001Okay. Good evening. I would like to welcome everyone and call to order this regular meeting of the Wise Community School Board of School Trustees. We will begin the meeting with the pledge of allegiance and vision statement led by Mr. Mike Fowler and the invocation led by Mr. Steven Bowledge >> 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. >> Our students are confident, well-rounded citizens who positively impact their communities. Let's bow our heads. Lord, thank you again for this this evening. I know it's been very cold and just a shock to the system for us, but Lord, we just thank you again for just bringing everyone here uh keeping us safe, keeping our schools focused on
002the the right thing to do. Let us focus on our students, our parents, uh concerns, issues as always keep you in mind and providing us wisdom and strength as we continue on uh to do the best work for you and for praise always. Amen. >> Amen. >> So, we have a large number of guests tonight and so we're going to start off with good news. Dr. Sher, good news items. >> Thank you, Mr. Bokart. We do have a number of uh good news items as well as uh a number of students that are here tonight um for us to celebrate. So, lots of neat things happening. Um first off, we are joined by representatives from uh girls cross country cheerleading and band. And um most of them are at the back there. Uh, so they're
003waiting patiently. Um, as a team, the Wawasi girls cross country team finished 14th at regionals and ran the seventh fastest fiveunner average in school history. Senior Mia Hodgson advanced to state competition for the third time in her high school career and ran a season best time of 1919. Congratulations to Mia and the WC girls cross country team for an outstanding season. Uh joining us are Mia and coach Doug Slaybball. >> So um coach and Mia have you want to come on? >> Come on up. >> YES. [applause] >> How's the knee? >> It's doing better. >> Very good. >> You want to say a few words? >> Yeah. Go ahead. get to the podium there and do it. >> Mia, Mia, stick around up front. >> Yeah, just to say a few things. Yeah, this
004is Mia's third consecutive year to the state meet. Um it was a different season than normal. Uh she had season this or surgery in May on her knee. Uh so to miss June and July of training for cross country runners really tough. Uh so it led through some ups and downs throughout the season. Uh but to still come back and qualify for the state meet and to go down and run her state her best time. Uh it's a testament to her. Um yeah, she's done a lot for the program. I think when she came in maybe there's six girls on the team and it's grown. This year I think we had 14. Um she just inspires a team and challenges them to be better every day. So thankful for her. So, congrats. >> Thank you.
005[applause] >> All right. Next up, the Wawasi High School cheerleaders earned a spot to compete at the state finals. The team placed seventh on Saturday at Newcastle High School. These athletes have shown incredible dedication, spirit, and teamwork throughout the season, proudly representing the Warrior community with pride. With us tonight are coaches Jonathan Lackey and Taylor Jacobs along with some members of the state qualifying team. And Tammy told me today that this may be the first time at least in a long time that we've had the cheerleaders here. So, congrats. Come on up. >> Yeah, come on up. [applause] Congratulations. >> Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Yes. Congratulations. Congratulations. Great job, guys. >> Oh, good. Yes. Congratulations. Congratulations. Yes. Good job, guys. >> Oh my gosh. Super. >> All right, coaches. You want to fill us
006in on your season? >> Absolutely. >> Hello. My name is Jonathan Lackey. Um, yeah. So, we ended up for our sectionals, uh, we qualified top five. So, typically it's the top eight that qualified for state and then I believe it was the first time the cheer teams qualified for state state since 2019, right, Taylor? >> And then, um, the first time we've ever qualified for the timeout division, so something to be proud of. We have hard workers, so we're really excited. And it was a really good showing. It was harder division, but it was really fun on Saturday, and I think the girls did really well. So, thank you all. Uh, timeout is kind of a a mix of stunting with crowd engagement where it's more to kind of bring the eyes to the cheerleaders
007>> from the stands. Um, typically the traditional is you do a little bit more pyramid stunting work. Uh, timeout you still do stunting and everything, but it's more of a >> I don't know kind of crowd engagement, but more getting the crowd really hyped up. So, we're pretty excited. Thank you. >> Yes. [applause] >> All right. Next. Congratulations to the Wawa Marching Warrior Pride being named the Isma Scholastic B State Champions. They were presented with their championship plaque and performed in an exhibition at Lucas Oil Stadium on November 8th. Director Tony Pickiki and some of the members of the Marching Warrior Pride are joining us tonight. Come on up. [applause] Look at that black. >> Congratulations. What? Your instrument is >> trumpet. >> Okay. And you play >> Okay. And your instrument is >> nice
008>> instrument. >> Okay. >> Congratulations. >> Say it again. >> I said thank you very much. >> Oh, no. What's your instrument? >> Oh, a vibrophone. >> Okay. And >> Tuba. All right. >> Congratulations. >> You going to say a few words and hold that thing up for us? >> I mean, would you like to write? [laughter] It's valuable. >> That is awesome. Yeah. Okay. >> He would like that back. >> Some of the parents ask if I've been, you know, taking this home at night, tucking it in. Um, the answer is no. I did get seat belted in on the way over here. Uh, you know, we, uh, when I took this job five, six years ago now, I, you know, our, we starting to build from the ground up, basically. And you know,
