001Thank you, Mr. Chris Jansen. We're going to move on now to A3, our call to order. And I'll call this meeting to order of February 23rd, 2026, Hank County Community Schools Board of Trustees. On to A4. Roll call. Mrs. Gray. Mr. Allen >> here. >> Mr. Mcclullen >> absent. Mr. Meltter >> here. >> Mr. Wall >> here. >> Mr. Carl >> here. >> Mrs. Miller >> here. >> Mr. Thompson >> here. >> Thank you, Mrs. Gray. Moving on to A5, revision of the agenda. Mr. Brimberry. >> Mr. Allen, we have no revisions for tonight's agenda. Thank you, Mr. Brimberry. Moving on to B1 public comment from visitors. I have one person signed up uh to speak to the board. Address the board. Uh Jennifer Woods. If you could just state your name uh and tell
002us what's on your mind. >> Good evening. Is Is that recording? Okay. Um my name is Jennifer Woods. I live right here in town and I understand on the agenda today you'll be uh discussing revisions to the student handbooks. And so I've come this evening to request that the student handbooks for all grade levels be revised to include language to inform parents that religious religious objections or medical exemptions may be submitted in lie of immunization records as is allowed by state law. So, I uh drafted some suggested language and I've included the state code and uh examples of the exemption forms. That's all I have to say. May I leave this with one of you, >> please? >> Thank you, Mrs. Woods. Thank you, Mrs. Woods. Anyone else wish to come forward and address the
003board tonight? Knowing have come forward, we're going to move on to C1OU for next career coaching grant. It's going to be Tiffany. Well, I don't see Principal Drummond here, but I'll be glad to pinch hit here. One second. Pull it up here. Mr. Allen. Okay. Uh board, this is an action item. Principal Drummond has brought brought forward a memorandum of understanding. I know that uh in your content you've had a chance to review this. Purpose of the memorandum of understanding outlines the collaborative partnership between region 8 education service center and Huntington North High School for the implementation of career coaching framework aimed at enhancing career readiness among students. Signing theou gives region 8 um permission to access scholar track to report required data to the state. This partnership is established to ensure both parties work
004effectively. This is Mrs. Greg correct me an annual I believe in terms of this agreement and again u we're hoping uh principal Drummond is doing just fine but uh she has given this and I know you've had a chance to review it so this is annual agreement >> thank you Mr. Burberry. I'm guessing she is going to lose her mind. She finds out she missed missed the meeting. Um um so uh I would uh entertain a motion reference this item. >> Recommend approval of the memorandum of understanding for next career coaching grant as presented. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Meltchure. Any questions or comments before we vote? Hearing none, we will vote on the motion. Motion passes 6. We'll move on to C2 clinical affiliation
005agreements student training program. >> Board for your consideration action item tonight. Uh the clinical instructor independent contractor agreements. This is our annual agreements of medical CNA agreement with Heritage of Huntington, Waters of Huntington and Medical CNA agreement at Heritage Point. And so these are annual agreements based on uh recommendation by principal Drummond. >> Thank you, Mr. Brimberry. I'll entertain a motion reference this item. >> Motion to approve the clinical affiliation agreements between HCCS and extended care facility partners as presented. >> Thank you, Mr. Melture. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller. Any questions or comments prior to voting? I have a question on on this. It says that it will be entered into on the first day of January of 2026. Is there a reason why we're not doing it at
006the in between the school years or >> uh Erin, I'd have to be honest with you. I'd have to check with Tiffany and get back with you on that. Um I do know it's annual agreement and I would have to check on the date to be honest with you. >> Okay. >> Yep. Thank you for the question. >> Thank you, Mr. Carl. Uh, I would also like to say, um, this program I know has been around for a bit. >> Um, I know someone that's actually staying at the Heritage in Warren and um, a few of these students are caring for her and so I really do appreciate this program. Um, it is absolutely a career for someone. Anything further? Now, let's vote on the motion. That motion passes 6. Moving on to C3, clinical
007instructor independent contractor agreements. >> Mr. Allen and board, on behalf of Principal Drummond, uh, director of career and technology education, uh, these are four action items for the clinical instructor independent contractor agreements. These are also um annual based on the number of people she needs. Virginia Beakman, Steven Kaye, um Llaya Lane, Whitney Smoltzreed, and Michaela Small. And these are I know you've had a chance to review those, but these are Tiffany's recommendations for those agreements. >> Thank you, Mr. Brimberry. I'll entertain a motion reference this item. >> Motion to approve the clinical instructor independent contractor agreements as presented. Thank you, Mr. Meltchure. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller. Again, any questions or comments before we vote? >> Are they independent contractors just because of the nature and the limited amount
008of work that they're doing? Is is that why they're independent contractors? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Correct. And I believe most of them have I mean I know that I know like Steve Kayley has been um with the hospital for years and so I think this is kind of on top of what they already >> many of them have other ones and they also help us. Yep. Good question. >> Any further questions or comments? Let's vote on this motion. That motion passes 6. Moving on to C4 2026 2027 student handbooks. >> Board tonight. >> Sorry. Um board tonight we were in our second reading of the student handbooks. Uh we have Stephanie Rogers here, assistant principal at the high school. Rachel Jarger, our uh principal at Crestview, and Elizabeth Kitchen, uh ceremony principal. And uh
009my question is this. I've not had a chance. I think it's Mrs. Woods that came and and and shared with us. I've not had a chance to look at the document that she has provided for us. Uh obviously, this is a second read. We're asking for your approval. Uh but I will go with your wishes if you would want us to review that documentation that she's presented to see whether or not um that is something we would want to add to the handbook. And again um just in all fairness to our public and Mrs. Wood being here sharing uh to look at that document and bring that back to you uh in March. >> Thank you Mr. Peters. So what would the difference be if we approved it per se and then the administration found
010that they liked it or whatever and then we amended it or would it be easier? >> Yeah, absolutely. Um that can be done. What I would tell you is thank you for sharing tonight and I would bring that forward to our administrative team. I would also even if you approve tonight's second reading and I would also obviously have council review um that as we do all of our handbooks if for that has merit that we bring back you can amend um at a future meeting the one item but you can pass the rest of it tonight if you so choose. >> Um Mr. Wy, do you have anything at all at this point to add or not? >> Okay. Either way is fine. >> Then I will entertain a motion reference approval of this of
011the handbooks. >> Motion to approve the 2627 student handbooks as presented. >> Thank you, Mr. Melture. Is there a second? >> I'll second it. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. Any further questions or comments? Mrs. Woods, I just want to say I do appreciate your uh time tonight and this will be um considered for sure and like to thank the uh our our helpers uh that uh looked at all the handbooks. Um your your efforts are not unnoticed >> board. Um one of the things I would also Mr. Peters has tonight. But we have also altered uh I believe from the first reading to the second. Correct Jay with >> correct. Um legal council has advised us um to update our handbook, the revision for furpa and our annual parent notification and this change is a
