We'll start with I pledge allegiance 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. Bear with me.
I'm a little horse. I'm not doing that. I'm not a little horse. First off, we'll, begin with the acceptance of the agenda. Keep in mind we had a couple highlighted, additions on there. I would entertain a motion to accept the agenda as presented with the corrections. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, pal. Mister Ellis. Any any other additions? All those in favor? There's unanimous. Thank you. Next up, approval of the minutes. You all got those in your packet. I would entertain a motion to approve those as presented. So moved. Thank you. Miss Justice. Second? Second.
Thank you, mister Ellis. Any, discussion or corrections? Hearing none, all those in favor? Opposed? Good stand. Motion passes. Next up, we have public comment. I'm seeing the list. First up is George Morris. George, this floor is yours. Hello? Me again. After night, when I bring up my federal lawsuit, my first amendment rights where you guys violated my first amendment rights. Reason I'm bringing this up tonight is because I wanna offer that as some sort of enticement, for you guys to implement the oversight committee, the bullying neglect oversight committee.
I do things that my attorneys don't want me to do. But why would I do that? It's because I really do care more about the immediate well-being of student safety at preschools than I do about winning a federal lawsuit. Never was about money, but it really is that important. If you guys consider it, you know, talk about it, whatever. Pray about it. If you're a born again believer, please pray about it. Also, I won't run for school board. I'd offer that as well. So I really don't wanna run for school board.
That's a big responsibility if you really care. And it's not something I really wanna wanna do and wanna undertake. I but I won't I don't have a choice if you guys won't implement this this committee. I know it's a good thing for parents and students. The only good things come from it. I'll sign an agreement that, I won't ever try to have anything to do with this committee. I know that some people thought that, perhaps I somehow wanna have something to do with this oversight committee. I don't. There's only one reason I want it and that's just to protect students better, give
parents a louder voice in the school system. I will dissolve the voice of true parents. I don't wanna be doing that either. That'll go away. I'll stop. Come here. I know you guys love seeing my beautiful mug up here every month, but I don't wanna be up here. I don't wanna be doing this. I mean it. I I'll sign an agreement. I'll drop the lawsuit. I'll, I won't run for school board. But if you don't give me a choice, I don't have a choice. So the only reason I'm running for school board is to see to it that this oversight committee gets implemented. So again, it's been fifteen months and I don't wanna keep doing this.
It's a lot of hard work. It really is. It's stressful. You know, I've lost friends and acquaintances over this but I you know, I'm a guy. I don't care about my reputation. And if I have to lose friends and acquaintances to do what I believe is right in the eyes of God, that's what I'll do. And I honestly don't wanna begin this. And when this first started yeah. You bet. I was upset. I was mad. You messed with my family. I'm a grandpa. You messed with my granddaughter. You know, I am a firm believer in the first amendment rights.
I felt some rage there. But this has become something much bigger. It's bigger than me. It's bigger than my family. This is just about doing what's right. And I stand on my words. I won't run for school board. I'll drop the federal lawsuit. I'll dissolve voice approved parents. You won't hear from me anymore. I won't show up at the board meetings anymore. You know, just implement the committee. It's good for kids. It's good for parents. It's good for the community. It'll be great for approved schools. So if you're a Christian, please pray about it. You're not a Christian, please accept Christ as your lord and savior.
Time is short. Take your notes, please. Next up we have Alexandra of Law. I'm sorry. I just signed in. I'm just gonna I'm here for the art. Seriously. Sorry. Everybody. Alright. Well, we'll do it for public comment. Next up, we have recognition of Prude Junior Senior High Art students. That's it. I'm signed in. Can you maybe begin your presentation? Well, I'm I'm here, logistically just number one, the art department can't be here tonight. Elle is on vacation, and Apple is teaching at school, at IUK.
And I know no. Julie was gonna announce these kids, but I felt I felt like I needed to be here for the art department since I mean, I guess I'm the last kinda arm to the art department. But on Friday, February 6, Huntington University held a reception for its twenty first annual high school art exhibit and their artistic talent. And we had six students from Peru High School that exhibited there at Huntington. And if you haven't got, some special awards, and we have two of them here
tonight. So I am going to ask Cynthia Burnett. She had a third place in two d art, and Toby Obendina to come up here for outstanding achievements. And then you'll see that Emily Rodriguez, Cassandra Blong, Reece Steller, and Laurasia Anderson were also a part of that. So That's definitely let's go over this just a hair so that light's not on
your face. Perfect. Thank you. Congratulations. Okay. Next up under our program, we have academic letter recommendation policy proposal. This is a discussion and action to approve for proposed academic letter recognition policy. This is gonna be an issue. Thank you, mister Beatty. Board members, you do have the dynamics behind that shift in a document in your packet. Does anyone have any questions? I'll I'll prep missus Shurek, you know, if she wants to come up Only people can do it. And say a few words about the behind the scenes reasoning.
