Okay. We'll start with the pledge of allegiance. Can you all stand, please? I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic, which is which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. First up, we have public comment. We just have one this evening. Miss Emily Truex, you may begin. Cici's not here. She's sick, so I'm just gonna share the good news. So on the first slide that I sent you guys, it's all about our fun
days. Right now, like Cici said, this is our time to shine. This is elementary prime time. So we have some fun dress up days. We had some fun readers show up, some school board members, very much appreciated. We had a fifties day, a bunch of Halloween activities, so it was really fun for our elementary students to witness. The next one was another buddy class. This was between Mrs. McCain and Mrs. Schaffer's class. Mrs. Schaffer said that she loves the buddy classes. The students love creating connections with the older students.
They turn into friendships. They look forward to seeing those students all the time coming to see them. The next one was a bunch of teachers, tech and admin. We were able to attend the HEC conference. What an amazing conference. We something I was not expecting. A lot of things we can bring back to the students, a lot of things that we can share with colleagues. It was very inform informative. Cece and I had a little too much fun with the conference. We sent in as a video that we made of mister McCormack being very generous to us and giving us a million dollars.
So we were able to transform his AI and make him give us be very generous and give us some money. So but, overall, it was a much valuable and informative meeting. So we appreciate being able to go over that. So that's it. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. That is all we have this evening. Next up, we'll do acceptance of the agenda. I would entertain a motion to accept the agenda as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second?
Second. Thank you, doctor Finnington. Any questions or any additions you need? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Approval of the minutes. I would also entertain a motion to approve those as presented. So moved. Thank you. Second? Second. Thank you. Any questions or corrections? All those in favor. Thank you. Next up, we have recognition of Blair Point art students. Mister Matthews. This should be. Are you ready for the third grade? Commerce. Do you wanna go to the third grade at Howard? Yeah. When, when I call your guys' names, if you just wanna come up here, stand
up here, and then maybe, hold your applause until I call each grade level. So, my name is missus Brower, and I just wanna thank you guys for having me tonight. Thank you, parents, for bringing your child here so they could be recognized. First, I'm gonna talk about the Honeywell Winter Banner. This year, the Honeywell Arts and Education is celebrating the seventeenth annual Miami County winter banner competition with all students in Miami County. So that's North Miami Schools, Meconigal, and Peru. The theme for this year's winter banner competition was star, stripes, and snowy nights, celebrating
America's two hundred and fifty years, and students were encouraged to make bold colorful images using a variety of mediums. This year, I it's always hard to choose, but I had I chose 20. I was able to choose five per grade level. So 20 students, their artwork will be displayed at the Honeywell Center and to be recognized. So if you can stop over there, take your child with you, take a photo, They will actually they're on display from December or November 10 through December 8.
And then, I'm gonna go ahead and call up some of the students. So first, I'd like to start with third grade. We've got August Doyle. I don't know if August is here tonight. Pedro Ramos, Ensley Raymer. Ensley's here. Ensley. I think I saw her come in. Ensley wants to come up here. Congratulations, Handsley. We have Bentley Newman and Boston Boettcher. That was for third grade. K. Alright. Congratulations. Okay. Missus Browers. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Alright. Alright. Next for fourth grade, we've got Ariana Cook.
Ella Pennington. Ella was our so for the different grade or the different schools from McConnell, North Miami, and Peru, Ella was our school level winner. So good job. This one's general. K. This one. Kaisley Smith, Faye Gomez, and Yvette Piety. Right hand. There you go. Good job. Okay. Alright. Good job, Robert. Alright. For fifth grade, we have Zrenity Lewis, Declan Hiles, Sofia Roach.
Sofia. There she is. Yep. Maisie Snow. Maisie's here. And Dustin Roberts. Alright. And then for sixth grade, we've got Drake Wilkins, Nyla McClure, Grady Yates, Alexis Marburger, and Brianna Kittner. And Nyla, Nyla McClure was the sponsor's choice award.
