Thank you. Next up, we have the acceptance of the agenda. Do you have anything else to make? Sir. Just a second. Corrections, additions, discussion. Wearing on all those in favor? Approval of the minutes? I will move to the three minutes for the work session and vote seconds. Thank you, miss Jess. First, second? Second. Any discussions, corrections, or additions? All those in favor? Thank you. This evening, we'll check we have one. Miss Moon, the floor, Jewel.
Good evening. Hey. My name's Kristen Moon. I'm the director of Pru Rolling Chapel, and, it is our eighty first year serving Pru schools. Only my nineteenth. Every once in a while, my students will say, you're 81? Like, it hasn't always been me. But I wanted to come this evening to invite you to our concert. So it's our eighty first concert. It'll be on April 10 at 06:30 at the high school, and, our students have made some invitations for you. And, in order to keep your technology running, I'm just gonna pass them around.
Thank you. So the the concert every year is, is a lot of fun. We do an essay contest each year. It gives students a chance to talk about what they learned from the program, and it helps me know what kind of job I'm doing as a teacher. What was memorable? What stuck out to them? What made a difference? And then after we give our essay contest awards, we also give a an award called the happy heart award. Like, how does this make a difference in who you are as a person? What have you learned about having good character this year? And this year, we're doing a new award, which we're kind of excited about. If you've ever seen pictures on our Facebook post, you may have noticed that we
have a we have a giant sloth in our classroom. Barnabas, the sloth of encouragement, is over six feet tall, and he lives in the front corner of our classroom. And he reminds our students to have the character quality of diligence instead of slothfulness. We like to say there's only one sloth in the classroom and that's part of us. So over the last month, students have been catching up past due homework and getting it signed by their teachers. They've been taking initiative with chores at home, doing things without arguing or complaining or having to be told to do them. And as they've been diligent, their reward has been pictures of Barnabas.
So we're gonna take all the kids who participated in that project, and there's gonna be some people who get medals with Barnabas' picture on them at our concert this year. In addition to that, we'll have our hundreds of students, singing some of the things they learned from the Bible about God's goodness and about, the help that they can receive from the Lord. So we'd love to have you there. So once again, April 10, 06:30PM. Seats are usually pretty full, so you might wanna get there early. The kids who are winning contest medals do have preferred VIP seating. But if you have any special meeting, seating needs, I'm an x-ray in that at
this point. I would love to help you out. Do you have any questions about Rolling Chapel? Thank you. For the inquiry. Thank you. Of course. Thank you. Yes. Yeah. We don't, we don't see you very often. Most of what we do, we just do. So we did one message chance to make sure that you knew you were invited. Thanks. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next up, we have recognitions. Looks like junior, senior high students. Yep. This is where he was presenting. Good evening, superintendent mister McCormick, board members, and community members. My name is Karen Baker, and I'm here on behalf of Helping Hands Food Pantry. Helping Hands relies on the generosity of our community.
100% of our donations we receive go directly back into our community through food and other forms of assistance for families in need. Tonight, I am here to honor a seventh grader, DJ Smith. His generosity, monetary, and food donation. Because of his kindness and hard work, Helping Hands will be able to provide food for 15 families. This young student truly demonstrates what it means to care for others. DJ took the initiative to think about people in our community who may be struggling and choose to do he chose something to do something about it.
His actions show compassion, leadership, and willingness for those in need. DJ, your efforts remind us all that you are never too young to make meaningful change. On behalf of Helping Hands Food Tree Pantry and the families you have helped, we want to say thank you for your generosity and your big hearts. It is my honor to record recognize DJ Smith for his outstanding communities. Thank you, mister Beatty. I'd like to recognize a central office staff member this evening, miss Enier. She's at the head of the table, our business manager here.
I just wanted to read a a letter I received from ISPO. The rest of the requirement on behalf of the board of directors of the Indiana Association of School Business Officials, I'm very pleased to announce that Tara Inyart has completed the required courses for the Indiana Hasbro certification program. Her certification designation is chief business officer, which required 102 of instruction. This certification acknowledges the experience and knowledge that Tara has regarding the school business management area. But we wanna thank, miss Henry for her dedication and completing that certification course.
