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 welcome everyone thank you for having tonight future board meetings uh subject to change on the march february 22nd march 8th and march 22nd uh as of right now six o'clock all year we have no revisions to the agenda so we're going to start with public recommendation public recognition we have a recommendation to approve a 200 uh anonymous donation for self wrestling that's actually all of our donations to approve the 200 donations wrestling all in favor say hi okay school recognition i'm going to turn it over to mr keith and let him drive from here okay well we really appreciate everybody coming tonight it looks
002like we have every chair filled so that's great before i forget though um there's a sign up for those people in the meeting and so be when you leave if you did not sign in please sign in okay because we want to make sure we have that in our minutes of the meeting so we have a lot of students here that would like to recognize and mrs katie till is the one that actually said man this would be great if we could bring them on mr votel is the one to kind of organize it so i'm going to maybe just turn it over to both of them they can flip for who's going to do that and then we also have mrs shue here too um and so i'll just let them take over but
003really appreciate all of you coming um i know you do great things and so we'll go to one of the sides yeah if you go on the sides we can put you on the camera we have a camera that will move so we can see you on facebook live uh roger and janet and pat also pat lynn is yeah this is where you want us to see that's perfect okay facebook live so there you go well um we just want to thank you for allowing us to come and uh and thank these amazing students and and roger who is just as amazing for um all that they've done and so i guess before we begin let's just back up a little bit and explain what's going on what's going on with oh you know why
004we want to honor them so um our committee uh janet pat and i um as well as uh jenny ritzma and ryan keim have been getting together to plan a toy drive it's something that babe and wabash county put together a couple years ago and janet and i decided that this was something that we wanted to do again we we know that there is a need in our community we could see that from the first year that we did it and um and pat was there as well she helped out and so we wanted to we knew that this was something we wanted to do again and so we've been working hard to put this together and um and so um when we uh as we're of course you know putting together a large toy
005drive um it it's it it's a lot of work um what we did is we had to clear out the educational spaces in babe so we could set up the toys and how the toy drive works is this we set up the toys like a toy store so when families come in who are in need of christmas presents for their children they're given a certain amount of points it's 10 points per child um we don't ask questions you just are given these amount of points um and then they spend these points like it's money so every toy in the shop has to be individually priced as some of these kids know some of these toys and so the very first year that we did this why this whole thing came about is um pat who
006is the the former director of our children our future was in charge of distributing the items at the old use uh services building and she had come to me when we were still trying to set up babe this was in 2019 right right my name is 2019 2001 2020 thank you 2020. and um she said katie you know there are some things i think that you could use for bay but i want to tell you that there are all these toys down in the basement of um of the of the old youth services building it used to belong to operation elf could you use them and at the time we were like uh you know i don't know how we could use them but okay we'll go ahead and we'll take them and um one
007thing led to another and we found out that there was there was a need this was in november we found out that there was a need for christmas presents and so that's how the whole thing got started so we distributed those toys and like i said we went ahead and we did it again this year so these guys came we had several people we had um people from bachelor creek people from i mean just several people come together but what made this group so special is that they came to help set up they came during the toy drive which i want to talk about that here in just a second and then it came afterwards um so the toy drive the the the week of oh my gosh which is the three three days three
008days it's a three-day event and it's right before christmas so this is what happened this year um we set up and i guess we didn't quite know what to expect we were basing it off of what had happened the year before and the year before we served about 400 children and so that's what we were kind of expecting this year too um and so we i should say also mentioned that we received our toys from toys from toys and christmas spirit as well as several other organizations and i won't go christmas extra they're extraordinary they're extra toys yes i shouldn't say that they they went out and bought toys they're extra extra stuff um so the week of that or that first day when we showed up to um open up the toy distribution there
009was a line of people that stretched all the way down miami street i mean all the way down to the railroad tracks i should say i mean it wasn't mmi on the street it's a very long stream but um from our front doors all the way down to the river tracks and it was freezing cold i don't know if you remember anything about the weather in december but it was fairly warm in december all the way up until the week of christmas and it was freezing that day freezing and we just didn't have the space in babe for people to come in um sign up register and then stay where it was warm they would have to come in they'd register and then i had to go outside where it was cold because we couldn't
