001Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all we welcome you all out tonight for our last meeting in 2022 future board meetings are January 10th at 6 PM we will have the regular meeting at the board of Finance meeting and the organizational meeting also January 24th and February 14th here at 6 PM president Daisy I just want to mention one thing we are actually going to change the board of finance and you'll get an update on that too but we're going to change the board of Finance to the 24th instead of the 10th we have all the way until the end of the month to be able to do that we have done that in the past because of the early days and Banks not being open
002some uh to get already reconciled we want to make sure that we have enough time to get all that completed so if you come for justifying more to finance it won't be to the 24th should have some foreign [Laughter] except for we've had some last-minute additions to our public recognition so we're going to go straight into that for public record recognition we have a recommendation to approve a 737 donation from Ronald and Amy Wilson 100 of that Joseph and Cynthia Bell uh 100 Dan and Teresa Snyder 400 Andrew Savio 137 for Southwood students uh DC trip recommendation to approve a one thousand one hundred fifty dollar donation from 500 of it Anonymous gift card Holdings 300 First Farmers Converse 100 TTG equipment 250 for about four South Woods Theater Department also have a recommendation to
003approve a 500 donation from Hoffman's nursery for Northfield Schools basketball a recommendation to approve the 4 375 dollar donation from for Northfield boys basketball and those are the donors are Michelle Perry Rex and Sharon Shaw each of those 100 lazy ellc one hundred dollars tying Kimberly bear 100 Kitty bear uh she's listed twice but 100 so I'm not sure what that is Craig and Tanya Hoppus 100 Dynamic ceramics 100 Pearl beef LLC one hundred dollars here in Shaw 100 RTP Holdings 100 Thorn insurance 100. uh Anthony and Kelly soared 150 Amelia Rozier 400 uh five hundred dollars uh Brad and Tammy Farlow 75 wander home reality two hundred dollars only Lisa Duncan Streeter 50 dollars Troy and Stacey bear uh 150 Dan and Michelle Sparling 75 Steve Fawcett 25 Tony and Roxy Rozier 250 North
004Manchester time out in 100. Shepard's Chevrolet in North Manchester 200 spot and sun 300. and I get apartment Holdings 300 Wildman business group and Warsaw 300 Eric Bostwick Earth Works 100 Metzger Property Services 100 Whole Foods one hundred dollars McKee Mortuary in North Manchester 100 Hoffman's Nursery and Landscaping one hundred dollars the total of the gift is again four thousand three hundred and seventy five dollars and that is for Northfields boys basketball program so we certainly appreciate all of those people who pitched in for labs we also have a recommendation to approve a 2525 donation from blow a Christian bookstore 500 very good Family Farms 200 Slimmer Brothers metal work 75 Crossroads Bank 500 fire and retire in Peru 150 formulated lunch Orthodontics 500 Bowman Farms 500 and Beacon Credit Union One hundred dollars for
005the Southwood theater apartment have a recommendation to approve a one thousand dollar donation from Matt and Shannon Schreiber 400 MMA minded LLC 200 Wabash County Sheriff's Department 200 flow tech plumbing and heating 200 for Northville wrestling have a recommendation to approve a one thousand dollars from an anonymous donor for Southwest baseball recommendation to approve a 360 dollar and 36 Cent donation through donors shoes donors include Pat Meyer Adele Heiser Carolyn gray Xavier Scott Stefan polling and several Anonymous donors and the Bill Gates Foundation Mrs Harrell will receive two tables and six chairs for a kid-sized farmhouse table recommendation to approve a 300 donation from the import Holdings for Northfield wrestling a recommendation to approve a 100 donation from Sean and Natalie Unger for Southwood Elementary robotics team recommendation to approve a 500 donation from Crown
006farms for Northfield girls basketball a recommendation to approve the 3 600 donation from the First Farmers Bank and Trust for staff appreciation slash staff spotlight and a recommendation to approve a 630 donation from Hoffman's nursery for boys basketball for Northville boys golf for golf balls those are very I think that's the longest risk of donations I have read probably forever did we go offline for a little bit does he have to do that again yeah somebody put a comment can you read those again I'm moved to approve all those generous donations well sorry about that motion and second to approve those donations as read all in favor say aye aye next we have student excuse me school recognition uh students and staff and I guess we'll start with Mrs Moore Mrs Moore is actually um
007she's ill just like a lot of students in our district and staff and so she's not here tonight so Mr mcdivitt would want to go first and then I have a few more after that okay thank you I just want to take an opportunity to celebrate a couple students that have graduated recently taught me to share the full names with you but we had two young ladies that graduated this past week and one I won't use her first name Mercedes she was a student that came to us earlier in 2022 did not have a successful place when she returned to us I think with a different approach to life and a better attitude about things and really had done a super job and so I think not just people at school but every on campus