Okay. Next up, we have a presentation by the Walter. And it works. Alright. Good evening, everyone. Thanks for, allowing us to come and give our final presentation before things really kick off and, bidding and construction starts. My name is Daniel Burns with Gibraltar Design, and this is Janet McBrier also with Gibraltar Design. So we will, kinda go through this. And a lot of this is information and stuff you've already seen, but, what you haven't seen before, many of you, are the renderings of what these new spaces are,
going to look like. And with the help of, mister McCormick and, leadership team, we're grateful for your, time and input and just, helping us, land, where we have. So we'll we'll go through the projects. We'll keep it brief, and then we'll, show you what the what the schedule and the next steps are moving forward. So starting with, resource center. This is the name we've called it. It's my understanding that, the school will, come up with a official name, for this. But moving forward, we will refer to it as the resource center.
But this is the old Roxy movie theater as you, all know it. So this is this is the site plan. The dark gray area is, where buses park, and then, we have the, building there split up into, three different sections. The kinda pink color is the the bus transportation area, and the, the orange color is gonna be the maintenance garage, and then the blue as you see it. The northern part will be the boardroom and then, all the admin offices, there.
So, as I've said, we now, have kinda renderings after working with our tiers team and your team, as to what finishes, you guys would like. And these are a representative of the actual finishes that were chosen. So this should give you a good good picture of what, you will be, receiving. We've, strategically put, branding, on here, but, that's just kind of our input and ideas. So it's just a representative of what it could look like. But, once we kinda get to the finishing stages, I know the the team here
will, kinda work on what what the branding actually is in those spaces. So the the top left picture there is, the new reception area, and those are the doors into the new boardroom, which is then this picture down here on the right. And then, this is the kind of the training, room, or it's just kind of a large gathering space that, could be used by really anybody in the district that, you're allowed to use here. And then, this is the bottom right here is just a representation of of kind
of a typical office that will be there. And I think some of you have probably already seen this. I've seen it on your newsletters. This is, what, we envision, the new, steer it look like, and we've strategically done it in a way that's, not, I guess, overly expensive. We've we've done it, in a way that just a little bit of paint, a little bit of branding, can make as you see a a huge difference, to try to take away from that movie theater look and kinda make it make it your
own. There. And then here's just another representation from, as you drive up to the parking lot of what it will look like. And so we'll get into Elmwood, and I'll pass it off to Jenna. So not much has changed to Elmwood. The site components remain the same, just, addressing some parking issues and concerns and giving you additional parking. The floor plan has this you guys have seen this before with the major renovation areas colored in blue. No major changes. The one change that we will cover tonight is last time we presented, we presented
an extended vestibule at the main entry, which was giving the cafeteria access from a corridor. But we've met with leadership, and we discussed that it would be smarter to stick with designing off of that existing vestibule and still swapping the conference area and reception area and allowing that to still be a safer, secure entry point. And my favorite part, the renderings. This is a look at what that reception area will look like versus the before image. You can see now, the receptionist's back is two people who are approaching her.
But now with the new layout, she's able to see who is approaching the building and able to decide if she wants to let them in or not. This is probably one of my favorite renders. The leadership did great with our interiors department on picking new finishes to refresh those corridors while also staying colorful because it is an elementary school and choosing colors that play with the existing components in Elmwood such as those red, aluminum framed windows indoors. Here's a look at some of the classroom spaces. Again, a powerful before and after image showing how we're still pulling in color but
allowing that refresh to just brighten the space. And, again, this is those southern classrooms. And then this will be the gymnasium in Elmwood, and this is always a great space to incorporate color, especially at the elementary level. And right now, this rendering shows the existing rubber gym floor, but we do have alternates built into all of our projects to protect the budget. So it is a possibility that that rubber gym floor could be something new. At Blair Point, again, nothing has changed on the site.
Just adding a couple visitor parking spots and adjusting some moisture mitigation issues. An overall floor plan with the main areas of renovation in blue. And, again, you guys have seen this layout again. Nothing has changed at Blair point. We do want to note that there is an alternate for some finishes such as new flooring in the classrooms and in the corridors. Here is one of my favorite renders. It's just very powerful to show how you can incorporate some school color to enhance Peru pride in a building that doesn't really have the school colors in it currently.
And the media center is shared by all those who use the building, so it's a great space to refresh. And at the former junior high, we are still continuing with the demolition of that two story classroom wing and returning that portion of building back to lawn. And this is kind of what that floor plan would look like, and then the exterior of it. And like Dan had mentioned, there is a great opportunity for district, the new district branding to occur on this building as well.
