001let's stand and say the Pledge please Al to the flag of the United States of America and to theic for it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all hey I'd like to welcome everybody and anybody that's watching online hopefully we get through this Co stuff pretty soon and make you start coming back here to watch them or should invite you back to watch them that way it's one more polite um so future board meetings March 9th and 23rd here uh no that's right March 9th is the awards Bank supposed to be at five o' and is it still say five on yours yeah or six it's supposed to be five 6 here and that you say that I remember it's at 5 o' at Hy we changed it but I don't
002know why it's not going change so that we can be there for is it here yes it's here okay all right I remember we talked about that last year but it's still the last I knew we said some IND code follow our so let me see if I can say this straight now March 9th 5:00 P pm here is our next meeting March 23rd at 6 PM two weeks after that uh will be our regular meeting here and then also April 13th at 6 pm here uh we have no revisions to the agenda so we'll hop right into the public rec recognition have a recommendation to approve the donation of 165 books estimated value of $1,600 from United Fund for Southport Elementary and Metro North Elementary pre prek and kindergarten classes also have a recommendation
003to approve $500 Anonymous donation for Northville Athletics recommendation to approve a $35 donation from Kathy Gman for Southwood High School prom recommendation to approve an $1,800 Grant from Early Learning Indiana comeback stronger fund supported by Lily end elment and a recommendation to approve donor's Choice grant for Mrs herrings kindergarten class at Metro North Elementary for stem materials the estimated value for for that is $372 186 and before you asked for a motion to approve all this um Mrs Mo do you want to share a little bit about the process with the uh Grant from the early learning Indiana comeback stronger fund and how um you doubled that doubled your money I know and in the fall we wrote a grant to Early Learning Indiana for little our little Norse and received I believe we wrote
004our grant for about ,000 and they decided to give us 20 which I have no problem sending that um and then this because we received that Grant in their round one last fall we are eligible to apply for round two funding for a grant as well um we were approved up to $99,000 for that grant funding so of course my proposal was right up to $9,000 and when we got our letter last week um our email was for awarding so we will gladly use that money um our intent is that we will purchase additional furniture and materials for our threes um so that we'll have some new things for those class rooms that are specific for little people very nice it's exciting yeah I'm move Todd we accept and everything else that was presented second
005a motion in second to approve all of the nominations that were previously read all in favor say I opposed okay School recognition I'll let uh Mr key Faber yeah thank you we will start with uh Mr Martin um to share his you recognitions for Shark Creek Elementary you probably saw that I highlighted them on the document is that highlight on yours yeah it's so that I can read this really little all right I didn't realize how small my phone had got we are excited at Sharp Creek because we have two robotics teams that have qualified for State uh and that state competition will be on the 6th of March it's a it's going to be a virtual competition of some type I don't know exactly likely someone else does um but we're excited as far
006as I'm told this is the first time sharp cre has had two teams qualify in the same year and so we'd like to recognize not only Amber and Kevin bretzman who are the coaches and these two sets of teammates so team a is Kiana bretzman kha Duba Ashlin Macy and E mckill and then also Team B Nate Hodson Preston Moore Gavin Lester brayen gidley Cole Hemingway mine Holly and Stella Ste so very pleased uh Mrs bretzman took on a new challenge with this was very willing to be a part and uh and we every time I talk to them it's just about progress they're they're really excited about progress so good for them good for the kids all right well thank you now we'll go to Mr MCD voice thank you favor um want to
007start by just thanking Barry Boer for all the great work he does with our students at whs um bar was recently out for about two and a half weeks with uh covid-19 and he was never hospitalized but he was in pretty bad shape for a while and not that I didn't appreciate him before appreciate him but one of the things that's really cool about Barry is U he has a way of interacting with our students that u a lot of our students are are used to at least in their mind being disrespected by adults and and Barry has a way of communicating with them that that communicates them tremendously and gives them Room to Grow Barry's just fantastic I cannot say good things about bar does a super job for us and then I wanted
