001of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all ah all right feel bad at him welcome you so welcome uh future board meetings will be on March the 28th and then April the 25th and then May the 9th and hopefully we'll have warm weather revisions of agenda denied this a little bit on the HR and then also in addition to the new business at the end public recognition I would like to put forth some donations that we're blessed to have given to us uh we'll begin with uh 675 donation consists of fifty dollars from Danny motors for Northfield High School cheer 175 from Wabash engraving for cheer fifty dollars guy Givens Northfield High School cheer sixty dollars BJ's Services
002also Northville High School cheer forty dollars from Charlie Easter Day from the Northfield High School cheer then we also have a two hundred dollar interest Technologies donation for Northfield high school track got a hundred dollars from head-to-head gains for Northfield High School Esports I mean a motion to accept absolute thank you oh I'm sorry I got another one to add a big one it's a recommendation also to approve 500 donation from cortella agriscience MCs LLC for North Dakota accurate and agriculture second all in favor say aye foreign so tonight um our staff Spotlight and actually um the parent that nominated her were unable to come but we're going to go ahead and proceed on with it and so Teresa Baker is our Salmon Elementary winter Southwood Elementary custodians during the day she was nominated by
003parent uh Kristen Spiker and so let me just read a little bit about what she wrote she said she shared these words she goes above and beyond to make the kids feel welcome special and loved every morning my son who doesn't go to school yet loves to get to see her in a drop-off line she is a master at her job and then some by helping wherever it is so we want to thank um the parent Mrs speichert who actually nominated Mrs Baker and thanked Mrs Baker again First Farmers Bank and Trust is our sponsor for this program and she has already received her 40 voucher to our online MSD store so again congratulations to Mississippi and we'll go ahead and continue on that recognition please yep and I'll go ahead and turn this over
004and I'll let Mr mcdivitt and then I'll I'll share some things afterwards Mr Martin are you you want to do yours yeah I don't actually have them in front of me but I could paraphrase we're just very proud of uh Kim bear one of our fourth grade teachers who was recognized as the 2023 greatest in Wabash County as a teacher and she was in the supplement to the paper I don't she didn't have a picture in there but certainly we're happy to have cam on our staff and we're very happy for her winning that and I'm going to share some of that later too during my report but um thank you Mr Martin I think that's all you had on the list and so I'm gonna go ahead and continue some of these other ones
005um and commissioner McDevitt if you want to find that picture and bring it up after I get done because I'm going to read a few of these and you can do that too as far as Mrs felheim hello if you want to find it let me know an idea so Southwoods I want to go ahead and read things from Mr Martin and I'll just go on through the list here south could received exemplary behavior report for March 4th according to reporting official Joe Rambo Salford hosted boys basketball sectional 53 needs to be noted that what an outstanding host Southwood was all week thought Medical on this staff go above and beyond to make sure everyone's experience is top-notch from an official's point of view Tom treats us with the utmost respect from Communications Hospitality parking
006and Logistics and security I can't think of any stone left unturned as it relates to the preparedness for this tournament job well done also as a Southwest Community would like to congratulate the Southwood faculty basketball team for their sobriety March 3rd's Victory also special thank you to Mr Sparks for organizing the event through this event and because of Mr Sparks everetts we were able to raise money for Logan Miller and his family Logan is the Southwest High School student who has been dealing with a significant health issue the last two years foreign basketball nights for their wins Friday and Saturday making them sectional Champions this is the first time in Southwest history that both the boys and girls are sectional champions in the same year this also marks the fourth consecutive sectional championship for the
007boys win uh boys team way to go Knights and also congratulations Southwood for being named Wayne TV team of the week for their recent efforts in sectional play check out the link to the story there is a link if you would like to look at that we will look at it now but it was interesting after the sectional win they all stayed there the kids were doing some different things I believe they were all dressed in red and actually Moses was there departing the Red Sea which was pretty interesting and fun so they have a lot of different themes also in the South and south of men would like to commend the efforts of senior Lindsey Silver's soccer 12th graders she has selected to perform for the county honors band and choir for all four