And for our grade level winners, Faye Gomez and Drake Wilkins. Okay. Nice to meet you. Great. Good job. And then the last thing I would like to talk about is the Lions Club piece poster. I submitted five this year, and out of those five, Jasmine Wolford's poster was selected to be sent, for further judging to the district level. And, I just wanna thank you guys again for having me and recognizing all these amazing students.
Alright. Thank you. And Blair, point of view, you're welcome to stay for the whole thing, but you do not have to. Congratulations, everyone. Great job. Good. Number three, should we have the table back? Should we seal that when you did the seven double digits? Well, Alright.
We'll continue on here. One second. Alright. This was my fault, miss Truax. We're gonna call your work up. I did not forward that on to missus Sheets. So but, yeah, if you would like to give us a renarration of your Yeah. So this is all of our fun days. Obviously, not all of them, but the school board members, principals, they came and read for fall into reading and then a bunch of our Halloween activities. So I would and I would just point out, you've got mister Hoover, doctor Pennington. You've got missus Shurek at the top.
Mhmm. Mister Beatty. Miss Maxwell, mister Beatty, bottom right. So we've we've got a lot of good participation, board members, administrators. And we appreciate it a lot. It's fun. It's a really it's a really fun time to go in and read, especially when you get to see all the kids all dressed up. Mhmm. That was really cool. The next one was miss McCain and missus Schafer. They were doing their buddy reading. So I'm not sure what grade level Fourth and fifth. Fourth and fifth. First, fourth, McCain, tenth. Okay. So just the younger working with the young older makes a big difference. Next was us at the head conference.
Like I said, it was a very informational workshop. Amazing that I got to be a part of it. And I would point out this will be an opportune time that the unofficially, I think Peru had the most attendees at the HEC conference. Mister Burris as a HEC board member, could you Yeah. Yeah. I I don't know for sure, but I am one gonna try to find out. But, every time I walk up to a booth, I'm like, how many people do you guys have here? Because I I know that multiple have gone by. So appreciate everybody that was able to go.
I'm kinda getting that picture a little bit, I guess, but, we were able to steal a banner to take that. So appreciated, everybody coming in. On on behalf of the headquarters, thank you for everyone that was able to attend and for sending them. And I believe mister Snyder won a gift card. Yeah. Accurate that the heck. And I'm told doctor Gorstow won a meat thermometer. Come on. That's a wireless smart meat thermometer. Oh my god. Everyone's gotta have one, I guess. I'm excited. And we all got a Skylight Skylight calendar, which is Oh, yeah. That was pretty cool.
Yeah. And then the last one is my fun video that we had to create. We had a little bit too much fun with this new app, but if you just click the kick click the picture, it should play. Miss Truax and missus Nightingale get an extra $1,000,000. That was a high-tech k I thing. That's okay. Very. Thank you, miss Drew. Alright. Thank you. Okay. Number three on our presentation here, the curriculum update, we're gonna push that back to December meeting. Just make sure we had plenty of time to get everything in. So up next will be our, project presentation from Trafalter.
Good evening. It's a pleasure to be with all of you again. If If you remember, we had mentioned early on with the schedules that we have these checkpoints. And the checkpoints are when we will bring forward design updates, but we're also having behind the scene behind the scene meetings as well to make sure that the the budgets that we originally set forth that we are still tracking in the right direction on those estimates. And so we have reached that milestone. We wanna thank, superintendent McCormick and the leadership team for meeting with us weekly. Sometimes the meetings are pretty short or but on Friday, sometimes they're three hours long.
And it is a page turn where you are actually thank you, mister Steiner, for being in presence, among others. But it is going through every detail, and it's with the engineers and it's an architect just to make sure that we are having on the documents what the intent is, what you wanna accomplish with your project. And so we are at that threshold that we wanted to provide an update and the design, and we don't bring anything forward unless we know with confidence that it is tracking in the right, cost estimates that it is something that is going to actually happen. May not look exactly like what you see here because there's still some refinement for
refinements as far as the products. The availability of the products. Colors have not really been selected yet as well, but it just gives you kind of an idea of the work that's happening behind the scenes to give you, this update today. Mike is going to walk us through the updates of the all three of the projects, and then Tim from Skillman is here as well just to give you an update on the, estimates and the, schedule. So if we can move forward, Mike. Thanks, Tim. Mhmm. Yep. That's it. Hi, everybody. As as Chris was saying, Friday, we had a chance to meet with, Peru admin,
couple of principals, Clint and, Christy, for Elmwood and Blair. And we were able to tie down all the programming, design, everything that we understand and Peru understand that's included in the in the project and Gibraltar is proceeding with, construction documents as we speak. So we have all the information tied down. We're in a good shape and I think we're even, we're also on budget as far as we know. Let me go over just a project update starting with the Tiger North Campus.
