We're gonna get started. The first thing we have on the docket here is a budget hearing, budget adoption hearing. Tara, do you have anything to add to that, or do you have any questions about that? I'll just bring before you the, the 2026 budget, the bus replacement plan, and the capital project plan that's gone over at the last board meeting to get your approval. And if you have questions, I'm with answer them. You're answered. Does anyone have any questions on any of those three items? Hearing no questions, I would entertain a motion to accept those as presented.
So moved thank you miss justice do I have a second second Mr Ellis are there any questions or comments hearing none all those in favor Aye. Opposed? Passes unanimously. Thank you very much. That would be the end of that hearing. No. I have two more. You have two more. Two more. It's okay. Go ahead. Yes. Go ahead. We are also bringing to you tonight a resolution to transfer funds. This is our education to operation fund transfer.
Taking your approval tonight to do that for next year. Do we have any questions on the transfer of funds? Will we be staying at the 15%, or do we anticipate overshooting that? We always, doctor Quinn, try to stay under, but you don't wanna be on that list two years in a row. So we were on the naughty list last year. And we've been trying to do it every other year for a number of years now since it came to commissions. Yeah. I'm just curious of where we are. Yeah. Yeah. I would I would I would say we will try to stick with that philosophy
and practice, so we can stay in compliance with the state. Thank you. Any other questions? If none, I will entertain a motion to accept that as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Do we have a second? Second. Thank you, doctor Pennington. Any comments? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Next. And then also bringing the budget resolution to you. This is, seeking your approval to make necessary adjustments on the budget according to the 1782 notice that will come out in December.
This is just if we need to lower it, we can we can do that. Any question? I'm sorry. Any questions from the board? What is the 1782 notice? That is where they give us our tax summary rate, the official. Thank you. Mhmm. Any notes? I would I would jump in there too, and, I appreciate mister Hoover. He called me earlier today. If you look on the budget, the first the first document, and, you know, it lists a dollar 66 tax. And so he, called and said, well, you know, what why is that?
And you base your budget on a two terra's point, on assumed AV numbers, things that you don't have in your hand at the time when you make the budget. So in a short narrative, you budget high because you're you're allowed to come down. But if you budget low, you can't go up. And so although that says a dollar 66, they will structure most of that increase. Again, that's theoretical, comes from the debt service.
Once we have actual numbers in our hands, then they structure our first year's payments to where that rate comes down. And that's why we've said and maintained that we're gonna remain tax neutral. Okay. So to Tara's point, that's a little bit of a backstory on on that process. Thank you, mister McCormick. Anything else? Hearing nothing else, I would entertain a motion to accept that as presented. So moved. Making this justice. Second? Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Any other questions? All those in favor is unanimous.
Thank you very much. That is it. That way, we will conclude the budget hearing for 2026 budgets. Our next thing will be at 06:30. Yeah. So we will take a little bit of a break, and then we'll be back and start the hearing for that. Thank you all. We'll go ahead and get started here. The next thing on the, on the list is the additional appropriation hearing and lease hearing. Listen, Fermak, do you have anything? Thank you, mister Beatty. The school corporation is funding this project through a lease financing as it has done with other past construction slash renovation projects.
Lease finance financings are used by school corporations across the state of Indiana in order to borrow for renovation and construction. Additionally, the school corporation will receive money for the sale of the real estate to the building corporation. Since this money was not initially listed in the school corporation's annual budget, the school corporation is required to hold a hearing for the additional appropriation of those funds. It is now time for the board to hold the lease and additional appropriation hearing in connection with the proposed project. If you are interested in speaking at the hearing, please make sure you have signed
the sign in sheet which should include your name and address. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity for the public to make comments about the lease rental to be paid under the lease and appropriation of bond proceeds. At this hearing, we will ask that each person limit their comments to three minutes and that the topic be limited topics be limited to the lease rental, appropriation of funds under the consideration. The notices for this hearing were published legally as required. Pursuant to Indiana code 20 dash 47 dash three, before a school corporation may enter
into a lease with a nonprofit building corporation, the school corporation must conduct a hearing regarding the execution of the proposed lease agreement and whether the rental to be paid to the lesser building corporation under the proposed lease is a fair and reasonable rental for the proposed improvements. Similarly, before a school corporation can appropriate any dollars it directly receives as bond proceeds, it must conduct a hearing on those proceeds for the additional appropriation of funds. We will now hear from mister McCormick about the proposed projects related to the lease
and additional appropriation. Thank you, Mr. Beatty. There are several dynamics that have brought us to this point in time. Our two elementary buildings are in great need of necessary upgrades and renovations. This came to light as part of our recent facility assessment, that was carried out with with Gibraltar. Additionally, our school board members, principals, and directors met in 2024 to discuss our district's facility needs. We've had many planning meetings over the past twelve months, leading up us up to this point.