010allow everybody to go shopping all at once we stopped the space and covet is definitely an issue and so we um so people were standing outside and they were freezing and because we had so many people show up that day and we weren't prepared for it i mean we were calling people asking like we please come in and help just you know i mean just and people dropped what they were doing that day and they came in and they helped us we served more children on that first day than we did on all four days of the year before so the second day comes and we're thinking all right this is the slow day right because last year that was a slow day and again we show up and there is a line of people
011and we're like okay and again we're not prepared for this because this is not what happened last year i mean we were we met several times over through the summer and fall we did not anticipate this kind of a need and so um so we're we're running things and my husband's in the back room and he's the guy who's stuck in the shelves and everything and at some point i break away and he looks at just to check on him and he said to me you call people right now because i cannot keep the toys stopped he said as soon as i put things on the shelf they are taking it because they are taking stuff out of my arms he's like i mean it wasn't like they were being rude it was just that
012there was just they were just coming and you know and it was it was just awesome and so again we called people and they came and they helped and so later on that afternoon i get a phone call from toys for tots and they said katie um you are the only site toy site that is open in eight surrounding counties they said will you please consider opening your doors to more than just wabash and miami county and we will provide toys for you and i said yeah yes of course because when you're in that situation and you're seeing these families come in and the stories that you're hearing of you know and just and the gratitude i mean it is it is a really special event to be a part of i i can't quite
013describe it you know and just to know when people are like thank you because i didn't know what i was going to do if you weren't open so yes we're like yeah we're gonna we're gonna open up our doors and so those those soldiers went out and they spent thousands of dollars on toys and they brought us uh all the toys in an army utility truck and it was so impressive and so cool to see and they pulled this truck up uh in the alley of babe and by that time we had thankfully we had all these volunteers there so they're now unloading it and there were so many toys that we couldn't find spaces in bay to put to fill all of these toy to put all these toys and we have a rental
014space and so we had actually open up and i hope that he's not listening because we had to open up his rental space just to store all of these toys and i mean the blessings just poured out and we just knew that god was providing for us and it was just you know it was incredible and so um my daughter aubry she's she's a junior at wabash um she had been there the whole time and she was observing this and she said to me you know mom you know as i'm looking at these toys i'm thinking this is a sign i mean and i know this is this is a very obvious sign but we're just all in this mode of just keep going forward keep moving she said i think that god is telling
015us the people are going to come and we have people lined up the first day people end up the second day she goes we need to be prepared for that third day you know because we know we're not and i'm like yeah i mean this is my 17 year old you know and i'm like yes thank you you're right so i call roger he's the guy the first guy i just thought of and i'm like roger i need help i'm adding you know i'm like this is what's going on you know people are coming and they're standing outside and they're freezing and i'm talking some of these people don't have coats some of these people are bringing their kids not supposed to bring their kids and their kids don't have to go we have we
016have split coats we have all this stuff so we're trying to offer these to these people but like i said they don't get they don't they just the need this is this is the fact of what we're what people have and some of the people that a lot of us have what they don't have and but i said we can't allow people to continue to stand outside and he said i'm on it and he called so his church is the wabash christian church which is our neighbor right across the street to call the pastor and by that evening he had it set up that when people would come over and register they would be able to go right over to the church and they would have a warm place to sit and stay uh until
017their number was called and they could come in and go shopping i know because that that just goes to show how amazing because we didn't ask for anything he took it one step further and instead of just offering a place to stay he's bringing coffee and donuts and volunteers and a lot of these kids and they were there that third day and they were helping us communicate so that way we could you know get shoppers in and out they're carrying stuff for people they're watching kids because again kids i guess i didn't say this kids are not supposed to be coming to the toy drive but some people don't have child care you know some people have special needs kids and they don't have child care who can take care of their special needs children