012part of this second reading. So we've been advised by legal counsel and we have made that change in each level of our handbooks >> board. I would also like to thank our one of our parents in our community has also has come forward to collaborate with us on that process. Uh um gave us a couple things to look at. Uh we passed that through with legal counsel and we feel like the the final version that you now have is legally compliant but also I appreciate the collaboration with our community. >> Mr. Peters, could you tell us again what FURPA is? >> Sure. Uh free. Oh gosh. Put me on the spot for any of the ladies here that know more. >> Free and appropriate something. Free and appropriate. >> Oh gosh. >> Family free. What
013is that? >> Family education rights and privacy act. >> There you go. >> We had a fura policy. >> Time warned me ahead of time, Mr. Allen. No, it's all good. >> Board just uh we did have a fura notice. It's been in the handbook for years here. Uh this is just an updated version based on legal counsel and a little collaboration with our family as well. And also our annual notice uh was updated which is a link in our handbook that goes out uh for the annual notice to uh parents and that was updated as well since the first reading to the second. >> Thank you Mr. Rimberry. Sorry about that Mr. Peters. I >> that's a sign you need to retire. That's a that's a good sign. There's your sign right there. >>
014Yeah. I I it's my fault. Sorry about that. Um, anything further? All right, let's vote on this motion. motion passes 6 um with the caveat that I I'm sure that this is going to be reviewed. move on to C5 2026 summer school. >> We have uh here this evening we've got Dr. Dots here representing our high school. Uh we have also Elizabeth Kitchen uh representing our elementary school. And so tonight we're coming to you uh asking for your approval to have summer school for 2026 at Huntington High School and also uh summer I read at uh Flint Springs. And so uh we'll have Mrs. Kitchen just share out briefly and then Dr. Vegas. >> Um so summer school for 2026 summer school proposal. Um um I am just requesting permission to hold summer school and
015then permission to post the positions. We're estimating we estimated 20 elementary teachers. Um um which is right around 92,736. Um but a lot of this is we um the state reimbures us for. So, um, hours are from 8 to noon, June 8th through 26, 15 days. Teachers will be paid for four hours of instruction and a half hour of prep, teacher prep, and it will be held at Flint Springs. And this again is for the students that did not pass I read or at risk for that. So, that's what I'm asking permission for for summer school for the elementary. >> Thank you, Mrs. Kitchen. Uh, I'll entertain a motion reference this. I recommend approval of the 2026 summer school as presented. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller. Is there a second? >> So, Dr. Dots is
016uh is lumped in with this one with elementary. >> Do you want separately? >> Well, he didn't jump up here quick enough and uh and then I skipped him. Uh my fault. We would be happy to allow all summer school programming to be at the elementary schools if they would prefer to supervise. Um, now in all seriousness, we uh appreciate the opportunity. Summer school for the high school is just a critical component, not only to help um bolster skill deficiencies, but also to recapture credits. U for so many of our students, it is a chance to get back on track creditwise. So, I believe you do have the proposal, but a quick summary for the high school. It is held in the month of June. and it is Monday through Friday, so 20 total school
017days from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Um, it will be held once again here at Huntington North High School, whereas last year we did have to relocate to Crest View Middle School because of the renovation and construction work. Um, the proposal from a financial and budget standpoint does indicate 25 high school teachers. I will tell you we've never had that many. That is a high-end estimate just to give you kind of a worstcase financial picture. The other thing that I would tell you in regard to how we approach things at the high school, we very much keep it to our core academic areas um and then anything beyond that would be through our online program as needed just to provide some breadth um to programming and course options. Therefore, all of our courses as we
018know it, as long as the state stays consistent, would be reimburseable through what they offer. We're also very conscientious of our studenttoteer ratio to make sure we hit that threshold. Um but uh we are very excited to be able to offer this. Um we will provide this opportunity to our teachers pending board approval and a competitive process where they express interest um starting first with our licensed teachers here at the high school. >> Thank you Dr. Jets. Sorry about that brother. Now I I >> am looking for a second to Mrs. Miller's >> and then I'll second that motion. >> Thank you Mr. Wall. >> I will absolutely entertain some comments and discussion. >> So this may not be for them but this may be for you guys and you may not have that answer
019but as I read through the document uh it notes that food service will be district paid and transportation will be district paid but there's no dollar figures associated with that. Do we have rough estimates and where will that come from? >> So yeah, transportation is not covered through the reversible piece that they were just talking about. And the state does reimburse for those core academic um subjects. Um we have to submit a report. Um we do a beginning report and then then an estimate and then we do a final report. Um it's right around I would say close to 90%. I'm just ballparking it for you. Um on what we get reimbursed. The other piece of that that we cannot cover or that's not reimbursed through the state um would come out of the education
020fund. >> Okay. Even the fruit service or would it come out of the food service fund? >> Food service. Um I need to check into that one. But it should be a summer feeding program which should be then feeding right back into the um 800 Oh, sorry. I call it 800 fund. I call fund numbers sometimes. I have >> sadly I I know what you're talking about. So >> yes, it should go into that but I can look into that further. >> Okay. I just curious just so we can have a full picture. I know the the total on the package would be great, but just nice to know whole figures what we're doing and then yeah, if we could just get an idea of what we've been reimbursed in the past just as an
021idea, too. So, >> yes, absolutely. >> And Mr. Allen, we'd also like permission to post these positions as well. So, you're you're going to be approving the approval of our summer school program, but then also the opportunity uh starting tomorrow that we could post these positions for the high school and for the elementary. >> Well, then I probably need to amend the motion or not. We might as well just for safety sake, >> right? I recommend the approval of the 2026 summer school as presented. I also recommend the posting of the positions associated with the summer school program. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller. I'll agree to that as a second. >> Thank you, Mr. Walt. Any further comments or discussion before we vote? Thank you, Mr. Peters. Hearing none, let's vote on this motion. While
022we're voting, Dr. Duggets, do you guys provide transportation at the high school or is that on the students behav? >> We do provide transportation, but a lot of students do drive as well. So, it's similar to the normal school year where we get a little bit of both. >> Cool. Thank you. That motion passes 6. Moving on to C6 2026 summer band. >> Mr. Peters, >> Dr. Dots, if you'd like to go ahead and share um about summer ban for 2026. >> I would. Uh the the quick and easy description is no change. We are standard and status quo from several years prior to this. Um, as you may know, our band is a very intense uh program and they really have to capitalize on the summer time frame because like a lot of activities
