001I'll rise and say pledge. I pledge allegiance to the under God indiv. Uh we will call it to order and first start with a recognition of delegations. Any person wishing to be recognized to speak on any agenda item or to be heard as part of the section of the agenda dealing with delegations or citizens comments or to identify themselves by name and the point of the agenda where they wish to be recognized. Seeing none, we'll move on. Uh second is the hearing of upcoming collective bargaining process. And this is a portion where we take public testimony will be taken at this hearing pursuant to Indiana code 20-29-6-1 A regarding teacher compensation and collective bargaining. Okay, seeing that no one is here to speak, we will close that portion and move on to routine matters. Okay,
002we provided you with um the minutes from the August 18th meeting. >> Did you want to take both of these at the same time? And also um vouchers and electronic payments. >> Electronic transfers. Sorry. We have a motion to approve the minutes of the August 18th, 2025 meeting as prepared or as corrected and a motion to authorize payment of payroll checks through 402945. Voucher checks 146470 through 146543 and electronic transfers ET 3278 through ET 3282 as recommended. Voided payroll and voucher checks not listed on the voucher listing in the above sequences are not approved for payment by this action. >> Second >> motion was made by Mr. Williams, seconded by Mr. Isaac. Any discussion? Okay. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppos? Nay. Motion is passed. Moving on to new business. We
003have a resignation of Bailey Phelps, the PE teacher at West and our head volleyball coach at the high school. >> We have a motion to accept the resignation effective immediately unless otherwise indicated from the list above. >> Second. >> Motion was made by Miss Butler, seconded by Mr. Oath. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Motion is passed. Moving on to employment recommendations, we have three recommendations. Brett Gail, the custodian at West, Cody Mobley, assistant coach for baseball, threequarters of a stipen at the high school. And Sophia Stewart, assistant coach volleyball, half stipen at junior high. We have a motion to confirm the employment from the list above. >> So move. >> Motion was made by Mr. Isaac, seconded by Mr. Williams. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >>
004I oppose. Nay. Motion is passed. Moving on to non-paid leave of absence. We have one request from Ashton Reedford, teacher at West. She's uh requesting a non-paid leave of absence from August 28, 2025 through November 21st, 2025. We have a motion to approve the non-paid leave of absence request as listed above. >> So motion was made by Mr. O, second by Miss Fetler. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I oppose. Nay. Motion is passed. Okay. So, we have nothing for delegations or citizen comments tonight. Um, no non-staff communications and reports. So, from the superintendent and staff. >> So, we have provided menus for September. And we also are both going to talk about the bargaining process. >> So, today was the first step of that, the public hearing, and then um September 15
005is when we can officially uh bargain with NEA. And then hopefully shortly after that, we'll be coming to you guys with a uh proposed contract agreement. >> All right. And do we have any questions from board members tonight? >> I just want to read it. It was so obviously no one's here tonight to speak on the collective bargaining issue. Uh there was no letters, no no one stopped at the I think we make record of that during the >> correct. Yeah, there was no no comments. >> Nothing was received. Okay. Received. Yeah. Yeah. And I should I'll go ahead and note too u the last day uh for ratification of a proposed agreement before it goes into impass is November 15th which is a Saturday so really November 14th. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Moving on
006to future business. We have approved meeting dates. We do September 22nd we will meet. Um that is a change of date due to um the ISBA conference. We will have a meeting on October 6th and October 20th. And we will, the board and myself will be attending the ISBA fall conference September 15th through 16th. And just a reminder on September 17th, we will have early dismissal for staff development day >> and preview for topics for future agenda items. >> Yep. Just the budget hearing that will be coming up. And uh we recently got our uh assessed values that came in and uh it looks like our tax rate should go down a little bit. Good. Very good news. >> And then discussion topics. >> We have an enclosed uh policy for you to review um
007so we can take future action on that. >> Okay, that is all. We are adjourned.