009our vision is to create and sustain a state caliber band program that engenders a sense of pride for the community, its members, and its alumni. And you know, five years later or five state finals later, we finally did it. So, uh, we have a wonderful group of students. We have a nice large senior class this year that had a lot of experience and, you know, we had a wonderful leadership. We had a great group of incoming freshman and eighth graders who really wanted to to push it. and um you know culminated in our first state championship ever. >> Well done. [applause] [applause] >> All right. >> I have a question. Yeah. >> Did you uh cuz I think the last time you were here, we were actually over in the warrior room and you talked
010about bringing some of the rubber pellets with you. Did you do that again when you went down? >> Of course I did. >> Okay. Yes. Great. >> You know, uh, for those of you that are familiar with the classic movie Space Jam, um, you know, the the Looney Tunes and Michael Jordan are up against it and Michael gives them his special juice to get them going in the second half and, uh, um, the first time I was at a March band competition and they're all in the end zone and they're they're looking afraid and and so I kind of bent down. I picked up some rubber pellets from Goan's Field and I put them in my pocket and then when it was time to call them up, I said, "Hey guys, this is our home
011turf." I brought it with us. This is your house now. And uh that lie um was once I lied once. Um never since we've taken a nice bag of uh rubber pellets from either the the field or our band room floor is where a lot of them end up and taken it with and actually Maya I did collect your turf from Lucas Oil. It's on your chair. >> Oh, nice. >> Um so yeah, every time we we do that little little bit of Wawa goes with us everywhere. We're very good. Yeah. >> All right. >> Well, thank you. >> Thank you. [clears throat] >> Yep. We are very proud of all of you. [applause] >> Thank you. [applause] >> I want to say thank you again to all the students that came out and their
012uh coaches and sponsors. um as I know giving up an evening to come to a board meeting um can be a little bit difficult to coordinate and get here and make those plans. So we want to um again thank you uh to all the students and to our teams and congrats on a very uh good a very job well done. >> Does that make sense? >> Yeah, something like that. >> Yeah. All right. Syracuse Elementary received a donation of mittens and gloves from Women of Today and 24 coats from the Knights of Columbus. We want to thank those organizations for helping keep our students warm and dry. Um and finally, I'll run through some donations here uh from different people, organizations, and businesses. WC Super Mileage has received $21,050 in donations from uh the following
013businesses and individuals. Hello Nail Spa, Burks, Richard uh Brungard, Colorful Hair Studio, Sally Manin, uh Kaufman Law Office, Syracuse Buds Body Shop, Sands Accounting, Syracuse Hardware, Techmeer Ace Hardware, Foil Plumbing, Milestone Construction, Sloow's Peer Shop, Fendon Brown, The Papers, Polywood, McCullo Schultton Construction, Aluminum Insights, Doug, Janine, Janine Shrock, uh, Farm Limo Transport, Raza Rinker, uh, Shrader Insurance, Uzley Seaw Wall Construction, New Market North Webster, and Clayton Garden Center. Thank you to the K21 Health Foundation for their $500 donation to Waly Middle School boys soccer for equipment. Uh, Marine Mechanics received $2,200 from Dennis and Darcy Hively. Uh, Boys Wrestling received $2,760 uh $60 in donation from Three Rivers Credit Union. The Community Foundation of Elcart County donated $500 to the Wawy High School Student Council. The Angel Fund received a total of $1,100 in donations
014from Linda Dah and Margaret Grady. The Angel Fund pays for negative student lunch balances for students of WAC Community Schools. WAC Alumni Association donated $500 for drama production tickets for the students. Uh and finally, Women of Today donated $500 to the Breakfast Club. Wawasi High School Breakfast Club is a club that supports female students in personal and emotional needs and professional growth. Mr. Bkart, I think that's the good news. Okay. Thank you. Um I [clears throat] guess um before asking for a motion, um I'd ask if anybody else wants to add anything about our celebrations tonight on on our board because I'm just tickled pink to have celebrate successes with our students. Um nothing greater than than living a board meeting uh board meeting with the students here at the ends of seasons. And it
015it's just um it's inspiring when we see what our young people are doing um with with the guidance of our staff. But again, it's it's from our students. I don't know if anybody wants to add anything or they want to make a motion to accept the good news items. [clears throat] >> You said the best. >> Okay. Right. So, a motion to accept the good news items. >> Have a second. >> Second. >> Got a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I I opposed. That motion carries. This brings us to patron comments. Um part of the meeting that we set aside, we allow each patron to have three minutes to address the board president. We ask that you stand in front of the board, state your name, and if you