008to recognize three students Mia W Desmond S and bton B you know sometimes I think we forget that uh you just arriving to school putting your head down and getting to work is a is a characteristic that a lot of our kids struggle with and those three kids have certainly exemplified themselves in coming toool getting their work done uh being a positive role model for the other kids around and so just wanted to recognize those three kids for some really good all right thank you very much and we switched out that is not Mrs Boon back there that's Mrs Moore so we'll have Mrs Moore from Metro North go ahead and share recognitions um we also have our two robotics team that have first and it's metr first for us we've been close in the
009past and have come up just a few points shy of qualifying for State um this year both of our teams will compete on the six so congratulations to James sloes Charlotte Harrington Liam King Andrew Beal meline F rer mckillop Jackson renb Cheyenne Wells Elijah Andis um a couple weeks ago it seems like months ago but I think that's because of all of our extra e-learning days in there but I had a great grand parent who babysits her great grandson after school that called me um and we had a wonderful conversation she was calling to let me know that there had been a transportation issue so then I take a deep breath and she then goes on to tell me um that her great-grandson gets off at the library stop in Rowan and Miss Wendy is
010the bus driver and she pulled up let kids off and that Miss Wendy had noticed that there was an odd vehicle in the parking lot there at the library and she watched as her great grandson you know went on his way what wound up being the great grandson's Grandpa yes I that right the great the grandpa who had driven down to pick him up from the bus stop but usually he walks down or great grandma walks down to pick him up but wheny watched stopped traffic and waited to make sure that that was indeed someone knew the vehicle and keeping an extra watchful eye and she um the great grandmother said you know I I know now I never have to worry he's a kindergartner so throw that in there as well um and she
011said I know now that I don't have to worry that he's in great Caring Hands and just was very appreciative of Lindy and all of our bus drivers do that we get calls in the afternoon can you call and make sure that so and so is home because there's not a vehicle in the driveway um they just watch those things and when it's little ones it's it's important that we know that they're going home to a safe place um also un Transportation I again it it wasn't last week but it was the week before Laris W's bus broke down near Amy and Andy eid's home and um the E's opened their home for those kids to come inside so they didn't have to sit on that cold bus and wait for a replacement vehicle to
012come and I had you know a first grader who's a little bit of a worrier say you know I didn't know how we were going to get to school she's in tears at met nor just didn't know how we were going to be school and what we were going to do and how we were going to miss lunch and the breakfast and and then the E came out we got to go in the house and everything was fun and so I don't when I talked with Amy I don't think she had any idea how much that little bit of hospitality meant to a six-year-old but it was everything to them I just think it's it's simple things like that but they didn't think anything of it that is important for our community Andes so um
013my last one is just thank you to Amy Schmidt and Erica Tyson they did an amazing job running the Wes County robotics league and without their hard work and their organization and their communication we would not have had a really a robotic season so we just really appreciate been going above and beyond the coaching duties to organize that that event it was four four Friday nights um that you know all 12 robotic teams in the county pretty much invaded s out so that they could robot and do their thing thank you thank you and I have the opportunity to go ahead and share from other principles and directors so first of all from Andrew McDaniel uh southa Junior Senior High School would like to recognize the students who auditioned for and made it to the
014Indiana All State Choir um all five of the students who auditioned made it to into the choir because of the pandemic the number of participants participants was reduced from 250 to 150 the southw had the most students in this area make it to the choir this area includes six counties these students are is King cage du boy Caitlyn rank Lindsay Silvers and Isabelle Davis uh the students will perform on June 4th in Carmel congrats to our students and congratulations for Mrs keford for her leadership and instruction and just to let you know typically those students who actually audition a lot of times they don't make it and so she has taught for many many years in another school district now in our school district and said this is the first time that she really remembers
015that all of the students who um audition actually made it so all five did so congratulations to them and then moving forward we will go to Mr Snider uh congratulations to North girls basketball team on a great season the team won the TRC section or Regional and had a tough loss of course at semi State thanks to the players and coaches and congratulations on a great season he also says congratulations to Grant Dale on TRC and sectional Championship Grant swims at the state meet and indy this Friday good luck to Grant at the state meet and congrats on a great season this is the second year that he has participated in the State uh meet basically the preliminaries are on Friday and then if he um does well then he can go ahead and uh
