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 all right thank everybody for showing up future board meetings uh september 27th here at six o'clock october 11th uh will be the only one in october the second meeting which is the fourth tuesday i believe that is fall break so we're going to take a break thank you and then november 8th uh it's 6 p.m all here we have just a couple minor revisions to the gender mostly under hr and so we'll move to public recognition we have a recommendation to approve a 200 donation from the woman's clubhouse for northfield football team a recommendation to approve a donation of fifty 249.50 from zotus i hope you said that right for
002northfield ffa recommendation to approve a one thousand dollar donation from walmart county remc for northfield wrestling and a recommendation to approve a 500 donation from ttg equipment brainerd snow removal brandt's harley-davidson and miller scales and food machines for northfield boys basketball outing sponsor i move to accept donations motion in a second to approve the donations all in favor say all right and i would just like to thank those that did donate i appreciate that school recognition mr key favor yes before we do that though i want to clarify one thing and that's typically what happens but on the october 2nd meeting not the october 2nd but the second meeting in october on the fourth tuesday um we just decided that we just have one in october that is not false that's just the week before
003so i just make sure if anybody's listening they say oh i thought fall break was the week before yeah it is the week before but that's when the club and we'll start with um mrs moore has a couple and then we'll move on to mr martin and then i have a couple other from another school so go ahead and share um on friday august 26th we had our annual metro north reading celebration on the last day of school we sent home a note and challenged the calendar and challenged the kids to read throughout the summer um this year we had 24 kids return their calendar that had read and kept up with that you know keeping track of their calendar um i know we had more kids than that read over the summer those are
004the ones that returned their paperwork and kept count and so we do two hours of just after after school fun activities there in the terminal and then we had i think 13 i should be able to remember that number without having to look at that 13 students that did the extra challenge activities which is about 15 different activities that they do throughout the summer reading or reading outside reading um in the car just making your own court and reading inside it we had 13 kids complete this extra challenge activity so they get to go to the ymca and go swimming we stopped for frosty's at wendy's and then spend so um [Music] then we have four stuff staff members that helped with that amy sturridge sterling nicole knox chloe plywood and abby watkins and myself
005and then our other item to share is our little horse preschool had their site visit for our licensing and it was all green light and a great visit um and our license is in the process of being renewed um [Music] it's a lot of just paperwork for our staff and always a little bit you know unnerving because we never we never know when the grader is coming to visit and so it just creates like a little bit of anticipation and they walk through the door um but just super proud that we pass that with flying colors and that makes us eligible for on my way pre-k funding as well as ccbi vouchers which help support our family so all right well thank you all right mr martin me [Music] hey sharp creek we wanted to
006recognize mrs morgan blocker who is our social worker and it's just amazing to me how well organized and planned she was coming into the school year with a with a very heavy focus on the emotional and social uh help that students and families need so just want to pat her on the back and tell her we appreciate everything she's doing and she does many other things but that is her focus and she's doing a good job and the other thing we do what we do after school for fun at star trek is we have kids running cross-country we have quite a few uh elementary kids who are running for the northfield junior high cross country team and here's all of them i think if i miss any i will get this corrected but uh we
007want to thank hudson hawker body soar hailey bucher sheila smith adam hawkins bentley sutterby and izzy c um those are the ones i'm confident if there's any others i'll give them to you but they're putting forth effort to be at practice to get to practice as well as their parents but as elementary students we appreciate that they're taking on that step up and level and competing so we're proud of them thank you mr martin i have a few from uh mr snyder uh northfield first of all norfolk football received an exemplary behavior report from official sam he's got a very unusual name i'm just gonna say sam for now from the game against tippy valley on friday august 26th valley had an injured player go out cold on the field a long delay and eli
008crow number 33 for northfield organized a prayer circle for both teams to pray at center field it was a great display of sportsmanship and i applaud that young man and team for showing grace and class and then also uh mr sn snyder said thanks to mr votel and the northfield national honor society for picking up trash and put it in the cans after the norfolk home football games honor society members strive to be examples of not only scholarship but also leadership service and character helping make the things easier on our custodial staff and keeping the school grounds looking nice are great examples of leadership and service thank you and then finally from mr snyder thanks to the northfield high school art department and mr adams weeble for refinishing our mailbox container out in front of
