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 please forgive my guardians i guess i would have liked to knock kind of future board meetings december 14th here at 6pm january 11 2022 and january 25th 2022 here at 6pm january 11th will be our annual reorganizational meeting we have no revisions to the agenda so we'll move into public recognition we have a recommendation to approve a ten dollar donation from angela bakker orthodontics for southport elementary also a recommendation to approve a 500 donation from adam baldwin baltimore electric 25 donation from roger and diana wrap 20 donation from ian in amber care 50 donation from anonymous employees afford meter box all for
002southwood high school robotics i'm going to accept donation from the real country club for northfield library well it used to be the house next to larry garrick and abel but it's for the library i always appreciate the donations that were given to us so i'm emotionally taught okay question in a second to approve the donations all in favor say aye okay and now we'll move on to school recognition and i will start um i have a couple from a different other school and then we'll have mr martin share and then we'll do our spotlight after that so first of all from um mr mcdaniel of southwoods the southwood high school received an exemplary conduct report from the girls basketball game against north maine on saturday november 13th report reads this was a very competitive matchup
003early on and at times maybe a little too competitive number 22 for southwood aliyah sweet in my opinion it was one of the better players for them and all game long was either guarding one of their better players on mark miami's team or was being guarded by one of the better players of the northwest team i don't recall how many fouls in total were called on number 22 but it was at least three not one time did she complain about those calls in the case where she was fouled she also didn't complain she played the entire game at 110 and she exemplified what i want all student athletes to demonstrate not only for my school but also for the ihsaa well done and then from northfield from mr snyder says a huge thank you to
004mr ward and his band students for putting on an excellent concert on thursday november 18th at 6 p.m mr ward have been working hard to keep students involved in band and it was an awesome turnout i think in sixth this 12th grade we have close to 70 students involved in band which is great to see and so i'll turn the rest over to mr martin thank you at sharp creek we'd like to recognize some important people who are late coaches for us and this allows our students to be able to have some opportunities which are very special to them and i'll start out with maggie easterday who was our volleyball coach and did a nice job and has been now at least i know for a couple of years we have two lay coaches joel
005nessler and kevin brettsman who are working with robotics this year i will mention there is a third coach who is amber brett's been a teacher but joel and kevin are coming into the building sometimes kevin's in even during the school day when students have a choice between throws going to recess or robotics so they're committing their time as late coaches and then tiffany smith and anthony soare are currently our boys basketball coaches which have just started their seasons and certainly appreciate them taking that on these leg coaches are important and they're doing basically a favor for us and doing something nice for kids so we appreciate them i also want to recognize two young ladies who are sixth graders madeline holly and montgomery dawes these are students who are serving as our president vice president
006of our k kids program which at sharp creek is kind of a combination of our student council and a service organization and these two have taken the lead and they're creative and they've suggested some things they've communicated well with me they work with our sponsors and campbell kelly ross and i just appreciate these two they also have a routine of daily being an office helper late in the day and run communication between teachers in our office and they always have a smile on their face they come with a good attitude and they're just they're just pleasant young ladies and i want to recognize and show appreciation for their talents and skills and willingness to be leaders as well as helpers um and at this time uh we'd love to have um mrs johnson come up
007and mrs riegel so we're doing our spotlight tonight and actually we are going to have who's going to give too so wow so mrs johnson nominated mrs riegel and at this time if you just want to share a little bit about uh you want to share a little bit about uh what you said in your nomination um yeah i just i think that you're a great teacher and i'm really happy that my kids have you because you always let us know what's going on and work with us and really value our opinion as parents because sometimes we can't always be there but you always make sure that you take what we say in consideration too so thank you thank you mr ray what do you want to say anything yeah i really appreciate your kind
008words um i had your daughter last year abby and i had i have ashton this year and really enjoyed having them and getting to know you also mr martin i i would just echo as i'm getting to know mississippi i'm very genuine in the business for the right reasons and i am well aware for very valuable communication skills she always has insight for parents and to me about parents and things so she's a communicator we appreciate that all right so mrs johnson just thank you very much for nominating her and mr regal let's give her a round of applause do you want to get a picture with me and then i want you to open that up show what everybody you went for the picture huh you're staging the picture with the gift or no
009well let's do it just do two different ones there we go perfect thank you all right what do you have in there see what we have all right and again this is uh our sponsor is first farmer thank you so we appreciate that oh wow you might want to read a little bit on the outside of that card too so once you've been right here yeah it should say dream big work hard yes it does it says dream big and work hard read the card on the outside then too i'm putting a lot of pressure it says because you have dreamed big and worked hard we figure you might like a soft place to rest thank you for doing what you do so well thank you now the only thing though about i don't have