016swim on Saturday norfield excited announced that Grant Dale's work quarantine much was selected as one of the five uh American Visions nominees for this year this means that out of 1,410 Total Works entered into the region the Grant's work is one of the five best of show Works chosen to represent our region at the national level at the national level one will be selected as the American Visions medalist so Grant has a one in five chance of winning the American Division medal at Nationals Grant's work will be featured on the title wall of the ex exhibit and receive special recognition during the virtual award ceremony on February 14th which is our passed congratulations Grant and thank you art teacher Adam zel for all he has done for the support of the artist at NHS and
017since we have the technology here I will just show you what he did and so Grant Dale quarantine much gold key there so um as a swimmer I don't think he did that underwater I think he did our class but um very talented to do what he does uh in the pool congratulations I have some more here so that one uh NHS had two teams qualified for the Indiana Vex robotic state remote skills Championship we talked about those before but the competition will be held remotely on March 6 good luck to team members seventh grade Mason Lions Logan Lions Neil long e8th grade Hank gray Luke hper and also Conor Dillingham I still have some more uh Mrs Boon for the car program would like to recognize josanna Korn academic advisor to our car students
018for the extensive amount of time and organizational efforts has taken to plan IEP testing for our Juniors and seniors residing throughout the state of Indiana with the interruption of weather and covid we've been able to push forward and meet with over 100 students throughout the state and the task is not yet complete we're still rolling much of our ability uh to complete this incredible lift is due to Mrs Korn's Advanced preparation communication with every individual student and parent Guardians months this uh in advance and her ability to organize and mobilize our team to meet the task we sincerely appreciate her leadership and hard work and ensuring that students are able to meet this piece of graduation requirement so think about that doing the testing not just in our schools but traveling across the state of
019Indiana and she has another thing that she would like to to um mention the car program would also like to extend appr appreciation to our Juniors and seniors as well as their parents and Guardians for their time and efforts it took to participate in the IEP many of our students and parents made multiple adjustments to the work schedules and sacrificed time and finances ensure our students ared at the regional test sites throughout the state we're extremely grateful for and proud for their efforts and commitment their child's education additionally we had key community members in Johnston County and Huntington County who open their doors to our students and allowed our team to set up test sites despite the concern of Co Natalie uh failure and her team at Boys and Girls Club of Johnson County and
020Jan Williams at the Huntington County Youth Service Bureau have become key partners with our school district throughout the month of February to the foreseeable future by opening their doors creating exceptional testing environments and host hosting our MSD car students in their academic Pursuits much gratitude from the car team to our parents students and Regional partner Community Partners and I do know that um Jan Williams she does help us a lot with um our prevention we talk prevention for drugs um in the classroom she's the one that has organized a lot of the Elementary programs in the past so that's that Mr Boon congratulations our robotics teams a tremendous season competing for the first time in local robotics League our final competition last week is where the hardware was up for grabs the red circuit breakers
021fourth grade scored a first place finish in the Teamwork Challenge competition which is automatic State qualifier the circuit kns sixth grade team won the Excellence award automatic State qualifier the top overall award given to a team at a competition the great circuit breakers fifth grade won the design award given to the team that demonstrates great engineering design skills we learned yesterday that due to their High ranking in the state for the skills scores for the season the great circuit breakers and the circuit bites third grade and also earn invitations to the Vex robotic state championships this virtual event will take place on March 6 like you've heard many times tonight all four teams finished with in the top 62 teams out of nearly 175 in the state with their skills ranking we are extremely proud
