001[Music] All students have a sense of take ownership of their learning and find joy, passion and purpose. Item 1.5 comment information. We currently offer two ways in which the community can participate in regular school board meetings. The first public comment section on the agenda is for addressing current action items that are on tonight's agenda. These comments must be submitted by noon on the day of the meeting. The procedures for submission are posted on our website under board of school trustees. The second public comment section is for general comments and does not have to be specific to an agenda topic. If you wish to address the board during the general public comment section of the meeting, please put your name and topic on a card and give that all public comments are limited to three minutes
002per individual with a total of 30 minutes for each public comment section. Item 2.17 teachers association 2.2 3.1 presentation. Hello everybody. My name is Lyn. I'm with the education foundation and time and school board administration and the school administration allows us today. Um, I'm here today to acknowledge um all of our grant recipients from the end of last school year and the beginning of this school year. Um, we ended our 2425 school year with $78,000 uh worth of grants that we gave out and we are starting this year with one grant cycle of $22,000 worth of grants. So, we are so appreciative to all of the teachers and staff who think creativ Oh, perfect timing. [Music] um who think outside the box and come up with these wonderful ideas to sort of enrich the curriculum
003on which they teach. So, we're really proud. I thought we'd do something a bit different today. Joining me today is Stephanie Zapka. >> Um but if you are a teacher, staff, or parent here to receive a grant, if you would all come up and then as Stephanie reads your name, we'll have you step forward and we have a small gift for you. So, if you're here today to receive a grant, come on up now. from down this way. [Music] >> All right, great. So, as you get your name, if you just step forward so everyone can acknowledge Mrs. Noita from Frank Hammond in the amount of $1,85 to bring story works program to the third graders >> Mr. Mayor at MHS in the amount of 5,000 to support the monster speech and debate program. [Applause]
004Mrs. Metric from Eid submitted on behalf of all three elementary librarian in the amount of 93 $300 for around the world in 180 days grant to bring books and materials such as globes maps to the elementary and help students feel as if they were traveling around the world. Um Mrs. from Elliot in the amount of it's subscription for the kindergarten and first grade students at Elliot. [Applause] Mr. Ersman from Eids in the amount of $1,800 for book to teach Jacob's letter high ability program for the first graders at Eid. Um Mrs. from ease in the amount of 3650 for the fine arts department enhancements in E including improvements to the library music and art programs [Applause] from Eid in the amount of $2,600 to bring the LL program to the fifth graders at Mrs. Grant
005from Eids and now the whole district as the [Music] [Applause] $3,400 for future innovators as a STEM and robotics grant for all grade levels. Mrs. from Elliot for the amount of $2,600 to bring to the third graders at Mrs. from Elliot in the amount of $1,400 to bring new keyboards to the music classes at Miss Leer, a parent at FH in the amount of $4,800 for the robotics materials to expand the robotics teams program at FH. Caroline, Miss Dana Takis from FH in the amount of $342 to bring new to the fifth graders at F. And finally, we have Mrs. Mack from WWMS in the amount of $2,000 to bring a mobile planetarium to the sixth graders at W Thank you all very much for the time to acknowledge all these wonderful teachers and parents.
006Thank you. [Music] Thank you. I just wanted to say thank you guys for Item 4.1 school presented by Mr. uh good evening. Um a little update from overright. Our eighth graders will be taking the PSAT uh this Wednesday. Uh NWBA has been given and we are working with that baseline data now. an instructional team to establish our growth goals for the year. Um, this gives our students and our teachers uh metrics to shoot for throughout the year. Um, football, volleyball, science, Olympia, debate, and every club you can probably think of is started in full swing. Uh, we have 14 students uh under the touage and guidance of Brian Ridgley. Um, go down to the state uh meet this weekend, which is a ton of fun. We didn't always do this, so kudos to the coaches
007and the parents that that made that trip to Indiana State. Um, we also just had our first debate competition. Uh, our school goes and competes in the Evston uh, league because we don't have a lot here. Um, and what I've been told is that we it's the first time a lot of them did anything anything like this and over half of the championship rounds were wolver and a ton of first place, second place, third place. Yeah. Um, our first dance is next Friday, so we're excited about that. The kids can't stop talking about it. Um, and I wanted to feature our science Olympia team who had a ton of success last year. Um and right at the end of the school year, that's when the nationals is. It's actually during finals. Um so we have
008some of the students here to uh to help us out. We have uh Hannah, Amelia, and Casius who are going to come up and talk about their successes last year that they hope to build on this year. is not here. Um, but I'm Amelia. Um, so I do many events, but this is part of Scrambler. Basically, you put an egg right here and you roll it a certain distance from like 6 to 8 m without trying to crack the egg and the egg spill. Last year at Nationals, we actually had the egg crack, but it did not spill. Thankfully, we were able to run our second run without being disqualified. There is a top bucket and forcing the bucket. The goal is to have the power as much as possible without end up around. >>
