001ratification public meeting in our regular meeting for Wednesday November 13th 2024 we'll start off by opening up with our ratification public meeting Dr Brown yes I am going to um read the agreement between MTA and the board so create a tiered Mentor ECA system as as follows a mentor leader for 1,000 Mentor level one mentoring a teacher with over 5 years of experience but new to the corporation $250 Mentor level two mentoring a teacher with less than five years um a new to the corporation for a $500 stien and Mentor level three mentoring teacher going through Bloom board or a transition to teaching program for a stien of $750 also creating Dramatics evening programs for the junior high sixth grade two positions for $100 7th grade two positions for $100 eighth grade two positions for
002$100 adding Elementary Unified sports two positions at $518 removing the high ability coordinator from the scale because it's going to be paid through a grant adding the E coordinator one position for $650 adding a high school assistant swim coach for the boys and girls team um adding $234 to their entire pool for $ 4,832 is the total for their assistance dual credit $518 per person not per class compensation which is in appendix a we're addressing compression for years 1 through 20 as presented by our Administration with an average increase to the base of 3.3% and you can see the attached compression plan teachers with 21 plus years will get the average increase of $1,811 added to their base which is the average of all the increases and you again you can see that attached in
003the compression plan additionally all teachers will receive a $1,500 stien on top of those base increases for adding language to put deadlines into Lane change notifications so the first deadline is the first teacher day in August and the second deadline is the first teacher day in January for them to change lanes updating appendix A1 with the following note at the bottom A1 is used in instances where there are no teachers already employed with comparable experience in education SI day donation adding language um to allow unused sick days to be donated to the sick sick Bank upon retirement Insurance appendix B insurance premium holiday language will be added that explains how a premium holiday will be implemented in the event the school corporation's health insurance provider declares an insurance premium holiday in addition the school corporation
004has picked up the 2% premium increase in their health care costs so asking the board to approve um those changes okay thank you Dr Brown is there any public comment on the master teacher contract okay seeing none we'll move on to the vote entertain a motion to approve the collective bargain agreement with the Madison Teachers Association make a motion we approve 24103 with a motion do I have a second I'll second with a motion in the second is there any discussion see no discussion on signify by saying I I I any opposed motion passes okay at this point in time we will adjourn the ratification public meeting and call to order our regular meeting before we start I'd like to have a moment of silence in memory of former MCS board member Deborah dorton who
005recently passed away thank you I ask each of you to join me in the Pledge of Allegiance if you would please I 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 liy and justice for all thank you okay we have a couple of special recognitions tonight uh the person will be a seetal certification which is a certified education technology leader and if I have a representative from seed here could you step forward okay I'm a little shorter so um hi my name is Cassie Goin I'm a board member at the Indiana CTO Council which is the Indiana um Wing or branch of the um National Organization called Ken um which is the Consortium for school networking and Ken's purpose
006and our purpose in Indiana here is really to uh support Chief technology officers directors of technology and one of the ways that we've been doing that as an Indiana Board is um supporting and um providing professional development learning um to our Indiana Tech directors and CTO and one way we're acknowledging that and able to recognize them is through them taking the seetal examination and passing it and we like to come and talk a little bit about what that looks like I'll pass it off to Nick for him develop to develop that a little bit more um but we are super proud to honor Josh today with this certification thank you for your time tonight um the cedal certification has only been earned by a few Tech directors in the state and I'm a education technology
007director in Columbus Indiana uh also working with the board and state organization um and we just come from a lot of backgrounds so I was a science teacher 10 years ago um and Josh has different backgrounds than me and so does Cassie and education technology is just a little different from everything else so this organization kind of helps ensure that uh we have qualified leaders in these spots and Jos has exemplified that uh he has dedicated himself he has many more years experience than I do um but has continued to learn and grow as an individual um and we're proud to announce that he has earned his cetl certifications I believe it's the first in Madison so help me congratulate him and of course you know we're technology directors but we're giving out paper weights
008for awards um he does get a catification but congratulations thank you for having [Applause] us thank you [Applause] now if I could have Jacob Bay our school safety director to step to the podium please hello and uh thank you for the opportunity this is uh very exciting for me um as a director of safety uh but it wouldn't be possible if it wasn't for the the school board and Dr Brown um youve showed that you put safety as a priority and we're able to put the best practices in place for safety uh so uh starting last year we're able to have an SRO and never building uh this year we amped that up and are covering uh extracurricular activities uh just wherever our kids and students and their families are where we want to be
009present and and be there for them uh so I'm going to um re read a little bit about an incident that recently occurred with uh Travis Conover one of our school resource officers um this is the call for service um log that's from our uh central dispatch um that happened that day so uh kind of setting it up it was October uh 10th Travis Conover um was working in extracurricular event for us um that particular day our soccer sectionals was approximately 4:10 p.m. and special deputy and school resource officer Travis Conover went on duty to work soccer section was at Madison consoled high school at approximately 4:23 p.m. dispatch put a call out to the Madison police department uh to a call on Clifty Drive near the high school they advised that a male subject
010was down in the construction area and CPR was in progress officer Conover wasn't uh sent to that call um it was MPD however he had his radio on he had all the necessary equipment um he knew he was close to the scene and he didn't hesitate uh when Duty called he immediately went and Route and arrived approximately one minute later um knowing he was that close he thought he'd be the first officer on duty and he was uh on scene he exited his Patrol vehicle and got his school issued AED and immediately took action uh at the time construction workers were performing CPR as officer conver set up his AED MPD then arrived and took over CPR with the fire department a Good Samaritan a nurse with in kdh arrived a short time later and
011also assisted um after officer Conover had his ad uh hooked up um it actually delivered um a shock at approximately 428 uh to the male subject and we'll just relate uh to him as male subject uh as a respect for him and his family um this uh regained a slight pulse for approximately 15 seconds before it faded away uh second shock was then given the pulse was reestablished and their able load the subject in the ambulance to receive further medical assistance um we followed up approximately two weeks later um the male subject at that time was back with his family recovering we followed up again this week and he's actually back at work um so just knowing uh whenever you you put on the uniform in the badge um and you never know what that