And do you wanna cover Yeah. Schedule. So planning schedule, obviously, today's, school board final design update. Then moving forward, Skillman currently has our 100% drawings. They're working behind the scenes to get kind of their front end items, together, and they will be issuing that for bid, later this week. And then, hope and then the plan is for April 29 for, fit bids to receive be received, and then construction to start, sometime in August, and then substantial completion
June or sometime the 2027. And then next steps, as I said, finalize and correct documents. Skillman will work with, crew team, principals, whoever needs to be involved to work out, phasing and planning. Obviously, this is a a year and a half to yeah. The year roughly year project, if I'm doing my math right. That it'll be going on during school. So it's very important to kinda work with you guys to make sure we're phasing
this right to be, least, in your way as possible. I know we we will always be in your way. There will always be inconveniences, but we're trying to minimize that as much as possible so we can do what's truly important, which is, teach, the students. And then Chris Kimberly from my office, likes to do staff meetings before things get kicked off, with all the staff to kinda give you guys an idea of what's going to happen, kind of reassure everybody, that they'll still be able to teach, still
be able to move around the building, and just just get everybody comfortable with with what's happening. And, again, thank you guys. It's been a privilege to work with you, and it's been a fun fun group of projects. So any questions? Thanks, Dan, Jenna. Appreciate you making the turnbuck tonight. Thank you. The submix number program, we have a senior trip senior owners trip for 2027. The city? Yep. This is Mary here. Yeah. I'll turn the floor over to her to, have us explain the the project.
We are just requesting that, I start early, so I have to get you to rest in now for next year. So we start fundraising. But for the year of 2027, requesting that we're allowed to go out of state on a senior trip some in the spring time frame is what we're looking at. And the students have raised, fundraising money to pay for their trip. And then I think it also mentions in there, the company that we're going with has changed their ratio of payments. So it used to be, they would get, one for every 10, and just like
everybody else in the bid based on the economy, they're doing one pay shop room for every 20 now. And so, this year, that would have meant this year, I would have been the only one who would have been allowed to go if it was a paid chaperone. And I'm not going anywhere to stay with that number of kids without some additional help. And so, going forward, I believe that's written in there that they're going to help in some form or fashion with with a couple of the additional shoppers. Because currently, right now, we're looking at, 43 students, that if they all would go potentially at this given moment, they'll be able to go on a senior trip next
year. So does anybody have any questions about senior training? Been doing it for several years. There's a lot of in here, has students that have went. Any indication on where that trip might be yet? Or No. I have. And it could be I don't it could be New York. It could be Florida. I don't wherever it could possibly be. They're looking at different options for us to give us bids this current time. Gotcha. I still appreciate you bringing it up now, giving us a heads up on it. Okay. We jump off in Yeah. Whether you know where it's at or not. Yeah. Appreciate that. And I don't I mean, it could always change.
It could do a bid. That's why I don't put the destination in there because I don't wanna put a destination and have to come back and present to you Right. Another time. I love you guys better. And then I never it will be a destination. We'll go to out of state. I motion to accept the request. Thank you, miss Justice. Second. Second. Mister Ellis, any questions or concerns? Discussion? All those in favor? Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks. Bye. Next up, we have educational tour student trip. Trip. And Lamb Chop. Lamb Chop is one of the therapy dogs at the high school. So she was at school today, so she's here now.
And I'm thinking, because she's so cute, you can't really say no to her. I'm Mary Hage. I teach Spanish at the high school. I think the last time I was here was two years ago. I was asking permission to take a trip to Paris, the beaches of Normandy, and then to, end up in London. We're getting ready to go on that next week. Typically, I try to take these tours every two years. So, this one actually is gonna be in 2027, and I'm asking for permission to go to Greece.
Last time I had a I can carry on there. It'll be like I said, it'll be 2027. Typically, I this is the fourth one I put on. So I don't know. But it's just yeah. For me. I'm not There it is. Typically, we don't do if the students are responsible for all the funding, we don't generally do funding, fundraising.
Also, they're, pretty much the kids are responsible for getting themselves to the airport, so we don't ask for transportation from the school. I do kids just wanna sign up for it? How or do you select the kids? Or how does that go? Actually, I I I already have 12 people signed up. Typically, I have a meeting, and there's also a website, and they can come see me at the school. Parents, relatives, kids are all welcome to go. Do you have any other questions? Motion to accept. Missed Justice. Second. Mister Ellis. Discussion? I just think I was asked to think that it's nice that we can give
the students an opportunity to go on these trips just before the senior director. For sure. We've been doing it a while, and I agree. For some kids, this is the only trip they're gonna make in their lifetime. Absolutely. Absolutely. Hearing that, all of your favorite. There's your name. Thank you, miss Jamie. Thank you. Amy Boswell. I teach, eighth grade science at the junior high. This is Mackenzie Smith. She's our attendance officer, and we would like to present to you, an idea that we have for something called Tiger Paws, which is peers assisting with success.
