Yeah. Mister Hastings, we tag her in. Oh, no. Oh, really? With liberty and justice for all. Good evening, and welcome everyone to our December 11 Black Township School Board meeting. Good evening. We'll We'll start off with for the good of the cause. If any patrons would like to use this platform, you have three minutes. You will start off by saying your name to talk about anything for the good of the cause. Alright. We'll move along to spotlight on Pike. Sarah Dorsey. Good evening. It's wonderful to see you all again. This is a really special time of of year in the district.
We always have, just an outpouring of generosity and also, a lot of educators, students, families giving a lot of time, to celebrate their schools, the communities, and each other. So, thank you to everyone who's putting in those extra hours to make memorable experiences for the students and families we serve. We wanna celebrate the fact that Dami Adeoba and Muna Newman Niodika I messed that up. I'm sorry. Help me. Naurika. Naurika. Sorry. I practiced, and I wanna get that right.
They were both selected to the ISCA Senior All State Team. Muna also signed to, signed to play with Western Michigan last week and was named an Indianapolis Colts 2025 Academic All Star. So we are extremely proud of them. They have had tremendous views. Absolutely. On Monday, our Pike High School Jazz One Band performed at the Benny Golson Jazz Festival at Butler University, and three members were awarded with outstanding soloist and musician awards. Also, congratulations to Pike High School alumni, Chris Thomas and David T for being named
to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame twenty twenty six men's silver anniversary team from the class of 2021. We wanna congratulate our eighth grade Iron Creek Middle School and PSA fourth and fifth grade travel teams for winning the Central Indiana Basketball Association's fall league for girls basketball. And also congratulate the six junior Red Devils, their coach, Rick King, and Pike High School senior and assistant defensive line coach, Terrence Little, who won the championship at the All Star Hall of Fame Bowl with team Indiana and Kansas City last weekend.
So congratulations to them. We were well represented. Our Pike Red Zone Food Pantry will host its next distribution from four to 6PM on Monday. That's December 15 at the Pike Freshman Center. And then on Tuesday, December 16, we'll host a free immunization clinic from three to 06:30PM, and that will also take place at the Pike Freshman Center. Families can register in advance or they can walk in there. More than welcome to walk in. If a child is 18, they do have to have a parent or guardian present. Last but never least, we want to thank the donors listed on this evening's agenda.
There is a ton of generosity. Nora Woods donated $200 worth of gift cards to assist families at new Augusta south Snap Mobile Inc donated a total of $1,715.80 to support band orchestra and choir students at Lincoln Middle School. The Pike Township Educational Foundation collected $2,145 in donations. New Augusta South PTO donated $500 An anonymous donor gifted $200 to support the right Pike Redstone Food Pantry. College Park Elementary School received an activity table in Santray valued at approximately $859.80
for their intermediate resource classroom through donors choose. Schwitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc donated a $100 to Fishback Creek. Project Give Back donated a 100 gift baskets filled with holiday trimmings worth an estimated value of $4,000, to our Pike High School families prior to Thanksgiving break. A ladies group at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral donated 10 Kroger gift cards with a total value of $750 to support Pike families in need. Bring change to mind donated a $150 and Stephanie Hampton donated $50 to support bring
change to mind club activities at Lincoln Middle School. Community Community of Christ Church donated $7,100 Walmart gift cards to Deer Run Elementary School and $8,100 Walmart gift cards to Eagle Creek Elementary School. The Alpha Mu Omega chapter of AKA Sorority Inc donated household essentials, hygiene products, winter clothing, toys, and games worth an estimated value of $3,750 for 25 Pike High School families. And the Pike Township Educational Foundation donated $3,000 for a motivational speaker and work butt
workbooks for Pike Preparatory Academy, $700 to Eastbrook Elementary School for an interpreter hub or interpreter hub. Sorry. A thousand $150 upon Crystal Kramer's steam powered indoor recess grant project at Fishback Creek, and $1,300 to Guyton Creek Middle School to purchase supplies for the cardboard regatta. We are so extremely grateful, so thank you to everyone who supported. Thank you, Sarah. Next, we'll move on to reports to the board starting off with the superintendents above and beyond award recognition. Doctor Hunter. Good evening, mister president, members of the board, and doctor Young.