012next call may be and just knowing hey when the time comes are you there ready to respond uh Travis he'll say it's just part of his duty part of his job but he's answered to call for us time and time again so I can't be thankful enough for having him on our team and just showing once again not only have you gave us a full team of safety officers and sros but giving us the equipment that we need such as a school issued AED at all times so that's how we were able to put that into use and to save a life so just uh can't can't thank you and you all enough thank [Applause] you and uh real quick uh Sheriff Flint was going to be here tonight um the award he has won't
013be in until next week so he'll be getting a life saving award at that time and tonight he's getting a making a difference award [Applause] okay I'd like to ask our Deputy Elementary School principal Miss Kathy Stoner to accept voting please welcome thank you for asking us to come tonight to speak about our school Deputy Elementary I'm I brought several of my staff members with me today because as you know we can't do what we do on a daily basis without a team of dedicated professionals it takes all of us to be able to do what we do so I appreciate them coming with me tonight yes this summer when I was getting ready for a new school year knew I wanted to do something positive to start um the new school year so that
014the students or the teachers sorry would have less stress have a positive outlook and maybe have a focal point and so I decided we needed to come up with a mantra and so the Mantra we came up with is upward and together I chose upward because that's what we're always trying to do as Educators we're always trying to move upward looking for growth that's what we're doing as a district right now as we're aligning our arrows um to to try to make education for all of our students Equitable across the board uh so upward just means that we're advancing I also chose together because I wanted the teachers to remember that they were in this together that even though there would be times of stress or uncertainty that we were all there together especially with
015our professional learning communities that they would have a community of Educators that would be there helping them along so when we have our staff meetings or we have um presentations I always CL include our Mantra upward and together the teachers like to add and chocolate so we often say upward and together with chocolate because we all know that chocolate makes everything better so I wanted to talk about a few things tonight that's kind of unique to our school and one of those things is our basketball league and our cheer program our basketball league and our cheer program is ran completely by our parents it's available able to our parents because you know we are some distance away from town and so it's nice when they come home from work that they have a close place
016to take their students to play basketball basketball or to participate we have 22 cheerleaders that are in our program ranging from PK to fifth grades we have 71 basketball players and coaches our league started on November 1st it will run every Friday night until December 13th as I stated our basketball program is ran completely by our parents with numerous volunteers I need to give a shout out to Ashley shudy for parents Square she's worked really hard to get that pushed out on our Corporation and this is one of the ways we can make sure that our basketball program runs smoothly I asked the basketball president what volunteers that she needed to run the program each Friday night I created that on parents square and we shared it out and every week we have those volunteer
017positions filled by our parents in addition to our basketball league we also have a t-ball program and a softball league in the summertime it again is ran by our parents with their t-ball and softball board with parents and volunteers are from the community who are part of that board depending on the summer we have anywhere between 150 to 200 kids that participate in that program and up to 20 volunteers and this is a picture of our basketball or not basketball our baseball field that's just up past our basketball gym another thing I was excited to talk about today was our club days and I'm going to have our stem coach Jennifer colen come and talk about that all right good evening um last year a deputy decided to introduce Club days um and the idea
018behind Club days is to carve out some intentional time during the school day to allow students to experience different um stem fields or fine art types of fields um in the form of a club last year we kind of set it up in a station rotation model and we decided to do some improvements with that this year um and the students had choice in which club interests um were more most personal to them so they each filled out um kindergarten through fourth grade each student filled out a form and selected their top three um choices and then we placed them into groups um again K through for mixed groups with a staff member um who was also interested in that club um so again it's kind of carved out during the school day we plan
019on having four of these throughout the school year um and students can switch clubs each time if they choose um but it was a big hit the students were very excited that they got to choose what um was important to them um we had the baking club was a huge hit they actually were able to make enough um treats to serve to the entire School population the next day so they was a lot of Pride there um and then of course listed um there was a a really good variety um and I think every student left um with a lot of excitement and there was a lot of enthusiasm from the staff too because they were able to really put into their personal interest into the kiddos so thank you to add on a little
020bit about about what Jacob said about having SRO in our building I think that's a fabulous thing this picture was taken by a parent of mine in the carrier line she took it the morning after there was another school shooting in another state and she stated that she was so glad that we had officer Shan Stein there because she felt comfortable with leaving her student that day and as you can see numerous parents also talked about how much it means that he's there and they feel comfortable with their students and their safety he's not only there though for the safety he's also there for the mentorship he has really developed strong relationships with our kids it's been really neat to see we even have some little kids that you know sometimes in the morning they
021don't really want to leave their mom and dad but if officer Shan Stein goes to the car they'll get out for him because you know I guess he's way cooler than some of us are I also wanted to talk a little bit about our celebration of learning several years ago we stopped having Awards day at the end of the year and we decided to have Awards day four times a year one of the reasons why we do that is because that gives the students multiple times to earn an award so if they don't get an award they want first nine weeks they have three other nine weeks to try to earn that so with the help of our Deputy fire and rescue and um they have provided US money so that we could give the
022students brag test tags so as you can see in the picture all the students have a necklace and on the necklace are the tags that they have earned either for academics for attendance or maybe for a club they have joined all the students have at least two tags they'll have a birthday tag or they'll have a tag that indicates what house or what team they are on in deputy and I have a teacher that's going to talk a little bit more about that in a few minutes so they hang displayed in the classroom so they can proudly see of all the work they've done that year and then on Wednesdays they get to wear their brag tags during the school day throughout the presentation today you're going to see some examples of those brag tags