009One thing I do want to mention is Cass and I did optics last year. We placed 16th at nationals which funnily enough uh we didn't actually practice for that and we ended up scoring the best out of our team for uh ranking. >> I'd also like to thank mom. [Applause] Thank you guys. Thanks for coming tonight and uh we appreciate you guys uh showing us what you guys did. When they say they didn't practice, maybe that that might have been the only thing they didn't practice because they practice all the time, all year basically. So, thank you guys. [Applause] Item five, consent agenda. >> Apologize. I was to national. All right, I'm sorry. I'm getting back down to consent agenda. Consent agenda contains items 5.1 through and including 5.8 as presented. So I'll go through
0105.1 would be the approval of the minutes which includes several meetings because we had several in September. The public work session that's held on September 3rd. Also the executive session that was held on September 3rd. It also includes uh the September 8th regular school board meeting, September 24th special school board meeting, September 29th special school board meeting, and then the September 29th public work session. Again, we're asking for the approval of those minutes of those. 5.2 is the approval of the accounts payable voucher register as presented. 5.3 is the approval of the payroll voucher register. 5.4 is the approval of personnel report as displayed on the screen which has the following employment following for resations retirements and professional requests and terminations on the screen. Item 5.5 approval of overnight field trips which includes field trips
011for NHS debate this school year and then the speeches of 18 groups here well high school science middle school science high school choir those are all this year those groups Item 5.6 is approval of donations which includes donations for monster high school. You can see for the dance team cross country and the cheer team from the individuals listed on the page. We then include the approval of the U donations made to athletics for sponsorships. You can see the four sponsorships that are there doing that along with the Wright Middle School donations for the science Olympiad team. Very fitting for tonight. Then it includes fundraising for Monster High School for the following events. As you can see the event type of fundraiser and the projected income from those fundraisers. There are large amount of high schools
012fundraisers from the middle school and a proposed fundraiser from Frank Elementary School Kids. With that, the administration recommends that the board approve consent agenda items 5.1 through including 5.7 as presented. Would any of the board like any items broken down? Is there a motion to approve consent agenda items 5.1 through and including 5.7 >> 412? So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All those in favor of the motion, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Carries 4. Item 6.1, resolution 886 to adopt the bus replacement plan. >> Administration. The administration recommends that the board approve resolution 8.86. Is there a motion to approve resolution 886 to adopt the bus replacement plan budget year for budget year 2026 as presented? >> Also moved. >> There a second. >> Is there a second? >> Any discussion? I
013won't repeat this every resolution coming up, but as the board recalls, we had a public works session as Mr. and felt as mentioned a minute ago. On September 3rd, 2025 on the 2026 budget as well as the capital projects plan and bus replacement plan. On September 8th, we asked permission to advertise which was granted. On September 9th, the plans were submitted on Gateway as well as put on our website. September 24th, we had a public hearing to hear the public comments on the 2026 budget. The administration recommends that the board adopt the 2026 proposed bus replacement plan. And remember, this is just a plan. Uh we don't replace buses just because uh they're at the 12-ear mark. Uh Matt Houston is an amazing mechanic. He does great things, but and he makes sure we keep
014our buses safe and we pass the bus inspections all the time. So, uh kudos to him, but this is the plan for the bus replacement for 2026. Any questions? >> All those in favor of the motion, please say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries 4 Z. Item 6.2, resolution 887 to adopt the capital projects fund plan budget year 2026. Mr. >> Yes, sir. The administr administration recommends that the board approve resolution 887, the capital projects fund plan for budget year 2026. Is there a motion to approve resolution 887 to adopt the capital projects fund plan for budget year 2026 as presented? >> Cinder, I move to approve resolution 887 to adopt the capital projects fund plan budget year 2026 as presented. >> Is there a second? >> A second. >> Any discussion? >> Uh
015just I I know you know we've gone over these plans for actually years. It's more than a one-year plan. This is planned out. Mr. Podschool and Mr. Begley do a great job looking into the future. We've done a lot of preventative maintenance which has cut some things out of the plan which is great because we're staying in front of it and paying less because of it. Uh but with everything done again it's just a plan uh the board the administrator administration recommends that the board approve resolution 887. Any further discussion? >> All those in favor of the motion, please say I. I. >> Any opposed? Carries. 4 Z. Item 6.3 resolution 8.88 budget form number four. Mr. Mel. >> Yes. The administration recommends that the board approve resolution 8.88. It's a resolution for appropriations and
016tax rates. >> Is there a motion to approve resolution 888, budget form number four, as presented? >> Well, so moved. Is there a second? >> A second. >> Any discussion? >> Yes. I'll take just a couple seconds on uh form number four. When you look at form number four, there are a couple things I want to remind. I know the board knows, but I do want to remind the community. First thing is the adopted budget. We only spend what we need to spend on the budget. Uh like in the rainy day column, it says $7 million. I can tell you I budget for the rainy day every year because I'm not a soothsayer. I don't know what's going to happen to a roof or a a cooling unit or whatever. So, we budget for it.