008have really just those are the success stories that are really cool and safe so I want to congratulate those students but there's two employees I also just want to I cannot say enough about Harry Boyer who's our dean of students and his but she does a little bit of everything in ISS and assisting Berry and even though the population of our school is not significant you know like about 52 kids in the building they're busy they are very busy and they do a fabulous job managing kids conduct and behavior which typically it's certainly not about us it's not about teeth it's just it's just stuff that we deal with and Barry and Linda do a fantastic job and dealing with those kids and processing with them and providing the appropriate consequences when necessary but with
009the goal of giving them back to class and certainly everybody at school is important everyone has a role to play but man I I just want to make sure that the board knows those two people are in valuable to what we do so all right thank you and then I'll go ahead and the ones that were written from Mr Snyder at Northfield and I'll read several of those first of all Northfield girls basketball received an exemplary behavior report from official Jason Paul following the Mississippi Wall basketball game Mr Paul wrote I'd like to commend both coaching staffs and teams for a great sportsmanship shown in this contest that I officiated both schools were represented in a very positive manner in the IHS double a school corporations and communities should be very proud great job facial
010shots and fall Northfield art teacher Mr Adams Weeble had 23 students submit entries to the annual Honeywell Center winner of the street Banner contest held on Wednesday November 16th all 23 were fantastic and out of those 23 we had three earned special honors congratulations to 10th grader Addison McKenzie for being the overall NHS winner and to eighth grade Zoe music and 10th grader Emma bone for being the best in county for their grades so it's very very awesome congratulations to the Northfield all TRC academic Award winners at Northfield First Team all TRC Avery schreider volleyball Malachi Higgins for football Kylie Leland for golf uh Ella Hunter volleyball in Hoover volleyball Turner's uh Stevens a football honorable mention was Mason Fisher for football uh Eli Crow football Asia or Asia I'm sorry Miller cross country Reese
011resine football Mara Zolman cross country Madeleine Moore cross country Trinity Bieber cross country Gabriel Hopper um [Music] all right so continued on it's hard I know I'll read this all the time I'm glad none of these people have their parents here yeah that's right so continuing on for Northfield congratulations more football players Eli Crow and Mason Fisher for making a 1A All-State crew was recognized for his punting efforts and Fisher as a defensive back also for Northfield maokai Higgins recognized by the Indianapolis Colts and is an Indiana football coaches association academic All-Star Malachi's presence on an offensive and defensive lines are key to the success of Northfield academically Malachi currently stands as a salutatorian for his graduating class and then the last one for Northfield boys basketball staff and team received because of their behavior
012report from official Tim Nolan at Eastern on November 22nd Mr Nolan said I had the privilege officially officiating the Northfield versus Eastern Varsity Boys Basketball game at Eastern Northfield coach Reimer does an excellent job with his team they play the game as it was intended to be played coach Reimer and staff coached the game and did not try to officiate as well the scene is to be commended for their positive attitude and sportsmanship as well very fun game to do well done coach and teaching life lessons along with teaching the game yeah we only paid the three officials we don't pay the coaches um fishing or the fans and for Southwood although we all want to help Seth would like to congratulate science teacher Mrs Arena monks Mark Stoller for completing the necessary graduate credits
013to become credentialed Under The Higher Learning commission hlc requirements for dual credit instructors through their stem teach Indiana program we are proud of Mrs Mark staller's accomplishments and impressed by the enthusiasm she brings to the classroom every day way to go Mrs Aristotle Southwood High School received exemplary behavior report from official Tim Tillman for their conduct during the varsity basketball game versus Lewis Cass I had the privilege of officiating the Salford versus losing cash varsity basketball game at Southwest South with Coach Perry does an excellent job with his team they play the game as it was intended to be played coach Perry and staff coached the game and did not try to officiate as well wow yes his team is to be committed for their positive attitude and sportsmanship as well very fun game to
014do and the hospitality was awesome well done coaching teaching life lessons along with teaching the game all right yeah amazing you know what is good about because I don't have to do that necessarily and I'm sure if they have technical fouls and they kick people out of games they probably won't get an exemplary report so that's good on Saturday a surprise this is at Southwood the retirement party was held to celebrate the many accomplishments of Southwood 9th varsity football coach David Snyder coach Snyder loves the game of football and sought to impart that Love of the Game to his players in the past five years the coach coach Snyder amazed at 45-12 record in the last 10 years he had a mark of 87 and 30. Coach Schneider would defer any credit about his record
