Go ahead and get started on the board of financial finance annual meeting. Um, Indiana law requires the board of finance meet annually after the first Monday of January and on or before the last day of January. At this meeting, the board must elect a president and a
secretary and receive the review of the investment report required by Indiana Code 5137-7. Um, at this time, I will open up the floor for nominations for the president of the board of finance. >> I nominate Tommy Batty to be president.
>> Thank you. >> Do we have any other nominations? Excellent. Do we need to vote on that? >> Yeah. >> Um, in the nomination for president, myself as president. All those in favor? Show of hands. It is unanimous. Six
nothing. Thank you. I would nominate Britney Justice as secretary. Are there any other nominations? Hearing none. All those in favor of Britney as secretary is unanimous. Six to nothing. Thank you. >> Um, at this time we'll hear from from
Tara. Tara, I'm sorry. >> It's Terra. I didn't get that right. Um, she will give us a a brief summary of what's going on. >> Um, this is our preparation financial condition for 2025.
On the next slide, you'll see this is required by DUAP, the distressed unit appeals board, that we bring this to you every year. On the following page, we will be reviewing through this report average daily membership, fund balances,
annual deficit surplus, percent of expenditures, revenue by type, and whether or not we have operating correct incomes. Our indicator one is our average daily membership. Our fall 2025 number is
1684. It has dropped from the 1767 we had in the spring. This is common throughout the state of Indiana with the declining enrollment numbers, but you can see since 201920 where we've been each year on this
particular slide. Any questions on this slide? Moving to indicator two is our fund balances. Our education fund I do want to point out it was high last year because we had
to transfer that textbook fund into that at the end of the year. Thus, that is the drop that you're seeing is the drop in expending that textbook fund money over the course of 2025. Any questions regarding any of the fund balances?
Those will not be finalized until after form 9 is submitted for in January and then those will be finalized. Indicator three is our annual deficit surplus, our cash balance at the end of 2024. You can see down there at the bottom. And
then this right here came off of DAB's web page that we had to share with you. Any questions on this? Indicator four, our percent of expenditures. We had a 22.75%
in 2025. We had a 30.71% in 2024. So, we have been watching our expenditures closely this last year. Any questions on this?
Indicator five is our revenue by type. This is again a DWAB um graph that we have to share with you. It just breaks down um comparing us to uh what we're getting where most of our
revenue is. That is actually state revenue. That's that big blue in the center. So you can see most of our funding comes from state sources. Any questions? Indicator six is pretty pretty simple
for us. We have no operating referendums. So we are at 80% on that. Our 2025 investments. Um we actually we added the 25 bond at the end of last year. Part of it is in
Crossroads. Part of it is in the Bank of New York Melon. So that's the reason why you see two different areas for that. And at the end of the year, we had 384,729808 collectively off of all of our
investments in interest last year. If it is a bond interest, that is required to stay with the bond. So that is reinvested into whatever projects are going on with the bonds. If it is crossroads that is deposited into
um our operations and that's only for our crossroads checking account for the corporation not the bond crossroads and then CD is also um operations money. Any questions regarding our investments for
2025? And that is our report for 2025. just adjourn this meeting. Yeah. So, at this time, we'll adjourn the uh finance meeting. Um we will take a few minutes here and at 6:30 we'll begin our
regular meetings. Thank you. We'll start with the pledge of allegiance. >> Please rise. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
under God. indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> Um, next up we have the uh acceptance of the agenda. I would entertain a motion to accept the agenda as presented. >> So move. >> Thank you, Miss Justice. Second. >> Second. >> Any additions or corrections?
>> No. >> All those in favor? Unanimous. Thank you. Um, I would also entertain a motion to approve the minutes uh from December the 15th meeting as presented. >> So, move second.
>> Thank you. Thank you. Any questions, comments, corrections? All those in favor? >> Okay. At this time, board reorganization will begin. Um, I will hand the gavl over to Mr. McCormack, and he will take over. >> Thank you, Mr. Batty. At this time, I
will accept nominations for the off office of president for the uh 2026 uh year. Uh just as a reminder, nominations do not require a second. So, at this time, I will take nominations uh for president
of the board for this year. >> I'd like to nominate Tommy Batty for president. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Hoover. Any other nominations at this time?