017Ever since I've been here, we have spent zero dollars in the rainy day. And we're planning hopefully that's going to be the same in 2026. Also, when you look at the adopted tax rate uh column, it says $1.76. That is not the rate we believe it's going to be. We believe the rate is going to be approximately 128. my numbers are right. Somewhere between $127 and a128 is when we're going to land. We do this to safeguard against any potential mistakes in assessment to make sure we have the funds that we need to provide for our students. But as the board recalls, board has directed me to keep the tax rate under $1.41 to the best that we can. In the past one, two, three, four, five, five years in a row, we've been at
018approximately a$130. There have actually been years that we've been approved for for a higher tax rate, higher tax rate from the DLGF and the board has artificially said no, we can do with a little bit less and the uh superintendent and they've done everything can they can for our taxpayers. I say all of that again to remind us we're going to be at a really good tax rate this year, but in the future, especially two years from now and then in 2031 at its highest with the new legislation, the tax rate will increase. Again, I hope I'm wrong, but I know I'm not. Uh the tax rate will increase, but the uh money out of the taxpayers's pocket, I believe, will decrease. It's just the way they change the rule. It's like halfway through a
019football game, they're saying a touchdown is worth six points or seven with the extra point, and then a little bit later, they're saying it's only worth two points now. So, they changed the formula. So, I just want to put that ahead so you guys all know that. So, with that being said, the administration uh recommends that the board approve resolution 888. Unless there's any questions, I'm sorry. I think I might have saw one. Any questions, guys? >> All those in favor of the motion to approve resolution 888 by number four is presented, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries 40. Item 6.4, for resolution 889 to transfer amounts from the education fund to the operations fund. >> Yes. The administration recommends that the board approve resolution 889, a resolution to transfer amounts
020from the education fund to the operations fund. >> Is there a motion to approve resolution 889 to transfer amounts from the education fund to the operations fund? Yes. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. further discussion. >> Yes. This just a reminder that since I do believe 2019 when they changed the whole system of uh the the buckets for uh financing schools, this is the mechanism that they gave the state gave us to move money from the education fund to the operations fund. At that time back before 2019, it would have taken actually over 25% I think on average is what we should have sent spent sent sent over to make it even. We're sending less than 15% because that's what the state recommends and that's what we've done. So the number
021that's right written down there which is 5 million is just the top end. We put it a little bit higher than we believe it's going to be because we don't know where the ADM is going to end up which the ADM looks to be a little bit higher than I had in the budget report which is very very very good thing. So the administration recommends uh the board passing resolution number 889. Any further discussion? >> All those in favor of the motion please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries 4 Z. Item 6.5, ratification of the 2025 2027 Monster Teachers Association collective bargaining agreement. Mr. Dempsey, the administration recommends that the board ratify the 2025 through 2027 monster teacher association collective parking agreement as presented. Is there a motion to approve the ratification
022of the 2025 2027 Monster Teachers Association collective marketing agreement as presented? >> Sure. >> 12. So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Smith second. >> Any discussion? As you are aware of the September 29th uh work session, we went through and uh Dr. X did a great job explaining all of the changes that were there on that thing. So we have uh by law had to present that at least 72 hours before this meeting which we've met that requirement and we're hoping that this we can move forward with this like any questions guys I just want to say real quick that was take us here one extra minute but there was a lot of work this >> and Ryan Ridgely is also here Thank him through the monster teachers association. >> Mr. Ridgely, thank
023you as always. All those in favor of the motion, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> I motion carries. Record the senator abstains. Carries. Motion carries three to zero. >> Item 6.6 Six retain services of the automated logic for control equipment and the MHS pool. >> School town of Monster administration recommends an approval retaining the services of automated logic for the purchase, replacement, and installation of control equipment in the Mster High School pool for $92,890. Is there a motion to approve the retaining services of automated logic for control equipment in the MHS pool as presented? >> Schwarz will so moved. >> Is there a second? >> A second. >> Any discussion? Uh the Munch pool is 15 years old and the control equipment is uh starting to fail. say um getting ahead of
024our maintenance in order to control the air handlers and maintain the environment in the building. >> All those in favor of the motion, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion carries. 4 Z. Item 6.7, purchase of an enhanced transport bus from Mallister Transportation. uh the school town of Mer Administration recommends the approval of the purchase of an enhanced transit bus from McAllister transportation for the cost $291,369. [Music] >> Is there a motion to approve the purchase of this enhanced transit bus from Mallister Transportation as presented? >> Tender. So move. >> Is there a second? >> A second. >> Any discussion? Uh since 2021, we purchased our first enhanced transit bus, as I affectionately dubbed it, called it, Mustang one. This would be called Mustang 2. Um since that time when we purchased
025it in uh we we approved in 2021, it came in in 2022. It has transported our students on field trips. It has transported our band. It has transported our athletic teams and our academic teams. Uh good example is is a much more comfortable bus to ride in. It has better climate control, better seating, uh has DVD players. We took it on a trip to Nebraska with one of our academic teams. So, it gives us that flexibility to transport our students without having to uh contract out um private carriers and uh it is a source of pride of for our students and athletes when they go to their different contests. >> All those in favor of the motion, please say I. I >> any opposed? Motion carries 4 Z. Item 6.8 is school town of Monster
026Pepsi agreement for 2025 through 2028. Mr. Nolan, >> it works. Uh yeah, part of my role at the high school is uh every three years this contract comes up with PepsiCo. Um this is a schoolwide contract. So, it runs K through actually down to our preschool all the way up through high school. But this is our bargain um agreement with Pepsi for supplying as a sole provider for all of our drinks and beverages at concessions um the food food service areas throughout the campus. Is there a motion to approve the school tunnel monster Pepsi agreement for 2025 through 2028 as presented? >> Miss so moved. Is there a second? >> Is there a second? >> Any further discussion? All those in favor of the motion, please say I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries 4 Z.
