Hear you. Yeah. Joanna, talk to you about those afterwards. Yes. Okay. Thank move to approve second Motions made by Ms. Parkman. Seconded by Mr. S questions or Would vote. All those in favor say aye. A Aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Consent agenda is accepted. Uh, tonight. Items requiring action. We'll start with 4.01. The supplemental personnel report. Mrs. Baker, Good evening board. I recommend approval of the supplemental personnel report. Move to approve. Second motion was made by Mr. Lewis
and seconded by Mr. Hernandez. Are there questions or comments? Hearing none will go ahead and vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed nay. 4.01 is accepted. Uh, 4.02. Consideration of ERS agreement. Mr. Sampson. Thank you Morden. We ask for your consideration of an agreement with ERS wireless, uh, for a communication project at Perry Meridian High School and Perry Meridian Middle School. Uh, the project, um, basically is to rebalance our communication system to provide for better communication coverage
and the elimination of dropped radio traffic during high concentrations of radio usage, which is typically during our transportation routes. Uh, this negatively impacts the function of our police, transportation, and facilities and grounds teams. Um, and this project will be paid for, uh, with bond money earmark for building, repair and replacement projects. Um, the, the scope of the project will be to rebalance, um, our repeaters, um, by bringing a pm uh, hs, um, system up to three digital repeaters from its current.
One. Uh, it will replace two analog repeaters at Perry Middle School with one digital repeater, uh, without losing any, uh, service and includes reprogramming 34 existing radios from analog to digital, and then also comes with a five year system, remote monitoring support and maintenance, uh, program. Please accept our recommendation as presented. Move to approve. Second motion was made by Mr. Mezzon, seconded by Mr. Lewis. Are there questions or comments Mr. Sampson? Um, I see in there that it talks about, uh,
there's a mandate change that we have two more years to complete. This work would fix that whole mandate in its entirety. Sorry. Yeah. So we'll come back In, uh, I believe December we're planning to come to do the Southport side and then, uh, eventually before the two years is up, we need to address, uh, the ones at the elementary. We have a couple in the elementary sites that, that we'll have to bring up to speed, but that'll be a much minor, uh, project. And is it because of like the, the bonding that we have
or the, the funds that we have that we're not doing everything all at one time? Yeah. Yeah. We're trying to spread out the, the Yes, absolutely. Okay. Okay. Spread out the impact. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Hearing nothing else will go ahead and vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Nay 4.02 is accepted. 4.03. Uh, the 2026 budget adopt adoption resolutions. Mr. Hatcher, Thank you very much. Um, yes. We bring for consideration the five resolutions that are required by the state for the adoption of our budget for 2026.
This follows the presentation that, um, we had last month to do the, uh, adoption, um, hearing. So we would ask for your approval. Thank you. Move to approve Second Motions made by Mr. Hernandez and seconded by Mrs. Hartman. Are there questions or comments? Hearing none will go ahead and vote. All those in favor say aye. Opposed nay 4.03 is accepted. 4.04. The, uh, 25 26 collective bargaining agreement. Mr. Sampson, Again, board.
Uh, we ask for your consideration. The 20 25 26 collective bargaining agreement for ratification collective bargaining agreement will be retroactive to July 1st 25. Insurance changes will be effective. January. As for your duration of the CBA agreement as has been presented, Move to approve second Motions made by Mr. Lewis and seconded by Mrs. Hartman. Are there questions or comments? Hearing none will go ahead and vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed nay. 4.04 is accepted.
Uh, 4.0 5 25 26 pay increases. Dr. Spray? Yes. Members of the board, uh, administration is recommending the a pay increase for our classified staff of, um, 1.8%, um, on their hourly rates and, and salary rates. And a 1.25%, um, for administrator, um, contract rates as well for this, this coming school year. Um, these amounts, the 1.8% is similar to and reflective to the percentage amount of what the average teacher salary. And that $1,000 increase is kind of the basis of
where we came to that 1.8%. Um, and then the administrators typically make a little bit more than that. Um, we figured that would be a little bit of less by percentage increase. So it ask for your consideration. Move to approve. Second motion was made by Mrs. Hartman and seconded by Mr. Mertz. Are there questions or comments? I guess the question I have is the, the teachers are receiving a, a a dollar stipend. Is that correct? Uh, $1,000 increase in their base salary. So I guess why did we decide to do a percentage for administrative staff versus a dollar stipend?
