001that's it okay okay this evening we're going to have a moment of silence of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and Injustice for all and just to let you know the moon of Silence tonight um obviously and I think you know that we lost a dear friend in our bus driver Kim Frank and so we'll do a moment of silence for that situation and also 1980 1984 School Board member Robert Sparling uh recently so we said without join me in that please Lord Jesus I'm reminded just okay now that uh in Corinthians you tell us that you're the God of All Comfort for All the Troubles that we find ourselves in and I just ask that and then you come alongside
002these families and bring Comfort just as uh you get back to America back in Marion Martha when their brother Lazarus died and he made that fantastic declaration that and you are the resurrection of the life he who believes in you the way that he nor dies in whoever lives and believes in you will never die and thank you for that has come alongside an uncomfort is only you can both says we meet this evening make decisions as a board I ask for your wisdom to be involved give us Insight help us to see a problem or a situation in 360 Degrees all the way around help us not to be focused on Just One Direction that to know all the possibilities and make wise choices thank you foreign at six o'clock and a regular meeting
003time provisions of the gender mostly under donations I believe and also HR there's some musicians recognition we have a a number of donations and I'll try and make my way through these we have a 200 donation from Jesse Whiteman Leila Gilman Neil Hunter Robin Hodge Lisa krupiter Burke and Carrie Martin and that's through Amazon class wish list for Mrs Heather clicks preschool fourth full-year-old classroom also recommendation through 500 donation from the Daughters of the American Revolution for a grant for early childhood education Heather clicks preschool foolish classroom again we also have recommendations approve 500 500 donation from live Sunday school class from Bachelor Creek Church of Christ and I will go towards Metro North individual students needs for supplies shoes and meals recommendation to prove another 500 donation and this is from Doug Wells Nikki
004Holmes Liz little shade Lauer for Scholastic Books we also have Doug Wells Mickey Holmes Holly Shuler Madeline Daisy Luanne Wendell for four puzzles for Mrs Angie Herron's kindergarten classroom that's at Metro North also a recommendation to approve 350 donation from Madeline daisies that would be for books and other supplies there approximately forty dollars of value Michelle and Tim Shepherd you can see what they're willing to donate there and that's valued at approximately 310 and that's for Miss Ashley Hunt's first grade classroom at Metro North Elementary then also recommendation to approve 122 donation from Kathy and Steve Kirkland to donate there for supplies for classrooms that's approximately 95 dollars in value we have the family of Wyatt Ashley or Wyatt Ashley and Lyon brain that's for some supplies they're also about 27 and that would be
005for Miss Mrs Stacy Meredith's preschool classroom also at Metro North Elementary so we appreciate that we'll need a motion all right thank you staff Spotlight well I want to first of all say that we are improvising tonight since metronome on Metro that is down I think across the state of Indiana we don't have internet access but we do have hot spots we have different things so that's why you might see people walk around and do different things tonight and so for the people at home hopefully you have some kind of access so you can watch our board meet so we are going to go ahead though this is a one of the favorite times of of the night as far as a school board meeting when we do spotlights and this year we're doing something
006a little bit different so last year at the end of the year we actually did the nominations and selections of our staff Spotlight for staff staff of the year and also teacher of the year and so tonight we have with us principal Amber Lewis principal at Southwood who is going to share some things after I share a little bit so the staff Spotlight for tonight Southwood and the staff of the year was Katie Davis so Katie if you would like to come up and Dr is going to move our camera since we don't have our internet access to do that there we go so and I'm going to read just a couple of things once the once the staff of the year they actually um to be able to find out who the District staff
007of the year is we have them write a narrative and the narrative is why why do you love being a staff member at MSD and specifically in this particular case it would be at South was a paraprofessional and let me just read what Katie wrote it says I absolutely love working for msdwc I've always loved working with children of all ages but I feel most effective with older students this past school year as a paraprofessional I was in eighth grade and ninth grade classrooms the most and I really bonded with the students they are fun age and have great personalities they can express to you on how they are feeling and what they need the most help with I always have a good attitude despite what might be going on students really like to see
008and I have several that go out of their way to just talk to me even out in public and that's really good because that doesn't always happen I can connect with I I can connect with most students on every level I am very flexible when asked to switch my schedule around I do what I'm told and I don't complain I've had several jobs over the years but I can honestly say I look forward to getting up every day just to see the students and my co-workers I work well with the teachers helping them assist the students that need help I'm thankful for my job at MSD because I know I'm making a difference that makes me feel good so good and that is that job for me so thank you very much for that and
009I'll let Mrs Lewis then share a little bit of information too Mr key favor really covered it because that was a lot of what I was going to talk Katie I've had the privilege to get to know her this past two months a month or so and she's just a huge asset so she spends most of her day pushing into our general education classes to help students with special education needs but you're going to see her helping all students so it doesn't matter what if the student has an accommodation or not she's there helping them and that's just huge to watch as administrator to see that she she's helping every student that she can in particular we have one student that she's been able to make a connection with that nobody else in her school
