001oh work it's lit lit as long as she's feeling better everybody no he's back guys ready roll o' testing okay all right good evening and on behalf of the school board we thank you for being here in person and virtually I'm Heather Stags president of the school board and to my left is Luke Jackson Vice President Dan Conway secretary Jackie Deckard member and Matt henkins member to my right is superintendent Eric Bolan and assistant superintendent Susie lips will you all please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right thank you okay first we have up our student recognition the best part of the night
002good evening everyone please welcome at this time uh the school principls the representatives and the best spellers from all of the district elementary schools Bell Intermediate Academy and John rwood Middle School this past month the MSD of Martinsville facilitated spelling competitions and selected winners those top students and their teachers and parents were invited to be recognized tonight our district celebrates the students standing in front of you if you want to come forward winners and Runners up yes please I'm sorry our district celebrates the students standing in front of you because of their success with spelling however more importantly our school Community knows that students who prioritize spelling as a skill and grow and grow will grow into outstanding spellers they also develop self-confidence communication and public speaking skills and the ability to thrive Under Pressure
003good spellers are known to be self-motivated and probably a little competitive human brains are not specifically designed to do spelling or reading like they are walking or speaking these skills have to be learned they are not built in students who are strong spellers go on to become good communicators in their family and with their jobs because spelling is a critical component of communication congratulations students at this time I have the pleasure of introducing the school principls and the the event Representatives that are here this evening principales are standing over at the microphone I'll introduce all of them and then each one of them will read their students winners Brooklyn Elementary principal Jennifer tier certon elementary principal Stephanie Manley green Township Principal Paul Spar paragan principal Ryan Cox and his representatives are not here this evening
004Poston Road principal Jill Vulcan is not here but her representative probably is okay okay Smith Elementary principal Ray Floyd South principal Melody Meyer B intermediate Academy principal Julie Lawson John R wooden Middle School principal Fred kriff is at another school event but event coordinator Christa Matthews is here this evening at this time the principals and the representatives will introduce the school spelling winners while superintendent Bolan and president Stags give them their special Awards thank you parents for coming this evening and congratulations students all right for Brooklyn our facilitator was Miss stri thank you and our winner was Morgan Seine come on over Morgan and our runner up was Levi Craven congratulations to our Centerton spelling be winner Colin Goodner and our runner up eie Hickman a special thank you to Centerton spelling be facilitators Miss
005Katie Arthur and Miss Kelsey KRON congratulations to our Poston Road spelling be winner AA Riner and our runner up Colton Massie a special thank you to post and spelling be facilitator Mrs Molly f [Applause] congratulations to the South spelling be winner Kane Burton and our runner up Harmony Hicks thank you to Jesse Hostetter for being our spelling be organizer [Applause] the Green Township Elementary winner is Jennifer soon and she could not be here tonight because she is in the country of Burma with her family right now and the runner up is Avery Henson special thank you to Mrs Jones for facilitating for Smith Miss Charlie Wendell was our winner and she's not represented tonight or not here tonight but Lan mcui is and she is our was our runner up and we're glad to celebrate
006her Miss Kay was our coordinator for our spelling be she is a first year teacher and she rocked it so good evening for Bella intermediate Academy we have Bo Craven as our winner this year it must run in the family and also running in the family our runner up is Andrew sang and he is also in Burma with his family so they are both out of the country right now and a special thanks to Stephanie Johnson who was our spelling be coordinator um I am the spelling be coordinator for John R wooden middle school and our champion um Bea Harper is not here tonight but we are well represented by our runner up AJ frer good [Applause] job socialia [Applause] congratulations yes yes we will give you an exit right now if you do not
007want to stay for the meeting what we have a riveting meeting tonight it's a good one and then there were thank you all for coming out were five and then there were five he's all right he's okay I it's just okay he's not 100% yet but he's he's getting there he is here we do we do yes we can all right Courtney do we have any public okay moving on then to the consent agenda um the consent agenda consists of minutes payroll claims a payroll report budgetary claims the Personnel report and do I have a motion I make a motion that we accept the um agenda I'll second it okay any questions or conversation I do want to make a comment um I will vote on the consent agenda but I will abstain from voting
008for my son-in-law is on the Personnel okay report and I abstain from voting for him okay all right all in favor then I and opposed motion carries okay next thing we have is approving the overnight which was for our wrestlers uh that went down to the state finals U or the semi state I'm sorry in Evansville um what an accomplishment for and Noah they were representing Martinsville IN great fashion so I recommend approval of this trip that they had to take uh obviously you guys got it after they uh toured down south and they had better weather than what we've had recently so timing was perfect so I recommend approval of this okay do I have a motion I'll make the motion we approve the wrestling overnight I'll second that Heather okay any discussion all
