001beautiful flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Music] right all right future board meetings November 26 second is canceled something about being Thanksgiving waking people want to look at it the next one after that is December 13th that will be here at 6 pm and then after that is January 10 2023 at six o'clock that will be a regular meeting a board of Finance meeting and an organizational meeting start right at six prevent a revision of agendas there's just a couple under recommend the uh yeah donations so we'll get right into that public recognition recommendation to approve a 750 donation from 250 of it from David Mann Hoffman's Nursery and Landscaping 250 and gauntlets on 250
002and that is for the Northfield girls basketball recommendation to approve a 200 donation from Harbor Freight for Shark Creek Elementary robotics for organizational tools a recommendation to approve a 100 donation from Northfield class of 1971 for an oil filter robotics a recommendation to approval 1044 donation from Motion Industries for Southwest Junior Senior High School for robotics for three pneumatic kits recommendation to approve a 300 donation from damn right for Southwood Junior Senior High School robotics recommendation to approve a 200 donation from Barabbas barbecue from Rockville wrestling recommendation to approve a 640 donation from Denise Stauffer forty dollars Hoosier Chiropractic LLC 200 Katie Pratt Vanderpool Law Firm two hundred dollars from Northfield wrestling recommendation to approve a 200 donation from an anonymous donor for Southwood Junior Senior High School robotics recommendation to approve a 736 dollar
003donation from Ryan Harrington for Sharp Creek Elementary robotics recommendation to approve a 736 dollar donation from Tiffany Crawford for Sharp Creek Elementary robotics a recommendation to approve a 641 dollar donation from Danielle Tolson 341 dollars Kate Krone K and Jeff Crum fifty dollars mckillard seeds 250 dollars for Northfield girls basketball and a recommendation to approve a two thousand four hundred dollar donation from Tiffany Hopper two thousand dollars Houlihan lawnmower sales two hundred dollars try W 200 for Northfield wrestling very generous assistant donors and we appreciate those donations it's a wonderful thing Todd so I'll make motion to approve a survey have a motion a second to approve the the donations as we've read all the paper say aye School recognition students and staff all right sit back and relax we have quite a few because
004we haven't been here for about a month so I will begin starting with Northfield congratulations to Leading North cross country team for advancing four girls to Regionals that were held on Saturday October 15th at IW sexual times places where 10th overall and first for the late North was though it was a time of I'm sorry it's hell of Gale with a time of 2112 Milan Moore came in 13th trittany B verse 34th and then Mars ulman at 38th Place Northfield football received exemplary behavior report from official Brandon schmack for the first round sectional game at Southern Wells on 1021 he stated that we are honored to report no unsportsmanship fouls for either team at the sectional game there was a mutual respect felt on the field as both teams played prideful football he was apparent
005that the coaching staff for both teams take sportsmanship very seriously as they should for High School athletics thank you so the Royals Raiders and Norfolk Norseman for exemplary sportsmanship also congratulations to our Norris football team on another great season the Norris won their round one sectional game at Southern Wells on Friday October 21st they then went on to surprise their very good Master Grant team in round two to earn a spot in the sectional championship game Norse were defeated in a sectional championship by undefeated and very very very very very very very good they didn't say that would be very good but Adam's Central team last Friday we thank the players and coaches for their hard work dedication and good sportsmanship throughout their this football season Northfield has enough girls to play girls wrestling team
006this year this past Saturday the ladies wrestler team traveled to New Palestine High School took a beat in the second annual dragons women's Invitational hosting 45 teams totaling 175 young women the lady rappers finished seventh out of the 45 teams have been Invitational good luck lady North wrestlers on the rest of the congratulations to our Norfolk football players have received all-conference for their efforts on the field Northfield all-conference players or Eli Pro Malachi Higgins George McKenzie and Mason Fisher honorable Mission mentioned players Jackson Pease and Joseph Delgado way to go north continuing on remember I told you to relax and just listen here so Northfield would like to congratulate our Wabash County Community Foundation Scholars of the quarter for the first nine weeks seventh grade Alec Copeland um and also eighth grade Peyton Turley I
007won't read everything about that now but congratulations to those two now we're on to Southwood would like to recognize Emily Locker Camilla manyhan and Luke Neal for making the 2022 Indiana all regional honor band they represent our band department on November 12th and 13th at Marion High School where they will be participating performing with 30 plus students from around our region a concert on the 13th is 4 pm and parade to the public also Southwood Lindsay Silvers and Dakota Wilson both made the 2022 Indiana Hall District honor band they will represent our band department on November 19th to 20th at Plymouth High School where they will be practicing performing with 30 plus students they're just really good that's something else from around the region a concert on the 20th is 4 pm free to the