023and when the students can earn those Megan McVey who is our first and second grade math teacher is going to talk a little bit about our Garden Club good evening board thank you so much for having us our Garden Club started last spring and we had 18 students between prek and four sign up and so it was a great turnout for the beginning our plants were donated by the MCS a department and during their recess time the students gave up that time to go out and clean out the beds and get the beds prepared in order to get the seeds planted and I've never seen kids so eager to pull weeds it was great we ended up after that creating a summer signup sheet through parents square and I kid you not it was so
024great to see the turnout we've had great success because every day that we asked for our family to show up they did they showed up and we provided Mrs Stoner and myself provided them with a checklist of all the things that they needed to do and none of our supplies we left it outside our supplies was always there and if they needed something they would reach out and we would replenish it so that was really great to see Upon returning to school our plants started making produce so then during their recess time students went out and they harvested what we had grown and those kids were so excited to go out and pick tomatoes or pick cucumbers or watermelons and what was even better was that they were able then to provide that to their
025fellow classmates during our lunches so our goal again for this year is to reach out maybe even make some more raised beds so we can even increase more of our plants that we plan to produce for the next season and invite more kids to come so thanks again for having us I also want to take a few minutes to kind of give a shout out to my staff and our I learn scores you can see two s on the board the one on the left is from 2023 the one on the right is from 2024 and we are that red dot and that red dot shows how we do compare to other schools with similar demographics of Deputy Elementary you can see from 2023 to 2024 our DOT moved up so we increase in our
026scores we were first percentile and math we are in the fourth percentile for ELA now those were the scores when you compare us to schools that are similar similar to us so how do we look when you compare us to all the schools in the state of Indiana and when compared to all the schools in the state of Indiana we were in the top 2% for math the top 12% for ELA and for students passing math and Ela we were in the top 6% that made us the top performing Elementary School in Jefferson County and we're ranked in the top 40th in the state of Indiana that brings us to our goals and our first goal is attendance because they certainly can't learn if they're not at school and this is one of attendance is
027a difficult goal because we teach elementary age students who they get sick a lot they haven't had time to develop their immune system and you can see in 2018 and 2019 our attendance wasn't too bad but then covid hit and our percentages tanked uh so we've been working working really hard to get those percentages back up and in 22 and 2023 we've been able to increase them but we're still falling short of the 97% so we have several strategies that we try to get the kids to want to come to school uh we have probably four or five teachers or staff members in the morning welcome the students as they get off the bus or get out of the cars we'll play fun music uh we also have seasonal decorations right now we have a
028big turkey outside that they really like the PK students think it's a chicken so the prek teachers have been talking to them about turkeys there's an example of our brag tags as well they can get a brag tag for perfect attendance which is difficult to do because we're talking they didn't miss school nor were they tardy but we also understand that that's going to be difficult for some because you've got doctor's appointment you have sickness or maybe there was a death in the family so we also give an excellent attendance award and that's for students who achieve a 97% for the weeks we continue to do our attend and engage program which is ran by my school social worker and so if she sees a pattern of absences like maybe they're absent every Friday or
029on Monday she'll reach out to the families to see if she can help increase their attendance or maybe their attendance is starting to get a little out of hand and they've missed several days and she'll work with them and come up with a plan to try to increase their attendance our second goal is Ela and I've asked my science of reading teacher amand deer to come and speak about that good evening and yes Kathy owes us lots of chocolate tomorrow yes yes she does so um the state of Indiana along with the literacy Cadre um set a goal for our state that 95% of the students in third grade would pass the I read by the year 2027 so last year Kathy and I sat sat down with my TSS from the state and we
030aligned our goals so aligned our Arrows with the state's goals in order for us to reach that same goal in 2007 or 2027 um as you can see Kathy had already put up there some of our scores um from previous years and these are our grade three and four I learn passing percentages and if you notice the past couple of years they were lower than they were in 24 um I like to think that our teachers collaborating with our coaches not only me but with the stem coach as well um has created the rise in that percentage because teachers working together in the classroom reflecting upon the student data I think really makes a difference some of the strategies to achieve this goal are listed up here um with the science of reading and the
031coaching not only with the science of Reading Coach but with the stem coaches um when we meet for coaching Cycles we actually sit down together with the classroom teachers and we look at the student data and then we plan our lesson and throughout our time together in those Cycles we reflect on the students progress and we monitor that progress throughout our lessons together and at the very end we reflect upon what went well what didn't go well did the students hit their goal if they didn't what interventions need to be presented and and applied and if they did hit their goal how can we enhance or enrich that that learning that's taking place this is going to lead nicely into our PLC time so thank you very much for giving us that PLC time this
032school year to in order for our teachers to have that collaborative time together because during that PLC time they're also going to be asking one another in their groups you know what do we want our students to know how are we going to know that they know it and then what do we do if they don't know it what do we do to accelerate that learning so I think our coaching model has set us up really nicely for those plc's um this slide is just an example of some of the data that we have collected from some of our coaching Cycles together the top um are the preassessment data and the bottom or the post assessment data so if you see the first one there is on um the goal where students will ask and
033answer questions about what they're learning and reading and at the post assessment you see that there is absolutely no red the yellow has has really shrunk and there's more blue and green which is what we want to see in our student learning it really jumped up and and we were super excited and then um this the next goal was students will find author's point and the facts that support the author's point and again the whole part of the pre-assessment was yellow and then by the end of it we had really gotten in some blue so they went and excelled really nicely in those goals so Camille crem my first and second grade ELA teacher is going to come and talk about our interventions and then some of our reading programs thank you for having me