Again, as a reminder, we're, turning the old cinema, parking area into a new transportation, center, maintenance and a new admin center for the district. The darker areas heavy duty asphalt, we're adding a new drive so public when they come in, they'll come into the public parking area and into the admin. Part of the project includes an alternate drive where the the the current Roxy Lane maybe call something else later, can extend all the way over to Hay Avenue.
The entire parking area will be secured fencing around it. We'll have new lighting in the parking lot and, electric for the buses to for the the engine block warmers. It's a a little hard to see but you can you can see the lighter blue areas the new admin area. The, the reddish area is the transportation and then the new maintenance facility here. Public parking is here. The new boardroom is here. You come in, there'll be a reception area, the boardroom and then the offices, south
of the boardroom, all the new admin offices in this area. Existing restrooms are set up so they're centrally located. Really don't have to do much of anything in that area. It will serve all the restroom needs for the entire building. There will also be a new family restroom associated with that and in the family restroom there's a shower area which again during the day that can be used by anybody in the building. The transportation area, will have a district wide multi use classroom.
It'll be used by for bus driver training. It'll be used for district. Professional development needs. It's a very flexible type space. It's set up as like I said as a large classroom. A new break room for the for the entire building. It'll have a small kitchenette area. There's actually a a sink in that area from the old, Roxy that we're gonna reuse and and some case work in there and, so you have a new break room in that area as well. There'll be access to the break room without having to walk through a meeting in progress.
We'll have a access corridor from from, across here so you can go right into the break room there. With the transportation, you have a, bus driver entry, transportation office and an assistant office on this area as well. The maintenance area over here, Chris's office will be over here with an assistant office here. Maintenance workshop area, tables and equipment machinery and then in the garage we'll set that up so, vehicles can park in the in the garage.
We'll we'll put some floor drains in there, as well for the vehicles that are in the garage. And then plenty of room for storage in these two areas. And then, the existing building really all we're doing on that and it it looks completely different but it it's not. It's just paint. We're taking the old building that, used to be in orange and reddish color and just adding paint to all that and adding some graphics and and signage to the exterior. Elmwood Learning Center, starting with the site.
Again, just a reminder on scope on the exterior. Taking the existing parking area and expanding it so that, you know, larger parking lot. And then, we'll have to manage storm water, in this area here. So water runoff from the parking lot will be detained on-site before it goes off-site. Elmwood, the the the floor plan you can see most of the building is getting new finishes. And then there's some repurposing or reworking some of the areas like the restrooms.
We are working a secured entrance into the into the elementary school, and then there's a flex office and a storage room in the gymnasium. As well as there's a, we're also planning to put, replace the cooler in the, kitchen area. Just a little closer up. Look at at the entrance. We're having small, addition underneath the vestibule there. I'm sorry. Underneath the canopy, there'll be a secure vestibule. Visitors come into a reception area. So this is get be worked a little bit different like I said.
The conference room is where the old office used to be. There's there's also new LED lighting in the building, new fire alarm system, some other improvements, in a p wise as well. So you the the entrance to the building really doesn't change other than, like I said, we're adding this vestibule. So you probably wouldn't even know it was there. Unless I I I told you it was. But, and then some of these columns are getting repaired on the exterior. But that's that's basically it for the exterior.