016reside in the district, and then proceed with your comments. Comments will not include students, personnel, or otherwise frivolous statements. If multiple patrons are here to speak on the same topic, I would ask that you choose a representative to voice your message. Are there any uh patrons that wish to make a comment? Come on up. [clears throat] >> Hi. Um I'm Autumn Vancier. I live in North Webster. My sons go to North Webster Elementary School and I want to speak on behalf of transportation and an issue that happened roughly three weeks ago on the bus that to me is ridiculous on how the bus cameras operate. Something needs to be done. My son was allegedly hit hit by the bus driver who claims it to be an accident. But that video that part and that video
017is not there because the bus cameras shut off. Why are these bus cameras shutting off? And I can read you what the transportation director said for me word to word on why it shut off. He said, um, the cameras are set on a timer once the bus key is turned off. If there are children on these buses, regardless if they're parked at a school or not, these buses should not be shut off until every kid has exited that bus. Because now I have a second grader who accidentally got hit by the bus driver. And now it's my second grader's word against the bus drivers. What can we do to make sure that these cameras stay on all the time when there are children on this bus? This is supposed to be a safe place for
018my kids. And now I have to worry, is this going to happen again? And there's no proof on to what really happened. So that's my question. What can we do to make sure that these cameras stay on all the time to ensure that something like this does not happen again? >> Okay. Um, I can assure you that our priority too is 100% for the s the number one priority for any school district is safety for their students and all of us, everybody up here, everybody in this room wishes that as well. So, all I can assure you is that we will look into it and um ensure from our end that we're doing everything that we can. Dr. Do you have anything that you would >> No, I was going to say that um I
019wanted to get your name again. I have Van Kuran. >> Yeah. Autumn. >> Autumn. Okay. Um we will be in touch. I I want to get some more information and uh find out exactly what happened and then we'll be in touch. >> And I will say the principal has been totally transparent with me >> and great through this whole thing. >> Right. Yeah. We we all want the same thing. So we will get back in touch with you. Okay. Thank you. >> We absolutely will. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments? >> Kurt Hersy live on the east southeast side of Lake City. Um I want to thank you for the work session again. I thought it was very productive. I hope you guys continue on it. I know they drag out, but they they
020help definitely. So I I appreciate the time on that. Uh, I just got a a a question, Steve. You you brought it up a couple meetings ago. What's the update on the pool? Where are we sitting at on that right now? My my daughter on the dive team is going to go. So, it's kind of a pain. You know, we're working through it. We got the first meet coming up on the 25th. Steve, you had mentioned, you know, when we discussed it before that was the drop dead timeline to get it done so that we had that meet. Are we on track on that? what's what's the status of it? Um if there's delays is what how how are we pursuing further delays on this? Is is there financial consequences or just can you just
021bring us all up to speed on where it is? >> Yeah, that's a great question, Kurt. Um last what was that Friday, Wade? Uh I was uh I ran down to the middle school to check on some things and was standing I got to stand in the pool. Uh it was empty but they had the bulkhead in um and they were doing some uh cleaning of the tile. Um and I believe maybe even started filling today. Did that end up happening? I think that was the plan to start filling today. Um, we were bringing out Oh, this is kind of silly, but we're bringing water in from the outside to make that process quicker. Um, and so, um, the plan is for the pool to be turned over to us, not this Friday, but next
022Friday, I believe. >> Um, we did have a discussion that, um, we want to make sure so the I'm not sure the dates, what, the Tuesday the 25th. Um, we want to make sure that when the first event that we host in that pool is a great event. And so, um, the thing that we talked about, we believe that the pool itself is going to be functioning. The water's going to be in, it's going to be ready for swimming, uh, and diving. Um, the thing that we're concerned a little bit about is do we have enough time from an operations standpoint to, for example, learn the new timing system, >> um, and be able to host a great event. But, uh, it's on time. I think um we're tracking uh to be able to get
023um get in by that date. Um and they're planning on uh at least as of last Friday uh turnover happening in a week and a half. So >> do you foresee the meet happening on the 25th or is it going to be >> cancelled rescheduled? Well, we were we were concerned um we were concerned that that we're going to be butdding up against it and um the contractor was in as in the conversations was like don't move it yet. We think that that we can get you in a spot where um where it's a possibility. So, we're definitely exploring. Uh in fact, I I shouldn't say exploring. I think we've got some plans that are finalized and in place should we need to move that meet. Um but we want to make sure we host
024a great event. So um as of right now, we're planning to be in uh for the meet on the 25th. We've got plans, backup plans, um if that doesn't happen, if we're unable to to host it the way we want to. Um and then for sure we'll be hosting I think the next meet is early December. Uh, I can't remember the exact date, but for sure we'll be in for that. So, I think I think we're going to be on track. >> Great. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Anyone else? Okay, then I think we will move on to the first of our reports and that is Dr. Wilfong with their learning report. >> Thank you very much, [clears throat] Mr. Bulkart. Um, so, uh, I I gave you a an extensive learning report during the