034tonight thank you a bit taller um yeah so first of all we have interventions which I W was a teacher at deputy and then became an interventionist for a little bit and then kind of got to move into a teaching position again and I love the changes we've made to interventions this year I think pushing our teachers into our classrooms has really taken away the wasted time going up and down the hallway with our students and they're getting a lot of focused intentional time with teachers and small groups um and they're they're showing a lot of growth we're starting to see that in our data and it's really exciting um they're hearing more than my voice which to some is a blessing I think and when we're all using the same language and and teaching
035the same things so again I think that that's part of our success but the interventions have come a long way you can see two Awards students can earn one is honor rooll and that's in the regular Ed room but the Improvement award really allows those to be recognized that maybe they're not exceeding or meeting at everything but they're working really hard in interventions and they're still showing the growth that we want to see so there're still able to earn a brag tag even if we aren't meeting it on honor roll the next slide is about AR and a deputy we love AR because our kids love AR and we have brag tags for that we set a reading goal with each student and it's it's really fun because they're getting excited about learning they're finding
036vocabulary words and showing us things that they've seen in their books that we've talked about in class and uh Mrs Stoner gets them really excited on Monday morning she tells them how many books we've read as a school and how many words we've read and they always are wowed by that huge number for the word count um so they get really excited and then we also reward them in our classrooms when they um pass a test or meet goals and then we also reward them in front of the whole school in the gym so she we will put names in a bucket when they are reading every night and she will draw names out of the bucket and it's like Christmas morning because they get to come down get a coin and they run up
037to our book machine and they put their coin in and pick their book and they get to take it home so um the kids are loving it we're loving it and it's fun to see the excitement that they have as well and one more thing with our books and Bubbles U Mrs Stoner was able to get a bubble machine for her office and you can see a picture of how cool it looks um students came can earn this reward through meeting AR goals and in their classroom but they can also earn it through behavior and when they get picked and they get to do the books and bubbles with Mrs Stoner I can't even make it to the classroom and they're already planning when can I go how long can I stay and it's always
038man I hate that we had to leave so um the students really love it and it keeps them reading so it's academic and they don't even know it they just think they're having fun um so we have that as well Carissa wouse our pk4 teacher is going to come and talk about our house system I am actually our pk3 teacher but that's okay um and I am a house Council sponsor along with Mrs McVey so our house system um contains three houses it's am um Sabio and valeroso go valeroso our house system helps students build community and belonging um foundations through positive interactions that they have and those interactions may be um collecting items for flood victims or angel tree or food drive that we're currently doing for families that may be in need during
039Thanksgiving time um and we also participate in a lot of different activities in all the spirit weeks that we get to do throughout the school year so they get to interact and build those pos positive um relationships through that our third and fourth grade students are eligible to run for our house counsel they have to give a speech in front of their student body and then they also present posters that are hung throughout our school and then they are voted on upon their house um so once they actually are in student council then they um get to make decisions for our student B such as the rewards that they achieve for um the attendance goals and our monthly house competitions which they love doing and that allows them when they do the house competitions it's
040a lot of it's a lot of competition yes but it's a lot of fun and so they um gain mentorship through that and Leadership and it's all the way from pk3 all the way to fourth grade so it's a great way for them to build those skills and take them with them so that is our house wanted to talk a little bit about how Madison Consolidated Schools support our staff and allow them to grow professionally it's something that I think we do a really good job with when I started teaching about 35 years ago at a neighboring Corporation they walked me to my room and said there you go start teaching so let me tell you it was a learning experience and I'm glad that we've come a long way since then and we give
041our teachers more support than that I'm very proud of my staff I have several staff members who have taken advantage of the opportunities that have been presented to them my pk4 teacher that I was um indicated a little bit ago uh Katie who is not here she is in the bloom board par education par educator program where she is working on getting her Elementary license I also have a sped ISP teacher or ISP who is working on um the par educator program in that where she has signed up for a six-week course uh where she can learn how her role at our school can help our special education students R plc's has also been an EXC excellent way for our teachers to grow we've been spending the last 13 weeks working together learning what plc's
042are how they can be effective what roles we'll play in the plc's uh and these are just some of the things that we've done in the last 13 weeks as as the teachers and the staff members have been working towards um implementing our plc's when we come back from winter break uh so they've been learning how their pacing guides and curriculum guides can be good resources during their PLC times they've worked on um the assessment calendar how to set goals for their students um they've also learned how to work collaboratively and how to give feedback and to receive feedback from their colleagues here's an example of one of the activities that we've done during the PLC time just an example of how they're working together to solve a problem giving each other feedback seeing something
043that's not working trying different ways they were given uh spaghetti and marshmallows to build a tall tower and if you know anything about my staff they were very competitive and were wanting me to get out the yard stick to see who actually had the tallest tower but during that time they were building relationships we've worked together for a long time at deputy and so our relationships are strong but relationships have to be cultivated and they have to be supported and so I enjoyed watching the teachers not only get into deep conversations talking out problems coming up with Solutions but I enjoyed watching them have fun and to laugh and I could see that the relationships were growing even stronger which is only going to help the foundation when we start our uh professional learning communities
044in the in the winter I'm going to ask Jennifer to come up one more time to talk about our future plans which involve stem certification all right I'm back again all right so Deputy is making um really great strides to integrate stem um learning for every student um we are in we are on the path to seek stem certification from the state um with our goal is for next year I'll get to that just a minute I kind of skipped ahead sorry um so that is definitely something when we um created the club days that was part of the reason why um is to give students more more of those stem stem exposure stem opportunities um so for this year we have come up with some goals to help get us um closer to that
045um we're going to we're working on creating a district level stem Advisory Board um which will be made up of Staff Administration and Community Partners um we have been doing a lot of coaching Cycles the teachers and I um in order to integrate stem meaningfully um into each curricular um subject lots of science lots of math and some english too so we've been working on um lots of Cycles there one thing we are looking into is um how to increase computer science opportunities for every student we will continue um improving our club Day activities and offering those for students um and and then we're also looking to increase some commun Community Partnerships um through Club days and some other activities as well having some um some community members come and speak as guest speakers or