023and sports, they start right away. They do summer band camp and also partner with the middle schools to create a cohesive 6 through 12 program. Um and so again, similar and actually the exact same as previous years, there's a request of four stipens for this each at $2,000. Um although there are um names attached to it on the proposal. Those are simply to indicate who have filled those positions before. Um the staff will be set similar to other summer school positions um after spring break pending background checks and all of those things. Um to be transparent, um we would expect that our two high school band directors are a part of that. It would only make sense. So we would expect Mr. Pedock and Mr. Walters to be two of those four um as they
024oversee the entire program. The other two positions, I guess you could call them free agents where they will help work through that process with my uh guidance and also approval at the end of the day for board approval. So, similar to the other positions, I think we're asking for approval to post the stipens and approve those and then the names will be filled in at a later date. >> Thank you, Dr. Dets. I'll entertain a motion. I reference 2026 summer band program. >> Do we need to So, we need to post that as well then, too, as part of this. >> I believe that's typically been done. So, yes, >> uh recommend approval for the 2026 uh summer band program as presented and the posting of those positions. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. Is there
025a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller. Any questions or comments for Dr. Dots before we vote? >> So, they're just getting paid the stipen even though there's extra tons of hours in there. >> Yeah, this stipen does account for the extra because especially our high school band directors receive certain stipens for their extracurricular commitments as band directors and so this helps account for that. they do um document the hours that they serve in the summer to help make sure that the documentation is squared away each year. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments? Uh let's vote on the motion. That motion passes 6. Moving on to D1 through8, the consent agenda. Mr. Brimberry, >> Mr. Allen, board, before I get to the consent agenda, I also want to recognize Dr. Digits, his team.
026I see Miss Brown's here, um, the teachers, the administrators, and success academy virtual school. Um, very impressive number. We'll share with you at one of the work sessions on how they achieved that. But, uh, Russ, I believe just under 94% on your graduation rate from last year at Huntington North High School. And that is a, um, that is an amazing task done by a lot of wonderful people. And um and I'm really really proud and you'll see on a work session in our future of maybe some of the programs that we like to bring forward for you to see of that that are different buckets that uh they they allow these kids to be successful. So I congratulate you uh and your team Russ uh on the consent agenda board for your action items tonight.
027As you can see several items on there uh field trips, professional leave requests and so on. I would draw your attention to um number six on the adjunct teacher agreement. That is a corrective action uh on a pay change and that one's six on there. Number seven, request for my donations. Um $9,959.58. I am just overwhelmed. Uh I'm going to say it till I I'm uh till I can't say any on the generosity of the Huntington community for our school system. It's just unmatched. uh any place I've been of the four corporations. But uh draw attention to a couple things there. I see that um there were $2,400 awarded from the Huntington County Community Foundation for the purchase of handbells for the Husky ringers bell choir. Um I see several other items on there. One
028of them um ironclad excavating large plotter printer uh for scanning ability being donated to our school corporation. uh numerous uh schools with donations, Riverview, um Crest View, Salomony, Lincoln, Horseman, Flint Springs, and others, and the maintenance department. So, uh for your action item tonight, uh the consent agenda, which includes uh several of the items I've missed, included, including the adjunct teacher agreement and donations that we discussed. >> Thank you, Mr. Brimberry. I'll entertain a motion reference the consent agenda. >> Motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Thank you, Mr. Melture. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller. Any questions or comments about the consent agenda? Any of the items there? If anyone would like to pull an item voted on separately. Hearing none, we will vote on the consent
029agenda. That motion passes 6. Move into finance E1 Financial Reports December 2025. We are excited to see Mrs. Babcock here tonight with us. It's all yours. >> Thank you. Thanks for having me. It's nice to be here. It's very nice instead of being virtually. So, um, we have quite a few different items we were going to cover. Um, so first of all, we're going to start with the December month end items. And as you'll see for the education fund closer, >> sorry, I got to get used to it here, but where I need to keep this. So, can you hear me now? >> Yes. >> Okay. All right. So, um, moving on with a December financials, if you like the education fund, you'll see that our revenue came in at 99.96% um, as we anticipated
030or projected and then we expended 87.7.07% of those expenditures um, as projected and we stayed within our budget. So, that is great. Um, you will see that we did have a transfer there from our education fund to our operations fund. it was a little less than what we anticipated originally in doing during the budget. When we do that in the budget, we allow for us to do up to a certain amount. It doesn't necessarily mean that we will automatically transfer that unless it's necessary. Um the goal is to keep both of those funds, the education fund and the operations fund healthy. In order to do so, then we take a snapshot of that and then decide on what how much we really need to transfer over. And in this case, we did not transfer over
031the full amount that we anticipated spending. Um, as you can see though, we did go down in our overall cash balance here. Um, as you'll see there's like 1.7 uh ne to the negative in a deficit there. Um, but overall we stayed within our track. We still have a really healthy cash balance. Um, so that's for the education fund. Moving on to the debt service fund. Um, that one is just pretty straightforward um as it is. You know, it's um levy driven. Um, so we have that there where we covered all of our expenses in December. They are pay the money comes in in December and we pay that out in December for our bonds. Um, so right on target with that for the end of the year. Moving on to the operations fund and
032this is the one that gets a little trickier as they as time goes on and with SEA1 and all of that that we'll start to see a little more of a struggle with in the future. Um but for this month or year end actually it we still came out quite fine honestly. Uh 91% of our total revenues projected some of that is because of that circuit breaker. Um when you hit that circuit breaker that levy that you're anticipated to receive you will not receive um just because that's just how it's set up. Um and then for the expenditures we were at 82.63%. Um, and then you can see there we have the transfer and up in the revenue section that was over on the other report for the education fund. Um, and then, um, again,