Currently, we do not have a transportation hub, and our maintenance building is beyond repair. So that's one of the focuses, of this project. Several years ago, the district decided to create a presence at what we now know as the North Complex. The opportunity to purchase the Roxy Theater property will provide several strategic moves for our district, including continuing the vision of the North Complex, create a much needed and professional transportation and maintenance maintenance hubs, move central office to the North Complex and sell the
downtown building. Also, this decision will provide a number of other benefits such as secured bus fleet parking, opportunity to secure better bus fuel pricing, nice and professional restroom facilities for the soccer complex, guaranteed parking for our athletic events at the North Complex, ability to to carry out light bus maintenance projects, and a new large space to hold professional meetings, be at school or and or community type meetings.
We will also be addressing the old junior high with plans to take down the two story West Wing and make slight upgrades to other parts of that building for other programming needs. In summary, we will be addressing much needed repairs across our district while also creating new state of the art learning and workspaces for our staff and students. Thank you. Thank you, mister McCormick. We will now open the public hearing. Remember, if you would like to speak, please make sure that you're signed in on the sheet, which is now here. Make sure that your your name and address limit your comments to the proposed rent
to be paid under the lease and appropriation bond proceed. Keep any comments to three minutes and avoid being repetitive if possible. Seeing the sign sign in sheet. Now, there are no names on that sheet. Would anybody like to speak? Anyone? This is for the appropriation. Right? Mhmm. Pretty much. That's correct. Yes. Hearing none, I guess we can close this out with thank you all for reading for participating, and I will take action on this later on in the meeting. We will now close this hearing and open our regular meeting. Thank you. Okay. 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. Acceptance of the agenda. We'll entertain a motion to accept that as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Any questions or additions? All those in favor? The unanimous. Thank you. Approval of the minutes for the September meeting? Motion to accept. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, doctor Pennington. Any questions or additions or corrections?
Yes. Hearing none, all those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Next up, we have public comment, and would somebody bring you that? I didn't know it. Thank you. Okay. First up, we have Nightgale Truax. Okay. Hi. Emily sent you the slides earlier. The first one is miss Murphy and missus Wright, their buddy class, which is a program missus Hall set up. They do academic things, like, different classes from different grades, and they do academic things together. They do things fun activities together. I think I think it's pretty incredible.
I mean, you know, kids helping other kids and learning new experiences from other new kids, and that's a really cool program. And missus Hall did good with that one. The next one is miss Warren. They were learning about Ellis Island, and so her students created a suitcase like they were going on the trip to Ellis Island, and they had to pick five things that they would take with them on the trip. And then they had to write a journal entry based in the nineteen hundreds to correlate with the Ellis Island. So and then they were able to present it and showcase their knowledge of it.
So that's all we have for you today. Thank you, guys. Next up, mister Morris. I do wanna start off by saying you guys do have some fantastic teachers, wonderful staff. Some of the teachers that do talk to us, some of them have reached out over the last week or two. And, you know, they tell us they support what we're trying to do. But at the same time, they're they're feeling the strength of the situation. They're, you know, kinda feel like by association, you know, they're it's kinda reflecting on
them. And I do I feel terrible about that. I I truly do. My goal never has been to make PRU schools look bad. But the calls change. We have to bring things to the forefront. You know, I have to stand up here and give it my all. I can't give up until the change happens. And, honestly, I know that there are people that think certain ways about me. I know I brought that up before. The Holy Spirit in me won't let me get away from this until we have a resolution. I am a child of God.