009right all in favor I I I and opposed motion carries the next one is the stai conference Lisa Callahan Brad Beaton and Amanda Mundy from the Transportation Department uh going to Fort Wayne June 22nd through the 24th I recommend approval of them going to this conference all right do I have a motion I'll make a motion that we approve for them to go the stiai conference okay and a second I'll second and any discussion all right all in favor I I and opposed motion carries the next one is the Glazer football Clinic uh the coaches coach Dugger Taylor Toler uh G Geller Wilkerson and shrk go into Cincinnati February 21st through the 23rd I recommend approval all right and do I have a motion I'll make a motion Heather to approve the Glazer footall ball
010Clinic I'll second up all right thank you and any discussion all right all in favor signify by saying I I and opposed motion carries the next one is the int ma uh contest this is Machining contest uh Mr Kent will be taking uh kids to vinin to participate in this that's February 22nd and 23rd I recommend approval all right do I have a motion I'll make a motion that we uh the inma contest for Mr Kent machine I'll second all right thank you and any discussion all right all in favor signify by stating I I and opposed motion carries and the next one is the iasbo uh 2025 conference annual conference in Fort Wayne Uh that's going to be May 7th through 9th I recommend approval all right do I have a motion I'll make
011the motion Heather to approve the iasbo 2025 annual conference all right and a second I'll second it thank you and any discussion all right all in favor signified by St i i i and oppos motion carries thank you for curriculum this evening tonight I want to share a sneak peek from Dr Katie Jenner the Indiana State superintendent regarding the John R wooden Paxton Patterson career center ribbon cutting ceremony next week which will be Tuesday February 25th at 10:30 in the morning at wooden Middle School this is from Dr Jenner hello I'm Dr Katie Jenner Indiana Secretary of Education congratulations to the students Educators and staff at John on our wooden Middle School on the opening of your new career lab increasing career expiration and engagement in middle school can be a real differen maker in
012the lives of students helping them to discover a range of career options including careers they may not even be aware of today this new career lab will provide Hands-On learning opportunities allowing students to really think about what is possible to find out what they're passionate about and to be better prepared to experience careers in high school that align with their future goals to our Educators thank you for identifying and securing another opportunity to help students discover their unique aspirations and maximize their future and to our students as you learn more about the career opportunities available to you please know that there's a place for you to work and build a future right here in Indiana dream big and continue to work with your families your teachers and your school counselors to find the right fit
013for you you are Indiana's future and I can't wait to see all that you achieve we thought that was a very special presentation and um you know Dr Jenner was in Martinsville last year with Senator Bray along with um superintendent Bolan and um our stem coordinators Mrs Gooden and Mrs Adams we we visited schools and Dr Jenner was very complimentary at that time and we just continued to uh spark her interest so that's a that's a wonderful thing and thanks for sharing that with me this evening uh shout out this week also is to the Community Foundation of Morgan County the Community Foundation awarded the MSD of Martinsville a $3,000 impact Grant to make a positive difference in the classroom with student programming we want to thank this community sponsor the Community Foundation and president
014Kim Cole for the generosity and kindness that they always give to US Open Enrollment for the 2526 school year began on February 13th open enrollment is the time period that parents in our district district and from other districts can enroll their children in Martinville schools for next school year families can enroll by clicking on the enrollment icon on the district website or by contacting any one of the schools or our central office here at uh CEC kindergarten kickoff was facilitated Thursday February 13th at the martville high school Fieldhouse we continue to welcome all kindergarten students to enroll in one of the seven Martinsville Elementary Schools kindergarten orientations will begin in April at all of those schools upcoming events here in our district the district mock robotics competition is February 22nd the district literacy night is
015March 5th the state Chess Championship is being facilitated at Martinsville High School Fieldhouse on March 22nd obstacles for prek enrollment fair is April 2nd state math bowl competition is April 15th and the class of 2025 graduation is May 23rd I hope I said that correctly D District literacy night is here at our C on March 5th so the two upcoming events the robotics competition the 22nd of February and then the literacy night here at C EC on March 5th hope to see you all at those events thank you very much for attending this evening the uh next section is our policies first read only um this is items on our agenda items 2 through nine any questions comments uh that you might have n what's that three through nine three through oh I read the
