We'll do the pledge of allegiance first. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to your republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Now we'll start off with the, acceptance of the agenda. I entertain a motion to accept the agenda as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? It's unanimous. Thank you. Approval of the minutes from the November meeting. Second. Taken with Justice.
Second? Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Any discussion or questions or anything corrections? Hearing none. All those in favor? Opposed? Obtained. Thank you. Motion passes. Public comment. Looks like we have one tonight. Miss Richardson, the floor is closed. I have had at least 15 families come up to me. If you guys noticed, I was not here last month. I decided to take a little break from everything. When these 15 families came up to me and told me what has been going on, I decided to stand up here again. I was asked to ask one question, and that was it.
So I have one question for Trent McCormick and Thomas Beatty. I tried to enter the high school, so the back entrance in which I was refused access into the building due to safety protocol in my craft. K. What I don't understand is I was denied access because of a safety reason, but you guys allowed a central predator into our school. You guys don't understand the damage he caused by that. Why not do an extensive background? Don't understand.
None of us parents understand. Honestly, from where I stand, nobody is doing their job. And it said that parents know more than the school officials. How is it that we have sent email multiple reports and call on said teacher, but you guys shrugged it off until it went viral on social media? And how how good do you guys look now knowing that it hit social media? There's been multiple parents that's been up here saying the exact same thing, maybe for different reasons, but it's still the exact same thing.
B c the board know there's been no sexual predator allowed into Mhmm. For junior senior high school. That is not factual. That's your opinion? We know differently. We've heard stories from our children. We know differently. He was grooming them, and you know it. PCS used to be the school everyone wanted to attend, but thanks to everyone in these chairs because now PCS is the school that families run from. Thanks a lot for that. Alright. Moving on. Recognition of retiring staff. Mister Port. If I could have mister Hite come up.
Gee, this. Chuck, thank you for all of your years of service. Thank you. Wish you the best of luck in retirement. A lot of wisdom walking out the door with Chuck and appreciate everything you've done for the district. Thanks, Oswald. Appreciate that. Moving on. We have curriculum update. Missus Shirk, the floor is yours. Thank you. Good evening. I have held the role as curriculum director for almost a year, and wanted to take this opportunity just to give the board and the community an idea of of
what we've been doing, how things are going, and where we, currently stand. We do have a curriculum leadership team which consists of educators from all three of our buildings, and you can see those teachers up here. We meet, close to monthly, but I get the holidays. We're not meeting in December. And we've done a lot of different things that I'll talk to you about in the next few minutes. Starting in January, we got together and met for the first time, went over some expectations and norms, and we started really digging into data.
We continued that moving into February and then began peeling back some of the standards to understand what the state of Indiana academic standards are really asking, students to do and asking us to teach our students. Moving into spring, we summarize that data and summarized the k digital content standards, and we started looking at things vertically. So what are things kids are learning at l one and Blair Point that will grow into something bigger at the junior senior high?
And a lot of teachers were really interested in seeing, oh, what I'm doing here impacts things in a year or two. And a lot of the high school teachers were like, oh, that's interesting. I didn't really realize that they started this concept so early. So we started seeing those connections and started talking about using a common language so that when kids are going from school to school and teacher to teacher, that when we're talking about the same common contact, we're using the same words. And so that kids can have that continuity in order to better build their skills.
