so we've had the arrival of some new uh updated computers and so as such it's time to Surplus and recycle some of our older devices and Corey worked really hard uh to find to find a buyer for those devices and essentially we can get uh 26.50 a piece for them for a total amount of twenty three hundred and eighty five dollars um first Corey thank you for working so hard now if we could just buy them for that that'd be great wow yeah they don't hold their value after four or five years mm-hmm thanks great motion please someone it's been moved in second mode in favor signify the saying aye motion carry the next item is approval requests for donations and the first one is Lonnie lohorn deceased to
026Greencastle High School athletics in the amount of five thousand dollars Mr Gibney yep we'll actually take these all together and this next one is Walmart the Green Castle High School track and field in the amount of two thousand dollars learn when there's an open charitable trust to ghs students pursuing a career in trades nursing or paleontologists in the amount of one thousand Greencastle middle school PTO to 8th grade Holiday World field trip in the amount of Thirteen hundred dollars you know I need a motion to approve the donations second it's been moving second any questions motion carried thank you to everyone who donated another nine number nine other business they don't have any other business I'm sure uh Mr Rogers and his group and Jeff are working very hard to make sure that people are
027going to be able to get into Macan alley and get up to the top stairs how's that going it's going we have it set up like we did for uh Awards day so it'll be similar we won't have access to all of mcanally but we'll have some lower level restrooms available for those that need it and then of course the ones in the lobby in between Parker and Magna outside of that it'll be very similar to normal which is some minor adjustments due to construction well just one more year one more year and Jeff I'm not sure if it was brought to me around if I missed it how many more days of school [Laughter] thanks to all the staffs uh for another great year I've been and out of schools all year and it's
028it's been a great year with the construction and everything going on so it's been everybody's held their own they've kept their tempers down which could easily get out of control with all the all the construction and whatnot going on in the just the corruption of their days so congratulations to everyone and my kudos to everyone who's held it together for the year thank you very much right I also would like to thank those who have been involved especially in the construction thing when we were walking around different things throughout the days and so forth but the rewarding part down the road is it's going to be great so you guys thank you so much all of you that has been involved in education this year in Greencastle thank you very much the next item on
029the agenda is the adjournment I'll make a motion with a nicely run meeting Mr Dale and I'll second that with a congratulations to Dale for a finely ran meeting well thank you very much for my fellow people like I said it's been several years since I said in this seat for sure but thank you again I need a tournament that's been moving and sacrificed those in favor signify the saying I I impose motion carry thank all of you very much again thank you