016wrong one okay I missed I skipped number two that's what Madam president is for she reached over yes Dar type of button I need to push it home whoa okay all right we'll go back on that and we'll do item number two which is the form 9 report information only um no action to be taken it's just information only for you now items 3 through n thank you madam president welcome uh information only at this point because it is the first read but are there any that you would like for us to take a look at any questions you have now would be a good time bring them up and we'll investigate that for you just a nitpicky one on policy 6250 um talk about the ADM counts and I think you know they had
017tried to Neola had taken District or Corporation out and set a district or you know there's just one spot that it wasn't fixed so okay so we need to get that taken care of 6250 you said the second paragraph and it still says corporation instead of District but all the others were taken care of right the other one I saw was 5610 number five it was suspension and expulsion of students there's a couple options on that first one where the board uh has voted to hear all expulsions and and the selection was the board has voted not to hear those expulsions that was just a conversation piece to see if that was changed or why that was pulled off and that was something I mentioned to Mr Bolan today as just more maybe more information
018about that one right because I didn't know if it was and that's something we'll find out uh from Dr H is that something that was State mandated because I know the board did not request to be pulled off as you know the the one to be listening to any appeal so we'll find out Jackie you look like you were getting ready to say something I just want to say maybe the appeal would be typically only the reason why a board you like we wouldn't hear all of them it would just be if a parent appeal one that was my interpretation that it was the appeal that the board hears and the expulsions are done by our hearing examiner and in this case it's Kyle Stout for our district right right so I know we don't
019have it much I just didn't know what the breakdown was on very good any uh other items for any of the policies thank you old business the only old business I want to talk about tonight is I hope that the cold snow days 2hour delays is old and behind us that's what we're hoping for however the sectionals are not here yet and usually we have a snow around sectional time but uh no no other old business any questions from the board on any old business items that I might address now we move to the action item and the first one is the district firewall replacement through the eate program uh a discounts us 80% for our district rate current firewall has one year as all right do I have a motion I'll make a motion
020Heather to approve the district firewall replacement I'll second it okay and any discussion all right all in favor signify by stating I I and opposed the next one is also oh that's a shame Jackie took the batteries out beforehand so it's not up it's lit up now here take mine okay that was good your timing you've been working on it with Phil I've been working on it you've been working on it I got a lot of practice okay I'm sorry Phil um action item number two District virtualization platform proposal uh this is the um this is where we house host our platform and we have a new platform that could uh it's going to save us money and also add new um some new items so so we saved money by making this move to
021this platform and uh not only that we get a few more bells and whistles so Mr Meyers is very excited about getting this and uh I recommend approval of of his suggestion here all right do I have a motion I make a motion we approve the district virtualization platform I'll second all right and any discussion all right all in favor signify by stating I I and opposed the motion carries the next one is permission to award the food and nonfood bids as accepted through the Cesc which is for the public Central Indiana Education Service Center uh our food service goes through them a good buying Co-op I recommend approval for the 2526 school year as proposed by Mr lodell all right and do I have a motion I'll make a motion to approve the permission
022okay in a second got say it all you got say the whole thing I'll second that all right thank you and all in favor signify by stay I I and opposed motion carries okay the next one is to approve the new girls wrestling ECA account um now that they are a Varsity Sport we recommend having their own um tagline in the athletic account through the ECA accounting system system so I recommend approval of this I'll make the motion Heather to approve the new br's wrestling ECA account I'll second all right any discussion all right all in favor signified by stating I I I opposed motion carries thank you for that they had a great year okay moving on to item number five approve the paragan elementary partial roof bid uh Mr Stout opened the bids
023and uh moisture management is the overseer of them and peran obviously has a need for new roof and recommend approval of the peran roof bid all right do I have a motion I make a motion we approve the paragan elementary partial roof bed okay and a second second all right thank you um any discussion the only discussion I have is when you look at these three bids it's almost $2 million so I don't think people ever when you make an improvement to a building and you see a roof work you never see that much in a drone or so I think a lot of folks just need to see how expensive this stuff is to fix the roof money we're trying toest and it's just partial you know it's just not even full these are
024partials so yeah yep good point so um all in favor signify by stating I I and opposed motion carries thank you Mr Conway you're absolutely right you don't see the infrastructure uh improvements and uh I Mr Stout and his team they're doing a fantastic job on some old buildings that need some love need some attention need some care need some up upgrading and uh this is an important thing for us uh as we move forward is to be aild take care of them next one is the partial roof bed for John R wooden recommend approval of that one I'll make a motion to approve the John R wooden Middle School partial roof bid I'll second thank you and any discussion all right all in favor signify by stating I I and opposed motion carries the