027>> Item number seven, any items that may properly come before the board. There are any general information and discussion items. Item nine, administrative reports. Dr. There was a point in time in my life where I would have prepared the budget. I would have done the bargaining on my own. I would have been prepared Pepsi. I cannot tell you what amount of joy it brings me to only have to cosign on these items and have already discussed them behind the scenes. What a luxury, my friends. I'm so grateful. I do want to thank our partners in the MTA and Mr. Richley and his bargaining team. When you come to contract resolution this early in the process, it is because there have been a lot of pre-bargaining meetings wherein the heavy lifting of where can we be,
028what can we afford, what is reasonable has already been worked out. Most of that happened before I was hired. Uh a lot of the philosophical conversation behind the scenes is really it takes to move a contract forward. And I want to thank you and your team for the work you've done. And I want to thank my team for the work that they did prior to my arrival and since I've come. It's a very equable contract. I believe I think when other folks settle their contracts and start to compare of the work you guys have done, I say you guys because this year I really landed right at the tail end. uh that this work and I'm grateful for the work that you've done. I also want to make sure it's abundantly clear to any teacher
029in this room, any teacher watching this online that Mrs. Cinder loves you and would vote for this contract. But because we made the the incredibly great choice of hiring her husband work for us, she is not in a position vote on this contract. We don't want anyone I don't want anyone to think that she has dubious reason for having abstained. It is actually love is the reason that she had to abstain from this contract. So I just wanted to say that out loud so that people are not confused. It is my opportunity to update you. I send you these misses weekly and I give you lots of updates. Uh but publicly, I just really wanted uh to let you know that I've had a chance to meet with a few of our community partners uh
030over the last month, including our some of our faith leaders at St. Paul, St. Tom's, and uh Westminster Presbyterian. And it's been a real joy to start to see uh how those who walk alongside us to serve children in the community uh want to be a part of uh what we do here at School Town. They've been very nice meetings and I feel like as we move forward there are a lot of things our community grow. I had the chance to attend kindness walks and the kindness walk and the hawkw walk. I got all the consonants in there right. Um and what I'm learning is I'm going to need new shoes guys. Everything is a walk here and I love it. It's wonderful. We've got Chamber of Commerce weather, but I have worn through the
031rubber soles of my shoes. I'm going to need a fresh set. Uh, but what joy, what joyous occasions. What a great opportunity to see our our students engaged in not only physical activity, but a lot of fun. There was a great mascot race. I have footage I can show you after. It was my first homecoming as superintendent here at uh School Town of Monster. And what I want to say to you is I don't know how you ordered up the Chamber of Commerce weather. Obviously, uh Mr. Mr. Nolan and his team made arrangements uh with our partners at Web Ford to get uh a brand new Mustang for me to drive in the parade. Uh I I'm trying I'm in early talks with Mr. Begley about Mustang 3. Um I don't know. I don't know
032where we're going to get with that. Uh but we want to thank our friends at at Web 4. I want to thank Mr. uh and his team for putting that together and for coming up with courses for homecoming and all of the amazing small and grand gestures they did to make our kids feel special and to give our alumni a place to come and celebrate their time at School Town of Monster as well. They did an excellent job. Uh my my children went to the dance and it was lovely. No one prepared me for the fact that Centennial Park was like Disneyland trying to get pictures ahead of that. Now I know we'll go earlier next year. It's a great learning opportunity. I have received feedback from the town manager at uh town of Mester
033and either of the dates that we floated for a joint meeting on the 21st work. I would ask you to consider whether you prefer a Monday or Wednesday. Give me some feedback and we will uh solidify those dates. And that concludes my update. Thank you, Dr. Hicks. 9.2, Assistant Superintendent Reports. Miss Ber, >> good evening. Um, just as Dr. Hicks said, you do get our updates weekly. So, um, just wanted to say thank you for allowing me the opportunity to attend the IAPSS and ISBA conference. It was great to learn from our colleagues around the state. They had an excellent keynote this year. Um, and it was it was great to hear that everyone's in it together, whether in in little districts or big districts. Um, it was probably the best one that we've been
034to so far. So, thank you for that opportunity. Just a reminder, first quarter ends on Thursday. That means fall break. We have five days this year, which I know some families are really excited about, and I know all students are probably very excited. And the end of uh the quarter ends on Thursday. Fall break starts Friday, October 10th, and students return on the 15th. And we also had our first flex day. Um we wrote a waiver um a year or so ago to provide us the opportunity to offer flex time. So our our late start Thursday also became a early release this year for three days. Our first one was in September. Our next one is November 13th, and I believe the following one is January 23rd. Don't quote me on that one. It was
035a success and that was due to all the hard work of our administrators, our instructional coaches, our social workers that presented um we had clerical um with support from um our IT department, our teachers engaged in curriculum mapping. um some everyday math training. Um our instructional assistants engaged in um training through our social workers and our administrators on understanding confidentiality and the importance within um the context of our schools and then also in supporting students with maladaptive. Thank you to everyone that contributed and worked hard on that and >> thank you Miss Burgerer, Mr. Trialis, Mr. mentioned uh the average daily membership which is what we refer to as ADM. Um as you all know in the board people don't know in the audience October 1st is the day we count all the heads of
