001to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it seems one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right welcome and thanks for coming to the regular august meeting already for the green castle school board first item on the agenda is adjustments to the agenda mr gibney i don't have any adjustments to the agenda for this month okay next item is public comments regarding agenda items does anyone have any comments okay now moving on i take it we have no recognitions tonight nope okay but i would like to okay recognize our staff and students um for obviously handling everything that's been thrown their way over the summer and with all the construction and work taking place it's challenging enough opening a school year and starting
002school year and i've just been very pleased with how our students our staff and our parents have represented themselves and have handled many changes and curveballs thrown their way okay next item is the approval of the consent agenda which consists of meeting minutes from a special meeting of july 11 2022 executive session meeting minutes from july 25th 2022 regular meeting minutes from july 25th the allowance of claims the financial report report and personnel reports part one and two which are on the website and hanging on the doors this is roman yes hello everyone hello um in your finance packet you're gonna see um two regular payrolls and then we also had a mini payroll if you were thumbing through there you might have seen that um the first regular payroll was dated july 8th 2022.
003for a total payroll of 349 641.87 and as in the past we have to go ahead and give you the full history on that report so you'll need to go ahead and flip through get past page 11 and then we'll look at the accounts payable for the july 8th payroll that would be for retirement and payroll taxes total for the july 8th payroll was six seventy eight wait i i'm still scrolling okay i'll slow down page twenty six twenty six okay we're working on some solutions yeah tackle this yeah okay thank you okay so then um july 13th we had a mini payroll we had an ia that um did not get a pace uh a timesheet in timeless but she needed to be paid so we went ahead and did a uh a mini
004payroll for her that was dated july 13th total payroll 375 not much there as far as the history there was only one person the payroll taxes for that employee was 57.38 and then the second regular payroll for july was dated july 22nd 2022 total payroll 339 000 to 11 28. and if you want to go ahead and get through all those pages with the total list 47 and then we've got the accounts payable for the retirement and payroll taxes for that july 22nd payroll was 100 thousand eight hundred eighty one dollars and eighteen cents i think your your page numbers are probably different because they're all consecutive so i'm dealing with hard copy here so um the next thing i'm going to look at is a list of prepays and at the top you're going
005to see it it says after checks accounts payable voucher dated july 1 through july 31st 2022 okay those total prepays was one million eight hundred fifty seven thousand ninety one dollars and fifty two cents and as nearly every july we always make our debt service payments so that's why those uh the prepays are going to be quite a bit higher for july did anyone have any questions about any other prepays no okay all right and then we've got a list of claims that are dated today august 22nd going down through the list was there anything that anyone had a question about as far as some claims for this month nope no we did have i'll point this out we did have our final laptop payment for the middle school in high school um that's why
006our list of claims is so high this month you'll see that on there you see we've got a new dugout roof put on yeah that's good we're in bad shape yeah and we had some um sidewalks that were replaced you can see that there so anyway we've got a total claims um dated today 455 244.99 and if we're ready to move on to the finance report okay all right next in your packet you're going to see the fund report this would be final balances at the end of july 2022 education fund 2 million 798 684 60 operations fund two million sixty five thousand one ninety one thirty one and then if you go to the last page it's page five of the fund report total for all funds is eight million nine thirty eight eight
007ninety nine seventeen and then you're going to see the depository statement next in your packet after the fund report you see the bank balances at the end of july 2022 minus outstanding checks the only bank that we had outstanding checks for was bank 10. the fund or the balance for all banks minus outstanding checks is 8 million 938 to 899 17 and if you swing back to the last page of the fund report you'll see that that balances with our total funds and then we've also got a couple of fund transfers that we also need to do per state board of accounts and have you sign off on those we just have our traditional education to ops transfer that we do monthly and then i mistakenly revenued title one money into old title one fund
008instead of the newer one and i caught it as i was going through my review so i had to go ahead and transfer that revenue from the old fund to the new fund that was a pretty easy catch i just didn't catch it before i closed out and then we've got um the expenditures for bond 2021 um the end of july 2022 total expenditures were 4 million 959 756 12. you'll see the list of payments that were made out of bond 2021 for construction cost publishing cost engineering costs so total to date um expenditures out of bond 2021 is 5 million 6 000 and 67 cents and i believe that's all i have i'd like to submit for approval okay i have a motion to approve the consent agenda i'll make a motion okay i