009the school is very much appreciated if you haven't seen that it's got the norseman logo on there prior to that it was still really pretty interesting because they had the broken pieces of glass all glued on there but they were starting to fall off and they're different problems like that so they redid all of the mailbox so it looks nice so that is all i have for tonight now at this point we have the public comment for agenda items only always give me a chance but we'll move on to the approval of the minute from our last meeting [Music] planes i was i had a question on one just because i on bids and stuff how do we get bids on work that would get done so these projects uh when it's over fifty thousand
010dollars we're required to get uh bids at least three bids and then over a hundred fifty thousand we have to do the formal bid process under that steve tries his best to get two or three quotes but a lot of times depending on the type of work you don't always have enough quotes to do that so i just i see one and i'm like i thought it was a little crazy that's why i was curious if we are strict in making sure we get close yeah steve does a good job of trying to get other clothes but there is certain things that there's just not enough vendors out there or they don't get back to them i'm going to approve those claims motion seconds to approve claims all in favor say hi all right hey
011payroll nothing out of ordinary this would be the first pay then of the 22 23 school year for new employees and returning employees i'm statement and that you guys always review just to kind of see where our uh beginning balances were at the year and at the month and then kind of what the ending balance is in that time still holding strong almost a 19 million dollar indian balance overall there aren't any questions the next thing we need to do then is the budget hearing and if it's like every year i actually have to open up a hearing so i declare our budget area officially open all right so we won't spend a lot of time on this because we've already done a lot of preliminary things at board meetings but this is just kind
012of to wrap it all up so this is our 2023 budget hearing it'll cover these funds or what we have to submit a budget for to the and get approved by the dlgf so just as a reminder two main funds out of those four are the education operation funds primary uses for education are instructional related operations are more overhead costs capital projects transportation bus replacement those type of type of overhead costs primary revenue source for education fund is state dollars provided by the state and operations then are dollars that come from our local property taxes funds can be transferred from education operation fund um no more than 15 percent is allowed we do transfer monies over from the education fund operation fund to cover some of those expenses because our operational fund revenues do not
013support all of our operational fund costs so this is the budget estimate that we broke down in those preliminary board meetings for a total of 26.9 million dollars and those just those four funds and you can see from the graph how that is broken down education fund like i mentioned is supported by state dollars state funding is the biggest source of all that we do receive some other state source funding from summer school transfer tuition those type of costs transfer tuition comes from other school corporations but again that's based off of state funding so when we look at our estimated revenue for education fund for 2023 you can see that we're estimating about 16.8 million dollars of revenue for our 2023 budget uh and we know that about 2.2 million dollars of that will be
014transferred over to operations fund so you can see our primary revenue source is state funding makes up almost of the dollars that that go into the education fund as far as expenses are concerned our biggest expense is salary and benefits when it comes to instructional needs we do have some transfer tuition payments that we do pay out to other school corporations the other big source is our payment or share payment to heartland career center and that means that makes up again primarily salary and benefits for heartworm staff as well so you can see estimate expenses then are at sitting close to 15 million dollars so we do feel pretty confident that our education fund revenues will be able to support our education fund dollars again remembering that we are anticipating transferring about 2.2 million of
015that into operations fund that's just a breakdown then graph wise of where those expenses are so when we look at our education fund and determining revenue we have to look at our adm and so we have to kind of do a prediction of what we think that abm will come out to be so we look at it historically uh which we kind of already did in one of our board meetings here so nothing new here that just kind of shows you where we've been historically to where we're at kind of now you hate to look at students with dollar signs above them but the fact is you get certain dollar amounts for different types of students so i showed in full any of those amounts that have changed from previous years so for the basic
016grant we will receive about 240 increase per student that's all determined by state legislation in their biennial process of the state budget this coming spring they will get together and and do another two-year budget which would determine any potential changes in that basic grant or complexity grant or any of those categories of students you can see we've received complexity dollars for students that qualify for snap tana for foster care uh honors grant dollars for students that graduate with honors diploma cte dollars for students that take cte courses whether that's in our high schools or at heartland career center and then we also receive special education dollars based off of the students eligibility there are two counts for adm um that is our first count is actually coming up this friday september 16th and then our