At this time, I would accept a motion to close nominations. >> So move. >> Thank you. Do we have a second to uh to that motion? >> Second. >> So at this time, um by a show of hands
as required by statute, all those in favor of Mr. Batty being president of the board for 2026, please raise your hand. passes 5. >> And at this time, I will pass the gamble um back to Mr. Batty to conduct the
election in the remaining offices. Thank you guys. Um at this time, I would entertain a motion for vice president. Hearing none, I would nominate Dr. Meg Pennington as vice president. Do we hear any other nominations?
Hearing none, I would entertain a motion to close the nominations. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Justice. >> Sorry. >> Gotcha. Um, all those in favor of Dr. Meg Pennington as vice president, show of hands.
501. At this time, I will open up uh nominations for secretary. >> I'd like to nominate Britney Justice to be secretary. >> Do we have any other nominations? I would entertain a motion to close the nominations. >> So moved.
>> Thank you, Miss Justice. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Ellis. Um, all those in favor of closing the nominations opposed. Okay. All those in favor of Britney Justice as secretary. >> Yeah, we didn't we voted to close
nominations. >> Sorry. >> Okay. Um, next up we have the representative for the H Heartland Career Center. Um, I would nominate Matt Fuller for that position. Are there any other nominations?
I would entertain a motion to close the nominations. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> All those in favor of closing the nominations, show hands. Yeah, we don't have to vote this. >> We said we should probably close on that.
>> Just going by Wednesday. >> All those in favor of Matt being the uh representative for the Hartland Career Center. Show hands and it's 501. Thank you. Uh parks department. >> I'd like to nominate Jared Ellis.
>> Thank you. Are there any other nominations for the park parks board representative? I would entertain a motion to close the nominations for parks board. >> Thank you. Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Hoover. All those in favor of closing the nominations
is unanimous. All those in favor of Jared Ellis as board representative to the parks board. So hands 51. And finally, we have the art department. the art committee that sits. We have a board representative that sits on that
committee to look over our art collection. Britney Justice. >> Thank you, Jared. Any other nominations? I would entertain a motion to close the nominations. >> So, thank you, Miss Justice. Second.
All those in favor of closing the nominations. All those in favor of Britney being the representative to the art board, show of hands. It's 5. Thank you. >> Last one. I'm sorry, I forgot the ISBA legislative
representative. I would nominate Dr. Pennington. Do we hear any other nominations? I would entertain a motion to close the nominations. >> So moved. >> Thank you. Second. >> Second. >> All those in favor of closing the nominations.
All those in favor of Dr. Pennington being a representative to the ISBA legislative committee. Thank you. Okay. Um the board also need to elect a treasurer and a deputy treasurer. Uh the
treasurer and deputy treasurer cannot by state law be members of the board. Um, we have a recommendation in front of us for uh, Terara Inert to be named the treasurer and Hillary to be named the deputy treasurer. Could I get a motion
for Tara to be the uh, treasurer? >> So move. >> Can I get a second? >> Second. >> Thank you. Any questions? All those in favor? Unanimous. Thank you. Um, I would also entertain a motion for Hillary Smith to
be the deputy treasurer. >> So moved. >> Thank you, Miss Justice. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Dr. Fington. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? Anyone else? Um, finally, the board needs to adopt a
meeting schedule. The schedule for review is the third Monday of each month. Um, some dates and months are required to be held earlier due to state mandates, school breaks for city festivals. Um, you have before your recommendation for the third Monday of the month. I would entertain a motion to accept that recommendation.
>> So move. >> Thank you, Miss Justice. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Ellis. Any questions? And that a copy of those dates are in your board packet as well. >> Any other comments? All those in favor?