I'm not a staff member anymore and I can stand up here and say this. I am a child of God. I'm saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit in me is pushing me forward with this. It's pushing our organization. Everybody that's a member of our board of voice approved parents, they're born again Christians. None of us are perfect. I'm nobody important. And they're not important people. But together, we are coming together for what we believe to be a good and righteous cause. You know, we have, you know, parents that come to us with stories when they
feel like they don't have anywhere else to go. Right now, we have stories that we haven't post posted anywhere because the parents are still trying to work things out with administrators, which is what we want. We want them to try that first. But if these stories end up being posted publicly, it's only because they didn't find a resolution to the administrators, which is why we want this administrative oversight committee. And a committee that would operate outside of the authority of the superintendent and the principals, they would answer only to the school board. I don't want anything to do with this committee.
Our organization doesn't want anything to do with it. We just know it needs to exist. And I know we went back and forth about the legalities of it but I promise there's nothing about it that's illegal or violates student privacy laws. I've got things that even in the out the short little outline that we provided about redacting names and all that to keep it legal. The school board, each and every one of you, this is you have the power to make this happen. You are the directors, the board of directors for approved community schools. This is on you. And if you truly believe that this committee would be illegal or that I want
anything to do with it as, you know, I I just know these exist and I I believe the teachers would be great in that capacity to oversee that and they would answer directly to the school board. I know it would be a great thing for the students. It's all I've got to say. God bless you guys. You know, take over. Just please if you think it's illegal, you're being deceived. It's not illegal. You need to look out, reach reach out and to attorneys yourselves, you need to really do your due diligence. It's it's not illegal. And if you know already that it's not illegal, then what's stopping you?
It's only good for the students. Thank you, mister Morris. Bridget Richardson. I have a question. Who all here here has kids in preschools? Show of hands. K. Quick question. What if one of those kids came home, bruises on their face, arm, whatever, and they said, I got to leave in school. What are you guys gonna do? You guys gonna stand up for your kids. Right? Your grandkids. That's exactly what we're trying to do. If you guys can't hear us, then what makes us think that it's safe enough for our children to attend your school?
Honestly. You guys have these drills, which we all got notification of, the active shooter drill. You guys are preparing for something that's about to happen. Why not prevent it? And it's still plenty. That's the only thing. We're asking to give the power back to our kids, not to you guys. Thank you, miss Richardson. Okay. Next on the agenda, we have recognition of PCS Transportation employees. Good morning. Thank you, mister Beatty. I'll turn the floor over to mister Snyder and mister Potts. You guys would like to, we're going to share a feel good, a couple of
feel good stories surrounding a couple of recent events that our transportation folks stepped up big time. So we had a meeting before break, kind of instituted by this group back here for our drivers. I'm just singing their praises. All of our drivers are top notch. Doesn't matter what route they drive or anything. They're some of the best in the state, and we recognize them as a as a staff, a week or so ago.