010has and I think that's just a true Testament to her character to her talents for working with students and it's just a huge blessing to cover thank you and Katie um one thing that with our student staff recognition First Farmers Banking Trust sponsors this for us and so what we've decided to do is you actually get a 50 voucher for our online store so you can just use that and uh we uh thank you very much do you have anything you want to say I didn't really press on that but uh I love my job I like doing what I do and all right let's give her a run real quick [Applause] and next we will have um this is Sandra Gus Weiler and she is our teacher of the year for Southwood but not
011only for Southwood but also for the district and so she actually had to write a lot more and part of it is what we do is if they want to move on to the next level as far as the state of Indiana I try to use the same prompts that they do and not every problem just one prompt so if they do want to continue on with that they can and I'm not going to read everything it was a very good um narrative that she wrote but I just want to read one paragraph and here is the description describe a project or initiative you've been involved with that deliberately creates culture in your classroom or School describe how you build and use relationships to collaborate and to teach students of all backgrounds abilities and identities
012and so this is actually the the paragraph not this is just one paragraph that that she that she wrote a Spanish teacher by the way too that people don't know so the good teacher creates a safe place for their students I support an environment that the students can feel comfortable take risks and share their lives with others I tried to create a positive climate in my classroom and this produces positive relationships with my students a mutual respect and appreciation between a teacher and their students produce an atmosphere or learning I believe that my students know that they are important part of my classroom and every individual is a unique learner as a group they become one family that helps each other and encourages one another in and outside of the classroom very good at 39th
013year of teaching so um [Music] you need anybody like you just spend a few minutes in our classroom and you just see how amazing she is as a teacher really she has mastered the art of reaching all types of students of making learning fun if you've ever tried to learn a foreign language a World Language it's challenging and difficult it can be intimidating but she just makes it just such a welcoming safe environment for her students and I can speak you know now we're working together but I've had her for three years of Spanish and so I can speak as a student as well and she's just an incredible incredible lady and incredible educator too so I'm very blessed I told well I didn't tell you this but I don't want her ever to retire
014very very difficult to fill her shoes all right and again so 50 voucher for something I'm sure will be Southwood because congratulations as you're reading those things they're they're faces so yeah and I just say that they could leave just not a lot of good stuff here but uh thank you for the recognition Okay we have a couple other things tonight we do have staff and student recognition and have a couple from Mr Martin at Shark Creek Elementary and he just said we wish to recognize technostonia Mr Howard Usher for his daily dedication to our students to have a school building thanks to all for all your hard work and efforts of Shark Creek also thank you to the Food Service staff members who take such good care of us at Shark Creek we have
015Honeycutt Carla Dietrich Randy rice Jennifer Dillingham and Amanda Rhodes all you do a wonderful job so again we do this during the school year and appreciate them recognizing those people and I will give the phone back because I don't have computer so I can't have a hot spot when I have a Facebook live yes it is all right that's all that's all thank you uh public comment on just agenda agenda items if not if you've read through the minutes from prior meeting I'll take a motion to approve it and changes I'm going to approve those minutes second all in favor say hi hi all right next would be approval Financial invoice beginning with claims did have one question about chalkboards resurfacing yeah well they put like when they resurface them they're putting the white boards
016over the top or yes because I'm sitting there like why are we yeah okay yeah so the chalkboard itself is just being used as a placeholder for the light board it's when we use lose Internet we go back to Trump [Music] second motion the second for approval of claims this evening all day with that motion say aye hey no opposition payroll uh that this payroll concludes the 22-23 school year pay ing so the next payroll will reflect of what it will be moving forward for 23 24 school year that will be the first pay for the 2300 school year thank you I'm going to accept payroll version second hold finger all right Financial summary I promise yeah I just gave you a snapshot of where we sit with our cash flow and education operations fund
017the education fund shows just about everything that we can show for the year except for salary increases for teachers which we're getting ready to start formal bargaining um from the hearing that we did at the last four meeting we will actually start doing some informal meetings with the Teachers Association so that does not include any of that and then also whatever the ABM comes out to be in the fall and any changes that might be reflected for that and then just operation shows what we're currently doing it also shows when there are some of the projects that we have been doing which we've been paying out of the operations fund because they're not receiving the bond money at this point in time so we are actually getting started with the bond process we have an
