001pledge 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 welcome all here future board meetings february 8th and 22nd and march 8th all here at 6pm we've got a couple little revisions to the agenda nothing major public recognition we have a recommendation to approve a 30 donation from steve and becky bowman for the south with cross country we also have a recommendation to approve a donation for 2483.33 from educator brain state aws foundation to purchase books for wwe staff recommendation to approve a 10.40 donation from casey's general stores for student use at southwood elementary recommendation to approve the 30 and 30 cents from box tops for education general mills for use at southwood elementary and we
002have a recommendation to approve a 500 donation from crumb farms for northfield junior high girls basketball a recommendation to approve a 200 donation from an anonymous donor for shark creek robotics and finally a recommendation to improve a thousand dollar donation from tiffany albert and ryan harrington for charlotte creek robotics very generous i would accept donations okay question in a second to approve the donations all in favor say all right school recognition okay i'm gonna go ahead and do the ones that are listed from our other schools and then if mrs boone has anything and then we'll go ahead and do um our highlight tonight for our staff spotlight so i'll go ahead and read a little bit here first of all daniel at southwood south would like to recognize the following southwest graduates who made
003the dean's list for the fall semester at ball state university kim hobson monica hopson kayla mays and logan arnold way to go knights cardinals also congratulations to aaron flaner who made the dean's list at indiana university as an elementary education major way to go so it's nice we do get those from time to time from the colleges and universities and then mr martin at shark creek shark creek elementary would like to thank the urban alliance club and dr lindsey culver of midwest eye consultants for helping us kick off our current k-kids fundraising efforts on behalf of the leader dog for the blind students are participating in a penny war and other opportunities to assist in funding the training of lucky a puppy and training and i had the opportunity to be able to go to
004that presentation and the k kids um which are elementary kids of of like the kiwanis that great service group that we have anyway uh did a great job as the president the vice president the secretary i think there was uh three of them that actually did a lot of the presentation of course dr lindsey culver who's also blind um uh doing that so we appreciate them and then also from mr martin at shark creek our robotics team programmers had an opportunity to virtually meet with purdue university's vex u programmers recently thanks to the southwood our sharp creek i'm sorry coaches for making this happen as our students love to learn from experts so it's really neat to have that connection with purdue and learning what they know and helping those students uh with the the
005robotics so that's all i have tonight as far as what was written from the other principles mrs boone do you have anything are you just going to share a little bit with um a message okay summary of things okay let's just do that the reason we're here okay yes um well i'd like to just highlight my staff in general because we have had we've served over 427 students so far this year and just in the last two days we've had we're pushing 10 new applicants and that's just how our world goes it's just constant in and out and so it takes a lot of maneuvering and teachers being very flexible willing to be flexible and working their tails off to get students engaged right away and to keep up with all the management and onboarding
006of students so i really appreciate their their efforts and also i wanted to highlight our graduates so far this year just in the first semester we've had 48 graduates and so that's pretty exciting and we've got a lot more on the docket to hopefully have done by this summer time so we're pretty excited for them and it's a lot of a lot of those students this has been an opportunity that they wouldn't have had otherwise so just appreciate you guys as continued support of this program and of our students and and our mission and with that being said when i talk about us having having served 427 students to that point that's who's enrolled as of right now but we have 30 students that we are working on enrollment and hope to have done by
007next week and every one of those students goes through kylie's hands so she meets with orients their them their families and spends all that time just meeting with the families going over our getting them on boarded into our program making sure that they get off to a good start that's a lot of work every one of those kids takes a minimum of two contacts and two is choose a blessing that normally does not happen it usually takes a lot more than that but just she's reaching out she's getting them engaged in our onboarding process getting them through our orientation course and then she's scheduling enrollment meetings and takes time to get to know our families and get to know the students make them feel welcome out of the gate so she is kind of like
008she's the first voice and first face that our students and families meet and her personality and work ethic just fit that um fit that role perfectly so we just we're very appreciative of her and her efforts especially during well throughout the year she's constantly onboarding kids every day but and i'm not exaggerating when i say that she's doing onboarding every day even works through the evenings and weekends when that's what accommodates to to accommodate our family schedules so just really appreciate her and our entire staff the way that we all work together as a team is we get a lot accomplished for a small number of people and lots of kids so just really proud of them and proud of kylie an opportunity to recognize her tonight okay and before we go to that i
009want to say one other thing too so uh we always have to talk about having the people the right people on the bus i mean you know as far as the seats that they have and so obviously we have a great staff with that and one thing that we have to really work on and they have done ms boone with her whole staff has done a great job is just to make the program accomplished with fidelity and i think that's been a big goal of hers and with the staff and so that's why there's a lot of success when there's a lot of a lot of other programs out there and so it still continues to be the same way like that so i really appreciate that um there so at this time though we