We're excited tonight to celebrate three individuals for our superintendents above and beyond award. Tonight, we'll begin with mister Bofford, the principal of College Park Elementary School, as he comes and presents the Superintendents Above and Beyond award. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, Doctor. Young. I'm the proud principal of College Park Elementary, and I am proudly nominating Doctor. Krista Tobin, our remarkable literacy cadre for the superintendents above and beyond award. Doctor Tobin consistently exceeds expectations, demonstrating unparalleled dedication to teachers, students, families of College Park
Elementary School. Doctor Tobin leverages data to ensure that every teacher is able to better meet students where they are, and she provides targeted planning support by utilizing diagnostic assessment data to guide teachers in their planning as well. Doctor Tobin offers coaching sessions where she helps teachers analyze student work and helps with planning to ensure teachers can effectively implement high leverage reading strategies tailored to the needs of our kids. Doctor Tobin's determination to foster an engaging learning environment is evident in her daily work.
She offers support by modeling instruction techniques in the classroom as well. Doctor Tobin's built strong last long lasting relationships with our students across all grade levels. Her impact extends far beyond the school day. She works to keep in touch with former students and their families checking in on them as well as being our after school reach program monitor. Yet another way she dedicates her time to our scholars. By demonstrating her own high expectations and best personal best, she encourages both staff and students to embrace challenging work and be successful.
Congratulations, Doctor. Tobin. Perfect. Thank you. Mister president, miss Bogdan Young, I have the honor of introducing miss Rakesha Blandon, the coordinator of Nathaniel Jones Early Learning Center, as she comes and presents the superintendent above and beyond the wall. Great. Good evening, mister president, members of the board, doctor Young. My name is Raykesha Blandon, and I am the coordinator of the Nathaniel Jones Early Learning Center. And I am proud to highlight and celebrate miss Craig, one of our early learning lead classified instructors as our NJ ELC fall twenty twenty five above and beyond recipient.
This school year brought new challenges and new opportunities, including the addition of a new inclusion classroom. While stepping into something new can feel daunting, miss Craig approached this role with courage, professionalism, and an unwavering commitment to her students. Any initial apprehension quickly transformed into confidence and she has risen to the challenge every single day. Miss Craig builds genuine, trusting relationships with families and and treats each child as though
they were her own. Her classroom is a place where students feel safe, supported, and celebrated. She leads her team of instructional assistants with confidence and care, ensuring student success while fostering a fun, collaborative classroom culture. Beyond the classroom, Ms. Craig has continued to step into leadership roles within our school community. This year, she proudly serves as social committee chair, our pals, Parents Are Lifesavers Club, teacher liaison, and school fundraising co chair, strengthening our staff connections and supporting initiatives that
benefit the entire Nathaniel Jones program. Remarkably, she has accomplished all of this while navigating her own personal health challenges, doing so with grace, resilience, and determination. Miss Craig's dedication, leadership, and heart for both children and colleagues truly exemplify what it means to go above and beyond. It is my honor to recognize her contributions and celebrate the meaningful impact she makes every single day.
Please join me in congratulating miss Craig, miss Brianna Craig, our NJ ELC fall above and beyond recipient. Mister president, member of the board and doctor Young, we have the the pleasure of introducing mister Chad Heck, chief technology officer, as he presents the superintendent above and beyond award. Mister president, members of the board, doctor Young, it is my honor, to talk about missus Mitchell tonight. There's so much work that happens in a school district that most people never know about. Liz Mitchell is a superstar of this behind the scenes work.
In this age of increased data reporting requirements, missus Mitchell skillfully manages and validates data from numerous sources across the district. Frontline office staff at the schools count on missus Mitchell to help them wade through state reporting requirements and get them across the finish line. Missus Mitchell helps maintain our enrollment information and plays a huge part in preparing our most important reports, one of the most important reports, the average daily membership report, which impacts our state funding. Missus Mitchell is a team player and a tremendous asset to our technology team.
Please join me in honoring missus Liz Mitchell. Thank you. Alright. Next, we have the referendum update. Miss Monet Gray. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Doctor. Young. Tonight I'm presenting our Referendum Spending Update through September 2025. Every number you'll hear tonight connects directly to the promises we made when voters approved the referendum back in May 2024. Just to revisit what the three major priorities of the referendum fund were, the first
priority was programming and staff support through ESSER, the second was attracting and retaining staff, and the third was enhancing safety and security. These are the three, priorities that we refer to as buckets, just to make sure that we honor our commitment to voters to spend in these areas. Let's start with the programming and staff support through ESSER. ESSER paid for a lot of supports our students came to depend on, but ESSER was temporary. The work wasn't. Bucket one simply keeps those programs going now that ESSER federal dollars are gone.