008years Lindsay has considered dropping choir during her seventh grade year but she ultimately chose to stick it out would it Go Lindsay congratulations on outstanding achievements from the parts also congratulations to our Southland students who performed at the county honors band choir performance on Friday March 10th they were outstanding and one thing I want to say is that Lindsay was the only one out of all of the students in Wabash County that has the four years for both van and choir so that's quite an achievement and of time it's been so congratulations to Varsity Knights they made it to Regionals for the fourth straight year it's Saturday they won against their opponent Blue River Valley with this win the knights will be going to their second semi-state in three years our nights are now in
009the final four actually the final eight one team uh in Northern well at okay I should just read it what it says because it's correct the final four 1A teams in the northern half of the State uh the knights are in the final eight 1A teams in the state what an amazing situation for a team that started this season with five straight losses also congratulations to Jason wilbrisic senior for being nominated again for Max Preps High School happening of the year a week Jason was nominated for his most recent performance against River Valley the regional game at the Knights won Jason's stats for that day include 15 points 10 rebounds in the 56-38 win and by the way they were actually down three points at halftime and then came up second half and one by
01019. he has been averaging 10.6 points 6.3 rebounds 2.7 assists and 2.5 sales you might remember that Jason was nominated in October for his efforts in the football field at that time he was nominated for his outstanding performance against Tiffany Valley in the 28-26 night win he had 22 tackles 10 solo 1.5 tackles for loss way to go Jason and Northfield thanks to metal source for helping out and spotlighting Northfield art student Junior Lane Denton check out the post from metal source that was shared on Northfield Facebook but here is the shorter version Lane is a junior at Northfield Junior Senior High and completed his intricate jaw-dropping scrap metal sculpture for a sculpture to course he stopped by our plant one location in November of 2022 to pick out scrap metal pieces to start his
011project four months later we are looking at this masterpiece great work Lane your talent is unbelievable so hopefully you check that out at metal Source those are very very neat so I believe that's all I have for recognitions at this time all right thank you any public comment on the gender items that we'll have tonight so miss Sinclair actually not in any of the pictures but Karen red is Mrs felheim and she's she wears a lot of different hats in school she's technically like the in-school suspension support person but and she does a ton of things for us but that's who helps pull this off for a missing cutter and that's the other staff members from school that were there at the dance so first of all the things that go on during their time
012that there you know the dances and stuff is what they'll remember stuff like that oh yeah they're already asking us for pictures which we're happy to get one we just can't control the orders as fast as they want them you know it's well worth all the efforts thank you it is moving on we have approval of minutes from the prior meeting on the 28th of February in motion they all just looked there sorry I can't smile motion of approved minutes second uh all in favor say aye claims any questions there from Mr motion and second all in favor proof claim say aye payroll no real differences in payroll we will start I think I've mentioned this last couple of more means those eca's for winter sports are coming through as the sports ending so that
013will fluctuate up a little bit on a a higher amount at least for these next two years there's a motion and second to approve the payroll this evening all in favor all right Financial summary now this is usually the board meeting of the month that we I can give you a look at what the end of the month was for the previous month so this would be the end of February balances so you can see in education fund [Music] um our beginning balance we started in the beginning of the year so that would be January 1. the beginning balance in February 1 so the ending balance to where we sat at the end of February so um everything looks good and moving in the right direction thanks Chris yeah can you grab your HR I'll
014try and stumble through the names again resignation we have Katie Singleton teacher at Northfield High School Marina ruse cook Northville High School Brittany Hoyt paraprofessional Metro North Elementary Amy Wilson teacher Salford High School those are resignations underemployment we have Mark Smith custodian Southern High School Ariel Dale featured Shark Creek Elementary Baker teacher Northfield High School Jody Dale assistant golf coach Salford High School Brian Cole Junior High Golf coach Stafford High School under leave this evening is number 152 to begin on the 26th of July and run into October transfer Jessica France moving from math teacher at Northfield to PE teacher at Metro North Shark Creek and that'll begin in August in schools starts again kind of retirement this evening we have Jerry Middleton he's the head custodian at Southwood High School myself well why don't