60. unanimous. Thank you. Um, at this time we will open up the public comments section of our meeting. I would ask that you state your name, your residents, and please keep your comments about school operations. Um, no personal attacks or bashing of anyone
would be allowed. Um, first off, we have Celia Cecilia Nightingale from the PCA. Floor is yours. >> All right. It's just me today. Emily wasn't able to come. She did send the slideshow though um yesterday. So, she had a couple things. She had Mrs.
Hughes's class where they worked on This was a lot before Christmas cuz obviously this past couple weeks have been a little crazy since we've gotten back. Um, she worked Mrs. his class worked on Grinch juice where they followed a recipe and worked together and it's just really cute. And then the other slide
was all the activities at Blair Point in Elwood and if you stop in there during the holiday season there's a lot going on. There's gingerbread houses, there's every day is a dress up day and there's a lot going on during those that entire month. I mean everything is crazy. And
then I did want to share um my own positive um that last month my classroom flooded which obviously is not the positive but it turned into a positive because Elmwood just really came together and they helped me out. I mean
that very day literally all of my stuff I didn't have anything at all to do. Like all my stuff was gone. So another teacher let me use her classroom. Everybody gave me things to do because I don't know if you know um like 25 year
olds they don't sit patiently while you figure out what you're going to do for the day. I mean I got there and 20 minutes later they were coming in. So everybody I mean they gave me activities. Um that previous week we had built gingerbread houses and they supp everybody supplied me with stuff to do
the gingerbread houses so I didn't have to ask for anything. We redid their Christmas gifts again. and everybody supplied all that stuff. And then just the day-to-day work everybody um would just really helped and they even helped clean up my classroom which was disgusting and they didn't have to do it. I mean it was dirty. It was gross.
So it was it was really nice. I mean it was awful and they were all so helpful. So that it was a positive. >> Thank you. >> Next up, Mr. George Morris. The floor is yours.
Hello. Um, George Morris live here and prove. Uh, I'm going to start by saying, you know, there's this age-old, uh, science question. You know, what happens when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object? And you know, the
voice approved parents has been partnering with lots of other parent coalitions and organizations like parent coalition for child safety and wellness, um Rio's Rainbow, um Speaker of Truth Foundation, Take a Stand Foundation, um
all over the state of Indiana, a lot of parent coalitions are coming together, you know, just taking a stand, uh trying to, you know, advocate for their own children for the children in their own communities. Um we do have our bills at the state house. Uh we're, you know,
praying that, you know, they get voted through. Um one of them is the mandated oversight committee that we've been trying to lobby for here. Um we know it'll be a great thing when it goes through. Uh with that said, I I do know I saw on the board meeting of November, I think
that you guys had put together a uh a committee for student safety and uh uh behavior. And I do appreciate that. We all appreciate that. Um we hope that that does a lot of good as well. But we do feel like all of us together, all the
the the parent coalitions together feel like it's kind of the same everywhere. as long as uh liability is at the top of the totem pole for priority that you know there's always going to be child safety issues in the school corporations which is why we feel
like there really needs to be this oversight committee where things can't be swept under the rug. Um you know it's really all I got to say. um wanted to thank you, but I also wanted to make you aware that those bills are at the
state house and at the beginning of this I said that we're an immovable force or an unstoppable force. Sorry. Um we will see this through until this gets voted in. Whether it's this legislative session or the next, we absolutely will
not give up. When you if you knew about my childhood and what it was like, I was bullied to the point that I turned into a mean kid and I got into a lot of trouble. That's the short version of it, but I never want that to happen to any other kids among much worse things.
