001We'll call this meeting to order. >> We'll stand for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence. >> 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 liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Mrs. Rogers, we'll turn it over to you now to get the DCSC vision. >> Certainly. Um, you can follow along on the screen together with our community. Batesville Community School Corporation is committed to providing an engaging and relevant learning environment based on a strong foundation of academic knowledge, transferable skills, and realworld experiences. Batesville Bulldogs embody confidence, empathy, and resilience to ensure 21st century success. >> Thank you. With that, we'll go on to the consent agenda items. >> And all of those have
002been posted for your perusal and approval. We need a motion. Um, our first item we're going to be be approving is the minutes from uh the board of finance meeting in the regular session that was held January 21st along with a special session that was handled January 28th and February 4th. Does anyone have any questions on those? >> No questions, Stephanie, but I'll make a motion to approve the minutes for the annual the monthly meeting as well as the special meetings. >> Thank you, Jeremy. Do I have a second? >> I'll second that. >> Thank you, Sean. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. >> Uh the next that we'll go into is the payroll journals and registers of claims. Um it does look like we
003do have >> there's an extra six pages. Um it's 254,000. It looks like a lot, but the Hampton bill wasn't on the first run, so that's $24,000 of it. We had the Duke bill for $27,000 and then smaller amounts. We had um almost $8,000 for US foods. Um some smaller amounts came in. If you have any questions, let me know. >> Does anyone have any questions on that? >> I'm fine. I'll make a motion to approve the bills as presented. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Jeremy. Thank you, Larry. All those in favor say I. I I >> all those oppos say sign. Motion carries. >> Uh the next that we'll go into is the personnel um or is there anything new on this or is it still >> um not re well yeah recently.
004Um we have two um classified resignations okay >> that are listed on there that were not at the very beginning. One was added Monday and one was added this morning. >> Okay. Does anyone have any questions on the personnel? >> Looks like a short list, which is a good thing. >> I'll make a motion to approve the personnel report as published. >> Thank you, Jeremy. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Sean. All those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All those opposed, same side. Motion carries. Um, the next that we'll go to is a travel request. Let me pull that up. Does anyone have any questions on that? It looks like there was only three that I remember. Yeah. Uh Jane, Koli, Craig Hughes, and Verna Meyer. Uh
005looks like two of them are related with nutrition and food, and then the other one is engineering and technology teacher program. Does anyone have any questions on those? >> I'm buying that. I'll make a motion to approve the CRA as presented. >> Thank you, Larry. Do I have a second? >> I have a second. >> Thank you, Blaine. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. >> Um, at this time, Tim, I turn it over [cough and clears throat] to you for the financial report. >> All right. Um, the financial report was in the board packet. I don't think it made it into the board packet until Monday. Um, so it wasn't out initially um because of including construction fund um amounts. And those um statements we didn't
006receive in time to include it earlier. Um on the on the screen you can see um for the month of January we had revenue in the education fund of a little over $1.5 million versus expenditures of closer to $1.9 million. Um if you'll recall we had a three paid month in January. So, um that we actually spent $361,000 more than uh we brought in in January um to end the month with a balance of 1,79,313. That um actually compared to 2025 is about $75,000 more. And last January, we also had a three pay month in January. Um, and that $1.7 million balance represents 9.3% of the approved appropriations for 2026. So, so still at a kind of a low water mark for our fund balance is 9.3% is well above the 8% target minimum that
007the board has set for for years. So, in good shape there. Debt service fund, no expenses in January. Um and revenue for both debt service and operations is was limited to the local income tax that flows in on a monthly basis where most of the revenue comes in in June and December draws. The um operations fund also impacted by being a three-pay month. A lot of payroll for um out of the operations fund. Um we spent over $800,000. So, three pay a month. Plus, we also frontload some of the expenses we pay out of operations, especially the big one, which you approved, our property casualty insurance package back in December. Um, that's like $250,000 um hit to the operations fund that's paid in January for the full year. Um so that operations fund balance um
008dropped by almost $800,000 to finish at 3,589,828. That is also um an increase of approximately $300,000 from the end of January 2025. Um we've had no um activity in the rainy day fund. So across all four funds, the the total balance is $6,19,18 and this is about $260,000 more than the total fund balance last year. >> Got any questions for Tim? Kim on the uh operations fund is that how far down is that going to go before we get our next roll on? A typical um typically we we're between four and $500,000 per month and we start we usually see our spring tax draws in in May and definitely by June. Okay. So um so we may spend two to two and a half million dollars be before the end of May which um which
009we have a plenty of balance there. So without having to borrow across funds um it's been it's been years and [clears throat] years since we've had to to to run a fund in the red ways. Do you you still plan to move 75,000 a month from education to Yes. The $70,000 primary is was what we had planned on transferring uh from the basic grant into the operations fund which if you'll recall that's less than 5% of that basic grant amount. So it's on the leaner end of what school corporations would transfer to operations. Um, but at this point we don't see any need to make any adjustments to that. >> So you're still going to do the 70,000, right? >> Yes. When we get to the end of the school year or the end of
