001i pledge allegiance 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 okay we're going to start tonight's meeting with a moment of silence we've lost a long time uh teacher at uh northfield uh ross trump um i kind of have an affinity for ross because i was his last student teacher so you know how many years ago that was when he retired i also i've been asked to do a moment of silence for us but i also want to remember how this remember his wife who passed away 20 days later because we all know in the teaching profession that the spouse is just as committed to the school district as the actual teacher so i'd like
002to have a moment of silence for both awesome future board meetings april 26 6 pm here may 10th and may 24th 6 p.m here that would be a question of the school year by that time we have some minor revisions to the agenda we've added to public recognition and we've had a couple under employment it's under the hr so we'll get right to the public recognition and recognition we have a recommendation to approve a 1200 donation from an anonymous donor for northfield high school robotics we have a recommendation to improve the donation from cotiva agriscience msc for southwood ffa and a recommendation to approve the 250 donation from the tiffany comfort in honor of clint coogler's participation in a weekend long event athletic event for summer school for mines in motion i mean with the
003acceptance motion and second to approve the donations all in favor saying all right can we approve the list oh yes we um we name all the lists there i thought she had did she pretty much it was on our agenda anything it's a lot which you know was such a pleasant surprise for me this afternoon to see so many people involved in gifting to allow the students to attend the world's own texas yes yeah because of that if you'll bear with me i'm going to read every name because i think it's important that every even if it was a dollar that they donated that we recognize their effort to help send our kids to worlds i miss that can you what can you explain what it's for yes um the people that i'm going to
004be reading are to send the sharp creek robotics program to the nationals the worlds i guess is what they call it not just nationals because people from other countries will be there it's a trip in texas and we'll be approving assuming that we approve the recommendation to allow them to go i'm going to go ahead and make that a safe assumption but there are a lot of people who donated money to make that trip possible and those people are and i'm going to give them this should i give them ones oh no okay those people are steve brubacher tiffany harper and ryan harrington goodfellas pizza family optometry zoomers andrew dixon lelands beacon moore family curly hodson martin family erected tool mckillip seed overlands an anonymous gift kim and kurt brentsman steve brubaker's on here twice
005he listened to it twice so we just forgot that we put him on the list thresh farms edgar smith dem elliott wabash chrysler dodge jim clymer anonymous for board jennifer and albert enriquez go wabash county julie hawkins and robert hawkins geneva baker billy halpert livestock enterprises mark genon ryan and michelle hawker denim law roxanne harper jerry mclean betty mclean wabash welding blair and deborah tiffany john and jamie phillips of all thomas ryan and tammy viverka margaret and john saul brad metzger todd and katie hunter prior to the retired rosemary and bob brenson john deere ttg lynynn harmon and kelly atlas building services stan cathy leland urbana yolk parish rachel guyer dennis and judy mckiller david and loretta summer lindsey culver midwest i steve and vicky furness the schlemmer farms walter and shelly conley dean and
006cassandra davenport hartlin remc union tool corporation holly chiropractic eagles lodge 549 and keith and kerry gillenwater that is the listener wow thank you we would like to definitely say thank you to all those people because it takes a lot of money and a lot of money to send a team like that with all their equipment to talk to texas thank you and the vote we did vote on that so that was approved for the recognition for the the approval of the other donations so we will move on to school recognition okay we have several here again i actually have one because typically it's all by school and so this is a school one but yes it was an email that i received and i thought it was uh worthy enough to share so ava barefoot
007is from the walters county historical museum and actually mr drake is on on that board and so she's uh she's a newer employee correct um so she said the following said i wanted to share a bit of positivity with you regarding field trips we had this week with south of the fourth graders and metro north kindergarteners between the two grades we had 120 students visit us in one day and we were very impressed with not only the students but with their teachers as well the students were respectful and engaged and their teachers were extremely helpful as we worked through the program we were visited by the classes of jim cox cammie ross angie herring matt vinnie and stephanie andrews they made the field trips run smoothly and efficiently and our staff is sincerely thankful we
008were visited by the classes of that's all said um so anyway um it's always great to hear the positivity of uh when we have kids that go out and the teachers going out um because sometimes when they have a little bit more free reign sometimes that doesn't always happen but yeah our teachers and i know i replied back to her just to say it's great that we have our teachers prepared they prepare the students for those field trips to be respectful and that is our expectation and we're glad that they're following through with that um mrs martin or mrs moore at metro north elementary recently received notification from the ido that they are recognized as the newly designated family friendly school the family friendly schools designation focuses on addressing academic physical emotional and social needs