We continue that throughout the summer. We spent a lot of time on it in May, but some teams, met during the summer. We had a content area team. So a team working on science, social studies, one working on English, and one working on math. And so they were able to line things up and show strands on, hey. This is where this skill starts, and this is how it continues k to 12. Moving into this school year, we wrapped up the vertical articulation and used that information
to identify some benchmarks for each grade level. Between eight and ten for each grade level and that you'll see more in the spring as we, tweak those a little bit. We also like a common vocabulary, and we would like that to be something that is eventually public facing so that parents could know and understand at the end of each year what are some basic skills in each content area that their students should be able to do. So our next steps are gonna be to finalize and tweak those grade level benchmarks. And like I said, I hope we can release those and have those in some
very pretty documents we can share publicly in the spring. We're continuing to work on that common content vocabulary. Something as simple as, like, when you're in elementary school, like, sometimes you'll hear, oh, you can go hot dog full, but we can talk about vertical and horizontal with the littles so that when they get to a higher level, they're already using some vocabulary that's a little more advanced. We're going to start looking at those employability and technology skills. The state does have standards for those, but figuring out where those fit naturally within
our curriculums to be sure that our students are ready when they graduate to go in the workforce and use those twenty first century skills. We're also going to be throughout, all of this doing some data dives, and we'll do a little bit of a data dive here with you before I wrap up. For our textbook adoption, as you know, over the past couple of years, we've been working on Adopting Wonders. This is year one of full implementation, and we've had a number of different professional learning opportunities for our staff, mostly from the experts in the company that published wonders.
Although throughout this year, we're gonna work with our teacher trainers to continue to support staff as they have questions on that. When we come back from Christmas, we'll work with our curriculum leadership team to see if there are any sticking points or things that teachers are struggling with so we can offer appropriate support for that. And then continue through the spring and also touch base at the end of the year. Now when schools adopt a new curriculum, it usually takes a few years to get in a good cycle. The general rule of thumb is year one, and this will be considered year one
for us, the teachers begin to shift their instruction. They have a different pacing guide. They're learning new skills. Year two, we start to see students start improving their skills, and we'll see results on out of the formative assessments. And then year three of implementation is when we should see measurable results on, like, standardized tests. We are working through textbook adoption process for secondary English, and we currently just wrapped up gateway one.
And that was really looking at how the text are aligned to standards, if questions are grounded in evidence, and that text quality piece. We will be moving this month and next month into gateway two that's digging a little deeper into, comprehension through text, questions, and tasks, and knowledge building through reading, writing, and language comprehension in ELA, knowledge building, and communication for Spanish.
By the time we get to spring, we'll be looking at gateway three, which is gonna be looking at all the support pieces, technology, student supports, teacher supports, interventions. We'll pull some special ed teachers in to look at supports for SE, English language learners. And and either merge or April be able to make a recommendation to you as the board as what we think the best resources would be for our students. That way, we would be able to, purchase and arrange for professional learning before the
school year started, giving teacher access to the materials. So if they wanna dig into it in the summer, they'd be able to do that. So these are the five checks we are looking at for English and language arts. And, actually, as we wrapped up gateway one, we have eliminated Sabbath and thick circa. So we're gonna be focusing on interior literature from HMH and McGraw Hill StudySync. Six to 12. Then six to eight is still looking at Amplify, which is a program that was specifically designed for grades six to eight.
For our Spanish texts, we are looking at mundo and accion, clits over vorteros. And we were looking at Altentico, but through gateway one, we have eliminated that. So each gateway, we're hoping to narrow down a little bit more so we don't have to dive as deep into a whole bunch of texts. We are planning on probably late February, early March, also providing an opportunity for the board and the community to come and take a look at the materials we are
still looking at, and we'll have an opportunity for the board and community to also give us some feedback on that. Alright. I'm at eight minutes. I'm trying to keep this to twelve. But I do wanna share a little bit about our state diagnostic test data and where we've been over the past few years and where we are now. We're gonna start with Elmwood. I'm gonna look at ELA and math for each of the buildings. I'm not sharing all of the details and getting into the weeds with that, but I kinda want you to have a picture of where we're starting.
You can see here our double proficiency. We've got kindergartners that have historically come in low. This year, they're coming in lower than ever. Despite the fact that they're coming in low, our ELMo teachers are getting moving that needle, and they're moving it a lot. They're doing a really nice job. We can see the iRead second grade pass rates. We have half of our second graders passing the third grade test. So kudos to missus Eddie and her team. You're doing a great job with that reading. The middle graph here shows the green is the second graders who have passed.