025board work session and I just wanted to, um, follow up on a couple of comments or questions that you had from that. Um, one was, um, regarding our early literacy endorsement, and this is, uh, self-reported. Um the way the licensing uh process works in Indiana is that um we we don't get a uh a a report from the state. We have to individually look up all teachers um licenses >> uh one by one. So instead of doing that, we did a uh self-reported survey of our of our students of our teachers. And uh per the statute that was passed a couple of years ago, uh teachers who teach in a content area uh in PK through 5 uh have to have the early literacy endorsement um on or after July 1st, 2027. So um uh
026next a year from from this school year uh is when um all teachers will have to have um the early literacy endorsement when they go to renew their license. So, uh that's an important thing um to keep in mind because uh you'll see that some like 11 have said they're going to retire before they renew. 12 are renewing before the deadline, but they're going to retire before they have to renew again. So, uh in Indiana, uh they have you can get a 10-year license. So, for those 12 teachers, for example, they're going to uh renew their license before July 1st, 2027, and they'll have a 10-year license, and then they're planning on retiring before they have to renew it again because um it you only have to have those that license, that endorsement when you
027go to renew. Okay. uh all of the um undergraduate uh students or any uh teachers getting a teacher licensing certification [snorts] or the early literacy uh assessment is a part of their their licensing. So after July 1st, 2027, any new teacher that we have coming in to the district will will most likely have that already on their license unless they come from out of state. >> Right? So that just kind of gives you an idea of where we are. >> How long of a process is it start to finish? >> So the early literacy endorsement is um requires 80 hours of coursework a passing the early literacy practice exam and then um then going through the renewal process in Elvis. >> Okay. 80 hours of additional coursework. >> Yes. 80 hours of additional coursework. Um
028it it's um deals with um early literacy and writing as well. So I went through the 80 hours uh myself just because I wanted to to learn uh more about the early literacy um and I found it to be a very valuable very very valuable training. >> Okay. >> It's a lot. >> Yes. 80 hours is a lot. >> Yeah. Um two year two two years ago I believe teachers who uh wanted to get that 80 hours of training uh they were given a stipen from the state to do that um was free training and um they received a stipen for doing it and also the free uh they could take the practice for free. Uh last year um they uh they didn't have the stipend but if a I believe if teachers took the
029test by July 1st of of 2025, um they had that paid for. Now, if uh teachers want to get it, um the 80 hours is free of training is free, but they have to pay for their practices. >> Okay. >> The practice [clears throat] um I want to say hundred $100 somewhere around there. the 22 start of course. Does that scare us? >> No. >> Um it it's Yeah. I mean we have we have a year uh a year to get it. I I also um would like to say that uh you because some people say well they're going to renew and then they have 10 years before they they could essentially have that they could go for another um 11 years essentially 12 years without having this early literacy endorsement. Um I will say
030that I I feel very confident in our teachers in early literacy and the work that they've done in especially in K through two. um with um implementing the science of reading and I think that if you take a look at our iLearn score or I I read scores um like we we're doing the right things um and uh and so that does not scare me uh in at all that that they haven't started it because I would venture to say that those 22 uh uh teachers have a very solid foundation of good reading uh instruction. >> They're able to take it online or they have to go to a site? >> No, they can take it online. It's uh and they can do it at their own page. >> Yep. Okay. Um the the other
031uh question that I uh or that I wanted to address was um looking at um and I think this came up a couple work sessions ago um about uh taking a look at uh other school districts that are successful um and how we could replicate those uh that type of thing. And I apologize it for uh for being so small, but um this uh this is a really interesting graph because uh what I've done here is I've taken all of the elementary schools in Indiana and uh what their pass rate their I read pass rate is uh for for 20 last spring. And then I looked at the socioeconomic status. So, how many um students are in free introduced lunch in um in their in their school? And um every X on there in represents
032a school. And if you look at the a vertical line uh the vertical up and down, that's their pass rate. So, the higher up that X is on that chart, the higher their I read uh their I read pass rate. uh as you go from left to right, that's the percent of students on free and reduced lunch. So on the left side, there's a very low percentage and on the right side there's a very high percentage of students on free and reduced lunch. Now there's a line there. See if and that line is the >> Can I interrupt you? Feel free to get up. >> Oh, okay. So, so this line here is the line of central tendency. So, so basically it's saying if you take all of those um all of where all of