009of the students while providing the needed resources and fostering the active involvement of their families through schools and the community the program recognizes and honors schools that welcome all families into the school community communicate effectively support student success speak up for every child share power and collaborative and collaborative uh with the community and so we know we've had other schools that have had that designation and there's not a lot in the state of indiana but that was one of their goals this year to be able to become a family-friendly school and be designated we know that all of our schools are family friendly but to get the designation there's some work to that to apply and different things like that also mrs moore congratulations to our little norse preschool team for once again achieving the
010past equality level three rating preschool programs are recognized at level three for demonstrating the knowledge and skill necessary for planning that appropriate activities and opportunities that lead children towards school readiness annotation level three programs make significant investment in the professional development of staff and they incorporate family and staff putting into their program and she has one more our metro north students recently participated in jury ex exhibition of student art competition and kaden kelly second grader at metro north was named this streeter hadley matthews grand award winner please don't ask me to say that again on sunday may 1st cayden will receive recognition for this accomplishment during an awards ceremony at the indiana landmark center in indianapolis so congratulations to cayden and then on to uh mr mcdaniel at southwood would like to recognize the 2020
011southwest graduate daniel cornett for his work at manchester university danielle is a music education major and recently wrote a moving musical piece inspired by that conflict in ukraine daniel was even featured recently by indiana's news center for his work way to go daniel we are proud of you i don't know if you saw that or not it was on channel 15 they had it was on it was on the news it was also on their facebook page and things like that and it was very very interesting he actually was uh part of my superintendent advisory team like i said he graduated 2020 um very musically talented wants to become a music director band director and he said by the time he finishes high school he would like to be in college that he would be
012able to play every instrument and uh he said orchestra or surveillance so it was neat i think he did an excellent job in the interview and uh it's very good so if you ever get on facebook all right um continuing on mr snyder norfolk congratulates maya hunter for her poem neglect which won first place in vincennes university's writing contest the poem and another by my entitled 2016 will be published in the 2021-2022 edition of autumn voices we have a lot of town students and then mr martin at heart creek elementary a big thank you to our shark creek reading committee for organizing a recent reading incentive based march madness event this event or this fun and exciting time was enjoyed by all we also want to express our appreciation to the norfolk high school cheerleaders
013and basketball players for their participation so that was really a neat thing that they did that went along with march madness but doing reading incentives because obviously the games were a little bit different and some people were upset about that let's see some people in august who are upset about those games um and also around the board and finally the last one thank you to steve brubaker for taking the lead on shark creek elementary's hosting of today's math bowl competition at honeywell this is the multi-school event and takes significant time and effort to coordinate and run we are appreciative of mr brubaker and his crew of helpers for their great work on behalf of students a lot of great things happening again at msd of walrus county thank you we'll move on to public comment
014for agenda items only i don't know all items later give you guys an opportunity to speak if you want and yeah because of the reception of the order right yeah okay oh yeah we will yeah yeah that's what we put in the top of it that's right i forgot about that okay so moving on to consent agenda items approval of the minutes from our last meeting on march 22nd 2020. i move to approve those minutes second promotion a second to approve the minutes from our last meeting on march 22nd off the february approval of financial reports claims it's not a big deal but we had one bus getting outfitted with cameras and there's a single bus is that special use or we're just trying that's normally what we do every new bus we do we
015order a camera yeah we put them instead of having the dealers do all that stuff because then we can put them on trial with them a payroll just a little higher than normal and that was because that was for the final payout for all of our winter athletic portions until question that second to approve payroll all in favor say hi financial celebrity doctor uh just giving you the end of the month balances for march so everything looks good and in the direction that it should be heading education fund is up a little bit and some of that is just through some grant dollars that we have transferred in from preschool in the coming year we're going to take a look at it wage salary package for yesterday at the next board meeting i would like
016to propose uh classify and admin salary wages for the next school year we didn't do anything for them last year and so you've been doing kind of a two-year cycle at this point so yes i would like to bring that to you guys okay we're going to move on to personnel in under employment delilah watson cook northland high school kerry hamill long time sub at southwood high school pam campbell long term sub at sharp creek elementary daniel stauffer varsity assistant varsity chair at southwood jacob lloyd volunteer assistant baseball at southwood barney copper volunteer assistant junior high track at southwood and troy andrews volunteer assistant track at northville high school for transfers we have reno louise custodia transferring from southern high school to southwood elementary effective leave and you see the dates there that are affected