Blair Point. This building has a greater need for, building comfort, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems. So most of the the effort is focused in those areas. But on the site, to deal with some of the moisture problems where water is getting into some of the some of the exterior walls where it's not draining properly, we're adding a drain tile around the perimeter and we'll hook that up to the closest, storm water structure. And then we're also adding, a recent development was a request from additional parking spaces
on the south side of the building. We're adding about eight to 10 parking spaces. In addition to some of the mechanical work, there are some improvements on the inside. The biggest one is adding this cross corridor. It gets from one side of school to the other side, without having to walk, well, all the way down here. So you can get to one side. The other media center, or the office, some some of the storage space that's gonna come out and just get reworked on one side of the media center. There's a a new s r office and the clinics getting expanded as well in
this area. And like we did, we're doing an element and adding some open wash labs to the large group restrooms for the students. I'm close-up again. Media center when when we had this, at well, this wall is already here but when we we'll have a new conference room in here and a storage room that's also shared with the, office and media center. The principal's office is getting shifted from where it was here to the side with access to a corridor. Like I said, the clinic is getting expanded so there'll be some cabinetry, refrigerator, or
sink added in that area. What I mean by open wash labs, the sinks used to be are currently are in the bathrooms. Now the open wash labs are accessible from the corridors so a teacher can take a group of children or students out here and make sure that, you know, they wash their hands before they go back back to class. And then the old junior high, the two class two story classroom wing is being demolished, removed, completely.
And then we'll have a lawn area of when it's all said and done in this area. And then, where you remove the existing, two story classroom, you're gonna have interior walls that are exposed. So we'll we'll treat those interior walls as new exterior walls. You know, someday this is used as another program. Right now, I don't know if it maybe in the future it's a CTE program or some other use, you would still have a sidewalk off of the front street here and have your set of doors back in here.
Tim, did you wanna speak to this? Yeah. Great. Thank you. Good to see everyone again. I got my computer open a little bit. Mike does a great job at kinda focusing on the architectural things, but I'd like to remind everybody of all the things kinda underneath the hood that are also happening. Right? So, just hitting a couple of the bullet points on the list. You know, the the elementary school specifically, we're still doing pipe replacement. Right? Pipes that are seventy, eighty years old that, you know, we don't want drinking out
of, you know, the water anymore. We've got air handling units that we're refurbishing to extend the life and just some other things that just aren't, as apparent, cosmetically. Right? So there's a lot of lot of kind of the lift underneath the hood if you would like to, make your facilities, last a lot longer. So, with that being said, we do have, kind of a schedule here. Gonna keep jumping around. There we go. So we've been past a few kind of the milestones throughout this project process. Right?
That's the hearings, the end of our thirty day waiting period, and then now we've we've begun the design phase. So there's three steps to that. Mike's handed us the Gibraltar's handed us, sorry, a 35% set. And so we've and we took that in, we created an estimate off of those drawings. Right? Kinda did a budget check. Give the green light. Hey, we've accounted for most of everything that we've got kinda, in our kickoff meeting with Trent and the facilities going through. And so, okay, design team, go ahead and proceed. I think Friday, if I remember right, Mike, we'll receive kind of that 50% benchmark
that's also known as design development. So once again, we'll inbound that, do an estimate on it, budget check, verify, make sure we haven't added too much scope or if we're missing a component that we had kinda, thought about early on. And then once again, green light as long as we're on budget, we'll just keep moving forward with the design process. So a lot of kind just kinda gate checks as we go through to make sure we're accounting for everything that was, kinda initial set up for the project. April 29 is kind of a target date. So as we keep moving forward, once we get the final set of drawings from
Gibraltar, there's about forty five days in there. Skillman inbounds it. Once again, we look over it for completeness, align specs with the drawings, etcetera. And then put the package out on the street for bidding. Right? We'll break that up into big categories and whatnot. So April 29 right now is the target date for the a, b, and d projects. I just wanna be very specific about that because right now the c project, which is the high school, is on a separate timeline. So the a b d projects, the ones that Mike just covered.