036children that are in the school district. Our number this year is tentatively 4,034.41 students. Now, the point41 people always ask, we have some students who may be homeschooled who may attend our school partially for certain things. And so, sometimes you'll get uh a partial kid because they don't let us count them fully. If they're only here for two periods a day, we count them for the two periods. So, 4,34 students really, but 4,35 heads, if you want to call that. Um, that is compared to last year, uh, 4,023 was our ADM last year. So, we're up about 11. I do believe at a meeting that Mr. Melvin with all the business managers of region one, there were three districts that were either stable or increased enrollment. Um, the rest all had declining enrollment, some rather
037significant. So, that's a positive note for us. Um, also just as you approve the teacher contract, just so you guys are aware, and this is more for those teachers listening online or in the room, after this meeting, I plan to send an email out to our teachers that summarizes the changes so they'll see that. And I do want to make the board aware and everyone else aware that our hope is to work with payroll and human resources to get all of the changes for the increases that are there. And there are several uh different things that are increased. We hope to have those in the pay date on November 7th. So the first pay date of November should show those. And again, we plan with the increase. It's obviously a retroactive contract. So there'll be
038retropay. We've got to adjust that. We've got to adjust some things with the 401A which increased. We have to adjust some things with the um medical premiums, medical insurance premiums that we increased with the district cover. So that's going to hopefully happen by 117. There should be information coming. I'm hoping shortly after this meeting is over, I'll send that email out. Um I also want the board to be aware that Dr. Hicks administrative staff at the central office are going to now start working on any potential raises for the other approximately 300 employees that we have at the school town of Monster. Uh we usually handle the teacher contract first and now we have to work with our classified staff, our professional staff, our executive professional staff and then our administrative staff. So we'll hopefully
039be bringing those proposals and I say hope with my fingers crossed uh for you guys as a board in November. Um, and I do believe hopefully we'll have a a work session or something like or probably an executive session to talk about some of those things. Um, and again, uh, our hope is to have all of that at the November board meeting so everyone uh, at that time can know what the raises will be for all the staff. Um, one other thing that I want to make the, uh, board aware of, it's been a little bit difficult to hire new staff with the government shutdown. Most people don't realize what actually occurs, but the federal government requires us to verify that every employee is able to work in the United States called E-Verify. And you
040see that because I know you live with this. Um, so it's been extremely difficult because uh again that check is required by the federal government. Uh, but at this time the process to do that has been shut down because of the government shutdown. So, it's called E-Verify and the E-Verify website that we went through and it is down until the government reopens. Um, we are a little concerned that it might be a lengthy shutdown. So, we're discussing options how we're going to handle that with the shutdown because uh if we need people that are in classrooms like instructional assistance, we can't wait. So, we're probably going have to do some things and make sure we write some provisions that those will be handled as soon as possible. and uh federal government says we have to
041get within three days. I don't know if we're going to be able to do it within three days or higher if they won't let us. So, we're going to have to figure that out. Just want to let you guys know that. And I did want to commend Monster High School homecoming activities were tremendously successful. And if you haven't lived this, I was a high school principal for a few years. Halftime is controlled chaos of homecoming. And Mr. Mr. Null and his team and I got to give credit to I think Maz and Mrs. Mrs. Leort um for organizing those events and getting that all all off as the clock at the halftime rung zero we were pulling the cars off of the the field. So tremendous job with that Mr. Dan kudos and very successful
042dance and again very successful. So just wanted to give them some commendations for that because they did a great job. With that that is my report. >> Thank you Mr. Telus. Item 9.3, Chief Financial Officer Report. Mr. Milby, >> I apologize in advance. Mine's going to be a little bit longer than normal, but I'll try to talk relatively fast. First, I want to thank uh the MTA because again, working with you over the last several years. It's been it's great to work with people that know the numbers probably as well as I do. So, I really really appreciate that. Um, also, uh, Mr. Mr. Tribon Sepeld said by November 7th. I want we're hoping to get some of it done on the 24th. So, I'm not going to make the promise, but I will tell
043you Crystal Parker and Lindseay Poli in our payroll and our deputy treasure do tremendous work. So, if you see something a little earlier, I didn't want you to freak out. Okay? There will be an announcement if it does. Uh, okay. If we go to the cash sheets, the education fund, and I'm going to go relatively quickly in the basic grant. I got the news of the ADM after we had to get this to you to review. So when you look at the blue area, the uh the estimated area, those numbers are going to go up. Now, Mr. Castro would always say, "You're very conservative, Mr. Melby." Yes, I am. Now, I know where the numbers going to be approximately, and I can uh estimate bring those back up where they should be by the next
044board meeting. Uh under supplies, I I do want to mention this again. And the number for supplies, remember, that's going to go way up this year because curriculum materials are now most of them will go right into that line item. So, I think I said that in um February. I'm reminding us again because we did have an uptake uh in our supply cost. Underneath that is the equipment hardware. That's a little bit higher than normal. I have to uh Mr. Podskll from the technology department does an amazing job keeping me updated when his renewals are going to be when everything I get the credit for the numbers being pretty good. They do a lot of the work. I mean most of the work. All I have to do is put it in my spreadsheet. So