Okay. So we we have been talking over the past six months to a year about, doing away with or reducing the number of plaques we do for students. They are very, very costly, and the majority of kids put them at, at well, their parents put them in a nice plastic box that gets passed on to them when they have their own place. So we had talked about the dynamics of that. But then when I was working with the early college, school leadership team, they suggested we bring back the academic patches. And in so doing, we would be able to award juniors with an academic letter
about this time, their junior year. So we would aim to like, I I have some quoted and ready to be ordered upon approval. We could give kids those, and they would be able to add them to their letter jackets if they already had arts or athletic letter jackets, or get a letter jacket. And they would be able to wear that and sport that for a good year and a half plus before they even leave for college. And, those kids, if they are eligible based on the first semester of their junior year grades, just like athletics, they would be able to get that, letter at that
point. But if they didn't, but next semester they were eligible, they could earn that up until they graduate. So this would allow them alternate choices. It would be cheaper for us. The plaques themselves are, I think last year, were around $55 a plaque. And it would be something that they could wear in sport and be something more useful throughout their time as a tiger. Thank you. Any any questions, thoughts? Missus Sherrick, is there a way for them to earn their jacket like they do in athletics versus just earn the patch? Or Actually, per our athletic handbook, the students pay for their own jackets.
There were a few years in there we were paying for them, but that was actually against what the policy was in the handbook. So arts, athletics both have to pay their own jackets, and it would be the same price. Econo playing field. Yes. Gotcha. Thank you. No problem. Okay. You have a recommendation before you. I would entertain a motion to accept. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, doctor Pennington. Any other questions? All those in favor? Miss unanimous. Thank you. Now, moving on to business. Mister McCormick, do you wanna handle the tuition assistance? Yeah. A standard tuition assistance, item for your consideration tonight, for a staff member for obtaining
their masters of education from Grand Canyon University. K. You have that in front of you. I would entertain a motion to accept that recommendation as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. You got the pen. Any discussion, questions? Hearing none, all those in favor? Good to hear you, man. Thank you. And likewise, item four b, in similar spirit, $1,000 stipend for a master's of science from University of Indianapolis for the staff member of your consideration. Motion to accept the recommendation.
Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, mister Fuller. Any other questions or discussion? All those in favor? No. Due now. Thank you. On to see proposal or disposal of real estate property resolution. So you have in your packet a legal document or resolution, which is the first step towards what they call disposing of, I. E. Selling. We have two vacant lots, one across Wayne Street from Elmwood Elementary and then one that sits east of Thrush Courts.
This is the first step towards that process. The subsequent steps after tonight, if you would approve this, would get into advertising. Also, you have to let adjacent landowners know by letter that these would be for sale. So there's a specific legal process that, a local attorney is, assisting us with. But this is the first step in that process. May I hear a motion to accept the proposal? So moved. Thank you. It's just a second.
Second. Second, doctor. Mister Hoover, any questions? Everybody's a doctor. Have we have we spoke to the tennis department and they're for sure that they don't see any need for this in the future. There that there are actually two vacant lots there. We only own one of them. I don't see I don't see any way of constructively building anything there that couldn't
now be built at the North Complex. I think, although this these will go for sale publicly, one entity that's interested in that would probably turn it into a parking lot and has said that, you know, we could use that for tenants. They've been very interested for years. Yeah. So there's no guarantee. I mean, that that they get it. It has to go through a public process. But if if that's the case, yeah. Thank you. Any other questions? All those in favor?
Opposed? 61 motion passes. D IDOE 1,003 waiver resolution. You approved this same document last year. So this Wednesday and two days is one of our 1,003 waiver days for professional development. So again, this to be able to apply for these waiver days, this is the first step is board approval of a resolution as such. We I would bring to your attention last year, we sought to apply for two
waiver days, and this year, we would like to apply for three. We have the extra minutes in the days, but it, again, would go towards professional development. So this is continuation of what we had plus one extra day? Everything else is the same? Correct. Does this have to be applied for every year? Yes and no. For us, yes. When you when you hit a certain s four threshold Mhmm. You can apply and get granted, like, I think it's a three year. You don't have to apply, but every three years, but we're not there yet.
Okay. So our total days is just three out of the year? You know, if this is approved and then I apply, I would apply for 40 yeah. This this time last year, I applied for two, and we were approved for two. But it's been very, very helpful in carrying out professional development and other things, and it's just hard to find time for, during the school year. And you do have to prove for the numbers that you have the extra minutes over and above for instruction time, and and we do we we have a wealth
of extra minutes, to to fit this in. So this is based on approval. So if you still is it based on approval, if we approve it, it still has to be approved. Yeah. If you would approve this tonight, then that allows me to apply. Then I have to attach this document to the application online. So if they say no, do we still get the two we had last year or you have to reply again? If if they would say no, then we wouldn't get any at all. No. I I don't anticipate a problem with that. So I would say it's a pretty, a standard process that many school districts, utilize
this mechanism. I mean, you you have some school districts that apply for five and six waiver days. You know, that's what they feel they need. But I think for now, two or three will suit suit our needs. Hearing that, I would entertain a motion to accept the resolution. So moved. Thank you. It's just a second. Second. Mister Ellis, any other questions or concerns? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Summer reading program? This, again, is for your consideration this evening. It was amazing last summer.
