001so [Music] justice well good evening and welcome to the regular meeting first item on the agenda tonight is adjustments to the agenda yeah so we just have an addition to the personnel report it came in at the last minute mrs courtney dickey is requesting a leave of absence for the rest of the school year can i get a motion to approve that adjustment to the agenda i'll make a motion second okay we have a motion in a second all in favor aye all opposed motion passes next item is public comments regarding agenda items are there any comments from the audience okay hearing none next item is recognition mr gibbon yeah so miss miss johnson would you like to begin usually he knows exactly what i'm gonna do redpath is nominating michael knuth a current first
002grader in heather miller's classroom he is nominated because of his generous heart and thinking of others michael took cookie dough from our fall fundraiser and encouraged his mom to deliver it to beyond homeless so families that live there can experience the fun of cookie making too michael realized families that live there don't have the opportunity to do the things like he does make cookies experiment in the kitchen and other typical experiences that we all take for granted michael i want to thank you for your kindness and for showing me the meaning of the season so congratulations i'd like to introduce you to tatum shadwell tatum is a second grader in mrs ripple's classroom and he is our november student of the month mrs rivel writes tatum shadwell was the first student to come to mind
003when deciding on november student of the month there are many compliments i could give tatum to show how deserving he is of this award tatum is one of the most thoughtful kids i've ever known he likes to talk to me every day while i'm on recess duty and share everything he did night before but he always asked me about my evening too he is genuinely interested in my life and even follows up with things i told him on a previous day one time he asked me about a headache from a previous day that even i had forgotten about he not only listens but he cares too last week i told him i had a big list of things to do after school and he offered to send his mom to do my walmart pick up
004for me [Laughter] tatum's effort at school is something i admire about him he tries hard with everything he does and he keeps a positive attitude while doing it he's not afraid to ask for help when he needs it and he will correct work if needed tatum also is a caring friend to his classmates he'll be the first person to help an injured student at recess or report the injury to me he shows empathy for his friends who are upset tatum is the kind of friend who will stop what he's playing or working on to comfort an upset friend i can't say good enough good things about tatum and he brings such joy to our classroom i'm proud to have him as a student mrs riggle is all right so i am proud to present miss
005haley baker as tz's student of the month haley is a fourth grader in mrs lakin's fourth grade class mrs laiken says haley is one of the kindest sweetest most caring and friendliest people that she knows she brings joy into every room she enters and always has something positive and uplifting to say she encourages others daily and celebrates their successes she does her best on her school work asks for help when needed and offers to help others haley is pure joy to be around and i am so thankful she is in my class i would also like to add from myself and from the office that we also love haley as she brings a smile to everybody she meets she's the first to give a hug off the bus and is always a uh a hello
006in the office right around lunchtime when she peeks in every day right so she has overcome many hurdles in her life and she is just a great example of what student of the month should be so tz is very happy for haley good evening our green castle middle school student of the month is jackson rogers he is not here yet because they have basketball practice so he's getting cleaned up he should be here in a minute but he can text me because that's who he is the character trait of the month was leadership and this is what two of his teachers said jackson is a student that is always willing to fill a leadership role he is detailed organized and eager to help guide others another teacher commented that in her class while she was
007out for a few days jackson was willing to lead the class and work individually with students while the topic was all new to them she knew that jackson would be serious about completing tasks and willing to guide others it was very impressive as the students made progress while she was gone so jackson rogers so i think we're correct to assume then that with um jackson running late that mr rogers is running late so we will recognize our high school student of the month as soon as as soon as he arrives okay because we can move on for a minute okay next item on the agenda is approval of the consent agenda um going down the line of the consent agenda do we have any questions or comments about the monthly or the meeting minutes from
008november 23rd 2020 a work session or 2000 november 23rd 2020 the regular board meeting minutes does anyone have any questions or comments about the minutes okay um next item in the consideration is allowance of claims mrs romer hello everyone hello first in your finance packet you're going to see the payrolls for november 2020 there were two regular payrolls in november we also had a mini payroll there was someone that didn't quite get the pay they needed so we did a mini payroll to get that person uh their funds in a timely manner the first payroll in november was 11 6 of 2020 for a total payroll of 441 952 07. along with that payroll came the accounts payable again for fica payroll taxes retirement uh total accounts payable for the november sixth payroll 124 thousand
