001Right. 5:30 [clears throat] agents. >> I Thank you guys for coming tonight. I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order. We will start with the election of officers. The board is required by law to organize as a board of finance after the first Monday and on or before the last day of January. This requires the election of a president and a secretary who can be but are not required to be the officers of the board of school trustees. Do I have a motion to elect Greg Oath as president and and Brian Williams as secretary of the board of finance? >> So move. >> Second. Okay. And now Mr. Oath will take over. >> Both. >> Oh, we will not have you take over yet. >> Yeah. >> Roll call. Roll call vote.
002>> Yes. >> I do that part two, correct? >> Yeah. Correct. >> Okay. Miss Vessie, >> yes. >> Miss Butler. >> Mr. Isaac? >> Yes. >> Mr. Oath? >> Yes. >> Mr. Williams? >> Yes. >> Thank you. recognition section of the agenda dealing with delegations or to identify themselves by name where they wish to be recognized. and we will move on uh recommend action. So we will start with the 2025 investment report and policy. The board of finance is required to review the investing officer's yearly report of investments and to review the district's overall investment policy every four years. See the enclosed report of investments and investment policy. policy move. Second makes a motion. Mr. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. Mr. Williams. >> Yes. >> Designation. >> The board of finance is responsible for designating the
003local depositories that can be used for investments throughout the year. See the enclosed recommendation from Mr. Harris regarding local depositories that have been approved by the Indiana Board for depositories. motion to accept the list of local depositories that can be used for investments through year as >> I moved a roll call vote. >> Yes. >> Butler. >> Yes. Oh, >> yes. Mr. Williams. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. The board of finance is required to review an assessment of the school corporation's overall financial condition as provided by the DWAB distressed unit appeals board. The current review references calendar year 2024. Please see the enclosed report for Mr. Harris. >> Had a chance to review >> there. A motion to accept the review of 2024 fiscal indicators as required. So moved >> second >> motion right by
004Messi. Is there any comments, questions, concerns? If not, we will move to the roll call vote. Mr. Cessi, >> yes. >> Butler, >> Yes. Mr. Re, >> yes. >> Motion carries. >> Any other m We will stand to chair. All right. Welcome everyone. The second January meeting of 2026 board of school trustees. Um recognition of delegations. Person be recognized to speak on any agenda item or be heard as part of the section of the agenda dealing with delegations or citizen comments or to identify themselves by name and the point on the agenda. We recognize. Right. Seeing none, uh our media representative isn't here this evening. said we will move on with the agenda >> routine matters. >> So we are in closing if we want to take all three of these motions at once. Um
005we've included the minutes from the past meeting on January 5th. We also have uh vouchers that are included and we have the financial statement for December enclosed for your information as of December 31st 2025 100% is gone and the education fund 94.10% 10% of the budget has been expended and the operations fund 58.61% of the budget has been expended. Mr. Harris has included included enclosed a 2025 budget summary and you can see the enclosed information. >> Right. We will take uh items A and C. Motion to approve the minute and 26 authoriz Thankful. Okay. Five. Those sequence are not approved for payment by this action. the financial state 2025 and file it for audit. >> So move second. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. The following employees have resigned. Kendra Steinhardt for assistant coach for volleyball
006at the high school was otherwise it is not. [clears throat] So move second. Any questions? Call Mr. >> Yes. M >> Butler Isaac. >> Yes. >> I vote. Yes. Mr. Williams. >> Yes. >> Motion chair. >> What are my recommendations? We have We have a few. >> We do. We'd like to recommend Elise Baker as a teacher assistant for remediation at West Elementary. Drew Birkhart as the assistant coach for boys wrestling quarter stipen at the high school. Mason Camp, infos specialist for Mars and Farmersville. Andrea Galdez, building secretary for information systems. Julia Kingy, Unified Track for a quarter stipen. Kennedy Meyer, Unified Track for a quarter to a half from a quarter to a half stipen. Caitlyn Taylor for unified track for a quarter stipen. and Chelsea Timmons, food services at the high school. There
007>> a motion to confirm the employment from the list above as indicated by Dr. Stewart. >> So moved by Miss Bessie, seconded by Miss Butler. There any questions, comments, concern? We will move the roll call vote. Miss Massessie. >> Yes. >> Miss Butler. >> Isac. >> Yes. >> I vote yes. Mr. Williams, >> yes. Motion carries. Dan, do we ever have a retire? >> We do. Jenny Parker, special ed teacher at the junior high, will be retiring effective at the end of the 2025 school year with 37 years of service. So, we're very excited for Jenny on her retirement. Uh we uh will have to definitely work hard to fill her spot. She has big shoes to to fill. >> I hope the motion doesn't die on the table. >> [clears throat and laughter] >>
008retired from Jim Parker. >> Moved. >> Go ahead. >> All right. Have a motion from Mr. Williams. Second by Mr. I >> Yes. You got connection failed. >> Oh. Oh, she's there. >> All right, Mr. Isaac. >> Yes, >> I vote. Yes, Mr. W. >> Yes. >> Right. Motion carries. And we're still on the >> We we they are ordered. Yes. We will bring him. We'll make sure they get him before the end of the year. Yes. >> Uh and we have a reassignment. >> Uh Charles Cipher is being reassigned from assistant superintendent of operations to teacher of career and technical education at the high school. Is there a motion to reassign Charles Ciphford as a teacher at the high school for the 20 >> second Isaac seconded by Mr. Williams any comments? None to