The Peru Public Library did a a a just a top notch job of offering that program. It took a lot of weight off of our staff. I would I would look to our principals, by mister Matthews and missus Eddie. Do you think it was a success last summer? Oh, my god. Definitely. Absolutely. We we have been essentially just doing the same program for quite a few of the same families. So to combine our efforts, afford families cards that might not have I mean, and
they're they're experts. Mary Ann, they're her team experts in what they're doing. So And whereas we just kinda had our little library back here and people came in and checked books out. I mean, it it it checked a box, but in the library, they're the they offer so much great programming and movie nights and, like, different stuff, and it was a huge a huge success. So it's back for you, for your consideration to approve for this coming summer. That's along the line of what we've been doing in here for the past few
years. On steroids. Yeah. A $100. It does seem to make more efficient to have a free program in the library. I make a motion to, continue the summer leading program at the library. Thank you, doctor Quinn. Thank you, miss Justice. Any other questions? All those in favor? This is unanimous. Moving on. Toshiba docuware upgrade quotes. I would, defer to mister Burris, if you could maybe or miss Inyart, they've dealt with this, and she didn't point to somebody else. Basically, this is to, we already used DocuWare.
It's an online storage system for our student records. We are looking to consolidate our paper use in our finance department as well, and we have just switched over to Toshiba being our main provider to maintain DocuWare for us. This is to have them bring our finance department on board and, add one license and then provide training for us to be able to do that. We're we're hoping to cut down the amount of paper that we have to keep
here. And with our audits, a lot of them are now online. And so we're having to go in and scan papers when we do our audits. If we have it in DocuWare, it's just about downloading it and forwarding over to our auditors or even giving them access to DocuWare to find what they need. So this would automate, automate a lot of processes for us in our in our finance area. This is basically financial storage then? It will be. Yeah. And it's it's, setting up the that financial storage, getting us what we need to
be able to because our Toshiba copiers will scan directly into this once they get that set up, which will be, hey. We've got it done. Here's the four docket. Scan it in. Sign, sell, and done. Security is Yeah. Okay. It's gonna save us the amount we're paying with paper and ink and all this or pretty close to it then too. People time too. People time. People time is probably our biggest Yep. Because we are a smaller department. And, when it gets hot at time I think a motion to approve the Toshiba upgrade. Thank you, doctor Quinn.
Thank you, miss Justice. Any other discussion? All those in favor? No. Good. Thank you. Next up, we have Thresh Court resurfacing booked. We have before you a a proposal that's, kinda twofold. I first wanna thank mister Yates and coach Sane for working with the gentleman from Leslie Coatings. Leslie Coatings is one of, if not the premier tennis tennis court company in in the the state. And so to resurface all 10 courts with and fix cracks and bring it up
to snuff, as well as I wanna say there was a little bit of fence repair. There's an extra few thousand. But, anyway, the you you can see the quote is in front of you and then icing on the cake. There is a local entity that is going to fund that so the school does not have to pay anything on that. Wow. They they want to remain anonymous. This group probably knows who that is, that entity. But, yeah.
So this would this would take place this spring summer, and, Fresh Courts would look kind of brand new, the tenant surfaces headed, into next fall. So that's, for your consideration this evening. Motion to accept the quote, and we'd like to thank our anonymous donor. Thank you, miss Justice. Second. Thank you, doctor Quinn. Any questions or discussion? I have one question. Will we get I'm sorry. Did you have It's been a long time needed. Need need need can we get to pick the colors it goes?
I'll leave that to coach. Thank you. He's the one question I have. Alright. We are we are accepting the quote and the donation. Yes. So all in all those in favor. It is unanimous. Thank you. Lawn care RFP. So, again, kind of sticking with the similar theme as a couple of previous. Each year, I think most of you are aware, we approve request for proposal for lawn care for our building lawns and athletic lawns and such as well as fertilization.
