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 [Music] welcome everyone um future board meetings our next board meeting uh on march 8th will be at five instead of six to accommodate the awards book that we usually do in the first meeting of march uh march 22nd at 6 00 p.m and then in april we're already going to meet on the 26th that's also at 6 00 pm revision agenda we have a couple under hr and one under recognition and we'll get right to the recognition public recognition we have a recommendation to approve a 500 donation from zoomers rv of indiana for sharp creek robotics program sorry good i said and that's it
002on the donations i'm going to accept the donation let's look at that question a second to approve the donation all in favor say aye school recognition mr snyder can i how about if i go first sure and then i'll let mr snyder do his and we'll do our main event with our spotlight tonight so um i have quite a few and i don't know if i'll read every single name but if i do i apologize if i mispronounce some of them but we'll start out southwood would like to recognize benjamin rodebush 2019 south of graduate for being named to the president's list for the fall 2021 term at trine university rhode bush is majoring in computer science and information technology to earn presence list honors triune university students must complete a minimum of 12 hours
003and have a grade point average of 3.75 to 4.0 so way to go then it's from miss me at southwood congratulations to the students listed below for making the 2022 wabash county honors band these students will perform at the honeywell center in the ford theater on march friday march 11th at 7 30 p.m alongside other selected students from northfield wall bash in manchester please make sure you congratulate them when you see them in the hallways and class and i won't read all those at this time but we do make these uh they go to the the media and they will print all those out also i will go to south who is very proud to announce that xavier miller 2021 southwest graduate recently successfully completed his field training exercise and received his cross rifles from
004the army way to go xavier and then from this knee also a long list and successful day at the vocal local solo and ensemble district contest the students did a great job and represented south of junior senior high very well if you see any students listen below in the class or the hallways please make sure you congratulate them we ended up with 14 golds and three silvers so i will read the ones that earned the gold here emma adams uh sylvia vaycorn you know there we go brinley galvin jordan heartline fritz kurt emily locker mackenzie moorman caitlin lindsey silvers sarah smith natalie and natalie and so earn a gold rating in group one we'll be attending states and so these are large ensemble adams ensemble several of those and also the ingle of the ensemble
005and we had several that earned the silver and then we had a perfect score by miss watkins for getting the perfect score on her vocal solo this afternoon and it is very hard to get perfect in those and she'll be moving on then to state next week at perry gradient on friday february's oh that's yours and one more for south floyd before we go to mr southw was represented by sarah smith lindsey silvers and caitlyn rank at saturday's uh bismuth vocal state cons ensemble contest at perry meridian high school all three girls are an outstanding job of their respective souls and they earned a rating of either gold or gold with a distinction so awesome job there metro north elementary on february 11th we had the second metro north valentine's day vip breakfast we had
006over 525 guests enjoyed delicious breakfast with their valentine's breakfast was prepared our amazing i mentioned north cafeteria staff in our menstrual north teachers help with serving and hosting thank you to all who helped make this morning so memorable for all of our families also after final round of judging four of the six metro north finalists have been awarded the gold ribbon award for their symphony and color artwork this is the highest honor given and only 36 gold ribbons were awarded from all of the statewide submissions congratulations to millie ciders ava mills faith greer and heather zwiebel in addition to mention north and sharp creek students receiving these accolades for their artwork mrs katie gray our metric north and church art teacher will receive another award this award is presented every year to an art teacher
007with the most students receiving gold ribbon awards so that's quite an honor mr gray has 10 students receiving this distinction you should also note that she submitted 12 pieces of student artwork congratulations to mrs gray also at metro north robotics team had their last regular competition season on saturday and they were amazing there was a long day at matches but in the end we made it into the finals and placed fifth in a field of 48 teams our second graders were competing with other teams that may have sixth grade students proving that metro north team can definitely hold their own the team also received the think award a special recognition from judges that applauds our team's ability to write code problem solve work flexibility and collaborate so congratulations to all of those from sharp creep