The gold includes those who pass and the kids that are on track that we expect to pass their third grade year as well. Looking at math at Old Wood, we've got some pretty low scores. And I'm guessing Elmwood, like most of the elementary schools in the state, have focused most of their energy on their reading skills. And so this is something that we've started having, conversations with principals and mister McCormick about coming up with a plan for how to get those math scores up.
And so we'll be talking a little bit more with you as the board, next semester as we come up with some steps to start addressing math. We can say Blair White. We've got kids coming in at that third grade level pretty low, but they're starting to raise the needle and get those math scores up some. K. Blair Point reading. We see, like, a lot of times we're having kids come in, doing pretty well with their reading fluency. If we were looking at the weeds and all the details here, we'll say that
our readers know how to read. They've learned all of that at Elwood. The big piece is getting our kids to comprehend. And as we've moved to this wonder's adoption, which is, an ed reports and a lot of studies shown to be highly effective, I would expect within the next couple of years, we'll see our comprehension scores start to rise. Because we're following up with fidelity and building those skills and the skills and consistency with the kids. You can see our ivory grade three pass rates.
This right here does not include the second grade numbers. And so that dip you see in the middle, that's completely expected because that's when we started doing, the second grade testing. And so the kids that are taking it in third grade are the kids that are already low, already struggle, and having a hard time. So even though we see that dip there, this is good. If we come to this slide, you can see the I read three cohort pass
rates, which you can see are awesome. Our kids are doing really fabulous. K. Looking a little bit more at the I learn grade three ELA, I learn is when they start really looking at comprehension as opposed to just being able to do code. And so we've been kinda up and down with third grade, really close to where the state is. See, fourth grade this past year dropped quite a bit below where the state is. Fifth grade is back up with the state. And sixth grade's a little bit above. Now our test in Indiana changed so many times that I have a hard time
just looking at pass rates. I like comparing how we're doing with how the state's doing. Because if they change something on the test, it's gonna impact everybody in the state. So a lot of times when I share data with you, it's gonna have where we are and where the state is. Because if you change the test 42 times, the numbers aren't gonna mean anything if you compare from year to year. Looking at math, we can see grade three, we're a little bit below the state. Grade four, a little bit more. Five starts to come up a little bit. And sixth grade, They've been doing a good job of narrowing that gap in last
year with freaking those sixth graders up above the state's pass rate. Now we get to the junior high and scores start going down. I would like to note the junior or senior high hasn't had adopted math materials or, as you know, materials in general for years. And we're working on, addressing those issues. But I think that does play a role into, where scores are and kind of helps us understand what we need to do to get those up.
Mister Matthews and I are going to be working together, this next semester because he does have a graduate degree in math education on making some plans, some expectations for k to 12 and what we need to do with math and consider what our next steps for math moving forward will be. Friday, we get a little bit closer to where the state is. Still not doing great. And then looking at the iLearn pass rates, we see that deviation and how that's
growing between what's in the state. We have just this past year added the NWEA test and, ALEKS to try to, help narrow the gap. The ALEKS program does a really good job of doing individualized plans to help bring kids up. But ultimately, we need an evidence based curriculum to get kids where they need to go. If we look at our high school level, up here we have PSAT and then
we'll look at SAT. We have our sophomores last year. We are just a little bit below the state. At the top, you can see we've got, Peru, how we've done the benchmarks. The benchmarks are math and English, compared to Indiana, just the IDOE public schools, and then all Indiana schools, which include private charters, homeschooled, and then, compared to The USA. And on both math and English, we're just a little bit below the average Indiana
public school. I will note that as we look at PSAT and move to SAT, it is a test that is used for state accountability. However, it's a test they give juniors, and everyone in Indiana suffers from the fact that they use the same bench benchmark that they use for seniors. It's a test designed for seniors for their college entrance exam, and the cut score they use for state accountability is for juniors that are taking it.