046help with some of our coaching Cycles as well um we have started a stem curriculum map but we are definitely in early process of working on that um so all of these things which seems like a lot but we're going to work on for our goals this year in order to apply for stem certification in the 2526 school year all right to conclude our presentation tonight Dr Brown wanted us to talk a little bit about our story and I wasn't really sure what I was going to say about that this year but I kept thinking about this picture we took of our whole school and I thought this is our story story our students are our story the experiences they have why they while they're at Deputy is part of our story their achievements they're
047going to earn while they're at Deputy is part of our story and the growth that they're going to achieve is part of our story because after all these students are why we do what we do and why we continue to strive upward and together thank you [Applause] ladies on behalf of the board we really appreciate you being here tonight um I think your passion and dedication came through very clear and our students are very lucky and the deputy Community is very lucky to have you out there uh the numbers don't lie your percentages are on the uptick in the top 40 that's uh that's all great news so we appreciate you being here but most of all we appreciate what you're doing for our kids at a deputy thank you guys very much okay we'll
048move on to the consent agenda 24105 approval of the agenda of the November 13th 2024 regular board meeting 24106 is approval of the minutes of the September 5th 2024 Schoolboard meeting and work session of October 2nd 2024 regular meeting and October 28th 2024 ratification public meeting special board meeting and executive session 24107 approval of claims 24 4 108 approval of financial report 2419 is the approval of construction payment which are as follows Precision construction and Contracting LLC pay app number nine for the tennis courts 71 two is the ton corporation pay app number seven for Cub Industries 25,980 32 and the third one is ETC Systems Incorporated pay app number five Cub Industries 1,425 24110 is the approval of the Personnel Agenda 111.1 addenda of personnel report 24111 is a approval of the grants and
049donations which are as follows Madison Consolidated Schools Liberty Christian Church donated $500 to assist with owed balances on meals Deputy Elementary received um $912 from the lick Branch Baptist Church to be used to fund an all School field trip to the Derby Dinner Playhouse Mike A's LLC donated $200 to be used to support the archery team the Handover flea market donated $200 to be used to support the archery team and Madison Family Dentistry donated $300 to be used to the archery support team or archery team Madison Junior High eln pal donated uh $100 to Esports to the Madison Consolidated High School jws Corporation donated ,000 to the swim team steinhardt restoration LLC Ser proo donated $362 to the football team the shoy family fund donated $50,000 to the growing mines Farm stop Midwest Tu Mills
050LLC donated 10,000 donated $10,000 to the boys basketball team an anonymous donation of $865 to the Athletics and $135 to the boys golf team 24112 is approval of field trips we have a request from Jennifer Cornelius to take 12 High School anchor Club NHS and student council students to participate in the making strides walk in Louisville Kentucky on October 20th 2024 we have an overnight field trip request from Chris sandland High School boys Cross Country Coach to take 11 cross country team members to Shelbyville Indiana October 25th and 26 2024 to compete in the cross country regionals and thirdly we have a request from the Shelby Eis AG teacher to take 10 7th and eighth grade fa a students to the North American International Livestock Expo in Kentucky in Lille Kentucky on November 15 2024
051Dr Brown I recommend that the board approve with one motion and one vote the consent agenda items 24-105 through and including 24-12 as presented entertain a motion to approve the agenda I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda 24-105 through 24-12 thank you Mr store and a second I'll second with a motion to second is there any discussion see no discussion all in favor signify by saying I I any opposed passes public comments no okay move on to the action agenda 24113 School Board election of officers for the remainder of the 2024 calendar year Duty Mr Scott resigning as vice president of the board uh we must elect a new vice president to finish out this year I would uh nominate David story to fill the vice president role which will be vacated your
052secretary role right okay you want a second yes please a second just checking you usually ask so okay we do have a motion a second is there any other nominations seeing none all in favor of David story assuming the vice president role for the r remainder of this year signifi by saying I I the opposed congratulations David vacating the secretary position will I retain a motion to fill the secretary position for the remainder of this year entertain a motion I'd like to make a motion uh secretary Dustin Vince okay is there a second please I'll second with a motion the second is there any other nominations okay see none we'll close all in favor of Dustin b assuming the role of secretary signified by saying I I the opposed Mr V one month and you're
053look at me take notes moving right up the ladder here toward toward the head of the table congratulations thank you 2414 approval of the supplemental pay resolution for teachers contract Dr Brown we are seeking approval of the supplemental pay resolution for the teacher contract the resolutions authorizing MCS to pay the supplemental base payments to the teachers as presented entertain a motion to approve make a motion we approve item 24114 thank you Mr Scott is there a second please I'll second with a motion and a second is there any discussion see no discussion all in favor of approval of 24114 signify by saying I I any opposed motion passes 2415 approval of pay increase and stien for classified hourly classified salaried administrators certified salaried employees and substitutes who meet incentive criteria Dr Brown yeah we are
054requesting ing that the board approve an average increase of 3% to the classified hourly classified salaried administrators and certified salaried employees we were also requesting that some salary adjustments to some individuals and new adjusted pay scales due to equality or Market adjustments and the fair labor standards act f flsa um as presented in your packets we're also seeking approval to give classified hourly classified salar administrators and certified salar employees a one-time stien of $1,500 this stien will be paid as a separate pay on December 12th 2024 substitutes will receive a stien amount based on the number of days they have subbed as of October 31 2024 the stip will vary depending on the number of days um that they have subbed for us so we want to reward um their longevity and work with us
055so asking for those um items to be approved thank you Dr Brown entertain a motion to approve 2415 I make a motion to approve 2415 thank you m hansy we have a motion is there a second I'll second with a motion and a second is there any discussion see no discussion all in favor of approval of 2415 signify by saying I I any opposed 2415 passes thank you 24116 second reading and approval of the following revised MCS policy Dr Brown I'm seeking approval of the following revised MCS policies MCS policy 1520-1730 point0 employment of personnel for extracurricular activities MCS policy 5200 attendance MCS policy 5 34.1 student concussions and sudden Cardiac Arrest MCS policy 5350 student suicide awareness and prevention MCS policy 6320 purchasing MCS policy 75402 web content apps and services MCS policy 8210