018and so these guys are helping with all of that and i mean it was just it was amazing and they just filled in where we needed them to fill in and and then roger said you know i mean if you can imagine after three days of all of this how the whole place look and um three days and i should say i forgot to mention by the time that we were done was the toy drive we had served 834 children it was double what we served last year 834 children and so you can imagine then what the place will look like we literally we were so tired dave it was the day before christmas day we just dropped what we were doing and we just left and so but rogers before that roger said hey
019i'm going to get together a group of students and we're going to come in here we're going to help you clean i mean and that was like that was i can't even describe how awesome that was because i didn't know how it was going to do that obviously it took us days to set the weeks we had work days work days on how to set this whole thing up i didn't know how i was going to get this whole thing clean so uh the first week that you guys were back in school uh kids came on tuesday and they i mean these kids were amazing they're like machines and they just i said look this is what we need to do they looked at that list and they just all found their place and they
020just sprung into action kids were putting things away kids were clean and kids were cleaning our bathrooms right i know it was awesome they were breaking things down and then they're taking stuff over and the christian church is storing all of our toys for us and so they're taking stuff across the street we broke down everything and put it away and cleaned it in a matter of couple several hours and nobody i mean there wasn't a lazy bone in this group they all work they all pulled their way and they all did an amazing job i don't know what obviously i just don't know what i would have done without them and so i just think that you guys need to appreciate that katie janet you want to mention anything or pat or mr votel
021or i just thank mr snyder because i i knew she needed help and i said let me see what mr snyder will allow us to do and he put he he responded quickly before we left that day i said i'm going to come down here and help you i figured i'd get the kids to come that muscle well it's great to have the students get involved in community service and appreciate them i think like we put on the agenda we have students from the key club because mr votel is a key club sponsor also from national honor society because he's the national honor society you're gonna coach something next year so anyway why don't we have the students just introduce themselves and just tell us what uh what what grade you're in and and maybe
022what club you're in or if you're in both of those or how you got involved in this so i'm kyle nguyen i'm a senior and i'm in vogue national ocean i'm tori graft i'm an eleventh grader and i'm in keep from i'm auckland style i'm a junior and i'm in some i'm natalie keller i'm a junior and i'm in both key club and national honor society um i'm avery schreider i'm in key club and national honor society i'm willie hobbs i'm a junior [Music] again we appreciate you guys coming and we can thank mrs uh kate hill for you know she said man we'd love to be able to recognize these students and we do have a recognition part um that we will continue on after this presentation um to recognize some other things so
023really appreciate that um you are welcome to stay for the meeting um i know you might be a little tired this is your first day back after our winter so it was unplanned but we've had it so let's give it one more round before okay one of the things that i i noticed in all of this is just how much these guys love their teacher and i think that speaks volumes about mr bowtal and how he is with these kids and i mean just i'm an i'm an outsider i mean i know roger wow you know how awesome i mean just you know it just speaks volumes of what you are to these kids and you know just as a community just a just a community person being able to see that and and how
024they how they talk to you and how they're always like mr hotel look at this on you know and and just you know including you and i mean you can just really tell how much you mean to these kids and all the stuff that you're doing it's gonna make me cry thank you thank you for all you're doing yeah we definitely appreciate mr vocal thanks again for coming so can we hand out our goodies okay go ahead nikki had a choice yeah [Music] here oh yeah all right mr mcdaniel we'll let you go ahead and share um your recognitions and then i will also finish the other schools and then we'll save the best for last for our spotlight so i would like to congratulate replin swisher who is now redlin guyer uh graduated last
025year 2021 for making dean's list with 4.0 gpa in her first semester at ivy tech kokomo so way to go whenever i see those those postings from parents on social media try to grab those and put those on the board the good news and so i've missed anybody it's not when the intentional so dads out there if they they want me to put that on the board uh good good news i'm definitely just like would also like to congratulate uh south lady knights on a solid season this year very very good historic season unfortunately lost in the first round of sectional basketball to northfield competitive game final scores 53-50 the final record was 12 and 11 and they won the counting tournament for the first time in school history so very very momentous historic season