008they want to celebrate students in different uh miss hughes adelaine hopkins miss black miss leonard and mr turner and teagan bear being selected on the 2022 symphony and color contest school finals these six students are also named exhibition finalists which means that they're in the top 100 statewide and to top this off all six shark creek students have earned a gold ribbon award for their artwork this is the highest of honors for this contest is awarded to only 36 artworks in the state of indiana so congratulations to them and again katie gray shark creek raised two thousand twenty six dollars for the leader dog fundraiser in the urbana alliance club and adding 500 to that so the total raise was that doesn't add up so it might be 2526 but it says on your 2026
009shark creek will be sponsoring three liter dog dog puppies lucky snickers and jacks mrs rigel's class raised the most money and they received an ice cream party provided by the lions club mrs brown's mr brown's class came in second mrs ross came in third the k kids would like to thank the entire school or community for supporting this fundraiser shark creek would also like to congratulate all of the robotics for the recent strong showings shark creek hosted the wall bridge county linen finals on february 11th the blue north spots team a and southwood circuit knights placed first in the teamwork challenge additionally the norse box a won the skills award north spots white gray and black all placed in the top four in skills and so on february 12th they competed as a cinema and
010they also did very well there too and i believe mr snyder is up all right so friday february 11th so it's been a couple weeks ago at the bluffton game the nhs boys received an exemplary behavior report from your names reported the team including all players and coaching staff showed tremendous sportsmanship the entire game even after being called for violations they would run over and hand the ball to the official they were helping opponents up off the floor very respectful you can tell that everyone has bought in as it was through and through the entire team hopefully the fans will see what the kids and coaching staff are doing which in light of recent events sunday i mean they're seeing on the news you know coaches smacking other people and starting brawls and you know
011northfield hasn't had the most successful season we're in transition we're getting better the kids are playing hard working hard for their coach doing a great job that's good to hear because it's harder to have good sportsmanship when you've had a rougher season than it is when you're winning all the time and so i think in light of recent events that's even more kudos to the high school kids for showing the college coaches and players how to act after games and during games for mr johnston the choir teacher he had choir students participate in the island district solo and ensemble contest on saturday february 12th at carroll high school in fort wayne they earned three gold ratings four silver ratings seventh graders emma wilson trinity thor and landon mast all participated landon received a perfect score
012a cappella choir members caden cruz anna hodson and addie france seeing an ensemble addie france saying earning a gold rating to advance to the state contest held on saturday february 19th congratulations to all of them we also had northfield students make the wabash county honors band and choir they'll be playing at board theater on march 11th with all the other wabash county schools those band members are landon shu claire thompson haley barton turner stevens isaiah beale madison griffin alexis lovell john nessler kyle nguyen and natalie keller we also have the honor choir students joining them caden cruz anna hodson addie franz and jasmine kelly and then we had the art teacher entered some northfield students into the huntington university art show and they had a high school exhibit there and a lot of this stuff
013has been posted on our school facebook too so asia miller got honorable mention for her sculpture break free good job asia who happens to be here and uh kenya barris had photography ethan sloan photography jessica ray mixed media demo bone drawing avery napier drawing lane denton ceramics may napier and jc crunk also did ceramics and then i also want to say congratulations to hannah holmes and emily pennington they made the uh conference um all-conference team ainsley dale honorable mentioned for girls basketball this year so a lot of stuff wrapping up and finishing up over the winter sorry if i left anything up i'm trying to hit it over here you did a good job asia i thought i'd put you down since you're here thank you so next we're going to go to the school
014resource officer and spotlight and not necessarily just because the school resource officer but because he was spotlighted and so if i could have asia and officer kirkland to come up here because you will be on facebook live so right here right there we'll get you all i'll get out of the picture so anyway um every month or every school board meeting we do this and this this time we actually had adrien miller who was a what what you're doing junior at northwood junior senior high school who nominated officer kirkland and also we had someone else another staff member and i'll read that after um asia kind of talks about why you nominated officer so you're on the floor you got it okay so i nominated officer kirtland because i felt like he deserved the spot
015the most because he just fits the spot at northfield as a resource officer in the best because he acts like a child half the time that's not what it says here so it fits in with so he fits in with like the rest of the students and then and he's just like makes every student act like a human like treats him like a human and um he just makes the school better because he brings out everybody's true personalities and he just is amazing thank you very good and i will say then so um amy powell who is one of our bus drivers and she is also one of her paraprofessionals at northfield she also nominated eric kirkland and so i will read what she has to say she said she was not able to come
