CorpusRecord 47205

School Town of Munster Special Board Meeting 02/24/2025

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Source
YouTube / MunsterTechTeam
Date
2025-02-25
Location
Lake County, IN
Material
Transcript
Extent
617 words · about 4 min
Collected
2026-06-08

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001e e e director board memb are present let's stand for the pledge of aliance Al flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivis and justice for all item 1.4 public comments we currently offer two ways in which the community can participate in regular school board me the first public comments section on the agenda is for addressing current action items that are on tonight's agenda 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 comments section is for General comments and does not have to be specific to an agenda topic if you address the board during the general public comments section of the meeting put

002your name and topic on a card and give the his de ha at the start of the meeting all public comments are limited to three minutes per individual with a total of 30 minutes allotted for each public comment section on the agenda de are there any public comments item 3.1 IT services agreement with town of monster Administration recommends that the board approve the IT services agreement with the town of M as presented there a motion to approve the ites agement of WS wolf so moved there a second Smith second any discussion go ahead I'll start off just as you all know we've been talking with the town for over a year now about this potential uh this potential partnership that would have our it Department taking over all IT services for the town of mster

003and uh we have come to an agreement working with uh their Town manager their Town attorney and our town attorney uh to identify an agreement that would outline how those Services would be rendered the cost that would be associated with that um there's a strong belief within our team um especially our director of it um our human resources assistant superintendent and our director our chief oper sorry Chief Financial Officer that while we will be taking on this service there will also be an added benefit for the school town of mster because we will be hiring additional staff based on the revenue that we'll be gathering through this partnership that will allow us to not only meet the town's needs but better serve the students and staff of monster thank you Dr Hower any other discussion

004um I wanted to thank everybody for the work session because I think um Yar you did a great job presenting to us what this would entail and how it would benefit the school town of monster um and Patricia the fact that you came from the town to be there to answer questions was also very helpful U we were hoping maybe to get this on sooner but I also appreciate our attorneys in that every detail of this agreement all of our concerns that we had our attorney Angela Jones was able to address and I know Mr wesland also was um proactive for his group as well so I appreciate everybody's input into this any other discussion um I Echo that those sentiments and also feel like after looking this at this agreement that everybody put a

005lot of thought into this and and making it uh amendable for both sides um and it's it's really about working together here and finding the best way um that we could work with the town we of we often talk about how symbiotic the relationship is between town and School Town um and this is just another example um going forward so thank you for all the work that everybody put in any other discussion tra thank you also what ingred and John said about coming to our work session a few weeks ago that was awesome and and Yar thank you so much for the work you've done and and for the work that uh you guys are about to to bring on um if there if there is no further discussion all those in favor of the

006motion please say I I I I any opposed motion carries five zero item number four any items that may properly come before the board none there are none number five general public comments none item 6.1 announcements uh we have a executive session coming up March 6th and then our regular school board meeting on March 10th and with that I will entertain a motion to adjourn Schwarz wolf so moved C second all those in favor of the motion please say I I any opposed thank you that is a fast meeting yeah

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