033those x's are um you'll you'll you'll see that that's the where the average of those um those schools should be. Now um this Pearson R is a correlation. It's a very strong correlation which means there's a very strong relationship between uh poverty and I pass rates. So when this is a this has a strong relationship that line of central tendency really means something. Okay. So that's why that's why I bring that out. Um if you want to take a look at where Syracuse, Northwesterbster and Milford are, you can see that we're above the line. That's good because the line would the line really shows us where you would expect our our school to to perform. So based on that trend line and and that that um the line that goes through here, you would expect
034Syracuse, Northwesterbster, and Milford to uh be placed somewhere along here. So you you'd say that our expected scores were 80% um the residual is basically we're we are exceeding where our um where our expected score is. So last year for example Milford um outcored uh where they they thought they would expect it to be by 10 by 10 points which is really good. Um the um the highest uh um school uh as far as the residual um beating that expectation is Gossport and they they were at uh 21 points. And if if you what I did here is I kind of blew up the this um and and really zoomed in on the three Milford, Northwesterbster, and Syracuse. And you can see here um I put the the some of the top ones there to
035show where where they are. Now, here's where it gets a little bit more complicated. It's not like we just go to Goss and say, "Hey, Goss, you know, you you um you exceeded expectations by 21 points. We only exceeded expectations by 5 to 10 points. What are you doing different?" But you have to be you have to be cautious when we do that because of the number of students we're talking about. So, um two section and like I told you before you have two kids not pass they're going to be below that 90 95% threshold. So um here we're talking about 92 to 100%. So for example in 2024 you see Northwester down here in 2025 in Northwester had a 100% X rate. >> So their would have actually been clear up here. So, so
036when you're talking about um comparisons of schools, if we did not have a a sense of the direction we need to go, if we did not understand how we could improve, then yeah, we would want to look at some of those other schools. But the the only school that is on that list for 2025. The only school that was on that the previous year was Gasport. All the other schools there's there's a different top five. So essentially if you if you keep doing that where you just you're trying to chase the highest performers, you're going to continually chase uh different schools every single year instead of really staying really on focus and on target. We have a really good u grasp on why our students aren't are are struggling with reading or in math or
037whatever whatever uh state assessment. So we need to focus on that first. And so that's that's just one kind of like an explanation kind of a long explanation. You told me I could stand up and talk. So it's your fault. Well, I think it made more sense when you were able to >> Yeah. Um, so, so I mean like we I do I this I enjoy doing this and I enjoy looking at that and and I will guarantee you that if I run into a teacher from Gospel, I will talk to them about, hey, what are you doing there? But I would also I would I would I would guarantee I should say I I put money on it, but I don't think I should we should gamble here. um I that what they're doing
038there in Gossport is exactly what we're doing here. >> Uh it we are talking about the differences of one or two things. So >> anyway um I just wanted to to bring that up to try to clarify >> sure >> uh for you um what um what we were do what what some of the things that we do and kind of our thinking behind uh why we do some of the things. >> Right. Well, I I think the the point that you make about one or two kids >> Yeah. >> affecting what that percent looks like is is really hard to to to grasp and wrap your wrap your arms around. But I think what what I do like seeing a statistic is fewer and fewer and fewer of our students >> are not meeting
039that bar. Not I mean the percent is great but if we only got one or two kids that that that's >> Yeah >> that's tremendous. >> yeah y >> if I could just add to um to kind of couple along with what Dr. Wolfong has said. I think one of the things that people get into um into trouble with, I guess, I I'm not sure how to how to say that, but one of the things that they need to be aware of, I should say, when they're making comparisons between Xchool, Y school, Zchool, is there are a lot of other factors that exist below the surface that don't show up in data perhaps. >> And I think when you explore that, it's it's telling. So, for example, when I look at what Milford is doing,
040is that Milford over here to the right? >> Yep. >> When I look at Milford, they're almost 60% free and reduced over here. They should be performing at the same level as someone who's as a school who's about 25 20 yeah 25% reduced. So even though these two schools could have the same exact data on paper, this school is doing something significantly different than this school just because of the stuff below the surface that we can't necessarily account for. And so often times we we get comparisons, you know, hey, you guys aren't performing like um this school that's our neighbor. you're not you're you're performing a lot better than this school who's next to us. That kind of thing. And it's just important to keep all those other factors in mind because our student population