008public also congratulations to the Southwood Knights for the performance football team on Friday October 14th formerly unbeaten 3A Tippy New Valley travel to South with the tick on Knights and the nail biter of the football game the knights came away Victorious and Tippy Valley is no longer an unbeatened team congratulations players for outstanding efforts priority and tip of the coaching you have to coach Steve Snyder for his shrewd use of timeouts to ice Tippy Valley's tip kicker at the end of the game way to go Knights and that's what made them share of the conference the share the concept TRC this year while the entire night football squad played exceedingly well one player from the group senior Jason will Precinct was nominated for the Max Preps athlete of the week way to go Jason congratulations
009to Our Lady bowling Knights for their efforts during sectionals on Saturday versus a few weeks ago they began their Morning competition with a 3-0 Victory overcast and they close out the evening with their victory over Northfield to take the sectional title the lady Knights base Regional opponents at Clinton Central on Saturday you already know what happened there they actually won and then we'll continue on with that once again our lady Knights prevailed a tournament play with victories over Faith Christian Academy in Daleville are nice Advanced to semi-state to take on Fort Wayne Blackhawk Christian play us at the beginning at 4 P.M at Plymouth High School Unfortunately they did not win that but they did one they did win one set and Black Hawk Christian ended up winning the state and I think our own
010Mr Drake was there to witness that um I didn't even say about that nope anyway so um Southwood we'd like to congratulate our Knights an outstanding season for football then of course they ended up seven and three um and as a record seven to one a conference play of the share the Three Rivers conference Additionally the knights defeated all other walrus County teams and defeated and previously on Beat the 38 to the new Valley football team in arguably one of the most one of the best football games this season and this is a very good one too lastly I would like to share a little more information about the Friday theme that's the one with Adam Central during the third quarter and Adam Central player intercepted the pass and was tackled on the sideline on
011the run back the players suffered an injury it required the ambulance to come onto the field stopping the game temporary if you know very very bad leg break uh one animal Central parent reached out to the Southwood Administration via email about the event and that parent wrote I wanted to commend your football team for integrity they showed Friday night when their whole team came over to the Adam Central football team and led a prayer for our injured player the majority of those young men was impressive we talked to a few of the players after the game that would appreciate if you could let the whole team know how much that meant to our boys and the fans I hope your coaches and school officials realize what a group of great boys you have on that
012football team and a great leadership they exhibit you should definitely be proud of them and again that was a very very bad break and they just beat us pretty bad too so um Southwood would like to express appreciation for Mrs Gilman's work to bring that Hoosier Shakespeare festivals of Southwood for a performance of Macbeth for Southwest and Northfield seniors the play was an outstanding performance thank you Mrs Bowman for all her hard work making this happen and Shark Creek Elementary wishes to recognize Our Community Foundation Scholars at the quarter for the first quarter fourth grader Nora Martin and fifth grade Aidan Stanfield and sixth grade Emerson zwievel so congratulations to the student and I'll say one more thing and I imagine that Mr Snyder and Mr McDaniel May mention that but we had our drama
013they performed Friday and Saturday night it was a combined MSD Northfield Southwood um the beauty of the Beast did a fabulous job I know some of you were here on Friday I was there Saturday night over 600 people attended which was excellent too which we haven't had that for a lot of years and so it's really neat to have those combined doing that and they just did an excellent job they actually had a lot of donations to be able to rent the set the set was very professional if you saw how to see that I put on Facebook and a lot of other things was on Facebook and that the outfits were great and the performances were fantastic too so it was neat to see them do that together and really thank Mrs miss me
014miss me does a lot at Southwood not only is she the band director she's the choir director she's a jazz band director she's the drama director pet band director and whatever else director is out there so she does a great job and uh I I've talked to her before about all that but um you know she she just loves what she's doing she loves the kids the kids do a lot of things on their own to um with the practice to make themselves better and it's just really need to see that too so there's probably a lot of other things that we could put we will officially recognize the public comment period for agenda items only although we have a republic so we will move on to consent agenda items we need approval for the
015minutes of our last meeting called on October 9th there are 11th to approve those minutes oh yeah option in a second to approve the minutes from our last meeting on October 11th all in favor say aye all right moving on the financials claims foreign each of the buildings get um I give them a budget for capital projects to purchase desks uh to replace old existing desks for classroom siding so um that is there were two different you said Page Six yeah so you have two different groups correct of course it was just um there was another straightforward desk when I was just kind of curious what I was trying to do it to work uh so these look like these are for uh Northfield because that's what the 11 is for um I would have
