001foreign all right can we call the meeting to order the Pledge of Allegiance please pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which stands one Nations foreign yeah well good evening and welcome to the regular October board meeting of the Greencastle School Board first item on the agenda tonight is adjustments to the agenda Mr Gibney yep I have two for you uh um this evening the first one is a leave request to add to uh Personnel Personnel report part two and that was there for you on here right in front of your computer and then the second one is a resolution approved supplemental payments to teacher in excess to the salary specified in our Collective parking agreement and that would be new business h um yeah okay
002okay do I get a motion to approve those adjustments they'll move you have a motion this second all in favor aye aye all opposed most passes next item on the agenda is public comments regarding agenda items tonight anyone have any comments about items on the agenda you're hearing none moving on next item is recognitions Mr Gibney yep Mr Robert good evening I'd like to introduce Beau Lee a first grader at risk half he was nominated by Mrs Ward our school account to read what she wrote I would like to nominate Bo Lee for student of the month Bo has worked very hard and made great progress academically socially and behaviorally I love seeing his face light up at the end of the end of it when he tells him we have a good day and
003he gets to come close he also gets a gummy bear animal turkey and loves to remind Dory who's with us tonight that she cannot have his treats Bo is doing an amazing job and we're so excited to see how much he cursed congratulations [Applause] yeah and just for parents in attendance with their students a month we have a Greencastle backdrop set up down the hall for photo opportunities and you're more than welcome to stay and come back or we understand if you need to get your student home this is a school night Mr McHugh foreign science class it is our student of the month for September this is certain study writes Harbor is a heart-written student he's always asking great questions and actually participation classes but I'm proud of her even is to learn she
004consistently put forth the best efforts to succeed to assume that I can depend on to help others and be respectful if everyone and it's a pleasure to have Harper in my class foreign [Applause] right so and this is why it has written Talia is a really sweet kind-hearted girl Sally always has a smile on her face and is a friend to everyone I've caught her several times during recess inviting new students or students who seem lonely or bored to play with her and her friends whenever another student needs help on their computer she is the first but first we actually like to call her our classrooms tech support she is very polite and appropriate new phone she runs errands and gives me gentle Sally is a gentle spirit and has a servant's heart and that's
005why I selected her for our classrooms [Applause] foreign also share that Sony Works Hardy classes always respectful to the staff and students she is also a member of Mrs Wilder who's computer Supply and yeah [Applause] mm-hmm okay so this is violet Andrews and she was nominated our nurse our school nurse and our care graduate was responsibility for the month and so she wanted to nominate you for that because they over the school year and she said that you're very mature response responsible correct that's a great job in the school band helps out [Applause] okay moving on next item on the agenda is the approval of the consent agenda which consists of meeting minutes from the September 26th regular meeting the allowance of claims the financial report and Personnel reports Parts one and two which are
006posted on the door and on the website Mrs Roman hello hello this month we have two three payroll months throughout the year this is our second one the first payroll was September 2nd 2022 total payroll of 432 93.85 and along with that payroll came the retirement and payroll taxes total of 122 167.75 second regular payroll September 16 2022 total payroll 442 excuse me 424 899.86 and uh payroll taxes and retirement on the 916 payroll 119 977.89 and then the third and final payroll for September was dated September 30th 2022 for total payroll of 441 997.67 and the payroll taxes and retirement for that payroll 138 113 34. and then next to your package you're going to see a list of prepays for the month of September 9 1 through 9 30 of 2022. uh nothing
007unusual on this list other than the third and final payment to Piney engineering for the Deer Meadow and redpath HVAC project and again that was paid out of cares money and that's our final payment on there total prepays for the month of September 2022 431 thousand three twenty five fifty one and this is where our packet starts to look a little different this is when we migrated to our new software so you'll see the reports are a little different hopefully you'll find them a little easier to read and will hopefully make them even easier as time goes on once I figure everything out so the next thing you're going to see in your packet is going to be a list of claims dated today October 24th 2022 did anyone have any questions about any of
008any on the list for the claims for tonight no okay uh total for the claims uh dated October 24th 2022 303 000 259.25 and if you're ready to move on to the finance report yep okay um fund reports we've got an education fund the end of September 2022 2 million 930 570 259 and in operation is the end of September 30th 2022 one million for 29 398.89 if you go to the last page the last page is a number 10. you'll see the total for all funds is 8 million 96 excuse me ninety five thousand seventy four dollars and forty two cents normally I have a depository statement for you that we have listed out for outstanding checks Etc we were not able to do that for this month hopefully we'll be able to do