But I wanted to point out to you guys, on September 15, we had a pretty bad bus accident on Mexico Road on the Eagle River Bridge. Our driver, Amy Miller, did a phenomenal job with that situation. When I arrived on-site and saw that bus up against the guardrail of the bridge, the only thing that went through my head was this could have been so much worse. She had such control of that bus. She had compassion for those kids, for the other for the driver of the other vehicle. She handled it expertly, and I can only attribute the safety to all those kids
to her skill as a driver. Is is she here this evening? She is not. Okay. And then I think it was October 3, about 04:15 in Friday afternoon, I get a call from central dispatch, bus accident on US 31, not our bus. Another school transporting a a junior high cross country team, had been in an accident, and they needed help. My first call was to Brooke Killian back here. Zach, can you do something? Can you help out? She's like, I'm on my way. She and her daughter, Emma, were on their way to dinner, gave up their dinner
plans, grabbed the bus, came and grabbed that team who was on their way to Terre Haute from Goshen. And, I I I can't I mean, just so you know, when I pulled up, mister Snyder was already there, but the state troopers had 31 north and southbound shutdown. They the car that hold in beard in front of their minibus minibus was smashed the whole side. It was being hauled away, and the minibus was being loaded up onto, you know,
a a wrecker trailer and hauled away. All that was what I saw when I pulled up. Yeah. And so Brooke could go on and grab the bus and Brooke and Emma, can you please stand up? Loaded those kids on. Come over here. And mister McCormick showed up, and he had already been in contact with the other school superintendent and asked Brooke if she was prepared to go to Terre Haute. And the look on her face and she was like, Friday night, Terre Haute. Okay. And it's like, no. They were only going to Plainfield to a hotel to continue their drive.
And so Brooke and Emma took that team to Kokomo. They were planning to stop for dinner, got them to their dinner, and then miss Rosanna, grabbed a different bus, met them in Kokomo, and took them on down to Plainfield. And so just the compassion that our drivers have, not only for our own students, but for any student in any situation. Like I said, these ladies gave up their Friday nights, to not only go to Kokomo, but on Indianapolis, for an entirely different school corporation in need. And so, Rosanna was supposed to drive to Indianapolis the next morning anyway to Lucas
Oil. Mister Jack stepped up and took that route instead. So we had a big effort between these three ladies and Jack who came to the aid of another school and just shows the Tiger pride, the PCS pride that we have, and not only helping our own, but whoever else is in need around us. So I just wanted to say thank you to these schools. From Fairfield. I know mister McCormick had received emails and correspondence from Fairfield, in that situation.
So, but just thank you for stepping up and yes I do owe you guys dinner still. And they were on their way to Bebo Brady's and they end up with the Zolli's instead I think that night. So a little bit of a trade off but, but, again, just very appreciative of your efforts to step up and help out where needed. Of course. Of course. And we did this. I returned from vacation. This was in my office. So this is from Fairfield Community Schools. Mister McCormick and staff, here are some treats from our neck of the woods.
Thank you for going above and beyond for our students. It truly takes a village. Doctor Carrie Cannon and the Fairfield Community School school board. So I have not dug into this past the blue tissue paper. There look there doesn't appear to be a lot of, nice treats down in here. So I will turn this over to, mister Snyder and mister Paws to distribute to the bus drivers. You guys can find those little. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Okay. Moving on to the program section.
Mister McCormick, can you please summarize our resolution authorizing the execution of lease? Thank you. As required by Indiana code 20 dash 47 dash three, After a lease hearing, the school board must approve the lease agreement and authorize the school board officers to execute such lease. This lease is the agreement whereby the school corporation will levy the required property tax to pay the lease payments throughout the life of the bond issue.
The lease payments will be paid to the building corporation and used to pay the bond holders to repay the proposed bonds. Hearing that, I would entertain a motion and a second to adopt adopt resolution authorizing execution of lease. Do I have a motion? So moved. Thank you, mister Hoover. Second? Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Any discussion? Questions? All those in favor? Show of hands. Opposed? Abstain? 60 or I'm sorry. 502402. Motion passed. Next is the motion to do we hear that?
Yep. Here we have. Okay. Mister McCormick, could you please summarize the additional appropriation resolution? Thank you, mister Batey. The additional appropriation resolution outlines the appropriation of funds received for the sale of certain school facilities to the building corporation where portions of the proposed projects will be constructed. The resolution also specifies that any such funds will be placed in a school corporation construction account separate from all other school corporation funds and spent only on the projects since the appropriation will be from bond proceeds.
Hearing that, I would entertain a motion to accept the additional appropriation resolution. Do I have a motion? So moved. Doctor Penney? Second. Mister Ellis. Any questions? Comments? All those in favor? Show of hands. Opposed? Second. Abstain? Five zero two. Mister McCormick, would you please summarize the resolution reapproving the building corporation? Thank you, mister Beatty. The next resolution is the resolution reapproving the building corporation. This resolution reapproves the formation of the building corporation for federal tax purposes.