010the bean bag in my classroom anymore for me to take a nap yes thank you you're welcome to stay but you're also welcome to go too so you don't usually get too many tankers um so at this point we're going to move on to public comment for agenda items only and that means facebook viewers i don't see any comments i didn't know if you were posting the picture or not but no i said it to laura so she can just whatever yeah okay well there's a public comment later in that so plenty of time to get the comments on uh consent agenda items next i need uh the approval for the minutes of our last week on november 9th i moved to april second to approve the minutes from our previous meeting all favor say
011aye all right approval for the financial reports of the startup claims okay do we contract our fuel our fuel yeah it just keeps moving up it's like a basis thing though yeah we can lock in 50 percent the yes five analytics i know that's spread out between three different funds in the past so we've used them oh probably three years now and we use them initially on the budgeting forecasting side of things so it's the software that i use to help me with my cash flows and all that stuff but then we also use it from the portion called five site which is the data warehouse then that pulls all the data where i get my comparisons a lot when we look at like things like assessed value or tax rates or other things mr
012drake uses a lot now from the five site side but also now we added the five lab which is a warehouse for our own data in regards to your nwea testing your istep your benchmarking all that stuff that we do in-house our attendance data all that stuff [Music] so that's what that whole thing is yeah it just appeared new to me approve claims on the credit side payroll so this is our first payroll then after the teacher contract retro pays there's some coaches stipends in there still as well it'll probably stay around this mark here towards the end of the year because we'll still have some eca stipends when it comes to some of our academic uh stipends okay notice usually at the end of the year so it'll probably be around around this this
013tight for the next couple days uh we'll also have uh next week we will also receive our teacher appreciation grant monies from the state of indiana uh which is i believe about 75 000 that we will distribute uh we have 20 days to distribute that and that will go to those teachers that were either rated effective or highly effective let me get that so that will show up on payroll too but that's part of it as well [Music] so cash flow education fund first off so really this represents any changes that would have been reflected when it comes to adm so this does represent our adm actuals when it comes to the basic grant so you can see that there was a slight increase then as part of that reconciliation uh we had estimated 2020
014for excuse me 2 000 students and so that was the money that we were receiving and when actual adm came out it was 20 24 something and so that reconciliation for those six months shows up in those last two payments in november and december [Music] the other area is the transfer tuition we've collected about 70 of our transfer tuition we are sending out reminder statements for those that have not paid next week so usually when we do that we get about another 20 more and then that last 10 percent usually takes a third reminder or a file through the state board of education for those funds so that has an impact on our revenue stream as well over the last few months so but again looking to be around 7 million 7.1 million by the
015end of the calendar year and then operations nothing really different about what our trends are for that uh we'll be looking for a big revenue in december as we get our tax dollars in remember we only get our tax dollars twice a month excuse me twice a year so once in june and once in december those tax draws then come to us and so those are big revenue times when it comes to that so looking to be around 5.3 million by the end of the calendar year when it comes to the operations mike had uh sent you guys the acknowledgement we had an s p global ratings adjustment so we moved from an a to an a plus which was good and they highlighted the strengths of our balances and our funds as one of
016the factors in continuing that improvement as well as removing that self-insurance fund deficit so to help with the adjustment which will hopefully lead to you know better incentives when it comes to borrowing these relationships business and do you have an a plus plus the state of indiana has a double a plus the state of indiana does uh the highest it goes is triple a so i think since i've been here i think it might have been an a minus when i first started and now we're at eight plus so that's great you'll be able to project cash flow from january through next year sometime in january yeah uh it won't be i want to see what some of our trends will be coming here at the end of the year and early next year to
017really give a good shot at the cash flow but we'll be able to start that in january again of course february 1 is our account date again so that'll be a lot of adjustments after that count day so but we can play something out based off the trends any other questions all right we'll move on to personnel under resignation we have laura norman paraprofessional at metro elementary katie singleton paraprofessional at southwood high school knows this semester under employment joel nessler robotics coach at southwood elementary amber bretzmann and kevin brensman robotics coaches in southern illinois i'm sorry sharp these are all sharp creek elementary because it's um anthony sword sharp creek elementary boys basketball fifth grade and trent osborne boys basketball intern at norfolk high school and chad weiger custodian at norfolk high school under the
018leave we have number 1 30 and we see the dates of when that leave starts and we will return i'll move to improve the hr report yeah have a voice in a second to approve hr is read all right that's not here so no harmless center report superintendent's report yeah i just want to uh thank excuse me excuse me thank all of uh msd of wabash county um our united fund campaign finished up again this year and actually we have a new all-time high of six thousand one hundred and forty two dollars so that's a great collection and i think uh overall in a county actually being on the united fund board i'll find out a little bit better but i think that's very high compared to a lot of different districts and just thank
