001i pledge allegiance to supply 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 all right i'd like to thank you folks for attending future board meetings uh january 11th 2022 and that will also be our reorganizational meeting before the finance meeting and uh regular meeting and organizational uh january 25th at uh six o'clock here and february 8th at uh six o'clock here the only division to the agenda we have is under the hr report and so we'll move on to public recognition a recommendation to approve a 135 504 donation from brighter futures indiana build learn growth stabilization grant for metro north elementary total north preschool i also have a recommendation to approve a 51 847 donation from brighter futures
002indiana build grow learn build learn to grow stabilization grant for southwood elementary little knights preschool and a recommendation to approve a 100 donation for southwood elementary robotics club from jake and donna and i believe that is the donations i don't think i have to check with this more on this so i'll make sure to approve it also i'm going to show the second to approve the uh donations all in favor say all right all right so we'll move on to school recognition we'll do the other schools and then i'll turn it over to mrs moore and then after she does hers for metro north we will go ahead and go to our main event which is a spotlight tonight so i'll start out though with uh south floyd junior senior high school uh this is
003from mr mcdaniel the southwest junior senior high community would like to recognize jason of priestic and cole weiner for making the indiana football coaches association class 1a junior all-star team way to go guys also from miss knee uh band inquired uh director at southwood great job this weekend to ethan lockhart and dakota wilson at the ball state honor band performance our two students worked the entire day with high schoolers from all around indiana did a wonderful job at the evening concert thank you to ball state university school of music faculty for hosting this educational event for our students and another one from southwood the southwest community would like to thank mrs goman and the heist the english department for organizing a theatrical experience for our junior high students right in time for the holiday season
004students were able to view a production of a christmas carol what a great way to get into the holiday spirit and finally from southwood we would like to recognize mrs mccordrick for organizing the deca the door holiday celebration staff members and students decorated doors throughout the building thank you mrs mccordrey staff and students for helping to us to get to the holiday spirit and for northfield i just got one that just came in so it's not on my list here but this is from coach rex reimer from a obviously he's our coach basketball at northfield so it's from looks like an ihs official i just received it so i haven't read it yet so hopefully i can read it just wanted to say thank you for the opportunity to work for both of you and
005i think that means that was the peru yes that was a prune norfolk game so both of you would be both coaches rex and eric from peru this past saturday evening aaron tyrone and i had a great time both teams showed great sportsmanship and we're very respectful to each other i wish you both a safe and successful season and look forward to working for you again have a merry christmas and that's from justin markle and obviously we know we we hear about a lot of these which is very very good because we know how competitive people are and sometimes our emotions get in the way um and so it's great to see that they were very respectful to each other so we appreciate that so moving on with other ones from northfield thank you to
006mr johnston and his choir students for putting on an excellent christmas choir concert on friday december 3rd mrs ster johnson has been working hard in his first year at northfield with our choir students and we appreciate his work at sharp creek and norfolk also from northfield congratulations to the following nhs football players eli crowe and jacob steiner eli made first-team junior all-state punter for class 1-8 jacob snyder made first-team linebacker for class 1a so congratulations on a great season also from norfolk thanks to student council and keep club for working together to find activities for students this week so or so before christmas break the two clubs worked great together to create a fun safe and festive environment during the holiday season and this is from northfield ins sharp creek congratulations to the norfolk district
007students that were the scholars of the quarter for the community foundation walrus county the awards were given for academic skills persistence positive peer leadership citizenship and personal responsibility at school shark creek fourth grader charlotte harrington uh sharp creek fifth grader chase frost northfield seventh grader milly higgins and norfolk eighth grader braden rice will all receive an award certificate small prize as well as a 25 in their early award scholarship funds also uh yes this had a new one just come in that was northfold right so southwood and elementary and also south of elementary congratulations to the southwest district students that were the scholars of the quarter for the community foundation walters county the awards are given for academic skills persistence positive leadership citizenship and personal responsibility at school so south of elementary fourth grader beth
008holly for how fifth grade greater harley heiner southern elementary sixth grader alex getz southwood high school seventh grade at brooke farr southwood high school eighth grader sophie tumble will all receive an award certificate small prize as well as 25 in the early award scholarship funds so i'm glad we have so many but i talk too fast and i need another drive now so now this is morning [Music] all right um so in november we had nine metro north artists featured at the winter banner reception at the hunting hall along with mrs gray and those artists were liam athens merrick eliza water willow foster brooklyn bernie brogan kendall case isaac davis and macy white men and then we had two banner winners for metro north liam aiken was the kindergarten winner across the county and then
009brooklyn lutheran was this metro family winner and their banners are hanging down on friday night we had our second robotics league for elementary at south squid elementary and our metro north team is now second graders which is a whole new challenge and exciting they have no fear when it comes to their driving and um it was their first time to participate in the week the first week we went and we just watched because it's very overwhelming and then they got to drive on friday night and one of our teams is ranked first in the league and so we were pretty excited about that we showed up and they drove well and did great and our team members are um brady laner rich mcphillips titus dawes stephen king connor crumb william phillip faye leffert kaitlyn left