016to check that out to see for sure some of those desks when they when it says wave I know that there are some nests that have like a wavy pattern that'll build that connects it's just it's another mess yeah okay I was curious where it was because there's a lot of new designs there's all kinds of design at our desks you have a more modern look pretty much collaborative to be able to join them together right um sorry oh question and second to approve the claims All Purpose AI all right payroll level seven or eight together so seven is a standard one eight shows the Retro pays for the teacher contracts foreign so those would be payments made for the I think it's four pays August 31st September 15 September 30th and October 15th pays
017um so those are the Retro amounts added into that for the new contracts which since those are all four payments together than the next payroll should be quite as it shouldn't but hindsight we also have coaches pays coming in and so that's gonna I'm gonna skew that a little bit as well so okay payroll seven and eight all right in the month summary uh these are in my balances looking good uh some of this increases due to receiving starting to receive transfer tuition monies in the education fund we sent out statements uh to corporations of legal settlement back in oh it had been mid to late September we've collected about 60 percent of those at this point in time which is a pretty good number for us uh we'll continue to track those down uh
018throughout the school year so we do have some of those payments that have been coming in that has helped in that education fund to recover those expenses that we want at least think out so fund balances continue to be steady and in good position which then leads to cash flow uh probably a couple months left for this budget year cash flow represents what we have up until October everything is accounted for except for one thing which I believe will be in our benefit and that is the basic Grant uh Revenue that we would receive in November and December that has not been factored in yet to what we would receive from our ADM changes uh in September so as you recall the idea that we were receiving the dollar amount was for 2002 students and
019then that ADM for September um I don't remember the exact number Mike it was 2100 right you know 21 something so [Music] um that has not been reflected in this at this point in time [Music] it should uh increase that obviously uh I will know for sure what those numbers are on our November 15th form 54. uh will tell us what those reconciliation amounts will be for November December for that changing Indian I guess what happens on the law school in Minnesota corporations of those do they have a timeline that they have abide by or no um I mean when I first started here and Mike actually kind of started that I mean we went back three years three years three years to get money is that we hadn't been covered yet [Music] not likely
020now I also lost the loss because of three years it was still some years ago that we didn't go back and try it again so since we put some procedures in place we've never really had to go back any further than the year no uh to get those and so I'd say the last at least three years we've gotten all of our monies by uh on July or August of next year so there's no satactions statutorial deadline but we uh we just keep pressing them and then eventually uh we get to a point where then we submit for hearings with the Department of Education and that's usually when people in there [Music] just a reminder that ADM count is 2139.47. so we've already seen it more so monies were 2002 students and now that reconciliation
021will reflect on that Minister yeah so that's education fund operation fund nothing different um December obviously is when we receive our tax draw Monies which is our you know our main Revenue times June and December otherwise we're always losing money in months because we don't have any Revenue coming in like we do because those are just coming in during those tax times so that's all I have yeah do you have any other questions okay we'll move on to Personnel interpersonnel I have under employment a lot of things I got to be coaches I'm about to read here so as Mike said though buckle up because it's a long run Brittany Dawes Jr a volunteer Junior High cheer coach Nick Hopper third grade girls third grade boys basketball the ger threw me for a second Casey
022Hudson fourth grade boys basketball Michelle press third grade boys basketball at Sharp Creek those are all Sharp Creek Jeremy Halsey seventh grade boys basketball at Northfield 17 fifth grade boys basketball at Southwest Elementary School Alex miracle and Amber Hendrick paraprofessionals at Southwood Elementary Brian Bassett sixth grade boys basketball at Southwood Tabitha floor fourth grade boys basketball short Creek Brittany Rivas occupational therapy a temp wmap Ashley Mann's teacher on a temporary at uh Southwood Elementary School Jolene shemenauer paraprofessional at Southport Elementary Katie Johnson temporary teacher at Milwaukee Metro North Elementary Carlos Delgado fifth grade girls basketball Sharp Creek Elementary Rachel effer volunteer junior high chair coach at Southwood High School jennifercroft volunteer Junior High cheer coach at Southwest High School Scott Deaton fifth grade boys basketball Southwood Elementary Ryan Smith fifth grade boys basketball at Southland