010love to do the spotlight and so if um cara and kylie can come up here um we have to make sure we get you at the front and center as far as the uh the camera goes you want them to face that way a little bit once you face that way so they can the camera can see you so anyway mrs cliff teacher uh with the bridge program nominated uh kylie so i will go ahead and let her share with what she said and you can share any you don't have to do it well i'll stand here so um this is still true about kylie so i'm just going to read it and then i'll add to it so when i nominated her i put that kylie gives 100 to her job she's thoughtful does
011a great job with getting our students going and stays on top of things diligently she's always kind and that's how she can help she's truly a huge asset to the bridge program and i still believe in terms of every word of that i think i nominated about three months ago but it doesn't matter this is true every day of kylie and when i came to msd after 29 and a half years at another corporation like she was so welcoming to me just personally i mean she had her 100 000 things she was doing but she never made me feel like she couldn't stop and help me with something and help me figure out how to transition to be part of the bridge program and now as i worked for two and a half years here
012and my students when i onboard them myself for what i have to do which is after her process like they know me and they say talk about kylie or mrs roman and they're just so happy to have connected with her and had somebody feel like they care about them because so many of our families come to us when school hasn't worked it's been a negative thing for them and so to have the teacher to get them already over a little bit over that hump of feeling like this is a positive thing and this is a new hopeful situation and that's on kylie and i love her and i'm so glad to work with her thank you [Music] all right um kyle do you have anything you'd like to say um well this is my sixth
013year with msc um i've had a couple different roles but i will say this is where i'm supposed to be this is where i'm meant to be this is where i want to be um i have an amazing boss co-workers our team is just incredible our mission i just am blessed every day to be this is what i do like i i'm just i just love that so i'm super thankful all right thank you very much thank you and so on behalf of msu wabash and our sponsor because we have a sponsor through first farmers bank and trust i'd like for you to read the card out loud 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
014well staff spotlight and so a soft place um there is a blanket in there but i don't know if you ever have to be able to use it because you don't have enough time to rest i'll use it i do want to say one other thing too i was going through some pictures today i was showing some a picture of something and i noticed that you were in a picture um congratulating one of your graduates at the honeywell center and so when mrs boone talks about and that's probably maybe two years ago or well i don't know when it wasn't yet but i got to look at the picture again probably at least a year yeah so when mrs boone talks about flexibility you know traditionally we have graduations uh you know at our schools
015and things like that but they meet the students where they're at and however that works and so i remember that one specifically too especially when i had that um that picture of and with her daughter and with her daughter because that's part of the mission too because there's different situations that happen with some of our students that they still need to graduate but they have life situations that make it a little bit more difficult and so she did have her daughter and you were there and i took a picture of both of you so anyway congratulations on that let's give her one more round of get one more applause with all that and because our mr drake's not here tonight he usually does that and she said to me and with send it to you
016yes please thank you thank you so like i give all of you you guys are welcome to stay for the meeting um but uh these guys won't cry too much if you leave but it's up to you firecrackers at this point we will do public comment for agenda items only so if you want to stick around and say something you can't but we're also probably going to catch up with people viewing on facebook right now thank you for having me all right so we'll move on to consent agenda items uh the first thing we have is the approval of the minutes and i'm just going to lump these all we did three different meetings last week and read through the meetings and want to make a correction to any of those we can do that
017but i'm just going to do these all together so i need the approval of the minutes for the board of finance the reorganization and the regular media from january 1. to approve the minutes of the last meetings all in favor say aye okay claims page two chris york trace holdings limited yes so yeah there's another repair it's a uh it's a program that aaron is using for a cyber security purposes to help prevent some of those types of issues and maybe be able to trace some of that stuff to different devices so that it can get mixed in the bud before it creates a problem is there like a buy-in or that's a yearly like like can we do it next year i believe so he said it wasn't a cheap service be attached to
018all the devices but it won't impact the day that they use them okay now the kids are gonna even know that anything's happening i had another one too since this is my first meeting page five office rental for 12 000 that's going out to that is area programmers feeding to us so it shows on here because yeah which really you know a nice round i was probably more honest than if somebody was trying to get away with something yeah because they make it a little bit like this is a real effort yeah but that happens from time to time where they a claim will come out for them but will go to us as a revenue of some sort so that's really money that's going to go into a different account it's going into our