Can I have a motion to adopt the resolution reapproving the building corporation? Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Second? Second. Thank you, doc mister Hoover. Any questions? All those in favor? All opposed? Obtain? Five zero two. Motion passes. Mister McCormick, could could you please summarize the resolution assigning bids, contracts, administrations? Yeah. Yes. The next resolution is the resolution assigning bids slash contracts to the building corporation. At the bond closing, the building corporation will own facilities where some of the renovation
work will be completed. The building corporation will also be the issuer of the bonds. As a result, certain contracts may need to be with the building corporation because the building corporation will hold the money to pay the contractors. The school corporation receives the bids and or contracts and awards the bids and or contracts under state law, but then retains the right to assign those bids and or contracts to the building corporation for payment at the discretion of the board. That is this one. Could I have a motion to adopt the resolution to signing VIGS contracts?
So moved. Thank you, mister Ellis. Second? Second. Thank you, doctor Pennington. Any questions, comments? All those in favor? Opposed? Abstain? Five zero two. And then mister McCormick, would you please summarize the resolution of authorizing the supplement to the master continued disclosure undertaking and issuance of bonds? Thank you. This resolution satisfies the Securities and Exchange Commission requirement that a school corporation enter into a continuing disclosure undertaking agreement if it issues bonds to public investors.
The agreement requires that the school corporation agree to timely provide certain financial information, and provide notice of certain material events if and when they occur. Can I have a motion to adopt the resolution authorizing a supplement to master continuing disclosure undertaking and issuance of bonds, please? So moved. Thank you, doctor Bennington. Second? Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? Opposed? And abstain? Five zero two. Can I, do want to publicly thank, mister Eric Long who's sitting patiently in the
back with our bond counsel from Ice Miller? He was here at 05:00 to execute and work with the Building Lease Corporation board members to sign those appropriate documents that are in tandem with what, you just approved in this process. So mister Long, thank you for making the trip to Indianapolis. Thank you, mister Long. Thank you. Be safe going home. Will do. Our southbound is open now. Oh, there you go. It is. It is. Okay. Yeah. Right. Yes. Next up, NCIA operating under PCS guidelines resolution.
Mister McCormick. This is just a resolution since the our North Central Indiana Academy is newly formed. You know, they they certainly need to operate under guidelines, practices, policies. And since it's newly formed, it's being formulated. It will certainly be a work in progress as we calibrate it and dial it in. But, this this resolution just simply says that the academy is going to operate under
through community schools, guidelines, policies, etcetera. Thank you, mister McCormick. I trust you've all read that. I would entertain a motion to accept that as presented. Sweet. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, miss Troller. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? Good as you can. Thank you. School calendar. You had an updated calendar length time in your area when you got here. And thank you, mister Hoover, for there was one little date error off on the right margin. But this is the proposed school calendar for 2627.
We ran a couple of options through the teachers union. The teachers gave great feedback. Actually, we shifted the Christmas break back to a more traditional type format from their input. So yeah. Any questions at all you have on that disclosure calendar? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to accept the calendar as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Thank you, doctor Pennington. Any comments or questions? Was it was it May 24?