015you go ahead and vote to make sure and then we'll talk so I've done that before we were talking about before and then if you don't it could be a problem okay all in favor of approval all right two things I want to say first of all though Jerry Melton uh heck is starting at South what do we want to thank him and congratulate him he has been with us he actually started on August 3rd of 1998 so he has almost 25 years when he finishes but uh 24 plus years so we just thank him for all his efforts he's always positive um and just a all-around good man and we just appreciate all this time whenever spent to help out at South Virginia High School and then now we do have one of our
016candidates so if we go back here I was kind of messing with this a little bit so employment uh Miss Ariel Dale at Sharp Creek we want to welcome her to the University of Wabash thank you another stranger to MSB or Northfield or Sharp Creek so so we allow you 15 minutes to share anything but no it's a really great um so you spent your time graduating from Northfield very successful a lot of different things I want to tailor uh correct and you are ready to begin and we will have that first day on uh August 7th and Mr Drake actually will share things with you too because we have new teacher orientation and you'll learn about that later so but we do I want to congratulate you I'm glad you're back welcome back foreign
017Career Center Madison report superintendent's report I just want to say a couple things here real quickly first of all our 34th annual academic recognition banquet was held uh a lot of you were there but Tim Drake Melissa ball and others at central office who helped thank them Dr Zach Hobson it was very good to have him back as far as the South will graduate of 2014 being the head athletic trainer at iwu so 21 students president I just want to give you a rundown I thought this was interesting of the students what they're looking at for their careers we had three that mentioned engineering to accountants music education exercise science EMT AG business Wildlife Management biology business biomedical psychology Communications three in nursing cyber security and forensics so it's just interesting I write those down
018real quickly and I thought it'd be nice to keep you know some record of that and just uh share that information also then I know that Mr Martin already shared this but in the supplement here to the Wabash Plain Dealer March 11 2023 2023 Wabash County greatest we did have um he already mentioned greatest people as a teacher can bear Shark Creek I appreciate Mr Martin sharing that we did congratulate her she did not know she got this honor um and typically they shared with other people so I don't know what happened with that part of it but we appreciate them doing that and then also the greatest businesses places to work MSD Wabash County was the winner so congratulations to all of our people that work for MSC of Wabash and then the preschool
019daycare we actually got second place but appreciate all those people that helped get to those accolades so just want to share that information and that's all I had for now thank you Mr Drake for Philadelphia [Music] that's okay all right we'll move on to new business tonight we have a project hearing and I've been giving quite a bit of paperwork on this and I'm going to begin by just reading through it as we open project hearing the next item on the agenda is for the Lord to hold a hearing on the proposed construction projects if you're interested in speaking at the hearing just make sure you can sign an out front or go ahead and stand up and let me know later after a presentation by the administrators there'll be an opportunity for you to
020speak we just ask you to limit your time and direct the comments towards the projects under consideration the notice of the hearing for this for these projects is published is legally required on March 1st and the Wabash Plain Dealer and at this time I'd like to ask Dr Kuhn to explain the purpose of this here hearing a little more sure so pursuant to Indiana code 2026 7 37 before a school corporation may spend more than a million dollars to build repair or alter a school building that will be financed by a lease or bonds it must hold a public hearing at which explanations of the potential value of the project to the school corporation Community are given the hearing and the consideration of resolutions are the very beginning of the legal process the resolutions presented
021at this meeting established the maximum financial terms for the proposed projects like we'll now hear from Mr or Mr Keith hey everyone about the process of determining and communicating the project to the community okay as I think people wear well aware that did not come out very well we've been working on our strategic plan for a few years and we actually looked at some different ideas and looked at the referendum that we had and we have continued to move along with looking at our facilities and this is why we got to the point where we're starting this process we have to realize oh this is just a starting process and we will continue on with priorities in the future but this is just a beginning part a beginning stage for us the one thing I