033we're coming in pretty strong here, staying within our budget. Um, and I feel like it's a positive year end for the rainy day fund. You will see that there is just the budget, what was budgeted and what was being expended for the year. And that closes that out for the year. Moving on to the education fund historical comparison. If you go down to December on that one, you can see that we are at 15 million156,145. Um, as compared to the previous year, we are down as I mentioned in in the previous report. Um, but overall that's still a very healthy cash balance for the education fund. And then moving on to the operations fund, um you can see we're at $4,113,71 cash balance as of December um the end of December. Again, that's down again
034from a previous year, but um it is still healthy. Um we just need to be careful in the future, projecting out into the future to to not make that a habit. Um any questions on the December financials? >> Of course. I'm looking here. It's nice to see you. Uh, thanks for being able to attend tonight. Um, what stuck out to me when I was looking at the reports is is the difference between what we budgeted uh, versus what we actually did on the budgets from an expenditure standpoint. It's a sizable difference. I one I want to thank the administration for doing that, but do you think that was because we overbudgeted in in salaries or or why do you think why was there such a disparity there? I did not develop that particular budget, but
035I can tell you from my standpoint um in developing budgets for many years now that you typically will build a budget high enough to be able to account for and a budget is considered an allocation. It gives you the authority to spend does not mean you really need to spend it all. >> So I would say it's kind of a combination of both. You want to you want to make sure you have it there or you could go after an additional appropriations. um but if you have it then you know you you don't have to spend it and I think for them choosing to keep some of those expenditures down was a very wise choice to help us move forward with positive for this next year. >> So you also mentioned in our transfers from
036the education fund to the operations fund that we didn't use that full bout knowing that SBA1 is sitting sitting out there. might that decision come back to bite us at some point or do you still think we're early enough in that process that we were all right doing that uh because of the cost savings and what we budgeted and not having to expend it all and then still leaving about a million dollars on the table there um and and knowing the operations came over a little less. >> No, I think we're still fine there with that. Um we still have room. Technically, you can transfer up to 15% from the education to the operations fund. Um, and if you go over that, then you you get on a a bad, you know, they're they're gonna
037get on a bad >> We've been there before. >> Oh, you Oh, you have? Okay. I didn't realize that. >> First year. It's been fun. >> Okay. Well, um, that's the only thing we have to make sure that we stay with under that 15%. And then it would be fine. And I do not see that because it is really strong, healthy cash balance at this point. But I think it is important to really keep an eye on that and continue to watch it. >> Okay. Well, thank you. >> You're welcome. >> And a nice year in wrap up. I know you have another one coming up, but it was nice looking at these numbers. >> Pardon? I'm sorry. >> It is nice seeing the numbers at the year end, so it was nice. But I
038know you have a wrap-up, too, coming. So, >> yes. Yes. My goal would be to have those for you like earlier than what we have them this year, but thank you so much. Okay. So, do I move on to the next one? >> Uh, we need to we have to vote on on I think >> Oh, you have to vote on that >> on this one first. >> And I will entertain a motion reference the 2020 the 2025 December financial report. recommend approval of the December 2025 financial report as presented. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Meltchure. Any further questions or discussion, Mrs. Babcock? >> Hearing none, we will vote on that motion. That motion passes 6. And now we're on to January 2026. Mrs. Babcock.
039>> Yes. Okay. So, we're now we're going to cover the January 26 um month end um reports for you. So if you look at the education fund um you can see where we have the budget listed the new allocation for 2026 um and then our revenue that we received and I will say this was a three pay month um so just so you're aware of that expenditures um are a little high due to that um but overall for this particular month for January we have 8.28% of our projected re revenues that came in and we expended 8.07 07 um% of our projected expenditures. And you'll see we have budgeted for this year 26 um ability to transfer 7 million into the operations fund um when we need to do that and we have not done
040that as of yet. Um then moving on to the debt service fund. with the debt service fund there is no activity um because the payments will be due the bond payments we will pay in June um and we'll receive the revenue in June as well um so there is no activity whatsoever in this one I will say though when this budget was built it was built specifically with the rate at 3999 um at some point we will need to do an additional appropriation for this particular one like you have you had to do last year for 25 and that is just so that we have we have the cash flow there. It's just a matter of making sure that we have the authority, the allocation to pay that. I just want to bring that to
041your attention. Um, and everything's in order there. If you move on to the operations fund, um, as you know, as I just mentioned, we do not have the revenue coming in into this one other than some miscellaneous items, um, interest, miscellaneous, those sort of things. So, we're only at 86% for our revenue coming in and 11.2% 2% going out. Um, which is pretty typical for a January out of the operations fund. And so overall, that's it's looking really healthy for January considering it's a three pay month. Moving on to the rainy day fund, there is no activity whatsoever. We do not even have a budget allocation for this. Bless you. Um, and so our cash balance with that is staying strong and steady at 3.9 million. Moving on to the expenditure reports for the education
042fund. Um at the very top with January um you can see there where we're ending that that month for January at 14.5 and it is going down. We have to be very careful from the previous year um in January of 25. That's something we just really have to be cautious of of those expenditures and I believe we are. I know there's been a lot of questions about adding different positions, things like that. We're being very cautious of those and making sure that we're doing it within the best interest for the students as well as maintaining a healthy cash balance to be able to provide for all of our um staff and community. For the um operations fund, you'll see for January 26 cash balance is 1.7 million. Um and again, that is low um compared
043to the previous year. there were some expenditures that were spent from the previous year in there and that is kind of is going to reflect that. Also, as you mentioned, we did not transfer the full allocation or the full transfer amount. So, that may have reflected a little differently at that point, but I feel like it's still safe at this point with where we're at. And any questions in regards to the January month end statements? >> So specifically in the operations budget, we we have one line item, the 400 series that's almost 50% of it's like I'm assuming that's an oddity there and the 400 series almost 46% expenditure on that line item. Is it just bad timing or bad time of the year when that comes out? because if we have a couple more
044pay periods, couple more months like this, we're going to be negative in that fund until June. Um, is that is that just bad timing on some of those purchases or or >> a lot of them is? Yes. Um, and it may be a matter of instead of transferring from the ED to the OP on a once a year, um, we could do it more often, more frequently to help relieve some of that cash flow. And I know we need to be positive in that at the end of the year, but is there anything if we run a month or two in the negative until we get to our draw, is that going to be an issue? I'm assuming we have the funds available to be able to cover and letting that go into a negative.