018s p meeting on Monday to get a rating then that rating will you know help determine kind of what rates we get with that on so all those things are happening shortly they're really we were improved yeah so that doesn't hold us re-evaluation you anticipate for us to have a super good rate any other questions thanks Chris appreciate it have a careless uh grab your HR if you will this is just simply amazing beginning your school year and only have such a short list that's a great great thing and the rescue Nation Tim Smith that's custodian at Shark Creek underemployment we have Shannon Pierre Kim Jacobs and Adam swimming pool s as you can see their positions if you will so any thing can be said about that Mr key favor or we'll just go
019ahead and load them or to the HR so all in favor of approving HRS AI divorce Department yeah the partner started out pretty smooth with Mr Edward he's happy and he's a good excuse me so far for him so that's always good they had 628 students they probably will stay at that but they're they'll stay north of 600 side pretty good deal just remind everybody I keep thinking about it's been in life when will those decisions be made any anticipation that's a better question for Mr favor if they will get the other superintendents to wrestle around the Brio Style we're ready to say yes and we'll bring it to you guys for that okay and I encourage every board member to bring into their Warden do as I'm doing here in Tennessee and I will
020say that we we are definitely interested in trying to do something that you know move move forward with that I do know that we have two new um too so um that changes some things a little bit too superintendent report yeah I just want to mention that you know projects continue to progress in the area of course if you're interested in helping with the Salvage Elementary roof they're still roping and I think tomorrow and Thursday will be quick days and also the gym floor kind of really really close to complete completion was right very close very very close so hoping to be able to play on that very very very soon so um so that's going to be great and that's all I am all right thank you Ivory yeah I shared the car I
021resourced with you they're not as high as we'd like foreign [Music] that's kind of the new some new strategies on how to teach that and so we have the best that have movies in the district I would say probably close to a hundred thousand dollars by the time this year is over a world invested in training and materials for our teachers to use and so we are we're exploring on that so it's not great but it's not awful and it's something that of course will be this is the third grade we've been kindergartners for the coveted years and so they would have been there through March or April whenever March 13th and so but when I look at for excuses we're all students are identified or provided them services all right thanks thank you we'll
022move on that to new business we have five five items to consider tonight first one being recommendation to prove social media actions yeah I want to go back a little bit prior to coven we actually were in a um another suit against the jewel company and the vaping and that's still actually progressing at some point we figure that there will be some finances that will come to us that we can use some of those finances because of some of the things that happen with students that who Vaped and things like that and so this is very similar to that and our school turning actually shared this with me and I also looked at it and saw it earlier and so we discussed it and feel like the social media action suit is also appropriate because
023there are things that happen in our schools there are students that have discipline issues and different things because of those it does Cause A disruption the school they may have to be put into day reporting different things like that that does cost finances plus this is not good for their mental health and so there are schools in our state in the country that are are looking into this and so my recommendation but before you do anything to see if Joshua do you want to put anything in here also a mention anything that we are part of the social media action suit is my understanding that this is not anything that will cost us as a district the key takeaway as you and I discussed you know significant downside to doing it there's no plan commitment
024on behalf of space in it is very similar to the jewels lawsuit which Oasis class action suit so we would be one of many many parties that I anticipate um contingency will most likely be negotiated but um the attorneys only get paid in the the concert getting some sort of a judgment agree and so for example not that we know exactly what this would be before the Dual civil lawsuit there we received some finances there might be some things that we can do that Implement to have more prevention in our schools if they can so to speak or also fund some of the things that we have with our day reporting program so it is my recommendation that you approve this and we'll sign off on it and send it off discussion on that so
025what social media all social media or who are they suing they're going to name them all I think Facebook meta Instagram Snapchat yeah that's in number two there um and everything that I've seen those are kind of the biggest ones that are men so Donna what would be a large tech company but um I don't remember how when the jewel one started but this we should anticipate probably you're 18 months or years well it was before coping that the uh the jewel one that we got there were two different ones that got involved with that we were one of the first ones in this area and then they brought up another one and I kind of joined that so ours was turning out of New York and so it's been several years ago through yeah
026um you know to me the cause of action doesn't immediately jump to the front of my mind of what they might be doing but um the cause of action is a little bit nefarious um to me your nebulence like um I think they're going to be doing some really good lawyering to come up with exactly how they can end some sort of liability on the tech companies um but yeah some of it is too though like they're like Facebook well I'm not mentioning your name that was the first one on the zoo but part of it too is just the age of what they do and how they Market it towards the different ages and not um applying to all the laws and the rules of their social media so I think that's part of