041can could be completely different um in terms of makeup, socioeconomic status, all the factors um than a school even right beside us. And and the work that we're doing um is different. And so it's it's hard to make comparisons without looking at the whole picture instead of just the raw uh data um the number. So >> did I capture that stuff? >> Yeah. Really good. >> You could just go on. >> I could I could I could go on but I won't. >> Thank you. Uh is that your report? >> That is my report. Thank you. >> Thank you. Anybody else have a question? >> Thank you. >> Okay. [clears throat] Dr. Dr. Troyer, superintendent report. >> Yeah, we um I don't really have anything. Um in addition, just a quick update. Um I had
042mentioned last Monday at our work session that we were um going to be exploring um some type of WACI uh alliance that would involve um some community members and uh a board member or two, myself, etc. Uh that's in the works. So I haven't forgotten about that in a week, but um perhaps we'll be ready to potentially present on that at our next work session >> um and and maybe put that in place for the first of the year. >> Um in addition to that, we do have our I think it's our third uh community alliance um uh session tomorrow. Um that those have been going from uh around 8:30 to 11. Uh and there's approximately 20 people that are uh participants in that program. Um and tomorrow we're going to take a look at
043operations. Um so excited about that as well. That that's been a uh a neat group to get together once a month. There's eight total of those sessions. Um so wanted to keep you posted on that as well. But >> and that's at CTE if I decide to show up. >> Say that again. >> It's at CTE if I decide to. >> It'll be here. >> Oh, it'll be here this time. Yes. Okay. Good thing I ask. >> Yep. [clears throat] So, come on by if you want to. >> Okay. That brings us to um grouped action items. Uh we all received these in our board packet on Friday and we've had an opportunity to review. Are there any questions about the grouped action items? Then I need a motion to approve the grouped action items.
044>> Motion. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Got a motion, a second. And all in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. Motion carries. This brings us to additional action items. Um first up under additional action items presented by I had Dr. Penrod, but Dr. Penrod is going to be filled in by Dr. Troyer. And that's item 8A, the financial report. >> Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Bokart. Um I think we mentioned this perhaps at one of our work sessions. Um but kind of the structure that we're going to go moving forward um will be Dr. Penrod will be uh here on Mondays for our work sessions at the beginning of the month at at the beginning of the month uh that first Monday. And then um I typically will cover um our
045finance report at the regular board meeting. Um but he'll cover any of the in-depth um financial stuff at the work session. Right. Um, so we we had him at our regular meeting last month because of um because of the um budget and uh bond stuff that was happening in terms of action, but for the most part he will be uh just at the work session. So um you uh received this document in your board packet. Um you probably noticed that October happens to be one of our two three pay months for the year. Um, and so in months like this, we process an extra payroll because we pay 26 pays. Uh, there's two months out of the year that we have um, three pays instead of two. Um, and uh, because of that, then you
046uh, will typically see a uh, noticeable temporary dip in cash balance. Uh, the third payroll is is not offset by additional state revenue. We usually receive those distributions monthtomonth uh usually once a month and uh they don't account for a three pay month uh the way that we do. So that essentially gets spread out but um that's why uh you may notice um some bigger dips. >> Um ed in the education fund expenditures for the month totaled um around $2.6 million. Uh that's up from 1.77 million in September. Um this again is reflected of that third payroll. Uh education fund ended the month with cash balance of 2.47 million uh which was down from the beginning of the month at 3.26. Operations fund total expenditures in the operations fund uh in October were 848,000 um
047with a total cash balance of 3.29 million down from 3.82 million at the beginning of the month. Uh minimal activity this month in the debt service fund. Uh balance remains steady at 2.67 million. Um rainy day. Uh there was no activity during the month of October and balance remains at 2.46 million. Overall we'll continue to monitor cash balances closely. Um and uh again the drop in balance um was significantly felt this month because of the cash flow pattern that's created by the additional payroll. So I'd be happy to answer any questions otherwise. Um again we'll we'll typically try and provide um as much of the finance um conversation and explanation at our work sessions. Um and so if you got followup with Dr. Penrod, I'd be glad to pass that along as well. Sure. Any
048questions? >> We just [clears throat] kind of change our website a little bit and put some stuff out there. Is this screenshot I mean this snapshot of time out there? >> Yeah, this it's not out there right now, but this is something that we um could definitely put out there uh on on the web. We uh need to create a landing page for that. And I'm sure that Wade and I can get together and figure out what that looks like and the best spot for it. But >> because I know it's got to come It typically won't be available prior to our work session. >> That's correct. >> It should be able to be completed a few days prior to this meeting. >> Yeah. So, um, Mr. K, to to your point, like our work