Looks like it was changed. Yeah. Twenty sixth. Yeah. Okay. Let me do a little bit. That's it. Yeah. Cool. Anything else? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. On to business, donations. Number one, that may be an error where it says Peru Community Schools. I don't that maybe should say Parkview Sports Medicine. They are paying for half of the huddle program. That was over $11,000 And as part of our partnership with them, I made a call and they did a took a quick vote, that being Parkview Sports Medicine, and
agreed to pay for half of this year's power subscription to Huddl, which is what a number of our sports teams use. And their you know, the next question would be, well, is it gonna cost next year? Yeah. Like, $15,000 a year. But pretty much everyone in the state uses Huddl. And in addition to teams using it for scouting and self evaluation, there are streaming opportunities. So as part of this, we will mount, you know, a high-tech camera in the
main gym. I wanna say is a Tiger Den as well. No? If I may. Yeah. The the camera was finished being mounted in the Tiger Reno this morning Thank you. By Houston Electric. None of us really wanted to work 30 feet in the air and pull up the shift floor. So, Houston Electric came in and did that, and then we have the one to put on Bigel Memorial Stadium. So the the arena will have one, and then the football stadium will have one mounted on the front of the house. Thank you, mister Snyder. So there will be, as we as we all know, kind of post COVID streaming,
those types of things kind of took off. And there's more to be worked out through this. Mister Yates, and we've passed him, you know, there are potential revenue streams from from streaming opportunities that could maybe help fund, you know, future years subscription. There's also advertisement opportunities. So some of those things need to be worked out, but we pretty much were in a a position where we needed to get going and up the ante with
Huddl. So, anyway, that's the little backstory, behind this donation. How are we currently paying for it? Our our portion. Mister Yates will find Athletic? Athletic monies, yeah, through oh, I wanna say basketball, football. We might have five or six athletic programs that use huddle for their internal purposes. So, you know, they they may chip in some. The the golf outing we recently had, the high school's third of that, I believe, is gonna go towards that other part of Huddl.
So I'm I'm confident that it'll get taken care of in pretty quick order. Are there grants or anything that we can seek out maybe? Yeah. We'll we'll explore all options moving forward. Excellent. You've heard the recommendation. I would entertain a motion to accept the donation as presented. So moved. Thank you, Justice. Second? Second. Mister Ellis, any other questions or comments? Hearing none, all those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Next up is early literacy endorsement. Miss Christy McGuire, 1,000 stipend for the early literacy endorsement.
I would entertain a motion to accept that as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. It's through here. Thank you, mister Hoover. Any questions or comments? All those in favor is unanimous. Thank you. Moving on. Operations and technology. Mission McCormick, would you like to present that? Our facility rental schedule? Yeah. And I'm gonna turn the floor over to missus Sheets real quick. This I I give her a lot of credit. She came to me and said, you know, our facility rental guidelines, fees were kinda
wonky, lengthy. And so she went out and did some research. And so this would be the new rental fee schedule, and I'll let missus Sheets chime in here. Yeah. So just pretty much what he had said. Ours was, like, a lot of paragraph form. A lot of, like, given a minimum charge and then additional this rate for this hour and that hour. It just didn't flow very well. So I reached out to some other schools and to make sure we were comparable on how much we charge, and went to some of their layouts.
And so that's where I came up with the current layout you have in your packet. At the bottom, you'll notice, personnel. We broke it down by hour for charging. That was another mess on the old line. It was, you know, one and a half hours times this. It just it never was clear. So now when someone calls and wants to rent, I'll have a clear hourly rate to tell them from the start of how much they're gonna be charged. And then I think that they bought in there and added we still do the the damage deposit. Mhmm. Like, we had I think it was a couple years ago that was added.
And then just how we get the the rates, how it's broke down with the benefits and the charges per hour for the personnel. Thank you. Thank you, miss Sheeps. Any questions at all on the We have some of our MOUs like early head start and that where we use our in kind. Yes. So we kinda need to be careful. We don't have two rental agreements. That can get a little sticky. So I think that needs to be looked at. K. At this time, I would entertain a motion to accept the facility rental schedule as
presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? Second. Mister Ellis, thank you once again. Any questions or comments? It's pretty, similar to other schools what they're doing. Yeah. I like the fact that we have something now down Yes. That we can be consistent with. Excellent work. All those in favor? These unanimous. Thank you. Next other personnel, reading through those, I would entertain a motion to accept those as presented all at once unless one would like to pull one out. Motion to accept one through six. Thank you.
Second. Thank you, doctor Quinn. Any questions? All those in favor? Thank you. Recommendation for certified positions, Amy Wilson, is special education at the junior senior high. Entertain a motion to accept that as presented. So moved. Thank you, mister Hoover. Second? Second. Mister Ellis, any questions? All those in favor? Okay. And there's your names. Recommendation for class five positions. Again, I would, entertain a motion to accept one through four as presented unless someone would like to pull one out. I Motion to accept one through four.
