CorpusRecord 23833

Jennings County School Corporation Board Meeting - 9/5/2024

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Source
YouTube / JCSC Stream
Date
2024-09-06
Location
Jennings County, IN
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,138 words · about 7 min
Collected
2026-06-06

Transcript

Verbatim source text

0017 o' we'll call the meeting to order and we'll start with the pledge iedge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all welcome Molly to the bo [Laughter] and um absolutely and um welcome those who are live streaming the board meeting again um just a reminder that we are live streaming um so we welcome all of those individuals who are joining um so we'll start with a motion to accept consent agenda items motion motion by Earl do I have a second second by Travis any discussion all those in favor 70 next we'll ask if anyone is present who would like to speak to any item that's on the agenda or any other topic I'm good hearing nothing

002um we'll move on to some old business um it looks like we're going down to property CTE project we are on the home stretch it is uh we're probably 95% there you can see in your pack at the update the kitchen is looking really great with everything in position the advanced man area is done health science is done and we've got just a few things left in the culinary area so that's um just an update um just would ask that the board members and anyone who's streaming or Molly um just kind of keep an eye open um for on social media we will be having um some open houses some some opportunities for community members to come in and look at the area I've been there seen some of the um medical simulation lab area

003and it is it is beautiful so super excited about that and want to share that with community members so be be looking for that so next under new business we have some new neol AP polies yes so first reading for two new Neola policies they're actually combining several new Neola policies and streamlining them into one so there's two of those if that is the case so reach out please if you have any questions um substantial changes with any of those okay um so again that's a first reading so we'll vote on those um for the next reading and again the chat to nikk if you have questions um next we'll go down to um looks like we're down under support staff no actually on professional staff number four stem cont oh so sorry professional staff

004so stem contact thank you if I could ask for approval please for the stem contact for the 24 25 school year for cpia elementary to be by Davis so motion by Travis do have a second second second by Pat any discussion all those in favor seven of so no other recommendations under professional staff so now we'll move down to support St and Y first thing I've got is the bus a pay scale um we want to put an Adder we we're asking to put an Adder on there for the bus Aid that is driving the students to the de and blind school because the add of responsibility within that so um this is a um again bus Aid pay scale revision so this needs an approval so we'll entertain a motion so good motion by

005marn do I have a second second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor seven now we have some recommendations yeah asking for approval for the following recommendations please rob cokl as a juning County Middle School seventh grade head girls basketball coach Kevin gray as the Middle School eighth grade girls assistant basketball coach Kendra Irwin as a St Creek Elementary sped Paro and Levi Ross as the middle school 8ighth grade girls head basketball coach entertain a motion to approve those recommendations as read Mo I have a motion by Travis Pat second okay motion by P second by tra any discussion all those in favor 7 um so next we'll move down under finances we have some donations yes I'm asking the board for approval of the following donations nvic ter to Hayden for the

006fourth grade class Lemonade Stand project Gator mold $1,125 The Hope food program Joy of giving Inc $4,500 to the Hope food program Chuck Cathy y $20 to the social high school social studies Department in memory of Jim her Jim har sorry uh Rosemary Edens $50 to the same social studies Department in memory of Jim Hart powerlift Tri-State hydraulic doors $500 to the high school PBIS program powerlift Tri-State doors $1,000 to the high school Hurley Hooligans Shay dance $250 to the Hurley Hooligans the high school and the following are gift card winners from the north ver kuas $50 each for Jennifer George Courtney CHR Johns Brooke muser Julie green Sarah Waton Wendy sh Karen Jackson and Trish SP we'll entertain a motion to approve those donations as R so motion by Cheryl we have a second

007second by Mary ly any discussion all those in seven now we have a budget presentation yes I've got the first one is the third presentation of the regular budget and we're going to start on slide four just going to basically go over the changes we had a small reduction in the debt uh service area so it is now it was 49 uh 01 now it's going to be 4.81 six million so you'll see see that on slide four you're also going to see that number affected on slide 11 which basically is the what you consider the detail version of it and then you're going to see it again on slide 18 nope sorry wrong on that slide 17 you'll see this was adjusted your previous one showed a 5198 so that came down to0 5108

008on the advertised area and then lastly on slide 19 where you see the actual advertisement that will be posted tomorrow online you see that number reduced to the 4816 621 and that is the only updates for the budget so that is an inform is the third um reading of that so next we'll move down to the capital project Capital project the only thing to look at on that is slide number three and there's no changes in it but I just wanted to throw it up here a second time in case there's any questions or concerns about it no changes in that slide though so again this is an inform the second um presentation for the capital project plan so next we'll move down to the um jcsc bus replacement plan and slide three on that

009one again no change but just so you know this is what will be posted uh in the same area in Gateway that you post the other two all three of these will be in the same place you no longer have to do this for the paper the states decided to put it all in one spot on Gateway and then people will have to go there and find it again that is in next we have permission to advertise yes I'm asking permission to advertise the public hearing for the 2024 General obligation bond that we've been talking about I talked about the previous three budget two budget presentations for the long-term maintenance and um there's going to be a security side to that also and this is just to be able to advertise that that hearing will

010be on October 3D that I wanted to get try to get ahead of that just to get the permission to advertise okay so um this needs approval um for permission to advertise for the 2024 General obligation Bond have a motion by Travis do have a second second by pad any discussion all those in favor s so next we'll go down under operations commission to lease buses yes this is the the buses that were approved on the February 25th meeting that when we when we chose to uh and this again to keep this is right in line with the bus replacement policy but we put a PO in for these the buses are finally being delivered uh very soon so this is the financing for that very consistent with what we did with the last two

011bus purchases we've made and it's going to be through dler Chrysler or Mercedes-Benz financing sorry um so again this is um he's requesting permission to lease four buses um yeah to inter leas inter leas to finance the four Buss motion by Earl do I have a second second Chelsea any discussion all those in favor 70 I think we're down we're down under other we are I have one other this evening okay um asking for approval for a pay raise for classified staff of 50 cents an hour to all base pay for the 2425 school year to be uh effective that would begin being payable on the September 30th paychecks so asking for approval for those races motion have a motion by Earl do I have a second second second by Travis any discussion all those

012in favor seven hearing nothing else we'll entertain a motion to adjourn have a motion by Pat I second second by Chelsea all those in favor 70 meeting adjourned

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