010bernie and olivia and um i also want to mention erica tyson and amy schmidt and i know there are others i'm just not sure who they are that help organize that it's a huge undertaking and they just are completely critical of their own work and reflective and every time it's better and better so they are greatly appreciated um in november we had our metro north family and on which is always a great event we had over 200 students and their families come back on for an evening just fun activities and games and of course we have our book fair open and our theme was all about our favorite books and our favorite characters and the staff dressed up and it's just a lot of fun and great to see our families in our building again
011having a good time and then lastly before we go to our spotlight i want to recognize our kindergarten team and half of them are here every year it is an annual tradition and they didn't know that i was talking about this so kindergarten ornament day is a huge annual tradition at metro north i know we decorated our christmas tree at moore household preston drags out that shoebox and it is full of ornaments that he made in kindergarten and our gym is 12 ish a dozen yeah um they convert our gym overnight into like a little ornament santa making workshop there is more glue and glitter and paint that you could ever imagine [Music] and parent volunteers and the kids just make their way around the gym making all these ornaments they've got a little check
012sheet that they wear and it's just exciting to see and it looks seamless and it's because of the work that these ladies put in hours upon hours probably weeks like start planning halloween they were looking at the christmas tree before the meeting to see if there were any ornament ideas that they could borrow for next year so they do an amazing job and it's just a box full of memories that each of our kids gets to take home and i'd just like to piggyback a little bit on the actual robotics um friday night there were 16 teams i know we have older students that go different places too 16 teams it was nice to give me back into person and another thing that i had fun with mrs moore actually had a little bit of
013practice prior to the friday evening event and i watched them and then they actually let me try it too which is fun but then when we went to south with their very first um competition they did very very well and i didn't see other ones but the very first one was great so mrs moore is actually the coach of that robotics team so that's why they're in first place right now all right well at this time if i could have and mr great you will actually do the picture mrs moore this apparel this is uh i mean this yeah it's just okay yes that is yes i was looking at my this so today we have mrs elsie is going to be our spotlight and i will go ahead and let you mrs moore share
014with the two people that actually um uh recommended her and they're not gonna get a little bit for you so this is great so why don't you tell a little well it's all is so deserving of the south spotlight she goes above and beyond each and every day recently she stepped outside of the comfort zone and took on a 12-week maternity leave in preschool which is not an easy task by any means and i will add that it was the third or fourth week of school yeah so right after labor day so just getting started um to most people that would be quite daunting but becca not only was willing to take on that new role she excelled at it i'm so grateful to her for taking care of my class and giving me peace
015of mind even though that meant she had to momentarily step away from her normal position which i know she loves she's not afraid to jump in and help or she is needed becca is nothing but compassionate kind and caring every new challenge she is presented with she gives 110 and never complains about it becca is one of the most kind-hearted friends co-workers and teachers that i know and she deserves all the recognition she can get and that was his friend mrs cassie carroll who was the teacher on maternity leave and then jessica hawley wrote kind compassionate willing to help in any way possible and hardworking these words describe becca elsie becca has a heart that only wants what is best for a child her heart shines not only in our building but outside of our
016building as well this is evident with all the way she volunteers around our community i feel blessed to work with such an amazing person becca is more than deserving of our staff so i would ask are you ready so everything you do you do at a level that is beyond exceptional and um becca does not like to take credit for her work in fact she likes to do that work and then slowly slip away the spotlight is not good on me but your work is greatly recognized and very appreciative very appreciated and you touch more little lies than you will ever know um and just empower young people and everything that she does she does with great love and in a way that you would want your own children treated by those things this person
017have to love our kids and um the other thing that i will add talk about stepping outside your comfort zone is that becca has i guess um because of that preschool experience she has decided to pursue finishing her degree in early childhood and starting that in january so a couple more things thank you very much so on the card 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 staff spotlight so you can see what's in there something's wrong so anyway thank you very much and congratulations there we go so i want you to get a picture with us two of them congratulations thank you and you may stay or you may leave so it's up
018to you thanks for coming guys thank you okay at this point we will move to the public comment period for the items only so but you guys if you have anything you'd like to say about our agenda or facebook live i'm sure they're a little behind but we'll give them a minute or so i can say i'm supportive of new business item number two [Laughter] brilliant facebook all right moving on to consent agenda items uh looking for approval minutes from our last meeting on november 23rd motion and second to approve the minutes of our last meeting november 23rd all in favor say aye all right moving on to financials claims claims are very typical next payroll you should see a increase because we did all the tag dollars that we received from the state we