009have a motion in a second any questions or discussions hearing none all in favor aye all opposed motion passes next item agenda is reports first report assistant superintendent dr bridge yes so i've provided you with um just an overview this month we're kicking off our reading adoption launch and it's been several years since greencastle's went through an official adoption curriculum adoption and the whole process the formal process so i just wanted to give you a quick overview this month we're gathering the committee of teachers principals counselors and one who wants to participate in that the only criteria to participate is that you have to participate in the science of reading professional development with a rationale that you have to understand what best practices of reading look like in order to select the best most effective
010curriculum so upon completion of that professional development um you can participate and so towards the end of the process will also involve other stakeholders from the community groups or parents but right now it's just it's we're focused on teachers and the actual implementers um and so this fall will be reviewing curriculum and then with the winter the idea to test drive or field test several lessons in those so that they can understand the experience on both the teachers side and the student side with the overall goal of bringing that proposal to the board in the spring for official reading adoption and i also invited miss tammy keaton to come she is our new ivy tech site director we have some exciting opportunities that the state is providing through grants and partnerships with iv tech so
011i asked her to share a little bit about that great thanks thanks for having me i appreciate it i got a couple of things um i'll get to that piece here i just wanted to say thank you for we are partnering with greencastle this year to offer dual enrollment classes free of charge and we do have six students that have taken advantage of that and today was their first day in class so we're off and running with that program it is a com 101 class and a psych 101 class and we're offering them like eight-week courses back-to-back so we're excited that some students were able to take advantage of that and become eligible for it and then the department of education has given us a great opportunity to apply for a grant called attract prepa
012re attract prepare retain and it is our efforts to try to mitigate the shortage the teacher shortage that we have while all over the place but certainly in our area we have several schools that have partnered with us and certainly greencastle is one of those the grant is not yet approved so i'm a little premature but we're very very hopeful um we we expect by the end of the month to hear an answer i think we're all holding our breath a little bit really excited it's about just under a 500 000 request for us and um ivy tech i'll just give you the five points to it so you get a little excited because we're all pretty excited about it but with this grants grant we would be able to partner with the schools to
013identify existing employees who have interest in becoming licensed teachers and to put them on a pathway to being successful in getting that certification and license the second step is that we'll establish a scholarship 100 tuition for 11 individuals in the area we do have 11 schools partnering the idea is to be able to award one of those to each one of the schools third the goal is to provide a pathway for high school students to earn the technical certificate and for every student that moves on through the grant to earn that technical certificate ivy tech will provide a 500 stipend to partner with that as well and then fourth we will host an on-campus experience for prospective students at partnering schools call a day in the life of an educator where they'll shadow other student
014teachers already in the program so they can understand what it's like to be a student in that educational program and the goal is to obviously accomplish an associate's degree pretty quickly so then they can move on and transfer to a four-year college and then we'll have as a retention effort a on-campus summit for educators at partnering schools and so that summit would offer different professional growth points different type of speakers and just valuable education to come towards you know for these specific individuals so the goal is by the end of this month that we will hear so that's what we're all hoping for and thank you for partnering um it's really a great program we hope it helps a lot well thank you yeah any questions for me so do we want do we have
015the capability to grow these sick students in the future i hope well we certainly do in our funding right now because these are free of charge right now we have the funding through this semester we're certainly working for that to be continued we won't know that yet um i wish i knew that now because i would love to have the good news out there but unfortunately we're just going to have to keep working towards trying to get that funding set aside to continue these opportunities and our goal is we know with the shortage as well that there's not an abundance of credentialed teachers to even teach some of these programs so we're hoping to help them out great okay so is the funding just is there just enough funding for six or we just have