017second count is february and then there is only one special education account so looking at our tax support locally tax support funds we look at our debt service and operations so you look at what your net assessed valuation is any any potential uh tax cap or circuit break losses that losses that may occur uh when you're looking at your operation fund budget you go ahead and switch it so when we look at net assessed value you can see that it has gradually been increasing over the last year or two and we had policy analytics run kind of a future analysis of what our assessed valuation may look like in the future and if you go to the next slide you can kind of see the blue is where we're at and the red is kind
018of estimated going out into the future and so it does look to appear that our assessed valuation is going to continue to grow over that time which is a good thing because it has an impact then obviously a tax impact on tax rates that you can that just shows historically that's nothing we have to look at right now debt service this is just some of the bonds that we have borrowed over the last past years we've done those on short term leases so that we can finish those off fairly quickly we finish all payments of all of our bonds at the end of this year except for one and that's the 2021 bond geo bond which will have about 2 million remaining of that to be paid off in 2023 as far as revenue is
019concerned for our operational fund we're looking at revenue about 7.5 million dollars [Music] most of that coming from our local property tax which is about estimated to be about 4.6 million dollars and then the other majority of that is coming from our transfers from our education fund operations that just breaks it down when we look at expenses i didn't really break it up by salarying benefits broke it up more by categories salary benefits are part of many of these categories and you can see our you know maintenance custodial student transportation and any type of capital projects repairs replacements make up a majority of our budget and our estimate budget is to be 8.99 and so when you look at our revenues we're only estimated to have about 7.8 million dollars but to really support our
020budget of 8.3 million dollars that's not necessarily going to fulfill that so what typically happens is then we have to look at reducing where we spend our money uh and a lot of those reductions end up occurring in things can you keep in mind [Laughter] you know we look at cutting costs in the building land area the equipment purchase area the facility areas some of those types of things which then put on put projects on hold unless we do some type of bond or some type of debt project to fund that now you may switch it please rainy day fund an estimated budget of a million dollars really we don't even come close to spending that uh but we need to have appropriations there in case we ever need it a lot of times what
021we spend out of that are more related to stipends uh any transfers that we may need to make but we haven't had to do those things as much as what we did in the past when we had the issues with the self-insurance fund additional considerations we're in a good position right now but in the past some things that we have done if we run into cash flow issues is taking out uh tax anticipation warrants which are just uh small borrowings of monies just to help us get through cash flow issues don't really see that to be an issue and then going back we can always go back and ask for additional appropriations as long as we can show the dollars to support any extra costs that we may want to encounter or need to encounter
022throughout that budget so that really concludes the budget hearing our next board meeting then i will come to you and ask for some approvals of some resolutions and then obviously approval of the budget adoption which would then allow me to submit all of that information to the lgf chris just trying to learn some stuff back on their tuition's four dollars from the state and then you have the additional dollars that you can get just like for the cte title does the internship programs fall into extra funding do they they classify what type of internship then or is it just across the board there's all kinds of different rates as far as the funding is concerned depending on like if it's a high wage high domain job you might get more ctp dollars versus a low
023wage loan demand classification um so there's it's kind of all over the place yeah there's multiple groupings of that different yeah but if you're in an internship program then that's similar family some of our business classes uh those types of things we can all we also receive dollars for can you have it if you get computer science classes from that the last thing i asked during this time in our budget hearing is just a resolution for appropriation modification so when we do the budget adoption and i submit that the deadline for the dlgf to get us a budget back is december 31st and so you know depending on when they get that budget back it may we have 10 days to respond to that that may not always fall within a time that we have
024a board meeting and so what this resolution does is allows me to work with the dlgf representative to make adjustments to not only the 2023 budget but even the 2022 budget if we have to to help support that 2023 budget and so that's all this resolution does it just allows us to make those necessary modifications in appropriations it's never additional appropriations we've never asked for more appropriations but we can always reduce appropriations so todd that that's dated today do we need a motion resolution yes that's what i was asking for today so i'll make the motion to prove a resolution for appropriation modification okay we have a motion and a second to approve the resolution for appropriation modifications experimental and as far as the budget hearing is concerned i don't know i imagine we have