Thank you, Mr. Morris. Next up, we have a Michael Zimmerman. >> Thank you. >> Good evening. My name is Michael Zimmerman. I'm coming from Westfield. I'm speaking in support of the Voice of Peru parents initiative for an oversight
committee to make the district's process of accountability an accessible and transparent process. This initiative isn't just happening in this district. It's happening all over the country. And it's happening for a very specific reason. The employer
employee relationship in the school system incentivizes the school and district level administrators to take no action when there is bullying or other safety concerns as it relates to our children to pay the inflated salaries of the non-working non-eing school bosses
at the top. Teachers are having to do more with less. Instead of hiring more teachers and paying them a dignifying wage, the ones we got are saddled each year with more and more responsibilities. Our children can't get their developmental needs met in these schools
because the school bosses organized the institution like a manufacturing plant with tight tolerances and schedules to maximize their share of the limited resources. You can know this is true because the teachers have to have a labor union to protect themselves from the excesses of
the school bosses who can only keep their jobs by papering over the leadership failures. Running our school, our children's school like a private equity firm, the district has decided it's cheaper to pay settlements when their mismanagement results in preventable harm to our
children. They do this and they've decided to do this rather than pay teachers what they're worth and hire more to spread the enormous amount of work around. Our children's needs continue to grow while the educational institution responsible
for their development rots around them. Voice of Peru parents mere existence is a testament of the present state of affairs being insufficient for meeting our community's needs. And this is everywhere. And the fact that more and more parents
are trusting the voice approved parents over the administration to hear out their concerns just adds to the body of evidence that this institution has become necrotic. The oversight committee is a step forward because it gives power to ordinary working people.
The board has a choice. Supporting the oversight committee or proving it is acting in against the best interest of working families in Peru. Thank you. >> THANK YOU, MR. BRIDGET RICHARDSON. My name is Bridgetson. I'm from Peru.
I'm actually naturally born from Peru. Um, I've been up here every month except for one month. I have asked, begged, pleaded, got mad, pulled people's names out of literally. I'm trying to figure out what more can
we do. So, I'm just going to read you one little thing. It is the HB 1107 bill. It is actually the uh bulling oversight committee. If the state of Indiana is actually
willing to step up and put this into play, why aren't you guys? Do you not want to protect our kids? Because if that's true, that's sick. >> Thank you. >> Okay, moving on. recommendation or
recognition of retiring staff. Mr. McCormick. >> Yes. We just want to recognize Danny Harmon for his five years of service um as he moves away from the district district. I don't think Mr. Harmon could be here this evening, but we uh we'll
have something for him. We'll we'll give that token of appreciation to him. >> Thank you, Mr. Harmon. And thank you, Mr. Corman. Um, moving on to program, we have second readings from Neiola. Uh, Mr. McCormack, would you like to provide a review of
these policies that are up for action? So, the first policy 2221, mandatory curriculum. This is mandatory curriculum has been revised to reflect the changes made to Indiana law by Senate enrolled act 442, instruction on human sexuality.
Um, add cross references, correct capitalization, punctuation, and reflect current terminology. Um, do you want to take these all at the same time? >> I would. Uh, yeah, if nobody has a problem with that, I'll entertain a motion to to accept all these policies as presented and you you all each have
all those in your packets as well. So move. >> So I'll I'll just real quickly just for officialness, policy 2414, reproductive health and family planning and human sexuality instruction. Policy 2416,
student privacy and parental access to information and policy 2623, student assessment. So, those four policies, uh, the summaries of those are in your packets and they are, um, up for your consideration for approval for a second
reading. >> Thank you, Mr. McCormick. We have a motion on the floor to accept these as presented. Do I hear a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Do we have any questions on the the recommended recommended policies?
>> No question, but a comment. I don't particularly agree with the mandatory curriculum some some of the wording but has come from the state so I do understand what it is mandatory whether it's a wording I don't agree with but >> I will I will point out to and thank you for for that comment Mr. fellas, we did
double check this the end of last week. >> Um, these are mandatory curriculum items if you choose at certain grade levels to have that into your in your curriculum. >> So, if you choose not to teach something
of that orientation in the fourth grade, then that would not apply. But if you do choose to teach that content at that grade level, then that's the format and content you would have to >> I agree with that. I don't agree with
teaching one thing and not teaching another thing. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any other comments or questions? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Uh, next up on to business, early
literacy endorsement. Uh, Amber Williams $1,000 stipen for the early literacy endorsement. Um, I would entertain a motion to accept that recommendation. >> So, just second. >> Second.
>> Mr. Fuller. Any questions, comments? Hearing none. All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Next page, uh, master's degree completion. Uh, Miss Werner, uh, $1,000
stipen for masters of science from Western Governor's University. That is a recommendation. I would entertain a motion to accept. >> So move. >> Thank you, Miss Justice. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Ellis. Any questions, comments? All those in favor?