016six we would certainly take as many as the school is able to provide or as many wanted to come in but that's the six we're able to take advantage of it there are um performance thresholds that have to be met like a gpa in certain scores for somebody to be involved in the class too okay yeah that's encouraging because it's something we pushed for as more partnership with our local iowa tech and they've been listening and working we certainly want to help in some of these opportunities because it hopefully help them build their enrollment and also help us build some needs here for some of our kids we're definitely open to opportunity for sure well yeah i think it's a great day i'm super excited to hear that because like you said it's something that
017we've been needing and yeah well we certainly hope to create more opportunity to do that in the future too we love working with you guys all right thank you so much for having me appreciate it jenny thank you thank you that's all you got thanks next item the superintendent report that you're giving yeah we'll do a little more brief this month because i have more exciting information to share later when i share the budget my favorite time of year probably not everybody else's i already shared the recognition for starting school again our people have been really great and very patient i would like to extend my thanks and appreciation one more time for that um we did sell we didn't sell bonds um last week and we're going to close on those september 7th so
018the 4.7 million in bonds um at uh an all in true interest cost of 3.488 i believe which is um up slightly from the last issue but still not uh horrible we expect um there would be another rate hike here in the near future it could be pretty significant so that'll help us finish off the middle school and primary projects middle school project of course which we worked at weddle brothers and uh we're still waiting anxiously awaiting kind of their sequencing their schedule to begin that work roughly we expect to begin around fall break but they should provide us with that information this week so that way we can prepare our staff and parents of the community for that but very exciting we'll work on a larger update for the overall project next month okay
019thanks next item on the agenda is old business and there is no old business which brings us to new business the first item is an approval request for the 2020 well okay is it really an approval it's a public that should state karen okay next item on the agenda is the to open the public hearing on the 2022 collective bargaining session that's going to be coming up soon um so with that we'll open the hearing so what this is is to uh share a little your objective share a little bit about what we can bargain what cannot bargain there should be a display cory um just update with the regulatory restrictions for urb the guidelines but also to afford public testimony subjects of bargaining are limited salary i'm on slide three already salary wages fringe
020benefits etc next slide please prohibited subjects of bargaining those various items up there those are all items that we do discuss with our association next slide and that's another kind of continuation of that as well next slide please and then the timeline for bargaining so we can't officially begin bargaining until september 15th we also have to have our public hearing which we're holding tonight and there's some various other kind of milestone dates there what for instance once we reach a tentative agreement um holding another public meeting sharing specific information before we can actually ratify and then we'll have the board approve the agreement next slide please and so those are just the other parameters that we have to follow with how our collective bargaining process is governed as well and then the final slide which
021is we want to allow some public testimony which we want to limit to luck and bargaining and again just being concise and cordial and like to welcome anyone that would like to comment to the floor you all knew i was gonna do that so i just want to start by thanking the board and the administration for the continued partnership with our association the last legislative session brought many attacks on public education and educators specifically and the legislation we maneuvered last session was exhausting and i fear this legislative session is going to be much worse so i come before you to ask for your continued support it's very important that we continue building a community coalition to support public education our students are counting on us so i ask you to come alongside us and to
022help us fight for what's best you see what's best for students includes more than the content being taught in math or what book we're reading in language arts it also includes transporting students to school making sure they're fed and well cared for while they're in our care sitting alongside them to provide support and interventions to help them succeed both academically and personally that isn't even the tip of the iceberg last year we were able to to increase the salary schedule to meet the state mandated forty thousand dollar minimum salary we are thankful that our financial situation has allowed us to get to this point well i know it isn't raining money we are more financially stable now than we were five years ago and i'm very thankful for that we have 118 educators covered under
023the collective bargaining agreement the statistics show that most teachers leave education within the first five years i'm happy to say that at gcse 55 of our teachers have been here more than five years of that 55 of our teachers have been here for 10 years or more and that's just at gcsc that's a third of our staff with 10 or more years here in our corporation in fact we have three educators that have dedicated over 30 years in the classroom just in our corporation we have amazing staff and i'm proud to call this my home as we move into negotiations this year i would like us to take a serious look at how we are compensating our dedicated employees while we know the teacher shortage is real we also know that it is equally important