Start construction is, tentatively August 26, and it's a twelve month process for us to get through all of that construction. And so I I say that as, well, Tim, how how are we gonna do it? Each each one of the schools or projects will have a phasing plan associated with it. Obviously, we can't just come into one of the elementary schools and take over and right? We're gonna take all your hot water down on the wrong time of year. No. That's not gonna happen. So as we keep going through, we'll have new graphics to present as we keep
meeting with different leaders from the schools, Jason, Chris, and go through all of those kinda action plans of how and when we're gonna do that so we don't disrupt the student environment. Right? Or impact it as little as possible. So, twelve months, we'll kinda nail down all all four of the buildings, four projects, I should say. And then, hopefully, by the end of that October 27 date that Mike put on here, that's all the projects, a, b, c, and d. For a, b, and d, we should have those done in twelve month period.
So that would be, June, July on twenty seventh. K. Any questions? So that covers kinda schedule. The budget portion, once again, if we took, a, b, and d and put them together, we've clearly got the, hard cost estimates that we've put together for them. So you'll see that as far as the approval, like, construction cost estimate. There's soft cost portion of that. So once again, that are that's furniture equipment, technology fees, testing, soils, exploration, etcetera.
So that number's in there. Cost of issuance, I don't that's not me. And then so we've got kind of a total project cost of what we believe, to the state that those three projects would cost. Gibraltar was nice enough to kinda park, project c down there. It's, you know, we don't wanna forget about that. We're still tracking it and having discussions about it. So, right now, we've got, kind of that placeholder there, for that project. I don't know that we're currently not designing that though. Right? Okay. So that is a budget based upon just preliminary scope, looking at the drawings and
kinda discussing what the those top priority items are to complete. I said a lot. Is there any any questions? We will keep visiting to call up to our scaling. We'll keep visiting you guys, giving you updates, as the project continues, through the rest of design, etcetera, as Chris had said before. So, if you do have questions, feel you know, make sure you reach out to superintendent McCormick We're on weekly calls, whether it's the phase one or, when I'm calling phase two here. So we're in constant contact quite a bit. K? Okay. Christie Thank you very much.
That's it. You good? Okay. Awesome. Okay. Moving along to agreements. Mister McCormack, do you have a Skillman contract agreement? Yeah. Before you, mister Beatty, for the board's consideration for approval is our contract with Skillman as included in the figures, that you just saw up on the screen. But this is a standard AIA contract for your review and approval tonight. I would entertain a motion to accept contract as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, doctor Finnegan.
Does anybody have any questions or comments, concerns? Hearing none, all those in favor? It's unanimous. Thank you. Next up, under program, amend the current board meeting schedule. We have a discussion to move the scheduled December 8 board meeting to December 15, and so that we could have some additional time for administration to get us some numbers. So, I would entertain a motion to amend that the current board meeting schedule. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Questions? Have we announced it? Do we need to put it in the newspaper?
We will once yeah. Yeah. We'll make sure we have advertised it as as legally obligated too. Any other questions? All All those in favor? Yes, your name is. Thank you. Under business, early literacy endorsement, mister McCormack. These are your standard, these these two employees, earn their early literacy endorsement, entitling them to a thousand dollar, annual stipend for your approval this evening. Can I have a motion to accept those as presented?
So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Questions? All those in favor? K. Unanimous. Moving right along. Tuition assistance. This is, again, your standard. I think you've you've seen this before where a staff member, earns their masters. And, for that, the district has agreed to kick in $1,500, towards their tuition. Do I hear a motion to accept that as presented? The tuition. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, mister Fuller. Any questions?
All those in favor? It is unanimous. Next up, we have a golf scramble resolution. Mister McCormick, could you please explain that a little bit? Yes. For those, school employees that, spent, their Sunday, I think, October 5, supporting the the golf scramble, they were granted a comp day, for giving up their weekend day. And so this is a resolution for your consideration to approve, officially supporting that decision.
I would entertain a motion to accept the golf scramble resolution as presented. So moved. Thank you, mister Hoover. Second? Second. Thank you, doctor Goodison. Any questions, comments? All those in favor? Opposed? Abstain? Five zero one. Next week. He underneath, we have high ability. Is that a COGAC? Wow. COGAC quote, mister McCormick. I'll put, mister Matthews on the spot, and, he can kind of better much better explain this than I can. Sure. So corporations are do I have a pen?