Unanimous. Uh donations, we have $270 for eighth grade boys basketball for general use from Logan Sports Savings Bank. Um also $270 for varsity girls basketball for general use from the Logan Sports Savings Bank. Um thank you. Big huge
thank you to the Logan Sport Savings Bank. Um I would entertain a motion to accept those donations. >> We added the third third and fourth. >> I don't have a third and fourth. >> It's updated. >> Oh, third one. Sorry. uh Peru community schools for past lunch
deficits from First Pres Presbyterian Church and also $250 Blairoint Robotics for general use from the Indiana Special Olympics. I apologize. I do not have the updated I wasn't reading the updated list. I am now
entertain a motion to accept those four donations. >> So, thank you, Miss Justin. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Fuller. Any questions or concerns? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you.
Um locker replacement quote. Mr. McCormick, I'm going to let you handle that one. Um you have before you a quote. Um they are are they being the high school principal, Mrs. Shurik, um can maint maintenance made us aware that
the academic lockers, we've certainly got our money's worth. I think their original set of lockers from I don't know anybody in here knows what year >> 19973 >> 1973 >> so we would like to put in motion you
have before you um a quote for new academic lockers for $519,275.77 again for your consideration for approval and this would come from 2025 bond proceeds. Thank you, Mr. McCormick. If you've heard the recommendation, uh,
do I have a motion? >> So move. >> Thank you, M. Justice. Second. >> Second. Sorry. >> Thank you, Mr. Hooper. Um, any questions? >> These are all adaptive blockers in the levels.
>> Yes. footprint recognition. No, >> reducing the number of blockers slightly to make them a bit wider so the backpacks can fit in, but it'd still be um more than enough for all of our students. >> Excellent question, Mr. Ellis. Any other
questions or concerns hearing? None. All those in favor? >> It is unanimous. Thank you. Moving right along. Wonders curriculum quote. Mr. Cor, I'm going to turn the floor over to Mrs. Shur to give a little brief
narrative. You have a quote u in front of you for water damage replacement of curricular materials for Mrs. Nightingale's room, but uh any further narrative on that? Sure. Um this
covers uh the classroom library that goes for um each classroom along with all the student materials, all the teacher materials, all the ancillary materials. Um as you know from the past couple of years as we've adopted wonders, it is
quite pricey to have a reading curriculum for all elementary classrooms, but this will get Mrs. night to Kil's classroom back up to um where it was before the incident and um her kids will have access to everything they
need for reading for the next five and a half years. >> Thank you, Mr. Sher. >> Um you have a recommendation in front of you for the wonders curriculum quote. Um I would entertain a motion to accept that as presented. >> So move justice.
>> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Penn. Dr. Penant. Any questions? >> Will we get any of this back from insurance? Have we tried to file with insurance? >> We have a very high deductible, so we will not be any
>> Yeah. Okay. >> I asked that same question. >> Any other questions? All those in favor? >> It is unanimous. Thank you. Uh, magic school quotes. Mr. Mr. Clark,
>> um, do you have a a pamphlet or a little flyer on Magic School? It's an AI um tool, subscription, if you will, from Magic School. Many, many robust features with Magic School to support our
teachers across the district. It's, I guess, to uh no other way to put it, but it's pretty magical. So, that uh that flyer is in front of you and that quote uh for $7,499
25 cents for a one-year subscription. Um we already have I don't know maybe 20 to 25 teachers using a free version, but the subscription version um is pretty robust and offers a lot more. You
teachers can work with data and do a lot of additional type tasks and and whatnot. So, this this would cover all of our teachers and students across the district. >> Motion to accept the quote. >> Thank you, Miss Justice.