056school calendar MCS policy 8452 automated external defibrillators aeds MCs policy 8455 coach training references and ihsaa Reporting MCS a poli policy 9130 public complaints and concerns board will entertain a motion to approve 2416 I'll motion to approve 24-16 thank you Mr B and a second I'll second with a motion in a second is there any discussion see no discussion all in favor of 24 116 signified by saying I I I opposed 24116 is approved 24 117 the second reading and approval to resend MCS policy 63201 purchasing using online reverse auctions Dr Brown yeah I'm seeking approval to resend MCS policy 63201 purchasing using online reverse auctions as presented entertain a motion to approve 2417 I'll make a motion to approve 24-17 thank you Mr store and a second please second with a motion of a
057second is there any discussion see no discussion all in favor of approval of 24117 signified by saying I I he opposed 24117 approved 24118 the first reading of replacement of MCS policy 5136 that's okay I'm seeking approval of the replace replacement of policy 5136 personal communication devices as presented it is a second reading thank you entertain a motion to approve 24118 make a motion we approve 24118 thank you Mr Scott is there a second please I second with a motion as a second is there a discussion see no discussion all in favor of approval of 24118 signifi by saying I I any opposed 24118 is approved 24119 approval of course curriculum guide Edition for Madison Junior High School Dr Brown yeah I'm seeking approval to add engineering Essentials grade 8 for a high school credit
0587199 to the junior high curriculum guide for 2425 this course will be available to eighth grade students for the second semester and at this time only one class period will be offered with a maximum of 25 students students will travel to Mr Neil's classroom at the high school to attend this course and it will be available both semesters for 2526 so asking for approval of that course very good entertain a motion to approve 24119 I'll make a motion to approve 24-19 thank you Mr store in a second with a motion and second is there any discussion seeing no discussion all in favor of approving 24119 signified by saying I I the opposed 24119 is approved 24120 approval of partnership commitment between MCS and Southwest or Southeast Indiana Workforce investment board Dr Brown yeah I'm seeking
059approval of the partnership commitment between MCS and Southeast Indiana Workforce investment board the purpose of this agreement is to create a partnership to successfully Implement and sustain a comprehensive career coaching and navigation framework the comp prehensive career coaching program is financed using a grant from the Indiana Commission of higher education the career coaching program creates business industry and education Partnerships committed to achieve the mission of the Indiana commission for higher education to ensure that students prek through 12th grade explore engage and experience activities focused on employability skills through classroom activities so asking for approval of that work very good entertain a motion to approve 24120 make a motion to approve 24-120 thank you Mr B is there a second please I'll second are a motion is a second is there any discussion see no discussion
060all in favor of 24120 signify by saying I I I any oppos 24120 passes 24121 approval of the memorandum of understanding between Madison Consolidated High School Madison Junior High School and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeast Indiana Dr Brown yeah I'm seeking approval of a memorandum of understanding between Madison consolidated High School Madison junor High School and big brothers and big sisters of Southeast Indiana the purpose of this agreement is to create and confirm an effective working relationship between big brothers and big sisters of Southeast Indiana our high school and our Junior High the Big Brothers Big Sisters program will provide a professional program manager to implement their evidence-based site-based mentoring program which has been shown to affect positive changes in School attendance attitude self-confidence and avoidance of risky Behavior behaviors so asking for approval
061of thatou entertain a motion to approve uh 24121 I'll make a motion to approve 24-1 121 thank you Mr story is there a second please I'll second any motion a second is there any discussion all in favor of 2421 signified by saying I I any oppos 24 or 121 is approved 24122 approval of memorandum of understanding between MCS and safe passages Dr Brown I'm seeking approval of theou between MCS and safe passage the purpose of this mou is to outline the collaboration between safe passage Inc and MCS to provide healthy relationship programming to students at the junior high and high schools the programming aims to educate and Empower students with the Knowledge and Skills necessary to develop and maintain healthy relationships asking for approval entertain a motion to approve I make a motion to approve
06224122 thank you Mr chansy second I'll second with a motion and second is there any discussion see no discussion all in favor of 24122 signify by saying I I any opposed 24122 is approved 24123 approval of Indiana Institute on disability and Community Indiana Resource Center for Autism memorandum of understanding Dr Brown I am seeking approval of the Indiana Institute Institute on ability and Community Indiana Resource Center for Autism memorandum of understanding we're seeking approval to enter into an agreement with the Indiana Institute on disability and community Through the Indiana Resource Center for Autism for when an individual with autism spectrum disorder presents challenging behaviors that are impeding their learning in the educational um setting the Indiana Resource Center for Autism staff are available to provide on-site consultations on behalf of specific individuals of all ages
063with autism spectrum disorders in a variety of settings including early intervention schools homes and adult settings the Consultants from the Indiana Resource Center for Autism from Bloomington Indiana provide in-person observations Staffing to share ideas for evidence-based practices to implement for a student with autism time for phone calls for staff and family members review of records and preparation of report to summarize their observations and propos strategies to assist us with support So asking for approval of thatou thank you entertain a motion to approve 24123 I'll make a motion to approve 24-1 123 thank you Mr stores or a second I'll second with a motion and a second is there any discussion see no discussion all in favor signify by saying I I any opposed 24123 is approved 24124 approval of letter of agreement between MCS and
064Smith Associates Dr Brown yeah I'm seeking approval of the letter of agreement between Cs and Schmidt Associates in the amount of $63,000 which would be paid for with the grant that we received for the Early Childhood Center preliminary work as for the design and cost estimates for the new Early Childhood Center asking for approval of that letter of agreement thank you entertain a motion to approve 24124 I make a motion we approve 24124 thank you Mr Scott is there a second I'll second with a motion in a second is there any discussion I just had I just wanted to clarify or confirm um so we are just doing for the design work I just I didn't get to I looked at a little bit this afternoon um since we just got it today and I
065I guess the with the phases listed in here we're not approving these no it's just it's just the work to um do the design give us to inform our decision making on a Next Step basically so it's preliminary design well we get um are we going to get like um Blueprints and stuff like that like an actual design it'll be big picture so once once not not terribly detailed it'll be big picture cost estimates um preliminary design work and then um the board will make a decision at that point do we want to invest more to get so will there'll be another Vote or absolutely yeah okay to move forward okay so I just wanted to make sure that that's we're just voting on this part um and we don't still don't know what our