It's a mentoring program. And so our goal is to pair some of the younger students junior high, sixth, seventh, and eighth actually, it'd be seventh and eighth grade, and maybe a few ninth graders if they need it, with some older high school kids, so, juniors and seniors. And, essentially, the goal of this is to just, change our school culture. We want to, have a positive welcoming environment that also gives kids leadership skills as
well. So working together, they would, be goal setting, helping with homework, playing games, activities, all adult monitored, of course. And, we're just trying to help meet the needs of some of the, younger kids who might need, like, social skills or academic, things like that. Reduce school anxiety is a big one too. And on here, we just have listed, you know, like, how we're gonna set this
up. We have several templates made already. So we have, parent permission slips for both the mentees and the mentors. We have, what else? We have applications, so we want the, mentors to fill out an application. We did request that teachers put out some recommendations of students that they thought would be good for this. And we're looking for a variety of the high school kids. So, lots of life experiences so far up to this point that they can pass
on to those younger kids. And, we have, a training course, which is linked in here too. I think you guys have access to this. Right? If not, we can get that to you. But the training course has already been prepared, so we would like to train the high school mentors five times starting in May. And, I mean, it's very thorough. It goes through, you you know, the do's and don'ts of working with young kids.
It talks about communication. It talks about, you know, what the role is. We don't want these kids to be older kids to be teachers or parents. We want them to be just somebody that other kids can look up to. So, do you have anything you wanna add? One resource that we have is from the Indiana Youth Institute, which I think that also should be something that you may have access to so you can kinda see how we've modeled, some of the trainings. Yeah. The we did come up with an idea to do kind of, like, an application,
or, like, a pairing questionnaire so we can try our best to have each student, whether a mentor or mentee, fill out kind of, like, the like, dislike, hobbies, anything like that so we can kind of try and best pair who we think could maybe have some similarities, better love pairing, hopefully. We would have the meet daily for, like, a quick check-in. And then once a week, we'd have, like, a thirty minute, like, group activity that we do. So, trying to think of anything that's more I wanna thank, who who else?
Miss Maxwell, missus Rush, who else helped with that grade levels out about it? Yeah. A lot of work went into this, with this subcommittee as well as the behavior committee. I I wanna commend them for everything that they've done. It's been a lot of work put into this. Do you have any questions for us? Alright. Thank you for your time. To accept the recommendation? 2024. Sorry. One. Yes. Jonathan, did you wanna jump up on that core? Oh, you printed some for them. Sorry. I thought we'd have I don't know. Perfect.
I I didn't know if you had access to them or not. Okay. So our program, the one that we are wanting to implement this, end of the school year as a pilot at Blair Point, is the sheet that's in front of you. It's the core program, is what we are calling it. So that acronym is for choice, ownership, responsibility, and effort. We have a need for students who struggle in the classroom. It could be behavior. It could be academics.
It could be lots of different things that kids are struggling with at Blair Point. And so our goal is to have something that they look forward to doing and being a part of. And so our pilot, we have selected six students, that are fifth and sixth grade, and that selection process was done by mister Martin, mister Matthews, and myself. We kinda looked at various things the kids were struggling with, came down to a group of six that we're gonna start with.
Andy Clark is a former Peru teacher, but he's still very much involved with Peru schools. He does SCA out of the junior senior high. He's an associate pastor at one of the churches here in town. And so I met with him because we wanted to to be something where we weren't pulling a school employee during the school day out of their regular job, and so he actually was very excited about the program, said he would love to be a part of it, and so he is going to meet with those students five
times. It'll be on Friday afternoons between spring break and the end of the year and go over a variety of things. I don't know if mister McCormack printed the questions that we have. I kind of gave him a guideline. These are the things that you should be talking to the kids about. So there's a section on reflection, and that would be something as simple as he gets the group of kids and says, you know, what's going on in the last week? Did you have any behavior issues? Did you have any, missing assignments?