>> Second. >> Second, >> Dr. Pennington. Uh questions. >> Just appreciate the teachers who took the time to kind of look into the options for that. Obviously, there's going to be a lot more technology at our fingertips. So nice to be able to hear
just from the teachers what they like and what's worked well. >> Um the only question I would have is this going to be a standard every year or is that pretty much what 7500 a year for the for the subscription down >> I'm going to say that will be every year
that Tara did you hear anything different? >> Um if you look on here 500 of this is for a virtual PD session to get us started. Uh, so I would assume that was free. So yeah, 7,500 a year. >> Okay.
>> Cuz they gave us that for free. >> Yeah, the discount. >> Yeah, >> it's a great discount. >> Um, any other questions? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Um, next up, Tigerina bleacher repair
quote. Mr. Borick. So again, the the bleachers and tiger arena um probably gotten our money's worth out of those over the years, but very very expensive to replace. And so uh in a
second I'm going to turn the floor over to Mr. Snyder for a brief narrative. But um we we had lead company come in to give a just a repairs to bring them back up to snuff versus purchasing you know hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of of bleachers. Like to get a few more years of life out of those. So Mr. Snider um yeah every year we have to do u statemandated inspections on all of our bleachers. Uh the Tiger Arena has been probably the uh
the worst of the sets just due to their age. Uh and so the quote that you have there is to totally go through um replace missing bolts which there are numerous um and realign tracks, motors, things
like that. Um it's nothing structural. um we're technically um out of code compliance with those bleachers the way the code reads now, but we're grandfathered in. If we touch the structure of them, it would have to
be totally brought back up to code. Uh so this repair would get us through um you know, a couple of years more use out of them um until we're in a better position to replace. Um as Mr. before because if you think the lockers are
expensive, bleachers are more >> 1990. Yeah, the arena went in at 90. >> Thank you, Mr. Schneider. So, that is on is before you for your consideration. I
would entertain a motion to accept the quote as presented. >> So move tested. >> Second. >> Second. questions hearing none. All those in favor? >> Thank you. Um on to the agreement section. We have a few here to go through. Uh Mr. McCorm, if you want to
tackle these. >> Um 5A, just request the approval um of the steeple finance for 2026 annual financial service agreement for $11,000. >> Um you hear the recommendation. Can I
get a motion to accept that as presented? >> Second. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Next, uh, letter B, continuing disclosure legal
agreement with Ice Miller. Continuing disclosure, um, they basically track all of our financial debt obligations. It's mandated by law.
Um, so we have been using Ice Miller of late. They offer um a number of other services to us. We're familiar with Ice Miller. They do a nice job. So that is uh on your agenda for
consideration to continue use ICEM Miller for continuing disclosure services. >> Do I hear a motion to accept >> this agreement? Thank you, Miss M. Justice. Second. >> Second. >> Pennington.
Any questions? All those in favor is unanimous. And on the early retirement buyout option, Mr. Clark, thank you, Mr. Batty. Um just as part of our
cost savings uh plan moving forward over the next year uh we have worked with the PCEA to draft up an early retirement buyout incentive option and those terms uh are good for
just this year. That document is in front of you if you have any questions but certainly be happy to answer those but that's there for your consideration for approval. >> Assuming you read this agreement I would entertain a motion to accept the recommendation.
>> So move. >> Thank you. Just a second. >> Second. >> Thank you Mr. Fuller. Any questions? All those in favor? Thank you. Uh part D, shared services agreement. Mr. McCormack, you're up again. Uh so
you have before you a uh shared service agreement recommendation between McConnA schools and Peru community schools for our next IT director, which would be Mr. Chris Persipl, who
currently is and has been the longtime IT director for Macqua. um that shared service agreement and all the details are in your packet for you for your review and I would answer any questions if you have any.
>> Um before I entertain a motion, Mr. Burrus, thank you. Um thank you for getting us up and going. I appreciate that. Um you've been a godsend. >> Thank you. >> At this time, I would entertain a motion to accept the shared agreement that is presented before you.
>> So move. Who was that? >> Me. >> Dr. Thank you. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Ellis. Any questions? >> No, I'd just like to reiterate what Tommy said and had a little bit of an uphill battle and I think it was a very
smooth transition considering that uphill battle and so hopefully excited for Chris and I think it'll be a good thing. >> Any other questions? All those in favor? Opposed? I just had a comment. Sorry.