Um, I, I think it was just going back and kind of how we've done that in, in the past. And if we presented that and tying it then back to what the, the teacher amount is. So it was basically precedence on how we've gone forward with that. Thank you. Hearing nothing else, we will go ahead and vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Nay 4.05 is accepted. We will wrap up this evening with some comments. Dr. Mong, if you'd like to start, Um, no comment. Thank you. Stay warm. Is cold season's coming? So,
Uh, nothing from me this evening. I'm good, thank you. I'm good, thank you. I have to say something right? I guess. Um, I just wanna say thank you to everyone for, um, their hard work tonight or this evening at the finance committee meeting. Um, we were talking about insurance premiums and how it's going over up everywhere and, um, I just, I really appreciate the work of, um, of our staff here in this room. Um, all the way from Sharon making sure everybody is reached and contacted for benefit open enrollment to Kent
and Mr. Sampson. Uh, making sure that, um, our, our staff is presented with the best retirement information and, um, health insurance information possible. We all live in a world where open enrollment is starting right now and, um, it can be overwhelming and frustrating at times. And so I appreciate your efforts very much, Much. I just wanted to kind of go off that and, and just acknowledge and appreciate, you know, we, we went through a, a, a pretty quickly, a a few things here that have taken a lot
of time and, and it's kind of wrapping those things up. But, but boy, it's, uh, the, what, what we've put together or what, what you, you guys have worked to, to put together, um, is, is very important. And, and just in one loose side of that, that's all I have. I'll just, um, kind of reiterate what, um, I think some of us may mention to last time with the professional working relationship between PEA and administration. Um, I understand some people were maybe, um, disappointed that maybe there wasn't more, uh, in that regard.
But, um, I also keep in mind that, um, they're doing the best that they can, uh, with what is coming from downtown, so to speak. So, um, but I am glad to hear that that professional working relationship was once again this year. Um, I, I don't know if the word would be seamless 'cause I wasn't there, but hopefully you, you all feel that way. Um, and that's all I had this evening. Um, two things. One is I, I I agree with you, um, Lee, Mr. Cheley is that, um, we wish you could have done more. Um, but also understanding that our, our state funding was, was pretty minimal.
Um, this, um, biennium, um, and mo a lot of the funding that came to public schools went to increase voucher amounts across the state. So when we say it was a 2% increase, not everybody got 2%. And your state traditional public schools certainly were less than that. Um, and then also we lost a DM, we lost about 550 kids over last fall as far as that fall count. So, um, that equates to a little over $4 million. Um, and so we wanna make sure that we're, we're, um, cognizant of that and we're, um, continue to look at ways that we can, um, be right sized with regards to,
to staffing and that sort of thing, and as efficient as we can as possible. Um, lastly is, is Ann. Um, I appreciate your comment and your question. I will apologize for not having that information for you tonight. Okay. So in publicly, um, last meeting you asked me for information regarding health insurance rates, benefits, benefits amounts, um, for staff. Um, and we talked about the admin certified classified handbooks as well as the teacher contracts and that sort of thing. And we talked about the, they're, they're available on the website. They also were available inside of like the board docs in various locations.
But you did ask for those, um, links specifically so that you could take them and go type them in yourself and be able to find those. So we will get that to you at the next meeting, or I can be happy to mail it to you, uh, first class mail, whatever you prefer. And we can talk about that after the meeting. Okay. And speaking of future meetings, we do have two in November. Uh, next we'll meeting for, uh, regular board meeting on November 10th at 6:00 PM here in the same spot. And then we'll have a work session, uh, later in the month on November 24th. Uh, same time, same place. I had one more note, so I'm now
off the record since we closed. But I do want to recognize, um, Dr. Mong, um, he was recognized last Friday from BACI and their annual fundraising dinner, um, as being the outstanding community leader award. So congratulations and thank you Representing, Representing Perry Township and, and your, uh, work in in the community. Alright, with that word. Sure. Have a good evening.