Things like that. And just working through those four pieces of, you know, was that a good choice? Did I take ownership and responsibility over it? And what effort can I put in as a student to kind of improve the things that, you know, are going on in the classroom? We do require that the parents agree to the program. So on that form, it does have a spot for parents to acknowledge that. And then actually, mister Matthews thought it would be really good for the pilot program to have something that was kind of flashy so that the kids coming into next
year would recognize it and want to be involved. And so he had mentioned, paying for t shirts out of our student activities fund and kind of, getting those out on the last day and letting that kind of serve as something that kids are familiar with. So that whole acronym of core, we want that to become something that's well known in the building, obviously. So, that's where we're at. Do you have any questions for me about the program? Likewise. Miss Sullivan, who else at Blair Point can help with this?
Mister Hartman and mister Matthews and I were the only ones. But not very much. I did a lot of it. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. I would entertain a motion to accept both of those committee recommendations. Motion to set both. Okay. We have a first and second. Any discussion or questions? Just thank you so much to all the hard work. I know that takes a lot of energy and effort, and I think those are very valuable programs. Thank you. Absolutely. Who's in favor? Thank you very much. Thank you for the presentation. Next up, we have serviceable proposal. This performance is gonna request the approval of that.
You have that document in your board packet, and, I will I will put missus Eddie on the spot, briefly. Any do you have anything on the summer school program, missus Eddie, that they don't wouldn't already know from previous year? I'm just gonna start right here. School is a must. Yep. So third grade, they haven't passed every they will all it's required for them, to attend. Looks like we'll have probably two teachers and two eights for the third grade group.
Two weeks of summer school, I think we start on the twenty seventh. And we have a built in teacher prep day on twenty sixth and then two weeks starting on the twenty seventh. And then for fourth through sixth, it's reading and math and that space that kids are invited, not required, but invited. And that's based on, basically their end of year testing, the safe process and and those students who teachers determine need a little extra, support at the end of the school year. So and that's a two week, same two week window.
I think it's eight to nine each day. That's what's their point for both of them. So I'll take the spot right back off of him. Sorry about that. The the point I was trying to make is that I read that I read grade three test is very much a dictator to to our summer school. So not only do you have your third graders who did not pass, now as a requirement of the second grade taking that I read three, which we just did, is a is a state requirement. So second grade, which I think I can say this out loud. Right now, without retesting before May, we've passed 47% of the second grade a year
in advance. So that's not bad that's not bad handing that off. Yeah. But then the requirement becomes every student that was at risk for not passing has to be invited to a summer school that you provide. Not funded. Second and third grade, not funded, but but are required to be invited to. So we, Elmwood, kindergarten, first, second grade, we're gonna have about 95 kids invited when we do all of our second grade who did not pass, and then we too
trickle down to our end of the year data. That'll be about 30 graders and another 30 kindergartner kindergartner. So I'm looking at, hopefully, six teachers, six aids. And we do it all in per you know, in person, you know, computer work or nothing. But pretty solid numbers, and yet still results in the need to have summer school and kids that happen to have to be invited. We really need them to come. Thank you. Thank you. Any board members have any questions on summer school? So that recommendation is there for your consideration.
I would entertain a motion to accept the recommendation as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second. Thank you, Doctor. Pennington. Any other discussion or questions? All those in favor? Yes. You may. Moving on to agreements, lawn care season contract. This report, I will give you the floor. Alright. We have before you a a couple of things. One does not require action on your part. One does. In a cost savings measure, we are opting to, decline any, bids for mowing, essentially.
We will take that back over in district. And then the second piece, the fertilization, that is in your packet. You know, that fertilization, different types of lawn chemicals require licenses, by law and such. So we, that is we do wanna accept that. So in summary, we would not be asked to act on any lawn care bids this evening, but would ask for your approval to take the fertilization contract.
Does anyone have any questions on what we're getting ready to do? Motion to accept the fertilization. Perfect. Thank you, Ms. Justice. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Ellis. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor of accepting the fertilization? Thank you. And I and I would just in following up with that. We we do want to thank, those companies that did put in bids, for the lawn care. Ortiz did a nice job for us this past year. Blacks has done a very nice job for us, in the past.
Both, you know, very reputable organizations. Again, this is a cost savings measure, that we're having to make this decision. Thank you, mister McCormick. Moving along, and, actually, we have an MOU for the art gallery. Mister McCormick, I believe you're presenting that as well. Yes. You have an MOU memorandum of understanding in your board packet. Essentially, we're just looking to hold the capatorium space in the former junior high for a two year period as a possibility to move the art gallery into that space.