017probably most of the second to approve the personal recommendations all the time to say aye aye okay partly first we will have a meeting next week so okay okay superintendent's report i don't recover don't necessarily have a report because i want to go ahead and talk more about the next new designers all right curriculum i'll be bringing the textbook approval to you guys at the next quarter all right kind of this one week it's been a great blessing okay under new business we have a recommendation to approve the heartland career center amendment operating agreement all right so you have that in front of you just a little bit of an explanation so in 2018 the agreement was changed to reflect more of what the state of indiana does as far as the money following the
018student because right now the share of the balance of the five different schools is based right now um 75 on enrollment and that's enrollment of students that are in uh grades 10 and 11 of every school every high school and then 25 is based on an assessed valuation um as we look at that agreement um it does not appear to be anything that that continues to be what the state does as far as the money following the student so mr driscoll being on the board and that's what it says in agreement and myself brought a proposal that we would change that and the change would be that this coming year it would be an 20 split and then every year after that it would be five percent more until it gets to the point where
019it would be a hundred percent uh based on enrollment when i say enrollment it's how many sophomores and juniors not how many actually attend a heartland career center but how many are there because that's how we can be a possibility of going to heartland and the way the agreement reads now that the board of managers at heartland does not have to approve this proposal but every school board has to prove the pro proposal and so i'm asking tonight that you will approve the proposal and every other corporation has to do the same thing so it may pass and it may not pass in every district but it's it's on the majority basis so whoever has three votes yes or no will actually follow then that proposal um if not we have to settle with that
020but right now it does say that that it can be brought up from time to time as far as discussion of that and i know we've talked about this before but here again the rationale for this is because um the money does follow student and we pay the funding of that particular fund out of operation all right i'm sorry out of the education where we get the money from the state not necessarily from our tax dollars there's a separate account the capital projects account that they have at heartland that we do pay more because we have more assessed valuation we're not asking to change that at all we're asking just to change the share of balance that's what what they call the department career center so any questions are we the only ones that would
021see a decrease or is there anybody else um we would see a decrease or maybe would see a decrease manchester um would see a decrease over the last eight years there was a couple years they saw an increase because of this but typically they would have they would pay less also so because of the lower assessed valuation of peru and huawei city they would pay more than and the reason why we would pay less is because we have a higher assessed valuation here again assessed valuation is not where we're getting the money for the students we're getting that for the operations account so yes three districts pretty much would this proposal would pay less and two districts would pay more have been any other votes voted yet um no unless manchester is in their meeting
022right now and wabash is going to have their meeting on monday and i don't know about the other two districts when they're actually taking that school board so we will find out but jordan's just based on so your decision tonight um will be in in concert with uh a whole thing concert but with the other four as far as seeing what the vote comes out to be well the sense of fairness and the benefit of msd our motion that we approve the amended agreement for parliament career center funding they have a motion and a second to approve the hartford career center offended operating the agreement all in favor say aye aye okay excuse me recommendation to approve the resolution authorizing negotiation and execution of a purchase agreement all right [Music] here we go so here's
023the resolution authorizing negotiation i'm going to just read and an execution of purchase agreement one thing i want to mention about this and make sure it's very clear we again in september we had our work session and then act after that in september 28th we had our actual school board meeting to say that we would you were authorizing us to go ahead and look at appraisals uh for some real estate uh that has uh been concluded and so at this point we're asking that you approve this resolution but we have to remember that this resolution does not mean that we are purchasing anything it just means that we are looking at an agreement in other words there will have to be some kind of options um that we look at because if we would move
024forward with any of our strategic plan we would have to make sure that the other options just like eric and jane talked about today would be i mean we just have to follow all those steps first so but to be able to continue the process um this is just another step of the process and i don't know if i made that clear enough but just to be very very clear to do this allows us and reading through it it actually allows myself dr kuhn our council our legal counsel for dice miller and also our school board president mr daisy to be able to work on that um that agreement but the agreement would have to have some kind of option in there that um that if we did not continue on with the strategic plan
025for one of the different uh options that it would not be something that we would do so ask questions if i missed that all out so this is just an option to buy a future if right and if we choose an option that doesn't require additional land then this is an option that we would not exercise correct but we have to have this step completely to be able to exercise that option should we choose to get that right very good good have a motion and second to approve the recommendation uh the recommendation to approve a resolution authorizing negotiation and execution of the purchase agreement all in favor say hi all right hey carrick's recommendation to approve the overnight extended out-of-state trip for northfield 8th grade robotics to the next world robotics in dallas texas on