We didn't start new initiatives in this bucket for the first year. We protected what already existed and what students and family came to rely on, such as academic interventionists, teachers, counselors, and social workers. It also supports our family engagement team and district specialists who guide literacy and student success. This bucket keeps our wellness services going and funds the technology students use daily like Chromebooks and classroom devices. And it continues the learning loss and instructional programs that help students stay on track. When we first, reported this spending for the first, period of 2025, there there was
an ESSER reimbursement in the amount of $1,000,933 sorry. 1,000,933, dollars and 50 $546 Sorry. This covers salaries and benefits for the previously mentioned position plus materials for learning loss and other instructional needs. This came from the first semester of the twenty twenty four, twenty five school year. Now for January through March 2025, we spent $1,105,259 These were continued salary and benefit
costs, learning loss supports and upgrades to Chromebooks and software. For April through September 2025, we spent $2,516,987 This period include included continued salary and benefit support, instructional materials, software enhancements, and Chromebook replacements. So for the period of, July 2024 through September 2025, the grand total is $5,555,792
for what we call bucket one. The next bucket is attracting and retaining high quality staff, which is the backbone of the district. For January through March 2025, our spending included $943,834 which were salaries and benefits for certified bargaining staff. This also included $519,500 for attendance stipends for first semester. From April through September 2025, we spent $3,622,035 for salaries and benefits for bargaining staff.
This also included $452,000 for attendance stipends for second semester. In July 2025, there was a $2,715,312 reimbursement for non bargaining staff salaries and benefits that were issued during the twenty twenty four, twenty five school year. So the total for attracting and retaining staff for what we call bucket two is $8,292,691 This is the largest part of our referendum fund because it supports people who
support our students every day. When we pay the salaries and benefits with referendum dollars, these aren't one time expenses. We're committed to supporting this position every year through the life of the referendum. The third bucket is safety and security. This includes the planning, the staffing, and the tools needed to keep our students and staff safe. For January through September 2025, we spent $498,717 And that included the equipment costs for the weapons detection system at Pike High School.
We will have additional costs in the fourth quarter, which includes the stipends for, certified staff for safety monitoring at that weapons detection system, and also additional blue line security contract at that of So, so far the total spending for bucket three is $498,717 So overall, for the first quarter, January through March 2025, we were at $4,502,139 In
our current period, April through September, we're at $9,845,051 for a grand total of, spending to date of $14,347,190 Every dollar tied to the commitments that we made when the referendum passed. As we move forward, we will continue to monitor the cash carefully and maintain full transparency. All updates tonight will be posted on the board, I'm sorry, posted on our website
at www.pike.k12.in.u@.us/referendum. The, the other, the other update in May 2025 still resides on this website. We take this seriously and the responsibility entrusted to us by the community, and we remain committed to doing this work openly and responsibly. Thank you for your time. Question? Yes, sir. Thank you, miss Gray, for the report. The security piece. Yes. Yes, sir. Mhmm. According to the figure you have here, you have over, a half million left.
Yes, sir. Mhmm. What is going to be the monitoring cost and the BlueLine cost? Do you have any indication on that? So we don't have an estimate yet. We do have invoices that we received from BlueLine a couple of weeks ago, so security has processed those invoices and I'll be able to give you that total at the next update. And, every month we upload the referendum updates, the spending updates to the board docs. So you'll be able to see that in board docs as soon as we process those. That will be something new. Right? Yes. Okay.
Secondly, do we, do we have a balance, anywhere in this referendum? What I mean by balance, other than the security piece, I see where, the, the first item, the first bucket, went over. Yes, sir. Uh-huh. It went over. It went over almost 1,000,000, a little over 1,000,000. Mhmm. And, the second bucket stayed under the projected 9,000,000. So when we talk about balances for the referendum for, the community's sake Sure.
What does that look like? Yes, sir. So that first bucket, that includes that reimbursement for first semester and ESSER. So we were expected to to exceed the amount in that bucket because we were pulling expenses from the first semester into when we actually received the referendum dollars. So we didn't actually receive the referendum dollars until the the calendar year of 2025. So we were expect we were we were expecting to overspend in that area, but we we are still in balance with the revenues that we've gotten from the referendum
dollars. Now the second bucket, the, attract and retain staff, we still have spending left for fourth quarter. So once we wrap up the fourth quarter at the December, we'll be able to come back with a full number of that 9,000,000 in that bucket. With that said, let me say it another way. Oh, okay. If I needed to know the balance of the referendum dollars that are left, and you could go to your computer and tell me what the balance is, could you do that? So so I could tell you what the the amount in the fund is.