Second. Thank you, mister Fuller. Thank you, miss Justice. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? Yes. Recommendation for extracurricular activities. We have 14 of those. I would entertain a motion to accept those. I would like to make an extraction of the first number seven since we have two sevens there. Okay. Mhmm. Chris Mikowski. Alright. So I would extraction section one through 15. We're not extracting him. Right? We're gonna we're gonna vote on him separate. Oh, okay. Sorry. We're gonna change that to seven and then Seven a and seven B.
Seven a and seven b. Yeah. So I would entertain a motion to accept this one through six and B through 14. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second. Are you seconding? Is that Mhmm. You're giving the second? No. Or you're asking for a second? I was asking for what? Mister Cooper a second, didn't you? It's a little confusing. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Seven a, I would entertain a motion to accept that as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second?
Second. Thank you, mister Ellis. Questions? Yes. And it says it's only a winter position, and it's an assistant to the principal. What what exactly does that entail? And it seems like we already have a couple of assistance to the principal already. There are three ECA positions, ticket manager, yeah, ticket manager, concessions manager, and then there's the assistant to the principal. Is that correct, miss Iniere? Yes. Because one position is being split up into three.
Yeah. And then this position being our athletic director, and and even our prior athletic director, had asked for more flexibility. And it it was getting hard to ask someone to do those jobs, you know, all year long. Just people would say, well, I can only do it one season, but I can't do it in this other season. And so we So this is to the principal or to the athletic director? It's supervision. It it's it is word it is worded kind of wonky, but it's, yeah, it's
it's a supervision position. Thank you. Any other questions? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Recommendation for sub teacher, custodian, nurse, bus driver, SRO positions. Looks like we have one, Terry b Smith for sub teacher for the district. I I would entertain a motion to accept him as presented. So moved. Second. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? It is your name. It's time. Thank you. Next up, budget. Miss Vineyard, the floor is yours. We're gonna do the claims tonight, and I will I will just point out, yes,
there's a lot of Amazon because we were extending the end of our grants, which was supply money. So that was our primary provider for supply money. So there is a lot of Amazon in there. And then I also just wanna point out real quick, we did get our first Chartwells built, and that is their AcroPower company is called Compass. So when you're looking through the claims, it is the Compass group is actually Chartwells. Are there any questions? I answered it. Woah. Basically, I I don't I don't have the same thing here.
Why are we gonna finish Compass at the start up for two months? And that was a two month bill. Yeah. Also, the startup cost and the two month bill. Sure. It was a 190 What yeah. 3 and a half? Yes. So that's a little larger than what our normal bills will be because that was some of that startup put that they needed to get in in their signage, And then that was July through August. Does that come out of the school lunch? Yes, sir. Hearing no other questions, I would entertain a motion to accept the claims as presented. So moved. Thank you, miss Justice. Second? It be. Second.
Thank you, doctor Kennedy. Anything else to add? All those in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Fund monitoring part. For a fund monitoring part, our education fund, as of the September, we've collected 86% and dispersed 77%. And keeping on track, our salaries and benefits are the largest expenses for the state of Indiana, so we are doing good on that. Debt service, we have had no activity there. We will not until December. Operations fund, we have collected 51%. Just as a reminder, that is because we only get property taxes in June, December.