026for early nights uh i would also like to say thank you to mr stetter and mrs johnson they are our student congress advisors and our student congress members uh who are organizing this year's snowball dance held ahead of the cafeteria a couple weeks ago on saturday night a big thank you goes to our chaperones had a good turnout kids had a lot of fun there might have been a principal evidence like that was destroyed all right thank you mr daniel we'll continue on uh from northfield mr snyder um shared the official jack urban at the what rochester game last friday gave jay calderman an exemplary behavior report uh the official reported that throughout the game jake retrieved the ball and got to the officials he was very even tempered and in control of his emotions
027in a game that both teams played hard he had a great attitude a.d moore presented jake with an ihs double a sportsmanship pin prior to saturday's game against casting thanks for leading by example and for your great sportsmanship jake um i enjoy jake he's on my superintendent advisory team too so and also from northfield congratulations to northfield wrestler wrestling on a great season a special congratulations senior jane goscher on winning the second sectional got runner-up regional which qualified hands to compete at semi-state on uh this coming saturday at fort wayne also from mr snyder happy uh school counseling week this week to all of our msdwc school counselors and continuing on he also thanks the nhs custodians ron norman mike harwood and lisa goshert we have a new hire that started last week at northfield
028but they went the last month or more working extra between the three of them to keep things clean at northfield thanks for all you do to keep the school clean and looking great each day mr boone at southwood elementary would like to thank new song church for their very generous donation of several food items to a family who had expressed a need last week the timing of our becoming aware of the need and new song reaching out to us to see if they could help in a way it was perfect we are grateful for community partners who are also deeply about students and families also from mr boone february 7th to 11th what we've already talked about the national school counseling week at south of elementary we recognize and celebrate one of our very best
029mrs valerie law mrs law works hard to help students families and co-workers operate at their maximum potential in our school community this happens in a variety of ways social skills groups for students making connections with community partners you want to help in the school community organizing college skill week at red ribbon week activities to name just a few thank you mrs law and mr boone also is thankful for the efforts of the snow removal crews over the past week we especially want to thank maintenance and custodial teams for extra work outside to prepare sidewalks playground and parking areas for safe travel on foot we appreciate that extra time and attention to make sure everyone is safe um and i believe we'll make sure to get through all of them i believe that is it and
030i need one minute because i did not get my sack that's in this other room run run and see if [Music] or something so all right our main event tonight we were going to have mrs amy wong come up here and that vegan so first of all we we do want to congratulate our spotlight tonight as listed in our agenda is amy long and beth nominated her so i would turn it over at this time to miss thank you at the beginning of the school year we were one office secretary short and amy wore many many hats at the beginning of the year not only was she a school secretary and school nurse she took care of attendance and many many other things and she always had a smile on her face when she was
031doing it she is always happy she's always had a smile on her face i'm sure there are times when she's not happy but her daughter's not on the camera right now she's always willing to go the extra mile to help someone out and i can speak her personal experience um to that she has been a cheerleader for me as i have continued my recovery from cancer and she she's just always willing to do whatever anybody needs a couple of weeks ago i on a personal note i had was coming back from fort wayne i had a treatment in fort wayne on a monday and i always come back from my mom's on tuesday morning and as i went out to the car on tuesday morning i fell on the ice and so i contacted mr
032mcdaniel let me know it's going to be a little bit late and when i got to school i pulled up and amy came out and she was like do not get out of the car and she assessed to make sure that i was really okay but in the meantime kids are coming into school and she is being a cheerleader for them saying welcome to southwood come on in let's get that learning going and so not only was she there to help me she was welcoming the kids to the school that morning and that's just what we see out of amy every single day she is always always always there for us and i just wanted the opportunity to recognize her and thank her for everything she does we are definitely honored and privileged to have
033amy as a member of the soccer field [Music] i just love my job and it's we're in a very unique situation we've never had this i don't think in our history of msd over the last 60 some homeless well over 60 years of having a secretary slash nurse so like miss egan says she can do it all there during that time so we appreciate that mr mcdaniel do you want to share anything else yeah you know we got to know amy um in years past as a substitute nurse and we knew her as somebody who was spunky and fun and and just an all-around great person and so this year uh like that said she's done so many different things to help out uh she's meticulous she has an excellent work as they just gets