049session was on November 3rd, um, this month, we don't we don't get these um figures until the after the last day of the month, so the first. Um, so we just don't have enough time to get everything put together. There may be a s a time in which the Monday work session is a little bit later and we could bring that to the work session. Um but [clears throat] yeah, we can um have a spot for that out on the web. >> Okay. If there's no further questions, then we need a motion and a second to approve item 8A, the financial report. >> So move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> We got a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. That motion carries. Item 8B
050is consider education operations fund transfer resolution. Dr. Troyer. >> Yeah, thank you. In your board packet, you have [clears throat] a copy of the resolution regarding authority to transfer funds between education fund and operation fund up to $500,000 for calendar year 2026 as discussed during the work session last Monday. Um, again, this is just authority to spend. It's not a promise to to transfer, I should say, authority to transfer, not uh the promise to transfer. So, we had conversation about that. Um, >> if there aren't any questions, I would ask that you consider approving the resolution as presented. >> Any questions? >> Then we need a motion and a second to approve item 8B, the education operations fund transfer resolution. >> So, move. >> Is there a second? >> Got a motion and a second.
051And all in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. That motion carries. Item 8 C is consider approving the 2025 2026 collective bargaining agreement with the WCA. Dr. Troyer. >> Yeah. Last Monday we had our tenative agreement meeting that was held prior to our work session. Uh during that meeting, we outlined the terms of the contract. Uh we had period of public comment um available at that time as well. Um, I don't know that we need to rehash the the terms. Those have been out there. We shared those with the teachers. Um, as a followup, for your information, I've got a um kind of a summary letter that will go out >> um if approved tonight. >> Um the letter may not go out tonight, but that is ready to go out um tomorrow
052>> um to our teachers explaining that. And then um Mrs. Casey has been working on contracts. Those will go um to principles um later this week and we will get signed contracts back and uh the goal is to have that done for the payroll on the 26th. So that will include a retroactive back pay um because the contract covers everything from the beginning of this school year. Um, so if there's no other questions, I would ask that the board consider the uh 2526 collective bargaining agreement as presented at our TA meeting last week. >> Any questions? [clears throat] >> Hearing no questions, we need a motion and a second to approve the 2025 2026 collective bargaining agreement. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Got a motion and a second. All in favor signify
053by saying I. >> I opposed. That motion carries. Item 8D is consider adopting the 2026 2027 school calendar. Dr. Troyer or Dr. Wilfong. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Wilkart. Um, at the board work session, I presented you with the uh draft of the 2026 27 uh school calendar. Um, it's on the currently on the website listed as draft. And so we would like to take that word draft off and make it our uh official um school calendar for next year. >> Sounds good. Any questions about the calendar? Okay, then we need a motion to approve item 8D, the 2026 2027 school calendar. So move. >> Is there a second? >> Got a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. Motion carries. >> [clears throat] >> Item 8E is
054consider adopting the interim plan for director of special services. Dr. Wilthong, >> thank you very much. Uh at the board work session, I presented to you a interim plan that would get us through until the end of the school year. file. Uh this will allow us um a proper search for a new uh director of special services that will uh be conducted this spring for a July 1 start date. And so I just ask that you approve that plan. >> Okay. Any questions? Then we need a motion and a second to um approve item AE, the interim plan for director of special services. Is there a motion? >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Got a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Opposed. That motion carries. Item
0558F is consider adopting the automated logic agreement. Dr. Troyer. >> Yes. Thank you. Last week, Mr. Wireball presented terms of a new agreement with automated logic. Um I did not receive any additional questions or concerns um in between that meeting and this evening. So I would ask the board consider approving the agreement as presented uh also in your board packet. >> Okay. Any questions? >> This was the where we have transparency and the cost, right? We know it's going to be fixed. >> Yes. Was that this? That was this right. Okay. Yep. I got it. Okay, with no further questions, we need a motion to approve item 8F, the automated logic agreement. So, >> is there a second? >> Second. >> Got a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. >>
056I opposed. Motion carries. And item 8G is approval of out of state overnight trips. Dr. Troyer. >> Yeah. Three um three trips to consider this evening. Um, if finances are secured, the Wasi Marching Pride is requesting permission to travel to Indianapolis um, this already happened. Perfect. Uh, last Friday and um, Saturday for the ISMA open class finals to perform. Uh, they must have secured the um, finances to get that done. And um they had their um they were there to be presented their championship plaque uh which we saw came back with them and uh male and female staff chaperon. So uh again just to review that um there are times where uh we do make approvals considering that we only have one board meeting a month in which you're taking action. Um that came up