And so tonight is just the first step for you to approve the RFP documents, and then we'll go to work in the next couple days to make those public and get them disseminated to the, well, publicly, but we'll be sure the people who typically did, we'll make sure they have a copy. We did I did ask mister Yates to go through those with a fine tooth comb. He did. He, really not a lot of changes. There were a couple, like, instead of saying mowing through it said, like, October 15,
we just said mow through the end of the mowing season in case you still need to mow on November 1 as an example. Also, with the anticipated acquisition of, like, the five acres of grass that sits to the east of the theater, you know, that was added. I mean, if I were a contractor, I'd probably need to know if there was an extra five acres of grass to mow. So we we went through it all, and I wanna thank, mister Yates, for for
going over that along with, miss Inert and myself, and weren't a lot of changes, just that primarily. K. Appreciate that. Did do you know if there were any issues with the last season's? I don't I don't think there were any major issues. I think there was just a standard learning curve. Gotcha. And I will give credit to, to Colin Quinn that worked with Ortiz, You know, before he made his transition, he did a nice job of working with Ortiz, and
just helping them understand the contract and the expectations. So with that, you know, launching Ortiz, I you know, school district can probably always say, you know, find a little something here or there. They would have liked done better, but I think for the most part, they they did a good job and fulfilled their contractual duties. I think I'm wishing to go forward with the lawn care RFP. Thank you, doctor Quinton. Thank you, miss Justice. Any other questions or discussion? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Donation. We have 500 to the junior high girls basketball for general use from an anonymous
donor, and we have $200 to prove community schools for extra clothing needs to have students from Main Street United Methodist Church. I would entertain a motion to accept those donations. So moved. Thank you, miss. Just a second. Second. Mister Ellis, thank you. Any questions? Thank you to those donators. I would I'll piggyback on that. Is there something a public thank you we can do to an anonymous, like a maybe a post? No. We'll we'll send thank you directly then. You can't send the thank you card to an anonymous. We might figure out who that is. Okay. Fair enough. All those in favor. Energy Nanos.
Thank you. Next up, HP Fortis Chromebooks quote. I will turn the floor over now to the IT department. I think mister First Fol's ready to Right. Give a little Yes. Narrative on this. Yeah. So we, we went forward and we were wanting to quickly move on a Chromebook purchase for Peru schools. So next year, what we're doing is we're actually going with a non touch for fifth and ninth grade students. And with the AI shortage with Ram and everything going on with that, you kinda
have to get in front of the the pricing. So at McConnell, we've also jumped on this because a lot of vendors are not offering more than fifteen days of pricing, due to that price going up so much. So we thought it jumped on in February because in March, it could look like a 100 more per device. So we're looking at the HP option. It's a really solid, unit. We got that in, two weeks ago. I actually have a student in it right now. Been using it for two weeks. Very solid. I think it's gonna do what we needed to do at Peru.
We are looking for a 20% overage, and that just allows us to, you know, replace those devices that may be not working great or they're broken or, we're not so since we're not purchasing for first grade next year, this is gonna allow us to kinda get a little bit more creative with taking senior Chromebooks down to lower grades and then also having this overage to kinda help fill those gaps where needed. So we think this is a great approach. Pricing came in really really really nice with HP RTI.
It's a newer company. But the nice thing about them is if you have any issues, you can contact them. They'll handle the warranty. But with this quote, you gotta realize in kind of what we do is we're gonna look at building a tech tribe or a tech student program where they'll do the repairs in house versus what we've been doing when we're sending them out and you're paying a bigger premium for that. You're almost looking like a $100 per device more to have a company do that piece for you. So my thought is when I hit the ground running is get, like, some kids
that are willing to repair And this would be kind of like that. Those steps forward to to make that happen. So that's kind of the the approach that we're going with here. It's more cost effective in the long run. And then also we're getting kids hands on those devices and learning real world skills in technology. So that's what I'm putting before you with the HP quote. I will share too about a week and a half ago at our admin team meeting and two Thursdays ago. Is that correct? So we had our pre building principles, mister Percival, miss Inure, doctor Borto, and myself.
And we had a I don't know. It was it was a lengthy discussion on all of this, like cost savings, How you know, can can we is there a way to cut Elmwood out of technology one to one technology? What would that look like? Okay. Okay. All all of those type of dynamics. It was it was a lengthy conversation, a good conversation. And, I wanna thank mister Percival and the principals for coming to a spot where
I think we'll well, we don't think we'll know we'll be able to service those students still, but save some money and also get these ordered pretty quickly. Yes. Any questions at all from the board? Would that with the in house repair, would that help out with the pricing that the parents are taking on with ensuring these devices? That was an optional. They didn't have to do that on the devices that I put in front of you guys last year. That included four years of being able to send the devices in with one break per year, on that set of devices only.
And then they also had the option to purchase the additional insurance, which was through the same company, but that was unlimited brakes. So I think the answer is yes because they're gonna be able to handle those internally. But then if they're buying parts, if I remember correctly from my your conversation, they would be responsible for purchasing those parts. Yep. So that optional insurance, I assume, would go away, but, yes, there would be a cost that then would be passed on to the parents if there is a break outside of the normal warranty. Yeah. Okay. So it's kind of just a a shift of response.