015to the many excellent players he has coached during the tenure discipline however the coach doesn't have an excellent winning percentage like this without having an excellent knowledge of the game and an ability to impart that to the players the Southwest family would like to give a heartfelt thank you to coach Snyder for the many years of dedication to the program we are so thankful for his efforts on another note we would like to recommend that Wabash all right I'm gonna read this on another note we like to recommend that Walby City Schools name their football field after coach Schneider because he has basically owned the Apaches wow okay truth is there the truth is Mr Daisy I think that's all I have for tonight all right next we have the public comment for agenda items
016only does anybody that would like to speak all right moving on to the consent agenda items approval of minutes from our last regular meeting which was held on November 8th thank you I move the acceptable rules so motion and second to exceptional meetings from the yeah the meeting minutes from November 8th on the fair sale approval of financial reports uh claims foreign [Music] number nine just reflects excuse me some coaches pays that was starting to be paid out um segment number 10. next payroll just so you know this upcoming payroll uh once a year we receive monies from the state for teacher appreciation grants that goes in its own fund and that's to pay teachers that were rated as effective or highly effective a stipend and so those those payments will go out in December
01715th so um payroll will be a a lot higher because of that extra stipend pay uh coming from money from the state move to payroll motion second to approve payroll all the payrolls as read as presented ideas uh all in favor say aye aye Financial summary uh those are the fun balances excuse me for the end of November so as you can see our education fund is just hovering right around nine million dollars uh you know operations fund is hovering at 5.2 obviously in December we'll receive revenue for our tax levies so that will increase that balance in our operations fund which you'll see in the cash flow so if you look at the cash flow start with education fund obviously there's only one more month are anticipated end of the year balance is around
0189.2 million dollars that will probably fluctuate depending on transfer tuition receipts and those types of things at this point we've received about 65 percent of the monies that we've built out for transfer tuition which is pretty standard at this time of the year uh for those dollars amounts so depending on how much we would collect in December uh for some of that stuff would impact that imbalance but everything else is pretty inline for the remainder of that and then with uh operations like I mentioned before uh the property tax revenue we will receive in December which then we are looking at close to having a fund balance of six and a half million 6.6 million dollars at the end of the calendar year foreign once we get to that board of Finance meeting which everybody's
019anticipating uh we'll have information that will close out 2022. um and give you a kind of a picture of where we sit from a financial standpoint at the end of the year that's all I have yeah not very many questions under resignation we have Amy Unger psychologist intern for wmap and you can see the effective date there Mary Lincoln paraprofessional at Northfield High School Brittany Rivas temporary occupational therapist at WMA key underemployment we have Sue rihard custodian at Southwood High School Brittany Brown cook at Southwood Elementary School and Jasper Donaldson volunteer wrestling coach for Northville High School under retirement we have Gary Norman teacher at the end of this lawyer will be retiring Dan Snyder teacher Southwood High School also effective at the end of the school year for leave we have employees number 146
020and 147 and you see the effective dates there and for termination we have a 48 terminated effective that day remember under Southwood coaches for spring we have Carl Pace head softball Gary Marion very Varsity assistant softball Chad Lambert JB softball Kristen Laporte JD softball Corey blocker head baseball and Lloyd Varsity assistant baseball Kyle zurfus Varsity assistant baseball and Christian Dieter volunteer for baseball before you vote can I talk about our retirees at this time sure maybe I would ask that you not vote on them so first of all Gary Norman Gary Norman has been with us for 43 years um and as you know that he was at Shark Creek as a classroom teacher and then he transitioned to be a physical education teacher at both Metro North Elementary and Sharp Creek Elementary and then
021of course he was a long time coach at Norfolk high school so we really do appreciate him for those 43 years I told him I said surely you could get to 45 years but he said 43 years and so it's always good though to see his positive attitude positive with all the children that he works with and we just appreciate all his time with us did an excellent job and then of course Dan Snyder we talked about him a couple of years ago because he did retire we recruited him drafted him brought him back for one more year to help us out and so he was originally with us for 33 or he taught for 33 years and then he added of course one more year 34 years and then at MSD wallabe 15 years