025opened it up for any comments about the budget hearing we would close it so it is if this time opens anybody has anything they want to say okay it is closed now so we'll move on under personnel we have under resignation stephanie fisher paraprofessional metro north elementary anti driscoll paraprofessional metro north elementary and amanda lyons library aid at northville high school under employment carla dietrich cook sharp creek elementary kim heiberger robotics coach at southwood elementary brittany hoy paraprofessional at metro north elementary and amanda evanston 5th grade volleyball coach at southwood elementary we have three leaves there you can see the beginning dates and the expected return dates for those employees and under transfer we have disabled shu we're transferring from paraprofessional to library aid effective september 19 2022 okay hi i wonder if that one
026person that's uh resigned it's going to be grain farming or livestock farming she's in charge of well she's she works over there yes she's going to go work with them um [Music] there you go there we go all right uh next up our reports hartley career center report matt do you have anything for us nothing tonight all right mr key favorite super attendance report yeah i just have a couple things first of all um you know we read a lot of different things and when we read those things sometimes it uh sparks an interest to look different things up and so uh for example it's interesting we talked about um walmart county and and different things with walrus county and niche is a company that actually looks at comparisons of a lot of different things
027whether it's schools whether it's counties whether it's governments and things like that but this is interesting i found this online and they they advertise a lot and they use a lot of different statistics from u.s census and expert insights about wall beach county rankings number one out of 92 best counties for retirees in indiana i thought that was interesting um they're actually nine out of 92 for the counties with the lowest cost of living in indiana 9 out of 92. we hear a lot about different things in long beach county but they have compared that and then the healthiest counties in indiana ranking 24 1792. and i just thought that was interesting and i thought i would share that uh there are different uh data metrics that you can look at but that's just one
028and that's just an interesting one um another one i thought um i know that uh if i can get this to to show some different things so sometimes we look at um different things that are put out there in our community um this is an interesting statistic and data that is received and this is all data that you can get through the census and things like that so will one county school district increase population and so there's a lot of talk about that so there are 20 counties in indiana that have only one school district of course the one that's most closest to us is huntington um and of those 16 of those counties had a decrease in population over the past 10 years so that was a census from 2010 to 2020 and three
029of the counties though with increased population are next to large cities of course you can see those of employed next to louisville and vandenberg close to evansville and warwick next to evansville and the only one uh that may be encountered with a single school district that had an increase in population that does not necessarily have a large population base uh or next to large cities brown county but of course it is very close to bloomington so proximity to large cities is providing increased population not necessarily consolidated school districts and so this is just data that was run from 2010 to 2020. so just interesting uh information that that has been uh provided and by looking at all the data sources that we have so that's kind of interesting um looking looking at another i just
030want to share this also um we have put this out with the project proposal i'm not going to read through all this uh but with our project proposal the next thing i'll talk about is our informational needs that we started to have and will continue to have interesting note as far as the whole overview and i can read all this but it talks about in the quote there to bring up our buildings today's standards and district needs to cost as much as 70 million plus and that does not include over the several years it would take to do this one thing that you have to also remember here um is that we did not come up with that figure that's the architects that come up with the figure that actually had done the studies that
031go along with the estimate of the actual building of a new high school and also repurposing and renovating more from the south florida like i said i'm not going to read all this to you interesting to note though again you know this but maybe some of the people that are watching online don't know all this but they have we have a location there in the yellow and the top image some other pictures about the facilities and the learning commons the electives the classroom uh core classrooms and labs that are available or that would be available some other things about the estimated cost the 93 or the 73.92 acres of land also the repurposing of both norfolk and southwood and you can see those complete project costs and then uh what your vote means and that
