001business to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all right welcome um so future board meetings we have no more in October November 8th and 22nd and December 13th here at 6 pm um have just a minor revision of the agenda by adding an additional donation and we'll get right to that then under public recognition we have a recommendation to approve a one thousand dollar donation from Life Sunday school class for bachelor Creek Church of Christ for Metro North Elementary School to be used for student supplies shoes and meals a recommendation to approve a fifteen hundred dollar donation from Gregory and Catherine Gail for Northwest wrestling and a recommendation to approve an 875 donation for Northfield
002cheer in the amounts of one hundred dollars for a Nissan Church 100 2000 bucks a hundred dollars in cardiac cap lab 100 from Wabash Casa a hundred dollars for Kathy Pratt our house real estate a hundred dollars uh tasian Automotive Technologies a hundred dollars uh Scott's draft 100 Bailey's fifty dollar Bailey's Pizza farmer fifty dollars really Muzzy uh 25 and 100 in fwr Midwest only to accept donation sorry about that motion and second to approve the Nations all in favor say aye okay School recognition students and staff Mr Speaker as you can see we don't have any uh principals here tonight because we do have a parent-teacher conferences which go until about 7 30 or 8 tonight um so there are a few though that were enlisted for us to read first of all from
003Andrew McDaniel uh Southwest football players Nathan laner Nicole weiner have been nominated for the Max Preps athletes of the week and that was uh last week Monday October 3rd they played a significant role in Southwoods win over Peru on Friday September 30th also from Southwood congratulations to our grid on Knights as they continue to perform well in conference play nice defeated the whitco Wildcats by a score of 44. zero at whitco currently they are six and two overall and six and one in the conference this year also Southwood would like to congratulate the girls and boys cross country teams as they participated in the sections on Saturday October 8th although we didn't have any Regional qualifiers several of our students improved their run times and I know this isn't listed here but also the south
004of volleyball team won the outright TRC I believe so congratulations to them and then Mr Martin I wanted to congratulate the Shark Creek students who have been announced as finalists in The Honeywell Center Winter Street Banner art contest third graders Wyatt pool Rebecca Culvert Keegan bruis Amelia killip fourth graders Tiara Greer Paisley Swanson Dan and Rose Meyer and Zoe Lyons fifth graders Miranda heister Charlotte Harrington Jake McCauley and Lakeland Galloway sixth graders from Canada Lowe Emerson zwievel Alexis lafferny and Logan Holmes also special thank you to teacher Katie gray for her work with the students these artists will be recognized at the Arts Awards reception at Honeywell Center on November 16th at 7 30 pm and finally thank you to Manchester University the Wabash County YMCA and all sponsors and organizers for treating our Sharp
005Creek third graders to a fun day of activities during the walk into my future events they moved that back a little bit so there aren't so many bees and there aren't very many bees at all I don't think there are hardly any and so that was a very nice day a little cool in the morning but better than having kids have nice games so that's all I have all right thanks moving on to public comments agenda items only always going to give you the opportunity just in case you surprisingly and say yes I consent agenda items right the minutes of our regular meeting from September 27 2022 motion on second to approve the minutes from our last meeting all in favor say aye aye claims okay all right I moved to approval times so okay
006find all the paper say all right payroll nothing out of ordering for payroll um with approval of the teacher contract we will probably look at trying to do retro pays either the end of this month but more than likely it'll probably be um November 15th okay so uh at our next board meeting we possibly may see that but it's coming so just wait for it we'll start seeing coaches pay coming up here as Sport Seasons and as well so we'll move so yeah promotion and seconds are for payroll on whatever side all right the financial summary yeah just a couple things uh first is just the end of the month balances again going strong there everything's continue to be where it needs to be based off of our class Club cash flow projections so we're
007sitting there in good shape and then the last thing just to show is where it kind of at the end of September we're kind of finished up our third quarter every so often I like to show just the kind of those transfers of dollars from the education operation fund and uh where we sit so just as a reminder we've talked about this at some of our meetings that many of the expenses that used to come out of the education fund or move to the operation fund back when those changes were made our revenue for the operation fund does not support that so we have to support it from revenues in the education funds so we transfer dollars to cover those expenses for those costs and so right now we're covering about 12 of our transfers