019passed those on to our teaching staff so that will increase payroll a little bit on the next december 15th yeah which is tomorrow [Laughter] well he's already addressed payroll you want to say it again um [Music] uh end of the month balances from november that just kind of gives you an idea of where we stand at the end of the month the cash flow then that leads into those gives you also the end of november with the december estimates there so you can kind of see where we're anticipated to end not much is going to be different i don't believe in the month of december that's not already on there one thing that we i will know tomorrow is we will have a reconciliation in our basic grant for our cte and honors dollars that
020that will go into effect into there so that could be a slight increase or decrease in the basic tuition support we also had our december 1 account for special education i don't think we have solid final numbers on what that will be but that obviously will have an effect on basic grant either positive or negative depending on whether that was an increase or decrease in special ed students that won't take effect until february's pay and basic tuition support so what's up there is a very good estimate of what part end of the year will look like for 2021 and then i'll start working on here shortly operations uh same thing there um again not much has changed that's a pretty status quo uh as we go across there we do pay a lot of bills
021in december we'll have a lot of our bigger payments with some of our debt service uh payments coming in the end of december uh those type of things so nothing uncommon one thing i wanted to highlight in there mike and this kind of leads into one of our new business topics if you scroll up you can see um at the very bottom there for november a 57 000 revenue into operations that is uncommon for us that is our dollars that were received from our insurance company for the total of the activity bus that happened about a month ago or so and so that money obviously will be used to replace and purchase a activity bus if you vote either always good this time here at least for me to see that growth the cte dollars
022chris that's going to be increased where the funding was increased a little bit or you said you didn't know the funding is the funding i believe was increased it's it's the dollars i received mainly from students that attend heartland uh even though we do have some cte courses that we offer within our own traditional schools so that student count based off of the program they're taking will generate a certain amount of dollars and dollars per student didn't necessarily go up right now okay so really it's a matter of the number of students and what of course they're going to go through yeah so that could increase or decrease but we will now receive those new dollars for the new year based off of those enrollments but that's all tied into our basic grant it's still
023all based on first semester also yeah so any new students that come next we don't get in college which there is they are doing a second count in the second semester but it will not be tied to anything financially at this point in time kind of like special ed especially it also does account in the spring as well but it's not tied to anything financial um at this point historically do we gain or lose it for which one yeah enrollment for a special and that's just based off of our traditional that's just based off of our basic grant dollars any other questions all right thank you we'll move on to personnel under resignation we have carrie haytrap athletic secretary southwood high school and chad weiger custodian at montgomery high school under employment of katie harwood
024cook at southwood elementary patsy r with cook at southwood high school madeline daisy paraprofessional at metro north elementary tonya boone head track coach of southwood high school steve swenson head baseball coach at southwood high school kyle aderman ninth grade boys basketball at northfield high school heather hayden head track coach at northland high school and kyle france head softball coach at norfolk high school and then employee number 131 is under our leave from and you see the dates there through the end of the year all right heartland career center report we'll have a meeting tomorrow i'll be able to give you a better update okay superintendent supporters yeah i just want to say it's really kind of unbelievable that we are to this point already and finishing up this semester and actually being about 20 21
025months into a pandemic and so again just want to thank all of our staff for the additional tasks and challenges that they have um and we continue to have and um wish everybody a merry christmas as we uh take a little little break um not for all staff members some staff members continue to work over the break but a lot of our educational staff will have a couple weeks to regenerate and be ready for uh january 3rd i believe 2022 so thanks to all them curriculum report mr greg well let me tell you we have wrapped up our istep testing and for those you keeping track this senior class is the last class that needs to take istep to graduate so i think as a district we tested maybe 20 seniors who hadn't passed yet
026we needed it to graduate we have another window come up in february which is good because as we're recognizing staff if you guys don't know the name shirley haynes you need to put her on your christmas tree that lady is amazing she collects all of our data and submits it to the state and so that helps with the enrollment and all the things that dr finn was talking about but it also helps with my testing and the department of education is uh full of bureaucracy uh multiple steps to get to one little location and they are trying to make everything be seamless now and it's an automatic every night pool which sounds really good theoretically but in actuality they are months behind and reports of data and so shirley has done a great job of
027trying to help us get those kids to be tested because they have to be correct in their system before we can do ours and so um wrapping up istep and we are preparing for our leader tests in the spring that's what we give our el students which right now is district we're at about nine pl students across the district that's including the whites and bridge students so that is for uh you know students that are mostly spanish-speaking from you know other countries that kind of i do have sap data and psat data they just released dennis on compiling that and i hope to get that to you guys here shortly um we tested all of the seniors that wanted to test in the fall actually mentioned that academic honors grant fund honors diploma is just