019all of the principals mr snyder kind of oversees the beginning part of that we have some different incentives but then also we just have a lot of caring uh giving people to the united fund so again six thousand one hundred forty two dollars raised by our our staff so that's what all i had tonight you know curriculum and instruction report mr gray yeah we the state releases data that's sometimes long after the fact and so they finally released irie data so i shared with you our internal numbers but now i can you made a comparison and so i emailed you that which might be able to show that yeah because sometimes numbers don't really well i would say it the other way sometimes numbers really jump out we have a chance to compare it to
020how their area should be so um of course we don't live and die by these but we're always good um indicators uh and our evidently our live stream keeps coming in and out and so we want to apologize to our viewers but that's the most it's the best we got so there must be some internet issues going on and this is irie the third graders take it across the state there wow nice to go so uh the state average went down quite a bit it's usually in the upper 80s but that was probably due to a lot of the uh virtual students right from last april so there's been a real push to try to correct those um unfortunately we were able to stay in session and so we feel like that had that too
021so so i often say to you hey i'm going to show you this data later on so finally thank do you think because we're in school that's why we're not retired i think there's a part of that for sure but i think i mean you know i always like the kind of teachers on the back of my hand and the families and the kids like that's kind of it's a group effort for sure but i i would say that certainly played an impact on the state average um and probably other local schools as well you know i just read another forgiveness quote the source board but in the article today said hey yo i'm stating what you already know and being out of school did not help people here's the research we had to do
022to get this to make here really you know some of the numbers are last year again and um obviously we had a lot of quarantine days last year but on the other hand as far as the virtual days we had 118 students that started virtual last year and we ended up with only like 24 25 students and so that certainly kept them in even though sometimes they had to be quarantined at least they were in for the majority of the school year whereas there's a lot of other schools around that had a lot more a lot higher percentage a lot more students that were virtual so you know mr drake is correct as far as are people um really doing what they need to do uh to get them to where they need to be
023but on the other hand being in school obviously helps a lot don't you you thought we wasn't a good effort i don't know if remediation is the right term or not but trying to lift up the ones that are struggling absolutely to three especially we're we are very focused on trying to get reading skills to those kids as much as we can there's a lot of staffing involved with that there's a lot of staff that work to do that but we certainly make that a goal yeah that's huge i know i know my son that's my youngest first grade they kind of tagged him as okay he needs to work a little harder in six weeks he was back to where he needed to be and probably but it just took that little time to
024recognize hey you need to work on this he went into a different little class with somebody and [Music] then he just sailed from there so that works yeah for sure for sure and you can't show them well he will when he becomes a teenager recommendation to approve the 2022-2023 msd school calendar and you might have seen the email that i had but one thing we try to do is we look at the heartland career center schools the five member schools and also always miami program we actually this year i gave this to them in september to see if we could try to do the best that we could to make it consistent with each other but it's very difficult because people have their own understanding of what the calendar should look like and so this
025is what we landed on them a little bit different than the last few calendars but the teachers will have a one and a half uh day work day at the beginning of this calendar year uh we have 183 calendar contract days and so one day is at the end of the year uh half a day is for parent-teacher conferences and then um at the beginning of the year there'll be one and a half so that constitutes the three other days for their contract to make up 183. so we'll start on the 10th labor day is the same fall breaks the same thanksgiving's the same christmas is a little bit different this year as far as where christmas falls not this year but next year 2022 and so we will go that monday tuesday and then
026have still literally two weeks off and then come back on the fourth of january to be a little more consistent with the county too we will have martin luther king day and also president's day and then you can see that spring break and everything else falls in line with what we've done in the past so i would like to recommend that you approve this calendar for 2022-2023 and if you want me to talk about the next one too you'll need to come together of course with white's going to school four days a week um so it goes pretty much all all year a little bit off in july you can see that it's it's very similar to what we've had before so there's not really any any changes uh to what they've done in the
027past so again i'd recommend both of these calendars for 2022-2023 is recommended motion a second to approve mr keyboard's recommendation for the 2022 2023 calendars for msd and for whites all purposes all right [Music] okay next we have a recommendation to approve the senior class trip for norfolk to boston and as you know they have traditionally gone to new york of course code would change that so they went to florida last year excuse me and then this year recommending going to boston so it's always been a good trip um and i would anticipate this being a good trip also should they take in the sponsor better get in there to approve the northbound senior class trip to boston in march all thursday all right okay we have no unfinished business or policy we don't have
028anything public comment for anything okay move on to item two board numbers anything okay [Music]