024to take care of our loyal dedicated gcse employees this is something that mr gibney and i have already been discussing and we will continue to discuss their negotiations in closing i would like to thank you for all that you do for public education and once again ask everyone the community the board and administration to help support help us support public education remember our future generation is depending on us we can't do this alone and there's power in numbers thank you thank you anyone else okay hearing no more comments we will close the hearing next item on the hearing is another agenda is an approval request for the 2022-23 school or say school plan yep so as this customary at the start of the year the administrators and staff review our safe schools plan our emergency
025preparedness plans and i have to certify those they're excuse me certified at the doe within 60 days at the start of the school year and so we're just seeking approval of that confidential plan just to letting you know that it has been updated and we'll be moving forwards with certifying that to the department of education okay so that's really nothing we need to vote on either is it uh yeah typically we'd like to have records okay i'll make a motion i will second okay we have a motion in a second all in favor opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval an approval request for the kerlin bus purchase agreement yep so as i shared with you in your board packet really we have some goals to work towards catching up our
026fleet there are some years when we didn't for whatever reason one reason or another we didn't end up purchasing buses and typically you like to keep your fleet 12 years or two to keep all the buses in your fleet um 12 years or newer and the only way to essentially make significant gain in updating your fleet or really kind of catching it up is to purchase multiple buses and so we've we've been working with curling on some financing arrangements to essentially allow us to do that to purchase some more buses to receive them up front but then to spread that cost over multiple years through a lease arrangement so we're looking at a six year lease and what we have in the proposal are six full size 80 plus passenger um 80 bucks 84 i
027think they're actually 84 84 passenger um thomas transit style buses and then also two full-size 46 passenger white activity buses and the white activity buses would be used to haul students to band competitions academic competitions you know take elementary students on field trips take take teams to athletic events and uh one of the nice things about these white buses is they really instill a sense of school peer school spirit community pride have our have our would have our logo on the side of side of them as well so they can be moving billboards throughout our community in other communities we currently don't have any of our activity buses or our full-size activity buses have air conditioning these buses would also be air conditioning for the comforter of the driver and the students on some of
028these long trips um so i think it's just a really good opportunity to do that so six yellow buses two two of the white thomas buses they're they're they're the same size of bus there's fewer seats on them these are transit style seats and in order to do that if we're able to finance for six years we're able to come in at a cost of or an annual budget of what we typically spend on the school bus and that's right around the 274 275 thousand dollar mark um we've already been notified um by our salesman our vendor that they're going to be significant price increases on school bus there are also going to be shortages of school buses and so we want to make sure that that we're able to help us kind of lock
029in our purchase and be able to move forward so that hopefully sometime next fall we can take possession of some additional school buses and the two new white buses would also free up because don't we have a few designated and set aside for correct field trips sporting events these would free those yellow buses back into the fleet of correct yes so we have two i think it's one or two and kyle you could correct me if i'm wrong too um there are set aside this will be just for eca trips and uh that aren't necessarily used on routes the white buses would be used strictly for eca trips the yellow buses would be used for bus routes picking up students too and protocol and those white buses would not really be in the rotation of
030getting new buses do anticipate keeping them a little bit keeping them 12 years at least potentially longer so um yep so it would be my recommendation that the board um approve um being able to move forward with that um financing arrangement with diamond for those six plus two buses so is it is it an all or nothing can you get the six buses without the two buses it needs to be all eight buses my recommendation would be that we would do that we would do the full eight um but ultimately that's something that um the board could either approve or disapprove um but yeah it would be the goal to move forward with the with the full package we're really doing better we know that things are going to be affected by inflation like like
031just even i think next month they're having a hard time even holding their prices as long as they are right now um we're basically good until you know kind of our board meeting to kind of really get something hammered down here quickly because we are expecting a price increase okay can i get a motion to approve i'll make a motion okay can i get a second i i guess i have to second to bring it to a vote right either you or yeah i'll second it i'll second that i i have i'm just not sure we need the two white buses and i think they're going to cause problems when it comes to scheduling on who gets them who doesn't um that's just how i feel about it yeah so um okay well to speak