022would add is that we did have a work session on January 17th to have further discussion on these projects that were presented all right thank you now hear from Adam Wiesner from Martin Cove Wilma about how the proposed projects meet the required means in the school corporation small handout tonight um so as Chris said this is [Music] crazy uh the January 17th kind of work session this is a summary of that kind of in a reduced format with the scope for each building and that ties to the budget for each building so at Northfield Junior Senior High um locker room Renovations there those are all locker rooms um between the aux gym and the main gym including the Coach's Locker Room an area toward the back get fully renovated scope and design is to be
023determined but I think we have that that covered pretty well based on that last meeting maintenance and exterior improvements are basically repairing the efis system that's kind of the stucco looking system that's on the outside of the building most of it's in good shape shape it can be kept but we do need to repair things put a new finish coat on so it lasts a lot longer for you so that's refinishing that and also replacing the tennis courts that are there um Southwood junior high is the same uh scope but also includes the oh that looks like I missed the gym floor the gym floor replacement which didn't must have hit delete or something by accident sorry about that but the gym floor what I'm going to talk about later as well uh the same
024scope include the locker rooms the exterior ethos and the tennis courts but also replacing that chip before so that's part of the skill the Metro North and Southwood those are kind of combined here Metro North is a chiller replacement that's the only piece there just replacing that Chiller and South Wood is the roofing almost the entire roof gets replaced there's one small section it's still under warranty that doesn't need to be replaced but the rest of it does get a total replacement so that's a short summary but if there's any questions I'm happy to discuss the basic difference between Northfield and South that's the only difference yep same scope just the gym floor North was done a few years ago okay if there's no other questions we'll now hear from Jim alizandro from Nicholas Nicholas
025and Company did I say that right Jim steeple exactly I don't know why staple is weird to begin to end with the Nicholas's sister the prior company name was only City Securities yeah but the merger's been good tell us how it'll be financed Jim well we're looking at three distinct projects each of these are a separate project and our it will have in effect resolutions tied each project ultimately our goal would be if you decide to proceed and move along that we would sell one bond issue funding these three Instinct projects but for the here in the night I want to go through each individually and then we'll summarize with what it looks like all together first one is the Northfield junior senior high school project in effect we have the hard and soft construction
026costs that we're just presenting to you as a reminder whenever we go to the bond markets we have cost of issuance our estimate for the share of costume issuance here would be approximately ninety six thousand dollars bringing a total project to four million forty thousand dollars which are estimate for um this project if we go to the next one we would anticipate repaying that over three years this is purely the portion of that bond issue Northfield Southfield as it would look with your existing debt and your operations Fund in effect this is only one third or a a piece of what we're going to look at as a total but you can see for this project the estimated maximum tax rate tied to this project on its own is 22.7 cents per 100 assessed value
027that's pretty much we go to Southwood Junior Senior High School if we recall this has the gym floor added so it brings us with cost of issuance up to an estimated 4 million four hundred and sixty thousand dollars again on the next slide we'll see that paid out over three years and the corresponding tax for this project Standalone is approximately 25 cents per 100 of assessed value and then finally we have the Metro North Southwood Elementary project including the roof and the HVAC or the chiller um when you take the hard disruption the cost of issuance we get to an estimated project of one million four hundred fifty five thousand dollars and again on the next slide still funded that for three years so as we bring that together this piece is approximately eight and
028a quarter cents per 100 of business value we go to the next slide and see how we would anticipate this all coming together as one bond issue so we would stack those incremental pieces together and that would bring us to an estimated increase of about 38.32 cents per 100 obsessed value over uh your existing total score rate so that's an increase bringing your total School rate to approximately a dollar ten so the next slide if you remember when we went through the referendum anytime we talk about a potential tax rate increase try to break it down if you remember you have multiple taxing districts and different Dynamics throughout the one thing you'll want to see there this first section there we go thank you this first section is tied to what we find in the
