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Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - MSDMV Board Meeting

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YouTube / MSDMV Board Meetings
Date
2026-02-18
Location
Posey County, IN
Material
Transcript
Extent
775 words · about 5 min
Collected
2026-06-08

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001What do you do? Hey, can you move the Yes. Okay, we are presenting you with um the approval from the minutes of the February 2nd meeting as well as approval of vouchers and electronic training. transfers and also a financial statement for the month of January. >> All right. And we will take uh Thank you. Almost. Second. Notice that 10.21% budget. >> Yeah, that needs to be amended. >> That is correct. I just want to point we had three payrolls in January right off the start of the year. >> Okay. So in reality, uh it's closer to 11.54% of the payroll year uh is gone at this point as it was expended in January. So we're still uh on pace for for our budget. >> Okay. Uh, no. >> Roll call. >> Yep. >> Yes. At

002the previous meeting, the board reviewed and discussed the revision to this policy. We are now recommending the board adopt revised policy 327. So moved. Second. Yes. >> Yes. We have the enclosed uh recommen recommendations. Kristen Cooper for assistance coach for boys and girls swimming, 1/8 of a stipen at the high school, and Emma Thompson to be the assistant girls track coach at the junior high. >> Second. I did second. Yes. >> Yes. >> We have a retirement. Miss Cinda Denning is retiring from Farmersville as building secretary effective at the end of the school year and she has 22 years of service with us. thankful for that and we will miss her but wish her the best. removed. >> Yes. We have a slew of educational learning opportunities and experiences from for our kids from our

003students in FFA to attend various shows. Our um swim team will also be going to state um our girls went this past weekend, had great success. Our boys will be going in the future. Um we are going for BPA to attend conferences and um I think that pretty much sums it up. FFA has several different competitions. They spoke about that at an earlier meeting and so most of them Audrey McGee will be taking um our BPA students to the BPA state conference. So several different activities this spring >> a lot of activities. Wonderful. Is there a motion to adopt? >> Second. >> You all right? Oh, >> we did. [laughter] >> She had a brief interruption, but we have enough to do a roll call. So, >> yeah. >> Okay, we'll go on. [laughter] >>

004You take the best board meeting to come to. [laughter] I said you were one lucky gal tonight. and >> okay digitally. So we'll just continue. >> Yeah, we'll get her try to get her back connected. >> We we've had that situation. >> No one. >> Did I see archeries going to state too? Did I say that on Facebook? >> Not sure. >> It wasn't me. I wouldn't be on here. It was just >> that middle school club. >> They don't always tell us. >> Okay. >> About those events, >> but good luck to them if they are. >> Yes. Right now the conflict As required by law, the following persons have submitted disclosure of conflict of interest statements to the board of school trustees. I will happily do that. We have Kinder Bessie, Britney Butler,

005Kristen Dowitz, Bo Harris, Mark Hostetter, Amy Heley, Mark Isaac, Jacqueline Meyer, Greg Oath, Charles Cipher, Stephanie Stewart, Brian Williams, and Amanda Wilson. moved. >> Second. >> Yes. So you can uh review the enclosed information and proposed changes to the 20 202527 benefit packet for Mr. Harris. It is recommended effective February 17, 2026 that we update the management and non-unit benefit packet to change the title director of building grounds buildings grounds and transportation to the director of HR and district operations. We also look to change the title of director of curriculum grants and testing to the director of student services and to add to the curricul and I'm sorry and add to and to add curriculum coordinator I think you said February 17. That >> Yeah. So moved. >> Second. You guys have any questions about

006that? That's to rename Charlie's posession. We've done a little bit of restructuring, reassigning of some roles and uh responsibilities and then to really uh put that curriculum and instruction piece front and center and have that its own bucket so we can put more emphasis into that. >> Yes. Um, the Mount Vernon High School band boosters is requesting the use of the band room for the mattress fundraiser on Sunday, March 1st, 2026 26. Since this activity involves a Sunday, board permission is required. All moved. >> Second. >> Yes. Yes. uh crazy that we're already presenting a budget timeline, but uh it's that time of year when we present. We'll be ramping up uh going through building walkthroughs and talking with principles and and staffing and all those fun things uh for our 2027 budget. uh starting

007really uh next month and then uh the self insurance fund is included and we had a great first month. July. Yeah. >> Yeah. The second meeting in July. First meeting in August. Okay, we have our future meeting dates. Monday, March 2nd at 5:30, Monday, March 16th at 5:30, and Monday, April 6th at 5:30. Um, all regular board meetings will be held here in the high school. We also have some other important dates. March 12th and 13th at 7:00 p.m. and March 14th at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. in the high school. Uh we have our high school musical Big Fish and it will be in the pack. March 17th is 8th grade night um here at the high school. So we hope all of our incoming uh freshman will attend and anyone else who's interested

008in becoming a Wildcat joins us here at the high school cafeteria at 6 p.m. Spring break is very close March 27 3rd through the 27th. And um that's our information for you. We did um we have presented the uh student I'm going to get this title wrong. A new policy for you to review our responsible technology use >> policy which we've made some additions with um AI and uh student accountability and so we've revised that. It's been a while since we've done that and our tech team has dug in and given us a great um potential policy to go with. Great. Thank you.

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