022of their hard work determination and teamwork oriented attitudes of our all of our robotic students congratulations to our coach Mrs Erica Tyson Mrs Amy Schmidt and Mr Dan Wright as well it's great to have that many of them let me see if I missed any M North or yours I make sure I don't miss any and I think that's it Mr great to have all those recognition yeah a lot of Great accomplishments moving on to the public comment agenda items only portion I think I skipped that last time give anybody an opportunity I will say that Mrs Schmidt is watching and she wanted to thank Mrs Mo for the kind words nothing else all right we're going to move on to the con consent agenda items we need uh approval for the minutes of our
023last regular meeting I approve I move to approve the minutes second a motion at second to approve the minutes from our last meeting all in favor say I iOS claims Chris on page 124,000 yes that is the U that is the intercom uh systems that were updating replacing the alarm systems in all of the buildings um and that was going to be paid mostly out of the cops grant that we were awarded that $345,000 gr so that's just continued payments for the work that's been done I had one just because I'm new I had seen that the snow removal was a big ticket is it usually it's that much well it it lot depends on how much they've come in and plowed for that period of time Salt sometimes they just come and do salt
024just kind of depends on what Steve asked them to do and obviously this has been a very unusual year I think there was one time we spent for the whole year there was one time we spent for the whole year is almost like $70,000 in snow guess we could bring the kids in Just shovel [Music] can I move to approve claims second motion and second to accept claims all in favor say I I clst payroll not much new with payroll just some um end of winter season sport claims will start filtering [Music] through motion and second to approve payroll all fa say hi Financial summary so this is the education fund so the cash flow obviously we've only had one month of actual so this is kind of our first look at a projected amount
025uh through the year and obviously this is not something that's set in stone it's a fluid document that will change as information changes and um for example this current document uh reflects estimated costs based off Trends and current teacher contract obligations uh the expenses do not reflect any potential wage increase at this point in time Revenue reflects SME returns based off of past Trends uh the basic Grant revenue does reflect 2020 ADM and December special ed ADM counts uh and Carries those throughout the year so some other things that will come up that will cause some of those numbers to change uh from the revenue side is uh 202 21 February ADM count numbers uh and then next month we'll I'll have to submit an estimated ADM account uh for July through December expenditures and
026then we'll have the September actual ADM counts uh that will all play a role in what's factored the other thing that's important to realize and understand with this is that this is a legislation by uh bud Bud year so they'll put out a twoyear budget uh which will impact how much dollars schools will get so that could also play an impact and role on um those actuals as well I believe the house has ran one scenario of what their budget would look like for schools and it would see us seeing about a I think it was just over a $50 increase per kid so better than nothing as long as we're not going backwards the state then it will go to the Senate the Senate will make their revisions it'll go through probably a couple
027different times and then they'll have a final approval of what that would look like there's still time to go backwards there is to go backwards that is true you see the foolishness of the government 1.9 trillion relief under discussion and they have education in there for 2022 and 2023 I just wonder if i' ever make it here as far as what dollars make it here from the federal side yeah I A lot of times when we get federal dollars there's a lot of different restrictions and use for them our hands are a lot more tied than when they come directly from the state I doubt that will be passed on to us it'll come directly from the federal government if we were to get dollars which we are about to get a second round of
028care dollars um but we don't know the exact amount yet so that's education and then the other one is the operation same type of Trends there um doesn't reflect you know potential increases in uh expenses or salaries uh Revenue estimates will probably be pretty close to being um those amounts they won't be exact obviously but it'll be those will be a lot closer to Target just because we know what our tax dollars what we potentially should be receiving from our tax dollars so there's that and like I said we'll adjust that every month uh um and bring that to you guys just so you can kind of keep track of you know the ups and downs of cash flow out of those two funds any questions okay with no other questions we'll move on to
029Personnel under resignation we have Jenny Wilson cafeteria manager at M North Elementary and that's effective tomorrow retirement Joy edling eding I'm sorry uh teacher at Northfield effective at the end of the year Kathy steel retirement custodian at Northfield High School uh Northfield Junior High wrestling coaches Scott Pennington head coach Eric Kirtland and Ed shenfield assistant coaches Northfield coaches for the spring Brandon Baker head softball Melissa Allen Rick Brewers Jordan Scott Kyle France Gary oh and Kyle France are all assistant softball coaches Gary Hunter is a volunteer softball coach as well as Jordan Eckman Tory Schaefer head baseball coach Stan Cox assistant baseball coach Greg Tomlinson andlinger are also assistant baseball coaches Ryan sroof Junior High track Cody McClure Junior High Head Golf Aaron Shaw volunteer assistant Junior High Golf Troy bear volunteer assistant Junior High