027it too I wouldn't say they have a slammed winner on their hands can be very difficult right and I think it's going to end because of that I think all the tools taking back you know years and years of reservation yeah motion to prove the recommendation there or there's some possibility to give them something otherwise yeah all right recommendations approve the appointment of Valerie down to assume the board position currently held by David down that expires here in September therapy for the Rowan Public Library Board of Trustees and that term would then end and 2027. so the second all in favor say aye aye appreciate it em three similar to recommendation to approve the reappointment of Mary Jo McClellan to the Wabash Carnegie Library board for the term beginning here in already began in 23
028and runs through 27 also Brazilian a favor say aye fourth item recognition to approve the extended field trip for Southwood Elementary to Chicago Illinois and that would be for the March 14th of the coming year 2024. trip that they felt and so it's like on Thursday all right all right thank you again the fifth item recommendation to prove one of the three options for North grades three through five as part of strategic plan number four and as you know we've had three work sessions to discuss options and the necessity of doing something especially with the condition of Shark Creek so we've spent some time on this and work sessions and I thought that we should have some discussion tonight and find out if this person's thinking on the matter and then I'll probably ask the
029recommendation the administrators the architect is already kind of expressed himself in their work sessions to say that he probably would not support option one which is the renovation at Shark Creek but option 203 which would be the addition onto Northfield for the additional to Metro North not everybody at once yeah from the beginning I've been probably oh yeah haven't even thought about renovating just way out of line for a dollar spent so I don't think that one should even be considered I probably should have went ahead and mentioned to just refresh and then we've got the numbers in front of us that the anticipated cost of the renovation at Shark Creek was going to be the highest cost of the three approximately 36 million and 700 000 something and it put up a board so
030okay okay to complete that if you want my thin option two was the next highest the 31 million 664. followed by option three which is the Northfield option and that's 28 million three hundred thousand we've received some emails yeah I know Christian Library received a couple other ones besides all of us but I I've I've only received people that I've talked to that have been in favor of the Northfield expansion have received talking to people so public input has been that direction um probably from the beginning that's the direction I've thought that we should 100 dollar amounts I don't know I think it's uh if that plan looks better toward yours down the road when we first started talking about it I was kind of waiting towards the Northfield but then I kind of put
031the icing on the cake and he heard from some other people and talked to everybody else and then you say the cost I guess that's kind of the way I'm laying also but I think we need to tweak made of that plan I know nothing set in stone but there's been several concerns you know with kind of what we're talking about so I guess going into my opinion is if we can make the agreement Center and if we need to do something Metro North to make it build a function correctly I that's kind of the route I'm looking at right now I mean my opinion do you want everybody else does so you're saying Kristen Lee with the Northfield but he has spent some dollars maybe if we can make it work I mean to
032make it function right if the golfers work especially towards the cafeteria yes in air conditioning than that yeah so I think if we can make those numbers work that's kind of I like that idea I liked it from day one and then when the numbers come back it even myself I lean toward the Metro North from the beginning that still part of me kind of pushes that way a little bit just with that grouping together but as you look at the dollars the way this lays out at Northfield and stuff like that I can see that and if you do that then you don't have to worry about a gym at Metro because you're only second graders you don't need full court of those things but you do need to work on that the bloodstream
033area but if we do this in Northfield I would like to have somewhere in the future to plan do this it's the same thing towards the South because Southwest will do and this has got to be kind of a strategic thing down the road too keep that going that way too well I agree with that I mean this is a long term we're looking long-term we're kind of fish North but around to go south too we're going to have to know that in the future we're going to have to do you work down there also yeah I think that kind of keeps it looking the same crossword who has the Architects have talked about you know usually it doesn't the last you know the last thing that goes that you're shrinking is the high school
034you hopefully maybe quit shrinking and then we could just leave facilities as we we have right now but um you never predicts that part so I think last year during the referendum vote there's a strong opinion out there at least from what I was saying that they wanted to maintain two high schools South Florida and Northfield which you know I'm a South guy so I was a very very positive about saving a footprint in the South part of the county I agree with you thinking that it just has to be planned that way yeah part of the master plan the dollars it'll eventually be spent on South Hill Elementary need to be maybe conservative report something correct and you know I and I know that's why the administration wants to get moving because there's you