057in between the two board meetings. So uh we we do that occasionally. Uh the second DECA is requesting permission to attend the state career development conference in Indianapolis. They will leave Sunday, March 1st, 2026 and return on Tuesday, March 3rd. Um there will be appropriate chaperons along with the trip. Um and finally, um Mr. Dodie and the Wy athletic department are requesting permission for the winter athletic teams to make overnight trips to participating uh to participate in upcoming IHSA tournament events. Um as always, no guarantee that they will be sending anybody uh but certainly a strong potential for some of our athletes and teams to qualify. State tournaments are held in Indianapolis this year uh and they will have the appropriate chaperons to go along. So, a preemptive approval for those as regularly done. >>
058Sure. Any questions about any of those trips? Then we need a motion to approve the out of state or overnight trips. >> Some move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> We got a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Opposed. That motion carries. Brings us to other items. Does anyone have any other items? >> Uh, yeah. Not trying to got you here, but I can't believe I let this slip off my radar, too, because it's been a big problem. The pool, we're they ought to be able to get us a pretty I mean, like a daily schedule and and maybe even build in there some opportunity for some testing of the timing systems and all that kind of stuff. We ought to be able to and at
059least or or communicate that through the coach, make it really clear to everybody. I mean, if a schedule can be missed, but at least let's put something down on paper that we're >> sure >> daily holding those guys to. I mean, I'd almost be at a you're down into the the 11th hour and it's where everything needs to be tight. So, I'd push you to force those guys to give us a calendar for the next two weeks. >> Yeah. And um they typically have a pretty tight calendar that they work on in terms of projections. Also, Coach Scott was with us last week at the end of last week when we met with them. So, um I think he's pretty briefed, pretty well briefed [snorts] on >> um timeline for the next two weeks to
060try and get into uh the pool on time >> and then I'll let it go. We want to host a good event, but in addition to the pool being ready, you want us to have some proficiency with the new technology, right? >> Yeah. >> What What does that look like? So, they were working on timing system this week, getting the they had to f finish painting and then they were going to mount the the u new board up onto the wall. >> Um and then start to get that system um wired up and um I think at that point then they could start digging into learning that system. Um, I don't know this off the top of my head whether the the system's new, but I don't know if the the platform of the system
061is comparable to what we had before. Like it may be the exact same and it may be a completely different company. I think it may be a different company. Um, but we'll as as much of that as possible that could be done before the pool opens. I think there's possibilities for that. I just think we need to engage. I mean, they have great supporters there that run the the clocks and all the for sure. We should be engaging those people early. >> For sure. >> All right. >> Anything else? >> If I could add one other thing, this could have fit in good news as well, but I had the opportunity to go to Wallace High School this morning for their Veterans Day program. Um, and I can uh report to you that, and I'm
062sure you've probably been there as well, but it's such a fantastic program. Um, I go every year and I'm amazed by how respectful and engaged our entire student body is. Um, I just think it it's a >> it's a pretty special thing to see. um having worked in a high school my whole career before coming to Wallace um it's you don't have that type of u environment everywhere and um I I just want to give kudos to our kids uh and to our staff our teachers um and our leadership team at the high school because they did a fantastic job um and it had nothing to do with them. It was all about honoring our veterans um that are in the community. And to see the seating seating section there kind of off to the
063side in front of the bleachers um almost completely full of community members that were there being honored was was really special. So, >> we've had a lot of of um cool things to talk about tonight and um I just wanted to recognize that because um our kids did and do an amazing job and um I thought it was really powerful that Mr. Walmer got up at the beginning and said, remember we talked about your behavior and the way that you approach um this particular ceremony as they called it, not a program. Um, and I think there was a reverence there that was really cool. So, kudos to the high school, the whole the whole group. Um, top to bottom. It was a it was a nice uh thing to be a part of. To hear
064you say that doesn't surprise me at all because I think I comment in June after the graduation ceremony and it's every time I just come back with a new respect for our students and how they um present and deport themselves during that ceremony. So that is not a surprise at all. Any other items? Then I need a motion to adjurnn. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor signify by saying I. I opposed. Motion carries. Thanks everybody for coming.