Okay. So, yeah, say you break your screen. We're gonna charge you for that screen how much it costs to buy that part, and then we're gonna repair it in the house. We're gonna charge you for that repair. But, yeah, you will take that piece on. So you will look at insurance and how that looks moving forward. But, yeah, I would think. Wouldn't avoid the warranty? It's due to the So these don't have so with the warranty, it's only for your manufacturer piece. So, like, if the motherboard goes out. If the screen's broken by the key, we can repair the screen and get it, like, back in the the original shape, and then you can send it back. So that we've been doing that a long time.
So as long as it looks and it's functioning as it was when it arrived, they'll still cover the warranty for that. Mister Percival, I know you have your your tech try Yes. Team at McConaughey. I'm putting you on the spot now. Once you hit the ground running here, like, how long does do you would you anticipate it taking to gather advertise, gather, and build, I don't know what what's the a pride of Tiger team. Right. We don't wanna be the tech driver.
You don't wanna be the the pride. You know? That's yeah. We'll we'll rebrand it. But, no, it's really not gonna take long. Really, to me, like, looking at your study hall classes, going to some classes, meeting some kids, looking at GPA, see if anyone's interested in, like, repairing. And then maybe take one or two period and just kinda, like, slowly go into it. But if you think about it, like, say you have four or five kids a day, that's four or five repairs you're getting done by kids. So it's a really great program. And, really, a lot of the the training videos are online. So we just say, hey.
Watch this video. And then they they kinda get hands on with it. So it's not gonna take super long. It's gonna take a while to kinda build that program now and get it to where, you know, it's fully running and taken care of a lot. So but I would think pretty quick. Alright. Thank you. So yeah. Is there anything like that over at Heartland? No? I I don't know. That's what we do. Like, so we we deal with, Ivy Tech at Kokomo. So we have an IT program. So we kinda reach out to those kids that are at what kind of club that are doing IT with Ivy Tech, and they have that interest.
And they're already learning those pieces that it's, like, kind of hard to train up, behind the scenes. So then when they come, they kinda hit the ground running. They want RAM, is it gonna be hard drive to our screens, operating systems, all that stuff. So it just makes it my life easier to get them up to speed. So Good question. I'll check on that. This is gonna be paid out over text. Let's let's let's hope it is. So we don't have to pay too much, essentially. In a clover is a group of cats. Okay. I like that. I would entertain a motion to accept as presented. So moved.
Name is just a second. Second. Mister Ellis, any other discussion or questions? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. On to agreements, Fuller Engineering Company service agreement. You have you have that that quote, in your packet, and that is, for an annual agreement that for unique HVAC, like the HVAC for the art gallery. And mister Snyder Mhmm.
Will help us out. Oh, this is for mister Snyder. He has his own HVAC. He's talking about that. Fuller Engineering, for the fine art gallery and the server room at the high school, those have dedicated, HVAC units in those areas. So that this is a quarterly service agreement. So they send a tech out every three months, change filters, make sure that the machines are running correctly, and, you know, do all the little tune ups that they need to do on those systems. Keep them up and running.
Thank you. Who's doing that now? Boulder Engineering. So this is a continuation of the Yes. A continuation of their the agreement we already have with them. Thank you, mister Snyder. I would entertain a motion to accept the agreement as presented. Second. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you. Any other discussion? Hold to verify. No relation. Oh, man. And I'm all okay. All those in favor. Opposed? Adam State. Six zero one. Motion passes. Third party administrator retirement accounts. Again, you have a proposal in front of you for your consideration.
I've learned quite a bit about TPAs, third party administrators. In a nutshell, we our retirement funds, are funded through American Funds. And, miss Inyern, if I get any of this incorrect, you got my back. And a local Edward Jones agent manages those. But when you have say, an employee wants to take out a loan against their retirement accounts or other things of that nature, a third party administrator facilitates and handles
all of that. I would just say our current TPA, and this came to me from Mr. Smith, Ms. Inure, they're not doing a good job. They're not responsive. We can't get a hold of them. They don't get back to our folks here. And so and our Edward Jones agent, expressed some frustration as well. So, miss Inure, myself, missus Smith, we interviewed three different TPAs, new TPAs, and decided
on facts, f a c t s, which is in your packet. Miss Inyar, do you wanna add anything to that narrative? When we did talk with fax, one of the things we like best is they have two very close, locations to us. So there are same time zone. If we need them at 08:00, we can call them at 08:00, and we've got somebody that we cannot do. We'll have a dedicated rep for us, which is something that we are seriously lacking right now. So this is a cost.
Currently, this system we're using, are we paying for a TPA? It is currently funded through the plan. The plan pays for the TPA. So this cost for this will come through that plan? Correct. There's only one cost that we will pay ourselves, and that is the transfer setup cost of $3,500. After that, the plan will cover the costs for this TPA. Then they also take care of making sure we are within IRS guidelines.