045I know some of that some of that negative is just because we have incumbrances that we haven't just have bills haven't come in. Is that is that going to be all right >> to run in the red? >> Yeah. >> Um I personally do not like to run in the red. >> I don't either, but I was just trying to figure out how we're going to take care of that. Um it I prefer not to go in the red and in fact I would um try to and I will look at this to see if there's a way for us to transfer some of that a little earlier just so we do not do that because I would prefer not to go in the red. >> Yeah. Well, and the only reason that it looks
046like we're close is because we go up 1.2 in in incumbances and that may just hold out but it's just something I it caught me off guard because typically you know we would be about what is it 8.4% and we spent 11.2% of this year. So it's it's just catches me off guard. So I was just curious. >> No, no, you're absolutely right. Um it definitely is a concern to to look at that and especially if those outstanding incumbrances, as you mentioned of that 1.2 there, um if that comes due, yeah, it's not going to look it's not >> then we are down to 500,000. Yeah, completely understand. Thank you, ma'am. >> You're welcome. And then moving on. Oh, we already talked about that. All right. >> I just didn't do you weren't a great
047flow, so I wasn't going to stop you, but I was coming back to that one. So >> that's fine. reference the January 2026 financial report. I will entertain a motion. >> Recommend approval of the January 2026 uh financial report as presented. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. And is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Meltchure. Any further questions or comments before we vote? >> I do have a question on the the rainy day fund is in December. It was the same as January. Is that not an account that uh develops interest on it? Is >> the interest is receded into our operations fund? >> Okay, thank you. >> Good question. Uh any other questions? >> We usually do that by resolution, but we probably haven't done that. But there is a resolution that
048the board passes that puts that in there. I just don't know when the last time we've actually done that. Maybe it's not part of the typical uh budget stuff that we do, but I do remember passing that resolution at one point that we had all our interests go into the operations fund. >> Yeah, there is typically a resolution that's approved when you're transferring money into the rainy day or out of the rainy day. Yes. And so, yes. >> Any further questions or comments? All righty. Let's vote on the motion. Motion passes 6. We'll move on to 2026 mileage reimbursement. >> So I ask the board to approve the mileage reimbursement rate at the federal rate which is 72.5. >> Thank you Mr. Babcock. I'll entertain a motion reference the mileage reimbursement change. >> Motion to
049approve the 2026 business mileage reimbursement rate. >> Thank you, Mr. Melture. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Carl. Any further questions before we vote? Hearing none, we'll vote on this motion. That motion passes 6. Move on to E4 administrative stipen request. Perkins grant >> board. Uh Mr. Allen uh for your consideration tonight. Principal Drummond is here at my request. Um she does an amazing job. Uh, as you know, we are our own little entity now. And so the internal fine is always one coffee in this district. So now you have evidence. Uh, and so uh, Principal Drummond, I'm glad to see you tonight. And, uh, one of the things Tiffany does is not only amazing job at the learning center, we know that it is a tremendous amount of work that
050we've become our own uh, entity. And one of the things that you have in front of you tonight, I've asked her to bring forward. And that is uh she did the Perkins uh grant, which is a tremendous amount of work that takes a coordination of a lot of different people from Huntington North and Learning Center. Um and and just dozens upon dozens upon dozens of hours. And this is our first run through it. And she did an amazing job. But one of the things that grant expects you to do is have a small uh percentage allotted for the person who does the grant because it is a tremendous amount of work. And so she didn't do that and uh I asked her to come forward and amend that uh grant so she could pay uh
051herself uh 257397 which is expected in the Perkins grant except she's also asking for onethird of that allocation $12,86.98 for Peggy who also helps her with the grant. Uh please know this didn't come from Principal Drummond. This came from Chuck Brimberry because that is very standard with the amount of work that you do. the grant assumes that percentage for the grant writer. And so, Principal Drummond, you can answer all the questions on the Perkins grant that they might have, but I appreciate you being here. And I also am amazed at the amount of work and excellence on the Perkins grant you were able to pull off this year. And um I know you had a lot of people doing a little bit, but you and Peggy did amazing job. So, thank you for your work.
052>> Thank you. And it's nice to see you all now. Um I'm happy to take any questions that you have about the grant request. Could maybe you summarize uh Tiffany a little bit of what the Perkins grant is used for? >> Absolutely. Yeah. So the Perkins grant is the result of um the combination of our comprehensive local needs assessment. So we did that uh last year for the first time. Um we br invite in industry stakeholders and our CTE partners and our teachers um to look at what the needs are for our district. um we summarize that into some goals. Um the primary one being um supplies and equipment to help modernize our our our shops. So that's what a lot of it is. Um Mrs. Easley does all the ordering for all of those
053pieces of machinery. Um it's added quite a bit to her plate. Um and we are grateful for her work on that. But that's what the grant is. So our the bulk of it went to machinery and equipment in the form of a shear in our welding shop. um which significantly helps that program because they can prep their own their own uh metal. So before we had to order it kind of like in pre-cut sheets, we can now buy it in bulk which saves us money and we prep it ourselves. Um so that was the bulk of the grant. Um the rest has gone into professional development for our teachers >> and board for transparency purposes. anytime one of our um grant writers is a part of the grant, I try to bring that attention to
054you um to make sure it is an awful lot of work on some of the grants and it is a lot of monitoring. And so uh in the future, you always want to make sure that if you have a small percentage associated with the grant writer within the grant that you openly discuss that for transparency purposes. >> Thank you, Mr. Manbury. Thank you, Tiffany. Any further questions? Uh, I'll entertain a motion. Uh, reference this item. >> I recommend approval of the administrative stipen request Perkins grant as presented. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. Any questions or comments before we vote? Principal Drummond, we are glad you're okay, too. >> Thank you. Uh, hearing none, we'll vote on the motion. That motion passes 6. And moving
055on to E5, approval of 2025 year-end appropriation transfers. Mrs. Babcock. >> Yes. This is just a formality um that's required for the state board of accounts um to zero out or bring the accounts to a zero balance by the end of the of the year um for calendar year 25 or budget year 2025. And so with that a request um perov permission approval um of this appropriation transfers. >> Thank you Mrs. Babcock. I'll entertain a motion reference to request >> recommend the approval of the 2025 year end uh appropriation transfers as presented. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. And is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Melture. Any questions or discussion before we vote? Hearing none, we'll vote on the motion. That motion passes 6. I'm moving on to E6 2025 year end
056and 2026 budget order financial presentation. Mrs. Babcock. >> Uh yes. So you have a presentation there that um is like a snapshot of um calendar year fiscal year in 2025. We have covered most of this detail. um already in the December financials. Um, but I will go ahead and go through this. Um, and it just gives you the, um, education fund, the December December snapshot again, um, that we've already covered. And then it goes into the, um, education fund receipts, expenditures, and cash balances, giving you the six-year comparison for your records. um so that you can see um our adjusted cash balance um there at the end as it was presented in the um document earlier. As far as going into the next page with the education fund ending cash balance um receipts and expenditures
057for the six-year comparison, there are two charts there for your review um with the receipts and the expenditure showing those um on that chart. and moving on to the debt service fund showing you um exactly what was just presented in the December um financials. Um and so I will not go into detail with that since we've just covered that. Um this is actually something I've not done in my current district. So this is new report for me and so I wanted to keep it consistent for for here. So if there's ever anything you'd like to see different, please let me know. I'd be willing to provide that for you. Um and then moving on to the debt service fund, the receipts, expenditures, and cash balances um for the debt service and those um charts again
058for the six-year comparison and then the operations fund looking at that for the December um month in or year end and the six-year comparisons again. Then the last one is the 26th budget order um which is the certified budget the certified AV certified levy um and then the rate in the beginning cash balances for those particular funds. Just keep in mind when we say that we are expecting a levy in the operations fund of 12 million we will not see 12 million revenue in that operations fund due to the circuit breaker. Any questions? So, I just last week, last week or the week before, I can't remember which. Was it last week when I went to the state house? >> Yes, >> they're all calling together. One of the underlying conversations because it wasn't a
059budget year, but there were conversations starting to float around the state house is the switching of of how we do our budgets from a ratebased policy. No, it was going to rate. Basically, they're they're saying they're they're going from one uh where we set our le from levy based to rate based and they were floating around the idea of basically capping the school rate at about a dollar. Looking at what we have here, it looks like our our 2026 rate is 08755. Is that correct? >> So, we're under that dollar. So, we're under that dollar. So, we we would be >> in good shape. >> Yes. Okay. So, just for everyone else, and I'm not sure, have you heard those conversations yet out of the state house or >> I have not heard those yet.