So just to explain, the way we get our referendum dollars, we get them when the property taxes are paid. Standard. Okay. So right now, if you look at the balance in the referendum fund, it's gonna look negative because we haven't gotten the December distribution from people who have paid taxes in November. Okay. So the balance is negative now Yes, sir. Until the disbursement comes in December. Yes, sir. Thank you so much. Oh, no problem. Are there any other questions or comments? Yeah. I I have a question. This is a little bit along the same lines of what I think doctor Moore was asking. But Mhmm. So when it comes to the balances, so we we know how much money came
in. It would be unlikely we would spend to the penny every year. Maybe we'd maybe we're that good. But so if we don't, if is anything that we have left over, even if it's, like, a $100, is that allowed to roll over to the next year and be spent then, or is it we use it or lose it type thing? Good question. So we'll we'll carry a cash balance. So whatever we have left over at the end of the year, we'll carry that forward into the new year. Mhmm. When we've asked for our referendum spending for our budget for calendar year 2026, if the revenues plus our cash balance exceed that, we can ask for additional appropriations, which
would give us the authority to spend over what we initially asked for. Because we rolled it Yes, sir. The previous year. Awesome. Thank you. So you're basically saying nothing goes back. We just roll it over. Yes, sir. Good. Good. And, doctor Young, your, your security committee that you you formulated, you created that community committee. Am I right? Yes. I I charged, and I asked for mister Gruber to to take the lead on it. But, yes, that was a, group that was charged to help us come up with recommendations on how to utilize those. Yeah. I know when you set up committees, you can put items where you want them.
In many cases, I've been on committees. How far is the police, fleet in in the in the, in your list down your list? And then secondly, if there are resources left that are going to roll over, can we start addressing that fleet? You you have the list. I know you presented it last time. I think doctor Moore's question was kinda where the the Yeah. The Where did you put that fall? On your list. And then then also, you talk about the process. So the process on how we even got to the priority, how can you kinda
walk through what the group did there? Yeah. And so I I wanna I I completely understand what you're saying, pastor Moore. We try to remain as objective as possible with the security task force. So when we came up with all of the ideas that we could spend these dollars on and what we can invest in here in Pike Township, we sent it out in the Google form and allowed everybody to give an objective response on a scale of one to 10 on how important this idea, this, tool would be towards enhancing the security of our facilities. And based on those reports, that's what how we generated the list.
So the list I presented when I came up here and presented on the, blue ribbon plan and provided the security update, If to my recollection, the fleet of vehicles was somewhere in the neighborhood of the number 11 or 12 out of 25 items that are on the security list. What I would say is of those top ten, four to five of them have a zero cost, to the district, so there will be no referendum dollars spent on it. A lot of it has to do with the work that doctor Bishop is doing on the district safety committee.
So things that we're implementing procedures, processes that we're implementing district wide to enhance security and and safety. We have I I have not we've not targeted yet when those new vehicles will be purchased. I know chief Casper has got pricing for those. But what doctor Young has recently tasked me with is identifying what are gonna be the annual costs. So similar to our attacking a return retained staff, there is going to be a baseline to expense out of the security bucket to continue to maintain our staff for
the remainder of the eight to seven years of the referendum. So what we're looking at is what is that overhead that we're gonna spend every year on staffing, And then what is that balance that we have to play with year over year over year? And so as we head into January, that's when doctor Young and I will sit down and we'll say, okay. We have these 12 items remaining on the security task force list. Let's start at the top. And with the spend let let's say that every year, we're gonna spend $300,000 on staffing alone. So in 2026, how do we wanna allocate those $700,000, whether it's be the police
fleet, additional weapons detection, and so on and so forth? That plan has not been finalized as of yet. Okay. My question then is you will let me know where that the vehicles might be another year out, another year out, or another year out based on where the the formulation of the list is. Is that right? That's what I think I'm hearing. If I'm not, will you correct me? I don't wanna definitively say when we're purchasing the vehicles, but they are a priority for us. Okay. We we we understand. And I would say that based on and that one of the things that doctor
Grupp, I'm No. That is for another degree. Mister Gruber references that some of the items on this do not come with the cost. I can say that we don't have any concerns based on and, again, we'll know right now, further hard numbers here shortly, but I don't have any concerns about us being able to get everything done while we have these funds and dollars. So I and most likely, when it comes to the the fleet, it'll likely be a rotation. We wouldn't go and buy them. No. No. I understand. Yeah. It would be a few vehicles a year is how we would probably go about
replacing that. Replacing that. Thank you, mister Gruber. Going back to miss Graves, if I may, and and you as well, doctor, doctor Young. There was a possibility of charter schools affecting the referendum. Here's the list. Believe Circle City Mhmm. Crystal House Academy, Inlease Academy, Heron, etcetera, Heron Heron Charter, Heron Preparatory, Heron Riverside, Indiana Math and Science, Indiana Math and Science Academy, Matchbook Learning, Paramount Brookside, Paramount College, Matchbook
Learning, Paramount Brookside, Paramount College, Home, Paramount Edge, Edgewood, Purdue, Polytech, and etcetera. That's a large list. My question to you is, we don't I don't know if any charters in Pike as of yet, but did we have to make any disbursements to any charters? Mhmm. Yes. We did. So Was that amount 400,000? 418,000? I can get the exact amount for you. That they will give us the final amount once we get our December distribution. But those, the treasury holds that before they disperse the the the remaining referendum revenue
funds to us. Our council, at Burns and Thornburg, they did send a rebuttal because there are some of the, charter schools who didn't fulfill the requirements Right. By the state. But we as of now, we have not heard back from the state on whether we, will be reimbursed for those monies or not. But the projection is 418,000. Yes, sir. Based based on an estimate. 418,700. Yes. Okay. Now some of those charter schools that doctor Moore mentioned are not in Pike. Do we still have to share? Yeah. Oh, you go ahead.