045Mr. Pos, thank you. Those are licenses being renewed class link, Microsoft Classwise, and Class Composer if I'm not mistaken. Uh if we go to the operations fund, uh you'll see the investments did very well. Uh the next three months are also going to be very productive as well, which will get into the quarterly report. If we go down to the utilities, I do believe at the last board meeting I mentioned, remember when they put that reader on your house and sometimes they don't read it. You get your bill a couple months later and it's really high. Well, that happened to us. The high school wasn't being read for a long time, so that's why that number is 300,000. Ouch. I guess you could figure out how much the utilities for the high school are over
046a six, seven month period. Then you have maintenance and repair. That number is much higher than normal, but think about it. It was beginning of the year. We did our seal coating. We lined our our parking lots. The fire alarm uh inspectors were in. We make sure Mr. Begley does a great job making sure everything is working and tested. Not just we think it's working. We're getting these things tested. Uh generator testing. And we did have a couple roof leaks that we took care of. And you'll see also in the mobile and fixed equipment Cisco agreement that drove that number up as well. I know the board knows this. I'm going to say it again. Remember there's school finance. There's buckets. I can't pay for a school bus out of the education fund. I can't
047pay for a teachers raise out of the uh operations fund. They all have their own uh function and we have to stick to those things. That's it as far as cash sheets. I the ed uh referendum fund. There was nothing out of the ordinary. We were right where we thought we would be and obviously there were no uh debt payments uh made in October. The next thing I'm going to go over is the financial update, the quarterly financial update. Uh on the top you'll see our investments where we're at uh since 2013 and then where we're at currently. Uh that is not taking October, it ended at the end of September. We're tracking right about where we were last year for the entire year. That's we'll come in probably slightly under it, but right about
048there. If you go to the next page, you'll see uh where we those uh investments are. Remember, I'm not going out and picking where we're putting these investments. We bid them out. We go with the best bid and that's how it goes. So, that's why you'll see different ones or maybe some uh more of one than we would like. You'll see the amount that we have, the source, where we're pulling that money from, and you'll see the rate. Just talking about the rate, the Fed rate has dropped approximately 50 basis points over the last two terms or four months or whatever when they've talked. So rates are going down. What does that mean for our investments, the curve is upside down. You normally think the longer you invest, the better your return is going to
049be. You're still going to get more money the longer you invest, but your rate may not be as good because they feel the Fed rate's going to go down even further, which is great if you want to buy a home. Interest rates probably in the next 6 months to a year I'm hoping are going to go down some. It's not great with if you're doing investments, but we are uh laded out as you see through 2027 already, but you will notice some of the numbers are a little bit lower when you go out further. Now the next page if you look at the education fund uh you know our total budget uh currently uh our expenses were well within the 75% that we uh can should be at this point. We're definitely coming in underneath
050that. But we also know there's going to be an uptick the last three months. Retroises to teachers that's going to go in there as well as other things. We know beginning of the year and usually the end of the year cost a little bit more money. the operations fund we are significantly under and I'm going to say a lot of that is because of preventative maintenance as well as we're doing a great job keeping our buses in uh great shape. Uh we do have some expenses coming in obviously if this bus comes in at the end of the year that's going to uh tick it up a little bit as well as another bus and the referendum fund we're tracking basically where we're at. We're in no way worried about being over our appropriations for
051any of our and again this report is done the state uh S&P that gives our school ratings out. They like that I give this so I'm going to continue to give this every quarter. You have any questions on the financial report? >> Mr. Mel, thank you. >> Yes, sir. 9 item 9.4 director of operations. >> Thank you. Uh just come a quick update on some of the projects we have going on. The uh sound system that we just installed in the auditorium has been installed and fine tuned and that project is complete. Also uh the fine arts if you've been in the back we've installed and planters in that to improve the security as well as the aesthetics. uh that has been completed and we're going to look to some other entrances to continue to
052update those uh in the upcoming months for spring and summer 26. Uh 35th Street parking lot and storage. The fence has been installed. The pad for the bleacher is being prepped to court this week. Trusses and roof has been installed and they're tying that into the existing structure and they'll start shingling the roof this week. subgrade for the parking lot has been delivered and is being replaced and the project is picking back up pace. It was a lot of people like oh they stopped working on it. They were doing a lot of the underground conduit for the light poles and a lot of the underground stuff that really a lot of people didn't see but it had to be done before all this got going. So we are still looking at anticipated completion date the
053end of this month early November. uh tennis facility have to go to the town to get variance approved of fence height. Uh meeting with them on the 14th planning commission. Uh we're doing a big furniture delivery over fall break at Wilbur Wright. We're doing 20 classrooms, new furniture. Eats and Elliot are both getting nine classrooms, new furniture. Uh parking lot lights for Eids and Elliot. We need to go through variance process due to the town with town due to the picture shape and the height. So we'll go through that process to get that approved and move forward with that project. We're meeting with the architects and the central office personnel on Thursday, October 9th to refine the design of the central office as we continue that design process. Uh the monster high school automation as