060Um, I have heard talk of potentially the lit being pushed back another year. Um, >> that was also discussed. >> So, that's right now it's supposed to go away in 28 and I have heard that that may be pushed back to 29 potentially. Um but I can see that potentially of what you're saying um happened if you look across the state and all the different rates um for school districts and that's one thing where we were very certain and I know um Mrs. Smith was very um adamant on keeping that debt service rate at that 3999 and that is crucial for us because then it keeps us under that cap at point4. >> Yeah. So the conversation basically was is and this was I it's going to be a big topic. Basically they were prepping
061us for the conversation happening next year during the budget cycle is they want to move from a levy based system because of the levy growths and all that have happened because of COVID and the the the growths in in AV and all that stuff to a rate based where you stay within your rate and they're going to give everybody a total dollar amount and then we were going to get up to a dollar. Um I'm not sure how that's going to work. I haven't seen the numbers, but that was definitely a conversation from the legislative legislators that be prepared for that conversation. So, I'm just basically informing the rest of the board when you start hearing that, understand that unless they drop it below a dollar right now, we're good. But if it gets if
062it comes down too much, we we're going to then have issues that we need to pay attention to. Um, but right now, as I look at it and and Michelle said, we're we're good. But it's something to pay attention to because not only do we have to worry about SB1 and some of the side effects of that. Hopefully lit gets pushed out another year to give us a little bit more time to understand the consequences, but if they then also then turn around and start adjusting the rate and limiting our rate, then we're going to have some other issues that we have to deal with. Um, and that all all of that funds that we're talking about is basically how we maintain our buildings. So, if we have problems and to keep our buildings up,
063that's where it's all going to come from and what it's going to hurt. So, >> yes, good point. Thank you. >> Do we have any idea of a I mean a comparable corporation and what they may sit at as opposed to where we're at? >> So ISBA has has basically seen the writing on the wall that this is coming. There's also some legislation out there to do some other financial studies that uh the legislature is planning on having DOE kind of do about that. ISBA is also planning on doing a major study as well just to get comparables because this is a complete change in how we've done things for a long time. So, they're going to start doing some of that. And I don't know if Mr. Brimberry has some uh additional thoughts or
064not. So, >> well, I would tell you Mr. Allen um John and I's previous two districts um two different scenarios there, but one was about a buck three and that was low for the area and um John at Concord it was far higher than was. So, we've been really good stewards over multiple boards, over multiple superintendent here with the rate being low here, but also maintaining raises, cash balances, and operations and so on. So, Huntington has been uh relatively low compared to uh both mine and John's past. Mine was low for the area I was in as a superintendent, and it was uh 15 cents higher than here. So, I would tell you it's a good question. I don't know where the area is now, but that's something we could certainly bring back to you.
065>> Yeah. And I would also say too, it's again to have those conversations about consolidation. We're also good because we're getting the tax base from the entire county, not our small little area. It's going to affect those other smaller districts as well because they get to only the AV that's in their particular area. So, it's going to it's going to hurt some people. Um thankfully, I think we're good because we get the entire county to do off. Just other things to think about. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. Um, yeah, you know, I think, uh, wouldn't hurt to have a bit of a debrief about this in the next few months just to kind of keep us keep our focus. Um, I'm proud of the work we've done to be careful with our finances, but this
066is really uncharted territory. Um, and at the same time advocate. Okay. So there's a we have voices and uh we have representation that we can reach out to. Don't be afraid to do that. Um I'm certainly going to so >> uh we have a brand new senator that is very willing to listen and have conversations. So I had the pleasure of having him at lunch. I was going to talk about this during board, but I had he came to lunch at the IPA lunch and and sat and listened and asked how things were going. And I know he wants to once the session gets over he wants to get up and meet Dr. deets and the the team up here. So, we're going to work on getting that taken care of once that gets done.