016tonight because she has one of her children has an event says sro kirtland does so much extra work he constantly helps bus drivers making kids smile in the hallways and he's underappreciated for sure he has worked extra helping with safety measures and making sure kids get to class on time he has formed wonderful relationships with students across the schools that i hope will never be forgotten he is a great listener and always there right when you need him he has helped so many of our my students i am very thankful for him so on behalf of msd of wabash and also our sponsor first farmers bank and trust let's give office kirkland why don't you just say that there you go and then because i don't want to imagine there we go there you go
017so we've asked everybody we've asked everybody to go ahead and read the card first so read the card okay says congratulations because you have dreamed big and worked hard we figured you might like a soft place to rest thank you for doing what you do so well it's a staff spotlight so what is in there it is a silky smooth meek touch luxury feeling remember anybody read that yesterday oh my i god it might have something on there about this oh yeah it says uh dream big workheart msd at wabash county yeah so of course this doesn't you don't use that during the school day though we're gonna make sure well yeah sometimes you get a little tired all right thank you very much for nominating him and thank you for coming tonight i appreciate
018it let's give you a little round of applause all right thank you guys thank you all right so i think that concludes the public recognition so we're going to move on to public comment for agenda items online there are a couple of comments um i think it's from amber bretzman she wanted to add shark creek robotics good news that team a and team d won automatic state bids and so team d won an excellence award which is the highest award he can give a team and team b won a design award for their engineering notebook team a is currently ranked 14th in the state out of 553 teams and she's afraid she might have left that off what she sent to mr martin so that might be why she had to share that well so
019mr gretzman that's one that's when you don't he has it on here and now that i see that it's a fun fact that she said so i appreciate her saying all that because that's something i probably should have highlighted um with the other things there's just a lot of information on that little box when we do it in excel it's a little harder to read all that and scroll back and forth so and she also wanted to thank southwest elementary for hosting the league this year she knows how much work it was setting up and tearing down and she appreciated the work of erica tyson and amy schmidt all right we'll move on to the consent agenda items um we need approval of the minutes from our last meeting motion a second to approve the
020minutes from our last meeting all in favor say aye claims foreign payroll nothing new on payroll uh probably see anticipated uh increases uh just with the winter sports claims coming in as the season ends so i gave you uh a first forecast of what the education fund and operation funds cash flow could possibly look like throughout the year and obviously this is something that ebbs and flows each month as things change and come out and so the education fund for 2022 currently shows the expenses reflected at with the estimate cost based off of trends and current teacher contract obligations it does not reflect any potential wage increase at this time um it also reflects revenue that's estimated based off of past trends and it also does reflect the basic grant revenue showing september 2021 adm
021counts and december special ed counts throughout the entire year we just recently had an 80 and count for february so that money is not reflected in this at this point in time as well as any july estimates that we have to provide to the state that they base our last six months of funding off of uh and then which would also lead to the september actual adm counts for that year as well so it's pretty vanilla at this time as far as the cash flow is concerned and represents like i said basic trends from previous years with that and then for the operations fund you're looking at similar type of information it does not base off of any potential wage increases for expenses at this point in time this year we are actually looking at
022wage increases when it comes to things that might come out of the operation fund for our classified and administrative staffs um and then like i said most of the uh other expenses and revenue are just based off of past trends well the state of justice anyone updated they do they do not do that until i believe um april may and june i think those are the three months that they reconcile the count from february so that's why it's not reflected correctly were they going to do away with that sometime the second count yeah the second count yes yes at one point it used to be two counts that was one count and then went back to two counts and there's not been any talk or even legislation about changing okay and there's been two accounts