009eight seventy three twenty one second regular payroll in november was dated eleven twenty for a total payroll of four hundred thirty three thousand nine thirty 33 15. along with that payroll came the accounts payable again for payroll taxes and retirement total accounts payable for the 1120 payroll 123 000 720 11. the mini payroll that i spoke of was dated the following monday 11 23 20 that total payroll was and 21 272.21 and along with that uh payroll came just some fica taxes for payroll taxes or fica for payroll taxes for total accounts payable on the mini payroll of 11 three twenty forty one sixty six did anyone have any questions about the payrolls no no okay we'll go ahead and we'll move on to um prepays we've got prepays dated november 1st through november 30th
010total prepays dated november 30th 323 828 98. nothing unusual just the usual suspects with the the biggest expense being health insurance to the trust yes what's the what's the wayne wayne township yep um actually the reason why this probably threw you off a little bit this month i normally label those garnishments and i just did employee deductions on all of the memos on those it's a little bit easier for us when we're doing a little while we're doing history searches but anything that you see a putnam county clerk wayne township small claims clerk of hendricks county and in some cases indiana department of workforce those are all garnishments employee garnishments when those are sent to to the schools we need to honor those and and do those proper garnishments until their debts paid in full
011but that particular one would be for a garnishment for an employee okay you're welcome and next in your packet you're going to see a list of claims dated today december 14 2020. did anyone have any questions in particular about a certain claim i had a question about playing 12 15 okay this might be more of a jeff question just it's the moisture management sure yeah so excuse me so we contract with moisture management they did some tuck point uh repair and some through flashing basically we uh to keep the water out mr cox does that answer your question okay anyone else have a question about regular claims dated today we've got total claims dated today at december 14th 164 588 ready to move on to the fund report okay um next in your packet you
012should see the fund report these would be ending balances for november 30th twenty education fund balance a one million fifty six thousand eighty dollars and ninety six cents and we'll go down a couple lines to operations total balance november 30th 2020 695 700 and 78 cents and the next line down we'll look at rainy day today total balance the end of november 1 million 647 726 the last page of your fund report total balance for all funds is if i can get there 5 million 139 719 if you want to take a look at the depository statement for november 20th you'll see the bank balances at the end of november total 5 million 329 684.76 next line you'll see the outstanding checks i have yet to clear the bank and then you'll see an outstanding
013deposit for one cent total balance for all funds ended november 30th 2020 5 million 139 7 19 69 if you go back to the last line of your fund report you'll see that those two items match i'd like to submit all for approval okay thank you you're welcome the last two items on the consent consent agenda are personal report part 1 and personnel report part 2 which are posted on the website and on the door at the central office in case anyone was curious to see those reports um that brings us to the end of the consent agenda so can i get a motion to approve the consent agenda here we have a motion in a second any further questions or discussion hearing none all in favor all right all opposed motion passes i believe
014we are back to recognitions thank you for your patience i apologize as dad i kind of overestimated how i could pick up my son 6 30 who also needed to be here and do this so i apologize for that so this one is really cool and i'm glad i get to be here we had a game that got cancelled today and i really didn't want to miss reading this one so our trait was citizenship in the high school and mrs dianna meyer she's also our student council teacher and i don't know if you guys know about this one but they organized thanksgiving meal boxes and she's the one that did this one of the cool things about high school is you kind of just like let these students go and so mrs meyer said that
015lauren hop lauren hopper embodied citizenship this month by seeing a need in her community and acting to help she recognized that as humans we have the opportunity to help our neighbors in times of need and stepped out and found a way to bless others in other words this is not something we've normally done this was just kind of an idea from she and her classmates she was the driving force behind our thanksgiving meal boxes and as a result of her hard work 40 gcse families were given an entire thanksgiving meal and by meal bird and rolls and what else i mean like what pie i mean like it was entire meals 40 of them and so with that she's our student of the month congratulations again thank you for your patience thank you hi good