032to that we will have a plan to make sure that they are used equally and again these are not just for athletics for academics for field trips for all of all of the above okay okay well i have a motion in a second um call in favor hi all opposed i okay i guess that brings that to me now um i necessarily really don't think i was sold on the idea to begin with but we discussed the scarcity of buses in the future and those two free up other buses for the all students around daily i would i'll i'm i would vote yes so motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval request for permission to advertise the 2023 budget cpf plan and bus replacement plan okay so as i mentioned earlier my
033favorite time of year budget time obviously our school finance budgeting is important so i do want to give it the time that it deserves so if you could move to the next slide corey so listed on the screen are the primary budgeted funds for for greencastle and for school districts the only one that we don't have listed is the rainy day fund because the intent of the rainy day fund is to have hazard have a reserve to to not necessarily use on an ongoing basis but just strictly for that emergencies so we have our primary budget funds um the primary use and primary primary source of revenue revenue excuse me so we receive our education fund dollars or our dollars impact the instructional environment from the state and through our tuition support so that's based
034on our student account and also the other various grants through the state our operations fund so it's a combination of our up to 15 percent transfer from the education fund to the operations fund and then obviously our local property taxes are the primary source for operation so operations are things to help essentially with the pay the salaries of people to help take care of our buildings to help fix things in our buildings and things of that nature then obviously the debt service so a debt service fund and so we're actually using that fund to renovate and improve some of our facilities currently and that's strictly funded through local property taxes pension bond and so that is also funded by our local property taxes and we actually use our lit tax dollars here to pay our
035pension bond fund next slide please and so one of the challenge challenging things when building a budget is all the different variables and actually 20 different variables strictly for state tuition support on all the various different count days throughout the year and so you can see the first first nine listed there so we know that we have our our fall count our spring count but there are some other accounts that help to tabulate the support that we're seeing next slide please and then variables 10 10 through 20 which also impact the state tuition support that we receive next slide please and then so um our fiscal year uh 2023 state tuition support total so that's the other challenge when it comes to schools is we build our budget based on a calendar year yet we're
036funded on a fiscal calendar and so we have to have to work through those things right and so essentially i've listed based on our predicted enrollment based on our student account we have a tuition support worksheet that we use to create an estimate estimation for building the school budget and so right there is what you what we expect to receive should all things remain constant uh through the end of next june so from july 1 through june 30. that if everything remained the same that's what we would expect to receive so you know that doesn't necessarily project for losses or gains um in in student account next slide please and so i think it's just helpful to kind of compare one fiscal year to the next and so primarily the difference between 22 and is
037our adm counter our student count has remained or has kind of gotten to a point where it's plateaued it hasn't increased significantly it hasn't decreased excuse me significantly but the state legislature did increase school funding and this is actually the final year in the two-year biennium and so hopefully in this next legislative session we'll see additional increases um but you can see um there i obviously i didn't calculate the total there but you can see that there's you know roughly a 340 000 increase from fiscal year 22 to 23 which is a good thing because we certainly don't want to see those see that number go down there have been some years where that has gone down and that makes it really difficult to up build a budget and give staff increases and take care
038of everything that needs to be taken care of next slide please so we're building essentially the budget on an 18-month revenue plan and an 18-month spending plan so we have to never lose sight of the bigger picture so we have to understand how the education funds and operation funds interact with one another so that's that transferability between the education fund and the operations fund and then obviously certainly the balances within education operation funds because we've worked to build those back up to a little bit healthier level um because it's never a good thing if you're in a situation where you have to sell text anticipation warrants or borrow money and we're certainly not in that position anymore looking at enrollment whether it's increasing or decreasing that's the single greatest probably impact to schools and then