So as we look at how we do compared to the rest of the state, we're all in the same boat, but it is kind of a bummer for all Indiana schools that were using a senior benchmark for juniors. You can see the juniors last fall. You can see they are really close on that English and not too far off from the state on math. SAT last spring, you can see even closer on the English I'm not too far off the math again. And that's what we got.
I am going to over my twelve minutes. Did you have any questions? Absolutely. Alright. That was a lot of information to get through in the events. Well done. Next up on program, miss McCormick and Viola for change. Yeah. You have, you have four policies in front of you just for first reading, just informational. So policy twenty two twenty one mandatory curriculum. This is mandatory curriculum that's been revised to reflect changes made to Indiana law by senate and rule act four forty two instruction on human sexuality.
And you can see any of the changes are highlighted in green. Also policy twenty four fourteen, reproductive health and family planning and human sexuality instruction. The narrative behind that reproductive health and family planning and human sexuality instruction has been revised to incorporate the change made, to that Indiana code by senate and rule act four four two. Then you have policy twenty four sixteen, student privacy and parental access to information has been revised. And it's been revised to reflect changes in the Indiana code twenty-thirty-five-seventeen, again, by Senate
and Roll Act four forty two. And then the fourth policy, 2623, student assessment. Student assessment has been revised to Rollback one four nine nine, as part of education matters. So you, again, any changes are either stricken through or, in highlighted green. So those are just for first reading this evening. Thank you, mister McCormick. Up next, we have Eagles cards after school program.
I'm just gonna point it. That's you too. Do you have that point? Just a discussion and action to approve Blair Point in Elmwood's after school remediation. Program will be Tuesdays and Thursdays from January 27 to February 26. And the principals do a great job of coordinating transportation and snacks as part of that, program. They do hire staff as part of that program as well. Missus Eddy, put you on the spot. Do you have any points of emphasis on that program?
I again, it's it's been a part of our commitment to our interventions. I mean, it's a pretty hefty intervention for us beyond the school day. So, I mean, we appreciate the fact that the staff is is that you allow the staff, to be there after school and continue to pay them for that time. I mean, I don't want right now. We're looking at inviting about 90 students, and we pretty much get And and so you're talking these children are gonna be at home until 04:00, put on a bus, and some of them won't get home until five, 05:30.
It's a long day for them, but it's been impactful. It keeps the these are our at risk readers that we just tested just now at the middle of the year. So they'll be the ones to receive the invitations. How long have we been doing? I've been at Elmwood for this is my ninth year. We were running two sessions. We were actually running a first semester session and then a second. COVID kind of gave us all that chop and we came back with so I would say a dozen years easy. Thank you, missus Eddy. Thank you. So that program is, there for your consideration for approval.
For the recommendation, I would entertain a motion to accept that as presented. So moved. Thank you, mister Hoover. I'll second. Thank you, miss Justice. Any discussion or any further questions? All those in favor is unanimous. Thank you. Next up, FBLA trip. Miss America is requesting to the approval to take five or six students, one sponsor, to the FBLA Future Business Leaders of America State Leadership Conference and Competition in Muncie, Indiana, Courtyard by Marriott, 03/13/2026 to 03/15/2026, requesting district to pay sponsor hotel registration of
$480. And, miss Ener, this has been requested in the past, if I'm not mistaken. Correct. So it's I think it's been a Exactly. It works. I'd make a motion to allow that Second. As presented. Thank you, doctor Quinn. Thank you, Britney. Any other questions, comments? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Operations and technology. First, we have a facility use request. Request to by Tri Capital sorority, their eggs fundraiser to use BladderPoint's cafeteria and kitchen,
and that request is in your packet. So if you, any any details at all. Again, I don't I I think this is an ongoing this is what we've done in several years. I would entertain a motion to accept that as presented. So moved. Thank you, doctor Quinn. Second. Thank you, miss Justice. Any questions or discussion? Is this just for the first one or is this for both? This is for both. Correct? I think it was for total. The motion would be to make both of them. Oh, you wanna do both? Okay. I've I've been been doing this for a number of years.