They they keep the plan and IRS happy. Well, they they all have to whoever is doing it. Yeah. Well, that that's that's what the, you know, the thing the TPA does. IRS. Yeah. We'll entertain a motion to accept the proposition as presented, I guess. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, doctor Pinnickin. Any other discussion or questions? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Moving on Friday. Ivy Tech Community College lease agreement. We are pleased to bring before you tonight, proposed lease agreement that would have Ivy
Tech Community College, the Peru entity, Peru satellite campus, would move to Peru Community Schools campus in the old junior high. Again, that lease agreement is in in front of you. They would lease or rent space from us in that building, keep them in town, for our students and, you know, really students from all over Miami County. We would provide custodial and, you know, general maintenance as part of that lease agreement.
They will front the cost of anything specific to their programming. Like, if they would need to have, you know, two twenty electrical outlets for, you know, something in their machinery program, they would they would be responsible for flipping for that bill. They I do want to say just we've been working this deal back and forth for several months, and, the Ivy Tech representatives have been very good to work with
back and forth. And I really would call this, if we can get it done, a win win for us, Ivy Tech, and the community. So with with that, if anyone has any quite specific questions. So this lease is with from schools versus per this lease, not through school corporation that we leased back to. So It's with us. It's with us. It's with us. It's a No. No. It's with us, like you and our our Between Peru Community Schools. So is this money that comes in go to operations fund?
Yes. Because it will be paid utilities mainly as custodial. Because of custodial and all that. Correct. Great. Thank you. And motion to accept the lease agreement. Thank you, miss Justice. Second. Thank Thank you, doctor Quinn. Any other discussion? All those I think I think it'd be awesome to see a college campus on on a community property for any other Absolutely. School in the state has that. I think it's a win win ever. It will be, I think, very to your point, very, special and unique. Good thing for AP classes. All those in favor. It is unanimous. Thank you, Dave.
Next, Skyward student renewal agreement. I will turn this call over to miss Inyart, to give us a little background on the Skyward Skyward quote. So what you have before you is for Skyward student management only because we are continuing with that. This is essentially just locking in guaranteed pricing, either one year or three years. I'd be recommending the three year guaranteed pricing lock in because it it will keep our fees down a little bit. We will actually be invoiced based off of this in the summer because that's when
our renewal actually happens. But we wanted to bring this to you to see if you will agree to a three year commitment for guaranteed pricing with Skyward students. We are kinda moving away from Skyward as a full. Correct? Skyward Finance. Okay. That will happen this summer when we go live with voice. So do we plan on staying with Skyward students going forward as far as we know? As far as I'm aware, yes. Okay. We are. Yeah. We we don't have any thought of moving away from Skyward Student.
Just just the finance piece is what we're moving away from. K. I would entertain a motion to accept the agreement. So moved. I think it's just a second. Second. Mister Fuller, any other questions, comments? All those in favor. Use your name, miss. Thank you. Next up, we have, Microsoft annual subscription renewal. I will, I will throw this over to IT for a brief narrative on this. This, if I remember correctly I'm sorry. I'm dealing with three of these right now, with all the different places that I'm
supporting. This is year two of three on the agreement. Because we are an education entity, we were able to modify our contract, which actually saved us money. I can't remember the exact amount, but it was a few thousand dollars compared to last year that we were able to lower this. And that was due to all of the things that we've done over the last year of upgrading servers, migrating things, moving things around. So this is slightly lower on cost than what you saw last year, but you would see this again, next year as well. So this is a fairly confident year two up here.
So this is a three year contract, but we load on annual cost. Well, we have to cut a PO for them each year. So yeah. Gotcha. Thank you. Yeah. So the money we've spent is coming back somewhat. Google is just going down. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Appreciate it. I would entertain a motion to accept the renewal. I will. Okay, mister Ellis. Second, Lincoln, miss Justice. Any other questions? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Next up, we have a request for student trip. This is a Hartland requesting Hartland Career Center requesting, for a student to be allowed
to attend the Business Professionals of America Regional Leadership Conference, March, to compete in the BPA state leadership, competition in Indianapolis. So that's there for your your consideration. Do I have a motion to accept and make a motion to allow them to do? Second. Thank you, and thank you. Any other discussion? Mhmm. Congratulations, mister Stone. Absolutely. All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Operations and technology. First up, we have facility use request. You have before you, request, to use Tigarina, by mister Foreman, train and model show
on April 18. Mister Foreman, do you, since you're here in the audience, do you wanna give a a very brief narrative of Sure. Of what will be going on in Tigerino that day? And I maybe it didn't get on there, but it's actually gonna be both Tiger Dan and Tigerina. K. I'll give you a couple flyers. Traditionally, I've had this event at the fairgrounds, and then I moved to the Surface Building. We just keep growing. And the one weekend of the year that I'm not booked, I found out that high school has a really nice space.