032that's just a thing that we put out there and so the project timeline again we've talked about that referendum passes in november 8th then in march uh through that year there would be ground i'm sorry i'll start over from december through august it would be the architect designs the bidding and all that and then not groundbreaking until 2024 and then also going to 2027 2028 would be the opening so just uh just want to remind everybody that you can get on the msdwc.org website to be able to find all that information there's a lot of information on there and we just asked the people before they go to the polls to vote on november 8th that they actually go and be informed about what is actually going to take place and not just listen to
033all the other chatter that's out there but be informed by the information that is given so anyway i just want to share that and also just a reminder last night we did have our first meeting the informational meeting and that was at northfield a very good meeting about 30 about i mean i'm sorry about 60 minutes of presentations about 30 minutes of questions and answers and so it was a very good meeting of positive meeting uh a lot of good questions too and so coming up um the next two weeks before the next war meeting just a reminder that we are having the board of zoning appeals meeting on on the 15th that's this coming thursday our own school attorney will be presenting and helping with that along with other people that might be sharing
034information we're going to the norfolk football game on friday night on saturday uh we'll be in the parade uh they actually changed the name a little bit it's called wabash parts the founders festival um and we're considering using the booth too but we don't know if we're gonna do that and then for the following week um monday evening the 19th we will be at the la fountain learning community building to also have another meeting there for those people that want to come and that is at 6 30 p.m uh then we get to go to the uh on the 20th we will be at the northfield southwood volleyball game which will be held at south florida it'll be exciting to have both schools together and be able to have our display set up and people
035ask questions and then we'll also go on the 22nd to another volleyball game at northfield and then we'll have another new high school project informational meeting on the 24th at southwood at 9 00 a.m and then that same day that is a saturday so it's not a school day that same day then we'll be going to the little girl community building for anyone who wants to join us there so just want to keep everybody informed of that those things have been in the paper uh they're on our we've been on facebook um on our website so there are a lot of different places so we just encourage people to come uh listen to the presentations and ask questions after that so i believe mr daisy that's all of him all right thank you i see
036mr greg with us yeah i would just say that mr drake was here um he would mention that we have dr adam drummond here for our first ever full day professional development day that did not include e-learning we've never had that before and so uh dr drummond gave us a lot of uh information that we can actually take back even on monday to be able to do some different things one thing we've been focusing on is a book called focus and on that focus is getting back to some of the basics sometimes we like to look at all the new things and and just look at those and see how that can help but yet we know that there are a lot of things that some of us like even me that learn back in
037the dark ages that are really very applicable to what we should be doing as far as instructional practices and different things like that checks for understanding the relationship building just the the little things that you can do to help situations out and so i don't know if any of the principals want to share any of that or not but um that's just a short little snippet but they actually also had their own meetings with their teachers and different things that went on but uh there was a two-hour session for both elementary and then for uh junior senior high school because i'm sharing that or you'll have to all right we're going to move on to new business we have the presentations of the school improvement plans for southpaw elementary metro north and sharp creek and
038i think you guys do straws or something i think they separate these assertives so our plan year-to-year metroid doesn't change um that much the milton that symbol it's our veda updates we're going to continue focusing on building student achievement and reading writing math as well as our attendance and our last one is just continuous improvement that's okay through looking at our polar products and see how we are sharing that information with students mr billman you've been patiently awaiting i think looking at how um our little morsel you guys need us every year maybe not you every time but um looking at our little norse data so i have some information for that the other big thing i think that's new this year with our school improvement team is a joint professional development that our kindergarten
039and first grade teachers have voluntarily elected to participate in it's a very intensive professional development that um focuses on the science of reading it's not necessarily a program to go back and implement but it's to help us understand the reading brain and how we can better support our our students in those early learning years so um both kindergarten and first grade teachers at those schools participating in that and i elected to do that training with them as well and i would say it is more intensive than any college course i have ever been through just in the demands of our reading and our videos and our assignments so it's intensive that will also greatly impact student reading so a little bit of preschool data i will preface this with saying um it's looking at our