066because you said Jason might come and talk to us again exactly what our capacity correct is okay yes okay and the preliminary design work takes into consideration or a recommendation from Schmidt and Associates what can and can't be utilized that's existing at e today correct they will evaluate the current site and so like if there's like once we get that and we if there was any changes that could still be like we want to add this or we want we can still do that after they bring those to us yep as long as it fits within the scope of our financial correct ability correct absolutely so it's as fair to say this is just a starting point yep and the next again just to reiterate it is funded through our grant so it's a no
067cost of the taxpayers at this point okay entertain a motion to approve 2414 we've already got a I'm sorry I apologize we need is a vote all we need is a vote all in favor signify by saying I I I any opposed 241 24 is approved 24125 approval of memorandum of understanding between MCS and New Albany Floyd County Consolidated School Corporation Dr Brown yeah I'm seeking approval of theou between MCS and New Albany Floyd County Consolidated School Corporation to provide services for new drivers in order for them to obtain their necessary lure the cost of the training is $2,500 we're asking for approval so that we can get our best drivers trained very good entertain a motion to approve 24125 I'll make a motion to approve 24-1 125 thank you Mr St is there a
068second please a second with a motion a second is there any discussion see no discussion all in favor signify by saying I I I any opposed 24125 is approved move on to reports and we'll turn it over to our student representative miss m Moen sorry good evening um I just have a few announcements to share with you all this evening first I want to congratulate all of our fall athletes on their great Seasons boys and girls cross country Advanced to Regionals and boys tennis had a great season um boys soccer girls volleyball and football all made it to the sectional championship game and I want to extend a special congratulations to our boys football team on their record-breaking great season um and congratulations to girls soccer boys cross country and girls golf for their sectional
069Championship wins winter sports have also started so be sure to check our athletics schedule for swim meets and wrestling meets um and boys boys and girls basketball games in the upcoming weeks congratulations to the cast and crew of Harry Potter and the cursed child on their performances and the junior high is putting on their production of Alice and Wonderland 7 o'clock tomorrow night and Friday night and 2:30 on Saturday um it's at the high school auditorium and be sure to check that out they always do such a good job and Mrs belock does such a great job leading that as well I also want to give a huge shout out to our AP US History students um the MCHS choir and band and Mr Wier and all of the other people who helped with our
070Veteran Day program on Monday um it was really really wonderful and I've heard a lot of good um things good comments about that um and also a huge thank you to all of our veterans um turkey shootout is also coming up at the end of this month so JV games are on Monday November 25th and the girls and boys varsity play on Wednesday November 27th and it's hosted in Madison this year so be sure to be there and cheer on our girls and boys basketball teams as they take on Southwestern um I also really want to remind our students to activate and check their student Square accounts um and be sure that you're checking your email there's a lot of information coming through that so we want to make sure that everyone is up to
071date and the dailies the little announcements that are also posted we want to make sure you're checking those as well and those should be going to your emails um Thanksgiving break is from November 25th through the 29th for all Madison students this year and I hope you all have a fantastic month and fantastic Thanksgiving break very good thank you thank you move on to uh yes the public comments and we'll ask Miss Sharon Gray to step to the podium please thank you um again I'm here standing to represent the word of God to be placed in our school systems for the children to able to express those that are in faith in Christ Jesus not to be ashamed to be able to express that in our schools um I'll be leaving the Madison area we'll
072be moving away but I do pray for this school system and all the school systems in the world God has given us another chance with the current Administration coming into um the White House to acknowledge God not to be ashamed of him to stand up to speak his word to love him with all our hearts I love the the systems that you're doing but if we honor God first you have no idea what a light and what a beam you would be in the community and so with that said I just want to um share a couple of verses from Psalm 85 mercy and Truth are met together righteousness and peace have kissed each other truth shall spring out of the Earth and righteousness shall look down from heaven ye the Lord shall give that
073which is good and our land shall Increase righteousness shall go before him and Shall Set us in the way of his steps and I pray this for all of our children are the generations coming up the ones that aren't even here yet so that the generations that are here can be a light to them because we are his light I just encourage everyone is in faith in Christ to just stand just stand and speak his word and be an encouragement to one another thank you for all your time thank you thank you m gray okay we'll open it up to board member comments and we'll start off with the Dustin um I just with Thanksgiving around the corner and things we heard tonight just some things I'm thankful for being a board member in this
074community I wish uh officer Conover was still here I was there that day I was on the scene when officer Conover showed up and I don't think it can be understated or overstated or whatever the words I'm looking for but he saved that man's life like uh I called ome the next day I know some of the people at Oma um with respect to the family kind of offic M said I won't go into detail but that AED and that uh and om's safety response if not for them that gentleman would not be here today so huge what Travis did that day and and thankful super thankful for Travis and and everybody the sro's and everybody so please relay that to Travis for me officer McVey for sure and then deputies uh presentation just the
075things you guys are doing that kind of didn't you know what you're doing with those students in terms of I just took some notes here you know you're building a sense of community in them that's huge uh so uh socio emotional skills the things they're learning by doing the Hands-On The Pride they're building the life skills those are all just so dramatic and so big so thank you Deputy for what you're doing uh with those students on a daily basis it's just a small part of what Madison schools provide in our community to everybody so thank you officer Conover thank you Deputy schools we really appreciate all of you miss Jodie I also want to thank you guys that's it's one of my favorite things when the schools start coming in and talking about what
076they're doing um and things going on and it's every time both I think I don't know two or three times that you guys have come it's just so inspirational what you do and and the family feeling that that you promote and exude um it's just awesome and so I thank you for um not only being here and letting us you know just a small piece of what you guys do but just thank you for for doing that for the kiddos because um you know it means a lot to to those kids so thank you um the other thing I wanted just to I mean we get donations all the time and a lot of donations to Deputy you know which is again you know just the community that's supporting supporting you guys um but we