008to cover the majority of those costs we still have a deficit when you look at those costs at that 12 transfer rate if you look at the next slide we have to transfer just about close to 14 to cover that but we also have that state guideline where we're not transfer more than 50 to 15 of our education fund balance over to operations so 12 is where we've Fallen the last couple years anyway but that does mean that some of those costs are coming out of what we would consider our operational fund dollars uh to cover those expenses so that's where we sit with those two topics one all right let's move on to personnel under resignation Tammy Tucker Health Services assistant for all schools on your employment we have Katie Johnson long-term sub at
009the North Elementary Anna Pence long-term sub at Wabash Miami area Wabash Miami area program transfer Trisha Ekman transferring from a paraprofessional to Health Service assistant at Southwood Elementary and under retirement we have Mike Holly a long time math teacher at Northfield affected at the end of this school year and I could just mention Mr Holly actually started his career MSD 1988 was within with us the entire time so we appreciate all the things he's done and also appreciate him letting us know early because we know that finding teachers secondary even Elementary there are shortages and so we will start advertising probably sooner than later and maybe even do some creative things with that so but he's not going to retire until the end of the school year but again we just appreciate him letting us
010know early so we can start that search I'm going to approve the HR report looks like it though motion and second to approve HR on five percent all right Harlan career center report I have a little feeling yeah I just want to mention a couple of things um first of all the new school new high school informational means we've had over 300 people that have attended the first six we have another one coming up in once on Saturday at Somerset Community Building and Mr Drake will be hosting since he's running for so I can't talk about campaigns Can I with you you know the counselor or something like that but anyway we'll be at Somerset just to give you an idea though we've gone to a lot of different games um whether it's football volleyball
011even cross-country uh also we'll go to our last regular season game we can't go to both of them but we'll be at Southwood uh Friday night I mentioned the somerset also I'll be meeting with the Wabash area Administration administerial Association this is just informational meetings that we have about the project and actually scheduled six mini meetings if anybody wants to come in uh to talk ask questions and those are all different times and those will be advertised here coming up but the person won't be until the 24th but it'll be the last two weeks before election day and so we'll have some at 6 PM some one at 6 30 am anybody that wants to go come early we have one at four o'clock and one at seven o'clock but those will all be announced
012later and they'll be on social media the website in different places like that we also have this is interesting because we'll actually be at the Northfield girls basketball game on November 5th we're not even done with uh football yet but they do have a game on November 5th and we we will be there also so we'll be getting into the winter sports coming out pretty soon um and then also just want to thank um the board and other people around this room that have thankless jobs also our attorney Mr Joshua who has a thankless job of helping us out with the variance meeting which we knew um took a lot of time and effort so a lot of people just get those those thankless jobs and do appreciate them seriously um all the things because
013there are professionals that know more than what we know in certain areas and so it's good to have those people help us out and all the things you guys do too so anyway be very serious though dude and I think I did thank people around the room many times but uh again thank you for all that and thank you for attending the meetings um I know it is thankless right now when we're talking about um looking at this project and people um asking a lot of questions and but I think it's been really good and the things have been said if the meetings have been good and people are starting to understand a little bit more of the reasons why we're looking into this project so um all right thank you curriculum and instruction report
014which are great not much to share just everybody should know whether nine weeks was in bed and we have parents teacher conferences today it's one of the years moving by pretty quickly okay under new business we have a recommendation to approve the 2021-2023 teacher contract so again just to let you know that we had a hearing earlier this year required by Indiana code we also had another meeting a pre-ratification meeting um last meeting and then the teachers also ratified the contract and so just to give you some of the changes as per last year's contract which is a two-year contract and so the new compensation model moved up to 40 000 as a starting salary and that's actually by Indiana code we did add a row Z to the salary schedule we're bringing it up
015to 66 300 at the top with a master's degree um and the big thing is the last year we started looking at taking care of placing teachers where they should be on the schedule compared to what they were earlier and then this year actually everybody will be placed on the schedule by their experience to where they should be which actually would be if they're a veteran teacher to MSD or walvis County would be either a 1000 all the way up to eight thousand dollar increase in their salary and so um it's one thing that we've been working towards because of the financial health of the school district we can do that and we just appreciate everybody's help and get into the place where we can eliminate 100 of that compression that we've had over many