I bring people from five states to vent here. I anticipate a thousand or more people through the door. I love the fact that we can showcase our great facilities, and people are excited about the parking. And regionally, people know the gymnasiums, a nice gymnasium, a nice facility. And, I I think it's win win for the community. And the money that I do raise actually pays for the lights for light of Peru. That's my major fundraiser. So we're helping our our Christmas spirit out a little bit in April. In October, we'll go back to the surface building.
I just can't do it there because we're actually try out doing try outs that week. So it works out nice for the spring. If this works out well, I'll do it here. And then fall, I'll go back to the surface building. From a, you know, operational standpoint, I know mister Snyder and I have talked, and this goes back to my coaching days when we would have big tournaments, like, just protecting the gym floor. Mhmm. Whether that's people bringing their equipment in from the outside or even our chairs and
tables. You know, a chair is not missing a foot on it and scratches the floor. That's just we just wanna be sure we protect them. No. We I mean, we we're using your facility or table facilities plus I've rented some and they they they maintain it well. And I'm pretty particular on where the tables go. We don't skew them once they're set. They're set. So I will personally oversee the place on the tables and chairs and protect the floor as best we can. So Not as best we can. No. We will. Actually, that happens.
I'll be too warm to hear. Okay. Alright. Thank you, Ezra. I use a concession stand for, eating, but we keep all the food and drink outside. So they have a long little area. People are excited. So Alright. Well, thank you. Okay. It's nice to have the community using our facilities as long as we take care of them. I'd entertain a motion to approve that request. Thank you. Any discussion? I gotcha. I gotcha. I'll make a motion. Sorry. You made a motion. Yep. We have a second. Any other discussion? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you.
Congratulations, Paul. Thanks. Next up, we have personnel. You have before you in section eight, letter a, resignations, retirements, suspensions, terminations, transfers, one through nine as you would see fit to handle. I would entertain a motion to accept one through nine as presented unless someone has a withdrawal they would like to make. I have a motion to accept one through nine. Second. Second. Thank you. Any other discussion? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Letter b, recommendation for classified positions.
You have, two folks there, for your consideration. One is, replacement for athletic custodian slash meal delivery, during the school day, and then a special education aid candidate. Same thing. I would entertain a motion to accept both of those as presented unless someone would like to split them. Motion to accept one and two. Thank you. Second? Second. Thank you. Any discussion? All those in favor? Yes. Letter c, recommendation for extracurricular position for junior high assistant softball coach.
I would entertain a motion to accept the recommendation. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Discussion? All those in favor? It is your next. And letter d, recommendation for subteachers, nurse, cafeteria, transportation, etcetera. And you have four candidates, there for various sub positions. Same goes. I move this. Entertain a motion to accept one through four as presented. Motion to accept one through four. Unless anyone would like to Sorry. I have a I have a first. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, mister Ellis.
Any discussion? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Moving along, we have a recommendation for student intern. We, this particular student is a spouse of a current employee. So, not that that's necessarily a deal maker or breaker, but, that was their kind of initial connection. And so this person is a Purdue Kokomo student and needed an internship experience. So, I asked, mister Percival to, interview and just make sure this person anytime you
let someone in on your IT infrastructure, you know, what kind of access are they gonna have? What type of a person are they? And so mister Perstell interviewed him and, has recommended that we, move forward with this internship experience, for this candidate and his educational needs. Hearing the recommendation, I would entertain a motion to accept. Motion made. Thank you, doctor Quinn. Thank you, miss Justice. Any other questions? Were there background checks? Yes. Yes. All those in favor?
It is unanimous. Next up, we have, board member committee reports. First, we have Heartland Career Center. Mister Fuller, the floor is yours. Okay. Yeah. So last month, I was, honored portion, to attend my first board meeting with the Heartland Career Center. And I came at an interesting time. The big takeaway from that meeting, there's a lot of community, support, a lot of people present for the request of the precision agriculture program to take over farming of
the build behind the Heartland Career Center. So this build is just under 32 acres. It's currently leased out to a local farmer and he is In support of the students, kind of taking over the farming. He as well as, seed companies, a lot of other local farmers have, been in support and will be helping out, be doing a lot of, a lot of the inputs and things like this, to help the students out.
Currently, they're getting just over, $8,000 a year from that property. And that goes into, eight scholarships, about eight scholarships a year. And they're not, they're not set to really lose any of that with this. Actually may be able to make a little bit more, although that's not necessarily your goal. Seems everybody so far is leaning toward support for that, and that will actually be voted on, this week on Wednesday. So that's our that's the main takeaway from last month's meeting.