030Golf was it Ty Ty I'm sorry sorry Ty Colin Daws Head Golf coach Matt bur burkart assistant baseball Adams Weevil head track Scott Hopper volunteer assistant track Christa Hoover assistant track Jenner halderman assistant track Marian milm Head tennis and Casey Dyson assistant tennis and then on Southwood coaches for the spring Carl Pace head softball Gary Maran and Chad Lambert and Joe Goan assistant softball Cynthia Bell Head tennis Gary Dale Head B uh boys golf Devon Dale assistant boys golf Brad Wright Junior High Golf Ron Houston assistant Junior High Golf Warren Dy head baseball Dalton Gentry assistant baseball Cory blocker assistant baseball Danny Lloyd assisted baseball and Zach ball assistant baseball and I'm feeling old because of one of those baseball coaches was a little leag team that I coached and if I can just mention
031Joy Edie we appreciate what she's done for us she hasn't been uh with us a long time she came to us from the Fort Wayne Community Schools but uh she came to us a nice job and wish her well as she retires at the end of the school year I'm SL oh okay okay we have a motion in second to approve person Allens red all in favor say I I okay reports Heartland career center mat you got anything this time yes we do uh we approved the school calendar and sometimes that's a challenge because you got five schools and they all don't find up but North Miami MSD and w are all pretty close together it's Manchester and K have different breaks and so on but it works out uh makes it tough for them
032to schedule they would like a state calendar for everybody any way there's no changeing it um we approved IV Tech adult industrial maintenance class at Heartland we don't charge them for space because we borrow some of their space um for those for adults so that's something if somebody in the community wants that that'll be there U they applied for Perkins Grant uh $75 to $100,000 and the idea is for a new certification for the ACT class and what they're trying to do is get a drone produ and that's pretty neat they think that drone would cost 50 Grand and they would get to learn how to drive that and it actually sprays wow um beex has one down there they showed us that that's pretty neat also next year they're going to have a basic
033emergency medical technician class for kids wanting to go into EMTs and stff like that so that's kind of exciting and that's it that's pretty neat stuff they get that Grant you get that other one this EMT class and they'll be much like the CDO class that superintendent report yeah I have several but they'll go pretty quickly just a covid-19 report our quarantine list as of today was um only 12 students so obviously that's much better has been Progressive progressively getting better um our new guidance of course um our county is yellow 1.0 so that means that we can have 50% in our buildings as far as uh activities um you know games things like that of course our winter season's almost over we're going to be outside um but then also 100 at a gathering
034so we are just still discussing things like graduation and prom and all those fun things at the end of the year for our high school students also just want to thank Cole white um he's one of our msdwc Advocates but obviously he also um oversees the superintendent of the W County highway department we've been in contact a lot the last week for some reason um but they try to do a lot of things uh and the re resources obviously are limited so I appreciate all the things and the communication he's done for us to help that out whenever we call for certain specific things um he definitely directs those other people to get where they need to be to make sure we have better situations going on so and just to give you a little
035update with our uh our rise programs that we have typic right now we have three classrooms we have one teacher that You' have already accepted his retirement BR misson at the end of the school year uh but we are looking at servicing our uh own MSD students and so right now we would have five students in elementary so we're going to change that program from a k to three building um I'm G start over here yeah K through yeah K through three and a four five6 make it a k through six program and then we'll continue to have a 7 through 12 program and then also along those same lines U with preschool uh just to give you an update um threeyear olds right now that have um applied uh to be south of Elementary
03613 students for the four year olds we have 14 students um and then at Metro North we have 11 registered and then 37 registered for the four-year-old program and so we still have some time here through um middle of March to continue with looking at that um I learned just want to let you know that um I went ahead and signed off along with several other superintendents uh in Northeast Indiana on behalf of MSD uh to um just share our thoughts as far as not having I learn this year because of all the situations we are much um we have a better situation at MSD because we don't have as many virtual students and things like that but there's still a lot of quarantine that went on and so not that we'll make a difference