040kiddos that were in little norse from the very beginning and i just have their i read scores i also think we need to think about what happened during their elementary career and that was clothing so they lost nine months of instruction when they were in first grade at what i would say as a former first grade teacher their prime time and growth as a reader that the last nine weeks of school is just imperative um and then smatterings of what could have happened to them you know covered in school that they may have missed but in looking at their data like school-wide i read data for last year those third graders that are now fourth graders um we had a past percentage of 83 that includes our kiddos that took the summer recess so that
041is our freshest data um when we look at the 27 students that were in little norse that took ryrie with us of those 27 students passed i believe four of them did not and so that i passed for our littles was 85 um i don't want to dilute that data at all but i also think it's important to mention that four of those two students that didn't pass qualified for a good cause exemption which means that they had an iep and their case conference team determined that they either didn't need to take iv or that they were going to be promoted to fourth grade based on what we know about that student um so anywhere between however you want to look at that data 85 of our little marks or um for student achievement i
042don't have all of the data for months but i would assume well i know theirs will be higher because their overall id passwords were a little bit higher than each side so comparable but probably a little bit more this is the first time i've had to do one of these um pretty interesting to find out where our school's been and where we kind of want to go just throw out a couple numbers though our school tenants rate our goal is 97 we're 95 um three last last year so that's pretty close to our goal um our i read we were at 93 percent with the other seven percent being good cause exemptions so basically everybody that didn't have an iep pass that software elementary irony last year so that's pretty good um math numbers were
043as good as what we hoped uh but i think with this new um eureka square curriculum that we just implemented this that we're implementing this year we're hoping that will help i know the teachers um are still learning this new curriculum so um they're learning it with the students as well so it'll be interesting to see how that helps our scores moving on um one of the things that we looked at this fall that we noticed throughout the school as our benchmarking was kind of inconsistent throughout the grade levels and teachers so when we did our professional development day we actually did a uh in the afternoon at southern elementary we had our grades k through 12 or k-32 our k-3 i'm sorry to do some uh benchmark training uh to try to get a
044little more consistent so we can see where our students are and where our students actually need to be um because like i said one one grade level was here one teacher was here so we want to make sure everything's on the same page there um so i think we got that kind of fixed and we're hoping to see some more consistent basis there um here the winner um right now we're doing um k through second grade is uh finish up the pal screening which identifies uh reading difficulties um students might have uh so that will help us to figure out where our interventions need to be so that's what our tyler1 crew is working on right now is helping those students get lady at b and then um we got together a school improvement team
045they haven't really met in a couple years so we started implementing that again and we meet once a month and just to get figure out where we need to make some growth in our school one of those is community involvement we want to get the community a little more involved at southwood elementary so good than that uh i've tried to i've implemented a usual weekly newsletter that's one thing i'm trying to improve on just getting our community aware of what's going on in our school and recognizing those kids that was another thing that we want to do a little better job supplementaries is recognizing our kids um you guys saw the big screen in the lobby here we just put one of those up in southwest as well uh just because we want to get
046those kids up there and uh get them recognized for their accomplishments and a good job they're doing we have a pretty we have a really good staff we have awesome kids too just going to get get that recognition out there off to a good start so far um i've been really really impressed with the school with the staff and kids and the transition for me has been fairly easy uh elections are easy but it's been uh it's it's been a good transition so i couldn't ask for a better start for the year so i guess that leaves you mr martin yes thank you the school improvement plan as as jeanette already said you know it tends to not change a lot from year to year and that that makes sense if your staff's not changing
047a lot but we are trying to have sharp strength just clean up the actual document a little bit make sure everything's still accurate do away with some of the older um site citations of what we're doing or what we put into action and has been in action for years so looking at the document pretty closely and as casey said trying to make that a routine part of our school year um it meets requirements that's why it exists that school recruitment plan exists to meet requirements that are mandated but it does a good thing for us it helps us all in that building think together and have something to continue to look at think as far as our improvement goals mandated ilearn there's english language arts and math goals we also have an ire degree goal