023for quite a while but at first they were just seeing what the counts were but it wasn't money wasn't tied to it and then they went to it and they took it away and that was legislative okay chris there's pretty decent growth in this operations fund projection do you see anything where we'd be changing the transfer into i just wonder so uh as so there could be room to change that percentage and what i mean by that is the percentage could possibly go lower um from that standpoint the the increases that we're starting to see now are because we paid off that self-insurance fund so our transfers are no longer like as large as what they were in the past so that now has freed up our operation fund for more operational type expenses and
024we had the energy savings that came back again so in reality this can help us continue to do things with our buildings and maintain some of those areas that maybe have been deferred because there wasn't the availability to do that we were always doing that through bonds the bonds felt system too because of the capital project because we've been taking we've taken those costs out of the bonds but eventually some of those are going to have to go back into the operation fund that's all i really had with that somebody jinxed us though i think maybe a few more minutes ago saying that we didn't have to worry about any snow removal i think that might be kevin that seems like [Laughter] yeah all right we'll move on to personnel under resignation we have nicole
025powell paraprofessional elementary uh win bus driver for the north and cali baker social worker for sharp creek elementary um under employment we have tim smith custodian at sharp creek elementary and northfield spring coaches we have the following kyle france had softball jeff crum volunteer softball nicholas gulotti volunteer softball matt tryer volunteer softball torrey shaffer head baseball stan cox assistant baseball drake tomlinson braden riplinger matt burckhardt joseph mitchell all assistant baseball heather hayden head track scott hopper volunteer track tristan uber assistant track larry vaughan assistant track day climbing assistant track colin dawes head boys golfer anthony sword head junior high golf marian milam head tennis and casey dyson assistant dennis southwood spring coaches steve swinson head baseball cory blocker dan lloyd christian dieter all uh no cory blocker and dan white assistant baseball christian beer is
026the jv big small coach gary dale head golf carl pace head softball chad lambert gary marion tablet the klein assistant softball cynthia bell head tennis taylor leg assistant tennis tonya boone head track jeff fenicle and carrie hamill assistant track jeff hobson junior high track daniel moses jr high track natalie underground track and devon dale assistant golf that is the entire state of personnel [Music] we had a meeting last week they had a little bit of an update on the eda grant they're still trying to work out the concerns with the higher-ups in chicago and stuff like that yeah so there's no real news on that um except that perkins assessment grant of 7 600 and that's just to help to get that every year mr hobbs reported there were 67 positive students from the beginning
027of the year copenhagen and that's it and then heartland careers center scholarships they give out you know from the rental money and they give out i think a thousand dollars so it'll be like eight of them so they want to make sure that the counselors guidance counselors have all that information because there was two or three from last year that are not going to be awarded because they ended up they got awarded but they didn't go to school didn't take their so instead of being 8 000 it's going to be like 11 000 this year or something like that so put that in front of the guidance counselors and have those kids yeah we leave emails and they yeah i'll let them know that's it okay super yeah i just want to mention uh my
028computer i wouldn't mention that our adm dr kuhn did mention about that so we did have that certified and we have great news that our total adm we increased uh 74 students and that's great a lot of schools don't necessarily increase from fall to spring and also then just to give you a little bit more data from spring 2021 to spring 2022 we are up 24 and a half so not only did we increase from fall to spring we still increased 24.5 from last spring to this spring so that's very good that's really all i had as far as curriculum recording yeah i shared with you guys an nwa report um it looked at yeah there we go um it looks at kids test scores from winter of 21 through winter of 22 and so
029this data is actually specific to the kids that took the test and so all the kids that we have in 2022 it only takes their data and compares it to the ones and twenty one so somebody came or gone there aren't included on that and it's always nice to look at some of the highlights there so 174 students during that year grew at 90th percentile as across the whole entire country and so we're all about growth we feel like that's the best thing we can focus on when kid comes in we meet them where they're at and help them grow and so that's about 26 27 of our kids um grew on either test reading or math and of those then the 31 this is even more shocking so these kids grew at the 90th
030percentile but then they also scored at the 90th percentile so these are your high-flying high-achieving kids that still grew compared to other students that scored that high and so um just thoughts to celebrate there i'm going to pause with any questions that'll kind of make sense and this is nwa data so we get it back very quickly once we take it i'm pretty reliable everybody feels pretty comfortable with it and so then underneath that uh i try to find classes that do well and so um you can see the school and the grade level and so the entire sixth grade at sharp creek from last year this year those kids as fifth graders to sixth graders grew at the 90th percentile compared to other fifth and sixth graders across the country and so just some