037but hopefully letters that have been going out to the State House hopefully will help out with that so um just to say this is not the right time we can actually give them data with our nwea most of the school districts in our study Council use that and so we can actually let them know because one reason why they want iearn is they want to know what learning loss has occurred because of covid-19 we can give them that information because we already have the data instead of using so much other testing time instead of having instruction time um and also going along with that H um house build at 10:5 which you continue to hear about pass through the house going to the Senate um uh I went ahead and talked with both legislators um
038house representative snow and Senator Z about um about not wanting them to vote for that um and a lot of other people have done that at some point we may want to do a resolution if I can talk to you more about that later and then just to give you an update uh for our community and for everyone our ADM count uh from Fall to Spring is up we're up 50 students um and so that's very good we appreciate that and all the work that every everybody does to make that happen um and one thing that Dr mentioned as far as different numbers we were down this year on our December count um with special education uh a lot of that has to do with the car program because of fewer students um at the
039beginning but anyway that's that does affect the cash flow not neily the cash flow I guess it does but it it changes what we receive from the state so that is good news there and I believe that's all I just want to some quick updates just to clarify they're going to increase it because we've got more students do they two different things here so we have we get monies for um the actual counts for September and February so that will increase but then December 1st is a special education count since those numbers were lower that will be decreased then that part of those monies will be decreased and then we also get the monies through Harland C Center and that's all based on enrollment too for first semester only though they have to enrolled in
040first semester anything second semester we don't get M for those okay curriculum report I just want to Echo that we have 12 robotics teams that qualify for state and that's really pretty impressive that's 12 of the 14 and uh we hosted other schools around the area who didn't have any of those and so that's off to all our coaches in this time to keep student interest and to keep pushing on on that so I'm very impressed with that um all the board members should have received something uh inviting them to March 9th our academic awards banquet so hopefully you guys can make that uh we try to alternate speakers um alumni that have gone on to do prestigious things um and we're going to double it up though so for those of you keeping track
041last year it was going to be Lieutenant Colonel Chris ker from Southwood um but he's having some things out going on in his life and where he's at with his job and the base and whatever that he couldn't come and so and last year of course he was going to talk but it was contr that mess um So Lisa Duncan who is now Lisa Streeter dentist downtown has accepted graciously the chance to come speak and so she'll be our guest speaker Mar and I was supposed to remind you too if you could get your rvps in possible with cash or check or money order whatever included we take cash also and that's out for the board meeting yes so March 9th 5 o'clock here 5 o' here then we will finish up and we will
042go to Honeywell Center Legacy Hall at 6:30 yes that's right all right so we'll move on to new business uh real short on our new business we have a recommendation to approve going to one meeting meeting each in our April April 4th will be just the uh April is the four not April 4th but April is the fourth Tuesday only um in June we go the second Tuesday only October the second Tuesday only and in December the second Tuesday as well so uh April June October and December will be one meeting per those months and really only thing different than what in the past sometimes October and December we only have one sometimes in October this year we did have two so it's really mainly just adding two more months and those are strategically placed
043based on different schedules not schedules but um calendar so hopefully you've had a chance to look at that I move to approve that schedule motion and second to approve the new schedule for those for months going to one meeting per those months all in favor say I I we have no unfinished business no board policy now we'll wait for a second and let it catch up for public comment for any item not just any agenda item draw back to those kind of back one the new guys are getting to they'll have training [Laughter] uh Brian Ridgeway pointed out that success build success I he's referring to our robotics teams so I think he was complimenting their success there and I'd say that's the only comment okay um no items from board members okay we're jour