023Elementary and Ryan Pershing sixth grade boys basketball sovereign Barlow junior high chair coach at Northfield High School and Amber Hendrick paraprofessional at Southwest Elementary transfers we have Haley Landing transferring from kindergarten paraprofessional to preschool paraprofessional at Southwood Elementary Tricia Ekman transferring from paraprofessional to Health Service assistant at Southwood Elementary Abby ciders transferring from paraprofessionals to preschool teacher temporary at Southwood Elementary Reno Ruiz transferring from custodian at Southwest High School to cook at Northville High School Allison bartu transferring from custodian at Southwest High School to custodian at South Elementary they were hiring but then the transfer happened so we're still looking to fill that position that's out of their lives and that is a journal and our staff's doing a great job of bringing new babies in town we have more ADM because that's why we
024have a lot of temporary positions a lot of maturities there's no motion to approve HR tonight second motion and second to approve HR all in favor say aye uh reports Matt's not here so we'll skip the Harley Center unless you have something yeah let me just mention that so um one time we've been talking about in our not our government because they're the board of managers but we are just The Advisory board but I know meeting with Mr Hobbs and the other superintendents we've been talking about um doing some different projects and one thing that they're looking at is there's a roof that maybe another five years within five years needs to be replaced plus the HVAC system plus the controls there and so there's been a lot of discussion about how that would be
025paid for and so we're looking at possibly doing the common school loan which we've never done uh the difference of a common school loan is that's from uh in the Department of Education and basically what they do then is they take that money right from us before we even get it it's almost like a payroll deduction um kind of like that I guess from our education fund that we would from our draw each month um and at one time I was going to ask you to do a resolution today we're not ready for that yet because they're going to try to give us some different options in other words they'll get try to get a firmer cost of what that will be and then also get a firmer um some some different ideas whether that's
026going to be you know a two-year loan a five-year loan a 10-year loan it can go all the way up to 25 years I don't think we'll do that if interest would be just crazy on that but anyway that's what one thing that we're looking at and they're still discussing at some point maybe looking at adding on but there's other ideas there too but for now what we're really really concentrated on is trying to get the funding for the roof there and also the controls in the HVAC system so um they've done things in the past because that building stated right a lot of things have been done internally by by them there and so it's really hasn't been Mark says in his time even before his time since he's been principal there's only one
027other time they came to the schools the 5 five member schools and ask for money as far as that maintenance goes and so there are different ways of doing that of course if you do US Government common school loan it's based on enrollment of students that actually go to Heartland career center if you go to do any kind of other maintenance if you want to do it that way it comes out of our capital projects and of course since our 80 is higher it would cost us more because of that but right now the emphasis is when looking at a common school loan because of other situations and in the other schools they feel like that would be best and really talking with Dr Kenny myself there's you know we can do it different ways
028but one thing we don't want to do probably is to spend a lot of extra interest if we could actually afford some of it up front but we're going to get more information once we get more information I'll let you know so the monthly the monies that we send there they don't have accounts to accrue for none of those are for capital projects so well we do send at the beginning of the year they send us a separate bill that is just for capital projects and that is for the whole year um and so they use that thing for any repairs maintenance or build up to anything that they have planned and they do have a hundred sixty thousand dollars in that fund to be able to use but of course a new Road's going
029to be a lot more than that so they would apply that towards this project so they're trying to get like I said more getting firmer idea well I think they have pretty firm estimates or quotes on that but they're looking at how it really affects the interest rate and also how many years that they want to do that just want to make sure I share that keep that going because that that's when that conversation is going to continue so is the old school and things are over again it's fixed I know I think it's the whole roof yeah yeah Mr Bowman said there hasn't been hardly any major things done um and if it was it was done for themselves so we've started building the trades most of my words they're gonna have a year
030just fixing that up yeah build their own trusses and there you go all right that's all I had though for that but I but I have one I was going to ask you yes I just want to share it you know on October 11th we had a parent-teacher conference and I always ask the principals um and well the teacher started with it of course just to find out uh the actual attendance um and no shock that um the lower grades have a lot more attendance than the upper grades so just to give you a little idea so Northfield is a 7 through 12 building their total was 19.6 percent that's not really unheard of that's typically and one thing that's different about that now is you know there can be so many alerts with Skyward