Yeah. We've never had And you are absolutely correct. Received by the community. So the motion will read, for use of Blair Pointe Cafeteria and the Stadium Track facility. Everybody clear on that? Yes. Any questions? All those in favor? Thank you. Next up on her business, we have early literacy endorsements. We have Whitney Warren, for a $1,000 stipend for, her her early literacy endorsement for your consideration for approval. I would entertain a motion to accept the literate literate early literacy endorsement. I can't see that. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice.
We're bailing me out. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, mister Fuller. Any questions? All those in favor. It is unanimous. Next up, board meeting AV equipment. Mister Forek. So the the upgraded the nice AV equipment we have here is our is a demonstration model. So we are seeking your approval to purchase our our own, which would be like this system, here that has worked very well, the past few months. Mister Burrows, do you have any any thoughts or narratives on that?
Yeah. I mean, this is a pretty popular system that's used by a lot of school districts, includes the, the camera that you see here on the podium and the microphones in front of you. It's worked really well here. I have it at Western Lane. Works right there. Like I said, it's very popular system across the state, to meet the the codes we have in, all of the state. This has just been a trial Correct. On SW. Grab them one more time. We've been borrowing this. We haven't had to turn any of them back on mid board meeting. Exactly. No problem. I I I have watched several of the videos on YouTube, and they are a lot clearer. And you can actually hear us speak, so much better than the fishbowl that we
had before. So I would entertain a motion to accept that proposal. So moved. Moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, doctor Bennington. Any questions? All those in favor? Thank you. School property resolution. Mister McCormick. Action seeking your consideration for action to approve a resolution to permit, myself, superintendent, to explore options towards selling two parcels of land. Those parcel numbers are on your agenda. One is across the street from Elmwood Elementary. The other is to the east of the Thrush Tennis Courts.
Again, just we've had, over the last year, loose discussion on this. And I want to thank Mr. Snyder for his work on obtaining the quitclaim deed for the property near Elmwood, tidying up that paperwork. So, again, this is just, me seeking approval, authorization from the board to explore options. Any any details, numbers, dynamics surrounding this will be brought to the board before, you
know, any any transactions would be considered. I would entertain a motion to accept that as presented. So moved. Name of justice. Second? Second. Mister Fuller, any questions or discussion? I do have a comment. Maybe not the Elmo one. I don't think anybody's shown interest in that. But if we're gonna decide to sell the one by Thrush Courts, the church next door has shown interest greatly over the years. I think they should have first picked.
I think that's too I think that's too much. Yeah. But Yeah. Any other questions or comments? All those in favor? Opposed? Six to one. Thank you. Motion passes. Disposal of surplus equipment resolution. As we look to spruce up the, weight room at the high school, part of that will include getting rid of antiquated, weight room equipment per mister Edwards, the strength coach. And so this resolution is here for your consideration to dispose of surplus equipment. I would entertain a motion to move accept the proposal as presented.
So moved. Thank you. Mister Hoover? Second. Miss Justice. Questions? I do. Yes, sir. It says that the proceeds will go to the education fund. Why is that? Nobody's actually purchased out of the education fund's classroom material? I think it was actually we bought a lot of this with a donation, and it might have been a grant as I recall. Okay. It might have been purchased before me. But But it is classroom equipment. So we wanna put it back in the education when we buy new stuff, it'll come out of education fund. If it's classroom, that was the the plan to to reinvest in the classroom.