048and then attendance is another mandate uh 97 is the the ongoing attendance and we were real darn close a little bit under that 96 something and then in the i learn realm we actually this year have established i don't know if you got a chance to look at it but we have incremental goals set up for the next three years uh just attempting to be very realistic with our goal for this year improving over last year and then the next year and we'll have the opportunity to tweak those and adjust those each year before the fall we have also one of our big pushes is for reading we're certainly not satisfied with 86 percent uh ivory 3 success and a lot of that coming through a very good summer school program and what was accomplished
049there kids are all different obviously some grade levels come through some dealt with covet and key parts of their education not all have but we feel like we've done some things this year with our paraprofessionals a little better training for them scheduling them a little better to actually spend time with kids in a reading situation where they they know a little more to be successful in the nuts and bolts of teaching kids to read and improving kids reading by progress monitoring them uh on a level that is uh is appropriate for a paraprofessional um and we will continue to look at the strategies and interventions which is a big part of the document here's what we're doing in the area of reading to help kids uh you know maybe that's we guarantee their master schedule
050will will have x number of minutes of reading time in it those kinds of things what we've got in place we keep looking at those and we keep seeing if there's something we can do better as mr key favor mentioned but we're always trying to focus too we're always trying to what really has the biggest impact what research says is really going to make the biggest difference and sometimes there's a lot out there to consider and so it is a continual process of trying to focus on what can actually be done with the time we're given every day to help kids to improve them and then we the document also includes then professional development that's happened uh recently and planned and we have a staff that's very willing to uh take a day away from
051the classroom which is not a vacation it's just more work to prepare for a sub and go take the day and professionally develop it we've got staff very willing to approve themselves so that's tracked in our document we track things that make us parent and and community family friendly what are we doing to communicate with people in the homes of our students that's all listed and tracked in there our pbis good citizen program this is more reference to theirs you know how are we rewarding students for good behavior and good choices and therefore is it impacting the poor choices that cause us to have to deal with consequences and things um so that's we got technology in there how we provide a safe and disciplined learning environment those are some of the big keys but
052if you just look at the table of contents you get a real good idea of what is expected and what's contained in that document really appreciate that that we have monica is our parent representative appreciate that we're going to hold 10 we're back next year so monica but we do we do appreciate that we have a parent who's willing we've got staff members who are identified as the school improvement plan committee but then all of our staff are really involved in all right thank you mrs moore mr stalker mr martin um for your work on that and as you can see um a lot of great things happening and they'll continue to look at ways to improve because it is called school improvement plans so uh i would ask that you would approve these because
053afterwards then they will get on a doe online and submit those to the department of education i'll make the motion to approve plans this evening okay so motion in a second to approve the to approve the school improvement plan all next we have a recommendation to improve the 2022-2023 school fundraisers so state board accounts requires school board to know and approve what fundraisers are happening in our buildings and so the principals gave me a list of what fundraisers they are planning on holding this coming school year so it just gives you an idea of what the fundraiser is and what it's for 23 school fundraisers second motion in a second to approve the school fundraisers for this year all the favor say hi next we have a recommendation to approve the extended field trip for
054norfolk ffa to attend the ffa national convention in indianapolis indiana on october 28th so the spirit motion and second to approve the extended field trip for norfolk ffa all over right next is a recommendation to approve the camping trip for southwood fourth grade to camp tecumseh and brookston indiana let's fourth graders in november all careful say hi and finally a recommendation to approve the camping trip for sharp creek fourth grade to camp to counts i should probably just mount those together i need a motion for that so much of the to approve the camping trip for sharp creek to go to camp to come so all if ever say hi okay all right we have no unfinished business or board policy open it back up for public comment on anything okay any items from board
055members it was 20 23 that's correct i'm just curious it's 20.22 22. i didn't actually get the date when i was you were really planning today and then giving them lots of warnings in the uh board members i just will say last night i went to that meeting and i thought everybody that was involved in presenting kevin did a great presentation you guys need to watch it it's recorded as the same way scott writing i wasn't able to make it but i did hear a lot of positive comments about it i think it answers a lot of questions a lot of people made a comment they were glad they came because they got to see the other side of what they were hearing right anything else all right