009that for you in November during our migration we had two of our banks which I highlighted for for you and made a note in there that those totals did not migrate properly okay but what I will bring to your attention is is there is a bank to fund balance report which has the highlighted area on it you'll see I highlighted 8 million ninety five thousand seventy four dollars and forty two cents that tells us right there that our banks our banks within the software are balancing with our fund report that's a good thing the problem that we're having is that the balances are incorrect at a couple of the banks okay our overall funds are balancing with our fund report so hopefully we'll get that figured out on the programmers are working on that and
010I will have something a little bit more detail him for you in November and then let's see here we've got a couple of fund transfers we had the educational Ops transfer and then we had received some grant money for a supply chain they had originally told us to deposit that and to fund 5900 we needed to deposit that into fund 800 which is a school lunch account so I had to do a fund transfer on that and per state board of accounts I have to disclose that to you and you have to sign off on that so that's why you'll see that there total fund transfers this month 195 thousand eight fifty three Forty Four and then finally we've got the expenditures for Bond 21 and bond 2022 they're both on the same page to
011date at the end as of today total out of bond 2021 expenditures 8 million 977 43.39 and then Bond 2022 um September October were our first months that we made any payments out of that Bond and mainly it was just closing costs things like that total out of bond 2022 60 972.63. then I'd be happy to answer any questions if anyone has anything I honestly I like yes a little easier to read yeah I'm glad to hear that yeah yeah okay no one has any questions do I get a brew or a motion to approve the consent agenda yeah I have a motion in a second all in favor all right all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is reports the first one being from assistant superintendent doctor friend um Corey's pulling up
012the slide for audience members that you have a printout in front of you I just wanted to show you just a couple of quick graphs this is from our nwea data from this fall the first slide there is we're looking at math growth and I know that I've showed you this report before but this is our K10 math the purple bar is what they've actually grown um the orange diamond is what they were projected to grow and this report runs from last fall to this fall so you're really looking at the previous year's instruction so we have some kindergarten students show up and those are just our handful of TK students so that's why there's kindergarten because they actually had performance growth from last year and so you can see just our quick glance at
013math K10 grade levels that have met their benchmarks and those who have not and then if we look at the next slide which is reading this is the one that I'm really excited about and wanted to point out where this is the first time that I've seen this in our data where we have consistently met our projected growth and I really attribute that to we've really put all of our eggs in this basket of the science of reading and the work and the professional development that we're doing at the elementary level and you can see that that um so I'm really excited about that and and so are our administrators and teachers the next graph is a little visually over stimulating but it just provides a broad stroke kind of understanding of the actual achievement
014so previous we're looking at how students grew this is where students are performing so K10 GCS is the purple bar our national Norm is the black bar so if you look across we're very closely performing right at the national average and this is math and then you'll you'll flip to reading you can see that we are performing at or above in most cases the national Norms in reading so very positive data I'm really excited about the growth as we've made over this past Academic Year and that includes the summer slide which we all talk about when you're testing kids when you come back from summer so that is from Fall to fall which includes so lots of good throws any questions from that no that's great good news good news all around and that's all
015I have for you all right yeah thank you well thank you very much yeah all right next is the report Mr Gibney yeah so for a portion of my report this month obviously we have Fab Lab at the middle school and we want to we're excited to share or excuse me I've asked Mrs Welliver and her students to share a little bit about kind of what their what they're learning and how they're using the Fab Lab I'd like to turn it over then at this time so in addition to using the Fab Lab S at the studio [Music] last week Minnesota provided us with the problem of the cup not bending into the cup holder of a car we were told to follow directions given by Steve Olsen we used Fusion 360 which is the