Thank you. Do we as with public money, does it have to be auctioned off? We just sell it off. I was gonna personally make the auction stuff up like that. I wouldn't Sure. Yes. You don't have to auction things at all. I mean, it can just be sold. Sure. We checked with me all before we were Okay. Can't do that. That'd be good. Hearing no other discussion, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Next up is a LED lighting quote. You have this lighting quote before you, for your consideration to approve this quote from
Energy Harness or new, high bay LED lighting fixtures and and lights in Tigerina. That cost for that project will be around $50,000 There is a, as you can see on the agenda, a small contingency expense that would include like rental of the lift and things of that nature that would still need to be determined, but it would be around $50,000 And I would just point out also as part of their
proposal, just the cost savings over $7,000 a year in energy cost savings, which would be seven or eight year return on investment, but the lighting in there will be better, brighter as well in Tigray. Got your motion to accept the proposal as presented? So moved. Thank you, miss Truffman. Second? Second. Thank you, doctor Pennington. Any questions or discussion? We'll just just about wrap up every light we have up there. Is there we did the library, we did the common. Is there any lights we haven't done yet?
The whole plan of doing Classrooms. Not yet. K. You're right. We've I mean, we've done hallways, library, commons, out of all the hallways. Yeah. So, yeah, pretty much just classrooms and those out of the way interior type areas. So a big selling point for these companies is your cost savings. Do we track that at all? We will. I mean, I think we should. Yeah. As a as a personal, I know I tracked it when we switched to our shop, and it was about 48% in the first year of that of utility. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, it's a no, we and listen here, I mean, we talk about this. It's a little early yet since we just switched over like the commons. But over the next couple of two or three years, we do wanna look at our electric bills and that should it'll be easy to tell if we're saving money. Any other discussion? Call us a favor. It is unanimous. Thank you. I'd say look at usage because the bills are gonna go up. Yeah. Yeah. The rates are down. Rates are low. Yeah. Under f donations, looks like we have 250 to the Purdue Junior Senior High School
guidance department for student needs from, Phi Delta Kappa fraternity. A $100 to the high school girls basketball for general use from SNS truck repairs, $2,216.48 to PCS special education classroom for general use from the Indiana State Council Knights of Columbus, and under number 4, $300 to PJ SH music department for general use from the PHS class of 1967 in memory of Peggy Bennett. And I have a statement to read from that as well.
Donation to the junior senior high school music department, PHS class of 1967 in memory of doctor Peggy Bennett. Doctor Peggy Bennett, PHS class of 1967, author, teacher, mentor, mediator, passed away on October 18 due to Alzheimer's. Peggy was the first recipient of the Miami County prestigious Cole Porter scholarship. She went on to earn a bachelor's and master's degree in music from Ball State University, completed her PhD at the University of North Texas in Denton. Peggy also authored and coauthored six books and over 50 articles exploring learning.
She led workshop workshops and presented keynote addresses in all 50 states and six countries. PHS class of 1967 is proud to support the music department with this gift in memory of doctor Peggy Bennett. So thank you. And then finally, 250 to Blair Point student council, a $100 to Blair Point library, a $150 for general use from the David Lewis family in memory of Jesse Lewis. I would entertain a motion to accept those donations as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second.
Thank you, doctor Quinn. Any comments or discussion or questions? All those in favor? Thank you. Under personnel, resignations, retirements, suspensions, determinations, I would entertain a motion to accept those all as presented unless someone would like to pull one aside. Motion to accept one through four. Thank you, missus. Thank you, doctor Williams. Any discussion or questions? All those in favor? And as you may, yes. Next up, recommendation for classified physicians. Again, I would entertain a motion to accept those as presented one through three.
Motion to accept one, two, and three. May I second? Second. Take a pic. Any questions or comment? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Next step, recommendation for extracurricular positions. Same goes, I would entertain a motion to accept one through five. Motion to accept one through five. Thank you, miss Justice. Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Any questions? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Under d, recommendation for subs, teachers, custodians, nurse, bus driver, SRO position, I would entertain a motion to accept d one separately, please.