019yeah building it's coming out of the special ed grant that area program manages and then it comes to us and that one probably goes into our operations and double check on that thank you approved claims all in favor say hi payroll first payroll in january reflective one under employment sally weitzel for athletic secretary at southwood uh tim merkel custodian at northville high school retirement pam campbell teacher sharp creep belt laundry what she's gonna be using uh transfer howard goshert transferring from custodian to head custodian at sharp creek elementary and leave there are two numbers there 134 135 and you see the dates for those you know if i can just mention a little bit more um mrs campbell at sharp creek been doing a great job very energetic actually volunteers for a lot of different
020things still now today i just noticed that you know i get all the emails from different schools and sometimes they need help doing different things like taking tickets at ball games and different things like that and she's always willing to do that and and uh is just a good advocate for students and for shark creek and for msd and so she will definitely like you said mr daisy would definitely be missed but um wish her well in her retirement all my kids knew metro north when she was there i'll move to a preview into our sleep motion a second to approve hr all in favor say hi heartland career center report right you got anything of course nothing much they're just still working out details on the building that's what it's saying right now did
021you get elected yeah i just want to share a little bit and we'll we'll do some more of this later when we do some more of the data that the indian always provides us with a indiana transfer report and a lot of times you know we look at students that leave our district and students come into our district and we a lot of times just focus on those eight districts that we touch and since we are a large corporation we do touch like i said eight different districts and so we net we netted 102 students um as far as the number of students that that actually we lost in the number of students that gained so we did gain 102 that is just through only those neighboring school corporations and so but our total net
022through the all of state of indiana with all of our programs that we have is 309 students and so it's interesting to note that 1716 students are in our district that live in our district um and so if we went back to the non-open enrollment those are the only students that we could choose from but now we can choose from any students in the state of indiana so again uh 309 students it's also interesting to note that in wabash county um all of wabash county there's only 4 590 students um in the whole county which is kind of interesting because that's way down from you know the heyday of all the different school districts just because we don't have as much population so it's just interesting to know but it's great news to know that
023um you know students are choosing and parents are choosing msd and we have a net gain of 309 total and then compared to the 102 uh with just our neighboring districts so just a good celebration there the report is very very interesting because it shows every school district in the state of indiana also the non-pubs and the charter schools and it's just interesting to see where students are going here we'll see that's all public knowledge it's on the oe website but education was in a non-public school you had that one category there right so in other words like charter schools we had 11 students that left us to charter school we had approximately 19 for non-public for example we have 15 students that are going that live in our district that go the same beats
024right now so that's pretty common and there's some other ones uh oh they call them the um the others there's a few others that we have on there and that's basically ordered out of our district to someplace else so kind of like with fort worth it's interesting you know every student now has a number and so everything is tracked and that's how we get that information every student i think if i could energetic dairy students [Music] it's very confidential i mean those numbers cannot be shared and things like that [Music] they're long numbers you know he's going to memorize all of them all right that's all i have okay thank you mr defender mr drake is not here so i assume nobody's going to be doing any greater than my work in his absence so
025we'll move on to new business first item under this a new business is a recommendation to improve the purchase of the new buses yeah we typically this time of year we purchase the new businesses that are needed so that we can have them for the start of the school year well we found out that the estimated delivery time of these buses are about a year out so um here we still need to get them ordered so that we can have some new updated buses uh to replace some of the ones that we've gotten rid of or have become spares so we went over all of this when we did our budget hearing um in regards to bus replacement plan so i just threw that up there just to kind of show you where we're at
026with our number of buses and we're just looking uh to replace uh purchase two yellow regular buses which are at a hundred thousand a piece which is up seven thousand dollars a piece from last year we've been going with the thomas buses kyle likes likes those and so um yes the recommendation would be to purchase two thomas buses at a price of two hundred thousand five hundred thirty dollars it is interesting to note though i know dr kuhn looks at projections i don't know if that's a five percent in increasing four percentage at the top therefore yeah so in 20 20 33 if that is correct there will be up to 154 000 of these just to let you know wow what's it what's your news they say it's after 12 years you have to
027get two inspections so 12 is the typical standard i mean you can do the 12. the bus is still in good shape they go anywhere between 10 to 12 years a lot it depends on how many miles of us we got a couple buses that drive all day long and so their typical lifespan is a little shorter so i'm sure after 12 years they've started that one times with approval tonight since it's such a long delivery period we just signed an appeal or purchase yeah and then so once you approve this then i can go in and fill out the purchase order and there's a section that says ask if this has been approved by your board to purchase the new buses all in favor say hi and recommendation to approve the school board appointment
028of the non-voting member for the county redevelopment commission i believe that's you i'd love to okay i'm voting but you have every opportunity to interject your thoughts it's it's a good group of people i'm willing to accept it which hi we have no unfinished business or board policy public comment on anything numbers