Again, that's not something that the school would would pay for, but there will need to be time decisions made by the their advisory board, in conjunction with the school district towards what that space might look like and, you know, fundraising to renovate that space. So this MOU is simply, you know, the school saying that we will hold that space for a couple of years as you make those arrangements. If at any point in time during that two years, the idea, concept, project is
scrapped, abandoned, we simply tear up the MOU and go on with our business. Thank you, Mr. McCormick. I would entertain a motion to accept the recommendation as presented. So moved. Thank you, Ms. Jones. Second. Doctor. Finnegan, does anyone have any questions? All those in favor? Next up, we have underwriter underwriter placement agent engagement for taxable general obligation bonds. This is just as it says an engagement letter that if we were to move forward with a taxable GEO bond for 2026 that we would utilize Stifel as our
underwriter placement agent. Again, if we would choose to move forward with that, this is who we would use. It's just an engagement letter for your approval. May I have a motion to accept the recommendation? Second. Thank you, Doctor. Hickman. Second? Second. Thank you, Doctor. Hoover. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor? Opposed? Abstain? Thank you. So I'm moving on to business. Opening bids for the sale of property. So we have parcel number 520822401581000 Dash 016, also known as 515 North Wayne Street.
That is this one. Right? So we'll open those bids. We actually only have a bid for each property. So what we just need to open them basically. This one is from Brent Talukian. Obviously, we'll accept this bid. And this one is for the parcel also known as 382 East 2nd Street. This is from the Abundant Life Church. We are opening these as well, and we will accept this bid. Excellent. K. Those have been opened and accepted. There is no action for these. It's just been opened.
So we will move on to Raptor Technologies. Mister McCormick? I will probably ask mister Burrows or mister Percival for a little more clarification, but, this is our security software. Is that accurate for our different buildings? Yeah. So when a visitor comes into each building, they'll scan their driver's license, and then it will run on a database. And then if everything's good, we're gonna visit the batch and put it on, they can visit the school. So at every school, you have those locations to just kinda keep the overall security
of the school corporation. I know Bruce has been on for a long time. Due to that, McConnell has moved to that same system too. So this bid, is here for your consideration and approval. I would entertain motion to accept this recommendation as presented. So moved. Take that however you want. I got a first and a second. Second. Mister Hoover, thank you very much. Any questions? So this actual this is just a renewal then? Yes. It's a renewal. Yeah. It's gonna be my question. All the hardware stuff. Is it an annual renewal? Yes. Okay.
Yes. Whoever takes, keep kids safe. How many other questions? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Forgive me. Next, we have, Unitrends renewal quotes. Mister McCormick? Again, I will turn the floor over to mister Percival for the Unitrends renewal quote, Integrity Network Solutions, is also on the the quote as well. Yeah. So, Unitrends is it is a software that runs backups nightly to, an appliance that we house somewhere within the school corporation.
And then it does those backups every night. So if you were to get hit by a cybersecurity attack or your server were to die, you at least have good working backups that's going to another appliance versus the ones that they live on. So it's pretty critical to have those backups. I mean, Vince put some great things in place for the Doctor node, but this is just one additional step to kinda secure what we have. All the work that we put into those servers, it kinda keeps them backed up, to be able to be retrieved at a later time if needed. So for example, I got hit by ransomware in mechanical on 2020.
I only had good working backups two weeks, and I was able to restore back to those good working backups. Without those, we would have been out of school for at least a week or two. So it's it's pretty grateful for what we did. After hearing that, I'll entertain a motion to accept the request. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Take a pic, Trevor. Any questions? So do we not have anything in place right now currently? We have a TR note that has been sent out that's beautiful, and then they sent a number to another location. We don't like to disclose where that's at. This is for such few reasons.
Yeah. But there is that piece. This is just, like, one additional step on top of it. Just extra step. Yes. Yeah. Any other questions? All those in favor. Mister McCormick, I'll turn the floor over to you for the lawn care lawn care equipment quote. So, again, as part of, the plan to take back over mowing and weed eating in our district, I wanna thank mister Snyder for scurrying around the last couple of weeks, getting quotes, doing a lot of research, and we've landed on, two hustler, commercial
grade riding lawn mowers from Country Lawn and Garden. These will be paid for out of bond proceeds, again, to protect our operations fund. Also, two weed eaters and two backpack blowers as well. Those quotes are in your packet for your review, but we're asking for your consideration to approve these purchases this evening. Hearing the recommendation, I would entertain a motion to accept as presented.