016CAD software program to solve the problem cat is a computer news CAD the 3D prints for everyday life for instance you can make Plastics everywhere that's to hang a few things door stops or even a pencil cup using 21st century technology each of us had different experiences when working with cat and we learn lots of different lessons this project has its ups and downs but they helped me with problem solving and understanding CAD softwares I had some troubles with putting my own measurements into the project but I figured it out and I have a cool cup the experience I had with cat soccer wasn't too difficult I had few problems but I was able to figure them out asking classmates for help and re-watching the video helped me figure out the problems other than a
017few problems it was easy for me [Music] my experience with CAD software was pretty easy I didn't have too many problems with it but if I did it was pretty easy to solve by asking a question as well of her help me with a few steps other than that I was able to flow through the complicated project pretty easily [Music] cam is computer-aided design Manufacturing action cat is leading up to cams so by learning about CAD we are going to start cam pretty easily we are able to use CAD to manufacture products and that is where Cam comes in overall our experience with cab was enjoyable nearly smoothie learning about CAD was a cool experience and it was fun to build up to camp after we finish all of the cad lessons then we will
018get to experience the cam Journey the printing process of the Chad lessons were fun to watch and see them slowly build up to something usable overall we had a lot of fun working with Cad and we can't wait to start camp so if you did pick up on it the problem is that one of the problems or the product they created is a lot of vehicles the large cups the large tumblers don't fit in the cupboards and so they were able to develop a prototype and 3D print a cup holder that fits into the smaller cup of holder so that it would hold your uh hold your travel mode and so I actually received a customized Notre Dame cup holder from one of the students as well so um so the kids are running around
019anxiety which is very and they're going to then incorporate with their exciting cat into camp and Factory so Arkansas and hopefully some percentages and yeah yeah it looks awesome this guy this guy's your limit with you know with an imagination and being able to do that so that's that's pretty pretty amazing I think yeah that's great cool thank you thank you for sharing yep okay next item on the agenda is old business there is no old business so we are a new business and the first item is an approval request for the 2022-23 collective bargain and agree bargaining agreement between Greencastle Community School Corporation and the Greencastle classroom Teachers Association yeah so uh we reached the agreement shortly after um collective bargaining started and just kind of highlights that we shared at the tenant agreement
020hearing we're going to be able to move starting pay for for a bachelor's from 40 to 42 and for a masters from 42 Masters to 43. I can't remember what I think it's 42 now but we're able to move the scale at the bottom and move the scale at the top and we are going to be able to give teachers credit for their documented years of experience so in the past just when we've had uh years where there haven't been pay raises or it's been frozen or nothing added to base let's create an issue where we've had for instance a teacher with 10 years experience making multiple different salaries and so we're able to make this one-time adjustment to give them credit for those to where they can stay agreeing teacher or teachers can stay
021at Greencastle and earn the income that they should so we worked really hard to do that and you know when we put our plan into place two years ago into right sizing our staffing and making some adjustments with our financials on top of obviously the legislature providing an increase in funding that also helps and it made it possible to to do this so it'd be my recommendation that the board approved the CBA or 2223 I would make a motion to accept okay we have a motion and a second to approve the collective bargaining agreement um do I have any questions comments okay it's a good thing yes very very good and we would also like to thank you for the effort put into this um get all in favor all right all opposed motion passes
022next item on the agenda is an approval request for some compensation adjustments uh classified employees bus drivers salaried employees and administration yeah so as is the cases in in most years we like to when we're adjusting compensation for teachers we like to make the adjustment for our other employee classifications and so they're classified salaried employees that are administrators it's an eight percent increase um with our classified hourly workers it's anywhere from two to three dollars an hour uh increase and then our bus drivers um it's an additional fifteen dollars per day for their route so uh again there are a plan that we put into place and with uh with the adjustments and compensation for all of our employee groups you know the board is investing you know right around 1.6 million dollars in our
023Greencastle staff and I think that's a historic investment to where that we're making in our employees and in our Workforce and keeping them here and obviously we're going to continue to make Green Castle you know even better and so I think that you all need to be recognized for that and um it would be my recommendation that the board approved the compensation adjustments for these other employee groups so for instance like uh custodian coming to us with no experience minimum is going to make 1550 starting out correct okay I think that's more competitive yeah that's the that's the challenge you know everybody adjusts and then traditionally been able to make quite the adjustment and so um now that we we can afford to we're going to okay and make a motion that we approve this