Yes. Because the students who reside in Pike attend those schools, and that's how they base that, amount off of That's how they get Off of that. Yes. So that Yeah. And and that would change every year. So based on when when we passed the referendum, that was what the number was. But let's say there's less students in a particular school on a given year, then we owe them less money. Or if that number of students attending school goes up, then they would get a bigger change. Going back to miss Graves. Great point. But I need to shift to miss Bishop doctor Bishop Okay.
Who handles our enrollment. Am I right? Yes, sir. What is our enrollment right now? We are at 10,400 students. How many students, doctor Bishop, did we lose to Charter if we lost any? We did and we do. We lose students that never come to Pike but live in Pike Township. Yeah. We will have definitive numbers from the state probably in about two weeks. K. We'll know exactly how many students we have at each school, not just public, but private and charter. We get that every year. Good. But but at the same token, on the other side of it, we've been, increasing
our out of district enrollment, which means what's happening to us, we, in essence, doing to other districts. Right. We have over 500 students that are out of district. They're out of the pipe but reside in others in other parts of not in Pike Township. Yeah. But we'll be able to give you definitive numbers, in the coming weeks. And that will include the scholarship that families can use, choice. Mhmm. And it's very concrete and gives us definitive numbers on how many families we're losing that actually went to school in Pike and left or but also family that never
went to Pike schools but live in Pike. Mhmm. Yeah. I just think the public needs to know that there's a bill that has to be paid. If I could use that term Yeah. As it relates to charter. Because I think when we talked about the referendum, we never talked much about Mhmm. The supplementing Yeah. Of the charter system. And people think that we're getting the whole 14 to 15,000,000, if I could say it that way, but we're not. Right. We we do have to pay a if I could call it the charter bill. Yeah. Thank you. And that could go up. Right? It could go up or down. Up or down.
Yes. And I I think, you know, to to with all transparency, for anyone watching, and kudos have been and thank you to miss Pettiford. On the day that the, the items that had to be posted as far as a requirement for those charter schools to participate in the referendum, on the day that those items were due, miss Pettiford and I literally went and printed off to have proof to show that they hadn't met those requirements. We provided that information to our legal counsel, mister Quack and Bush, that then made the case for us.
So it's important to know that we did everything we thought we could to prove that they hadn't met it. And and we just really, for the most part, even get a response event, on on our, submissions. Thank you, doctor Young. And thank you, miss Pettiford. Do you all plan to continue that practice, as it relates to looking at charter schools and the status, as it relates to not making that disbursement? Well, I I think what we have to do is make a determination because there's a cost a legal cost.
Right. I understand. So I'm not sure that we're gonna if if the decision to give it to them this year was a yes, I don't see how that it's gonna change in the future. And then to have our legal team work on that, that that's an additional cost to the to the district. Yeah. But with you and miss Pederson done together Mhmm. Are you going to continue that behavior as it relates to that? Oh, to monitor Yes. Yes. We will. But the submission and and the part of making the request to not have to share those dollars, we have to listen, and we would continue to need private help
of our legal counsel. Okay. Okay. I just was just concerned about that. And I could just piggyback if it's okay with something doctor Bishop shared. Just, you know, we have 11 school districts, and I think doctor Bishop shared something that I think is important for folks to know. Out of 11 Marion County school districts, there were only three that had an increase in enrollment. One school district actually, acquired a online school. So they got 2,000 children from an online school that was part of a rural district that was consolidated.