So moved. Justice. May I have a second? Second. Mister Pelleris. Any questions? All those in favor? Thank you. Donations. First donation, we have $400 to help student with trip transportation from Northern Indiana Community Foundation. The second donation for $100.13 to the National Honor Society, for general use from wings, etcetera, dine in event. I would entertain a motion to accept those donations. Okay. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Mister Ellis, any questions or concerns? All those in favor.
Next up, we have land donation. Mister McCormick, I will turn the floor over to you. Essentially, this is the land, the the five approximately five acre grass area that sits to the east adjacent to the Roxy Theater property. This has been donated to our school district, by Paul Slaps Incorporated and just, putting this before you for your acceptance and approval this evening. I would entertain a motion to accept the Hogslott donation of land.
So Give me just a second. Okay. Any questions? Sorry. I was in favor. It is you. Next up, we have disposal of used unused furniture equipment resolution. That's important. This is just, there there are, you know, quite a few tables and things being stored in the the two story academic wing of the former junior high that will be demolished in the coming months. And so this resolution would just give the district the option of selling anything in
there. Our principals and likely Mr. Snyder still need to go through and we'll keep anything we want to keep and relocate it, but anything, we won't use everything in that wing of the building. So we need to either be able to scrap it, sell it, dispose of it. I'm hearing the recommendation. I'll entertain a motion to accept. Moved. Thank you, mister Hastings. Second? Second. Mister Ellis, questions? All those in favor? Request for student trip. This is the Heartland Career Center requesting the following students listed below be allowed to
attend the State Skills USA competition in Indianapolis on Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11. There for your consideration to approve. I would entertain a motion to approve. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, doctor Finnington. Any questions? All those in favor? Okay. If you may ask. Next up, we have personnel. I would entertain a motion to accept all these as presented unless anyone has a certain one they would like to do separate. Do I hear a motion? I move to accept one through seven and nine.
One through seven and nine. K. We are second on one through seven and nine. One second. Mister Ellis, any questions? All those in favor? I would entertain a motion to accept number eight. So moved. Thank you, doctor Bennington. Second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Hoover. Any comments or questions? All those in favor? Opposed? Number one, Motion passes. Thank you, you all. Next up, recommendation for classified position. I would entertain a motion to accept that as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second.
Thank you, Doctor. Pennington. All those in favor? Opposed? I will abstain for obvious reasons. Thank you. Recommendations for extracurricular positions. Again, I would entertain a motion to accept one for 11 unless you would like to pull any one of them apart. Still there? All 11? All 11. Okay. Second? Second. Okay, Doctor. Peddersen, any questions? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Appreciate it. Okay. Moving on to proposal to higher lawn care positions and this report. This is the third piece, this evening.
For it's, again, taking back over our mowing responsibilities and tasks across the district. We've created four stipend positions at $2,500 each. So those four positions coupled with current maintenance staff, central office staff that would absorb the mowing responsibilities for the coming mowing season. But these, these will be four positions, paid stipend positions, that we would advertise for.
Okay. Here, your recommendation, I'll entertain a motion to accept. So moved. It is just a second. Second. Doctor Pennington, any questions? All those in favor? Do we have any board member committee reports? I have a brief one. Go ahead, doctor. So the, twenty twenty six legislative meetings has come to a close. As per every year, several proposals, never even made it out of their, you know, discussions. The ones that are going to affect Peru community schools the most are going to be the cell phone ban.
So, cell phones, Apple watches, all of that will be restricted, during the school day. It does sound like they're going to allow storage and lockers, but I think it is going to ultimately be up to the schools how they decide to deal with that. There's some, you know, new social media restrictions, but that's gonna be with parents and have not really have anything to do with our decision making, but hopefully will help just some of the issues that kids deal with on a daily basis.
And then the only other major one that will affect us is the school board candidate ordering. So that is going to be changing, on the ballot. So it's you can they will there'll be an option basically to declare party. You it's still an option to run as an independent, but those parties will be listed first and then an out. That's about it. Thank you, Doctor. Pennington. Anyone else, Mr. Fuller? Mr. Fuller is not here? Parks up, Dave, real fast. I had the parts meeting on March 12, 5PM City Hall.