022we brought him back for the one year so it was 16 years at Southwood High School and we do appreciate him a lot too and wish him well in his second retirement as he moves forward so I guess they will show up either way I moved to approve the HR report motion and seconds to approved Personnel is read all in favor of cycling okay Harmony career center apartment I have one for Life Time superintendent support Mr Speaker well uh first of all I do want to mention um most of our community did receive an email about a fire that happened with all one of our South families their four children and so we did send that out we love for people to look at that and other basically MSD of Wabash and also the sheriff's
023department working together to be able to do a fundraiser for them for basically just having gift cards and so you can drop those off at Southwood um Junior Senior High School Southwood Elementary the sheriff's department or here and there was an email there will be things on Facebook too about that too so we're just glad that they'll be all okay but obviously it's a very tough situation with six of the family of course getting close to Christmas time and things like that so just wanted to mention that for those people that may not receive the information but all of our communities should received that email today this afternoon and of course we'll put it on social media and also we like to spend just a couple of minutes to talk about our outgoing president and
024board member Mr Todd Daisy I will start out with um Mr Goldman was not able to be here tonight but he did write something that I'd like to share um Todd I'm sorry I know I'm able to unable to attend your last meeting as a board member I've appreciated your leadership over the last number of years we have served together you have a heart for the students in our community you have been great at supporting our teachers and staff and I challenge the future board to continue following your example in the years ahead most of all I treasure the Friendship we have developed I will always remember the times we crossed Paths of Wellbrook and offered encouragement to each other thanks Todd enjoy your free Tuesday nights and I also would like to um just
025say that I've been very appreciative of President Daisy I know some of you don't necessarily know that there there are other things that we do there's a lot of emails that he receives a lot of text messages he gets my updates that I hopefully he reads every Saturday or Sunday or sometime but also as president he has been very faithful to be in our cabinet meeting so prior to prior to the board meetings typically on the Wednesday prior to our Tuesday meeting of the the week before either he comes in in person or we just go over the actual agenda and just talk about those things so there's no surprises about it and if there's things that he wants to talk about we can do that too so I know that your first year was
026in 2015. so in two terms eight years a lot of Tuesdays I don't know if you counted those up before but just really really appreciate your leadership and what you do for for our school district so I don't know if anybody from well we got some family members here too but uh so we are I will just say too that we um if yeah yes I get scolded into it okay I want to make sure because I just read it so we're having a little celebration after work uh afterwards uh with cake um and so you're welcome to stay for that too so yeah yeah so I first came he was sitting in the back there because he had some issues and he was talking about and as he sat there and conversed with us
027he thought you know what it's a better place to be to make a change for them to be able to side that's been tremendous having taught on the side I mean he's been good for the board very much so thank you and this isn't necessarily A Goodbye to just see you later you're still going to be around here so I don't think that you're not gonna be able to talk to us anymore we appreciate all you've been outside for yourself curriculum and instruction report not much to say we're wrapping up the semester in the semester finals around the white beans uh you will be hearing about science curriculum when we come back in January and maybe some testing results and I'll probably not even a generous probably just the science is upcoming all right we'll
028move on to new business under mostly those two start with number one recommendation to approve the end of Year resolution yes so this is a resolution that we do at the end of the year that just allows us to make adjustments to any Appropriations that we need to make adjustments to we're not spending any additional funds we're just needing to move around Appropriations to make sure that everything balances out and then it also allows us to pay um any bills that we have that need to be paid before the calendar year of 2022 ends which you still have approval of those you just won't have approval of those until after January [Music] I moved to approve the Year resolution motion and second to approved the end of the Year resolution all in favor say out
029all right recommendation to distribute the teacher appreciation Grant stipends and superintendent Library increase I could talk about the first two okay so the tag monies Dr already mentioned that we already have a policy for that and those teachers will be receiving those stipends um that grant money uh whether they're effective or highly effective and there actually is a difference and that's through the state of Indiana that tells us that there has to be a 25 difference between effective and highly effective and so the sharpen the pencils and make sure that's done correctly and so they'll be receiving that as part of that Grant and like Dr Kiel said that comes to us in a different fund and you'll see that um so that's that and then also stipends through uh that go along with the