024once you're in I'll second that okay motion a second any discussion for the questions hearing none all in favor aye aye all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval request from the adoption of capital of the capital projects plan School Bus replacement plan and the 2023 budget related resolution yeah so this will finalize the budget and all of those other items we've met with the County Council for our hearing and they uh adopted her budget I think was it last week Kelly and so now it's time for our school board to finish off the process with the cpf plan bus replacement plan and then those budget related resolutions okay I think I get a motion to approve I was so moved I was like getting mad okay I have a motion
025this second all in favor all right all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval request for a contract with S and P LLC known as Wally's with Greencastle High School athletics for concessions yep so with a booster club stepping out of operating concession stand Mr Greenlee uh has spent a lot of time looking for some help um because it truly does take a village to run a concession stand and so he met with Wally's and essentially what they we'd like to try to do is give it a go for our winter athletic season um and uh kind of see how it goes from there see if it could develop into a longer term agreement but rather than just you know Contracting for the spring season also just give doing a trial
026run for the winter so are they going to be the only concessions are they going to also have like the Key Club that doesn't on the side it's not the Key Club but it's it's a junior class the junior class will have um okay but rather than you know without there being a Green Castle boosters right right we'll have a separate uh concession stand um run by Wally's that will will share essentially as a part of the agreement share um profit back with the athletic department very cool I'm just trying to see if we're going to move completely out of it or if we're going to share with us yeah very nice okay so it appears that they're in charge of ordering everything coming up at the employees selling it and then they give us
027a percentage back they just use our essentially our first so they'll take over one of the concession stands in that kind of correct yep there's potential for meals yes yeah there's meals on down to just normal snacks and candy and water okay all right all right let's see what how it goes hopefully it goes well yeah yeah we'll see okay gotta get emotional approve I will make a motion one second okay Motion in a second any further questions discussion hearing none all in favor all right I'm all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval request for s i Commercial Services LLC contracts yeah so um really kind of roughly for about the last two years we've been battling uh staff storage and some vacant positions and this one in particular with
028our custodial staff we've had job fairs we've advertised and while we did bring in some additional employees through that job fair that we had at the beginning of September we're still short and so we want to make sure that we're able to continue to meet the needs of all of our facilities and make sure that we're maintaining you know a learning environment that's safe and productive and clean and orderly and so in order to essentially kind of buy us more time to where we continue to look for look to recruit and hire new staff we have talked with SI Commercial Services and essentially what I'd like to do or what I'm proposing to do is to utilize their services at TZ in the evenings to clean TZ so that's typically what we would take care
029of but we're short some help and we're short some help at all of our other buildings and that would allow us to move those employees to help fill in the in the gaps at some of our other facilities and it also allow us to more fully clean back to what I would consider you know took place regularly before the staff shortage and so this would get us through the end of the school year into May so be my recommendation that the board allow us to work with SI Commercial Services LLC and then obviously we'll we'll revisit or review once we get closer to May right to see if this develops into anything more long-term so right now it's just basically a stop Gap that we're utilizing to just kind of help out and then we
030can hopefully if we could gain the staff or it could develop into a longer term Arrangement yeah but this doesn't involve us you know while we're bringing in contracted help it doesn't involve us you know viewing away with any of our own employees it's meant to fill the gaps that would be the next question yeah okay what do you think about this Mrs Rhodes easy things I make a motion that we accept this and see how it goes okay I have motion and a second all in favor all right all opposed motion basics yeah the next item on the agenda is donations we have one donation tonight from the Mary Allison children's trust to Greencastle Middle School in the amount of two thousand eight hundred ten dollars and twelve cents can I get the most