Sorry. Thank you, mister Fuller. Next up, we have True Parks. Mister Ellis. So we had our first meeting this past Thursday at the City Hall. Being a first meeting of the month, like, the new new board members there. There's five people on the board. So, Allison Paul is elected president again. Joe Green, vice president. Carson Ray, secretary. And then Mike and myself are just regular members. You know, regular meeting, mister Shaniak, Shaniak Golf Pro at the the municipal, golf course gave his month report. Pretty much just was, few few things he said was early bird membership ended on
the December 31. The eighty eighty six members signed up compared to 41 to the last year. Currently, I have 27 cards sponsored, 12 school scorecard sponsors, and 16 out of 18 tee box sponsors for the season so far. So even though it is not time for the season for golf, they are staying busy there. Little fun fact, he had a little gumball machine for sell used slightly used gumball, golf balls for a dollar. I was gonna say. Yeah. So well, golf balls, but on a gumball machine. They're working on bringing back the handicap system through the Indiana Golf Association, update the
liability waivers from the private cart owners and the daily cart renters, and they currently have 22 golf outings scheduled for the season so far. And then the last piece, another, subject on the subject line agenda was there's a group called the Citizens for the Circus based for the, Circus Hall of Fame. The primary goal is to build a unified front to lead Miami County and Peru as a circus metropolis for Indiana's place in the state and national recognition. They asked the park board to be involved, somewhat, on the first meeting February 25.
This is out of the realm of the parks board. No. They don't have any there's no the hall of fame is anything to do with the park. So we, so, Allison Paul is the president. Says she'll go to the initial meeting and see if there's something, that they will be involved in it. There if there's capacity to be involved. If not, next meeting is March 12, 5PM, City Hall. Thank you, mister Ellis. Moving along to, budget. A under a claims, that would be missed. Yeah. For you are claims. If anybody has any questions, the floor is open.
Other questions, no one else is jumping in. Page 22. Who is Compass Group? What is that? That is the parent company of Chartwells. We make our bills out to Chartwells. Thank you. Are there any other questions on the claims? Hearing none, I'd entertain a motion to to accept the claims as presented. So moved. Thank you, Justice. Second? Second. Take your pick. Take your pick. Any other concerns or questions? All those in favor. Thank you. Miss Henry, fund monitoring report. So before you, you have our beginning of the year fund monitoring report for 2026.
Just as a FYI, in January, we did have three different payrolls. And that was our three payroll month. And we did our classified admin director stipends. So that makes our salary benefit lines look just a little bit higher than what they normally are on a normal one. But in education fund, we have expended 10.5% of our budget for 2026. And as I was saying, salary and benefits were higher, but that is because of those three payrolls and stipends.
We have no activity in our debt service for, you'll wait until June. You'll see that again in June. Operations, we've expended 8.9% of our budget. Benefits was larger due to paying out retirement severances because we do those in January and June. The higher one being in January and the two months. Our rainy day fund, we have no activity going on there. Our 2022 bond, the final bills have come into that bond and were paid out in February. So you you see a little bit of money here left.
Next month, we'll see that go down to zero, and that means that bond has been fully extended at this point. Our 2024 bond work is continuing to be done and bills are being paid as they come in. You approved a couple of the larger ones here tonight. I believe they're getting close to the end of some of that work. Our 2025 bond is actually split between our BNY bank and our Crossroads bank. That was just the way the the bond had to be set up. So you'll see two lines on there for for the bond.
The first one being the BNY, and then the second one being Crossroads. We're been kinda taking a little bit you'll see activity in that BNY because when we got our first initial billing, we took it from there, because we didn't have check stock yet. So now that we have our check stock, we have been using the Crossroads first and kinda leaving the BNY as a a reserve account as we work through our processes. School lunch fund, our food service account continues to run with a positive balance.
Basically, we're we're we're doing well there with with Chartwells. You can see that our other purchase services, that's that's the cost of Chartwells employees that would have been our employee cost. It's just down there. Any questions? Will that level out since we're a 128,000 loss there? I realize you're ending positive, but we're usually. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We what happened with, our lunch fund is they did not give us the November
bill on a in a timely manner. It came at the December. So we ended up making two payments in January instead of just one. So that's the reason why it looks a little bit, larger than normal. Thank you. Thank you, miss Inhir. I would entertain a motion to accept that as presented. So moved. I can just just a second. Second. Miss Ellis, any other questions? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Bank CDE, you're up again, missus. Yes. It is that time of the year again where we look at three different banks
to see who can provide the, best interest rate on a CD that we've been just rolling over year to year is currently at $618,601, from when I made this. And in between the three banks, Logan's Sporting Bank was the one that came in with the highest interest rate. So I am coming to you to ask to renew that CD with Logan's Sport for another twelve months. Thank you, miss Inure. I will entertain what should be accepted. Second. Thank you, miss Justice. Second. Second. Give us a roll.
Any questions or discussion? All those in favor? As soon as you know. Thank you. Next up, we have board member comments. Anyone? Hearing none, we have superintendent comments. I have none this evening, mister Rice. We have none this evening. I would entertain a motion to adjourn now. So moved.