030teacher appreciation grant for some other employees and then I'll let you talk about that I will speak about the superintendent summary increase it's my turn to say some nice things uh Mr Keith ever mentioned that when I think my first year on the board was in 2015 and when I ran for board and clipped my seat we were approximately a half a million dollars in the red if our it's called the general fund back in those days it's kind of morphed into now the educational fund but it is a really bad thing and one of the first things that I remember doing that had any kind of significant consequence was bringing in Bruce Bailey a former superintendent who's now consultant for a lot of boards there's a lot of internal independent type stuff brought him
031in opened up the books and said what are we doing wrong what do we where do we need to go and so we brought Mr Keith Faber in as the assistant superintendent of Finance put him under the mentorship of Bruce yeah within the first year started turning that around and then when Dr Weaver retired we moved him up moved to key favor up to superintendent and made another wise decision in bringing in Dr who has continued the things that uh that Bruce has had thought that Mike and then also mentored Chris we appreciate that I have heard from several several teachers who've been here for a long time and have heard that they believe that we have the best admin team that we could possibly have had and to that end I want to recommend
032to this board that we give Mr key favor a salary increase we didn't do it with the rest of the accelerate increases for the classified no the certain things as classified an Administration we waited until our last time that we met that you didn't go about was an executive session where we do performance reviews and so we wanted to get that performance review in and and make sure that this was the thing that we want to do and so it is my recommendation that we have discussed that amount and so I would like to recommend to this board that we go ahead and pass itself increase absolutely sorry motion and second to approve the recommendation to distribute the teacher appreciation Grant the stipends and the salary increase for Mr capability the next item is the
033elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund Esser it's a six-month requirement to review and make recommendations to approve the recommendation is to approve no changes to the current re-entry plan and supplement so motion and second to approve the elementary and secondary the Esser fund requirement a six-month requirement uh it's all fair all right recommendation to approve the extended out-of-state field trip to Chicago Illinois on April 28 2023 for Sharp Creek 5th grade so I'm going to lump the field trip song here together there's no it's like the rest of them recommendation to approve an overnight field trip to salomonie Reservoir May 31st through to the first for mines in Action level one a recommendation to approve the overnight extended field trip to Spring Mill State Park on the Rango cave and Clifton Falls State Park
034June 5 through 9 of 2023 for mines in Action level two and a recommendation to approve the overnight out of state field trip to North to the Northeast June 11th to the 22nd 2023 for mines and actions level three on a side note I would like to say that I'm glad I don't see that but science and motion Yes program returning under a new name but my children did that and I think it was a good thing for them so I'm glad to see if they're coming back recommendation to approve the overnight extended field trip to New York March 11th through 16th for Northfield seniors and finally a recommendation to approve an overnight out of state trip to Danville Illinois December 29th 30th of this year for Southland wrestling for the 11th annual New York
035challenge high school wrestling tournament I believe to approve all these field trips [Music] Motion in seconds to approve the field trips is read all the papers say hi all right and we have no unfinished business any border policy nope nope public comment for any items and board members there's almost never any questions we'll back up to public comment yes well I just wanted to stay I want to publicly my appreciation to the administrators and the board members for all that work and dedication they put in for the referendum I know how many meetings you guys probably uh span working and getting to that point and thought as you could be your last meeting as a former board member I know the time and dedication it takes and I appreciate your willingness to serve in that
036capacity for the community thank you I guess for items for board members the only thing I would add to that I didn't prepare a big long exit speech because I know people get tired of hearing me speak but I just want to thank the voters of MSD for giving their double terms to do this I might have continued on but the circumstances around my life changed a couple years ago and so I just think it's time to move in a different direction and so that's why I did not run for re-election to pursue other interests as they say appreciate it and I've enjoyed every minute I've had working with this board and this admin team and I know I'm leaving it in good hands Jeff Porter comes to you as a man of integrity and
037conservative values and Sciences to step up to the plate and surface District well