So they got 2,000 children, new kids. I think their enrollment still only went up 18. I believe it was like 18 kids. So you do the math. The other two were was Pike and Franklin Township. You recall Franklin Township has still has farmland. So they're actually building new neighborhoods in that school district, and we just don't have the land, but yet we are we were the the the one of three, really, I'll call one of two that still has grown, in in enrollment this past, you know, this past year.
So people still coming. So now I've got more questions because of this conversation. So it sound sounds like we get an estimate from the state at the beginning of the year. Is that right? Okay. And but they they give us the estimate with part of that estimate being what they are withholding. That is their assumption we're gonna have to pay to these charter schools. That's that's correct. So then by the end of the year, we might get some of that back. We might not if it doesn't go to the charter schools. Is there what happens if their estimate was low?
Do we then have to have held some back because we now have to pay them more than they held back? It it's it's really an exact number because it's it's based on the the specific number of children that are enrolled in those charter schools. Okay. So the next time they whatever that cutoff date is, they go in and say, how many of those children are enrolled in charter schools that live in Pike Township? It'll be an exact number. Okay. We just don't know if that'll be a higher number, which would then allow require us to share more of the reference values, or it'll be a lower number that
would require us to share share less. And just now, I guess, more for more knowledge for any public that might be watching this. So if some of those kids that go to charter schools that now we have to send them because of that, if in February Mhmm. They stop going to charter school and come here Mhmm. The charter school is still getting that money, though, in the current setup. They use the fall ADMs. Yeah. They use the fall ADMs. And the reason why on the financial side, we call it an estimate because it's dependent upon taxpayers paying their property taxes. Right. So even though at the beginning of the year, we do get that number, we
don't definitively say that we're this is the number we're getting until that the money actually hits our our accounts. K. Thank you for managing all that. It's a team. It's a team effort. A lot of moving parts. Definitely a team effort. Any other questions? But yes. So and then in the spring, is there a second count as well? So not for the the charters the the charter school distribution. They only use that fall ADM to determine for the next year what we owe for referendum dollars. Right. So is the spring just for private school what what what what's the purpose of
the spring? Well, in in relation to the referendum dollars, doctor Bishop can speak on that, the spring ADM in relation to pipe dollars. Yeah. Yeah. So the the the September or sometimes October second issue and February, those two ADM processes for the Metropolitan School District Pike Township are totally related to our money that comes directly from the state. Tuition. Yes. I don't understand. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Salaries and benefits. They are only using the FEC the the the referendum money or something.
ATM count. Right. Right. The one that we took on October 2. Okay. We could definitely have a lot of conversation about my angst poor missus. There are lots of things that could go along with when you take an ADM count in October. Mhmm. And that's the only date. Right. When we know that lots of folks move in and out. And lots of things that we can say about. Very trenchant. Very trenchant. Yeah. But so the October and February accounts directly support, as doctor Young said, our our tuition. Mhmm. Whereas their state is only using the October count for the reimbursement for charters.
Okay. Thank you so much. That helps. They probably will use that, the, the other one, the way the movement of education is going. They probably will try to attack that. Fall is typically I don't I don't understand it because I think for all school districts, it's very similar, so I don't know where the kids go. But typically, fall is a higher number. Yeah. Would you say for instance? The number. Yeah. That's right. It is. We have seen if if we've seen any it's been minimal increase since we're talking sometimes single digits. It it really is the start of the year. The count tends to be higher Mhmm.