025next one is the partial roof roof bed for Martinsville High School that one gets it closer to completion we've got just another little pocket to take care of so recommend approval of that one as well I'll make a motion to approve the Martinville High School partial roof bed I'll second that any discussion all right all in favor signify by stating I I and oppose motion carries we've got a few grants here um resolution 473 early literacy achievement Grant recommend approval all right do I have a motion I have a motion that we approve the literacy Grant second all right and any discussion all right all in favor signified by stating I I I and oppose motion carries and nine item nine is the Community Foundation impact grant that Mrs lips talked about $3,000 recommend approval
026all right do I have a I'll make a motion Heather to approve the cfmc impact Grant all right and a second I'll second all right and any discussion all right all in favor signify by stating I I and opposed motion carries the next five are donations we'll read them and then vote on in Block donation from little 's basketball to Martinsville High School athletics $500 donation from Neil and some Summers uh Mortuary to MSD students $800 donation from Bennett reality to MSD family services for $1,000 donation from American Legion Post 230 to the Martinville High School girls wrestling program $1,200 and the donation from Delta Theta t uh to the MSD clinics in the amount of $5,000 I recommend approval of these very generous donations from our Community supporters do I have a motion I'll
027make a motion to accept all these donations second thank you any discussion all right all in favor signify by stating I I I and opposed motion carries courney do we have any all right we do not have any public comments so moving on superintendent my mic still works Je okay there are a couple of items we want to make sure everybody gets um the robotics we're going to have a district robotics uh showcase it's going to be on the 22nd here um our robotics team have has been in competition over the last month so we've had some great support um in our district for the last couple of years for Robotics and we've grown the robotics teams the participation numbers the comp comptition uh numbers that we go to it it's a great thing to
028see those kids uh the thinking that goes on as they try to improve their base robots and make them more competitive and it's a it's a challenge and to watch how they work together is really something that is wonderful to see because it's teaching those soft skills too working with the team and finding out uh what works and doesn't work and you know one of the things they work with is you find find out about being a good team member and uh that's a very important thing and they also find out what it's like to not be a good team member uh whenever they have some team members lit them down and they that's a life learning experience too and they know that oh I can't let my teammates down uh by not pulling my
029end of the Rope or not doing my portion of the work or not showing up uh that's one of the things that they learn as well so I think this is a great great program that we've invested in and I appreciate the board's support on the robotics for for the last several years and uh that's going to be once again on the 22nd at the high school in uh the the nice Fieldhouse come and come and see what the kids have done they want to showcase what they're doing and they're going to do it in a competition format uh to show you what they actually do when they go to these competitions and uh the time the amount of people it takes the volunteers because we're wanting to host one of these next year um
030so we're trying to we're getting a lot of recognition we want to continue to increase our footprint in this Arena and in this area so come and see it Miss Adams she's here she's one of the people pushing on the robotic side has been for several years uh Miss Gooden does a fantastic job and we have coaches in each of the schools and we've been uh through ECA we've been able to pay our coaches for their time because it's just as important as paying our coaches on the fields or on the courts so we're really really excited about showcasing what we're doing speaking of that that showcase that Mrs lips uh alluded to earlier with Dr Jenner uh that's going to be uh next Tuesday and you're going to get some more in information from
031us on how it went we're inviting area super attendants are coming uh some some business leaders are coming and this is this is really a big deal we're the first of this kind in the state of Indiana we are the first and that's why Paxton Patterson is hosting this because they're wanting to Showcase what we're doing and you saw what Dr Jenner uh commented on in the video when she was here last year she was so complimentary of our engineering uh enhancements in vocational Wing our welding Labs um she was very very complimentary and she's excited about us being one of those Pioneers in this area we're thinking outside the box we've got some more ideas coming that I'll share with the board here very soon that we've been working on at the high school
032um just sort of wetting the appetite we've got a couple of opportunities here that can be very big for us in the vocational Arena and I know that's been something that the board has been very very adamant about since you brought me on board almost three years ago now you're going to like this and uh I already sent a message to Dr Jenner to participate in helping us get the stamp of approval from the state we're thinking outside the box something new I'll be able to tell the Press about this here real soon uh I hope that's what we're working on okay so we're not standing idle we're we're going to make some improvements uh we have the literacy night on March 5th um cannot cannot end my comments without congratulating the cast and crew