031and different things like that parents could help every day the kids don't have their homework done they can know they're great of the day and so it's not like the old days when you actually were just kind of waiting and okay I'm gonna go get my report card and then they know what the report is and because now they can know all the time continue on Southwood was 24.3 theirs was increased a little bit because remember sixth grades there of course sixth grade had a little bit more they had like a 30 so that kind of raise their compared to Northfield so I'm sure Northville had sixth grade in their building it would have been higher now we don't really compete with that but I just want to make sure oh yes all right Metro
032north of course now you know that it's Pre-K and pre-k through second grade so the younger ones so they were 97.8 percent um and then Southwest Elementary though goes up to fifth grade so you think it goes down a little bit which it does a little bit was 96.6 so just a little bit lower and of course Shark Creek you know is three through six so you think it would go down a little bit surprising it did a little bit 91.4 percent so overall 59.9 percent for the district just for fun we don't have a lot on the agenda today let me just say give it our expensive door prize there's a ways to get in there so little uh little I'm just going to go across now so just grade levels so 98.4 for
033Littles kindergarten was 99.2 first grade 97.7 second grade 96.7 uh third grade 97.9 fourth grade 91.7 fifth grade 94.7 6th grade 53.4 here we go seventh grade 22.7 then 24.7 and 24.6 and 13.1 and 20.21.7 and 12th grade was an even 20 so which is kind of interesting a lot higher than that sophomore class just interesting data that we like to collect and keep yeah it's a lower grade levels that's tremendous oh yeah and in our engagement I I've kept it I have this on spreadsheet with all the years and that's pretty typical so I mean and really you do want you do really want the parents to be there and um if they're not there call them or do something then it's very very important because it's their Foundation right so they need to
034be going and making sure they know what needs to be done so thanks for sharing that's all I have tonight okay Mr great curriculum and instruction report yeah I just like to keep you guys updated where we are with some of our testing um MSD sets aside money to pay for seniors to take the SAT that want to um and so we had several kids at North and South take that we use Grant funds for our some of our eighth grade and Ninth Grade kids to take the PSAT so that testing is underway it might kind of let's keep it kind of stole my thunder here I think the play was amazing it was one of the best I've seen since I've been here in the district but it really kind of highlights all of
035the different ways that we collaborate so tightly between the high schools and so I just made a rough list of them you had the drama play you have the shooting you have our Esports programs in industrial Arts with Gary Dale and computer science we're going to do that next year and so you know to pull that off for the staff that are split between buildings like to get out of personalities like to sell themselves and get kids involved and then the kids many of them can't drive and so they have to convince parents to do that stuff and so we just have it I just think that speaks highly of the staff involved and the students to be able to pull off such a great I mean they were putting three or four hours in
036time it was what it takes to put on a play I mean these guys are put in the time and again you're talking about kids that come straight from Northfield and need has to attract kids from both sides and so I just think it's always good to keep that in mind how how often we do that I think sometimes we might forget but like I said I'll go through those one more time so our drama Department Esports shooting industrial Arts computer science they all work across the whole County really to get kids involved and the main two parts one was much more familiar one from Southwest yeah that's nice oh yeah under new business we have a recommendation to approve an overnight field trip for Southwood High School Art band and choir to Chicago and
037we're just going to do both of these there's also a recommendation to approve an overnight field trip for Northfield 8th grade to Washington DC the Chicago trip from the Southwood students is June 12th to the 14th of 2023 and 8th graders from North Carolina Washington DC that's March 23rd through the 26th of 2023. entertain a motion go through themselves something to improve those field trips motion and second to approve the field trips for Southwood and Northfield all in favor say hi hi and we have no board pollen we have no unfinished business or board policy and again the public to um publicly comment any items from board members I have one thing and although there's nobody here from the public I will address the people who may be watching us Facebook live or we'll come
038back and watch it at the beginning of this meeting at six o'clock the polls in Wabash County mercifully closed on the ugliest campaign season in my recent memory and although I don't you may some of you may know that outcome already but I don't but one thing I do know is that tomorrow is Wednesday November 9th and we're going to get up and we're going to go to work and go to this grocery store with people that we didn't necessarily agree with we're going to go to church with them Sunday we may go out and eat restaurants or the theater this weekend and I would just urge everyone to get back to the kind selfless people that we have come to expect out of each other in this community and put all of that divisiveness
039and anger binds I would urge that we do that quickly I I'm saying that without even knowing the outcome of of the election today but I think we all need to take a step back take a deep breath and Rise Above and accept whatever outcomes face us this evening because we've had enough divisiveness of this community and I'm from what I'm proud to be part of the Welsh community here you might be able to continue to get along with people that's all I have to say about okay anybody else all right