016evening if i could have well here he is jackson so uh at greencastle middle school our character trait of the month was leadership and jackson rogers was nominated by his teachers for that here are two statements that teachers made about jackson first jackson is a student that is always willing to fill a leadership role he is detailed organized and eager to help guide others in addition another teacher wrote in her class while she was out of school for a few days jackson was willing to lead the class and work individually with students while the assignment was all new to them but she knew that jackson would be serious about completing the task and willing to help guide others she said it was very impressive the students made a lot of progress while she was gone
017so greencastle middle school would like to recognize jackson [Applause] rogers okay thank you everyone next item on the agenda is reports the superintendent report yep so just a couple of uh brief updates this month um it was asked at our last board meeting about how many families we've impacted thus far with their gear grant excuse me and today um 92 families 47 through comcast or xfinity and 45 with a verizon hot spot so we still have opportunities to impact even more families so we just need to continue to get the good word out so that we can use those dollars to support our families while we have been on a hybrid schedule at the middle school in the high school i'd like to thank mrs carrico and the food services department we have they have
018continued to provide free meals for students in the middle school in high school and so they've been timing it up and scheduling it to where students will receive breakfast and lunch for three days the three days that they're not here so that's been certainly been a need and that's an nice thing that we can continue to support our families we are still waiting on our 1782 budget budget order from the department of local government finance we expect that to uh to arrive hopefully any day now um hopefully before we leave um so we're we are obviously awaiting that and planning to work with that to finalize our our 2021 budget um we had another good meeting uh today with the core planning team and looking at our facility uh master planning or our building study
019that is taking place with with krm so one of the main things that we're doing with that is working through a potential site map a long-range site map for our campus making sure that any any work or any construction that ultimately we believe or is recommended to move forwards with making sure future projects area doesn't conflict with any potential future projects so they're still studying our facilities studying costs um and so we hope to have a completed report at some point in january at the beginning of january so that work is ongoing and certainly exciting we did have the community input session or participation both in person and also in virtually prior to the november board meeting so just excited again to kind of move forwards with kind of the draft draft plan or plan
020of that we are meeting with uh admin team um administrators and uh gcta this week to discuss um second semester discuss our instructional model our learning plan um certainly we're gonna review um you know the pros and cons of what's taking place any changes um that need to be potentially made um it's my goal to announce any uh announce our plan for starting second semester by december 30th um at least um if not excuse me by december 30th if not this week um so that way families have enough time to plan um the reason december 30th is um the state updates their data their their dashboard um the county updates their metrics on wednesday so we just want to make sure that we're making a good informed decision and at the same time that we
021don't overreact um but we we do have plans to obviously get information out and share that obviously with with families and you know and staff because staff will also obviously have to plan for for whatever option but i appreciate the patience and cooperation um of our families and of our staff nothing's been easy this year but everyone's been willing and flexible um to uh just continue to meet the needs of our kids and and that's all we can do um in this situation and uh that's what we'll continue to do um moving forwards um last item before we go into our other stuff is just hope that uh everyone has a safe and uh and happy holiday because obviously uh the end of this week is the end of our first semester here at green
022castle schools and so hopefully families are able to stay safe and well but also able to enjoy each other's company best they can thank you next item on the agenda is old business and we have no old business so which moves us to new business the first item is an approval request for permission to pay late arriving 2020 invoices yeah so as is customary at the end of the year we're finalizing or wrapping up the 2020 financial year we want to make sure that any invoices that we receive after tonight's board meeting that are in the year 2020 are paid with budgeted dollars from 2020 and then a follow-up report will be provided at the january meeting [Music] okay we have a motion in a second any questions or discussion hearing none all in favor
023all right all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda or next item is an approval request for the 2021-2022 membership renewal bids with west indie cooperative yeah so mrs carrico is putting forth this recommendation and what this is is it is a cooperative purchasing program for food services by pooling resources they're able to get more competitive prices at a reduced cost so i recommend that the board approve this agreement for 21 and 22. basically this just gets us more purchasing power right correct yeah pool our resources with other uh other school districts and corporations i make a motion to approve i know okay we have a motion in a second any questions for discussion hearing none all in favor all opposed motion passes next is an approval request for a resolution to author a