033of Little House of Horrors um I tell you those kids those performing art students what talent they have uh we're blessed to be able to have two full cast and uh they knocked it out of the park absolutely knocked it out of the park earlier this year we already had Phantom of the Opera last year with you know Beauty and the Beast we've had some unbelievable shows and our kids have hit home runs with it not singles or doubles home runs and I want to congratulate them and our guest customer that was there uh I I shared the stage as a customer oh I actually made my stage musical stage debut the best musical stage debut I could make because I didn't have a singing line that's the only reason I agreed to it in
034any way shape or form but I I pushed myself out of my comfort zone I told him I could speak for 30 minutes couldn't I Jackie without even having notes and take care of something but to speak somebody else's line and uh do the what you're supposed to do gesturing and all that and that was a I got out of my comfort zone that was scary and I I always respected and appreciated their talents my daughter was one of them and I was just always AED by her and her friends and their performances but to actually do it myself I cannot believe what these kids do it was it shook me to my core and their support and their comments to me they were seeing me as you know somebody okay that gets up on
035stage and talks all the time but they saw I was nervous and they said hey if you mess up just keep going we'll cover and believe me that first night I messed up and they covered it was they were unbelievable they made me feel so welcome and uh so a part of it I'm tickled by my uh experience because of those kids I know you'll probably say something about them here in just a moment as well because this guy went first and he set the stage for me and set the bar too high and I was like oh gosh thanks I should have gone first uh so I want to congratul them and then we got news this afternoon about Hunter stoud signing with Indiana University uh in football so that's pretty big news uh
036so congratulations to Hunter we've had a lot of students that are signing to go Mr Conway your daughter's going to Franklin playing golf uh we have kids that are going on to postsecondary education and they're pursuing their educational dreams as well as continuing in the athletic Arena so we're really proud of our kids at Martinsville High School and what they've done and Hunter's just one of a great number of them at the high school so that's all I have Jackie I'm done good from the audience virtual land too do I have any comments from the board I was just going to thank everyone for coming out tonight and and the super spellers and I'm proud of each and every one of them and and then just to say I know because of the weather that
037we've had you know we've had some delays and e-learning and things but um everyone's been a trooper and that's all the way from parents you know to the students to the staff cafeteria bus I mean it takes them all and you know puts everyone off their schedule for sure but we just want everyone to be safe so hopefully those are behind us I saw 50s coming up and maybe maybe next week so we'll be doing good but but anyway thank you all um for coming tonight whether you're here or virtual thank you for saying that I forgot to mention bus drivers you know we've had awful weather and we didn't have any accidents so knock going and wood and be thankful that we have not but it's because of of them and getting our kids
038to school and home safely they've been fantastic and what a stress I know I'm stressed just driving myself I couldn't imagine having a bus a little kids yes that's stressful very proud yes thank you have any other comments I was just going to share uh you know it's exciting to see all of the different opportunities that people have here whether it be musical academic Sports um Career Tech all up and down the line and I would put our district up against anyone we may not have ice hockey but we have everything else that other districts will offer and uh some of the best coaches best teachers uh best Le leaders uh in our in our buildings uh for our kids so appreciate that uh cuz I I will say this um not with my musical
039debut it was actually 20 years ago that we did Little Shop of Horrors and um it was interesting how quickly some of the music came back um but I will say and we were we were a great cast when we were doing it um but I think the cast that did this show uh was far better than we were um I think fra You' probably agree with me on that but you know so I you know just a a thank you to everybody that has anything to do with the kids on on any level it's just a it's a blessing to see thank you yeah and I will um I want to congratulate Martin Barco who is a 2024 Martinsville High School graduate he this week earned Big 10 freshman of the year he attends
040the University of Washington for breaking a 52-year record in the 800 meters which is pretty impressive so we do have a bunch of kids doing some good things I look out in the audience and I know Ian Knuckles he's at Franklin we have Logan Ratz who played college basketball at hover and then Meredith Deckard dad's in the audience Mom's up here and she she went on to do some good things too at Taylor so we do we kids yeah our students they really do go on and and do some big things so congratulations to everybody that's Dr rats that's right Dr rats now ah so I remember my name's little Logan so um congratulations to all of them and thank everybody for coming tonight so do I have a motion to adjourn I'll make a
041motion to adjourn Matt's ready hockey match right are you going to go watch a fight in a hockey match take over that's true that all right do I have a second I'll second all right all in favor I I and opposed motion carries thank you to see some of the Pacers but