001You can all rise and say the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag for which it stands. One nation, indivisible, liberty for all. [clears throat] >> To welcome everyone to the November 17th meeting at the MSD of Mount Vernon. Uh we will start with recognition of delegations. Any person wishing to be recognized to speak on any agenda item or to be heard as part of a section of the agenda dealing with delegations or citizens comments or to identify themselves by name and the point on the agenda where they wish to be recognized. Seeing none, we will move on to recommended actions. Routine matters. It looks like we can take A, B, and C. We have provided uh you all with the minutes from the November 3rd meeting. Also, um the voucher listing is enclosed and
002we also have our financial statement for October. As of October 31, 2025, 83.33% of the year is gone in the education fund. 78.85% of the budget has been expended in the operations fund. 50.18% of the budget has been expended. We have a motion to approve the minutes of the November 3rd, 2025 meeting as prepared or as corrected. A motion to authorize payment of payroll checks 404-420 through 404790. Voucher checks 146880 through 146952 and electronic transfers EP 3325 through ET 3330 as recommended. Void to payroll and voucher checks not listed on the voucher listing in the above sequences are not approved for payment by this action. Then also a motion to accept the financial statement for October 31st, 2025 and file it for audit. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion was made by Miss Butler,
003seconded by Mr. Williams. Any discussion? Roll call vote. Besie, yes. Miss Butler, >> yes. >> Mr. Isaac. >> Mr. Oath? >> Yes. >> Mr. Williams? >> Yes. >> Motion has passed. Moving on to unfinished business personnel, we have the following uh employees who have resigned. Morgan Borman, teacher assistant for remediation at West Elementary. Baron Browning, teacher assistant, special ed, high school effective November 19th and assistant coach for boys track at the junior high. Christopher Cole, head coach for boys soccer at the high school. And Cynthia Nerburn, food service at the high school. We have a motion to accept the resignation effective immediately unless otherwise indicated from the list above. >> I'll moved. >> Second. [clears throat] >> Motion was made by Mr. Williams, seconded by Miss Butler. Any discussion? Roll call vote. Miss Besi, yes.
004Miss Butler, >> yes. >> Mr. Isaac. >> Mr. Oath? >> Yes. >> Mr. Williams? >> Yes. Moving on to employment recommendations, we have the following um employment recommendations to present. Nicholas Burton, ECA supervisor at the high school. Maria Davis, teacher assistant for remediation at West Elementary. Julia King, special education teacher at the high school. River Snograss, English teacher at the high school, and Emma Thompson, special education teacher at the junior high. We >> have a motion to confirm the employment from the list above. So move. Second. >> Motion was made by Mr. Oath, seconded by Mr. Williams. Any discussion? I just want to note that Julia and River have been working in a position this semester and so they've really been able to on board and and they've been a huge help for us. So,
005we're excited to see them have permanent positions in January. >> We have a motion in a second. Roll call vote. Miss Besie, yes. Miss Butler, >> yes. >> Mr. Isaac. Mr. Ro. >> Yes. >> Mr. Williams. >> Yes. >> Motion has passed. Moving on to educational meetings. Audrey McGee will attend with students to the BPA regional conference in Jasper, Indiana on December 5th, 2025. BPA expenses uh BP BPA to pay expenses. Aaron McBride and Wayan West to attend the I A conference in Indianapolis, Indiana on December 14th through the 16th, 2025. and high ability will pay those expenses. >> We have a motion to adopt a resolution permitting personnel listed to attend educational meetings. >> You can take it. I'll second it. >> Motion was made by Mr. Isaac, second by Miss Butler. Any discussion
006roll call vote? Yes. Miss Butler? >> Yes. >> Mr. Isaac. >> Mr. Oath? >> Yes. >> Mr. Williams? >> Yes. Moving on to wage and wage and benefits packages. >> So in your packets, we've included our wage and benefit packages for classified staff uh for the 2526 and 26 2627 school years. Um and then for calendar years 26 27 depending on the packet. Um these this will almost finish up all of our groups. Uh we still have our two teamsters groups to to bring you but uh this gets us a lot closer. We have a motion to approve the wage and benefit packages for the 2025, 2026, and 2026, 2027 school years for the calendar years 2026 and 2027 for the following groups. Administrative specialists only for 2026, food service, information systems, maintenance, foremen, management
007and non-unit, school secretaries, and teacher assistance as recommended. All >> moved. Second. Motion was made by Mr. Williams, seconded by Mr. Oath. Any discussion. Roll call vote. Miss Pessi. Yes. Miss Butler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Isaac. >> Mr. Oath? >> Yes. >> Mr. Williams? >> Yes. >> Motion is passed. Moving on to information and proposals. We have no citizens comments tonight. Um, nothing from non-staff communications and reports. So, superintendent and stuff >> self insurance. >> Yeah, the self- insurance fund continues to have a positive positive balance each month. So, we we like that trend and the bi-annual financial report. >> Yep. >> That will be available in the superintendent's office for review. That's just our basically our form nine is what they call it that we upload um every six months to to the state
008and that's what they use for auditing purposes. Okay. And then construction house update. We have an update on our house that we're building. So, I asked Alyssa, our marketing coordinator, to do a little video for you guys. So, >> okay. [clears throat] >> My name is Bill. I teach construction at Mount High School and I have two different classes. I teach principles of construction and that's basically our intro class and we go over basic tools, shop tools, framing, a little bit of plumbing, a little bit electrical and then you join my trades class after that students. They're using all those skills that they learn in the principal class trades one and actually building a house. We've worked with some contractors. We take a full school year to build it. Things out there, but we've done
009it just one other time. This is our second time. And so, basically, we have a lot of contractors that come in and we have some plumbers that will help work students. We have some electricians, some work. We work with the HC guys. Um, so they really get a hands-on experience and we go and work in the element just like a regular construction uh worker would and it gives us good job. I think this class benefits experience actually you're always have to show up on time show up every day basically ran like a job. I have several students that even work with contractors HBAC and they can help them prepare for their next opportunities after a good life. Other thing is we have a wide student and taking their class and they're forced to work together.
010I feel like how we typically start this house project is we have contractors come in and do the work and we do the pling and come in. We're actually We are the frame. pretty of it. So, another fun thing that we do with principal class is we take a basically hands and then we take and we is not a big deal. We just bridge and we are in since 2012 and they really enjoy it. We do the river parade and we Hello, I'm Wesley. I'm a senior at uh Mount Vernon. I've been we're building this house for their construction trades class. I've been in construction for three years and I've really learned a lot by building this house. You know, it'll teach skills that we can use uh in future for a long time. >>
011Hello, my name is Nathan Craig. I'm a senior out here at Mount Vernon High School. We're currently building the house of >> Very cool. And I just sent you guys, you had asked Brian, Bo got it for me, what we spent on our first house and what we profited. And you said it was about six 61,000 >> that we profited from the first house. So I'm sending that to everybody so you have that information. >> Great. >> Sorry that earlier, but >> that's okay. >> Okay. U moving on to future visits. Do you want to take us the rest of the way out with approved meeting dates? Sure. We have a meeting December f 1st same place at 5:30 December 15th and January 5th. Um and we will have Thanksgiving break next week beginning on
012Tuesday will be our last day. So Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Okay. >> All right. With that we are adjourned. Thank you.