In October. Yeah. Thank you, ma'am. Oh, thank you. Any other questions? Because I just have one. Mister Gruber, can you confirm the meeting dates for the safety committee, the security and safety committee? There are none scheduled at the moment. Okay. Okay. You let us know when we get when we have, another event comes up. I'll do. Alright. Thank you, miss Gray. Thank you. Thank you. Lastly, we have the first reading of the board of education policies. Doctor Bishop. Good evening, mister president, members of the board, and doctor Young. I do have eight additional policies for your review. Please, let me know if you have any additional questions or need additional information for
me as I will be requesting approval of these policies in our January meeting. Thank you. Next, we'll move on to our action items. Minutes of the Board of Education regular meeting, 11/13/2025. So move Second. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? If not, we'll move on to vote. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Action item b, approval of the Board of Education policies. Doctor Bishop. Mister president, members of the board, and doctor Young, I seek your approval of action
item b, approval of Board of Education policies as presented. I shall move. Second. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? If not, we'll move on to vote. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you for your question. Next, we have Lilly Endowment phase three grant. Mister Inman. Good evening, mister president, members of the board, doctor Young. Excited to, seek the approval of action item c, Lily endowment endowment phase three grant
as presented. So move. Second. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? If not, we'll move on to vote. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. D. Next, we have the Compass Keynote Counseling Consulting, LLC resolution. That That would be me. Well, I'll make my I'll make my comments. We'll go ahead with the, I shall move, miss President. Second. Second. Are there any questions or comments? I'll go ahead and make a comment to, doctor Hellick. I want to thank doctor Hellick for his resolve, first of all, and his patience
and his wisdom. I consider doctor Hellick a friend now, and I look forward to working with him in the future. That being said, we'll move on to vote. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you very much. Human resource report, doctor Hunter. Due to the confidentiality of the human resource report, we won't entertain any questions or comments. Mister president, members of the board, doctor Young, I ask that you approve the HR report as specific. We have a motion that we approve the human resource report. Second. We have first and second. We'll move on to vote.
All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, doctor Hunter. Next, for doctor Hunter, we have the recommendation of the to extend the 3.36 salary increase to classified five and district administrators for '25 and '26. Mister president, member of the board and doctor Young, I have that you approve the extension of the 3.3% salary increase to classified and district administrators as presented. So move. Second. Alright. First and second. Are there any questions or comments? If not, we'll move on to vote. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed?
Motion carries. One more for doctor Hunter. Recommendation to increase the MSD Pike Township School Board Corporation board pay, Indiana code twenty twenty six dash four seven as amended by SEA two eight seven effective 07/01/2025. Mister president, member of the board, I'm not young. I respectfully ask that you approve the increase of the MSD of Pike Township School Board compensation in accordance with Indiana code 20 dash 26 dash four dash seven as amended by SEA two eighty seven effective 07/01/2025 to the full 10% allowable by law
as presented. I'll do that. So moved. Second. Well, first and second. Or any questions or comments? If not, we'll move on to vote. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, doctor Hunter. Thank you, sir. Next, we have the request to advertise RFPs for network hardware and connectivity services. Mister Heck. Good evening, mister president, members of the board. Doctor Young, I request approval to advertise proposals for network hardware and connectivity services as presented. I make a motion that we accept the request to approve the RFP for network
hardware and connectivity services. Second. Well, first and second, are there any questions or comments? Question for mister Head. Tell us what that looks like. Sure. So this is an e rate process. So it's very regimented and defined through a, a federal process. We put out these proposals through a a federal form, which goes into a database that any vendor has access to, and then they can respond to those RFPs, through the process described in that proposal. Thank you so much, mister E.
Mister E. Is this the first RFP for network hardware under on your watch? This is not. I think I have done, at least one other, maybe two others. Do we get a lot of responses from vendors? I mean, a variety of vendors? Yeah. I would say our response rate for network hardware is usually about four or five vendors. Okay. Okay. Any other questions or comments? We'll move on to vote. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. Mister Hick. Next, we have the recommendation to apply the Indiana Department of Health Indiana Youth Up
Standard Project. Minnie Grant, mister Jacob. Good evening, mister president, members of the board, and doctor Young. I seek your approval to apply for the Indiana Department of Health Indiana Youth Upstander project for $10,000 mini grant. I move we approve the recommendation to apply for the Indiana Department of Health's Indiana Youth Upstander Project $10,000 mini grant as presented. Second. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments?
If not, we'll move on to vote. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, mister Jacob. Thank you, sir. Next, we have request to seek bids for the Napa heat pumps and mechanicals. Mister Gruber. Good evening, mister president, members of the board, doctor Young. I'm seeking your approval action item j to seek bids for the upcoming mechanical projects at New Augusta North in Fishback Creek as presented. I move to approve the request for bids for Napa heat pump and for Fishback
mechanics. Second. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? If not, we'll move on to vote. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you very much, mister Gruber. I would like to combine action items k, l, and m for approval. Miss Gray. Good evening, mister president, members of the board, and doctor Young. I request your approval of action items k, l, and m as presented. I move that we, accept the monthly claims and allowances, the contracts, and the donations
as presented. Second. Alright. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions on action items k, l, or m? Question. Yes, sir. Miss Graves, you're doing you're working pretty hard with WIL counseling to get that resolved? Actually, I I have to give kudos to, mister Jacob. Thank you, mister. He's taken the lead on that and, bringing those resources to our district. Thank you all so much for handling that. Any other questions or comments? If not, we'll move on to vote. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Ms.