039obviously flexibility can kind of create danger and so you just kind of want to think of the multi-credit card syndrome you really want to be careful from borrowing from one place to pay another and so a great example of that is you know using something like the rainy day fund to pay reoccurring expenditures and so the rainy day fund really should just be used for one-time expenditures because you need those costs essentially kind of built into your budget next slide please and so uh here's our budget preparation calendar and it's a little bit more interesting here since we have an appointed board mrs romer and i will be meeting uh with the county council and uh going through a couple of additional steps in addition to our school board meetings and uh this timeline which
040is pretty much a corresponding dates calendar last year will allow us to adopt our budget cpf plan and bus replacement tan replacement plan and time in meeting the timelines set forth by the dlgf next slide please and so so actually so that tuition support worksheet was actually built on a projection i did project a 10 student loss from last spring to this fall and carrying that forward into into next spring a decrease of 10. so again with seeing that they've it's somewhat plateaued still want to be conservative with our our revenue estimates but we don't want to over overdo it either so you can see our projection there right now and we're pretty close to that mark right now we still are cleaning up new enrollments and withdrawals so i expect it to be somewhat
041close to that mark next slide please so in the 2023 budget just some general assumptions we will actually be moving five certified positions from the rainy day fund back to the education fund so when we couldn't afford the staff that we have we're paying for those positions out of the rainy day that helped us to improve the education fund and now is the time to put all of those staff positions all of our expenses back into the education fund you know just the general expectation that utilities will increase by 10 percent each year hopefully not much more than that i know that it's kind of a moving target so to speak same thing with property and casualty insurance just project projecting for some additional increases and then obviously that final assumption being our atm our
042student account next slide please so uh yeah so for the education fund there you can see 18 months of revenue 18 months of expenditures obviously we don't this is not a we receive all of our funding from the state so that thus there is no levy and no rate that we're advertising for that fund next slide please so for the debt service fund again same thing there showing our 18 month sonar revenue showing our expenditures advertising a levy of five million two hundred forty three thousand dollars six hundred and five million two hundred forty three thousand six hundred and forty two dollars at a rate of a dollar 24.85 another factor important factor to keep in consideration here is the budget was built on an assessed value of 420 million dollars or 85 percent of
043last year's assessed valuation and so the one thing that we know is and that's to protect our labor center rates but as our assessed valuation goes up our rate goes down so we always advertise high and that number will come down because one of the things we promised our taxpayers when moving forward with our construction projects is keeping that debt service tax rate flat or hopefully dropping you know slightly um and our assessed value that did come out what did we grow by like 8.8 so we even grew more from last year so you'll see us live here in a second we'll show more on that next slide please um pension debt fund again so we don't we don't um advertise the lender rate for that because we use our lit dollars to pay off
044that pension debt fund and we only have a couple more years of doing that so we're getting closer to the end which is a good thing next slide please the operations fund so a levy of 4.1 million dollars and a rate of 0.9762 another consideration with the operations fund again as assessed value goes up that rate will lower and one of the things that this fund is subject to is maximum levy based on a growth quotient from the state that our essentially our levy can only grow by so much from one year to year and so that number is obviously inflated and a little bit higher to make sure we get our max levy next slide please and then the rainy day fund again which shows our revenues and shows projected expenditures and again we
045don't collect any property tax funds from that so we don't advertise the levier rate for that fund as well next slide please so again it's built 18 months in advance obviously the final budget's determined by dlgf approval they can come in and they can cut those they'll cut those things down based on those statutory factors certainly um it's impacted based on our funding sources um and uh you know that you know even the operating balance in each fund next slide please so i think this slide's nice because it kind of shows again how we on the left hand side you can see the advertised versus the certified and so the certified is the final budget once it's certified by the dlgf and you can see that on the left-hand side that it's always advertised hi
046and on the right it comes back much lower so we expect that same thing to take place there and in knowing that our assessed value has grown as well that's also that's also helped so overall i expect a rate a final rate in the in the same ballpark of where we were in 2022 as well next slide please and so essentially we are seeking permission to advertise the 2023 budget um the cpf plan and bus replacement plan and so i just have the information shared on on the screen for you and i'm just seeking approval to move forward with that but i'd be happy to answer any questions i make a motion to approve permission to advertise yeah i'll second that okay i have a motion in a second any discussion a question all in