054you approve the one pool. We also have smaller ones that were under $75,000 threshold required board approval that we're going to get fixed to include the parking lot lights. Um some of the controls in the south classrooms. So we're going to get those going uh because that is coming an issue. That's an integrated system with pneumatic controls that really need to get replaced. We're going to get going on that as soon as possible. Uh we're going to be replacing exterior signage at Eids and the interior signage that we're right over fall break. Uh transportation, our two new buses have been delivered as well as the new activity bus. Those have all been inspected by the state police and they are now transporting students. So, thank you for everyone that helped with that project. Uh we
055also uh Debbie Goth, one of our drivers served us for 20 years. She retired after everyone got recognized. Uh she was five years at Frank Haven um at I believe playground aid and she served as very loyally as a bus driver for 20 and we uh had her over for some cake with her family and uh talked about some old stories driving around school monster and had a nice little event for her and her family and we she'll be back here at the end of the year for the recognition school but we wanted to do something for her. Uh with food service, Tartwells hosted the coach's cookoff with coach Ron and coach Doug. They provide their favorite sandwich recipes and students voted on what their favorite and if the demand is high enough chars. That's
056all I have. >> Thank you. Item 9.5 director of computer systems Hello everybody. Um the team is continuing to still make progress with the old main swap. Um I believe right now the med dash is what we're making machines roughly 30 to 40 that we started with this uh this summer. So we're almost done with that. And then last week you didn't have a chance to talk about town. I want to give a little update on the town itself. And I got to say that working with amazing at the time when she was home manager supported us a lot of the things that we were trying to do to get where they needed to be really helped us get into place before even our summer started so that we were able to what we call
057maintenance mode so that we can focus on our district needs and get everything done for us without really impacting you know their ability to do the dayto-day stuff but working with awesome Austin too they've been very supportive tonight I believe they're a Microsoft contract council meeting which is going to also help us do a lot more that it's been thank you Um, I just wanted to commend you um, in the report from our superintendent, the fact that you're maybe helping another district. I love the team camaraderie and that's what we should all be doing is helping each other. So, thank you for doing that. >> If you don't mind, I would like to add maybe three more quick little things. first reminded me you're reminded me of it. But no, as a matter of fact,
058uh the Indiana Office of Technology actually hosted a symposium today in Noblesville, Indiana. Um there was a government IT symposium in which our partnership with Tom was brought up actually reached out by portage several folks. They're interested in how we're doing this. we make it to work and you know the challenges of that with and also even has reached out as some help. So there's definitely some interest in you know journey but so far has been very positive and stay [Music] director of elementary education. >> Um so I just wanted to share we began administering I learned checkpoint one this week at elementary which provides teachers with valuable feedback on student progress towards mastering the skills and concepts aligned with Indiana academic standards. We'll be eager to see how we're progressing as students take checkpoints
059throughout the year. So we're excited about that data. And then Miss Bergrren did already highlight our flex day, but I would uh like to note um it really was a wonderful day of learning across the board. It celebrated collaboration and the collective expertise of our staff. One of the things that I absolutely loved is that our administrators and our teachers led the vast majority of that professional learning for the day, which was absolutely incredible. We look forward to continuing this momentum throughout the year. And then as we close out the first grading period, and with it being October and National Principles Month, I would be remiss if I did not take a moment to highlight our incredible principles who lead our school each day. Um, I want to acknowledge the outstanding work they do alongside
060their teams to create learning environments where students and staff thrive. Principal ship is not easy and it's not getting any easier. Um, and they have an incredibly we have an incredibly dedicated team that really amaze me and deserve so much credit for the heights we are at Monster and will continue to reach as a district. So, I thank you all. >> Thank you, Miss H. Item 9.7, director of communications. >> Everyone, so I'm excited to share I received approval to purchase camera, which will allow me to do some amazing high quality photographs and videos um enhance the visual quality of professionals of our website, newsletters, and social media. And um as always, I am updating and adding new pages to our website. So I'm going to just highlight each month those additions. And this um
061this month I um it'll be finalized by the end of the week. Um I have added a website for Mster High School um for their clubs as well as for extracurriculars that um students and families can search on um keywords such as drama and theater, music um and different activities like that so that they can um try to find some offerings for their students based on their interests. We have so many different types of things that students can be involved in and because of that large amount of information oftent times some students just have information information overload and they just don't know where to go. So this is um one of those things that maybe we have something there for them to kind of hone down on some of their interest that available for them.