034through things and she's just fun to be around and so we are very very blessed thank you so on behalf of msd and our sponsor which is first farmers bank and trust we have a little gift for you um but we do always ask that you read it out loud because i'll have another thing i want to say real fast okay congratulations because you have dreams big and worked hard we figured you might like a soft place to rest thank you for doing what you do so well staff spotlight so inside there yeah um mr mcdaniel though we need to make sure he understands that that's not necessarily for school time so all right that's pretty nice yeah i'll have to hide it from him yeah thank you very much um before you [Music] um
035all right you guys can stay if you want but obviously you can leave just like i said in the email so we'll see you later thank you very much thanks for coming thank you yeah all right i actually said 6 45 so i don't know they're just real early yeah so um [Music] oh so we'll move to the consent agenda items uh approval of the minutes from our previous meeting on january clinton i'm listening claims to accept claims on favor say all all right payroll nothing out of the ordinary for payroll motion second motion in a second for to approve payroll financial summary just uh showing you uh end of the month for january and where our balances are you can see where we ended in that first column uh of 2012 or 2012 uh
036and then so where we're at how that balance changed just over that first month period um next board mean i'll have some cash flow uh updates and uh estimates uh for the remainder of 2022. so um nothing out of ordinary with with the end of the month report moving on to personnel under resignation we have melissa cardwell cook at metro north under employment we have deborah saint-claire long-term sub of whites cynthia barman long-term sub teacher at southwood elementary and matthew schmidt long-term sub teacher at southwest elementary and termination number employee number uh effective uh last month just maybe a little more explanation on the long-term subs uh long stitch teachers uh something's in the water this year or about nine months ago so that's why we have several long-term substitutes so okay i think we've
037had yeah we're going on seven returning yeah we just heard of another one too is this have you kind of the one that we just heard about number one yes i just want to share i don't know look at that so then multiple times okay um i just want to share we haven't had a cover 19 update which i'm not really going to mention that as much because we don't have a lot to share with that which is very good but i wanted to have i asked the principals uh to give attendance for today um since we've been out of school for a while and uh of the six schools we had edu seven educational staff that were absent all day um that would be you have to think about how many teachers that we
038have and how many staff when we say educational that doesn't include our obviously our bus drivers and our tech and our you know cooks and custodians and food service things like that but it does the educational staff of even at whites and also with the instructional paraprofessionals and teachers so anyway um really good um not very many at all for the whole corporation and then of the five schools did not include whites in this one but i did have the principles respond we had 106 students that were absent all day so out of um the students that are in that those five schools that's a tenancy rate of 94 if we would have a 94 of the year it would almost probably be a four-star um for the whole uh whole state because that's that's
039a very good percentage and so um maybe not a four star because actually a four star would be closer to probably 97 98 but still with all of other situations happening that's very good so i guess i just want to say that's a positive for us and hopefully i hope it continues so just kind of want to share that and i asked the principals just to let me know by the end of the day what that was tonight mr craig is gone are you putting out fellaini i would just tell you one one thing that um we were last year at this time we brought in nwa scores but we just had those finished so next meeting i'm sure he'll have a report on that um he's excused him to go watch the sun playing
040the rc tournament uh starts tonight um hopefully it will not be their last game but they're playing a very good team and they have a good record too so i excuse him from tonight too so you could watch him play and so there's nothing on that but there should be something about our nwa test scores next meeting which our next meeting is interesting it's 2 22 only two [Music] okay moving on to recommendation a new business we have a recommendation to approve the out of state field trip from northfield high school's acapella choir and trouble choir to the choir festival music of the parks at king's island amusement park in ohio on may 13th and 14th of this year motion second to approve the out-of-state field trip for the northfield choirs always ever say all
041right all right recommendation to approve an extended field trip for the northfield key club to the key club district leadership convention at the indianapolis airport crown plaza march 4th through 6th of 2022 hello motion and second to approve the recommendation to approve the extended field trip for the northville key club all in favor say all right recommendation to approve the overnight extended field trip for sharp creek sixth grade to camp mullen hour in shark excuse me in silver lake indiana may 18th the 20th this year i got ahead of myself i'm trying to get to that pizza to approve the overnight extended field trip for sharp cream later this year in may all in favor say hi we have no unfinished business no board policy about uh phones public comment on any item there's nothing
042nothing okay any items from board members that are something they've got to line up but okay so that's