031really exciting things down there and as you scroll down the reading there in third and fourth grade lots of growth and so lots of things to celebrate underneath that of course there's always things to be concerned about and we are seeing some issues of reading growth in our primary levels primarily be k123 and so uh we are addressing that um we're working with teachers and principals um and it's not it's not dramatic and it's not scary but it's just enough to let us know that we've got our work there's there's an area that needs some attention and so one of the strategies we'll use to help support that is uh i'm sure dr or mrs boone somebody will bring up summer school i might be speaking out of my turn here but we're going to
032offer summer school again for k123 kids just like we did last year it was kind of uh mrs moore coined the great phrase it was summer school on steroids and we're going to do that again we use esther dollars to set aside to pay teachers to come in to work with their classes and we feel like just that extra four or five weeks with those uh kids will make a big difference and so um so yeah yeah that's the latest update i don't usually get to share that so i'm glad i got this you find this a lot more reliable than like the ice dev yeah it's just consistent right nwa has been doing this for probably since mr chief was in school it's been around for forever and uh and it's got a huge
033a number of participants i mean they test across the country it's consistent and so yeah we do find that very reliable um it's unfortunate it doesn't meet some kind of federal requirements to be a part of the testing or at least that's how the department interprets it so otherwise we'd use that instead of highway ilearn might be good but we're only on our second year of it right so there's just so much to work out whereas enemies have been there and done that this is a formative assessment where you actually can form the instruction whereas the summative at the end of the year is after over those kids are going to another class and and all those different things so most schools would say that they would rather have this as their state assessment then
034it turns over quick too you're not waiting six months yeah yeah getting it back so i told you we'd have the data there that says that and so we're already able to address that now while they're with us rather than next year or whenever yeah so when you took that test without the feather fan and the ink it's actually like a stone tag was trying to make it a little younger all right we'll move on to new business new business we have a recommendation to approve the continuation of using the food to school purchasing cooperative for 2022-2023 yes so this is an annual renewal just based off of when they have their meetings and determine which procurement uh vendors and things like that that they're going to select and then allow us to select to
035be a part of that so we've been a part of this group since 2019 it's done well for us we would like to continue to use the co-op for our purchasing procurement for msc for the 2022-2023 school year i need to continue on with the collaboration motion second to approve continuation of using the food school purchasing co-op for next school year all in favor say hi and now we have the recommendation to approve the second update to the re-entry plan and supplement 2021 2022 regarding contact tracing and quarantine key favor speak to that yes so first of all we did have a re-entry plan that we started out with then we had a supplement to the re-entry plan then we had an update to both of those and so that's why this is called the
036second update to the re-entry plan and supplement for 2020 21 2020 2022 can't say that very well right now so contact tracy and quarantine so as i mentioned here um the indiana state department of health no longer recommends contact racing and quarantine in schools effective tomorrow um so it's perfect timing for us to have a board meeting on 2 22-22 i'd have to say that that's kind of fun with this recommendation mst walrus county will no longer contract trace or quarantine closed contacts beginning on february 23rd 2022 if you approve this schools do not need to re report any coca-19 cases information to the idoh school dashboard will be discontinued because that's what we've been doing all the time for a long long time so i'm not going to read the next part but if
037individual tests positive it's no different than what you had before but we want to reiterate that that's still happening um if they are test positive they need to quarantine for five days they can come back to school with a mask for days six and ten as long as um their symptoms have subsided and so and they've been uh fever-free for 24 hours with no medication or fever-reducing medication so with all other illnesses students should not return to school unless they are fever-free for at least 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medication and their symptoms are resolved so i would like to recommend this and hope that you would follow suit with that motion and second to approve the second update to re-entry plan and supplement taking away the requirement for contact tracing and
038quarantine asymptomatic people um all in favor say all right uh under unfinished business we have nothing board policy nothing public comment on anything let's give them and any items from board members okay