026may 2nd through the 6th 2022 my recommendation would be that we do that or we're going to have to go through [Laughter] i need to approve the recommendations here to approve that extended trip second motion second to approve the overnight extended trip out of state for the robotics trip to dallas texas all in favor say aye and we have a recommendation to approve the overnight extended out-of-state trip for the sharp creek robotics teams third grade fourth grade fifth sixth to go to the same robotics competition earlier was the i didn't make that clear was for the north field eighth grade this is for shark creek third fourth fifth and sixth to go to the same event however that is on may 9th to the 13th i'm sorry it's about the same it's different times different
027times does it i mean most parents want to be going with some of the younger kids are you volunteering i've got one that age and i have i see him ending up in mexico well i think it's great it's lifetime memories so i motion to approve motion second to approve the recommendation to allow the sharp creeks third fourth fifth and sixth grade to attend the world robotics in dallas texas on may 9th and 13th we have no unfinished business and we'll move on to board policy the first reading for the uncompensated lead policy mr p yeah just to let you know that i actually have the proposed and the present policy and really what it's interesting to note that we used to have what they call neola and yola was the northeast association of ohio
028lawyers and basically what's new stood for and we had two books or two binders that were very very large and a lot of times people didn't know what all those policies were because it was just like encyclopedia um you're probably not gonna be able to memorize all that um and so prior to my time in this seat we actually went to um another policy that actually would be borrowed from another school district in fort wayne and all of the principles of the time and i think mr great and dr king were involved with some of that too we actually we all did it together as far as learning it looked at it revised different things but one of them was this uncompensated lead and as you notice on the second part or the present leave
029there are a lot of different situations with that that makes it very very cumbersome and a lot of times people didn't even know i thought there's another page there's not a page there you can see how it's uh logistically to be able to follow all the times when you could leave and not leave but yet here again it's uncompensated so if they didn't have a personal day if they didn't have a sick day or if they didn't have um in some some of our different groups of classifications of t uh of staff members we have vacation days and we also have chris for bus drivers we just call them what we just changed that to flex days and so with that we thought it would be much better to be a lot more succinct to
030how they're supposed to do that and so this is basically the new um proposed policy as far as uncompensated leaving here again uncompensated lead we want everyone to be in in the schools doing what they need to do every day but yet we do know that there are situations where they may not have enough personal day or sick lead things like that so it has to be uncompensated but we also know that we don't want that to happen um on a routine basis and so this is just a lot more to the point as far as what we want them to do we will actually track it and it won't be necessarily tracked by what this chart was before so you can see that basically the guidelines that are listed there and how they'll be
031monitored and tracked to measure a pattern of absenteeism and then of course uh that will also be noticed by our supervisors principles and things like that so here again this is first reading if you have questions if you have things you can look at um it would be voted on at the next meeting did we draft this or is this coming from no we got it from someplace else maybe a couple of tweaks to it um to make a language to fit no we get we get we we get the attendance reports and so we can do it by attendance reports and and there were times where um the old policy which they were supposed to come to me there would be times where i don't do payroll i don't do i don't see all
032those but now with this new one we'll have uh payroll um staff be able to monitor a lot more because we're going to we're going to watch it a lot more so because we know the policy so once it's approved if if it's approved we will push this out and make sure principals know and all staff know what the procedures are the principals will monitor at their buildings but we always catch it when it comes to payroll because they're either out of days they have days or they're active days and so they have to adjust their pay well previously i mean it quantified days and all that yeah no no it doesn't right part of the problem came up and it was covered related and we had to have a lot of these uncompensated things
033and then you look at that it was not going to be able to be battled because we talked about it talked about even insubordination well it wasn't insubordination it was just that's the way it was i mean they didn't have any more days they were quarantined or whatever so it caused problems what else okay just remind you that's the first reading that we won't have anything public comment on any items just i have a question on the purchase agreement do you have evidently you have a specific piece of property um that you're looking at at this time yeah okay and really public comment though i will make sure that we mentioned that so what a lot of times you can ask me afterwards um because uh we can get into a lot of conversations back
034and forth it's really just a comment time so i just want to make sure you're always allowed to come in and talk to me too so anyway go ahead though um on a purchase agreement doesn't seller and buyer have a signed ad yes okay so that ties up his property for who knows how long time is that right that's true i would believe that's part of the purchase of the the process of negotiations it will boil down to what the terms of the purchase agreement are right anything else do you have some board members all right