016many years actually it's not just one year but it's been over many years even before some of us have been in these seats here so we really appreciate that we appreciate working with the Teachers Association that's always good Mr Daisy is the school board representative so thank everybody for the work on that so I would recommend that we prove that first year teacher 39 000 then 40. you know we're live in the Masters 41 41 of the last question like competitive where are we at well it's it's not a it's a non-issue now because by law we have to be at 40 000. right and so what what we will look at so a good question um you know we have to look from year to year that's why the state now says that we
017have to wait until September 15th because we wait closer to that ADM rate till next year and so that's one thing that we'll really look at next year and we'll look at the 8N ADM look at our our finances to be able to make sure that we are I mean everybody's going to be at 40. and so when you say that then if anybody's above 40 then we're not necessarily competitive on the start and so we will look into that next year and if things work out we can look at that to make some changes but we don't know that until that time so they make even a school district can't afford for it they make them pay for it there's some waivers that they can go through do that but yeah they're making you
018do that the end goal is yes they have to be a four thousand that's some point so so some schools would have to do they gave us they gave schools a couple years to do that so I actually this year was the deadline that you're supposed to be at 4 000. plus if you have schools that are partner that way you can be challenging for them so do the schools give I guess I don't know this or something if they're really being teachers or not necessarily I mean it's regulated okay [Music] well I'm just thinking for example you got a math teacher that you're going to be looking for how can you attract the someone that's going to be here for me you know yeah an interviews yeah and in our contract you can see
019that there are some things that we can do to help with that actually there's a supplemental service on page five um there is another thing that the superintendent can do some different things with that and so that wasn't in there you know many many years ago but now we have some language in there that we can actually do some things with that so and I'm happy with this because I know eight years ago when I started on this board it was really tough to get teachers to stay motivated because their morale was so low because of the insurance problem that we had with the self-insurance fund and and how much we had to jump up in premiums because you know that was about when I first started it was about the height of Obamacare and
020we weren't keeping up with premium payments the way we thought we thought we were able to hold them steady and we shouldn't have been and with the compression I just had a lot of discussion and I Happy Teachers eight years ago about it we got to do something and I think now that we've got our insurance self-insurance fund paid off and we've got people righted on where they probably ought to be on the insurance and certainly a depression taken care of that's not a discussion anybody on this board's going to have to probably have over the future I'm glad that you know because they want a puzzle so I just let you know they're they're on number four here as a discretion to place a new teacher one to five rows higher based on the
021needs of the corporation and any exceptions to the salary schedule we discussed with msdwcba the Education Association representative representation and so we've got to be careful with that though too you want to be competitive but yet you don't want to raise to the level where it's going to cause a problem for somebody that's been loyal kind of like the whole compression issue but if it becomes that's the only option that we have then that's what we can use so I know that's what I know my wife works parking here and that's what they deal with is they got starting level starts here well that means I gotta bump everybody else up because just to get them to start there so that's why I'm just curious on how how competitive we are at that base level
022to get someone to start so we're hearing good things about What legislation might happen this year as far as how much education I mean how many the funding will change again for the biennial um but that's we don't know that for sure but yet there's they talk about that they have education committees they have the ways and means that they talk about all the the financials too and obviously Indiana the state of Indiana is doing very very well also and that helps with some of those conversations it just depends all right no because they're going to give it all the public education actually what they're going to do though seriously they will it will go it probably will do a public education but also they're going to do more vouchers too for charter schools and
023things like that but at least they're putting it into education and not giving us all those checks anyway again I recommend that we approve the 2021-2023 uh teacher contract I'll make the motion to approve the contract as it's written second motion and second to approve the contract all the papers say hi all right any unfinished business no on board policy any nothing there public comments on anything any IMC board members I apologize I must be wrong at 6 20.