028students that earn when we get monies back as part of our base and so we use some of those funds to help pay for those seniors to take the sat you know who need it for your graduation for college and so we we have their data this year we tested all sophomores of course and some juniors with psat and we even moved it down to the eighth graders and ninth graders and so we tested some groups of our eighth and ninth figures with the psat because the state released a grant to cover those costs and so we did not force all of them to take that because it didn't really fit all of their needs but we didn't encourage something i hope to have that data i'm going to come back probably in late january
029moving on to new business the elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund has our six-month requirement to do a review and recommendation to approve uh our re-entry plan and basically prove that we're not going to make any changes so that re-entry point yes and so really this is just an ester requirement that every six months we'll bring this back and obviously public comment is also something that can happen um but it's already in our agenda so we don't have to worry about that but that's part of the requirement that there is public uh comment if anyone wishes and that goes along with um number four of our agenda of course and then of course at the very end um number uh actually number 10. so really the recommendation is that we don't make any changes
030the reinsured plan was developed you know july 13th and of course there were some other changes that was then done you approved on august 10th so the recommendation like you said mr daisy already is to uh there'll be no changes to the current plan and supplements this just kind of refreshes me right so that what our re-entry lessons are ongoing correct i just wonder if they'd ever jump in there and say what you're doing is not good enough and every six months until i have to look back now but through 2023 i believe because that's how our grant goes through and we'll be doing this too so there might be other changes but there are changes we'll look at recommendations for that so we need a motion yes and we will approve it again also
031motion and second to approve the uh the six the re-entry plan as originally uh i guess uh approved uh two of them there's two of i think the last one was august wasn't it correct yeah as is uh from august uh all in favor say that i don't [Music] the recommendation to approve the resolution uh of the wabash county uh approving action and taken by the city of wabash redevelopment commission to establish a residential housing development program for the residential housing program all in favor say hi all right recommendation to approve the year of end of year resolution that's pretty standard yeah this is something that we typically do all it does is since we don't have um another meeting to the end of the year it just allows us to balance out and close
0322021 make the needed adjustments that we would need to make any appropriations to balance that out so that's all it really is i did we did get our 1082 notice just last week for our budget order for 2022. we'll talk more about that at the next board meeting but there were there was one change in our rainy day fund and so it didn't really have any impact on what we did in our budget budget hearings so that was good [Music] recommendation to approve the purchase of a new activity bus [Music] yes so i gave you all of the comparables and the different quotes that we got activity there's not many buses around um and the ones that are being made are taking a long time we actually ran into a little bit of luck because
033this bus was actually starting to be built by another school corporation that wanted it but then backed out of it and so they do have one that they are still working on which we hopefully will get in the next month or so but uh just making a recommendation to replace the bus that was totaled a month ago we did receive our insurance check from liberty mutual to cover the cost of [Music] that last purchase the only problem is it's purple chris the thing that brought that back in line with i mean because you're relatively close to your insurance so what was the deduct on the seats i'm just going from memory i think it's like a ten thousand dollars oh an insurance no i don't want a new purchase yeah everything is the same uh
034the extra little extra cost is just the decal stuff that we typically do on our activity buses yeah that's amazing it came in line that closed yeah well it's newer too yeah and they do that we tell them so when they go to see what the actual cost of the bus is they contact them to see what the typical cost of the bus would be so that's how they get so close to their they're comparable with that there's a little replacement cost yeah yeah that's what the insurance covers anything under 10 years of us under 10 years there was full placement calls and that's the tops yes yes that's the bus right with the congress closer yes the most freely affirmative to approve the bus replacement all in favor say hi recommendation to approve an
035overnight extended out-of-state trip from northfield to 8th grade to washington d.c on march 24th to the 27th and this coming spring second second to approve the trip for the northville 8th graders all in favor say hi all right recommendation to approve an overnight extended out-of-state field trip for southwood wrestling team to danville illinois december 29th and 30th of this year it's the 10th annual new year's challenge tournament okay i'll show you a second to approve the trip for southward wrestling team all in favor say hi okay we have no unfinished business or board policy any public comment on anything there is one okay they wish me happy birthday what was your birthday [Music] they're trying to be supportive since you have to begin i actually encourage them to make other comments that they aren't making
036so i'll say those sure do we have any items from core members uh the eighth grade trip that we just approved i'm sure no well i'm always concerned about the kid that might not be able to afford that i'm sure there's going to be a financial cost somebody's in the league trying to because it's a wonderful opportunity i'd like to see every yeah i think once they have those concerns then they look at other ways to be able to make that happen so yeah yesterday yeah i don't want to jump and start unwriting it it might get overused but yeah i just like to see it it'll go apart okay we have nothing else for adjourned