062Another um addition um that I made was to the guidance department page. Um um Mr. Schneider gave me some information regarding their dual credit report um and I made an infographic so that we could highlight all of the um great success that we had and well as a narrative that Mr. make sure that all of that hard work and success. And then finally, um, Peach Jar, which is our digital, um, flyer platform. Um, this is something that is at the top of every single website uh, that our families receive an email on Mondays and Thursdays. I am going to continually start reaching out to community organizations so that once again our families can find information for their students as well as themselves get more involved within our communities and organizations. >> Thank you. >> Item
06310.1 individual board member reports back to Schwarz Wolf. >> Good evening. I attended the Indiana School Board Association fall conference on Monday, September 15th. Um said very engaging, fun to meet with other um school board members and administrators. I did send a very detailed report to my fellow board members because when the district pays for us to go to something, we should make sure the other people get the information. I'll give you a snippet so you don't have to listen read. They have to read the real one. You guys can hear this. Uh the first one I went to was blueprints of success building a successful self- sustaining studentr run business especially with the pathways graduation pathways changing making it more work-based learning this was very interesting um Spencer Owen Community School started a printing
064company within their school in the high school in 2019 which was way before graduation pathways um it started out as one period became seven periods it's fullun printing service and led by the CEO, CFO, everybody is students. So, pretty impressive. The second one I attended was establishing excellence, transforming your board into a high performing team. Noblesville superintendent and board members presented that one. Um, just talked about a formal document that they wrote together as a self-reflection, self-governance. Um, they called it shared commitment. So, we've been talking about maybe doing something like that too, getting us all kind of a code of conduct or how we want to present ourselves. I also represented Monster at the Indiana School Board Association uh delegate assembly. This is an annual business meeting for the Indiana School Board Association. The
065big push, I won't go through all the legisl legislation, but is regulatory relief. In the last eight years, Indiana's had 308 laws passed that affect K to2 education, which means people like Mr. Tripenfeld has to then take all those policy changes laws and put them into our policy. So, we had a to our meeting the other night discussing these policies and I'm not going to say some of them aren't needed. I didn't say that. Um so a lot of the questions are what is how are these laws affecting academic achievement and public education and those are going to be the questions that many of us are asking our legislators starting in January for the new short session. Thank you. >> Well, Miss Cinder, >> thank you Dr. Hicks for calling out the and I teacher
066contract. Um I do have no report this [Music] >> Smith. >> Um on behalf of my role in the park district, um on October 21st, we'll be holding a public hearing which will be focused on the proposed park project updates and the funding for those projects. This is separate from Centennial Park projects. So if you are interested more information on that. Again, it's October 21st. Um, separately, I've had the privilege of attending numerous athletic events across Wilbur Wright and the high school. And I just want to make note, I cannot speak highly enough of our students, coaches, and staff who attend those events. Um, represent our school district as well as our community as a whole. Um, we have been outstanding from the events I'm able to attend. And it's well worth noting because some
067of the other places we've been to um have not been as strong as monster school students. Also, I had the privilege of attending the fall play at the high school which was outstanding and their hard work was beyond impressive. Um those students who do the fall play spend day and night between rehearsing and all of the backstage efforts they do is amazing. Um I also want to make note Monster High School marching band community event is on October 25th at 7 o'clock. So if you have not seen our Monster High School marching band, they're performing their new halftime presentation which you saw a little bit if you attended the um homecoming. So look forward to that on October 25th at 7 p.m. >> Mr. I just wanted to quickly say to you and your team
068that it's very well appreciated the your guys' willingness to come to the table with open minds and the professionalism that you guys constantly when you guys when we do this every couple years I know enough I I've never been part of other school districts so I I can't speak for others but I can say with utmost confidence that this is not as seamless as is here in in a lot of other school districts. So, thank you for your effort and all of your hard work and um real quickly I wanted to make mention Mr. Nolan because we had we had four home football games this year and so this year we had a homecoming and senior night and Triffin kind of stole my thunder. Those are two big events, two big um reasons for celebration
069that we had to bring together in in one game. And I and I want to mention something to you that I want you to pass on to coach St. Louis. A dad, a player's dad came up to me in the meeting and or at the game and I guess coach St. Louis allowed the dads to be part of the pregame speech of the seniors and this dad he had tears in his eyes. It was the third quarter and he had tears in his eyes. This is his fourth uh kid that he's going through. Monster and he said it was the the best 10 minutes that he's had of all his kids in the school district. Walked out of there uh with tears in his eyes because of how pumped up he was and even in
070the third quarter he was that excited that he wanted to share that. Uh so just please pass on coach St. that I thought that was a great idea and I think it was very well. That is all I have. Item 11.1 announcements. We have an executive session meeting in two weeks from now on October 20th and we have our November meeting, regular November meeting on November 10th, both at 6 pm. Uh with that, I will entertain a motion to adjourn. >> 412. So move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor of the motion, please say I. I >> 4 Z.