010the calendar year, >> that's where we've kind of looked at balances and made adjustments or taken a a holiday from transferring if we wanted to keep the the education fund a little bit stronger going into. >> All right. Thank you. You're welcome. You may >> the construction uh fund expenditure you can see on the screen as well. Um last month you approved $272,595 in expenses. Um most of that was related to um our roofing project which is is wrapping up but the payments sort of lag. Um so those um so that was approximately $170,000 of that. Um also over Christmas break we tried to get some work done at the high school. We spent almost $50,000 on um replacing ceilings and lighting in um the music wing and in the um hallways and stairwells in
011the F wing and the A wing. So most of the classroom sections up and down in the hallways. Um that was a major expense there. We also um spent money the demolition of the properties and the site uh work at the intermediate school, those those two homes that we had there. Um along with we did some roofing flashing work at the middle school that was a separate project from our big um roofing work that we had done. Um and then some some flooring purchases for at the intermediate school. Um with that you can see that the the balance at the end of January from the uh first mortgage bonds stands at 5,69,000 and the 2024 general obligation bond balance is 939,000 and change. Any questions? >> Uh we're to the point of the meeting where
012um we will accept patron comments. We just ask that you keep it related to school activities and no school employee or student name specifically. Nobody no takers today. Thank you. So we'll move on. Uh we'll go to action items and Mrs. Rogers, I will turn it over to you at this point. >> Yes, thank you. You have received a list of courses for the 2627 school year. These will take place at the high school through IT Tech and we are seeking approval of those. Mrs. Huber is here. If you have any questions about that, it's common place that we do get those approved before students begin the sign up process. Does anybody have any questions? >> Jackie, the only question I would have is just do you know if there were any major puts or
013tapes from I saw the list. I just don't I don't recall what it was last year. >> Right. So I did speak to Erica Bart counselor here in the high school and she said typically there are no changes. The change could be of a course and I believe that might have been the change this year. If they don't offer a course for whatever reason, but they don't um they don't have the it's not going to be on the student schedule. >> Oh. Then they would take it off the list completely. >> Correct. And most of the major revisions were added weighted courses in order to try to expand so it met many of the different um courses types of courses that the students might take. So I believe if you look at the list um
014the CTE electives are probably the most updated so that it extends those rated course opportunities for all students um at the high school. Um Mrs. B did say that most courses are generally junior or senior level courses. Most of them are the tech some AP courses and it typically is like a 200 level course. So just because it's an IT course doesn't mean it's an automatic course. >> Got it. Okay. Thank you. >> Um M >> is there a level of students that can take these classes? >> Um many of the courses have prerequisites because they are higher level for instance um finite math you have to take you have to have prerequisite math courses in order to be able to enroll. So they they will be limited to some prerequisites not all of them.
015So is there a waiting list for students? >> Typically there's not a waiting list. They try to accommodate the requests from the students and as um I believe as as Shane mentioned they are in the process of gathering the requests right now the student requests for next year's schedule but they do try to accommodate those requests so that all students get the courses that they >> and Dr. Are these these classes are they taught by IvyTech personnel here at the high school or taught by high school personnel? >> It is mixed. Um typically um if it's taught by a high school teacher, they have to be credentialed for IB. Some of the courses are students actually go on site to test. So it is a mixture of both. >> Okay. So, some here, some some
016>> Stephanie, I'll make a motion to approve the weighted course list for 2627. >> Thank you, Jeremy. Do I have a second? >> I'll second it. >> Thank you, Larry. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. >> Mrs. Rogers, I will turn it over to you for the superintendent report. >> All right. Thank you. Uh you can see upcoming dates and events listed. Uh the most important one for you is that on Monday, Dr. Katie East begins here at Batesville officially. So we're very thrilled about that. Um, we welcome her and certainly know I know that it's going to be the start of a a new direction, a new era of quality education and continued outstanding service for the citizen that faces. So that's exciting for you,
017for me. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to serve you and to work with your outstanding administrative team during this interim. if I can ever be of help, just let me know. >> We appreciate you helping us out with that. >> Um, and it looks like the only other thing on there will be spring break will be March 20th through the 27th. >> Does any of the members have any comments that they would like to add to today's meeting? >> Miss Rogers, are you going to stay on for how long? >> Um, we haven't really set a date. Um, and I don't believe I'm going to need to stay on for a very lengthy amount of time. Okay. Um, I can work with Mrs. Davidson to give you some more specific information, but I
018know that Dr. East is ready to go. >> Okay. >> Yeah, Mrs. is I just echo Stephanie's appreciation for your service to the school system and uh kind of being a steady settling presence for us as we kind of navigated the the change over and and for your assistance with Dr. Eis and all of our administrators during the time. So, uh we obvious gratitude to you for filling in. So, um appreciate you. >> You are a delight. [laughter] Stephanie, the only other item I was going to add is it sounds like we have a wrestler heading to state next weekend. >> That's important. Thanks for bringing that. >> I think that's worth uh worth noting to celebrate that accomplishment. That doesn't always happen every day. So, >> Sean, you got anything? >> Nothing else to
019add. Thank you, uh, Mrs. Rogers for your uh for your help during the transition and looking forward to working with with Dr. Eis as we move forward. Did >> you set a record today? >> No, Larry. I did the other day. It was four [laughter] minutes. eyes.