Anyone's welcome to join if you want. We have two people in attendance in the audience. Membership is up at the 98 people golf course. All sponsorships have been fulfilled. Remodeling the restrooms currently can't get prepared for the 2026 season. That was presented by Jake Shaniak. Cliff Delvey, the park superintendent, gave a update on the parks. $3 total and $12, working with the prison to establish a prisoner work line, currently renovating accession stands, getting playground equipment, or getting plans for playground equipment at West City
Softball Field. And, we approved the annual light up the night request. So if you're a walker, jogger, runner, that's on, May 24 from nine to 11PM at the walkway. Next meeting is Thursday, April 9. Thank you, mister Ellis. Anyone else? Hardboard, they have they're discussing move into the junior high. Alexandria Blong, she presented an opportunity to attend a q and a with Maya Michaelson, which was today, regarding the Lilly Endowment Grant.
The grant will be due on April 15. I'm not exactly sure. I was gonna say she would. I don't know who's gonna Right. I'm at a loss on that. We'll skip over that one. There is the MOU that we just signed promising them that space. As soon as they come to an agreement on whether or not they think that move is feasible, they'll let us know. Tony Cutler is going to be speaking with Sorry.
I lost my spot when I skipped over that. He's talking with, a museum about they have, people more educated than us on finances and on the building aspect of things. She's gonna speak with them on the move over to PCS junior high, to see if that's feasible, what a dollar amount would look like for that. And if the move is not feasible, maybe what else we could do to improve
the current art gallery. Okay. So she'll bring that up on at least after she speaks to them as well. And the next meeting is now March 25 at 10:10 thirty. They're usually at 10:30. They haven't decided any good time yet. Thank you, miss Justice. Moving along to our budget section. Fort Wayne Museum of Art. I just saw it. Museum of Art. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Let's see here. The floor is yours for the claims portion. You have a copy of the claims in front of you. I just don't know if you have any questions regarding these things.
Motion to accept the next. Thank you, miss Justice. Second. Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Questions or concerns? All of the favor. Miss in here. Funds honoring the report. So for our Ed Fund, salary and benefits remain on our largest expenses for state of Indiana. 65% of education dollars that we receive in the JDM tends to come from salaries and budgets. We have dispersed less than we have received for the month February, so we're doing doing okay there.
Debt service has no activity in this fund until June, where we'll receive property taxes and make our debt payments. Operations or current sources of revenue is mainly interest and end up transfers until June when we will receive our first installment of property taxes. Salaries and benefits are also currently the larger expenses followed by utilities and then the operations budget. Rainy day, we have no activity in this fund at this time. Our bonds our 22 bond is now fully extended, so we are at a zero
balance there. Our 24 bond is halfway extended with the projects for this bond still ongoing. We will be wrapping those up here later this year. Our 25 bond, as you got the report this earlier this meeting, we'll be seeing more activity in the fall as the projects begin for this particular bond. The expenses in that one are the setup costs along with smaller food board projects. Our code service fund is remaining in a positive balance, and things are going well
with Chartwells. I spoke with them this week, and they're working on setting up our summer code service program right now. So I look forward to more information on that as that gets submitted to state for approval. Any questions? Thank you, miss. And your I would entertain a motion to accept the fund monitored report as presented. Still moved. Miss Justice. Second? Second. Mister Ellis, any questions? All those in favor? Board member comments? Just wanna say thank you to all that have been putting in a lot of extra work in the last couple of weeks. We appreciate all that you guys do for us.
I know there's not a lot of you here, but just wanted to make it public that, yes, it's been a grind and hopefully, we'll be coming to the end of that. Thank you all. Anyone else? Mr. McCormick? I just wanna, thank those, board members who, just gave those extra agency reports. Doctor Pennington, legislative, Mister Fuller couldn't be here this evening, but he attends the Heartland Career Center meetings. Mister Ellis, the parks board, and miss Justice, the art advisory board, thank you for carrying out those extra duties.
That's much appreciated. Again, I wanna thank mister Percival as he comes on board. We're starting to see him, you know, three times a week. I even bothered him last night for some tech stuff. So he's already doing a good job hitting the ground running. Mr. Burrows, pretty soon, you will be leaving us as the transition period ends. Truly wanna thank you for not just keeping us afloat, but moving us ahead during a very volatile time over the past year, year and a half.
You're always welcome here. You're passing through this neck of the woods, always stop in, and we wish you the best of luck. Will do. Thank you. And lastly, Mr. Snyder, as he settles into his new role as our Director of Operations, I mean, I know last night he was at Blair Point, doing work. I mean, the guy never stops. He's meeting vendors, doing research. I mean, he is all over the district in many different capacities. And Mr. Snyder, just wanna thank you for all of your hard and honorable work for the
district. That's all I have, Mr. Beatty. Thank you, Mr. McCormick. Anyone else? I would entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Thank you, Justice.