009a roll call vote. Mr. Sesi. >> Yes. Mer. >> Yes, >> I will. Yes, Mr. >> Yes. >> Have some meetings. >> We have several educational meetings coming up. Ashton Forsley and Courtney New York uh will attend or have attended the um students with the IHSAA state wrestling championship at the Indiana State Fairgrounds on January 16th. Athletics paid the expenses. It was great. The girls did awesome. Great experience. Luke Harris and Dustin Murray will attend the baseball coaches convention in Indianapolis in Indiana on January 22nd through the 23rd. Athletics will pay those expenses. Hannah McLemore and null McLemore will attend with students to Western Kentucky University for the Honor Band in Bowling Green, Kentucky on January 22nd through the 24th. Luke Harris will attend the IHSCA. I don't know if they have a name for
010that acronym. It's long. um tennis. It's a tennis coaches association conference in Indianapolis on February 5th, athletic paying expenses. And Alyssa Wood will attend the 2026 in IND SP Indiana School Public Relations Association annual conference in Indianapolis on March 3rd and 4th, 2026. Is there a motion to adopt a resolution permitting personnel listed uh and stated by Dr. to list to attend the educational meetings. >> So moved >> second is made by Miss by Mr. Isaac. Looks like Mr. Harris is going to be very busy couple months. >> Harpet and up his skills. >> Yeah. Any other questions, comment? Move to a roll call vote. Blessing. >> Yes. Miss Butler >> Rising. >> Yes. >> I vote yes. Mr. Williams, >> yes. >> That motion carries. Uh Sunday. >> Okay. Uh Cody Unington, assistant principal
011at the high school is requesting permission for students in DECA to travel to Indianapolis on March 1st through the 3rd, 2026 for the DECA state competition. Since this activity includes a Sunday, board permission is required. It is our motion to grant permission to DECA students to travel to Indianapolis on March 1st, 2026 for the DECA state competition as requested. >> Second. >> No, go ahead Britney. >> Motion is made by Mr. Williams. Butler is not calling. >> Yes, >> Mr. Butler, >> Mr. Isaac, >> yes. >> I vote yes. Mr. Williams, >> yes. >> Motion carries. >> Stephanie, will they um come in and give a presentation? >> Yeah, we can ask him again about their experience. >> Yep. Be nice to hear from that group. I don't think we've had them here since I've
012been here. >> Y preliminary notice. The board president and/or the superintendent shall each be authorized agents acting on the behalf of the board for purposes preparing, signing, and issuing any preliminary notice of administrative contract non-renewal that may be required to begin with the board pursuant to IC20-28-8. >> Motion to adopt resolution authorizing board president of the board. Second [clears throat] is to vote. >> Yes. >> Mler. >> Yes. >> I vote yes. M. >> Yes. Question. >> Pause. is uh Pause Wrestling is requesting the use of the high school main gym for the SIEWC duels on se Sunday January 18th, 2026 for the SIEWC conference on Sunday, March 1st, 2026 for the Frost Soft qualifier on Sunday, March 15, 2026. Since this activity involves a Sunday, board permission is required. Is there a motion to
013grant proclamation to pause wrestling for the use of the high school gym for the SIEWC duels on January 18, 2026, for the SIEWC conference on March the 1st, 2026? And for the freshman sophomore qualifiers on March 15, 2026 as requested. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion is made by Mr. Williams seconded by Mr. Isaac. >> Being none, we will move to the roll call vote. Miss >> Yes. >> I vote yes. Mr. Williams, >> yes. >> Motion carries. Uh and then we have another request for under use by Lady Cats Basketball. Lady Catats Basketball Association is requesting the use of the high school gyms for a girls youth basketball tournament on Sunday, January 25th, 2026. Since this involves a Sunday, board permission is required. Is >> there a motion to grant permission to Lady
014Cats Basketball Association to use the high school gym for girls youth basketball tournaments on Sunday, January 25th, 2026 as requested? So moved. Second comments, we know how big of a tournament this is or teams. >> They said they could expect up to,200 people for both days >> using all gyms possible. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah, it's pretty big. Fantastic. >> I just made a note to make sure our sidewalks are clear. >> Yeah. >> Just in case. >> Thank you. Yes, >> I [clears throat] believe that the association is taking care of everything. Now the facilities, we will make sure that that's prepped and ready for them. >> All vote. Messi. >> Yes. >> Rising. >> Yes. >> I vote yes. Mr. Williams, >> yes. Motion carries. Can anyone make comments questions? >> Uh, do
015you have anything for that? >> No. Okay. >> So, got a few things here. Uh, the tax draw summary was included. Uh I just want to point out that collections for taxes were uh fairly low this year. Usually we would like to see around 98% or higher uh on that. So um you know in discussion that's kind of across the board, not just us that there were lower collections and with Senate Bill one, we'll see how that uh that changes things uh one way or the other. Um it'll be different next year. So uh we'll keep an eye on that. Uh property and casualty insurance premiums you can see went up a little bit but really not uh not too bad uh considering the how things typically go in the insurance world. So uh we're
016happy with that and primarily that was due to they u took away some uh credits this year. So really most of the products were pretty well the same but they they had to do some adjustments with credits. And then the self-insurance fund report. Uh you can see at the end of the year it's always nice to end with uh more money than you started with. So that's uh uh it was a good year. >> We're ready for >> questions from Okay. Uh you want to take us on out with future business and the dates that need to be acknowledged? So, our future uh meeting dates are Monday, February 2nd at 5:30, Tuesday, February 17th, that's a change due to the federal holiday, and Monday, March 2nd, 2026, all at 5:30 here in the library. Um,
017also, we have a early release day next Wednesday, January 28th for all schools. And, um, the next thing we have is a discussion for a course proposal that Mr. Hagen is here. If anybody has any questions for Please. It was You got really cool. >> We we we appreciate the participation by Mr. Cox. >> Thank you. Thank you. I >> appreciate we have that's all we have. Um, nothing for future agendas. No discussion topics. >> Anything else from the board? >> No. >> If not, we stand a journ.