And we have expended 71%, and salaries and utilities is where our our our largest expenses lie on that one. Rainy day, we've had no activity this last month. Our 2022 bond, we are continuing to spend down. It is getting smaller. I assure you it's getting smaller. But we still have a few projects that are encumbered on it. So we we're still spending that one down, but we're getting there. All that money is encumbered then? All but 90,000 of it. Yes. So that does not encumber what's left? So yeah. What what you see there is is the money that we still have to to
spend. Is there a deadline when we have to spend that by? It's nice. We've we've gotten some extensions on that. So but we're sending that for all the little projects that come up for maintenance routine stuff as we move into the newer bonds. So this has been helping us get through to that. Then the 2024 bond, we are starting to see some more quarters of stuff. Stuff's happening. So we will be getting we've been getting some small bills from that. So more bills will be coming in in the next few months. And then our food service fund, as I pointed already, we did receive our first
Chartwell's bill. It was fully funded. Now that October has started, the new cycle of the new food service budget year has started. So we should be starting to get our money here in the next month from the beginning of the school year. It has been submitted. We're just waiting for it to come in. And so we're looking good there. So we don't anticipate getting any lower than where we are right now? No. We have funds coming in. Any questions? Motion to accept the phone monitoring report. Thank you. There's just a second. Second. Thank you, mister Ellis.
Any questions or comments? All those in favor. I need a unanimous. Next up is board comments. I would like to congratulate all of our principals during principals' work. Thank you for all you do, and we have one here. Thank you, miss Matthews. Any other comments? I do. I made a boo boo. I didn't realize until I went to silence minutes for Brooke. I need to fix the spelling of doctor Quinn's name on 01/23/1945. Six votes from last month.
Wow. I don't think there's an extra a Thought there was somebody else in there getting off the hook. You don't think let it go. I don't think we need to go back, so maybe we need to bring this up again next month Yeah. And move on fixing it. I will look into that on our correction. Okay. Thank you. I think we should go back. Not a problem. Any other comments? Mister McCormick? Thank you, mister Beatty. Few things. First, I wanna thank, missus Sheets. You know, while many people were gone last week on fall break, she put a lot of time in getting ready for this meeting. Appreciate all of her extra efforts.
She she really went into overdrive, so thank you. I wanna thank the PCEA officers, for their professional professionalism during collective bargaining. Certainly the you know, my second year as superintendent here, and I had to walk into collective bargaining with in less than desirable conditions based off legislation. And we're committed to working together in the coming months to make sure that we're in a much better position this time next year.
And I wanna thank the PCEA for their professionalism. I wanna thank, miss Truax and, missus Nightingale for their positive comments, that they make here at the board meetings. I do wanna make a brief comment, and just kinda follow-up with some of the comments that the public comments that are made to start off many of our board meetings. We have excellent licensed administrators that are very caring, and they deal with discipline of all types every day just as all school districts do.
Couple of things. I think it needs to be noted that somewhere lost in the narrative, the word bullying gets thrown around a lot. Could there be a fight in a cafeteria? Yes. But a fight isn't bullying. There are all kinds of, you know, things that happen, small things, big things in a school district within a school day, a week, etcetera. But there's this narrative being tossed around that the school district promotes or doesn't do
anything about it, and that's just not true. It's it's patently false. And I guess I would, you know, use an analogy of the dentist. You know, when people come to them for cavities, but the community blames the dentist for all the cavities in the community. It's not the dentist's fault. The dentist or whatever doctor it is is just treating and dealing with the community. But yet if someone stands back and blames the dentist for all the cavities and
dental issues in town, that's not fair in my humble opinion. So that's my loose analogy of there are some things being twisted, on social media and otherwise that, you know, just aren't true. This week, later, we will have our initial we formed a district wide behave student behavior committee where we'll have representatives from all buildings, administration. And so I think that's it's this week or next is our initial meeting.
So we take student behavior of all kinds, good behavior, poor behavior very seriously. And, you know, we we deal with it. Our administrators do a good job. To the last point, the narrative of legalities, they're for confidentiality reasons as well as logistics. I mean, it's challenging enough for our administrators, our teachers to handle student discipline issues.
Now all of a sudden, we have to pull in an outside parent group, we wouldn't get anything done. In addition to breaking confidentiality, I don't care what he says. You you redact I mean, there are IEPs, special education considerations, a whole host of confidentiality dynamics as well as just logistics. It it would be impossible. So I go back to, just like every school district in the state, we have
professional licensed administrators and teachers and staff that do a good job of managing and handling discipline in our school district. Thank you, mister Baker. Thank you, mister McCormick. Anyone else? I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Sound in. Thank you.