047favor aye all opposed motion passage next item is an approval request for the 2022-2023 evaluation plan yep so essentially we're seeking to move forward with the same plan that we used for certified staff last year which is based 100 off of the rubric we know that the state obviously isn't going to sign school letter grades anymore and made some changes and the goal is to essentially use last year's plan this year and then spend the bulk of this year studying our current plan and seeing if there are any major changes or adjustments that need to be made looking into the future and so our evaluation plan and our teacher appreciation grant policy are something that we have to certify or submit to the state here sometime soon so we would just like to uh the
048board to approve moving forwards with those changes so we're continuing what we did last year and looking to see if it needs changed for next year like longer longer term just in general and it's probably been quite some time since we've really taken a deep dive and so is the overall intent and purpose uh for the plan and the way it's right now capture what we truly need or truly would be helpful to help just improve teaching and help improve our our practice and so we've worked with the association to do that okay we have a motion and a second all in favor do that okay i'll make a motion i'll make the motion and i will second now we have nursing in a second all in favor aye aye opposed motion pass motion passes
049next is an approval request for the life fitness purchase agreement yep so obviously we are working on making improvements to our facilities and just like we did last month with classroom furniture it's also the time to look at approving and purchasing equipment for our new facility and so the live fitness purchase agreement is all bid through through source well because obviously over a set dollar amount we have to we have to kind of go through a bid process since this is our all part of a public bid process already it's that you know we don't have to do that and satisfies that quest so we've we've worked with the vendor to secure pricing on the equipment for for the new weight room to be housed at the high school and this was part of our
050bond budget and in order to kind of lock in our pricing not kind of but to lock in our pricing so we're not subject to any additional increases and also put it into production on time to have it delivered and installed at the completion of our project it's time to move forwards with ordering it so it'd be my recommendation that the board approved moving forward with the request to purchase the equipment from life fitness in the amount of yeah scroll there too 385 087.84 i'll make a motion okay we have a motion and a second all in favor all opposed motion passes next item is an approval request for the 2022-23 west indie co-op contract for food services so this is just an annual thing that we have to we have to do obviously it's
051just cooperative purchasing more aggressive or better pricing for food service so that way we can keep our costs down and so it would be my recommendation that the board for this request to uh participate in west indie co-op this is this is something that so we're not locked into purchasing a certain amount or any specific this just gives us the option to purchase at a lower cost so it's just a cooperative purchasing agreement okay we're not mandated to order set dollar amounts okay um it just helps to lower the cost yeah i'll make a motion a second okay motion in a second all in favor aye aye all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval request for some donations and each of these four are two green castle high school athletics
052in the amount of fifteen hundred dollars first one being from hassler trucking next being from green castle pediatric dentistry epic midwest insurance and mcdonald's all for fifteen hundred dollars each to the high school athletic department yeah six thousand dollars yeah i make a motion we say thank you and accept okay i agree in a second okay we have a motion in a second all in favor all opposed motion passes just add to that we did have the big check presentation to uh greencastle schools last friday it opened the night of the football game the big 40 000 uh sponsorship check which was amazing and we just really appreciate our community partners yeah it's nice to have two athletic trainers yes yes okay next item is other business does anyone have any other business but it's
053not other business necessarily but i just i wanted to extend that thank you to everyone and all teachers and staff and everyone just kind of echo what jeff said i know we've had a crazy couple of years and this year isn't much different with the buildings being torn apart and all of that and i know we have new teachers and two new principals and so um you guys are greatly appreciated and i'm sorry that you don't hear that enough but um but but you really are and i think dealing with everything we're dealing with and have been dealing with uh some some real grit and uh i just i just appreciate it so i want to say thank you hi second time okay any other business oh to the new middle school school i like
054the sign out there that says please don't block ramp i appreciate that mrs rhodes how are things going at tz with the new setup with the with the kids moving classes halfway through the day for your fourth and fifth graders okay good good all right next item on the gin is the german i'll make a motion i will second all in favor aye aye all opposed motion passes thank you all for coming this evening and hopefully see you next month you