You're not there any other work. We're required to do high ability testing each year for kindergarten, second, and fifth grade. We do some additional testing as in third and fourth grade based on self contained lift classes at Blair, and other testing that they have. So all kindergarten students get the screener, and then all second and fifth grade will get the full battery assessment that helps us, with placement for them. Another data point for teachers to be able to utilize all of this will come comes directly out of the high ability grant that I write each year.
So, nothing out of any separate funds. Thank you, mister Matthews. Can I get a motion to accept the high ability COGAC quote as presented? Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Any questions? All those in favor? Is your name. Donations, looks like we have $250 to the high school girls basketball from Beller Construction Management. That's for general use. I would entertain a motion to accept that as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, doctor Pinnocken. Any comments, questions, or concerns? All those are. K. Under personnel, we have resignations, retirement, suspension, terminations, and transfers.
You can all see those before you. I would entertain a motion to accept those as one unless you would like to call any of them separate. I would like to make a motion for one and two separately. Okay. So would you like to make a motion for three, four, and five to accept? Yes. Okay. Can I have a second on that? Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Any questions or comments? All those in favor of accepting three, four, and five as presented, it is unanimous. Thank you. I would entertain a motion on one and or two.
Next. So moved? We're doing them separately? Yeah. Let's just do them separately. Okay. We'll talk about separate. I would entertain a motion to accept, number one as presented. So moved on number one. Thank you, mister Hoover. Second? Second. Thank you, doctor Bennington. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? Opposed? Of state. Thank you, miss Justice. Five zero one. Also, same thing for number two. I would entertain a motion to accept the resignation on number two. So moved. Thank you, doctor Pennington. Second? Second. Mister Fuller, thank you. Any questions?
All those in favor? Opposed? Abstain? Five zero one. Thank you very much. Moving on to recommendation for classified position. Again, I would take a and entertain a motion to accept one through three as presented unless someone would like to separate. Motion to accept one through three. Thank you, miss Justice. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Any questions, comments? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Recommendation for extracurricular positions. Again, I would entertain a motion to accept one through three as presented unless someone would like to separate one. Take motion for one through three.
Second. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions? All good? Did you hear this? Recommendation for subteacher, custodian, nurse, bus driver positions. Again, one and two, I would entertain a motion to accept those unless somebody would like to separate. Motion to accept one and two. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, mister Fuller. Questions? All those in favor. The engineers. On to budget. Let's go, a, claims. It's in here. You're fine. Do you have any questions? Questions on the claims? Last chance? I would entertain a motion to accept the claims as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice.
Second? Second. Mister Ellis, any final questions? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Virginia, fund monitoring report. On our fund monitoring report, our education fund, we've collected over 90% of the budget. Again, salaries and benefits are the largest expenditures followed by supplies, and supplies includes the textbook rental fund that is now in education funds. So that's just why that one has increased. And so far for the year, we've dispersed just over 80% of the budget, putting
us right where we should be. Debt service, you'll see activity in this start to happen in December when we make our next set of bond payments. In operations, I know it looks low. 52% of our budget has been collected, but that will increase in December when we get our property taxes in. Salaries, utilities, supplies, and benefits are the largest expenses in operations. And we've dispersed about 78% of our budget.
So we're lower than the education, so we're we're doing okay there. Rainy day, we've had no activity in that this last month. In our 2022 bond, we are continuing to spend that down. We're we have a list of things that we are currently working through. And once that gets done, they're billing us for. For it. So we're just waiting for some of that stuff to get finished. 2024 bond, we are now starting to work on that. So we got one of our first bigger bonder bills this month. So you'll see that there's some increased activity on the twenty fourth bond.
And those will continue to come in more regularly now. So you'll start to see this one getting sent down. Then on our school lunch, things are going great with, charcoals. We are making just a little bit more than what they're putting out which is right where the, they want us to be. So we're doing good there. We're in a in positive money in our in our food service fund. So we're happy with how that's going. Is there any questions? Hearing no questions.