024resolution of authorization to sign agreements for alternative services and private residential school placements yeah so uh this is a this is a grant that's a result of excess cost for a student that is placed as it says in private residential school placement and currently in order to or excuse me currently the board president is the one authorized to sign this so this resolution would allow me to handle signing this grant in agreement in the future as is customary with the other agreements so it's my recommendation the board approved this so that we can file with the department of education i agree take motion i'll second that okay we have a motion in a second any questions or discussion hearing none all in favor all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval
025request for about six donations i think we can just go ahead and prove all these at once we have a donation from or to the green castle middle school from greencastle middle school pto to the green castle middle school in the name or the amount of 1 300 we have a donation from the gary and linda huber fund for cultural arts and learning to greencastle high school art department in the amount of 500.00 we have a donation for the putnam county found community foundation to the heist crew castle high school in the amount of five hundred dollars we have a donation from putnam county community foundation to greencastle middle school for five hundred dollars and we have a donation to the punta cana from the putnam county community foundation to redbath primary in the amount
026of 500 and lastly we have a donation from walmart distribution center to redpath primary in the amount of one thousand five hundred thirty five dollars and fifty eight cents this is always the easiest part of the evening is taking money so can i get a motion to approve i like to motion okay i have a motion in a second to have any questions or discussion hearing none all in favor opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is other business and i have a couple of items that i'd like to bring up um one um i think it's noteworthy to recognize that our doorway that um to mention that mr michael tasonicus passed away a couple weeks ago he's obviously who our school is named after the intermediate school and for those who knew mr
027tazonicus i think i was ill everyone will agree that uh is a pretty instrumental guy in green castle school history um he was my principal for seven years at that school and uh still kept in touch with him periodically and he was a great guy just he gets worth mentioning it's kind of funny i was explaining to my wife that that school is pushing 60 years old and jennifer rhodes is the fourth principal that that building is at which is pretty remarkable um so i just thought i would bring that up and share for anyone who did not know that um the second thing it kind of ties into this a little bit um i had a conversation about a month ago with mr gibney and and have since been approached by a couple people
028about the same thing um asking me if i thought the board would be willing to or interested in dedicating the new transportation center to um dan creek uh naming it today transportation center or whatever we choose to name but um just in his honor or memory or all the time that he spent with green castle schools and how dedicated he was and how instrumental he was building that facility um so i just wanted to bring that up but really not asking for any action tonight i just thought i'd bring that up for the board to consider and um possibly do something like that it's free if we decide to do something like that i think 38 years 32 years a long time and there seems to be a precedent for doing that for people that
029have long term positive interaction with their school there is um so that's really i mean nothing we need to act on tonight you know just something to bring up for everyone to consider so that is my other business of the evening does anyone else having um jeff i just wanted to say whenever whatever decision you guys make on students um it's perfectly fine but i will say it's been really nice i've gotten a lot of positive feedback on having the elementary kids in the school buildings i think that was really a good plan um even when we had to go to hybrid on network so thanks for doing that anyone else yeah we're getting ready to wrap up the first semester i just wanted you know i know mr kevin has already already said thank
030you but i just want to give a thank you to just all the teachers and staff and just just everybody um and i mean i don't not in the classroom or in school or anything like that but i know it's i know it's tough and you know i've got a student myself and so you guys are greatly greatly appreciated i know it's a tough tough time and so as we look forward you know um just just i know everything will just continue to be as the effort will just just be the same going into the next semester but you guys really are appreciated how we started off and how we've we've continued through some tough times so so i just personally as a parent and community member want to thank you i would agree anyone
031else okay last item on the agenda is the tournament can i get a motion to adjourn make the motion second here we have a motion and as seconds all in favor all opposed motion passes yes thank you uh have a good holiday good break and we will see you in a month thank you you