067>> Thank you again, Mr. Wall. Anything further? Um, that's was not requiring a vote, just information, but hearing none, we'll move on to E7 void state data checks. >> Yes. um as a formality that um should be taken to the board every year um would be to take all of our outdated checks or stale checks that's two years or older um as of December 31st of that year. So anything prior two years older than December 31st, 2025. Um that is for corporation and ECA level um that we take to the board to um write or basically void and then they go back into the account on which they um were written out of. It's a special process other than just voiding a check. Um, and this is required by state board of accounts and per
068Indiana code 5-11-10.5. And so with that, I request permission for them to void these checks and put them back into their prospective accounts. >> Thank you, Mrs. Babcock. I'll entertain a motion reference this request. >> I recommend approval to uh approval of the list of outstanding checks voided by January and February of 2026. I think that's correct. Did I say that right? >> I think you did. >> Okay. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. And is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Meltchure. Um, we have any idea what kind of dollar amount this totals out to? >> For um the corporation, $67,647. Um, for the ECAs, $3,1767. So, as I look at that list, I see city utilities. I just wonder if we missed a bill. Did we reissue a check? Because city
069usually is pretty good if if we don't pay them. They let us know when they start adjusting our our our bills. So, it's just odd that they didn't cash a check and and stuff like that. And then I also see our former uh technology director on the list as well. Two people that I can think of right off the top of my head. Did we reach out to them and and make sure? Did they lose the checks? I'm just curious. And I also see another former employee on there as well. I'm just wondering, did we check and reach out or we just doing this as a process and maybe didn't look at the list and think about it? >> They should have reached out to the individuals. Okay. Um I have instructed them moving forward
070because this was not a a common practice in place here previously. So I instructed them to start working on those now. So anyone that is out that's like right now like maybe in >> a year out. >> Yeah. A year out. Any of those that have not cleared to start making those contacts now so in case it's lost in the mail, you know, who knows? And we can do a void and replace at that point and get them to the correct people. So >> yes, hopefully the goal would be to not have this large of a list in the future. >> There's there's a $200 check that someone might actually be very helpful to someone. So, I appreciate that and I, you know, I don't want to avoid a check and not pay someone if
071we we owe them funds. >> So, I'd rather work on that. It's just odd too to see the city utilities because City of Huntington likes to take their money. >> So, I would just want to make sure that we get that taken care of. So, >> yeah. You're absolutely right. That is um that is correct that it doesn't look look odd. Now, um if something should come in and um like they say, well, you still owe this. Of course, we're going to pay that. will be issuing a new check because that particular check is too old and is now no longer available to be cashed. >> Yeah. And so that's that's what we're doing with the corporation. And the other big one is the the high school. Are they going to work on trying to
072reach out sooner than that as well? >> They should be. Yes. They should be reaching out to all of those people that they should make contact with them before even putting them on the list. >> All right. Thank you. >> You're welcome. I'll then entertain a motion references request. >> I thought I did. >> You did? >> Yeah. >> Well, we did that one already. >> Yeah. I I think I I follow proper procedure, made the motion, then asked the question. >> Yeah. I'm not going to take take the heat here. You talked too much for me to remember. >> Um is uh then we will go ahead and vote on the motion. >> Thanks, man. >> I know you're I actually did it right that time. >> That motion passes 6. Move on to
073facilities F1 fire and security protection with course and fire and security. Mr. Brimberry. >> Mr. TR and board action item for your consideration. Uh at the request of director of maintenance Rich Hurdle, he's asking for approval to accept a three-year fire and security inspection proposal from Corson Fire and Security for the years 26, 27, and 28. He would like the board to know uh that this is the same company that we have had the past several years. We did also receive two other uh quotes for this that were both higher. So, his recommendation is a three-year contract with the same company who's been doing fire inspection, which is Corson's. >> Thank you, Mr. Brimberry. And just to be clear, that uh that amount is annual, right? So, 27,990. I'll entertain a motion reference this request.
074>> I recommend the approval of the three-year fire and security protection and course and fire and security as presented. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller. And is there a second? >> Second. Thank you, Mr. Carl. Any questions or comments before we vote? >> Could this I know you're I'm I'm asking you questions for long terms, but could this be part of those contracts that caused that 11 million or $1 million in January? Is this something at some point we would want to maybe work with the vendor to maybe see if we could get it closer to like a June or July time frame so we could pay some of this stuff after we get our draw so we don't hit the operations fund so much? Because I'm assuming this is coming from the operations fund. Yes,
075you're correct. It would come out of the operations fund. Um, and yes, we could. Some of those contracts I have had that before where they were just off cycle from the normal. Um, and you can do that. You can negotiate and get them to align it a little differently. >> So, it's just better from a budgeting standpoint and a cash balance standpoint is what I would want. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. Anything further before we vote? Let's vote on the motion. That motion passes 6. Moving on to items of discussion by board members. Anybody got anything they'd like to talk about? >> I kind of already hit it, but we did have the state house uh day. Uh last week it was good. There's a couple of uh interesting bills that are
076working their way through legislature right now. One of them is a bell-to-bell cell phone ban. That is interesting. And another one is an immigration thing that is going to be uh in enforce upon uh passage that we will need to do that. I know I gave uh Mr. Wy, we had had a conversation about this earlier. I gave a conversation about that to Mr. Wy. Uh but the belltobell cell phone ban is also something that's going to be interesting. It's going to be using a similar model or proposing a similar model to what Fort Wayne Community Schools does. So it's not putting it in yourself, not putting it in your locker and just looking at that. It's actually securing it in secure storage during bell to bell. So that would mean kids either would not
077bring their cell phones to school or if they do bring them, they would have to be secured in such a way until the end of the day. I would just want to start if that does pass, we're going to have to have a conversation with our community and say this is not our choice. This is the legislator's choice and then we're going to have to figure out how we're going to implement that. So, I just want to keep that on everyone's radar. Um, it's going to be a little bit different. I know I I just know it's going to be something we need to keep our eye on. Uh, the other thing that happened recently was uh ISBA had their um leadership conference. Uh, I think that was in January. That turned out very well.