Gray. Lastly, we have board member items. Doctor Moore. Just happy to be here tonight. Merry Christmas to everyone. Amen. Thank you very much. Miss Wilson? Kudos to that. And, it was interesting to hear that the redistricting was defeated. So that was, I think about 31 to 19. So I think that's a good a a good, message that we're trying to send, Indiana, can be heard. And I can't wait till Christmas, and I hope you guys have a great one as well.
Thank you, miss Wilson. Mister Hoofer? Alright. So, as miss Wilson mentioned, the the redistricting was defeated today. The session is, however, still going on. There are, a few different bills that are up that are education related. It's a little early to dig too much into them. A couple of note would have to do with broader cell phone ban bands in the schools. And then there's one, brought up that would, allow for some more, I think, accountability and some restrictions around some charter schools. So we'll keep an eye on those. And there are others, but we'll see where those go.
And as everyone else has said, just wish everybody happy holidays for those who celebrate Christmas. Have a very merry Christmas. And, let's all, you know, just try to remember what the person we're celebrating there actually taught. Thank you, mister Hooper. Doctor Webster. And I do echo the sentiments and everyone wishing you the comfort and joy of this season, and we make no we make no apology about, the reason, that it certainly was a holy night. And so we make no apology for them. We certainly pray that, all of us will, have a safe safe safe Christmas and
a New Year. Thank you, doctor Webster. Missus Barnes. Along with my other board members, I also wanna say Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, happy Kwanzaa, and happy Hanukkah. Thank you. So however you celebrate during this time of year, may you be well, may your family missus Barnes. Miss Kelly? Again, I would like to congratulate those who received the students who were recognized for all of their accomplishments, as well as those who were recognized for going above and
beyond for our students, the staff that were recognized. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays to all the different holidays that are being celebrated during this time. And for the staff that were responsible for putting together the hard work of us getting the Lilly Yes. Phase three? Is that the I'm saying it right? That's exciting. Those who put the work in for that, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We cannot recognize you enough. We have been set apart. As a district, because of that work that you all have done, so we say
thank you. Thank you. Thank you. As we go, as I always close, especially now that this is our last time together before we come back in January, take this time. Refresh, recharge, renew. I was reminded as I was on a call when we were talking about all of the different, holidays that are celebrated during they had three things in common. Fun, family, food. I'm gonna throw it fellowship, all the f's that go along with this holiday season,
and the blessings. Make sure that you're taking time to enjoy those. And see you all in 2026. You know, I forgot something before doctor Young come. I wanna thank, miss Pettiford for the work that she does Yes. Making make this thing us Yes. As a board. And, they will give her a hand for the work she did. And thank you, mister doctor Young for Yes. For your gifts. Yes. You're giving her. You're more than welcome. Season of giving and gave. Oh, okay. And I wanna tell everybody, make sure you listen for the girls. They play tonight at, at Beach Grove.
So I'm pretty sure they're gonna do very well in in their endeavors as they continue their road towards winning the county. So if you haven't had a chance to look at the scores from the last game, 77 to 27. Yeah. Mhmm. I know I had to throw that in there. Anyway, you guys have a great one. Thank you, miss Kelly. Doctor Young? Thank you, mister president. I was actually at the game, and the, assistant AD asked our AD if our girls were any good. The score the score keeps asking the same thing. So, I I I'm just gonna leave it at that.
Merry Christmas, obviously. Happy holidays to everyone. In the New Year, I think in February, we peg some time during one of the board meetings. We will come and actually do a presentation for you all as a board, but also for the community on the things that will be entailed in that, Lilly Endowment phase three grant. So that'll be coming in the new year. And I know it took some time for miss Dorsey to read through all the donations, but, I believe that this even came as a recommendation from the board. It was really important that we start actually naming those individuals that come alongside us,
and they're so generous to us. And we actually found out about one that would probably blow you away, but we couldn't get it processed. But we'll bring that back, in the new year, and it really touched all of us. But we'll share that for next time. Thank you all. Thank you, doctor Young. In closing, I'd like to thank, Lori, our front desk receptionist. She's going to retire. Yeah. We had kind of a special relationship. So I don't know her last name because we're on a first name basis. So, she, she was always had something nice to say every time I came in,
so we're gonna miss the work that she'd done. Thank you very much, Lori. Also, happy holidays. However you, celebrate those holidays, be safe tomorrow as we have the inclement weather coming in. That being said, if I can get a motion to adjourn the meeting. So moved, mister president. Second. Being adjourned. Thank you. Don't even joke like that.