Motion to accept one. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Any questions? All those in favor? Opposed? Now let's do it. I would entertain a motion to accept two through 10 as one unless someone has another one they would like to pull apart. Motion to accept two through 10. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, mister Fuller. Any questions or comments? These all background checks are pending. Yes. Any other questions or comments? All in favor? It is unanimous.
Next up, we have a recommendation for employee position transition, IT director transition. Mister McCormick, would you like to explain how this is gonna work? Yes. Mister Burris, is starting kind of a new journey, to segment his career. During this transition period next semester, we would have him one and a half days per week, and sharing him with Western Wayne Schools and the East Central Education Service Center. And then, you know, those details will be worked out. He'll be transitioning his pay rate and such prorated appropriately.
And then we will also begin our search for a new IT director here at Group Community Schools and wish wish Ben the best. Thank you, mister McCormick. I would entertain a motion to accept the recommendation as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, doctor Pennington. Any comments, questions, or concerns? All those are bigger. It is unanimous. Up next, we have budget. Miss Singer? You have the floor. I have the claims. They're up to you for your approval. Do you have any questions for me regarding. Any questions on the line?
Accept the things as presented. Thank you, miss Justice. Second. Second. Thank you, miss Trellis. Any other any questions or concerns? All those in favor? It is your hands. Thank you. Next up, miss Zinnia. For our fund monitoring report, our education fund, as of the November, we've collected 98.2% of our 2025 budget and expended 92.2%. Our salaries benefits continue to be the largest expenses, and that keeps us on target with what the state tells us to do.
Our debt service, we have had no activity in November, but you will see activity in December as we start to make our bond payments and we have property taxes coming in. Our operations fund, it shows right now only 56.5% has been collected, but this is due to property taxes coming in in December and June only. So we anticipate that coming in here around Christmas time. So you'll see that next month. We've expended 84.6% of our budget. Our property taxes, again, like I said, they are coming in for our revenue, which
will bump that up. And our salaries and supplies utilities are the largest expenses, which is expected out of the operations budget. That's what it is. No activity in rainy day. Our 2022 bond, we are getting closer to the final expenditures on that. So we're under a 100,000 now left to extend. Our 2024 bond, we are starting to see bills come in. As you can see under property services, that is now, a sizable amount there of stuff that is going on.
We have monthly pay ups coming in, so that's exciting. That work is getting done. And then our food service, we're we're doing well with Chartwells. Our our food service can you scroll that down just a little bit, Brooke? Thank you. If you look there, we are at the November, a healthy positive balance. So we're we're we are doing well with Chartwells with our food service. Good to hear. It is supporting itself. Any questions regarding the fund monitoring? Hearing no questions, I'll entertain a motion to accept the fund monitoring book as presented. So moved. Can you give me just a second?
Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Any questions? All those in favor? Yes. Thank you. Board member comments, I would open the floor to you all. None today? Excellent. Moving on to superintendent comments. Sure. Yeah. Just a couple. I wanna thank, again, mister Hite. Thank you for your years of service, expertise, professionalism. We truly wish you the best in retirement. And don't be a stranger. You can always come back in and heckle us anytime. Thank you. I put you to work. Thank you. Along the same lines, I do wanna thank mister Burris.
As in any industry, you have, you know, a a wide gamut of IT personalities, level of knowledge, wisdom. And when we embarked on rebuilding our IT and technology infrastructure from literally the ground up, Ben stepped in and agreed to help us and has done an excellent job in that endeavor as well as managing two different school districts.
That's not an easy task. So Ben, I want to thank you for what you've done and we'll transition next semester and we congratulations on your new career endeavor and we'll always call you a friend and never hesitate to to call us. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. We've we've done a lot in a short amount of time. I think we did it faster than what we really thought we were going to originally. And, I think we're definitely better off here than we were in the past. So I appreciate it. Thank you, mister Morris.
Anything else? Nope. That's it. I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Agree. Thank you.