031time gladly no second you have a motion to the second all in favor all right all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is the first reading of several Neola policies Mr Gibbon yep so as is the is customary you know when there are changes from legislation at the federal or or even state level and just two times a year we receive updates uh suggested updates to our board policy and so essentially in your packet is a list and of those recommended updates and this is just for first reading so there's no action needed at tonight's meeting and really most of them were a result of changes in law four of them have to do at dress and grooming yeah and we don't have dress and grooming policies seems like a lot so we
032we don't take those updates what's happening for addressing for we don't have a board policy foreign okay and the final item on the agenda is the atom item Jeff added the supplemental payments yeah that's a resolution for supplemental payments to our teachers in excess of the salary specified in the school corporations Compensation Plan just with the way herb regulates our collective bargaining agreements if we this deals primarily with the one-time adjustment and shuffling staff members based on the multiple different levels of years of experience our CBA would be found to be not compliant if we attempted to do all of that through the CBA so in this resolution and in the spreadsheet that you have in front of you it shows each of the teachers that's a part of the collective bargaining agreement and it
033shows the increase that will take through the take the increase excuse me it will take place through the collective bargaining agreement and then the increase that will take place through the supplemental payment and so this will allow us to essentially make that one-time adjustment and be in compliance so this matches what we um completed during the negotiations this matches uh the full teacher increase that was discussed before as well okay all right we all see this next month okay can I get a moose to approve that so I'm out okay motion and a second to approve all in favor aye aye all opposed oh there's some passes last item on the agenda I believe well other business because you don't want to have any other business I was going to ask our Middle School principal
034how she felt uh parents adapted to the new drop off there's this bluish gray car that really troublesome come on okay I like that it went down to one lane on the drop off in the morning that first morning I think some parents are confused they had two lanes and kids were walking across them I was like wow okay yeah but it looks like it's calmed down good I always I was gonna ask about Dory and yeah she's doing really well we had a had I was at Red path on Friday and meeting and had Donuts before school with the teachers and she didn't take any of the donuts although she wanted them but Mr Roberts might share more about Dory very much that's great one other thing well last month I think was last
035month we kind of discussed a little bit about change of the time of the meeting um and we all kind of thought we might talk about that a little think about it and discuss it later did we discuss that in in public you know I guess we would have had to um the idea being you know there was several administrators that don't live you know three blocks away and and you know people have to go along let's go home come back um so oh you know we thought about trying to move the meeting forward a little bit okay we keep people home a little bit earlier um if that's something that I guess what people have interests in I mean it's all the same with me but you know you get people home and could
036go a little earlier a half hour because we need to be cognizant of Ed's schedule as well and you're typically usually six six yeah it's starting the meeting at six too early for you no I can just come straight here and throw uh throw my gear off and come in I may have to stomp in here with my gear on I don't know just work yeah is that too early for patrons is that maybe I don't think so I mean I've you know it's I think 6 30. let's try 6 30 6 30. then if that seems to I know I don't know yeah we can we can do 6 30 but you know if your kids getting a recognition I think you'll be here or whatever yet I mean whatever you need to be
037it's once it's one one night a month I'll show up whatever you know plan a meeting for whatever time you tell me I just um throw that out there let me just what do you guys think I mean the people that would benefit from the drive you know is it something is I mean I'm fine we think our you know our students of the month and the folks that we want to recognize well you know what let's let's go for six o'clock and then if that starts to become a problem we can adjust it again that's just we don't want to push me too tight end all right I'll just stay in communication if I'm running behind it's it's one it's one day a month so I want to begin in November sure yeah yeah
038I think we would need to vote on that to change that I'll make a motion that we try for the remainder of the school year six o'clock for our board meetings well and you know up through in July Homes at the time until we reorganized okay okay we have a motion in a second to start having the board meetings at 6 00 a.m instead of I have to be here at 6 a.m I promise starting in the November meeting okay okay can I get a motion to approve I'll make a motion yeah in a second not a second um okay all in favor aye aye all about opposed ocean facet we'll get that changed to the banner to make sure we'll get that changed on the website so people know okay last item on the
039agenda is adjournment can I get a motion to a year and make a motion I'll second okay we have a motion a second all in favor aye aye opposed motion passes thank you thanks everybody we will see you at six o'clock next month thanks