035know it's there's always upkeep that you have to have on Shark Creek and every months and year that goes by we keep dumping money in the better that ultimately is going to get buried so it's kind of why we need to make a decision of which way we're going to go that's Jeff or I like a normal options I like the possibilities obviously the engineers just kind of Drew up something kind of generic more or less but I think there's a lot of possibilities there and well first of all just kind of go back a little bit I do want to thank um you know Billman wagan construction for completing the studying the project budgets uh there's been a lot going on with that so we can get an idea that's what we really want
036to do we want to find out an idea of what the options would really be and so they complete that study the summer of course we had had three work sessions all been on Facebook live with a different camera system than what we have now but also if you did not know this we actually have a YouTube channel and it's also on YouTube for those people that like to go onto YouTube and check that out and again for North grades three through five there were three options of course I know they've already been mentioned so we'll go over them what the dollars but again remember the first one was a Sharp Creek option renovating the second one is Metro North and the third one was at the Northfield location so really based on several factors
037these would be the recommendation and I think you know I'll group us all together and they can share other information that may I may not share to approve option number three but also include part of option number two so that would be the the majority of of course the three through five at the Northfield location which is actually right beside chart Creek right now and then also though a small portion of option number two which look at adding additional space for a cafeteria at Metro North Elementary because currently that's a situation where we have the breakfast and the lunch is in the gym at the same time so the students really do not have locations to have recess and also it's just a tear down all the time back and forth and so that would
038be that reason um I've listed a bunch of reasons why this would be the recommendation that we have is first of all least amount of disruption during construction the least amount of cost of construction even with doing things both at Moorefield and Metro North Elementary the convenience for mentor and shifts internships on the same Campus of course is a positive convenience for parents on the same current campus that is one that I've been hearing in different locations of schools that are have a larger grade span even as great spans of pre-K all the way through 12th grade also new facility for students and staff that would be everywhere but yet that's that's obviously a positive sharing of services there can be some sharing of services if they're in in that same location future possibilities for
039the campus and one was already mentioned to you that um option number two and three were really The Architects they would just say that with the current condition and how Shark Creek was originally built it was because of that so the cost estimate and I know that's already been put up even with number three and part of two that is lower than option number one of course it was actually 8.4 million dollars more for the Shark Creek renovation compared to the Northfield option so we would recommend that you approve option number three in a small portion of option two as part of our strategic plan number four okay I know it goes imply but if somebody puts a motion on the floor to approve I would like to also have possible language read into the
040record do it it says that the board will have oversight and not only approval of final plans but also applying cross estimates so that we are involved or engaged in the whole process I just think that's important fulfill our responsibilities as trustees I was actually going to ask that question we could have some kind of language again even though we approve the option but we're seeing the the bill process you know whatever we want to add some some things and tweak some things a little bit we can do that along the way so the promotion approved tonight would be to move forward in this particularly correct as far as getting back with Architects and starting to formalize yeah and so one thing is part of that process that you guys are aware of is the
041just the timetable of the lease financing to be able to pay for this project and so that timetable within your board packet it does take a little bit of time to have that accomplished we have to have a couple hearings and then typically we would be finished if we start the hearing sooner we can be finished with all that project by the end of October um which then would allow us to continue to move forward in the next steps with working with architects with um or getting an RFP out for construction managers to oversee the projects Etc and we know that all takes time based off of when the Architects came to the work session they said plan for about 12 months once we start hitting the ground running before we can really get things
042out to bid and started and so we are trying to keep that process flowing and moving so that we can get all the information that we need to move forward with everything obviously we all know the exact costs of anything until the bids actually come through but we would need to have a guideline of what we anticipate or expect to spend for this project which makes sense is would somebody want to take it stand it working into the record of motion for all this yeah let's move to approve option three the partial of option two the board having oversight over missing make sure financially and and everything that we wanted to be in design all right if it's the motion Scott just made you'll have a second on that all in favor of approving then
043option three to move forward we 've money also being spent on option two to facilitate a better situation with the cafeteria all in favor of that say aye anyone opposed to say same sign all right it carries 5-0 all right thank you no unfinished business or board policy any public comments this evening I want to thank you guys for your time and effort you put into it and making it public workstations that we can come here and hear all the ideas I really appreciate it thank you all of you anything from the board in the United States