078Uh, there is some great presentations I'm going to see if I can cut out and share with the rest of the board members. Uh, one of them is on Robert's rules of order. We all need to just get a great refresher on that. Uh because I'm a nerd. I enjoy that. But it's all things and if I have a chance, I'll share that with everyone and go from there. But thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. Um referenced that uh cell phone um change. Um whether you agree or disagree with it, it is possibly going to be what we have to do. And um I think you're correct. uh it needs to be made real clear exactly who's making the rules here. Um so yeah, just be prepared to to reach out to your your
079people or have them reach out to you board members uh as this thing goes into action because I'm sure there's going to be plenty of things, plenty of um opinions um we've survived worse. The >> conversation I was having is from my understanding here at the school corporation. I'd love to hear from Dr. deets and others, but what we're doing today seems to be working and not causing disruptions. So, I'm not sure why they're trying to do this forcing of this because they just changed it last year and it really hasn't even had chance to change. But that >> Mr. Wall, I couldn't agree more with you and and I know several of you board um have been to Huntington North numerous times and they handled this situation very well in the school system. This
080is a high achieving high school. Um, when I've been to literally hundreds of classrooms and cell phones out during educational time is not an issue on the majority of classes you would see at Huntington North. It's not an issue at all at our other buildings. And so when I compare what Indianapolis legislates, we will follow, but I will tell you they spend more time on certain things like that that maybe aren't as large issues at Huntington and we be compliant. Um, I have been unbelievably um, impressed with the kids at Huntington North over last year's change. And uh, we don't have as big a issue as what other districts have is what I would tell this board. Um, you can always do it better, but the issues that are in some areas on cell phone
081and education do not seem to be at the same level what I would tell you in this building. And I think that is a credit to our kids, parents, teachers, and then the administration here. You're always going to have a little, but I will tell you it's not been a disruption of the educational environment in this building. Uh, bar of the 60 classrooms I've been in, I might have seen a couple during educational times and it's dealt with very professionally. Uh, very it's non-threatening and they handle it well. So, I would tell you Ryan, we will definitely be compliant in the future. We'll follow it. We'll communicate well, but it's not a big jump for us. >> Very good. >> Thank you, Mr. Brimberry. Um I would just like to draw attention a little bit
082to the over the last month there have been several um organizations um teams that have had a lot of success. Um looking at Mr. Carl because he's follows the wrestling programs pretty closely and we had a lot of success in the wrestling programs both boys and girls. Uh congratulations to them. Uh I did see yesterday or last weekend our our drum corps uh was in a competition. Uh it's one of the first times they've been be able to do that and that's very exciting I think for for that group. Um our boys and girls basketball teams had some success this year. The boys actually start sectional next week or is it this week? I guess >> week from Friday. >> Oh week from Friday. And so, um, then this weekend, the Midwest Showcase is going
083on with Varsity Singers, Viking Volume. If, uh, if you want something to do all day from 5:00 in the morning till about 2 o'clock in the morning, uh, you can volunteer to help. Um and and also I'd like to thank the athletic department because I know the um 1A semi-state was here in Huntington over the weekend and um seeing the hearing about the gym being full or nearly full and all the people that spend literally a full day in Huntington County um spending their money at our restaurants, spending their money at our places. It's pretty exciting and so well done. Mr. Allen, if I could ask for forgiveness in my excitement of being here at the board meeting. I left off the high ability handbook that when we were talking about handbooks, we also I
084need board approval for our high ability handbook. This was the second read and it is revised and we're ready to go. And so I know this is out of order. So I do apologize. Um I was thinking of the word FAPE FA is free and appropriate public education. And that was what was in my mind and FURPA wasn't. So again, as I'm getting older and maturing and uh having learning opportunities, um that was what was coming to my mind. So um >> so Jay, what I heard is he asked you a question and they just blew threw everything off. So it's all Tim's fault is what I'm hearing. >> Well, no, I'll take full responsibility, but I know it's out of order and I do apologize. Uh but just ask if we could approve that
085for the for the record, please. >> So that was listed in with all the handbooks. So, does it need to be approved separately or not? >> Well, that's what I'm >> That's a great question. I just want to verify and make sure that Mrs. Kitchen is still here and went through a lot of work in her committee and just want to make sure it was in there. >> Whatever is appropriate, whatever needs to be approved. >> I would guess that it does not need to be reone. >> I mean, it's it's >> Mr. Wy is your curls are your toes curling back there? included. >> It was part it's >> we didn't state it. We said student handbooks, but we didn't say anything about high ability. So, uh that was left off. So, if that's
086included and we're good, I'm I'm good. I just want to make sure it was >> I mean I'm more than happy to >> Yeah, I I hear him. Uh okay. What we're going to do is uh just to make sure we are covered, I will entertain a motion reference the high ability handbook um request. >> Or do you want me to just amend my original motion to add it? >> At this point, let's do a new motion. >> Looking at the way it's recommended for the action. I think it was all that was included >> and it's listed there. >> It's and it's listed. >> It's it's in the list of things that are listed with the student handbooks. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> If we need to do it again next month, we're here.
087That's true. >> Did you want to say something, Mr. Wy? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> And board, I would say our board notes will reflect that it was listed and this was discussed. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Yep. >> Thank you. Thank you for your help, Mr. Wy. >> Before we move on, I completely missed this and I want to go back to this. As part of the consent agenda, we approved the retirements and I just want to call out those teachers and the classified staff. Um there's some very good names on there that this corporation is losing to retirement. Um I'm not going to name names, but just as a whole, there's a lot of individuals that are retiring and there's a lot of experience that are going to be walking out the door
088into the walking out the door at the end of the year that I want to make sure that we give them their due and and acknowledge them. Uh so board, if you haven't had a chance, please look through that. You'll you'll recognize the names on there, but they all deserve uh a moment for recognition. Um and I know I can't wait till the end of the year because some of these people I want to thank them for the years of service they've done and there's going to be some big shoes that some some schools are going to have to fill to to take care of that. So just want to call them out uh special about that because as I was reading through that list, I'm like, "Oh, no, they can't retire." No, they can't
089retire. So uh just know that both both on the the teacher side and on the classified staff side uh there are some very good people that have given a lot of years of service to this corporation and I don't want to downplay that. I think it's very important and I want to thank them again for their years of service here for the corporation. >> Thank you Mr. Wall and it's you're exactly right. >> Anything further? >> Yes. I would like to thank Mrs. Babcock for being here. It's so refreshing to have you here. We feel whole again and for your not only your expertise, your level of expertise, but your experience because folks, not everybody can do this. That's for sure. And also to Mr. Wall for his level of interest and expertise, not only
090in finance, but in legislation. You're such an asset for us. Thank you, Ryan. And thank you, Mrs. Babcock. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller. Anybody else? Okay, we're going to move on to H1 superintendent search update. I'm just going to read a brief statement. Uh bring everybody up to date as where we're at. Um out of a pool of 14 candidates. The board is now stilling on stay staying on schedule to conduct second round interviews tomorrow and Wednesday evenings and we'll then meet and discuss who will be our next superintendent. Uh once again, we'd like to thank the ISBA and the representative, Steve Horton. His helpful direction and experience has been a tremendous help. Um the selection of a superintendent is arguably the most important task of a board. Together, we felt it was best to
091use a multi-tered full process to give the selection the thoughtful consideration it deserved. Board members should be proud of their work over these last six to eight weeks. The finish line's in sight. Whoever ends up as our next superintendent will have earned that honor. >> That is our update. I will move on to I1. Anybody make a motion to adjurnn? >> So moved. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. And a second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I'm not doing