029Census Bureau on the median home value in each of your tax and districts you'll see that everything in the in there is a straight tax increase in the 38 cents we calculate that and it ranges between zero to 22 dollars per month but then the one I want you to highlight is Wabash uh your portion and Wabash is already at that home level is already hitting circuit breaker and because this is subject to circuit breaker we don't anticipate any increase in the tax rate in Wabash City portion because we've already hit circuit breaker so any new increase would be above that and all the others we do we are below circuit breaker so we would see the estimated impact here if you go to the next slide we've added what happens for a hundred thousand
030dollar home there is uh another one that keeps up again Wabash still stays with a zero increase Largo or the girl I didn't get it wrong once in the office but the girl um you'll see there's also a footnote there that uh dollar night uh 113 or nine dollars a month that this project just pushes uh Libro into the circuit breaker protection by a dollar or two on this estimate but that as this issue is in there RS would show that there will be some do circuit breaker protection at the hundred thousand dollars or higher level and then finally we've tried to add something for Farmland um it's using the same assumptions before that we use a hundred thousand dollar in Farmland uh the one acre of Farmland is based on the brand new 2023
031base assessment of nineteen hundred dollars per acre times your production factor and then finally we put the formula in there so you can calculate it on your own and you you did slide to the next page which is all disclaimer and I know you didn't read that I'd rather read that oh any questions thanks Jim you might point out that being able to do this in a short period of time to pay back plus front loading it has a very very first year gives us flexibility for things will be decided on next next year exactly Mr President the idea that we're trying to minimize our interest by having a short repayment but also allowing a lot future flexibility as you continue to work through your needs and if we had a bigger project that would
032help us fund that throughout a period of time without impacting the tax rate moving forward pretty out over a large period of years for payback I shouldn't say no pay home and I just want to reiterate the total cost I believe I don't know that we went over that when you add up all those numbers was 9.9 million dollars roughly that's the maximum amount that we would borrow and I think Jim mentioned this as well um even even through all these approvals that we go through if it is approved to move forward we don't really have to borrow until later in the year when we have a better idea of what our estimates bids come back at so that we you know only have to borrow what's needed so once again public financing line up
033the although also because we're in a still a volatile interest rate environment we will continue to monitor rates and if there were something that would indicate that we were going the wrong direction dramatically we might have a visit of less way going earlier but the goal would always be to try to have these kids in place so we know how much you really need to borrow rather than going to that maximum number yeah all right now we'll open up the public hearing if anyone would like to make comment uh just state your name if not we'll close the public hearing and move on to consider the recommendations on resolutions Mr would you like to summarize the Northville projects and yes so the Northfield junior senior high school project resolution is required when the school is
034planning to spend more than a million dollars at Northfield Junior Senior High School it contains the estimated hard and soft construction costs and the cost of issuance and establishes the total cost of the Northfield junior senior high school project it also contains the estimated tax impact all right I'll take a motion and then a second to adopt the Northville high school project resolution to approve that resolution all right everybody in favor in that resolution say aye proposed by the same time all right Chris would you like to summarize the uh Southwood project then yes so similarly the Southwood junior senior high school project is required when the school is planned to spend more than a million dollars at Southwood Junior Senior High School it contains the estimated hard and soft construction costs and the cost
035of issuance and establishes the total costs of the Southwood junior senior high school project it also contains the estimated tax impact I'm going to write the same thing emotion in a second required for this um everyone in favor say aye anyone opposed same sign from the right Mr chairman would you like to summarize that in the third one yes the Metro North Southwood Elementary school project resolution is required and the school is planning to spend more than a million dollars at Metro north and south of elementary schools together it contains the estimated hard and soft construction costs and the cost of issuance establishes the total cost of the Metro North Southwood Elementary school project it also contains the estimated tax impact all right a motion and a second to approve to approve volunteers say aye