>> I'm sorry. >> Um I Ben did a great job. Very smart man. Much smarter than me. And I'm sure this next guy, he's just as smart. He's going to be way smarter than me and do a great job, too. Um the only issue that I
have and the only reason that I can't vote for this is because even though the state wants us to do less with more, I don't agree with that. I'm I'm needy. I think I want to have them all to them all to ourselves.
>> Thank you. I hear you. Um all those in favor opposed 5 to one. >> Motion passes 5 to1. >> U next up annual service agreement. >> Mr. Republic.
>> Uh thank you Mr. Batty. This is an annual service agreement with pricing for republic services, trash removal and recycling with our district. Uh we're actually receiving um
a nice discount with Republic. Uh we we took two quotes and uh the other quote was the other company didn't pick up five days a week. Um, so they were pretty close. Quotes is off a
couple thousand, but we would opt to go with Republic. They offer more more days of service and trash pickup, and they've done a nice job for us in years prior as well. So that's on there for your consideration. >> Thank you, Mr. McCormick. Entertain a
motion to accept the service agreement with us in Republic Services. Yes, please. Second. >> Second. Uber. Any questions? All those in favor? Unanimous.
Next up, we have an agreement between Crew Community Schools and Lois Mongoza LLC. As part of our 2025, well, 2024 bond uh process and 2025 bond process.
Um it's it can be quite a load to manage and oversee those various bond pay apps that come through keeping your eyes on those working with Crossroads Bank or Bank of New York Melon.
So, we've uh we ran this by ICE Miller and they gave it their blessing uh to kind of outsource that to take that off of our central office financial folks.
And uh Mrs. Mongoza, all of you know, is has left us as our employee, but we approached her about bringing her back under her own LLC to work with us and managing the 2024 2025, you know, bonds.
So, that agreement, you know, we're essentially hiring her as an outside vendor and that agreement is there for your consideration for approval. >> Thank you, Mr. McCormick. I would entertain a motion to accept the agreement between Lois Mongoza LLC and per community schools.
>> Thank you, Miss Justice. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. >> Any questions? All those in favor? Unanimous. Thank you.
uh 4 county healthou. We've had 4C uh health staff in our buildings um for quite a few years and this is just the standard annualou between proof community schools and 4C
health u making that partnership official. >> Thank you. I would entertain a motion to accept theou between 4C health and approving resource. >> So moved. >> M justice. Second. >> Second.
>> Mr. Ellis, any questions? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Uh operations and technology technology facility use request. Uh first we have Blair Point gym and cafeteria. Uh,
>> I'm sorry. >> The date is incorrect on there. It's supposed to be March 10th. >> March 10th. >> 2026. >> Sorry. >> Unless you have a time machine. I'd like to go back. There's a couple places I
would like to go. Um, that is for the spellathon that they've also done in the past. they would need it from 5 to 8:00 p.m. Um, I would entertain a motion to accept that waiver of facility fees. >> So moved. >> Second.
>> Second. >> Glad you all got that. Any questions? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Um, next up we have personnel uh resignations, retirement, suspension,
termination, transfers. Mr. McCormack. Uh we have uh two um one one retirement, one resignation um for your consideration. Uh Pete Pulk and Danny Harmon.
>> Um if you're all okay with it, I would entertain a motion to accept both of those as presented. >> So thank you, >> M. Justice. Second. Second. >> Dr. Bington, any questions? All those in favor,
it is unanimous. And then letter B, recommendations for certified positions. These uh for Elmwood and Blair Point, uh a whole host of teachers. You have those um in front of you for the afterchool eagles and
afterchool Cardinals programs. >> Would anybody like to extract any one of those to do those separately? If not, I would entertain a motion to accept those all as presented. >> Motion to accept those. >> Thank you, Miss Justice. Second. >> Second.