077you know every every month we get tons of donations but um some ones that weren't weren't on here um that came out this week well one of them came out this week and one earlier um Jason Jason Schaefer and David couch paying for um our high school kids to be able to come to the girls and boys basketball games free of charge and then um I think today or yesterday Industrial Supply Company of Madison stepping up and also going to pay for our elementary and our Junior High kids to be able to come to those same games so um you know just supporting um our not just our athletes but you know the band um the the theater production Harry Potter was amazing um and so you know just giving all that support to those
078kids I just want to thank the community for you know stepping up and doing that because it does really mean a lot for everybody good thank you David run out of stuff and going B congratulations to Josh and Travis um do you want to speak a little bit about Deputy you know we always talk about Community pulling together but I like to see those country communities you know going together that many parents involved with those organizations you know keeping the sports going that's amazing and we're talking a small community inside a bigger community so what those kids are going to get out of that is great I have to admit I'm a little jealous when I see pictures of cucumbers in August coming out of your all's Gardens and stuff but you know next spring
079if you guys need any I always have extra seed please reach out because I will help any way that I can with that because I love the gardening program I love the the club days the cooking that is all the basic stuffs and they're grabbing on to that so what's that going to do to them when they get to Junior High what's that going to do to them when they get to the high school so keep up the good work I'm just like Jody I love it when the schools come here and speak so thank you guys very much thank you David Michael um yes Deputy U the team thank you for coming tonight I will say thanks to Facebook um I'm able to kind of keep in touch with what's going on um I
080was very much in tune with how the garden was going this summer uh based on Facebook post so um a significant amount of time and energy has been spent by the MCS leadership and this school board evaluating the need for an early learning center earlier this evening we voted to spend some of our grant money to secure design early Design Concepts and cost estimates this data is critical in determining the future of this project after sharing some information at the last board meeting about the Early Learning Center I have heard or read a few concerns from local residents about not wanting taxes to increase just to be clear this project would not tax or increase our tax rate due to our ability to Su success successfully pay off previous and existing debt in essence we're
081going to be funding this on our own no increase in taxes the current proposal for the new Early Learning Center is to provide space for 300 children ranging from basically birth to four years old we have an opportunity to build something really special for this community to support the hardworking families while providing Early Education opportunities for their most precious commodity this seems like a logical and practical solution thank you thank you sir well I feel like Dustin looked at my notes down here before he said what he was going to say in his public comments but I'll just Echo what he said because he did say it very well um in the month of being thankful for what we have and we we are very fortunate to live in the community which we do and
082and being a part of this board and a school corporation is H is is truly an honor but I think it just shows here tonight with our with our folks from Deputy about deputy and about what all our schools are all about the again the dedication and and passion and love that you guys have for our kids is U is is crucial for the success of them but also for the success of our entire community so we can't thank you enough for for all you do and for our entire staff uh tonight we awarded uh Josh and Travis recognize them for uh doing outstanding work and we're very proud of them but that could be any any and all of our employees at our school corporation because we know each day you give it your
083all to our kids and and again it's it's very much appreciated and that's certainly what I am what I'm thankful for so having said that I will remind everybody that there will be a work session on Thursday December 2024 at 4:30 p.m. and the next regular board meeting will be December 11th 2024 at 6: p.m. and will conclude by our superintendent's report okay I have quite a few things so hang in there um when I um discussed this with uh Pamela Smith she said that was okay because this was all stuff that needed to be said so first of all um Harry Potter first of all I'm just really proud of the work that our kids did um the this the students the stage crew um just the amount of work and certainly Mr Kelsey
084the parent volunteers um just an incredibly uh well done performance and um I was just really proud of all the work that you all did best high school performance I've ever seen in my life um veteran State programs all around the district some um were even just yesterday U but certainly the high school had a great program uh the junior high and high school students were were just completely uh respectful so well behaved engaged um and certainly our veterans that came it's just a very proud day our fall Athletics um as you all know I'm a little bit competitive and um three championships and two championship matches that were just we were on the edge of winning both of them as well so to think about our fall Sports having nearly five championship teams um
085is absolutely incredible and I certainly want to thank um those student athletes um our coaches and of course our athletic director that worked really hard um to do that winter sports seasons are beginning so looking forward to that and of course the turkey shootout Go Cubs Riker Ridge um is having a fair on Friday um we invite you to that um Kathy Stoner and the deputy team I am so proud of you not just today but every day what you do for our kids and for each other right it's just a very special place to be um and you even brought the teacher of the year with you you go how you leave her I couldn't also congratulations to Katie Dryden in our central office uh she's an HR specialist she completed um certification with
086iasbo many many hours and was recognized by them with a letter um as a human resources specialist certification so congratulations to Katie also of course first congratulations to our fabulous IT director Josh Taylor appreciate everything he does every day and he keeps me out of trouble when I make those phone calls and say now what do I do um also Travis Conover um how special and incredible to save um a person's life and he literally did that um also congratulations to our new and old board members Dustin b and David story appreciate you both who's the new and who's the old I'm not going there let me say also also want to remind our employees uh we have a districtwide trivia night for employees next Friday 11:22 7M at the junior high and come prepared
087to um get second place thank you to Judy Brooks and the cafeteria staff for the Thanksgiving meal that they're preparing tomorrow at High School also a big thank you and let's like sincerely mean this to our board for the raises and stiens that you just approved for our staff tonight um we're talking $1.9 million so appreciate the fact that you committed that and those resources um to our staff also um want to thank Mrs brims students and the edpr class for coming tonight um and for those watching online you had to wait all the way to this moment your code word is lawn mower again lawn mower is your code word for class Happy Thanksgiving to all um I certainly am very grateful for our students and our staff in our community um it is
088a great place to live and work and be and we have much to be grateful for thank you thank you Dr Brown entertain a motion to adjourn i' make a motion to adjourn with the motion is there second second when a moot with a motion to Second all in favor of gerit signified by saying i i g has been struck