036aye opposed same time all right then we move on to the next resolution as a resolution to turn the lead for the projects relating to the financing so the next this resolution is a resolution term in the need of the projects relating to the financing of the construction project this resolution establishes the need for the Project's pursuant to the Indiana code that I mentioned earlier in the meeting come up to the resolution all in favor say aye you want to pose same sign the next resolution required is a reimbursement resolution it's related to the financing of the project so this last resolution is a reimbursement resolution related to the financing of the construction project this resolution permits the school corporation to reimburse itself from Bond proceeds for any cash which it might spend on the
037projects prior to when closing of the bonds happen is required by federal tax law in order to preserve the school corporation's ability to so this would come into play with using funds for Salford high school gym for ahead of the actual Bond issuance yeah or any of the other projects listed and so we could use our own money until funds were received and then we can reimburse ourselves back for that at that point promotion and second required to adopt this reimbursement resolution all in favor say aye you want to Pro same sign am I right thank you that finishes that portion of the meeting we only have one more item of new business and it's recommendation to prove the vendor for this Stafford High School gym floor would you like to bring us up to
038Dave on all that yeah just to give you a little background Martin coviluma actually assisted um getting a the co-op system and we had a couple of vendors who actually took time to come and visit and give some quotes I don't know if you want to share any more with that Adam or just at the Cooperative purchasing that the state allows speeds things up that's why I recommend that to you we reached out to three installers three has said they would come and two showed up so you got numbers from two specialty floors who did Northfield was a low including will be asbestos abatement for the mastic that's underneath the floor um it was actually right on target with the estimate so it came in great we got the recommend approving it thanks and so
039it looks like we're talking to the vendors on that they would even be able to start here pretty close to the first of April and so that would get a good start we have already announced that we would we are moving our graduations that's already been decided and actually uh that that takes care of that part of it too so we do make this recommendation with other questions reinstalling the bleachers moving in and reinstalling them same project basically the Northfield did a few years ago but yeah includes the abatement and what they're saying now is schedule is they check that they can be done by August 1st too so that's great news it's moving along it is like North Village yeah I mean it's striping to be determined you know different colors but it's not
040hard but the current floor is is much better much safer yeah very very similar quality to look very similar thank you I noticed some were Adam along with lines that it'll be done with two two phases like we did more things exactly yeah they'll do the bulk of the four they'll demo the bulk of the floor first and leave the bleachers sitting get the new floor on then move the bleachers on top of the new floor of course protect it then demo and repeat the process under the bleachers then move them back and reinstall them so yes with a big bleacher set like that there's only another way to do it so and now the piece of moving the bleachers that'd be another expensive we'll have included yeah the only thing the uncertainty as far
041as what we don't know is once they get the floor up as far as any fixes to the concrete as far as the leveling and that type of stuff is concerned sometimes that those would be additional costs that would happen and that's part of the reason why we put in that contingency amount in there to help cover some of those things of unexpected costs they did include the normal leveling but anything is Major so yeah sometimes it is tell us about the unimax 100 I saw that earlier that's just that'd be confirmed making them compartment for it I'm sorry the additional fish in 200750 on the Foster that so yeah Fosters let's call it their basement floor their lowest price floor does not equal what North has and does not equal but submitted so to
042bring it up to that level that was an added fifty two thousand dollars that means the same play ability yeah the first one was a floating floor which you don't want so that there's so yeah to make it apples to animals that raise their price yep I think we're happy with North Coast it was nice any more questions you need a motion to approve them the vendor that's being recommended to us to do the Jim Ford south of the high school I need to approve too especially boring second all in favor say hi hi anyone opposed if not that passes I have no unfinished business before me board policy there is nothing uh public comments items from the board everybody's quiet tonight yeah if not we're a journey