001[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Happy. [Music] Good evening. We are starting our Wednesday, September 24th special meeting and public hearing. Um, this meeting is a meeting of the school board in a public for in public for the purpose of conducting the school corporation's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There will be time for public participation. We are calling this meeting to order at 6 pm. Uh roll call. Ingred Schwarzwolf >> here. >> John Castro >> here. >> And let it be stated that Amy Cinder and Kyle Dempsey are not in attendance this evening. Uh may we stand
002for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> We here at School Town of Monster, our mission is to cultivate excellence, empowering every student to realize their full potential and achieve high levels of learning. Our vision is as a school community where all students have a sense of belonging, take ownership of their learning, and find joy, passion, and purpose in their continued growth. >> We currently offer two ways in which the community can participate in regular schoolboard 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
003the 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 any 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 to Deb Hayes at the start of tonight's meeting. At the start of the meeting, all public comments are limited to three minutes per individual with a total of 30 minutes allocated allotted, I'm sorry, for each public comment section on the agenda. With that stated, we'll start with public hearing. We will open the meeting with a public hearing on the 2026 budget, 2026-2030 bus replacement plan, and 2026-2028 capital projects fund. As the board recalls,
004>> I make a motion >> to recess the special board meeting and open the public hearing. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> Okay. As the voter recalls, we had a public work session on September 3rd, 2025 on the 2026 budget, as well as the capital projects plan and bus replacement plan. We then asked permission to advertise the 26 budget capital projects plan and bus replacement plan. On September 9th, the plans were submitted submitted on Gateway. Today is the date of the public hearing to see if there are any public comments. >> Public comments. Are there any uh >> uh as the board recalls I I I know the board promised several years ago about seven years ago maybe 10 years ago now that they would pro try to keep the tax rate
005to approximately $141 the best they can. This will be the sixth year in a row that we're averaging between the six years approximately 10 cents under that. I believe we'll end up around approximately 1.27 to 1.28 cents. So that's significantly lower than the$141 promise. >> Very good. I will ask for a motion now to close the public hearing. >> Schwarz Wolf so moved. >> Castro second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> We will now reconvene the regular meeting. The public comments on action items. Are there any public comments on any of our action items this evening? We have one. You um our first action item is 4.1 resolution 885 authorizing issuance of individual procurement cards. >> The administration recommends to approve resolution 885 as presented. I will ask for a motion now to approve
006resolution 885 author authorizing issuance of individual procurement cards as presented. Schwarz so moved. >> Castro second. >> Any discussion? >> Yes. The finance team reviewed three different credit card vendors and chose if you guys decide as our new PECARD provider. This change will provide stronger customer service support as they are a part of IASBO and I know you know what ISBO stands for. Association of School Business Officials and work directly with schools. The online portal is more friendly uh user friendly and allows our ECAs in the building access to view the purchases that they make individually instead of everything altogether. Uh we believe this switch will ensure fi the financial tools are better for our school town of >> uh one quick question as we're making this change. Are we changing the uh personnel that
007has access to this card? >> As of right now, no changes. Again, there's so many variances on why we would use a card. The first thing that pops into my mind, a team is successful. They go downstate. We got to provide food, hotels. We take the credit card to do that. There's also some vendors that do not uh do the PO process. So, uh if you need to get something and you can get it cheaper, you can pay with the credit card ahead of time. So, there's a lot of reasons we uh to use a credit card, you have to come to our office, you have to check the card out, you have to go through a lot of processes, sign it, how much you're spending, when you take the card out, when you bring
008the card back in. We have a lot of steps to follow, but we will not we're not planning on changing who's going to be able to use the cards. >> Understood. Thank you. >> I will now call for a vote. All in favor? I >> any items that may properly come before to the board at this time. Are there any general public comments that would like to be provided tonight? There are none. Great. With that said, we can close the board meeting announcements. Seven.1 announcements. Our future meetings are September 29th, 2025. We have a special meeting in public work session at 6 pm. October 6 at 2025 regular board meeting at 6 PM October 20th 2025 executive session at 7:30 p.m. I will ask for a motion to adjurnn. >> Schwarzwell so moved. >> Castro
009second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> The meeting is concluded.