We accept the fund monitoring report. Alright. Do I have a second? Second. Mister Ellis. Do we have any questions? Final question. Final call. All those in favor. Thank you. Thank you, mister Newhart. Next up, we have, master contractor ratification. Mister McCormick, I'm gonna turn it over to you. Yes. The master contract, resolved from the tentative agreement for community schools and the PCEA, our teachers union. The master contract includes a $1,250 stipend.
There's also the required literacy endorsement, the thousand dollar stipend for those who have that endorsement. The district also agreed to, pick up the four and a half percent increase to the health insurance premium expense to the employees that take our health insurance. PTO days, we used to give ten sick days and two or three personal days depending on your tenure. We agreed, to allow them just to combine that and call it 13 PTO days, to give the teachers more flexibility.
What you'll find in our industry is, you know, teachers, not always, but a lot of times they work when they're sick. And, you know, to give them more flexibility and so no one feels like they've got to skirt the rules or whatnot. Just treating them more professionally and giving 13 PTO days. And then we created a a testing coordinator position, which both sides, you know, willingly
agreed to that. It's a position that has to happen, so we've added that to the ECA schedule. I appreciate miss Enyart, kind of spearheading, making that official. So that that's that for the master contract. Thank you, mister McCormick. I would entertain a motion to approve the master contract as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, doctor Bennington. Any questions? No questions. I just wanna say I I was part of the negotiating committee, and I wanna take the PCAA, be part of it.
I have nice nice formal discussions, and think every everybody hopefully was everything's good. Yeah. That's alright. Thank you, miss Trellis. Any others? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Moving on to administrator director classified stipend benefits, mister Port. So for directors and administrators, they will receive the same $1,250 stipend. And their insurance the increase in their insurance, for directors, I'm sorry, would be picked
up as well. And then, classified employees will receive a 625 stipend. Miss Inure, have I left anything off there? Classified employees have insurance off again. Thank you. Something you've got to do. There's no problem. So that is that is there for your consideration for approval. Do I have a motion to accept the, recommendation for administrator director classified stipend and benefits? So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second. Big one. Thank you, mister Ellis. Any questions? All those in favor?
It is your nanny's. Board comments. Anybody have any comments, questions? Three things you wanna say? Nope. I don't have any. Thank you. Mister McCormick? I wanna thank the 16 attendees, teachers, admin, directors that went to the HEC conference last week. It was a great, event. We were there for two days, picked up a lot of, you know, techie information, met people in the tech world. I was very proud of our team and, so that that was a nice event. Next Tuesday, we sell our bonds on the open market.
It's kinda like fantasy football live. You get to watch it happen. So, doctor Gorto, missus Sheets, miss Inyart, myself are gonna go down, to Stifel and watch that live on the big screen. So appreciate them allowing us to to view that. This Friday, we have a team, I don't know, six six or so of our folks that are, working with Rekham in the early literacy program. They'll head to Winchester as part of a quad meeting. So Winchester is the mentor school and then Peru, Southmont, and Fairfield are the three
mentee schools. So they'll be headed to Winchester about an hour and a half away in Randolph County for that on Friday. So we just we we have a number of people across our district that are, you know, traveling across the state, seeking out professional development, working hard on behalf of our students in our district. I I'm very proud of them and and appreciative. And last but not least, well, I guess, one more prize winner tonight at the ISBA ISSS annual annual fall conference back a couple months ago.
Doctor Bennington won the Gibraltar draw. That was great. Alright. That's a lot. I do wanna go back up, one to board member comments. I've remembered one that I was going to say. I appreciate all of you guys, attending the conference last Monday night. I know those things kinda get a little long, but, there are there's there's lots of good information in them. Thank you guys for taking the time of your evening to make that happen. I believe we were one of, if not the highest attended of of of of of the districts that were there. So, thank you guys for supporting that and, making that happen.
That was impressive. We had six of our board members there. So thank you for pointing that out, mister Fady. Sure. With nothing else on the agenda, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second? Second. Thank you. Thank you, guys.