>> Ellis. Mr. Ellis. Thank you. Any questions? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Um, next up we have recommendation for classified positions. Um, go ahead. You see all these before
you. Does anybody have anyone particular they would like to extract? Hearing none, I would entertain a motion to accept all those as presented. >> So move. >> Thank you, Miss Justice. Second. >> Second, >> Mr. Ellis. Any questions or concerns,
comments? All those in favor? Thank you. Um, next up we have the annual conflict of interest disclosure. Mr. department. >> Uh this is justformational only. Any,
you know, really any board members, administration, directors, uh really anyone in the district, any employees that might have, you know, family members that might do business or any type of a possible conflict of interest, they should
disclose that. Again, nothing needs to be voted on. It's justformational, but those get u Mrs. sheets tomorrow. >> Once those get filled out, they have to be taken >> house
January. >> So, we do this yearly. >> Yes. >> Every year. Um, thank you for that, Mr. McCormick. Moving on to the budget section. Uh, first up, we have claims. Miss Inert, the floor is yours.
>> Uh, thank you. Thank you. I'm just going to open it up. Anybody have any questions regarding claims? >> Sorry. >> We have no questions on claims. >> Motion to accept the claims as presented. >> All right. We have a motion on the floor to accept the claims as presented. Do I
hear a second? >> Second. >> And Mr. Ellis, any questions or comments? All those in favor? It is unanimous. That was easy. Uh fund monitoring report is in your still up. All right, for our fund monitoring report, we have completed
2025. Our in our education fund, we expended less than the appropriation, which was right on target where I had planned with uh steeple. Um and then we have an operating balance to carryover for 2026.
Our salaries and benefits remain the largest expense, which is also per state mandate. So, we are right on target where we should be forward. In our debt service, we did finally receive our property taxes towards the end of the month and operations and debt
service both received their property taxes and we paid our bond payments. So, you'll see those large payments on the claims in our operations fund. We stayed under budget for 2025. That was with a a lot of strategic work between uh central
office here and and staff to keep us under our budget in 2025. Salaries and utilities are the largest expenses out of that fund. Our rainy day, we had no activity in December. Our 2022 bond, this has been fully
allocated and we will pay the final bills here in the coming months. Our 2024 bond projects are moving along and being paid as Skilman sends the bills. 2025 bond as we alluded earlier half of
that over half of that is in crossroads and then there's a portion of it with BNY um we did have a property purchase so that is what you see up there under the 2025 bond series then um later this year as the work
starts coming in and the projects get started you will see that start to go down then in our food service We ended in a positive balance. Uh 2025 salaries and supplies with the largest expenses and the salaries the salary line itself
will go down this next year because we are no longer directly paying a lot of the salaries. We're paying it out to the the management company now. So you'll see that kind of switch around in 2026. >> How many do we have? two lady two people
on the >> we have two people remaining in our food service so that's want you'll still see something it just you won't see what you see right there right now >> I was curious >> yeah no problem any question other questions regarding our fund monitoring
report for motion to accept the report as presented >> thank you miss justice second >> second any comments all those in favor for you. Thank you.
Um, next up we have board member comments. I know all of you have something to say, so go ahead. The floor is yours. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Nobody. Um, hope you all had a great holiday. Welcome back. Um, this first
half went way quick. Um, um, let's keep doing what we're doing. We're making a difference. That is my only comment. Any others? Second. >> All right, Mr. McCorm, go ahead.
>> Um, January is National School Board Appreciation Month and so you do have some tokens of appreciation uh from the school district uh at your seats. Really do appreciate what you do. It's
not easy being in politics uh especially nowadays and so the work you do is very much appreciated and we have a a very solid school board and we're fortunate here at Community Schools.
Welcome again to Mr. Pel. Look forward to working with you. Uh we do have something for you at the conclusion of the meeting as well. And thank you again to reiterate uh Mr. Batty, Mr. Burus, thank you for all of
your efforts. Uh you live from fairly far away, but in our time of need, you stepped up and uh just started to rebuild the foundation here and much appreciated. We'll still have Mr. Burrus here, a very limited
um shared agreement through March during this transition and then uh it will be off and best of luck in your new adventure. Thank you. >> Absolutely. >> That's all I have. >> Um I would accept a motion to adjourn. >> So move.
>> Thank you.